BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (Nov. 27, 2010) – The U.S. Women's National Team defeated Italy 1-0 in front of more than 9,000 fans in the second match of a two-leg playoff series to win 2-0 on aggregate and earn the sixteenth and final berth to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The USA had won the first leg, 1-0, in Padova, Italy on Nov. 20 on a late goal from Alex Morgan.
"(After the loss to Mexico in CONCACAF Qualifying), the locker room was disappointed and sad but it didn't take long to be like 'Ok, we need to take a different road to the World Cup' and look at it in a positive way," said U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage. "The last thing I said in pregame today was that the glass is half full. It's been a bumpy road, but we need to enjoy it and it will take us all the way to Germany."
The only goal of the game at Toyota Park came off the foot of Amy Rodriguez in the 40th minute after a nice build-up down the left wing. Megan Rapinoe created the scoring opportunity with a brilliant dribbling run, first cutting into the middle before faking a shot and cutting back in the penalty area.
She then smacked an angled shot that Italian goalkeeper Anna Picarelli knocked down, but couldn't hold. Rodriguez was first to the rolling ball, sliding bravely to pound it into the roof of the net from six yards.
The Americans weathered a poor first 20 minutes in which several giveaways in the defensive third led to dangerous Italian chances, but as it did during the entire match and two-leg series, the U.S. defense held strong. The USA out-shot Italy 17-5 for the match and if not for several excellent saves from Picarelli, the outcome would have been decided much earlier.
Italy's three best chances of the game came in the eighth, 15th and 33rd minutes, the first coming when Carolini Pini had a wide open shot from 12 yards but struck a weak attempt right at U.S. goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart. The other chance came off a quickly taken short corner that ended with a cross flashing dangerously in front of the U.S. net, but no Italian could get a piece of the ball.
The final Italian chance of the first half came after a miscommunication between Barnhart and defender Rachel Buehler at the top of the U.S. penalty area. It looked momentarily as if the Italians would have a shot at an open net before American defenders recovered to diffuse the situation.
Rodriguez was dangerous through her speed during the entire match. In the seventh minute she burst behind the defense into the left side of the penalty area but chose to cross instead of shoot and her pass found no takers at the far post. In the 17th minute, she did well to make room for a cross from the left side, but it sailed over Abby Wambach's head.
The USA created several dangerous opportunities on mid-range free kicks against the 5-foot-4 Picarelli, who managed to get a fist on the services, but not enough to clear them out of danger. However, the U.S. team couldn't get to any of the rebounds before the Italians managed to clear.
As the game wore on the 5-foot-11 Wambach started to impose herself on the Italian defenders. She dug out a ball deep in the left corner of the goal box in the 31st minute and crossed to the far post, but Heather O'Reilly got bodied off the play by a defender before she could strike it home.
In stoppage time of the first half, Wambach ran under a long ball and got in on a breakaway. With a defender draped on her back, she fired a left-footed shot from just above the penalty spot, but Picarelli closed the angle well and made the save.
The USA controlled almost the entire second half as Italy managed just one shot in the second 45 minutes and the Americans could have effectively ended the match twice in the first few minutes after the break.
In the 48th minute, Wambach spun off a player at the top of the box and slid to play a square pass to Rapinoe who had an open shot from 16 yards, but she knocked it over the bar and into the stands.
Just seconds later, Wambach pulled off a diving header off a cross from Rodriguez, but it was pushed away spectacularly by the flying Picarelli.
U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage sent on Lauren Cheney in the 59th minute, putting her up top and shifting Rodriguez to left midfield. Seconds later Cheney hit the crossbar after latching onto a free ball in the right side of box. Outside back Ali Krieger was the second and last substitute of the match, playing the last 15 minutes in place of Heather Mitts.
Picarelli, an American from the Los Angeles area whose dad is of Italian heritage and who played her college soccer at Pepperdine University, was solid in goal once again, making eight saves to keep the match close.
The matches against Italy marked the first time the U.S. Women have participated in a playoff to qualify for a FIFA Women's World Cup, having advanced directly from the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in each previous attempt.
With the USA's qualification, the 16-team field for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup is now set. The qualifiers are: host Germany, Korea DPR, Japan and Australia from Asia and Sweden, Norway, France and England from Europe, New Zealand from Oceania, the USA, Canada and Mexico from CONCACAF, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea from Africa and Brazil and Colombia from South America.
The USA will now await the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final Draw which will take place on Monday, Nov. 29 in Frankfurt, Germany to find out its first round opponents in what will be the sixth Women's World Cup tournament.
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup will take place from June 26-July 17 in nine venues across Germany: Berlin, Frankfurt, Mönchengladbach, Sinsheim, Wolfsburg, Augsburg, Bochum, Dresden and Leverkusen.
Venue: Toyota Park; Bridgeview, Ill.


Multiple Teams · Apr 20 Hawks celebrate NLI Signing Day!!!
Isabella Boccia – Lindenburg Univ.
*Note: Faeb 1 is the official Signing Day for 4 of our sports, and April 12 is the official Signing Day for the other 20 sports. April 12 was during our spring break and some students were still undecided prior to then, so we held out ceremony on April 18 to allow all decisions to be final.


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2011 inflows break historic records, begin to subside
August 24th, 2011 by Wyoming Livestock Roundup
"I always look forward to August," says Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec) Wyoming Area Manager John Lawson as 2011's record inflows into the state's river systems begin to come to an end.
"We're in the throes of reducing our releases above Pathfinder Reservoir, and we're also attempting to reduce releases below Pathfinder, because inflows have dropped off to the extent that we're comfortable reducing," says Lawson.
Pathfinder's level was beginning to come down in late July, and Lawson says he expects its spill to cease by July 31.
"We're lowering the reservoir's level, and it'll be the longest we've ever spilled," says Lawson. "We started spilling in May, and spilled through the entire months of June and July."
The Pathfinder spill in 2010 stopped by mid-July.
"Compared to what we were getting, today's inflows aren't significant, but we're still getting a considerable amount," notes Lawson. "Today's inflows are a lot higher than we'd normally expect, and they're still coming at a pretty good rate."
Natural Resources Conservation Service Water Supply Specialist Lee Hackleman says that he continued the Monday Morning Snow Reports several weeks longer than usual, just to show people the changes in snow water equivalent, or SWE.
As of late July, Hackleman says all the NRCS SNOTEL sites are melted out. "Grand Targhee melted out over the weekend of July 23, and that was the last one to go, but there's still considerable snow above those sites, and some of that probably won't melt out this year," he says, adding that some of the glacier areas might build this year.
"We were projecting some 300-percent runoffs in some places, and I'm not sure if we'll end up getting that or not," says Hackleman. "Time will tell, but we're definitely getting 200-plus in a lot of places."
Of navigating the challenging situation indicated by Hackleman's office beginning in February, Lawson says his office managed through it very well, and Glendo Reservoir, in the North Platte River's lower reach, didn't reach the levels anticipated by BuRec.
"This year Glendo was about four feet lower than last year, and a lot of that is attributed to two things – we didn't get the inflow in the lower reach that we were afraid we might, and actions taken by the Wheatland Irrigation District early on made room in their reservoirs for Laramie River runoff, which allowed us to continue to release higher flows out of Glendo during June than we did last year," explains Lawson. "We benefitted on both ends."
Lawson says last year's inflows between Pathfinder and Glendo were 300,000 acre-feet, while this year they were in the neighborhood of 190,000 acre-feet.
Of the happy ending to record snowpack in the region and its flooding potential, Lawson says the early decisions made by BuRec paid off, and weather conditions also helped.
