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LBS alumnus starts second restaurant venture
Merchants Tavern opens today
Merchants Tavern, the collaboration between Canteen founder Dominic Lake and Patrick Clayton, Angela Hartnett and Neil Borthwick, opens today.
Dominic Lake, Co-founder and London Business School alumnus, says: "The Merchants tavern will be one of London's best restaurants; easy and relaxed in style yet crafted and skilled in the kitchen. It is a modern restaurant where food and service is king and the environment is cosy and warm."
Housed in a Victorian warehouse and former apothecary at 36 Charlotte Street in the heart of Shoreditch, the 130 cover restaurant, bar and private dining room is an update on the classic tavern and takes its name from Neil's belief that chefs are 'merchants of good fortune', using their skill and craft to create delicious food for their patrons; a belief instilled in him during his tenure as sous chef for Michel Bras.
"The food will be skilled yet honest; we will source the best cuts of meat, the finest seafood and excellent vegetables, leaves and fruit - though without that skill, care and attention they cannot shine. Even lesser utilised ingredients can be inspiring when approached this way," says Borthwick.
Neil and Angela have created a Modern European menu directed by seasonality. Starters such as Roast Quail, Hazelnut Pesto, Remoulade and Foie Gras (£9.00); Salt Cod Cream, Pickled Fennel and Toast (£8.00); and Hogget Broth, Pearl Barley and Berkswell Toast (£9.00).
Main courses will include Roast Venison Loin, Braised Red Cabbage and Parsnip Purée (£21.50); Roast Turbot, Coco Beans, Anchovies & Bread Sauce (£18.00); Mallard, Braised Endive & Sarladaise Potatoes (£21.00). Finally, the dessert menu features London Honey Tart, Malt Whisky Cream and Crème Fraîche (£7.00); Manjari Chocolate Pavé, Orange & Kumquat Salad (£7.00); Rum Baba, Caramelised Apples & Raisins (£6.00).
Speaking ahead of the launch, Dominic Lake looked back on the secrets to his success as a restauranter: "After graduating from London Business School I knew I wanted to be part of a team building a restaurant business. At the time I had no idea how valuable the tools I learned at London Business School would be, but after having raised significant funds in debt and equity to fund the launch of our original business Canteen and more recently our new venture, the Merchants Tavern along with Angel Hartnett, I am seeing how transformational the MBA experience can really be."
Merchants Tavern is designed by Hackney based design studio Very Good and Proper. Aesthetically referencing the great design period of the late 1950s and early 1960s, there is a simplicity to things; leather, hardwood and natural materials - 'Madmen' meets Victoriana.
New appointments for the restaurant include Thomas Blythe, formerly general manager of St. John and Fino, and Tania Marie-Davey previously restaurant manager of St. John Hotel and Fifteen.
Merchants Tavern opens on 8 October 2013 and will accommodate both reservations and walk-ins.


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Energy drink 'pyramid' scheme used college kids
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Students returning to college campuses this week will have to find a new energy drink — and another way to get a BMW.
Federal regulators raided the Tempe, Ariz., headquarters of Vemma, halting the operation of the energy drink distributor that used college kids to peddle the beverage, sold under the name Verve.
Vemma is an illegal pyramid scheme that "lures college students and other young adults with the prospect of getting rich" but left most of them with no profits, according to the Federal Trade Commission, which seized all the inventory and halted its operation.
Fifteen FTC agents stormed Vemma's offices on Monday morning, sources told The Post.
A federal judge in Phoenix froze the bank accounts and real estate belonging to Vemma founder BK Boreyko, a 53-year-old entrepreneur who just last year won an "executive of the year" honor from the American Business Awards.
Boreyko got his start in multilevel marketing as a teenager working for Amway, the world's largest multilevel marketer. Both of his parents were Amway distributors.
All of Vemma's assets — including products in warehouses around the world — are frozen pending the outcome of a hearing set for Sept. 3.
Vemma, which had total sales of $200 million in 2013 and 2014, marketed its business opportunity to college students and young adults as an alternative to college and student debt, as The Post reported almost two years ago.
"Don't call us a fricking pyramid scheme because we're not," Boreyko said at the time.
The FTC disagrees. "Rather than focusing on selling products, Vemma uses false promises of high income potential to convince consumers to pay money to join their organization," Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement Wednesday.
It received 200 complaints about the company, sources told The Post.
Vemma told the students that for an initial investment of $600 and a mandatory minimum of $150 in product purchases per month, they could earn "$500, $5,000 or even $50,000 a month," the FTC alleged in its complaint.
To entice young people, Vemma offered BMWs as bonuses.
Losses are inevitable, the FTC said, because Vemma rewards its salespeople for recruiting participants instead of selling products to consumers outside the network.
The aggressive move to shut down the 10-year-old company sent a chill through the MLM industry, which has been in the regulatory spotlight ever since Bill Ackman unveiled his $1 billion short on Herbalife.
Boreyko — who has a 1999 consent decree settlement with the FTC regarding a prior MLM — declined to comment.
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OPINION: Mercosur blow to beef farmers
July 7th, 2019 11:40 PM
EU Farm Commissioner Phil Hogan opined that the South American beef would have to meet EU standards, but it seems the production model there at the moment is very far off Europe's high-quality values.
JUST when Irish beef farmers thought things couldn't get much worse for them, along comes the news last weekend that a draft agreement had been reached between the European Union (EU) and the South American Mercosur trading block, comprising Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, which clears the way for imports of cheaper beef from these countries. Predictably, it was robustly railed against by Irish farming organisations, with IFA president Joe Healy describing it as 'a bad deal for Ireland, a bad deal for the environment, and a bad deal for EU standards and consumers,' while his newly-elected ICSA counterpart, Edmond Phelan, said the deal was 'an absolute disgrace, which completely undermines the EU's moral authority to lead on climate change.'
Even our own Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, TD, tweeted within hours of the announcement on Friday evening: 'I am very disappointed that the Mercosur agreement includes a significant Tariff Rate Quota for South American beef, at a time when the beef sector in Europe is facing significant uncertainty because of Brexit.' One of his predecessors in the job, current EU Farm Commissioner Phil Hogan, opined that the South American beef would have to meet EU standards, but it seems the production model there at the moment is very far off Europe's high-quality values and this is part of the reason the Mercosur countries can produce their beef so cheaply.
It could take up to two years for the process of ratifying the Mercosur free-trade deal, which took 20 years of negotiations and is the largest such agreement ever entered into by the EU, to get through the European Commission and the European Parliament. Farm leaders here have called on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to reject the deal as it looks as if the European beef sector as a whole has been sacrificed in order to make gains in other areas, such as car and machinery manufacturing, the chemical and pharmaceutical, and services sectors.
Edmond Phelan put it bluntly: 'a calculated decision has been made by European leaders to increase car sales, mainly petrol and diesel, at the price of sacrificing the EU beef farmer.'
It comes at a time when the sector was coming under sustained pressure, with climate change activists calling for beef production to be cut away back in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and urging people to eat plant-based food instead. With many farmers already producing beef at a loss, the effects of Brexit before it even happens have been felt so badly that the EU and the Irish government agreed to put €50m each into an aid package to compensate them for their losses to date – but the manner of its distribution is proving contentious at the moment.
However, that issue pales into insignificance, relatively-speaking, in the light of the Mercosur deal announcement that smacks of breath-taking hypocrisy on the part of the EU, which – rightly – insists on such high standards of food production by all its own farmers and processors yet is prepared to cut a deal involving a country like Brazil, which is chopping down huge swathes of rainforest in order to expand its beef industry and has much lower standards when it comes to traceability, animal welfare, food safety and the environment. It is difficult to argue against IFA boss Joe Healy's contention that Europe turning a blind eye to double standards and environmental degradation in Brazil is indefensible, and he described the deal with the Mercosur countries as 'a sell-out.'
Ironically, while Brazil is cutting down trees to expand its beef industry, under our new Climate Action Plan, Irish farmers are being asked to plant more trees here to act as carbon sinks and then, what about all the emissions from the fuel will be burnt to ship cheap, lower-standard South American beef to a EU market that is already fully supplied? It really doesn't make any sense at all.


