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Northern Ireland-based abnormal load specialist, Mar-Train Heavy Haulage, has taken delivery of a new five-axle extending step frame trailer, following the excellent performance of an almost identically specified unit delivered three years ago.
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The IRU has welcomed the Council of the European Union's agreement on a political position on commercial vehicle weights and dimensions proposals that should lead to safer, more environmentally-friendly trucks, buses and coaches on Europe's roads.
A crashed beer lorry caused early morning chaos for commuters when it covered a motorway in booze on Friday.
A truck ban in Manila is having an adverse effect on the Philippine economy.
In the UK, a nest of five chicks survived a near 300-mile cross-country journey in the back of a lorry.
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A sperm whale washed up on an Edinburgh beach was taken by lorry to landfill, where an autopsy is to be carried out.
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Northern Ireland-based abnormal load specialist Mar-Train Heavy Haulage has taken delivery of its first five-axle step-frame trailer from Andover.
Farmers are up in arms over the lowering of the maximum height of vehicles permitted to use Irish roads.
Newlywed couple travel to wedding reception in bin lorry – by choice!
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NOAA's $50,000 for Oregon tsunami cleanup is a small share of projected costs
Updated: Jan. 10, 2019, 11:45 a.m. | Published: Jul. 17, 2012, 9:30 p.m.
By Lori Tobias | For The Oregonian/OregonLive
View full sizeAP Photo/Rick BowmerThe federal government is steering $50,000 Oregon's way for cleaning up debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami. But just one project -- removal of the dock that washed up on Agate Beach near Newport -- will cost $85,000.
NEWPORT – Word earlier this week that the federal government would offer $250,000 to five states for tsunami debris clean up came as welcome news to officials in Oregon, but the state's $50,000 share won't even cover removal of the massive dock that washed ashore here.
While most of the debris is much smaller, the costs of monitoring and removing it are already adding up fast, said Chris Havel, spokesman for the
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
The parks department will turn their expenses over to Oregon Emergency Management, which will in turn decide which are eligible for federal reimbursement.
"All I can do is list our expenses," Havel said. "There's $85,000 for the dock. It could cost us $100,000 over two years for the 2-1-1 system – a call in system for everything related to tsunami debris. It could cost us over two years $10,000 for debris bags to hand out to the public. It could cost us $100,000 a year for debris containment. That could be one of the big expenses, but we don't know how much that is going to cost because we don't know how much debris is going to come ashore."
So far, there has been no word of other federal funds to help with the clean-up, Havel said.
The funding announcement from the
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
comes as the state prepares to begin dismantling the 66-foot-long, 19-foot-wide, 7-foot-tall dock that washed ashore from Misawa, Japan on June 5.
Ballard Diving and Salvage
will begin work on July 31. The salvage firm plans to cut the 130-ton dock into several pieces, place them on a heavy haul truck at the main Agate Beach access road and transport them to a Portland-area facility for demolition and recycling, Havel said.
The Oregonian's continuing coverage of the debris washing up on the Oregon and Washington coasts from the Japanese tsunami.
The work is expected to take about three to seven days depending on tides and safety needs. The beach will remain open during that time, but the work site will be fenced.
"If there is room in the parking lot, it is OK to watch," Havel said. "The most import thing people can do is keep an eye on family and pets and make sure you respect that fence. Be respectful, pay attention and be safe."
The small roadside parking area will be closed, but the main parking lot will be open. There is also an overflow lot en route to the Yaquina Head Natural Outstanding Area with a view of the entire beach, Havel said.

