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A REPLICA of London’s Tower Bridge in a Chinese city is being hailed as better than the original.
The mock-up landmark, built across a river in the city Suzhou stands 131 feet tall and is the spitting image of the famous bridge in the capital of the United Kingdom.
For years China has cashed in ripping off ideas - ignoring copyright laws - or making foreign products in factories where workers are poorly paid.
But now the nation of 1.3bn is copying whole buildings and landmarks from European cities lock, stock and barrel.
Unlike the original Tower Bridge, the copied one has four turrets rather than two.
This allows a dual carriageway to pass beneath.
Claims of the copied Tower Bridge's superiority was made in an article published today on Huanqiu.com.
The website, which is linked to the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece, People's Daily, claimed that “the bridge is very similar to the Tower Bridge in appearance, however it is more magnificent”.
An article appearing on the site reads: “Designers meticulously changed the original structure and turned the two turrets into four.”
But this is not the only example of British architecture being replicated in China.
Thames Town, in the Songjiang District near Shanghai, is complete with cobbled streets, Victorian homes and corner pubs.
The Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, even boasts its own Eiffel Tower.
A replica of the Belfast built Titanic is also been constructed in the Sichuan province.
The extraordinary reproduction will form part of a new tourist attraction.
Seven Star Energy Investment Group are behind the project, which will be permanently moored in a reservoir.
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When we talk about classrooms, it's not just about books, pens, and whiteboards. It's about the energy, the environment, and the underlying values we cultivate. And in today's increasingly complex world, the need for kindness has never been more profound.
Why is a Kinder Classroom Important?
Kindness isn’t just a moral value; it’s an educational tool. Did you know that according to a study by Harvard University, students who perceive greater kindness in their environment feel more connected and engaged? These students are also more likely to help their peers and be passionate about their learning. Kindness paves the way for a more inclusive and supportive learning atmosphere, promoting collaboration and reducing instances of bullying.
What Does a Kinder Classroom Look Like?
Visualize this: students actively listen to one another, disagreements are resolved respectfully, and every individual feels valued and included. It's an environment where mistakes are seen as learning opportunities, and empathy is as fundamental as the ABCs.
Ready to transform your classroom this school year? Let’s jump in!
1. Set the Tone from Day One
Starting the year with a foundation of kindness sets the expectation for the months to come. Before diving into the curriculum, discuss the importance of kindness, empathy, and understanding. Sharing stories, videos, or even personal experiences can paint a clearer picture of what kindness looks like in action.
Actionable Tip: Host a "Kindness Kick-off" day. Collaboratively, design a "classroom kindness charter." Have each student add their idea, and then sign it. Display it prominently in the classroom for the entire year as a daily reminder.
2. Model Kind Behavior
As educators, we're not just teaching subjects; we're modeling behavior. Children are incredibly observant. They notice when we handle situations with grace and kindness. Make an intentional effort to demonstrate empathy, patience, and understanding, even during challenging situations.
Actionable Tip: Start each day with a positive affirmation or kind message to your students. It not only uplifts spirits but also models positivity.
3. Create a Safe Space for Sharing
Building trust is essential. When students feel they have a safe environment to share feelings, experiences, and concerns without judgment, they're more likely to open up. Foster open conversations, ensuring that every voice is heard and respected.
Actionable Tip: Dedicate 10 minutes every week for a "Kindness Share Session." Create a designated space or box where students can drop in their stories, which can be shared (anonymously if desired) during this session.
4. Recognize and Celebrate Kind Acts
Celebration reinforces behavior. By spotlighting kind acts, you're not only encouraging that student but inspiring others. This makes kindness a norm rather than an exception.
Actionable Tip: Create a "Kindness Wall" with post-it notes or cards. Whenever someone observes a kind act, they can write it down and add it to the wall.
5. Foster Empathy
Empathy is the heart of kindness. By understanding and feeling others' emotions, students can better relate and offer genuine kindness. Discuss different scenarios, read stories from various perspectives, and encourage open dialogues.
Actionable Tip: Introduce a "Book of the Month" that covers themes of empathy and kindness. After finishing, discuss the lessons learned as a class.
6. Encourage Collaborative Learning
Teamwork teaches students to appreciate and rely on each other's strengths. It fosters a sense of belonging and mutual respect, paving the way for a harmonious classroom environment.
Actionable Tip: Rotate team members for projects so that every student gets a chance to work with different classmates. This ensures varied interactions and a better understanding of each other.
7. Create a Feedback-Friendly Environment
Feedback is a learning tool. When delivered constructively, it promotes growth. Teach students the difference between constructive feedback and criticism, ensuring they communicate effectively and kindly.
Actionable Tip: Organize peer review sessions where students give feedback on each other's work using the "sandwich method" (a positive comment, constructive feedback, and another positive comment).
8. Make Kindness a Curriculum Component
While kindness might not be a "subject," it's undoubtedly a life lesson. Incorporate teachings on empathy, cultural understanding, and social skills into everyday lessons, ensuring students see its relevance in various contexts.
Actionable Tip: Designate one lesson a week (it could be in Literature, History, or even Math) where the core theme or objective revolves around kindness or understanding.
9. Address Bullying Immediately
Bullying can erode the foundation of kindness and trust you’re trying to build. Always address issues promptly and ensure both the victim and the bully understand and learn from the situation.
Actionable Tip: Hold regular sessions on the consequences and harm of bullying, creating an atmosphere where students are more likely to stand up against it and support each other.
10. Encourage Reflection
Self-awareness is key to growth. By reflecting on their behavior and actions, students can identify areas of improvement and commit to being better versions of themselves.
Actionable Tip: End every week with a "Reflection Diary" entry, encouraging students to write about their acts of kindness, lessons learned, and goals for the next week.
Remember, creating a kinder classroom is a continuous journey. It’s about instilling values that will stick with students long after they’ve left your classroom, shaping them into compassionate citizens of the world. And while it might seem like a daunting task, the smiles, the mutual respect, and the transformative educational experiences make it all worthwhile.
Educators, the future is in our hands. Let's sculpt it with love, compassion, and, of course, kindness. 💕

