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Is Cauliflower Racist?
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Culinary partisans can relax; there's nothing offensive about eating 'non-native' foods.
In the latest Bizarro-World controversy, political partisans have taken to the internet to fight over – cauliflower? Yes, really. This bland and ubiquitous vegetable has become the latest front in the Culture Wars, with freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) even claiming 'people of color' have a hard time gardening because cauliflower is a colonialist vegetable.
Many people love cauliflower because it's high in fiber and vitamins and low in calories. I dislike it for the same reason I dislike vanilla ice cream and plain waffles–I need flavor in my life! But because AOC has become clickbait and her name buries every other search result, I haven't been able to determine where these anti-cauliflower sentiments come from. Is it actually something argued by fringe identitarians, or did AOC just make it up to grab headlines?
In the dumbest video she's uploaded since pretending to not know what a garbage disposal is, she said:
"But when you really think about it — when someone says that it's 'too hard' to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don't know, cauliflower or something — what you're doing is you're taking a colonial approach to environmentalism. That is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them."
Essentially, she's arguing that South and Central Americans living in the Bronx have been brainwashed into growing European foods, rather than something native to hot, dry regions like the Yucca plant. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why it's easier to grow cauliflower in New York than a desert plant like Yucca. Yucca thrives in a completely different climate.
But her broader point seems to be that "communities of color" are resistant to growing gardens because they're unfamiliar with foods non-native to the Americas. That's crazy. People all over the world enjoy foods that aren't native to the areas in which they live, or where their ancestors came from.
When you think of German and Irish food, what comes to mind? Potatoes. Yet potatoes are not native to Europe–they were introduced by the Spanish from North America in the late 1500s. Today, they are considered a culinary staple and are the world's fourth-largest food crop.
We consider potatoes an integral part of Irish and German cuisine because Europeans have been eating them for centuries. Just as people in North America have been eating cauliflower for centuries. This exchange of foods have benefited everyone (for the most part). Potatoes and cauliflower are cheap and easy to grow, and have saved tens of millions of people from starvation.
This idea that we should only engage in our 'native' or ancestral culture is completely bonkers. Everyone benefits from a variety of goods and products shared across the world. Unraveling those connections at this point in history (or at any point in history, really) would be impossible. As a person of European ancestry, I couldn't imagine giving up rice or tomatoes because they don't originate in Europe.
I'm becoming convinced AOC is actually a conservative troll who routinely says things to make leftists look stupid. This Yucca/cauliflower nonsense is just the latest example.
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3 replies on "Is Cauliflower Racist?"
Paulsays:
I don't think she's a conservative troll – she's just ignorant.
Michael Kleensays:
Don't let cauliflower colonize you! 😮😮
diane1253says:
Nutritionist told Dave to add cauliflower to mash potatoes. VERY tasty

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Our analysis suggests that the combined company can make $15.50 per share in 2022, 4 years after the deal closes – 3x what the pro-forma EPS was for 2016.
We expect a PX equivalent share price of at least $300 in 2022 – roughly 120% higher than current levels – compound annual growth of over 18% from today's price.
Worst case downside is $230 per share – 11% compound.
The combined company will grow revenue faster than the competition at higher rates of return than in the past, because of its expected lower cost of project delivery.
We are assuming that the company will only take the high return investments rather than try to squeeze out APD, AL and others completely – see prior research.
The company will beat synergy goals: both timing of the initial estimate and quantum.
Free cash, including from expected required divestments, used to buy back stock; as much as 20% of the pro-forma 2018 outstanding share base by the end of 2022.
Conservatively, we are assuming a long-term EPS multiple of 20x for the stock – today, PX's multiple is 25x, which is discounting some of the potential deal upside in our view.
We are assuming a tax inefficient divestment of around $3.5 billion (sales) to keep the regulators happy assuming a $10 billion value with a $5 billion taxable gain.
If the new company can find a tax efficient exit – we can think of two routes – the share buyback could be larger – as much as 25% larger with one option.
Our bridge to 2022 EPS is summarized in Exhibit 1. We do not see any other story in the Chemical space that can deliver this much long-term value with this little risk/volatility.
Some commodity names have the potential to double, but also the potential to halve.
We have built a comprehensive financial model for the Linde/Praxair combination, something we do not normally do at SSR, but with the many potential positive moving parts we wanted to check that our upside potential analysis was robust and run the numbers more rigorously. We like this deal because we think there are a number of straightforward unique growth drivers; and there is no need to make ambitious or aggressive assumptions to get very positive very quickly.
The opportunities fall into three buckets – higher value (and higher) revenue growth (i.e. more dollars spent on projects with high returns) – synergies (plenty initially and then more over time) – and cash management; deploying enough capital into new projects to gain share, while at the same time supporting a substantial buyback.
The bulk of the buyback should come from the cash generated from the sale of assets required by the regulatory bodies to get the deal done. Here, we would expect the companies to be proactive in presenting regulators with a divestment "straw man", in the hope that they can then manage the sale process as tax efficiently as possible, either by splitting (rather than spinning) off all the required assets into a separate New-Co, or through a Reverse Morris Trust type transaction – possible but complicated and also requiring some sort of initial split. A share split would be the most efficient way to buy back stock as it would be a one-time event at, or immediately after, the deal close – more share reduction at a lower price.
Note that in Exhibit 1 we are assuming reasonable base EPS growth, which includes some measure of buyback. Our EPS estimates by year are summarized in Exhibit 2, and a summary of expected funds flows in Exhibit 3.
In our model, we are assuming that the deal is executed well – the companies will be given plenty of time to plan and to identify synergies precisely – we believe that there is as much likelihood of synergies being higher than the almost $2 billion we are assuming as there is that synergies will be lower than our estimate.
Management also has time to craft a good divestment strategy for assets that will need to be separated to keep the regulatory bodies satisfied. We show some scenarios on possible divestment values later in the report.
Worst case on the buyback would be 4-5% fewer shares repurchased than we expect, which would knock around 77 cents per share off our 2022 estimate.
Competitive response is much harder to read – if APD, AL and others do not let LIN/PX take the capital opportunities that we think they should win, then we could see margin deterioration and more limited capital growth. There would be a slightly larger buyback – because of more cash and because of a likely lower share price.
Worst case EBITDA is $2 billion lower than projected in 2022 – a reduction in EPS of $3.25-3.35 versus our estimate.
Combining the risks gives a downside 2022 EPS estimate of around $11.50 per share – with a 20 multiple – $230 per share – 11% compound growth.
The divestments will create a new competitor or strengthen a smaller one.
LIN/PX will either win new business because they are a lower cost provider – i.e. better for the customer – or others will undercut LIN/PX to try to gain share – lower margins for them but the customer wins again.
This is predicated on the thesis that there is too much capital/cash generated by the industry to meet forward investment needs – see prior research – linked below.
In prior research (linked here) we have discussed what we think is one of the larger opportunities for the combined company, which is better revenue growth, through some market share gain, and better returns on that investment – reflected in higher gross margins, and higher EBIT (lower D&A per dollar of incremental revenue). We have not been overly aggressive on the capex side, assuming that the industry can spend around $6.5-7 billion a year on traditional industrial gas projects with new Linde taking $4.5 billion. In the prior research, we noted that new Linde will likely have the cash flows and the cost base to take all of the new capital opportunities in the traditional sector, but we are assuming that the company maintains a disciplined return on investment threshold.
We have assumed a 100 basis point gain in revenue growth for the company in 2021 and a 150 basis point gain in 2022, with minimal improvement in 2019 and 2020 because of the length of time it takes for new investments to hit the top line. We have, however, assumed an improvement in gross margins almost immediately as we would expect some (though not much) of the synergies to come from improvements in cost of goods sold. Underlying revenues, incremental revenues and the associated improved margins are summarized in Exhibit 4. The higher margin/higher return investment assumption is a significant driver of expected earnings growth in 2021 and 2022. Note that the base EBITDA assumption for 2019 is around $8.4 billion and accounts for the expected divestments required to get the deal done – $3.5 billion of revenues at average company gross margins.
We think there is likely to be a very long tail to the synergy opportunity. Initial synergies are likely focused on easily identifiable costs where lay-offs are not challenging. We would expect much of this to be in the US initially. However, there are likely to be head-office and SG&A costs all over the world, some of which will take more time. In the Exhibit 5 below we show both SG&A and SG&A as a percent of revenues. We are assuming that some of the SG&A costs are divested with the required divestments and this is reflected in the 2019 EBITDA numbers in the percentages at the bottom of the table – as noted above, base EBITDA for 2019 is estimated to be $8.4 billion.
The overall impact of the revenue gains and SG&A synergies can be seen in the EBITDA margin difference shown in in Exhibit 6.
A major part of the story here will be the use of a growing pile of cash. We are assuming that the company can increase capex relative to the current pro-forma rate, but we only assumed a modest share gain from the other industrial gas companies on the basis that the new Linde chooses to take only high return business. It is possible that the company could push for a higher share of new business and compromise returns but this may result in some unwelcome competitive behavior from others and bring new business returns down for the whole industry. As shown in Exhibit 7, even with this higher level of capex, there is plenty of spare cash generated and we are assuming that all of this is used in share buyback. Note that we expect neither company to buy back stock prior to the merger close and consequently by end 2018 there is accumulation of cash on the combined balance sheet of almost $5bn – before any divestments. That cash, plus the divestments allows for the substantial buybacks in 2019 and 2020 – by 2021 the buyback reflects cash surplus to capex and dividend needs. We have assumed flat working capital throughout – not an unrealistic assumption given that working capital is likely to be a source of additional synergy gains.
Another key set of assumptions that we have made is around the divestments of assets required to be sold to satisfy the regulators. We have assumed that the company will need to divest $3.5 billion of revenues – towards the upper-end of the range provided when the merger was formally announced. We have assumed that these divestments will raise as much as $10 billion, given the high margins and predictable earnings of the business. We have also assumed that the sale is tax in-efficient and that book value is $5 billion (it is possible that book value could be lower than $5 billion). We have taxed the gain at 25%, but if the assets are more heavily weighted to the US the tax rate will be higher.
In Exhibit 8 we show what we think is a reasonable range of assumptions – potential proceeds and the likely number of shares retired. We believe that we have been conservative in our assumption around the share price (i.e. possibly too high in each scenario). There is a big difference between a tax efficient and a tax inefficient exit. We are not even sure if a tax efficient exit is possible, but show the scenario for illustration. We think such a move could only be achieved through a spin/split or an RMT based sale, preceded by a stock split (as in the PPG/Georgia Gulf deal). The yellow highlighted line is the assumption in our model.
We have assumed that the new company keeps the Linde engineering business. It is a low margin business but today the E&C space is trading at or close to 15 year lows – Exhibit 9 – and has seen very disappointing trends in return on capital. The Linde business has not fared much better than the industry average with EBIT falling from a high of €312 million in 2012 to €140 million in 2016.
While this may not be a strategic business for the new company longer-term, now is not the time to sell though we are unlikely to see a peak in valuation without some significant industry reconfiguration. The E&C space is a mess today with companies at earnings and valuation lows when business should be at its best – this will be the subject of separate research. Today at current E&C multiples this business is not worth much more than $1 billion net and the new company might be encouraged to do something pro-active with the business rather than simply sell it (merge with another – create synergies – and then sell or spin). Linde has won some significant EPC contracts recently, but this may be more a function of how poorly others are performing than how well Linde is doing.


