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Jonny May (nacido en Swindon el 1 de abril de 1990) es un jugador de rugby británico, que juega de Wing  para la selección de rugby de Inglaterra y, actualmente para Leicester Tigers en la Aviva Premiership inglesa.

Trayectoria deportiva
Se unió a Gloucester Rugby jugando por primera vez como titular en la pretemporada, contra Bath Rugby el 15 de agosto de 2009.

May fue elegido Jugador joven del año de Gloucester de 2011/2012. Y su sorprendente esfuerzo en solitario contra Harlequins fue escogido como "ensayo de la temporada" en los premios de la Aviva Premiership. En diciembre de 2012, May firmó una ampliación de contrato de dos años con Gloucester hasta el final de la temporada 2014-15. El 24 de octubre de 2014, May firmó un nuevo contrato a largo plazo con Gloucester Rugby.

Internacional
En enero de 2012 May fue llamado a jugar con los England Saxons. Debutó saliendo del banquillo contra Escocia, y fue titular por vez primera contra Irlanda a la semana siguiente.

Fue llamado a la selección senior de Inglaterra en la gira de Sudáfrica en junio de 2012, logrando dos ensayos en la victoria 57-31 de Inglaterra sobre los Sharks. May ganó su primera cap internacional durante la gira de verano de Inglaterra de 2013 contra Argentina en el segundo test que Inglaterra ganó 51-26. El 9 de enero de 2014, May fue llamado para el Torneo de las Seis Naciones 2014 donde salió como titular en los cinco partidos. Salió de titular en el primer test contra los All Blacks en la derrota de Inglaterra 20-15, pero en los dos tests siguientes ya no.

En los internacionales de otoño, May jugó en los cuatro test matches, contra Nueva Zelanda, Sudáfrica, Samoa y Australia. Anotó de nuevo contra Nueva Zelanda, y dos veces contra Samoa.

Seleccionado por su país para la Copa Mundial de Rugby de 2015, en el partido contra Gales, que terminó con victoria galesa 25-28, May logró el único ensayo de su equipo.

Fue seleccionado por Eddie Jones para formar parte del XV de la rosa en la Copa Mundial de Rugby de 2019 en Japón donde lograron vencer en semifinales, en el que fue el mejor partido del torneo, a los All Blacks que defendían el título de campeón, por el marcador de 19-7. Sin embargo, no pudieron vencer en la final a Sudáfrica perdiendo por el marcador de 32-12.

Participaciones en Copas del Mundo

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Enlaces externos
Perfil con Gloucester Rugby

Jugadores de rugby de Inglaterra
Nacidos en Swindon


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La VI Cumbre Suramericana, fue la sexta cumbre en su tipo, fue celebrada en Isla Margarita, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela los días de abril de 2007. Fue la última cumbre celebrada previa al nacimiento de Unasur que ocurrió finalmente en mayo de 2008 con el Tratado Constitutivo que dio origen formal al bloque suramericano.

Se anunció la creación de un Consejo Energético de Sudamérica, integrado por los ministros de energía de cada país, para proponer una estrategia energética con el fin de poder llevar adelante un plan de acción.

Los mandatarios decidieron además "crear una secretaría permanente en la  ciudad de Quito".
Asimismo se acordó que Brasil participará y se incorporará con plenos derechos a la discusión técnica y económica del Banco del Sur.

Los Jefes de Estado de los 12 países deciden renombrar el bloque como la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (UNASUR), que reemplazaría a la Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones (CSN).

Al encuentro asistieron los presidentes de Argentina, Néstor Kirchner; Brasil, Lula da Silva; Bolivia, Evo Morales; Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez; Chile, Michelle Bachelet; Ecuador, Rafael Correa; Paraguay, Nicanor Duarte Frutos; Venezuela,  Hugo Chávez; el vicepresidente uruguayo, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, el ministro delegado de Surinam, Gregory Rusland, el primer ministro guyanés, Sam Hinds, con la ausencia de Alan García de Perú.

Naciones participantes
  Néstor Kirchner
  Evo Morales
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  Álvaro Uribe
  Michelle Bachelet
  Rafael Correa
  Sam Hinds
  Nicanor Duarte
  Alan García no participó
  Gregory Rusland
  Rodolfo Nin Novoa
  Hugo Chávez

