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Where We Come from, "Builder's Grade" is a Dirty Word.
In the window business, "builder's grade" often translates to the cheapest thing available on the market that day. And when it comes to something as important as the windows that will be installed in your new home, you don't want any part of it.
The old adage, "If it Ain't Broke…" Doesn't Apply to Old Windows.
If you have single-pane windows, upgrading to AMSCO® replacement windows with energy efficient features like double-pane, CōzE, CōzE Tint and CōzE HV glass will result in unbelievable year-round savings.
Our high quality vinyl, unique composite and selection of styles and hardware options can improve the look of your home both inside and out. Often, simply changing the window style can dramatically change the entire appearance of a room.
Get more fresh air circulating in your house by replacing fixed units with operable venting windows. You'll be amazed at the difference quality replacement windows make to the quality of life in your home.
A Window is only as Good as the Person Installing it. Choose Wisely.
Ask the contractor if they possess all the required city, county or regional business licenses.
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Contact your city's planning commission and determine who is responsible for obtaining any necessary permits. If it's your contractor's responsibility, make certain that they are aware of this. It's also possible that separate permits may be necessary for windows and doors.
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Communicate regularly and frankly with your contractor. This person or group of people will be spending quite a bit of time in your home, so it's important that they are willing to take your concerns into consideration.
A Kilowatt Saved is a Kilowatt Earned. …Or Something to That Effect.
Now, more than ever, energy costs are one of the most important considerations for customers making a window purchase decision. AMSCO® windows incorporate the latest in proven, cutting-edge technology to provide our customers with the very best in energy performance in any climate.
AMSCO® Makes Care and Cleaning Easy.
When cleaning AMSCO windows and doors, use the mildest cleaners possible. NEVER use solvents or abrasive cleansers – some chemicals can harm vinyl, PVC, SuperCap surfaces and other window components. We recommend Fantastik® and similar products to clean vinyl window frame surfaces. Over-the-counter glass cleaning products are recommended for cleaning windows.
Below is a chart of cleaners for specific circumstances recommended by the Vinyl Window and Door Institute.
*Cleaning Materials are listed in alphabetical Order. AMSCO does not endorse proprietary products or processes and makes no warranties for the products referenced herein. References to proprietary names is for illustrative purposes only, and is not intended to imply that there are not equally effective alternatives. All cleaners used must be thoroughly rinsed off and dried after use or discoloration of vinyl frames could occur.
Review the special Care & Cleaning instructions for the CōzE Vantage room-side surface low-e glass here.
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All AMSCO® products are designed to meet or exceed the performance requirements of the following organizations. Click on the links below to learn more about each organization.
We manufacture all AMSCO windows using NFRC methods to evaluate energy performance. This means that you can rely on the information published on the AMSCO window panel to accurately represent the performance levels of each of our products. It's the best way to make informed choices about which products meet your energy needs.
The AAMA certifies that our products have been tested and are manufactured and tested to their stringent performance evaluation procedures. AMSCO is enrolled in and certified under the AAMA Gold Label Certification Program.
You can be certain that your AMSCO purchase represents the finest in energy efficiency, because all AMSCO windows can earn the ENERGY STAR for meeting the strict guidelines set by the EPA and the US Department of Energy.
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Mr. Akinwande was born on the 28th of November, 1941 at Uguru, Yobe State. he attended Yaba College of Technology from 1956 to 1960. He also attended Harrow College Harrow Middlesex and South West London College UK. He worked as a bank officer at Baclays bank London from 1964-1970, and as an Auditor with UNILEVER Plc Backfriars London. He joined UAC of Nigeria Plc as Senior Auditor in 1971 moving to Lever Brothers Nigeria Plc as deputy chief accountant from 1976-1978.He joined International Breweries Plc Ilesa as General Manager from 1978-1981 and became Managing Director 1981 and Chairman 1998-2004. He has served on the board as a Non-excutive Director of the following companies and agencies; Lead Merchant Bank Plc 1990-1996 & 2001-2005, Nigeria Re-Insurance Corporation 1993-1994, Odua Investment Co. Ltd 1997-1999, he was also Vice Chairman of Manufacturers Association of old Ondo, Ogun, Oyo & Kwara State from 1979-1989, a member Oyo State Economic Advasory Council from 1984-1989, Chairman Industrial policy 1990, Chairman Osun State Investment Corporation 1995-1997 and Chairman District Society of the institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria from 1993-1995. He is currently serving on the board of ALUMACO Nigeria Plc as Director from 1998 and is a Member of Trustees UNDP-OSSDH Fund Osun State.
Mr. Akinwande is a fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and that of Certified Accountant, united Kindom. He is currently the Chairman/CEO of Akin Akinola & associates Limited and also is the Chairman/CEO of Supreme Oil industries Limited
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Kanmi Osobu attended the University of Ilorin from where he graduated with Second Class upper division in Business Administration in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Institute Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). He started his working careeer with the firm of I D Gbotosho & Co. a firm of Chartered Accountants in 1989 after the National Youth Service Corps. He joined the services of Lead Bank in 1993 as a banking officer. While in Lead Bank he worked in various departments including audit, International Operations, Corporate Banking & Treasury. He resigned from Lead Bank in August 2002 as the Treasurer of the Bank to join Bond Bank PLC. He was the pioneer Regional Manager for Abuja at Bond Bank; he later transferred to the head office to head the bank's Product & Markets Division. He resigned from Bond Bank as a Deputy General Manager in January 2006. Kanmi has attended various professional training on funds and asset Management both in Nigeria and abroad.
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Aliyu graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Nigeria with several academic distinctions. Aliyu worked with the international accounting firms of Arthur Andersen & Co., Coopers and Lybrand and Peat Marwick where he acquired diverse experience in financial consulting, auditing, computing and taxation in several countries. During this period, he qualified as a chartered accountant; twice wining the best overall prizes of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria's (ICAN) professional examinations. Thereafter, Aliyu worked with Prime Merchant Bank where he was the effective back up to the Bank's Venture Capital Departmental Head. Between January 1991 and November 1996, Aliyu worked at African Finance Group Limited as its pioneering General Manager before he left to set up Peregrine Investments Limited. His major interests include creative financial and organizational structuring, analytical problem-solving and computing. He has served on the board of many institutions such as FINBANK Plc, FIN Insurance Company Limited (Chairman), FIN Insurance Brokers Limited (Chairman), EXPERTCARE Health International Limited, Prime Signs Limited e.t.c
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Know about asthma, allergies and how the conditions can be treated
Tue 27 Feb 2018, 16:29:21
Researchers have discovered a receptor that protects humans against allergies and asthma. According to a study conducted at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a special receptor on cells that line the sinuses, throat and lungs has evolved to protect mammals from developing a range of allergies and asthma. The scientists found that the receptor, dectin-1, recognises a protein found in house dust mites, cockroaches, shellfish and other invertebrates, and responds by suppressing immune reactions to these common triggers of allergy and asthma.