"We had record inflow into Seminoe Reservoir – we forecast 1,950,000 acre-feet, and it looks like we'll have over 1,970,000 acre-feet this year," says Lawson, noting the previous record was 1,550,000 acre-feet. "We exceeded the record from 1983/1984 by over 400,000 acre-feet."
"We really didn't have as high of a peak flow as last year, but we had a lot more," he adds. "By coming out slower, that gave us more time to keep evacuating, so we were helped there. We had good decisions made by Reclamation, and Mother Nature did cooperate, considering what she was trying to do to us."
"We're feeling pretty good about it, particularly for all those people who could have been affected," he notes.
Of the other major reservoirs in the state, Lawson says Buffalo Bill in Park County also exceeded all inflow records.
"We're anticipating we'll probably have an inflow around 1,240,000 acre-feet, which far exceeds anything in our recent history," says Lawson. "We managed to get through that without any flooding downstream on the Shoshone River."
Lawson says avoiding the flooding was a result of keeping Buffalo Bill and Boysen reservoirs at levels the public though were too extremely low early on.
"We got input from people implying we were mis-operating and would never fill those reservoirs. Fortunately they were down, because we needed every bit of space," says Lawson. "We got up to releases of 8,400 cubic feet per second out of Buffalo Bill, and that's the highest release we've made since modification in 1994."
Lawson says Boysen was in the flood control pool, but levels are now starting to subside.
"We're now on the downside, and we're reducing releases out of both Boysen and Buffalo Bill, and we anticipate getting out of the flood control pool at Boysen no later than the second week of August," he explains. "Things turned out rather well, considering the kind of inflows and snowpack we had."
Planning for the 2011 inflows began in Fall 2010, after the agency was surprised by record inflows the previous spring.
"We went into this year with far better planning for something like this, and last year we made the decision to reduce our total storage in the North Platte system down to two million acre-feet, and that required us to evacuate water toward the end of the water year in September," explains Lawson. He says his office will take the same approach this fall. "We're targeting two million acre-feet again as the ending amount, and we're on track for that."
Beginning in February again, BuRec will start to watch and evaluate the snowpack conditions very closely to decide how soon to begin to release water from the system, much like they did earlier this year.
Of whether or not the last two springs indicate any sort of a trend, Lawson says he doesn't know that anybody is willing to step off that cliff and make a prediction.
Christy Martinez is managing editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at christy@wylr.net.
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Top 5 Highest Paid Players In The UEFA Champions League
The Champions League is a football competition organized by the Union of European Football Clubs. It is not just the world's most popular football game, but also the most popular league in Europe. The UEFA Champions League is an annual club football competition arranged by the Union of European Football Clubs. Let's take a look at the top five highest-paid players in the UEFA Champions League.
The UEFA Champions League was established in 1955. It reached its 67th season in 2021–22, marking the 67th season of UEFA's international football club. Finally, the participating teams for each association are determined by the association ranking, which is based on UEFA association ratings.
Club Name
Lionel Messi Paris-Saint Germain €126 million
Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United €54.36 million
Neymar Paris-Saint Germain €36.7 million
Luis Saurez Atletico Madrid €34.8 million
Antoine Griezmann Atletico Madrid €34.8 million
Player's Earning
1. Lionel Messi
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Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987, in Barcelona, Spain. He is an Argentine professional football player who not only plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain but also as captain of the Argentina national team. He is also known as Leo Messi. Messi is one of the highest-paid players in the world and one of the greatest players of all time. Furthermore, he has not only won a record seven Ballon d'Or trophies but also a record six European Golden Shoes. He was also selected for the Ballon d'Or Dream Team in 2020.
Messi was born and lived in central Argentina before moving to Spain at the age of 13. He started his playing career in October 2004 at the age of 17. Afterward, he joined the French club Paris Saint-Germain on August 10. He agreed to a two-year contract through June 2023. He got a record seventh Ballon d'Or on November 29. Then scored 40 goals at the club and international level in the calendar year and helped Argentina win the Copa America in 2021. Furthermore, he scored a hat-trick in Argentina's 3–0 home win against Bolivia in a 2022 qualifying match. Due to his tiny size, Messi has a lower height than taller players, which gives him better movement.
2. Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985, in Brazil. He began his senior club career at the age of 18 in 2003. Again he started his senior international carrier at the age of 18 in 2003.
He is a professional football player from Portugal who not only plays as a striker in the Premier League but is also captain of the Portugal national team. He has won four European Golden Shoes and 32 trophies. Furthermore, he won seven league crowns, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship, and one UEFA Nations League. Finally, he scored twice in Portugal's opening Euro match in 2021. He won over 180 caps which earned him the country's greatest player.
On February 5, 1992, Neymar was born. He is a Brazilian professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain as well as the Brazil national team. Neymar is one of the world's greatest players. He started his professional playing carrier at 17 years old. Off the field, Neymar is considered one of the world's most famous athletes. Finally, in 2012 and 2013, SportsPro named him the most tradable athlete in the world, and ESPN named him the world's fourth-most famous athlete in 2016.
In 2017, Time magazine named him to its annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. Neymar was the world's third highest-paid footballer in 2018 by France Football. The following year, Forbes ranked him as the world's third highest-paid athlete. Finally, he joined Brazil's 23-man team for Copa America in 2019. On September 9, 2021, Again he scored the second goal in Brazil's 2–0 win against Peru, becoming the country's all-time leading scorer in FIFA World Cup qualification matches, with 12 goals.
4. Luis Saurez
Luis Suarez is an Uruguayan football player who plays for the Spanish club. Again he is one of the greatest attackers of all time. In 2005, he started his professional playing carrier with Nacional. He has won nineteen major trophies, also seven league titles, and a UEFA Champions League at the club level. Furthermore, he won two European Golden Shoes, a Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot, and the Pichichi Trophy. He has scored over 500 goals for club and country in his career.
Manager Tabarez included him in Uruguay's final 23-man team for the 2019 Copa America in Brazil. Finally, he scored the first goal on October 8, 2020. Again, his powerful shot provides scoring opportunities, and his FIFA biography describes him as having "amazing technical skill."
5. Antoine Griezmann
On March 21, 1991, Antoine Griezmann was born. He is a French professional footballer who plays not only as a forward for the La Liga club AS Monaco but also as the France national team. Griezmann is a talented player noted for his attacking ability. He started his senior club career with Real Sociedad. Further, Griezmann was the subject of a record association football transfer in 2019 when he went to rivals Barcelona in a €120 million deal, making him the fifth-most expensive player in history. Finally, he won a Copa del Rey there in 2021, becoming the club's fourth-highest all-time top goalscorer.
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ST. LOUIS, April 4, 2014 – Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA), a leading global life reinsurer, has been named to Forbes magazine's inaugural 2014 "America's 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies" list.
This new list, which includes only banks and insurance companies, was compiled for Forbes by GMI Ratings (GMI), a company that provides research coverage of the environmental, social, governance and accounting-related risks affecting the performance of public companies. GMI, which also produces the "America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies" list for Forbes, developed its list of candidates for the new list by assessing specific accounting and governance factors for publicly traded banks and insurance companies in North America. The factors were then used to develop the AGR ("Aggressive Accounting and Governance Risk") scores for each company.
RGA's average AGR score of 95 of a possible 100 for the past four quarters indicates consistent, strong fundamental values of conservative accounting, transparency and sound corporate governance and management practices.
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA), one of the largest global life reinsurance companies in the world, provides clients with individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, health reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting and product development. The company serves clients from operations in Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Worldwide, RGA has approximately $2.9 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of $39.7 billion.