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Embelm3 Debut New Music & Covers at Los Angeles Concert
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The boys of Emblem3 performed to a sold-out crowd at The Roxy in Los Angeles last night (February 27), the show was the first of 3 southern California shows in the next week and their first concert since coming in fourth on The X-Factor. Drew, Wesley, and Keaton thrilled the crowd with new music from their upcoming debut album as well as a few new cover songs.
The new songs they premiered were called "Chloe," "XO," and "Just For One Day." Take a look at videos of two of those songs below.
James Maslow Talks About Working with Cher Lloyd
Cher Lloyd recently filmed a episode of Big Time Rush and the boys recently talked about what it was like working with her on set during her acting debut.
"She was rad," James Maslow told Teen.com. "I actually had no idea she's 19, she's younger than we are sweet, sweet girl, very talented. You could tell on set that she's never acted before and she was a little nervous."
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"But she did a great job and it was actually kinda cute because at the end of the day she was like 'I don't wanna leave, I wanna stay here and keep doing this' I said by all means," he jokingly added.
We can't wait to see Cher Lloyd's guest appearance on Big Time Rush later this year! Are you excited to see Cher make her acting debut?
Top of the Charts: February 28, 2013
As we told you on Sunday, One Direction's charity single, "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)," goes straight to #1 in the UK while the "Harlem Shake" remains on top in the US. Here's what's on top of the charts this week.
BILLBOARD - HOT 100 (US)
"Harlem Shake" - Bauer
"Thrift Shop" - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
"When I Was Your Man" - Bruno Mars
"I Knew You Were Trouble" - Taylor Swift
"Scream & Shout" - Will.I.Am & Britney Spears
BILLBOARD TOP 200 (US)
"Babel" - Mumford & Sons
"Unorthodox Jukebox" - Bruno Mars
"All That Echoes" - Josh Groban
"NOW 45" - Various Artists
"The Lumineers" - The Lumineers
Chris Brown on His Relationship with Rihanna: "I'm Forgiven"
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Chris Brown has spoken out about his relationship with Rihanna. The R&B superstar reportedly tells The Mirror that he's been forgiven for beating her up a few years ago.
"That night was the deepest regret of my life," the paper quotes him as saying. "But she loves me - what can I say? I'm forgiven… but yes, I worked hard for it."
The Mirror says that Chris has grown up a lot since the incident: "I was very young and took a lot of stuff, fame, for granted," he said, crediting his fans for their support.
Chris' latest comments go along with comments made by Rihanna in the January edition of Rolling Stone, where she opened up about their renewed relationship.
"Even if it's a mistake, it's my mistake," she told the magazine. "It's different now. We don't have those types of arguments anymore. We talk about shit. We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don't want to lose that."
Max George Teases Two New Albums from The Wanted
Over the past few months that The Wanted have been teasing us about their upcoming new album(s), they've often hinted at the possibilities of having two albums being released this year because of all the songs they have done. Now Max George is once again teasing the possibilities in a new interview with Top of the Pops Magazine.
"We've been working so hard in the studio that we reckon we've got enough material for two albums now," he said. "Those Wanted albums are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once."
That's OK with us, Max! We're sure it's worth the wait.
Are you excited to hear new music from The Wanted?
Ed Sheeran Says The UK Need A Break from Him as He Moves to America
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As you may know by now, Ed Sheeran has decided to move to Nashville since he will be spending most of this year in America with finishing up his second album and touring with Taylor Swift. But he says another reason for his move is to give the UK public a break from him.
"I think it's important to give the UK public a little bit of a break," Ed told BBC Newsbeat. "I've been here for a long time doing a lot of TV and radio, so you have to go away for a little bit."
"So I'm going to make the album over there for a bit."
What do you think about all this?
'Goat Edition' Remixes Take Over The Internet
"Gangnam Style" was so 2012 and "Harlem Shake" was so last week now it's all about the "goat edition" remixes. This is where they take the sound of a goat screaming and put it in songs. The videos were made famous by Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" earlier this week and have taken off! Since then there's been goat edition songs made for One Direction, Bon Jovi, Fun., Taio Cruz, and a ton more.
Let's take a look at some of the best on the web - we dare you not to laugh at these! Which one is your favorite? Be sure to let us know!
Little Mix is "Excited" to Takeover America This Year
UK girl group Little Mix is very excited to bring their music to America this year. Their first single "Wings" was released a few weeks ago and is already gaining traction on US top 40 radio, it's currently #47 on the Mediabase charts. The 4-piece are hoping to follow in the footsteps of One Direction and Ed Sheeran as they bring their music to America this year.
"It's not daunting, it's exciting!" Leigh-Anne Pinnock told Billboard, about the band's potential in America. "It's always been our dream from the start, we always said we wanted to be international, so we're just going to work out bones off and hopefully it works out for us."
Why did the band decide to release "Wings" as their first US single? They say it just seemed right.
Music Sales Climb in 2012 With Big Thanks To British Music
For the first time in 13 years, music sales climbed in 2012! British artists Adele, One Direction, and Mumford & Sons dramatically helped legal music sales climb 0.3% in 2012 to £10.9billion ($16.5billion). That may not seem like much, but when you consider that sales have been consistently dropping for years, even a little growth is nice to see.
The figures were released yesterday by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents over 1,400 record companies worldwide, shows that Adele's album, 21, topped the charts for the second year in a row with One Direction and Taylor Swift right behind her.
Here's a look at the top 10 albums last year along with the number of copies sold:
1. Adele (21), 8.3million
2. Taylor Swift (Red), 5.2m
3. One Direction (Up All Night), 4.5m
4. One Direction (Take Me Home), 4.4m
5. Lana Del Rey (Born To Die), 3.4m
6. P!nk (The Truth About Love), 2.6m
7. Rod Stewart (Merry Christmas Baby), 2.6m
8. Rihanna (Unapologetic), 2.3m
9. Mumford & Sons (Babel), 2.3m
10. Maroon 5 (Overexposed), 2.2m
Nice to see the music industry growing again - let's hope it stays that way in 2013! Support your favorite artists and legally download music.
Harry Styles Hit in the Balls By Flying Shoe at Glasgow Concert
One Direction kicked off their Take Me Home Tour over the weekend and let's just say the past few days haven't been kind to Harry Styles. Fresh off getting hit in the balls by Liam Payne, Harry Styles was the target again at 1D's Glasgow concert last night (February 26).
While the band was speaking to the crowd, a fan decided to throw a shoe on stage and Harry picked it up saying "It's a shoe" before ANOTHER shoe came flying to the stage and hit him right in the balls and fell to the floor.
His bandmates soon came over to see if he was ok with Liam saying: "Well he has just been assaulted" as Harry rose back to his feet and took a bow.
It's rumored the girl who threw the shoe was initially told to leave the arena before Harry intervened and said she could stay. But why did she do it? Get this - she wanted him to touch something that belonged to her. Alrighty then.
"I just wanted him to touch something belonging to me," the girl told The Scottish Daily Record. "I didn't mean to him him where I hit him, I'm really embarrassed."
We're sure there's better ways to go about getting them to touch stuff that belongs to you.