The scientists also found evidence that this protective mechanism is dramatically impaired in people who have asthma or chronic sinusitis due to dust-mite sensitivity. "Everyone is exposed to these substances, yet most don't have allergic responses to them, and this mechanism we've discovered appears to explain why," said study senior author Marsha Wills-Karp. The finding also suggested new ways to treat or prevent allergies and asthma, which afflict tens of millions of people in the U.S. alone.
The discovery also hinted that while dectin-1 protects against dust-mite and other invertebrate-related allergic responses, there may be additional, undiscovered receptors that suppress allergic responses to pollens and other airborne and dietary allergens. Dectin-1 previously has been studied as a receptor that recognizes structures on fungi and other microbes and triggers immune responses to them. There have even been suggestions that dectin-1 helps trigger allergic responses to dust mites.
To investigate, Wills-Karp and colleagues, including postdoctoral researcher Naina Gour, who were first authors of the study, studied mice that were genetically engineered to lack dectin-1. The researchers found to their surprise that the airways of these dectin-1-deficient mice were more prone to inflammation after exposure to dust mites compared to otherwise identical mice whose airway cells expressed dectin-1 normally. Blocking dectin-1 with antibodies had the same allergy-promoting effect. Thus, dectin-1 protects against dust-mite allergies rather than promoting them.
The scientists determined that dectin-1, in addition to its fungus- and other pathogen-detecting duties, directly recognizes a protein called tropomyosin that is found in house dust mites and other invertebrates. Tropomyosin has previously been implicated as a possible trigger for asthma and shrimp allergies. The experiments indicated that when dectin-1 recognizes tropomyosin in house dust mites, shrimp or other common allergy-triggering species it suppresses airway cells' production of an immune molecule, IL-33, which otherwise would promote an allergic response by immune cells.
Underscoring the relevance to humans, the researchers studied nasal and bronchial cells from people who suffer from asthma or chronic rhinosinusitis (nasal congestion/sniffles) due to dust-mite sensitivity and found that on average these cells had a markedly lower expression of the dectin-1 gene. "Our findings suggest that people who have sufficient dectin-1 in the cells that line their airways won't experience an allergic response when exposed to airborne dust mites or related allergens--but people with a defect in dectin-1 expression will lack this protection," Wills-Karp said.
The findings point to the possibility of boosting dectin-1 levels, or otherwise restoring its protective effect, as a new therapeutic strategy against asthma and allergies that are related to dust mites, shrimp or other invertebrate triggers. The study is published in the Journal Science Immunology.
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Prime Storage Group unveiled advanced Web-based accessibility for its newest 3,283-unit flagship location at 31-07 20th Ave in Astoria.
The new technology enables customers to rent and pay for their storage space with a free "Prime App" in real time. Customers can also access, store, lock, and monitor their space with the Wi-Fi and bluetooth technology through the same application.
The Prime App allows customers to manage their account, security and access requirements of their customers. No other facility offers this type of Web-based solution in the NYC area.
The technology can have customers rent, access the facility and move in, lock and unlock their space as well as monitor activity, all with just a few clicks.
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Q: Is swapping the cause of high IO on my box? I'm running a LAMP stack on an Amazon EC2 micro instance with 616 MB of memory.  This seems sufficient to be able to run a few small websites with Apache, MySQL and PHP.  I have one Wordpress site installed and anytime I interact with it I see huge amounts of disk reads and writes which Amazon tracks and charges for.  There is one MySQL database that is 2MB in size so it should easily be able to keep that in memory.  Running free -t shows:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        616408     529360      87048          0       4572      88908
-/+ buffers/cache:     435880     180528
Swap:            0          0          0
Total:      616408     529360      87048

Does this mean there is no swap space allocated on my box?  Running iotop for the last 24 hours the largest IO percent wise is kswapd0 which I've learned is the swap management process.  The largest IO disk reads are from named -u named followed by httpd and mysqld.  The largest IO disk writers are [jbd2/xvda1-8] followed by mysqld.  What is going on here?  Are the tens of thousands of IO requests coming from thrashing or is MySQL maybe not behaving correctly?

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The OEM pickup screen is crimped in a retainer and that assembly is spot welded into the pickup 'can'. There are a couple of flaws in this process. One is that the screen is creased where the retaining ring is crimped over it. The other is the spot weld process embrittles the screen. We pushed on the screen of new OEM pickups, and several popped wire strands, without a lot of effort.


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19 Iraqis Killed in US-Iraqi Government Air Strikes and Attacks, Thousands Detained Indiscriminately in Northern and Western Provinces
The following are just examples of news stories about the continuous Iraqi government war to subjugate the northern provinces, using the pretext of fighting ISIS, or responding to alleged ISIS attacks, which no longer exists, according to the announcements of the Iraqi government itself.
Daily news stories can be accessed from the news sources listed below and others in the internet. Most likely, the available news stories are biased, as these do not include the two sides.
Iraqi government soldiers detaining citizens from the northern provinces for alleged ISIS affiliation,
file, June 5, 2010
The following are news stories from the independent Iraqi Arabic news agency, Yaqein ( http://yaqein.net/ ):
Thousands of Iraqis from the northern and western (Sunni) provinces detained indiscriminately, in prisons without trials
Indiscriminate detentions have been resumed in the Iraqi northern and western (Sunni) provinces, two years after defeating ISIS!
The following is an investigative repot by Yaqein news agency about the horrible stories of such indiscriminate detentions as examples of thousands of Iraqis from the northern and western provinces, most of whom have been in detention camps and prisons without trials.
المدن المنكوبة.. هل يتكرر سيناريو الاعتقالات العشوائية؟
23 يونيو 2019 ، يقين
بعد قرابة العامين على انتهاء العمليات العسكرية ضد تنظيم الدولة (داعش) في جميع الأراضي العراقية، عادت موجة الاعتقالات العشوائية إلى المحافظات الشمالية والغربية وهي تلك المحافظات التي شهدت حربًا ضروسًا بين القوات الأمنية ومقاتلي التنظيم. تحقيق استقصائي لوكالة "يقين" يكشف عن عودة حملات الاعتقالات العشوائية وأسبابها ومصير المعتقلين وتحذيرات من عودة ذات أسباب الاعتقال قبل 2014.
قصص مروعة وانتهاكات
"سجون محافظة نينوى تضم آلاف المعتقلين الذين لم تحسم قضاياهم بعد، وأن 90% منهم اعتقلوا نتيجة تشابه الأسماء أو بتهم كيدية"
"عمار عدنان" أحد ضحايا الاعتقالات العشوائية في محافظة نينوى، بسبب تشابه اسمه الثنائي مع أحد أشد المطلوبين للقضاء بتهمة الانتماء لتنظيم الدولة (داعش).
يحكي عدنان قصة مكوثه في سجن التسفيرات في الموصل لأكثر من 7 أشهر بسبب اسمه، إذ يقول إنه يسكن في حي العربي في الجانب الأيسر من مدينة الموصل، وفي إحدى ليالي شهر تموز/ يوليو 2018 طوقت قوة أمنية مكونة من الحشد الشعبي والشرطة المحلية واستخبارات المنطقة، وأجبرت جميع الرجال والشباب ممن تزيد أعمارهم على الـ15 عاما على التوجه إلى مدرسة في المنطقة من أجل تدقيق موقفهم الأمني.
