Title challengers Chelsea (home to Newcastle) and Manchester City (away at Everton) face two fixtures in which they don't have great records but, with lots of uncertainty at Newcastle and Everton struggling, it seems best to look elsewhere for this week's football betting tips.
Stoke and QPR will both be desperate to end some lengthy losing statistics, whilst Man United vs Southampton and Sunderland vs Liverpool look to offer some value plays.
Stan James may well get steam-rollered this weekend as the big-hitters are likely to be queuing up to back Arsenal at 1/2 to beat a Stoke side that hasn't managed to take a point from this fixture since 1983 though, surprisingly, they have a remarkable good record at home against Arsenal. All statistics come to an end eventually – but, hopefully, not this week.
A match that might not appeal to many, but it's a real relegation dog-fight and victory would take either one-step closer to survival.
Burnley's home record of two wins, four draws and four defeats doesn't exactly set the pulse racing, but it looks pretty good compared to QPR's away record of 9 straight defeats.
QPR did beat Burnley 2-0 at home in December but, having amassed 19 points at home compared to none away, that may be best ignored. Burnley also have the superior record in recent renewals, winning three and drawing one of the last four – making the 5/4 a home win look the right play.
Both teams are safely through to the 4th round of the FA Cup, but won't be resting on their laurels here with Sunderland just three points above the drop-zone and Liverpool desperate to continue their good run of form to give them a chance of qualifying for next season's Champions League.
Sunderland haven't won at home in the Premier League since October 4th, and have lost 3 and drawn 3 of their home games since then, whilst Liverpool have lost 5 and won 4 of their away games this season.
The last five renewals are pretty even with Sunderland 2 wins, Liverpool 2 wins and 1 draw, whilst Sunderland also managed to hold Liverpool to a goalless draw at Anfield in December.
None of the stats suggest Liverpool deserve to be odds-on and, with Sunderland having drawn 11 of their 20 Premier League games this season, the 13/5 they make it 12 draws looks the value.
Manchester United have won one and drawn one of the two recent renewals of this fixture, and 4/5 looks a little short for them to beat the best Southampton side there's been for many a year. The draw is tempting at 14/5, but the best value may well be the 20/23 that both teams score. Both teams have scored in the last four games between the clubs, whilst United have failed to score just twice this season and Southampton just four-times.


