Stuffed pork chops, with a Caesar salad for starters and creme brulée for dessert.
Special occasions deserve special food. I wanted to find an entree that wasn't complicated to make, but would look like it was when I served it. Stuffed pork chops had everything that I was looking for, so I turned to Chef Tanner Dunlop, the executive chef at Caffe Gelato in Newark. He assured me that the pork chops were perfect for my special occasion dinner.
To start out, you have to make sure you get a really thick pork chop, or else this won't work and your stuffed pork chop will just be a pork chop with a bunch of stuff leaking out of it. Chef Tanner likes to use a rib chop, with the bone in. It makes for a good presentation and it gives the pork chop more flavor.
Chef Tanner Dunlop – Executive Chef.
He serves his pork chop with a celery root demi-glace. A demi-glace is a lot of work, especially if you make your own stock because, by definition, demi-glace is a veal stock reduced by half. (Making stock takes a minimum of 12 hours. And you have to find some veal bones to start.) I'll be buying a can of stock, adding some vegetables and then reducing it. Chef Tanner assured me that I'd be fine. If you decide to make the demi-glace, reduce that stock by half and add the sliced celery root that you've roasted at 350 degrees for about an hour.
Chef Tanner said that a special occasion doesn't just deserve a special dish — it should get a whole special menu. So he showed me how to make a grilled Caesar salad (I know this sounds odd — grilling lettuce — but believe me, it's great), porcini mushroom infused barley and white chocolate Grand Mariner creme brulée. To find these recipes and more of Chef Tanner's tips, go online to www.sparkweekly.com.
All is not lost if you're cutting the pocket in your porkchop and you accidentally go all the way through. Just push the part that shouldn't be cut back together and sew it closed with a bamboo skewer. Bake it with the skewer in, and when it's done, take the skewer out. No one will ever be able to tell that you screwed up.
Everything here can be easily made in advance. You can stuff the pork chops and cook the squash the day before and just heat the squash up in the microwave. You can also make the creme brulée and barley the day before and just put the finishing touches on before serving.
A cheap and easy way to make your presentation look professional is to put your dressings and sauces in a squeeze bottle and squeeze them onto the plate.
Take the pork chop and make a 1-1/2 inch long incision horizontally, along the side. Make it as long as the pork chop, but without cutting all the way through. You just want to make a pocket.
Stuff the prosciutto, cheese and spinach into the pocket you made. Sear the pork chop in olive oil in a very hot pan for about two minutes on each side, until it's browned. Then bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes, turning after six minutes, until the chop springs back when you press on it. Slice on an angle and serve.
Cut the butternut squash in half and take the seeds out. Sprinkle the cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice on the squash. (The spices are put on to taste, so if you really like cinnamon, load it up.) Add a generous sprinkle of brown sugar in the center of each squash half and top it with the butter.
Bake at 350 degrees for about two hours, until the flesh is soft. Then scrape with a spoon so it looks like spaghetti and serve with the pork chop.
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VOX POP: Remembering Jack – "He was a Birmingham man; he was a local man. And he cared."
VOX POP quotes & pics taken by Claire Taylor / Intro words & pics by Ed King
Soon after the announcement of Jack Dromey's death on Friday 7 January, flowers and messages of remembrance started to appear outside his constituency office on Mason Road. – with further tributes flooding social media.
Many were in shock at the sudden and unexpected news, sharing their stories and grief both online and off.
Erdington Local took to the High Street he fiercely championed and asked for comment from some of his constituents – for our weekly VOX POP.
(Ed's note… we used the headline quote to show how Jack Dromey was perceived, by many, as a 'local man' – despite being born in Middlesex. The full quote is the last in the VOX POP, which we felt was a testament to the fervour with which Jack represented his Birmingham constituency.)
Holding a position where concerns and complaints were part of the day to day, Jack Dromey heard first hand about the issues affecting people across Erdington – with many looking to his office for answers.
From large scale employment strategies to supporting school fundraisers and independent retailers, the 'to-do-list' in the local MPs office was often as varied as it was unending. But as Erdington's elected voice in Parliament, it was down to Jack Dromey and his colleagues to work through it with tireless dedication.
When Erdington Local asked for comments on Jack Dromey's death, and life, many people had many things to say – but not all were comfortable having their condolences captured on camera.
Thank you to everyone who stopped to share thier thoughts and stories with us, and to all who agreed to be featured in the article.
Remembering Jack memorial service on Sunday 16 January
A wider public memorial service is being organised by the Erdington Covid-19 Taskforce on Sunday 16 January, to be held outside the Co-op supermarket on Erdington High Street from 1:30/2pm.
Speakers will include colleagues from Jack's constituency office, alongside figureheads from local organisations and community support groups such as Witton Lodge Community Association, Urban Devotion, Erdington Street Pastors, and Spitfire Advice and Support Services.
Jack Dromey's political peers will also be attending, with further public condolences and remembrance coming from Liam Byrne MP (Hodge Hill), Jess Phillips MP (Yardley), Cllr Paulette Hamilton (Lab, Hollyhead, Birmingham Conservatives Leader Cllr Robert Alden (Con, Erdington), and Birmingham City Council Leader Cllr Ian Ward (Lab, Shard End).
The memorial for Jack Dromey is open to all members of the public – with the Erdington Covid-19 Taskforce inviting people to gather by the Co-op from 1:30pm, with the service scheduled to begin at 2pm.
A spokesperson for the Erdington Covid-19 Taskforce told Erdington Local:
"On behalf of the people of Erdington, partners of the Erdington Covid-19 Task Force have come together to organise this tribute event for Jack.
"His legacy went beyond politics. His tireless campaigning on behalf of constituents touched so many lives so we wanted to create a fitting tribute to a man who was progressive and impactful in positively changing lives and communities.
"It's a chance for the people of Erdington to pay their respects to Jack, to reflect on his work and to share memories of him.
"It should be a great occasion, celebrating the life of a man whose commitment to improving lives made him a hero for the community he served with such passion and honesty."
Here are a few more memories and messages of condolences from people on Erdington High Street.
Harriet Spencer, Oikos Café, Erdington High Street
"He used to come relatively frequently into Oikos and he would always order a strawberry milkshake, which we used to love.
"He was such a champion of the café and enjoyed that we were hear and all the things we did, especially the music event. It's really a shock to the area and all of us."
Christine Scarl, Pype Hayes
"I heard that he had died… its such a shame. He was really good at letting us know what was going on in the area, we would always be getting the leaflets through the door and everything. It's such a shame."
Pat Wandby, Stockland Green
"I'm sad that Jack Dromey died… it was a shock, he was a nice chap and he always seemed to be fighting for the workers – to help them keep their jobs.
"Like with the HP Sauce factory, which should never have been closed. And he was always fighting for the Jag (Jaguar Land Rover, Castle Bromwich) and other industries.
"He came to our house once over an issue with some garages at the back… I did have a moan at him about Stockland Green and the potholes on the road, by the chip shop. But since then it's been done."
Vera, Holly Lane, Erdington
"He passed away, bless him. He did a lot for Erdington, as out local MP. He did a lot for Jaguar and everything else.
"He was a Birmingham man; he was a local man. And he cared."
If you have something to say about any of the issues raised in this VOX POP (or anything else you want to tell us about) please email: mystory@erdingotnlocal.com
For more on Jack Dromey visit www.jackdromey.co.uk
NEWS: Public Space Protect Order hopes to curb anti-social behaviour in Erdington
Words by Ed King
An application is underway for a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in Erdington, giving local police the power to forcibly remove anyone from the 'Restricted Area' they suspect is intoxicated or causing anti-social behaviour.
Starting on the corner of Oakfield/Wood End Road, the 'Restricted Area' continues down to and up Orchard Road – cuts across Sutton New Road, embracing Abbey Catholic Primary School and Highclare School, then comes back up Summer Road to Six Ways Island.
If successful, the application would see a PSPO come into force on 20 December 2021 – just in time for Christmas and the New Year, when alcohol related and street crime is often known to soar. If enforced the PSBO would run for three years, staying in place until 19 December 2024.
Public consultation is currently being sought, with any 'interested person' invited to appeal against the order via the Birmingham Be Heard website by 19 December. An 'interested person' is defined as 'someone who lives in, regularly works in, or visits the restricted area'.
Full details of the PSPO application for Erdington, alongside a place to comment or appeal, can be found here: www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/place/erdington-public-space-protection-order-consultati/
Led by the North Local Partnership Delivery Group (LPDG), the application for a PSPO in Erdington is seen by many constituency stakeholders as an essential step to help clean up the High Street and encourage public safety.
Policing across the West Midlands has suffered cuts of £175m since 2010, resulting in the loss of over 2200 police officers – including 50% of all allocated to community policing. The lack of uniformed officers on patrol has often been cited as the reason anti-social behaviour and street crimes started to spike.
Erdington previously held a PSPO which ran out in 2018, with many questioning why it was not immediately reinstated.
Terry Guest, Erdington Town Centre Manger, explained: "Now, there's a few stories about why it hasn't been renewed. One is that someone objected on the grounds that the PSPO included beggars, and there was an objection against the human rights of beggars – because initially the order included the removal of beggars off the High Street.
"It's a bit of a contentious issue because one of the things I've been working with the police with is to help anyone begging if they're homeless.
"No one should be homeless, and we've done quite a lot of work with the police and their partners in helping people who are homeless.
"There's another aspect to this and that's professional begging, where people aren't homeless, aren't poor, and are begging on the High Street as a crime basically."
Jack Dromey MP for Erdington recently joined the Erdington Street Pastors and West Midlands Crime Commissioner, Simon Foster, on a tour of Erdington High Street.
When asked about the application for a PSPO in the area he told Erdington Local: "I strongly support the reintroduction of a PSPO, I strongly support it. There's no question of it, one of the problems here on the High Street is street drinking and sometimes the bad behaviour that goes with that.
"Now there is an issue in relation to often vulnerable people who congregate here, therefore there needs to be support for those people to divert them from behaving badly in our community.
"Having said that I've just seen earlier today an incident with four people, one of who was clearly drunk – and this is 10am – who blocked the pavement and there was woman trying to get by with her buggy and they wouldn't let her get by.
"Now that kind of behaviour is absolutely not acceptable, so clamping down on street drinking I think is an essential part in making people feel safe about coming to their High Street."
As Erdington Ward Councillors, Robert Alden and Gareth Moore have been championing the fight to get a Public Space Protection Order restored in Erdington ever since the previous one expired without the Council renewing it.
Cllr Alden, who is also Director and Vice Chair of Erdington Business Improvement District, said:
"Sadly the Council had not been acting with the urgency required to get the PSPO back in place in Erdington, despite all the efforts of the local Police and BID in providing evidence.
"Therefore, we have been demanding the Council get this moving and recently brought the Chief Executive down to Erdington High Street to meet with the BID, local police team and ourselves to discuss the need for the Erdington PSPO and the need for the Council to work with the Erdington community to help make our High Street safer.
"Thankfully following this visit and meetings with senior officers from Community Safety in the Council we have managed to get the consultation launched for reintroducing the PSPO".
Cllr Moore added: "We have worked with the Police to also get the area the new PSPO will cover enlarged so that it can help tackle areas of concern in wider Erdington as well, for example down Station Road and Church Road.
"It is vital that residents now take part in the consultation supporting the PSPO for Erdington so that it can be approved to commence before Christmas and help keep residents safe.
"Thank you to the efforts of local Police, Town Centre Manager and businesses for working with us to help force the Council to finally get the consultation launched".
For more on the application for a PSBO in Erdington visit www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/place/erdington-public-space-protection-order-consultati/