The full report can be accessed at:
https://yaqein.net/archives/202207
The following are news stories from a pro-Iraqi government website (http://www.iraqinews.com/), which usually reports those who are killed by Iraqi government attacks as Islamic State fighters, implying no civilians were killed by bombing residential neighborhoods:
Iraqi troops & coalition warplanes kill 8 Iraqis west of Iraq
by Loaa Adel Jul 4, 2019, 1:21 am
Anbar (IraqiNews) -
Security Media Cell announced, on Wednesday, that eight (alleged members of ISIS) were killed in two different incidents, west of the country.
In a press statement, the cell said that troops from the paramilitary forces in Haditha managed to kill four (alleged members of ISIS), in addition to destroying a vehicle, in al-Halkoum area, east of Akashat.
Furthermore, the statement added that the international coalition warplanes carried out an air strike, south of Senaysela Lake, near the Syrian border, killing four (alleged members of ISIS).
It is noteworthy that security forces and international coalition aviation manage to kill members of the Islamic State group in different area of the country.
It is noteworthy that in early 2014, the Islamic State group, with the assistance of local Sunni militia, launched a successful campaign to control the Anbar Province. Iraqi government launched many operations to drive out the IS from the province. The area was effectively recaptured by the end of 2017.
U.S. airstrike kills three (alleged members of ISIS) in Iraq
by Mohammed Ebraheem Jul 3, 2019, 11:29 pm
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) –
Three (alleged members of ISIS) were killed Wednesday in an airstrike by the U.S.-led international coalition warplanes, Iraqi authorities said.
"Acting on precise information from the Baghdad Information Command, the US.-led international coalition launched an airstrike targeting several (alleged members of ISIS), west of al Munāyif mountain in Nineveh," Alghad Press quoted the Security Media Cell as saying in a press statement.
Three Islamic State (alleged members of ISIS) were killed in the air raid, the statement read.
Iraqi pro-gov't forces kill four Islamic State terrorists in Nineveh
An Iraqi paramilitary force said on Wednesday that its fighters killed four (alleged members of ISIS) group in Nineveh province.
"A force of the 53rd and 40th brigades of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) killed four (alleged) Islamic State militants during a preemptive operation in the Sheikh Ibrahim mountain range, south of Tal Afar," Iraqi website Alghad Press quoted the paramilitary force as saying in a press statement.
Two hotbeds of the Islamic State group were also destroyed in the operation, the statement read.
Former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi announced in August 2017 that Nineveh province was fully liberated from Islamic State after the district of Tal Afar was recaptured.
The announcement came after the defeat of the jihadist group in the town of Ayadiya, where the militants had fled to from Tal Afar.
Syria hands over 100 Islamic State fighters to Iraq, says mayor
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) –
Iraq has received 100 (alleged members of ISIS), including senior leaders, from Syria, an Iraqi mayor said seemingly under an agreement to hand over a total of 502 fighters.
"The Syrian side has handed the Jazeerah Operations Command a total of 100 Islamic State elements, who were arrested by the Syrian army near the borderline with Iraq," the independent news website of Almaalomah quoted the mayor of Iraqi border town Al-Qaim, Ahmed al-Mahallawi, as saying on Tuesday.
They "were moved to the Ain Assad airbase in al-Baghdadi district, west of Anbar, for interrogation and judicial action," al-Mahalawi said, adding that there were senior leaders among the arrestees.
Around 800 of foreign fighters who joined Islamic State, including many Iraqis, are being held in Syria by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the group said. More than 2,000 family members are also in camps, with dozens more arriving each day.
The militant group still poses a threat in Iraq and some western officials believe that the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may still be hiding there.
Iraqi intelligence kill two Islamic State jihadists in Mosul
by Mohammed Ebraheem Jul 1, 2019, 1:30 pm
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) –
Iraqi military intelligence forces killed on Monday two (alleged members of ISIS) during a military operation in Mosul city.
In a press statement, the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate said that its troops have stormed a hotbed of the Islamic State terrorist group in al Baaj district, west of Mosul.
The troops killed two (alleged members of ISIS) and found two motorbikes, two firearms and an explosive belt inside the pair's hotbed.
The operation was launched based on intelligence reports, the statement read.
Former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi announced in July 2017 liberation of the second largest Iraqi city of Mosul from IS militants, who had captured it in 2014. More than 25,000 militants were killed throughout the campaign, which started in October 2016.
The campaign was backed by paramilitary troops and a U.S.-led international coalition.
Iraq declared the collapse of Islamic State's territorial influence in Iraq in November 2017 with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar's western borders with Syria, which was the group's last bastion in Iraq.
Bomb attack wounds two Iraqi soldiers in Diyala province
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) –
Two Iraqi soldiers were wounded Monday in a bomb attack in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Iraqi website Alghad Press, the source said that a roadside bomb targeted an army patrol at al-Nada village in Balad Ruz district, Diyala, leaving two soldiers wounded.
"The injured soldiers were moved to hospital for treatment," the source said, adding that the blast site was sealed off and a probe was launched to identify perpetrators of the bomb attack.
Turkey says to continue military operations against PKK in Iraq
Ankara (IraqiNews.com) –
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned Acting Iraqi Ambassador in Ankara Essam Mohammad to inform him that Turkey would continue its operations against the PKK terrorists in northern Iraq.
The charge d'affaires of the Iraqi embassy in Ankara had been informed that the statement issued by the Iraqi side Saturday on allegations of civilian casualties during Turkey's operations against the PKK was not acceptable, spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry Hami Aksoy said.
The spokesman pointed out that the Iraqi Kurdistan authorities held the PKK organization responsible for the operation carried out within the regions of the territory, while the federal government in Baghdad neglected this matter.
The federal government's statement does not reflect positive momentum in relations between the two countries through high-level visits in the recent period, Aksoy said.
"Turkey respects the sovereignty of Iraq, so Baghdad should not allow the presence of terrorists on its territory," the statement concluded.
Iraqi army kills two (alleged members of ISIS) on border with Syria
by Mohammed Ebraheem Jun 30, 2019, 6:52 pm
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) –
The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that its troops killed two (alleged members of ISIS) during a military operation on the country's border with Syria.
The operation was launched after hearing the sound of a large explosion, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the two (alleged members of ISIS) tried to escape the scene but the troops managed to kill them.
According to the statement, the troops also found bodies of three (alleged) Islamic State suicide bombers wearing explosive belts at the scene.
Unidentified gunmen kill Iraqi soldier in Diyala province
An Iraqi soldier was killed on Saturday night when armed men launched an attack on a security checkpoint in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source was quoted saying.
"A security checkpoint came under attack by unidentified gunmen near the Hussein al-Hamadi village, some 15 km southwest of Baqubah, leaving a solider dead," the source told the Baghdad Today news website on Sunday.
"The security forces launched a probe into the incident and a manhunt was launched for the culprits," the source added.
In January 2015, Iraqi forces announced liberation of Diyala province from Islamic State extremist militants who proclaimed an "Islamic Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
The province has seen months of fighting between Iraqi troops and IS militants especially in the Jalawla and Saadiyah areas in the province's north and areas near the town of Muqdadiyah.


