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Kansas' momentum heading into conference play and a scary road game next week at Colorado. After an off week to evaluate themselves, the Jayhawks need to get off to a good start with a convincing victory over the Cyclones, who are limping into Memorial Stadium after a crushing 24-23 loss to Kansas State.
The Jayhawks learn from last year's first half against the Cyclones and get up a couple of scores early. KU went to the half down 20-0 at Iowa State in 2008 and had to fight its way back for a 35-33 victory.
1. Iowa State's last win over KU came in 2004, a 13-7 win in Ames.
2. Iowa State first-year coach Paul Rhoads is an Ankeny, Iowa, native. Rhoads was Auburn's defensive coordinator last season.
3. Iowa State kicker Grant Mahoney is one of four kickers nationally with multiple field goals of more than 50 yards.
Iowa State offensive line vs. Kansas defensive line. The Jayhawks are an improved group up front from last season with 10 sacks from the front four in four games. But they'll face their greatest test yet against the Cyclones, who have allowed one sack this season.
The Jayhawks will cruise to victory behind a big game from wide receiver Dezmon Briscoe.


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The Year 2020 in Food
Six lingering questions we're left with after the year that ravaged D.C. restaurants
by Laura Hayes December 28th, 2020 March 8th, 2021
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The year that devastated the hospitality industry is coming to an end, but 2020 will have lasting effects. Many restaurants and bars will never reopen, with fond memories and scorched livelihoods left behind. Now-empty storefronts will soon be ready for the next generation of restaurant operators. What adjustments will these brave new souls make based on lessons learned from both the pandemic and the racial reckoning that rocked the industry this year?
The pandemic exposed the restaurant industry's value and its fragility. Everything from labor models to payment methods to sourcing could dramatically shift in the aftermath. The ghost kitchens, heightened reliance on takeout, and retail components of restaurants that patrons have come to enjoy could stick around. After reporting on the crisis for the past 10 months, City Paper ends the year with six lingering questions.
Who is responsible for ensuring restaurants and their employees survive?
Every few months in 2020, a different celebrity chef or lobbying group projected what percentage of independent restaurants wouldn't make it to the other side of the pandemic. It's too soon to tell who won this shit guessing game, but in D.C., COVID-19 has been an extinction event. Even some institutions couldn't make the numbers work—Johnny's Half Shell, Capitol Lounge, Eighteenth Street Lounge, and Fado Irish Pub all closed, as did many other restaurants and venues.
When a city loses small restaurants and bars, it loses more than food and drink. It loses employers who hire some of the city's most vulnerable residents, like immigrants and formerly incarcerated people. It loses neighborhood gathering spaces where conversations take place and achievements are celebrated. It loses charitable partners, too. Restaurants regularly host fundraisers and support a wide range of causes. It loses venues for performers and artists.
But most importantly, it loses jobs. Restaurant and bar workers make up a significant portion of the more than 160,000 unemployment claims the city has received since the public health emergency began in March. This figure doesn't include undocumented immigrants, who, despite paying taxes, aren't eligible for formal benefits. These indispensable workers largely had to turn to community groups for support instead. Others sold pupusas to make ends meet.
City Paper chronicled how laid off workers struggled to obtain their unemployment benefits every step of the way. They sent unanswered emails to the Department of Employment Services and waited on the phone for countless hours. Some stared down the prospect of becoming homeless. Others say they wouldn't have anything to eat if they weren't coupled with an income-earning partner.
As Mayor Muriel Bowser and her administration guided the District through its phased reopening process, loosening restrictions, then tightening them again to slow the spread of the virus, the unemployment process became even more complicated. Restaurants brought back employees only to lay them off again.
At times, only frazzled, emotionally drained owners were staffing some of D.C.'s most popular restaurants. They were simultaneously applying for grants, fighting their insurance companies in court, negotiating with desperate landlords, building streateries, learning how to do takeout, questioning cookie fines, and deescalating conflicts with customers who didn't want to abide by mask mandates.
When the pandemic is finally in the rear-view mirror, we'll be able to assess what could have been done differently to better protect these businesses. Who should have rescued restaurants? Despite being shorted $750 million in the CARES Act because of our lack of statehood, the cash-strapped District has directed aid to restaurants through a microgrant program, winterization grants, and the $35 million Bridge Fund. For some businesses, that wasn't enough.
The federal government needed to intervene and offer far more than the Paycheck Protection Program, which wasn't a perfect fit for hospitality businesses. A second round of PPP approved in the relief bill that Congress passed at the end of December is only marginally better.
The biggest what if—the one we'll still ponder years from now—is whether the carnage could have been prevented if Congress had paid restaurants to stay closed and paid workers to stay safe at home. Since this didn't happen, the burden of sustaining the neighborhood bars and restaurants that make D.C. so special fell on customers. "Ride-or-diners" went above and beyond to ensure the survival of their favorite spots. Cash-strapped themselves, they shouldn't have had to shoulder that burden.
Will the District further regulate gargantuan third-party delivery companies?
Third-party delivery services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub are not the altruistic team players the promotions that flood your inbox make them out to be. These tech giants are amassing even more power as they merge. DoorDash and Caviar became one this year, as did Postmates and Uber Eats. Whether it's the high commission fees that strip restaurants of revenue, poor customer service, a $200 million fight against reclassifying drivers as employees, or adding restaurants to their platforms without permission, there's plenty room for improvement.
D.C. took the first step to regulate these companies by imposing a commission fee cap of 15 percent that took effect in May and lasts the duration of the public health emergency. Most apps charge closer to 30 percent, an amount that's untenable when restaurants are barely scraping by. The delivery companies fought the fee cap every step of the way, sometimes in tactless ways.
In a May letter to the D.C. Council, Postmates pointed to the city's painful inequities in an attempt to keep their pockets lined. The fee cap, they argued, "does nothing to help the hundreds of restaurants that do not partner with us, many of which are independent, minority-owned restaurants in wards hardest hit by COVID-19."
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Postmates was the last to comply. And, many months into the public health emergency DoorDash attempted to raise its commission fees on restaurants that participate in its DashPass program. The Office of the Attorney General cited City Paper's reporting in the cease and desist letter they sent to DoorDash on the same day the $38 billion company went public. The company reversed course.
There are rumblings that a couple members of the D.C. Council may look to regulate these companies further in 2021, especially as restaurants and diners are more reliant on them than ever before. In the meantime, local alternatives are cropping up including DC To-GoGo and Skip The Line.
What should the labor model be after the pandemic?
Some consider the pandemic an opportunity for restaurants to hit the reset button and reform workplaces. The industry is not known for its high wages, especially in the kitchen, and benefits common in other employment sectors, such as health insurance, remain scarce. Operators blame low profit margins and fear increasing prices will scare patrons away. Customers foot the bill for the lion's share of front-of-house wages through tipping, but there are fresh calls to examine whether tipping or at least taking a tip credit are still the best way forward.
Restaurateur Erik Bruner-Yang told City Paper it might be time to revisit the no-tip model, but he hedged that might not work for all businesses. José Andrés also seems to be mulling it over, albeit in New York. A handful of D.C. restaurants experimented with adding service charges to bills either in lieu of or in addition to tipping in 2020. These fees are no longer considered gratuity and become property of the business owner, who decides how to allocate the money. They can share it with cooks, or put it toward staff benefits. Expect restaurants to experiment with various labor models in 2021 once they fully reopen.
Will restaurants "do the work?"
The protests calling for racial justice following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black Americans pressured every industry, institution, government entity, and news outlet to examine whether they were doing enough to be anti-racist. Food media was forced to grapple with the repercussions of its overwhelming whiteness, particularly in leadership positions. Restaurants, too, were called out for workplace cultures that don't always value diversity and multiculturalism. Workers used social media platforms or the press to speak out and demand meaningful change instead of mere lip service from their employers.
What will become of the restaurants who made public commitments to do better? Will bars and restaurants promote Black workers and amplify their voices, invest in Black culture instead of co-opting it for commercial gain, examine areas rife with potential for implicit bias, and find ways to reimagine a system that wasn't built with Black advancement in mind? City Paper will check in with restaurateurs that made pledges on Juneteenth in 2021.
Can we pause to remember who stepped up?
Despite the hospitality industry being repeatedly knocked down for much of 2020, restaurants and their workers still managed to open their hearts and kitchens to keep the region's hungry residents fed. Hook Hall morphed into a restaurant worker relief center. A dynamic team of World Central Kitchen chefs and volunteers cranked out hundreds of thousands of nutritious meals at Nationals Park. Medium Rare's Mark Bucher delivered free meals to isolated neighbors in need and launched a community fridge program. Bruner-Yang, through his Power of 10 initiative, paid restaurants to make meals for the community, and small mom-and-pop shops like MLK Deli and Thamee helped out however they could. The year wasn't short on heroes in the food space.
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Here are five study spots in London for when the library just isn't cutting it
No more chaotic Costas and Prets for you
Molly Wilson
Are you bored of your uni library? Feel cramped in your student accomodation and need a place to bash out an essay? We've all tried to be productive in a Starbucks or Costa but been overloaded and distracted by crowded spaces. There are some real benefits to switching up where you study. It can make you feel more motivated and creative, and as we know after two years of not being able to, leaving the house is great for your mental health. It can even help with retention, so you're more likely to remember what you studied if you were in a different place.
Next time you're traipsing around your uni library, unable to find a spot for you and your mates, take a field trip to one of these study spots and get swotting.
Shaman, Bermondsey
Shaman is a workspace designed for people who work or study from home and need a change of scenery. There's free Wi-Fi and a stylish, modern vibe full of people obsessed with Notion.
Their menu has a lot to offer, from your standard espresso to protein shakes, and a "Shamaniac", which has coffee and CBD oil. They also have breakfasts, pastries and sandwiches, ranging from £3 to £7. Luckily, you don't need to buy anything in order to use the space, so you could get away with bringing a flask.
If you live in South London this might be a good place for you if you enjoy the artisanal, hipster vibe. Just make sure to get there early, as it's open 7:30am-3:30pm and the seats can fill up quickly.
Foyles, Leicester Square
This cafe has lots of drink and lunch options, even serving beer and wine, if that's what you're into. Admittedly, it's a little expensive, because my iced latte cost £3.95 (in this cost of living crisis!). It did come in a cute mason jar though, so I'll give it a pass.
It's open 9am-9pm so it's great for all you midday risers. It can get busy, but it's not difficult to squeeze on to the end of a bench, and there are tables by the window further away from the lunch crush. There were lots of people also working, so it definitely has a slower pace than your average coffee shop.
Neighbourhood Organic, Kentish Town
This cafe is one of the most aesthetic places to work, open 8am-6pm, it's great for a study sesh when you want to be surrounded by other people working. If you visit without work to do, there are designated laptop free tables where you can go. The cafe has a selection of sandwiches, paninis, baked goods and desserts. They also do a delicious fry up. It is on the pricier side, but if you have a couple extra quid to spare, just try it for the vibes.
Coffee Matters, Bethnal Green
Coffee Matters has the perfect vibes for an autumnal, dark academia study session. Relaxing music, good coffee and two floors allowing plenty of space to sit. Upstairs has a more light, airy feel with lots of plants, and downstairs has a fake fireplace, sofas and a more cosy atmosphere.
Open 7am-7pm, you'll be able to work well into the evening with free Wi-Fi and lots of food and drink options, ranging from your standard coffee and paninis to superfood smoothies and vegan options. A latte and sandwich came to £9.50 as it costs a little more to eat in.
You are not hard-pressed to find coffee houses in East London, but Coffee Matters is perfectly set up to work with loads of plug sockets and peaceful vibes to focus. Bonus points for the Halloween decorations.
Wellcome Cafe, Euston