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I have rigged up this pen to toggle a zoomed class on the image every four seconds. There's a transition on the width so I would expect the image to animate it's width from 42% to 100% while the clip-path remains the same, creating an image zooming effect. However, in Chrome it appears to glitch refreshing- if you resize the browser you can see the width changing, but not animating.
I've also tried transform scaling the image:
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This scales the image and does animate as desired, although it also scales the clip-path.
Is there another solution to achieve this image zooming effect while keeping the clip-path in place, or should I rethink things?

A: A combo of Robert Longson and Nenad Vracar's comments helped with this solution.
We can put the transform scale property onto the image, while putting the clippath onto the group element, as seen on this codepen fork:
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Noemi Etterman, 33, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, November 26th at her home in Port Isabel, Texas.
Noemi was born on January 3, 1982 to Leonardo and Angelina (Saldana) Martinez in Mexico.
Noemi married Thomas P. Etterman on July 6, 2002 in San Carlos, Coahuila Mexico. They were married for thirteen years prior to her passing.
Noemi served God and that was her main purpose in this life so that one day she would make it to Heaven. God came first, then her husband, children, and family, both her natural and Church families. She was an inspiration to all who came in contact with her. Her main interest in life was serving God wherever she was. She enjoyed traveling to the Churches for revivals. She was also able to travel from the east coast to the west coast throughout the country.
This summer she traveled to Oregon and Salmon Arm British Columbia. She loved seeing the different mountains God has created and all his beauty in different places.
When Noemi could no longer come to Church the Church came to her. She praised God and still helped people pray for their salvation. She never quit doing her job for Jesus until she had her last breath.
Noemi is survived by her husband: Thomas P. Etterman; children: Peter (12) and Annie (9); parents: Leonardo and Angelina Martinez and James and Karen Etterman; brothers: Euvodio and Gerardo (Irene) Martinez of San Carlos, Mexico; sisters: Maricruz Martinez, San Carlos, Mexico, Maribel Martinez and Esther (Tito) Martinez of Del Rio, Texas; Jim (Stephanie) Etterman of Brainerd, Minnesota; fifteen nieces and nephews.
Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, December 5th at 10:00 a.m. at the Church of God of the Firstborn in Newton, Kansas. A public visitation is scheduled from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the Church of God of the Firstborn. The family will be present to greet friends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the visitation. A graveside committal will follow the service at the Church of God of the Firstborn Cemetery.
A memorial has been set up for the Church of God of the First Born in Newton, Kansas.
Noemi struggled with cancer for almost four years until the time of her death. Her life touched many people and she will be remembered for her love of Christ and her family. The family is deeply saddened with her passing but they will have many enduring memories of their time with her. Petersenfamilyfuneralhome.com.