Referencias

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Before getting into the meat of my article, I will just do a quick couple notes on my progress. I have settled on a Reanimator list that has been surprisingly strong! I would really just describe this as a unit heavy Feln Control list with an extra fat top-end. It puts very few resources into cheating units into play, but sometimes you get the dream curve of Herald's Song discarding Black Sky Harbinger and Vara into Grasping at Shadows on 5.
I must say that I have fallen in love with Nightmaw, and it has become my new pet card. Does he die to Vanquish a lot? Oh yeah. Does he steal games? Like you wouldn't believe! Take a look at some of these pictures from in game.
In all honesty, Nightmaw does have an interesting niche role. Decks like Reanimator can have difficulty closing out the game against go-wide decks that can infinitely chump your monsters, or you may find yourself in a race against flyers or the top of your opponent's deck. Nightmaw often speeds up kills by about 2 full turns, which makes a massive difference in these situations. He is particularly great against Chalice. All that being said, I think the correct number in this deck is probably 1 (or 0). I feel like Snowcrush Animist is usually better than the second Nightmaw. One way or another this deck is a blast. It is close to competitive, but it has some issues. Maybe there is a way to splash Fire and fit in Quarry to improve consistency? I certainly have my eyes on whether we get more tools in Set 2 for this archetype. Something like "3SP 1/4 Summon Draw 2 Discard 1" would be a massive upgrade for the deck. There is also the possibility of DWD releasing more reanimation targets. When evaluating these focus on cards with powerful summon abilities rather than just being giant animals. As it stands, this deck has a lot of game against any slower deck because your top-end is so absurd. The aggro match ups are also not terrible, as you have a ton of great blockers, as well as Black Sky Harbinger, which is absolute dynamite since you get to replay it so often. I would say that your biggest issue is really just losing to yourself. None of your match ups are free since so much can go wrong with drawing the wrong half of your deck in the wrong match up, but at the same time I feel that you can beat any deck with the right mix.
Now onto the more theoretical half of my article! Playing Reanimator has made me think about engines in Eternal. I recently wrote an article (with VSarius) on the subject of inevitability, but it was positioned as more a reflection on the abstract concept rather than focusing on the specifics. After playing with Reanimator a good deal I was began to realize the topic of "engines" needed some discussion by itself, so let's dive in!
Mark Rosewater (head designer of Magic) defines engine cards as "a card that allows you to exchange one resource for another". I feel this definition is a touch narrow, and is more crafted for the purpose of brevity and pithiness rather than being all-encompassing (I was unable to find an in-depth article on the topic of "engines", if anyone is aware of one please pass it along). I find this particularly odd, because almost every card can be seen as an exchange of resources. For example, one of the most iconic engine cards in Magic is Necropotence.
"Necro" lets you exchange any amount of life for any number of cards. Anyone experienced with card games will know that any time you get to exchange life for another resource should grab your attention. In practice, this card was totally busted, and is now banned in most formats. Now, Necro is the classic engine card, but what about Sign in Blood?
Doesn't seem like an engine right? My issue is that I don't understand why (if we are using the definition above). "But Necro lets you trade life for cards all game long!" Yeah, I guess, but what if Necro was just a Sorcery (that would mean "spell" in Eternal terms). Wouldn't it still be an engine? It seems like it would to me. I could go on about this, but I think I've made my point, and I don't think MaRo wrote the definition with the intention of having it stand up to this level of scrutiny.
An engine allows you to generate substantial amounts of one or more resources over the course of the game. This can come as a function through the exchange of one resource for another, a synergistic interaction of two or more cards, or simply the passage of time. Decks that feature an engine often look to leverage this engine in the late game to develop an insurmountable advantage going long, unlike a combo that aims to win the game all at once through some interaction.
I'm guessing that you have already thought of a few engines in Eternal given my description, but lets just lay some out for the sake of clarity. These are in no particular order.
Siraf – BAE is a one-card-engine. You get a free card every turn, and you can hopefully use these to grind your opponent to dust.
Clockroaches – This is a deck built around abusing the echo mechanic in conjugation with particular "draw" cards, which together builds a monstrous roach infestation.
Armory – For Armory the entire game revolves around getting the biggest baddest relic weapons possible. It doesn't fit the definition as cleanly, but given the resource you spend on buffing/protecting weapons, I feel as if it counts. Smugglers Stash also really solidifies this, since it allows you to recycle the cards while further building up an advantage.
Chalice – The namesake card fuels an endless stream of card draw that will eventually overpower your opponent (and if that doesn't do it, the Channels will). This is very much a dedicated engine deck, as it really can't win without powering up the engine.
Vodacombo – If this is not obvious you haven't been paying attention, although it should be worth noting that many of the cards in the deck are engine-like even without their friends (Mystic shows up in other decks).
Reanimator – Since the change to Champion of Cunning this deck feels much less like an all-in-combo deck, and more like a control deck with a powerful top-end (as I described above). Once you hit 8 power you get to start churning out value by casting, recasting, and resurrecting Varas again and again, along with whatever goodies you have hanging out in your void. To me it feels much more like an engine deck than a combo deck.
There is a lot more that I don't really feel like listing. Anything that generates value every turn, or draws you lots of extra cards, can all work. I also don't want to try to develop a refined list, since many cards could work beyond what we see right now, and I don't feel like creating a definitive list accomplishes much.
First and foremost you need to understand the mechanics of the engine. What are the pieces? How do they fit together? How much damage will they do if left unchecked? For example, Siraf is a one-card engine. All you need is 8 power and you get free units every turn. This means the engine is relatively easy to "assemble" but is also broken up fairly easily, since you can remove Siraf and things grind to a halt. Roaches – on the other extreme – requires a reasonable number of moving parts, meaning it is not a very consistent or reliable engine. That being said, it is also much more difficult to break up given that all the action happens in your hand or via your Crown. The first step to playing effectively either with or against these engines is just understanding what is going on. In the cases of the "one card engine" that is fairly trivial, but the mechanics of many of the others is more complicated.
Once you understand what is required to get any of these engines going you need to start understanding the value of the various parts. A deck like Vodacombo does not rely on any one piece to start generating value, but things take a dramatic change when Vodakhan hits the field. Chalice leans very heavily on its core card to just operate as a deck. Roaches has many interchangeable pieces, but Crown really sets everything to a different level. By understanding and respecting the various components to each of these decks so that you can target each effectively you will learn better how to assemble or break up these synergies. This relates back heavily to my piece on answers versus threats, since it is very easy to misevaluate what is going on if you are not thinking through things carefully.
In some respects, I feel like I should give a step-by-step guide about how to approach each of these engines, but I feel like this would degenerate into a encyclopedic exploration of every deck in Eternal. You really just need to learn about each of these decks/cards individually. I have really just brought up this topic for the purpose of better understanding engines as you are learning about different decks, and sharing a language/thinking some people may not have been exposed to.
I know that I am generally seen in the community as being a DWD cheerleader. You can often see it in my articles where I highlight the wisdom of some choice by DWD, or on Reddit where I defend and support their position on various topics. If you are not a fan of this, you should check out of this article right now since this is going to be more effusive praise than even I tend to give. The title of this section says it all, but I will repeat it: the best thing about Eternal is its engines, and is one of the main things that distinguish Eternal from other card games. Pretty strong position, so why do I think that? Let's start off by talking about the "psychographics" of card games, a concept originally introduced by Mark Rosewater. If you are familiar with the concept you can skip the next paragraph. If you are unfamiliar with this I would encourage you to read his article on the subject, but I will give a quick summary of the topic.
The psychographics relate to three types of gamers, and describes what each is looking to get out of a game, and what motivates them to keep playing. The first is Johnny/Jenny, who plays games as a way to express themself. They tend to really enjoy deckbuilding, and tend to be attracted to combos and synergy. A pure Johnny/Jenny would generally rather play their own brew to a losing record rather than net deck. A Timmy/Tammy is a play that plays to experience something. They like big dramatic effects that swing the game. They tend to be much more attracted to decks that include things like ramping into big monsters or spells rather than decks that are just a curve of bland units and removal. Spike is most interested in proving themselves, which most often means they are looking to win. Organized play and net decking resources are built for Spike more than anyone else. Spikes also want games to be skill intensive, as they get satisfaction from navigating complex decision trees. It is possibly to be a mix of these psychographics. For example, my Brewer's Challenge exercise is the perfect example of a Johnny/Spike split behavior (although I am probably just pure Spike in my heart). There are other psychographics you may have heard of called Melvin and Vorthos, but those relate to aesthetics, so they are not relevant to our discussion here (although Melvin would certainly appreciate the engines that we are discussing).
Johnny/Jenny – I LOVE IT! I get to assemble a complicated contraption of my own making? I get to utilize obscure cards to take advantage of powerful synergies? Lots of opportunity for innovative deckbuilding? SIGN ME UP!
Timmy/Tammy – There is a deck that builds giant swords to cut down my opponent's units and eventually beat them to death? I can wipe my opponent's board while making giant monsters that wins the game in one hit? There is another deck that lets me play oversized, double damage, charging roaches for free? And there is a deck I get to shoot my opponent in the face for a million while drawing cards? I am down.
Spike – Surely these strategies are all janky tier 1000 crap. Oh, they are actually good? Are there lots of interaction points for these synergies? Yes? Ok, that is great. And it is skill intensive to assembly and execute? Yeah, that sounds amazing.
Of these, the player that is probably the hardest to satisfy is Spike on this front. The power level needs to be just right. Too weak and it is all janky casual garbage that Spike will not touch. Cards that are irrelevant due to low power is not that much of a cost, but Spikes sometimes lament about "wasted" card slots. It is a much bigger problem when the engine is over the top. Too powerful and the games are decided by who has "it" first, or there are not enough ways to break it up and the games are not competitive. For those that play Magic, you have probably thought a lot about Aetherworks Marvel through this article. For those not familiar, it is an engine card that allows you to cheat big monsters into play in exchange for some resources. The issue with the card is that it seems a touch too consistent and too powerful. If the Marvel player gets the nut draw the game will essentially end on turn 4, and there is nothing the opponent can do. Spikes also hate mechanics/cards that explicitly introduce a lot of variance into the game, or represent an overwhelming advantage just by sticking A and B together. A player who is able to activate a Marvel on turn 4 is roughly a coin flip to win the game on the spot, with no interesting decisions to be made all game long.
Eternal, on the other hand, have a wide range of engines that have seen play in all variety of deck. The most important element of balancing them seems to be striking the balance of power between the "synergistic" state and the base state. Take a card like Mystic Ascendant. By itself it is a totally respectable card that generates value, although he is a shade over-costed given his board impact. Simple pairings like Marshall Ironthorne or Combrei Emissary are certainly worth the effort, but then things get crazy if Vodakhan enters the picture. Armory is another consistent popular and powerful deck. The base rates of many of the cards in the deck would be described as "acceptable but unexciting". People are not rushing to play 4/1 Runehammers or 4/4 Daishos, but they are fine. Once they are enabled from buffs like Rakano Artisan or recycled with Smuggler's Stash they slowly turn into something extremely powerful. I find this much less common than what is typical of Magic, as if feels like there are more "all or nothing" combos. Maybe that is a function of the speed of the format, or the mechanics of interaction points, or it could just be design philosophy of the companies. Often when these decks exist they are actually very popular, but it doesn't seem to me that WotC prioritizes making these kinds of cards competitive for constructed (outside Planeswalkers). Copy Cat decks from last standard fell into this category to some degree, but it is difficult to credit them given that they were not an intended part of the format, and involved an infinite combo that was the real draw to the deck.
A quick note about Hearthstone for comparison (I don't have enough knowledge of other games to speak on them) – Hearthstone doesn't really allow engines very well because of the mechanics of the game. There are no relic/attachment style card (Quests do some of this, but that is complicated), and the combat system makes the format much less friendly to "utility" minions. As a result, most decks are either totally fair occasionally with some level of synergy (often tribal), or they employ some combo that allows for massive burst damage. Cards that are engines need to generate a lot of value from the second they hit the board (like Gadgetzan Auctioneer or Archmage Antonidas). Although my knowledge of Hearthstone is not expansive, there are very few decks that could be classified as being built around an "engine", though Jade Druid qualifies in my opinion.
What is most remarkable to me about the engines in Eternal is the diversity of ways that they can be assembled. Clockroachs is a deck built around using a relic and spells to build powerful units in your hand. Armory is a deck built around using units and spells to build powerful weapons in your deck. Vodacombo is built around using different combinations of units plus power to build up card and power advantage. West Wind Herald uses units to abuse the power of some spells in the void. Reanimator uses spells to abuse the power of units in the void. It is pretty easy to design units that positively interact, or have value generating activated abilities, but DWD has gone further to explore using different zones and card types. I suppose this might be partly the function of using the digital space as opposed to Magic, but it is still incredible how different each of these decks look and feel.
Another amazing thing about the engines of Eternal is the way in which engines have been built into so many different decks. Control, combo and midrange are fairly obvious, but even Warcry aggro has an engine feel to it. I think I have said elsewhere that Warcry is one of my favorite mechanics in a card game ever. The fact that even an aggressive deck can get a bit of the taste of an engine is pretty amazing, since we usually associate them with just hitting people in the face until they die.
Before moving on to my conclusions, I had a thought about engines in the context of the 75 card deck size. 75 is a strange number to arrive at given the benchmark from Magic is 60, and most other card games play with 40 or 60 card minimums. 60 also works perfectly with the 1/3 deck size rule. DWD has mentioned before that 75 has helped improve the variance of the games in a way that improves the quality of gameplay. They have also suggested that the 75-card minimum may be a big part of what makes Eternal still fun after being in beta for over a year. 75-card minimum actually allows them to push the power of engines. The chance of drawing any specific card in your deck is not substantially hurt when going from 60 to 75 cards, but the chance of drawing a specific two 2-card combo is greatly diminished (and 3-card combos are much lower). This adds to the difficulty of building synergistic decks correctly, makes the games feel much less repetitive, and just makes games more fun.
As of this writing there have been no cards spoiled for Set 2, but given the density we have seen in Set 1 I would am expect to see more engine cards/combos. It seems like building these engines was one of the goals of design. It is also not like you get this many engines in Set 1 by accident. I sometimes feel like players look at these synergies and speak as is they came into being serendipitously. I would bet very good money that cards like Vodakhan, West Wind Herald, and Crown of Possibilities were tested extensively before they were released for the purpose of getting them just right. Given the volume they are at in Set 1, they are likely to continue on that path in Set 2. As cards are spoiled, keep your eyes peeled for cards that either fit into existing engine decks, or might become the core of a new synergistic strategy. Those of us coming from Magic have been trained to discount these cards given that most are not priced at the level needed to really impress, but I feel the DWD design and development teams have dialed up the power enough so that these cards matter. Looking forward to seeing all these as they arrive!
I like the article! I think I am looking for a little more depth, so I will keep poking around, but thanks for pointing me to a good start!