The Wellcome Cafe is just inside The Wellcome Collection, a museum and library. It's a big, open space that wasn't too busy, with people working and reading or just stopping for coffee. It's open 10am-6pm, and even at lunchtime it wasn't hard to find a spot. There's free Wi-Fi, of course, but I struggled to find many plug sockets, so make sure everything's charged before you go.
Food includes salads, toasties, pastries and cakes, and you'll have all the typical drink options. My toastie was an eye-watering £7.45, but the coffee was a more reasonable £3.30.
The Wellcome Cafe is a relaxed, modern space that's not far from Euston Station. If you're burned out from studying, visit the museum and library for free, and get some inspiration.
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What are you afraid of? Michelle Poler realized that her biggest fear was fear itself. Her online project to face 100 fears in 100 days led her to a new career as a public speaker, while inspiring countless people to find their own stories of courage.
I do. I was the happiest person alive when I finally arrived. My big dream was always to move to New York, but it took me a little while to get here. My husband and I had been living in Miami, and he promised we could move to New York from there.
What were you doing in Miami?
My husband graduated university two years before I did in Venezuela, which is where we are both from. He got a job in Miami and moved there first, so when I graduated I moved there, as well. I was hesitant because New York was really my goal. We were really comfortable in Miami, and so I was convinced that we would never actually make the move to New York. It's hard to leave something so comfortable, you know? Things were too easy in Miami. I was 24 or 25 at the time and we had a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in a really nice building in a beautiful area called Brickell. I had a decent job and was making enough money, but I didn't feel my age. I felt like I should have been struggling a bit more.
What field were you working in?
I was working in advertising, at a really amazing agency as an art director. But I kept having this feeling that things weren't right for me. I realized we needed a reason to move to New York, to actually make the jump. A friend told me about a masters program in branding at the School of Visual Arts in New York. It sounded perfect, because I wanted to explore more of my creative side but also I needed to learn strategy, which was what I was lacking.
It's a really difficult program to get into. Around 1,000 people apply each year, but only 30 people get in. We decided that if I got in, then we would move. I wanted it so much and I worked really hard on my application. Waiting for the acceptance letter was agonizing. One night we were supposed to go to a friend's dinner party, but I couldn't get ready because I was so upset about not hearing anything from the school. I was screaming at my husband saying, "I need to know, I need to know!" And then I got an email right then that said, "Congratulations." I couldn't believe it.
You conjured it! So how long was it before you moved to New York?
I found out I got accepted in April and at the end of June we moved.
Was New York what you thought it would be?
Now that I'm living here, whenever something makes me frustrated or disappointed or sad, I go back to that thought and it automatically makes me feel better.
I always feel like that driving back from the airport, the first time I see the skyline.
That first summer was the best summer of our lives! We enjoyed it so much, because we knew that in three months I was going to be working nonstop for the next year. My company from Miami transferred my job, so I was going to work full time in advertising and also do my masters degree. The program was every night between 6-9pm. It was crazy.
My husband works in finance, and he was amazingly supportive during that time. I wouldn't get home each day until about 10pm, and he would have dinner ready for me so I could do my homework. Even the weekends were spent doing homework for the following week.
It was a real lesson in time management. People are always saying, "I'm so busy, I don't have time." But it's really not about time, it's about will. When you want something, and you have to get things done, then you do. It doesn't really matter about time; you sleep a little less, or maybe wake up a bit earlier.
How did the 100 Days Without Fear project begin?
I wouldn't be able to help myself!
Of course, everybody was thinking about it. I even had a list of ideas: 100 novels, 100 ways to advertise a single product, 100 restaurants. But I couldn't think of one that worked.
One of our earlier assignments was to write an essay about what we would want life to look like if it was perfect and everything went according to plan. I wrote about being an entrepreneur in 10 years. I wanted to be invited to speak at conferences, and visit amazing companies. I wanted to work with my husband.
Then we were asked to write about one obstacle that could get in the way of that perfect plan, something that you know will prevent you from getting there. I started writing down all these fears and realized that my obstacle is not one thing, it's many things. But they were all fears.
Whenever there has been a fear in my life, I avoid it. I just turn away from whatever it is and find a detour. It was a wake-up call. I realized that I'd never achieve all the things I wrote about if I don't learn to get over my fears. It was this that led me to my 100-day project! I realized why they wanted us to wait until we had completed these other assignments first.
It was only after doing those that you could get to your 100-day plan.
Totally—it was so clear. The project started 100 days before graduation, which was fortuitous timing. This amazing author Elle Luna, who wrote The Crossroads of Should and Must, started her own 100 Day Project in partnership with the magazine The Great Discontent. It started the same day as ours did, so the concept of a 100-day project was already going viral.
It took me a while to figure out the structure of my project. Going into it, the only thing I knew was why I was doing it: to become a braver person. Someone suggested that I do a video a day of myself facing a fear. I was already creating a lot of video work for fun. Whenever I would go to an event or on a trip, I would record it and create a little video. It seemed like a great idea, so I updated my GoPro and got started!
Another friend suggested that I put those videos on YouTube. I was just planning on putting them up on my website to keep everything nicely branded, but she was right. YouTube was how people would follow along with the project. The videos would have been hard to find tucked away on my website.
When did you start to pick up media interest?
On day 40. Before then, my followers were just friends and family, and my Facebook friends. Then out of the blue I woke up, and I had an email from the Daily Mail that said, "Michelle, we want to share your project. Can you allow us to post your pictures and videos on our website?" Of course, I said yes! Then immediately it went everywhere—DesignTAXI, Bored Panda, and sites like that posted it. Ashton Kutcher and Sofia Vergara posted about it!
It was so weird. It was what I could only have dreamed about. Glamour magazine, Elle magazine, CNN and Fox were all talking about it. There were always so many people commenting on those sites.
I couldn't help myself. A lot of people were so positive, saying how inspired they were.
People also started sending me thousands of emails a day. It was crazy. I wanted to read and reply to them all, but I started having to quickly scan for the "big" ones, like emails from people or companies that wanted to share the project or wanted to be involved.
Of course, there were also negative emails and comments. People would say, "This is fake" or "These fears are so stupid." Yes, some of them were small fears, but they were big fears to me. Everyone has small fears that might seem silly to other people.
It was overcoming those smaller fears, like holding a cat, that make me realize that I could have been confronting my fears the whole time. I realized that I was hiding myself from the world. It wasn't worth living like that anymore.
How were you balancing this with your masters and with working?
It was crazy. When the project first went viral I still had my full-time job, plus school every night, as well as homework so I could graduate. I was also facing one fear a day, recording and editing the video and publishing it. It was getting overwhelming.
One day, I was like, "You know what, I need to quit my job, because something has to go." I was planning to resign after I graduated, so it was just moving this up the timeline a bit. It wasn't healthy how I was living; I couldn't put my best into everything anymore.
It was scary to leave my job, but so exciting at the same time. I was nearing the end of the project. One of my fears is public speaking, so I reached out to TEDx to see if I could do my 100th fear there. They said yes, and were excited for me to live out my final fear on their stage.
The TEDx Talk was only a couple of weeks after graduation, but it was too good an opportunity to pass up. I had about six weeks to get ready for it. It was an amazing finale, because creating the talk and the graphics forced me to not only face my fear but to really understand my project, why I was doing it, and what was at the bottom of my fear. I also wanted to figure out what I could teach other people.
Public speaking is one of my personal fears. I can't imagine how nervous you were.
You can see in the video of the talk how nervous I was!
I could tell. But to me that felt genuine, because you were also prepared and gave an amazing speech.
Before I went on I thought, "What's the worst that could happen?" I was supposed to be nervous, because I was facing a fear. The audience was so supportive; I really felt like they were on my side, and that they wanted me to succeed.
What happened after the TEDx Talk?
It was really scary. But I thought, if it doesn't pan out then I can move forward looking for a job. All my friends who graduated with me were finding cool jobs, so it was hard to see that happening when I wasn't certain about what I was doing. I felt like I didn't belong and I had no idea where to start. I reached out to [lecture series] Creative Mornings. I was such a fan of their program, and they said that I could come and speak. From those two talks, I was able to create a demo reel.
A friend of mine who works at Google reached out and asked if I could make my presentation longer, to speak at his work. After that, I had enough credibility that I was able to reach out to more established places. That's how I became a speaker!
I finished school in July 2015, and the TEDx was in October. My speech at Google was in March 2016. After Google, I started looking for representation as a professional speaker, so I could charge for my talks. That's what has allowed me to keep doing this. Last August, my husband was able to quit his job and become my manager full-time.
I'm starting another project now called Dear Younger Self, and I want to talk to younger girls. Last year, I was given the opportunity to speak to an all-girls high school.
Kids are scary! I wasn't even sure they would respond to what I was saying. Before the speech, I was sweating and shaking and so nervous. The principal said, ''Oh, you don't have anything to worry about. This will be your best audience.'' I was like, ''No way, I don't believe that." But they were clapping and cheering! It was amazing. It made me realize that these are the people I really want to be speaking to. After that experience, the teachers from the school kept emailing me saying, ''Michelle, the girls keep talking about you. They're facing their fears.'' The girls also reached out to me on social media, thanking me for coming.
It made me want to empower more girls. I was that young girl who was very fearful. I want to give them the confidence that things will be alright if they decide to face their fears. That is my focus for 2017.
I'm still speaking at companies, but 60 percent of my time will be spent on this. We're going to go to all-girls high schools and organizations and camps and everywhere there are girls.
There is also a YouTube series that goes along with the Dear Younger Self project. It's me speaking to my younger self. I'm covering a list of topics that could be relevant to girls: boys, parents, school, expectations, body image. I write letters to my younger self on all these different topics. Every week, I just talk to the camera hoping that young girls will find it helpful. I'm also challenging the audience at the end of each episode with a different thing that they can do to get out of their comfort zones. Every episode I post a challenge they have to overcome, and I give away prizes when people let me know how they did.
That's an important part of it. Especially with social media now, it's so easy to just share something or use a hashtag and feel like you've done something, when really you haven't.
Totally! It's exciting to be doing this new project. I'm also hoping to have guests, since we all go through such different experiences and I obviously can't speak to all of them.
It's crazy to think that the things you wrote in your "life plan" essay are already happening: You are working with your husband, speaking at companies, and making a difference.
It's the craziest thing, and it's even better than I could have hoped. I always used to dream about the future and what could happen, but I'm really happy with what I'm doing right now. When people ask me what's next, I don't even know and can't imagine!
The other project you do is HelloFears.com. Can you talk a bit about that?
Sure! It's a website I started as a way to share other people's stories of courage. I thought that if my story could inspire people, then imagine how many people could be inspired by other people sharing their stories. Obviously we all have different fears, so I wanted to create a space for other people to face their fears, both physical and emotional. People submit these stories to me and I'm so excited every time I receive one.
You have to focus on the reward, rather than focusing so much on the risk. I feel that when we want to achieve something and we have to take action, we immediately think about all the possible risks. If you focus on the reward, you are more likely to take that first step. I'm very a big believer in thinking of all the best-case scenarios, and focusing on them.
If I wasn't in New York, I couldn't have done any of the things I have. In New York, people are facing their fears everyday. If you want to get anywhere, you have to do the same thing. People in New York are tough, and they want to surround themselves with other tough people that they can count on. I wanted to become that person. New York is what made me face my fears. When I did that, I started to experience New York in a different way—I started to appreciate it fully.


