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Mario Tennis Aces will be free for a limited time for all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.
Mario Tennis Aces is a lot of fun. It’s not perfect, sure, but there’s no shame in being one of the weakest in a Nintendo Switch multiplayer litter that contains Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Splatoon 2. It’s better than Arms, at any rate.
But as we often say, an online game is only as strong as its audience, and publishers have to offer incentives to keep audiences growing. (Or at least, slow their decline. That’s why we have a suspicion Splatoon may go free-to-play at some point.)
To try and bolster player numbers on-court, Mario Tennis Aces is going to be free for a limited time to all players with Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions.
— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) August 1, 2019
It’s part of a new programme called Nintendo Game Trials. It’s like having a demo or a free weekend, but offering it as an incentive or a reward to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers is a smart move. It’s another reason for players to subscribe to the service, in a world that contains free PS Plus games and Xbox Games with Gold.
Unlike those services, which tend to deal in older games, you won’t get to keep Mario Tennis Aces after the free Game Trial period. You will be able to pick it up with a 30% discount, though, and all your saved progress will carry over if you choose to purchase the game.
The Mario Tennis Aces Game Trial goes live on August 7, 2019, and runs through to August 13, 2019.

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Video: Yamaha TZR250 built at Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle Show
A two-stroke restoration specialist built a Yamaha TZR250 3XV from the ground up in four days at the Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle Show - and started it first kick on the final day.
Wayne Pipe of Cider County Strokers does nut-and-bolt two-stroke restorations for £2000 upwards using original parts sourced from Japan and Malaysia.
As the show started on Thursday, the TZR was stripped to its frame and crank cases.
Pipe said after starting it on Sunday: “I was a bit worried about the smoke.”

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An art therapist uses the creative process to help people enhance wellbeing of the body, mind, and spirit.
Art Therapy is an integrated mental health profession that uses art media and often verbal processing of art produced to help people achieve personal goals. Art Therapy in the outpatient setting at Magee Riverfront includes complimenting rehabilitation goals by engaging the whole brain through the creative process. In the process to achieve the most function level of physical and cognitive abilities, consider the mind-body connection. Art Therapy has been researched and shown to alleviate stress, reduce pain, increase control, resolve conflicts, increase self-awareness and self-esteem to achieve insight.
Additional benefits include:
• Promotes self-expression and relaxation
• Promotes management of pain (physical and/or emotional)
• Reduces stress and/or anxiety
• Increase self-esteem and coping skills
• Compliments physical, occupational, and speech therapy goals by working on fine motor skills and cognitive stimulation via communication in sessions
• Provides a creative outlet through art making process
Images are a bridge between the mind and body that influences how the brain functions, and physiological and emotional changes in the body. Art Therapy is for everyone who seeks personal development, by making art based on you and your experiences, within your abilities. Art therapy heals, induces natural relaxation and means learning more about the relationship between self, other and the world.
Art therapy is a master’s level profession where therapists are trained as clinicians to assess and treat for a person’s physical, mental and emotional well-being.
• Psychological theory
• Clinical training
• Human development and research
• Cultural, historical and spiritual art traditions
• Art practice
Before starting art therapy, know that a background in art is not required. This service is provided free of charge to Magee inpatients and Health and Wellness Center members. It is available fee-for-service to outpatients. For more on this program and to engage in the supportive role of creativity and art in your life, please contact:
Katie Durr, ATR-BC, LPC
1500 S. Columbus Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19147

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Tawag ng Tanghalan Update: Jonas Onate will do his best and prove his talent!
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Hot Air Ballooning
We offer a special package to include with your stay. Experience breath taking view as you float over the valley in a hot air balloon with Napa Valley Balloons Inc. followed by a champagne brunch at Domain Chandon. Napa Valley Balloons Inc. will pick you up at the inn in the early morning and take you to their staging area where they will have fresh coffee, teas, and pastries for you. Then you will go to the launch site for an hour balloon ride. After your flight, they will take you to Domain Chandon for a champagne brunch, and finally they will bring you back here to the inn. The price is per person and includes all taxes.
The price is approx $ 239.00 per Person, including all taxes and fees (subject to change without notice)

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Kate and Sam's Damon dealing
Last updated at 11:19 02 February 2007
Kate Winslet, one of three British Best Actress hopefuls at the Oscars, wants to star with Matt Damon in her first film with husband Sam Mendes.
The couple want to adapt Richard Yates's post-war novel Revolutionary Road and Mendes hopes to direct the movie next year.
Kate's currently riding high with a record fifth Academy Award nomination for her startling portrait of a lonely mother in Little Children.
Meanwhile, Damon, who has been working with director Paul Greengrass on The Bourne Ultimatum, has said he's not yet free to shoot Revolutionary Road, in which he and Kate would play Frank and April Wheeler, a couple living in the Connecticut suburbs in the Fifties who find that the American dream has passed them by.
I understand, however, from those close to Mendes and his producers at BBC Films and John Hart productions that, although Damon hasn't signed up yet, he wants to do the film and all concerned are prepared to wait for him.
Having read Yates's 1961 book, I can see that both Kate and Damon would be perfect as the Wheelers.
We all know Kate can tackle anything, but Damon's no stranger to serious acting - just wait until you see him as a CIA spook in Robert De Niro's epic The Good Shepherd, which will have its European premiere next week at the Berlin Film Festival.
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How a Large Hispanic-American Family Stays Close
Large and close-knit extended families are an endangered species.
Posted December 1, 2011
While there's much talk these days about how to overcome marriage problems, what about the problem of holding together a large extended family?
It's rare for families to be large these days, and even rarer for many family members or multiple generations to live in the same city. Vacations provide one way that families stay close. Another is staycations, that is, getting together to hang out and have fun together without the expense and hastles of travel.
What does it mean to live in a culture that values family?
My secretary, Teresa Vigil Chavez Doty, recently explained to me the family closeness rituals that keep her family so lovingly bonded. Their family gatherings exemplify what enables large families like her Mexican-heritage parents, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews to keep so close.
Teresa's family is large enough that every month except two includes at least one and often multiple birthdays. Birthdays gives them an excuse for gathering together once a month, year after year.
Her family doesn't necessarily gather on standard holidays like Memorial Day, Labor Day, or Fourth of July. At those times each nuclear family is free to celebrate on their own, with their friendship communities, or with family members from their spouse's side.
But over the years each nuclear family has laid claim to a particular month when they'll host a family birthday(s) celebration in their home. At each gathering they choose a date the following month's get-together that will work for most of the extended family members.
When they get together there's18 to 20 of them depending on whether the young adults bring boy or girlfriends. Their montly gatherings set aside a reliable time to touch base, share what's gone on in their lives of late, support each other in their struggles, and celebrate their successes. Equally important, each gathering renews the fun and love generated by being together.
Family rituals further enhance the family's sense of connection, as well as the fun.
The gatherings usually last from noon to 6 or 7 in the evening.
The centerpiece is always a huge meal. Eating starts with hors d'oeuvres and ends temporarily with dessert, followed by snacks all afternoon. No alcohol though; there's abounding joy without artificial stimulants.
The host couple usually provides a main course. Everyone else pitches in with bringing the rest of the food. Pot luck insures that the cooking doesn't become overwhelming for anyone. While the host family occasionally surprises everyone with a Hibachi chef, a seafood extravaganza, a Cajun broil, or a steak barbecue, the community standard is traditional Mexican fare.
As Teresa's family sits together after dinner, generally in the living room, they pick a topic.
They then go around the circle with each family member taking a turn answering the question.
"What does your spouse do that irritates you?" generated particularly funny and bonding answers. "We still tease my neice whose fiance shared that his wife-to-be has a habit of stroking her hair to check for split ends."
"What's something new in your life?" or "What has surprised you lately?" or "Who do you particularly admire?" are similar kinds of thought-provoking, intimacy-engendering and good-humored questions.
After the November meal, which usually coincides with Thanksgiving, the tradition is to circle the group with each person saying specific things they've been thankful for this year. Teresa especially recalls the family laughing together about the hair dryer that enabled one sister's new look, the new vacuum cleaner for the sister who loves to keep her house superclean, and the new Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow for the sister who adores the home football team.
After the family sharing circle, games are de rigueur.
Pictionary, poker, Taboo, charades and other games that can include a big group are standard fare. In the summer volleyball is always popular, plus waterballoon-catching competitions.
When Teresa went recently to her husband's family's Christmas celebrations, she was surprised to find that everyone opened their gifts at the same time. When her family does gift-giving, each person takes a turn opening presents to the accompaniament of everyone's comments and delight. For Christmas only the kids get presents. Opening his or her presents in front of the group gives each child a spotlight moment. In addition it's fun for the gift-givers to hear all the oohs and ahhs.
On adult birthdays instead of gifts they give funny cards. "We don't just a buy a card though. We hunt year round for funny cards."
Hosting family gatherings crosses all the generations. Teresa and her husband used to host the meal that covers Teresa's birthday, Teresa's Dad's, and her brother's. Now Teresa's daughter-in-law has taken on October, her mother-in-law's birthday month. As Teresa's mom says, with the next generation already hosting, "the tradition will live on."
Teresa's daughter confesses that she no longer brings her boyfriend-of-the-month to the family gatherings.
"I'm afraid the guys fall in love with Gramma and the family and then they don't want to leave when I want to break up with them. Our family has too much fun. Now that I'm ready to get a serious life partner I want my relationship to be about me and the man I'm dating until I'm close to commitment. Then bringing him to family gatherings will show them that if they get me for a wife they get a bonus."
Teresa says that many Mexican families gather every weekend.
"We don't, because each family this way can have time with their immediate family. We embrace each other, and we also have our own separate lives, families and communities. We want each couple and nuclear family to build relationships filled with positivity as well as for the extended family to enjoy being closely connected.
"I do often get together with my siblings or folks during the intervening month. My neice and I went one evening last week to work at our church where they fed the homeless. I go to Broncos games with my Broncos-crazed sister. I may invite my son and his wife, or just my mom and dad, on a Friday night for dinner as well, but the full family gatherings are just once a month."
"My sister-in-law's mother lives in Georgia," Teresa continued. "Too bad that this Christmas you won't be able to be in Georgia with your family," someone said to her.
My sister-in-law quickly replied, "You guys are my family. And I sure feel blessed by that."
Susan Heitler, PhD, a Denver Clinical psychologist, is author of multiple publications including The Power of Two: Secrets to a Strong and Loving Marriage. A graduate of Harvard and NYU, Dr. Heitler's most recent project is a marriage skills website, PowerOfTwoMarriage.com.