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With controversy erupting around practically every major new development in New York City – the new Yankee Stadium, Ground Zero and Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, to name a few – concerned citizens have been looking toward the public review and approval process for a stronger voice. The help they seek may have arrived recently, in the form of the introduction of City Council Bill 801, titled Community Impact Reports.
Aimed at those seeking economic development benefits such as direct project subsidies, low-interest financing, tax benefits, tax-exempt financing, and tax-exempt bonds and grants, the bill would require the developer of each project to submit a comprehensive report to City Council outlining the intended social and economic effects of the project on the surrounding communities. Organizations in contract with the city for the purpose of providing social services, or those that create affordable housing units exclusively, are exempt from the requirement.
“We need to have a way to monitor the benefits that are given to developers,” said Councilman Thomas White Jr., a Queens Democrat who chairs Council's Economic Development Committee. Around the city, such benefits are legion: In fiscal year 2006, the New York City Industrial Development Agency alone granted at least $700 million in tax breaks to individual firms.
Councilman Albert Vann, in consultation with Councilmembers White, Bill de Blasio, Letitia James and others, created the bill to “help us to understand how city funds are being used in communities, to help them directly,” according to Vann’s legislative director, Dottie Conway. Introduced June 29, the bill is now being further shaped by feedback and is not yet scheduled for a hearing or a vote.
Intended to increase transparency in the development process, the bill requires reports to be submitted to Council 60 days prior to approval of benefits by any city agency or entity. Information gathered will be accessible to potentially affected communities to give them a chance to react, and any councilmember can hold a hearing on the matter.
“The reports disclose information that can be used by communities and legislators to leverage outcomes, which will strengthen communities by way of affordable housing, improving neighborhood services, and creating jobs,” Conway said. “This bill goes beyond job creation and types of jobs. It reveals information about the quality of jobs, whether they are permanent, part-time, seasonal, salaried or hourly, and asks to know how residents in those particular communities are able to access these jobs.”
The legislation was originally proposed around the time of the unveiling of the mayor’s Five Borough Economic Development Plan, as part of a strategy to tie together economic development with poverty issues. A large portion of the required report is dedicated to acquiring an exhaustive level of detail about social and economic effects of development within a given neighborhood. The bill also addresses displacement of residents and businesses, a common concern of those currently living in areas subject to redevelopment.
But Tom Angotti, director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development, notes that the bill does not distinguish between direct displacement, or how many people will actually lose their apartments and how many businesses will be forced to relocate – and the “more damaging” indirect displacement, or the eventual number of businesses forced out when rents and prices go up.
“It seems to be very quantitatively oriented: number of jobs, number of displaced people—it tends to be a quantitative, not a qualitative analysis. They need to look at the fine points, the details of projects, not just fill in tables and numbers,” Angotti said of the legislation.
He praises the goal, but says this isn’t the best path to achieve it. “I’m guessing this is a response to a lack of accountability by city agencies when they subsidize developments and support developments that may have impacts on communities,” Angotti said. “I’m not convinced this is the best instrument to do so. I think the best way to increase transparency and accountability is by changing the way that the city does development, engaging community planning and consultation.”
Hope Cohen, deputy director of the Center for Rethinking Development at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, also thinks the wording of the legislation needs to be more detailed and is not sure the legislation will be effective. “Their heart is in the right place, but most economic development projects are going to have mostly state funding, which City Council won’t have any jurisdiction over,” Cohen said.
That’s true in some cases, but it depends on the project, according to Bettina Damiani, project director of Good Jobs New York, a government watchdog group that focuses on public subsidies. GGNY welcomes a new point of leverage to demand developer accountability. “What I am excited by is any effort to sort of put together the impacts of economic development in a more holistic approach. Right now it is sort of in silos, with ULURP working over here, and MOUs [memoranda of understanding] in place over there,” Damiani said. Her organization has just released a new web utility to view the location in each community district of companies receiving subsidies.
ULURP, which is the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, and SEQRA, the State Environment Quality Review (or CEQR, the city’s process for implementing SEQRA), are currently the two primary ways in which communities have a chance to understand development. Though CEQR has a section that looks at social and economic impacts, that information is used to assess whether or not an environmental impact study is necessary.
Councilman White asserts that the Community Impact Reports bill is different because those other methods are not as detailed and not as focused on addressing social and economic issues.
Michael Slattery, senior vice president at the Real Estate Board of New York, thinks Community Impact Reports would be duplicative of other efforts. “Many communities have their own opinions and already know the impact a development will have on their community, without these reports. I think this is one more way to make it more difficult for projects that [provide community] assistance to receive it,” he said.
Cohen of the Manhattan Institute noted that in the case of Environmental Impact Statements, developers forced to submit such reports sometimes felt the need to overdo it. “Sometimes the project sponsor may feel the need to cover themselves against being sued and throw everything into a document, making it hard for the community to wade through it to find problems,” she said. Cohen speculates this could occur with Community Impact Reports as well.
The proposed new reviews are similar to existing environmental reviews, she added, in that when the developer is responsible for doing the review, it is in their interest what the turnout will be. Thus, the community may not trust the product.
The bill includes provisions to ensure legitimacy, however. If prepared by the developer, the report must include a description of how the statistics were acquired and the report’s accuracy must be certified by the department, in consultation with other appropriate city agencies.
Presently, the legislation does not include penalties if a Community Impact Report is not submitted. It is not yet known if lack of a report would cause benefits to be denied. For now, since the legislation has only just been introduced, Conway said the primary sponsors will focus on getting reactions and receiving comments from their colleagues, communities and advocates from both sides of the issue.

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John Lewis is expecting record sales at its stores on Black Friday 2014.
All of its stores are opening an hour earlier, at 8am, to meet the anticipated demand.
On Black Friday in 2013, John Lewis saw online sales twice as big as its previous record day.
The number of people shopping on the John Lewis website in the peak hour of 7am to 8am using mobile devices was 14 times higher than seen before, and sales from mobile devices were three times the previous record.
A spokesman for the retailer said: "2013 was the year Black Friday broke through in the UK. Although initially an American event, we began to see global technology brands like Apple offer their US discounts across the world.
"As part of our Never Knowingly Undersold commitment, we followed these brands in launching special offers and put them under the Black Friday banner."
The spokesman added: "Black Friday last year wasn’t just big, it was a record breaker. This year, it’s established in our customers’ minds and they are expecting to see more Black Friday deals from us, whether they’re shopping online or in store.
"So we’re doing much more to meet their expectations - including a fantastic range of proactive deals, special in-store activities, a promise to match other retailers’ Black Friday offers and extended opening times.
"We fully expect online sales to reach a new peak on Black Friday this year, as consumers look for the best deals on the web and opt for a service they know they can rely on.
"It’s changing customer shopping patterns in the run-up to Christmas, taking over from Cyber Monday as the biggest online business day of the year. For us it has become a great opportunity to boost sales in the festive period."
John Lewis said there would about 100 different deals available, focusing mainly on electrical goods, but it would also match Black Friday offers from other retailers.
The offers will be among the many discounts available across the West Midlands on Black Friday.

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Your heart will race and your skin perspire, of course, but the real magic happens in your kidneys. Dr. Bernard Hsu reports on B.B., a 21 year old man presenting to the emergency room unconscious, having been found collapsed while studying for his final exams. Unfortunately, his worst subject just happened to be chemistry.
My family stopped wiping down all our groceries to “disinfect” them a couple months ago, mostly because of hygiene exhaustion. Then in May, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention clarified its own Web page about how COVID-19 spreads to state that “based on data from lab studies on COVID-19 and what we know about […]
The aluminum can is a great invention. And for 60 years, it and its crafty little addition, the pull tab, have made transporting and drinking all of our favorite beers, soft drinks and other beverages about 1,000 percent easier. Of course, evolution continues — and even an innovation as awesome as the aluminum can is […]
It’s tempting for many young professionals to assume that because they’ve spent most of their lives posting links to Facebook or pushing selfies to Instagram that they have the skills needed to be a digital marketer. Creating compelling content is certainly important, but if you’re not up to speed on search engine optimization (SEO), how […]
With everybody working from home now, it’s natural to start thinking about careers where not going into the office is more the norm than the exception. Better yet, many are looking to start careers as freelancers, professionals who build their livelihoods around the scope of their talent and not the fortunes of one all-encompassing employer. […]


If you’re an active packeteer, sooner or later someone will bring up the subject of TCP/IP–Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Of all the packet networking alternatives used on the air today, TCP/IP is the most popular.
Despite its name, TCP/IP is more than two protocols; it’s actually a set of several protocols. Together they provide a high level of flexible, “intelligent” packet networking that isn’t possible with AX.25. At the time of this writing, TCP/IP networks are local and regional in nature. For long-distance mail handling, TCP/IP still relies on traditional AX.25 NET/ROM networks. Even so, TCP/IP enthusiasts see a future when the entire nation, and perhaps the world, will be linked by high-speed TCP/IP systems using terrestrial microwave and satellites.