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Хо́рхе Фуси́ле (; 19 ноября 1984, Монтевидео) — уругвайский футболист, защитник. В составе сборной Уругвая — полуфиналист чемпионата мира 2010 года.

Биография
Фусиле начал карьеру в 2003 году в клубе «Ливерпуль» из Монтевидео, который незадолго до этого вернулся в Высший дивизион уругвайского футбола. 31 августа 2006 он перешёл в «Порту» и в первом сезоне провёл 18 матчей в чемпионате Португалии. Он стал чемпионом Португалии, а затем повторил этот успех ещё трижды, закрепившись в основе клуба.

В начале 2012 года Фусиле был отдан в годичную аренду в бразильский «Сантос». 16 марта забил первый гол за «Сантос» в ворота «Хуана Аурича» в рамках Кубка Либертадорес. Вместе с бразильской командой дошёл до полуфинала турнира, где «Сантос» уступил лишь будущим победителям, соотечественникам из «Коринтианса».

По окончании чемпионата Бразилии 2012 года Хорхе принял решение покинуть «Сантос». Среди клубов, куда Фусиле мог перейти, фигурировали «Пеньяроль» и лиссабонский «Спортинг».

В 2013 году Фусиле вернулся в «Порту», где почти не получал игровой практики, новый тренер Паулу Фонсека предпочитал ему других игроков. В июле 2014 года Фусиле в статусе свободного агента вернулся в Уругвай, где подписал контракт с «Насьоналем». Дважды помог своей команды выиграть чемпионат Уругвая — в сезоне 2014/15 и в 2016 году (переходный чемпионат). В 2019 году перешёл в клуб Второго дивизиона «Пласа Колонию».

В сборной
С 2006 года Фусиле постоянно вызывается в сборную Уругвая. Хорхе принял участие в Кубке Америки 2007, 2015 и 2016 годов, а также в двух чемпионатах мира — 2010 и 2014 годов. В победном для сборной Кубке Америки 2011 Фусиле не выступал из-за травмы.

Достижения
  Чемпион Уругвая (2): 2014/15, 2016
  Чемпион Португалии (5): 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2010/11, 2011/12
  Обладатель Кубка Португалии (1): 2009/10
  Обладатель Суперкубка Португалии (4): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
  Победитель Лиги Европы: 2010/11
  Чемпион Лиги Паулисты (1): 2012
 4-е место на чемпионате мира 2010
 4-е место в Кубке Америки 2007

Примечания

Ссылки

Футболисты Уругвая
Игроки сборной Уругвая по футболу
Игроки ФК «Ливерпуль» Монтевидео
Игроки ФК «Насьональ» Монтевидео
Игроки ФК «Порту»
Игроки ФК «Сантос»

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Jetstar staff won't strike again until after Christmas and New Year's
Yahoo News Australia 19 December 2019
Striking Jetstar staff say they will take no further industrial action over the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Jetstar was forced to cancel another batch of holiday season flights on Thursday as union staff at the Australian low-budget airline continued rolling strikes across the country.
Ground crew have been striking over pay and safety concerns, while Jetstar says work stoppages are "unjustifiable and cynically timed to hurt travellers".
Transport Workers' Union national secretary Michael Kaine says strikes are a last resort for desperate staff.
Jetstar staff have confirmed they will not strike again during the Christmas period. Source: Getty Images.
"They are sorry about the disruption but they have been left with no option," he said at Sydney Airport on Thursday.
"Workers will take no further strike action until after the new year has hit us.
"It's a show of good faith in the face of a company that won't even come to the table."
Jetstar, which proactively cancelled 28 flights across the country on Thursday, says it won't be swayed by the union's "stand-over tactics".
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"The holiday period extends well beyond the Christmas/New Year period and their continued threat of action provides ongoing uncertainty for our customers," the company said in a statement.
"As we have said repeatedly to the TWU, we are willing to meet if the union provides clear evidence they are prepared to discuss a deal that fits within our wages policy.
"Until then, we are focused on minimising disruption caused by the union's actions."
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Q: Creating a Calendar in Tableau So I have a SQL data table that is nothing but a calendar for the next 200 years.  I join this to meaningful 'task data' by the date field on the calendar table matching the task completion date of the task table.  I am using that to build a calendar in Tableau and it looks great... at first:

That image above contains no filtering on the owner and shows all the days, even when the task count is 0.
But when I filter for an individual who has no tasks to count, the days disappear that are null:

If I hover over the white square, nothing is displayed in the detail drop down and notice that I've lost some days...  I went from 8/5 to 8/9.
I understand why this is happening (because the data simply doesn't exist in the filtered view), but there has got to be a way to still allow the day to display, but simply show a 0 for the task count instead of a null.  I've made a custom query and used isnull on both the task_Id and the Task_Owner but I still get the same view.  Other than creating dummy data in the db as a placeholder (which I am against) I am not sure how to achieve this.
I'm hoping someone out there has struggled and succeeded with this before and can help me out.  I feel like the zn(lookup) function in Tableau may be helpful but I can't seem to apply it in a way that accomplishes my goal.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: Have you tried this:
 ifnull([Task Count],0)

This would change any nulls to zeros.
Or save typing 6 whole characters and use
ZN([Task Count])

for the same effect

A: You are in luck.
For most datatypes, Tableau discovers the values for the dimensions from the query results. So in general, it won't know to leave a column for an absent value. But for dates, it knows about the possible values so can behave a little nicer.
That is, it can know that there should be a column for Sunday even though there were no data rows with that value.
So for your WEEKDAY(Date) field on the column shelf, right click and choose "Show missing values". You should see your missing columns. The same trick works for histogram bins as well. You should almost always check that option for histograms.
This can pad out your rows and columns to complete the range, but doesn't get your day of month showing. You can fix that using index() if you set the table calc partitioning correctly.

