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My pathway
I started netball when I was about six. Growing up in Drysdale, on the Bellarine Peninsula, I did loads of different sports – swimming, surf life-saving, gymnastics, even one dance concert. I was right into athletics until I was about 13.
I only just missed out on going to cross-country nationals. Morgan Mitchell, who's now an Olympian, beat me by one second. It's funny to see Morgan now. We were friends and we later played netball together.
I'd like to think I could be in training now for the 800 metres at the Olympics but, well, I'm pretty sure I chose the right sport! To be honest, it was the team aspect that drew me more to netball than athletics. I didn't like celebrating by myself. The team component is what most of us are drawn to – that's why we play.
I didn't go into defence until I was about 15. I went up to Melbourne to the Central West Zone Academy and there were literally four defenders and 20 goalers, so Marg Lind and Nicole Richardson shoved me down in the defence end because they thought I could handle that. I never really went back.
Shortly afterwards I made my first state team, the Victorian schoolgirls, with Jo Weston and Liz Watson.
Jo hasn't changed: blonde hair and blonde 'personality'. Just hilarious. We got on straightaway. I was goal keeper and she was goal defence. She still falls over a lot when she plays, but she's a lot more balanced now.
Lizzie was just the same, too: a little ball of effort and muscle. Would just take on anything. I remember her being super tough and she would just go, go, go. Still does.
It's cool to look back and special to see how far they've come and what they've achieved – including being in the Comm Games team this year. I feel very proud of them and proud of us to still be kicking on together.
Concussion isn't a common netball injury. But I'm glad it's something the medical profession is putting a lot of work into learning more about, as I now know how serious it is.
As a junior, I made national squads, but never an Australian team. Whenever I missed out, I'd always seek feedback about what I needed to work on. I plodded along and did what I needed to but just didn't scrape in.
I was shocked when I got offered a contract to play for the Vixens in the 2015 ANZ Champs. It wasn't that I lacked belief; I just didn't think anyone would want me! I know that sounds bad, but I just didn't think I had it. It shows that sometimes the best people to judge you are the people watching.
I'm quite hard on myself, too. I've tried to relax a bit, but I put a lot of pressure on myself. I guess Simone saw something in me that she liked and thought she could develop.
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I saw a lot of time on the bench in those first two years! I think I played six matches – a quarter here, a half there. But I lapped it up. The court-time I got was special and I remember my debut game up in Sydney.
Qudos Bank Arena was packed with Swifts fans. I came on at halftime when we were 18 goals down. I was up against Caity Thwaites and I think we ended up losing by 16, so I got two goals back and at least we didn't go down by 30!
I was sitting behind Bianca Chatfield and Geva Mentor in that first year, learning everything I could. From the get-go it was surreal. To be in that environment at all, let alone in that back end with Geva and Bianca, was so cool.
They were nothing short of fantastic to me. They have definitely helped shape me as a player, whether they know it or not. They're true professionals. Taking a step back and watching them go about it was really amazing.
I wasn't happy to be on the bench, but I was happy to be absorbing everything it takes to be up to scratch at that level. Bianca and Geva were such genuine, nice, caring people as well.
I finally played my first full match in 2017, in the first-ever round of SSN. It was like, 'I'm here! You don't know who I am, but I'm here!'
That first round against Magpies I was so nervous, but so excited to be out there. I knew I'd done a solid two years of work – I was training my butt off week-in and week-out. I was up against Caity Thwaites, again, and it almost felt like a second debut.
I couldn't bottle up the feelings I had after that win – looking up to my family, my dad was fist-pumping and mum was probably crying. It was such a special thing to finally get out there and beat Collingwood after such a build-up.
The feeling I had in that match is something that I'll remember for a long time.
Even though I'd only played six games for the Vixens, I'd already been lucky enough to go on a Diamonds tour to the Quad Series in South Africa and England.
I got the call-up from Lisa Alexander when I was at the chemist in Geelong buying moisturiser – I remember exactly. She said they'd love me to come away as a training partner.
It gave me a big boost of confidence to think, 'Wow, I've barely played any netball and Lisa wants me to come on board'.
I learnt a lot in that environment. Another special moment came when I was elevated into the squad in the middle of the year and made my debut in Invercargill against the Silver Ferns. I was shaking like a leaf, but so excited to be Australian Diamond #173.
I got the call-up from Lisa Alexander when I was at the chemist in Geelong buying moisturiser – I remember exactly.
I didn't get my hopes up for Comm Games. I was a fresh face, still finding my way and learning what it was about. I play the same position as Laura Geitz and Geitzy eventually returned to the squad.
As a Queenslander, I'm sure she would have been thrilled to play in a home Games. As it happened, my concussion would have kept me out anyway.
We leave for the northern Quad Series on Wednesday. I don't think Geitzy's making another comeback! The first Test is against South Africa in Liverpool, where the World Cup will be held in July, and we play England and New Zealand in London.
I'm super-stoked to head away with the Diamonds again, especially with Jo and Lizzie. We've been playing together for so long. We've come so far. Kate Moloney, who I first played with in the state under-19s, is also in the team, as is Caity, who's rejoined the Vixens for 2019.
We're such a close bunch. To go away together knowing we've got each others' back is a special feeling. It's there in the background. It's really nice to have.
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A  is an open-air market or bazaar that is traditionally held on certain market days in a town or city neighborhood in Mexico and Central America. This bazaar tradition has its roots well into the pre-Hispanic period and continues in many cases essentially unchanged into the present day. The word  comes from  in Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire. In rural areas, many traditional types of merchandise are still sold, such as agriculture supplies and products as well as modern, mass-produced goods. In the cities, mass-produced goods are mostly sold, but the organization of  events is mostly the same. There are also specialty  events for holidays such as Christmas as well as for particular types of items such as cars or art.

History

The tradition of buying and selling in temporary markets set up either on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, etc.) is a strong feature in much of Mexican culture and has a history that extends far back into the pre-Hispanic period.  It was the  most important form of commerce in the pre-Hispanic era, and after the Spanish Conquest, the Europeans mostly kept this tradition intact. Market areas have been identified in ruins such as El Tajín in Veracruz, and a number of pre-Hispanic towns were initially founded as regional markets, such as Santiago Tianguistenco and Chichicastenango, Guatemala . The word  derives from the Nahuatl word  'open air-market', from  'to trade, sell'. The most important markets, such as the one in Tlatelolco, were set up and taken down every day of the week. This market served about one fifth of the population of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) before the Conquest and had its own governing system, which included a panel of twelve judges to resolve disputes. Today, one of the most visited exhibits in the National Museum of Anthropology is the model of the pre-Hispanic market such as the one in Tenochtitlan.

From the time of the Conquest to the present, many , especially in rural areas, have continued to operate much in the same way as before, with only changes in merchandise that reflect changing customer needs. In the cities, especially Mexico City, the history of these markets is filled with examples of attempts to regulate them and push them away to other places, with mixed success.  The Zócalo, or main plaza of Mexico City, was the scene of a number of efforts to clear the area of , street vendors, and establish permanent markets in or near the plaza such as the Parian. In all these cases, vendors eventually retook the plaza This problem was again tackled in the 1990s as part of an effort to revitalize the historic center of Mexico City. Despite much initial resistance, the area has been free of street peddlers since that time. Much of the ' business that used to be done in the Zocalo has now moved to other places such as the Tepito neighborhood.