HS sports highlights: Tusky Valley boys soccer blanks Sandy Valley
Host Tusky Valley improved to 3-0 as it blanked neighboring Inter-Valley Conference foe Sandy Valley 2-0 in high school boys soccer action on Senior Night Wednesday.
Landon Burwell and Austin Brothers scored goals for the Trojans, with an assist by Tyler Stump.
The winners outshot the Cardinals 10-7.
Tusky Valley’s Brayden Overton made seven saves, while Cole Everetts notched nine saves for Sandy Valley (1-2).
DOVER 172, LOUISVILLE 177
Reese Klar and Carter Begue each shot a 42, while Logan Downing (43) and Dylan Grewell (45) finished right behind as Dover edged Louisville at par 36 Sleepy Hollow in Alliance to improve to 4-0 on the season.
Louisville’s Sam Karcher and Zach Root each posted a 43, and Ryan Aljancic (45) and Jack Mayle (46) were close behind.
CENTRAL CATHOLIC 195, INDIAN VALLEY 197
Zane Douglass shot a 46 and Piper Olson added a 47 as host Tuscarawas Central Catholic edged Indian Valley at Union Country Club.
Andrew Angelini and Aaron Mercier added 51s for the winners (3-4, 3-3).
Aden Trushell paced Indian Valley with a 48 and Rafe Bonifay (49), Issac Stokey (49) and Austen Gunn (51) followed for the Braves (4-3, 2-3).
RIDGEWOOD 190, CLAYMONT 211
Ridgewood’s Charlie Kilpatrick posted a 37 to take medalist honors for the Generals (2-3) as they shut out winless Claymont (0-4).
Koi Preston paced the Mustangs with a 43.
STRASBURG 180, CONOTTON VALLEY 229
Hayes Johnson shot a 43 and Trevor Shetler added a 44 to lead Strasburg to a win over visiting IVC foe Conotton Valley at Five Waters.
Scott Sauernheimer (45) and Andrew Harey (48) also had scores count for the Tigers (2-3, 1-3).
Gaige Galligher led the Rockets with a 44, while Justin Lambert (45), Sean O’Connor (62) and Cole Edie (78) also scored.
INDIAN VALLEY 193, NEWCOMERSTOWN 231
Justise and Jamisyn Hartzler each fired 46s to lead Indian Valley to an IVC victory over Newcomerstown at Hickory Flats.
Abbie Barrett (50) and Emily Jones (51) followed for the Braves (4-2, 4-2).
Melanie Gibson led Newcomerstown (2-6, 2-6) with a 48, while Ally Meek (58), Jacie Tedrow (59) and Elena Cadle (66) followed.
CLAYMONT 196, SANDY VALLEY 214
Jocelyn Scalambrino shot a 45 to lead host Claymont to an IVC win over Sandy Valley at Big Bend.
Alivia Edwards (49), Emma Woodward (50) and Jordan Gibson (52) also scored for the Mustangs.
Hannah Deford led Sandy Valley with a 51, followed by Sarah Deford (52), Marissa Moriconi (53) and Charity Lutz (58).
TUSKY VALLEY VS. STRASBURG
Keagen Selinsky (36). Susan Thompson (37), Sydney Clements (38) and Kylee Rohr (44) paced Tusky Valley as it played IVC foe Strasburg.
The Tigers only had three golfers in Taylor Starkey (44), Sophia Von Kaenel (60) and Samantha Polley (60).
LOUISVILLE 4, NEW PHILA 1
Host Louisville handed New Philadelphia only its second loss of the season.
Alexis Mamula and Maggie Prucha were the lone winners for the Quakers (6-2) as they claimed a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 2 doubles.
ONTARIO 5, WEST HOLMES 0
West Holmes was shut out at Ontario as No. 1 singles player Maggie Taylor fell 6-1, 6-3 in the most competitive match of the night.


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"Atlanta is an incredibly cool city." -- Andrew Lincoln
Atlanta has an energetic yet-funky vibe that manages to combine the ambiance of gracious Southern living with the sophisticated, pulsating rhythm of an uber-modern 21st Century metropolis. Home to approximately 443,775 people, Atlantas genteel, antebellum past truly is gone with the wind after all, this is the world headquarters of those icons of modernity, Coca-Cola and CNN. Dont let the lingering vestiges of Southern hospitality fool you, however, because any city that can survive hosting the Centennial Olympic Games without losing a scrap of its southern charm is really a pretty tough cookie. Thanks to this dichotomy, North Atlanta has become a mecca for those who want to enjoy tree-lined boulevards and shady porch swings within just a few miles of one of the nation’s most exciting cosmopolitan centers.
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If you enjoy circuit training, make sure there’s enough space to spread out and get in the workout you want.
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Stocks on Wall Street finished their strongest week given that February, with the leading S&P 500 index closing at a record high, after an increase in US inflation fell short of the marketplace’s worst-case forecasts.
The S&P 500 obtained 1 per cent on Friday, as well as had a regular boost of 3.8 per cent, overshadowing a previous record close simply over three weeks earlier.
The innovation concentrated Nasdaq Compound climbed up 0.7 per cent, bringing its regular rise to 3.6 percent.
The US labour department said on Friday that consumer prices climbed up 6.8 percent in November from the exact same month in 2020, matching financial experts’ projections and the greatest increase in 39 years.
Regardless of the rise, the numbers were something of a relief for investors that had actually girded themselves for data that can have shown a 7 percent or bigger rise.
Investors and also analysts said the reading would maintain the Federal Get on its current course, helping buoy markets that had actually been fretted that a greater inflation number would certainly oblige the Fed to tighten monetary policy faster, hurting stocks.
” The marketplace was anticipating this inflation analysis as well as high inflation has actually been priced into markets for many months now,” said George Round, chair of financial investment group Sanders Morris Harris.
Lots of financiers also anticipate cost rises to come to a head quickly, as supply chain problems– triggered by coronavirus closures as well as a rebound in energy markets from the depths of 2020’s economic slowdown– convenience.
November’s inflation record revealed gas rates climbed 3.5 percent over the month, below 4.8 per cent in between September as well as October. The monthly rate of cost gains for made use of cars and trucks and also real estate was steady.
” The bond market is telling us inflation is not mosting likely to run out of control for long,” said Guillaume Paillat, multi-asset profile supervisor at Aviva Investors.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note bordered down 0.01 percentage indicate 1.49 percent. The five-year, five-year inflation swap rate, a procedure of longer-term expectations of cost rises, inched reduced to 2.15 percent.
The yield on the two-year US Treasury note, which relocates inversely to the price of the government debt tool and also tracks financial plan assumptions, dipped 0.03 percent indicate 0.66 percent.
Jay Powell, Fed chair, has actually offered a solid signal that the United States central bank, which holds its following monetary policy meeting next week, can rapidly unwind its $120bn-a-month of bond purchases that have lowered borrowing costs as well as increased stock market view with the pandemic age.
This could be completed by March, in a forerunner to the Fed raising rates of interest from their existing record low, leading financial experts checked for the Financial Times have claimed.
” If the Fed does not pull back some of its assistance now as well as start to normalise financial plan, they’ll have really little ammo when we do enter the next economic crisis,” stated Paul Jackson, head of property appropriation research study at fund manager Invesco.
” However I think US inflation is almost peaking out now.”
In Europe, the local Stoxx 600 share index closed 0.3 per cent lower. The UK’s FTSE 100 scale shut down 0.4 per cent.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dropped 1.1 per cent. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo shut 1 per cent lower.
In currencies, the dollar index, which tracks the efficiency of the greenback versus 6 others, was down 0.2 percent.
These 6 overvalued stocks are making the S&P 500 look even more pricey than it truly is
It’s impossible to recognize which stocks will dominate the market in a decade’s time, however we can rather with confidence state which companies will not be on that list: stocks that presently cover today’s market-cap ranking– particularly Apple AAPL, +2.80%, Microsoft MSFT +2.83% , Amazon.com AMZN -1.12%, Alphabet (Google) GOOG, +0.38% and Meta Systems (Facebook) FB, -0.02%.
That’s because it’s rare for stocks on top of the market-cap ranking to maintain their standing a decade later on. Not just do they normally fall out of the leading 10, they additionally underperform the market generally over the decade.
That’s according to an analysis carried out by Study Affiliates, the investment company headed by Robert Arnott. To show the ragged edge of the marketplace’s “top dogs,” he calculated what occurred over the decade of the 1980s to the 10 biggest openly traded business at the start of that 10-year duration. 8 of the 10 were out 1990’s top-10 list, and all 10 on 1980’s checklist underperformed the globe securities market over the succeeding years.
Arnott discovered that the 1980s were not distinct. He reached a comparable result for the leading stocks of the 1990s, 2000s, and also 2010s. On average, a stock on any of these lists underperformed the market over the subsequent decade. Additionally, there was between a 70% as well as 80% possibility that any kind of given stock would not get on the similar list one decade therefore.
Arnott showed these top firms’ underperformance in another way also: He constructed a theoretical portfolio that annually possessed the world’s 10-largest business. The performance of this portfolio is outlined in the chart below. Over the 40 years from the end of 1980 via completion of 2020, this portfolio lagged a buy-and-hold by 1.8 annualized percentage points.
Many investment lessons can be drawn from Arnott’s fascinating outcomes. One is that cap-weighting is not the optimum weighting scheme for your profile. Equal-weighting is one apparent option, and it has defeated cap-weighting: given that 1971, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices, the equal-weighted version of the S&P 500 SPX, +0.95% has outshined the cap-weighted version by 1.5 annualized percentage factors.
Valuing a cap-weighted market.
Arnott believes there are also better ways of weighting stocks in an index past equal weighting. His firm preserves a number of so-called essential indices that base a stock’s weight on basic attributes such as sales, capital, rewards as well as publication equity worth.
Just 6 stocks– Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon.com, Tesla as well as Meta Operatings systems– make up 26% of the S&P 500’s overall market cap.
But there’s one more financial investment effects of Arnott’s information that I want to focus on: His outcomes highlight the difficulties figuring out the assessment of an uneven market.
Consider the S&P 500 presently, in which simply six stocks– Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla TSLA, +1.32% as well as Meta Platforms– account for 26% of the index’s total market cap. Picture a circumstance in which those six are miscalculated while the various other 494 stocks, on equilibrium, are much more fairly valued. In that situation, the assessment proportions for the S&P 500 overall can paint a manipulated photo.
This circumstance isn’t simply hypothetical. The largest 6 stocks presently have a typical price/earnings ratio of 62.0, according to FactSet, greater than double the ordinary throughout all stocks in the S&P 500 of 29.1 and nearly three-way its average P/E ratio of 21.4.