SYLVANIA, Ohio -- On a rainy evening, the Heidelberg University women's lacrosse team fell on the road to Lourdes University, 13-4. The loss is the Berg's third straight, after starting the season 4-0.
Junior Jen Kovarik scored a hat trick for the Student Princes and now has 15 goals on the season, tied for most on the team.
After falling behind 1-0, Kovarik tied the score with her first strike of the evening.
With 17 minutes remaining before the break, Anna Winnicki tallied her 15th goal of the season off a pass from Angela Lulejian. The shot evened the score at two. Lourdes added two more goals before halftime.
The Berg saw a narrow 4-2 deficit at the half evaporate, as the home team scored nine goals in the second half. Lourdes held Heidelberg to just two goals in the period, both coming off the stick of Kovarik.
Freshman goalie Jess Ballow made a number of saves in the match, tallying 14. Winnicki, Lulejian, and Dana Dudley each finished the night with four draw controls.
The Student Princes are back on their home turf on Friday for an OAC matchup with Muskingum. Game time against the Muskies is scheduled for 1 p.m.


NBA rumors are suggesting that Chandler Parsons might be leaving the Dallas Mavericks via free agency this summer. According to ESPN, the New York Knicks are said to be one of the many NBA teams that are going to pursue the 6'10", 230-pound forward. With Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and Robin Lopez already under contract to the Knicks, the addition of Parsons should make things rather interesting in New York City.
With Carmelo Anthony, the New York Knicks have one of the best pure scorers in the NBA and someone that is still considered a legitimate franchise player. Anthony decided to become more of a team player this season, but he still ended up playing in the NBA All Star game earlier this month. When trade rumors started swirling around Anthony, it was reported that Carmelo turned down any deals because he wants to fulfill his commitment to the Knicks.
Carmelo Anthony [Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images]Robin Lopez might not have been the sexiest free agency signing in the NBA this summer, but he has started to prove that he deserves the $54 million contract that New York Knicks president Phil Jackson handed him after being turned down by LaMarcus Aldridge and Greg Monroe. Lopez has shown more than a willingness to do all of the little things, and his presence has made it much easier for Kristaps Porzingis to adapt to life in the National Basketball Association.
Kristaps Porzingis is going to be the franchise player for the New York Knicks in the next couple of years. While there are still games where the Latvian rookie needs to be corralled, Porzingis needs to be on the court if he's ever going to take the torch away from Carmelo Anthony. Kristaps needs to be allowed to make his mistakes during the games if he is ever going to have enough confidence to become the biggest thing in the Big Apple.
Kristaps Porzingis [Photo by Elsa/Getty Images]With all of that in mind, Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis, and Robin Lopez all have a good claim to one of the three starting front court spots for the New York Knicks. Since he has improved so much since being a second round draft pick of the Houston Rockets, Chandler Parsons wants to be a starter. He's not going to leave a good situation like the Dallas Mavericks to become a sixth man, regardless of which NBA team is making the offer.
Robin Lopez seems like the likeliest candidate to be moved by the New York Knicks. NBA teams know that he's more than solid as a starting center, a position that lacks depth league wide. A team like the Los Angeles Lakers would love to have Lopez around to teach Julius Randle the ropes. Though they might be dominant on the defensive side of the ball, Carmelo Anthony, Chandler Parsons and Kristaps Porzingis would be extremely difficult to defend against.
Robin Lopez [Photo by Elsa/Getty Images]Though he has been telling the world that he wants to stay with the New York Knicks, Carmelo Anthony might start listening to Father Time. There's only so many years that NBA stars are allowed before their bodies break down. If a great opportunity comes along that enables Anthony to get a legitimate chance at winning his first NBA Championship, then he might be inclined to waive his "no trade" clause and accept a ticket out of town.
While the thought of losing either Carmelo Anthony or Robin Lopez might not sound all that appealing to Phil Jackson right now, the New York Knicks can be taken to bigger heights by pairing up Chandler Parsons and Kristaps Porzingis together.


On 5/6 July 2014, NERG at the Gateshead International Stadium was the venue for the 6th heat in the funstock.co.uk 2014 Classic Gaming Championships.
136 players registered to compete with 60 of them managing to notch points on the leaderboard. It was a very tense final few hours of the tournament with the lead changing a number of times. Stephen Hawes-Johnson eventually took the crown, beating Scott Owens and Dan Stephenson into 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Terry Condit, Saline High School Graduate, Worked as an Engineer and Officiated Sports
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Terry James Condit, age 68, a proud believer of Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior, of Milan, Michigan passed away at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from Ascending Aortic Dissection while having open heart bypass surgery.
He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 14, 1952 to Eldon and Cleo (Brown) Condit. He graduated from Saline High School and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Eastern Michigan University in 1998.
Terry worked as a Processing/Manufacturing/Quality/Supplier Engineer most of his life (ironically mostly on heart medical devices) and enjoyed umpiring softball, officiating and coaching soccer, basketball, volleyball and many other sports, fishing, spending time with family, and reading Tom Clancy novels. He will be deeply missed by his family and friends.
Terry is survived by his wife Karen Lyons-Condit; his sons, Kevin (Tonya Peters) Lyons, Keith Lyons, and Jason (Amy) Condit; grandchildren, Luke Lyons, Lillian (Lily) Lyons, and Liam Condit; his brother Bob (Virg) Condit; sisters, Beverly Poet and Elaine (Dale) Gensley; brother-in-law Ronald Patterson; sisters-in-laws, Wanda Condit, Katherine Knight, Arlene (Penny) Carpenter and Janice Zezulka, along with several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents Eldon and Cleo (Brown) Condit; brother Charles (Dennis) Condit; In-laws John and Gladys Johnson; brothers-in-laws, Stanley Poet, John Johnson, James Johnson and Bill Knight.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions a short (limited to 25 persons) memorial service led by Pastor Thomas L. Schroeder of Christ our King Lutheran Church in Saline (Lutheran Missouri Synod) was held at Bethlehem Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan to have his ashes interred on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 10:00 A.M.
Flowers and cards can be sent to the Condit Family c/o Jason Condit at 29089 Fourner Ave., Madison Heights, MI 48071.
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Mum sparks outrage after selling brownies made with her BREAST MILK at school fair – WITHOUT warning people
The mum claims she didn't have time to run to the store and didn't think it was a big deal because the kids 'could use the nutrition'
By Andrea Downey, Digital Health Reporter and Sarah-Jane Collins for news.com.au
Updated: 29th March 2019, 1:46 pm
A MUM has sparked outrage after using her breast milk to bake brownies for a school cake sale – without telling customers about her secret ingredient.
The unnamed baker asked her Facebook friends for advice after other mums found out and expressed their disgust.
The mum claimed she ran out of milk so chose to use her own breast milk to make the brownies
She wrote: "I made brownies for my school bake sale that had breast milk in them.
"I didn't have time to run to the store, and didn't think it was a big deal (some of those kids could use the nutrition to be honest).
"One of the other moms found out and are blowing it way out of proportion. Idk [I don't know] what to do!"