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"The Authoritarians," by Jonathan W. Emord (Available for Order)
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Praise for The Authoritarians
"Jonathan Emord's The Authoritarians is a valuable contribution to literature dealing with the forces behind, and the dangers of, the socialist resurgence."
—Ron Paul, former US Congressman and Host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report
"Jonathan Emord is a warrior out to save our rights. In The Authoritarians, he has done just that. Now if our leaders will read it and follow through . . . we just might make it."
—George Noory, Host of Coast to Coast AM
"Jonathan Emord's The Authoritarians is like Thomas Paine's Common Sense but for our age. It's the book that will spark a rebirth of liberty and save the Republic."
—Charles B. Simone, world renowned Oncologist and Immunologist, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
"The passionate and knowledgeable writing found in these pages is the perfect—and necessary—antidote to the sniveling, condescending, and yes, dangerous machinations of this nation's far-gone Left, whose legions of autocratic Democrats, Antifa and BLM rioters, delusional media members, and misguided educators seek to replace our great Republic with their own perverted version of Marxist reality. These authoritarians seek to enslave us all through the false narrative of, among other things, inherent white privilege and racism. This threat to our individual liberty, as the recent election shows, is not some distant pipe dream of the progressive movement's new revolutionaries. It is real and it is here. Jonathan Emord explains in great detail how and why this has occurred and, most importantly, how to reverse this tragic course of history before it's too late."
—Wayne M. Barrett, Publisher, USA Today Magazine
"The Authoritarians, from title to breathtakingly well-researched last page, offers an astonishing and eye-opening look at the many issues Americans must confront in order to stay free. Jonathan Emord does an admirable job of weaving together historical truths with modern day news to show readers the sad, raw reality—that yes, communism could indeed come to America. Like Paul Revere atop his horse—like John the Baptist crying from the wilderness—The Authoritarians is America's twelfth hour call to arms. This is a great book to put in the schools to teach America's emerging leaders the horrors of unfree states. They'll be frightened enough to grab hold of the Constitution tight and keep our country on a path of limited government for decades to come."
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"The Authoritarians answers the question: How did we stray so far from the high ideals of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution? What if teetering on the edge of becoming a socialist nation was not an accident, but the deliberate effort of a progressivist agenda begun well over 100 years ago? The history not taught but revealed by Jonathan Emord's meticulous research provides a critical road map to recovery for a nation founded on the principles of defense of life, liberty and property. How do we stop progressives who would abolish rights endowed by our Creator and replace them with privileges from authoritarian collectivists? Read this book. Before it's too late."
—Robert Scott Bell, The Robert Scott Bell Show
"[The Authoritarians] ought to be must-reading for anyone who loves freedom . . . [Jonathan Emord] is, in our opinion, an intellectual warrior for the rights and freedoms of people in America and around the world."
—Congressmen Dan Burton and John T. Doolittle, as written in the Foreword
"In The Authoritarians, the socialists have met their match. Just when they thought they captured America and could break out the cognac and caviar comes Jonathan Emord to ruin the party."
—Donna Kasseinova, former citizen of the Soviet Union
"Will we defeat the socialist resurgence in America? Of course we will, and how we will is spelled out in detail in Jonathan Emord's instant classic, The Authoritarians."
—Norman Singleton, President, Campaign for Liberty
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Acer is Upgrading Its OJO Headset
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The first generation of Windows Mixed Reality headsets prominently featured Acer hardware, with an affordable and attractive model alongside more premium fare from Samsung. We were very impressed with the hands-on time we had with that headset. Since then we've seen the OJO 500, with a much more polished look.
Now Acer have announced a range of products under the "ConceptD" label. These seem to be higher-spec versions of existing products and includes workstations, laptops and monitors.
The OJO has also received the ConceptD treatment and offers some really tantalizing numbers.
Higher Resolutions
The headline specification is the total resolution of 4320×2160 pixels. That's more than twice what the OJO 500 offered.Of course, to drive such a monstrous resolution, you might have to invest in a much more powerful graphics card and CPU than is currently available. If you simply run this new OJO at the same resolution as before, there is literally no benefit to be had.
The new OJO also features a detachable visor and an open-ear audio pipe, jumping on the same trend that is seeing the elimination of over-ear headphones in VR and MR headsets.
It actually makes a ton of sense if you want to use this as a mixed reality headset, since it allows external sound to mix with the digital audio, in the same way the cameras blend your surroundings with digital imagery. In some of the photos however, there are over-ear headphones, so possible these remain an option.
WMR FTW
This is of course another Windows Mixed Reality headset, which opens it up to thousands of applications and games. Especially since WMR for SteamVR is pretty mature by now, with over 2000 SteamVR games working with the software.
Acer didn't reveal anything about special controllers, but since this is a WMR headset, they will probably just be normal Microsoft certified controllers for the platform.
It's unclear when you'll be able to buy a ConceptD OJO, but in terms of price there are some rough estimates. It's a premium product for sure, meant for designers and power users, but it's expected to retail for less than $1000. That's pretty reasonable, but don't forget about the costs of a machine capable of driving that 4K resolution.


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Instagram is Reportedly Working on Adding a Stories Tab in the Post Creation UI
Instagram has been on a roll lately, introducing captivating features and updates every now and then. It wasn't that long ago when it was revealed that the company was working on a redesign for the Post Creation UI.
Key Social Media Monetization Tactics for Mobile-First Gaming Brands
When you think of a typical gamer, the mind is quick to paint a mental picture of a young male. However, that is not the case at all in this growing industry that topped 43.8 billion in 2018. There is a huge audience – and demand – for casual mobile games that span across demographics. For example, 65 percent of women in the 10-65 age range report they play mobile games and 20 percent of female gamers discover new games on social media.
The 2019 State of Content Marketing [Infographic]
Are you considering where to invest your marketing budget this year? Want to know how your content strategy measures up against other brands?
YouTube and Instagram Battling to Become Brands' Top Choice for Social Media Marketing
Several brands and marketers are now promoting their products and services on Social Media platforms and considering Social Media's impressive growth over the last few years, we can't blame them!
Instagram IGTV Now Supports Landscape Videos
Creators can now upload longform content shot in a landscape format.
Snapchat's Working on New Music Rights Deals to Enable Users to Add Songs to Their Snaps
As TikTok slowly encroaches on its 'cool kids' turf, Snapchat is reportedly looking to establish new rights deals with major music labels, which would enable Snap users to add popular songs to their snaps.
With Pepsi's AR filters, Instagram is coming for Snapchat (again)
Instagram's next attempt to overshadow Snapchat is here — well, almost.
New Research Shows the Average Rates that Influencers Charge for Sponsored Posts
Influencer marketing has become a key digital advertising option in recent times, with the rise of Instagram, in particular, driving increased demand for more specialized content expertise.
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using namespace llvm;

namespace swift {

class SILModule;
class ClassDecl;
class ClassHierarchyAnalysis : public SILAnalysis {
public:
  typedef SmallVector<ClassDecl *, 8> ClassList;
  typedef SmallPtrSet<ClassDecl *, 32> ClassSet;
  typedef SmallVector<NominalTypeDecl *, 8> NominalTypeList;
  typedef DenseMap<ProtocolDecl *, NominalTypeList> ProtocolImplementations;

  ClassHierarchyAnalysis(SILModule *Mod)
      : SILAnalysis(AnalysisKind::ClassHierarchy), M(Mod) {
      init();
    }

  ~ClassHierarchyAnalysis();

  static bool classof(const SILAnalysis *S) {
    return S->getKind() == AnalysisKind::ClassHierarchy;
  }

  virtual void invalidate(SILAnalysis::InvalidationKind K) {
    // Nothing can invalidate the ClassHierarchyAnalysis!
  }