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 * Acme\TaskBundle\Entity\User
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K9 German Shepherd "Boss" Retires from Service in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Boss, a K9 German shepherd with the Ardmore Police Department in Oklahoma, is retiring after four years of service. He is expected to complete his service toward the end of September 2020.
For the last 28 dog years, Boss has been working with handler Jared Johnson. Boss has helped to detect drugs, search buildings, arrest criminals, find missing minors, and more. He has accompanied Johnson to speak at multiple schools, showing his passion and excitement for people.
Johnson spoke with KXII about how much working with Boss has meant to him over the years: "It's pretty awesome. I don't think there are too many other jobs where you get to work and play with a dog all day long."
Johnson says that he went through a special selection process and a school to be matched with Boss and train him for his role with the Ardmore Police Department. Throughout his time with Boss, Johnson has continued to train weekly with his K9 to keep them both sharp and experienced in the field.
Boss has truly become a member of Johnson's family, even coming home with the officer every night. Johnson seems to believe that he and the dog were meant for each other, stating, "It wasn't ever a choice. It was happening one way or another."
Don't worry about Boss's future; he will continue to live with Johnson after his retirement. Johnson adds, "He will stay with me and we will continue to be buddies. Take all the naps he wants and kinda just hang out at the house and get to enjoy being a dog."
Johnson will continue working with the APD's K9 unit with a new Belgian Malinois, who is currently completing training and will start working with Johnson in October.
Photo Credit: Ardmore PD Facebook page.
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Event Type: Training Programs
Event Type Training Programs
Liberation through Emptiness and Awareness Practices (LEAP)
01JanAll Day28FebLiberation through Emptiness and Awareness Practices (LEAP)Applications Still Accepted for Wait List(All Day) Upper Retreat Hall Teacher(s): Sally Armstrong; Susie Harrington; Dawn Scott / Guest Faculty: Bhikkhu Analayo, Guy Armstrong, Gil Fronsdal, Brian Lesage, and Jaya Rudgard Join Wait ListOn-landPrerequisiteNo prerequisiteOpen
Extended--APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 15, 2022 Dates: May 2023 - May 2024 Sliding Scale: $12,000 - $2,500. Code: LP1T22 PROGRAM DATES: May 2023 - May 2024 All retreats are 8 nights and are
Extended–APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 15, 2022
Dates: May 2023 – May 2024
Sliding Scale: $12,000 – $2,500. Code: LP1T22
PROGRAM DATES: May 2023 – May 2024
All retreats are 8 nights and are held in-person at Spirit Rock Meditation Center:
Retreat 1: May 15-23, 2023
Retreat 2: November 2-10, 2023
Learn more LEAP retreat details here.
PROGRAM PREREQUISITES
A minimum of 50 nights of silent vipassanā, and/or mettā residential retreats. (Daylongs or non-residential retreats do not count towards the prerequisites.)
"This is peaceful, this is excellent, namely the stilling of all formations, the relinquishing of all attachments, the destruction of craving, dispassion, cessation, Nibbāna." (MN 64.9)
LEAP is intended for experienced students of the Dhamma who want to explore the liberation teachings of the Buddha through practice, study, inquiry, and interactive exercises. It is a year-long program consisting of three retreats and is intended for those who have completed programs like Spirit Rock's Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP), Community Dharma Leader Program (CDL), Heavenly Messengers (HM), or an equivalent. Alternatively, long time practitioners or people who have participated in an equivalent program offered by another Vipassana teacher or organization are also eligible to apply.
The purpose of this program is to bring to life the liberating teachings of the Buddha both on retreat and in our daily practice. The three LEAP retreats will focus more on silent, intensive practice than DPP or CDL, but each retreat will include regular interactive and study sessions.
Spirit Rock is excited to offer this program again. Our previous iterations found it to be a great support to the experienced students in our community. We hope that those of you who have done DPP or CDL or have other significant study and practice experience will join us!
PROGRAM COMPONENTS and REQUIREMENTS
Attendance at all three 8-night retreats
Attendance at monthly small regional group meetings (in-person and Zoom options)
Ongoing meetings with study/practice partners
Regular Zoom meetings with LEAP teachers
Completion of monthly homework including readings, reflections, and meditation instructions
Commit to maintaining both meditative and daily life practice
The practice of dana (generosity) to support program teachers, group leaders and mentoring teachers
Meeting all financial obligations outlined in this application relating to program fees
APPLICATION TIMELINE and PROCESS
April 12 – November 15, 2022 – Period applications are being accepted.
November 15, 2022 – Deadline to submit application. All applications sent after this date will be considered for the waitlist.
November 15, 2022 – Notification status will be sent no later than this date via email.
Within 3 days of Receiving Acceptance Notification – Commitment and payment deadline; 25% deposit required at time of acceptance; $100 non-refundable, flat fee for all applicants, if cancel on or before to January 1, 2023.
Applications will be formally accepted on a rolling basis throughout the application period until the program fills, or until August 12, 2022, whichever comes first. Applications received AFTER the program is full or after August 12 (again, whichever comes first) will automatically be considered for the waitlist. You are encouraged to apply early.
Participation in LEAP requires a financial commitment. Payment plans are available for all levels of the sliding scale. Scholarship support is available to help with payment of fees but it will be limited.*
Upon acceptance to the program, you will be asked to pay a minimum 25% deposit or pay in full. The remainder of any unpaid balance may be divided into 12 monthly installments** that will start Jan. 1, 2023. Installments can only be set up on credit cards. We no longer set up installments on checking accounts. All program fees are to be paid in full by Jan. 1, 2024.
*All scholarship funds have been awarded for this program.
**If you join the program after Jan. 1, 2023 you may be required to pay in fewer monthly installments.
Please consider the amount you would be able to afford in order to participate in LEAP. We ask you to select the highest possible level of program fees that meet your needs, as your generosity allows for those with lesser means to attend.
Sliding Scale:
$15,000 – Supporter with guaranteed single room
$12,000 – Benefactor
$9,000 – Sustainer
$6,000 – Base Rate
Scholarship Rates:
Scholarship Rate 1 – $5,500
Tuition includes:
Accommodations and meals at all three residential retreats
All handouts and program materials
Access to social media and online community building groups
Tuition does NOT include:
Financial offering (dana) for Teachers
Transportation costs to/from your home to Spirit Rock.
Mentor teacher support (dana) for individual meetings with your mentor teacher in your area
Participating in the LEAP program will require your commitment of both time and financial resources. Because this program is a progressive sequence of three retreats and other activities over a two-year period, you are committing to attend all three retreats and paying for the entire program. If you need to withdraw from the program, the following fee* structure will apply:
$100 non-refundable, flat fee for all applicants on or before Jan 1, 2023
10% fee = Jan 2 – Mar 15, 2023
20% fee = Mar 16 – May 13, 2023
40% fee = May 14 – Oct. 31, 2023
85% fee = Nov. 1, 2023 – May 13, 2024
No refunds = On or after May 14, 2024
*Fee deducted from refund; fee is a percentage of the total amount agreed to pay. These fees apply to all participants.
QUESTIONS? Please email us.
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Susie Harrington
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A Year to Live 2023 Online
01JanAll Day31DecA Year to Live 2023Program Dates: January - December 2023(All Day) Online Teacher(s): Vinny Ferraro; Frank Ostaseski; Pam Dunn Join Wait ListOnlineNo prerequisiteOpen
Dates: January - December, 2023. Monthly large group sessions - Saturdays: January 21 (required!), February 25, March 18, April 22, May 20, June 17, July 15, August 19, September 23, October
Dates: January – December, 2023.
Monthly large group sessions – Saturdays: January 21 (required!), February 25, March 18, April 22, May 20, June 17, July 15, August 19, September 23, October 21, November 18, December 16, + "Graduation" on January 20, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. US Pacific Time
Sliding Scale: $750-$1500. Scholarship sliding scale is available below. Code YL4T23.
Teaching Team: Vinny Ferraro (Lead), Pam Dunn, and Frank Ostaseski
This year-long program, based on the book A Year to Live by Stephen Levine, is designed for people of all ages, regardless of life stage. In community, we will focus on waking up and living life more fully through the exploration of death as spiritual practice.
In our largely death-denying modern culture, few are encouraged to actively contemplate the inevitability of our death, or that it could happen at any time. The Buddha recommended that we do just that, not to frighten us, but to use death as an object of contemplation to help us awaken to the fragile, fleeting, and precious nature of our lives.
Ultimately, this is a year-long practice in forgiveness, gratitude, and letting go. Through guided meditations, inquiry, and small group discussions, we will be guided, with the support of community, through a process of living this year as if it were our last. All are warmly welcome!
Teachings: Monthly (12) large group sessions (recorded)
Community support: Monthly (12), self-organized home group sessions with home group sangha (required, each group will determine a time that works for everyone during the January session)
Q&A sessions (monthly, optional, recorded)
Home practice: Guided meditations, readings, reflections (estimated 5-7 hours/month + monthly home groups + daily meditation)
Access: Video and audio recordings
Session 1: The Prognosis
Session 2: Fear of Death and Dying
Session 3: Softening to Fear
Session 4: Practicing Dying
Session 5: Life Review—Making Peace
Session 6: Building an Altar—Service
Session 7: Who or What Dies?
Session 8: What Comes Next?
Session 9: What to Do With This Body?
Session 10: A Will, a Memorial, and an Epitaph
Session 11: We are Not Alone
Session 12: Saying Good-bye
IMPORTANT! If you are unable to make this Participation Commitment at this time, please wait and join us for a future iteration. Please review the Dharma Trainings website for A Year to Live for more details.
Scholarships are limited and are reserved for those truly experiencing financial hardship. Scholarship sliding scale: $50-$500. Financial assistance for training programs is generally offered once per year, per person. We generally offer financial assistance for training programs once per year, per person.
CANCELLATION POLICY*
• $100 cancellation fee – On or before January 18, by 5:00pm US Pacific Time
• No refunds: Open credit or tax deductible donation – January 19 until February 27 (after the second class)
• No refunds or open credits – February 28 and beyond
*Fees reduced for scholarship participants
Frank Ostaseski
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Who Is Rumored To Perform At Takeoff's Funeral?
Alexis OatmanContributorTwitter
It's been over a week since Takeoff's — one-third of Migos — tragic passing. As fans and his friends and family prepare to celebrate the rapper's life, many wonder who will perform at his upcoming funeral service.
Takeoff's, whose real name was Kirsnick Khari Ball, memorial service will take place on Friday, November 11, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The stars rumored to perform include R&B legend Alicia Keys and pop star Justin Bieber, TMZ reports.
So far, organizers of the event have not confirmed any details, according to the LA Times.
The intimate affair is also expected to include appearances from other Grammy Award-winning artists, namely Drake. The Canadian rapper would push back his upcoming Apollo Theater performance to pay respects to his dear friend. His performances will now take place from December 6 to 7.
"The Apollo show has been moved to allow us to pay respect to our dear friend this weekend," he wrote in a recent Instagram Story. "We have added a second date for the fans."
To date, a suspect has yet to be identified in the shooting that killed Takeoff and injured two others.
While the funeral service will not be livestreamed, fans who could not secure tickets the past week were "strongly encouraged not to come to downtown" to pay tribute to Takeoff, the Times reported.
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Carolyn Malachi is an artist's artist. Her work is the kind that deeply studied technicians instantly recognize and appreciate as one of their own. And, while her work has largely straddled the fence between the avant-garde and the commercially accessible, with Rise: Story 1, she almost completely hops over to the side of experimentation and technician play. The results are a mix of flawlessly sung, rapped, and played material that feel disjointed in their arrangements and non-linear storytelling, creating an album more impressionistic than accessibly concrete, depending on how much creative play one can tolerate or embrace from their music.
The DC-based artist has plenty of company in this lane of music creation as collage art in an approach to sound, lyric, and music where what most matters is what resonates and reverberates. Artists as disparate as Nick Hakim, Nicholas Ryan Gant, Diggs Duke, and Muhsinah liberally play in this space where avant-garde jazz, pop, and experimental soul meet. Vets like Dianne Reeves, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Navasha Daya have gone back and forth throughout their career coming close to the edge of this no-man's land without fully leaping in, but even their closeness to these edges usually is rooted in a world, folk, and African-centered perspective. Whereas the newer talents to this creative world further blur lines between genres and the organic and the electronic, mixing it all in for a unique brew. For some the effect is just beautifully sung noise that they can't follow or dig into. As for those that eschew traditional genres, song structures, and the predictability of those expected compositions, these artists are like manna from heaven and Carolyn Malachi is among their leaders.
Where Carolyn Malachi's latest album falls for you will depend on your level of adventurousness. Some of it is lively fun that allows easy access, like the bouncy "We Like Money (featuring Michelle Blackwell)" or the hip hop of the more straight ahead "Dwee Doh." Some of it is sultry and seductive in a way that reminds fans of Malachi's far more complete, Gold, like "Prologue: Sky (feat. Got My Own Sound)" and the Jill Scott flavored "Hunny Blues." The flirtations Malachi's horns and backgrounds have with her clarion lead on "Hunny Blues" offer some of the more beckoning work of Rise: Story 1, as are its three movements in and out of other genres. Some of the project is straight forward, like the folksy, anti-domestic violence blues of "If You Ever Lay A Hand On Me" which echoes Sophia's signature tune, "Hell, No," from the Broadway musical, The Color Purple. Then there's the drum 'n' bass moment of "Introduction: I Wish" with its constant refrain: "Rich, I wanna be rich" which builds and reaches until it explodes in a high note of longing. As you can see, there's no rhyme or reason to the leaps, though one suspects there is a single cohesive story there to unify it's differing color palettes, just the play of a fearless musician exploring music and sound with varying outcomes.
None of Rise: Story 1 is expected or predictable. And, if you want to ride this ride, you have to be this tall and faithful enough to just trust Malachi's driving over many musical terrains. It's not always a smooth ride, but it's never less than engaging. That said; some engagements can ask too much of some guests. Whether you accept their mysterious invitations is a matter of taste, tolerance, and appreciation of those technical artist's artists of the world. Recommended.


