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Women Leaders As Change Masters - How To Become One
Committee of 200 Contributor
We are female leaders committed to advancing women in business.
Lin Coughlin
Author, speaker & former operating executive providing executive coaching services. C200 member since 2009 & serves on the board.
Women see the world through a different lens than men. They therefore interpret the requirements of leadership differently. Women are relationship builders and results-focused collaborators, and throughout history they have demonstrated extraordinary prowess at resolving conflicts. While these leadership traits have often been undervalued, today, they are in high demand for affecting lasting organizational change.
Women are oriented to playing the role of change maker, comfortably and nimbly shifting contexts while reconciling paradoxes at the individual, organizational, community and societal levels. And they embrace change not as a matter of course, but in the interest of producing model-shattering, breakthrough results.
They are, in short, Change Masters.
Women are Change Masters
How does one become a Change Master? In my 27-year career in corporate America, the last 15 of which I spent as an operating executive on the front lines, and as an advisor and coach behind the scenes, I have observed time and again how the most successful leaders – especially women – approach the enactment of disruptive change. These Change Masters employ seven practices, whether they are leading large-scale organizational transformation or effecting critical path change initiatives. Here's what they do:
1. The collaborators that women are, they forge a shared purpose and vision in support of the need for change. They do so with passion, with authenticity, and with their own voice. And they proactively enlist dialogue around that purpose and vision as a way to inclusively effect the articulation of supporting goals and strategies.
2. The holistic thinkers that women are, they align values, operating principles and core competencies with strategy. The enactment of large-scale change may include the need to change an organization's values and operating principles (the ways in which decisions are made, conflicts are resolved, etc.). New and different core competencies may also be required when, for example, an organization is experiencing rapid growth or deploying downsizing strategies. Change Masters understand the bottom-line results of their strategic investments into the development of their human and social capital in good times—and in bad.
3. The relationship builders that women are, ascribing significant importance to communication, affiliation and cooperation, they create and communicate strategy to emphasize stakeholder benefits. In doing so, Change Masters address the fear of the unknown. And they do so while imparting a sense of possibility and achievability to all stakeholder groups including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the larger "community" in which the organization is operating.
4. The community builders that women are, they enlist the involvement and support of "passionate champions." These are the people up, down and across the organization who want the change as much as or more than the leader. Unlike the leader, "passionate champions" often possess the technical skills to execute.
5. The results-oriented leaders that women are, they are laser-focused on both success metrics and milestones. They keep a close eye on progress, especially in the early stages of execution. They understand that success is measured and evaluated from the standpoint of all stakeholders, which includes a variety of executional imperatives and checkpoints. As Change Masters, they act decisively and resiliently when the inevitable setbacks occur.
6. The professionally humble individuals that women are, they lead first – and then get out of the way. Change Masters get out in front to plan and launch change initiatives. They also know when to let go and how to play the role of champion on the sidelines (jumping back in only to help with course correction and to keep the path for implementation clear of obstacles). Why? They understand that excellence in execution comes when others feel ownership of it.
7. The impassioned leaders that women are, they model the what, the why and the how that drive change. More than a half-century ago, Gandhi observed, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Those who have mastered the art of leading change personify Gandhi's admonition. I can think of no better piece of advice for today's leaders who seek to be Change Masters.
While some male leaders possess the seven leadership traits, the demand for Change Masters is high in a world where just about every business is disrupting or being disrupted. Companies should identify high potential women leaders at mid-career and begin exposing them to assignments that call for significant changes to the status quo, thus creating a robust gender diverse pipeline of emerging Change Masters.
We are an international membership organization comprised of the world's top female C-Suite executives, trailblazing entrepreneurs and boardroom veterans. With over 500


Fashion is in a constant state of evolution. The technological advancements are only accelerating this concept. Tech and fashion are merging together to create smart textiles without sacrificing style, comfort and practicality. Gone are the days where a shirt just functioned as a piece of fabric that provided minimal protection from the elements. Today, clothing can be as smart and as multi-functional as the smartphone in your pocket.
Nanotechnology was already a huge leap forward for the textile industry, with Online Clothing Study noting that fabric with the nanotech treatment turns it resistant to water, stains, and wrinkles. You'll often see it marketed as athletic wear with claims that it has odour control, moisture wicking and UV protection, among other qualities. The nanotech innovations in fitness gear may have paved the way for the innovations we now see in the fashion industry, just as the health and wellness market was where wearable technology really took off. It hasn't slowed down since, and it is listed as the top fitness trend for 2019 by the American College of Sports Medicine. So, you should definitely expect more people wearing smart clothing in the gym at the start of this year.
The materials that make up smart fabrics can range from high-grade polymers for maximum comfort to threads equipped with tiny sensors that respond to stimuli and perform a specific function. For instance, the NADI X yoga pants vibrate to guide the wearer through correct yoga poses, making it the modern yogi's best friend. Another notable product is Lumo's pair of smart running shorts that can be connected to a smartphone. It provides running-specific metrics such as cadence, pelvic rotation, and stride length— insights that can significantly improve your technique.
There are also innovations that aid in rehabilitation from strenuous activities. A feature post by Coral notes how Italy's national team wore kits with built-in micro-massagers, during the 2014 World Cup, that facilitated faster muscle recovery. These products, along with posture-correcting shirts and tracker-enabled sports bras, are geared toward enhancing fitness routines, preventing injury, and helping with physical rehabilitation.
However, fitness junkies are not the only ones who benefit from garment technology. Pretty soon, colour-changing fabrics will be ubiquitous among the fashion-conscious crowd. The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute collaborated with Cute Circuit and came up with a dress that does exactly that; it changes colours in response to the wearer's breathing patterns. LOOMIA produced a similar dress but the change was triggered by fluctuations in the room's temperature. In e-textiles, Google partnered with Levi's to announce Project Jacquard, a denim jacket that can provide directions, change the songs on your smartphone, and even make dinner reservations. Another exciting innovation is the energy-harvesting fabric developed by the Georgia Institute of technology; the fibres are created with solar cells that can collect and store energy from the wearer's movement. It then generates electricity, which can essentially turn your trousers into a portable outlet.
While fashion design has definitely evolved with technology, manufacturing isn't far behind. Data analytics, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and other technological tools are helping create a more personalised experience for the user. Soon, you will be able to design, fit, and purchase garments through your computer screen. Tailors will be automatic too. Design World Online explains that advancement in robotics is already infiltrating garment production. Sewbots by Softwear Automation specialise in sewing with precision and speed, a huge step forward from earlier robots that couldn't handle intricate tasks such as this.
There's still so much potential when it comes to the fusion of fashion and technology. Data will continue to inform designers on what consumers want to see on the market while automation will infiltrate the production process. Retailers, in turn, will slowly transition to online spaces and consumers can expect more intelligent and personalised clothing to shape the future of fashion.
About the author: Kyle P. Carson is a fashion journalist who's covering the industry for more than 25 years. Having branched into fashion photography, Kyle loves to share his knowledge of the industry by occasionally writing blog pieces.
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Q: Integrating R in QGIS with Mac OS El Captain: missing dependencies I have a Mac OS (El Captain) and I'm trying to run R scripts within QGIS 2.14. When I open a script (like one from the online list) I receive the error message:

This algorithm cannot be run :-(
  This algorithm requires R to be run. Unfortunately, it seems that R is not installed in your system, or it is not correctly configured to be used from QGIS
  Click here to know more about how to install and configure R to be used with QGIS

Please note that:

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*R is correctly installed

*I followed instructions from http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/R-in-QGIS-on-OSX-using-Kyngchaos-build-td5254567.html

*It is not possible to set the R folder, as I did in Windows (see the figure here below), but only the R script folder.

A: I just solved the problem following these steps:

*

*open the Terminal, digit touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile and add two rows:
export R_HOME="/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources"
export PYTHONPATH="/Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/Resources/python"
save the file and close the Terminal

*open a new Terminal digit sudo nano /etc/paths
enter your password when prompted
Go to the bottom of the file, and enter the path you wish to add (in my case was /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources).
Hit control-x to quit.
Enter "Y" to save the modified buffer.