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Losing the Girl
From the Series Life on Earth
Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest. It couldn’t be an alien abduction, right?
None of Claudia’s classmates at Blithedale High know why she vanished—and they’re dealing with their own issues. Emily’s trying to handle a life-changing surprise. Paula’s hoping to step out of Emily’s shadow. Nigel just wants to meet a girl who will laugh at his jokes. And Brett hardly lets himself get close to anybody.
In Losing the Girl, the first book in the Life on Earth trilogy, Eisner-nominated cartoonist MariNaomi looks at life through the eyes of four suburban teenagers: early romance, fraying friendships, and the traces of a mysterious—maybe otherworldly—disappearance. Different chapters focus on different characters, each with a unique visual approach.
|Interest Level||Grade 9 - Grade 12|
|Reading Level||Grade 7|
|Genre||Graphic Novels, Young Adult|
|Category||Diverse Books: LGBTQIA+, Diverse Books: #MeToo, Diversity|
|Publisher||Lerner Publishing Group|
|Imprint||Graphic Universe ™|
|Number of Pages||280|
Author, Illustrator: MariNaomi
MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of four comic memoirs and creator of the Cartoonists of Color database. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and many cats and dogs. Visit her website at marinaomi.com.
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Life on Earth
In this sci-fi-tinged YA graphic novel trilogy from acclaimed cartoonist MariNaomi, a group of teenagers struggles with early romances and fraying friendships against the backdrop of a classmate’s possible alien abduction and mysterious return. The headstrong Emily, the aloof… View available downloads →
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Here is the second game of Thirdy Ravena in Japan’s B.League. His squad the San-En Neophoenix will have a rematch with the Shimane Susanoo Magic on November 8, 2020 live at 12:30 PM (PHI time) from the Yonago Industrial Gymnasium in Yonago, Japan.
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The Neophoenix shows signs that they’re ready to climb out from the bottom pit of the standings while the Magic are eyeing revenge after a close-game defeat yesterday.
The 23-years-old phenom from the Philippines has translated his eye-popping resume credentials to reality as he boosts his Japan-based squad to a victory last night.
Though not yet in his usual basketball game shape, Ravena managed to help his squad took control of the fourth quarter where he generated eight points during that stretch.
“Definitely, I’m very thankful to all the supporters who watched,” said Thirdy during his post-game interview.
“As you can see, I still have a lot to improve on especially my conditioning I’m really tired, but I’m very happy that the team won,” he added. “That was a great game.”
San-En was leading in the final frame by ten points with four minutes remaining in the game. Seems like they’re going to a sure victory yet the home-team able to storm back as they took advantage of the errors committed by their opponent. Shimane Susanoo even took the lead 82-81 at the 00:19 mark after Magic’s Demon Brooks converted his pair of free-throws.
However, on the other end, the visiting squad found their cold-blooded player as veteran guard Hayato Kawashima swished his pair visit from the charity stripes and most importantly they complete to steal the victory.
Surprisingly, during those crucial moments in the last period where both teams fighting for momentum, Neophoenix head coach Branislav Vićentić decided to keep Ravena on their bench. Most probably, the Serbian bench chief tactician preferred tested chemistry over their newly minted player. Yet, sure enough, Thirdy will earn more trust from his new coach and the time is on the way where we see the former Ateneo Blue Eagle take those game-winning basket.