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The Whole of My World (2013), by Nicole Hayes, Guest Review by Karenlee Thompson
Nicole Hayes is a freelance writer, editor and teacher who hails from Melbourne. The Whole of My World is her debut novel, and this is the blurb from Fishpond:
An unputdownable novel for anyone who's ever loved or lost, drawn a line between then and now, or kept a secret that wouldn't stay hidden …'Today I am free. No guilt for who's missing, what's been left behind. My face aches from smiling in the wind and my voice rasps from all the screaming, and I know that it's been forever since I've felt so completely alive.' Desperate to escape her grieving father and harbouring her own terrible secret, Shelley disappears into the intoxicating world of Aussie Rules football. Joining a motley crew of footy tragics, and best of all, making friends with one of the star players. Shelley finds somewhere to belong. Finally she's winning. So why don't her friends get it? Josh, who she's known all her life, but who she can barely look at anymore because of the memories of that fateful day. Tara, whose cold silences Shelley can't understand. Everyone thinks there's something more going on between Shelley and Mick. But there isn't, is there? When the whole of your world is football, sometimes life gets lost between goals.
So now you know why I had to pass this one on to my good friend Karenlee Thompson for review! I know nothing at all about football – not even how many teams there are – and The Spouse and I compete each year to see which of us can outlast the other in not knowing (a) who's in the Grand Final and (b) who won. (I hold the record because one year I managed to stay in blissful ignorance till the following Monday lunchtime, which is no mean feat in sports-mad Melbourne.)
Fortunately, Karenlee was more than happy to share her thoughts about this novel:
In an interview with Marama Whyte at Hypable, Hayes admits to mining her own childhood for the background for this novel – and you can detect the similarities between Hayes and the central character, Shelley, who allows herself to be almost swallowed up by the fans and the players and the hype that make up the world of Aussie Rules.
Despite some minor insecurity, Shelley knows herself pretty well:
Somewhere deep down I'm ashamed of my gloating, but it's pretty deep and easy to ignore. (p. 83)
The game of football and the people surrounding it fill the void left by tragedy on the home front. As Shelley immerses herself in this other world, she comes close to losing her innocence but is ultimately saved by her own competence and common sense, as much as by the knowledge that, despite circumstances sometimes indicating otherwise, she is loved by her family and friends.
Hayes' clever way with words is never more evident than when she talks about the game of football and its resonance to the city of Melbourne:
The moment you're born in this city, or even if you move here, you have to choose a team to barrack for… [sometimes] it's handed down to you like property or, if you barrack for Carringbush, a hereditary disease. (p. 73)
Sections and chapters are named in true footballing parlance: 'Pre-season', 'One day in September', 'Best on Ground' and the like and Hayes is clearly knowledgeable about the game, its players, and Melbourne – the city that is still the capital as far as AFL is concerned.
But it's not all about the Sherrin and the big white posts. Hayes has a knack for painting her characters uniquely. Of her new friend, Shelley thinks:-
Individually, her features could be pretty but, somehow, in the process of constructing a face, the bits don't quite seem to match. (p. 21)
The story is set in the eighties and so some of the references might prove baffling for the book's intended YA audience. No doubt, there will be a few teenagers asking their parents "Who is Kim Wilde*?" or "is The Waltons* a television show?" and "who or what is the Brady Bunch?*"
I'm pleased that Hayes provided a fictional cloak for her characters and football teams because it allowed her the freedom to explore motivation more easily and I'm sure she would have felt shackled if Shelley's team and the named players were real.
One of my favourite aspects of this novel is the innocence (but growing awareness) with which Shelley embroils herself in a friendship with an older, married man. Mick 'Eddie' Edwards is clearly a handsome and charismatic guy. We are never quite sure of his exact motives which I think in a YA book is just as it should be and could provide for some great educational discussion points for teenagers.
Thanks to Lisa at ANZ Litlovers for sending this book to me. Lisa would be part of a minority group in Victoria – someone who I don't think has ever been to a game of Australian Rules Football – but she knew I would appreciate the backstory and enjoy reading The Whole of My World for review.
© Karenlee Thompson
Karenlee, I have to 'fess up: I have actually been to a footy match. My first mother-in-law was convinced that if she could persuade me to attend one, that I would instantly be hooked. So she invited me to the Grand Final, Carlton (her team) versus I-forget-who. We even had seats in the members. Alas, I did not understand a thing about the game, couldn't pick one player from another, and had a headache within 15 minutes of the game starting. It was sheer torture, and – in the absence of anything else to read – I spent the entire match reading, and pretending to be interested in, The Footy Record. I still feel guilty about this failure to enjoy this match because I know that there are footy fans who camp out for days in advance to get a ticket to the finals, and there I was taking up a seat that I didn't appreciate.
* Links to these pop cultural references provided by me. I figure that if I didn't know who Kim Wilde was, others might not either.
Karenlee Thompson is an author and an occasional reviewer for The Australian and was featured on Meet an Aussie Author in 2011. Her debut novel 8 States of Catastrophe is reviewed on the ANZ LitLovers blog here. Karen blogs at Karen Lee Thompson.
Thanks, Karenlee, for once again sharing your thoughts.
Author: Nicole Hayes
Title: The Whole of My World
Publisher: Woolshed Press, Random House, 2013
ISBN: 978 74275 860 2
Review copy courtesy of Random House.
Fishpond: The Whole of My World
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Rich Families Are Legally Separating from Their Kids to Pay Less for College
It's the latest tactic the American wealthy use to game the system.
by Allie Conti
31 July 2019, 5:09am
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On its website, Destination College describes itself as "a Chicago based firm working with families to make college affordable for their children." The smiling blonde woman holding an award on its homepage, Lora Georgieva, has apparently helped "many homeless students, refugees, and single moms achieve their college dream." But a new report from ProPublica tells a different story—court records show Georgieva has coached dozens of rich families into gaming a system intended to help the less fortunate. These families do so by having their high-school–aged children declare themselves financially independent from their parents, letting them access financial aid they would not otherwise be entitled to.
Gorgieva's business is part of a constellation of private counseling shops that employ legal—albeit ethically dubious—methods to help wealthy parents give their kids a leg up. This particular brand of scam was uncovered after a high school guidance counselor called an admissions director at the University of Illinois to ask why a specific student had been invited to an orientation for disadvantaged kids. The director, Andy Borst, looked into it and found that she had legally emancipated herself from her parents—a process that is intended to protect kids from abuse, but does not require any such abuse to have taken place.
The Wall Street Journal was able to reach two parents who were coached by Destination College into transferring guardianship of their kids before they applied for financial aid. One woman said that after putting several kids through school, her family's resources were tapped out despite living in a $1.2 million home and earning more than $250,000 a year. She transferred her daughter's guardianship to her business partner using completely legal methods, after which point that daughter only had to claim her income from working a summer job. She received a $20,000 financial aid package, including a federal subsidy meant for needy students known as a Pell Grant, and was able to cover the rest of her $65,000 tuition through a combination of scholarships and help from her grandmother, the woman told the Journal.
"The problem is there's not much the colleges can do about it," said Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on student aid. Questions about whether a child should be emancipated or otherwise legally separated from their parents are the domain of the courts. However, the college can ask how the student was able to support themselves, and take steps to ensure that all cash support received by the student, whether from their parents, grandparents or other relatives, is reported as untaxed income on the (financial aid form)," he added.
This latest revelation comes amid concurrent national conversations about the fairness and price of college. In March, the biggest college admissions scandal in history implicated 50 people in a shocking criminal conspiracy to grease the admission of lackluster students' into big-ticket schools by manipulating test scores and faking extracurriculars. More recently, the College Board tried to level the playing field by introducing an "adversity score" metric to the SATs. On Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, among others, will likely duke it out on their competing visions for how to make the system more equitable, whether that means making public universities tuition-free or merely expanding the Pell Grant system.
Now it seems on top of fixing all that, a comprehensive solution to revamping the way college works in America should include an overhaul of guardianship law. "The guardianship law was written very broadly," Mari Berlin, an attorney who has overseen several of these cases, told the Journal. "Judges were given an immense amount of discretion. The standard is, best interest of the child, and I think it's hard to argue that this is not in the student's best interest."
ProPublica's investigation was limited to a northern suburb of Chicago, where it found about four dozen suspicious guardianship applications in the past 18 months. It's unclear how widespread the practice is nationwide, or how long it's been going on for.
In the meantime, Borst, the Illinois admissions official, said he'd alerted the Department of Education. Its investigative arm told the Journal that it's already suggested the DOE add language to the Federal Student Aid Handbook clarifying that if a student enters a legal guardianship but continues to receive support from parents, they are still considered their dependents. However, now that they've been tipped off to this latest chapter in the ongoing college admissions scandal, a nationwide investigation may soon be in the works.
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Q: Do Multiple Left Join on condition and get non null column value I have a table containing the last comments posted on the website, and I'd like to join a different table depending on the comment type.
Comments Table is similar to this structure:
id | type | ressource_id |
---+------+--------------+
1  |  1   |      10      |
2  |  3   |       7      |
3  |  3   |      12      |
4  |  1   |      22      |
5  |  4   |      22      |
6  |  5   |      23      |