*copying the two link files (R and Rscripts) that are in "/usr/local/bin" folder and pasting to "/usr/bin".

*Restart your MAC
;)

A: OSX 10.13, R 3.4.3, QGIS 2.18.2, GDAL 2.1.2 Python 2.7
I just solved the problem like above:

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*open the Terminal, type

nano ~/.bash_profile

*add two rows:
export R_HOME=/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources
export PYTHONPATH=/Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/Resources/python

*save the file and close the Terminal

*open a new Terminal digit

sudo nano /etc/paths

enter your password when prompted
Go to the bottom of the file, and enter

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources

Hit control-x to quit.
Enter "Y" to save the modified buffer.

*copying the two link files (R and Rscript) that are in "/usr/local/bin" folder and pasting to "/usr/bin". Pay attention to the version of the R.Framework. Open a terminal window and type

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/R  /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/bin
cp /usr/local/bin/Rscript /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/bin

*Restart OSX

A: Either one of these solutions posted above work, but there is a critical missing bit of information. You need to disable the System Integrity Protection feature in El Capitan as per this link. Once you disable the SIP, you can copy the R and Rscript link files from "/usr/local/bin" folder to "/usr/bin". It worked for me after about 24 hours of frustration and now I can run R scripts in QGIS.

A: Mac Os X is an Unix system and the processing Python module search for an R executable because it uses the subprocess module to execute the script directly with R.
The Python script involved is /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/Resources/python/plugins/processing/algs/r/RUtils.py
1) it search for the R executable
2) it creates a R script with the command that should be executed (/.../.qgis2/processing/processing_script.r)
3) it executes R processing_script.r  with the subprocess module
Therefore, if you can launch R from the terminal  (Terminal.app), no problem, you have nothing to do.

If not, try in the Terminal.app
which R

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*In Yosemite the result is /usr/bin/R with an R executable witch is a symbolic link  of /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.x/Resources/bin/R

*In El Capitan the result is /usr/local/bin/R because of the System Integrity Protection (SIP), About System Integrity Protection on your Mac (you cannot use /usr/bin/, amongst other things, only Apple is allowed to install software under /usr/bin . /usr/local/bin is for the others)

Look at [Qgis-user] R in QGIS on OSX using Kyngchaos build
Simply add PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH" in your .bash_profile file (search in /usr/local/bin/ before /usr/bin/)

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Maybe it was that the ground was in such good condition, maybe it was that they had just played each other in a warm up match last week, or maybe there is some sort of Pacific pact? But the big hard body clashes we come to expect particularly from Nauru, (and make no mistake PNG are always up to match the tough stuff when it comes) were just not there in the amount we come to expect.
Or maybe it is just that open play six goal opening quarter from PNG just took the sting out of Nauru?
PNG are very aware that if they can play well enough and finish with a 3-1 record next Tuesday then they are still a chance to play in the Grand Final if their percentage is good enough.
And so it was they burst out of the blocks at Sebastapol. Big John Ikupu looked good to go from the start at full forward, his first score a behind though. Kelly Kagula, not yet 17 got the ball rolling for PNG with a snap from the pocket. Further goals to King, two to Amua Pirika looking like the dominant forward he should be, Siwee and Savere adding one each. The delivery out of the middle was fast and accurate and the Nauru defenders were unable to focus on any particular target.
Pirika kicked his third for the match early in the second quarter into a slight breeze after marking a high ball pretty much uncontested. Bronco Deidenang kicked Nauru's first goal of the match and was working hard along with Shawn Kemp Maaki to give their midfielders a target. Ikupu kicked his first as he was unmarked on a quick re-entry to the PNG 50. Laurie Logo was busy all match and also kicked his first after floating back with the flight into the 50 and almost took out Pirika, both players appeared to grab the ball, but Logo got the umpire's nod. Joeson Kanimea added a second goal for the Chiefs and they also kicked three behinds for the quarter which they could not really afford to miss. PNG's Ikupu added his second before half time, using his size to protect the space and after a good leap landed and took the mark in his lap and kicking truly to give his side an 8 goal lead.
While Nauru never really recovered from the first quarter they definitely were more competitive in the second half. Kenneth Oppenheimer, Devine Agir and Tian Waidabu all working hard to give the Chiefs some momentum even if it did not show on the scoreboard. Pirika kicked his fourth for the match and Brendan Beno got reward for his hard work around the ground with a goal of his own from 55m out after being on the end of two 25m penalties initially at half back. The only Nauru score for the quarter came from Maaki whose kick into the breeze hit the post.
Nauru won the final quarter, after another behind to Maaki his tag team partner up forwards in Deidenang kicked one with the breeze from 50. Maaki kicked his second goal for the match late in the quarter. In response PNG added a behind from Beno and Siwee kicked his second goal for the match. The Mozzies running out 49-point winners.
The battle between Nauru's Tatum and PNG's Clyde Puller was worth watching while Goroga and Logo were real livewires around the ground all match and gave PNG much of their drive. Oppenheimer worked hard through the middle of the ground all day for Nauru and won numerous contests. Also mentioning was Oea for PNG, he is not even 16 yet, but he played with men and as a man today - one to keep an eye on.
PNG now play the USA at Montrose on Saturday which will have big implications for both sides. Nauru will look to get onto the winners list in their match against France.


This two-day practical techniques course has been developed to equip equine practitioners with the confidence to perform core practical skills beyond that of the new graduate. The first day will focus on diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for equine medical cases whilst day two will be dedicated to equine surgical cases.
Each day can be taken individually or both days can be booked together and for this first run we will concentrate on veterinary techniques of the equine eye and respiratory system and basic surgery of the head and neck.
Day One will begin with a series of short introductory lectures which will outline the clinical indication for a variety of techniques as well as including comprehensive "how to" guides. The afternoon will then be spent getting hands-on experience using a variety of live horses and cadaver material closely supervised by equine veterinary specialists. Numbers are limited to ensure a low delegate: clinical instructor ratio.
Day Two of this course (which can be taken alone) has been developed to equip equine practitioners with the confidence to perform surgical practical skills beyond that of the new graduate. Focusing on the equine head and neck, introductory lectures will outline the clinical indications for a range of surgical techniques as well as step by step guides. Lectures will be followed by practical teaching in our wet lab using cadaver material.
Students will get hands-on experience with close supervision by experienced equine veterinary specialists. Numbers are limited to ensure low delegate: clinical instructor ratios.
This exciting new addition to our CPD programme is structured to be suitable for delegates working towards an RCVS CertAVP in equine practice but is also equally useful for those wishing to advance their knowledge and skills in general equine practice at an advanced practitioner level.