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Arg! T’is time again for the San Diego Comic Con, the biggest and most expensive trip most nerds will take outside of their parents basements this year. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet then take heart, because you can’t anymore. I’m sure the dang thing will be totally sold out by the time we go to press. Did I say “heart?” I meant “valium.” Don’t worry, you can always pre-order for next year….OH WAIT, sorry, pre-order for next year has probably sold out now, too.
Well, you can always do what I do: steal clothes out of my grandfather’s closet, pour talcum powder into my hair and flash a homemade badge as I power-walk through the gate, brandishing a cane and pretending to be Roy Thomas. “I reinvented Conan the Barbarian, dammit!” I scream. I don’t think anyone’s caught on to me yet.
“Why go through all the bother?” you ask?
Because the con is a hotbed of exclusive swag, items so magical and rare that you could finance the overthrow of a small third-world nation by reselling the con exclusives on ebay! I hear they once offered a limited edition Megatron that transformed into an actual WORKING pistol! This one time I hear they sold finger bones from Batman “Creator” Bob Kane’s actual fingers! THIS ONE TIME I swear to god they were selling the actual bags of sand drained from the costumes from the desert scenes from Star Wars: A New Hope! Yup, I own a five hundred dollar bag of sand that was in Anthony Daniel’s foot!
What do you mean “Do they still sell Comic Books at this thing?” Who cares about the comic books, man?! This is the San Diego Comic Con!
Mattel is always great for the exclusives, and this year is no exception. They’ll be continuing their line of fan pleasing He-Man Masters of the Universe action figures with not one but TWO brand new, never before seen characters. From the depths of Eternia’s deepest and most mysterious ravines comes Pit•Hayr, the evil master of pits, hair and the joining of both! Pit•Hayr uses his prehensile under-arm follicles to climb and swing through rocks and trees in the employ of Skeletor! His opposing number on He-Man’s roster is the other excluive: Cac•Tor, the walking cactus! Cac•Tor comes from the dry heat of Eternia’s sand dunes and is completely covered in sharp barbs and spikes. His biggest action feature is that he’ll always stay in mint condition, even if you open the box for the simple reason that you can’t pick him up to play with him. Dang Thorns!
Hasbro, meanwhile, has decided less is more and plans on blending their G.I. Joe exclusive with their Star Wars exclusive. Limited to a run of 1,500 boxes are the latest recruits to the G.I. Joe team: Han “Shoots First” Solo, Chewie “Hairball” Bacca, Luke “Choke-Hold” Skywalker and C “Metalman” 3PO. COBRA also gets new rank and file in the form of Jabba “Two-Tons” the Hutt, their new money launderer and the Wampa, their new arctic combat specialist. Look out, Snow-Job!
Sideshow collectibles is offering a 6” action figure based on the TV show “Small Wonder.” The figures are free with any purchase, and not just at the Sideshow booth. Someone at Sideshow really loved that show and ordered up a million figures. Before anyone noticed they had arrived at headquarters…so now they’re just giving them away. Any left over will be quietly dumped into the Pacific Ocean at the end of the Con.
I hear there’s an exclusive Stan Lee action figure that’s life size and says all of Stan’s catch phrases. It is one per customer, as there’s only one. Don’t fret if it resists your attempts to take it home, or screams “Help, I’m being kidnapped” instead of “Excelsior” at first. He’s an old guy and you should be able to over-power him. I mean “it.”
Another amazing exclusive at the con can only be purchased from a shady looking guy behind the dumpster in San Diego’s famous red light district. It’s not an action figure, or a giclee print from the Silverhawks…in fact it’s not really comic book related at all, but I think for the price it’s one of the best values in the whole town. Tell him Unkiedev sent you and he might knock a few hundred off of every Kilo you purchase!
Of course, the most amazingly hard to find item at the San Diego comic con, perhaps more valuable than any Mighty Mugg of the 11th Doctor Who or a Minimates set of the Filmation Ghostbusters is the self satisfaction of saving your money, sanity and personal relationships by not going to the San Diego Comic Con in the first place. Maybe THAT’S what I’ll do this year, instead.

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Propagate African Violets
African violets make great houseplants and will flower year-round if you grow them in brightly lit spot. To propagate new plants, take a leaf cutting, dip the cut end in a rooting hormone powder, and stick the cutting in a pot filled with vermiculite or sand. Cover the pot with a perforated, clear plastic bag and keep the soil moist. In a few weeks you'll have new plants.
Soils in the Pacific Northwest tend to be acidic, so periodic liming is needed to keep the pH at the optimum for most plants -- the 6 to 6.5 range. Depending on the results of a soil test, spread lime with a lawn spreader, using the powdered or pelleted forms. If your soil needs magnesium as well as lime, use dolomitic limestone.
Organize Your Tools
If you didn't clean your garden tools and organize the storage shed last fall, now is a good time to tackle this chore. Take everything out, oil wooden handles, sharpen blades, clean hand tools, and wash pots. Then store everything neatly with summer tools toward the back and early-spring potting supplies up front. Life will be a lot easier without the frustration of searching for tools when the weather warms and you're anxious to get out in the garden.
Test Stored Seed
Before ordering or buying seed for spring planting, do a germination test on those leftover from last year. Place 10 seeds on a damp paper towel, roll or fold it up, and place it in a plastic bag in a warm location, such as a kitchen counter. Check to see how many seeds have sprouted after seven days. The number of sprouted seeds will give you the percentage of viable seeds in your collection. If only half of the seeds sprout, sow twice as many seeds as you normally do. Or better yet, order fresh seeds.
Houseplants reach for the light when levels are low, and during the winter months they can become lopsided. To keep your plants from leaning, rotate them a quarter turn every time you water.

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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Towns Printing Their Own Currency
Towns like Lenox, MA, Ithaca, NY and Burlington, VT are issuing their own legal tender as a way of emphasizing that money needs to stay within a town’s borders. In Lenox, residents are shopping for goods and services with what they call “Berkshares.”
“It used to be I could trade you 10 of my chickens in return for your help building my fence, and no one thought anything about it,” says Andrew Webster, a project manager at Coldham & Hartman Architects and the primary organizer of the Public Forum. “Within cities like Lenox or Ithaca, this legal tender accomplishes the same thing – you just don’t have to walk around with ten chickens under your arm.”
A chicken in every pot. Hold that thought because this thinking will be bring us back to 'the good old days' meaning growing our own food, fueling our own caves, and healing our own sick with back wood's remedies. Vermont is in the process of closing the Yankee Power Plant by not renewing their lease for twenty more years.
I was under the impression that even this president was realizing that we need nuclear power plants as a source of future energy. Maybe we would be better suited to work with this one instead of just closing it and losing 600 more jobs!
Webster adds, “But, seriously, this has an important purpose. Americans are sick of money leaving their communities. What does a big box store like Walmart give back to residents? (jobs for one?) The overwhelming majority of that money goes streaming into corporate coffers. Lenox’s use of “Berkshares” ensures that commerce (and the benefits of commerce) stay local, and that our natural resources are not abused in order to bring goods and services into town from hundreds – if not thousands – of miles away.”
Perhaps you’re wondering, “isn’t against the law for an entity other than the US government to print legal tender?” It’s not as cut and dried as you might think.


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That’s an extremely welcome advancement in the psychological health space since even today, mental health services are thought about a privilege for those with the monetary ways. One common in-person therapy session can quickly cost you $200 if not more, and lots of insurance provider will not help, either.
The excessive expense of a regular therapist is among the factors the creators started the business.
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When searching for an online treatment service, it is essential to pick one that suits your schedule and preferred interaction technique with therapists who fit your personality and emotional support requirements. Both BetterHelp and Talkspace offer versatility within these areas, however BetterHelp uses more services at a lower price point.
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Both Talkspace and BetterHelp require all therapists connected with their platforms to be certified in their particular states. Along with a state license, both companies likewise require that each therapist has a minimum of 2,000 hours of experience in the field prior to signing up with the platform. Some therapists may hold a doctorate degree, but all therapists are needed to have acquired a minimum of a master’s degree.
At BetterHelp, 80% of the users we surveyed said therapists’ qualifications were a crucial reason to pick an online treatment service, and 75% stated they discovered the therapists’ qualifications at BetterHelp to be either very good or exceptional. In addition, 92% of users stated they found the therapist options to be either great or exceptional.
When it came to picking Talkspace, many people we surveyed stated the staff’s certifications and know-how played a significant function in their choice to register, but ease of use and speed of therapist action was ranked as a greater level of value. Eighty-four percent said they found the therapists’ qualifications to be either outstanding or really excellent. And 97% reported that they discovered the therapist alternatives to be either outstanding or really good.
Both companies offer specific sessions, couples sessions, and treatment for teens as young as 13, however they provide these services in various ways. Talkspace keeps all its services under the exact same company umbrella, while BetterHelp separates specialized services into smaller business. The website will direct you to its sibling business for couples counseling, LGBTQ+ counseling, and teenager therapy.
Both business deal with moderate to moderate anxiety and anxiety problems in addition to tension management, relationship struggles, social battles, identity issues, bullying, and moderate to moderate trauma problems. Neither company is excellent for more severe mental health problems or for those with self-harm or suicidal ideations.
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BetterHelp focuses on talk treatment just– it does not use psychiatry services. Talkspace does provide psychiatric services, but for an additional cost to talk therapy. You also can’t bundle therapy and psychiatric services like with other comparable business such as Wellnite.
Controlled substances can not be prescribed through an online consultation. The wait time to get a psychiatric consultation is a bit longer– about three to 5 days more– than the wait time to talk to a therapist.
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Individuals utilize due to the privacy, benefit, and the truth that the expense is less than going to a traditional therapist’s office. Some want to utilize the service, however question if’s a rip-off or if they use professional, certified therapists.
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That’s an extremely welcome advancement in the psychological health area since even today, mental health services are thought about an advantage for those with the financial methods. One common in-person therapy session can quickly cost you $200 if not more, and numerous insurance provider won’t help, either.
The excessive expense of a regular therapist is among the reasons the creators began the business.
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As a user, makes it simple as they match you with a therapist specializing in your specific mental health issue. Visits are set up at any date practical to you.
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Online treatment saves you a lot of time, whether you pick to satisfy a therapist from home, at the office, or when awaiting your kid to complete their afternoon activities. When you most need them without suffering long waiting queues, you likewise have the luxury of setting up conferences.
You can review the offered meeting alternatives from consisting of weekly live video sessions or chat meetings, or perhaps a combination of the two depending upon what works best with your schedule.
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The specialists at do not suggest signing up for the intake process if you or a buddy are in a psychological health crisis scenario with little area to spare. It might take too long to arrange your live sessions.
Instead of the regular online therapy, in such a case, the website has a special list of resources for those in an emergency situation. If somebody is in instant threat, please call your regional emergency hotline or any of the numbers listed below:
As soon as your therapist and you have been matched, things will most likely move swiftly. You and your therapist may be in the very same time zone, but perhaps not. Together, you will require to choose a schedule that works for both of you. A lot of therapists should be sensitive to your needs. The therapists on are likely to impress the majority of people with their dedication to making sure that your experience is positive.