The anonymous post was picked up by popular page Sanctimommy and has since received more than 900 comments and has been shared almost 800 times.
Unsurprisingly, the reactions ranged from appalled to bemused.
Reine Victoria wrote: "Honestly this is actually a damn near criminal offence.
In an anonymous post online the mum said other parents were upset with her decision to use breast milk and she didn't know what do to
"Breast milk, like blood or semen, can carry diseases, which is why legit donation services screen the milk before passing it along to moms and their babies.
"Secretly feeding children that aren't yours baked goods with your bodily fluids in them in gross, shady and borderline psychotic.
"I don't care if the possible harmful diseases 'baked out'."
Jennifer Wood added: "This is why they don't allow home baked goods at school anymore for birthdays and such.
"One boob ruins it for the rest of the kids.
"Btw [by the way] I'm a breastfeeding mom, I don't find breastfeeding gross, but I do think drinking someone else's breast milk is not something I ever want to do, thank you."
Official guidelines state you should never let your child drink another person's breast milk
But while many were furious, others joked about how ridiculous the situation was.
Nicole Ringrose said: "Let us spare a moment of silence for the children of Booby Crocker.
Jessica Cross had a suggestion on how the mum could deal with her critics.
She said: "Squirt everyone who disagrees with you in the eye.
"Eventually they'll stop arguing with you (plus they could probably use the nutrients)."
Another said: "Clearly the other moms are upset because you baked brownies with sugar and flour.
"Next time try a sugar-free, gluten-free recipe and you should be fine.
"Pro-tip: make them soy-free as well. And obviously, sneak in some spinach and quinoa."
Many even pointed out you don't need milk to make brownies.
The woman's post has been met with anger and bemusement
And the mums' angry about their kids potentially consuming another mum's breast milk may not be wrong.
Research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2015 concluded breast milk for adult consumption was ill-advised.
There are claims breast milk can help improve athletes performances, chronic disease, cancer and even erectile dysfunction.
But lead author Dr Sarah Steele, from Queen Mary University of London, said: "Nutritionally there is less protein in breast milk than other milks like cow's milk."
She said no scientific study has shown that drinking breast milk offers anything more than a placebo effect.
Breast milk has a number of benefits for newborn babies, but should be given to children who aren't your own
Any time a child gets milk from another mum they are exposed to possible infections, according to paediatrician Wendy Swanson.
Writing for Baby Center she said: "Of course, some argue that sharing breastfeeding duty is an age-old solution for nursing mothers, but nowadays we understand a lot more about the risks of infectious diseases.
"We know that HIV can be transmitted through breast milk, and there is a very small possibility that hepatitis can be passed along if a woman has cracked nipples.
"It might be comforting to think that your sister or a friend could feed your baby if you're not around.
"But unless you know her complete medical history, it would be risky to let another woman breastfeed your baby."
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The US Food and Drug Administration's guidelines for using other people's breast milk to feed your baby explicitly advises not to use unscreened breastmilk obtained through strangers or the internet.
It states: "If you are considering feeding a baby with human milk from a source other than the baby's mother, you should know that there are possible health and safety risks for the baby.
"Risks for the baby include exposure to infectious diseases, including HIV, to chemical contaminants, such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk, if the donor has not been adequately screened."
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We live in an ever more competitive world, and never is this more keenly demonstrated than when it comes to employment.
The days when a solid education and a smattering of 'real world' experience were enough to land you in the role of your choice are long gone. As a result, the modern job seeker needs a more comprehensive arsenal with which to slay the competition, and one of the best weapons at any would-be employee's disposal, is a record of volunteering.
Of course any kind of volunteer work will be beneficial to your cause, but sometimes the most impressive and indeed useful, can be the experience gained whilst working beyond the shores of your own country, living alongside and providing your unpaid services to people who are in great need.
We have discussed several times before, the benefits that can come from volunteering in general, now I think it's time we take a look at some of the essential skills and life experience that can be gained from volunteering abroad.
encountered otherwise. Off the much beaten 'gap year' track, lies the world as it really is; the cultures, the people, the stories, the music, all the things that every traveller hopes to experience, but so few ever do.
It all sounds very dramatic, but to an employer, the fact that you have volunteered amongst the 'real people' of a country means that (rightly or wrongly) your world view is more developed than your counterparts who have not.
It's the experience of a life-time.
Think about it, have you ever heard anyone who has come back from volunteering abroad telling people how much they hated it?
No, of course you haven't, that's because the vast majority of people have such a wonderful time, it's all they can do not to shout it from the roof tops when they return.
Check out ICS volunteer abroad website to find out the fantastic volunteering opportunities available abroad.
For young people today, it can feel as though life is little more than an endless parade of education, exams, work experience, and job applications. With all this going on it is very easy to become totally disillusioned with the whole thing.
Volunteering abroad will give you the space and time to consider the world and its people beyond the little bubble of your home life. This can be a really useful step to take whilst you are in the process of deciding what you would like to spend the rest of your life doing.
A fresh perspective may well reignite your passion and introduce you to fresh and exciting ways that you might like to spend your time.
Take a look at the below infographic, which says that 74% of people who volunteered with ICS regarded it as the exclusive, or main reason why they later choose the career path that they did.
are pretty much a guarantee. These can include communication, organisation, ability to work in and contribute to a team, independent work, creative thinking, problem solving, time management, and so forth.
All skills which are highly prized in today's competitive employment market.
From a purely social point of view, you will have experiences when volunteering abroad that will fascinate your peers. On a more practical level, the ability to talk about something other than mundane work experience and education within an interview setting, could really give you a chance to stand out from the crowd. Having experiences like this tucked under your belt will give you vastly more interesting ways to dazzle a potential employer, and make it more likely that they will remember your name amongst a sea of very similar candidates.


EDs and Wigan Youth Zone hosted a fantastic evening of music and entertainment last week with a headline performance from X Factor star, Olivia Garcia.
The event organised by EDs, sponsored by Ainscough Hughes and hosted at The Venue in the Youth Zone, welcomed a 100-strong audience including many of the town's veterans and their families.
Attendees were treated to an array of entertainment with a headline performance from Olivia Garcia, the teenage singing sensation who narrowly missed out on last year's X Factor finals. Also on the night guests enjoyed fantastic performances from talented Wigan Youth Zone members, who showcased the skills they have honed right here in the Youth Zone's Music Room.
Ahead of Remembrance Day, the event was a great opportunity to celebrate the veterans that are still here and their sacrifice and commitment to their country.
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OVERHEAD PRESS⚡- presses should be your main lift when it comes to building your shoulders. Whether it be standing overhead press, seated military press, or Dumbbell shoulder press, make sure you are focusing on getting stronger every week. Whether that be adding more weight to the bar, or adding another set.
LATERAL RAISES⚡- lateral raises are intended to work the lateral portion of your deltoid (shoulder muscle). These are best performed with cables for high reps. The reason cables are more effective here is because you can maximize tension with cables, as opposed to with dumbbells where tension is lost at the bottom of the movement.