  /// Returns a list of the known direct subclasses of a class \p C in
  /// the current module.
  const ClassList &getDirectSubClasses(ClassDecl *C) {
    return DirectSubclassesCache[C];
  }

  /// Returns a list of the known indirect subclasses of a class \p C in
  /// the current module.
  const ClassList &getIndirectSubClasses(ClassDecl *C) {
    if (!IndirectSubclassesCache.count(C)) {
      // Lazy initialization
      auto &K = IndirectSubclassesCache[C];
      getIndirectSubClasses(C, K);
    }
    return IndirectSubclassesCache[C];
  }

  const NominalTypeList &getProtocolImplementations(ProtocolDecl *P) {
    return ProtocolImplementationsCache[P];
  }

  /// Returns true if the class is inherited by another class in this module.
  bool hasKnownDirectSubclasses(ClassDecl *C) {
    return DirectSubclassesCache.count(C);
  }

  /// Returns true if the class is indirectly inherited by another class
  /// in this module.
  bool hasKnownIndirectSubclasses(ClassDecl *C) {
    return IndirectSubclassesCache.count(C) &&
           IndirectSubclassesCache[C].size() > 0;
  }

  /// Returns true if the protocol is implemented by any class in this module.
  bool hasKnownImplementations(ProtocolDecl *C) {
    return ProtocolImplementationsCache.count(C);
  }

  virtual void invalidate(SILFunction *F, SILAnalysis::InvalidationKind K) {
    invalidate(K);
  }

private:
  /// Compute inheritance properties.
  void init();
  void getIndirectSubClasses(ClassDecl *Base,
                             ClassList &IndirectSubs);
  /// The module
  SILModule *M;

  /// A cache that maps a class to all of its known direct subclasses.
  DenseMap<ClassDecl*, ClassList> DirectSubclassesCache;

  /// A cache that maps a class to all of its known indirect subclasses.
  DenseMap<ClassDecl*, ClassList> IndirectSubclassesCache;

  /// A cache that maps a protocol to all of its known implementations.
  ProtocolImplementations ProtocolImplementationsCache;
};