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A recipe for a Blood Orange Pineapple Rum Cocktail. This beverage is made with white rum, pineapple juice, and fresh blood orange and lime juices.
Stir together all ingredients and pour into two glasses filled with ice.


The Individualized Education Program, also called the IEP, is a document that is developed for each public school child who is eligible for special education. Created through a team effort, the IEP is reviewed periodically. An IEP is an important legal document that spells out a student's learning needs, the services the school will provide and how progress will be measured. Several people, including parents, are involved in creating the document.


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Kosovo – the economic dilemma
by Katinka Barysch
Now that Kosovo's independence party is over, the hard work begins. Despite the efforts of the UN and the EU, the institutions of government remain fragile, corruption is rife, and organised crime is a problem. Although growth has picked up, the economy remains in a woeful state. Kosovars like to blame poverty and joblessness on politics. Many hope that, now that the status question has finally been settled, money will start flowing in, creating growth and jobs.
This may be true as far as official assistance is concerned: as an independent country, Kosovo hopes to be able to borrow from the IMF, the World Bank and other financial institutions. More aid will also be forthcoming, since the international community cannot afford to see Kosovo fail. The European Commission and the World Bank are planning to convene a donors conference over the next couple of months. The Commission expects the Europeans to drum up €2 billion, and the Americans say they will contribute $400 million.
However, the Europeans are also aware of the risk of turning Kosovo into an aid-dependent protectorate. Since 1999, the EU and its member-states have already given €2.6 billion to Kosovo. A lot of that went into rebuilding houses and roads after the 1998-99 conflict. But it has failed to build a viable economy. Even today, perhaps 20 per cent of Kosovo's GDP directly depend on foreign aid.
Kosovo's economic problems are not only the result of the sanctions of the 1990s and the 1998-99 conflict: when it was still part of Yugoslavia, Kosovo already relied on big transfers from Belgrade, and unemployment was much higher than in other parts of the federation. But in the 1990s the economy basically collapsed. And despite signs of recovery in recent years, the challenges remain huge.
Official unemployment stands at around 40 per cent. And even if black market activities and subsistence agriculture are taken into account, there are more Kosovars on the dole than in a job. Unemployment is particularly high among those under 25, who make up half of Kosovo's 2 million people. Around half a million Kosovars have left to work in the EU, many of them illegally.
Of those who stayed at home, more than a third live below the poverty line, and social services only reach a tiny share of them. There are no industries to speak off, and little to export apart from scrap metal. The current-account deficit amounts to 50 per cent of GDP (although that is inflated by the big international presence). Although the EU claims that it has invested €400 million into the power sector alone, regular electricity blackouts remain the biggest problem for local businesses.
The news is not all bad: GDP growth has picked up despite a gradual reduction in international aid; household incomes have been rising; tax revenue has started to recover, and privatisation has provided the budget with an independent source of cash; and almost all children now go to school, at least some of the time.
Some foreign companies have started to look at the mining and power sectors: Kosovo sits on Europe's second largest deposits of brown coal, and it also has sizeable resources of lead, zinc and nickel. Building up these sectors for exports would reduce the external deficit and bring in foreign exchange. But since energy and mining are capital rather than labour intensive industries, they will not create many jobs. The resolution of status alone will not be enough to attract foreign investment into other manufacturing sectors and services. Kosovo will need a more open and transparent business environment, an efficient state administration and skilled workers. Despite the EU's help and promise of eventual accession, such reforms will take years.
The World Bank says that even with 6 per cent annual growth (twice what Kosovo manages at the moment), it would take ten years to cut unemployment by half, from 40 to 20 per cent. Persistent unemployment, in particular among the young, will fuel frustration, which would be bad for political peace.
There are two things that the EU could do to help Kosovo's economy now, apart from giving money and advice. Both will be controversial. First, it should help the farm sector, which is where most Kosovars work. It is hugely inefficient but has potential for quick improvements. With EU farm aid and better market access, Kosovo could start selling fruit, vegetables and meat abroad. Second, the EU should keep its labour markets open: one in five Kosovo households relies on remittances from abroad, and they probably contribute more to Kosovo's economy than all foreign aid put together.
Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform.
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The EU in Kosovo: Learning to let go
By Tomas Valasek
Here's a secret about Kosovo's independence – it is not real; not yet anyway. Without outside help, Kosovo would not function today. But at the same time, the new EU mission will have to justify its presence in the eyes of the Kosovo people. It must make every effort to transfer responsibility for running the new country to the Kosovars.
At its birth on February 17th, the country lacked most ministries, or, for that matter, a sustainable economy (the official unemployment rate is around 40 per cent). A veritable who's who of international organisations takes care of everything from sanitation to security. Some 17,000 NATO peacekeepers make sure that violence does not erupt between the Albanian majority and the 130,000 Serbs still living in Kosovo. UNMIK (the United Nation's interim administration mission in Kosovo) took charge of most government business after the 1999 mission. As part of UNMIK, a group of officials and experts from various EU countries has run much of Kosovo's economic policy, from devising privatisation to collecting customs revenues. About 20 per cent of Kosovo's GDP directly depend on foreign aid. UNMIK has also negotiated regional and bilateral agreements for Kosovo, for example on trade, energy and transport. In addition, an army of volunteers working for 300-odd different NGOs look after Kosovo's 2 million inhabitants.
So for the foreseeable future, Kosovo will need heavy international assistance, both financial and in the form of experts on the ground. But here's the rub: staying too long may be equally, if not more, counterproductive than leaving early. And this holds especially true for the new EU mission: the 2,000 EU judges, administrators, and police, who will soon replace the UN in Kosovo. The EU gave them an ambitious mandate: they are to not only advise the new Kosovo authorities but also to 'independently [if necessary]… ensure the rule of law". They'll even have the authority to reverse or annul decisions by Kosovo authorities. Kosovo may not quite be a protectorate like the one the EU runs in Bosnia. But no independent country outside the EU gives Brussels the right to annul its domestic legislation.
The EU's extensive powers in Kosovo will be tolerated by the country's government. Because its legal case for separation from Serbia will always be disputed, the government's best chance for respect and recognition is to make a success of its independence. That means using EU money intelligently to build up the economy, guaranteeing the human rights of the Serbian and other minorities, instilling the rule of law and clamping down on organised crime and corruption. Pristina will need the EU's assistance to accomplish all this, so it will strive to be on good terms with Brussels.
The people of Kosovo – that's another story. They strove to be independent, not to end up in a situation where the EU administrators have the last say. If the EU mission is too heavy-handed, it will cause resentment among ordinary Kosovars. Already, anti-EU graffiti has appeared in the streets in Pristina. To makes matters even more delicate, the UN, from which the EU takes over, has a terrible reputation in Kosovo. In eight years of running this tiny country, the size of a small Baltic republic, it has not managed to guarantee basic services like around-the-clock electricity, despite multi-million dollar investments into the power sector. Kai Eide, formerly a high-ranking UN official, suggested in 2005 that the UN mission itself had become an obstacle to building Kosovo's economy and governance, and he advised the UN to leave.
So the EU is marching into a quandary. Kosovo needs its help and assistance – and the EU needs Kosovo to succeed. But by trying too hard, the EU could make a bad situation worse. The only thing worse than a Kosovo poor and badly governed is a Kosovo poor, badly governed, and hostile to the EU. For the EU to make its Kosovo mission a success, it needs to treat Kosovo with caution and respect. It needs be firm with Pristina if the government fails to respect minority rights and root out crime and corruption. But otherwise, it should try to reduce interference and concentrate on building up local administrative capacity. At every step, the EU needs to make clear to the Kosovars that it is there to help with the transition, not to permanently set the agenda.
Lastly, the EU needs to demonstrate its usefulness to the Kosovars, to show that its presence there makes a material difference to their lives. The EU should not assume that Kosovo's dependence on foreign aid and expertise in itself justifies its mission in the eyes of the local population. A couple of tangible successes would help. None would probably be more important than finally fixing the electricity grid, thus giving Kosovo's economy a much needed boost.
Tomas Valasek is director of foreign policy and defence at Centre for European Reform
Time for the Export-Weltmeister to start consuming
by Simon Tilford
Too many Europeans are blaming the US for the economic slowdown in Europe, as if everything would have been fine if only the Americans were not so irresponsible. This is complacent. The European economy would have faced a tricky rebalancing irrespective of the credit crisis. It is not sustainable for one group of EU economies to provide a disproportionate share of EU domestic demand while others run ever bigger current account surpluses.
Europeans are right to highlight the fact that the EU economy is a comparable size to the US one. However, European policy-makers and central bankers are on somewhat shakier ground when they queue up to claim that the EU economy is fundamentally more balanced that its US counterpart. Europeans should ask themselves the following question: would a US economy growing at the same pace as the EU economy did in 2007 be as easily rattled by a financial crisis in Europe and fall in the value of the euro as the European economy has been by the credit crisis in the US and the fall in the dollar? The answer is clearly no.
The European economy as a whole has become more flexible in recent years. Labour markets are now more efficient, employment rates (those employed as a percentage of the working age population) are up and many product markets are now much more competitive. These developments have helped accelerate the diffusion of new technologies. However, a look at the structure of EU economic growth demonstrates why the current recovery is so fragile, and why Europeans are wrong to focus so strongly on external shocks for explanations.
The UK and Spain, but also France and the new member-states have accounted for a very large share of the growth in EU domestic demand this decade. Consumption in these economies has grown more rapidly than output. The result has been a steady increase in their current account deficits. Spain's hit an estimated 9 per cent of GDP in 2007, the UK's 4 per cent, whereas deficits in Italy and France were around 2.5 per cent 1.5 per cent respectively. External deficits across the new member-states are big, in some cases startlingly so.