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Single shot video documentation of the screen - the last few minutes. Recorded at Never or Now Festival, Bergen, Jan 2011
Cipher Screen is a live art piece using 2 prepared 16mm film projectors with black film loops and a live sound feed. This work harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema; the projector, the film material, the darkened room and synchronized sound - creating a live score and a visual and sonic interaction.
The constant, reductive physical process applied to the surface of the film loops results in a slow transformation on the screen surface; out of aural and visual darkness builds a cacophonous crescendo of sound and image.
Image : Greg Pope / Sound : John Hegre


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COGconnected’s Best of 2017 Awards – Worst Game of the Year
Like any good hero, there can only be something truly great if it has an opposite in the truly bad. Despite the best efforts of studios and their creative teams, we did unfortunately encounter games this year which left us bewildered, confused, and even annoyed as we sat droning through bad dialogue, stale gameplay, or really just another attempt at emptying our wallets without working for it. This isn’t the category for worst game in a technical aspect, but rather the title that left us asking why it made it to shelves in the first place.
We would like to note that by no means should these nominations reflect poorly on those who made the game, as working in the video game industry is an incredibly tough job with the higher demands of the fan base expecting each and every game to be an AAA contender. The staff who made these games did their jobs and did them well, but at some point, we as fans and gamers need to ask at what point did someone think these particular games were ready to ship to stores in their seemingly unfinished, unpolished, and unenjoyable states.
Games like 1-2 Switch promised us an enjoyable tech-demo much like the Wii Sports and Nintendoland games, however we were asked to spend full price for a collection of mini-games which were sadly underwhelming. Bubsy was a game no one expected because nobody wanted it, Vroom in the Night Sky was… well, you might count yourself lucky if you haven’t heard of it. Of course our list is bigger than just these games, so why not check out the video below to see who COGconnected crowned as the Worst Game of 2017?
There you have it, our top three list for Worst Game of 2017. Do you agree with our choices? Would you have picked something different? Let us know on Facebook, Twitter, or the Comments section below, and keep an eye out for other upcoming categories such as Members Only, Thrillerseeker, and Adventure Time in COGconnected’s Best of 2017 Awards.

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Birthdate: June 27, 1976
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Famed as the ruthless Tommy Egan in the long-running hit series, Power (2014-2020), as well as offshoots Power Book II: Ghost (2021), and (as lead star) Power Book IV: Force (2022), actor Joseph Sikora is a busy, dynamic actor who specializes in vivid heavies, including Sharp and Frank Cosgrove Jr. in respective crime drama series Banshee (2014) and Ozark (2020-2022).
After nearly twenty years of prestigious Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York theater credits, including guest appearances in many TV series from Walker, Texas Ranger (2000) to The Good Wife (2013), as well as recurring cast appearances in the superb series True Detective (2014), Banshee, Underground (2016-2017), Maniac (2018), and Ozark, Joseph Sikora began to make a bigger impression in feature films with Christopher McQuarrie’s adaptation of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher (2012), with Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, and Richard Jenkins.
Sikora appeared in the ensemble of Deon Taylor’s thriller, The Intruder (2019), with Michael Ealy, Dennis Quaid, and Meagan Good; and then reunited with Ealy on the remake, Jacob’s Ladder (2019). Sikora rejoined filmmaker Taylor for the cabin-fever thriller, Fear (2022), with Andrew Bachelor.
Chicago-born Joseph Sikora was raised by parents Barbara and Albin Sikora. He has two brothers, Christopher and Albin. Sikora attended and graduated in 1994 from Notre Dame College Prep. He then attended Columbia College in Chicago and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater. Sikora also studied acting in Evanston, Illinois, with the Piven Theatre Workshop. Sikora’s height is 5’ 11”.
I Like Mike: Joseph Sikora was a child actor in a TV commercial with Chicago Bulls Hall-of-Famer Michael Jordan.
Theater Man: Sikora’s acclaimed stage performances in Chicago theater earned him a nomination for the city theater scene’s Joseph Jefferson Awards, while his Los Angeles stage performances led to an Ovation Award. He has also been a member of the Chicago-based Shattered Globe Theatre Company.