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Q: Setting R_LIBS & avoiding "Would you like to use a personal library instead?" My personal library is set as R_LIBS=~/.R/lib in ~/.Renviron. This works perfectly well when I install packages from rstudio. When I try installing new packages from a plain R console session, it always asks me:
Would you like to use a personal library instead?  (y/n) y
Would you like to create a personal library
~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1
to install packages into?  (y/n) n

When I do updates from the console session, existing packages in ~/.R/lib (previously installed from rstudio) are updated no problem. If there are global packages in /usr that also need updating, R again asks if I want to create ~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1.
I've tried a number of configurations and have not found a way around this.
Pro-tips?

A: Yes, I always unset it on the systems I use, and I even try to keep it out of the Debian package I maintain.  In Debian we use
/usr/lib/R/library                   for core R packages shipping with R
/usr/lib/R/site-library              for r-cran-* packages from the distro
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library        for what the user installs from CRAN

with the appropriate ordering:
R> .libPaths()
[1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library"   \
    "/usr/lib/R/library"
R>

and I do that by commenting this out
#R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1'}
#R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/Library/R/3.1/library'}

# edd Apr 2003  Allow local install in /usr/local, also add a directory for
#               Debian packaged CRAN packages, and finally the default dir
# edd Jul 2007  Now use R_LIBS_SITE, not R_LIBS
R_LIBS_SITE=${R_LIBS_SITE-'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:\
                           /usr/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/library'}

and I think I have to update my patch in the Debian packaging...

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A tv that is meant to imitate a piece of art in your living room when it's turned off. Yes please. The incorporation of technology in the living room so seamlessly and that adds to the space in more aspects that it's main function is interesting to me and creates more value in my eyes. To think of a product's life when it's turned off, brilliant. This makes me think of other products that surround me and how can they evolve into something interesting when they are turned off, or when they are not being used.


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In A Historic Decision, Four Female Athletes Will Represent Saudi Arabia At Rio 2016
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Somak AdhikariUpdated on Jul 18, 2016, 18:32 IST
In a surprising turn of events, Saudi Arabia will be sending four female athletes to Rio. The news was confirmed by the Saudi Olympic Committee.
Sara Al-Attar, Lubna Al-Omair, Cariman Abu Al-Jadail and Wujud Fahmi will become only the second group of women Olympians to represent Saudi Arabia, where women are barred from driving and are subject to a restrictive male guardianship system.
However, the official announcement only named the seven men selected.
The announcements of the names of the male and female team members were made separately given the sensitivities regarding gender segregation and women's athletics in in the country.
The four women will be given wildcard entries so they can compete without meeting formal qualification standards.