}
#endif

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© Junction Creek Stewardship Committee
Loblaw Water Fund
WWF-Canada and Loblaw are proud to support the freshwater community in its efforts to restore and manage our waters.
Canada is home to thousands of lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. Many of these water bodies need our help to become and remain healthy. WWF-Canada's Loblaw Water Fund is a grant initiative open to Canadians working on the ground to address the major threats affecting the health of our watersheds. The Loblaw Water Fund recognizes that we can do more together, supporting each other, than we can alone.
Improving Freshwater Health
The Loblaw Water Fund is designed to help improve the health of freshwater ecosystems across Canada while reducing the threats they face. The fund provides grants to registered charitable organizations and not-for-profit organizations for projects that aim to conserve, protect or restore freshwater and riparian habitats and the species living within them.
The Loblaw Water Fund supports action-oriented projects that take specific steps toward ecosystem restoration and/or the collection of data for long-term monitoring initiatives. Over the past five years, the fund has supported more than 60 projects across the country.
Results from these projects include:
Over 3,370 hectares of habitat for freshwater species restored
Planting of over 110,000 native trees and plants
More than 25,000 volunteers engaged in conservation efforts for their local rivers and lakes
These grants are made possible through partial proceeds from Loblaw's charge for plastic shopping bag program in its stores, which has resulted in the removal of more than 10 billion plastic bags nationally since 2007.
Current Loblaw Water Fund Projects
In 2019, 12 projects received funding from the Loblaw Water Fund, ranging from preventing excess nutrients from cattle ranches from entering nearby streams in Saskatchewan to equipping citizens with water-monitoring kits to test local bodies of water throughout Canada.
You can explore the Loblaw Water Fund projects at watershedreports.wwf.ca, or read more about them below:
© Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association Inc.
Yorkson, Saskatchewan: Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association Inc. Restoring Riparian Habitat in the Assiniboine River Watershed
The Assiniboine River Watershed's aquatic ecosystems are at high risk from agriculture and livestock operations, which allow contaminants and excess nutrients to enter the waterways. By providing an incentive for ranchers to block direct access of their cattle to creeks, streams and rivers through exclusion fencing, tree and shrub plantings and off-site watering opportunities, the AWSA aims to improve the aquatic and riparian health at two locations in the watershed.
© Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority
Exeter, Ontario: Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation — Restoring Wetlands to Improve Water Quality for Freshwater Mussels and Turtles in the Ausable River
This project will restore wetlands to improve freshwater mussel and turtle habitats in the Ausable River. Turtles face threats including, habitat loss, mainly from development, road mortality, predation, the pet trade and invasive species. The ABCF will complete four habitat restoration initiatives including wetlands, water retention ponds, vegetation filter strips and tree plantings.
© Staffan Widstrand
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation — Doubling Down in Nova Scotia: Monitoring and Restoration within the LaHave and Nictaux River Watersheds
This project will allow the continuation of long-term water quality monitoring within the LaHave River and collaboration with the Clean Annapolis River Project (CARP) to monitor water quality within the Nictaux River Watershed. By monitoring fish and increasing access to healthy habitat, the project can help ease the result of human impact and highlight areas that will require future attention, while creating a long-term record of the rivers' health, fostering a sense of stewardship through public engagement and education.
© Comité ZIP Les Deux Rives / Sophie Lacoursière
Trois-Rivières, Quebec: Comité ZIP Les Deux Rives — Planting 20 km of Riparian Bands in Agricultural Settings for the Restoration of Lac-Saint-Paul
For the past five years, the committee has collaborated with close to 80 agricultural producers in the Lac-Saint-Paul watershed to plant 25 km of riparian vegetation near water bodies that pass through their lands. In the third phase of this project, agreements were signed with 16 agricultural producers to plant an additional 20 km of vegetation, which helps prevent sediment and excess nutrients from entering the lake, creating corridors for animals and attracting pollinators, while helping with erosion reduction and temperature regulation.
© Olga Gabay / Shutterstock
Sudbury, Ontario: Junction Creek Stewardship Committee Inc. — Monitoring and Promoting Urban Stream Health
Junction Creek is a key watershed that connects the communities within Greater Sudbury. This project will enable the continued revival of the urban stream through research, restoration and community engagement. The Junction Creek Stewardship Committee will collaborate with community partners to fulfill long-term monitoring initiatives of Junction Creek as it recovers from the degradation caused by urban pressures and historic mining and logging practices. Fish communities will be studied to complement past research, fill data gaps and evaluate stream health. Brook trout distribution and habitat will be assessed to reflect the success of their reintroduction into the creek, while riparian habitat restoration activities will address known threats to water quality while engaging the community in water stewardship.
© Nicole Forest
Miramichi, New Brunswick: Miramichi River Environmental Assessment Committee
Developed by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) protocol is now a nationally applied technique for assessing the biological condition of freshwater systems. The Miramichi River Environmental Assessment Committee (MREAC), in partnership with the Esgenoôpetitj Watershed Association and ECCC, will implement the CABIN protocol on four never-before sampled river systems within the Miramichi watershed. An eDNA sample will also be collected at each of the sampling sites and will feed into the broader DNA-based Reference Condition Approach (RCA) for Atlantic Canada.
© Souris and Area Branch of the PEI Wildlife Federation / Frances Braceland
Souris, Prince Edward Island: Souris and Area Branch of the PEI Wildlife Federation — Restoration and Monitoring in Northeastern PEI
Through this project, the Souris and Area Branch of the PEI Wildlife Federation will maintain and improve fish populations by completing fish surveys and habitat restoration in northeastern PEI. The Atlantic salmon and brook trout populations here are among the best on the island, with overall populations remaining steady and even growing in some areas. The monitoring will provide baseline data for fish numbers while the stream restoration activities will improve aquatic habitat, critical for the preservation of the species.
© Elodie Roger / Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society
Duncan, British Columbia: Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society — Somenos and Quamichan Lakes Clean Water Action Project
Somenos and Quamichan Lakes on southeastern Vancouver Island face serious threats from pollution and climate change. Water quality is poor because of phosphorus run-off from surrounding land and the increased pressure that comes from hotter, drier and longer summers. These factors have led to eutrophication and toxic blue-green algal blooms. The habitat is now unusable by fish for half of the year. The Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society and the Cowichan Land Trust are teaming up to work with waterfront property owners, First Nations groups and community volunteers to restore riparian buffer areas in key locations around the lakes to reduce pollution runoff and increase carbon sequestration. The local community will be engaged through volunteer planting events and a Lake Keepers workshop.
© Water Rangers / Cassidy Swanston
Canada-Wide: Water Rangers
Water Rangers is enabling water quality testing in 25 data-deficient sub-watersheds. This project will equip communities with citizen science test kits, provide them with online training and connect them to a growing network of communities participating in monitoring. Using equipment that allows testers to understand basic water health parameters such as temperature, clarity, pH, hardness, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen and conductivity, they'll collect baseline data and educate their communities on the value of long-term monitoring. When people learn about, then test water, they are more likely to act to protect waterways. The project connects the collected data to regional and national databases to help fill gaps.
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Utopia, Ontario: Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority
The capstone year of the 2020 Vision of Healthy Waters project includes a suite of three-year (2017 to 2020) projects targeting water quality improvement, habitat restoration and climate change resiliency. These projects are located within the Nottawasaga Watershed, which discharges into Georgian Bay. They address the complex issues facing streams, riparian habitats and wetlands. The projects help with watershed restoration targets such as stream connectivity, biodiversity, reducing thermal impacts exacerbated by climate change, meeting provincial water quality objectives and enhancing habitat for species. The projects also address habitat loss and riparian forest and wetland restoration.
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Youth in the Cree Nation of Wemindji want to take care of waterways in and around their community. The rivers, lakes and springs here have always been important to their ancestors and are now important to them. They have been learning cultural teachings about water and now wish to complement these with scientific water quality data. This project is a baseline study of 10 culturally important freshwater sites, including Old Factory Lake and River, the Maquatua River and two natural springs located just outside the town, which are often used for drinking water. Once baseline data are established and Cree youth leadership is developed, the monitoring will likely become an annual activity, so the area will no longer be data-deficient.
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The Coastal Cutthroat Urban Trout Revival project will evaluate and rehabilitate freshwater habitats and water flows that are necessary for improved cutthroat populations in the Colquitz River and Craigflower and Hospital Creeks in Victoria. These water bodies are impacted by pollution, flow regulation and development. The project will create and maintain healthy waterways and ecosystems in these neighbourhoods. The coastal cutthroat trout is a salmonid sub-species and improving and maintaining its habitat with community support will provide incentives for continuing this work locally and further afield. The project will also benefit other aquatic species in these streams, including coho salmon.
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If you haven't browsed the web today using Google (or maybe you're a Bing Wiz and that ain't my biz), check the homepage. Today's interactive Doodle celebrates Oskar Fischinger's 117th birthday. Who's that? Only a cool man who created musical animations way before MTV played music videos, and then didn't.
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Harvey Vale: The Sussex teenager making waves for Chelsea and England
Chelsea predicted line-up for Brighton: Thomas Tuchel to spring Mason Mount and Timo Werner surprise
Krul relishing FA Cup run
Brighton goalkeeper Tim Krul is enjoying his longest-ever run in the FA Cup.
Tuesday, 20th February 2018, 6:30 pm
Tim Krul in action against Coventry on Saturday. Picture by Phil Westlake (PW Sporting Photography)
The 29-year-old did not get past the fourth round in his 11 years with Newcastle and he now wants the Seagulls to take the confidence from their cup exploits into the league.
He said: "At Newcastle, we never really got through. The Premier League was always the priority, so it's a nice feeling to look forward to.
"It's nice to keep the season going on a positive and hopefully we'll take this momentum into Saturday's game."
Krul went off at half-time in the 3-1 win against Coventry after landing awkwardly and he said: "It happened quite early on in the first half and I stiffened up the longer the game went on.
"They had a shot just before half-time, which went just wide. I wasn't struggling but you need to be right, so we had Niki (Maenpaa) on the bench who was fully fit and at 2-0 up, you should be alright."
Krul is now one of three Dutch players at the club, along with Davy Propper and new signing Jurgen Locadia.
On Locadia's signing, Krul said: "He's a great lad, has major qualities and I'm pleased he scored. It's a bit of pressure on a striker coming to England and to do it straight away will give him a massive lift.
"Hopefully he's going to be the big signing which he is and get us to safety.
He's come here to do one job and that's to be top scorer. I like that. He's here with a mission and hopefully he's going to do it."
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Supercomputer predicts where Brighton, Leicester, Wolves and Crystal Palace will finish in the 2021/22 Premier League table
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During the holidays one has more time than usual. Time to research the current state of the nation in terms of high speed internet and digital HD TV. I find that current state mostly very difficult. From where I'm standing my requirements seem reasonable. I need access to the nation's common free-tv programming (preferably in HD and in some sort of recordable digital format), I want to be able to play divx / h.264 encoded videos (from all sorts of containers and without horrible lag or a horrible non-functional interface), and I hate cables and I would like to have one tiny energy saving box that does it all. There we have it and the industry has no good answer for my wishes. Follow my quest to find the perfect home-theater.