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Start your own business, and soon enough, you find yourself in a situation where there are many things you want to say, all of them unprintable.
It happens to every entrepreneur - a moment of extreme challenge that causes you to wonder why you started the (expletive) business in the first place. I've had my share of those moments since starting our public relations firm in March 2002.
But while trading notes with a fellow entrepreneur recently, I started to think about all the moments of extreme challenge I left behind when I decided I no longer wanted to be somebody else's employee.
That got me thinking about what really matters to me as an entrepreneur. As I shared my thoughts with my friend, a new list developed - the "F" words I believe every entrepreneur should know. They've done the job for me so far, keeping me rooted, married and talking to my kids while we build a successful business. I hope they have the same effect for you.
1. Faith: I'm not a street corner preacher, but I have a deep and abiding faith that starting my business is what I was meant to do in life. I also have a strong faith that I've been given the tools to do the job - even in a moment of extreme challenge. Without faith in yourself, in your business and in your purpose, how can you succeed as an entrepreneur?
2. Family: My wife and daughters are the most important people in my life. Starting my business has enabled me to put them at the center of my life, where they belong. Oh yes, I work long and hard, but today, it's with a clear purpose. The generations of entrepreneurs who built this country understood this principle. Their businesses often bore the family name, and generations of people who were born, lived and died together managed to build great businesses together.
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4. Focus: It's nice to say you're an entrepreneur, that you are your own boss. But do you have the commitment to turn that idea into true success? The ultimate measure is your ability not only to set a goal, but stick with it, despite those moments of extreme challenge. You may have to change course along the way, but like a good sailor, you focus, keeping your business pointed to the right shore.
5. Finances: Let's face it - most of us strike out as entrepreneurs because we believe we can improve our financial situation. I know I have not missed the constraining limits and miniscule salary increases of corporate America. How much do I want to make this year? There is only one answer: How hard am I willing to work? And there is only one reason to ask that question: to make good on my commitment to all the "F" words that rank ahead of money on my list.
6. Freedom: This may be the greatest gift of entrepreneurship. But it is the one that comes only after you can act on all the other "F" words in your entrepreneurial vocabulary. So many entrepreneurs strike out to find success, which they define as freedom from all the things they hated about working for someone else. Unfortunately for these folks, they lack a true entrepreneurial vision - they're merely running away from something. True entrepreneurial freedom comes from a vision that encompasses what's really important to you.
Are these the only "F" words an entrepreneur needs to know? Obviously not. But in moments of extreme challenge, remembering these "F" words may help you weather a moment of extreme challenge without resorting to the unprintable variety. And if you're like me, they may also help you remember why you started the business in the first place.
Paul Furiga is president of WordWrite Communications LLC, a Pittsburgh-based virtual agency. He is the former editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times, and has also covered Congress, the White House, edited magazines and written for publications ranging from Congressional Quarterly to Frequent Flyer magazine.
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Starting and running your own business can be exciting and rewarding, but it can also be very stressful. For most of our almost 40 year marriage my husband has been an entrepreneur and I have sometimes worked with him.
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Most companies vastly underestimate the time commitment necessary to successfully complete a financing. In actuality, a company seeking financing needs to budget between 500 to 1000 work-hours to the capital-raising process, spread out over a 6-9 month time period.
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The Desire For Money, Do You Have Business Sense?
For those of us who grew up with parents who worked for businesses rather than owned them, the world of business can be quite a mystery. Even more so if we've dared to try to start one of our own.
More and more students, both in undergraduate and graduate institutions, are deciding to launch their own ventures upon graduation rather than taking the traditional route of working for another firm. Likewise, more and more individuals are leaving their jobs to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams.
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Schiaparelli's animal stunt is the newest signal that style has turn into a slave to TikTok
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B.wave bears. A runway coated in mud. Spray portray a costume. These are only a handful of viral moments created by the style business in latest months. All of them provoked outrage. Some precipitated offense. Others led to criticism. Now, the business can add one other notch onto its on-line scandal belt: big pretend taxidermy.
On Monday, at Couture Trend Week in Paris, fashions Irina Shayk, Naomi Campbell and Shalom Harlow walked the Schiaparelli runway in clothes adorned with the heads of a lion, wolf and leopard, respectively. Kylie Jenner additionally wore the lion design to attend the present. The life-size mock-ups have been made fully from foam – and designer Daniel Roseberry has keenly careworn that "no animals have been harmed" of their creation. The gathering was impressed by Dante's hell, with the animals meant to function a "reminder there isn't any such factor as heaven with out hell; there isn't any pleasure with out sorrow; there isn't any ecstasy of creation with out the torture of doubt".
It is a considerably tenuous hyperlink, made extra so by Roseberry's feedback to Vogue: "The animals are one of many 4 literal references that I took from Dante's Inferno," he mentioned. "Within the first cycle of Dante's journey, he faces terrors. He confronts a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf. They every characterize various things. However the lion and the animals are there as a photorealistic strategy of surrealism and trompe l'oeil another way."
What precisely they characterize, although, past displaying how straightforward it's to create lifelike taxidermy, stays considerably unclear. Therefore why the model has sparked on-line furore, with individuals criticizing it for depicting useless animals. "Grim! Actual or pretend, this simply promotes trophy searching. yuck!" wrote Carrie Johnson, the spouse of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a publish on her non-public Instagram of hers. "Be higher," wrote photographer Misan Harriman in a publish on his Instagram of him.
Others took the stunt as a slight on conservation, with one individual tweeting: "The world as we speak has solely 20,000 lions, [which are] not evenly distributed. India has simply 600 Asiatic lions in its western area. Governments have labored arduous for his or her preservation. @KylieJenner this is not style, it is a critical insensitivity in the direction of a important animal."
Nevertheless, not everybody agreed that the gathering was fairly so offensive. Animal rights group Individuals for the Moral Therapy of Animals (Peta) has spoken out in favor of the gathering. "These fabulously modern three-dimensional animal heads present that the place there is a will, there is a manner – and Kylie, Naomi, and Irina's seems to be have a good time the great thing about wild animals and could also be an announcement towards trophy searching, during which lions and wolves are torn aside to fulfill human egotism," Ingrid Newkirk, president of Peta, informed Subway in an announcement. In the meantime, on Tuesday's episode of good morning britainthe previous MP and now presenter Ed Balls mentioned criticism of the designs was "political correctness gone mad" and requested whether or not Johnson could be offended by The Lion King.
No matter whether or not you've gotten an opinion on Schiaparelli's present or not, few can deny simply how a lot noise it is created. Anybody on social media within the final 24 hours can have had a tough time avoiding the pictures – if not from Kylie Jenner herself, who has greater than 379 million Instagram followers, then from one of many different tens of millions of people that have since shared them alongside their respective takes.
Animal conservation apart, all of this faucets right into a wider query about what's dictating the fashionable style business. Certain, it is provocative to place big animal heads on garments. Simply because it's provocative to place a topless Bella Hadid on the runway and spray her with a chemical that turns right into a costume. And a few would say that style's position in tradition is – and has at all times been – to spark shock and, subsequently, dialog. However simply how invaluable is that dialog when virtually none of it's really about style, and even artwork?
Irina Shayk on the Schiaparelli runway
No person who's speaking concerning the Schiaparelli present is speaking about Dante's hell, for instance. Nor are they reflecting on what it means to blur the boundaries between what's actual and what is not, as Roseberry posits in his present notes, or any of the opposite meticulously crafted items he created within the assortment. They're simply sharing photographs of a useless lion.
Equally, with the aforementioned Coperni stunt starring Hadid, no person exterior of the business spoke concerning the nice artistry of a spray-on costume, or the revolutionary chemical that was used to create it. As a substitute, they have been principally speaking about Hadid's lithe limbs, which have been prominently on show, after which utilizing the footage for TikTok movies.
Trend has an extended historical past of staging stunts, after all. However examine these modern-day iterations to these from a distant pre-social media age and the excellence is stark. The late Alexander McQueen, for instance, famously put Harlow in a white multi-layered strapless tulle costume in his Spring 1999 present, earlier than robotic arms started spraying it in black and yellow paint. It was a second of pure efficiency artwork, significantly as a result of Harlow herself is a educated ballerina, and she or he interacted with the robots with grace and poise because the turntable she stood on moved.
Regardless of the plain parallels with Coperni, nothing can fairly examine to that second. Nor may it compete with the hologram of Kate Moss that graced McQueen's runway in 2006, during which she appeared as an apparition in a white frothy robe. Or the mannequin that resembled an angel and was suspended in mid-air throughout Thierry Mugler's tenth anniversary present in 1984. All of those have been tangible creative moments that function prominently in style's historical past books. In the present day, although, that cultural capital is just achieved if one thing goes viral on TikTok. And what's extra probably to do this? A good looking piece of efficiency artwork, or Kylie Jenner carrying an animal on her chest?
Naomi Campbell on the Schiaparelli runway
There are a number of explanation why the latter hits otherwise. The primary is the place it hits: on social media, the place every part is lowered to a 30-second video you barely acknowledge, or {a photograph} you scroll previous whilst you're on the toilet. When one thing goes viral, it captures our full consideration for a sure period of time. However due to the fast-paced nature of the web, it turns into disposable in a single day – a relic from simply one other day on-line. It takes quite a bit for one thing to transcend as we speak's throwaway tradition and carry some kind of which means in years to return. Placing a lion on the physique of some of the well-known actuality TV stars on the earth would not fairly lower it.