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2019 Fall Conference Highlights
THE ART OF STORYTELLING
2019 Conference Coordinator: Kathleen Sweet
Conference Presentations / REsources
OCTOBER 10: Pre-Conference
OCTOBER 11 & 12: Conference
The Art of Storytelling - The act of storytelling has been around long before recorded history. From cave paintings to teaching children to read picture books today, we have been engaging the imagination through stories throughout history. Stories have been critical in our communities and lives as a way to help us remember our history. Stories teach, entertain and inspire us.
FRIDAY KEYNOTE: Monica Leo
SATURDAY KEYNOTE: Edwin Gil
FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & SESSION DESCRIPTIONS HERE
HOTEL & THINGS TO DO IN DECORAH
MONICA LEO
Monica Leo is a first generation American, born to German refugees in the waning days of World War Two. After the war, her parents ordered a set of hand puppets from a German craftswoman, and Monica was hooked. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Monica studied for two years at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, Germany with Josef Beuys.
Since 1974, she has been the sole puppet creator and lead puppeteer of Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre, headquartered in West Liberty, Iowa, and touring nationally and internationally. From 1975 through 2006, she worked with artistic partner Teri Jean Breitbach. The two performed exclusively as a duo until the 1990's, when they began to incorporate musicians and other puppeteers. In addition to creating all of the puppets and scenery for Eulenspiegel productions, Monica Leo also makes dolls, creates block prints, and writes about puppetry in the Midwest for The Puppetry Journal, a national magazine published by Puppeteers of America.
EDWIN GIL
Edwin Gil is an avid social activist and uses his art to bridge cultures and diverse groups living in the U.S. His Con 'A' de Arte (A For Art) and Art Si (Art Yes) through the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, connects youth and promotes art as a vehicle to affect positive change in the community. Gil's Home Sweet Home project achieved critical acclaim by actively involving the children of the Charlotte school system in the creation of a giant mural. As a result of this project, Gil met with then Senator of New York and current Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and presented her with one of his paintings.
Edwin has overcome numerous obstacles to become one of America's premier Latino Artists. In his Faces of Diversity Project, Edwin shares his story of triumph and how it helped shape his idea of social awareness through art. Edwin takes you on his journey across Europe with his Nuestra Bandera, Nuestro Pais, Nuestro Hogar (Our Flag, Our Country, Our Home) project with images and music as he tells the stories of the more than 25,000 people who participated in his global art project. Most recently, Edwin toured North Carolina with his Flag of Hope collecting handprints, stories and memories to make the nation's first ever flag made with the handprints of North Carolinians. With these types of adventures behind him, Edwin is sure to motivate and spread his message of hope to all that encounter this feel good presentation.
Thank you to our conference sponsor,
Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Malaria (GF) was launched in 2001 in the context of the AIDS pandemic and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Thanks in large part to key design principles (DPs), the GF public-private partnership has played a major role in advancing public health science and in scaling up and strengthening evidence-based public health efforts in developing countries. As world leaders prepare to advance international development finance at the July 2017 Group of 20 (G20) Summit, we suggest the GF as a template for funding research, development, and scale-up of interventions in both health and non-health areas of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which replaced MDGs in 2016.


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Research: attitudes to health and wellbeing
By Debbie Lovewell-Tuck	 1st June 2009 3:09 pm 3rd November 2015 6:21 pm
Most employers are keen to improve staff health and welfare, but are feeling the pressure to keep benefits costs down, says Debbie Lovewell
Overall, employers believe they have a role to play in looking after employees' wellbeing. This view has remained fairly consistent over the past decade. In our healthcare research conducted in 2000, 82% of employers felt they had a social or moral obligation to help staff stay healthy. Nine years on, we find a much smaller proportion of respondents feel they should be responsible for promoting wellness among the UK population. This year, 54% of employers say they should be responsible for this; that figure was 49% in 2005, and 57% two years ago.
When it comes to promoting staff wellbeing, employers believe the medical profession or National Health Service and the government should take responsibility. This has changed little over the past five years, with employers consistently placing both entities above themselves when it comes to shouldering responsibility for the health of the UK population. But for any messages about health and wellbeing to have an impact, individual employees must want to make changes to their lifestyle.
It is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents feel individuals should be responsible for improving their own wellbeing. Ensuring they are aware of the benefits of doing so and how they can go about it is key to any wellbeing strategy. Although the government and medical profession can pass on information on a wide scale, employers are ideally placed to help their workforce make day-to-day changes to their lifestyle and identify any problem areas.
And many appear willing to do so. Respondents' priorities in this area have changed little in recent years. This year, the top three steps employers think they should encourage staff to take – achieving a sensible work-life balance, reducing stress and keeping fit – are the same as those cited by respondents in our 2005 research.
Helping staff to remain both mentally and physically well is likely to become even more of a priority during the recession as many organisations battle to survive, in many cases with an already reduced workforce.
There has been quite a shift in employers' top priorities in providing health benefits over the past 10 years. Improving the health and welfare of staff and reducing sickness absence have both risen up the agenda, while being seen as a caring employer and improving staff retention have declined in importance. Back in our 2000 health research, for example, getting staff back to work (77%) and being seen as a caring employer (76%) were respondents' top two priorities. This year, just 35% and 34%, respectively, cite these as key priorities.
Over the past five years, however, employers' top three priorities have not changed, although there has been a shift in the importance attached to each. For example, in our 2004 survey, reducing absence and getting staff back to work as soon as possible were priorities for 47% and 44%, respectively. This year, 55% prioritise sickness absence and 35% prioritise getting staff back to work quickly. This suggests employers are putting greater emphasis on overall absence strategies with the aim of having fewer staff off sick long term.
Many employers appear to be meeting their aims, which suggests they are getting value from their healthcare spend. More than half (55%) say their healthcare benefits have helped to improve staff health and welfare, and 51% say they have helped them to be seen as a caring employer. Almost half say their healthcare perks have reduced sickness absence and helped staff return to work as soon as possible.
One-fifth also say their healthcare strategy has helped them control costs, which is likely to become an even greater consideration for many in the recession.
The recession is inevitably prompting employers to examine all areas of their benefits spend, looking for where they can make savings or control costs. More than half (54%) of respondents say they will be under more pressure to cut costs, and 12% say it will be harder to justify the cost of health perks. It can be difficult to prove a tangible return on investment (ROI) on some of the softer wellbeing perks, so HR and reward professionals may have to look for ways to cut costs to better demonstrate the perks' value.
Boosting employee appreciation and takeup of perks is key to maximising their value for employers. Communicating benefits to raise awareness can therefore help employers to boost their ROI, so it is perhaps unsurprising that 24% say they will have to communicate more in order to obtain value.
Savings can be made in a number of areas when procuring healthcare perks without needing to cut the benefits offered to staff. With providers currently vying for business, reviewing the market, rebroking insurance perks and reviewing the fees or commission paid to brokers or advisers can often help employers to secure a better deal and get more for their money. However, organisations must be wary of advisers who are simply looking to churn business to earn commission from providers and employers.
One-quarter of respondents say the recession will have no impact on their healthcare spend. Perhaps this group is satisfied that they are getting the best possible deal on their healthcare provision and recognise the value of investing in employee health and wellbeing.
But many brokers point out that there is complacency in the market, with many employers spending more than they need to.
Not surprisingly, cost is by far the most important factor influencing employers' decisions on whether to buy, or continue to offer, healthcare benefits. This has always been a key consideration for employers, particularly in terms of obtaining value for money and a good ROI, but the current economic climate has heightened the need to do so.