News Table:
news_id | notes|     date     |
--------+------+--------------+
10      |      |  2015-08-12  |
22      |      |  2015-07-12  |

Tutorial Table:
tuto_id | notes|     date     |
--------+------+--------------+
7       |      |  2015-06-15  |
12      |      |  2015-05-14  |

... Similar table for type = 4, 5, 6
Now in order to get specific comments I am doing a left join on the two tables.
SELECT co.*
  FROM Comments co
       LEFT JOIN News n
              ON co.id = n.news_id AND co.type = 1
       LEFT JOIN Tutorial t
              ON co.id = t.tuto_id AND co.type = 3
 WHERE (co.type IN (1,3))

I am interested in getting the date from the left table. How can I include that column in output list.
Result desired: (date from joining table)
id | type | ressource_id |     date     |
---+------+--------------+--------------+
1  |  1   |      10      |  2015-08-12  |
2  |  3   |       7      |  2015-06-15  |
3  |  3   |      12      |  2015-05-14  |
4  |  1   |      22      |  2015-07-12  |

Thanks.

A: Since you will never get a date from News and Tutorial for the same comment you might go withCOALESCE`:
SELECT co.*, COALESCE(n.date,t.date)
  FROM Comments co
       LEFT JOIN News n
              ON co.id = n.news_id AND co.type = 1
       LEFT JOIN Tutorial t
              ON co.id = t.tuto_id AND co.type = 3
 WHERE (co.type IN (1,3))

COALESCE will return the first argument that is not null, so if there is a matching news it will return the date from News and if there is no matching news but a matching tutorial it will return the date from Tutorial.

A: try this:
SELECT co.*,coalesce(n.date,t.date)
  FROM Comments co
       LEFT JOIN News n
              ON co.id = n.news_id AND co.type = 1
       LEFT JOIN Tutorial t
              ON co.id = t.tuto_id AND co.type = 3
 WHERE (co.type IN (1,3))
 and (co.id = n.news_id or co.id = t.tuto_id)

A: You can use a UNION operator also.
(SELECT co.*,n.date as [date]
  FROM Comments co
       LEFT JOIN News n
              ON co.id = n.news_id AND co.type = 1)
UNION ALL
    (SELECT co.*,t.date
      FROM Comments co
       LEFT JOIN Tutorial t
              ON co.id = t.tuto_id AND co.type = 3)
ORDER BY ID

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Chechen Interior Ministry officials say more than a million people in Grozny have attended a rally in honor of the Chechen Constitution, which was adopted 13 years ago today. Writing on Instagram, Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, said greetings from President Vladimir Putin were also read aloud to the crowd.
According to federal statistics, Chechnya's total population is just under 1.4 million people.
This isn't the first time Chechen officials have claimed such a large crowd at a public event. At a protest in January 2015 against caricatures defaming the Prophet Muhammed, Chechnya's Interior Ministry also said more than a million people turned out, reasoning that the demonstration attracted people from neighboring republics.