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Disciplinary Actions Toward School Bullying In Mooresville Senior High School
Cody Lawton
Closed on Sep 3 2012
#Students' Rights
Mooresville Senior High School Adminitration and Mooresville Graded School District
Thank you EVER SO MUCH to everyone that signed this petition. After emailing the Central Office of Mooresville Graded School District, I had an appointment the very next day for a meeting with one of their representatives. We spoke and he had a major appreciation for everyone involved, along with every signee of the petition. He said that the board would review editing the Code of Conduct to add some more stipulations related to videotaped acts of violence on students.
After school started back I got my hands on an updated Code of Conduct book and sadly there was no mention of anything involved with our petition. However, Thanks to every single one of you, MGSD families, and families around the world have shown that bullying will NOT be tolerated throughout schools. I'd like to thank you again, for all of your support.
You really did make a difference.
On the Twentieth of March of 2012, while riding a Mooresville Senior High School to N.F. Woods Arts and Technology Center shuttle bus, a young man sat down in a seat with a young woman. The young woman then became belligerent, and began raising her voice and pushing him. Another young woman began recording this. This video was later posted on a social networking site.
When brought to the attention of the administration of MHS, they reacted very quickly with an immediate suspension of five days out of school. While commending Mooresville Senior High School for it's prompt and proper reaction to this viral video, the students believe that the time of Out of School Suspension was not enough.
This petition is not aimed toward lengthening the amount of OSS time that the young woman from the bus was given, but to set a new minimum disciplinary standard in bullying cases with irrefutable evidence to prove the misconduct of a student.
The current policy for discipline against Bullying in the Mooresville Graded School District Code of Conduct states that disciplinary action can be the following:
"Ranging from in-school disciplinary action up to 10 days OSS. Repeated violations may result in a recommendation for longterm suspension. Law enforcement may be contacted."
In bullying cases such as the one that occurred on the Mooresville Senior High School to N.F. Woods Arts and Technology Center shuttle bus on the day of March 20, 2012, where there is video-graphical evidence of the misconduct of a student, a bare minimum of Ten days out of school suspension should be served. By signing, or e-signing this document, you agree that this is a fair punishment for the misconduct committed.
This petition is closed.
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We give holiday bonuses credit for a lot of things: they recognize hard work and productivity, celebrate results, lift employee satisfaction and show appreciation. Or do they?
There's no doubt a check in hand will boost anybody's morale — at least temporarily. If your year-end bonus is a gift, then give it in the spirit of the season.
As a reward, however, year-end payouts have limited success; people are happy enough to have the money, but studies have shown financial incentives are poor motivation. Worse, they can lead to negative effects.
This doesn't mean your staff doesn't deserve to be rewarded, or that you should let their contributions go unrecognized. Instead, it's a call to abandon lump sum compensation in favor of year-round incentives that are more effective — and more valued — for you and your team.
Six months from now is too late.
Today's workers expect feedback when something happens, not six months down the road.
Cash is one reward that's easy to appreciate. We recently added a spot bonus feature to ZenPayroll that makes it easy to reward someone for an achievement at any time. The business owner can decide to put in a gross, or a net amount, and we automatically calculate taxes on the spot. It's immediate, and linked directly to an employee's actions.
Money isn't the only thing people value, however.
A heartfelt thank you, recognition by peers, lunch with the boss and opportunities to learn can be significant ways to celebrate accomplishment — and if cash flow is a concern, there's nothing to stop you from being generous with meaningful gifts that don't cost a dime.
Year-round recognition has more impact.
By implementing year-round recognition and spot bonuses, you can tie rewards directly to results — quickly, clearly, and away from the stress of year-end.
1. Be transparent, with well-defined objectives. It's easy for rewards to be seen as (or to become) subjective, so create a program that's open to everyone, and make sure there's a clear process for earning merit and calculating benefits.
2. Link recognition to your strategic goals. The people on your team want to know that the work they do has meaning, that they're working toward a larger goal, and that they're not just spinning their wheels. As it is, most employees feel disconnected; in a survey by Root Inc., 40 percent said they didn't get or had never seen their organization's vision. Look for opportunities to show everyone how their role ties into the big picture.
3. Provide feedback and recognition in a timely way. Immediate feedback isn't just about getting a pat on the back; employees want to know what isn't working and, specifically, what they can do to fix it. While bonuses are meant to encourage particular actions or types of behavior, make sure your whole feedback loop is working well.
Year-end bonuses are popular in part because business owners know exactly how much cash they have on-hand — but I think it's time to shift focus. Small and meaningful rewards, distributed year-round when merited and bound directly to strategic goals, will do more to improve results over time than any holiday payout ever will.
Read the original article on ZenPayroll. Copyright 2019.