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Green Amber and Red lists – Understanding UK Travel Corridor
COViD19 info
Soon, summer 2021 will officially start. After more than a long year of quarantine, we all are eager to finally leave the country and enjoy our holidays. While most people have it pretty easy, UK citizens have to be careful about a set of special rules. The UK Travel Corridor might look daunting, but do not let it intimidate you. Here, we will help you understand all you need to know about UK Travel Corridor and its Green, Red, and Amber lists. S
All you need to know about summer vacations in one place
AMBER LIST RULES UPDATE (JULY 2021)
NEWEST UPDATES TO GREEN AMBER AND RED LISTS (30TH JUNE)
What is the UK Travel Corridor?
What is Air Bridge?
What is the Green List?
What should I do if I want to visit a Green List country?
Do you still have to take routine PCR tests even if you are vaccinated?
What countries are on the Green List?
What is the Amber List?
What do I have to do if I want to visit or come back from Amber List country?
Are vaccinated people subject to Amber List rules?
What countries are on Amber List?
What is the Red List?
What if I want to travel to a Red List country or return to the UK from a Red List country?
Do Red List restrictions apply to vaccinated people?
What are countries on the Red List?
When returning from an Amber List country, there is now a possibility of skipping the previously mandatory self-quarantine. Now, if you take a COVID-19 test and receive a negative test result within 2 days of entering the UK, you are not required to self-isolate at all. So get your tests ready!
For a detailed explanation of the UK Travel Traffic Light System, scroll down further. Here, on top of the post, you will find the live up-to-date news and changes regarding the content of Red Green and Amber Lists.
UK plans to publish a plan allowing vaccinated people unrestricted travel to all but the highest risk countries. More information is promised to be released in July.
On 4 am Wednesday 30th June, six following countries are added to the Red List:
On 4am Wednesday 30 June, the following countries are added to the Green List or Green Watchlist:
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
Madeira (rest of the Portugal stays Amber)
The Balearic islands of Spain
UK Travel Corridor is a way for passengers to travel on certain routes without a need to self-quarantine. Only countries with very low infection rates can be considered for UK Travel Corridor. Currently, there are no countries in UK Travel Corridor. However, just as we speak, many airlines are uniting in putting pressure on the UK government to open up UK-US Air Corridor and more. Follow our blog and this article for updates!
The airBridge is another name for UK Travel Corridor. They are used interchangeably. Anything that applies to UK Air Corridor is true for UK Air Bridge.
Green List is part of the UK Traffic Light System for travel. Just like when driving a car, green light means "safe to go"! Green List countries are considered safer or very low risk, making them perfect travel choices.
If you want to visit a Green List country, you do not have to do anything special. When returning back to the UK, if you only visited territories of Green List countries, you will have to take a routine PCR test. If the result is negative, you will not be required to self-quarantine.
Yes. Even if you are vaccinated, you are still required to take the routine PCR test.
The current green list includes:
Sandwich Islands
South Helena
Amber List is similar to the orange light in the traffic system. While travel to or from these countries is not forbidden, it is not encouraged.
Yes. Being vaccinated does not stop you from following Amber List rules.
Remember that Amber List is not exhaustive!
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
British Antarctic Territory
Cook Islands, Tokelau and Niue
Czech Republic (Czechia)
Greece (including islands)
The Occupied Palestinian Territories
Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira)
Spain (including the Balearics and Canary Islands)
St Martin and St Barthélemy
St Pierre and Miquelon
Red List countries are countries that are considered unsafe and too risky for travel. These countries are absolutely no good for your holidays. Additionally, make sure to not travel through Red List territories. You do not have to stay in a Red List country to be subject to Red List rules upon return to the UK. Just traveling through them is enough. So plan your travel carefully!
We really recommend reconsidering your decision. However, if you really need to come back to UK from a Red List country, be aware that you will be subjected to government quarantine in a special COVID hotel for at least 11 days. There, you will be put under observation, and tested for COVID. Also, remember that the UK might refuse you entry to the country altogether. Currently, only UK Citizens have a chance at being allowed into the country when traveling from a Red List country.
Vaccination does not exempt you from these rules! Travel at your own risk.
The current up to date list of Red List countries is:
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Rosa Raisa reflects on her career and her time in Chicago
Renowned soprano, Madame Rosa Raisa discusses her career, early training, Chicago debuts, travels, teaching, and hobbies post opera.
Musical performance of Giuseppe Sabbatini
Celebrated young tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini discusses his upcoming performance as Alfredo in "Traviata" at the Lyric Opera as well as beginnings, church music, debuts with little/no rehearsal and more.
Sir Geraint Evans discusses his career in opera
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Barbara Hendricks discusses her career, music education, and opera
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Richard Vikstrom discusses his farewell performance
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Luciano Pavarotti discusses singing for the Pope and other audiences
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Dorinda Medley in Saratoga Living reveals she 'wanted to cry' over Bethenny Frankel leaving RHONY
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Dorinda Medley graced the latest cover of Saratoga Living and opened up to the magazine about Bethenny Frankel leaving The Real Housewives Of New York City.
The 54-year-old reality star was asked how the departure of Bethenny, 48, affected her.
'When I found out Bethenny was leaving, I was sad. I actually wanted to cry,' Dorinda revealed.
Cover girl: Dorinda Medley covered the October issue of Saratoga Living and opened up about Bethenny Frankel leaving The Real Housewives Of New York City
'There's sort of a good old-fashioned aspect to her I love. She's a true original ''Housewife.'' It takes a brave and fearless person to do what we do,' she added.
Dorinda said the 'great thing' about the Skinnygirl lifestyle brand founder 'is that off camera, she's exactly like she is on camera'.
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'We're very good, true friends. And we're two alphas,' said Dorinda.
Bethenny revealed in August that she would be leaving RHONY to focus on her nine-year-old daughter Bryn, philanthropy and TV production partnership.
Final reunion: The 54-year-old reality star is shown with Bethenny, 48, in May at the RHONY reunion show
Dorinda also discussed coming across as 'natural' on the Bravo show.
She recalled being praised after season one at a fruit stand by a woman for speaking up about becoming a widow.
Dorinda's husband Richard Medley died at age 60 in 2011.
Young widow: Dorinda, shown in May in New York City, recalled being praised at a fruit stand by a woman after season one of RHONY for speaking about becoming a widow
'I was considered a very young widow. And one of the things I said the first season was that it's not a label that fits. Because as a society, we've compartmentalized people with the title of widow as someone who's 80 years old, who's had a full life with his or her partner,' Dorinda said.
She added: 'So, I think it's very important for women to hear me and believe me when I say, to be in your 50s and 60s is no longer a dirty little secret. I embrace it, I'm proud of it. You mentally change, you physically change, you spiritually change. '
'Because in a weird way, you're in the last quarter of your life. I'm not so crazy ambitious, but yet I am ambitious. I still want to enjoy my life. I've given a lot, I've seen a lot, I've done a lot and I've become a bit selfish with my time,' she said.
Lost love: The late Richard Medley is shown with Dorinda in an Instagram post she shared in October 2015 to mark his birthday
Dorinda as part of the celebration of the Best Of Everything issue will host an exclusive brunch Sunday at Prime restaurant at Saratoga National Golf Club.
'I grew up in the Berkshires and traveled to Saratoga Springs with my family a good amount when I was younger,' Dorinda told the magazine. 'To this day, I still visit the city and go to the local dress shops right on Broadway.'
A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center's educational programming initiative.
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In case you missed it, Chance the Rapper took over "Saturday Night Live". It was his first time hosting, co-writing and acting in sketches. Here's an overview of some of his hilarious sketches from that night to get you all caught up.
Chance the Rapper performed a song for his open monologue. He stated that he hopes the song would make him the Mariah Carey of Thanksgiving. The song he performed was about bad apples and it featured turkeys along with members of the cast like Leslie Jones and Cecily Strong.
Chance the Rapper continued with another musical based skit about rap history. The sketch was about the age gap within hip-hop. The skit had Pete Davidson as a SoundCloud, rapper called Lil Doo Doo. The Chance the Rapper, Chris Redd and Kenan Thompson acted as a late 70s group called Soul Crush Crew.
Chance then switched it up and took on the role of a Steve Harvey lookalike who joins the Thanksgiving edition of Family Feud.
He also played a Gotham City local in "Wayne Thanksgiving" who discussed Batman's use of excessive force.
Chance went back to school in his skit for "Career Day." He played a high school student who got a little too excited in class and stripped down to his underwear.
Then, he put on his "Sports Announcer" hat where he plays a very cold and unhappy sports announcer who has to cover a hockey game that he has zero interest in.
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Matt Dawson answered his personal crisis by kicking the Lions to a 30-28 victory in Canberra last night, then admitted he feared he would be sent home.
England's 28-year-old scrum half followed his decisive conversion in the 11th minute of injury time by talking openly for the first time about the furore over his public attack on the tour management.
Dawson knew he could have been given the first 10,000-mile red card in rugby history over his outburst published hours before last Saturday's opening Test win over the Wallabies in Brisbane.
'I was aware that the worst case scenario was that I could be sent home,' he said after securing a victory over ACT Brumbies which had been inspired by Austin Healey.
Coach Graham Henry and manager Donal Lenihan, the major targets of his criticism, thanked him after kicking a difficult conversion to win the last non-Test match of the tour.
It was an acknowledgement that Dawson has played his way back on-side with the tour.
Dawson said: 'They shook me by the hand, looked me in the eye and congratulated me. It was an emotional moment.
'I didn't go out to write a controversial piece but I realised subsequently why it became a serious matter in the context of the tour.
'I had upset the tour and taken the gloss off a fantastic Test win. I've apologised to all concerned for the timing of the article and the contents.
Dawson grabbed the Lions badge on his jersey and ran to the touchline after keeping his nerve to land the pressure kick of his career. 'The Lions shirt means everything to everyone on this trip,' he explained.
He owed his match-winning opportunity to Healey. The hooter signalling the end of time had already sounded, and the Lions had to keep the ball alive.
They retained possession through a flood of phases, refused to panic and finally cracked it as Ronan O'Gara, Darren Morris and Iain Balshaw gave Healey the chance to step off the left wing, evade two tacklers and finish in style.
Healey then offered support to Dawson. He said: 'None of the players had a problem with Matt. He was the only person to stick his head above the parapet and say what a lot of us were feeling. The management has taken that on board.
Far from freezing him out, Henry confirmed last night that Dawson's selection as goal-kicker means he will retain his place on the bench among the 22 for Saturday's return match against Australia in Melbourne.
As Super 12 champions, the Brumbies would beat most international teams, and last night they almost did so. They were denied victory because Healey, on the left wing after three matches at scrum half and two at stand off, used a bit of Leicester knowledge.
Pat Howard, back with the Brumbies after a stint at Leicester, had played a major part in the three home tries in the opening half-hour.
There might have been a fourth but Healey outwitted his former Tigers' colleague, intercepting his pass to stroll in under the posts from 60 yards.
The double bluff, cutting the deficit to 12 points at the break, allowed the Lions time to reorganise during the interval when, as Welsh prop Darren Morris admitted, 'some very choice words were spoken'.
ACT: Bartholomeusz; McInally, Holbeck (Huxley 79min), Bond, Gordon (Pither 71); Howard, Hall; Williams (capt, Samo 52), Tuiavii, Vickerman (Pusey 45), Ryan, Harrison; Weaver, Freier, Scott.
Lions: Balshaw; Cohen, Taylor (James, temp), Gibbs, Healey; O'Gara, Dawson; Corry, Williams, Wallace, Murray, Davidson; Young (capt), West, Morris.