Many organisations have had to cut staff numbers because of the recession, and now face the urgent need to motivate and retain their remaining employees if they are to survive the economic storm with the talent necessary to build the business back up again on the other side. This may be why employee demand is behind 44% of respondents' decisions to offer or buy healthcare perks.
Meanwhile, just under half (49%) say they buy or offer benefits because healthcare providers offer them. Competition is currently keen among healthcare providers, which has prompted some of them to introduce extras to their product offerings at apparently little, or no, extra cost to employers. This can enable employers to extend their package for staff, and influence their decision to select a particular product or provider.
Click on the links below for more sections:
Research: who are the respondents; key findings
Research: the package
Research: what impact health and wellbeing perks have on sickness absence
Research: strategies to deal with employee stress
Research: healthcare costs and calculating return on investment
Research: how employers deal with legislation change
Sony Pictures uses Angels and Demons film to communicate perks
Safeguarding personal employee data must be a priority
Employee Benefits Live: Conference offers perfect opportunity to hear expert views on benefits strategy
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A review and estimation of the financial implications of livestock predation in South Africa
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End of an era: Valuable Volksblad Sports Collection donated to the National Museum
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Figure 1: An inyanga in her ndumba, a sacred hut used for healing. On the shelves are her mutis (medicine). (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Traditional medicine practice is deep-rooted in African cultures. Approximately 80% of southern Africa's population relies on medicinal plants for its primary health care needs because modern medicine is either unobtainable or prohibitively expensive.
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Archaeology is the study of the ancient and recent human past through their material remains obtained through systematic excavation and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations through various evidence such as settlement layout, burials, funerary remains, and human (including hominid) skeletal remains. In this way they gain insight into the ideal environments for a pandemic to get a foothold and the strategies that earlier societies adopted to deal with it.
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Pandemics have literally plagued the world for millennia and will continue to do so due to the simple concept of evolution. Contemporary viruses reflect evolution ranging from the RNA[1] world to the DNA[2]-protein world. Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on earth and are present everywhere, from our environment to every living being in it. A virus has the ability to combine with another and form a completely new virus to which we have no defense.
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This altered book Christmas tree is very easy to make from an old paperback novel. The method used to make it is very similar to this Paperback Snowman and Paperback Pumpkin.
Choose a paperback book with a strong spine and remove the covers.
Slice the spine with a sharp knife to separate the first 30 pages. This will make the first half of the tree.
Begin folding the pages, as shown in the Photo 1, at right. First, fold the top right corner toward the spine to form a right angled triangle.
Fold the triangle toward the spine again, as shown in Photo 2.
The bottom edge of the page will overhang the bottom of the book.
Fold the overhanging triangle at the bottom of the book back up to form a straight line along the the bottom of page, as shown in Photo 3.
Repeat with all thirty pages and set aside.
Use the knife to slice another 30 pages from the book. Turn this section so the spine is on the right, rather than left. Repeat the steps above to create a mirror image.
Glue the two halves of the Christmas tree together and add a wooden star at the top.
Spray paint the tree all over. You may need two or three coats for complete coverage.
Hi,Ellie, I'm sorry you feel that way. This is an older project and the photos are a little small. When I find time, I'll try to replace them with larger pictures and perhaps that will help.


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ESG roundup: ESG drives insurer-asset manager tie-up
By Susanna Rust2017-11-07T14:57:00+00:00
Spanish insurer MAPFRE is acquiring a 25% stake in French investment boutique La Financière Responsable (LFR) in what the organisations described as a "strategic ESG-driven partnership".
The arrangement gives MAPFRE a stake in LFR and LFR access to MAPFRE's global network. LFR managed funds will be offered through MAPFRE's Luxembourg platform or directly to institutional investors.
LFR currently has €147m of assets under management.
MAPFRE's investment in LFR was "a major endorsement" of the French boutique's methodology for valuing stocks, according to a statement. This involves analysing more than 120 environmental, social or governance (ESG) indicators for 160 Eurozone companies using information provided directly by the companies, as opposed to secondary research.
MAPFRE chief investment officer José Luis Jiménez said: "The new relationship offers MAPFRE Group and our asset management company, MAPFRE AM, a real opportunity to play a part in the CSR debate."
Companies getting more serious about water
Company boards are beginning to take water security more seriously, according to new research.
In 2017, 520 companies (70%) that responded to questions about freshwater resources from CDP, an environmental data and campaign group, had board-level oversight of water issues. The organisation said water security now had "a firm seat at the table" at these companies' boards.
However, only a small group of 53 companies (7%) were putting an internal price on water that accounted for its social and environmental costs and benefits, according to CDP's report. Slightly more – 16% – saw higher water prices as a potential risk.
CDP reported that 418 companies (56%) had set water targets or goals, although the majority were still short-term in nature and did not "adequately account for the sustainable thresholds of the basins upon which companies rely".
Overall, three times as many companies (73) made the organisation's "A-list" for global water management in 2017 compared to last year.
CDP launched its concept of water disclosure in 2009. At the time it had 137 investors signed up to its request for water-related information, and 175 companies responding. This year CDP asked 4,653 of the largest global companies to provide data and 2,025 companies responded, up from 1,432 last year. Its research report presented an analysis of this year's water response data from a sample of 742 of the world's largest publicly-listed companies.
More investors have signed on to CDP's programme, too. Today CDP acts on behalf of 639 institutional investors, representing $69trn (€60trn) in assets.
Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the assets of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, said it was pleased to see CDP reaching significantly more companies regarding water disclosure.
"Observing the steady increase in the number of reporting companies, we are now hoping to see more firms disclose targets and metrics addressing water management, rendering disclosure more meaningful for us as shareholders," it said.
Diesel bans: a tough sell
Bans on diesel cars in various countries and cities could prevent car manufacturers from meeting emissions targets and avoid fines, according to analysis by MSCI.
Most carmakers rely on fuel-efficient diesel fleets to meet strict emissions standards in the EU, according to Arne Philipp Klug, an analyst at MSCI.
He said all carmakers apart from Toyota were at risk of missing regulatory targets for fleet emissions in 2021 and that declining vehicle sales could increase the risk of fines.
Diesel is dominant in German carmarkers' fleets, accordin to Klug, but Volkwagen would not be affected much compared with Daimler and BMW. This was because there was a "marginal gap between the fuel efficiency of VW's petrol and diesel fleets", according to Klug.
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Age Group Senior Weightlifting Age 28 (Born 1991)
Coach Samuel Steel
VWA Open incl Masters GP 4 73.60 55 80 135 17/09/2016 163.291 I
VWA Open incl Masters GP1 68.55 55 0 0 11/02/2017 0.000 UNGRADED
Victorian Senior Championships 67.97 55 78 133 8/04/2017 166.787 H
VWA Open & Master GP 2 68.74 (+12) 67 (+5) 85 (+17) 152 12/05/2018 189.435 G
Victorian Senior & Junior Championships 68.95 (+3) 70 (+-85) 0 0 14/07/2018 0.000 UNGRADED
Victorian Masters Championships/Masters GP1 & VWA Open 70.65 67 84 151 17/02/2019 185.434 G
Victorian Senior Championships* 70.75 70 83 (+1) 153 7/04/2019 187.749 G
Geelong Senior/Masters League 2 70.60 70 0 0 1/06/2019 0.000 UNGRADED
VWA Open incl Masters GP1 68.55 55 55 60 75 75 75 55 0 0 11/02/2017
Victorian Senior & Junior Championships 68.95 68 70 72 85 85 85 70 0 0 14/07/2018
Victorian Masters Championships/Masters GP1 & VWA Open 70.65 67 70 70 80 84 88 67 84 151 17/02/2019
Victorian Senior Championships* 70.75 67 70 70 83 85 86 70 83 153 7/04/2019
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You've gone to countless open houses, searched online for months, and have finally found the house of your dreams, but before signing your name on the dotted line there are a few key steps you should not overlook. When purchasing a home, hiring the right home inspector can be the most important decision you make. Knowing the condition of the house you are going to purchase cannot be left to appearances or promises, and some undetected problems can be even more costly than the price of the house itself. Making sure you have the services of a home inspector who knows what he or she is doing can prevent what should be a great investment from becoming a financial disaster. So what steps can you take to be sure your home inspector is qualified? Here are a few things to consider.