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The second step is to properly set the mother plant in the pot. When choosing a cutting for a mother plant, make sure that you pick a healthy and sturdy one. Clippings can be taken from the plant several times per year, so it’s important to ensure the mother of these clones is capable of producing quality buds.
There are several steps to planting and growing a cannabis bonsai tree.
The primary reason why people grow canna-bonsai trees is to produce clone clippings. Because each mother plant remains small, cannabis bonsais takes up much less space than a full-grown mother plant.
STEP THREE: TIME TO TRAIN
If you are working with few plants and limited space, bonsai trees can be a real space-saver. However, the utility of these plants really becomes apparent in larger cannabis gardens where several canna-bonsai mothers can provide a huge variety of genetics for the entire garden. Creating and maintaining several small mother plants to use for clone clippings is a great way to maintain diversity in your cannabis garden without having to rely on seeds.
Now it’s time to prune the branches. As the plant grows, its branches must be restricted in order to preserve the classic bonsai shape and stature, and to maintain airflow to the plant’s main stem. It’s important to only prune offshoot branches, as cutting main ones could seriously hurt the health and growth of your plant.
A bonsai tree is essentially a miniature tree. However, the term bonsai does not refer to a specific species of tree, but rather to the growing technique used to keep trees at this small size. The goal of growing a bonsai tree is to develop a healthy, mature, authentic plant that will only grow to a fraction of its natural size.
Named in honour of its exotic, fruity flavour, this up and coming weed variety has so much going for it. With generous yields, a beautiful branch pattern, and striking dark green colour which takes on a purple hue as it matures, a Somango bonsai plant would make a stunning statement art piece in any home. If you’re planning on harvesting yours, flowering times are reasonably short at around 9 to 10 weeks.
Once you have everything you need to hand, the you’ll need to follow are:
Instead, you’ll want to preserve your bonsai cannabis plant for decorative purposes, as a source of cuttings for propagation of larger plants, and just because you’ve grown so fond of the little guy. So you’ll need to ‘top’ your plant, and restart the vegetative stage so that it will continue to grow.
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With this in mind, here are just a few weed varieties we think would be ideal for use as a bonsai marijuana plant:
Next, fill the pot with suitable soil. Technically you could just use ordinary soil from your garden (weed is great at growing in all sorts of environments after all), however we recommend using ‘Super Soil’ which has been enriched with specially selected composts. This is available from most weed growing equipment suppliers.
Firstly, trim off any yellowing leaves so that you are left with a completely healthy plant. Next (and this is the nerve-wracking bit), remove about a third of the top half of the plant, just where the larger buds are beginning to reach maturity. Leave the smaller buds below alone, however, as these are needed for the plant to be able to restart its vegetative phase.
Similarly to the previous stage of the process, you’ll be using the gardening wire or string to secure individual branches of your plant. This is where your own judgement and creativity comes into play, so take time to decide how you want your plant to look and which specific branches you want to focus on.
This tutorial will show you how to create a fully established bonsai mother plant.
After completing the last step, you should have 6 to 8 leading branches coming up. When they reach 4 to 6 inches long, they can be taken as your first set of clones.
Part 1: How to Create a Bonsai Mother Plant
The little branches you left from before will become the main framework of your mother plant. The goal is to try to get them to form an open cup shape as they grow. The top 2 branches usually grow the fastest unless you take steps to even everything out. The following sequence helps you create a more symmetrical plant.
Here we are dealing with a 7 year-old mother plant that hasn’t been root trimmed for nearly a year and was deliberately neglected for the last 10 weeks so you could see the recovery.
First, trim back nearly all the top growth back to the main framework of branches. Leave one or two tiny shoots at the tip of each branch to draw sap and keep the branch alive.
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Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter. Yet many digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. The orthodoxy that the U.S. and Japan – and to a lesser extent the U.K. – constituted the ‘centres’ at the outset of the industry has enjoyed such legitimacy that many accounts do not even bother to mention the ‘where’ that their material or statistics pertain to. That many histories have been written by journalists and ‘insiders’ – comprising what Huhtamo calls the “chronicle era” of game history – largely accepting the game industry’s ‘global’ rhetoric has no doubt contributed to this situation. However, it means that locality has largely been left out of game history (with some notable exceptions), at least until recently. Given the great historic diversity of games and contexts for their play, an appreciation of socio-cultural and geographic specificity is important to develop, particularly if other histories are to be told, for instance, from the ‘periphery’ rather than the ‘centre’.
There is a burgeoning interest in discussing locality with respect to game history. Whilst this degree of interest is welcome, the local needs to be critically-situated if it is not to simply become a new orthodoxy, celebrated for its own sake.
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Israeli Consul General Roey Gilad has held positions in Kenya, Jordan, and the United Kingdom. But for the past six months, Gilad has been serving as consul general to the Midwest, providing him the opportunity to reach out to communities he described as “friendlier.”
“Our arguments are better accepted [in the U.S.]....We are sharing more or less the same language,” he said in an interview with the Maroon.
In that regard, Gilad spoke openly about the current state of Israel’s national security, disputes with the Palestinian people, and Israeli-American relations in a talk at International House on Wednesday.
He also expressed pronounced concern over a nuclear-armed Iran.
“If Iran becomes a nuclear superpower, they will not even need to pull the trigger,” he said. “It’s enough that they’ll conduct a nuclear experiment somewhere in the desert to make sure that all hell will break loose for the Middle East.”
Iran wasn’t the only worry on his mind, though. Gilad said that although he considers it “problematic,” he supports a two-state solution to the problem with Palestine, arguing that a one-state solution “might risk the Jewish majority.”
“All the citizens of Israel and all the Jewish people all over the world would like to see one state which is a Jewish state,” he said.
According to Gilad, Hamas is “unwilling but able” to reach a peace agreement with Israel, while the Palestinian Authority is “willing but unable.”
“Although I am not sure, many people in Israel now think that it will be easier to make someone willing who is unwilling than to make someone able who is unable.”
Israeli public opinion is generally favorable toward the United States, Gilad said, and does not change according to the political party of the president. And though he called President Obama “a great friend of Israel,” he indicated that a state visit would be appreciated.
“I do hope he will visit Israel in the coming four years, something that wasn’t done in the last four years,” he said in the interview.
“So you have your headline: Israeli consul general to the Midwest is calling President Obama, ‘Come and visit Israel.’”