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Many say the best thing about our 55+ H.O.A. community is the friendly, cooperative spirit of the people here, but we also have many great amenities that make Pine Island Cove a safe, attractive, and enjoyable place to live.
A few facts about our community:
The Cove consists of more than 300 resident-owned manufactured homes.
The Homeowners Association is guided by a constitution and bylaws and is managed by a 5-person board elected annually by homeowners.
The monthly Association fee is $125. This fee includes sewage (the Association maintains its own water sewage treatment plant on site), a trash and recycling center and maintenance of infrastructure such as the clubhouse, roads and common areas.
If you choose to live here, you may be as active and involved as you choose! Amenities contributing to an active lifestyle include the clubhouse with its kitchen, sound system, dance floor, party room, exercise room; the outdoor pool, hot tub, pickle ball and bocce ball courts and a large picnic pavilion for cookouts and other social events.
You can catch both freshwater and saltwater species in our "Bass Lake" including Bass, Tilapia, Snook, and Tarpon.
A boat ramp and saltwater canal lead directly to the Gulf of Mexico.
Residents may store boats and trailers in a secure area for a $50 annual fee.
Owners and renters are welcome to participate in organized tournaments, men's club work parties, card games, bingo, art classes, book club, exercise groups, meetings of quilters and knitters, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and more. Cruises and other excursions are available in the winter season at an extra cost.
Pine Island is less than one hour to airports in Ft. Myers and Punta Gorda.
Residents of Pine Island Cove are 15 minutes by boat to barrier islands and pristine beaches.
The island is a laid-back area with many marinas, social clubs, shops, churches and restaurants, including seafood waterside cafes with live music.
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Q: How to use math.random() with for loop I want to change the position of div with for loop ..
I made an animation .. When i click a div ( circle ) it moves to a position that is being determined with Math.random() ..
I dont want to click the div to move to another position .
I want to use for loop method and i want div to move another position in every 2 seconds or some seconds ..
Do you have any advise .. Thanks
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$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#circle").click(function () {
        var width = Math.random();
        var yeniwidth = width * 500;
        margin = Math.round(yeniwidth);
        $("#circle").css("margin-top", margin + "px");
        var height = Math.random();
        var yeniheight = height * 1000;
        margin2 = Math.round(yeniheight);
        $("#circle").css("margin-left", margin2 + "px");
    });
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A: You don't really need a for-loop to do that. Instead of executing the code after clicking the div, you could just use the setInterval function instead:
$(document).ready(function () {
    window.setInterval(function(){
        var width = Math.random();
        var yeniwidth = width * 500;
        margin = Math.round(yeniwidth);
        $("#circle").css("margin-top", margin + "px");
        var height = Math.random();
        var yeniheight = height * 1000;
        margin2 = Math.round(yeniheight);
        $("#circle").css("margin-left", margin2 + "px");
    }, 5000);
});

Just change the number 5000 to adjust the time that should pass before the code is executed again (1000ms is 1 second).
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Phototherapy, a soft aesthetic technique, has been developed quite recently. Its roots have been immersed in the laser lights used for more than 50 years. It is therefore a method that combines modern innovation with the guarantee of a widely proven use.
Born in 2004, phototherapy does not seem that old. This is without counting on its much older origins anchored in infrared light and soft lasers. You therefore have, at your disposal, a gentle method dedicated to the aesthetics of the body and face without any side effects or pain that can be practiced at home or in the institute.
LED phototherapy entered the world of medicine and aesthetics in 2004. Small revolution compared to other pulsed lights, infrared and lasers, it does not heat up. Its diode projects a cold light that nevertheless provides anti-inflammatory care, calms burns or helps healing and product penetration. Its secret lies in the combination of the colours of the lamp and its pulsed light, which act on the cells like an agitator causing chain reactions in the body to secrete dermal repair hormones.
Its success will come in soft aesthetic techniques only later, when a medical report on its anti-aging properties is published. Since then, LED infrared phototherapy has become one of the most popular methods of rejuvenation because of its non-invasive and painless nature. With its results, the small lamp attacks other areas of aesthetics such as body remodeling, baldness, acne and cell hydration.
For more than 50 years, medicine has used light to treat people. As early as the 1980s, the non-thermal infrared laser was a valuable aid to healing. It was therefore only natural that in 2004, when LEDs first appeared in the world of medicine, this pulsed light technique was considered to have no side effects from the outset.
It is therefore a totally harmless, but terribly effective method that is practiced in institutes or at home. Very easy to use, just take more or less long "baths" with the right colour to obtain the desired effect. It is also possible to perform a treatment with two combined colours in order to obtain the desired result. The combinations are multiple by combining the colors of the LED.
Luminotherapy, photomodulation or infrared phototherapy by led…. similar terms to designate soft aesthetic techniques. Do they have the same objective? How do they differ? The answers are in our file.