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J.D. ~ So proud to download this and read your works. This storyline is like nothing I've ever viewed. I'm sure I'm in for a rare adventure!
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To provide for the designation of certain land; to regulate the subdivision of such land and the settlement of persons thereon; to provide for the acquisition, maintenance, planning, development, improvement and disposal of property and the provision of financial assistance for land reform purposes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Last update: May 2011
The Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993 (Act No. 126 of 1993) has been amended by the Rural Development and Land Reform General Amendment Act, 2011 (Act No. 4 of 2011), Government Gazette 34300, Notice No. 427, dated 16 May 2011.
The Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993 (Act No. 126 of 1993) has been amended by the Provision of Land and Assistance Amendment Act, 2008 (Act No. 58 of 2008), Government Gazette 31788, Notice No. 21, dated 9 January 2009.
The Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993 (Act No. 126 of 1993) has been amended by the Land Affairs General Amendment Act, 2000 (Act No. 11 of 2000).
The Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993 (Act No. 126 of 1993) has been amended by the Provision of Certain Land for Settlement Amendment Act, 1998 (Act No. 26 of 1998).
The Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993 (Act No. 126 of 1993) has been amended by the Development Facilitation Act, 1995 (Act No. 67 of 1995).
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HOPKIN EXPECTING 'TOUGH' FLEETWOOD TEST
City manager David Hopkin is expecting a tough test when his Bantams take on Fleetwood Town tomorrow afternoon.
The Bantams are 10 points behind their 10th-placed Sky Bet League One opponents, though victory at the Northern Commercials Stadium could see Hopkin's men up to 17th.
City have taken five points from their last three fixtures while this weekend's visitors have won two of their last five games.
Hopkin said: "Joey Barton has done a great job in his first year in management and Fleetwood have some great players.
"They play with plenty of pace and are a physical side. It is a game where we will need to play really well to get a result.
"Fleetwood are in the top half of the table and have gone well so far this season. It is a big game but one we are all looking forward to.
"We had a great run in December and after a little transition, in January, we have got back on track in terms of results.
"We have managed to pull another five or six teams into the mix, which is important, and we now have to kick on and keep the momentum flowing.
"In recent weeks we have had letters back from assessors saying we should have had penalties at Burton and Wycombe.
"So, from having a very good five points, we could have had a magnificent nine points and it would have put us in a much better position.
"We are doing the right things and need to keep believing and working hard. Hopefully, we will get a little more luck along the way!"
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Gordon Setter is general breed to hunt pheasant and quail, Gordon Setters are very good companions and also can be field trial competitors. Dogs of this breed are also obedient, informative power and agility and are a terrific family and hunting dog.
It is an active, well-muscled dog which is capable of working hard but can remain in their mentality the age he wants to stay in.
The Gordon Setters are familiar for maturing in late and have the tendency to remain young at their heart.
The breed is quite intelligent as well as gentle and loyal too.
This breed is excellent watching capability.
As Gordon Setter is a hard working as well as intelligent breed, if the dogs of this breed can get the proper training and good socialization in their very early age, they can be the best watchdog you have ever experienced. They are very active in spite of not being too much fast moving dog. They can be suffered from depression if they are left alone without any company. That may also feel them sick by giving mental pressure.
Gordon Setters may be naughty at their childhood, but they become more gentle and polite with the age of growing up.
The Gordon Setters have an attractive coat which is soft and shiny to look and touch at. They also found in straight to slightly wavy way. Gordon Setters have long hair on their ears, chest, belly, the back of the four legs, and the tail. The tail of this breed is not long, with a triangular shape, which became shorter and shorter toward the end of the softy tail. A Gordon Setter may have spotted on the chest which is color in white, the smaller the better.
You can consult with vet or the consulter of the pet shop from where you bought your dog or puppy. They can suggest the best food combination or menu for your pet. Usually 2 or 2.5 cups of dog's food are advised for Gordon Setter. This amount can be changeable with the size and age of the dogs. It's no need to be said that big dogs need more food than the smaller one.
Gordon Setter needs exercises daily. They can walk a long run without any tiredness. They should be taken bath within 4-5 weeks. Comb their hair twice a week to help falling the damaged hair. Brush the teeth and trim the nails within a certain period. If you don't have efficiency in doing this, take help from the experts.
If the Gordon Setter trained up from the beginning, it can be an excellent guard of your house. It also behaves friendly with little children. Even also, allow them to touch their body too.
Though Gordon Setters cope with other pets like cat but does not want to stay with another breed of dogs.


The building next door is a school from the 1910s, large, plain, cubical. For the longest time it has been girdled with scaffolding, but then this summer something new appeared. The entire building was wrapped in a mesh curtain. Lit up at night, it glowed, like an ice palace or a maximum-security prison. The mesh was to keep in fragments of whatever was being applied to or extracted from the structure; the lights were to allow work to be done after hours. The side street on its flank was sliced in half lengthwise, and the near half turned into a work zone. Bulldozers moved material back and forth at ground level, a crane hoisted it to higher floors. It was all done with a certain gigantic delicacy, like a bodybuilder sidling along a tightrope, but it was irksome for traffic, which passed the pain on to bystanders. A plane tree across the street, four stories tall, lost half of itself in a sideswipe. A parked car got tapped on its left rear fender and rear-ended the car in front of it, which did the same.
The passage beneath the scaffolding that covers you, down the block to my very door, actually became cleaner. The custodians of the school, who used to heave swollen stinking bags of garbage onto the sidewalk for pick-up and for vermin buffets, have had to dispose of them elsewhere. Ditto with the endless quantities of superannuated school furniture: chairs with writing arms, old wooden desks, glum metal filing cabinets. The homeless, whom a progressive mayor has returned to the streets, may settle in for a night with take-out, dogs, and sleeping bags. But the next day they are gone. So large chaos makes small order. Even the sidewalk, though, now wears mesh walls, antiseptic but eerie, like the boarding tunnel of an airplane whose destination might be the next world.
Are students being subjected to this? There is a charter school nestled within the school; parents of every race and status form a line as for a rock concert in order to apply for their kids; the winners file out at noon, two by two, girls in jumpers, boys in neckties, to be shepherded to the nearest park to play. I do not, however, see the regulars — older, boisterous, dressed anyhow, requiring school police to keep them from congregating under the scaffolding for chin-ups and pick-ups. Does some quirk of regulation cause the difference? No quirk saves the tenants in the wing of my building that abuts the school, who report the sound of endless construction, an all-hours hard-hat serenade.
That is what it is, and given the demand for apartments in the city, rightly so. Economic warming brings storm surges of gentrification. The historic capital of black America, where one would rather have been a lamppost than governor of Georgia, is trending white. The oldest outer borough long ago flipped to beard models and novelists. The dreariest outer borough, Drug Ho Hell, where presidential candidates used to stop to furrow their brows at blight, is coming up in the world. My cousin, who still lives where my parents were born, four hours upstate, reports that two refugee restaurateurs from Brooklyn opened a fancy sandwich shop there. Given such pressures, anything in the city with walls and a roof qualifies as luxury.
But still . . . And I know noise is part of the cityscape, like glamour and pollution. My neighborhood contains a hospital and a firehouse. I have done radio interviews over the phone during which the heartland host has asked, "Is anything wrong?" I hadn't heard the sirens. Once my wife and I were staying in a homestay in Jogjakarta. The brochure had been a bit deceptive, showing a charming colonial-style room of which unfortunately there was only one, the rest being post-independence barracks. Two Australians occupied the nice room. Then at breakfast they asked nervously whether they could switch: The street (theirs was a front room) was so noisy. We jumped at the chance. One motorbike all night? Two? Heaven.
So I am street- and sound-wise. But something about the double hit is paining the hairs of my ears. I am a walker, a listener, a learner, a citizen of the streets, a citizen. Enough.