In the 20th century, local governments in Mexico have promoted municipal or public markets or  to better regulate the selling of goods traditionally available in . In Mexico City, some of the better known of these markets are La Merced, Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market and Mercado Lagunilla.  La Merced is located in an area that had been a huge  for most of the colonial period as it was located at the edge of a lake (now drained). The Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market was specifically built by the government in the 1930s to try to "modernize" the sale of produce and other staples. It went as far as having a daycare center and a theater and commissioning Diego Rivera to supervise the painting of murals inside. These murals can still be seen today. However, these efforts have not eliminated the  tradition;  in fact, the number of such informal markets (5,836,000) far surpasses the number of  (2,810,000). In Mexico City alone, there are 317  versus 1,357 . One reason is that many of these mercados are not well-maintained and few new ones have been built since the 1970s.

The  is part of the so-called "informal economy" even though many of the "informal" vendors are well enough known and established to offer services such as layaway.  While many established stores consider the  to be damaging to their businesses, many Mexican consumers see both sectors as complementary.

Surveys of consumers have shown that many Mexicans buy from  because of the frequent lack of bargains, social interaction, and customer service in formal stores. According to one survey, over 90% stated that they have bought merchandise from a , with the average family spending about 300 pesos per visit. The most common items sold in  include groceries, beauty supplies, clothing, appliances, electronics, prepared foods, tools and used goods. About a third of Mexicans buy at least some of their clothing and shoes in .

Operation

In the most traditional of tianguis, public officials will close off a street to vehicle traffic on a specified day so that merchants (called "ambulantes") can set up their spaces on the sidewalks and/or roadways. Most of the spaces are covered by plastic tarps to protect sellers and vendors from the sun and/or the rain. They often enclose the entire area, giving the market an enclosed feeling. In many rural and smaller towns, there is usually a preferred area, which is usually in the town center, near the church plaza and permanent market.

In larger cities, the market exists, often in places with no supermarkets or mercados nearby. Neighbors and permanent merchants in the Del Valle neighborhood of Mexico City see the weekly tianguis as a benefit. It brings basic staples such as vegetables, fruit, clothing as well as crafts and traditional sweets to a neighborhood that does not have a permanent market or supermarket. For permanent merchants, the tianguis brings increased foot traffic to the area.  Many crowd around established markets or "mercados" such as La Lagunilla in Mexico City. In cases such as these, vendors set up stalls everyday, but the area is most crowded on weekends. On Saturdays in La Lagunilla, stands selling leather, coats and jackets, vintage clothes and other items crowd the streets.

Some tianguis are private spaces, which usually contain both permanent buildings and open areas for stalls. One example of this is El Sol in Zapopan, Jalisco, where the vendors in the permanent area operate all week and the tianguis area is mostly occupied on weekends.
Most tianguis operate more according to tradition than by formal rules. All have some kind of administrator or administration committee. The job of administrators is to interact with local authorities on behalf of tianguis sellers and manage internal affairs, especially the assignment of spaces and the collection of rental fees.  The first rule is the process of negotiating for a space, but often this includes the denial of spaces for those who are unknown to the administration. Another is for vendors to watch out for authorities and warn others of authorities who may come to inspect sellers. In some markets, bartering is making a comeback, especially in the rural areas, such as the northeast of Morelos state. In one market in Zaculapan, 150 of 400 vendors state that they accept bartered goods, especially in produce and staple food products such as milk and bread. One reason for this is that many rural families lack cash, but raise produce for sale on their own farms and orchards. This tradition has existed for centuries, but increases in hard times.

Vendor spaces can be as simple as a cloth on the ground to a simple table or pile of boxes to tables with walls made up of interconnecting metal poles. Those who sell goods from the ground may have only a few things to sell or their cloth might be filled to the edge. Those with a table have the advantage of having their goods in easier reach of both buyer and seller. Merchandise from these spaces is usually produce, hats, jewelry, pottery and other small, unbreakable items. Stalls with walls allow for the hanging of merchandise such as clothing or the addition of shelves for more delicate wares. These type of stalls can display six times the merchandise than those who sell from the ground or table.

Most goods sold in tianguis are small items that customers can carry away. In many of these markets, vendors selling similar items group together. This has advantages for both buyer and seller, as it provides a wider variety of products than would a single merchant. It also lets shoppers know where to find a particular item. Certain goods are more prone to this such as produce, meat, and certain specialized or craft items. However, exceptions to this occur because a vendor cannot afford space in the area or because he or she is looking for convenience shoppers who are not looking to bargain. Most tianguis sellers, especially produce sellers, arrange their wares in certain arrangements, such as in baskets, or into neat piles to make their wares more attractive.

Rural tianguis

The tianguis in rural areas most closely resemble those of centuries past. Most still contain a large amount of  agricultural supplies, produce and other food staples, livestock, handmade items and traditional clothing. In many, indigenous languages such as Nahuatl and Zapotec can be heard. One example is the Sunday market of Cuetzalan, Puebla, where Nahuatl speaking people can be heard negotiating prices on items such as vanilla beans, handcrafted textiles, huipils, coffee, flowers and baskets much as their ancestors did. The Tlacolula Sunday market in Oaxaca is the largest and busiest in the central valleys area of the state, and brings people from the very rural areas into town to both sell and buy. The market fills an important retail and social gap as most of the outlying villages are too small to support permanent stores and many use the opportunity to converse with distant neighbors. Even sellers will consider who they want to socialize with when choosing a selling space.  The tianguis of Chilapa, Guerrero attracts thousands of Nahua and Tlapaneco people, who come to buy and sell handcrafts, medicinal plants, local specialties such as pozole and many other items. Many of the visitors are from neighboring regions. Prices are low. It is possible to buy a liter of mezcal for only 25 pesos. The weekly Thursday market in Villa de Zaachila is divided into three parts, one devoted to firewood, as many still cook with it, one to livestock and the rest to basic staples.
While many of the goods sold in rural markets are similar to those sold for centuries, modern items such as mass-produced tools, clothing such as jeans, CDs, DVDs and automobiles are also sold.

City tianguis

The organization and function of most city tianguis are mostly the same as those in rural areas; however merchandise varies somewhat and there are problems associated with holding this type of event in the more crowded city. One of the oldest continually operating tianguis in Mexico is the one in Cuautitlán, just outside Mexico City, which has been going on every Tuesday for over 500 years. The market was established in 1491 by the Chichimecas when this area was rural and a way station between Mexico City and points north.  Since then, Cuautitlan has become a crowded part of Greater Mexico City, but the tianguis is still in the same place and operated more or less in the same manner. This market congregates 7,500 vendors from various municipalities and states such as Michoacán, Puebla, Pachuca and the municipalities of northern Mexico State. It extends over 250,000 m2. There are efforts to move it away from the center and near the municipal border with Tultitlán, but the merchants have refused to be moved.

Due to the change in tastes needs of customers, urban tianguis focus on different merchandise. Produce and other basic staples are still offered, but other items are far more likely to be manufactured items such as electronics, name brand clothing and other wares. Relatively few crafts or agricultural items are offered in most city tianguis. Merchandise mostly concentrate on more modern and manufactured items, such as clothing, purses, beauty products, electronics and hand appliances. Those who sell audio and video CDs, a lucrative business, will often have large loudspeakers playing samples of their wares at very high volume.

Mexico's two largest cities, Mexico City and Guadalajara, have large number of tianguis that employ many people. Officially, Guadalajara has 143 registered tianguis in the city, with no new ones approved since 1997. These tianguis have over 40,000 stalls combined. These stalls pay a nominal fee of between 2.5 and 3 pesos per square meter for the right to be there.  About half of the tianguis in Guadalajara operate once a week, about 15% every two weeks and the rest about once a month. In Guadalajara, it is estimated that approximately 95,000 people work in this sector.