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Tofo BeachMozambique. It has been described as "the next Goa", and while this may be pushing it a bit, Tofo has definitely become a traveller's focus on the Eastern coast of Africa. The reasons are not hard to discern: beautiful stretches of beach, a friendly laid-back vibe, a small but pumping nightlife, great diving and snorkeling and a few good restaurants.
By car, follow the paved road from Inhambane through some 30 km of pretty scenery to get to Tofo Beach. The road is generally badly potholed along the entire route so either drive slowly or stay behind a chappa to avoid them.
Tofo is about 6 hrs drive north of Maputo. If coming from the north, Tofo is a 5 hr drive from Vilanculos.
Most buses will leave you in Inhambane - from there take a chapa (minibus taxi, about 15 MTn (New Metical)) or a private taxi (about 50-100 MTn). If you are lucky there is a big bus leaving to Tofo as well (10 MT).
Buses run from the Maputo junta leaving between 5AM-8AM, straight to Inhambane which take 5-9 hrs, if it doesn't break down. As of 2009 the cost is 270 MTn each plus 50 per bag. Don't get scammed by the "porters" trying to help you with your bag and saying the luggage is 250 MTn each. Buy your baggage ticket directly from the guy with the receipt. Both Fatima's and Base in Maputo offer direct shuttle services from Maputo to Tofo at 500 MTn each (no extra charge for bag), if you are traveling alone then this will save you money compared to taking a taxi to junta and the standard fare. If you happen to be going the same day as Fatima she offers rides for the same price as chappas but with added aircon.
From the airport
Inhambane Airport (INH) is operational M-F from 7AM-5PM, Sat from 8AM-5PM, and opened by (prior) request on Sundays. Customs and Immigration can be organised in advance of arrivals. Fees and taxes apply.
Direct flights are available to Inhambane from Johannesburg.
Inhambane airport is a few km from Tofo. If you exit the airport down the access road the route to Tofo is on your left, thumb a ride or catch a chappa.
Tofo is very small and you'll likely walk everywhere.
Diving and snorkelling
Tofo and surrounds have some truly excellent diving, with nice reefs and excellent large marine life. Whale sharks and humpback whales in season, reef sharks and much other sea life. Don't miss Manta Reef, home of three cleaning stations where the critters really throng. Most of the better dive sites are at around 25-30 m, requiring deep-dive certification (which you can get through one of the dive shops if you don't have it already). Visibility is usually pretty good at around 20 m. Brace yourself for the unique landing upon return from diving - the shops here all gun it and beach the inflatable speed boats at full speed.
phone: +258 84 827 6026address: Liquid Dive Adventures, Praia Do Tofo5 STAR PADI IDC Dive Centre with beachfront accommodation, restaurant and pool on-site. Dive courses for beginners through to instructor. Daily ocean safaris with whalesharks, dolphins and manta rays. Surfing and bodyboard rentals with lessons from beginner to advanced. Island Kayak trips - day trip to Ila Do Porcos. Seahorse snorkeling trips available. Yoga and wellness activities. Dive and stay packages available, book online or enquire directly.
phone: +258 23 290025 star IDC Centre, friendly and professional staff. Single dives start at R310, excluding equipment and get cheaper with more, 10th dive is free. Courses from beginner to instructor. A PADI open water course available. Professional videos are available. Discounts available for using your own equipment. Specialises in small groups and customer service, onsite pool, Equipment shop, video department, rooftop snack bar.
phone: +258 293 29030Professional outfit based at Casa Barry Lodge. Single dives start at R370 and get cheaper as you do more. A 4-dive PADI open water course is R3100. Discounts available for using your own equipment. This is the busiest shop in Tofo and handles many divers per day.
phone: +258 82 550 5661, +258 29 356 038address: Albatroz LodgeA relaxed, very friendly and professional operation with over 15 years of local diving experience. Trips cater for all ages and experience levels, including whaleshark ocean safaris, beginner to advanced dives at over 20 sites, PADI training courses and dive packages in association with neighbouring Albatroz Lodge, stay and dive packages also with Fatimas Backpackers. A key sponsor of the Manta and whaleshark research centre in tofo. Scientists on the boats most trips. Trip videos as well as scuba video courses are available.
Dive Tours to TofoFly in from Johannesburg to Tofo on a "fly stay and dive package" with accommodation at Casa Barry Lodge.
- Surfing Tofinio is a good surf spot, and Tofo beach is good for beginners, you can hire boards at "the waterworks" right next to Diversity Scuba.
- Snorkeling is a must... swimming with whale sharks, the largest fish in the world is incredibly special. Although their mouths are over a meter wide and their bodies 8 m long they are harmless. if you're lucky you may also get to swim with wild dolphins. Swimming with whales is prohibited, although when you realize how big they are you'll be happy to see them from the boat. Inquire with the dive shops about trips.
Currency in Tofo Beach is the Mozambican (new) metical (MTn), or officially (MZN)
- Mozambican art, right in front of the beach.
Chillis deliphone: +258 8 4244 2609address: at the petrol station outside TofoFresh bread and cakes daily, cold meats, sausages and cheeses. Wide stock of imported speciality foods. Deli sandwiches and ready-made meals.
- If you are self-catering buying fresh prawns and crayfish is simple - local fishermen will pass by most cottages every morning. A fair price is 100 MTn/kg for prawns and 150 MTn/kg for crayfish. Beware of broken scales over-reading, it is a good idea to test them with a known weight like a 1 kg bottle of water.
- The Restaurante Ferroviara offers a fairly good range of seafood dishes.
- Casa Barry. Restaurant with a great wooden terrace overlooking the sea. Selection of international wines, also the only restaurant that is computerized, ensuring speed when asking for your bill. Has accommodation.
- Dino's Bar and Restaurant. midway between Fatima's Nest and Bamboozi Backpackers. A beach party spot with a roofed-off open-air bar. They do some decent food including good pizza. Bonfires on the beach at night.
- Black and White, (in a shed at the market). Offers local food for local prices. Will prepare fish purchased at the market for a small charge.
- Bread Shack, (next to Fatimas Place). Small dishes with home made bread.
- Casa de Comer. Seafood dishes as well as good international cuisine. Cosy, romantic with good service.
- The water works. A surf shop that also serves excellent breakfast and lunch, you can also trade books and DVDs there.
- Bamboozi Can be a little bit pricey but has quality food and a great all-you-can-eat seafood buffet on Friday evenings as well as Wednesday night Pizza Buffet. It has an awesome view of the bay. The seafood pasta is good value and is insanely tasty.
- Babalaza, (from Tofo follow the road back to Inhambane until you reach the T-junction, the restaurant is on your left). Good restaurant if you have your own transport.
- Turtle Cove, (a 10 min walk on the road from Tofo to Inhambane). The food is prepared one meal at a time, so if you order as part of a group you'll probably all get your food at different times. It's excellent food, though, so worth it. They also have a nicely stocked bar. Open air dining room/bar area. Go early and enjoy a beer and the sunset sitting in the hammock or oversized couches.
EmpireFood TofoSmall traditional restaurant with regional dishes, home-baked bread, vegetarian and other tasty specialities. Here you can eat bunny chow + donuts. A cosy place to be with friends, just 2 min away from the beach. Open 6 days a week from 7am
Tofo Tofo restaurantphone: +258 82 7427270address: Tofo beachAuthentic local place, serves many different traditional dishes with curries and seafood available in a great atmosphere. Also has well supplied shop. Be prepared to wait (a hour plus) if they are busy.
- Bottled water is widely available in Tofo, there is a clean source of local drinking water.
- You can buy your own beer from the shops on the road to Inhambane if you want to save a little money. When buying beer try to get cans rather than bottles, most bars and taverns will ask you not to take bottles away or you can pay a deposit on it. These deposits are hard to get back as vendors seldom have money to pay you or just aren't willing and will coax you into accepting a trade.
- Going to taverns on the outskirts of town on Sunday afternoons are worthwhile to get away from the more popular tourist spots. You'll find friendly locals willing to share a drink and a few laughs.
- Local rums and gins are inexpensive but you'll need some courage. Tipo Tinto is a good local rum!
Fatima's NestEvery night party place, where you can enjoy different kinds of drinking games with the staff.
Dino's Bar and RestaurantAlthough probably the least authentic this is one of the more popular spots to go for a decent meal or drinks.
Fatima's NestFatima, the owner of Fatima's Place in Maputo, has opened a backpackers' in Tofo. There are bungalows, permanent tents, and a campsite. Shower facilities are available. Pool table, beachfront location and every day activities organized by the staff. The staff often laying on local music, dance and even beach theatre, and the bar is pumping well into the night on many an occasion.
Bamboozi Backpackersphone: +258 2932 9040, +27 83 6791165 (Bookings based in South Africa)A quieter, relaxed, much nicer spot further up the beach with better food, run by South Africans with Liquid Adventures PADI dive center on site. All you can eat pizza buffet every Wednesday night for about 250 MTn, good value for money. Restaurant/bar high on a sand dune overlooking a quiet, pristine beach. This place is charming and if you are ready to splurge a little, the sea view chalets are worth the extra money. Dorms, huts, chalets and even a honeymoon suite
- Turtle Cove is also quieter than Fatima's. It's a 10-min walk from town away from the beach on the way to Inhambane. They have a selection of separate chalets and dorms. The dorms have walls and screens, but still use the provided mosquito netting as the walls are pretty porous. That keeps things cool at night, though. The food is quite good, although the kitchen is run by just a couple of people so it takes a while to get your meal and if you order in even a small group you're likely to get your food at different times. The showers are in a block, uncovered but with reed walls that can't be seen through. They don't have shower heads but do have hot water! Dorms and chalets are 240 MTn (about US$10) per person per night.
Casa Azulphone: +258 82 8215921A beautiful little pension with a great tree house, although the other rooms are nice too. Relaxed family-style. 400-900 MTn.
Hotel Marinhosphone: +258 82 2329015A large hotel, right on the beach with great views. 940,000-2,785,000 MTn.
phone: +27 82 8085523By far the most upmarket accommodation in the whole Tofo area. a full range from single sleeper with bathrooms attached to 4 and 6 sleeper self catering chalets and cabanas. This lodge is on the beach and claims to have the best restaurant and deck in town. It also has dive facilities and is home to the Manta and Whale Shark Research Centre. 24-hr security on site and beach.
phone: +258 842623704address: Beach RoadThey claim to have the best view of Tofo Bay and also promote sun-downers, lunch and dinner in their restaurant.
Tofinho is at the far southern end of Tofo Beach, about a 30-min walk.
phone: +27 82 4517498Has 4 houses, sleeping 6-8 people each.
Tofo is a paradisaical locale, but the recent influx of tourists has brought problems that the local police are ill-equipped to deal with. Bag-nabbing is rife, so be sure that there is always someone to watch over your valuables on the beach. The beach walk between Fatima's, Dino's and Bamboozi is entirely unlit, and women should not walk it alone or in the company of strangers at night. There have been... incidents.
Jellyfish can also be a real nuisance in some seasons - a long sleeve shirt can be a good option for swimming. Watch where you step.

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NORWICH, N.Y. — NBT Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: NBTB) recently announced that its board of directors has approved a first-quarter cash dividend of 27 cents a share.
The dividend will be paid on March 15, to shareholders of record as of March 1. At NBT’s current stock price, the dividend yields about 3.05 percent on an annual basis.
NBT Bancorp’s board also approved an increase to the total number of shares authorized under the banking company’s current stock-repurchase program to 2 million shares from the previous 1 million shares. NBT said it has so far bought back 263,507 shares under the plan. The stock-repurchase plan expires on Dec. 31, 2021.
NBT Bancorp is a financial holding company based in Norwich, with total assets of $10.9 billion as of Dec. 31. The company primarily operates through NBT Bank, N.A., a full-service community bank and via two financial-services companies. NBT Bank has 141 branches in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and is currently entering Connecticut. EPIC Retirement Plan Services, based in Rochester, is a full-service 401(k) plan recordkeeping firm. NBT Insurance Agency, LLC, based in Norwich, is a full-service insurance agency.

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It’s a war between Varun Tej and Sharwanand. Their films will be releasing on the same day. Both the actors are promoting their films well.
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Accused of inappropriately touching women in stores
by Chris Harris Commonwealth Journal
A Somerset man accused of groping women in local retail establishments appeared in court Wednesday.
According to Pul-aski County Attor-ney Martin Hatfield, the suspect, Robert Aaron Hammonds, 38, waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
Hatfield noted that typically when the preliminary hearing is waived, the case goes straight to a grand jury to decide indictment.
Hammonds’ next court date is scheduled for the end of June.
Hammonds was arrested Saturday night after multiple reports had been made of women being inappropriately touched while shopping.
Somerset Police reports allegations by six victims in all after the case first began May 30. That’s when two women initially reported that a man had inappropriately touched them in separate incidents while they were shopping at the T.J. Maxx clothing store, located in the Grand Central Place shopping center.
The suspect allegedly touched both victims in the buttocks area in an action that appeared he was passing by.
Other similar alleged incidents Family Dollar on East Mt. Vernon Street, at Hobby Lobby, located in Grand Central Place shopping center, and at K-Mart along East Ky. 80.
Two of the reported victims were under 12 years old, according to police.
Hammonds was arrested by SPD Officer Randall Smith at a residence on North Ky. 1247 Saturday and s lodged in the Pulaski County Detention Center shortly after 12 a.m. Sunday. He was charged on a Pulaski District Court warrant on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of third-degree sexual abuse. First-degree sexual abuse is a felony and third-degree sexual abuse is a misdemeanor.