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A Healthy Sleep Intervention for Correctional Supervisors
Contributed by Alicia Dugan, PhD and Sara Namazi, MPH UConn Health, Farmington, CT
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Poor sleep quality and quantity: A health and safety concern among correctional supervisors
Correctional supervisors (i.e., lieutenants, captains, counselor supervisors) are an understudied and overlooked occupational group (Owen, 2006). Limited interventions and programs have been designed and implemented to improve their health and well-being (Dugan et al., 2017). Correctional supervisors have high physical and psychological job demands (Buden et al., 2017; Namazi et al., 2018) often with limited organizational support. They also are shift workers who are subject to mandatory overtime. CPH-NEW research staff partnered with the Connecticut Correctional Supervisors' Council union to form a design team (DT) to develop interventions aimed at improving supervisor health and well-being. The partnership used community-based participatory research to identify factors associated with poor correctional supervisor health. DT members tailored and used the CPH-NEW Healthy Workplace Participatory Program (HWPP)'s All Employee Survey and Focus Group Guide to assess the workforce, and identified poor sleep quality and quantity as a significant health and safety priority among correctional supervisors that the union wanted to address.
Design and implementation of the healthy sleep intervention for correctional supervisors
Once the DT identified a priority health and safety topic, they used HWPP Intervention Design and Analysis Scorecard (IDEAS) tool to help them identify root causes of poor sleep. They developed intervention objectives and activities, and identified key performance indicators to evaluate their designed interventions against desired criteria (Robertson et al., 2013). The DT developed a Healthy Sleep Intervention for correctional supervisors that included a Healthy Sleep Training and a smartphone-based sleep-tracking app called CorrectSleep. The Healthy Sleep Training included a sleep hygiene concepts and a simple guided mediation to improve sleep among shift workers with long or irregular work hours.
The DT recruited 101 supervisors to pilot-test the intervention and divided participants into two groups to test the effectiveness of specific intervention components. Group A (n=51) only received the Healthy Sleep Training and took a survey before the training and two surveys after the completing the training (one month, three months after). Group B (n=50) received the Healthy Sleep Training and used CorrectSleep for two weeks prior to the training. Group B took a survey prior to using CorrectSleep and two weeks after app use, as well as a survey prior to the training, and one and three months after the training. All participants also received a weekly "Sleep Tip" via email that reinforced the content delivered during the Healthy Sleep Training, with reminders to use the sleep hygiene and mediation practice they learned to improve their sleep (Dugan et al., 2017). We examined key dissemination and implementation (D&I) outcomes (adoption, sustainability, and diffusion) to determine the perceived appeal of the designed interventions.
Evaluation of the healthy sleep intervention for correctional supervisors
Results of the healthy sleep intervention showed that using the CorrectSleep app alone (without also taking the training) led to increased self-awareness regarding sleep, greater knowledge about sleep improvement behavior, such as managing slept debt, frequency of managing slept debt, and improved participants' sleep quality. In addition, the training led to less difficulty in sleeping due to physical health problems, and less use of substances to help with fatigue management (i.e., inducing sleepiness or wakefulness, as needed). Completing the Healthy Sleep Training alone (without also using the app) increased knowledge of sleep improvement behaviors, and improved sleep-related behaviors. Sleep quality also significantly improved and participants reported less fatigue and difficulty sleeping because of emotional problems. Finally, participants who both completed the Healthy Sleep Training and used the CorrectSleep App (i.e., a combined approach) reported greater improvements compared to those who only completed the training. A combined approach resulted in greater self-awareness regarding sleep hours, sleep debt, and the average sleep hours of other supervisors. It also resulted in better overall sleep quality, and less difficulty sleeping due to a physical health problem.
Findings of the Healthy Sleep Intervention study showed that using community-based participatory research in corrections could result in evidence-based interventions that improve the total worker health of correctional workers. Moreover, it provides evidence that participatory approaches can increase program sustainability; the success of this study empowered correctional supervisor union to negotiate a one-day annual training on health and wellness for correctional supervisors, in which the Healthy Sleep Training will be an ongoing core component.
Buden, J. C., Dugan, A. G., Namazi, S., Huedo-Medina, T. B., Cherniack, M. G., & Faghri, P. D. (2016). Work characteristics as predictors of correctional supervisors' health outcomes. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine/American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 58(9), e325.
Dugan, Namazi, Rinker, Preston, Steele, Lemelin, Keel, Sheppard, Semple, Cavallari, & Cherniack. (June, 2017). Workforce Health Assessment and Intervention Planning with Correctional Supervisors Using Participatory Action Research. Work, Stress & Health, Minneapolis, MN.
Namazi, S., Dugan, A.G., Fortinsky, R., Barnes-Farrell, J., Coman, E., El-Ghaziri, M., & Cherniack, M. (2018). Examining a comprehensive model of work and family demands, work-family conflict, and depressive symptoms in a sample of correctional supervisors. Unpublished Manuscript.
Owen, S. S. (2006). Occupational stress among correctional supervisors. The Prison Journal, 86(2), 164-181.
Robertson, M., Henning, R., Warren, N., Nobrega, S., Dove-Steinkamp, M., Tibirica, L., & CPH-NEW Research Team. (2013). The intervention design and analysis scorecard: A planning tool for participatory design of integrated health and safety interventions in the workplace. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 55, S86-S88.
Alicia Dugan (principal investigator) and Sara Namazi (graduate student) are research staff at CPH-NEW that work with the Connecticut Supervisors Council (supervisors' union). Their correctional research primarily focuses on well-being and work-life issues among correctional employees, and uses community-based participatory research in correctional settings.
This study was supported by the CPH-NEW pilot grant program, funded by Grant Number 1 U19 OH008857 from the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIOSH.
CPH-NEW is a Center for Excellence to Promote a Healthier Workforce of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. CPH-News & Views is a semi-monthly column written by Center researchers on emerging topics related to healthy workplaces. These comments reflect thoughts of the individual researchers and do not represent conclusive research summaries, nor do they necessarily reflect a consensus among all Center personnel.
We welcome your responses and discussion. Please send all questions and comments to CPHNEW@uml.edu.
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בְּרָכָה Bᵉrâkâh, ber-aw-kaw'; from H1288; benediction; by implication prosperity:—blessing, liberal, pool, present.
The KJV translates Strong's H1293 in the following manner: blessing (61x), blessed (3x), present (3x), liberal (1x), pools (1x).
Gen 27:36 - And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. H1293 And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing H1293 for me?
Gen 27:38 - And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, H1293 my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Gen 27:41 - And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing H1293 wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Gen 28:4 - And give thee the blessing H1293 of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Gen 33:11 - Take, I pray thee, my blessing H1293 that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
Gen 39:5 - And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing H1293 of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Gen 49:26 - The blessings H1293 of thy father have prevailed above the blessings H1293 of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Gen 49:28 - All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing H1293 he blessed them.
Exo 32:29 - For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing H1293 this day.
Lev 25:21 - Then I will command my blessing H1293 upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Deu 11:29 - And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing H1293 upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
Deu 12:15 - Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing H1293 of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Deu 16:17 - Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing H1293 of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Deu 23:5 - Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing H1293 unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Deu 28:2 - And all these blessings H1293 shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Deu 28:8 - The LORD shall command the blessing H1293 upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deu 33:1 - And this is the blessing, H1293 wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deu 33:23 - And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing H1293 of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
Jos 8:34 - And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings H1293 and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Jos 15:19 - Who answered, Give me a blessing; H1293 for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
Jdg 1:15 - And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: H1293 for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
1Sa 25:27 - And now this blessing H1293 which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
2Sa 7:29 - Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing H1293 let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
2Ki 5:15 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing H1293 of thy servant.
Neh 9:5 - Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing H1293 and praise.
Job 29:13 - The blessing H1293 of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Psa 3:8 - Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing H1293 is upon thy people. Selah.
Psa 21:3 - For thou preventest him with the blessings H1293 of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
Psa 21:6 - For thou hast made him most blessed H1293 for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
Psa 24:5 - He shall receive the blessing H1293 from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psa 109:17 - As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, H1293 so let it be far from him.
Psa 129:8 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing H1293 of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Psa 133:3 - As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, H1293 even life for evermore.
Pro 10:6 - Blessings H1293 are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Pro 10:7 - The memory of the just is blessed: H1293 but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Pro 10:22 - The blessing H1293 of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Pro 11:11 - By the blessing H1293 of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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8 questions you're too embarrassed to ask about Fifty Shades of Grey
By Kelsey McKinney Feb 13, 2015, 3:00pm EST
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For many moviegoers, this Valentine's Day will be all about a woman named Anastasia "Ana" Steele (played by Dakota Johnson) and her long series of sexy, fantastic adventures. See, Ana is the protagonist of the internationally bestselling book Fifty Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy. Hers is a tale of romance and frustration, but the history of the series is filled with conflict.
Here's how a story that started out as fan-fiction posted on a Twilight message board became the biggest movie of the month
What is Fifty Shades of Grey?
Fifty Shades of Grey is an enormously popular — like, 100 million copies sold worldwide popular — trilogy of stories about billionaire Christian Grey and Ana Steele. The three books in the series are named Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed. The trilogy has been translated into more than 50 languages. In its first six weeks on the market in the US, the first book sold 10 million copies. And that's in the publishing world of 2012, with a crumbling book market and the disappearance of bookstore chain Borders
The books are written by E.L. James, the pen name of Erika Leonard. Leonard was a West London executive before she turned to writing. She's now one of the most successful authors on the planet. In the United Kingdom, 50 Shades of Grey is the best-selling book of all time outselling even Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Combined, the Fifty Shades books total more than 1,500 pages, most of which are positively dripping with sex, power, and money.
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What are the books about though?
At its core, the Fifty Shades of Grey series features one of the most typical romance plots: falling in love with someone who doesn't seem right for you. Ana is not the sort of woman Christian typically pursues — she's young, she's naive, she's incredibly bossy, and she's not nearly as submissive as he'd like her to be. Christian, older and much, much richer than Ana, enjoys violent sex, something Ana has never experienced.
We'll get back to the problems with the books' violent sex in a moment. For now, though, let's examine them as literature.
I've heard the books are sexy — or are supposed to be. How sexy are they? Can you give me some quotes?
Sure. Here are a few:
"No, Anastasia it doesn't. Firstly, I don't make love. I fuck … hard. Secondly, there's a lot more paperwork to do, and thirdly, you don't yet know what you're in for. You could still run for the hills. Come, I want to show you my playroom."
"I moan into his mouth, giving his tongue an opening. He takes full advantage, his tongue expertly exploring my mouth. I have never been kissed like this"
"He's naked except for those soft ripped jeans, top button casually undone. Jeez, he looks so freaking hot. My subconscious is frantically fanning herself, and my inner goddess is swaying and writhing to some primal carnal rhythm"
These quotes are terrible!
Yes they are. Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie said, "I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made Twilight look like War and Peace."
Even when the prose is atrocious, it's never enough to keep you from reading on.
But Fifty Shades isn't trying to win a Pulitzer, and it shouldn't be judged as such. Fifty Shades is, for the most part, wants to give its readers a sexy, fun time. On that score, it delivers. These books keep readers turning pages. Even when the prose is atrocious, it's never enough to keep you from reading on.
That's a skill that's often derided in publishing, but it's a skill nonetheless. Stories aren't just the quality of their writing. They're also about, y'know, how well you tell the story. Ideally, an author manages both good writing and good storytelling, but we frequently celebrate writers who are beautiful craftspeople but whose books feature boring or even nonexistent plots. Why do we so rarely celebrate the inverse of that — writers who might not possess beautiful prose but know how to tell a cracking yarn?
For instance, the first book in the trilogy is more than 500 pages; I read it in two days. Though I mocked the plot and found some things completely unrealistic (like the apparently-still-existent jobs in the publishing industry), the pages flew by. My experience is not unique. Millions have been entranced by this story of two people who don't want to be right for each other but actually are.
What are the book's origins?
The origins of the book stretch back to a Twilight fan-fiction forum where James posted under the name Snowqueen IceDragon. In its original form, Fifty Shades of Grey's main characters were Edward and Bella from Stephenie Meyer's hit young adult series Twilight.
This is a series about giving in to desire, about indulgence.
It's notable that the Twilight series is largely about repression of sexual desire, about keeping oneself away from something even though you (and the reader) want it so very much. Fifty Shades's origins as a fan work, then, point to a complete reversal of that book's thematic intentions. This is a series about giving in to desire, about indulgence. And Twilight fans responded. The original forum posts were said to be reviewed over 37,000 times and read by who even knows how many more.
"I haven't read it. I mean, that's really not my genre, not my thing," Meyer told MTV News. "I've heard about it; I haven't really gotten into it that much. Good on her — she's doing well. That's great!"
In 2011, Leonard revised the drafts, renaming her main characters Ana and Christian. (Christian is also now just a billionaire, instead of a vampire; that James had to change him only a little bit is actually kind of funny.) After a long process of shopping the book around, a small Australian publishing house agreed to take on the project, and now, it's the internationally bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey series.
Fifty Shades of Grey was also an ideal book to rise in popularity after the creation of e-readers. It was the first book to sell one million copies on the Kindle, and that might be due to how easy it was to avoid the embarrassment of buying and carrying an erotic book by simply reading it digitally.
Part of Fifty Shades's success is the story of its origin in fan-fiction. As the New York Review of Books wrote in 2012:
Leonard's excursion in the genre provided her with a captive audience of thousands of positively disposed readers, creating a market for her books before they ever carried price tags. But fan fiction is inherently collaborative and by convention resolutely anti-commercial, attributes which make its role in the evolution of her work both highly unusual and ethically fraught.
And yet part of the ethical problem with Fifty Shades of Grey stems from those origins. Fan-fiction, by its nature, borrows ideas. Characters are taken from an original work, and plot suggestions are taken from fellow fan-fiction aficionados. Thus, a fan-fiction success is a collaborative effort.
Jane Little, who runs a blog about romance novels called DearAuthor.com, compared Leonard's original fan-fiction series to the final series using a plagiarism detection software. She found the texts, to be almost identical — 89 percent of the books' content was exactly the same, and a major part of the 11 percent difference was the renaming of the main characters.
Knowing that leads to the question of whether James truly deserved to profit off of books that were so heavily influenced by others, but it doesn't change how incredibly popular these novels were and are.
What's wrong with how the books portray BDSM?
BDSM stands for bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism. It's a sexual preference that is becoming more and more prominent in mainstream media, and Fifty Shades has done much to make that so.
But for people who enjoy responsible BDSM, Fifty Shades of Grey is a problematic text. The books poorly portray the way this kind of sex works and how participants remain safe.
In the books, Ana is portrayed as a doormat with no voice and no interests in anything on her own. Meanwhile, Christian Grey's interest in BDSM sex stems from his emotional baggage, which implies that this desire is not a normal or natural one, but one that stems from childhood trauma.
"There are any number of reasons why people engage in BDSM, but for James to so flagrantly pathologize the BDSM lifestyle as strictly a way for fucked up people to work out their emotional issues, is beyond the pale," Roxane Gay wrote for The Rumpus. "It is not an accurate portrayal of the community. It sends a wrong and unfair message about kink."
But the books have also served to attack the BDSM community on another front. The response to Fifty Shades of Grey after its release was often mockery of BDSM sexual expression. There were jokes made about the "absurdity" of using whips as a stimulant and plenty of derogatory comments made about why anyone would want this kind of sex. Those conversations, of course, largely didn't include members of the BDSM community.
But even beyond the books' problematic depictions of BDSM, many have raised an even more troubling thought: that the books subtly endorse violence against women.
As Sophie Morgan wrote for the Guardian, "One of my big frustrations with the success of Fifty Shades of Grey is that there is so much of the main relationship that plays into the misconception that a sexual relationship based around BDSM is, at its core, an abusive one."
So do the books glamorize violence against women?
The main claim here stems from the fact that the series doesn't make any effort to explain or contextualize the violence against Ana, nor does it lay out some of the key concepts of BDSM sex, such as "safe words."
But the books' problems extend beyond the bedroom. Christian Grey is a stalker who continually tries to repress Ana's individuality. The sloppy way E.L. James approaches BDSM relationships makes this physical violence all the more confusing. If the hitting is part of a consensual BDSM relationship and the stalking is made out to be a romantic, does that make it okay? In some instances, sure. Many genuinely prefer a little pain with their pleasure, and a stalking scenario could be part of a consensual relationship, if both partners have agreed to it.
The book awkwardly dovetails power plays between the two with sexy fun times, and that means it struggles to make either stand out.
The problem with the 50 Shades of Grey narrative — and it's one that lies beneath every single plot of the book — is that Anastasia Steele is not one of those people. She doesn't like BDSM sex, and though she often derives immense pleasure from it, her heated interactions with Christian after many of their encounters remind readers that she doesn't really want to be his submissive at all. The book awkwardly dovetails power plays between the two with sexy fun times, and that means it struggles to make either stand out.
Ana suppresses her own opinions to appease Christian and ignores her own wishes so he will be happy. Ana allowing her body to be used by Christian however he wants lies at the core of abuse.
In a pivotal scene, after Ana has done something to upset Christian, she pleads, "Please don't hit me." That fear, that internalization of violence you don't want, is the definition of abuse. That, more than the bad writing, is why these books deserve criticism.
Should I see the movie?
Despite all of the criticisms and controversies, Fifty Shades of Grey is an incredibly popular franchise for a reason. The story, though not always believable, is compelling, and the sex, to many, is hot. Plus, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan (who plays Christian) are very attractive people, and director Sam Taylor-Johnson has made interesting films before.
Having seen it, the movie succeeds in a few ways where the books fail: it gives Ana a stronger personality and, because it hasn't had to deal with the problems of later books in the series yet, Ana is able to stand up for herself and what she wants. If that sounds appealing, go check it out.
The movie premieres on February 13, 2015. Here's the preview:
Correction: The photo credits for this article originally credited the film to Fox Searchlight, rather than Universal, which is handling US distribution.