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Belgium cooperative:
"Depending on their gas contracts, lettuce growers might leave their greenhouse empty for a while"
Now that it is winter, Dutch growers are cultivating lettuce, warm and dry, in greenhouses. At least, if they dare even to do so. The recent high prices for gas and electricity may cause some of them to skip this winter. We approached several European cooperatives with that question. We also asked when things would begin getting exciting.
It soon became apparent, in early November, that it was still hard to predict what would happen later in the year, especially in winter. "I can proffer all kinds of theories, but it varies from grower to grower. So, I currently have little idea," says Benny Cuypers, divisional head of leafy crops and field vegetables at the BelOrta cooperative in Belgium. He can imagine some growers will decide to put less energy into their cultivation this winter. If that is the case, production may quite possibly be slower, especially in the darkest, coldest time of the year.
Spreading costs
René Simons chairs Veiling Zaltbommel in the Netherlands. The energy crisis began in early October. He then already expressed an expectation; lettuce is often a shorter-lived crop, so it may be more sensitive to the impact of high costs. "That's unlike greenhouse vegetables like tomatoes. They grow those year-round and can spread the heating costs over a longer time."
Greenhouse of a lettuce grower for REO Veiling
"That's different for some lettuce growers. Some of the growers who supply us grow beans or cucumbers in the summer, and then lettuce or endive in the winter. It could be less risky for them to leave their greenhouse empty, rather than growing at potentially very high costs. Especially if they haven't set their gas prices; your selling price doesn't reflect those high costs."
René is a soft fruit grower himself. He has ordered an inventory be taken to determine how this impact on supply might affect the auction. "There shouldn't be any major problems with strawberries. Most of those growers have fixed gas prices. With their cogeneration, they can then also generate power for their lights." There is a chance, however, that more of that product will move to the spring. There might also be larger peaks in the supply then, thinks René, because those products will coincide with tunnel cultivation.
Accordion effect
Rik Decadt, Director of Production at REO Veiling in Belgium, takes the 'accordion effect' into account. Several plantings could converge in the spring. "When winter is coldest and darkest, lettuce grows relatively slowly. Then there's little difference between plantings in late January or a little later into February. More product may suddenly arrive all at once in early April if growers abandon their usual schedules." That applies to not only lettuce but possibly other products as well. "For example, growers who alternate cucumber with lettuce in the winter; if they decide not to grow lettuce this winter and then start cucumber later, there will be fewer cucumbers in early spring."
Leafy greens, including greenhouse lettuce, are a relatively minor product at Veiling Zaltbommel. That makes the auction situation slightly different compared to the larger strawberry product group, says René. "We have fewer agreements for leafy crops. We don't have to, say, deliver lettuce every week, so, we have more room to maneuver. However, every year, in the winter, we have loyal customers who buy lettuce from us."
"Of course, we want to supply them with beautiful products from our growers." December, January, and February will be exciting in that respect, thinks René. "We may have to consider how we're going to fill in and solve that. You want to be able to serve your clients, after all." René sees that the fall endive, which requires little gas, is 'just getting on with it'. "Our growers who plant just after New Year's aren't going to change their schedules. They're confidently looking forward to spring."
The advantage of a greenhouse
Serving customers well is, naturally, what they want to do at BelOrta, adds Benny, and preferably at 'nice prices' for both growers and buyers. Whether these will materialize, however, depends by no means just on how the cultivation goes in Belgium. "The supply from southern Europe also considerably affects the market. For example, Italy has a lot of products and can sell a lot to Germany. That could affect prices and be detrimental to our growers."
Rik also mentions Italy as a major competitor. "They grow a lot of lettuce around Naples, often in unheated greenhouses, so the energy issue doesn't play as much of a role there. I don't know the exact current weather situation there, but I do know they haven't expanded their acreage. More and more growers there cultivate baby-leafs that are harvested mechanically. We, however, specialize in large lettuce heads."
Large supplies from Italy and other southern European countries can affect the Belgian market. Less supply due to unfavorable weather conditions in other areas can, conversely, create opportunities. Such bad weather occurs almost every year. Recently, there was severe weather in October in certain growing regions in Italy, and this summer, there were floods in Germany.
That destroyed much of the open-field lettuce, and thus pushed up the prices considerably. Also, last year, there was heavy snowfall in countries like Spain. "Then greenhouse lettuce growers in Belgium have an advantage. Though, of course, it's hard to anticipate that in advance," Benny points out. "You have to plant if you want to deliver when needed."
Supply on level
Rik does not foresee much movement at REO Veiling until Christmas. After that, however, some greenhouses will probably stay empty for a while. "Whether growers choose to do so depends greatly on their gas contracts. If they have a favorable contract, they'll be more inclined to continue growing this winter. Less so if they have to heat their greenhouses at relatively high prices." Some growers cultivate on water in greenhouses too.
Rik estimates that it will be far tougher for them to temporarily stop cultivating this winter because the investment costs in water cultivation are considerably higher, and a grower best covers those costs by farming. "Some of these growers now have cogeneration units, so they generate power for lighting, which helps. Other growers will be making all kinds of adjustments to their lighting schedules to keep costs down."
One of the lettuce growers for REO
As René explains, it is challenging for the cooperatives to keep their supplies on level, through thick and thin. At REO, the greenhouse lettuce acreage has stagnated in recent years after a steady decline. Now that energy prices have risen sharply, he fears that some of that acreage may be lost.
"Not immediately; I expect us to sell as many heads as we did last year, but we might have fewer to sell next year." Some growers, who can deliver lettuce in time even when there are setbacks in cultivation elsewhere, have the best chances of benefiting from potentially rising prices.
In this regard, at BelOrta, it does not matter whether a grower sells on the day market or through pre-sales. "We offer both or a combination of both. Auction prices always lead, so greenhouse lettuce growers can always get that higher price when the market is tight," Benny concludes. Whether that will actually happen depends on many factors, as well as each grower's individual choices, that much is clear.
Benny Cuypers
BelOrta
benny.cuypers@belorta.be
www.belorta.be
René Simons
Veiling Zaltbommel
info@veiling-zaltbommel.nl
www.veiling-zaltbommel.nl
Rik Decadt
REO Veiling
rik.decadt@reo.be
www.reo.be
Publication date: Thu 2 Dec 2021
Author: Thijmen Tiersma
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In honour of our middleweight champion Josh Plant, we'll have a look at his back and forth war with Max Cotton from Fight Light 5 back in 2015.
Both men are juggernauts known for their heavy hits and this championship fight showed us why – they both came out swinging from bell to bell and the result was non stop action for 5 rounds…enjoy!
HYBRIDFIGHT 9 IS COMING !!!!!