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The stainless Steel tag measures 2.7cmx4.3cm and has a strong split ring to attach to your keys.
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EAT THE Swans, the new collection of short stories by the Galway writers group, The Atlantis Collective, will be launched tomorrow.
The launch will take place in Massimo, William Street West, at 6pm and is part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
The Atlantis Collective are Aideen Henry, Alan Caden, Colm Brady, Conor Montague (aka DJ Monty ), Dara O Foghlú, Máire T Robinson, Paul McMahon, and Trish Holmes.
Eat the Swans is full of dark, twisted, and perverse tales. The collection is edited by Galway-based writer Hugo Kelly, who also contributes a story.
The launch will feature readings accompanied by live music, theatre, and film. Admission is free and all are welcome.


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How many times in a day do you hear your kids say, “Mommy, I’m bored!”Enough to make you look for ways to keep them busy during the summer afternoons, right? Here are some simple arts and craft activities for you and your kids to enjoy.
1. Bath Bombs
If you thought bath bombs could only be enjoyed by women, then you got it wrong. Kids love to see round colorful balls turning into a fizzy bath. These bath bombs are simple to make and your kids would love to add their science knowledge into it.
Things you will need
- Half cup of citric acid
- Half cup of cornstarch
- One cup of baking soda
- Half cup of Epsom salt
- One tsp water
- One tsp olive oil
- A few drops of any essential oil
- A round shaped mould
Mix the baking soda, citric acid, cornstarch and Epsom salt in a dry bowl. Combine the dry components well and set it aside. Take another bowl, add water, olive oil and drops of essential oil, and mix well. Now add the dry mixture into the oil mixture and mix them thoroughly. Set the bowl aside for few minutes. If the mixture looks too dry, add two drops of olive oil. Divide the mixture into smaller bowls, add few drops of food coloring in each, and mix well. Lastly, take a mould and pour in the mixture of one color first, layering it over with mixture of another color. Fill in two halves of the mould tightly and let the mixture get dry in it for a while. After a few minutes, turn the mould upside down and let the ball dry over night. After drying for 24 hours, they will be ready to use.
2. Chicken bobble heads
Your kids would love the wobbly chicken bobble heads dyed in their favorite colors. Moreover, they make cute knick-knacks for your shelves.
Things you would need:
- Polymer clay (different colors)
- Glass beads
- Gauge wire
- Chopsticks or a pencil
Take the polymer clay and make two small balls out of it, which would make the head and the body of chicken. Keep the head smaller than the body. Take another glob of clay and make tail and wings of the chicken. With a toothpick, make feather marks on the wings and tail. Press them on to the body. Take the glass beads and insert them in place of eyes. Then take yellow or any bright color of clay to make beak out of it and insert it on the head ball. For the last part, take 2 inches of gauge wire and wrap it around the pencil or the chopstick, keeping the ends of the wire straight. Remove the pencil from the wire coil and insert one end of the spring in the head of the chicken and one heading the body, joining the two balls together. Now bake the clay according to instructions specified on the clay package. Your chicken will be ready to bobble in no time!
3. Salt-Water Paintings
Watercolors infused with salt water can be used to make beautiful and unique patterns, making each painting unique with no same design. You can make salt water wrapping sheets with your kids, and wrap them around flowerpots, vase, or use them as origami sheets to make hangings.
Things you will need:
- Epsom salt
- Sea salt
- Watercolor sheets or normal paper sheets
Lay down the paper sheet and wet it with water either by water spray or by stroking a paintbrush with water over it. Now dip the brush in the color of your choice and stroke it over the wet surface. Divide the paper sheet into two parts and sprinkle Epsom salt on one side and sea salt on one. Let the sheet dry. Once the sheet has dried, brush off the salt – you will see beautifully lined patterns formed underneath the salt.

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SHOGUN AUDIO – LONDON 2021
With no clear guidelines in place for the nightlife industry and no set date for venues to re-open, we are forced to re-schedule our London show at The Steelyard.
The new date is FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2021.
All tickets remain valid. We encourage ticket holders to hold on till February where we'll be pulling out all the stops to bring you another memorable night.
If for any reason you're unable to make the new date, refunds are available - please get in touch directly.
We look forward to seeing you in the dance very soon… In the meantime, we have something cooking up behind the scenes to ensure your plans aren't completely foiled on the weekend of 16th October :)
18+ Photo ID Required Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable Last Entry: 3am
Presented by Shogun Audio & Free From Sleep.
This is an 18+ event.


Born: February 28, 1868, Orange, Indiana.
Died: October 1927, near St. Elmo, Illinois, in an automobile accident, en route to a church convention.
Buried: Anderson Cemetery, Warren Park, Indiana.
William was the son of Rebecca Marilla Huston Hackleman, and husband of Pearl Damie Conner, daughter of minister A. W. Conner (married 1899).
He grew up on a farm, and by age 17 was teaching singing classes and leading the singing in meetings.
Later he taught public school for four years, and studied music at the Toronto, Canada, Conservatory of Music under Italian composer Francesco d’Auria, and with private teachers in New York City.
He went on to compose, edit song books, and lead the music at state and national conventions of the Christian Church.
He was president of the National Association of Church Musicians, secretary to the Indiana Missionary Society for five years, and ran the Hackleman Music Company in Indianapolis, Indiana.


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Hi friends! I wanted to pop in quickly to share a new card with you. We're super busy with haying so my post will be short today. :-)
It's been too long since I've inked up the Coffee set (illustrated by Claire Brennan) from Gina K Designs. I absolutely adore this set! I kept my card simple, letting the patterned paper do most of the design work for me. Ha! I think the contrast of the busy paper and the simple focal image works though. :-) A little bit of lace was all I used for embellishment.
Well, that's all from me today!