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Deaths in mental health facilities arising from mismanagement
When a person is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, especially where the individual is given 'involuntary patient' status, the hospital has a responsibility to ensure that the person suffers no harm. It is not uncommon in our practice to receive enquiries from the families of patients who have died or suffered serious injury following mismanagement in a psychiatric facility.
Given that suicide and suicidal ideation is associated with a number of mental illnesses, it is important that psychiatric facilities take care to ensure that patients are managed appropriately to minimise the risk of suicide occurring in the hospital setting.
Hospital staff should ensure that an adequate risk assessment is performed as early as possible on admission of the patient. If there is a delay in having the formal psychiatric assessment, nursing or other staff should ensure that there is engagement with the patient and preliminary risk assessment performed, including examining the patient's belongings and removing any potentially harmful objects.
Should these processes not be followed, tragedy and fatalities can occur and one of the most contentious legal issues becomes whether or not the outcome was avoidable with the use of reasonable care and skill. A recent case Maurice Blackburn was involved in concerned a man admitted to a psychiatric facility from another hospital following two suicide attempts at that hospital. At the time of transferring him he was being nursed on a 1:1 basis with constant observation to prevent harm and the risk of a further suicide attempt. At the second psychiatric hospital, the man was placed in a room out of sight of the nurses' station and he was placed on 15-minutely observations. There was a delay in performing the formal psychiatric evaluation and during that time in between observations, he committed suicide by hanging. The case is currently in litigation.
A standard defence to a claim such as this is that the plaintiff cannot prove that the hospital's failures to properly manage and assess the deceased person's presentation caused the death. This is largely due to the difficulty in predicting human behaviour, especially where there is a history of previous suicide attempts. In providing their opinion on this vexed issue, medical experts must rely upon the particular person's mental health history and treatment, their support structures, published literature and data on suicide rates, and their clinical experience. Each case turns on its own peculiar facts which makes the giving of legal advice to a person who has either survived such a suicide attempt with serious injuries or family members of the deceased a complex task.
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Diego Poyet González (Zaragoza, 8 mei 1995) is een Engels-Uruguayaans voetballer die bij voorkeur als centrale middenvelder speelt. Hij tekende in juli 2014 een vierjarig contract bij West Ham United, dat hem overnam van Charlton Athletic. In augustus 2016 besloot West Ham het contract van Poyet te ontbinden.