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BIDEN'S SO-CALLED VACCINE MANDATE That Jeopardizes Millions of Jobs Doesn't Exist…"It's All A Mirage"
By Patty McMurray
Americans against the COVID jab are panicking, as the tyrannical Biden regime demands employers with 100 or more employees threaten their workers with taking away their ability to pay their mortgage or put food on their table unless they submit to the jab.
100 Percent Fed Up reports – There's only one problem with the Biden regime's so-called mandate—it's nothing more than a press release delivered by a blustering, senile figurehead bolstered by the Democrat Party's dishonest mainstream media.
There's been no official position on employers firing workers over refusal to get the COVID jab.
Congress hasn't voted on the mandate.
Biden hasn't signed any executive orders demanding that hard-working Americans be fired if they resist the jab.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted about the scam, calling Biden a "dictator" and reminding everyone that there is no federal law mandating the vaccines. She wrote, "We never voted on it because it does not exist." She added, " There is also no rule under OSHA that allows for companies to be fined for not mandating vaccines."
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1447748310417264644?s=20
Scientist and author James Lyons- Weiler tweeted about the OSHA final rule:
Word to the wise: The OSHA Final Rule has not been entered in the Federal Register. If you are an employer and you are enforcing vaccine or test mandates, you're wide open to lawsuits for damages, lost wages, and psychological distress. It's a Guidance, meaning it's non-binding.
Word to the wise: The OSHA Final Rule has not been entered in the Federal Register. If you are an employer and you are enforcing vaccine or test mandates, you're wide open to lawsuits for damages, lost wages, and psychological distress. It's a Guidance, meaning it's non-binding.
— James Lyons-Weiler (@lifebiomedguru) October 12, 2021
Joy Pullman of The Federalist wrote about the scam on October 7- Yes, we've heard all about Joe Biden's alleged vaccine mandate for private companies employing 100 or more people. It was all over the news even before he announced it on September 9. His announcement has jeopardized the employment of millions of Americans and increased worker shortages in critical domains such as health care.
There's only one problem. It's all a mirage. Biden's so-called vaccine mandate doesn't exist — at least, not yet. So far, all we have is his press conference and other such made-for-media huff-puffing. No such rule even claiming to be legally binding has been issued yet.
That's why nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general who have publicly voiced their opposition to the clearly unconstitutional and illegal mandate haven't yet filed suit against it, the Office of the Indiana Attorney General confirmed for me. There is no mandate to haul into court. And that may be part of the plan.
According to several sources, so far, it appears no such mandate has been sent to the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs yet for approval. The White House, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Department of Labor haven't released any official guidance for the alleged mandate. There is no executive order. There's nothing but press statements.
Despite what you may have been falsely led to believe by the media fantasy projection machine, press statements have exactly zero legal authority.
"There is nothing there yet that gives employers any mandate," Stephanie McFarland, spokeswoman for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration, told me on Oct. 6. "The president made an announcement on this asking OSHA to do it, but we've not yet seen anything come from it yet," she also said.
To impose the public perception of a mandate, the Biden administration is following an unusual rule-making process it also employed earlier this year, called an emergency temporary standard (ETS). The spring ETS rule took nearly six months to issue. Meanwhile, companies are telling reporters their vaccine mandates will have at the latest December deadlines. (For those who can't calendar, that's four months after Biden's non-existent mandate was proclaimed. According to OSHA, an ETS takes up to six months to go into effect after the initial mandate is issued in the Federal Register — which, again, for the proclaimed 100-employee mandate hasn't happened yet.)
The National Law Review reports – On September 9, 2021, US President Joe Biden announced a multipronged plan to increase the number of Americans who are vaccinated for COVID-19. In the plan, titled "Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden's COVID-19 Action Plan," the Biden administration provides for multiple regulatory and executive order-based means to encourage or require vaccination in various workplace settings.
Specifically, some form of vaccine mandate will apply for employers with 100 or more employees; for most Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulated workplace settings; and for some federal contractors, as well as all federal executive branch workers.
OSHA will develop a rule (known as an emergency temporary standard, or ETS) that will require all employers with at least 100 employees to ensure that each member of the workforce is either fully vaccinated or, for those who are not fully vaccinated, require such workers to produce a negative COVID-19 test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. As announced, it appears that the impending OSHA ETS will permit employers of 100 or more employees to present an option to all workers to either vaccinate or test (workers would be able to select either option).
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So, if there is NO law or executive order, why are workers being threatened? Have small businesses in America with 100 or more workers been duped into forcing their employees to accept a COVID jab against their will? Are America's corporations so ignorant that they didn't even question the validity of the so-called mandate/press release? Or are American corporations so tied to federal funding from the same hard-working taxpayers they're threatening that they are simply going along with the Biden scam to keep COVID relief money flowing into their coffers?
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Class & tea dance at Brentford
Dance run by Dave's Dances
Contact Dave's Dances
Free Dance class and social Tea Dance with DJ Mr Music and his wife Diane
Dance Styles: Argentine Tango, Cha Cha Cha (Ballroom), Foxtrot, Jive (Ballroom), Line Dance, Modern Tango, Quickstep, Rumba, Samba, Popular Sequence, Waltz
Time: 2pm-5pm
Come join DJ Mr Music and his wife Diane for a fun afternoon at the Brentford Music Museum. Free dance class from 2pm-2.30pm followed by a tea dance from 2.30pm-5pm. Music played during the tea break so you can continue to dance if you wish. Dance on a lovely maple sprung floor to an excellent mixture of music for Ballroom, Latin American, Sequence and Line dancing. Partners not essential. This is a light-hearted, friendly tea dance for those who want to dance and have fun at the same time, with lots of laughs along the way. Price includes a glass of prosecco or tea/coffee and other refreshments are available from the café. Everyone is welcome! The venue also has lights to add to the atmosphere.
The nearest railway station is Kew Bridge (from Waterloo) then a 5-minute walk to the Museum, or a one-stop bus ride.
Brentford Musical Museum venue
Join in a social afternoon of Ballroom, Latin and Sequence dancing, or just come along and listen to DJ Mr Music's excellent selection of recorded popular dance tunes. Class from 2pm-2.30pm. Dancing from 2.30pm-5pm.
All levels of ability are welcome and a partner is not necessary.
Nearest Railway station is Kew Bridge. Venue does have car parking.
Address: 399 High Street, Brentford Middlesex TW8 0DU
Dave's Dances organiser
DJ "Mr Music" hosting your social afternoon and evening Ballroom, Latin American and Sequence dances
Website: http://www.davesdances.co.uk
More information about Dave's Dances including other forthcoming events