How Long Have They Been In The Business, And What Is Their Professional Background?
The housing market has steadily increased over the last several decades, and the home inspection business is booming. With new home inspectors becoming certified each day from a variety of programs, hiring the services of an experienced inspector can really make a difference. Though experience is always a good indicator of qualifications, also consider hiring an inspector who has a background in the housing industry, whether as a real estate agent or home builder.
With the incredible number of courses and schools offering certification in home inspection, knowing where your home inspector got their training and whether or not the course is actually recognized by the certifying body in your area is definitely worth the extra time to find out. Always ask to see proof of their certification, and make the necessary calls to the institution if there is any doubt.
This may seem an obvious question to ask any professional, but many people skip this step, and even fewer actually follow up on the references that they ask for. Always call the references that your home inspector provides, and be sure they can give you at least three recent referrals.
While the costs involved in purchasing a new home can add up quickly, the temptation to try to save when hiring a home inspector should be resisted. Call several home inspectors for quotes, and if the one you have selected is considerably cheaper than the others, ask yourself why. Most certified and qualified home inspectors know what the competition is charging and will usually charge a similar rate.
While all this work may seem like a lot of effort for what may turn out to be just red tape, if there is a serious problem with the property you are hoping to buy and it goes undetected, what should be your greatest investment may turn out to be your greatest liability.
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Ige Seeking Two BLNR Nominees
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STATE SEEKING NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
News Release from Office of the Governor, Dec 1, 2021
HONOLULU – Gov. David Ige is recruiting qualified and dedicated individuals from Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island who are interested in serving on the State Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR).
The Kauaʻi seat currently held by Tommy Oi for eight consecutive years, will be vacant on April 25, 2022. The Hawaiʻi County seat currently held by Chris Yuen will be vacant on July 1, 2022. Applicants for these seats must be residents of Kauaʻi County and Hawaiʻi County. Applicants should apply online at http://boards.hawaii.gov/.
The governor is seeking applicants with balanced and inclusive perspectives, committed to the conservation and protection and sustainable use of Hawai'i's natural and cultural resources that are the public trust responsibilities of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). A background in conservation and natural resources and/or real property law and land transactions is particularly helpful.
The DLNR manages public lands under its jurisdiction, including forestry and wildlife, aquatic resources, state parks, boating and ocean recreation, and conservation and coastal lands, as well as commercial properties and unencumbered lands.
These are volunteer board positions that require preparation for and attendance at BLNR meetings on O'ahu twice a month and more often as needed.
BLNR members are nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed by the governor for a term of four years. At twice monthly meetings, the BLNR reviews and takes action on departmental submittals, including land leases and conservation district use applications.
Nominees are required to provide publicly viewable financial disclosure information prior to their appointment to the BLNR. For further information about the responsibilities of a BLNR member, please refer to Hawai'i Revised Statutes (HRS) Chapter 171-4. For more information and to submit nominations please visit: http://boards.hawaii.gov/


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Blog 17. February 2020
Together with the German Archaeological Institut we rethought a traditional scientific journal and developed it into a modern publication.
The Archäologische Anzeiger (AA) is one of the most important journals in the field of archaeology, published by the German Archaeological Institute since 1889. Nowadays, a lot of archaeological research is done digital and the worldwide networking of data plays an important role. Scientific publishing also means using different formats in order to reach a larger readership. Therefore, the AA should be rethought from scratch.
The content of the AA is published simultaneously in two media. While the printed volume serves as a scientific reference work, the digital version forms the basis for further modern research. In order to illustrate the unity of the two publications, a cross-media, aesthetic design plays a major role in the design approach. Both publications visually follow their functionality and have an individual character. The book should be strengthened in its value, appear generous and accessible – still a must-have on the shelfs of a growing target group. In contrast, the web application is intuitive, appealing and functional in order to assert itself in the research community with a high degree of usability.
For the first time in the DAI publishing history scientific publishing has been taken further by producing two formats out of one source: a printed book and a web-application. Each of these formats incorporate an extensive production process. Books are being written, edited, layouted and made ready for print. For web-applications content has to be written, layouts designed and programmed. In both formats there are limits for specific content. For example books cannot display films. And the visualization of exact colours on digital devices is limited. Therefore both formats compliment each other for an excellent communication in scientific research.
To combine both publishing processes the content was captured all together from the beginning. Authors needed to collect all content as text, pictures, videos, 3D renderings or links and mark (tag) these. The tagging automatically defined in which format the content was placed. At the same time the visualisation in InDesign and a so called "journal viewer" has been set up. A tuned conversion process made it possible to export the content for both formats. With the new "Archäologischen Anzeiger" a prototype has been developed where publishing and networking science makes sense.
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Congressman Ro Khanna Joins Nevada Progressive Summit as Keynote Speaker - Battle Born Progress
08 Dec Congressman Ro Khanna Joins Nevada Progressive Summit as Keynote Speaker
Posted at 20:55h in News by Will Pregman
For Immediate Release: December 8, 2022
Contact: Will Pregman, wpregman@battlebornprogress.org, 702-752-0656
Congressman Ro Khanna Joins Nevada Progressive Summit as Keynote Speaker
NEVADA – Today, Battle Born Progress is announcing Congressman Ro Khanna will deliver a keynote address at the organization's ninth annual Progressive Summit. The Nevada Progressive Summit, held each year, aims to bring together volunteers and activists from around the state for two days of workshops, training, panel discussions, and networking opportunities designed to strengthen the progressive movement to build change for communities in Nevada. This year, the theme and focus of the Summit will be how Nevadans protected democracy, rights, and freedoms during the midterm election, and on mobilizing Nevadans for the upcoming 2023 session of the Nevada Legislature.
Congressman Ro Khanna represents California's 17th District in the House of Representatives. He sits on the House Agriculture, Armed Services, and Oversight and Reform committees, where he chairs the Environmental Subcommittee. Khanna is also the Deputy Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; serves as an Assistant Whip for the Democratic Caucus and is the Democratic Vice Chair of the House Caucus on India and Indian Americans. His main policy priorities include working to democratize the digital economy, bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to factory towns, and advancing U.S. leadership on climate, human rights, and diplomacy around the world.
Tickets to attend 2023 Progressive Summit are available at: bit.ly/ps23rsvp
Scholarships to attend free of charge can be applied for at: bit.ly/ps23scholarship
For members of the press interested in attending the Summit, please RSVP for press access with Will Pregman, at wpregman@battlebornprogress.org, or 702.752.0656.
WHAT: Progressive Summit – Battle Born Progress' Annual Convening
WHO: Battle Born Progress, feat. Congressman Ro Khanna (CA-17)
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, January 21-22, 2023, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT
(Congressman Khanna's remarks will occur on Saturday, January 21, 2022 at approx. 5:00 PM PT)
WHERE: Virtual Conference held via Remo
Notes: Spokespeople in Spanish or English are available for individual interviews.