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A traveler on the Camino de Santiago meets a present-day knight in the first of three finalist stories selected for our 2020 Chance Encounters travel writing competition.
I walk and become an other.
A wet, foggy green on the hills, a smell of cold clean earth. I am that other now, already not myself, or not only myself but a pilgrim — the anyman pilgrim from anywhere, anytime. I have been walking for weeks.
The Camino de Santiago: the ancient pilgrim road crosses the wide breadth of northern Spain, from the French Alps to the tomb of the Apostle Saint James in Santiago de Compostela and onward to the shimmering Atlantic. For a thousand years, pilgrims have walked this road, the third most important pilgrimage in Christian history, behind only Rome and Jerusalem. Seven hundred eighty-four kilometers, or nearly five hundred miles.
The long, wet climb to the Cruz de Ferro, at the border between Leon and Galicia in the west, is two-thirds of the way to the tomb. Winding mists sit in the pines. Clouds from the Atlantic blanket this whole corner of Iberia. The cross comes through the trees — a small iron cross on a tall wooden pillar, sticking out of the center of its own strange hill. It looks somehow stark and brutal. A family is here already who came here by car—they talk in rapid gallego, the regional language of Galicia and the great-grandfather of modern Portuguese.
The Cruz de Ferro has been here so long no one remembers how it came to be. Some say the site was originally an altar to the Roman god Mercury, who protects travellers, and was later adopted by Christian pilgrims. Some say it was a boundary marker left by King Alfonso VI in the twelfth century. It could possibly have been all of these things.
But it’s the strange hill that is the most remarkable. It takes a moment to realize what this is you stand on. The hill is perhaps twenty feet tall and fifty across. Small stones, most worn smooth like marbles. All different. The hill is an enormous cairn. I clamber up the cairn to touch the wooden pillar: rotting, various flags and disintegrated scraps of paper scribbled with prayers.
I swing my backpack down, fumble in a distant pocket, and pull out a small pebble. Speckled granite, smooth and round as an egg. Polished by glaciers and the Pacific, from a beach I walk often near my home in Alaska. Carried every step, like every stone in the great cairn. There’s a prayer I read that goes along with this ritual, but I’m not religious and it’s the myth I’m after, not the prayer. Where did I learn about this myth, this ritual? I don’t even remember. Read it somewhere, heard someone mention it on my last Camino. Even though its origin has rotted to dust, the myth carries on through the millenia, through the endless pilgrims.
I walk and become an other. The pebble’s skin grows warm; I toss it near the pillar. It bounces once and immediately vanishes into the cairn.
Half an hour’s walk beyond into the darkening mountains. Sierra Teleno. Tonight I’ll stay in Manjarín, according to my guidebook: “The only inhabited house in the abandoned hamlet, no warm water, crude toilet, cooking facilities; basic, but very individual hostel…first documented in writing in 1180. No internet.” The population of Manjarín, it says, is one, “Hospitalero: Tomás, who sees himself in the tradition of the Templar Knights.”
The Templar has a long history on the Camino: The Order of the Knights Templar.
Several ancient stone houses. Not masonry—stacked flagstones. I wander the handful of falling-down houses, empty. One house’s sole occupant in an arthritic tree.
Two pilgrims sit sipping steaming cups outside the most dilapidated hut of all. “Is this the hostel?” I ask. They nod. Before we say anything further, a huge bearded man in a stained sweater walks out of the hut.
“Tomás?” I ask.
“Su hermano. Pedro.” His brother. So the population’s at least two. Do I want a bed? Una cama? He speaks only Spanish.
“No hay ducha.” No shower.
“Si.” I know. He points to the back, where his tiny wife sits behind a huge logbook. His grin is unencumbered by front teeth. Five euros. She offers me hot water for cocoa or tea. Cats on every surface, mewing, huddled together in the autumn chill. Dozens of eyes watch me and the two other pilgrims from England, Kevin and Ian, sip hot cocoa.
The “dormitorio” is the flagstone ruin next door. Rotten mattresses, pools of dust, old magazines, and junk mercifully unidentifiable in the darkness. Six mattresses in the attic for us. Pedro lights a fire in the rusty stove. He says he’ll ring the bell for dinner at eight. Tomás will join us for dinner.
“Well, here we are.” says Kevin. We stand around the fire in the dark, laughing at our situation. There are mice in here. I can hear them. There must be a hundred mice for every cat, a hundred bedbugs for every mouse….
A bell rings and a chorus of dogs yelp somewhere. Fumbling with our headlamps in the dark. Needles of cold, must be near freezing. And there, haloed by the light of the doorway, is Tomás, last of the Templar Knights. I see an old man, rough beard, glasses thick as the bottoms of wine bottles. His coat may have at one point long past been white, now yellow and filthy, with a scrap of red cloth sewn on in the shape of the Templar’s cross. Wordlessly, he beckons us into the enclave. Cats scatter.
The four of us squeeze through the rooms crammed with objects. Books, containers, boxes. The kind of sedimentary junk that congeals into a single layer. Blankets of dust. A rudimentary kitchen and a living room, Pedro leans over something steaming. Tomás gestures toward a couch, covered in cat shit. We sit, trying to touch as little of the couch as possible. I begin to pick out objects from the clutter. “Check out the swords,” mutters Ian. There is a cabinet so thick with dust I can barely see through the glass with half a dozen rusty swords. A medieval halberd leans its ax-head against the wall. A sword on a bookshelf. A carved wooden cross. Grimy paintings of castles and knights on horseback in smudged landscapes.
Pedro carries over a huge steaming pot and frying pan, apron spread across his vast belly. We sit down at the circular table in the center, except Pedro’s wife, who hovers like a moth in the corner. Tomás prays in sonorous Spanish. Vegetable stew, traditional potato omelet, slightly burnt. Little fried whole fish, truchas. Bread, water, red wine — the Spanish staples.
Tomás and Pedro speak low, quick, the kind of natural murmuring language that people who live together for a long time adopt. To hear it in strangers, too low to pick up, is like the small-talk of doves.
I muster up enough Spanish to ask how many pilgrims they host in a year. They confer. “Mm, tres.”
“Three thousand?” I exclaim in English. Kevin and Ian look over. “They host three thousand pilgrims a year.”
The time scale shifts. Not only myself but a pilgrim: the anyman pilgrim from anywhere, anytime.
And Tomás — this whole place — everything shifts. What is a knight? A Templar? One charged with protecting the Camino and its pilgrims. One who keeps the traditions and rituals alive through repetition, carries a sword, becomes the myth. Makes it into the freaking guidebook. I think of Neil Gaiman’s brilliant novel American Gods, where the gods of the ancient world live on the streets like bums, trying to get by like the rest of us because no one believes in them anymore.
Tomás (and even Pedro and his wife) are truly knights of the Knights Templar. They host thousands of pilgrims, as did the Knights Templar, feeding and protecting them. They maintain the rituals and myth. This is what knights look like: pot-bellied, gray-haired, with filthy jackets and missing teeth. The treasure hoard of the Templars: this kitchen, the paintings, carvings, rusty swords, and ridiculous halberd. This table. Supping with knights at a round table. The sacred and the absurd are just a matter of who’s telling the story.
The next morning we gulp burnt coffee. I buy a small necklace from Tomás with a wooden Templar’s cross, which I still wear. I shoulder my pack, shiver once, and immediately vanish into the winding road.


text: Trying to bring the kids down for an after Christmas vacation through New Years. Tickets are so high during that time. From our home town it's going to cost $7,000 (there's 5 of us)and not including our Tropic Air Flight. We've done the Cancun route, however, the flights are high as well and we'd lose 3 days due to arrival/departure times. I found some reasonable tickets to Honduras, San Salvador, and Guatamala. Once in either of those 3 countries, it's still pretty high to fly into Belize. Are there other options from those countries to get to Belize? Thanks.


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Zulfiqar never sodomised me, says minor witness
In a setback to the prosecution, the lone minor witness in the sodomy case against Theatre Age director Zulfiqar Khan turned hostile when he was examined in the child witness court on Saturday.Updated: Feb 07, 2016, 18:12 IST
In a setback to the prosecution, the lone minor witness in the sodomy case ag ainst Theatre Age director Zulfiqar Khan turned hostile when he was examined in the child witness court on Saturday.
Deposing before a local court, the 16-year-old denied being sexually exploited by Zulfiqar and said he was innocent. He said Zulfiqar never showed committed unnatural sex with him at his house in Sector 25. He also denied that Zulfiqar showed him porn movies as was being alleged by the prosecution.
During cross-examination, the minor said he never received any summon for appearing in the court and it was through newspapers that he got to know that the case was listed for hearing following which he talked to Zulfiqar’s counsel. The minor said he never visited the police station along with his parents.
Zulfikar founded a non-governmental organisation — Theatre Age — in 1992 to nurture talent of slum children by providing them formal, vocational and theatre training.
Even as the minor witness turned hostile, the complainant — Kanwarpal — stood by his statement and narrated the trauma he went through when he first saw Zulfiqar sodomising children studying in his Sector 25 house where he used to take extra classes of “weak students”.
He said he knew Zulfiqar for the past two decades as they used to perform street plays on drug abuse, female foeticide and other social issues. He alleged that in 2013, he went Zulfiqar’s Sector-25 house at night and saw a young boy lying without clothes. Kanwarpal alleged he also saw Zulfiqar sodomising a boy on the third floor of his house. Later, Zulfiqar’s sacked Kanwar. The complainant said a boy approached him with four photographs in which Zulfiqar is seen sodomising four children at a time.
When contacted, public prosecutor JP Singh said: “It’s too early to comment on the fate of the case as four victims are still to be examined.”


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In the beginning, marijuana was all about the THC, and that was fine for 99% of all the early adopters. However, as time went on, people began to realize that they could smoke marijuana and help control their chronic back pain, knee pain, headaches, and many other kinds of chronic pain. Then, research began to discover that there were several different kinds of potent ingredients in marijuana called cannabinoids, each with its own separate group of powerful properties, just what are these ingredients and how do they affect the human body?
What Are the Main Differences between the Cannabinoids?
There are actually quite a few different ingredients in marijuana, some are considered psychoactive and others are not, but they all do have powerful effects on what are called the cannabinoid receptors in the human body. Each different type tends to connect with different receptors in the body as well.
The first ingredient called CBD makes up least 40% of the resin that’s produced by the marijuana plant and it has quite a few important properties including blocking pain in many chronic pain sufferers, it does this without having any psychoactive properties at all. In fact, it may actually counteract the hallucinogenic properties of THC in marijuana. This is an important factor since many of the people that use the oil of CBD do so for many other reasons besides getting high. CBD oil has many anticancer, anti-stress, anti-inflammation, and pain reducing properties. It is also being used to help epilepsy, insomnia, chemotherapy, and help lower blood sugar in diabetics.
Another important ingredient, that tends to affect a different set of cannabinoid receptors is called CBG which is the precursor ingredient to all of the other cannabinoids while being potent medicine as well. It has no psychoactive properties but also helps to relax muscles, calm anxiety, reduce inflammation, and is being researched for several other important properties.
CBN is the cannabinoid that is made when several of the other ingredients are exposed oxygen for a period of time, especially THC. If you leave your marijuana buds exposed to oxygen for awhile they’ll lose their hallucinogenic properties as THC converts to CBN instead. Then what you’ll end up with is a very powerful tranquilizing sedative that will completely overwhelm your body with incredible sleepiness.
CBN is also being investigated for helping those with glaucoma, nerve pain, and several other diseases as well. If you have a bad habit of leaving your weed exposed to the air and have wondered why it makes you so sleepy, rather than high, the solution to your problem is keeping it tightly wrapped in a baggie between uses.
THC is the most commonly known cannabinoid and it tends to go to the cannabinoid receptors in a similar fashion as an opiate, however, without all of the powerful addictive properties of those drugs. There are now plenty of investigations into whether THC can be used to help reduce the cravings for opiates while addicts go through withdrawal and try to refrain from relapsing after treatment.
These are just a few of the many ingredients in marijuana, some species have more of one type and less of another. You can find out more by doing research on the Internet or talk to your medicinal local marijuana store as they may already have a list compiled of which species they have will better help the kind of medical problem you’re trying to solve.