Sadly, although, that is the way in which many people now eat style, and subsequently how designers are tailoring their exhibits: standout moments that do not require context for influence, as a result of the web would not have time to digest it anyway. It is the antithesis to artwork, which requires focus, evaluation, and examination – issues that have been far simpler to attain in an analogue world. Maybe we merely do not have the endurance for it anymore.
And so none of that is essentially the style business's fault, after all. Eager to trigger a scene on social media is sensible from a enterprise perspective – not solely does it introduce the model to new audiences, it helps to current it as related, or not less than an integral cog within the wheel of on-line discourse. However maybe Schiaparelli has proven us that issues are going too far.
Moreover, if you happen to really wished to have a good time the glory of the pure world, as Roseberry acknowledged in an Instagram caption, there are arguably much better methods to do this than by recreating an extremely lifelike decapitated animal.
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Local Moms of Food Allergic Kids Driven to Effect Change and Promote Awareness
November 12, 2021 by Ella Ilan
Food allergies affect approximately 5 percent of children and 4 percent of adults in the U.S, according to the National Institutes of Health. Food allergies can sometimes trigger a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction marked by constriction of the airways, making it difficult to breathe. Living with this threat, especially for parents of children with food allergies, is frightening and challenging. Part of the challenge is navigating a life where many people either are blissfully unaware of or simply do not appreciate the seriousness of food allergies.
The Importance of Spreading Awareness
Armonk mom Michelle Isban, as a former teacher, knows that educating the public is the best method to ensure that her food allergic daughter can live a healthy and safe life. Michelle's achievements include having helped promote awareness at Armonk's two playgrounds, IBM and Lombardi parks. Signs posted at the playgrounds list common food allergens and alert park-goers that allergic reactions can happen from tactile contact so children should only eat at designated picnic areas and wash their hands before using the equipment.
"Inclusivity is the most important thing to me," says Isban. "If my daughter goes on the monkey bars right after a child who just ate peanut butter, she can have an anaphylactic reaction. I want her to feel like she can run safely onto the playground after soccer practice."
Isban credits the Town of North Castle Recreation Department for their swift action in installing the signs upon her suggestion. "Matt Trainor, superintendent of the rec department was really open to it, raised it at a town board meeting, and got it approved. A few weeks later, the signs were up."
Photo of mug and playground sign courtesy of Michelle Isban
"It's upsetting when your child is excluded," reveals another Armonk mom. "I don't expect another parent to bake something for my child, but I'm angry when I don't get a head's up about a class party or when parents show up to soccer games or practices with Dunkin Donuts or cookies. Your child has to watch empty-handed as their friends delight in their delicious treat. With just a little notice, I can easily bring a comparable treat for my child."
Ever since Isban's daughter was diagnosed with allergies, Isban has advocated for her daughter and for food allergic children. With the help of a lawyer, she helped get a 504 plan, the first in Byram Hills granted for food allergies. Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires public schools to offer accommodations for eligible students with disabilities. Now, other families in the district can more freely obtain this legally binding plan to address how the school will accommodate their child's food allergies.
Isban also started an Instagram page called allergymomwithamission where she recommends new food brands without common allergens and collaborates with companies that make allergy-safe food products. Every Wednesday, she shares a food allergy hero, a young child or teen, and what they are doing in the food allergy community.
Isban uses any opportunity presented to spread awareness. She donates children's books about food allergies to the school, she organized the Teal Pumpkin Drive in Armonk to collect non-food items for Halloween, she has co-chaired walks for the non-profit Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE), and helped organize the 2019 Shoot For A Cure fundraiser at Breezemont Day Camp for the non-profit End Allergies Together (EAT) that raised over $60,000.
A teacher at heart, she will never pass up a teachable moment. Once on an airplane, hearing another passenger complain that peanuts were not being served, Isban approached the woman and explained that her daughter could have an anaphylactic reaction if a bag of peanuts was opened and the dust circulated in the air. She offered to share her own granola bar with the woman.
"I teach my daughter that food allergies don't define you but they are part of you so it's important to teach other people," says Isban. "Everyone can make a difference and you don't have to stay quiet."
Legislation Passed That Can Save Lives
Chappaqua mom Stacey Saiontz, a former lawyer, has also committed to using her skills to advocate for legislation to make the world a safer and more inclusive place for people with food allergies. Her 13-year-old son, who has 26 food allergies, has been her driving force.
Mission Accomplished! Stacey Saiontz with family and friends following Governor Cuomo signing a bill giving bus drivers a green light to administer epinephrine in an emergency situation.
Twelve years ago, Saiontz had an idea to create a law that would require all New York State teachers to be trained to recognize a child in anaphylaxis and how to administer an epinephrine auto-injector. While at a child's birthday party whose grandfather was a state senator, she approached the senator with her idea and he encouraged her to draft proposed legislation, which he later sponsored. Sadly, this bill has taken turns getting passed in either the senate or the assembly, but never both. Saiontz continues to push for this Teacher Training Bill (A523), which is currently being sponsored by Assembly member Linda Rosenthal.
She has since advocated, along with other Chappaqua parents, for multiple bills that have passed into law. Senate bill S7262A allows schools to stock epinephrine auto injectors and permits them to be administered in emergency situations without a prescription.
"Many kids try foods at school that they may not know they are allergic to and they can have a reaction. Previously, nurses' hands were tied and they couldn't use an EpiPen on a child without a prescription," explains Saiontz. "A throat can close within seconds to minutes depending on the reaction and waiting for an ambulance could result in death."
Another bill Saiontz helped pass into law, Assembly bill A09334B, allows students to self-carry EpiPens in schools. Thanks to this law, students could carry EpiPens in their backpacks and go to their friends' houses and on their friends' buses with them after school.
A third bill was inspired by Saiontz' son when he was in the 4th grade and really wanted to take the bus but bus drivers were not authorized to administer epinephrine. Saiontz included her son in the whole process, brought him to Albany, and he proposed a law allowing bus drivers to administer epinephrine. Assembly bill A7635A was passed into law.
Saiontz is currently working on restaurant legislation in New York State that would require training of restaurant personnel and adding allergens to the menu. On the federal level, Saiontz and fellow local advocates advocated for the passage of the FASTER (Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research) Act that now requires sesame to be labeled on packaged food.
Saiontz has been bringing her son with her to Albany to advocate since he was 4-years old, along with a group of fellow parents and their kids.
"I don't want him to feel sorry for himself.
I want him to see what he can do to make life better for him and others," emphasizes Saiontz.
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'First Day on the Bus' with Drivers Ready to Help Kids with Allergies
February 12, 2018 by Inside Press
Article and Photos by Grace Bennett
Chappaqua, NY, February 12— For most kids, boarding a bus by the middle of February is a non event. But for two Grafflin elementary school students–Luke Leopold, 5, and Jared Saiontz, 10–it was a milestone filled with excitement, pride and clear joy.
State Assemblyman David Buchwald with Luke and Jared as they boarded a bus for the first time to take them to school.
It was the first time either boy took the school bus–thanks to the passage of new, New York State legislation that authorizes bus drivers who choose to participate to administer life-saving epinephrine to a child undergoing anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction that has a rapid onset and can quickly turn deadly. (Check with your school and your bus company.) The law went into effect today paving the way for safe travel for the two boys, both of whom have food allergies.
New York State Assemblyman David Buchwald, who introduced the bill, escorted Luke and Jared to the bus. Sporting their backpacks with epinephrine-delivering devices clipped onto the back of them, the two boys joined hands sauntering over together to the bus before proudly climbing on board. The bus driver greeted them with a broad smile.
Buchwald later described the moment as "what I live for as a legislator," in that, he said, he could "help youngsters live the life they imagined."
State Senator Terrence Murphy sponsored the bill in the state Senate and Governor Cuomo signed in the law the bill which now allows school bus drivers and others employed by firms providing services to schools to administer epinephrine when a child suffers anaphylaxis shock.
The law, Buchwald explained, allows school kids who have allergies (both food related–1/13 children have food allergies–or due to other causes such as bee stings) to ride the bus in safety. "Previously no responsible adult was authorized to respond." Without a quick response to an unanticipated attack, a child could go into anaphylactic shock and possibly die. The drivers can receive training using the auto injector that delivers epinephrine (known widely by its trade name, the Epi Pen). Kids with allergies keep the device fastened outside their backpacks for immediate access.
Jared's mom, Stacey Saiontz, and Luke's mom, Jackie Leopold saw the kids off too. They had both advocated for passage of the legislation. Stacey recalled a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl whose life was saved by a bus driver administering epinephrine. This morning, she was simply elated. "I'm so excited for Jared and Luke and all the other food allergic children who rode the school bus safely today," she said. "THEY are so excited."
Grace Bennett is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Inside Press.
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Pharmaceutical Executive, Pharmaceutical Executive-04-01-2002,
Ed Calesa knows women-or rather, he understands the female market. After starting his career as marketing research manager for Roche, he co-founded Health Learning Systems in 1971 and pioneered the use of continuing medical education as part of the healthcare promotional mix. There he developed and implemented two of the earliest and most successful initiatives targeting female baby boomers. Launched during the drive for women's liberation in the swingin' seventies, Calesa's campaigns helped open a dialogue between opinion leaders and women, addressing contraception and the use of formula for newborns. During nearly 20 years in that position, he gained an