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To investigate and to compare the effectiveness of a nurse short message service (SMS) by cellular phone and telephone follow-up by nurse on Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
Semi experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes that randomly assigned to two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and short message service (n = 38). Telephone interventions were applied by researcher for 3 months. SMS group that received message daily for 12 weeks. Data gathering instrument include data sheet to record HbA1c and questionnaire that consisted of demographic characteristics. Data gathering was performed at two points: initial the study and after 12 weeks. Data analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics methods with SPSS version 11.5.
Demographic variables were compared and all of them were homogenous. Results of this study showed that both interventions had significant mean changes in HbA1c; for the telephone group (p = 0.001), with a mean change of −0.93% and for the SMS group (p = 0.001), with a mean change of −1.01%.
Finding of this research showed that intervention using SMS via cellular phone and nurse-led-telephone follow up improved HbA1c for three months in type 2 diabetic patients and it can consider as alternative methods for diabetes control.
The prevalence of diabetes has been alarmingly increasing . Each year, 7 million people are diagnosed with the disease, and every 10s, a person dies from diabetes-related causes . Diabetes is a chronic disease requiring lifelong medical and nursing intervention and lifestyle adjustment . The National Survey of Risk Factors for Non-Communicable of Iran, which was conducted in 2005, demonstrated that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Iranian citizens aged 25–64 years was 7.7% (2 million individuals) , among whom half are undiagnosed . An additional 16.8%, or 4.4 million, of Iranian adults have impaired fasting glucose . If current trends continue, based on the World Health Organization forecast for Iran, there will be 5.2 million Iranians with diabetes mellitus in 2025.This high prevalence of diabetes in working aged adults is an ominous sign for this developing nation . As the relatively young Iranian population ages in the future, and urbanization continues or accelerates, the prevalence of diabetes will likely escalate .
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial showed that for every 1% reduction in the HbA1c levels, there was a 40% to 50% reduction in risk for microvascular and neuropathic complications [5, 6]. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has recommended that all persons with diabetes should attempt to achieve near normalization of blood glucose levels .
Algorithms for diabetes care exist but may be complex and difficult for physicians to follow, given the patient load, diversity of patient seen, lack of information systems, and time constraints . In addition, economic and technical barriers to providing diabetes care in the community health system are recognized .
Since control of diabetes has been shown to decrease mortality and prevent long-term complications, it is critical that healthcare systems develop innovative ways to improve diabetes management, and provide timely care to patients . Several research studies have shown that various telemedicine approaches can have a positive impact on patient blood glucose control and that over the long term; these approaches can result in reduction or elimination of the complication related to diabetes mellitus . Telemedicine has, in particular, caught the attention of patients and caregivers . For patients, it has the advantage of providing a quick, efficient way to communicate with their providers . Especially, for those patients living in rural areas, it is potentially invaluable to have access to their caregiver from the comfort of their homes, thus sparing them the time and cost of traveling . Although the magnitude of the impact of telemedical support on diabetes care remains debatable . Telemedicine cannot replace patient visit and direct interaction with providers, but it can supplement between-visit care and improve 'quality of care' . Patient suffering from chronic diseases in general and diabetes in particular, have benefited from support systems and telephone education with improved clinical outcomes , a telephone care program has been shown to be a viable strategy for bringing diabetes management services into patients' homes, improving their glycemic control and provide timely care to patients . To maintain normal range of blood glucose and prevent diabetic complications, patients ought to contact more frequently with their health care providers, but this will in turn increase health care expenditure . And the telephone intervention was more time- consuming than an Internet-based blood glucose monitoring system .
Recently mobile phones as a new delivery system can provide medical recommendations and prescriptions at the appropriate time and to accommodate for patients' behavioral changes and to normalize of blood glucose levels . Mobile phones are an integral part of everyday life, although mobile phone technology is a relatively new and innovative methodology . This method is becoming an important way of encouraging better nurse-patient communication and will undoubtedly increase in application over coming years . Because of widespread usage and ubiquitous availability of mobile phones these devices may be can maximize the efficiency  Using short message service enables users to send and receive text messages to and from mobile phones up to 160 characters . SMS allows rapid reception and reply at low cost. It is an interactive service, and is simple, fast and confidential . Although it has been used for patient reminders, psychological support, medical appointments, to report critical medical events or laboratory results and even for surveys in other countries , but no research has been done to test the direct effects of Short Message Service on controlling (HbA1c) in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus and in healthcare delivery in Iran as far as we are aware.
The present study evaluated and compared whether an intervention using the short message service (SMS) of cellular phone by a nurse and nurse-led telephone follow up could improve HbA1c levels in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus.
This study is quasi experimental research. Participants were recruited from the Iranian Diabetes Association. We studied this intervention during a three month period starting in May 2008. Diabetes was diagnosed according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria. The age range was 18–65 years. Patients had to have telephone access in their homes and have their own personal mobile phone, or have access to one belonging to a relative. Although selection criteria required that participants should be diabetic patients that only use Oral anti-diabetic medications, should be able to read and write, have power vision sufficient, no problem in hearing and vocalization and no history of psychiatric diseases. Patients were excluded if they had a clinical history of an important illness such as renal insufficiency with a creatinine level >1.5 mg/dl, hepatic insufficiency, were mentally ill or had less than 7% of HbA1c.
Seventy nine patients met the above criteria and agreed to participate. They were randomized by random permuted block design using a random number table and assigned to one of two groups: SMS group (N = 39) or Telephone group (N = 40). Only 77 subjects completed the entire study, 38 SMS and 39 Telephone. Two subjects were lost before completing the post-test in the Telephone group: one decided to opt out of the programme before completing the post-test and one expired during intervention. One subject was lost before completing the post-test in the SMS group because the change of therapeutic regimen from oral anti-diabetic agents to insulin.
Ethics committee approval was required. For ethical considerations, the research protocol was approved by the Medical Research Ethics Committee of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Written consent was obtained from those patients who agreed to participate in the study. Anonymity and confidentiality were guaranteed to participants.
The goal of the intervention was to maintain blood glucose levels within a normal range. Participants attended in three days diabetes self-care education in Iranian Diabetes Association. Before the intervention, each patient was instructed, for 10 minutes by researcher, about how to use their own cell phones and to check their ability to read Short Messages and match the time for telephone follow-up. The researcher provided the intervention for 12 weeks. Patients in the SMS group received about 4 messages weekly consisted of diet, exercise, diabetic medication taking and frequent self-monitoring blood glucose levels. Participants in SMS group could receive our messages at any place where access was possible by cellular phone. The researcher sent optimal recommendations back to each patient, 4 times by short message service of cellular phone weekly. For example, recommendations included: 'Do you know, the best bread for you is pebble bread'; 'Please eat vegetables and salad in every meal'; 'Please for prevention of high glycemic fluctuations', eat your meals in six times instead of three times'; 'Please consume your drugs on prescribed times' ; 'Do you know, eating in regular times, helps you to control your diabetes better'; 'Lack of exercise may be the cause of the aggravated glucose level'; 'Try to exercise 3 times daily and at least 15 minutes every time'; 'Do at least 30 minutes of physical exercise or walking'; 'Please check the amount that you eat'; 'Take your recommended diabetic medication'; 'If you consume Glybenclamide, please eat it, 30 minutes before your meal' and so on. The 12 weeks of intervention consisted of continuous education and reinforcement of diet, exercise, medication taking, as well as frequent self-monitoring of blood glucose levels.