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Going to school after the regular school day is over doesn't sound like a lot of fun for students, but it's a booming market for China's private-education providers.
XThanks to a "dramatic" increase in disposable income in major cities like Shanghai and Beijing, the continued competitive state of China's education system and a decade-old population boom that is now translating to a recent influx of primary-school-age students, the state of the nation's after-school tutoring sector is "very robust," 86Research analyst Yuzhong Gao told Investor's Business Daily.
And that points to continued growth for China's largest private education provider, New Oriental Education (EDU) — as well as its peers. Both New Oriental and its main rival, TAL Education (TAL) are gaining market share from smaller competitors.
"Currently, because (New Oriental) and TAL have very good teacher quality, and they have very high teaching standards, they provide better teaching quality," said Gao.
From One To 855
Founded in 1993 with just one school in Beijing, New Oriental now has 855 learning centers, including 77 schools, and in fiscal 2017 raked in nearly $1.8 billion in revenue.
Its 4.86 million students are enrolled a wide range of classes. The littlest ones, aged 5 through 12, learn English, music and other subjects in what it calls the POP Kids program, though the company's website says that it can enroll children as young as 3 years old. Meanwhile, high schoolers plow through history or physics lessons after school, and grown-ups who have returned from overseas utilize New Oriental's job placement services.
Reporting fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on July 25, New Oriental came out ahead of Street forecasts as earnings grew 40.5% to 41 cents in American depositary receipts on 23% sales growth to $486.4 million, according to the company. Analysts had expected 38 cents earnings per share on $478.8 million in revenue.
During the quarter, total student enrollment rose 36.9% from the prior year as the total number of schools and learning centers grew by 107. CCB International analyst Eric Qiu, who has an outperform rating on the company, noted New Oriental's center growth is a result of "strong student demand."
"In light of New Oriental's target of 17-21% revenue growth in (fiscal 2018's first quarter) — seasonally the weakest quarter for growth — and the rapid pace of new learning center openings, we expect revenue growth to fully ramp up in (the second to fourth quarters) and continue well into (fiscal 2019) provided openings stay on track," he wrote on July 26, upping his price target to 96 from 76.
Shares briefly entered a buy zone the day after earnings, clearing a 82.72 entry point from a cup-with-handle base, but have failed to properly break out in the ensuing sessions.
Drop In The Ocean
Still, New Oriental's heft as a single company is but a drop in the ocean. The industry is fragmented, with "tens of thousands" of other private-education companies across China, according to Gao. And analysts say that collectively, New Oriental and TAL Education together account for a mere 4%-5% or so of the entire after-school market in the country.
The bulk of New Oriental's learning centers are located in Beijing, which has 97, and in Shanghai with 52, as the company expands into smaller "tier 3" and "tier 4" cities. "Smaller" in China is a relative term, of course: 86Research's Gao says a tier-3 city is about 3-4 million people big; the populace of a tier 4 town is about 1-2 million, bigger than most U.S. cities.
New Oriental's origins were in test prep for Chinese students looking to move abroad. But as that revenue stream has plateaued over the last few years, analysts say the company has turned its eye toward growing its K-12 business.
IBD'S TAKE: China is entering a "golden age" of education, said Deloitte last year, and the country's versions of Kaplan and The Princeton Review are poised to flourish. Read this Snapshot from November for more.
Calling its K-12 after-school programs a "key revenue driver," Chief Financial Officer Stephen Yang said in the most recent earnings call that there are plans to add 10% to 15% new K-12 learning centers in existing cities. The company will also enter two to four new cities in the fiscal year, and is continuing its expansion into more rural areas.
Gao noted on July 26 that in tandem with a rise in enrollment, students at New Oriental are also studying an increasing number of subjects at a time.
"This shows (New Oriental) is well on track to transform itself from an English- focused after-school tutoring institution to an all-subject tutoring service provider," he wrote.
But that doesn't mean New Oriental has not been without issues, and Gao said that in recent years the company has tightened control over its many branches, replacing local headmasters "who did not answer to (the headquarters at) Beijing."
"By doing that it's been very successful," he said, later adding that "a more centralized control by (New Oriental) over its local schools brings management efficiency, which translates into improvements in every aspects."
Separately, New Oriental and other Chinese tutoring schools have been under scrutiny Stateside. A Reuters investigation in late 2016 detailed allegations of college application fraud, and the American International Recruitment Council said in December that it would investigate the claims, sending shares of New Oriental tumbling over 14% in one session.
The stock has more than recovered since then, climbing 85.5% since the start of the calendar year.
Despite the fragmented market, neither Gao nor Qiu sees New Oriental getting an acquisitive itch anytime soon. Growth is likely to come from opening more centers and enrolling more students than engaging in M&A.


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A decision on a new runway for the region is set to delayed again, according to newspaper reports.
An announcement by the Government was due in July but could be put back until September or even later in the year. There are two options at Heathrow and one at Gatwick for an extra runway. The decision was already delayed from last year.
It's because of a large amount of legislation and Government decisions that need to be made between the EU Referendum next month and the end of the parliamentary session in July creating a log jam.
In a new development Gatwick claim more work will have to be done to look into pollution levels at Heathrow because of the car emissions scandal.
Those from some cars may be six times higher than previously thought which could mean the airport breaching legal limits with the amount of traffic a new runway would bring on the M4 and M25, it is claimed.
Heathrow say that is not true and it has taken into account accurate emissions and will expand public transport with new rail from Reading and the south.
Meanwhile Gatwick could get a major boost for its campaign if the Labour candidate for the Mayor of London wins the election, this coming week, as the polls predict.
Sadiq Kahn backs the airport getting a second runway over Heathrow.
All the candidates, including Zac Goldsmith for the Conservatives, are against a third Heathrow runway but Mr Kahn firmly supports Gatwick.
Beltain celebrations have been taking place across the south, with wicker men being burned in spectacular fashion.
At Butser Hill near Petersfield in Hampshire, a 30 foot effigy was burned as the sun set last night, to welcome in the season of renewal and fertility.
Had a great time morris dancing at Butser ancient farm's Beltane - topped off with a seasonal wickerman burning! https://t.co/Pfv3NuugIS
Across the south, morris dancers and maypole dancers are joining the celebrations.
At Westerham in Kent, they'll be 'Beating the Bounds', complete with dancing around a newly-instated maypole on the green.
Twitter has been alive with May Day messages, explaining the significance of the festival in the Pagan calendar. With some racier postings too!
Happy May Day and or Beltane! Remember: it's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on! https://t.co/Ucxi1d1ACc
Happy May Day everyone!
May Day celebrations have been taking place across the south, even though the temperature still feels like March!
A record crowd of 25,000 turned out for the traditional celebrations in Oxford.
A choir sang at the top of Magdalen College tower, and many people stayed up all night to see in the morning.
There were signs up on Magdalen Bridge to prevent people jumping into the river, and organisers say the event has been a great success.
Meanwhile the ancient festival of Baltain has been celebrated across the region.
At Butser Hill in Hampshire, a giant wicker man was burnt as part of the annual celebrations, which take place to welcome in the Spring.
After a dry start, sunshine will become increasingly hazy as cloud thickens, bringing patchy light rain to some parts.Read the full story ›
Tens of thousands of rail passengers are facing disruptions this bank holiday weekend. Engineering works are taking place on key lines - with no service on the Gatwick Express. The Brighton mainline, South West Trains and Great Western services will also be affected. Our Transport Correspondent Mike Pearse reports.
The interviewees are Chris Denham from Network Rail; and Paul Clark, an engineer who has been chosen to appear on the project's awareness posters at stations.
Showers soon dying out this evening to give a dry night with some long clear spells and light winds.Read the full story ›
Some sunshine to start the bank holiday weekend will spark off scattered showers this afternoon.Read the full story ›
The Care Quality Commission has issued a damning report following an inspection of the way the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust looks after the people in its care.
The organisation has come under increased scrutiny following the revelation that there were failings in the way that it reported and investigated hundreds of unexpected deaths, particularly of people using its mental health and learning disability services.
The chief executive of the trust, Katrina Percy, has refused to step down, despite criticism about Southern Health's leadership.
You can watch our full special report on the Care Quality Commission's report into Southern Health NHS Trust below:
Friday night's weather for the West of the regionRead the full story ›


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My wife and I enjoy eating out occasionally (with our current economy, very occasionally). We don’t have kids, so maybe we’re just in the “grumpy old fart” category. Being seated near a family with unruly or loud kids is really irritating, and reflects badly on the parents. I thank my parents for teaching me manners when I was a child. I was not allowed to run around in a restaurant; I was required to remain seated with the rest of the family. It wasn’t a terrible hardship, and somehow I managed to survive. My sister and I were also not allowed to stand / bounce on the seats, throw things, squeal, yell, or otherwise make a nuisance of ourselves. Again, against all odds we survived.
Another thing I have noticed which also reflects badly on parents (not that they seem to care) is after the family has departed, the booth/table frequently looks like a war zone. There are food particles and trash all over the floor, all over the seats, and all over the table. You have to wonder what their house looks like – probably a garbage dump. The waitresses & busboys are not there to do major renovations to each dining area when the pigs (sorry, patrons) leave. If your kids still haven’t learned to put the food in their mouths instead of all over the place, leave them at home. Sheesh! Have some class, people.