Ed Calesa knows women-or rather, he understands the female market. After starting his career as marketing research manager for Roche, he co-founded Health Learning Systems in 1971 and pioneered the use of continuing medical education as part of the healthcare promotional mix. There he developed and implemented two of the earliest and most successful initiatives targeting female baby boomers. Launched during the drive for women's liberation in the swingin' seventies, Calesa's campaigns helped open a dialogue between opinion leaders and women, addressing contraception and the use of formula for newborns. During nearly 20 years in that position, he gained an intimate understanding of baby boomer women and the ob/gyns that serve them.
Calesa sold Health Learning Systems in December 1988 to the agency holding company WPP and retired. He continued investing in what he knew-healthcare, particularly in specialty pharma companies. But throughout his years of retirement, he kept thinking about the women he first targeted with birth control and baby formula messages. Now those same women were entering menopause, and their healthcare needs were radically different.
In 1996, Calesa linked menopause, baby boomer women, and ob/gyns in a business concept that became the basis of Women First Healthcare (WFHC). Calesa believes targeting that niche makes compelling dollars and sense. After all, nearly 5,500 women a day turn 50 according to the National Institute on Aging. Although the US Census Bureau estimates that there are 54 million women 45 or older in the United States, that number is expected to grow to 72 million by 2020. As cost-containment became a higher priority for managed care, women began to supplement their primary care physicians and internists visits with gynecological check-ups. And if that wasn't reason enough, it is well documented that women influence the majority of healthcare decisions and spend the majority of healthcare dollars.
After leading WFHC through two years of market research and raising capital, Calesa turned over the reigns to David Hale. Hale spearheaded a series of co-promotional agreements with Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-McNeil for the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) Ortho-Prefest (estradiol/norgestimate) and the birth control pill Ortho Tri-Cyclen (norgestimate/ ethinyl estradiol), and with Bristol-Myers Squibb's anti-cholesterol therapy Pravachol (pravastatin). But before long, WFHC expenses soared to almost twice its revenue. The stock plummeted from its initial offering price of $11 per share in July 1999 to 44 cents a share in October 2000, and NASDAQ sent WFHC a letter stating it was in danger of being delisted. Serious action was needed to keep the company in business.
Calesa took back control of the company, naming a slew of new appointments, including Saundra Childs, who headed up the company's contracting and managed care division as vice-president of pharmaceuticals-forming the foundation of a powerful team. Calesa then changed the business model from co-promotion and licensing to acquisition, enabling him to reorganize the sales staff on its own terms. In doing so, he realigned the company's expenses and revenues.
As CFO Charles Caporale explains, "Co-promotion typically involves a contractually mandated fixed expense, at least in terms of the sales force, and a variable income stream. The combination can be lethal to an organization if the co-promotion product does not produce as expected. Under an acquisition model, the expenses are variable in that the building of a sales and marketing infrastructure can be timed to coincide with revenues, thereby providing a better alignment of expenses and revenues."
Investors' confidence in Calesa began to build when they saw losses cut from $18.7 million in the first half of 2000 to $3.9 million in the second half. From those murky waters sprang the new WFHC, which reported its first profit in the fourth quarter 2001 and is projected to be in the black in 2002. Now, C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, one of four investment houses following the company, expects WFHC to be one of the fastest-growing specialty pharma companies within the next two years.
With Calesa at the helm, WFHC reworked its existing agreements with Ortho-McNeil and acquired Ortho-Est (estropipate). The company also amended an earlier Laboratoires Fournier agreement struck during Hale's tenure that allowed WFHC greater flexibility to sell the HRT Esclim (estradiol) to managed care organizations. The move increased its group purchasing business, which helped catapult the company into the managed care arena. Since then, WFHC has acquired Elan's headache product Midrin (isometheptene, dichloralphenazone, acetaminophen), Roche's Bactrim (trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole) line of antibacterial products, and Wyeth's pain management drugs Synalgos (dihydrocodeine), Equagesic (meprobamate), and Wygesic (propoxyphene and acetaminophen).
By the end of 2002, the company hopes to round out its targeted portfolio by acquiring additional approved prescription products that can be marketed to ob/gyns and nurse practitioners as well as therapies for which women have purchasing influence. Potential products, within that wide net, must fall into the $1-$20 million range and have strong brand name equity, even if they face generic competition. A white paper, "Self-Aware: Women at the Forefront of Healthcare," written by Self's director of marketing and strategic planning Cynthia Walsh, confirms what Calesa already knows-women are willing to pay more for a prescription drug they know and trust.
"We do a very good job of due diligence in acquiring our products," says Childs. "Some people ask why we acquire pharmaceuticals that have generic competition. It's because we know that when we reformulate them, either with a new dosing, an indication, or some kind of line extension, it will return to the market offering an advantage. That will allow us to get on pharmacy benefit managers' (PBM) formularies, which increases product usage."
For that reason, Calesa believes the specialty pharma business model is elegant in its simplicity. To succeed, WFHC must acquire under-promoted products at a reasonable cost, and then market them in ways that will boost sales.
In a Barron's interview, money manager Oscar Schafer explains that WFHC's focused management and targeted niche may allow it to outperform larger pharma companies. Perhaps that is because, while large companies are scrambling to establish expensive programs to become customer-focused, WFHC was born that way.
"Many companies say they are customer-driven, but they are not," says Calesa. "Other companies research and manipulate molecules to come up with products, then figure out how to market them. We started with a blank page and listened to doctors and patients to find out what they need. Next we turned to the experts on our health advisory board and worked to bridge the gap between clinicians' concerns and patients' needs. Then we acquired and licensed those products."
WFHC market research found that women aren't getting what they want-particularly, greater use of natural products and more individualized ways to manage their healthcare. The company's two leading products fill that need: the Ortho-Est pill comes in two doses, the Esclim patch has five formulations, and both are soy-based estrogens. That approach distinguishes it from larger companies, such as Wyeth, which controls 75 percent of the $2.5 billion HRT market. WFHC sales reps bring those differentiated messages to clinicians, breaking through the clutter of information about the benefits and risks of estrogen products.
Test and Treat
Women worry that taking HRT will lead to cancer, so compliance is a problem, according to Childs.
Based on that, the company developed a protocol called "Test and Treat," which WFHC supports through medical education and promotions such as "lunch and learn" events and teleconferences. Test and Treat involves measuring estrogen levels in the blood before prescribing HRT, then testing again after two months to evaluate the treatment's effectiveness. The idea is to minimize side effects by finding the lowest effective dose. Although the protocol is a marketing concept that supports Esclim, the practice is backed as clinically sound by WFHC's health advisory board, made up of opinion-leaders and notable physicians specializing in women's health. Other areas of medicine, such as endocrinology, already use that approach to determine dosing, yet women are traditionally prescribed an empirically determined dose of hormones, usually based on symptoms.
"If a woman is taking too much estrogen, her breasts become tender and she thinks, 'Oh my god, I have breast cancer,' and she stops taking it," says Childs. "We've had so much positive feedback from every doctor who has implemented the Test and Treat concept. Other companies are not talking about the real problem and are saying instead, 'Here's our drug, prescribe it.' We are saying, 'Here is the real issue and a concept to help you fix it.'"
Winning with Managed Care
That fusion of market research, marketing savvy, and science allows WFHC to score big on the managed care front. (See linked article "Lending OTC to DTC.")
In 2002, AdvancePCS, the largest US pharmacy benefit manager, added Esclim to its performance drug list (PDL), making it the smallest company to have a product receive that designation. The PDL is a therapy-specific guide that helps physicians identify cost-effective products. Caremark, another PBM, also added Esclim to its preferred and primary lists of brand name drugs. AdvancePCS and Caremark will promote the listings through their retail network and mail order pharmacies, which should not only increase revenues but also enhance WFHC's efforts to gain access to other managed care groups.
"The PBMs really like the Test and Treat approach," says Childs. "The biggest issue that managed care organizations have is that patients will not be compliant. It's a cost issue for them and a long-term treatment and care issue for patients. Our product not only has very good clinical advantages, but we showed that we want to spend our marketing dollars getting out the Test and Treat message. We believe we can drive business for them, that our sales force is effective, that Test and Treat will keep patients on the product, and that it is favorable to have a product accompanied by the right clinical message. We are now starting in the honeymoon stage with Esclim, and we hope to get into a solid marriage with our other products."
WFHC's "march toward profitability" is one of incredible turnaround, says Calesa. But in eight years of business, its foundation has changed little. Instead of marketing a brand, WFHC continues to brand a market with its approach and name. Through extensive knowledge of what women want and what managed care wants to pay for, the company is distinguishing itself in a space glutted with a surfeit of products and information.
After spending a lifetime reaching toward women, Calesa is confident that WFHC has secured a place within the industry. "In this business, a successful future usually means two things. You generally buy other companies, or other companies buy you. So within five years, we'll be either on the left or the right side of that equation."
Although WFHC uses detailing as its primary selling strategy, it has a unique approach to patient outreach. The company sends the mail order catalogue As We Change, which showcases the company's OTC and health and beauty aids, to more than four million women in the targeted age range. The quarterly catalog drives traffic to AsWe Change.com, where women are invited to click on "Traditional Options." That takes them to WomenFirst.com, where they can learn about prescriptions that treat conditions related to midlife women and menopause. The catalog also asks readers if they are, "interested in comprehensive information from world leading experts and pharmaceutical solutions for women's issues." It then directs women to the WFHC website or to the company's toll-free number.
Notes Calesa, "We do DTC, except we have a way of virtually not paying for it. We sell creams and vitamins and various other products and are doing that at a relatively close-to-break-even scenario. We make information available to women to discuss with their doctor, and we also direct them to the internet site, which brings them back to our pharmaceutical products."