About Battle Born Progress: Battle Born Progress, through strategic communication efforts, empowers, engages, and mobilizes Nevada voters to build a state where everyone has a fair opportunity to succeed. We support, engage, and mobilize the progressive community through bold leadership, strategic communications, accountability, and education. We are on the cutting edge of new media and are the go-to source for progressive issues and advocacy for traditional media. Learn more at https://battlebornprogress.org/.
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Recent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts Reflect School's Commitment | Whitman Voices
Recent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts Reflect School's Commitment
Posted on:	 November 5, 2020	 Last updated on:	 December 16, 2020	 Written by:	Mallory Carlson	Categorized in:	Featured, Whitman Magazine Tagged as:	cny alumni golf tournament diane crawford diversity fall 2020 whitman magazine gene anderson inclusion international student mba nbmbaa strategic goals whitman magazine
Recent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts Reflect School's Commitment
Throughout the summer and fall semester, the Martin J. Whitman School School of Management has not only continued to prioritize its commitment to critical issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion but has specifically upped its game through several initiatives meant to educate its students, faculty and staff, while also opening up greater opportunities to support a more diverse campus.
NBMBAA Partnership Includes Full-Tuition Scholarship
The Whitman School continues its partnership with the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA), a professional organization that works with MBA students and undergraduates. Current plans include working closely with the New York City Chapter of the organization, further recruitment efforts, additional mentoring and professional development opportunities, and the continuation of an annual full-tuition scholarship awarded to an African American student pursuing an MBA at the Whitman School.
The Whitman School is especially proud to offer the full-tuition scholarship each year, as it continues to pursue ways to make its MBA program available to a more diverse body of applicants. In 2019, Amara Moss '21 MBA, was the first MBA student to receive the award, and the 2020 recipient is Nneka Akukwe '20 (MAX), '22 MBA. Applications for the 2021 scholarship are still being accepted.
Working closely with the New York City chapter of NBMBAA is a logical choice, given that that the city is home to many Whitman and Syracuse University alumni.
"The New York City chapter is very progressive," says Diane Crawford, executive director of institutional culture at the Whitman School. "A lot of its members work for NASDAQ and some of the top 'Big Four' accounting firms, so this organization provides mentorships and professional development for persons of color pursuing an MBA or any master's degree."
The collaboration will also include greater representation at NBMBAA career fairs in an effort to recruit more diverse applicants to the Whitman School's program. Most recently, the Whitman School's graduate recruiting team participated in the NBMBAA's 2020 virtual career fair in September.
"Our involvement with NBMBAA provides recruiting opportunities and outreach to diverse populations, specifically at the graduate level," Crawford says, adding that the relationship also provides mentorship and professional development for current African American students in both the MBA and master's programs.
At the end of the spring 2020 semester, Crawford took part in an information session with members of the NBMBAA, as well as some Whitman School undergraduate and online MBA students. During this event, 16 free annual NBMBAA memberships were offered by the Whitman School to online MBA students and another four went to undergraduates, giving the recipients greater access to the NBMBAA's many resources.
The Whitman School is also working with the NBMBAA's Leaders of Tomorrow program, which focuses on preparing high school students for careers in business management. In the spring, the Whitman School showed its commitment by providing laptops to 10 graduating high school seniors from the New York City chapter who planned to attend college and study business and/or management. More efforts to work directly with current high school students are in the works, as well, including campus visits. This fall, 30 New York City high school students planned to come to the Whitman School but, due to the pandemic, visit had to be turned into a virtual event.
"Despite this year's challenges, The Leaders of Tomorrow program is going to be a great pipeline for us to get students of color to the Whitman campus," Crawford says.
To learn more about the MBA program at the Whitman School, including the annual NBMBAA scholarship, contact Chris Wszalek, executive director, graduate admissions and student recruitment, at cwszalek@syr.edu.
Faculty/Staff: One Whitman Talks
Another on-going diversity and inclusion-focused initiative is One Whitman Talks, a ten-week forum, held on consecutive Fridays for faculty and staff, that focuses on inclusive learning and leadership. Recent sessions included "The Chinese Virus: Why Anti-Asian Racism Is so Contagious," presented by guest speaker Jonathan Wang, center director for Asian Pacific American Student Services at the University of Southern California, who addressed the need to support of Asian college students, particularly during the pandemic; and "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," a session that discussed how such privilege is usually invisible to those who have it.
"It opened my eyes to the advantages a white person has just by the virtue of being white," said participant Patricia Morgan, executive assistant in the Dean's Office. "I believe this is a very important conversation we must all ponder, as we continue discussing cultural diversity and inclusion."
Students, too, have had the opportunity to take a deeper dive into diversity and inclusion. This fall, the Whitman School began One Whitman Talks: Safe Spaces, a series of presentations designed to resonate specifically with students and cover key topics like white privilege and understanding and managing implicit biases. Students also had the opportunity to attend a Stop the Bias session, which helped to educate participants on what bias is, how to recognize it and how to best be an ally to others.
In October, Dean Gene Anderson committed to continuing the One Whitman Talks series into the foreseeable future.
Addressing the Needs of the International Population
Another initiative is attempting to further diversity and inclusion efforts related to the University's large international population. The Whitman School is working on a task team to help improve engagement with international students by looking for ways to join with corporate partners to provide these students with more opportunities for work experience in the U.S.
"Our international students are being excluded from internships and opportunities for full-time hire because of their visa status. That's not likely to change, and we don't have control over that," says Crawford. "So, we need to be innovative in how we can develop programs and corporate partnerships that use and develop their skills in the short term."
Crawford recently took on several student interns in the Dean's Office, including one international student. All of the interns were selected from traditionally underrepresented groups based on their "passion for inclusion, leadership and diversity." According to Crawford, they are inclusion leaders assisting with programming, as well as educating the community through demographic and population statistics.
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The property market in Israel has been experiencing encouraging times recently. New government policies and initiatives are targeted at reducing the cost of houses, increasing the volume of property construction and developing the overall housing sector. This has made Israel one of the ideal places in the world to buy property. This technologically developed country with a strong fiscal strength is doing a lot to promote the development of infrastructure and property sector with the intention of creating investment opportunities that would attract both local and foreign property investors.
In the last 10 years, the Israel real estate market has seen house prices climb. There are speculations that this increase in house prices was as a result of the increase in the number of foreign investors in the Israel real estate market. However, the first half of 2018 has seen some changes in the industry. The economy has been expanding significantly with the country experiencing the lowest in unemployment level since 1983 followed by a 5% increase in wages. Currently, there are more house buyers in Israel than there are investors which makes the market an open opportunity for property investors. It is important to understand that the real estate market is changing. The government is playing a huge role in regulating the industry by putting down policies aimed at reducing the price of houses. Even though there are speculations that the Israel real estate is looking at a potential bubble burst, this is just speculations and the efforts of the Israeli government in increasing the supply of real estate has so far been successful.
Can foreigners buy property in Israel?
The Israel real estate market provides a good opportunity for foreigners to make profitable investments in properties. In the past few years and especially in 2018, the Israeli economy has experienced laudable stability providing a good environment for foreign investors to enjoy the returns on their property investment.