EWING — A sprawling corporate office park, medical offices and laboratories, secluded commercial space and a brand new passenger terminal were all on the table as a consulting group hired by the county presented ways to best use the 1,300 acres surrounding the Trenton-Mercer Airport.
The county commissioned the study in 2010 looking for the best way to develop the airport zone. The report was presented to the public and the freeholders for the first time last night.
The study divides the airport land into four quadrants for highway development, medical-technology, State Police and National Guard activity, and town center development.
The county study was designed to complement Ewing's planned town center at the former General Motors and Naval Air Warfare station. Ewing has envisioned a railroad station, restaurants, townhouses, offices, retail stores and a park, though actual construction is a long way off.
"Both of these plans would exist well on their own but together they make something unique for New Jersey and something that could really put Mercer County on the map in creating a transport hub," Hughes said.
Mark Stout, an independent contractor who worked on the county proposal and presented the findings to the freeholders, said that he and his colleagues looked at different ways to use the property to bring in more income to the county.
County officials stressed that the study came about prior to their having any knowledge that Frontier Airlines was thinking of starting flights from Trenton-Mercer, which it did in November with flights to Orlando, following which it announced plans for nine more destinations.
"Regardless of what airline may be using the airport, we want to be sure we are getting the best value from the property we own for the benefit of taxpayers," said Aaron Watson, Mercer County's director of transportation.
Stout said the county should build several different areas of office space on the property, taking advantage of the nearby resources. He suggested an office space building project for the area of Capital Health's new hospital in Hopewell Township, just across Interstate 95. The project would be overseen by the Mercer County Improvement Authority and would be suitable for high-tech or medical offices.
"There are about 25 acres of prime developable property near that interchange," Stout said.
On the other end of the property Stout suggests building a large commercial office park for businesses that would benefit by using the highway infrastructure, airport and railroads nearby.
Another area — more secluded — could be used for office space nearby where the NJ State Police and National Guard have hangars.
Also included in the proposal is relocating the airport's passenger terminal closer to where the Ewing redevelopment would be in order to better coordinate with the transportation and traffic developments that are proposed.
"The old terminal is just not adequate to support commercial traffic," Stout said.
No cost was provided regarding the proposed developments and county officials and experts warned the freeholders that the plans are long-term and are expected to take quite some time.
"Palmer Square began in the 1930s and is just now nearing completion, so these can take a considerable amount of time," Freeholder Andrew Koontz said.
In the meantime, the board approved a contract to hire an engineering firm to look at some small repairs that can be made to the existing airline terminal to alleviate crowding issues.
The contract with C&S Engineering is expected to cost the county approximately $151,443.
A representative from Frontier Airlines said the company was in support of minimal repairs at the facility.
"It's a very unique facility and it does not come without challenges," said Jeff Campbell, who specializes in facilities for the airline. "We believe there is a need for modest modifications but that certainly doesn't include any expansion" of the terminal.
The airline would prefer that the county not undergo expensive renovations to the terminal because the cost would be passed on to the airline and they wouldn't be able to keep their prices competitive, Campbell said.