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It's the first working day of the new financial year, and you'll pay less income tax thanks to Conservatives. If you run a small business, you'll pay lower business rates.
Last night Parliament decided (by one vote) to make it impossible for the Prime Minister to seek a No Deal Brexit. As you would expect, I voted against every stage of this awful legislation.
Labour are guilty of the most appalling deception on freedom of movement. Despite promising they would end it, tonight they are whipping in favour of a Norway type deal, where free movement would continue. They are also whipping in favour of a second referendum.
Today, the National Living Wage goes up by 5% to £8.21/hour, meaning 1.8m people will be £690 better off in the year ahead.
This is the fifth highest minimum wage in the world, and is key to ensuring being in work always pays better than being on welfare.
Today, I voted to leave the EU. I had to bite the bullet and accept a deal I dislike. Because as some of the longest and strongest supporters of Brexit have said, while it is not a good deal, it is better than not leaving at all.
I want to provide you with an update on my votes this week.
Yesterday I voted against removing No Deal from the table. This is clearly a terrible idea and would deprive us of all negotiating leverage.
Being an MP is a matter of taking decisions and honouring your promises. Last night, as promised, I voted against the Withdrawal Agreement. As the Attorney General's own very honest advice made clear, the potential for our being trapped by the EU in the backstop had not been solved.
It was a huge honour to be named "Britain's Greenest MP" last night at The Climate Coalition's Green Heart Hero Awards. The Green Heart Hero Awards recognise the work of individuals, community groups and businesses to tackle climate change and promote a cleaner future.


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Eilífr kúlnasveinn is an Icelandic skald who lived in the 12th or 13th century.

Nothing is known of his life, but he may have been a clergyman.

Five fragments of his work have come down to us. One stanza is preserved in the Fourth Grammatical Treatise. Three half-stanzas and a couplet are quoted in Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál (52) and are generally considered to belong to a poem addressed to Christ (Kristsdrápa), for they appear among the kennings for Christ.

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 Eilífr's poetry in the original language.

Icelandic poets
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New Gear: Sony a58 and NEX-3N Digital Cameras Announced
Here's the low-down on a few new Sony cameras
This post-CES time is always a popular time for camera companies to roll out updated versions of existing camera lines and Sony has done just that. The new a58 and NEX-3N haven't yet been announced here in the States, but they act as follow-ups to the a57 and the NEX-F3 respectively.
Predictably, the a58 shares quite a few similarities with the a57 that came before it. The biggest difference is the new 20.1-megapixel Exmor APS-C HD CMOS sensor. It's paired with their Bionz processor and once again has their Steady Shot sensor-shift image stabilization technology.
Sony promises that the 15-point AF system is now faster and uses lock-on Autofocus. Preview is handled by an improved OLED Tru-Finder display.
The NEX-3N has gotten a noticeable redesign, bringing it more in line with the RX series compact cameras. Inside is a 16.1 megapixel high-sensitivity sensor. The back of the camera has a 3-inch LCD screen that flips 180-degrees upwards for self-portraits, much like the NEX-F3.
Sony is claiming that the NEX-3N is the world's smallest, lightest interchangeable lens camera with an APS-C sensor, even with its built-in flash. As an interesting addition, it actually has a rocker switch for the zoom that can be used with the 16-50mm motorized kit lens. It's a feature that makes sense in a camera at this level because many may be coming up from a compact where that kind of zooming is the norm.
UPDATE: Sony has now officially announced pricing for both cameras in the US market. The NEX-3N will cost $500 and come bundled with the 16-50mm motorized zoom lens. The a58 will cost $600 and come packaged with the 18-55mm kit lens. Both cameras are priced pretty aggressively, especially the 3N, which is basically now competing with some high-end compact cameras.