Even though a foreigner can buy property in Israel with little or no restrictions, there are a few conditions that need to be met. First of all, a foreigner would need to retain the services of a lawyer who is familiar with the procedure. This is because a different set of documents are needed to buy a property from a developer or an owner for registering at the land authority. There is also the matter of transferring money into Israel from foreign countries. While a property investor can easily open a local bank account, he or she would need to provide acceptable proof of relationship with the party abroad before the funds can be sent and received. A quick alternative will be for the foreign buyer to transfer the money directly into the local account of the property seller. As long as there is a contract to show the purchase or sale of real estate, the bank would be satisfied enough to process the transfer. It is worth mentioning that besides the formal rules in place for foreign property buyers, there are lots of unwritten rules that the investor has to abide by. To avoid any action or inaction that may jeopardize the chances of buying property in Israel, it is advisable to have someone on ground who is familiar with Israeli customs as well as the property buying process.
Just like in every other country, the value of properties differs from city to city and area to area. The price of properties in Tel Aviv cannot be the same as that of Jerusalem; therefore it will be difficult to exactly define where the best place to buy land in Israel is. At the end of the day, the choice of location will determine on a lot of factors, one of which is the financial situation of the buyer or investor.
However, to make the picture clearer, here is an overview of some of the popular locations in Israel.
Jerusalem is known to be a prime real estate location due to its being the country's capital city. Playing host to government establishments, big businesses and employers of labour, it is also one of the most expensive cities in Israel.
Tel Aviv is generally accepted to be Israel's business capital and is therefore the most expensive in terms of real estate prices. Located on the Mediterranean, this city plays host to a lot of businesses, both big and small.
Other potential real estate investment locations in Israel include Haifa, which is the third largest city with an impressive share of government buildings and businesses. Foreigners looking to buy property in Israel are more likely to look towards Herzliya, this small town sandwiched between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv is known for its huge number of foreigners as well as technological and educational organizations.
Prices fluctuations are the norm when it comes to real estate in Israel. Once there is an influx of property investors in one area, the prices of properties in that area and surrounding areas will increase. The size and area of the location in question also affects the prices of property, however for locations in Israel where the prices of property is cheap, you may want to consider locations such as Gush Etzion, Netanya, Modiin. While these areas are not exactly dirt cheap, they are not as expensive as Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv is the capital of business capital of Israel and so have a large number of apartment buildings for business owners and their employees. The larger numbers of apartments in this area are mainly for rent but with the right connection, it is possible to find apartments for sale. Note however apartments in Tel Aviv are extremely expensive based on the lifestyle of people in the area.
The desire for property is Israel has made a lot of people to turn their attention to the farmlands. While the topography of the region is ideal for a number of crops, the process for buying a farmland is a lot different from that of buying a regular real estate. Investors looking to buy farms in Israel for agricultural purposes will do well to first study the market in order to decide the best agricultural produce that would do well there. However, there are a few people who are looking to agricultural land with an eye to redevelopment. Before entering into such a venture, ensure that you have done your research properly, and especially work with an individual or organization who understands the political terrain of the region.


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My dad has several siblings so I grew up around a lot of my uncles, aunts and cousins. The annual Christmas get together has been a family thing for my entire life, encompassing any relative who dared to be there. It's one of those events that I missed while we were away, but would attend whenever I would spend the holiday back in Iowa. It's typically the Saturday before Christmas which translates to… during winter. We lived in California for a long time. So for us, the drama surrounding the party is all about the weather.
DH: Have you checked the weather? Supposed to be a storm front coming through Saturday evening. Just in time for the party.
Me: Lovely. Think we'll be able to make it?
DH: Yeah, but we might want to pack a change of clothes in case the roads are really bad and we need to stay at your folks' house.
Me: I guess. The dogs will be inside though so I would rather we get back home.
DH: The weather reports say we're going to have freezing rain. The roads will be getting icy around 8:30.
Me: Ok, we'll let everyone know we need to be on the roads to head home by 8:30.
Me: They said it's getting slick outside, we need to get moving.
We head outside only to find the van covered in ice. We don't have a remote start, so the girls and I sat in the van while the defroster did it's magic and DH scraped the windows.
DH: Can you find a road report on the radio?
Radio: Driving is not recommended. Roads are getting slick. Tow services are restricted on the following major roadways (then he listed about 50).
Me: No tow service on the roads? That doesn't make sense.
DH: Nice salt caked van we have now.
Me: Yeah, I see the salt truck right up there. I need to get it in for a wash.
Me (calling my folks): Just calling to let you know we made it home safely. Figured mom was worried.
Dad: She was. Roads were okay, but are getting bad now. Thanks for calling to let us know.
In contrast – Here was the typical conversation for our Los Angeles Christmas parties.
Me: You ready to go?
DH: Yeah. I already let the dogs out into the yard.
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Julianne Moore interview: 'my life is a privileged one'
In this interview from 2014, the Golden Globe-winning actress talks about proving her parents wrong, her domestic side and why she loves an action movie
Julianne Moore in the film Non-Stop
By John Preston
It takes a brave woman to go bare-legged in London in January. Even in the Dorchester hotel there's an icy breeze blowing down the corridors and Julianne Moore has goose bumps. If this bothers her, she doesn't show it – but then it's hard to imagine her being daunted or cast down by anything.
On screen you often have a pretty good idea where you're going to end up with Julianne Moore – and that's in extremis. No other actress has explored the outer limits of emotion quite so comprehensively, whether it be helpless passion (The End of the Affair), suicidal depression (The Hours) or religious mania (Carrie).
Of course, there's no reason why Moore, 53, should be anything like the parts she plays. Even so, it still comes as a surprise to find just how different she is. Far from oscillating with nervous anxiety, she's one of the least agonised people I've ever met, with a big gurgly laugh and a beguilingly mumsy manner. Positivity comes off her in waves.
As we settle ourselves in an icy suite, she tells me about how she recently bought herself an apartment in Atlanta, Georgia – she's been filming the new Hunger Games film there.
"For some reason I really thought I'd like being in a high-rise with these great views and stuff. Instead, I couldn't stand it. I don't know why. It just depressed me."
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But did she mope, or reproach herself? Certainly not.
"I just thought, 'OK, I didn't know that about myself before, but now I do.' I felt I'd learnt something. But then I've always felt that you've got to try to take the most from everything in life. It's a bit like when actors say to me that they can't get certain types of parts. I always tell them, 'You can never say to yourself, "I'm just doing this movie because it will be good for my career."' That's awful. Of course, I've done things that I haven't liked, but I've always tried to learn from them. I've thought, 'Well, now I know. I won't do that again.'"
By the same token, Julianne Moore's latest film, Non-Stop, is some way from being her most challenging, but it's clear that she threw herself into it with characteristic gusto. A testosterone-crazed thriller about a terrorist threat on a transatlantic jumbo jet, it stars Liam Neeson as an alcoholic air-marshal, with Moore as the mysterious passenger in the next seat.
"I really love Liam – that was a big factor in my doing it," she says. "We've worked together before and we also have a mutual friend in Ralph Fiennes. Also, it reminded me a lot of disaster movies that I'd loved as a child – films like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno."
It must have helped too that Joel Silver, a producer on the film and one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, practically got down on his knees and begged her to do it.
"Well, it's true he was very keen. I was walking down the street in New York City when he called. I'd been working a lot at the time and I felt like a break, but Joel kept saying, 'I really want you to do this,' and in the end I said yes."
These days Moore wields such power herself – and is so in demand – that scripts are rewritten as she sees fit.
"At this point in my career, that part is always pretty fluid," she says opaquely. "Certainly on this, we had a lot of discussion about how to point up my character's contradictions, how to make her both funny and mysterious. What I really liked was that she has a foot in both camps."
So too, in a way, does Moore. Her father, a military judge, was American and her mother Scottish, and she says that she grew up feeling as though she belonged to two cultures. "I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private."