In Mexico City, there are 1,066 officially recognized tianguis controlled by 600 tianguis associations, each of whom has between forty and six hundred members. Hundreds of these close entire streets at least one day a week. These tianguis employ about 130,000 people. These markets are regulated by the Secretaria de Desarrollo Economico and by the Secretaria de Economia Federal. Most tianguis vendors are located in the borough of Iztapalapa, where they make up about one third of the total.  This borough contains 304 tianguis markets convene during the week with Gustave A. Madero coming second with 160.  Sunday is the busiest day for tianguis, and Tuesday is the slowest.

The largest tianguis in Mexico City is San Felipe de Jesus, which is located on the border of Gustavo A. Madero and Tlalnepantla. This market has been in operation for over forty years, covers 17 km and has 17,000 merchants, which offer their wares from Tuesday to Saturday. This is one of the least governmentally supervised markets due to the fact that it stretches over both the Federal District and the State of Mexico.

Local governments have the authority to inspect and  regulate the businesses that operate in tianguis.   Regulations such as Article 52 of the Reglamento Interior de la Administration Publica of the Federal District, are supposed to regulate when and where these events take place as well as inspecting locales and products for sale. Vendors can be removed if they exceed the limits set, but many cities have trouble enforcing this, leading to traffic jams. Regulation, such as the checking of scales, and cooking equipment in food stalls, is scarce. Vendors in tianguis are liable under all consumer protection  laws as well.  However, many authorities readily admit that they do not have the manpower to enforce laws and regulations in large, crowded and numerous tianguis, although raids are performed sporadically, especially looking for stolen and counterfeit merchandise. Stolen merchandise, especially electronics, and unauthorized CDs and DVDs is the largest criminal activity found in tianguis, with copying of CDs and DVDS one of the most lucrative businesses. Tianguis sellers can be quite sophisticated. According to Iztalapalpa officials, vendors at the El Salado tianguis set up shop as early as 4 or 5 am in order to receive stolen and other merchandise from trucks behind the Unidad Habitacional Concordia Zaragaza housing complex, and use radios to communicate and watch out for authorities Officials claim there are at least ten places in the market that sell drugs and two that sell guns. Much of the allegedly stolen merchandise consists of computer equipment and handheld gadgets such as iPods. The sale of stolen merchandise such as this is popular because it can cost about half of what it does in legal channels. Counterfeit perfumes are a specialty of the tianguis Del Rosal in Colonia Los Angeles. Empty bottles of the real merchandise are bought by the vendors and then filled with the counterfeit perfume.  PROFECO, Mexico's consumer protection agency, advises strong caution when shopping in tianguis as it is extremely difficult to help those who have been a victim of fraud. Another problem is the sale of vehicles that are stolen or illegally imported from the United States. This problem is serious enough to warrant the vigilance of the Procuraduria General de Justicia of Mexico City and special warnings by  PROFECO.  Restricted items such as medicines, cigarettes and alcohol are also openly sold. Other available restricted merchandise includes fireworks, blades, knives, pornography, endangered species, and smuggled goods. Other articles include hoods, tear gas, fake guns, and sometimes even real guns.  Medicines from the government health service can be found in El Salado, which is held on Wednesdays on Calzada Zaragosa. Patches and uniforms from services such as city police and firemen, as well as the electric company and Telmex can be found as well.  Lastly, pickpocketing and assault on both merchants and customers is not unknown.

Many tianguis have problems in the neighborhoods they occupy. These events are accused of "devouring" streets as regulated and non/regulated ones grow and multiply. The main problem with tianguis is that merchants spread out their wares over sidewalks and other public spaces beyond where they are authorized, blocking pedestrian and vehicular traffic.  These places can measure four by four meters on city streets.  Monterrey Street in the Del Valle neighborhood of Mexico City is cut from six lanes to three lanes on tianguis days.  Another problem is that they block scarce parking space.  Residents complain about noise and odor. Lastly, at the end of the day after the stands are taken down and brought home, tons of garbage is left behind, and in areas where market activity is frequent, infrastructure such as light poles and sidewalks are damaged.

Despite the problems and despite the fact that tianguis merchants do not pay taxes, rent or services (however bribes are paid to many city officials) like established businesses do, eliminating them or even moving them  is very difficult due to the large number of people they employ and their firm place in the culture.  Attempts to remove illegally placed merchants or move tianguis entirely generally meet with protest. For about 34 years, the area around the permanent Mercado Juarez had been the scene of one of the largest tianguis in the city of Toluca, operating more or less every day. On weekends, the number of vendors was as high as 2,800. More than 1,100 police were needed to forcibly remove 560 stands from the triangular plaza in front of Mercado Juarez and the four blocks surrounding it. To prevent the vendors from returning, the entire plaza was back hoed and a large fence installed around the plaza. Police patrolled it and the four-block area for weeks afterwards. While there was no violence, tensions were high and there were verbal protests. The clearing of this tianguis was done to alleviate traffic problems in this part of the city, with vendors offered new space at the site of the old airport.  In some areas, such as Tepito in Mexico City, almost the entire neighborhood is employed  as informal merchants with even more that come in to sell. This market has a long tradition here and is the largest and most vibrant in the city in the 21st century.

Specialty tianguis

Many occasional and some semi permanent tianguis are specialty markets, either specializing in one type of good or are set up for a specific season. One semi permanent market is the "Fashion Tianguis," with about fifty vendors who sell clothing each weekend at Parque México in Mexico City. Most are true designer labels from various countries, including Mexico. Merchandise includes many ítems that have not sold in upscale stores. Other tianguis that specialize in fashion include Plaza Cibeles on weekends, La Lagunilla on Sundays, and Del Chopo on Saturdays. The last specializes in "dark" and Gothic fashion .   The city of Tonalá, Jalisco, sponsors a tianguis adjacent to the permanent market, which is restricted mostly to vendors who sell locally made pottery and other craft items. It is called the Tianuges de Artesanos. A number of cities such as Monterrey, and Guadalajara have tianguis that operate only to sell used cars.

The open air art market of San Ángel has occurred every Saturday morning since 1964 and sells mostly traditional and indigenous fine arts, created in Mexico. It is located in a tiny park named Plaza Tenanitla and is the oldest art market in Mexico City.  Some of the artists and artisans are the children and grandchildren of the original founders of the market. While many of the artists live in Mexico City, a number travel from as far as the states of Puebla, Guerrero and Mexico State to sell. It is informally known as the Saturday Bazaar, but the association that runs it formally calls it the tianguis Artesanal Tenanitla. Most of the stalls still sell paintings and sculptures but other also sell crafts, snacks and antiques.

Seasonal tianguis serve needs for holidays and other annual events. In San Pablo Tultepec, there is a tianguis of fireworks in August and the first part of September before the annual Independence Day celebrations in Mexico. It is located on the entrance to the town from the highway between Toluca and Mexico City. Everything from sparklers to complicated sets with moving parts are sold. This market operates with licenses from the State of Mexico as well as from the Secretariat of National Defense. In Saltillo every Thursday during Lent, there is a tianguis devoted entirely to fish and seafood, partially sponsored by the federal Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food agency. A number of municipalities, such as Hermosillo, Tepic, Xalapa and Celaya, sponsor tianguis for back-to-school, in order to allow parents to buy uniforms, school supplies and other needs at lower prices. Credit is also offered to customers at these events.  The most important seasonal tianguis are for the Christmas holiday season, which runs from late November to January 6.  From near Christmas Eve up until Epiphany, many of these stalls are open from early in the morning to very late at night. Most of the merchandise revolves around items for nativity scenes and Christmas trees. Trees are sold as well, with taxis and men with hand trucks nearby to hire.