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Unity's Data-Oriented Technology Stack was unveiled in 2017 and it offers incredible performance improvements thanks to three important innovations:
The Entity Component System, which lays out data in the memory in a cache-friendly way.
The Job System, which parallelizes work on multiple CPUs.
The Burst Compiler, which generates super-fast vectorized code using LLVM.
1) Entity Component System
Data-Oriented Design
At the core of Unity DOTS is the concept of data-oriented design. Its goal is to organize data for efficient processing in order to feed data to the CPUs as fast as possible.
Cache Optimization
The processing speed of modern CPUs is so high that often the bottleneck is the bandwidth and latency between the registers of the CPU and the computer's RAM. To counter this problem, CPUs contain several cache levels.
When the CPU needs a value, it first looks it up in the caches before trying to access it from the RAM. The closer a cache is to the registers, the faster it is to access, but the smaller its memory is.
Modern CPUs don't access memory byte-by-byte, but rather in chunks of 64 bytes, which are called cache lines. When trying to read a particular memory location, the entire cache line is fetched, which means that accessing other values from the same cache line is fast. However, if other values in the cache line are not needed for the current computation, a cache miss occurs, which slows down the process significantly. Thus, arranging data in the memory according to its access pattern results in significantly better performance.
Entity Component System
The Entity Component System (ECS) is what applies the data-oriented design paradigm in practice by separating data from logic. It is made up of Entities, Components and Systems.
An entity is an identifier; it doesn't store data or logic, but instead identifies which pieces of data belong together. This contrasts with traditional object-oriented programming, where each entity contains its own data.
A component contains a set of data. It can be attached to an entity, which can also contain other components. Which data is stored in each component depends on how the data is accessed: if two values are always accessed together, they should generally be stored in the same component.
A system provides the logic that transforms component data. It usually contains the functionality of one game aspect (e.g. an hp system would add or remove hit points). Every system defines the components it needs to read and write to.
2) Jobs System
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Fischbrunn ist ein Gemeindeteil der Gemeinde Pommelsbrunn im Landkreis Nürnberger Land (Mittelfranken, Bayern). Das Dorf hat 48 Häuser.