Over this period, another group of member-states led by Germany, but also including the Netherlands and Sweden, have seen their output expand much more rapidly than domestic consumption, with the result that their surpluses have ballooned. Germany's and Sweden's stood at 6 per cent of GDP in 2007, and that of the Netherlands was 7 per cent. Much of the rise in their combined surplus since 2000 has been with other members of the EU. In effect, these economies have been a huge drag on the European economy, and have not been, as they are sometimes erroneously portrayed, drivers of economic growth.
Economies cannot rely indefinitely on exports for economic stimulus, as other economies cannot run huge deficits indefinitely. A number of the countries that have generated strong growth in domestic demand must now rebalance their economies. The construction boom in Spain that has done so much to drive investment and private consumption in that country has ended and will depress Spanish consumption, perhaps for many years. For its part, the build-up of debt that contributed considerably to the strong performance of the UK economy in recent years has now run its course. France and Italy are in no position to take up the slack, not least because of their weak fiscal positions but also because they need to hold down wage settlements in order to prevent any further loss of competitiveness to the Germans. Neither are the new member-states, whose imbalances are starting to attract the attentions of the financial markets.
The countries that have relied on exports to the rest of the EU for a big chunk of their overall growth are going to have to rebalance and contribute to EU growth rather than being a drag on it. The prospects are not good. For example, for years German economists and politicians have been saying that Germany needed to regain competitiveness by ruthlessly holding down costs. This, they argued, would boost exports and feed through into investment and jobs. There has been a pick-up in investment and expansion of employment, but both remain vulnerable to a downturn in external demand because there has been no recovery in consumption. German private consumption actually fell in 2007 and domestic demand grew at half the pace of GDP. German real wages are likely to rise this year for the first time since 2003, but consumer confidence remains exceptionally low.
The EU needs to recognise that one of its core economic challenges is the excessive dependence of Germany and a number of other economies on exports to drive growth. The growth strategies of these countries should not be held up as examples for others to emulate. A huge current account surplus does not necessarily indicate an economy is 'competitive'. It can also point to the weakness of domestic demand.
Simon Tilford is chief economist at the Centre for European Reform.
The Slovak roadblock for the Lisbon treaty
Fear the unknown unknowns, the former US defence minister Donald Rumsfeld once said (before falling victim to his own adage). There is a lesson in his words for the framers of the Lisbon treaty. The document unexpectedly encountered trouble in Slovakia. Twice this week, the country's parliament came close to voting it down. A third scheduled vote on Thursday 7th February was postponed indefinitely.
Until the end of January, little in Slovak politics hinted at the coming storm. The Lisbon treaty enjoys robust support in the parliament, with only one smallish party, the Christian Democrats, saying they would vote against it. In fact, Slovakia is one of the 18 countries that had ratified the previous, more controversial, constitutional treaty.
Then, however, the Lisbon treaty got caught up in an unrelated political controversy, something that has happened to other EU treaties in the past. In this case, the government submitted the Lisbon treaty alongside a disputed media law. The opposition has insisted that it would reject both pieces of legislation unless the media law was changed.
The law in question is indeed problematic. Its wording is so convoluted that it could easily be abused to restrict the freedom of speech. The European Federation of Journalists has criticised the legislation, and the OSCE has urged the Slovak foreign minister, Jan Kubis, to convince his government to change it.
But that still does not explain why the Lisbon treaty had to be taken hostage. What underlies the Lisbon treaty controversy in Slovakia is a complete breakdown in communication between the opposition and the government. The three-party coalition headed by Prime Minister Robert Fico has a comfortable majority, which it has used over the past year to roll back many of the previous government's reforms. Fico's coalition barely disguises its contempt for the opposition, and there is precious little debate, much less co-operation, on any new legislation.
The leaders of the opposition a coalition of three conservative parties know that they'd be powerless to stop the media law if it was put to a straight up-or-down vote. Worse, they fear that the media law will be used to further weaken them by muzzling sympathetic journalists. So they have decided to stop it the only way left open by linking it to the Lisbon treaty. Under Slovak law, the ratification of EU treaties requires a constitutional majority and hence the opposition's co-operation. The treaty is the only piece of legislation which gives the opposition leverage over the government so it has seized this opportunity to stop the media law.
Over the past two weeks, Slovakia's political leaders repeated the same routine several times: the government and the opposition talk, they fail to make any progress, the government puts the treaty to a vote, the opposition walks out, the government withdraws the treaty, it talks to the opposition again, and on it goes. The longer the confrontation drags on, the more nervous observers in Brussels and EU capitals become. Over the weekend, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso called the opposition leader, former Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, to voice his concerns.
The most likely outcome of this drama is rather anti-climatic: the government will probably put off the vote on the Lisbon treaty until later in the spring. There is no special reason to hurry: the UK parliament is not expected to vote on the treaty until the summer at the earliest. By then, it is hoped, relations between the opposition and the government in Slovakia will have improved sufficiently to allow for the treaty's passage. The opposition, after all, likes the treaty; they negotiated its predecessor, the constitutional treaty.
But the broader message to European capitals and to Brussels is clear: the fact that the Lisbon treaty will be approved by parliamentary votes rather than referenda (with the exception of Ireland) does not make the document immune to domestic politics. Parliaments everywhere can and will play political football with it. Such controversies will not be about the content of the treaty itself (much as its opponents would like to believe). But it does mean that Barroso and other supporters of the treaty could be facing many a sleepless night over the coming months.
Tomas Valasek is director of foreign policy and defence at the Centre for European Reform.
The Egypt-Gaza border breach: a wake up call?
Events on the ground in Israel and Gaza have taken a new turn for the worse. But the latest crisis could lead to a more constructive approach in solving the Middle East stand-off. On January 23rd, after Israel further strengthened its siege on Gaza by closing its borders completely, Hamas blew up sections of the border with Egypt. During the following two weeks hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed back and forth into Egypt uncontrolled. Most Gazans bought badly needed food and other supplies. But Palestinian militant groups also took advantage of the chaos to stock up on weapons and some tried to infiltrate Israel through the Egyptian border.
The cost for Israel has been high. This morning (February 4th) two suicide bombers killed one and injured over ten in the southern Israeli city of Dimona. The bombing was the first suicide attack in Israel in a year and the attackers (reported as Fatah-allied militants) are suspected to have taken advantage of the border breach to reach Israel.
Potentially, the Gaza-Egypt border crisis could actually be salutory for Palestinian politics and the wider conflict. International players, including the EU, the US and Egypt, are now supporting a plan from the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank, to re-open not only the Egypt-Gaza border, but all of Gaza's borders. Most outsiders, including the EU and the US, disapprove of Israel's border closures. They believe the humanitarian cost is too high. So in efforts to lift the siege outsiders are backing President Abbas's team in the PA who have suggested that PA forces should take charge of all of Gaza's crossing points (Israel refuses to deal with Hamas border guards). In support of the PA initiative the EU has even offered to reinstate its own border monitors on the Egypt-Gaza border crossing (the EU withdrew its monitors when Hamas took charge in Gaza).
The internationally backed PA plan not only has the potential to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, it could also be a useful first step to a wider reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah. For PA border guards (and EU monitors) to function at Gaza's crossings, some form of agreement will be necessary between Abbas's Fatah movement and Hamas, whose forces are in control on the ground in Gaza. Since June leaders from Hamas and Fatah have not spoken to each other. But Hamas has been keen to talk in principle and lower-level intermediaries in both parties have been reaching out in attempts to end the current crisis. The border breach could be the catalyst for co-operation.
The border breach confirmed that Hamas cannot be eclipsed or ignored. Despite being shunned for two years by the international community, Hamas is still standing, and it is undermining Israeli sanctions. Only with its cooperation can Gaza's border crossings be opened, and ultimately, it will also have to play a role in any meaningful peace agreement.
The EU and the US are presumably aware that sending PA border guards to Gaza will require some form of cooperation with Hamas. So by supporting the initiative, the EU and the US are, in effect, making a first step towards ending their own policy of isolating Hamas. Egypt has already crossed the rubicon. Having realised the need to involve Hamas in solving the Egypt-Gaza border crisis, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak invited Fatah and Hamas leaders to Cairo last week to encourage a reconciliation between the two groups.
An agreement on opening Gaza's borders is far from a done deal. Despite Egyptian efforts, both Hamas leaders and Abbas (in particular) have so far been unwilling to be conciliatory. And even if a Fatah-Hamas deal is reached, Israel will still need to be convinced to re-open its side of Gaza's borders.
Israel will certainly protest. But the government will be in a difficult position and might see the potential advantages to such a deal. The suicide bombing has showed Israel the costly unintended consequences of strict sanctions. Israel might want to re-consider its boycott policy. In addition, if Israel refuses to accept a PA-Hamas deal, the government will face the uncomfortable prospect of seeing Egypt and Hamas reaching an agreement on the Egypt-Gaza border alone or Hamas continuing to breach the Egypt-Gaza border violently. Either way, Israel's boycott and security will be undermined.
There is a sense of urgency. The attack on a wall speaks volumes about the misery and passions bottled up in Gaza. The human suffering is increasing radicalisation among its residents, and reducing support for President Abbas amongst the Palestinians in general. While Hamas is isolated and no border agreement is reached, Israel is vulnerable to further border breaches and penetrations by Palestinian militants through Egypt. Today's suicide bombing will make it harder for conciliatory forces to gain the upper had, but outsiders, including the EU, should take advantage of every opportunity to encourage a change in the current course of events.