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Singapore is a premier global hub port as the country handles over 1,000 tonnes of cargo. Tech tools like AI are analysing data from the ships, the ports and various other agencies to ensure that ships can arrive and depart on time. Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is trialling a new system to help ensure that ships depart from and arrive at Singapore’s docks on time. The authority uses AI to provide recommendations for the most efficient distribution of docking spaces and areas where ships can be anchored.
The algorithm assesses data such as the available sea space and the purpose of the ship’s travel to make these suggestions. It aims to shorten the amount of time that ships are anchored at sea or docked, boosting the port’s productivity. This also cuts the carbon footprint of these ships, as they no longer speed up and then end up having to wait. This reduces the amount of time when ships idle and produce carbon emissions unnecessarily.
The digitalPORT@SGTM System also allows easier data sharing between the port, ships and relevant services like refuelling teams. This data sharing helps ensure that the port is ready when a ship docks, and that it is refuelled before its expected departure time.
Phase 1 of digitalPORT@SGTM serves as a one-stop port clearance portal for ships calling at the Port of Singapore. It streamlined up to 16 regulatory applications that were previously submitted via three separate portals (MPA, ICA & NEA) into an integrated port clearance service.
This is the second phase of the digitalPORT@SGTM initiative to digitalise the docking process. Phase 2 aims to provide a more complete and seamless experience that will cover the integration of digitalport@SGTM with PSA’s Portnet and Jurong Port’s JP Online as well as other commercial platforms. It will include a one-stop platform for the booking of marine services and a Just-In-Time service to orchestrate vessel call activities for optimal passage planning.
This simplified the docking process as previously ships had to submit 16 different forms on various government platforms. Keeping the process in a single location saves shipping companies over 100,000 man-hours every year.
MPA also oversees a hub of maritime data for use in public sector projects relating to Singapore’s waters. This hub collects animal habitat and biodiversity records, information about developments on the country’s coastline, and data on Singapore’s seabeds.
The GeoSpace-Sea platform can show users 2D and 3D images of the sea environment based on data it has collected. This information helps ships accurately navigate the country’s waters and improves maritime safety.
MPA regularly shares data with other government agencies like the National Environment Agency and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. The organisation uses government-provided data sharing tools to share information with these agencies.
These tools are found in a central platform that helps government agencies securely transfer data between one another. The platform provides a catalogue of pre-made tools, reducing the number of data “silos and the duplication of efforts”.
In terms of keeping this data secure, MPA’s data-sharing technology and computer systems are assessed by Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency and GovTech. The authority created a centre for maritime cybersecurity in 2019 to look out for potential cyber threats across marine information systems.
The authority is working towards the full launch of a completely automated port in 2040. This port will use autonomous and electric vehicles, making transport greener with a lower carbon footprint. MPA is using technology to support this industry, improving the convenience of its processes while helping to mitigate climate change.
As reported by OpenGov Asia, MPA partnered with International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to launch The NextGEN (Green and Efficient Navigation) portal, an online collaborative global ecosystem of maritime transport decarbonisation initiatives. The online portal aims to encourage information-sharing, create critical networks and opportunities for collaboration, and facilitate capacity-building


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In December, a young Christian couple were killed and a Christian man kidnapped, heightening fears about the increasing threat to the Christian community now US troops have left the country.
Adnan Elia Jakmakji (34) and his wife Raghad al Tawil (25) were shot dead in their car on December 13. Their two sons were wounded as gunmen sprayed the vehicle with bullets. The family was ambushed in Mosul, northern Iraq, by an armed group.
The previous day, Sermat Patros, a 29-year-old Christian man, was kidnapped from his family’s home furnishings store in Ankawa in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. He was held for three days, during which his captors demanded a $500,000 ransom. Sermat, who was blindfolded and tied down during his ordeal, was rescued by a SWAT team on December 15 to the great relief of his 21-year-old wife Amal and the local Christian community.
The kidnapping followed an outbreak of anti-Christian violence in Kurdistan which erupted in the city of Zakho after Friday prayers on December 2. Hundreds of Muslims, apparently incited by the imam’s sermon, headed from a local mosque to businesses owned by Christians and Yezidis, another minority group; they set alight 25 properties, including shops and hotels. At least 30 people were injured, and several million dollars’ worth of damage was caused. The mob swelled to more than 3,000 and moved on to attack Christian property in three other areas.
The following morning, more than 100 people, mainly youths, threw stones at a church and homes belonging to Christians in Almansoria. On December 5, leaflets were put on the walls of the burned shops threatening the owners with death if they reopened them.
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani said on December 3 that instability in the region was unacceptable and that a special committee will investigate the incidents and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians have moved to Kurdistan to escape anti-Christian violence in other parts of the country; this region is increasingly looking less of a safe haven for them.


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Video games sector pushes for tax breaks<br>
George Osborne could ‘tick all the boxes for the digital economy’ in one fell swoop next month, if he announces tax relief for video games makers in his Budget on March 23rd.
Despite using last year’s emergency Budget to halt the relief, loosely based on the film tax credit regime, the chancellor is said to be reconsidering it for gamers in his big red book of 2011.
First conceived by the Labour government, the relief is among six key areas which Mr Osborne is exploring with input from creative industry bosses, the Sunday Times reported.
Although the newspaper did not cite any sources to evidence its claims, its article has revived calls for the £30m-a-year tax break for developers, most vocally from video games body TIGA.
Since the article, TIGA chief executive Richard Wilson has said introducing the incentive would create or retain almost 10,000 UK jobs – including 3,300 jobs in the gaming sector alone.
It makes further “economic sense”, he explained, given that the economy shrunk in the last quarter and because the chancellor will find that the relief “more than pays for itself,” over its five-year lifetime.
His appeal will be cheered on by leading games developers and studios, concerned that their investment plans could suffer from the general lack of tax relief and support from the UK government.
Only last week, the president of Eidos said: “Video games production plays to the UK’s twin strengths of creativity and high-technology and ticks all the boxes for the digital economy.”
Ian Livingstone is a high-profile supporter of games tax breaks, but his comments were a response to new research that indicates cash incentives alone won’t solve all of the industry’s problems. You don't have to rack your brains seeking creative and innovative ways from composing your documents anymore. If you get in contact with professional essay writers then will do! Essay writers are experts when it comes to essay writing, which means you should leave the writing to them for this reason - to help you! So far as their writing skills are concerned, they will not sacrifice their creativity to help you out. You just need to sit back and allow them to do the rest; after all, composing an essay is not too hard once you understand the way the pro writes a successful composition!
In fact, the government-backed skills review on the video games industry, of which he is co-author, this month reported that most schools and universities fail to turn out ‘industry-ready’ students.
The implied gap between what is being taught - and what industry employers actually want, may also be responsible for the generally poor awareness level about the profile of the UK games industry.
According to the review, only 3 per cent of young people know that top-selling video games like Grand Theft Auto and SingStar were developed in the UK. Among relevant teachers, the awareness creeps up, but to only about a fifth.
More pressing for the economy is that out of the 1,500 or so graduates from the 141 ‘specialist’ video games courses reviewed, only 12 per cent found an industry job within six months.
As a result, “urgent changes must be made to the education system” to ensure that children are being taught the right skills to succeed in a video games career, and to ensure they are aware of the sector’s opportunities and potential.
Michael Rawlinson, director-general of interactive trade body UKIE, reflected: "The UK has a heritage in developing video games that we can be very proud of.
“However, if we are to continue to produce
world-class interactive entertainment we need to ensure that we have a
world-class work force to produce it."
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Although we’ve got the answers of who will end up with who within the world of Bleach, we still get a lot of shipping between Ichigo and Rukia. Like this awesome fan art, both are truly in love, and even during the end of the anime, we saw a little hint of it as both Ichigo and Rukia went skating together.
This fantastic artwork of both Ichigo and Rukia was done by Fenrir-Barkley. If you like what they’ve done, especially the addition of the red thread, go ahead and check them out. Otherwise be sure to share this with other fans of Bleach alongside Ichigo and Rukia.


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Gangs have been cloaking emails from legitimate companies convincing target companies to change their supplier’s bank details so that money was sent to fraudulent accounts.
Money Laundering and Financial Intelligence unit’s officers from the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau recovered €6 million in Hong Kong in an ‘invoice redirect fraud’ scam that targeted local firms.
This type of CEO fraud costs the global economy about €2.3 billion yearly and Irish firms have already lost €30million this year. Gardai recovered €300,000 in a scam involving a local firm and €120,000 was recovered for another businessman. In another case in 2017, €2.8 million was saved just before it was about to be sent to Italy. Among the leading Irish organisations being targeted in the scams are Dublin Zoo, Trinity College and Meath County Council.
According to Det Supt Alf Martyn from the Garda Money Laundering Unit, “We need to be vigilant and all businesses need to be aware of the risks of this type of crime…Money laundering is a complex crime and the launderers don’t care who they’re taking the money from. If people are suspicious over a transaction they should just pick up the phone and make inquiries.”
Officers also work with detectives tasked with finding cash that has been hidden by the Kinahan cartel and other mobs.
A large conference that was held by Compliance Ireland in Dublin on Wednesday focused on money laundering. Det Chief Supt Lordan urged financial institutions to become more aware of the origins of the money coming into their accounts. It was revealed that crime gangs are still smuggling cash bundles out of Ireland through its ports and airports.