The intervention for Telephone group was provided via telephone for 12 weeks. The 12 weeks of intervention consisted of counseling on the nature of the disease, risk factors, importance of maintaining blood glucose levels within a near-normal range, continuous education and reinforcement of diet, exercise, medications taking, hypoglycemia management, illness management how to record daily blood glucose and frequent self-monitoring of blood glucose levels. The researcher contacted the telephone group at least twice a week for the first month and then weekly for the second and third month. The total frequency of telephone counseling averaged 16 times per subject. The duration of each counseling session was an average of 20 minutes. The researcher was asking questions such as: "did you take your recommended diabetic medication?" "When did you consume your prescribed tablet?" Do you know how you're consuming medications, act in your body? "How many times did you do physical exercise or walking during last days?" "When is the best time to do exercise?" "Did you feel better after doing exercise?" Do you know that doing exercise is as important as diabetic medication?" How many days did you follow your recommended diet over the past days?" Did you eat salad and vegetable before every meal?" Before initiation of recommendation, researcher asked every patient about problems they were facing during last days and patients could ask their questions and could solve their problems. Sometimes they feel stress, so the researcher educate some ways of decreasing stress such as: deep breathing, distraction methods, taking a bath, go to the country, concentrate to good points of their life, be more with their family members or closed or lovely friends, try to laugh more and so on.
Before the intervention, demographic characteristics and HbA1c value were collected as pre-test data at the Iranian Diabetes Society. The intervention was provided to the telephone group with counseling appointments scheduled when convenient to the subject. The HbA1c was measured again three months later. Patients' blood was drawn in veins for HbA1c measurement. HbA1c was measured in the metabolism and endocrinology laboratory of the Tehran University-affiliated medical center. HbA1c was determined by a high-performance liquid chromatography technique. HbA1c level was measured after 12 weeks as posttest data.
The data were analyzed using the SPSS (Version 11.5) program. Chi square test, Paired t-test, independent t-test and Fisher's exact test were used to test for the homogeneity of demographic and clinical characteristics between the SMS and Telephone groups. The paired t test was used for comparison of differences between pretest and posttest values in the group. The unpaired t test was used for comparing the differences between the SMS and Telephone groups.
The characteristics of the SMS and Telephone groups are shown in Table 1. The mean age of the SMS group was 51.07 years and that of Telephone group was 53.71 years. The mean BMI of the SMS group was 29.008 kg/m2 and that of Telephone group was 27.334 kg/m2. There was no significant difference in age, gender, BMI, duration of diabetes, treatment method and blood glucose levels between the two groups.
Data are Means ± SD (%).
At the pre-test, no significant differences were found in HbA1c between the groups in Table 1. HbA1c did not differ significantly with two groups (SMS group vs. Telephone group) (p = 0.227). There was a significant percentage change in HbA1c for the SMS group (p = 0.000), with a mean change of −1.01 (8.97% pre-test to 7.96% three months), and also there was a significant percentage change in HbA1c for the Telephone group (p = 0.000), with a mean change of −0.93 (9.44% pre-test to 8.51% three months).
Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) decreased 0.93% points at three months compared with baseline in the Telephone group and 1.01% points at three months compared with baseline in the SMS group (Table 2). There was no significant difference were found between two intervention (p = 0.186).
Glycosylated haemoglobin reflects mean blood glucose levels over the previous six weeks. HbA1c has become a standard assessment of glycaemia and a standard part of diabetes management . Therefore, large studies of this relationship, such as the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group (1993) and the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study Group (UKPDS, 1998), used HbA1c as the primary index of glycaemia [5, 6].
This study evaluates and compares whether an intervention using the short message service (SMS) of cellular phone by a nurse and nurse led telephone follow-up would improve HbA1c levels in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus for three months.
In this study, HbA1c levels decreased 1.01% points in SMS group and 0.93% points in Telephone group after 12 weeks compared with baseline. Previous studies showed the following results: Kwon et al. (2004) reported that the 12-weeks follow-up examination HbA1c levels in diabetic patients by web-based management system using short message service (SMS) caused to mean decrease of 0.9% points in HbA1c , People with diabetes in a nurse short-message service by cellular phone intervention group had mean decrease of 1.15% points in HbA1c levels during the 3-months study period and 1.05% points at six months . A short message service by cellular phone study in type 2 diabetic patients resulted in a decrease of HbA1c of 1.31% points at nine months and 1.32% points at twelve months . An SMS intervention study by a nurse showed that the HbA1c levels decreased 1.1 percentage points after 12 weeks . At the end of Internet diabetic patient management study using a Short Messaging Service A1C levels were significantly (0.72%) decreased in the intervention group . The study of evaluating the impact of nurse's education by short message service of cellular phone and wire internet revealed a significant percentage change in a baseline HbA1c ≥7.0% for the intervention group with a mean change of −2.15(9.35% pretest to 7.20% post-test) at 3-months follow-up . An intervention using SMS of personal cellular phone and internet showed great efficacy in HbA1c control in obese type 2 diabetes. The intervention group showed a marked decrease in HbA1c levels after 12 months of follow-up versus the baseline levels (a mean percentage change of −1.22 at 3 months, -1.09 at 6 months, -1.47 at 9 months and −1.49 at 12 months . Kim, Oh and Lee (2005) reported that a nurse-coordinated intervention by telephone decreased HbA1c levels 1.2 percentage points after 12 weeks . In a prior randomized trial, the effect of nurse telephone calls on HbA1c levels was evaluated. After 12 weeks, patients in the telephone intervention group had a mean decrease of 1.2% in HbA1c levels . These results confirm that the use of various telemedicine approaches can have a positive impact on patients' HbA1c control.
Therefore, mean end-point HbA1c levels in the intervention groups of the 2 studies were essentially the same. However, in the telephone intervention group, nurse spent more time and money with patients than the SMS intervention by nurse. Overall, the findings suggested that the SMS intervention as improved HbA1c level as telephone group. Patients with diabetes wanted more frequent contact with their health care providers for managing the disease. By using telemedicine management systems such as short message service via cellular phones and telephone follow-up, patients can contact their nurses frequently. The patients in the Telephone group have more frequent contact with the nurse than those in the short message service of cellular phone group. In addition, the patients in the Telephone group received advice according their most recent data, confirming their current state. These factors may have stimulated and motivated the patients to control glucose levels enthusiastically.
These results have important clinical implications because the service for diabetic patients provided via mobile phone is now increasing, whereas the efficacy of the short message service for glucose control has not been evaluated extensively. Also, this study results show evidence that short message services are as effective as telephone calls guidance in managing diabetes. One major advantage of short message service is that the researcher could send short messages without location limitations. An intervention that involves the use of SMS and personal cellular phone can also be applicable to other chronic diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and metabolic syndrome.
This study adds that a nurse educational intervention programme using the telephone calls and an SMS by cellular phone improved levels of glycosylated haemoglobin levels for three months in patients with type2 diabetes. The SMS by cellular phone can be used as a means of providing education for patients with diabetes.
The trial demonstrated the usability of the system. The effectiveness of the system relied on regular contact. The contact frequency provided an indication of the level of acceptance and the extent to which use of the system had become a habit. Therefore, nurse's education using SMS of cellular phone not only allowed for the patients to maintain steady levels of HbA1c, but also improved the degree of their HbA1c control as well. These results confirm that the use of various telemedicine approaches by the nurse have a positive impact on patient's HbA1c control.
Although this study demonstrated that an SMS of cellular phone intervention by a nurse could maintain and reduce .HbA1c during a short-term study period of 12 weeks, the long-term effectiveness remains to be determined.
In this study, Iranian patients with type 2 diabetes who received short massages and followed by telephone had improved HbA1c levels. This study suggests both telephone follow-up intervention and using SMS of personal cellular phone improved HbA1c levels remarkably during three months in type 2 diabetic patients. Regard to convenience of SMS can be used as an appropriate alternative method for following up in diabetic patients.
A retraction note to this article can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2251-6581-11-21.
This study was supported by Vice-chancellor for Research of Tehran University of Medical Sciences [TUMS] (grant no: 7091). We thank all the project partners for their support. We acknowledge the help of all participants in this study.
MZ had substantial contributions to conception and design of the study, analysis of the data and drafting the manuscript. SAM had substantial contributions to acquisition of data and analysis. HH involved in the data analysis and the interpretation of results. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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A New/Old Role for Traditional Journalism
Tom Jacobs
The 2008 election campaign is historic for a number of reasons. But from the media's point of view, it may be remembered as the first campaign of the 'viral video' phenomenon.
The structure of news distribution is quickly shifting from vertical — in which a few journalists tells the masses what is happening — to horizontal, in which information can be placed onto the Internet by nearly anyone and shared with the world.
The challenges this new order presents to the world of journalism are a topic of a conversation between five journalists and scholars in "The News About the News in Campaign 2008," a conversation moderated by Steven Roberts of George Washington University and published in the October issue of the International Journal of Press/Politics.