Some tianguis can be a tourist attraction in themselves. Every year the indigenous and folk art tianguis is held in Uruapan during Holy Week, which is a major vacation time in Mexico. Over twelve hundred artisans come to the city on the large main plaza to sell. The promotional literature states that it is the largest tianguis of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, and is accompanied by arts contests, parades and banquets. This event is one of the top five for the state of Michoacan and accounts for 15% to 20% of the income this small city makes each year.

See also
Kirana store (India)
Farmers' markets
History of marketing
Market (place)
Merchant
Pochteca
Retail
Wet market#Mexico

References

Mexican culture
Retail markets in Mexico

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The Trump administering is accouterment states with a roadmap for how they can abstain genitalia of the Affordable Affliction Act in the name of giving added ability aback to the states. But critics abhorrence the move will attenuate key customer protections accustomed by the 2010 health-care law.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services bygone appear four recommendations for how states could admission waivers from ACA rules from the federal government, accretion on advice released last ages that aimed to give states added adaptability in accomplishment their own aisle on bloom care.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar accepted the move, while Democrats pounced on it. And health-care experts say the templates acquiesce states, afterward a bootless Republican bid to abolition and alter the ACA, to abstain some of the law's rules on their own.
CMS abundant on the accessible abandonment yesterday, forth with three added abeyant means accompaniment admiral could booty advantage of the new flexibility. If accepted waivers, states could architecture their own state-administered subsidy programs, actuate what altered types of bloom allowance affairs are acceptable for subsidies and apparatus accident stabilization programs.
In a accent afore the bourgeois American Legislative Exchange Council, CMS Ambassador Seema Verma delivered a admonishment of the ACA in her account for why the bureau wants to give more abandon to the states.
"Seeing the problems the ACA created, and seeing the abridgement of federal activity to abode these problems, should be affidavit abundant for why it was such a aberration to federalize so abundant of health-care activity beneath the ACA," she said.
But top Democrats aloft questions about the amends of the guidance and bidding affair about how such moves could attenuate key Obamacare elements.
In a letter to Verma and added Cabinet officials, Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.) and Richard E. Neal (Mass.), the top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce and Means and Means committees and acceptable admission chairmen, respectively, alleged for added advice on the antecedent advice issued aftermost month.
"We are anxious that this advice is unlawful, will accession costs for beforehand and accessible Americans, and will annihilate protections for individuals with above-mentioned conditions," they wrote in a Thursday letter.
For her part, Verma insisted that "no accompaniment would be accustomed to retreat from a accepted aspect of the ACA that protects bodies with preexisting medical altitude from college prices or an disability to buy coverage," as Goldstein writes.
And Sabrina Corlette, a chief analysis adolescent at Georgetown University's Center on Bloom Allowance Reform was agnostic the ACA wouldn't be watered bottomward via this path.
The new advice acquiesce Obamacare subsidies to be acclimated for short-term and affiliation bloom plans, two advantage options the administering has touted. These affairs don't awning the abounding ambit of bloom allowances and can debris to awning bodies with preexisting conditions, as The Bloom 202 has written, but they activity a cheaper another for the bodies who appetite them.
She thinks that this will advance to one of two after-effects that could harm bodies with preexisting illnesses.
AHH: Lawmakers addled a final accord on a acreage bill that gets rid of the plan accurate by House Republicans and Admiral Trump to establish new assignment requirements for aliment brand recipients.
Stein writes Roberts said the White House has not yet active off on the accommodation deal but the plan is acceptable to accretion bipartisan abutment in the House.
OOF: For the aboriginal time in about a decade, the cardinal of uninsured accouchement in the country has spiked.
The cardinal of uninsured accouchement added nationally, from about 3.6 actor in 2016 to 3.9 actor in 2017, according to new analysis from Georgetown University's Center for Accouchement and Families.
OUCH: A new beat breed able of transmitting several baleful diseases is overextension in the United States. It's the aboriginal invasive beat breed to access in the United States in about eight decades, my Post aide Lena H. Sun reports.
The Asian longhorned beat is built-in to eastern China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East and is additionally established in Australia and New Zealand.
The Centers for Ache Ascendancy and Prevention says there is no affirmation so far the beat has advance diseases to humans, calm animals or wildlife in the United States, Sun reports. But the insect has been begin in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia afterwards initially actuality apparent on a 12-year-old pet Icelandic sheep in New Jersey in August of aftermost year.
"She had them all over her clothing. We're talking over 1,000 ticks on her body," the entomologist, Tadhgh Rainey, told Sun in an interview. The woman was provided a change of clothes, and health officials still accept the woman's pants.
— The Post's Amy Goldstein additionally has a abysmal dive on a accompaniment clay the Trump administration's eyes to crave aliment brand recipients to work, alike as the accord addled over the acreage bill excludes such plans.
"Wisconsin — with its assignment claim set to aggrandize abutting year and a focus on application and training — is a role archetypal for the Trump administration's eyes of aliment aid for poor Americans who could go hungry, ratcheting up what abounding of them are accepted to do to get government help," Goldstein adds.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who avant-garde the state's FoodShare changes as able-bodied as "some of the nation's best bourgeois revisions to added safety-net programs," Goldstein notes, absent his bid for reelection to a third appellation beforehand this month.
— Virginia is on clue to accept 375,000 low-income affiliation beneath its broadcast Medicaid affairs by July 2020, assault projections of what amplification would attending like back the state Assembly accustomed the move beforehand this year.
State admiral had predicted that 300,000 bodies would accept in the affairs in the aboriginal 18 months of expansion, which is set to booty aftereffect on the aboriginal day of 2019.
"In a Capitol area Medicaid amplification came about alone afterwards a pitched five-year action and a dejected beachcomber in the House of Delegates, the higher-than-expected enrollments accept been apparent in starkly altered means — either as affidavit of how badly amplification was needed, or as a awkward assurance the affairs could cool above expectations," my Post aide Laura Vozzella reports.
The burghal said the blackmail to abstain visas has kept immigrants from enrolling in academy and in bloom and added programs.
Acceptance is backward this year as the Trump administering spends aloof $10 actor on navigators to advice individuals accept in coverage, bottomward from $63 actor in 2016.
Top House Republican additionally accustomed added than $1 actor from drugmakers back 2007.
The accomplishment is envisioned as a way to abutment programs in as abounding as 10 states, starting with Pennsylvania.
A attending at new abstracts from the CDC.
The advancing Ebola catching in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 426 absolute cases including 245 deaths, is now the additional better and additional deadliest in history.
Measles vaccines accept adored 21 actor lives back 2000, the WHO says.
The N.B.A. brilliant was interviewed about the affair by Juliet Macur, a Sports of The Times columnist, at Tufts University on Thursday night.
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The entire hamlet of New Kingston is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
What is now the New Kingston Valley on the Plattekill Stream was once part of the Hardenburgh Patent, the largest ever granted by the British Crown. Shares in the Patent were traded regularly. Robert Livingston (1688-1775) of Clermont bought many of them. When the British burned both Kingston and Clermont in 1777, Robert R. Livingston, son and heir to Clermont, seized the opportunity to initiate settlement of the land by making a gift of 5,000 acres in this region to the "Kingston Sufferers," who had lost their houses. Thus the hamlet got its name; none of the "sufferers" are believed to have settled in the area, but some of their descendants did.
One early settler, Jacob Van Benschoten, a Revolutionary War veteran, is said to have blazed a trail through the woods and over the hill from what is now Margaretville, a path that became known as "Uncle Jacob's Trail." Margaretville Mountain Road roughly follows this path.
Other settlers were of Dutch, Scottish and Yankee extraction, and included the Yaples, the Dumonds, Van Benschotens, Scotts, Russells, Winters, Elliotts, Reynoldses, Hewitts, Birdsalls and Sanfords.
In 1848 Swart & Birdsall's store provided important commercial impetus for the hamlet. Next to the new store, Isaac Birdsall, postmaster, built a handsome two-story Greek Revival-style house which still stands today. By 1856 the hamlet was composed of a handful of buildings, including the store and post office, a blacksmith shop and a shoe shop. By1869, there were, in addition, a dozen houses, a church and a wagon shop.
Carpenter James R. Scott arrived in New Kingston in 1869 and set up a water-powered woodworking mill. He and his wife Mary raised a family of builders who are credited with constructing several houses, the Presbyterian Church and a number of barns in the New Kingston Valley.
The Hudson Valley Dairy Company creamery operated from before 1903 to 1917, taking in 6,000-8,000 pounds of milk per day from local dairy farms. Cans were hauled on wagons pulled by mules to the Ulster & Delaware Station in Arkville. The company's owner, Joseph V. Jordan, was a Newburgh millionaire. Many of his customers, dissatisfied with the price he was paying for milk, formed an association in 1911 and built the New Kingston Cooperative Creamery Co. which operated from 1911-1926, after which it was run for several decades by commercial operators, Dan Franklin, and then Vogt's Dairy, Inc. of Delhi and NYC.
Cauliflower, too, was an important farm product here. Commercial cauliflower production in the Catskills began and ended in New Kingston and lasted 100 years. William and Thankful Van Benschoten were the first to grow it on their farm between Margaretville and New Kingston in the mid-1890s, and the Ruff family's truck farm was the last large scale cauliflower operation in the region, ending in 1996.
The few remaining dairy farms in the Town of Middletown are in the New Kingston Valley. One, operated by the Elliotts, has been in the same family for nearly 200 years.
In the second half of the 20th century, as farms closed down, the commercial scene shifted towards Margaretville and beyond. The New Kingston store, run by the Faulkner family for several decades, is now occupied by the US Post Office.