Here's a guide to what you need to know about your current or future employer's 401(k) plan.
The 401(k) is the most popular type of retirement plan offered by private-sector employers to help their employees save and invest for retirement. Unlike traditional pension plans, 401(k)s are known as defined contribution plans, and the retirement benefits they produce depend on the performance of the account's underlying investments.
401(k) retirement plans may seem complicated, but they don't need to be. Here's an in-depth discussion of what a 401(k) is, why you should contribute to one if you can, how investing in a 401(k) works, the tax benefits of 401(k) investing, and more.
A 401(k) is a form of defined-contribution retirement plan, as opposed to a defined-benefit plan like a pension.
Instead of contributing money throughout your career to receive a fixed amount of income when you retire, a defined-contribution plan involves contributing a set percentage of your compensation. Instead of fixed retirement income, your nest egg depends on how well the investments held in your account perform.
401(k) plans are offered by employers to allow their employees to set aside money for retirement on a tax-advantaged basis.
Employers may make contributions to 401(k) plans on their employees' behalf, and money in a 401(k) plan can be invested in a selection of mutual funds or other investment options (like company stock) offered by the specific plan.
The main reason to use a 401(k) to save for retirement as opposed to simply investing in a standard brokerage account is for the tax benefits. Most 401(k) contributions are made on a tax-deferred basis, meaning that the money you choose to contribute, up to the annual contribution limit, is excluded from your taxable income. After it is contributed, your investments can grow and compound year after year with no tax implications until you withdraw money, at which time the amount of your withdrawal will be considered taxable income.
401(k)s are increasingly offering Roth contribution options. This means that the contributions are not tax-deductible, but your investments still grow and compound tax-deferred and qualified withdrawals will be 100% tax-free. We'll get into the differences between standard and Roth 401(k) contributions and which you should use later on.
Another good reason to use a 401(k) to save for retirement is that it's easy. Once you've set your 401(k) investment allocations, the ongoing maintenance that is required is minimal. Contributions are automatically deducted from your paycheck and you can even choose investment options that will gradually shift your allocations over time as you get older.
Can you open a 401(k) on your own?
The short answer is "it depends." To open a 401(k) account, you need to join a plan sponsored by an employer you work for.
However, that employer can be yourself. Self-employed individuals and independent contractors can open individual 401(k) accounts (also known as "solo" or "one-member" 401(k)s). The same contribution limits apply, and the employer matching portion can't exceed 25% of self-employment earnings.
The 401(k) contribution limits are set by the IRS each year and are increased to keep pace with inflation as time goes on.
For 2018, the elective deferral limit is $18,500, meaning that you can choose to have as much as this amount withheld from your paychecks and deposited into your account. If you're 50 or older, you can choose to defer as much as $6,000 more as a "catch-up" contribution for a total of $24,500.
Keep in mind that this includes only the money that you choose to contribute. It does not include employer matching contributions, forfeiture allocations (when someone else loses unvested contributions), mandatory contributions, or contributions from any other sources.
The overall limit from all sources for 2018 is $55,000, including your own elective deferrals. If you're 50 or older, the catch-up contribution limit is added to this, for a grand total of $61,000.
The term "vesting" is used to describe your ownership in the assets contained in your 401(k) plan. Simply put, if you are vested, you have the legal right to keep the contributions made to your account.
To be clear, you are always 100% vested in contributions you make to your 401(k). However, the same is not always true when it comes to your employer's matching contributions.
Graded vesting means that your contributions vest a little more each year. At a minimum, employees must vest in 20% of their contributions at the end of the second year or service and another 20% each year thereafter. So, by the end of the sixth year of service, employees on a graded vesting schedule will be 100% vested in their entire 401(k) account.
Cliff vesting means that there is a certain period of time where employees are not vested at all, and then become 100% vested at once. Employers who select cliff vesting can push the vesting date as far out as three years of service.
How does employer matching work?
The majority of 401(k) matching programs have the same general structure. The employer will match a certain percentage of employee contributions up to a certain percentage of their compensation. As an example, an employer may match its employees' contributions dollar for dollar up to a maximum of 5% of their salary.
In this case, an employee who earns $50,000 per year would have all of their contributions up to $2,500 matched dollar for dollar by their employer. To be clear, they could certainly choose to contribute more than their employer is willing to match, but the amount of employer contributions will be limited according to this rule.
Financial planners have differing opinions on this. Most agree that at a minimum, participants should contribute as much as their employer is willing to match. So, in our previous example, this hypothetical employee should contribute 5% of their salary at an absolute minimum. Not contributing enough to take full advantage of your employer's matching program is like refusing to take a portion of your salary.
As a general rule, I suggest a retirement savings rate of 10%, not including matching contributions. I'll spare you the mathematics, but this percentage of the average worker's salary compounded at historical average investment returns should grow into enough of a nest egg that should be able to produce enough income for a comfortable retirement.
However, you don't necessarily have to put it all in your 401(k). For instance, it's fine to set aside 5% of your salary in your 401(k) -- as long as it's enough to get your employer match -- and another 5% in an IRA, which has some key advantages as well.
On that note, let's briefly discuss the differences between investing for retirement in individual retirement accounts, or IRAs, and employer-sponsored plans like 401(k)s.
As I mentioned, there are some key advantages to IRA investing. For starters, while your 401(k) offers a selection of a few dozen investment choices at most, you can buy virtually any stock, bond, or mutual fund you want in your IRA. You can also use your IRA before reaching retirement age without penalty to pay for college expenses or a first-time home purchase for you or a relative. Both of these options are unavailable to 401(k) investors.
On the other hand, 401(k)s allow for early withdrawals after the account owner reaches age 55 if they are no longer working for the sponsoring employer, while IRAs don't. 401(k) plans also have much more generous contribution limits. As I mentioned, for 2018, you can choose to defer up to $18,500 of your compensation into a 401(k) while IRA contributions are capped at $5,500. If you're 50 or older, these limits jump to $24,500 and $6,500, respectively.
Both types of accounts have similar tax benefits. Qualified individuals can deduct their traditional IRA contributions, same as with standard 401(k) contributions. And qualified individuals can make Roth IRA contributions, which enjoy the same tax benefits as Roth 401(k)s. It's important to mention that the tax benefits of IRA investing are income-restricted, unlike 401(k)s, which are available to all eligible employees.
Obviously, there's a lot more to IRA investing than I can discuss in a few paragraphs. However, this is a quick overview of the key differences savers should consider.
As I mentioned earlier, the main difference between standard tax-deferred 401(k) contributions and the Roth variety of contributions is the tax treatment. In simple English, standard 401(k) contributions give you your tax benefit now while Roth 401(k) contributions give you a tax benefit later when you eventually use the funds in your account.
So, which should you use? In a nutshell, if you're in a lower marginal tax bracket right now -- particularly the 10% or 12% brackets -- Roth contributions could be the smartest choice for you. In this case, it's unlikely that your tax rate in retirement will be much lower than it is now, so it's a smart idea to save your tax break for later.
On the other hand, if you're in a relatively high tax bracket right now -- I generally say 22% or higher -- it could be a smart idea to take your tax break now with standard 401(k) contributions.
Keep in mind that you can choose to switch your contribution type whenever you want in order to best meet your current financial needs. As a personal example, I used Roth contributions in my own retirement accounts when I was just starting out in my career and was in a low tax bracket. As my career progressed and my income started to increase, I gradually started using tax-deductible contributions instead.
It's also important to point out that any employer matching contributions you receive will be of the standard tax-deferred variety, regardless of whether your own contributions are standard or Roth. If you make Roth contributions and either you or your employer make standard tax-deferred contributions, your account will be effectively separated into two baskets of investments.
I've written an in-depth asset allocation primer that you can read if you're interested, but here's an overview of the basic ideas you need to know.
Equities (stocks) -- Stocks are the most volatile of the three types, but also tend to produce the best returns over long periods of time. Historically, the stock market has averaged returns of 9%-10% per year.
Fixed-income (bonds) -- Bonds don't have the high long-term return potential of stocks, but also tend to be less volatile.
Cash (money market) -- Cash and money market investments produce the lowest returns, but they are also the safest. For example, a money market fund generates a fixed interest rate with no risk of loss of principal.
While you're young, the majority of your 401(k) assets (but not all) should be in stock-based investment options in order to maximize your long-term return potential. Then, as you get older, your investments should gradually shift into fixed-income options. I generally discourage anyone to even consider cash-based investment options before reaching retirement, as they tend to not even keep up with inflation.
Here's a good rule of thumb: If you subtract your age from the number 110, it can give you a ballpark idea of how much of your 401(k) assets should be in stocks, as a percentage. For example, I'm 36, so this implies that about 74% of my 401(k) investments should be in stocks with the other 26% in bonds.
Most 401(k) plans also offer an option known as target-date retirement funds, which do the gradual shift from stocks to bonds for you. Just to name one popular example, the Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 Fund (NASDAQMUTFUND:VFIFX) is intended for people who plan to retire between 2048 and 2052 and currently has a 90% stock/10% bond allocation, which it achieves by dividing its capital among four other funds. Over time, the allocation will gradually shift until it achieves a roughly 30% stock/70% bond allocation a few years after the 2050 target date. These can be smart options for 401(k) participants who want to keep their accounts as low maintenance as possible. Just be aware that these options can come with higher fees than you'd pay by constructing your own allocations.
Contrary to popular belief, investing in a 401(k) plan isn't free. Plans may charge administrative fees to participants and all 401(k) plans' investment options charge annual fees known as expense ratios.
An expense ratio is a mutual fund's annual costs charged to investors to cover the fund's operating expenses and is expressed as a percentage of total assets. For example, a 1% expense ratio implies that for every $100 you have invested, $1 will go toward fees annually. 401(k) expense ratios can vary significantly, but the general rule is that lower expense ratios are better.
The short answer is that in order to take a distribution from your 401(k) plan without paying a penalty to the IRS (we'll get into those in the next section), you need to be at least 59 and 1/2 years old.
If you are "separated from service" -- meaning you no longer work for the sponsoring employer -- you only need to be 55 years old to take a penalty-free distribution.
If you commit to taking a series of substantially equal annual distributions that last at least five years or until you reach 59 and 1/2 -- whichever comes later -- you can start tapping into your 401(k) at any age.
If you become totally and permanently disabled, you can use your 401(k) penalty-free.
You can use 401(k) funds toward unreimbursed medical expenses over 7.5% of your AGI.
If you take a hardship withdrawal or otherwise withdraw money from your 401(k) without a valid reason as discussed in the previous section, your withdrawal will be subject to a 10% early withdrawal penalty from the IRS. And this is on top of any taxes you may have to pay.
As an example, let's say that you have $20,000 in a 401(k) and that you decide to cash your account out when you're 35. Assuming you're in the 22% federal income tax bracket, you'll only be able to take out $13,600 after income taxes and penalties, or even less if you live in a state with an income tax. So, think twice before you take money out of your 401(k) before reaching 59 and 1/2 years of age.
A 403(b) can be thought of as the 401(k) of the public sector. These accounts are often offered to employees of nonprofit corporations. For example, my wife works for a nonprofit hospital system that offers a 403(b) plan to employees. Just like 401(k)s, employers can choose to make contributions, and the same general contribution limits apply. 403(b) plans have an additional catch-up provision that allows extra contributions of $3,000 per year for employees with 15 or more years of service.
457 plans are supplementary retirement plans, meaning that they are offered in addition to another retirement plan. As another personal example, I teach part-time at a community college. The school participates in the state retirement system (a pension plan), but offers the opportunity to save tax-deferred in a 457 plan as well. The $18,000 elective deferral and $6,000 catch-up contribution limits apply, but since these are supplementary retirement plans, employers don't contribute to 457s on employees' behalf.
A thrift savings plan, or TSP, works a lot like a 401(k) and is offered to most federal workers. The federal government offers TSP participants matching contributions and the TSP has the same annual contribution limits as 401(k) plans.
If your account value exceeds a certain threshold, say $5,000, you may be able to leave your money in your former employer's plan. If you're generally happy with the plan, this is a perfectly valid option.
If your new employer allows it (most do), you can roll over, or combine, your 401(k) into your new employer's plan. One main reason to do this is that it lets you keep your retirement savings in one place.
You can choose to roll the account over into an IRA, which gives you more freedom to choose investments and may have some other benefits.
You can cash out the account and take a lump sum distribution. As I discussed in the previous section, this is generally a bad idea.