"I think it's impossible to ignore the impact of the viral video phenomenon in this campaign," said Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and former media writer for the Boston Globe. He cited the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, and the March 18 speech on race the presidential candidate gave in response to their release.
"Millions more people will see and observe and analyze those incidents online than would ever tune into a newscast showing those clips," he said. "So you are dramatically expanding the audience. (In addition) people can make up their own mind (regarding the clips' content) without any kind of media mediation whatsoever. That's a hugely significant factor."
Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University, noted that Jurkowitz is describing "an alternative system" of news consumption, in which people watch important events via videos that are distributed "peer-to-peer," and interpret them without any input from the traditional media. Journalists "haven't begun to adapt their ideas to this horizontal dimension of communication," he said.
So what role should journalism play in a society where information – much of it incorrect, or open to misinterpretation – circulates so freely? Rosen suggests traditional outlets can serve as "reliable fact-checkers." But he adds that this will require getting rid of "some outdated notions about evenhandedness that actually prevent them from culling out deception and misinformation."
Alicia Shepard, ombudsman for National Public Radio, gave an example of the sort of thing skilled journalists are uniquely qualified to do. She noted that the rumor that Sen. Obama is a Muslim continues to circulate "despite ample evidence that it's not true. So the issue is, why is that? It's code for something … it speaks to their fears about Obama. (The fact) this bad information is circulating is important, and that is where professional mainstream media can come in and really try to analyze it rather than just report it, repeat it, or even dispute it."
What she is suggesting sounds a lot like "interpretative journalism," an approach one of my professors at emphasized when I was studying at Northwestern University in the 1970s. Perhaps the old methods still apply in the new media. If anyone can supply information, perhaps the primary role of journalism is to supply context and meaning.
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Is 670 Divisible By 5?
Yes 670 is Divisible By 5 Because the Remainder is 0
Yes 670 is Divisible By 5
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Here's a simple method for determining if 670 is divisible by 5. You don't even have to divide to use some simple criteria to figure out if two numbers are divisible.
Let's define "670 is divisible by 5" and see whether we're all on the same page: 670 is divisible by 5 without any remainder (i.e., the answer is a whole number).
An easy way to see if 670 is divisible by 5 is to glance at the number's last two digits. The final two digits in this example are 670.
Dividing 670 by 5 is another method for checking if the number is divisible by 5.
670 ÷ 5 = 134
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Can you explain the connection between factors and the rules for dividing them?
Any whole number that may be equally divided by another whole number is said to be a factor. Discovering the factors of a number requires us to know the divisors of that number.
For this, we use the rules of divisibility. We say that a number is divisible by it if it can be evenly divided into that number.
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Q: Template parameters for powershell script in Visual Studio project template? I have a project template that contains a powershell script called BuildStandard.ps1.  Inside that script is the following excerpt:
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When a new project is added using the template, I want the $SpecificSolutionName$ parameter to be replaced with, well, the solution name.  Only problem is that this content from the .vstemplate file isn't cutting it:
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In the grand scheme of things, 44 years isn't that long ago. That's when this model of Pennsylvania Ave and its surrounding areas was constructed (Courtesy Smithsonian Institution). Much of the Federal Triangle had already been built, but as you can see, there were still plans to raze the Old Post Office.
Pennsylvania Ave., on the otherhand, was to be completely razed and replaced by sterile modern buildings, as referred to in the September 16, 1965 Congressional Record (within the discussion on selecting a site for the Kennedy Center).
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Toronto, December 15, 2020 - Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin is this year's recipient of the $30,000 Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award. This year's award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of keyboard artistry (classical music). Born in Montreal, Hamelin is recognized worldwide for the originality and technical proficiency of his performances of the classic repertoire.
About Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin has appeared as guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Montréal Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, and appears regularly in recital in the major piano series at Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, the Berliner Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw, and throughout Australia, East Asia and his native Canada. He frequently appears at the BBC Proms, Aspen, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, and Lanaudiere festivals among others.
An exclusive recording artist for Hyperion Records, his discography includes more than 60 albums, with notable recordings of a broad range of repertoire. Hamelin has composed music throughout his career, with nearly 30 compositions to his name.
Marc-André Hamelin is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the German Record Critics' Association and has received seven Juno Awards and eleven Grammy nominations, in addition to the 2018 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance awarded by Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
(Photo of Marc-André Hamelin : Sim Cannety-Clarke)
The jury praised Hamelin saying, "Marc-André Hamelin's achievements are titanic. His technical mastery is supreme, and it is in perfect balance with his emotionally convincing creative expression. He has a phenomenal body of work, recorded and live, reflecting excellence across a very wide repertoire. Hamelin has an amazing musical mind."
Marc-André Hamelin was selected by a jury comprising of Philip Adamson, concert pianist and professor at the University of Windsor (Windsor, ON); and Kristina Szutor, concert pianist and professor at Memorial University (St. John's, NL).
"Marc-André Hamelin - Toccata on L'homme Armé | Podium Witteman"
The Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award was established at the Ontario Arts Foundation by the late Norman Walford, former Executive Director of the Ontario Arts Council, and the late Paul de Hueck, former CBC television production manager. The award recognizes in alternating years a classical or jazz keyboard artist, an art photographer, and a classical singer. The winner is chosen through a nominating and adjudication process managed by the Ontario Arts Council.
Previous award winners in the field of keyboard artistry include David Braid (2016), Lorraine Desmarais and Janina Fialkowska (2007), and Robert Silverman (1998). See the full list of previous recipients.
Established in 1991, the Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) is passionately committed to building long-term support for the arts in Ontario. In 2019-2020 the OAF paid over $4.25 million in endowment income and $270,000 in awards and scholarships.
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French Curriculum Intent
At St Bernadette's, we believe that learning a foreign language is a long life skill; it is an important part of being a member of a multi-cultural society as it provides children with an opening to other cultures and allows them to see, value and learn about other societies. In our school, French is the key language taught. Our provision fosters children's curiosity and deepens their understanding of the world. We encourage children to express their opinions, ideas, their feelings, engage in conversations, ask and answer questions and show their understanding through verbal and written responses. Exploring the patterns and sounds of language through songs, poems, games and rhymes, linking the spelling, sound and meaning of words support learning in a fun way and teaching provides an awareness of the culture, its language, literature, music and art. Children are encouraged to use ICT using the Languagenut program to enhance their learning of the language. They have weekly lessons in French throughout Key Stage 2 with a specialist teacher. Vocabulary is key to our teaching programme and this is embedded throughout our provision. Some of the areas covered include numbers, colours, hobbies and pets, family members, discovering the features of a French town, naming food and drink, going shopping, classroom instructions, clothes, sports and hobbies. Many of our children already speak at least two languages, with 42 different languages represented across our school community. We celebrate our multi-cultural school family with a wonderful International Evening each year where we share traditional dress, food and music. It is a highlight of our school year. We see language teaching in our school as the foundation for learning further languages and hope that we inspire our children to go forward with their studies through secondary education and beyond and become fluent communicators in at least one additional language.
French long-term plan
Children listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
Children engage in conversation; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help.
Children develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are using familiar words and phrases.
Children broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary.
Stories, Songs, Poems, games and Rhymes
Children appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language.
Greetings-Getting to know you
Hobbies and pets
Sports & Holidays
All about ourselves
Food and Mealtime
Opinions: like and dislike
Grammar: adjectives
All in a day: time
Les metiers
French Progression Document - Autumn Term
French Progression Document - Spring Term
French Progression Document - Summer Term