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England > Isle of Wight > Freshwater
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Take a picture tour of Freshwater...
The Isle of Wight has somehow managed to retain much of the charm of the 1930's and the pretty resort of Freshwater found at the Island's western end is no exception. It has a mixture of stately Victorian properties built to accommodate the rich Victorian tourists of the times, and picturesque thatched cottages hidden in leafy lanes.
Apart from its lovely coastline, Freshwater offers idyllic walking across beautiful chalk downs covered with a multitude of flora and fauna. Tennyson Down is named for the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson who lived at nearby Farringford House for nearly 40 years and the poet is believed to have walked the down almost every day, drinking deep of the regions crisp, clear air. The down rises to 480 feet above the sea and offers superb view of Portland Bill and the Solent.
Today, Freshwater, with its delightful small bay continues to maintain the status of a village whilst offers holiday makers everything you would expect of a small town. It has plenty of shops, a golf course, a sports centre and indoor swimming pool. Farringford House is now converted to provide comfortable hotel accommodation and Dimbola Lodge, once the home of pioneer Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, is now a photographic museum. Close to Freshwater is the Island's only thatched church, built on land donated by the Tennyson family early in the 20th century.
Visitors will find an excellent choice of accommodation and plenty of pubs and restaurants.
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Undulating countryside surrounds this beautiful place - it is a designated area of outstanding natural beauty and as such attracts walkers and bird watchers as well as being a Mecca for surfers and yachtsmen...
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Spinners Garden and Nursery can be found in the attractive valley village of Boldre, about three miles to the south of.....
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This stunning Grade 1 listed Mansion is situated on the cliffs at Highcliffe, overlooking Christchurch Bay and The Isle of Wight......
Carisbrooke Castle & Museum (28 Pictures)
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Q: UITableView wrong cell size before scrolling? I have this UITableView, made in code ,and when i see it first time, the cells size that i read are wrong-hence the icons on the cells calculated wrong and are very small.
Than , when i start scrolling,every cell i scroll through ,its icons (on this cell),becomes bigger and get their right size,and i see also the small icons too, so i have for each cell a small icon and a big icon,where i should only have the big.
Why is that happens ? (this view also has some collection view inside it)
      //tabel view
        frm.origin.y=self.frame.size.height-openY;
        tableView = [[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:frm style:UITableViewStylePlain];
        tableView.delegate=self;
        tableView.dataSource=self;
        [tableView registerClass:[UITableViewCell class] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"Cell"];
        [self  addSubview:tableView];

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return  [actionsMenus count];
}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
     return self.frame.size.height/5.0;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)ttableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
     static NSString *simpleTableIdentifier = @"Cell";
    UITableViewCell *tcell=  [ttableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
    NSLog(@"%f", tcell.frame.size.height );

    if (tcell == nil)
    {
        tcell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];
    }

     NSString *kind=[actionsMenus objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
     NSString *icon=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%d.png",kind,colorIndex];

    //icon
    UIImage *image=[UIImage imageNamed:icon];
    UIImageView *view=[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(tcell.frame.size.width/2.0-0.8*tcell.frame.size.height/2.0, 0, 0.8*tcell.frame.size.height,0.8*tcell.frame.size.height)];
    view.image=image;
    [tcell addSubview:view];

    return tcell;
}

A: If you're creating the table in viewDidLoad, I think the UITableView delegate methods are being called before the view's auto-layout is complete; so setting the heightForRowAtIndexPath: to
return self.frame.size.height/5.0;

uses the frame of the view pre-auto-layout to calculate the row height. If you absolutely need heightForRowAtIndexPath: to be dependent on the view's height though, perhaps add the table as a subview after view's layout is complete. For example, instead of adding it in your viewDidLoad, add it in viewDidLayoutSubviews, ex:
- (void) viewDidLayoutSubviews {
    //table view
    frm.origin.y=self.frame.size.height-openY;
    tableView = [[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:frm style:UITableViewStylePlain];
    tableView.delegate=self;
    tableView.dataSource=self;
    [tableView registerClass:[UITableViewCell class] forCellReuseIdentifier:@"Cell"];
    [self addSubview:tableView];
}

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Slow Light [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/tacitknowledge/slow-light.png?branch=master)](http://travis-ci.org/tacitknowledge/slow-light)
==========

In 1999, Danish physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau led a combined team from Harvard University and the Rowland Institute
for Science which succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 meters per second.

Slow Light degrades response times of object methods and synchronous remote calls as concurrency increases.

We've used it primarily to test monitoring and fault tolerance of integration points under scalability tests.  We love
using it to test [Hystrix](https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix) integrations and configurations.

# Introduction and Motivation

Slow Light consists of two sibling tools, [Slow Light Embedded](embedded) and [Slow Light Proxy Server](proxy). Both tools interpose themselves
between a caller and an API to degrade responses, either with response times or error creation.

_Why do this?_ We've found that certain points in system architectures will inevitably experience degradation and
failure.  For instance, an application may leverage a remote address validation service.  That address validation
service, at some point in the future, will probably have an outage or scaling issues or just the network will fail.
Slow Light provides us with the ability to examine the client application's behavior under a variety of scenarios
where a remote service is having issues.  Typically, this is done during performance testing; it often exposes
situations where calls results can be cached better or logic can be made fault tolerant.  We've even seen situations
where degraded responses with a third party caused out-of-memory errors in the JVM because objects could not be released
to garbage collection frequently enough under load.

When Slow Light is combined with specialized Fault Tolerance tools such as [Hystrix](https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix),
Slow Light becomes similar to testing smoke alarms and automatic sprinkler systems.  Slow Light creates the smoke which
triggers fault tolerance code and sets of alarms.

# Slow Light Architectures

**Slow Light Embedded**

[Slow Light Embedded](embedded) runs inside a Java Process and wraps service interfaces with a [Java Proxy](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Proxy.html) that incorporates a
ThreadPool and specialized InvocationHandler; the handler monitors concurrency on the ThreadPool and degrades Proxy
responses according to configuration and concurrency rules.