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Q: find shortest path in a maze | asked in google interview question:  Write a function answer(map) that generates the length of the shortest path from the prison door to the escape pod, where you are allowed to remove one wall as part of your remodeling plans.
The path length is the total number of nodes you pass through, counting both the entrance and exit nodes. The starting and ending positions are always passable (0).
The map will always be solvable, though you may or may not need to remove a wall. The height and width of the map can be from 2 to 20. Moves can only be made in cardinal directions; no diagonal moves are allowed.
Inputs:
(int) maze = [[0, 1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1], [1, 1, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 0]]

Output:
(int) 7

Inputs:
(int) maze = [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

Output:
(int) 11

I wrote a program, and its working on local, but somehow it's not working when I submit and verify it to online,
it only passes the first test out of 5
I know first two tests input, I tested em individually and it's working on local
import sys
counter = 1
lol = []
def lolit(k):
    global lol
    lol.append(k)

def isSafe(mat, visited, i, j):
    try:
        if(mat[i][j] == 1 or visited[i][j]):
            return False
        else:
            return True
    except:
        return False

def isValid(i,j,M):
    if (i < M and j < M and i >= 0 and j >= 0):
        return True
    else:
        return False

def findShortestPath(mat,visited,i,j,k):
    global counter
    M = len(visited)
    if(i == M-1 and j == M-1):

        lolit(k)
        counter = k

    else:
        visited[i][j] = 1

        '''go to bottom'''
        if(isValid(i + 1, j,M) and isSafe(mat, visited, i + 1, j)):

            findShortestPath(mat, visited, i + 1, j,k+1)

        if (isValid(i, j + 1,M) and isSafe(mat, visited, i, j + 1)):

            findShortestPath(mat, visited, i, j + 1,k+1)

        if (isValid(i - 1, j,M) and isSafe(mat, visited, i - 1, j)):

            findShortestPath(mat, visited, i - 1, j,k+1)

        if (isValid(i, j - 1,M) and isSafe(mat, visited, i, j - 1)):

            findShortestPath(mat, visited, i, j - 1,k+1)

    return counter

def answer(mat):
    global lol
    L = len(mat)
    visited = [[0 for x in range(L)] for y in range(L)]

    nr = []
    findShortestPath(mat,visited,0,0,1)

    for indexi,nakul in enumerate(mat):
        for indexj,rathore in enumerate(nakul):
            if(rathore == 1):
                nr.append([indexi,indexj])
    for indexm,nrm in enumerate(nr):
        mat[nrm[0]][nrm[1]] = 0
        visited = [[0 for x in range(L)] for y in range(L)]
        findShortestPath(mat,visited,0,0,1)
        mat[nrm[0]][nrm[1]] = 1
    ping = min(lol)
    lol =[]
    return ping

print answer([[0, 1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1], [1, 1, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 0]])

print answer([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]])