Julianne Moore in the film Short Cuts (Rex)
When she was a child – she's the eldest of three – her family rarely spent more than 18 months in one place. What effect did all this chopping and changing have on her? "Let me see…" she says, tapping a fingernail against her tooth. "I think it's made me attach a very high premium to security. I'm tremendously domestic. Shockingly domestic, in fact!" She hoots with laughter.
"Some people think that actresses tend not to be practical or domestic. That we're very flighty and emotionally vulnerable. Trust me, I'm not like that. My house is very clean and organised. I'm not a great cook – my husband does most of the cooking. But I make a hot breakfast for my children every day, and I always put out place mats and napkins."
Looking at Moore with her long auburn hair, her alabaster skin with its dusting of freckles and her killer cheek bones, you have to pinch yourself quite hard to remember that she once suffered agonies of self-consciousness about her appearance. "Well, you know, red hair and freckles… And what made it worse was that I always seemed to be living in places where all the other kids had fair hair and suntans."
Partly because she felt like an outsider, she was always a keen people-watcher. Whenever the family moved, she'd scrutinise her new neighbours, noting how they behaved. "I'd think to myself, 'OK, this is how people speak here, how they dress, how they move.' But at the same time I realised that whatever their differences, there was a universality to how they were inside. And that idea has been very valuable to me as an actress."
At 16, Moore wore glasses and was, she says, "a total geek". But by the time she was 18 the glasses had been replaced by contact lenses, and everything started to change. "It wasn't like the ugly duckling, but I did become more confident. I'd had boyfriends in high school, although nothing serious. It's funny because my son is in high school now and he has a girlfriend – he'd kill me if he knew I was telling you this. He and his girlfriend have a proper relationship. But I was never like that. I only had boys I went to dances with."
Her parents always told her that she could be whatever she wanted to be – just as long as she had an education. "What they didn't mean, it turned out, was being an actress. They were absolutely horrified when I told them."
Julianne Moore in the soap As The World Turns in the 1980s (Rex)
They needn't have worried. After university, she immediately went into a daytime soap for three years, then got spotted by the director Robert Altman, who cast her in Short Cuts. Moore made an instantly unforgettable impression – partly because she spent the whole of one scene wandering about naked from the waist down. "Actually, it wasn't such a big deal. In a way, acting is always a struggle to overcome self-consciousness. It's all about how you become alive on camera. You're always saying to yourself, 'Is this real? Is this authentic?'"
She breaks off. "Oh God, listen to me! 'I'm only acting the truth!'" she drawls in a very actorish voice. "Look, films are ultimately entertainment – I'm very aware of that. But that doesn't mean that you don't try to illuminate a human experience, so that people feel as if they're watching something that could happen to them."
She married young, then divorced, then married the film director Bart Freundlich in 2003 – he's 10 years younger than she is. While her career continued to go from strength to strength, Moore had another, even stronger ambition.
"I knew from very early on that I wanted kids. I wasn't one of those women who goes, 'Well, if it happens, it happens.' I really wanted a family. Although I didn't actually have my first child until I was 37, I always felt I'd get there."
She went on to have two children – Caleb, now 16, and Liv, 11. As a mother, her most important lesson is that they should be passionate about whatever they do. "I always say to them, 'What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.'"
As for balancing work and family, it's really not that difficult, she insists. "If ever I do a film that's a long way from home, we schedule it for the summertime and the rest of the family comes with me. Other than that, I'm never away for more than a week. If someone says to me, 'Will do you this film in Hungary?' I just go, 'Sorry – if you can move it to New Jersey, then maybe it will work.'"
It's tempting to imagine her and her husband sitting at home in New York in their immaculately ordered house talking over scripts together. In fact, it hardly ever happens. "I make up my own mind what I do," she says firmly.
"I might ask him to read something if I need help, but generally I know pretty quickly what I like and what I don't. Contrary to what people might say, I don't make a point of going for 'difficult' parts. I've just tried to vary things as much as possible."
Seven years ago Moore published Freckleface Strawberry, a children's book about a self-conscious little girl with red hair and freckles. Since then, she's written three more, including one called My Mom is a Foreigner, But Not to Me – which I think we can safely say is also based on personal experience.
Julianne Moore with her husband Bar Freundlich and their children (Getty)
"I started writing the first one when my son was seven. What I wanted to say was, we all have issues with the way we look. I mean, I'd still rather not have freckles, but as you get older other things become more important. But although I've loved doing the books, I'm not about to give up acting – they're more of a side project for me."
After much pleading from her children, she agreed to be in the new Hunger Games film.
"I don't know if I would have done it otherwise. I'm very pleased I did, though. Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She's a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn't feel at all precocious. Instead, she's smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away."
The heating has been turned up now and the goose bumps on her legs have disappeared. "You know, I'm very aware of how lucky I am…" she says. Then she taps a fingernail against her tooth again. "My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one – being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity. And sitting in a smart hotel room talking about yourself," she adds hurriedly, "that's not too bad either."
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This interview was originally published in February 2014
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Name and address: The Chairman, Bedford Street, Middlesbrough.
Type of food: Classic pub grub, including burgers, sandwiches and pies as well as 'small plates' of British favourites served Tapas style, three for £10. It also has a Sunday lunch range, which we enjoyed.
Small plates are £4 each or three for £10, burgers are £8 with optional extras, and meals are around £9. Roasts are £9.
First impressions: I've been in plenty of times for a drink, and especially on a cold Saturday after the Boro match the food smells fantastic. It's smart and understated inside, with stripped back wooden tables and an open kitchen. Many of the tables when we visited on a Sunday were already reserved, but we were welcomed by the friendly and enthusiastic staff.
Choice of food: As mentioned, the small plates - as well as the burgers - sound great. But we chose from the Sunday lunch menu and could choose from lamb, beef, chicken or pork loin with crackling. All are served with Yorkshire Pudding and veg.
What we ate: I ordered the Wholegrain mustard and herb marinated rump of beef (£9) and my wife ordered the rosemary and garlic studded leg of lamb (also £9), and asked for it to be made gluten free. As I've mentioned before, my wife is a coeliac and we came after the Chairman had been recommended.
They switched the gravy and dropped the Yorkshire Pud - but the meal still came with lots of succulent lamb, crispy herb crusted roasties and a delicious mix of sauteed vegetables, including leeks, carrots and courgettes.
We also got a kids dinner for our three-year-old (£4.50), and to be honest, that was big enough for most adults! We were stuffed, but managed to fit in a pud. I had the delicious hot chocolate sponge with custard (£4), my wife had an Eton Mess (£4) and we got a scoop of ice cream for the little man, laden with strawberries and marshmallows.
The good bits: Anyone and anywhere can do a Sunday dinner, but you're likely to return to the places that give it a bit more care and attention. My beef - pink and tender - was delicious, but even then it couldn't match up to the tasty lamb.
The puddings were value for money and not too big/sweet, and the staff that served us were cheerful and attentive.
What could be improved: Honestly, there wasn't much to fault. The Chairman isn't huge and while the menu was limited to Sunday dinners and a few sides, you couldn't reasonably expect much more from them. We're already planning our next visit.
Suitable for couple or family? It depends when you go. It's not a chain pub with a kid's play area, but our son was made very welcome on a Sunday afternoon. A busy Saturday night might be better for a couple, or a few friends.
Value for money? We paid £36.10 for two courses for two adults and a child, with a pint of lager and two soft drinks. It was tasty, hot, and clearly freshly cooked - you can't ask for more than that.