![alt text](images/SlowLightEmbedded.png "Embedded Architecture")

Slow Light Embedded requires altering code within your application or IoC configuration.  This is a fairly simple
process when using Spring, Guice, PicoContainer, or other IoC injectors that support an AOP model.  When not using one
of these tools, Slow Light Embedded is usually done at service instantiation - often using existing factories.  Many
people provide toggling that enables or disables Slow Light Embedded (for an example of feature toggle please see https://github.com/tacitknowledge/flip).

_with Hystrix_
With a Fault Tolerance tool like Hystrix, which also proxies/wraps Service APIs, we insert Hystrix around Slow Light.
Slow Light itself wraps

![alt text](images/SlowLightEmbeddedWithHystrix.png "Embedded With Hystrix")

**Slow Light Proxy Server**

[Slow Light Proxy Server](proxy) is a standalone JVM application that proxies remote, synchronous TCP/IP calls.  It does not require
altering code in client applications as it runs external to the process.  Slow Light Proxy Server uses [Netty](http://netty.io/) and some special
ChannelHandler implementations to slow, delay, discard, forward, and generally play mischevious games with remote
calls.

![alt text](images/SlowLightProxy.png "Proxy Architecture")

_with Hystrix_

When using Slow Light Proxy Server with a Fault Tolerance tool like Hystrix, you can achieve the same smoke and smoke alarm
behavior as Slow Light Embedded.

![alt text](images/SlowLightProxyWithHystrix.png "Proxy With Hystrix")

A disadvantage of Slow Light Proxy Server is that it can't create faults and degradation with system resources like file I/O.
If you need to simulate failures in non-network resources, use Slow Light Embedded.

# Use it!

__A Sample from Slow Light Embedded__

In general you just need to do these things:
```java
 //This object needs to have an interface to proxy, but can be real app code, a real service, or a stub
 //  supporting concrete classes without interfaces is a future TODO
 Object targetToWrapInProxy;
 .
 .
 .
 //set up how the service should degrade
 DegradationStrategy degradationStrategy
        = new DefaultDegradationStrategy(serviceDemandTime,
                serviceTimeout,
                passRate,
                new Class<Exception>[]{MyException.class}
          );
 //Set up a NamedThreadFactory. optional but highly suggested to make debugging and monitoring easier.
 //The below code would generate threads with names similar to the below
 // Thread[threadfactory-<factoryname>-groupnumber-1-thread-1],5,parentgroup-main-groupname-<factoryname>1]
 //Spring users may wish to use CustomizableThreadFactory, which supports naming
 ThreadFactory threadFactory = new NamedThreadFactory("<factoryname>");
 //set up a fixed thread pool
 ThreadPoolExecutor executorService = (ThreadPoolExecutor) Executors.newFixedThreadPool(capacity,threadFactory);
 //set up InvocationHandler with execution pool and strategy
 final DegradationHandler handler = new DegradationHandler(conversation,
                executorService, degradationStrategy);
 Object wrappedProxy = Proxy.newProxyInstance(targetToWrapInProxy.getClass().getClassLoader(),
                targetToWrapInProxy.getClass().getInterfaces(),
                handler);
 //now replace calls to target with the wrapped proxy.  In general, pretty simple to integrate with IoC frameworks,
 //                  AOP stuff, or JNDI
```

__A Sample from Slow Light Proxy Server__

This configuration proxies calls between port *10011* and *google.com:80*:
* Simple Proxy (first 2 min)
* Proxy with specified (1KB/s) timed delays (after 2 min)
* Discard incoming packets and keep connection open (after 5 min)

```json
{
    "id" : "solrServer",
    "type" : "proxy",
    "localPort" : "9012",
    "params" : {
        "host" : "localhost",
        "port" : "8983"
    },
    "handlers" : [
        {
            "name" : "delayHandler",
            "type" : "com.tacitknowledge.slowlight.proxyserver.handler.DelayChannelHandler",
            "params" : {"maxDataSize" : "0", "delay" : "0", "timeFrame" : "5"},
            "behaviorFunctions" : [
                {
                    "paramName" : "delay",
                    "type" : "com.tacitknowledge.slowlight.proxyserver.handler.behavior.LinearBehavior",
                    "ranges" : {"120000" : "130000"},
                    "params" : {
                        "value" : "1000"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "paramName" : "maxDataSize",
                    "type" : "com.tacitknowledge.slowlight.proxyserver.handler.behavior.LinearBehavior",
                    "ranges" : {"120000" : "130000"},
                    "params" : {
                        "value" : "1024"
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name" : "discardHandler",
            "type" : "com.tacitknowledge.slowlight.proxyserver.handler.DiscardChannelHandler",
            "params" : {"enabled" : "false", "timeFrame" : "5"},
            "behaviorFunctions" : [
                {
                    "paramName" : "enabled",
                    "type" : "com.tacitknowledge.slowlight.proxyserver.handler.behavior.LinearBehavior",
                    "ranges" : {"300000" : ""},
		    "params" : {
                        "value" : "true"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
```

For detailed information on how to configure and use Slow Light please use the following links:
* [Slow Light Embedded](embedded)
* [Slow Light Proxy Server](proxy)

# Where do I get Slow Light?
-------------------------
Slow Light is open source and is hosted at
[Github](http://github.com/tacitknowledge/slow-light).

# Notes
The default implementations are thread safe.  You can re-use a single proxy across threads, assuming the target object
is also safe.

# Extension Points
Feel free to write your own DegradationStrategy and pop it into the DegradationHandler

# Future Feature Notes

**stable releases**

Current Slowlight release is available in the public maven repository as com.tacitknowledge:slowlight:2.0.0

# Release Notes

Slow Light development progresses against the _development_ branch, with merges into master at releases.