Okay, people – let's talk stuffing. Specifically, my every Thanksgiving go-to, best ever, sausage & apple stuffing. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that stuffing is my favorite dish in the entire Thanksgiving meal. Get that boxed stuff out of here.
To start the sausage & apple stuffing, you first need to dry out the bread. I've tried leaving bread out overnight to harden and become stale, but ultimately have found that oven drying produces the best textured bread for stuffing.
Cube the bread into bite sized pieces and bake on baking sheets at 350 for 20 minutes, stirring the cubed bread halfway through cooking. I turn the oven off after 20 minutes and let the bread hang out in the oven while I cook the rest of the ingredients.
While the bread dries out, heat a large dutch oven over medium heat and add the hot and sweet Italian sausage. Brown the sausage and break it up into bite size pieces, cooking for 5-7 minutes in total. Once browned, remove the sausage from the pan and set aside on a paper towel. Retain the rendered grease in the pan – you'll use that cook the onions and celery in later.
Rinse the celery and cut off the ends. I save these and the hearts in the middle to add to make a stock with the leftover turkey. Just place the scraps in a zip loc freezer bag and keep in the freezer until you're ready to make the stock.
Chop the celery and add it to the dutch oven with the sausage drippings over medium heat. While the celery sautes for a few minutes, dice the onions. Add them to the pan as well along with 1/2 tsp kosher salt and saute everything for 15 minutes or until the onions and celery have both become soft and tender.
As the onions and celery saute, scrape the browned sausage bits from the bottom of the pan to incorporate. After the vegetables are soft, add 4 tbsp of butter to the pan to deglaze completely.
While the vegetables soften, continue prepping the rest of the ingredients. Chop the apples into bite sized pieces, finely chop the herbs, and beat the eggs. I like to use a mix of rosemary, sage, and thyme. You can sometimes find this labeled as "poultry seasoning" around the holidays for exactly recipes like this.
After everything cooks, get your biggest bowl to mix everything together. This recipe makes enough for one 13×9 pan of sausage and apple stuffing plus enough to stuff a medium sized turkey, so you'll need a big vehicle for mixing.
Add the bread, sausage, celery & onions, apples, dried fruit, and herbs to the large bowl and stir gently to incorporate. I find it's easiest to thoroughly wash my hands before starting and mixing by hand instead of using a spoon. You can feel when the bread has soaked up the liquid this way, and you have more control.
After mixing the dry ingredients, add half of the chicken stock the bowl and mix thoroughly. Add the other half of the chicken stock and mix again. Make sure to throughly, making sure there's no liquid remaining at the bottom of the bowl.
Taste now for seasoning before you add the raw eggs. Add some salt and pepper if desired. The saltiness of your chicken stock will dictate whether or not you need to season any extra here.
Finally, add the beaten eggs to the stuffing and mix well again. Grease a 13×9 pan with butter and add the stuffing. Dot the stuffing with 2 tbsp butter and cover the pan with aluminum foil.
At this point, you can refrigerate the stuffing and keep it for up to two days prior to cooking. Simply add 10 minutes to the overall cooking time.
When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 425 and bake covered for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake uncovered for 20 minutes or until slightly crispy on top but cooked through in the middle.
Serve hot, with lots of turkey and gravy. And don't just make this recipe for Thanksgiving! I love to have this throughout the winter with some rotisserie chicken. It always feels like a special and cozy occasion.
Whether for Thanksgiving or just for a cozy, winter meal, this sausage and apple stuffing is sure to be a crowd pleaser!
Dice the onions and add to the celery along with 1/2 tsp kosher salt. Saute for 15 minutes or until the vegetables are soft, stirring frequently. Add 4 tbsp butter to the pan at the end to deglaze.
In a very large mixing bowl combine the bread, sausage, vegetables, apples, dried fruit, and herbs.
This recipe makes enough for one 13x9 pan of stuffing plus enough to stuff a medium turkey. If you're not cooking a turkey, either reduce all the ingredients slightly or bake another small baking dish alongside the 13x9 pan.