Katie Augustyn, a board member of the Connecticut Association for the Gifted, addresses Monday night's meeting of the Westport Board of Education.
Westport school administrators told the Board of Education on Monday that they intend to move ahead with changes to the district's "Workshop" program for gifted students.
Members of the Workshop Curriculum Committee outlined a series of recommendations that seek to further integrate the curricula in gifted and regular education classes, create more personalized education plans for gifted students and improve teachers' instruction and management of gifted pupils.
"The recommendations that we're making take steps to make gifted education an integral part of the school linked to the central mission of the school, entwining it with the regular education curriculum that is so rich and complex and that Westport is so proud of," said Assistant Director of Pupil Services Michael Rizzo.
The Workshop Curriculum Committee, which includes several Westport public school administrators, was formed earlier this year after school officials reviewed feedback from a parent survey and student focus groups and issued several recommendations for the gifted program.
Approximately 165 students in grades three through eight participate in the Workshop program, which provides specialized education to gifted pupils. Second-grade students are identified for possible entry into the program through a series of assessments.
Creating a "mainstream articulation plan," which educators would use to plan each gifted student's curriculum, is one of the leading recommendations of the committee. To complement that proposal, committee members also advocated that gifted students' academic progress be tracked by performance-based assessments with detailed rubrics.
To foster more integration of curricula, the committee proposes that teachers of gifted students and instructors of students in standard classes collaborate on lesson implementation and individualization of their students' areas of study.
The Workshop Curriculum Committee will also study instituting cluster grouping, a framework in which usually four or more gifted students are placed in the same regular classes.
After its recommendations are implemented, the committee recommends that the school district conduct a full review of the Workshop program at the end of the 2012-13 academic year.
Other measures backed by the committee, such as staff development of gifted education faculty and increased interaction among gifted students from different schools in the district, have already taken effect.
Several school board members expressed support for the committee's proposals.
"I'm very excited by the overarching theme of really helping to reach out and stretch each and every one of our students," said Elaine Whitney. "I think your recommendations will help those who have been formally identified as well as many high-achieving students who haven't been formally identified."
Since last year, the school district has also implemented a new long-term curriculum initiative, Westport Education 2025, as well as a new math program, Singapore Math, for students in kindergarten, first grade and second grade. Lis Comm, director of secondary education, professional development and research, said district educators aimed for the objectives of the Workshop program to align with the goals of 2025.
"We're concerned with critical thinking and problem-solving. We're concerned with collaboration; we're concerned with making kids entrepreneurial," she said. "We want to create a curriculum for the gifted students, which will help them develop these 21st century skills."
Dozens of parents attended Monday's board meeting, and many voiced a range of views about the Workshop program.
"We are now proud to be talking about this; we are proud to be making improvements," said Katie Augustyn, a board member of the nonprofit organization, the Connecticut Association for the Gifted. "I think there is a lot that has happened and a lot that still could happen."
Some parents, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the school district's management of the Workshop program.
"Despite some really talented teachers and administrators, we're doing a relatively poor job serving not only our relatively few gifted kids, but also a larger range of high-achieving kids," said Jim Westphal.
After several board members indicated that they favor changes to the gifted program that would be "budget-neutral," some parents called for the board to consider allocating more funding for the program.
"Let's not get caught up in the constraints and confines of budget neutrality," said Mandar Mudholkar. "Let's talk about the prioritization and see whether we can bring this program to a higher standard."
Some parents also recommended that subject-specific accelerated programs be instituted for gifted and high-achieving students in grades three through five. In math, however, the school district will not implement that suggestion because school officials are seeking to expand Singapore Math next year to the third and fourth grades.
The Workshop Curriculum Committee will next meet with the Board of Education to review the identification process for prospective Workshop program students and the potential implementation of cluster grouping.
Board of Education members have not yet decided whether to vote on any of the Workshop Curriculum Committee's recommendations, the board's chairman, Don O'Day, told the Westport News.


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Board of Directors or a Consultant-Manager? 1. Preamble His unique personality and work are why the Austrian – American university professor, writer and advisor Peter Ferdinand Drucker, received, during his life of almost a hundred years (:1909-2005), the highest honors and titles. Some people gave him the title of the "Founder of modern management". Although, […]Continue reading
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It is already the middle of October with just a few months left in 2016, and as usual I am shocked by this. The year went fast, and we have been blessed to have a busy year at Workflo by beyondRelations, LLC.
Don't miss Scott and Amanda at the Nadcap meeting!


We arrived at La Ciudad Blanca (The White City) of Arequipa for a good reason. A close friend was getting married, so it was our chance to celebrate a wedding and do some sightseeing. Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru. The climate and good food make Arequipa a great travel destination.
We stayed at "Casa de Avila" hostel, highly recommended for the price and convenience. This place offered different services such as Peruvian cooking classes and Spanish lessons. It also has a huge garden where you can relax and catch some sun.
The first day we visited Plaza de Armas. After walking around the square for a while, we stopped for lunch at a typical restaurant and drank an 'Arequipeña "(local beer), while enjoying the view of the Misti volcano. In the afternoon, we visited Monasterio de Santa Catalina, a must see in Arequipa. This monastery, with colonial architecture, contains pieces of baroque art and paintings from Cusco art.
The second day we took a tour from Plaza de Armas. Honestly, this is the most practical thing to do if you want to visit touristic places and only have a few days in the city. Tip: If you go to the second floor on the bus, this should have a roof, otherwise, you won't stand the heat. Also, don't forget to bring a hat and sunscreen.
The tour started in Yanahuara. From this viewpoint, you can also see the famous Misti. While waiting for other people on the tour, who were taking lots of pictures, we went to buy Queso Helado (Cold Cheese). This is a typical dessert from Arequipa made of milk, coconut, and vanilla. Although his name mentioned cheese, this dessert doesn't contain cheese. I believe that's important to mention so you won't be disappointed if you are expecting to eat cheese.
Then, we saw local animals: Vicuñas, Lamas and Alpacas.
One of the places we liked the most was "Casa del Fundador" because it was located in fields outside Arequipa. You'll get amazing views all the way to Casa del Fundador.
and The Wedding day arrived!. Below are the happy bride and groom at the altar … and the party after the ceremony was really fun.


Located in Eau Claire, Wis., Silver Spring Gardens, Inc. is the world's largest grower and processor of horseradish. The family-owned company, a subsidiary of Huntsinger Farms, Inc., was founded in 1929 by Ellis Huntsinger when he started growing horseradish and other vegetable crops near Eau Claire. Back then, Huntsinger prepared the horseradish by hand.
Today, Huntsinger Farms grows horseradish in a five-to-seven-year rotation with corn, soybeans, snap beans and other forage crops across more than 9,000 acres in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. The company is currently owned by Huntsinger's granddaughter and great-grandsons. Tnemec's Series 270 Stranlok coating system was applied to the interior walls at the Silver Springs Gardens expansion project in Eau Claire, WI.
Tnemec teamed with Excel Engineering, Inc., and Swanson & Youngdale during the company's large expansion in 2005 to specify a wall system that would be seamless, easy to clean and durable. Series 130 Envirofill, a waterborne cementitious acrylic, was used to fill the porous concrete where needed. Next, a prime coat of Series 201 Epoxoprime, a high-solids polyamine epoxy, was applied, followed by Series 270 Stranlok, a fiberglass-reinforced polyamine epoxy wall coating. Stranlok was chosen because it would meet the company's needs, as well as withstand the frequent cleaning in the high-production food-processing facility. Stranlok can be applied in occupied spaces, cures quickly for fast return-to-service, and provides resistance to thermal shock, chemicals, impact and abrasion.
Series 280 Tneme-Glaze, a glaze-like, durable polyamine epoxy, was applied as the wall system's topcoat. Resistant to pressurized hot water and detergent cleaning, Series 280 provides excellent chemical, stain and abrasion resistance.
Series 607 Conformal Stain, a solvent-based acrylic, was chosen to protect the building's exterior concrete. Series 607 exhibits excellent color stability and does not alter the natural texture of the surface.