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Despite the fact that we live in times where modern science has made great achievements and has come up with inventions that make life way too easy, I often wonder why do a great many of us still look back to old time strongmen to learn how to get stronger and fitter. Why does a guy in his 20's today still look back to the 1970's, 80, or even early 1900's to learn how to train? Why has there been this resurgence of "old school" strength training in the recent years? Why are the methods used by Arthur Saxon, Eugene Sandow, Paul Anderson of sudden interest to so many trainees?
Nowadays you have a lot of sites on the internet which contain information of ONLY old time strongmen and bodybuilders. And these sites have a great number of followers, which demonstrates the popularity of the old time methods. But if you were to compare the modern day records in the deadlift, squat, bench press to the earlier ones, then you will find that the modern day strongmen are quite ahead of the old time strongmen. Of course one did not have squat racks and benches in the early 1900's so it might not be a fair comparison, but the deadlift was there. Plus if you look at modern day bodybuilders, then you will find that they are far bigger and more ripped compared to the old time bodybuilders. So definitely numbers cannot be the reason in this case.
1) Simplicity- in our daily lives, we often say that life has become too complicated and stressful these days, and that in the old days, life was so much simpler and had much lesser stress. The same perception is also attached to old time strength training. In the old days, there were far less training equipment available, and one had to get focus on the basics to get strong. This made it a lot simpler approach, compared to modern times where you are often taught about using a bunch of supplements even before you have lifted a single pound. The basic formula in the old days was to simply eat good food, train hard, and get a good night's sleep every night.
Compare that with modern times where you will be taught how dairy, grains, non organic meat, fruits, etc are bad for you, along with super complicated programs to isolate muscle groups, and of course supplements to help you train harder, improve digestion, and even supplements to help you sleep better. No doubt that modern science has helped us a lot, but I also believe that theses days a lot of unnecessary things are being given far more importance that what they deserve. This makes for a lot more confusion and hassle.
2) Natural appeal- lets be honest, modern day bodybuilders who weigh 275 pounds at 5 feet 9 inches with a bodyfat % of less than 5% are anything but natural. Yes, they train hard and all, but its not what the average man can get even close to. To a lot of us, the sight of unnaturally huge muscles can be a major turn off, and seem impossible. On the other hand, the bodies of Eugene Sandow, Steve Reeves seem much more attainable for the regular man who trains naturally. Now to be honest, I do not agree that most men will be able to build as much muscle as Steve Reeves did, but they can atleast get a lot closer to Steve compared to Ronnie Coleman. And this fact itself makes one want to train and make an attempt, rather than give up without even trying.
3) The look of toughness- many trainees look at oldtime strongmen as being tough and strong willed individuals. Most gyms in the old days did not have the facilities nor the comforts that many modern day gyms have. There were very few (if any) air conditioned gyms, and many just had a few barbells and a pull up bar at max. Yet, these old time strongmen never backed away, and kept pushing hard with the limited resources that they had. They made great progress with little equipment and tons of mental toughness. This fact relates very well with people who train at home, or in similar gyms with very little facilities, and makes the old timers a bigger inspiration than modern day strongmen who train in well equipped gyms.
4) The appeal of both internal and external health- a lot of people believe that the oldtime strongmen were healthy, both internally and externally. There is a belief that modern day strongmen overuse steroids and are thus not healthy on the inside. While I do not fully agree with this belief, I do feel that the lack of steroid usage did give the edge to oldtime strongmen, in terms of long term health. They relied more on healthier habits to get strong rather than take drugs to get strong and huge. This belief alone makes old time strength training appealing to many trainees who wish to focus on both internal and external well being.
There are definitely more reasons as to why old time strength training is making a comeback, but I feel that these four reasons are the main ones. Whatever it maybe, I do feel that there is some value in looking back and studying the methods used in the old days. Those guys had a lot of good things going for them, and we can definitely learn from them. Infact a lot of great exercises which were forgotten, are making a comeback thanks to the study of old time strongmen and their methods. And as mentioned earlier that for those who train at home and have minimal equipment, the methods used in the old days might be more suitable and useful.


One of the many things that make Asheboro a great place to live is the vibrant art scene. From the various sculptures around town to the exhibitions that are sponsored and hosted by local businesses, art has become a huge part of our city's charm and appeal. On any given day, you can walk into a number of businesses around town and find world-class art on display. It was one such experience that brought me in contact with Asheboro resident and millennial artist, Laura Thompson.
There is a lot of negative talk about millennials these days. Tune into any newscast or read the headlines of any newspaper on any given day, and one could conclude that the blame for the demise of the world rests squarely on the shoulders of the millennial generation. But, as Laura so aptly points out, "while the generalizations may be partially true, everyone is an individual." Not only does Laura have a very solid head on her shoulders, she is very ambitious, well read and introspective beyond her years. But most of all, she is a talented artist.
I discovered Laura at Lumina Wine and Beer. She was the featured artist in April and when I walked in one evening, two of her paintings really spoke to me on an emotional level. I asked Patty about the exhibit and she introduced me to the artist. I bought the paintings and they are now hanging in the Asheboro Magazine office. What I like most about these paintings is how simple they are in appearance and yet profound in interpretation. Art is subjective – one man's masterpiece is another's debacle. Simple elegance is how I refer to these pieces and they are certainly masterpieces as far as I am concerned.
Laura and her mother moved to Asheboro from Chapel Hill nine years ago. They were looking for a more community oriented place to live and Asheboro seemed to have everything they wanted. Although Laura won her first art award in first grade, she didn't begin pursuing her creativity in earnest until college. In 2009, she attended Montserrat College of Art, a private art school in Beverly, MA. From there she went on to study art at Appalachian State University in Boone and fell in love with the art scene there. In 2011, her career started to take off. She began painting and when she'd put together enough pieces, she had her first exhibition. After selling her first piece of art, Laura felt she took her work to the next level.
Laura's passion for art comes to her naturally. From an early age, her grandfather was a large influence. He would draw on the back of cardboard boxes, carve into cement or barn doors on the tobacco farm where he lived. He had a favorite caricature he liked to draw that he called "His Little Man." After her grandfather passed away, they found tons of things that he had scribbled his art on. I was thrilled to hear the two pieces I bought were inspired by her grandfather's art.
Unfortunately, very few artists are able to make a full-time living in their chosen profession. Laura works at the NC Zoo selling admission tickets while she takes welding classes at RCC. Her short term goal is to get an internship on the visual arts team at the Zoo, to acquire the skills she needs to get hired and become a permanent full-time member of the team.
Laura has a very tight schedule. She goes to school from 7 am to mid-afternoon, after which she might drop in to Lumina or if she's feeling inspired, she goes home to paint. She spends most of her time in Asheboro, although she takes frequent trips to Boone for inspiration and to visit friends. She doesn't own a computer, and although she has a Facebook profile, she feels that Facebook makes it difficult to have real conversations with people and that you lose the ability to have interactions with any meaning.
Currently, Laura is working on a self-portrait, which she is finding more difficult than she anticipated. One rule Laura tries to adhere to when creating a piece of art is not to second guess herself too much which she is finding very challenging painting her own likeness. Perhaps her mantra, "A little piece of the artist resides in every piece they create", will be the inspiration she needs to bring the project to fruition. One thing is certain, like all of her art, it will undoubtedly be a creative expression of her emotions.


The ongoing story of Frank The Scarecrow by Roy Meats artist. This large, framed piece of wall art is sure to make a statement. Frank stands amidst a field with a low sun casting an orange glow across a moody sky. The wind blows Frank's hat off whilst a newspaper blows across like tumbleweed.