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Q: DB2 Bulk Load from .Net (C#)? Is there an API for loading a large # of non-transactional rows directly into a DB2 table?
I know there are some CLI commands for doing this, but it isn't clear what is directly supported from the .Net APIs.

A: Take a look at the ADMIN_CMD stored procedure, which gives SQL applications access to the LOAD utility and many other administrative commands. Here's the relevant info for DB2 9.5: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r5/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.rtn.doc/doc/r0023577.html

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Social media programme wins People's Voice Award for "News and Politics: Series" in the online film and video category.
Al Jazeera English's social media programme The Stream has won the People's Voice Award for "News and Politics: Series" in the online film and video category at this year's Webbys.
The Stream beat four other entries to its award with over 40 per cent of the vote and will be honoured at a ceremony in New York on May 21.
The 2012 Webby People's Voice Awards saw nearly 1.5 million votes cast by people around the world for their favourite sites, videos, mobile apps and more.
James Wright, Executive Producer of Programming and The Stream, welcomed the award.
"We are proud of everything The Stream has achieved in just one year on air, and are especially happy to win the Webby People's Voice Award this year, as our online community is one of the most important parts of The Stream, and vital to the show's success," Wright said.
"With the help of our viewers on air and online, The Stream will continue to strive to push the boundaries in our daily coverage of important issues."
Earlier this year, The Stream won a Royal Television Society Award for "Innovative News" for its in-depth analysis of the struggle between government loyalists and opposition supporters in Bahrain.
This is the first time the Al Jazeera Network has won a Webby People's Voice Award, after being nominated for its Arabic website in 2004.
The Webby Awards had nearly 10,000 entries this year, making them the leading international awards honouring websites and web programming.
Other awards went to Pinterest, Google+ and Spotify, all of whom picked up their first Webbys. FactCheck.org won the best political website award, while the US spoof news site The Onion picked up five awards including Best Comedy website.
The Icelandic singer Bjork was among this year's special achievement winners for her Biophilia album, which has been dubbed the world's first app album.
The Webby awards were set up in 1996 and are voted on by a body of web experts.
Seen by many as online equivalent of the Oscars, 2012 judges included Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and mobile phone inventor Martin Cooper.


