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Polish state honour for German scientist
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has granted a state medal to German sociologist, economist and demographer Gunnar Heinsohn.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (right) and Prof. Gunnar Heinsohn (left) during the ceremony in Warsaw on Sunday.Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik
The decoration ceremony took place during the "Poland - Big Project" annual conference at Warsaw's Royal Castle on Sunday.
Entitled "Courage and Credibility," the medal is conferred for helping advance the image of Poland and its citizens internationally.
The Polish prime minister saluted Heinsohn as "a Renaissance man" who "is able to bring together knowledge from multiple disciplines."
Morawiecki added that such a broad approach "is much needed today" because "human knowledge is increasing at mind-boggling speed."
Morawiecki also reflected that "neoliberal views have dominated science" since 1989.
"This is why today, we so badly need those who can expose the true nature of such models, in a daring and sometimes provocative way," he said.
Born during World War II in the Nazi German-occupied northern Polish city of Gdynia, Heinsohn is a longtime lecturer at the University of Bremen in northwestern Germany.
He has published extensively on a range of topics, such as economics, genocide, the links between demography and security policy and the impact of education on the success of societies.
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Warehorne es una parroquia civil y un pueblo del distrito de Ashford, en el condado de Kent (Inglaterra).

Geografía
Según la Oficina Nacional de Estadística británica, Warehorne tiene una superficie de 10,66 km².

Demografía
Según el censo de 2001, Warehorne tenía 374 habitantes (47,86% varones, 52,14% mujeres) y una densidad de población de 35,08 hab/km². El 15,51% eran menores de 16 años, el 79,41% tenían entre 16 y 74 y el 5,08% eran mayores de 74. La media de edad era de 41,07 años. Del total de habitantes con 16 o más años, el 20,25% estaban solteros, el 69,3% casados y el 10,44% divorciados o viudos.

El 95,47% de los habitantes eran originarios del Reino Unido. El resto de países europeos englobaban al 2,13% de la población, mientras que el 2,4% había nacido en cualquier otro lugar. Según su grupo étnico, el 98,4% eran blancos y el 1,6% negros. El cristianismo era profesado por el 80,27% y cualquier otra religión, salvo el budismo, el hinduismo, el judaísmo, el islam y el sijismo, por el 0,8%. El 14,13% no eran religiosos y el 4,8% no marcaron ninguna opción en el censo.

216 habitantes eran económicamente activos, 210 de ellos (97,22%) empleados y 6 (2,78%) desempleados. Había 151 hogares con residentes, 5 vacíos y 4 eran alojamientos vacacionales o segundas residencias.

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Agile projects can be summarised by two, hopefully converging, lines – scope and completion rate. It's the simplest and most insightful visualisation of likely outcomes and possible options and very effective at engaging stakeholders.
The historical trend of these two lines is easily extrapolated into the future. You can either use the median/mean and standard deviations or a more sophisticated forecast based on Monte Carlo simulation. A probabilistic forecast will give two funnels of likely trends, and the 'landing zone' simply shows where these two funnels overlap.
Even the busiest stakeholder can quickly understand this representation of likely project outcomes – particularly when you show the range of probable completion dates.
Several of our clients now use the burn-up as the central artefact in their governance packs.
Too often business stakeholders feel frustrated in their inability to influence the outcome of a project, leading to stress, dysfunctional behaviours and poor decisions. It's often not clear that managing the scope is the key factor determining the likely completion date, even if there is an effective product owner and a well prioritised backlog. Extending the metaphor, we have two joysticks which will help land the project in that zone. It will require collaboration between 'the business' and 'IT' to make the landing successful. The development team (and others) hold the joystick that influences the completion rate. Whilst the product owner and business hold the scope joystick.
The evidence, from many of our clients' projects, is that scope adjustments have a much greater impact on the dates than the completion rate. This is probably based on a couple of incorrect myths.
Too often business stakeholders feel frustrated in their inability to influence the outcome of a project, leading to stress, dysfunctional behaviours and poor decisions. It's often not clear that managing the scope is the key factor determining the likely completion date, even if there is an effective product owner and a well prioritised backlog. Extending the metaphor, we have two joysticks which will help land the project in that zone. It will require collaboration between 'the business' and 'IT' to make the landing successful.
The development team (and others) hold the joystick that influences the completion rate. Whilst the product owner and business hold the scope joystick.
Stakeholders often imagine that the scope is relatively well known at the beginning and then stays flat'ish… a bit like this.
When in fact scope is more often more like this..
… the point is that everyone needs to be aware of it, and that starts with being able to see it.
We have found that the completion rate of the stable teams is relatively constant – and therefore the projected range of likely completion rates is relatively narrow.
In the example below, IF we take an evidence-based approach, then it is clear that there is no chance that the optimistic rate below is suddenly going to increase significantly. The optimistic and pessimistic lines show the likely (85% probability) future completion rate.
Attempts to reduce scope often meets strong resistance which the delays addressing the issue until there are few options left to affect the outcome.
Various political forces get in the way. People may find it risky to own up to a difficult truth or may be holding onto scope as some kind of bargaining chip – either way, it is to the detriment of the organisation.
This simple, real-time, unambiguous visual representation cuts through the political crap – enabling stakeholders to realise they have to take action AND that there is action they can take to influence the outcomes.
I wrote about such a scenario in this earlier post about how a simple burn-up chart prevented organisational group think from crashing a critical project.