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Content & SEO: Why & How to Build Trust, Authority & Reputation
Published by Guardian Owl on May 2, 2018
Trust, authority, and reputation are the foundation of successful businesses. Here's how they intertwine to create the DNA of successful SEO and content marketing campaigns.
Let's discuss TAR. Not the negative tar in nicotine or the stuff that fills cracks on roads, but rather the positive TAR that is the foundation of successful businesses:
Without these three elements, a business is basically a copy of its competitors, multiplying choices for prospective clients.
When TAR is present, prospects become emotionally engaged, which leads to loyalty.
As for the other businesses that lack TAR, they dilute the choices, creating tougher decisions for prospects who don't want to make tough decisions.
This concept also translates into the world of digital marketing.
Trust, authority, and reputation intertwine to create the DNA of the most successful SEO and content marketing campaigns.
Look at any first-place organic rankings, and TAR is clearly present.
For scalable online success, a sharp focus on building (and balancing) all three TAR elements is a must.
These elements increase SEO visibility because search engines crave TAR, and all that content – also designed with TAR in mind – and its higher visibility will naturally earn respect from prospects, which leads to long-term clients.
The TAR tactic to strengthen a business's online presence is simple and straightforward. But the process of achieving true TAR in digital marketing is somewhat challenging because it's counterintuitive to normal campaign strategies.
Before the typical keyword research, tech audits, and content calendars are created, a TAR tactic must be woven into the fabric of every campaign element.
And it all begins with endless questions during the vital discovery phase, including the most important question: "why?"
The answers to these questions help marketers build a successful campaign that validates the truth behind the business, which is rooted in the reason "why" the company is in business and "why" their products are needed.
Apple immediately comes to mind; its brand is built with strong TAR that reinforces its "why" as a business.
Apple isn't in the business of selling technology, but rather inspiring creativity. Each of its product advertisements always clearly states the "why" factor before backing it with the two other necessary questions: What and How.
Here are the essential tactics to build and strengthen the TAR of your content marketing and SEO campaigns.
Think Like a Traditional Journalist: Why, What & How
I spent time in the early part of this century as a traditional newspaper journalist. The initial reason I wanted a daily newspaper gig was to "cut the fat" out of my writing.
What was equally important, though, was embracing the "Five Ws and One H" of traditional journalism (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How).
These came into play throughout life, from heading up content marketing departments to launching an agency.
For the digital marketing landscape, the focus on the Five Ws and One H dwindles due to some obvious reasons, and the concept transforms to "Two Ws and One H."
All TAR tactics should explain the Why to capture emotion, followed by the What and How to rationalize those emotions.
The Who, When, and Where of traditional journalism are typically answered on the company bio page or footer, raising the awareness of the other Two Ws and One H.
Always Start with Why
In "Start with Why" (more than 1 million copies sold), TED superstar Simon Sinek says:
"People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. A failure to communicate WHY creates nothing but stress or doubt."
Unfortunately, when initiating a digital marketing campaign, many SEO professionals and content marketers solely focus on the How and What of the client's products and services – typically the features, prices, and everything that's different from the competition.
This is what typical research data claims a business's web presence needs for success, and it fails to target the emotion side of things by first asking Why.
The Hows and Whats are absolutely needed, but as a rational follow up to the more emotional Why.
The Why of a business should be immediately addressed. Again, think of Apple, but this time rather than the company story, think about its individual products.
Apple doesn't just sell MacBook Pros; the product inspires human creativity, which is the clear message of the latest MacBook Pro page copy.
This simple ad immediately answers the Why of the product and is followed by the typical How and Why. Apple's page begins by highlighting "A Touch of Genius" to answer the Why of the product, followed by the How and What of the product.
The other genius Apple campaign that begins with Why was the simple iPhone 4 ad: "This Changes Everything. Again."
Companies that ask Why first will naturally appeal to a prospect's emotions, and influence the three elements of TAR that can begin a lifelong relationship – sometimes romance – with a company and its products.
"Can begin" are the crucial words here because the Why must be backed up with a solid What and How. Following is why.
Why Must be Followed by What & How
Once you appeal to the emotional side of a prospect, it's time to back up those feelings with rational data – and that's where the What and How come into play.
Here is where the usual discovery elements of SEO and content marketing campaigns surface – the competitive analysis, keyword research, content calendars, and site structure, to name a few.
The What and the How are vital, but should always follow the Why.
Appeal to emotion first; follow with rationale.
The What and How break down a company's offerings. The answers to What and How clearly explain what a service company completes from strategy and process perspective, and what a product company offers from a features and specs perspective.
Again, the What and How are absolutely needed to rationalize the emotional Why of a company and its products or services.
The natural byproduct of this strategy is the growth of TAR elements. The more consistent the What and How are defined, the more respect a client will have for those TAR elements that play off our emotions.
Who You Ask Is as Important as What You Ask
Also, who you ask is as important as the questions you ask.
Most of the agencies I worked with only dealt with the marketing departments of bigger businesses, though in some smaller businesses other teams were involved.
To truly ingrain TAR into a digital marketing strategy, agencies should speak with not only the marketing team but the CEO, founder, sales team and any of those on the proverbial front line that deal with the day-to-day customer relations.
Each one can provide unique insight on questions, helping to influence TAR factors on prospects – the more perspective you have, the more you can properly explain the Why of that company.
Once the Why is answered, and the correct Whats and Hows are in action, brand's online presence will build stronger and quicker.
Amplify What Works
Seeking the answers to these types of questions also allows marketers to amplify on the services that are the strong point of a company rather than spending time fixing things that simply aren't working.
The Why questions probe deep into a business's strategy, sometimes influencing a redirection of focus on what products or services to amplify, and sometimes what ones to dice. This also helps enforce the 80/20 factor so no time is wasted.
It may sound counterintuitive, but amplifying what works instead of spending time on stuff that doesn't is the proven fabric of many of the world's successful companies.
Think Apple and its iPhone; these platforms work, so it makes more sense to continually build and amplify it rather than sideline it and direct more attention to an entirely new phone model.
Yes, Apple successfully builds other product lines, but notice what gets the most attention within their marketing campaigns.
This all stems from the TAR Apple has already built into its marketing.
The only way to truly achieve TAR is with questions from actual humans from the beginning – questions of Why to expose the emotional factor, followed by questions of What and How to rationalize that emotional factor.
This type of strategy can drastically change the outcome of SEO and content marketing campaigns.
Make Questions – Especially Why – The Soul of Your Content Marketing Trinity
When engaging with clients, I constantly reinforce the creation of a "Content Marketing Trinity" – one that will inspire them to be storytellers and build an optimal online presence.
This trinity includes:
Constant fresh and emotionally appealing content hosted on their business website.
Guest posting on authoritative websites within their industry.
Constantly feeding the social media machine.
The SEO value within this trinity needs no explanation, and neither does its value in content marketing as you look to build a powerful voice within your industry.
But how do you go about making it work? Simple – start with the Why first to appeal to emotions, and rationalize those emotions with the What and How.
This "Content Marketing Trinity" also naturally has synergy with the three elements of TAR – Trust, Authority and Reputation.
This is where 3 + 3 equals 6 for conventional marketers that don't begin with Why, but equals "innovation" for those who begin with Why.
In the bestseller "Zero to One," Peter Thiel says:
"Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as it the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange."
A marketer's top mission should focus on delivering something "fresh" to client campaigns (and sometimes strange), bringing its client's online presence from "0 to 1."
The solution resides in exploiting the strongest TAR elements, and it all begins with asking the correct questions, always beginning with why.
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Killarney will be the venue for a major food and music festival taking place in June next year. The town's Chamber of Tourism & Commerce and local businessman Shane O'Driscoll have secured the event for the 2015 Killarney Summer Calendar. The festival will feature international and Irish entertainment performing across seven stages on the 27th and 28th of June. Music acts, comedians, chefs, and children's activities for the festival will be announced over the coming months.
This entry was posted in Killarney and tagged festival, Summer 2015 on December 4, 2014 by dm_admin.
An Comhdháil World Irish Dancing Championships 2015 being held at Killarney Convention Centre from 28th March to 4th April 2015.
This World Championship is an annual event that aims to recognise world-wide talent and dedication to one of Ireland's best loved cultural heritages and past times. With group and solo competitions open to all members of An Comhdháil from the ages of nine upwards, this contest attracts a great deal of industry attention. In excess of 3,000 competitors take part in these Championships each year; these competitors are typically accompanied by an entourage of organisers, teachers, adjudicators, musicians, families, friends, supporters and spectators from 24 branches of An Comhdháil worldwide.
The competition normally takes place over an eight-day period, finishing on Easter Sunday and most families book up to ten nights in the host town as they use the Easter Holiday period as an opportunity to take a family holiday.
This entry was posted in Killarney and tagged irish dancing, world championship on November 17, 2014 by dm_admin.
Killarney's July Racing Festival will combine the very best of horse racing with a fantastic festival atmosphere for all race-goers. Monday to Wednesday are evening meetings with the first race off at 5.40pm approx. and Thursday is an afternoon meeting with the first race off at 2pm approx. The festival runs this year (2014) from July 14 through July 17th.
The festival will be opened on Monday with 'Family Evening' with a dedicated children's entertainment area which includes bouncy castles, face painting, children's disco and lots more to entertain the families and children.
Tuesday features some great national hunt and flat racing. On Wednesday, Killarney Racecourse plays host to some of the 2014 Rose of Tralee contestants and their escorts.
The Dawn Milk Ladies Day will take place on Thursday and is the highlight of the July Racing Festival attracting capacity crowds at the boutique racecourse each year. The winners of the Queen of Fashion and the Most Stylish Hat Competition will enjoy luxury trips to the fashion capitals of Europe, Paris & Milan and receive a specially commissioned crystal vase.
The 2014 festival will feature The (Grade C) Bourn Vincent Memorial Handicap Chase.
This entry was posted in Killarney, Sport and tagged racing on July 10, 2014 by dm_admin.
To celebrate our oldest regatta and wonderful rowing tradition on the Lakes of Killarney, The Regatta Committee are hosting Killarney Rowing Festival, at O'Mahoney's Point, Killarney Golf and Fishing Club, Killarney on Sunday 28th July 2013, commencing at 12 Noon. The unique event also co-insides with 'The Gathering 2013' a Tourism Ireland initiative honouring Ireland's Diaspora and historical and cultural links to Ireland. Killarney's tourism success owes much to the visit of Queen Victoria to Killarney in 1861.
Both Oxford and Cambridge Boat Clubs have gratefully accepted our invitation and will be joining us on Sunday 28th July 2013 to take part in our Rowing Festival. Flights to Kerry Airport, two nights accommodation, have been kindly funded and sponsored by Tourism Ireland, with Killarney Chamber of Commerce and Tourism generously providing accommodation. The boats will be ready and waiting at the pier at O'Mahoney's Point, Killarney Golf and Fishing Club.
The Killarney Annual Regatta, is now the oldest traditional regatta in the World, steeped in glorious history and raced on Lough Lein, one of the famous Lakes of Killarney. The Annual regatta in now in its 227th year. There are five remaining active clubs in the town and hinterland of Killarney, each operating from various boathouses along the shores of Lough Lein.
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Killarney Summerfest 2013 is bustling with a myriad of activities for all the family. The Festival programme offers a fantastic range of outdoor activities set amongst the breathtaking Lakes, Hills, Valleys and Mountains of Killarney. An abundance of childrens activities throughout the day await with dozens of Arts and Creativity Work shops and fun summercamps. In the Evening families will throng the Town Centre as the streets of Killarney come to life like never before as some of the worlds leading street musicians, performers, puppeteers, comedians and magicians entertain all the family.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged festival, Killarney, summerfest on May 9, 2013 by dm_admin.
The Irish Poker Festival is taking place in the INEC from 29th November – 2nd December.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged poker on November 26, 2012 by dm_admin.
Thanks to GulliverIreland.com our online booking is now up and running at muckrossdrivehouse.com/reservations. This now provides our guests with accurate live availability status for their selected dates and instant online booking.
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This issue is our third Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention and Success (STARS) Conference special issue held in July this year in Adelaide, Australia. As is customary, this issue of the journal publishes the top research papers selected via a peer review process and the top Emerging Initiatives selected by the Conference Committee. We are delighted to feature in this special issue —Reflections on Student Persistence—prepared by Advisory Board member Professor Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, USA. Vincent is a long-time friend and supporter of STARS and its predecessor FYHE Conferences and Journal. In his article, Vincent explores the case for motivation to be considered as a significant aspect of the tertiary student psyche by drawing on theoretical frameworks, research and practical experiences related to the issue.


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A pregnant woman and two men have been thrown from a moving vehicle after having their hands amputated by a Mexican drug cartel as punishment for alleged acts of robbery.
The grisly incident happened in the Central Mexican state of Guanajuato.
The victims, who remain in a critical condition, were rescued by witnesses near the town of Silao, Guanajuato. The Prosecutor General has opened an investigation into events. All three are believed to be between the age of 22 and 25.
Guanajuato finds itself at the centre of a brutal turf war between the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generación (CJNG) and the Santa Rosa de Lima/Sinaloa Cartel alliance. In the absence of effective law enforcement from Federal authorities, local groups often uphold their own interpretations of the law themselves, often with extreme violence.
The victims were accused by the CJNG of robbery. A note attached to one of the men read: "This happened to me for being a thief, and because I didn't respect hard working people and continued to rob them. Anyone who does the same will suffer. Signed Elite Group.". The Elite Group are a notoriously vicious enforcement arm of the CJNG.
Video footage posted on Twitter, late on Friday night, showed the woman, who has not been named, begging eyewitnesses for help. The victim's hands, which were placed in a bag next to the victims, were recovered at the scene by paramedics.
Official statistics show that between January and August of 2020, Guanajuato was responsible for 13 per cent of murders nationwide. As hostilities escalated, September saw 3,438 murders, almost entirely between cartels vying for control of the region.
The state is the gateway between the cartel-dominated north of Mexico and Mexico City, a city of over 28 million people. Controlling the corridor between the capital and the cartel heartlands of Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa assures cartels of the ability to transport drugs and supplies from their safe zones in the North to the rest of the country.
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