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Snow plow stolen in Wilton ahead of storm, and other Wilton police reports
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MATT KIERNAN Villager Staff Writer
WILTON — Police are investigating the break-in of a vehicle parked at a Danbury Road sports club last Tuesday.
At 1:18 p.m., police were called to the Four Seasons Racquet Club at 589 Danbury Road for the report of credit cards and money stolen from a 2010 Audi A4.
The vehicle, parked for more than an hour, was broken into through its front passenger window, police said.
Police say a wallet containing a credit card, debit card and $20 in cash was missing from the car.
The wallet was later found that afternoon in the parking lot of Duchess Restaurant on Route 1 in Darien, police said. It still contained the credit cards, but the cash was gone, police said.
A person turned the wallet in to the restaurant's manager, police said.
Anyone with information regarding the incident should call the Wilton Police Department at (203) 834-6260.
WILTON — A Stamford woman complained of head pain following a two-car accident last Wednesday on Route 7.
Police were called at 12:46 p.m. to the intersection of Route 7 and Ridgefield Road for the report of a vehicular accident.
The 48-year-old Stamford woman was driving her 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe southbound on Danbury Road when she stopped for a red light at the intersection with Ridgefield Road.
A 2008 Cadillac Escalade driven by a Wilton woman, 44, stopped behind the Hyundai, police said.
Police said the local woman thought the light turned green and drove into the Hyundai's rear.
The Stamford woman complained of minor head and neck pain following the accident, but refused medical assistance.
The local woman received a written warning for failing to drive at a reasonable distance.
WILTON — A $5,000 snow plow was stolen from a Danbury Road home's property last Thursday, and police are investigating.
The red Boss power VXT snow plow was reported missing at approximately 12 p.m.
The plow was last seen in the yard approximately two months before it was reported missing, police said.
It was discovered stolen about three days before the incident was reported, police said.
Saturday, Dec. 14
WILTON — A 55-year-old man from Danbury was charged with driving under the influence last Saturday after he was stopped for speeding on Danbury Road.
James T. Rosvold, of 8 East Hayestown Road, was charged with driving under the influence, unsafe movement of a stopped vehicle and traveling fast.
At 12:55 a.m., police were driving southbound on Danbury Road near the Four Seasons Racquet Club at 589 Danbury Road when they saw two cars traveling northbound significantly faster than the posted 40-mph speed limit, police said.
The officer turned around and caught up to the cars at the red light of the Danbury Road and Route 107 intersection.
Police said when the light turned green, the 2008 Hyundai Sonata driven by Rosvold in the right lane lurched forward, spinning its wheels and momentarily skidding sideways.
The car then accelerated rapidly into the right lane, police said.
Rosvold was stopped in front of Bruce Bennett Nissan at 978 Danbury Road, police said.
He could not perform field sobriety tests to standard and was placed under arrest, according to police.
Police said Rosvold refused to take a blood-alcohol level test.
Rosvold was released on a promise to appear in Norwalk Superior Court on Dec. 26.
WILTON — Two people were transported to the hospital last Saturday following a three-car accident on Danbury Road.
Police were called at 7:44 a.m. to Danbury Road near Grumman Hill Road for the report of a vehicular accident.
A 51-year-old woman from Bridgeport was driving a 2002 Oldsmobile Silhouet northbound on Danbury Road in the left lane approaching the intersection with Grumman Hill Road.
Police said a Wilton man, 48, was traveling in a 2009 Hyundai Sonata southbound on Danbury Road in the right lane just past the Grumman Hill Road intersection.
A third vehicle, a 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by a 70-year-old woman from Wilton, was driving southbound on Danbury Road in the right lane behind the Hyundai, police said.
The roads were covered with snow during the time of the incident, police said.
The Oldsmobile slid, crossing over the double-yellow line into the southbound lanes, police said.
Police said the front end of the vehicle then struck the front of the Hyundai.
As the vehicle continued to slide, police said the Jeep's front end hit the rear end of the Hyundai.
The Hyundai and Oldsmobile drivers were transported to Norwalk Hospital for possible injuries by Wilton EMS.
The Bridgeport woman received an infractions ticket for traveling too fast for conditions.


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Juniata Artist Explores Aging, Loss Through Paintings
HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- An eclectic exhibit of oil paintings by Bruce Erikson, assistant professor of art at Juniata College, will explore the psychological issues presented by aging, loss, death and family dynamics in a vibrant art exhibit, "Bruce Erikson: Unravel," on display Nov. 18 through Feb. 25 at the Juniata College Museum of Art.
There will be an opening reception for the exhibit at 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18 at the museum gallery. The reception is free and open to the public.
Erikson is primarily a figurative painter whose vividly painted scenes often have a jarring psychological underpinning related to how human beings' bodies and minds fail as we age. These sometimes tragic scenes are executed in a highly personal style that uses lush colors and rich tonal qualities to suggest a dream-like or cinematic image. Although Erikson's style is his own, there are echoes in his work of other superb figurative painters, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper and Caravaggio.
"My narratives emanate from personal recollections, memories and dreams that are often overlooked in significance. My work attempts to evolve past the personal by conversing with psychological issues of aging, death and dying, loss and longing," Erikson writes in his artist's statement.
Erikson came to the Juniata in 2005 as assistant professor of art. He has extensive experience both as an artist and as an art professor. He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1996 from Edinboro University, in Edinboro, Pa., and went on to earn a master of fine arts degree in painting in 1999 from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. He holds a certificate from the Illustration Academy in Kansas City, Mo.
Before joining the Juniata faculty he worked at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was visiting assistant professor from 2003 to 2005. He worked as a lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. from 2001 to 2003, where he also directed the university's painting-study abroad program in Florence, Italy.
He has had a series of solo art exhibitions. His "Unravel" exhibition was displayed at Macomb Community College (Clinton Town, Mich.), SUNY-Geneseo (N.Y.), Sinclair Community College (Dayton, Ohio) and Lock Haven University.
His work also has been included in international and national juried exhibitions, including shows at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, Pa., Fraser Gallery in Washington, D.C., Brad Cooper Gallery in Tampa, Fla., Palos Verde Arts Center in Palos Verde, Calif. and Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
The Juniata College Museum of Art is located in historic Carnegie Hall at 17th and Moore streets in Huntingdon. Museum hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. For more information, please call the museum at (814) 641-3505, or visit the Juniata College Web site at http://www.juniata.edu/museum.


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ForgeRock files for IPO as identity and access management business grows – TechCrunch
By Jimmy O. Schell on	 August 24, 2021 Open Access
ForgeRock filed its Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this morning as the identity management provider takes the next step towards its IPO.
The company has not provided an initial price for its shares, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FORG. The IPO is led by Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase & Co., with the company valued at $ 4 billion, according to Bloomberg, which represents a significant increase over the post-currency value of $ 730 million which PitchBook had for the company after its last round in 2020.
With the ever increasing volume of cybersecurity attacks against organizations of all sizes, the need to secure and manage user identities is growing. San Francisco-based ForgeRock has raised $ 233 million in funding over multiple rounds. The last tour of the company was a $ 93.5 million Series E announced in April 2020, which was led by Riverwood Capital alongside Accenture Ventures. Around this time, CEO Fran Rosch told TechCrunch that the cycle would be the last before an IPO, which was also what former CEO Mike Ellis told us after the startup was launched. $ 88 million Series D in September 2017.
While the timing of its IPO may not have been clear in recent years, the company is on a positive growth trajectory. In his S-1, ForgeRock reported that as of June 30, its annual recurring revenue (ARR) was $ 155 million, a 30% year-over-year growth.
As revenues increase, losses decrease as the company reported a net loss of $ 20 million from $ 36 million a year ago. There is certainly plenty of room to grow, as the company estimates the total addressable global market for identity services to be $ 71 billion.
Among the many competitors ForgeRock faces is Okta, which went public in 2017 and has grown steadily since. In March, Okta acquired cloud identity startup Auth0 for $ 6.5 billion in a deal that raised a few eyebrows. Another competitor is Ping Identity, which went public in 2019 and is also growing, reporting on August 4 that its ARR reached $ 279.6 million in its quarter ended June 30, for a gain of 19%. from one year to the next. There have also been a few major spacewalks over the years, including Duo Security, which was acquired by Cisco for $ 2.35 billion in 2018.
"ForgeRock has a good access management tool and continues to be an important player in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)," commented Michael Kelley, senior research director at Gartner.
Kelley noted that in 2020, ForgeRock converted most of its major access management services to a SaaS delivery model, which helped the company catch up with the rest of the market that already offered access management as a than SaaS. Also last year, the company expanded into Identity Governance, introducing a brand new Identity, Governance and Administration (IGA) product.
"I think one of the most interesting products that ForgeRock has to offer is ForgeRock Trees, which is a no-code / low-code orchestration tool for creating complex authentication and authorization journeys for customers, which is particularly useful in the CIAM market, "Kelly added. .
ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go even further back to an open source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005. When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems early in 2010, a number of its source efforts were scrapped, leading a number of former Sun employees to launch ForgeRock.
Over the past decade, ForgeRock has grown significantly beyond simply providing single sign-on to providing an identity platform capable of handling consumer, business and online use cases. 'IoT. The company's platform today manages identity and access management as well as identity governance.
Scalability is a key selling point ForgeRock is making in S-1, noting that its platform can handle over 60,000 user-based access transactions per second per customer.
"As of June 30, 2021, we had four customers with 100 million or more licensed identities," the company said in S-1. "Our ability to meet critical needs in complex environments for large clients allows us to grow our base of large clients and grow within each of them. "
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