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Mallorca is a perfect setting for cycling. The geography of the island allows you to configure spectacular routes. Flat areas, mountain areas, a large number of rural towns, sanctuaries and viewpoints on small hills, 10 mountains above 1,000m and all with the Mediterranean sea in the background.
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Itinerary; Alcudia, La Puebla, Llubí, Sineu, Lloret de Vista Alegre, Sanctuary of Cura, Algaida, Costitx, La Puebla, Alcudia.
Description; It is a route through the center of the island with departure and arrival from Alcudia. The climb to the Sanctuary of Cura is halfway and consists of 5,6km with a drop of 310m.
Itinerary; Secar de la Real (Palma), Puigpuñent, Galilea, Es Capdellà, Calviá, Coll de Sa Creu, Secar de la Real (Palma).
Description; It is a short route with departure and arrival from Palma. Ride through the Sierra de Tramuntana with constant ups and downs. The two main climbs are Galilea and Coll de Sa Creu.
Itinerary; Llucmajor, Porreres, Felanitx, Petra, San Juan, Montuiri, Santurari de Cura, Llucmajor.
Description; Flat route with departure and arrival from Llucmajor. The climb to the Sanctuary of Cura is half way, climb 5,6km with a drop of 310m.
Itinerary; Inca, Mancor, Caimari, Lluch, Puig Major, Soller, Coll de Soller, Santa Maria del Camí, Consell, Binissalem, Inca.
Description; mountain route that goes through the Sierra de Tramuntana with two very important climbs. The first to Puig Major, the highest mountain on the island, 32,5 km ascent and later the Coll de Soller. It is one of the best cycling routes in Mallorca.
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Description; Short route that goes through the south of the island with the ascent to the Sanctuary of Sant Salvador with 5,5km of ascent and a height of 409m. From the Sanctuary you get beautiful views of the south coast of Mallorca.
Description; route that goes through the Sierra de Tramuntana, passes through several mountain locations and has two main climbs, Orient and Puigpunyent.
Description; With departure and arrival from the Puerto de Pollensa this route goes through the Sierra de Tramuntana. The beautiful rise of La Calobra consists on 12,7km, a drop of 765m and slopes of 7%.
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Part of the excitement of growing a company is facing new challenges and situations, and New England provider Fusion Connex definitely yielded a unique challenge for NeoNova's support team. By combining Fusion Connex's style of support with NeoNova's adaptability, both teams were able to grow and Fusion Connex could provide an even better experience for its customers.
NeoNova provides Fusion Connex with customized services to meet their growing needs. These services include 24x7x365 support, a dedicated customer advocate, worry-free migration to their new platform, and more.
In a strategic acquisition by NeoNova in 2016, a number of rural providers were migrated to NeoNova's hosted platforms and 24×7 help desk support. One of these was Fusion Connex, a company that specializes in designing, installing, and supporting wi-fi networks for the hospitality industry. This business model would prove to be a new and interesting test for the NeoNova help desk. The team typically focuses on rural customers in their homes, whereas Fusion Connex's needs would have the team working with guests at local hotels. As someone different could be staying in the same room each night, these non-permanent subscribers represented a much wider variety of backgrounds and devices than the typical rural telco subscriber base. It was truly a test for the adaptability of the NeoNova help desk.
NeoNova adjusted its support materials and began training the help desk staff to accommodate the new support model. Initially, Fusion Connex came to NeoNova for after-hours only support, similar to what was provided by their previous support provider. However, Fusion Connex soon saw the benefits of turning over support full-time to NeoNova. "When our internal technical support resources were required elsewhere, we felt, without hesitation, that NeoNova would be able to extend support coverage from after hours and weekends to 24/7. They had already proven to us that their technical support team takes the necessary measures to proactively resolve our customers' issues as quickly as possible," said Kathy Pruitt, Business Development Manager at Fusion Connex.
Since 2003, Fusion Connex has delivered Wi-Fi/wireless networks, video surveillance systems and remote and on-site IT services to businesses and organizations throughout New England.
With enterprise level service at an affordable price, Fusion Connex provides you with the information technology resources you need to help optimize and secure your operation. We work with you to deliver maximum availability, performance, and reliability of the IT infrastructure you depend on.
They are centrally located in southern New Hampshire, servicing most metropolitan areas in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont.


A new national poll released its findings showing that the majority of Americans think abortion is wrong, according to 2018 State of Theology survey ran by Ligonier Ministries.
The study was was conducted for Ligonier Ministries by LifeWay Research and surveyed a demographically balanced online panel of 3,000 American adults.
Of Americans polled, millennials are the most likely to say abortion is a sin. Thirty-seven percent of adults ages eighteen to thirty-four concur, up from thirty-three percent in 2016.
Overall, the findings revealed that fifty-two percent of Americans agree abortion is a sin. This number is up 3% from the 2016 survey conducted, which found that forty-nine percent of American agree that abortion is a sin.
[Editor's Note]: Ligonier Ministries' 2018 State of Theology survey was conducted by LifeWay Research, which interviewed a representative sample of 3,000 Americans. The full survey results are available online at TheStateOfTheology.com.


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Catalan leader ignores Madrid on independence question
Puigdemont replied to Madrid's question via a letter that did not address the main issue (Photo: Premsa SantCugat)
By Peter Teffer
Brussels, 16. Oct 2017, 09:14
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has not answered the Spanish government's question on whether he declared independence last week.
In a letter sent to Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday (16 October), Puigdemont called for dialogue, but did not shed light on a confusing declaration last Tuesday (10 October).
Tensions between the Catalan and Spanish governments have been high since a 1 October independence referendum, declared illegal by the Spanish constitutional court (Photo: Matthias Oesterle/ZUMA Wire/dpa)
Puigdemont had said the north-western Spanish region "has won the right to be independent" at the 1 October referendum, but immediately suspended the independence declaration.
The vote had been declared illegal by Spain's constitutional court, but Catalonia went ahead with it anyway.
While less than half of the Catalan voters showed up, those who did supported independence en masse.
Following Puigdemont's speech, Rajoy said the Catalan regional government should clarify if independence has been declared.
If it confirmed it had, that would be reason for Madrid to suspend regional rule and take over control over the region.
Puigdemont had until Monday 10AM to reply.
He did so in a letter that was published by Spanish press around 8.30AM. However, the letter did not answer Rajoy's main question.
It did include several calls for dialogue.
"Our offer for a dialogue is sincere and honest," Puigdemont wrote.
By not clearly answering the question, Puigdemont is continuing to not choose between the two options.
While Madrid is tugging Puigdemont one way, some of his allies want him to move the other way.
Pro-independence party CUP on Sunday said in a letter to Puigdemont that the time had come to unilaterally declare independence.
Relations between Catalonia and the central state have turned sour over the referendum, which saw police brutality that left hundreds of people injured.
Meanwhile, the EU is continuing to shun a role as mediator, something which Puigdemont has asked for.
But on Friday, EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said that as long as it is only one side – i.e. Puigdemont – asking for mediation, accepting such an offer "will lead to serious disruptions in the EU".
"I am very concerned because the life in communities seems to be so difficult," Juncker said according to the Guardian.
"But if you allow – and it is not up to us of course – but if Catalonia is to become independent, other people will do the same. I don't like that. I don't like to have a euro in 15 years that will be 100 different states. It is difficult enough with 17 states. With many more states it will be impossible," he added.
Beyond Brussels
Spanish PM opens small window for talks
Catalonia crisis tears at fabric of EU
Catalan leader postpones independence
Catalonia has legal grounds and legitimacy to be its own state
Spanish and Catalan leaders continue stand-off
Spain points at elections as exit to Catalan crisis
11. Oct 2017, 18:58
Rajoy opened up to a possible reform of Spain's regional system, while threatening to suspend Catalonia's autonomy if the region's leaders confirm Wednesday's declaration of independence.
Developments in the Spanish region are a radical, direct and immediate threat against everything the EU stands for.
Carles Puigdemont said that Catalonia "has won the right to be independent" but suspended any unilateral declaration of independence in a plea for dialogue.
The Catalan people have clearly declared their independence, both legally and democratically. It is now time to sit down and negotiate on the terms of separation.
In an exchange of letters, Mariano Rajoy and Carles Puigdemont called on each other to make the first step to defuse the crisis over Catalonia's independence.
Spanish political leaders called on Catalan separatists to organise regional elections as a way to avoid emergency measures due to be taken on Thursday. That's "not on the table", a Catalan official replied.
'Russian sources' targeted EU elections with disinformation
14. Jun, 17:32
The efforts to sway the mood - and the votes - of EU citizens was more targeted and nuanced, and not only restricted to Russian sources. The EU wants online platforms to do more.
Merkel and Macron split over Weber presidency
EU heads of government have their first face-to-faces discussions after the European elections on who should lead the EU commission. They are unlikely to decide quickly - with the parliament also divided over the candidates.