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Training Programme on Gender, Work and Health from July 23-27, 2018 at VVGNLI Campus, NOIDA
This programme aims to sensitize the social partners on the existing inequalities in the
world of work with focus on workers in the informal sector. It aims to enhance
understanding of the linkages between informal economy and the challenges of safety
and health issues at workplace with special focus on the challenges faced by women in
the labour market.
To develop a conceptual understanding on the issue of gender, work and health
To understand changing labour market and employment relations and its impact
on health and safety of workers in the informal economy
To address the specific risks and health problems facing women workers in the
To understand the international standards on OSH
To understand the different OSH programmes/schemes and good practices for
ensuring safety and health at workplace both at national and international levels
To enable the participants to develop an understanding about the role of different
social partners in ensuring safety and health at workplace.
Conceptual understanding of gender, work and health, understand different safety,
health and welfare provisions.
Lectures, interactive sessions, individual and group presentations, sharing case studies.
Government officials & Representatives of Central Trade Unions
From 23-07-2018 to 27-07-2018
Domestic Training Programmes
V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, Sector-24, NOIDA- 20l301, Distt. Gautam Budh Nagar Uttar Pradesh The Institute campus is situated near Prakash Hospital and NTPC Office. The distance of the campus from New Delhi Railway Station. is 20 Kms. Delhi Metro,
Training Programme on Gender, Work and Health from July 23-27,
2018 at VVGNLI Campus, NOIDA


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New video has surfaced showing the assassination of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov from a different angle.
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Many give up their time to aid in the safety of Santa Clarita.
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Booster Club will host a luncheon to honor the volunteers of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station. These volunteers tirelessly and selflessly give their time, day in and day out, all year long to help the residents of the Santa Clarita Valley.
John Price, President of the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Booster Club; Anthony La Berge, Captain of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station and Cathy Stapleton, Assistant Director of the Community Law Enforcement Partnership Program will attend the event and recognize the volunteers countless accomplishments.
Station volunteers include sheriff explorers, patrol reserves, posse members, search and rescue and station clerical staff, just to name a few. Some of the volunteers individually dedicated more than 1,100 hours of their own time throughout the year, many times performing the same functions as full-time paid personnel.
The group of 189 volunteers to be recognized on Saturday dedicated more than 35,000 hours of volunteer service and saved the County of Los Angeles and the City of Santa Clarita more than $650,000 in 2006 alone. National Volunteer Recognition Week of April 22-28th has adopted the theme "Inspire by Example" as an apropos way to describe the volunteers’ service.
"They deserve our recognition and appreciation every day, but this event offers us the opportunity to formally express our gratitude," said Captain La Berge. He added, "All station personnel are encouraged to take a moment and give the volunteers a BIG 'Thank You' when they see them this week!"
What is truly remarkable is that many of the volunteers have full time jobs, or have already completed entire careers in other fields.


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It is a strange thing to be updating this article, having been genuinely saddened, as have been a great many people by the news that Amy Winehouse has indeed passed onto wherever it is that we go when we are no longer inhabiting our human forms. Wherever it that Amy has gone, I hope that she is feeling no pain. And singing.
The other morning, as I was on my way home from a party, somebody told me that the singer Amy Winehouse had overdosed and died. I was shocked and saddened by the news, but not surprised. After all, I had rarely seen a mention of her in the media which was not in some way connected to drugs, and her most famous song is about not wanting to go to rehab.
When I found out later the same day that Amy was not actually dead, I was relieved. I like her music. She has an ability to convey emotion in a song which is even rarer than her amazing voice. When she sings, you not only believe in her agony, you actually experience it with her. The only other living female singer who can make me cry like that is Sinead O Connor. But there have been others, women like Janis Joplin, Edith Piaf and Billie Holliday all of whom lived painful lives, coloured by drug and alcohol abuse. Women with emotions so raw that they could make ‘Jingle Bells’ into a sad song, if they felt so inclined.
Many people that I speak to cannot understand why, in a world where millions of kids are desperate to be stars, a girl like Amy who appears to have everything a person could wish for (youth, fame, money, talent, beauty, enormous critical acclaim and even a skinny body!) is needing to take drugs to be happy. On the surface, it seems downright ungrateful and even greedy to not be satisfied with all that, when millions don’t even have enough to eat, let alone thinking about fame, careers, money or beauty.
I am not one of those who criticise Amy, or any of the other people like her, however. Because when I was her age, Shane, my boy friend was one of those singers who people considered to have a rare talent, but who seemed to be throwing away his talent and success. When Shane and I got together, he was already hitting the bottle hard, but the more successful he became, the more out of control he also became. People had been predicting an early death for him ever since he was eighteen. And just like Amy, he was adamant that he wasn’t going to rehab. It was torture for everyone connected to him, to be constantly worried that he would die, and that we could or should have been able to force him to get help, which he never wanted to get. And even though things have calmed down a bit now, I would be lying if I said that if I could be granted one wish in the world, I wouldn’t wish for him to decide to go to rehab and give up drinking for ever, but there’s nothing I can do about that except learn to live with it.
Who knows what makes one singer turn to drink and drugs for comfort and support, and another one to jogging? It does appear that the more a person is able to convey real feeling in their singing, the more likely they are to develop destructive habits. Elvis Presley was a classic example of someone who could fill a cheesy song with feeling, but who was addicted to prescription pills. Kurt Cobain was so raw that you could not help but feel with him as well as for him. And he died of suicide, a hopeless junkie.
Having been around drugs for most of my life, I have tried pretty much all of them. In my youth, I also drank inordinate amounts of every kind of booze, got very little sleep and smoked constantly. Luckily for me, I didn’t enjoy any of the illegal drugs enough to want to keep doing them. And eventually I kicked the fags and cut the booze down to the odd glass of wine. So my only remaining vice is my sweet tooth, thankfully. Although I sometimes wonder, as I struggle not to eat a piece of chocolate cake (which will only add to my midriff bulge) if I might not look more streamlined if I were to turn to cocaine instead of chocolate, in my moments of misery. For me, a line of coke is like a triple espresso, it only makes me more jittery, more anxious and more paranoid than I already am, whereas the chocolate is soothing, sensual, pleasurable and peaceful, even if it is fattening. Maybe all the drug addicts in the world should give it a try? But maybe it wouldn’t do it for them.
The unfortunate thing for people like Amy, compared to people like me is that their drug of choice is not always legal, which only adds to the misery and the tragedy, because when drugs are illegal, gangsters get involved in selling and smuggling them, and lots of people get hurt. And because coke is expensive, as well as illegal, those gangsters cut it with other substances, so that they can make more money out of it, there is no quality control, no government supervision of contents, which often means that people who consume it don’t know what they are consuming, and this can lead to poisoning and accidental death. I can guarantee you that if chocolate were illegal, the exact same thing would happen with that, as was proved by Prohibition in the US, but even though Prohibition never stopped anyone from drinking, but instead made a lot of criminals very rich (including the Kennedys) none of our governments seem to have learned anything from it. Nobody seems to realise that it is never the actual drugs (whether they be heroin, or hamburgers and fries, cocaine or cigarettes) that are the problem. The problem starts with the individual who is unhappy with their natural state of mind and wishes to ‘fix’ it with some kind of mood altering substance.
Granted, the substances usually do make you feel better for a little while, or at least different to how you were feeling. But inevitably, they wear off. And from my memory of being twenty four (as Amy is) what used to happen when the hangover set in was that I would feel really bad, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. The world would seem like a really, really shit place to be in. So depressing that I wanted to die, or at least to escape from the misery. And even though I wasn’t stupid, I didn’t make the connection between the negative thoughts and miserable feelings and the physical effects of the alcohol or the drugs. I didn’t even consider that things might not really be as black as they appeared to be, and that if I were to detox my system, I might have a different perspective. It took years before I learned that simple fact.
It will be tragic if Amy Winehouse becomes another one of those great singers who dies of a drug overdose, or suicide. Maybe it wont happen, maybe she will get help. What would be wonderful would be if hearing about her inspires even one person to realise that taking drugs to fix your feelings doesn’t work. At least, not long term.