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Mužská dvouhra BMW Open 2018 probíhala v první polovině května 2018. Do singlové soutěže mnichovského tenisového turnaje nastoupilo dvacet osm hráčů. Obhájcem titulu byl třetí tenista světa Alexander Zverev.

Vítězem se stal nejvýše nasazený, 21letý Němec Alexander Zverev, jenž ve finále za 71 minut zdolal 34letého krajana a trojnásobného šampiona turnaje Philippa Kohlschreibera po dvousetovém průběhu 6–3 a 6–3. V probíhající sezóně si tak připsal premiérové turnajové vítězství, které představovalo sedmý singlový titul na okruhu ATP Tour a vůbec první obhájený, když v Mnichově triumfoval i v roce 2017.

Nasazení hráčů
Čtyři nejvýše nasazení hráči obdrželi volný los do druhého kola.

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Lynley Edmeades is currently working on her second collection of poems, which explores ideas of listening. Her first book, As the Verb Tenses, was published by Otago University Press in 2016. She is the 2018 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury and is living in Lyttelton for now.
This entry was posted in NZ author, NZ poems, NZ poetry, Uncategorized and tagged Lynley Edmeades, Poetry Shelf Audio Spot on October 11, 2018 by Paula Green.
Landfall 235 launches Emma Neale as the new editor. The cover aptly features 'The House Party'; Kathryn Madill's monoprint is strange and seductive with sunken black space and textured skin. It is like a poem that tempts and then holds you in an intricate grip. There is a Madill sequence inside that is equally sumptuous, surprising, lyrical.
This is an addictive issue – think of it as a musical composition that carries you through diverse and distinctive reading effects across an arc from first poem to final story. I do hope more Pasifika, Māori and Asian poets send in submissions for the next issue to increase the diversity of voice.
The two visual sequences (by Madill and photogapher Russ Flatt) are stunning. Flatt's photographs reconstruct memories from the 'subconscious grief' and experience of growing up gay in Auckland in 1970s and 1980s. Wow. This is the power of art to take you some place that transcends ideas and feeling but that is ideas and feeling.
Landfall 235 also includes the winner of the Charles Brasch Young Writers' Competition, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor, fiction (including a keenly observed piece by Airini Beautrais) and reviews. It welcomes established elders such as Elizabeth Smither and Bernadette Hall and barely published authors such as Sarah Scott and James Tremlett.
your face from its mask.
Lynley Edmeades' list poem, 'The Age of Reason', kicks off from Jean Paul Sartre's title to move from 'longing' to 'baby', scooping up Simone de Beauvoir on the way, and all the staccato thoughts that propel a micro portrait: because why because how because who. I adore this!
So my fish is pallid.
So there's a little pebble in my freekeh salad.
A swan like a carved radish kickstarts its way across the water.
that echo a memorial garden.
the leaf will turn into a shade.
appearing like a flaming comet, burning to be noticed.
Here is another unfamiliar poet I want to see a collection from. Susan Wardell's poem pulsates with glorious surprising life. I will quote a piece but I urge you to read the whole thing: place rich, lithely troped, visually sparking, enigmatic, humane. I am drawn to the voice, to the word hunger, to the portrait built.
Well, hers sweeps the room like salt-flecked taffeta.
Writing journals, literary journals open up new avenues of reading and engagement. Landfall 235 is no exception. I have not finished, I have not yet read the reviews and all the fiction, but congratulations Emma Neale, you have taken the literary torch from David Eggleton, and the boost he gave, and turned your astute editorial eye to our advantage. I have new poets I am keen to track down. I have seen familiar poets with fresh eyes. Kind of like a poetry house party in my head.
You can also go to the Landfall Exhibition if you live in Dunedin. Opening is Thursday May 25 at 5.30 pm.
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Diverse Abilities NS Responds to Provincial Budget Announcement
(FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020)
Diverse Abilities NS applauds government's commitment to ensure persons with diverse abilities in Nova Scotia have more opportunity to participate in employment and their community, as evidenced by this week's budget announcement (Tuesday, February 25, 2020).
Budget 2020-21 includes an initial investment of $7.4 million to create 50 new placements, twenty five for participants who are transitioning from larger residential facilities into community-based residential options and twenty five for participants on the service request wait list, with a commitment for sustained funding to allow for an additional 70 placements per year over the subsequent five years.
"We are really excited," says Joyce d'Entremont, CEO of the Meadows Community in Bridgetown and Chair of the Diverse Abilities NS. "We have been working collaboratively with government to plan for our residents' successful transition to community living, founded on the shared principles of choice, social inclusion, and the best supports based on individual need. Receiving this confirmation that transformation of the Disability Support Program is moving forward is very welcome and positive news."
Julie Hoeg, CEO of the Sunset Community in Pugwash and Vice-Chair of Diverse Abilities NS, adds that the Association is looking forward to a continued partnership with government in supporting the successful implementation of DSP Transformation Planning.
"The goal of everything we do is to empower people with diverse abilities to make their own choices, participate in decision-making, and to participate in, and contribute to, their local community," says Hoeg. "As such, we are also very pleased that government has reaffirmed its commitment to honour the unique strengths, needs and capacities of each participant as we move forward to the future."
c/o Mountains and Meadows Care Group, 200 Church Street, Bridgetown, NS, B0S 1C0
Phone: 902-665-4489 Ext. 801, Email: jdentremont@homesforcare.com
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CHATSWORTH, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 6, 2017) - Trimax Corporation, Inc. (OTC PINK: TMXN) (the "Company") and its wholly owned subsidiary Saavy Naturals Inc., is pleased to announce six additional purchase orders and the retail expansion of two additional Gelson's Markets including Rancho Mission Viejo for their all-natural body care lines throughout Southern California.
Founded in 1951, Gelson's currently operates 27 full-service specialty market stores in Southern California. Each Gelson's Market features the full amenities of a traditional supermarket, with the local flavor of a neighborhood market, mixed with high quality specialty items. Their high standards -- for quality, value and freshness; unsurpassed service; and attention to detail -- define the ultimate specialty grocery and market shopping experience. With over 60 years of experience, Gelson's in-house experts know Southern California's lifestyle and are driven to find only the best foods, specialty items and exclusive values for their customers.
Gelson's is particularly known for flavorful, hand-selected produce, the best and freshest cuts of meat and seafood, and Chef-prepared signature recipes. This experience is rounded out by professionally designed floral arrangements, and a convenient selection of the highest quality specialty grocery items in an immaculate setting and presentation.
Hugo Saavedra, CEO of Trimax Corporation and Saavy Naturals Inc., stated, "We are extremely pleased to announce additional purchase orders and the expansion of our body care product line into two additional Gelson's Markets. Anyone living in Southern California knows of their impeccable presentation of specialty items and the knowledgeable staff that Gelson's offers to its customers. We are both honored and pleased to be selling our full product line with a retailer we consider a partner in helping to establish our growth with their growth. As stated previously, I look forward to the expansion of our brand product lines in their markets as we both continue to grow."
Hugo and Debra Saavedra, Saavy Naturals Inc.'s CEO and President, gained instant popularity for their all natural body care product line after being spotlighted and appearing on ABC's hit show Shark Tank. The Sharks took an instant liking to Hugo and Debra, their love story, their previous success in the body care industry, and the superior quality of their all natural product. Hugo and Debra have since increased the company's product line exposure with several highlighted television features on The Home Shopping Network and are currently working on additional television marketing opportunities.