Working out can be so boring! Who came up with treadmills that face the wall? The same workout playlist day in and day out… The same protein bars as an after workout nutrition break… Plain old bottled water… If you don't mix up your workout routine, it can get tedious and you will be less likely to go out and continuously exercise. So, what do you think? Can you lose weight hula hooping and having fun? You bet you can!
You don't necessarily have to go to the gym every day. There are plenty of activities that get your heart rate up, help you lose weight, and improve your health. Some of these activities may be surprising. For example, there is a hula hooping craze that is sweeping gyms and outdoor workout venues everywhere.
Can You Lose Weight Hula Hooping?
Here are a few ways hula hooping can help you in your weight loss journey.
Experts are saying that using a hula hoop to exercise provides your body with a great cardio work out and also helps you meditate (because of the repetitive motion of your hips and other body parts). It also includes elements of yoga.
Other benefits to your body include toned muscles (it sculpts lean muscle) and weight loss. Scientists at the American Council on Exercise did a study which concluded that hooping can burn about 420 calories an hour. Their findings also concluded that larger hoops can help those who have difficulty mastering the movement needed to keep the hoop up in the air. This study found that it burns about seven calories a minute. That's about the same as if you were to go on a brisk walk around the park and more than if you were to do step aerobics.
Hula hoops also come in weighted versions. If you're wanting to really work your muscles, try to use a two pound hoop. In fact, these hoops might help you if you're having issues hula hooping in the first place. In addition to a bigger hoop, try one that is weighted so that it can generate momentum for you.
Hula hoop classes are often held outdoors because of the space needed for each person. Kelly Strycker works at Chicago Hoop Dance, which is a community-based group of people from all walks of life: teachers, students, and performers. They practice hooping in as a form of exercise, meditation, and fun. As the director there, she holds the classes at local parks and beaches around Chicago.
Her classes normally involve around a half an hour worth of yoga, squats, lunches, and hooping for your hips and other body parts (wrists, hands, shoulders legs, and your waist as well). She says that the rocking movement that is needed to keep the hoop up helps you keep a rhythm which excites your heartbeat.
You can find a certified instructor in your area or find a hooping DVD online or at a local media place (like FYE or even big box stores like Target).
One of the great parts of hooping as exercise is that anyone can do it (given the practice of the movement). Kids love hula hoops. Older women that can still rock that motion can use hula hoops as exercises too. It will keep their joints from getting too stiff and will help tone muscles and keep them active as well.
Truthfully, you don't need something super fancy to start hooping to work out. Just build your own playlist on your iPod and hoop to the beat. Try a varied beat (with different songs).
Hoop in the opposite direction (this will help you stay even as well). As you become more of an expert, you can do things like knee lifts to really challenge yourself. Don't forget to add arm movements also. In order to turn this workout into a full body workout, try to add some flexibility training, arm movements, and squats as well.
There has been a craze of hoopers lately, from the First Lady (Michelle Obama) to actresses like Zooey Deschanel. Even Kelly Osbourne is in the hooping craze. So much so that she says that it is one of the ways that she lose weight (in addition to running intervals, weight training, yoga, and Pilates).
Now it's your turn. Is there something that you do for exercise that's a bit on the unconventional side? Have you tried hula hooping as an exercise before? What do you think: can you lose weight hula hooping? Do you have any tips for newbies who can't quite get the rhythm of hooping? Have you tried to hoop with a body part other than your waist or hips? We'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter! Write down your ideas, remarks, and questions in the comment section below.
What a great idea!! I get so bored doing the same workout over and over, so much so that often I just give up. I need something fun to do and this looks really cool!
Well, that's an inexpensive way to lose weight! Awesome way to get your core in shape, too. I've always been terrible at hula hooping, but I figure this one might be worth a try.
Having a variety in your workout is definitely a must. I go swimming at least twice a week and I have a Zumba class and a belly dancing class every 2 weeks. I never thought of hula hooping though but it sounds like a great idea.
I actually do this with my kids on the Wii so there is no actual hula hoop involved, but there are different levels and challenges.
This is actually pretty awesome if I can say it before anyone else does. I have not thought about a hoop for years and to be totally honest here today I spent an hour on the bike. After running the math for the same amount of time I was only burning a little over half what a hoop would do. Guess what I am buying this weekend?
I wish I could hoola hoop. I can't seem to keep it on my hips. I can hoop around my neck, arms and legs but not my hips. I feel so foolish when I'm doing it too.
We do hoola dancing at our Zumba class. We spend about five minutes of each class doing these exercises. We don't use the hoop though. It's a good thing because then the class would know what a klutz I really am.
I did it too and I scored really low. I was shocked. I was moving my hips so fast and I was even switching directions. My kids laugh so loud at me when it is my turn. I still do it though and my hips hurt when I'm done.
Correct, we don't use a hoola hoop. We just move our hips. I have unlocked a few stages but I'm not really good at it. I will keep at it though. I didn't realize it was so good for you.
From what I remember it takes a little practice and a lot of determination. I had a problem for years of barely slanted hips so it is still an issue for me but after a few minutes I get into the swing of things.
I have actually never tried hoola hooping myself. It looks like so much fun but I was wondering if it's hard? I assume it will be a lot of hip work just like belly dancing, right?


Within a maximum period of three months from the date of admission to the PhD programme, and when the coordinator has assigned the PhD student a supervisor, the conditions are negotiated between the student, the supervisor and the academic tutor, agreeing the conditions of collaboration between the student and the thesis supervisor, their obligations, the corresponding dedication of the student, supervisor and tutor, and systems of resolving conflicts etc. , through a statement of commitment which must be signed by the PhD student, the thesis supervisor and the academic tutor and programme coordinator.
As far as the signing and custody of the document is concerned the indications established by the programme coordinator or administrator should be followed but, in any case, when the document is signed, the PhD student must digitize it into Sigma, in the "Research Plan" tab. In the tutorial for the UAB self-enrolment system you will find instructions on how to attach it.


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North and South Sudanese Celebrate Separation: "We Are Free"
Southern Sudan is 54th country on the African continent.
Southern Sudan officially proclaimed itself independent, separating itself from the North after five decades of conflict which plunged the country into misery, from which awaits exit, thanks to its rich oil reserves. From Friday midnight to Saturday in Juba, where the ceremony occurred, a delirious crowd celebrated the proclamation of independence. Upon the midnight bells, an explosion of joy celebrated the arrival of the first day of life of the new state.
"We are free! We are free! Goodbye to the North, welcome happiness! ", chanted in the crowd Mary Okach. "We struggled for many years and this is our day, you cannot imagine how I feel", declared in turn the University Student Andrew Nuer, 27 years, who travelled from Cairo to attend the independence celebrations.
The noise was deafening in the capital of the new State, the sky lit up with fireworks, while cars and buses full of people drove the streets with flags of southern Sudan on their doors and windows, and the drivers sounded their horns. Hours before midnight, several world leaders, among them 30 African leaders and the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, arrived in Juba for the celebrations of the independence of the new state.
"The people of southern Sudan realised their dream. The UN and the international community will continue to support Southern Sudan, "said Ban Ki-Moon to reach the capital's airport. Sudan acknowledged on Friday, the Republic of Southern Sudan, although key issues still need to be resolved between both countries, such as the status of the disputed border provinces.
The ceremony was also attended by inhabitants of the Darfur region of Western Sudan, where civil war continues to rage. "We are here to congratulate our brothers of the South for its independence and to tell Bashir 'here is what happens when people are oppressed '," said Mohamed Jamus, from Darfur. The Sudanese President, Omar al Bashir, also attended as guest of honour. He is the subject of an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
Between 1955, a year before the independence of Sudan (until then an anglo-Egyptian colony), and 2005, southern rebels entered into two wars against Khartoum calling for greater autonomy. The conflicts had devastated much of the region, and led to millions of deaths, which led to mutual distrust between the two parts of the country.
The peace agreement signed in 2005 by rebel leader John Garang-some months before his death in a helicopter accident–and the President of the Sudan, Ali Osman Taha opened a new chapter which allowed the referendum on independence held in January this year. The southerners have chosen almost unanimously by the Organisation of an election without major incidents, and whose results Khartoum promised to respect.
The new nation must face great challenges, as clashes on the border that has already led to 1,800 deaths this year, a social indicator of the world's least developed, negotiations on the separation of assets and restructuring of industries with the North. According to sources close to the authorities involved in the negotiations, an agreement on the restructuring of the oil sector seems unlikely due to disagreements on the final status of the disputed territory of Abyei.
Tension increased on May 21, after the occupation by the northerners of this border region, forcing 117 thousand southerners to flee. An agreement was reached on 20 June to demilitarise Abyei and to deploy 4,200 Ethiopian soldiers, but the territory's future remains uncertain. A few weeks after the occupation of Abyei, South Kordofan, another border territory affected by ethnic disputes, was the scene of violent clashes between the northern forces and the armed wing of SPLM (Popular Movement for the liberation of Sudan, southern rebels) which left hundreds dead.
On Friday, the northern President, Omar al Bashir, ordered that the army continue its operations until this territory, the only Northern oil region, were "cleansed of rebels". However, many Sudanese celebrating there, mostly radical Islamists in Khartoum and some Southerners northern residents, were complaining that the vision of John Garang of the Sudan federal democratic was not materialising.
Finally, on the eve of the Declaration of Independence of the new nation, the United Nations Security Council decided unanimously to send to the South Sudan Mission, 7000 soldiers, 900 civilians and experts to contribute to the country's reconstruction and security. The new mission was named Minus, replacing Minus, the previous UN Mission for the whole Sudan, but concentrated his forces mainly in the South of the country.