FACE PULLS⚡- this should be one of the most frequently performed exercises in your routine. Face-pulls are your bread and butter for better posture and healthy shoulders. They aim to work the rear deltoid, along with your external rotators, both of which are severely under worked muscles (leading to poor posture). Whether you start your workout with face-pulls, or end them with face-pulls, start to add them in to every workout.
DIPS⚡- "what? I thought dips were a Tricep exercise?". Dips are one of the best upper body exercises you can be doing because of the multitude of muscles it incorporates. Primarily dips works your chest, shoulders and Tricep. And because it is such a challenging exercise, I recommend doing dips on shoulder day as well to get the most bang for your buck.
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The scale is a good indicator of progress for your fitness goals. You need to understand what your weight is doing on a weekly basis in order to asses your current routine, and plan ahead. The problem is, most people don't know how to weigh themselves correctly, and also don't know what to look for on the scale. They simply want to see that number go up or down. Here are the proper weekly scale guidelines.
WEIGHT LOSS✅: -1-2 lbs/week. That is the max weight you should be losing in a week. 1-2 lbs a week is a sustainable goal for the long haul. Let's put it in perspective: 1-pound is 3500 calories, right? So say you wanted to lose 2-pounds in a week. That means that you would need 7000 less calories in a week than you are currently accustom to. While this can be done through both dieting and exercise, 1000 calorie deficit a day is about the max you should aim for. Anything more is unrealistic and not sustainable.
LEAN GAIN✅: +.5-1 lbs/week. When it comes to stacking on lean muscle, it is a much slower process than weight loss. If your goal is to put on muscle mass while also staying lean, the weight on the scale will slowly go up each week. This will assure that you are still gaining muscle, and not a lot of fat with it.
BULK✅: +1-2 lbs/week. When it comes to a bulk phase, you are loading up on calories at a high rate in order to produce the most significant muscle gain results. While eating in a caloric surplus is best to maximize muscle mass, it will also result in some fat gain. Typically the bulk phase (roughly 6-months or more) will be followed by a cutting phase to reduce the body fat that was accumulated during the bulk.
✅Rows play a pivotal row in developing upper back strength. This is important because your upper back strength is a staple of your upper body posture. Meaning, when you have a strong upper back it works to help retract your shoulders, allowing for tall posture. This will help tremendously to avoid shoulder injury/pain because we know when your shoulders start to slump forward, it's bad news for that shoulder joint.
I am aware that you are rowing, but are you rowing enough❓Rows should be incorporated into your routine multiple times a week, and I would even argue that they could be implemented into every workout session. They act as a great warmup exercise as they work to engage your back muscles and tidy up your posture.
If you've built a strong friendship with the seated cable row, that's good, I'm happy for the two of you, but it's time to add in more row variations to your routine. Let this graphic act as a guide to implementing more row variations. And don't worry, the seated cable row machine won't be mad that you are cheating on it with other variations. It will be happy for you.
Let me know in the comments what other row variations I missed!
Pull-ups are one of the best exercises you should be doing to build a strong back. Pull-ups are great because they allow you to challenge yourself with your own Bodyweight.
We all start somewhere when it comes to pull-ups. Whether you're just getting started and working with assisted pull-ups, or if you're a pull-up warrior adding extra weight to your pull-ups.
Use this guide to determine where you're currently at, and continue to work your way up by improving your muscular strength and pull-up form. 💢Let me know how your pull-up game is in the comments below!
The leg press is pre-dominantly a quad exercise. But you can emphasize certain muscles more by adjusting your foot stance.
Putting your feet higher + wider causes less knee flexion but a little more hip flexion. WideningThus your hamstrings and glutes will have a greater range of motion (ROM) and thus do more work.
Putting your feet lower will target more quads because there is less hip flexion but more knee flexion. Thus your quads will do more work.
Regardless of how you do it, remember that we all have our own individual anatomy. You can only put your feet so high and wide or so low and narrow until it will cause less tension on the muscle.
The deadlift is one of the most beneficial moves you can (and should) be doing in the gym❗The reason people tend to avoid the deadlift is because they fear it could "injure their lower back". The truth is, bad form (with any big lift) can lead to injury. However, performing the deadlift with proper form will help you to avoid injuries in the long hall.
There is not enough space in this caption section for me to explain the multitude of benefits the deadlift has to offer, or the large mass of muscle groups that are incorporated into this single lift. But what I can say is that the deadlift will give you the biggest bang for your buck in the gym. Period.
HOW CAN YOU START❓It all starts with learning proper form. There are countless videos on YouTube on how to deadlift properly. You can also hire a trainer to coach you on how to properly execute the deadlift. If the barbell conventional deadlift seems intimidating to you, start with dumbbells or cables. Here you can still learn proper movement pattern before stepping up to the barbell deadlift.
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If you aspire to build a bigger, more well rounded chest, here are the 4 key chest exercises to focus in on.
CHEST PRESS⚡- your presses are your moneymakers when it comes to building a bigger chest. Work on building up your strength with low rep, heavy weight barbell work. And then work with dumbbells in the 6-12 rep range to build the muscle bigger.
DIPS⚡- are an excellent exercise to build up those lower pecs. Aim to work your way to 3 sets of 10 with just your Bodyweight. After that, start to add weight to your dips to assure you continue to progress.
PUSH-UPS⚡- this Bodyweight movement is often underused in the majority of training program. Pushups are an excellent exercise to challenge your Bodyweight with high rep work. This will force blood flow to the area which is KEY for building muscle.
CHEST FLY⚡- the chest functions in bringing the arm across the body. That is exactly what you are doing here with chest flys. Stick to cables and machines here and be sure to work from different angles - flat chest flys, incline, and decline. This will work the inner portion of your pec muscles.
Undulating your rep ranges is ideal for maximizing muscle growth❗When you're a beginner, sure, you can go with the flow, hit the weights until your muscles fatigue, and you will stack on some muscle in the process. However, when you start to advance with your training, building muscle does not come as easily as it once did.
What does undulating your rep ranges mean❓It means that you need to be programming multiple rep ranges into your training to produce the greatest outcome. In order to do so, you need to understand the different rep ranges.
STRENGTH⚡- strength training serves one purpose: to get stronger. Here you are working to move the heaviest weight possible, without breaking form, from point A to point B. Barbell compound moves are your focus here. Barbells allow you to lift heavy loads, while compound lifts work to activate multiple muscle groups into a single lift. ✅Your rep range here is 1-5 reps.
You have to be getting stronger if you want to grow. The stronger you are, the more weight you can lift, the more muscle you can build.
HYPERTROPHY⚡- works to increase the size of the muscle cell and allows them to hold more fluid, giving them the appearance of looking bigger. ✅Your rep range here is 6-12. This can be done with barbells or dumbbells, although I recommend dumbbells when working in the 6-12 rep range. You are also still working with compound lifts here.
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These basic strength movements are your foundation. You need to first build up your foundation before you can venture into new realms. What I mean by that is, as a beginner, or even as an intermediate lifter, you need to establish strength with the basic strength component movements. This is what will create your foundation and allow you to lift weights and build a strong, rock solid body for many years to come.
I often see guys ignoring these basic strength movements and focusing on flashy bicep Curl variations they saw online, or, athletic movements that are completely out of their realm. This will lead to poor results and a much greater risk for injury.