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Tigers' Norris calls weight room fall 'freak accident'
Left-hander is determined to return from latest setback
Tigers' Norris calls weight room fall 'freak accident' Left-hander is determined to return from latest setback Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/1Rq2Vdt
Chris McCosky, The Detroit News Published 11:17 a.m. ET March 25, 2016 | Updated 12:22 a.m. ET March 26, 2016
Daniel Norris(Photo: Robin Buckson / Detroit News)
Lakeland, Fla. — Daniel Norris beat thyroid cancer in the offseason, and now he's going to start the season on the disabled list because of a freak training accident?
The world isn't right.
"It sucks," Norris said Friday morning. "I can't even put into words how disappointed I am."
Norris was expected to win a spot in the Tigers' rotation this season, but on March 15, he slipped while doing box jumps in the weight room. He suffered hairline fractures in the L2, L3 and L4 on the spinous process — the bony projection off the back of each vertebra.
It's not expected to be a long-term injury. In fact, Norris expects he will be able to resume baseball activities as early as Tuesday. But it will keep him off the Opening Day roster, at least initially.
"I was just going too hard and I'm paying the price now," Norris said of the fall. "I just slipped and fell. Honestly, it was like a freak accident. I can't tell you how many times I replayed it in my head. I wish I could go back and not do those box jumps."
He said the instant he landed he felt a pop in his back.
Wilson, Hardy not likely to break camp with Tigers
"I popped up real quick and said I'm fine," he said. "But I took a couple of steps and it didn't feel too good. I didn't tell anybody at first, just went out like it was a normal day. But I tried to play catch and I couldn't throw."
Still, he had three days before his next scheduled start. He thought he would be ready to pitch last Saturday in Jupiter, Fla. But the back was sore after the three-hour bus ride Friday and the Tigers wisely pushed it to Tuesday.
He lasted six batters against the Blue Jays before being pulled out. He didn't feel pain when he threw his fastball. But when he extended all the through his motion on a change-up, that's when the pain flared.
"I still thought I could pitch through it," Norris said. "They told me that even though I went out there and tried to pitch, I didn't do any more damage. The damage had already been done. The pain I was feeling was muscle spasms protecting the fractures."
Norris said he believes the fractures have been healing since March 15.
"I talked to the specialist and I was pretty encouraged by what he told me," he said. "As soon as I finish the medication (five days) that should handle the inflammation. It should go pretty quickly and I should be able to start throwing and begin baseball activity next week."
His body will dictate the pace of his recovery. And given Norris' hell-bent mentality, that could be dangerous. Norris acknowledged that.
"I want to get out there and expedite the process," he said. "But I have to be honest. I can't try to push through it like I have been. I think I kind of delayed my timetable a little bit. But I feel like I am already a ways into the healing process."
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If you've noticed the power is out in your area, you're not alone.
Crews have been dispatched to resolve a power outage in the area of Lorne Park Rd. and Southdown Rd. on Wednesday.
A total of 850 Alectra customers are affected.
Estimated time of returned is 3 p.m.


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California added to New York state's COVID-19 travel advisory list
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- California was added to New York state's COVID-19 travel advisory list, the total number of which now reached 41 states and territories, the state government said on Tuesday.
On Oct. 20, Arizona and Maryland were added to the list, raising the total from 38 to 40. On both occasions, no state was removed from the list.
Among the states that are not on the list, neighboring Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have met the criteria for the travel advisory, said the government.
However, given the interconnected nature of the region and mode of transport between the states, a quarantine on these states is not practically viable, it said.
That said, New York state highly discourages, to the extent practical, non-essential travel to and from these four states, it added.
The advisory requires individuals who have traveled to New York from areas with significant community spread to quarantine for 14 days. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from an area with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or an area with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University reported 33,433 coronavirus deaths in New York state, the worst in the country.
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"Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and refugees have died as of this past weekend," Itayi Virri, IOM spokesperson, said in Geneva on Tuesday.
IOM said the latest toll confirms "this route as the deadliest for migrants in search of a better life", and gave warning that the situation was worsening.
During the same period last year, 1,607 migrants had perished trying to make the journey, with 3,279 dying in all of 2014.
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El índice de democracia ( ) es una clasificación hecha por la Unidad de Inteligencia de The Economist (EIU por sus siglas en inglés), a través de la cual se pretende determinar el rango de democracia en 167 países, de los cuales 166 son estados soberanos y 165 son estados miembros de las Naciones Unidas. Este estudio fue publicado por primera vez en el año 2006 y ha tenido posteriores actualizaciones en 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 y 2020. La Unidad de Inteligencia del índice de democracia de The Economist basa los resultados en sesenta indicadores que se agrupan en cinco diferentes categorías: proceso electoral y pluralismo, libertades civiles, funcionamiento del gobierno, participación política y cultura política. En lo que respecta a la clasificación que se le hace a los países de acuerdo a su puntuación, esta se divide de la siguiente manera: países con democracia plena, países con democracia imperfecta, países con regímenes híbridos y países con regímenes autoritarios.

En la publicación de 2016 del índice de democracia, Noruega obtuvo un total de 9,93 puntos sobre 10. Cabe destacar que este ha sido el resultado más alto desde el año 2008, cuando Suecia, que después bajó al cuarto puesto, se ubicaba en la primera posición. En el caso de Corea del Norte, este país obtuvo 1,08 puntos y al igual que en el año 2012 sigue ubicado en la posición 167, la más baja de la lista. Otro aspecto importante es que el índice de democracia de 2010 resalta el impacto mundial que tuvo en la política la crisis financiera internacional de 2008 y 2009, y muestra a Europa como la zona que sufrió mayores cambios. También se puede observar que 91 países de los 167 obtuvieron una puntuación inferior que en el índice del año 2008, aun cuando el deterioro de la mayoría de estos no fue tan grave.

Entre el año 2008 y el 2010, 13 países cambiaron su estatus con respecto al régimen. De esos 13, 11 sufrieron un proceso de retroceso y dos de avance. Entre los países que retrocedieron encontramos a Francia e Italia. Ambos pasaron de ser clasificados como países en democracia plena a países con Democracia imperfecta. En cuanto a Francia las notables tendencias políticas negativas de los últimos años fueron la causa de este resultado. Con respecto a Italia, el informe del índice atribuye el descenso de categoría al deterioro de la situación de los medios de comunicación desde el regreso de Silvio Berlusconi al puesto de primer ministro en el año 2008. En oposición a los resultados de estos dos países están Ghana y Malí, que fueron las únicos dos estados en el índice de 2010 que subieron de estatus, pues pasaron de ser naciones con regímenes híbridos a ser naciones con Democracia imperfecta.

En el índice de 2014 se hace notar el deterioro de la confianza de los ciudadanos europeos occidentales en las instituciones. Menos de la quinta parte de estos confían en los partidos políticos y alrededor de un tercio en el funcionamiento del parlamento. Además, se menciona el agravamiento del malestar social en el comienzo de la recuperación económica en países como España e Irlanda.

En cuanto a Europa en conjunto, en el índice de 2014 la situación experimenta pocos cambios. Se puede señalar que hubo cinco países que empeoraron pero que nueve mejoraron, entre los que se encuentran algunos de los países más castigados por la crisis como Chipre, Irlanda, Portugal y España. Cabe destacar que, aunque la situación económica ha mejorado, el ascenso de partidos contestatarios y de protesta sigue patente en las encuestas.

Se observa, asimismo, una aceleración del retroceso en la libertad de los medios de comunicación afectando a todas las regiones. Este retroceso es más significativo en el caso de los medios digitales como por ejemplo el control de internet por parte de los estados. Aparte de esto, se resalta la concentración de la propiedad de medios comunicación en unas pocas empresas que resta diversidad de puntos de vista a la hora de analizar la actualidad. La inseguridad laboral y el desempleo en el sector de la comunicación también ha supuesto un obstáculo para una mayor libertad a la hora de publicar información sensible. Por otra parte, se ha detectado una relajación en la postura de las naciones más desarrolladas hacia la libertad de prensa en los países en desarrollo.

El avance de la democracia a corto plazo se percibe incierto. Es más, se ha observado un peor resultado en ciertos aspectos del gobierno, la participación política y las libertades relacionadas con la comunicación. A pesar de que algunos sistemas autoritarios han sido discutidos como en el caso de la primavera árabe, ésta precisamente nos muestra que no siempre prosperan. No obstante, aún se aprecia un deseo de establecer sistemas democráticos en parte de los habitantes de estos países.

Metodología empleada
Como se describe en el informe, el índice democrático es un promedio ponderado, basado en las respuestas brindadas a un cuestionario comprendido por unas 60 preguntas, cada una de las cuales permite elegir una de dos o tres respuestas alternativas posibles (a modo de opción múltiple).

Algunas de las preguntas son respondidas a través de encuestas de opinión llevadas a cabo en los respectivos países. No obstante, en el caso de los países de régimen político cerrado en mayor o menor medida, dentro de los cuales no pueden llevarse a cabo encuestas independientes que arrojen resultados concluyentes, se usan resultados previamente obtenidos para países de sistema de gobierno similar, además de algunas evaluaciones por parte de expertos.