Clubcarrière
Poyet komt uit de jeugdopleiding van Charlton Athletic. Op 21 januari 2014 debuteerde hij voor de club in een FA Cup-duel tegen Oxford United. Op 1 februari 2014 debuteerde hij in de Championship, tegen Wigan Athletic. Poyet werd op 22 februari 2014 uitgeroepen tot man van de match, na een duel tegen Queens Park Rangers.

Interlandcarrière
Poyet werd geboren in Zaragoza toen zijn vader voor Real Zaragoza speelde. Hij bezit naast de Uruguayaanse ook de Britse nationaliteit. Hij speelde zeven interlands voor Engeland –16 en zes interlands voor Engeland –17.

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Computer chess isn't just about playing games.
When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk."
In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat named Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a remarkable invention to the court of Maria Theresa, ruler of Hungary and Austria. It consisted of a mechanical figure dressed in (what Europeans saw as) Oriental garb, presiding over a cabinet upon which a chess board sat. Full of gears ostentatiously placed in a front side drawer, The Turk was cranked up by hand, after which an opponent could sit down and play a game against the dummy.
"Even among the skeptics who insisted it was a trick, there was disagreement about how the automaton worked, leading to a series of claims and counterclaims," writes author Tom Standage. "Did it rely on mechanical trickery, magnetism, or sleight of hand? Was there a dwarf, or a small child, or a legless man hidden inside it?"
Well, all of the above—or below, actually. In the rear bottom interior of the box sat a flesh-and-blood operative (by necessity a small one) who followed the human contender's moves from below and maneuvered The Turk's right hand across the table board. Nonetheless, the machine became "the most famous automaton in history," Standage notes, commented on by Charles Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Napoleon Bonaparte.
More importantly, The Turk whetted the West's appetite for real devices that could do such things. Over two centuries later, this project culminated in Deep Blue—the IBM computer that bested Russian chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997.
But what's most fascinating about "Mastering the Game," the Computer History Museum's computer chess exhibit, is that it frames the rise of the automated chess playing as a debate between two philosophies of computing. One emphasized the "brute force" approach, taking advantage of algorithmic power offered by ever more powerful processors available to programmers after the Second World War. The other has foregrounded the importance of teaching chess computers to select strategies and even to learn from experience—in other words, to play more like humans.
The Second World War saw breathtaking innovation in mechanical calculation engines both in Britain and the United States. Code-breaking machines like Britain's Colossus and trajectory calculators like Harvard's Mark I gave theoreticians a new sense of the possible.
In 1947, Alan Turing wrote a programming manual for the Ferranti Mark I computer. We know that computer chess was already on the famous cryptographer's mind by the first principle he offered to budding programmers. "Make a plan," Turing counseled. "This rather boring piece of advice is often offered in identical words to the beginner in chess."
True to his hint, Turing subsequently designed what is regarded as the first program to play the game. There was no machine capable of interpreting his code, however, so Turing went through the program's algorithms with his friend Alick Glennie.
Turing played the computer's role, moving in accordance with his algorithms. It was a pretty good game, actually, lasting for 30 moves with no serious blunders until Glennie pinned down Turing-the-computer's queen. At that point, his algorithm (or perhaps Turing) resigned.
Meanwhile, United States mathematician Claude Shannon wrote a 1950 paper that foresaw the prospects for automated chess. "The thesis we will develop is that modern general purpose computers can be used to play a tolerably good game of chess by the use of a suitable computing routine or 'program,'" Shannon wrote.
He outlined two possible strategies for these programs. His "Type A" program exhaustively explored all possibilities three moves ahead via ten subprograms, named T0 through T9.
T0 - Makes move (a, b, c) in position P to obtain the resulting position.
T1 - Makes a list of the possible moves of a pawn at square (x, y) in position P.
T2, ..., T6 - Similarly for other types of pieces: knight, bishop, rook, queen and king.
T7 - Makes list of all possible moves in a given position.
T8 - Calculates the evaluating function f(P) for a given position P.
T9 - Master program; performs maximizing and minimizing calculation to determine proper move.
This strategy would later be dubbed "minimax lookahead." The problem with the technique, Shannon observed, was that it would produce a very slow chess machine that completed its half of a 40 move game in about... ten hours. It also confirmed the misperception that human chess masters actually take every possible variation into consideration when playing.
The paper quoted the famous observation of chess expert Ruben Fine. "Very often people have the idea that masters foresee everything or nearly everything," Fine wrote in 1942. "All this is, of course, pure fantasy. The best course to follow is to note the major consequences for two moves, but try to work out forced variations as they go."
(1) Examine forceful variations out as far as possible and evaluate only at reasonable positions, where some quasi-stability has been established.
(2) Select the variations to be explored by some process so that the machine does not waste its time in totally pointless variations.
Practically all subsequent chess programs would follow either a "Type A" or "Type B" system, according to the Computer History Museum's exhibition literature. But the best early programs moved in a Type B direction.
The earliest post-World War II chess computers included a truncated game player developed by the English programmer Dietrich Prinz. It worked out "mate-in-two" puzzles; that is, the device located the best way to checkmate an opponent in two steps.
Not much of a breakthrough—but then in July of 1958, Chess Review announced the release of IBM mathematician Alex Bernstein's program for the IBM Digital 704.
Bernstein's program clearly followed Shannon's "Type B" route. "In order to avoid examining the consequences of all possible moves," he explained in the article, "a set of decision routines were written which select a small number (not greater than seven) of strategically good moves."
The author called this array "The Tree." The computer posited each of these "seven plausible moves," then asked itself to calculate plausible replies based on eight questions. First: was the king in check? Second: could material be lost, gained, or exchanged? Third: was castling possible? And so on.
The hope is still periodically ignited in some human breasts that a computer can be found that is fast enough, and that can be programmed cleverly enough, to play good chess by brute-force search. There is nothing known in theory about the game of chess that rules out this possibility. Empirical studies on the management of search in sizable trees with only modest results make this a much less promising direction than it was when chess was first chosen as an appropriate task for artificial intelligence. We must regard this as one of the important empirical findings of research with chess programs.
By the early 1960s, four MIT students began working on a chess computer that, by the time they graduated, could beat amateur players. It very consciously adopted the alpha beta heuristic approach. Another MIT programmer added fifty more heuristics to his program, playable on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-6 machine. In 1967, Richard Greenblatt's "MackHack VI" was the first to challenge a human player in a chess tournament. It earned a rating comparable to that of a competent high school student.
Deep Blue was coming... but beating a grand master was a slow process.