Establish your strength with these basic movements, and the rest will fall into place. I'm talking months of continuous hard work with these movements, aiming to get stronger with them overtime. All these movements are equally important so do not cheat yourself out of one area because you are only as strong as your weakest link.
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A delicious vegan banana bread recipe based on the loaf cake recipe in the Honey and Co cookbook.
As I mentioned in my last post I've decided to go vegan for a month, along with thousands of other people (visit Veganuary for more info). It's too tortuous to bake for my family and not be able to tuck in myself so I've been experimenting with a few vegan recipes for sweet treats. I love raw brownies – and so do Miss R and Baby S – but R doesn't like them. Finding things that everyone in the family will eat is a constant challenge but cake is usually a winner and this recipe for vegan banana bread was scoffed by everyone. In fact Baby S loves it so much that the rest of us have to eat it in secret. It has more sugar in it than I'd really like but it's a great start and you really can't taste that it has no dairy or eggs in it. Hopefully I'll have a less sugary vegan bake to share with you soon as well.
It's adapted from the vegan loaf cake recipe from the Honey & Co baking book. I've had my eye on this book for a while now and I'm so pleased to finally own it! It's a shame that I've got it just at the point when I can't eat most of the recipes because they're not vegan, but there's quite a few things in there that I'm pretty sure I can adapt.
I'm glad it's good because I made the kids go all the way into central London on the bus so I could exchange a duplicate Christmas present for it at Waterstones. They enjoyed the trip past the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, and we found a nice little playground nearby to burn off some steam, but their favourite part of the trip was looking at all the books in the children's department – and they didn't even ask me to buy a single thing. We only left because I got tired of putting back the books that Baby S (soon to be toddler S I fear) was chucking on the floor!
Here's how to make it if you fancy giving it a try. As ever I'd love to hear in the comments or via Twitter if you do make it.
Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan. Grease and base line a 1kg loaf tin with a sheet of baking parchment. If you allow a little overhang on the long sides you can use this to help you lift the cake out later.
Add the sugar, flour, bicarbonate of soda and the spices to a large bowl. Whisk gently until thoroughly combined. Place the water, date syrup and oil into a small saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring constantly so that it doesn't burn. As soon as it's just boiling pour it over the dry ingredients and stir well until combined. Stir in the bananas and currants.
Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 45 minutes turning the tin around halfway until it feels springy to the touch.
See my other baked goodies recipes.


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Tech & Science A tale of two towns trying to survive and thrive in regional Australia
06:25 13 december 2019 Source: msn.com
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© Provided by ABC NEWS The abandoned Nangwarry timber mill is a reminder of the loss of employment in the town. (ABC News: Bec Whetham)
Nangwarry and Tarpeena are 10 kilometres apart, but they tell very different stories of survival.
Just over 350 kilometres south-east of Adelaide, Nangwarry is anxious to farewell a tough year. The timber town lost its mill last Christmas.
From what was once a 600-strong workforce on the Riddoch Highway, its last 26 employees were let go in a string of lay-offs.
In February, the town's social hub — its footy club — was burnt down in a series of arson attacks, destroying its clubrooms in the process.
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The tiny Spanish town of Olmeda de la Cuesta is home to just 35 aging residents, and is Please read the rules before joining the discussion. A tale of two towns As companies progressively folded across the country, Duarte Pardo says her business survived — and thrived — on foreign money.
If that was not testing enough, the club has not won a game since July 2017.
When fears of closure ran deep, club membership increased and the renovation funding flooded in.
Local Florence Thomson, 85, puts the town's ability to rebuild down to the community spirit in Nangwarry.
"You need a leader, you need someone who is going to fight," Mrs Thomson said.
She has been that leader — first, to keep the doctor's clinic in the 500-strong town, and then the local pool.
In 2016, after 58 years of being open, the free outdoor pool was to be demolished by council.
"'Over my dead body' I said. That's when I started fighting," Mrs Thomson said.
Mrs Thomson learned her way around the internet, distributed petitions throughout the region and raised $72,000 for upgrades.
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The pool celebrated its 60th anniversary when it reopened last summer.
"If I say it's staying, it stays. I'm sorry, I'm very proud of the way I am," she said.
Country schools struggling to remain funded
Fast forward and Mrs Thomson is preparing for her next fight — to keep the local preschool.
After months of letters and meetings, staff at Nangwarry Primary are preparing to close its kindergarten class in 2020, under new State Government enrolment requirements.
Before she moved to Nangwarry, Felicity Goodwin-Perry was forced to send her four-year-old son to preschool on a bus with older children.
Now, she fears other parents will face a similar dilemma.
With no buses to the nearest alternatives in Penola and Kalangadoo, Ms Goodwin-Perry said parents would have to drive 24 or 40km round trips.
"It's not financially feasible for a lot of families around here … a lot of people who move here, move here for the fact that it's a small town and it's cheap accommodation and there is a school here," Ms Goodwin-Perry said.
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While the school said it ended up getting the six required enrolments, one didn't count as it wasn't considered "local".
"For next year, we've pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that we are not going to have a kindy and we will just fight to try and get it back the following year," Ms Goodwin-Perry said.
For her, it is worth the energy.
"It is frustrating, because once you lose something, it's really hard to get it back," she said.
Jobs but no services
Despite the trials with the kindergarten, Nangwarry considers itself lucky to have stable enrolments — let alone a school.
About 10 minutes down the road from Nangwarry, Tarpeena has not been so fortunate.
In 2005, its footy club closed, and in 2011 so did its primary school.
Lynton Cram runs the one service in town — the hotel.
It is not just a pub. The one-stop-shop is the post office, takeaway shop, general store, petrol station and meeting point in town.
When he returned to Tarpeena to take over the hotel 30 years ago, his hometown wasn't quite the same as he remembered it.
"When I was growing up here everybody in the town worked in the town," he said.
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"Nowadays it's really the opposite."
He said the loss of services had been a big blow.
"When the school closed down, that was an absolute disaster," Mr Cram said.
"We just didn't have enough young people here."
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But there is a silver lining.
Unlike Nangwarry, Tarpeena's sawmill is booming.
In June, timber producer Timberlink kicked off a three-year upgrade at the site, starting with a new electrical substation.
The company said the $90 million project would create 200 jobs in the construction phase and secure the 210 permanent full-time jobs at the mill "for the next generation".
Despite the strong employment, the slowly-growing township is without local services, other than Mr Cram's pub that is.
Ben Juste grew up in Mount Gambier, but now lives in Tarpeena.
It is quiet, affordable and close enough to his hometown, where the 18-year-old travels for work — and Nangwarry, where he has played footy since he was 13.
"Especially when [the football club] burned down that pretty much solidified my mind that I want to stay here. I don't want to move, I wouldn't even move for the world," Mr Juste said.
"I wouldn't go to another club if they offered me ten grand."
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While representing opposite conundrums, Nangwarry with services but fewer jobs, and Tarpeena with job opportunities without services, they face the same bigger trend challenging small inland towns.
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Adelaide University migration and population expert Dr Helen Barrie has spent a lot of time studying South Australia's migration patterns.