Las preguntas se distribuyen en las diferentes categorías enumeradas anteriormente. Cada respuesta que contiene sólo dos opciones es posteriormente convertida a un número, 0 o 1 (0,5 en el caso de las alternativas triples).

En unos pocos casos, una respuesta que resulte en cero inhabilita la posibilidad de responder una posterior pregunta. Por ejemplo, la primera de ellas interroga si las elecciones para jefe de gobierno y para la legislatura nacional no se consideran libres. En caso de no ser así, la segunda ("¿Son las elecciones justas?") no corresponde, por lo que debe ser automáticamente marcada con otro cero.

Por otra parte, unas pocas de las preguntas son tan importantes que obtener una baja puntuación en ellas implica una penalidad en la sumatoria de sus respectivas categorías. En particular:
 "Si las elecciones nacionales son (realmente) libres y justas".
 "La seguridad (personal) de los votantes".
 "La influencia de potencias extranjeras en el gobierno".
 "La capacidad (potencial) de un funcionario civil de implementar políticas".

Luego los índices correspondientes a cada una de las cinco categorías generales son promediados para obtener un único valor medio para un país dado.

Finalmente, el índice de democracia resultante, redondeado a un decimal, decide la categoría del país de la siguiente manera:
 Democracias plenas—Entre 8 y 10 puntos.
 Democracias deficientes—Entre 6 y 7,9 puntos.
 Regímenes híbridos—Entre 4 y 5,9 puntos.
 Regímenes autoritarios—Menos de 4 puntos.

Por ejemplo, en esta comparativa se ha puesto un mayor énfasis en la posibilidad de opinión pública, lo que claramente se desprende de las propias encuestas pero, por otro lado, no se ha tenido en cuenta el nivel de vida como un criterio o parámetro para definir el grado de democracia de un país (a diferencia de lo que aparentemente realizado por algunas otras investigaciones al respecto). Aunque el standard de vida de cada Estado, íntimamente relacionado con el grado de desarrollo económico que éste ha alcanzado, suele afectar el "humor social" de la gente en general, y podría condicionar algunas de las respuestas brindadas por un eventual entrevistado.

Por otro lado, no se indica si el informe ha sido presentado en el ámbito académico del Reino Unido o del extranjero. De ser así, se habilitaría la deseable posibilidad de ser sujeto a una revisión por pares (peer review).

Índice de democracia según el tipo de régimen
La siguiente tabla brinda la clasificación de 167 países del mundo según su grado de desarrollo democrático, según el informe al respecto de 2021 realizada por The Economist.

La población mundial se refiere a la sumatoria de la de los 167 países involucrados en el estudio. Dado que esta encuesta incluye casi todas las naciones soberanas y tan solo excluye algunos países de muy pequeño tamaño, se puede considerar que esa suma equivale prácticamente a la población mundial estimada a mediados de 2018.

De los 193 estados miembros de las Naciones Unidas en 2018, están excluidos del índice 29 países:
 Los cuatro microestados europeos: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Mónaco y San Marino. Más la Ciudad del Vaticano, miembro observador de la O.N.U.
 Los diez pequeños estados soberanos insulares de Oceanía: Kiribati, Islas Marshall, Micronesia, Nauru, Palaos, Islas Salomón, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu y Vanuatu.
 Los ocho pequeños estados soberanos insulares del Caribe: Antigua y Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Granada, San Cristóbal, San Vicente y Santa Lucía.
 Dos estados insulares africanos: Seychelles y Santo Tomé y Príncipe.
 Un estado insular asiático: Maldivas.
 Otros cuatro estados soberanos: Belice y Brunéi por su escasa población, así como Somalía y Sudán del Sur por tratarse de estados desestructurados.
Excepcionalmente se incluyen tres territorios que no tienen la plena consideración de países soberanos, como Palestina, Taiwán y Hong Kong. Los restantes territorios dependientes no se han separado de los países que los administran, aunque muchos de ellos tengan un alto grado de autogobierno y organizaciones políticas independientes (Groenlandia, Kosovo, Puerto Rico, Sahara Occidental, etc.).

Índice de democracia según la región

La siguiente tabla contiene el promedio de índice de democracia en cada región para los años 2006-2021:

Clasificación de 2022

Críticas
El Índice de Democracia ha sido criticado por su falta de transparencia y representatividad más allá de las cifras. Para generar el índice, The Economist Intelligence Unit cuenta con un sistema de puntuación en el que se pide a varios expertos que respondan 60 preguntas y asignen un número a cada respuesta, siendo la media ponderada la que decide la clasificación, dejando este índice como una percepción subjetiva y no como una calificación de la transparencia institucional o herramientas de participación ciudadana. Además, el informe final no indica qué tipo de expertos, ni su número, ni si los expertos son empleados de The Economist Intelligence Unit o académicos independientes, ni las nacionalidades de los expertos.

Véase también
 Coeficiente Gini
 Democracia
 Desarrollo humano
 Índice de desarrollo humano

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 The Economist Intelligence Unit's index of democracy 2008
 The Economist Intelligence Unit's index of democracy 2006