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International adoptions have dropped 60% since 2004. UN policies, government regulations and high costs are to blame. Millions of orphans suffer through life without a healthy family context. All these facts that Both Ends Burning, STUCK, and now Foster Friess are sharing are true. But you won't find my name on the STUCK petition at change.org or my footprints in DC during the May 17 "step forward for orphans march." I've learned too much to believe international adoption is a scalable solution for a world full of orphans.
Now don't misunderstand me. International adoptions are not a bad thing. But they are not the best thing we can do. For every $30,000 spent on an international adoption, 200 more orphans are left in need. If policies change to double or triple international adoption rates, it hardly makes a noticeable difference compared to the size of the problem. The millions of orphans should move you to action, but smarter actions can be taken.
You can use $30,000 to care for multiple orphans in their own culture. You can support a small home of 10 orphans who have a house mother and receive everything they need to succeed in Zambia through Family Legacy. You can provide the same type of loving environment, food, clothing, education, mentors and assistance into adulthood for orphans served by LifeSong for Orphans. Instead of taking out a loan to pay Bethany Christian Services to work for 3 years to pay U.S. and Chinese middle men for one child from China, you can support dozens of children for less money through Bethany's in-country community-based care model. Or support Care for Children to continue building on a track record of facilitating 250,000 Chinese adoptions of Chinese orphans! Why not help more orphans sooner in a more culturally appropriate manner?
Now a concerned family might want to adopt regardless. No problem. Take a few classes and get certified to be a foster family. That's what my wife and I have done. Then foster-to-adopt. It will cost you nothing to adopt the child or children whose parental rights have been severed by the court. You can give all the money you save to fund orphan care internationally.
If you really care about creating a solution for the scope of the orphan problem, here it is. But please stop promoting movies and marches in DC that distract people and resources from a scalable solution.
Great read! All very valid points on why $30,000 is much better spent by helping a larger number of orphans in their native country as oppose to plucking one out from the group.
I was born in a third world country and at a very young age my family immigrated to another country where I was able to get an education , healthcare etc. Even today, my parents say that they have little to no desire to return to the country that they left behind because it's riddled with corruption. Someone like my parents if they were younger and had the means would not give $30,000 to a country hoping that the money would be spent to help the orphans there - because quite simply some government are just that corrupt that they will not see any shame in taking from charities or money meant for the needy in their own country.
Nevertheless, thats no excuse for his behaviour but it seems to be what pulls me back, its the guilt I feel at "abandoning" him.
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I understand that our main focus should be on strengthening the infrastructure of the developing countries with an orphan crisis. I also understand that there are countless children waiting for families in the US foster system.
However, I still disagree with those who say "get a child from foster care instead of overseas." The two should not be compared in my opinion. I don't think everyone who wants to adopt internationally is doing so to "save an orphan." Some people just want to be parents and either can't have children of their own or wish to adopt rather than procreating.
Keeping a child in their own culture is ideal, but it is not realistic in every situation. Some kids might have medical needs or deformities that deprive them of a future in their own country. I see absolutely nothing wrong with international adoption as long as it is done properly. I believe anyone who is welcoming a child into their home should be supported rather than criticized.
Pam - Your comments moved me. Thanks for sharing your story. It is so difficult in life to move from good intentions to wise action. I wrote this short blog to share a tough reality with preferably those who are considering how to help orphans. I believe your comments contribute uniquely to that audience. I know from my personal experience as a foster parent that it is messy and complex to help kids in crisis. I've wrestled for years with how to advise philanthropic clients about the best investment they can make to help children in crisis around the world. My comments were intended to be simple and clear, but I can see how some interpret them as pompous or unthoughtful. I appreciated your heartfelt 46 years of experience.
You write, "For every $30,000 spent on an international adoption, 200 more orphans are left in need...You can use $30,000 to care for multiple orphans in their own culture."
My question is this: Who is giving the extra $30,000 to care for these multiple orphans? You imply that adoptive parents will donate the money that they would otherwise use for adoption. Such a suggestion is naive and unrealistic.
The primary motivation of most adoptive parents is to build a family, not to "save a child." Saving a child might be an ancillary motivation. Adoptive families may choose international adoption because it does both. Make no mistake, however, their primary goal is to add to their family. If it weren't, they would choose one of the many other ways to help children.
If hopeful adoptive parents try to adopt internationally and fail, it is far more likely they will use that money for its original purpose - for their family - than for some purpose never before contemplated. They may use the money to adopt domestically. If they adopt from foster care, they may use that money for adoption and child related expenses, such as baby items, day care, etc.
How do I know? I am one of those adoptive parents. We saved $70,000 for our international adoption. It was a long process to save that much. Our selected country closed before we received a referral.
We did not donate the $70,000 to the country. Instead, we turned to the foster care system. We intended to put the $70,000 in a college fund for the child we adopted. Call us heartless, if you want. We felt we needed to stash away enough money to educate our own children before contributing a substantial portion of our savings to philanthropy.
We quickly learned that the goal of foster care system is reunification. The social workers did not look kindly on parents who wanted to be adopt more than foster temporarily. We used that $70,000 to adopt domestically.
We did not think about donating that money. We have a line in our budget for charity and we had a line for adoption savings. We thought of these as discrete "pots," if you will. We didn't lump them together.
Your theory is unrealistic. How do you propose to convince adoptive parents - who are already giving to various charities - to abandon their dreams of a family in favor of giving away huge chunks of money they scrimped to save? I don't think it will happen.
While yes, "adoption and philanthropy are two very different things' the problem is that huge numbers of churches, fundraising, and even well meaning adoptive parents look at international adoption to "save" orphans. And yes, then it is implied that the adoptee should be grateful.
I am the adoptive mother of a son born in Vietnam in 1973. He came to us at age 9 months, after suffering four separations from caregivers. The impact of this on his life is incalculable. I wanted to save a child and provide a loving family for a child who had nothing, but I can't support int'l adoption any longer. I'm glad to have my son, but he lost his family, his culture, and his identity. No amount of love can make up for that. I agree that philanthropy and adoption are two different things. I believe I confused them in my own mind forty years ago. I'm also a birth mother to a son I relinquished for adoption in 1968, and I can state unequivocally that babies should not be separated from their mothers, not unless the mother is a raving, coke-addicted lunatic. Children who are adopted have no say in what happens to them. We should do all we can to help children in their country of origin and help unwed mothers in our own country be the parents they are meant by nature to be. I am not a believer, but I cannot think a loving God would "call" a mother to give her baby away. That's not a beautiful gesture; it is a tragedy.
You might want to compare adoption costs with how much the "We are the World" song has made since its release in 1985. In 2009 USA Today estimated the song has made $20 million. Clearly there are better ways to help children.
Don't worry about the haters in the comments. You are absolutely right. I find it appalling that we are exporting American children to other countries, and people won't adopt American foster children because "they are too much trouble" but they don't think twice about plunking down $30k to import a child from elsewhere who will have even more problems than the American foster child.
We've got kids aging out of foster care and these people say they're getting "God's calling." I find it amazing that NO ONE in these children's home countries is getting a similar calling to take care of these kids. Plus, because their governments know they can "just" foist their problems off onto us, they don't bother solving them. If they couldn't use American adopters as a relief valve, they'd have to start treating their people better. The people themselves would eventually get fed up and make sure of it.
This is the most ridiculous, unthoughtful post I've ever read on adoption. As if believing adoptive parents don't realize they're making a huge investment that could be used in other ways, yet obey God's call and receive a son or daughter. The pompous tone of this post is unbearable.
I'm also amazed you've placed yourself as the ultimate example as one whose name isn't on petitions, and one who's made the "right" choice to foster-to-adopt.
"If you really care about creating a solution...here it is". Wow, so you've figured it all out. Do you even read these before you post them?
I've never heard someone who'd adopted or been involved in foster care so arrogant or dismissive. This same concept could've been (and has been numerous times) approached with more honesty, humility, and understanding. But perhaps that's not as simple or self applauding.
Plus adoption and philanthropy are two very different things.
Adoption from a prospective adoptive parent's viewpoint is about parenting. The potentially adopted child should actually be in need of new parents for adoption to be ethical. This is where adoption starts to look like a charity project--which it is not. Adopted children are their parents' children and full members of the family. They are not "charity projects."
Being a parent is about doing what is best for a child. The best interest of children through well-established children's rights frameworks is to have their original families and cultures preserved *if and whenever* possible. All those called to be parents must acknowledge the best interest of a given child, whatever it may be. These frameworks are a guide that cannot be ignored in the quest to become a parent.
Philanthropy is about maximizing one's ability to help as many people as possible. Adoption does not fit this definition. If someone wants to be a philanthropist, absolutely, it is only logical that they do so in a way that makes the broadest impact possible. What it costs to adopt one child can buy tens of thousands of vaccines for other children, could establish a children's village, or could give dozens of families microloans to start sustainable businesses.
Adoption is not philanthropy. There needs to be a clear distinction between these concepts.
Besides, not all orphans are actually orphans. A significant number of these kids in orphanages have one or two living parents, but the orphanage is being used as a round-the-clock daycare center. And nearly all these kids have other extended family that they have a right to grow up knowing. I don't really care what anyone feels "led in their heart" to do. I felt "led in my heart" to marry my then-husband--but it was a huge mistake.
There is no "the" solution for anything, including the care of millions of orphans in the world. It will be somewhat alleviated and never resolved by the individual responses of millions of people doing what each feels directed in their hearts to do.