South Australia is growing slower than most of Australia.
And the people who do move to South Australia are traditionally not moving further than 100 kilometres from Adelaide.
Dr Barrie describes those regional hubs as "high amenity" towns — relatively large communities with beautiful surrounds close to the city.
"It's understandable that they are going to be our higher growth regions, often at the expense of other regions across the state," Dr Barrie said.
But she expects that to soon change.
"The more that our cities become larger, the population density increases, we have longer commute times, we're going to start to see that our regions are great places to live and work and raise families, to thrive," Dr Barrie said.
"We've seen what happened to Mount Barker or Murray Bridge.
"There's no reason that can't happen in other regional areas as well."
'Community champions' just as crucial as services
But there is some good news.
In Nangwarry, holding on to services has kept its population steady.
And in Tarpeena, work at a new mill has seen a small increase in population.
"For towns like Tarpeena, 20 extra people makes a big difference to how that town operates. So we do see towns cycle through [but] very rarely do we see towns completely die," Dr Barrie said.
Dr Barrie said in the absence of industry or services, local leaders could be just as important for towns in transition.
"It might be the leader of the local football club or the woman who runs the local café, but they can make a big difference to how a town is viewed from the outside and what kind of energy that takes hold.
"One person can't do it alone, but one person can make a difference," Dr Barrie said.
It is something Lynton Cram appreciates most about where he lives.
"A lot of people do say country towns are dying, but they're looking at the shops that are closing, they're not looking at the people that live in the town and what they're doing for the town," he said.
"They've got the attitude 'what they can do for their town?', not [what] the town can do for them."
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Guyana hosts regional partners for Climate Change confab
Posted by: Denis Chabrol in News May 31, 2017	0
A section of he participants of the United Nation's Environment (UN Environment) Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Supporting Countries to advance their National Adaptation Plan (NAP), which is being held at the Ramada Princess Hotel.
Guyana will over the next three days play host to sister Caribbean countries and another nine International agencies as part of a Climate Change National Adaption Plan (NAP) training workshop for public officials.
Guyana's Permanent Secretaries of the Ministries of Communities and Public Infrastructure have been identified to represent the host country in Regional conference aimed at strengthening the capacity of public officials to develop NAPS, "through the identification of the main tools available to develop these plans and the exchange of experiences and lessons learned."
Minister of State Joseph Harmon, in welcoming the regional participant,s used the opportunity to point to the high premium with which Guyana places on Climate Change, adaptation and mitigation.
He said under the Green State Strategy, Guyana's Head of State, David Granger has prioritized the setting out of a framework of resilient infrastructure and spatial development that which speaks to coastal resilience while taking into account national security interests.
Announcing Guyana's representatives to the workshop, Minister Harmon further spoke to the integration of climate risk and adaption measures not only in development plans but also in facilitating decentralization efforts from national to community level.
From left: Head of Caribbean Sub Regional Office of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr. Vincent Sweeney, Ms. Shabnam Mallick, Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP Guyana and Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon.
According to the Minister of State, "the Government of Guyana, recognises the importance of reducing our risks and increasing our resilience to climate change, and has taken to steps for the integration of climate risk into national development planning, policies and programmes, Guyana has elaborated in its Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement, unconditional contributions for adaptation."
He pointed to several of Guyana's tangible initiatives being pursued under the accord and pointed to mainstreaming disaster risk management in the agricultural sector, sea defences as well as shifting of agricultural production from the coast to the hinterland as an adaptation strategy to climate change.
He spoke, too, to the need for improved drainage and irrigation for coastal communities and water resources management and water harvesting for hinterland communities by the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Ministry of the Presidency, meanwhile, said Head of Caribbean Sub Regional Office of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr. Vincent Sweeney, in his remarks, said that the workshop is part of the joint UNDP-UN Environment global project to support national adaptation plans. He noted that the initiative started in 2013 with a first phase to support the development of national adaptation plans in least developed countries.
"The objective here is to strengthen capacities for the elaboration of these plans, and in this sense, this initiative has the support and experience of the Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate Change Action in Latin America and the Caribbean (known as REGATTA). REGATTA's main objective, as the name suggests, is to strengthen capacities, and promote and exchange knowledge on climate change technologies and experiences in the areas of mitigation and adaptation for the Latin American and Caribbean region," he said.
According to Mr. Sweeney, one of the lessons learnt from this initiative is that while, only a few years ago, capacity building required sharing basic information on what was climate change, whether it was actually occurring and why adaptation plans are necessary; now, it requires more focused knowledge on specific aspects, and above all it is paramount to know experiences and learn from what has and has not worked in other places.
Speaking to some of the challenges, Mr. Sweeney said that while much progress has been made in policy-making and the development of climate change institutions in all countries in the region, the integration and coordination of climate policies with other sectoral policies remains a challenge because of the operational difficulties involved, and also because sectoral policy and climate change have often conflicting or poorly aligned objectives, for instance, forest protection policy versus agricultural production policy). The forum therefore, he said, will provide insights and knowledge, which can help the various countries to evaluate themselves and examine where they need to be.
United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) Deputy Resident, Shabnan Mallick praised Guyana's efforts on the global stage in its Climate Change fight and pointed to the development of a Green State Strategy which she said would build on the benefits accrued from the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
She cautioned, however, that in the implementation of the Green Strategy, government must be cognizant of the need for widespread consultations with the populace.
The UNDP representative, in speaking to that organization's contribution to the climate change fight, said the entity has plugged some US$150M into the efforts across 20 countries.
Representatives participating in the three day confab being held at the Princess Ramada International Hotel and Casino, Providence, East Bank Demerara will benefit from presentations in several areas including national budgeting and adaption as well as access to available climate change mitigation funds.
Countries represented at the confab include Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and St Lucia among others.
International organizations taking part in the confab includes, the United Nations, the Pan American Health Organization and the Global Environment Facility.
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As we've just reached our first anniversary, I've been reflecting on some of the lessons learned from the last year of building the world's first marketplace for buying and selling elearning courses. To celebrate this milestone, I'm happy to share our tips on what kinds of courses appeal to buyers and how you can make your courses stand out from the crowd.
Content matters more than design. Of course, both matter. But, when choosing between fancy, interactive design and strong content, buyers choose the more impressive content every time. If you're storyboarding a course and deciding where you will invest your resources, we recommend that you focus your efforts on researching, developing and structuring content effectively.
Chunk it. When in doubt, divide your course into smaller chunks. Learners find three 20-minute courses much more approachable and tempting than one 60-minute course.
Learners don't like accents or robot voices. We've heard from many buyers who say learners find accents and automated robot voices distracting. When possible and logical, create localized versions of courses for different audiences with locally appropriate narrators or speakers.
Take marketing seriously. It doesn't matter how great your course is if people never click the "preview" button to find out. It's essential to write your course description well, without typos and with details. Describe everything, in clear, interesting sentences: The topic of the course, what activities the course includes, any special qualifications the instructor or developer holds, whether the course is part of a series, and so on. Write good learning objectives that don't just say things like "our course makes the learner communicate better." Explain how your course achieves its goals.
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