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Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro review
A Samsung product for Samsung fans Tested at £139 / $169 / AU$319
By What Hi-Fi? published 2 August 21
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The Galaxy Buds Pro promise much on paper, especially if you're a Samsung fan, but their sound quality falls well short of the class leaders.
Tonally balanced
Good detail through the midrange
Bland sonics need more verve
Noise cancelling could be better
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How Samsung are you? It's an important question in the context of the Galaxy Buds Pro, because if your answer is along the lines of "not all that Samsung, actually" then you can probably move along. These aren't the true wireless earbuds you're looking for.
But if you're more "I am pretty Samsung really", read on. The Galaxy Buds Pro have plenty to offer you, and the more Samsung you are the more they have to give.
Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro (Black) at Amazon for £121
Things have taken a turn since the Galaxy Buds Pro launched earlier this year. Back then you were looking at comfortably over £200 in the UK, but that has reduced to a far more reasonable £139 these days. In the United States, where pricing seems to be a little less volatile, you're currently looking at $169 or so. Australian customers, meanwhile, should steel themselves to spend AU$299 or thereabouts.
You hardly need us to tell you these prices bring the Galaxy Buds Pro into direct competition with, let's see… well over a dozen pairs of similarly priced, highly regarded true wireless earbuds from some of the most resonant brands around. No pressure, then.
Build and comfort
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The Galaxy Buds Pro are available in the same colours as the Galaxy S21 smartphone: Phantom Black, Phantom Silver and Phantom Violet. Which is a lot of Phantoms, especially when you realise the charging case comes in the same finish too.
The design is much less individual than Samsung's previous legume-shaped efforts. The Galaxy Buds Pro are your standard 'twist-to-fit' arrangement – although at a shade less than 2.1cm long, they're a little more ostentatious in situ than quite a few alternatives.
Finish and build are, predictably, impeccable. The earbuds are glossily plasticised, and put together with the sort of efficiency that you're entitled to expect from a global super-brand with a product portfolio the size of a dictionary.
Samsung supplies three pairs of silicone eartips with the Galaxy Buds Pro, so finding a size that suits your ears isn't difficult. From there, it's quite easy to get the earbuds positioned comfortably – although, perhaps because of their physical size, there's a little more movement in the buds than is ideal. Chances are you'll find yourself repositioning these earbuds a little more regularly than you would any number of alternative designs.
This section divides quite neatly into 'Features the Galaxy Buds Pro have that are for everyone' and 'Features the Galaxy Buds Pro have for people that are very Samsung'. Let's start with the first category.
Battery life is of the 'decent' rather than 'outstanding' type - with active noise-cancellation switched on, you can reasonably expect around five hours of entertainment from the earbuds, and another dozen or so from the charging case. Turn the ANC off and those numbers jump to around seven hours plus 20-ish. Five minutes on the power via USB-C is enough to get you another hour of playback, and the Galaxy Buds Pro can also be used with any Qi-certified charging pad.
Samsung is, of course, the owner of Harman – and Harman, of course, is the owner of headphone legends AKG. AKG has had a lot of input into the Galaxy Buds Pro where specification and tuning are concerned, and here the sound is delivered by a pleasantly thorough arrangement of 6.5mm tweeter and 11mm mid/bass driver in each earbud. Each earbud also features three mics, taking care of active noise-cancellation, call quality and voice control.
Control is also available via the capacitive surface on each earbud, and covers 'play/pause', 'skip forwards/backwards', 'answer/end/reject call' and cycling through noise-cancellation modes.
Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro tech specs
Drivers 6.5mm tweeter, 11mm mid/bass
Frequency response 20Hz - 20kHz
Battery life 5hrs (earbuds), 12 hours (charging case)
Weight 6.3g per earbud
An IPX7 rating is very good news, both for the more active among us and those who find they need to run their earbuds under the cold tap every now and then. The Galaxy Buds Pro can survive up to 30 minutes in up to a metre of fresh water, which really should be ample.
As far as wireless connectivity goes, the Samsungs use Bluetooth 5.0 – again, 'decent' rather than 'outstanding'. It's more than sufficient for streaming higher-resolution digital audio files, and with SBC and AAC codec compatibility the earbuds are happy enough to work with sources of virtually any type. But if you're the owner of a Samsung Galaxy smartphone or tablet, Samsung's Scalable Audio codec is also available, along with the lossless transmission it's capable of.
And elsewhere, Samsung fanciers enjoy a little more functionality too. They can benefit from multipoint pairing, hands-free Bixby voice-control, and SmartThings Find, which somehow knows exactly where your Galaxy Buds Pro earbuds are even if they're not paired with a device.
There's also the greatest degree of control available to Samsung Galaxy owners when using the Samsung Wearables control app. The iOS version is pretty much bare-bones, whereas the Android equivalent is a little more useful – and Samsung owners can indulge in additional features like customisation of touch controls.
So far, so predictably thorough. Which makes it all the more surprising and, relatively speaking, disappointing to find that all this effort seems to count for very little where the actual sound of the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro is concerned.
Once through a Qobuz hi-res file of Julia Holter's version of Gold Dust Woman is enough to make the positives and negatives of the Galaxy Buds Pro approach obvious. On the plus side, they're nicely balanced; no area of the frequency range is under- or overstated and, despite the multiple driver arrangement, integration of the frequency range is smooth. The multi-tracked vocal in the midrange is detailed and communicative, with nice harmonic separation.
The top of the frequency range is equally detailed and resists splashiness or hardness, though if you're listening at enthusiastic volume a certain spikiness is introduced. At the opposite end, there's a civilised level of punch. The Samsungs shape bass information pretty well, loading it with just as much detail as elsewhere in the frequency range, and piling on the textural information too.
And yet there's something unsatisfactory about the overall sound of the Galaxy Buds Pro, even if its individual aspects seem fairly inoffensive. In fact, it may be 'inoffensiveness' that's at the heart of the problem here.
A switch to the rather more forthright sound of Snapped Ankles' Forest of Your Problems (also via Qobuz, as a 96kHz file) illustrates the point well. Fundamentally, the Galaxy Buds Pro are a bland and undemonstrative listen – they're so inoffensive it's really quite offensive. Their overall tonality is matter-of-fact, their dynamic ability is mild in the extreme, and their ability to properly attack a tune is basically non-existent.
If you exist on an audio diet of smooth, unthreatening music that's the sonic equivalent of warm milk, you'll find the Samsung a cosy companion. If, however, your tastes are a little more catholic than that, the Galaxy Buds Pro have a comfort zone you're unlikely to goad them out of.
It's a similarly underwhelming story where noise-cancellation is concerned. Basically, it's mediocre – some ambient sound is negated, certainly, but not all of it, even when set at 'max'. So you're not entirely able to assess the rather tepid sound of the earbuds without some external input to go along with it.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are a curious proposition. They're specified to be thoroughly competitive and they're designed and built as professionally as any nominal alternative. Yet when it comes to sound quality, they're as tentative and inhibited as any earbuds we can recall listening to. They don't cancel external noise all that effectively, either. Which means they can safely be consigned to the 'also-rans' file.
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Étiquette : snowfall
'Significant snowfall' a possibility for tonight in GTA, Environment Canada warns
The city may be in for yet another down comforter of snow — Environment Canada put out a special weather statement Sunday warning of the potential for "significant snowfall" later today.
The statement was put out shortly before 2 p.m., explaining that "localized pockets of flurries" could affect areas near the west end of Lake Ontario as northeast winds increase this afternoon.
Torontonians at the intersection of Yonge and College Sts. make their way through a snow storm in Toronto on Feb. 13. The city could receive another gust of snow Sunday night as flurries move in. (Steve Russell / Toronto Star file photo)
The snowfall is expected to pick up in the evening and continue through to Monday morning before tapering off.
The general expectation is 5-10 centimetres of snow across Toronto, but areas near Oakville, Hamilton and Grimsby could get as much as 15 cm, as well as areas of the city closer to the water.
The greatest amount of snowfall for Toronto on this date, according to historical records, was 11.2 cm in 1941.
The weather agency is warning that travel could be dangerous as the blowing snow increases, particuarly on the Monday morning commute. Fortunately, Monday is the Family Day holiday.
Temperatures are expected to hit a high of -5 C on Monday, with a low of -15 C with the wind chill.
Alexandra Jones is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star's radio room in Toronto. Follow her on Twitter: @AlexandraMaeJ
Publié le février 17, 2019 Auteur adminCatégories AnglaisÉtiquettes Canada, Environment, GTA, possibility, significant, snowfall, Tonight, warnsLaisser un commentaire sur 'Significant snowfall' a possibility for tonight in GTA, Environment Canada warns
No Christmas Day snowfall for most Canadian cities, forecasts show – National
Most Canadians dreaming of snowflakes falling on Christmas Day are going to wake up disappointed.
There may still be snow on the ground in regions that have had a pre-holiday powdering, but some major cities like Toronto are still in green, and festive flurries aren't in the forecast for most of the country on Dec. 25.
Check out your local weather forecast
"If you're expecting the scene at the end of It's a Wonderful Life when George Bailey is kind of running through Bedford Falls saying 'Merry Christmas' to everyone as the snow is falling down in snow banks, that's not going to happen really anywhere," Global News Weather Specialist Mike Arsenault said on Saturday.
WATCH: Wintry weather hits the Maritimes
Messy conditions persist in New Brunswick
The Atlantic provinces have gotten a huge helping of snow recently, but days of near-record breaking highs have made quick work of it, Arsenault said. Temperatures have cooled, but there's no precipitation in the forecast for Halifax or New Brunswick's three biggest cities.
"It looked like they were set up for a white Christmas, but now it's unlikely going to happen in Atlantic Canada," Arsenault said.
Will Tuesday's weather in Alberta be a Christmas gift, or a lump of coal?
As of Sunday evening, St. John's has a 40 per cent chance of flurries on Christmas Day, according to Environment Canada. Charlottetown also has a 60 per cent chance of flurries.
Moving west, Montreal is anticipating sun and a high of -9 C on Tuesday, with Ottawa looking at -8 C. Both cities have some snow on the ground as of Sunday evening.
There are flurries in the forecast Monday for Toronto and portions of southern and central Ontario. With temperatures right around the freezing mark, however, that snow is unlikely to stick around, Arsenault said.
Toronto is looking at a mix of sun and cloud, and a temperature of -1 C on Tuesday.
There is snow in Winnipeg, but no additional flurries are expected on Christmas Day, according to Environment Canada.
Periods of snow are in the forecast for Regina on Christmas Eve, while Saskatoon has no precipitation and temperatures of -13 C anticipated for Christmas Day.
Mike's Monday Outlook: Dreaming of a white Christmas
"It's going to be very cold there, so the snow that is falling and has fallen isn't going to go anywhere, because it is so cold," Arsenault said of the Prairies.
Calgary is looking at temperatures of -5 C and sunny, while Edmonton is expected to be slightly colder — -7 C — and cloudy.
WATCH: Saskatoon weather outlook -20 wind chills return for Christmas
B.C.'s Interior, at least at its lower elevations, is facing the possibility of a green Christmas this year.
In the Okanagan Valley, temperatures have been above normal all month. Kelowna's Christmas forecast is for -1 and cloudy.
Green Christmas, not white, possible for many B.C. Interior residents
As for Vancouver and Victoria, they'll have to get a dose of Christmas cheer from the sun, which is expected to shine on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
In Canada's north, a white Christmas is almost a certainty. On Christmas Eve, Iqaluit is poised for a "near blizzard," Environment Canada said, and Whitehorse and Yellowknife have a chance of flurries as well.
How common is a white Christmas?
Environment Canada defines a white Christmas as two centimetres or more snow on the ground by 7 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 25.
A perfect Christmas is when those conditions are met and there is also snowfall in the air at some point during the day.
The federal agency's data shows that the probability of a white Christmas is on the decline.
Saskatoon weather outlook: -20 wind chills return for Christmas
Based on the records of 45 major cities between 1994 and 2017, there's an average chance of 68 per cent overall. But between 1965 and 1984, that proportion was 79 per cent.
The data also highlights just how dramatically winter weather varies across Canada.
Since 1994, Halifax, Penticton, B.C., Sydney, N.S., Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto and surrounding area, Saint John and Fredericton, N.B., and Lethbridge, Alta., have had white Christmases half the time or less.
Forecasters unsure whether London region will have white Christmas
In the case of Vancouver and Victoria, a white Christmas is far less frequent — 10 and 15 per cent of the time, respectively.
On the other end of the spectrum, Winnipeg, Timmins, Ont., and Goose Bay, N.L., have only had one green Christmas each since 1986. And there wasn't a single green Christmas for Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Iqaluit or Kenora, Ont., in 63 years of data.
Publié le décembre 24, 2018 Auteur adminCatégories AnglaisÉtiquettes Canadian, Christmas, cities, Day, forecasts, national, show, snowfallLaisser un commentaire sur No Christmas Day snowfall for most Canadian cities, forecasts show – National
Video captures newcomer children experiencing first Canadian snowfall in Toronto – Toronto
TORONTO – A woman who shared a video of two Eritrean children reacting gleefully to their first Canadian snowfall says the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the clip is reaffirming her faith in the country as a welcoming place for newcomers.
Rebecca Davies shot the video on Saturday, 48 hours after the children shown in it arrived in Canada with their mother and two siblings as privately sponsored refugees.
An inside look at Toronto's 'refugee hotel' sheltering hundreds of asylum seekers
In the video, the seven-year-old girl and five-year-old boy twirl, dance and revel in the snow shower in the backyard of Davies' Toronto-area home.
The clip has since garnered nearly 2 million views and been shared thousands of times on Twitter, often with accompanying hashtags and messages welcoming refugees in general and the children in particular.
Davies, who helped sponsor the Eritrean family through the private Ripple Refugee Project, says the video's reception gives her hope.
Toronto to open 3 new shelters to tackle winter demand
She says she encounters racism and anti-immigrant sentiment in her work on behalf of refugees, but says the positive responses to the clip have left her feeling more confident about the society the family is eager to join.
"When a universal, lovely little vignette of kids playing in snow gets this kind of response, it gives me some hope for humanity," she said in a telephone interview.
Davies said the Eritrean family landed in Toronto on Thursday, bringing an end to a lengthy saga.
She said the single mother fled the war-torn east-African country in 2013 and spent the next five years in a refugee camp in Sudan. Two of the four children who accompanied her to Canada were born in that camp, Davies said, adding all the kids are under the age of eight.
New Circle lets low-income Torontonians get warm winter clothing
The family's first full day in Canada was marred by steady rain, limiting opportunities to explore Toronto, which they plan to call home. Conditions didn't seem too promising on Saturday either, with high winds sending daytime temperatures plunging to near the freezing mark for the first time this season.
Davies said her family had tried to explain the concept of snow to the Eritrean newcomers. So when flakes began unexpectedly descending from the sky, she lost no time in pointing them out to the family.
The two youngest boys stared out the window in fascination, but the eldest boy and his sister appeared to run away after the first look outside.
"I was thinking, 'where are the big guys? I would have thought this would have been magic,"' Davies said. "But then you hear them screaming up the stairs. They found the bag of various winter coats and boots that many people had donated to us, threw on anything, ran past us, opened the … patio door and just started twirling."
'I want to give back': Toronto refugees and asylum seekers want voices heard
The video shows the beaming children exclaiming in delight and jumping around the small yard as the snow falls. The girl is seen spinning around with her face raised up to the sky as her brother jigs up and down. At one point, both put their hands out and watch the flakes land on their upturned palms.
Davies said the flurry didn't last very long, but allowed enough time for her six-year-old daughter to teach her Eritrean playmates how to eat snow and gave all three a chance to have a mini snowball fight.
The video struck a chord on social media, where thousands of users liked, shared and exclaimed over the children's obvious excitement.
Underpinning many of the messages were comments encouraging the family as they begin a new chapter on Canadian soil.
Snow possible for regions north of Toronto this week
"This is what life is all about. Children, new to Canada that have never seen snow, and embracing it in that magical way that children do," wrote one Twitter user. "Welcome to Canada sweethearts! Your lives will hopefully be a beautiful journey."
Davies said the children haven't just confined their excitement to Canadian weather – they're currently eager to enrol in a neighbourhood school and start going to class.
Publié le novembre 12, 2018 Auteur adminCatégories AnglaisÉtiquettes Canadian, captures, Children, experiencing, newcomer, snowfall, Toronto, VideoLaisser un commentaire sur Video captures newcomer children experiencing first Canadian snowfall in Toronto – Toronto