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BioGaia associated MetaboGen starts study on Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy with Ferring
Regulatory press releases · Dec 07, 2016 at 14:28 CET
MetaboGen AB and Ferring Pharmaceuticals announce a research collaboration aimed at developing a microbiome-based product to prevent and treat Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP). In December recruitment of patients for the first clinical trial begins. BioGaia holds 36 percent of the research company MetaboGen.
MetaboGen has developed and patented a concept for how the microbiome (the overall expression of microbial genes) could affect intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, a disorder affecting around 400,000 pregnant women annually.
Recruitment of patients for the first clinical study begun 6 December 2016. The 18-month long study is conducted in cooperation with the Women's Clinic in Lund, Sweden. 100 pregnant women will be included in the trial.
BioGaia's interest in MetaboGen unchanged
In December 2014 BioGaia took the decision to invest SEK 12 million in MetaboGen AB, and BioGaia's Group President Peter Rothschild became Chairman of the Board of the company. The investment was to be made over a two-year period and the last of three investments was done 30 November 2016. BioGaia's share of MetaboGen today amounts to 36 percent and BioGaia has no current plans of changing this.
"BioGaia's investment in MetaboGen is long term and aims at developing the next generation of probiotic products, based on in-depth analyses of the microbiome. The research field is expanding rapidly and several large pharmaceutical companies have invested in microbiome companies. We are very positive about MetaboGen's collaboration with Ferring, which is an ideal partner for this type of product. It is also satisfying that MetaboGen already is underway with a clinical trial", says Peter Rothschild, Group President BioGaia.
What is Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP)?
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a disorder that can develop in pregnancy. ICP affects about 400,000 pregnant women annually and is a recurrent disease: 70 per cent of women who have been diagnosed with ICP during their first pregnancy will be affected again in following pregnancies. In addition to itching, which may be intense and very uncomfortable for the mother, there are links between ICP and preterm birth and gestational diabetes.
About Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Headquartered in Switzerland, Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a research-driven, specialty biopharmaceutical group active in global markets. The company identifies, develops and markets innovative products in the areas of reproductive health, urology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and orthopaedics. Ferring has its own operating subsidiaries in nearly 60 countries and markets its products in more than 100 countries.
About MetaboGen AB
MetaboGen is a research-driven company with a focus on the microbiome and its impact on health. The company was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden and is based on break-through science from the labs of Professor Fredrik Bäckhed (University of Gothenburg) and Professor Jens B Nielsen (Chalmers University of Technology). Since 2011, MetaboGen develops products based on advanced mapping of the intestinal microflora composition. In 2014 BioGaia AB invested in the company. MetaboGen's technology, along with more than 25 years of experience in the development of probiotics from BioGaia, provides the company with a unique opportunity to develop the next generation of microbial products.
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Qtier - "Still"
Just wow. "Still" is the debut release by recently formed London-based three piece Qtier, and it's a truly gorgeous, lush track which oozes class and talent and romance and all sorts of other positive things. The hushed, yearning vocals are driven along by experimental, multi-layered production and there's an overall polish to this music that belies the group's relative inexperience.
Just like inc. (who you'll be hearing a lot more of when their debut album drops in February), Qtier have an appreciation of space and subtlety in their music, whilst there are also hints of the experimental quirkiness that marks out someone like fellow Londoner Kwes. for special attention. Enjoy "Still" and "Drift," which make up the band's debut Still EP, below
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Bobo Tabbed to Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
Official Site of the Blue Devils | July 29, 2021
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DURHAM – Duke senior wide receiver Jake Bobo has been named to the 2021 Wuerffel Trophy watch list.
The award is given annually to the player that best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.
In 32 career games, including 13 starts, the Belmont, Mass., native has recorded 52 receptions for 647 yards and two touchdowns. In addition to his offensive duties, Bobo has seven punt returns for 41 yards and one kickoff return for 19 yards.
The 6-5, 215-pound target boasts 13 games with 20-plus receiving yards, including a career-high 70 yards at Syracuse in 2020.
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Lead MonkeyJunker Tony D releases new instrumental compilation, Speak No Evil
A flurry of instrumentals on a genre-bending journey serve as a career retrospective of epic proportions when it comes to multi-award-winning guitarist Tony D's new album, Speak No Evil — and the newly minted track "70s Big Muff."
It's a blues foundation stacked with layers of psychedelic rock, pseudo flamenco with a surf edge, and a thread of jazz throughout the ages wound around it all. Available now, Speak No Evil lands as a 11-track LP mining the archives of the critically acclaimed and internationally accomplished artist's long-spanning career, including with The Tony D Band and MonkeyJunk.
"This is the only new song on the album," Tony D says of "70s Big Muff." "The title is a nod towards the fuzz pedal that was used to create the 70s style of psychedelic rock made by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Cream. It's been a big influence on my music from the beginning of my career.
"A lot of the songs on the album have very layered influences, which means many of the improvisational music styles work so well together, particularly in an instrumental format," he continues. "Argentinian Surf Tango,' for instance, melds together with Latin music and the surf styles of Dick Dale and the Gypsy jazz style of Django Reinhardt.
"I played with a band called James Cohen Caravan, and you'll also find some of those tracks on the album. I was on tour in Europe and was fortunate enough to see some Gypsy jazz players in Paris, which inspired me to go back to my hotel room that night and write 'Blue Gypsy' — which, along with 'Argentinian Surf Tango' was produced by Richard Bell, pianist for Janis Joplin, The Band, and Bruce Cockburn.
"And then there's Flamenco, which is not unlike blues in that you improvise within a set form of music, and is also why I'm attracted to jazz, which you'll hear throughout some tracks as well.
"Flamenco, though…" he muses. "It's one of the most romantic styles of guitar music around. I was born in Italy so much of the sounds of Latin rhythm music are familiar to me on account of my heritage."
Speaking of heritage, Tony Diteodoro received his first guitar at age 13; purchased by his father, he was then told "with a guitar and a new pair of shoes, you can travel the world."
And so he has; his 40+ year careers as an internationally heralded blues guitarist include Tony D's extensive work as a solo artist, opening for Stevie Ray Vaughan, playing for Buddy Guy, and more recently, lead guitarist with MonkeyJunk — his band that's amassed two JUNO Awards, a Blues Music Award, and more than 20+ Maple Blues Awards.
Speak No Evil rises to the top as the guitarist's most impassioned collection of both early and current works, including the newest addition to his repertoire, "70s Big Muff" — and arguably the reason the album exists in the first place.
"I wrote and recorded this song on the spot last year in the studio with my band, Joe Hawkins and Mary Gellner. I think the version that's on the album is the second take. It sent me into a bit of a time machine of my instrumental recordings over the years, and was the impetus for making the compilation.
"Why now? After recording '70s Big Muff,' I realized how many instrumentals I had recorded over the years, and that I had a body of work worthy of compiling. I love the sound of guitar, I love instrumentals, and I love the different formats in which these sounds weave in and out of each other to make a nuanced piece of music.
"I always thought Speak No Evil would be a great title for an instrumental album because, obviously, nothing is spoken on the tracks," he finishes. "But also, it's about not speaking hate, being good to people, and spreading love.
"That's what music is about to me: Spreading love."
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