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The city is bracing for millions more in public health staffing costs as it prepares to resume regular programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Councillors have approved 92 additional full-time positions in Hamilton’s public health department with the hope of a provincial funding backstop.
“I’m growing increasingly anxious with regard to our COVID deficit,” Brad Clark said during Friday’s board of health meeting.
Finance staff estimate the city faces an overall pandemic-related budget hole that could reach $6.85 million this year and $17.3 million by June 2021.
Mayor Fred Eisenberger contended council can’t “handcuff” public health by not approving the extra positions until provincial dollars flow.
“I have more confidence than some of you that the province will come through for us,” he added.
Premier Doug Ford, meanwhile, criticized Hamilton for spending on the extra hires and then expecting the province to pay for them.
“You gotta work with us, you know. Our phones are on. The mayor knows my number,” Ford said at a press conference. “Call me, mayor, before you go out and spend a couple few million dollars and then turn to the province to pay for it.”
Right now, 261 public health staff and 42 city staff are assigned to the pandemic response, which is expected to continue for at least 18 months before a vaccine is developed.
However, as public health programs resume, staff expect increased demand for dental, mental health, sexual health and vaccination services.
But reopening “vital” programs isn’t possible while sustaining the pandemic response with “very lean” staffing levels, a report says.
“Over 300 staff need to go back and do what they were doing,” Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, medical officer of health, told councillors.
An additional 75 full-time positions will cost roughly $2 million for the rest of 2020 on top of $1.6 million already spent on reinforcements. Over a year, the extra positions would cost $6.7 million.
Another 17 positions — $1.45 million over a year — are dedicated to scheduling and booking at COVID-19 assessment centres.
Historically, provincial governments have provided the city with 100 per cent of the costs associated with health emergencies like H1N1 and SARS, Richardson said.
But word on what the Ontario government will provide for ongoing pandemic work isn’t likely until November, she said.
In the meantime, tasks like prevention, control, case management and contract tracing remain crucial with the virus still in Hamilton’s midst. “And in order to do that, we need resources to do that,” Richardson said.
Coun. Lloyd Ferguson argued residents “would understand” if programs like pest control were “paused” and sexual health clinics scaled back to save money. “We just can’t keep spending.”
But Coun. Maureen Wilson said the city “can’t risk” residents’ well-being by compromising restaurant inspections and West Nile virus prevention.
These regular services and the pandemic requires “all hands on deck,” she added.


Feb 28 neither modern nor post-modern coup: Karadayı
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
Ex-head of YÖK Kemal Gürüz has been arrested as part of the ongoing Feb 28 probe. DHA photoİsmail Hakkı Karadayı, who was the chief of the General Staff during the so-called “post-modern” coup that forced the resignation of Turkey’s first Islamist prime minister in 1997, said that Feb. 28 process was “neither coup nor post-modern coup but an initiative within the limits of law,” the Hürriyet the Daily News has learned.
“[Feb. 28 process] was neither coup nor post-modern coup. This was the result of mistakes that were made at the time. Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan’s statement of ‘Will this big transformation be bloody or bloodless?’ terror activities of Hezbollah, Aczmendi’s (an extremist Islamic group) march, anti-secular activities put Turkey into trouble. Government did not take necessary measures against all of those. Feb. 28 was an initiative within the limits of law,” Karadayı reportedly told Parliament’s Coup Inquiry Commission members.
The commission heard former Interior Minister Meral Akşener and Karadayı yesterday at Parliament’s office of Dolmabahçe Palace in İstanbul.
Akşener reportedly said that capital holders provoked the military for the post-modern coup, and they achieved a “short-term success.” Karadayı, for his part, asserted that there were no kinds of military intervention during the Feb. 28 process. He argued that rolling of tanks in the streets of Sincan district of Ankara in 1997 following an Islamic gathering organized by the local municipality was a “routine activity,” claiming that the West Working Group (BÇG), a group legally formed within the General Staff to fight against religious fundamentalism, was never existed.
The 1997 military memorandum refers to the decisions issued by Turkish military leaders at an National Security Council (MGK) meeting on Feb. 28, 1997, which initiated the Feb. 28 process that precipitated the resignation of former Prime Minister Erbakan of the Welfare Party and the end of his coalition government. Because the Erbakan government was forced out without the dissolution of Parliament or suspension of the Constitution, the event has been labeled a “postmodern coup” by members of the military who were involved in the process.
In the meantime, former head of the Higher Education Board (YÖK) Kemal Gürüz was arrested yesterday as part of the ongoing prosecution over the Feb. 28 probe.


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Hill foodies will soon be able to learn some tricks of the trade from chefs on Barracks Row.
Cooks at 8th Street SE restaurants including Medium Rare, District Doughnut and Belga Cafe will participate in a lineup of Culinary Education Crawl classes on Nov. 15 and 16.
The classes offer immersion learning for beginning and experienced chefs alike, according to Sharon Bosworth, spokeswoman for Barracks Row Main Street, which is organizing the event.
Here are some of the highlights:
Shuck oysters at Senart’s — Senart’s Oyster and Chop House will run an all you can eat lesson in oyster shucking. It’s been one of the most popular classes of the crawl in previous years, Bosworth said. “Oysters shucking is just a dazzling moment,” she said. “It seems like one of those things that everyone — maybe from cave days — wants to know how you get the thing open.”
Cook a modern Mexican meal — Agua 301, the sister restaurant of Zest, will teach participants to make sautéed shrimp in a chipotle cream sauce, rice, and sweet potato and butternut squash mash with truffle oil.
Learn to make doughnuts — District Doughnut will train sweets lovers in making their popular doughnuts. “You will get undivided attention from the chef,” Bosworth said. Participants will take home an “ample” supply of doughnuts,the event website says.
Make the perfect steak — Medium Rare will give a step-by-step lesson on how to make classic dishes perfectly. The session will start with salads, move on to grilling steaks and then try french fries.
For information on prices and the full lineup of classes, see the event website.
Photos courtesy of Barracks Row Main Street


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There are many reasons you might be considering pet ownership. You could be looking for companionship, wanting to show a child the joys and responsibilities that come with a pet, or maybe it is something you have wanted for many years and the time is finally right.
But before you come home with a new furry bundle of joy, make sure you understand all the commitments that come with sharing your home and life with an animal.
How much time are you prepared to spend with a pet. While some animals, like dogs, require a lot more of your attention than others, every animal is going to need some amount of daily attention. Even low maintenance goldfish need to be fed daily and have their tanks cleaned regularly. A dog requires almost constant attention. From walks and feedings to quiet time with petting and cuddles, a dog shouldn’t be left alone for more than a few hours at a time. Consider how much time you are willing to dedicate and then choose a pet based on this because it is one of the most important criteria.
For many pets, the financial commitment extends well beyond the cost of food and can run into the tens of thousands over the lifetime of the animal. Dogs, for instance, will require annual vet checkups and often need expensive medical treatments later in life. While the cost diminishes as the size of the pet shrinks, every pet will require medical treatments that can cost thousands of dollars.
Change in Lifestyle
Are you extremely career focused, buring the midnight oil at the office? Do you enjoy a busy social calendar and like to be the last to leave the party? Do you list travel as being something you love? If you answered yes to any of these, then you may not be ready for a pet. Pet sitters and professional dog walkers have become common but be considerate that your pet will want to spend time with you.
If you have never owned a pet before you might consider being tested for allergies. Rehoming a pet can be difficult, expensive, and stressful for the animal, but often separation is the only solution when severe allergies are discovered. It would be better to know beforehand if living with a cat or dog is going to leave you itchy-eyed and sneezing all the time.
This one mostly applies to dogs, but training is one of the most overlooked obligations people make. If you become a dog owner, whether it is a rescue or a puppy from a breeder, be prepared to take the dog to obedience training, and be prepared to learn a few things yourself. After all, as the saying goes, there are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners. If a dog doesn?t fit into it?s home, it?s not the dog that failed but the people that owned it.
Available Veterinary Care
Just like people do best with a regular doctor, domesticated animals need to have a dedicated vet that is familiar with their state of health and history. Whether you get a dog, cat, rat, or budgie, first make sure a vet who practices on the type of pet you are considering is available in your area. If you’re considering a more unique pet, a vet that specializes in that species may be difficult to find.
Picking the Right Pet
First, you should consider all the different domesticated species that are available. From small mammals like rabbits and hamsters to all the different breeds of dogs and cats, to the more unique pets like birds, reptiles and arachnids, there is a type of pet out there for everyone. This decision is usually an easy one to make, there aren’t too many people who are struggling to decide between a beagle and a boa constrictor. Chances are the hardest decision you will face is whether to or not to get a ‘rescue pet’. These are animals that have been seized by authorities or voluntarily turned over. Rescue animals have become hugely popular lately and for good reason, it’s a great choice. If you think a rescue might be right for you, look online for organizations in your area that specialize in the type of pet you are considering.
This post wasn’t meant to discourage you from becoming a pet owner. It should encourage you to do so because now that you are fully aware of the commitment you will need to make, you will be confident that you and your future pet will have a beautiful, stress-free life together.

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