Trimax Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Saavy Naturals Inc., offers a complete line of Natural Skin Care products, which includes body creams, body scrubs, body wash, shampoos, conditioners, handcrafted soaps, bath bombs, bath salts and candles. Saavy Naturals products are 100% natural, vegan, gluten-free, soy free, cruelty-free, non-GMO, and food-grade. Currently, Saavy Naturals can be found in some of the largest natural retail stores and exclusive boutiques and spas across the nation. Some of the retailers include Whole Foods Market in the Northeast and Southern California regions, Gelson's Market, Vitamin Cottage, Bristol Farms, Erewhon, Earth Fare and Lazy Acres. Additionally, Saavy Naturals products can be purchased through numerous online retailers, including http://www.Amazon.com, and http://www.Saavynaturals.com.
This release contains statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements appear in a number of places in this release and include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Trimax Corporation Inc., its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things: (i) financing plans; (ii) trends affecting its financial condition or results of operations; (iii) growth strategy and operating strategy. The words "may," "would," "should," "will," "expect," "estimate," "can," "believe," "potential" and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Trimax Corporation Inc.'s ability to control, and that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. More information about the potential factors that could affect the business and financial results is and will be included in Trimax Corporation Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Buddicom, Robert Arthur (1874–1951)
by M. R. Brett-Crowther
Robert Arthur Buddicom (1874-1951), scientist and local entrepreneur, was born on 7 November 1874 at Ticklerton, Shropshire, England, son of William Squire Buddicom, landowner, and his wife Elizabeth Haughton, née Hornby. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Uppingham where he excelled in metal-work, composition of Greek and Latin verse and the construction of electrical apparatus. Advised against an engineering career by his great-uncle William Barber Buddicom, inventor of the Buddicom locomotive, he crammed in biology and chemistry, and in 1894 was a science scholar at Keble College, Oxford (B.A., 1897); he produced there the prototype of Buddicom's gas regulator, and made studies of muscle control and nervous excitability. He balanced his scientific gifts with interests in drawing, music and classics.
Oxford biological scholar in 1897-98 at the marine biological station, Naples, Italy, Buddicom consolidated his studies of the arts. In 1898 he gave a paper on the potential for life in all matter: an early Teilhardian view from a rationalist standpoint. In 1900-01 he was curator of the Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, founded and edited the short-lived journal Life in 1902, and was a market-gardener at Shiplake, Oxfordshire. While a demonstrator and lecturer at London Hospital Medical College in 1906-14 he became pessimistic about the future of Britain, an attitude strengthened by his work as foundation secretary of the British Legion for Home Defence. After a court action in February 1915 when, as a director of the Stolz Electrophone Co. (1913) Ltd, he was found to have been involved in misrepresentation in a prospectus, he migrated to Australia under the name of Robert Bedford. He had acquired land at Turramurra, New South Wales, in the settlement on his divorce from Laura Lucie Finlay whom he had married in London on 17 January 1900. However, he took up 2000 acres (809 ha) at isolated Kyancutta, South Australia, and grew wheat. Ethel Hilda Lewis, his second wife, and two children had accompanied him from England.
In 1915-20 Bedford strove to provide for the basic needs of the small pioneering community: he served as physician and veterinary surgeon; harried the government to hasten construction of the water-pipeline from Port Lincoln; and worked as a chainman on the Kyancutta tank. He ran a cash store and in 1922 opened a cottage hospital with his wife as matron. He established the radio station 5RB in 1924, next year opened a railway refreshment-room, and subsequently took over the post office. With helpers he constructed an all-weather aerodrome and in 1929 formed Eyre Peninsula Airways, which closed in 1935. Meanwhile the accurate reports which he had been sending to Adelaide resulted in the recognition of Kyancutta as an official weather-station. During the 1930s Bedford founded the doomed Australian Country Library Association. He operated a flour-mill, a smithy and a mail-run, built a printing-press, and experimented with a phonetic system of English. A strong supporter of the South Australian Centre Party, he entered politics in 1928 as a founder of the Kyancutta branch of the South Australian Wheat-growers' Association; in 1933 he drafted a constitution for the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation. He represented Kyancutta Ward on the district council of Le Hunte in 1934-35. In the face of general government neglect of the district, however, he advocated secession of the peninsula from South Australia as Eyralia.
Bedford continued always to probe into the nature of life. He compiled a list of Aboriginal words and in 1920 was a founder of the Adelaide Rationalist Society. The first of his notorious field-trips was made in 1927, to Nildottie and Swan Reach for Aboriginal fossils and to Ardrossan for archeocyathinae; next year he went to Lake Callabonna for Diprotodon bones and rock-carvings. He housed his collections, excellently arranged to demonstrate the evolution of man from primitive matter, in the remarkable Kyancutta Museum and Library which was opened in 1929.
In 1931-38 Bedford examined the meteorite craters at Henbury, Central Australia. He excavated large meteorite masses there, discovered the associated black silica glass and iron shale balls, and from an analysis of the surface condition of the irons demonstrated that the fall was more recent than originally supposed. He was responsible, too, for the location of the Lake Labyrinth stone; the preservation of the Kyancutta and Silverton meteorites; and the gathering of irons from Boxhole, Central Australia. He considered the Murnpeowie iron the finest meteorite in existence. His work on archeocyathinae and related fossils from 1933 resulted in the description of thirty-two new species and eight new genera, his researches being published as Memoirs of the Kyancutta Museum, 1-6 (Adelaide, 1934-39). The museum mounted a display on evolution in Adelaide in 1936 and another on archeocyathinae in Auckland, New Zealand, next year. In 1938 he published the philosophical conclusions to his researches as 'An outline of biosophy: part 1' (Memoirs…, 5).
Bedford's success in classifying fossils and in describing both meteorites and tektites drew some unfair criticism. The South Australian Museum opposed his admission to the Museum Association of Australia and New Zealand. The Adelaide Advertiser libelled Kyancutta Museum parties for their work at Henbury, but later publicly apologized.
During World War II Bedford acted as a volunteer air-observer, built models of inventions to aid the Allies, and urged the annexation of near-by Pacific islands. His last years were clouded by an obsessive desire to revive Kyancutta aerodrome. Survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters, he died at Kyancutta on 14 February 1951 and was buried as Robert Bedford in the local cemetery. The museum was subsequently closed and its holdings dispersed.
L. H. Daniel, Life as I See It (Adel, 1977)
Mineralogical Magazine, Mar 1932, Mar, Sept 1933, June 1934, Mar 1935, June 1936
South Australian Institutes Journal, 30 Apr 1951
M. Brett-Crowther, 'Robert Buddicom: prophet and utopist', Shropshire Magazine, Aug 1974
Times (London), 2 Feb 1915, p 3, 4 Feb 1915, p 3, 5 Feb 1915, p 3, 6 Feb 1915, p 3, 8 May 1915, p 3
Mail (Adelaide), 19 Nov 1932
R. F. I. Smith, 'Organise or be Damned': Australian Wheatgrowers' Organisations and Wheat Marketing, 1927-1948 (Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University, 1969).
M. R. Brett-Crowther, 'Buddicom, Robert Arthur (1874–1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buddicom-robert-arthur-5417/text9185, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 22 January 2021.
Bedford, Robert
Ticklerton, Shropshire, England
Kyancutta, South Australia, Australia
airline industry leader
farming industry leader
fossil collector
hospital owner
Indigenous artefacts collector
Indigenous culture recorder
local government councillor
museum administrator