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This week's Crafter of the Week is also an artist previously featured in both fun and fair ivy surprise packages! Doble Ele Lingke, the crafter behind Doble Ele, has some absolutely adorable stuff featured on Etsy. Check out some of our favorites (and make sure you scroll to the bottom for an exclusive discount code)!
These are such a simple yet elegant way to decorate a windowsill, desktop, or vanity table.
These are made with little pieces of fabric!
One fair ivy package featured these adorable baggies, and hidden in them there was…yet another surprise!
The adorable post earrings continue!
I would have flipped out with excitement if my presents from Santa has these on them!
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Sometimes the best gift wrapping is the type that results from not having any wrapping paper around!
Here is a collection of some easy and fun gift wrapping ideas!
Another cute way to embellish brown paper—go to your local craft store and pickup some little fake flowers!
Make a polka dot design with newspaper cutout circles!
This one is especially clever—take your used potato chip bags (yes, you heard me!), rinse them out and use them inside out for some fancy silver wrapping paper!
Another cute way to use book pages. A little handmade note card—such as this white one with a simple heart stamp, adds some serious class.
These hearts are made out of paint sample cards—those free cards you pick up from your local hardware store!
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Schwenck ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Konrad Schwenck (1793–1864), deutscher Philologe
 Volker Schwenck (* 1967), deutscher Journalist
 Namensgebende Familie des Berges Schwengskopf