Treatment decisions must take into account the biology of the disease.
"Patients with node-negative tumors < 1 cm have been traditionally excluded from adjuvant chemotherapy trials due to their favorable prognosis. In this exploratory analysis, it was shown that these smaller tumors are mainly hormone receptor–positive, and based on the 70-gene (MammaPrint) signature, 24% were considered to be genomically high-risk. Patients with genomic high/clinical low risks on MammaPrint and a modified version of Adjuvant! Online seem to derive a benefit in terms of distant metastasis–free survival and disease-free survival from adjuvant chemotherapy admininstration. These results indicate that treatment decisions must take into account the biology of the disease and not just tumor burden," stated lead author Konstantinos Tryfonidis, MD, of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), Brussels.
The subset analysis of MINDACT presented by Dr. Tryfonidis evaluated chemotherapy in 826 patients with small breast tumors (under < 1 cm) stratified by clinical risk according to the Adjuvant! Online prediction tool (modified version) and genomic recurrence risk according to MammaPrint (ie, clinical low risk or clinical high risk, genomic low risk or genomic high risk).
About three-quarters (75.5%) were found to be both of clinical and genomic low risks (concordant), whereas 24% were clinical low risk/genomic high risk (discordant). Discordant patients were randomized to receive chemotherapy or no chemotherapy. Few patients who received chemotherapy had recurrences, and they had high rates of overall, distant metastasis–free, and disease-free survival.
In early breast cancer, about one in four small tumors (< 1 cm) were found to be genomically high-risk according to MammaPrint.
Patients with these small tumors might derive benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy.
Disease biology should be balanced with clinical risk factors to make treatment decisions.
Looking at results of concordant patients (clinical low/genomic low) vs discordant patients with small vs larger tumors (ie, < 1 cm vs ≥ 1 cm), distant metastasis-free survival at 5 years was 98.1% vs 94.5%, respectively; 5-year disease-free survival was 92.3% vs 88.6%; and 5-year overall survival was 98.6% vs 97.2%. All the confidence intervals overlapped (number of observed events was small), Dr. Tryfonidis said.
DISCLOSURE: Drs. Tryfonidis and Cardoso reported no conflicts of interest.
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