Joe Klein has been banned from the McCain and Palin campaign planes.
Joe Klein of Time criticized the campaign over the “kindergarten sex” ad and asked McCain a question that pointed out that Ahmadinejad doesn’t control the Iranian military. Now Klein can’t get a seat on either the McCain or the Palin campaign plane.
A McCain spokesgeek grumps, “We don’t allow Daily Kos diarists on board either.” Do they provide dog collars for their tame journalists?
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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In a milestone for the environment, Europeans purchased more electric cars than those powered by diesel last month. According to recent data, over 20 per cent of new cars sold in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) in December 2021 were electric. Meanwhile, the sale of diesel vehicles in the European Union (EU) slipped below 19 per cent.
While many developed nations have pledged to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles in the next 20 years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the transition will be more complicated in developing countries where old imported cars are often the most affordable option. A 2020 report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) found that the three largest exporters of used vehicles – Europe, Japan and the United States exported 14 million used light-duty vehicles worldwide between 2015 and 2018.
We spoke to Rob de Jong, head of the Sustainable Mobility Unit at UNEP, to find out more about the rise in electric vehicle sales and what can be done to support this transition globally.
What could the increase in electric vehicle sales mean for Europe in regards to air pollution and emissions reductions?
Rob De Jong (RDJ): This trend shows that consumers are keenly interested in shifting to cleaner vehicles due to a combination of factors. The first is economic incentives. Electric vehicle subsidies were (and often still are) very high at several thousands of dollars per vehicle, although governments are slowly reducing these subsidies as they become more mainstream.
Second, diesel vehicle sales have continued to decline since we discovered that actual emissions were much higher than we thought – after some manufacturers were caught cheating on emissions tests. Meanwhile, the sale of electric vehicles globally has doubled every year, with the highest growth rates in Europe. The leader is Norway, where 80 per cent of all new vehicles are currently being sold are fully electric.
This has massive benefits for pollutant and climate emissions as diesel vehicles are a leading contributor to small particulate emissions pollution, so-called PM 2.5, which has major health impacts. In contrast, electric vehicles have no tailpipe and therefore no exhaust emissions. Air pollution and the climate change characteristics of the electricity source are also critical factors.
What kind of regulatory framework and infrastructure helped Europe to reach this goal?
RDJ: Many European countries used subsidies for new and used electric vehicles, whilst others set dates in the near future for the complete phase-out of petrol vehicles (for example, UK 2030). Most countries have introduced a network of charging stations, allowing for fast charging of electric vehicles, and some cities banned the entry of old diesel vehicles in their city centres. Awareness campaigns have also helped to inform consumers.
The introduction of electric vehicles goes hand in hand with the decarbonization of the electricity grid – more electricity is generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar, making electric vehicles more and more climate-friendly. At the same time, manufacturers are rapidly increasing the number of electric models available in the market. A few years ago, only a few models were available. Today, almost all major brands have multiple electric vehicle models. Some brands have set a date after which they will only sell electric vehicles, and they are getting cheaper, while specifications such as range are improving.
Can developing countries aspire to do the same, or must they follow a different pathway?
RDJ: To achieve the targets of the Paris Agreement, we have to switch to zero-emissions mobility worldwide. We should not forget that we also need to better design our cities and promote walking, cycling, and public transport. In 2050 globally, two out of three vehicles will be found in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), so we must also include LMICs in shifting to zero-emissions mobility. We can’t afford for developed countries to switch while developing countries continue using fossil fuel vehicles.
There are many good reasons for LMICs to make the shift. It is predicted that the number of vehicles in LMICs will grow by 1 billion by 2050. So, we can still avoid a major increase in fossil-fueled vehicles by putting in place the right measures. Building local manufacturing capacity for e-mobility, such as manufacturing and assembling electric motorcycles locally, can also create green jobs. A relatively large share of the climate emissions of some LMICs come from the transport sector, so introducing zero-emission e-mobility will be key to achieving national climate targets.
In addition, LMICs have the highest urbanization rates – cities are growing rapidly. Switching to low- and no-emissions mobility now can help prevent major air pollution in many megacities. As cities around the world have shown – fixing this later is much more difficult -and costly- than preventing it in the first place.
How is UNEP helping countries make the shift to e-mobility?
RDJ: UNEP is implementing a major global programme to support LMICs in joining the global switch to zero-emissions e-mobility. Largely funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNEP’s Global Electric Mobility Programme is supporting more than 50 LMICs by developing policies and standards, accessing financing, and developing local industry. It also provides technical support, creates regional platforms with suppliers and financiers, and implements regional training programmes.


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Intermittent fasting is the fastest and healthiest strategy to drop some weight. yet fasting doesn’t suggest depriving your self. With The 5:2 nutrition Cookbook, you could simply lessen your consumption to only 500 energy an afternoon whereas nonetheless having fun with filling, great-tasting nutrients. The recipes during this appealing publication are low in energy yet excessive in style, including:
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Samsung Galaxy A12 reportedly bags BIS certification, India launch imminent
Samsung is working on launching the Galaxy A12 smartphone in India soon. In the latest development, the phone has been found listed on the BIS certification site (via @the_tech_guy). To recall, it was unveiled in Europe in November last year. The Galaxy A12 comes with a MediaTek Helio P35 chipset, quad rear cameras, and a 5,000mAh battery. Here's our roundup.
Samsung Galaxy A12: At a glance
The Samsung Galaxy A12 features a glass-plastic body with a waterdrop notch, a thick bottom bezel, and a side-mounted fingerprint reader. On the rear, it houses quad cameras in a square-shaped module. The handset bears a 6.5-inch HD+ (720x1600 pixels) IPS screen that has an aspect ratio of 20:9. Further, it is offered in Black, White, Blue, and Red color options.
For the shutterbugs and selfie lovers
The Samsung Galaxy A12 sports a quad rear camera system comprising a 48MP (f/2.0) primary sensor, a 5MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide lens, a 2MP (f/2.4) macro camera, and a 2MP (f/2.4) depth sensor. Up front, it gets an 8MP (f/2.2) selfie snapper.
Under the hood
The Samsung Galaxy A12 is fueled by a MediaTek Helio P35 processor, combined with up to 6GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. At the heart, it runs on Android 10 and packs a 5,000mAh battery with 15W fast-charging support. On the connectivity front, the device offers support for Wi-Fi 802.11, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, NFC, a headphone jack, and a Type-C port.
How much does it cost?
The Samsung Galaxy A12 was launched at €179 (approximately Rs. 15,800) for the 3GB/32GB base-end variant and €199 (around Rs. 17,600) for the top-spec 6GB/128GB model. Its India pricing and availability details have not been revealed yet.