Ortsname
Die Ortsbezeichnung wandelte sich in den historischen Dokumenten von Visprunnen nach Vischprunn über Fischbrvnn zu Fischbrunn. Der Name leitet sich vermutlich von den zahlreichen natürlichen Quellen und den fischreichen Bächen her.

Lage
Das Dorf Fischbrunn liegt wenige Kilometer hinter Eschenbach im Hirschbachtal an der Kreisstraße LAU 30 und der Straße nach Hegendorf.

Geschichte
Funde in den Höhlen am Schwarzen Brand belegen, dass das Hirschbachtal, ein Nebental der Pegnitz, vermutlich schon in der jüngeren Steinzeit von Jägern und Sammlern aufgesucht wurde. An der heutigen Hirschbachtalstraße zwischen Eschenbach und Fischbrunn wurden mehrere Gräber mit Bronzeschmuck von Siedlern, die um 1200 vor Christus dort gelebt haben müssen, gefunden. Vermutlich kamen später die Kelten, dann die Germanen, danach die Franken und Altbayern. Erstmals urkundlich erwähnt wurde Fischbrunn im Jahre 1289 anlässlich der Rückgabe von Lehensgütern an die Turrigl, ritterliche Vasallen der damaligen Gebietsherren, der Schenken von Reicheneck. Im Urbar der Propstei Hersbruck von 1300 werden als Besitz des Klosters Bergen bei Neuburg an der Donau bei "Vischprunn" genannt "4 mansus" (Huben), nach dem Baierischen Salbuch vom Jahr 1326 besaßen Propstei und Vogtei Hersbruck in Fischbrunn vier Huben und ein Lehen (Halbhube). Auch im Böhmischen Salbüchlein Kaiser Karls IV. von 1366/68 wird "Fischbrvnn" erwähnt. Weitere urkundliche Erwähnungen, sämtlich an Kaufvorgänge gebunden, datieren in die Jahre 1409/10. In den Jahren 1518 bis 1528 besaß Hans III. Ebner von Eschenbach zu Fischbrunn einen Hof und zwei Drittel eines Hofes als Parsberger Lehen. Das letzte Drittel war Eigen der Ebner. Im Landshuter Erbfolgekrieg von 1503 bis 1505 kam Fischbrunn dann zusammen mit den umliegenden Gebieten zur Reichsstadt Nürnberg und wurde dem Pflegamt Hersbruck zugeteilt. Nach den Wirren des Dreißigjährigen Krieges und dem Aufstieg Napoléons I. wurde es 1806 mit Nürnberg in das neu geschaffene Königreich Bayern integriert. 1808 formierte sich die Gemeinde Hubmersberg, die auch Fischbrunn einschloss. 1950, bedingt durch den Zustrom von Flüchtlingen, erreichte der Ort seinen höchsten Einwohnerstand mit 182 Personen. Im Zuge der zweiten großen Gebietsreform in Bayern erfolgte am 1. Januar 1972 der Zusammenschluss der Gemeinde Hubmersberg mit der Gemeinde Pommelsbrunn.

Schutzgebiete

Nördlich von Fischbrunn befindet sich der geschützte Landschaftsbestandteil Fischbrunner Anger.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Fischbrunn auf der Website pommelsbrunn.de

Einzelnachweise

Ortsteil von Pommelsbrunn
Ort im Landkreis Nürnberger Land
Dorf
Ersterwähnung 1289

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News Industry 26 Nov 2021
David Willetts appointed BGC Director of Communications and Digital
By Peter Lynch
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has appointed David Willetts as its new Director of Communications and Digital.
He will join in the new year from his current position as Press Secretary to Conservative cabinet minister Ben Wallace and head of ministerial communications at the MoD.
He will be assisted in the role by Deputy Director of Communications and Digital Michael Denoual.
"The BGC is the standards body committed to driving big changes across the regulated betting and gaming industry," said BGC Chief Executive Michael Dugher. "David Willetts is a brilliantly experienced and respected former journalist and communications professional with an outstanding reputation in the media and in government.
"David will be a formidable asset for the BGC. He also joins a strong team which includes the superbly talented Michael Denoual."
Willetts previously worked in journalism for The Sun for over a decade before joining the MoD.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the Betting and Gaming Council and can't wait to get started," said Willetts. "They've already made big strides increasing standards across the industry and I'm looking forward to working with the excellent team to drive that work on."
The BGC earlier this month hailed Safer Gambling Week 2021 - which ran from 1-7 November - as a huge success, generating almost 25 million social media impressions, a 19% increase from 2020.
TAGS: IndustryLegal & Regulatory


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Delhi , known locally as Dilli (Hindi: दिल्ली, Punjabi: ਦਿੱਲੀ, Urdu: دِہلی ), and by the official name National Capital Territory of Delhi . NCT, is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest metropolis by population in India. With more than 12.25 million inhabitants in the territory and with over 15.9 million residents in the National Capital Region area (includes Noida, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad). The name Delhi is often also used to include some urban areas near the NCT, as well as to refer to New Delhi, the capital of India, which lies within the metropolis. The NCT is a federally administered union territory.
The main language spoken is Hindi but English and Punjabi are also widely spoken.
New Delhi was designed by a British architect ( Edwin Lutyens ) to house the government and the city is the capital of India. The city is a blend of modern and traditional, with skyscrapers, temples and beautiful gardens.


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Gracia has fallen under the swing spell! One can't simply come into the Barcelona neighbourhood without being struck by its captivating rhythm. If you walk around Virreina Square, you will get to see some performances in the open air or spy upon schools such as Swing Maniacs. Boys and girls, grannies, youngsters, kids, hipsters, middle-aged parents and teenagers tapping their feet, wearing silky skirts, cutting the hot air with their turns and illuminating the evening with their broad smiles.


So, the links aren't working, for some unknown stupid freaking &$@#% reason. I fixed the links last night, they were working for me then, and now they are doing the same thing as before--adding an extra "www.scottandlori.co.uk" before the link. Gah! I don't know if it's Dreamweaver or what, but I don't normally have problems with things as easy as links. So, for the time being, links are still down, but of course, if you want to see your website broadcasted to the world (the underworld, where dead links go), you can always click on the link and just delete the extraneous web address.
I think we're going to revamp tonight. Too many problems.
Speaking of too many problems.... My life has that.
Marriage vs. Dating: Which Holds More Weight?
There's a young man whom I see every morning on the train. We ride the same train from Greenock to Glasgow, and then the same train from Glasgow into the West End. He's a bit of a ned but is incredibly kind. I've never felt creeped out by him at all, even though he has the look of someone who would usually creep me out. He's very polite and usually gives me an acknowledging nod in the mornings, and if he passes me in the station's lower level, he often makes a polite passing comment like, "These early mornings!" I very much get the impression that he is generally a good man.
This morning, because he does not creep me out and I have no reason to avoid him, I ended up sitting in the same block of seats on the train into the West End. He made his usual passing comment, something about the train in the morning, then he said, "You'd think your boyfriend would drive you into work!"
I was about to correct him and say he is my husband when suddenly a sick realisation came over me. Stating that Scott is my husband might possibly come across as a flirt. What, you may ask? How would that be flirting? The answer is, that in today's society, people stick with their boyfriends because they like them, and they stick with their husbands because they have to. In today's society. That is how the world views marriage. If I let him think Scott is merely my boyfriend, there would be no misunderstanding in my intentions to be polite to the nice guy. However, if I were to inform him that I am married, I suddenly become ambiguous and a bit challenging. People cheat more when they are married than when they are dating.
I did not correct him but went on to explain how Scott has to be at work in Greenock at 8, and I have to be at work in Glasgow at 8, so it works best for me to take the train. Polite conversation ensued, and I alighted at my stop.
This realisation says something horrible about the state marriage is in these days. The realisation was also invoked by the novels I've been reading lately. I've been in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez phase lately, and in all of his books, adultery abounds. Me, in my naiveté, assumed this was all fancy, something to move the plot along. But I am currently reading his autobiography and have discovered that all the desperate housewives offering their "love" to any and all are no mere fancies of an accomplished writer but the raw stuff that imagination is made of. In his own life, for instance, in his adolescence even, he had a many month long affair with a young married woman, who had him in her bed all the nights a week that her husband was away captaining his ship.
The world no longer sees marriage as a holy union which ought to be sacredly protected and nurtured. Marriage has become no more than a prison cell in which the only way to happiness is to sneak through the bars at night in search of other loves, prisoner or free. This view of marriage, of "hammering the nails in the coffin", of "the old ball and chain", all teasing aside, is prevalent in the world today, and it simply breaks my heart.
Before I was married, I couldn't wait to be married so that I would be left alone by the morally deviant men who wander to and fro searching for a woman to pursue (usually in the most unromantic and transparent of ways) and take to bed. A guy in a bar once told me that that's not the way it works, that a wedding ring is no more to a man than a tempting challenge. I thought he was just being cynical, but unfortunately, I believe he was still right.
I Believe In Hell, But How Am I Supposed To Tell You That?
A friend of mine today said out of the blue that she didn't believe in hell. She went on to say that she thinks this life is the hard part that we struggle through, and then in the end we are all forgiven for everything, and we go to heaven where all our hard work is rewarded. I sat a bit stunned for a moment, wondering what to say. In my heart I thought, "Are you just gonna stay quiet knowing if she were to die now she would not be going to heaven?"
I meekly said, "I believe in hell."
"Do you?" she asked. "Well, who knows."
I surprise myself. In some situations, I can be so bold and so outspoken about the Gospel. I love the Gospel, I really do, and I embrace it's offensiveness because it is Truth and the Truth sometimes hurts. Sometimes it's unpleasant (to us) but above all it is Truth which I value highly. I believe God is glorified by everything that He does and we do. But then when someone brings up the awful - namely, in this situation, hell - I clam up. I am terrified. I don't want hell to be true. I can discuss theology all day long about how God is glorified with justice and that is why some go to hell. But deep down, in my finite mind and my imperfect heart, I don't want hell to be true any more than my friend does.
I was at my favourite bar, JR's, one night after hours. I was having a drink with my boss, the owner, whom I still to this day love with all my heart. He knew I was a Christian, as do most people, so after a few drinks he asked me point blank, "Do you think I am going to hell?" Stunned and sober, I paused, thinking frantically, and then finally admitted, "If you never come to know Jesus as your Saviour, then yes." Wade just looked at me incredulously and then laughed, "I don't believe in hell." We talked about the issue a little while longer, the whole time me waiting to be handed my letter of resignation. No firing ensued, but the experience was terrifying. I am eternally grateful to God that I did not chicken out, but the experience hasn't made me any wiser.
I had a similar experience with a person even more adored than my boss. Eleni Mandell, my favourite she singer/songwriter, was in town. We'd met the first time she came to Fayetteville, and we had kept in touch. When she arrived this time, I had pizza with the band and then joined Eleni at the bar for a drink. The subject of her being a Jew came up. I told her I was a Christian, and she said something about Jesus that I can't remember. At any rate, I felt that same panic and that same urgency to just say something, and I ended up having to tell her, too, that those who don't believe in Jesus will not find themselves in heaven. She didn't take it too well, but she assured me she appreciated my honesty, etc... The whole night I felt sick; I'd basically just told my favourite musician she was going to hell.
This business is hard for me. I'm not good at it. I don't have a conclusion other than to say that I imagine the Christians reading this will sympathize, and the rest of you will think a little less of me for believing in hell. I feel so inadequate.
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The 2009 Speedway Grand Prix was the 64th edition of the official World Championship and the 15th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, deciding Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme Speedway World Championship. It is the third series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company.