Siehe auch:
 Schwencke
 Schwenk
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Don't read it if you haven't watched the movie. It might be a spoiler.
The movie "Loot", which somehow changed the trend of Nepali movie industry and the perspective of Nepali people towards Nepali movies, was undoubtedly a blockbuster. As soon as the Director of the movie, Nischal Basnet announced about releasing the sequel of the same as "Loot 2", people's excitation and eagerness were at peak. Moreover, the expectation for the movie to be more entertaining with better action, story, thrill and twist was too damn high. I repeat, the EXPECTATION was too damn HIGH.
Like everyone, I was also desperately waiting for the movie to be released. But, as I watched the movie, in the end, I did not find my expectations fulfilled. I was totally discontented. I felt like the movie was only made for being more lucrative as the effects of "Loot" would definitely lure viewers to the theater. The reasons to give thumbs up to the movie were somehow outnumbered by the reasons to put the thumbs down.
So, today I shall talk about the things which I found good enough to praise as well as those which dissatisfied me as a normal viewer.
What I did not like about the movie:
Same old story:
With the release of the sequel 'Loot 2', I was expecting something new to watch. But here, the story was same; looting a bank, Hakku Kale being the cunning fox and other four actors, the fools once again. However, the scenario was chosen to be the best one which was 'Border Blockade'. Something new other than breaking a bank would have been far interesting.
The twist, at last, is too lame:
The presentation of the plan to break into the bank, creating the circumstances to steal and that particular scene of replacing the box were too poor. The end, which was supposed to be thrilling one was not as expected. It would have been better if it was made even a bit different from 'Loot'.
The movie has deviated from its genre:
When one afford time and money to the theater to watch this movie, s/he would expect cool action, a seamless flow, mysterious story with a thrilling end. But, it seems only as an entertaining movie with more comedy scenes than required.
The lack of presentation of the main subject:
The first half of the movie ends with futile things; the four victims from the 'Loot' searching for Hakku Kale, showing their annoyance, too much fight scenes and all. Maybe that was the building of the 'Loot 2' but I felt like that was way more than actually needed. And the main subject, the plan to execute the loot was not provided enough time.
Injustice with Reecha Sharma:
I don't know why but Reecha Sharma (a great actress)'s role time in the movie was too less keeping the mystery of her ongoing life unfolded. It added one more reason to be disappointed.
Weak cinematography:
I'm weak in explaining this but I believe you must have noticed it by yourself.
What I liked about the movie:
There were some good things about the movie as well. But, I feel so bad to state that they are only handful in number. Listing them out would be like as below:
Cute Alisha Rai's introduction to Nepali movie industry (She's gonna get a nice space in the industry for sure),
The other face of Bipin Karki (Bindu, Bhasme, Phadindra and Pitale don; he's proving his versatility more and more),
Kameshwor Chaurasiya as 'Baam' with much wider role (this guy will also hit the movie market very soon),
Some of the funny scenes featuring 'Putali' and 'Haku Kale' (Srijana Subba and Saugat Malla respectively) and
Obviously, the item song 'Thamel Bazar'.
Well, this was what I felt after watching the movie. Everyone has his/her own view, isn't it? What do you think? If you found it good enough, then it's good. If you also felt the same, then give thumbs up.
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The Daily Mail, September 15, 1913
48 FREE KICKS.
STURDY DEFENCE AT MILLWALL.
ONLY ONE "THRILL."
By P.G. WODEHOUSE.
Millwall .......... 0 Crystal Palace ... 0
Honours were easy at the Den on Saturday. When no-side was called the Palace had had twenty-five free kicks awarded against them and Millwall twenty-three, and in the brief intervals of football which took place between the penalties neither side managed to put the ball through the goal or even to give the impression for a moment—at any rate after half-time—that they were likely to do so.
If ever there was a match where the defence was on top of the attack this was it. There was not a flaw in the back play on either side. Kirkwood was extraordinarily sound. Some of his clearances were acrobatic. He was well backed up by Garrett; while for the Palace Collyer was always good and Colclough at times very good. Add to this that the forwards on both sides were erratic, slow, and poor shots in front of goal; and that all the half-backs, notably Hanger and Voisey, and both the goal-keepers were almost as good as the backs; and it is not to be wondered at that no goals were scored.
There was just one big thrill in the game, and that was when Lamb, the best forward on the field, raced down on the left, after play had been in progress about twenty minutes, and wound up with a grand shot from far out which hit the left post. For a few moments it looked as if Millwall were about to score; and then Davies got away and might have transferred the excitement to the other end if he had not been fouled on the half-way line. This was one of the two or three good things which Davies did in the course of the game. In the first half he always wanted watching, but after half-time he seemed less dangerous.
Some good work by Moody in the first quarter of an hour nearly put Millwall ahead. He tricked the defence and gave Davis a neat overhead pass. Davis put in a fine shot but the ball hit the bar. It was almost directly after this that Davies made one of his best efforts. Unfortunately for the Palace, after running well nearly the whole length of the field he tried an impossible shot when a pass to Smith might have meant a goal.
Shortly after this the referee got to work in real earnest with the whistle, and play became ragged. On several occasions Millwall forwards were fouled in front of goal within easy shooting distance, but Johnson, who was in great form throughout, always saved without difficulty. The play of Johnson and Orme in goal was almost as much a feature of the match as the work of the backs. Half-time came without either having let the ball through. Millwall had a shade the better of the play.
KIRKWOOD'S COOLNESS.
The Palace went off with a rush after half-time and for a while had all the game. Kirkwood, Voicey, and Garrett were repeatedly stopping well-meant attacks. Once Smith headed into goal and was only just kept out by Orme. A falling-off in Wilson's play at centre-half at this point helped to make the Palace forwards more aggressive; and a strong effort on the right was just pulled up in time by Liddell. Then the continuity of the game broke up in a spasm of free kicks, distributed impartially to both sides, and after that Millwall seemed to settle down and neither side had the advantage.
Towards the middle of the second half Millwall had their turn of aggressiveness. A very poor shot by Lamb was followed by a long run by the same player, and from a good centre Davis nearly headed a goal. A free kick to Millwall was about due here, and it came. Then followed a couple of corners to Millwall, from one of which Johnson saved with some difficulty. The game returned to the neighbourhood of the Millwall goal, and a good shot by Hewitt was well stopped by Orme. Then Voisey got through cleverly but passed badly. Three free kicks to the Palace followed in rapid succession, then one to Millwall, then another to the Palace. Millwall forced a corner, but nothing came of it; and two more free kicks to the Palace put the visitors momentarily ahead in the matter of penalties.
It had been evident for a long while that only an accident could lead to either side scoring, so complete was the superiority of the defence on either side; and there was very little excitement when, just before no-side, the Palace forwards got away in a row. There were only Kirkwood and Orme between them and the goal, but the crowd had seen enough of Kirkwood to know that there would be no score. Kirkwood is, I should imagine, a man of a rather unemotional temperament. He watched those five forwards sprinting towards him with an abstracted air. Other matters seemed to by occupying his mind—Fiscal Reform, perhaps, or the hard case of Mr. W. Class B. Maxwell. Eventually, he roused himself from his reverie, went up to the forwards, and took the ball away from them. I think even the referee must have been touched, for shortly afterward he gave Millwall two more free kicks.
From a spectacular point of view it was not a great game. One got the impression that both teams would be a good deal better later on in the season. The lively ball and the blazing sun seemed too much for the players. The crowd of twenty-five thousand began by being enthusiastic and ended a little limp. Forty-eight free kicks toned down the fine frenzy of the keenest spectator.
This previously unknown item is a rare instance of Wodehouse reporting on soccer; he himself was a keen and enthusiastic Rugby football player and followed that game avidly after his playing days were over, writing up Dulwich rugger matches for the Alleynian as late as the 1930s.
the Den: From 1910 to 1993, the Millwall association football team's stadium in Cold Blow Lane, New Cross, Lewisham, London. The current Den is in Zampa Road, Bermondsey, less than a quarter-mile away.
"the hard case of Mr. W. Class B. Maxwell" seems to refer to W. B. Maxwell's book The Devil's Garden, published early September 1913. The Libraries Association restricted the book and made it available only by request due to the "sex problems." Great outcry and protest from the literary community at the unfair treatment.
Transcription by John Dawson;
notes by John Dawson and Neil Midkiff, with thanks to Norman Murphy
Thanks to Arthur Robinson for the scan of this rare item.


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No team found with name 'University Of Virginia'.
Rob scanlon and will graham? These are the best scrubs you can come up with. Those two probably couldn't qualify out of a d3 regional. Also, they don't look like they have ever grabbed a pvssy before. Don't expect much coming outta Ames this year. Minnesota club will rise.
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