Citron is a large lemon-like fruit borne by a slow-growing shrub or small tree reaching 8-15 ft high with stiff branches and stiff twigs and short or long spines in the leaf axils. Citron is probably native to North-East India. The leaflets are evergreen, lemon-scented, ovate-lanceolate or ovate elliptic, 2.5-7 in long, leathery, with short, wingless or nearly wingless petioles. The flower buds are large and white or sometimes purplish. The fragrant flowers about 4 cm wide, in short clusters, have 4 to 5 petals, sometimes pinkish or purplish on the outside, with 30 to 60 stamens. The fruit is fragrant, mostly oblong, obovoid or oval, occasionally pyriform, but highly variable; various shapes and smooth or rough fruits sometimes occurring on the same branch. The citron is unlike the more common citrus fruit like the lemon or orange. While the most popular citrus species are peeled in order to consume its pulpy and juicy segments – the citron's pulp is very dry containing only little insipid juice.
Medicinal uses: Juice- It is indicated in mostly digestion related problems. It also acts in stimulating liver for proper secretion of bile juices. It is also given in conditions like nausea. Leaves are externally used in case of pains and inflammation on the external body part. It is also used on skin disorders and also relieves from itching. Paste made out of seeds is also very helpful in scorpion bite.
Identification credit: Eby Abraham Photographed in Maharashtra.


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Transform the System: Preface
NOTE: Following is the latest draft of the Preface for a booklet, tentatively titled "Transform the System," which is a work-in-progress. I welcome feedback. To review the projected contents, click here.
Imagine. Forty adults enjoy a picnic on a riverbank. They see small children floating downstream and dive in to save them from drowning, but can rescue only half of them.
A man on a raft passes by and reports that one mile upstream a giant monster is throwing children into the river. He estimates it would take twenty adults to subdue the monster.
The party proceeds to discuss what what path to take through the thick jungle alongside the river. Unable to agree, twenty return to rescuing children, five meditate or pray, five return to eating and drinking, and ten go after the monster. But when the activists find the monster, they can only slow him down.
That scenario is a metaphor for our current situation. If we, the people, united, we could improve national policies and greatly alleviate suffering and injustice. But we're fragmented, without the power we need.
At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Elizabeth Warren brought the crowd to its feet when she declared, "People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: They're right. The system is rigged."
During the 2016 election, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump echoed that theme and received strong support. Clearly, there's widespread concern about "the system." Advertising and popular culture often refer to "the system." Following are some images that reflect that perspective.
Does that "folk wisdom" have merit? Does "the system" exist? This booklet is based on the proposition that it does.
When most writers discuss "the system," they only talk about the government and the economy. Other writers only talk about "systems" and propose "systemic reform" in terms of those specific systems.
This declaration takes a more comprehensive, or holistic, view. We assert that "the System" includes all of our major institutions, our culture, and ourselves as individuals who are conditioned to fit into the System and reproduce it in our daily lives.
Our society is stable because the System, which is self-perpetuating, provides ongoing coherence and stability. The various elements of the System are interwoven. They overlap and reinforce one another. That underlying consistency is what the popular wisdom refers to when it talks about "the system."
If we understand the System, expose root causes, connect the dots, and clarify how the pieces fit together, it will help us correct injustices that the System inflicts on the disinherited, reverse the dehumanization suffered by the powerful, and eventually restructure the System.
A widespread commitment to that goal could help unify a broad array of forces into a "transform-the-system movement." Various organizations could fight for specific causes while doing so for the sake of the larger cause. We could affirm both/and, within a shared commitment to systemic transformation. We could build momentum by occasionally supporting one another on timely priorities when victories are near. With that approach, we could inspire discouraged, inactive people who want to have a short-term impact. And we could also inspire idealists who are concerned about the need for long-term fundamental reform.
Toward that end, this booklet analyzes the System, proposes basic principles for how we can move forward, and presents a step-by-step plan for how we can restructure the System and transform the United States into a compassionate community.
A variety of social-change strategies will always be needed. That's a good thing. This work is neither the final word nor a blueprint. But hopefully it will offer a sensible direction that some will find useful and spark new, better ideas.


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SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A bill to ensure the right of Californians bill to hang mezuzahs on their door frames is moving through the state legislature, and is on its way to the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom.
SB 652 bars landlords and condo associations from prohibiting "the display of religious items" of a certain size on doors and door frames. Known to some as the "mezuzah bill" — though it also has the support of secular organizations, as well as Catholic and Hindu groups — the bill follows complaints from Jewish renters and condo owners who were told to remove their mezuzahs because of a building or apartment complex policy.
The bill is sailing through the statehouse in Sacramento, where it passed the Assembly 72-0 on July 8 after being approved by the Senate on May 6.
The bill has the strong backing of the Anti-Defamation League, which last month sent a letter of support to the chair of the Assembly's Judiciary Committee, Rep. Mark Stone.
"For millennia, Jews have posted mezuzahs on the entry doorframes of their homes in fulfillment of a religious obligation rooted in the Torah," states the letter, signed by the ADL's San Francisco-based state legislative director, Nancy Appel.
"Posting a mezuzah is not a decorative choice for Jews," Appel wrote, "or indeed a choice of any kind."
Over the years, the ADL's offices in California have received a number of complaints from Jewish renters and condo owners. Meir Messingher Lang, a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur, said he was stunned when, soon after moving into an apartment with his wife in Mountain View, he was told by a property manager that their mezuzah violated the apartment complex's policy on exterior door decorations.
Lang said the property manager told him that "nothing could be on the door" at the brand-new, upscale apartment complex, which was still under construction even as he and wife were moving in.
Appel helped him craft an email to his landlord. They never got a response, so Lang and his wife kept their mezuzah affixed.
"They just disappeared," Lang said. "They didn't follow up."
Not everyone is so lucky. State Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Southern California, said he and his Jewish caucus colleagues heard from a man whose homeowners' association in San Diego insisted he remove his mezuzah from a condominium he had purchased. Rather than deal with the expense of a protracted legal fight, the man complied.
"It left him feeling very badly — in tears," Allen said.
"It's something I found to be pretty outrageous," Allen said. "I don't have to explain to you that a mezuzah is an important expression of our faith. We are obligated as Jews to put a mezuzah on our door. It's part of the v'ahavta," the first full paragraph of the Shema section of Jewish prayer services.
The bill's diverse backers include the National Association of Social Workers, the Jewish social justice agency Bend the Arc, the California Catholic Conference and the Hindu American Foundation. Appel said someone from the latter organization told her earlier this year that Hindus also traditionally place religious ornaments on their doors.
Allen said he doesn't think prohibitions on hanging mezuzahs, set by landlords and property managers, are born out of anti-Semitic views. But they do show "incredible insensitivity," he said.
Five other states — Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Rhode Island and Texas — already have similar laws in place, the ADL said.
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Le canton de la Hague est une circonscription électorale française du département de la Manche créée par le décret du  et entrée en vigueur lors des premières élections départementales suivant la publication du décret.