Qualification
For the 2008 season, there was the 15 permanent riders, to be joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.

2008 Grand Prix

The top eight riders from the 2008 championship qualified as of right. These eight qualifiers are, in championship order:

  (1) Nicki Pedersen
  (2) Jason Crump
  (3) Tomasz Gollob
  (4) Greg Hancock
  (5) Hans Andersen
  (6) Leigh Adams
  (7) Andreas Jonsson
  (8) Rune Holta

Grand Prix Challenge

The top eight riders from the 2008 championship were joined by three riders who qualified via the Grand Prix Challenge. These riders are, in order by qualifying position:

  (12) Kenneth Bjerre
  (13) Grzegorz Walasek
  (14) Sebastian Ułamek

Nominations

The final four riders were nominated by series promoters, Benfield Sports International, following the completion of the 2008 season. Riders were nominated after the season ended on October 28, 2008.

  (9) Scott Nicholls
  (10) Fredrik Lindgren
  (11) Chris Harris
  (15) Emil Sayfutdinov

Permanent riders

Calendar
Calendar is confirmed.

Final classification

See also
 motorcycle speedway

References

External links
 SpeedwayWorld.tv – SGP news

2009
World Individual


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Angela Bulloch. Anima Vectorias
Angela Bulloch emerged in the late 80s from the Young British Artist scene of Goldsmith's College in London, and has since worked with a variety media to engage the relation of our behavior and perception to systems, spaces, and abstractions. After having shown regularly in Portugal for over a decade, Bulloch was commissioned by MAAT / Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology to close the cycle of exhibitions for this year's museum program. Anima Vectorias, the artist's first large-scale museum exhibition in Portugal, presents aspects of her long-term research and collaboration project in the fields of experimental music, sculpture, computation, and digital composition. Bulloch has utilized new digital technologies and visual modeling to create a series of works exploring blurred distinctions between the physical, digital, and virtual. Anima Vectorias is an immersive and multi-sensory experience, engaging the viewer with a series of moments in which various objects, archetypes, sounds, geometries and avatars coexist and interact – as shadows, doubles, and mirror images.
Richard Frater / Off Season
Jan 28 – Apr 23, 2023
Richard Frater develops his artworks departing from the built environment and the fragile nature inherent to the relations between organisms. For his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe (more…)
I Remember Nothing
Ekaterina Anchevskaya
In the midst of chaos we hunt for dreams. It blends together. Their memories became my memories. Once-present. A personal story of search and encounters, of escape and returning.
Autumn is a second spring
Deeply into fall now, falling back an hour, "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." –Camus. Recently celebrating our Anniversary and setting up base in the eternal city of Rome, Artpil enters into its second spring. (more…)
Philippe Van Snick: Dynamic Project
Oct 22, 2022 – Mar 5, 2023
S.M.A.K.
Ghent, Belgium
Dynamic Project showcases the wide-ranging oeuvre of Philippe Van Snick (Ghent, 1946 – Brussels, 2019). The exhibition is structured around ten clusters, a reference to the decimal system (0-9) that is intrinsic to Philippe Van Snick's work. (more…)
A Maresia
Females, a Sicilian Story II
Jeanne, Leading a Transhumance


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Steve Schapiro remembers David Bowie, his muse
January 17, 2016	| Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
David Bowie in his dressing room while filming "The Man Who Fell to Earth" in 1975.
(Steve Schapiro)
The Chicago Tribune
By Rick Kogan
World-renowned photographer Steve Schapiro, who moved to Chicago with his wife, Maura, in 2007, has in his lengthy career taken millions of photos, many of them collected in stunning books.
He is in his early 80s, and the list of his subjects is almost surreal in its breadth: Marlon Brando, Robert Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Martin Luther King Jr., Chevy Chase (Schapiro and his wife are the godparents of the actor's daughter), Jerry Garcia, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Johnny Depp, Mae West, Satchel Paige, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Ike and Tina Turner (together), Buster Keaton, Richard Pryor, Sophia Loren … It goes on.
He also shot David Bowie. One of his photos was used for the cover of 2014's "Nothing Has Changed" and, in the wake of the artist's death, Schapiro remembered:
"It was 1974 when I first photographed David. From the moment he arrived, we seemed to hit it off. He was incredibly intelligent, calm, and filled with ideas.
"He talked a lot about Aleister Crowley, whose esoteric writings he was heavily into at the time. And when he heard that I had photographed Buster Keaton, one of his heroes, we talked about him and immediately became friends.
"Our first session started at four in the afternoon. David would come out in incredible costumes, each seemingly turning him into a different person. I would raise my camera to shoot and he would say, 'Wait just a minute, I have to fix something,' and 20 minutes later he would come out in a totally different outfit.
"We decided to do a close portrait on a dark green background because we felt it would make the worst possible color for a magazine cover. We laughed about it, but eventually it did become a cover for People magazine (in September of 1976).
A portrait of David Bowie, taken by Steve Schapiro.
"That session lasted from four in the afternoon to four in the morning, and the last photograph of David was on his bike, lit by the headlights of a car.
"Over these many years I would find photos of David in my files, photos that I had totally overlooked, unexpected and pleasant surprises. Working with an amazingly talented person can be collaborative, often unspoken. The photographs I took were David's ideas, brought from his imagination into the real world. I was merely the conduit from genius into the light of day."
Steve Schapiro's photographs of David Bowie are included in the exhibition "The Broke The Mold", on view through February 7, 2016.
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