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Summly, iPhone app disrupting the news
Startup says it wants to partner with publishers rather than undercut their business models
Summly's app is available for iPhone, with Android and Windows Phone to follow
Stuart Dredge
@stuartdredge
Fri 2 Nov 2012 07.30 EDT
Much of the coverage so far of Nick D'Aloisio has focused on his age. He started writing apps in 2008 when he was 12, and raised the first round of venture capital for his startup Summly three years later.
Cue conference appearances and press interviews peppered with questions focusing on the age thing – how did GCSEs fit in, shouldn't he be out at parties, what did his parents think etc.
Understandable, perhaps, but hopefully in the past. Summly is one of the more intriguing and potentially disruptive apps to be released in 2012: the technology and its implication for the publishing industry is far more interesting than the age of its founder.
Summly started life as an app called Trimit coded by D'Aloisio himself, and released in 2011. He then raised $250k of funding from Hong Kong-based investor Li Ka-shing, and reworked it as Summly. A beta release in late December 2011 provided valuable feedback, but now it's getting a full launch on iPhone.
What is Summly? To summarise, well, it's all about summaries. The app pulls in news articles from hundreds of online sources, then its algorithm pulls out the key points and summarises them into 400-character paragraphs that fit neatly onto the iPhone screen, to be swiped through rapidly.
The news is filtered by category – Technology, Sports, Fashion and so on – with the ability for users to add their own keywords, add and remove specific sources, and share stories out to their social networks.
"It's a big, consumer mass-market product here," says D'Aloisio. "Anyone can benefit from this: not just people my age who consume news very differently, but adult news junkies too, with the amount of content you can get through."
Summly is big on gestural controls, as you swipe sideways to move between summaries, then swipe down if you want to read the full story from the original source's website.
The latter point is important: Summly is one of a number of startups disrupting the news industry that's keen for publishers to see it as a potential partner rather than a threat.
"Publishers have been tremendously supportive, and we've already signed a deal with News Corporation," says D'Aloisio.
"These summaries have never existed before: it's a whole new medium of content to monetise for the publishers. We're taking stuff that exists, and finding a whole new entity to put it into."
This monetisation may include paywalls – one senses this is why News Corp was interested in a partnership. D'Aloisio suggests that Summly's summaries are a good fit for any sites looking to charge for their content, especially if that charging comes through microtransactions rather than monthly subscriptions.
"You can have the summary before the paywall, and after the paywall you get the full article," he says. "People would never buy an article based on a headline, but now we can give you a logical preview."
How does Summly make money, if its app is free? D'Aloisio says there is scope for a premium subscription-based tier at some point – "we're offering a service, not just a product" – but my impression is that the app is as much a proving ground for Summly's technology, which may generate its real money from business-to-business uses.
There are hints of this already: D'Aloisio suggests that Summly's summaries would work well on publishers' main websites, for example. "If someone hovered over a link on the Guardian website, you could present a synopsis, but a journalist wouldn't have to spend time writing it," he says.
Summly could be used for other kinds of content too, from academic works through to emails.
In other words, there are plenty of licensing opportunities for the technology behind the app, which in turn means D'Aloisio can give that app a decent runway as a free product without having to wodge ads in inappropriately.
Or he could sell the company, of course. Summly has the air of a technology that an Apple or a Google (or a Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook…) might want to get their hands on to ensure their competitors don't.
"No OS has got a de facto news app on mobile," says D'Aloiso, diplomatically, in response to a mischievous question about when Apple is going to buy Summly. He does agree that it would make sense for "Summly's home to be built into a pre-existing operating system, or another new service or search engine" though.
In the meantime, the consumer app is live, and Summly's team are working hard to get it to other platforms beyond the iPhone – Android and Windows Phone are first on the company's agenda. New languages too: for now Summly is English-language only, but D'Aloisio says work is proceeding apace for other parts of the world.
"We could launch in French tomorrow, but we want to make sure the quality is brilliant," he says. "Our focus is on expanding very quickly to other regions, languages and devices."
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One study, a meta-analysis of 59 trials, found little evidence that diet is associated with survival or prognosis. The other study suggests that neither use of garlic nor vitamin supplements delays the progression of precancerous gastric lesions to cancer.
Numerous studies have linked dietary modifications and vitamins to cancer prevention and treatment. But researchers are worried that some dietary changes may not be harmless, a concern echoed by a European Union recommendation to tighten sales of supplements.
Steven Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, and colleagues used database searches to identify 59 trials that investigated the effects of a diverse range of nutritional interventions on patients with a previous diagnosis of cancer or precancerous lesions. Trial results were combined using meta-analysis.
The authors suggest that the trials provide little evidence that specific interventions have any effect on disease-free survival, mortality, or recurrence. They say the impact of most nutritional interventions cannot be estimated reliably because of the limited number of trials, many of which are small or of low quality.
The authors write, "The large personal expenditure on supplements and dietary modifications by patients with cancer demonstrates an urgent need to understand their effects on cancer outcomes. This vulnerable group of people need to be better informed as diet is one of the few areas of their lives where they may feel that they have some control."
A second study of Chinese adults showed that garlic and vitamin supplements did not reduce the prevalence of precancerous lesions or gastric cancer, but treatment to kill Helicobacter pylori may limit the progression of these lesions to cancer and reduce their prevalence.


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[ARCHIVED] Bucks County Provides Third Doses of Pfizer Vaccine to Immunocompromised
The Bucks County Health Department (BCHD) has begun providing third doses of COVID vaccine to the immunocompromised in compliance with guidance from the CDC and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
As of Monday afternoon, the county had administered 11 third-dose Pfizer shots. Third doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be available at county clinics next week. The Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine has not yet received approval for another dose.
If anyone has questions about receiving a third dose, they should contact their doctor or call the BCHD at 215-348-3318.
At least 5,702 COVID shots were administered in the county last week, the most since late June. About 65 percent of eligible Bucks residents have received at least one dose of vaccine.
To date, 637,203 total doses have been administered, enough to fully vaccinate 312,889 people and partially vaccinate 39,256 others.
As the number of people getting vaccinated continues to rise, so does the number of new cases.
The county's seven-day average ticked up to 86 new cases per day on Saturday, compared to an 80-case average last week. More than 130 cases were reported on Saturday, the most since early May.
At 4.5 percent, Bucks County's test positivity rate for the week of Aug. 6-12 was below the statewide rate of 6 percent.
In Bucks County, there have been two deaths linked to COVID since last week, both were reported on Aug. 9. A total of three deaths have been reported over the past 30 days.
At least 25 people with COVID were hospitalized at the end of last week, none of them on ventilators.
Bucks County continues to offer free vaccinations to anyone age 12 and over from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem and Warwick Square in Jamison. For a full list of vaccine providers in Bucks County and locations where COVID vaccines are being offered, please check Bucks County's Coronavirus Testing/Vaccination Information page.
Media Contact: Charlotte Reese, 215-348-6430, ckreese@buckscounty.org
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