Histoire
Un nouveau découpage territorial de la Manche entre en vigueur à l'occasion des élections départementales de 2015. Il est défini par le décret du , en application des lois du  (loi organique 2013-402 et loi 2013-403). Les conseillers départementaux sont, à compter de ces élections, élus au scrutin majoritaire binominal mixte. Les électeurs de chaque canton élisent au conseil départemental, nouvelle appellation du conseil général, deux membres de sexe différent, qui se présentent en binôme de candidats. Les conseillers départementaux sont élus pour  au scrutin binominal majoritaire à deux tours, l'accès au second tour nécessitant 10 % des inscrits au . En outre la totalité des conseillers départementaux est renouvelée. Ce nouveau mode de scrutin nécessite un redécoupage des cantons dont le nombre est divisé par deux avec arrondi à l'unité impaire supérieure si ce nombre n'est pas entier impair, assorti de conditions de seuils minimaux. Dans la Manche, le nombre de cantons passe ainsi de 52 à 27.

Le canton de la Hague est formé de communes des anciens cantons de Beaumont-Hague () et d'Équeurdreville-Hainneville (). Il est entièrement inclus dans l'arrondissement de Cherbourg. Le bureau centralisateur est situé à Querqueville (ancienne commune incorporée depuis le  à Cherbourg-en-Cotentin).

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Élections de mars 2015

À l'issue du  des élections départementales de 2015, deux binômes sont en ballottage : Yveline Druez et Jean-Paul Fortin (DVG, 28,47 %) et Marie Kirchner et Jean-Michel Maghe (DVD, 24,06 %). Le taux de participation est de 51,72 % ( sur ) contre 50,67 % au niveau départemental et 50,17 % au niveau national.

Au second tour, Yveline Druez et Jean-Paul Fortin (DVG) sont élus avec 58,34 % des suffrages exprimés et un taux de participation de 48,77 % ( pour  et ).

Élections de juin 2021

Le premier tour des élections départementales de 2021 est marqué par un très faible taux de participation (33,26 % au niveau national). Dans le canton de la Hague, ce taux de participation est de 32,21 % ( sur ) contre 32,67 % au niveau départemental. À l'issue de ce premier tour, deux binômes sont en ballottage : Yveline Druez et Jean-Michel Gautier (DVG, 44,81 %) et Jean-Marc Frigout et Nathalie Madec (DVG, 41,97 %).

Le second tour des élections est marqué une nouvelle fois par une abstention massive équivalente au premier tour. Les taux de participation sont de 34,36 % au niveau national, 32,63 % dans le département et 35 % dans le canton de la Hague. Jean-Marc Frigout et Nathalie Madec (DVG) sont élus avec 51,35 % des suffrages exprimés ( pour  et ).

Composition
Lors de sa création, le canton de la Hague comprenait vingt communes.

À la suite de la création de la commune de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin par fusion de cinq communes au , puis à la création de la commune de La Hague par fusion de dix-neuf communes au , le canton est désormais composé d'une commune entière et d'une fraction de commune.

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Notes et références

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Voir aussi
 Manche
 Arrondissements de la Manche
 Liste des cantons de la Manche
 Liste des communes de la Manche
 Liste des conseillers départementaux de la Manche

Liens externes
 Le canton sur le site du conseil départemental

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What to do if a power line lands on your car
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BY BILL PHILLIPS
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If you haven't had the misfortune of careening off the highway and shearing off a power pole, you've probably driven by such a scene.
It happens more than one might think, says Bob Gammer, community manager for BC Hydro' northern region.
If it happens to you, surviving the crash might only be your first challenge. Downed power lines on a vehicle or simply on the ground around you pose a real, and imminent, danger.
"Forty-seven per cent of British Columbians don't know what to do if a power line falls on their vehicle," says Gammer.
The best strategy, he says, is, if possible, stay where you are. If it's possible, drive the vehicle at least 10 metres, about the length of a city bus, away from where the downed lines are.
"Ten metres is really important," he says. "That takes outside the area that might be energized."
The risk doesn't just come from touching the downed power lines. The electricity they are carrying may be in the very ground underneath you.
"If you can't drive away, stay where you are and call 911," he says.
However, there may be extenuating circumstances, such as a fire, that make staying in your vehicle impossible. If that's the case, there is a right way to exit your vehicle.
The first thing to do, says Gammer, is to remove loose fitting clothing as it may ground the electrical current.
"The path to the ground is the most crucial," says Gammer. "That can kill you."
The next step is to open the door and position yourself so you can jump from the vehicle by crouching on the door sill. The key isn't to try and jump as far away as possible, to jump so you don't touch the car and the ground at the same time. He says to tuck your arms up against your chest and do a short bunny hop to the ground.
It's also important that you keep your feet together and jump in such a way that you're not going to lose your balance when you land.
After you've done that, you're not safe yet. Remember, the ground can be energized.
"It's important to keep your feet together," he says.
Electricity will look for a circuitous route, so having your feet apart might provide that route.
"Only have one point of contact with the ground," he says.
The next step, is to get at least 10 metres away from where the wires are down and doing that, keeping in mind you only want one point of contact with the ground, is to shuffle out of danger. Make sure that the heel of your lead foot never loses contact with the toe of your other foot, that way you will only have one point of contact with the ground.
It may take a while for you to reach safety, but once you do, call 911.
Hopefully it never happens to you, but if you find yourself in such a situation, or encounter someone else in one, now you know what to do.
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This past winter we welcomed a new baby girl into our world and the game changed. For years I vowed to myself that I wouldn't miss out on creating wonderful memories with my kids like my family missed when I was young. After all, time is the only commodity that truly matters and investing it into those we love will show the greatest return. Isn't it true?
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Use a journal to deepen the reflection and your learning. Write, document and track 2-4 key points throughout your learning time.
Teach to enhance learning. By sharing or teaching newly acquired skills or subject matter you are essentially reflecting on the material, therefore, enhancing learning and boosting performance.
Although you can't stop or even manage time, you can increase productivity. Completing tasks and responsibilities more effectively will help you do more work in less time. Reflection is a smart way to "make it stick" to the brain and conquer important goals so that you can share more meaningful moments with your loved ones.
Whether your taking on a new project, mastering a new skill or going through some innovative change at work, if you want to learn faster grab a journal, note card, digital recorder and share what you've learned with others today. Don't hesitate, choose a method of reflection and implement it after your next meeting.
Which of the four areas are you finding to be most difficult for gaining more time?