Fans of Jersey Shore rejoice, it looks like your favourite reality TV programme may be making a comeback.
According to NJ.com the cast of the hit MTV show were spotted last month filming at Point Pleasant Beach and Asbury Park for a reunion show.
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Speaking to the Asbury Park Press Toby Wolf, the director of marketing for Jenkinson's Boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach said he saw Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley, having dinner and playing games on June 16.
Despite this MTV have denied the rumours saying that they have no part in the project but many speculate they're simply trying to keep the reunion a secret.
The cast have certainly done nothing to squash rumours of their return sharing pictures of their reunion all over social media.
Adding to speculation are reports from local business owners that the producers asked for permission to film at various locations in New Jersey, including the Langosta Lounge.
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They called 10 days before they wanted to film and we said no freaking way, it'll be bad publicity.
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'Killing us' – Mark Robins on Coventry City's gut-wrenching defeat at Watford
Mark Robins was left fuming for the second time in four days after watching his Coventry City side throw away more valuable Championship points.
The Sky Blues boss blasted his players on the one hand, accusing them of making elementary mistakes against a multi-million pound Watford side, against whom they performed impressively to come from a goal behind and take the lead at Vicarage Road.
But that slender advantage lasted less than two minutes as City conceded a soft set-piece goal and then pressed the self destruct button by conceding a late penalty for the second game running, to hand the Hornets the win.
"It's been a harsh week," said the Sky Blues boss after the 3-2 defeat.
Ben Sheaf of Coventry City is challenged by Etienne Capoue of Watford during the Sky Bet Championship match between Watford and Coventry City at Vicarage Road
"We've learnt some harsh lessons. We can't keep giving chances to teams that have got better players.
"I should be talking about what a really good performance it was.
"Instead, I am looking at elementary mistakes that are killing us because we contrive to give teams chances."
Reflecting on Gus Hamer's superbly improvised header and Tyler Walker's clinical angled finish to get City level and take the lead, he added: "The two goals were brilliant.
"Tyler Walker's finish was absolutely outstanding, which is fantastic for us, we got our noses in front coming from a goal down at a place like this against a team that's just been relegated from the Premier League.
"They've got good players and you can't give them chances. Right from the second goal they conceded a throw-in, we concede the ball and then concede a corner which they score from.
"We're just not giving ourselves a chance to grow into the game. They're under pressure and they're starting to feel it and we don't give ourselves enough time to let them feel the pressure."
Coventry City's Tyler Walker (centre) celebrates scoring his side's second goal of the game with team-mates during the Sky Bet Championship match at Vicarage Road, Watford.
City have shipped 23 goals in their opening 11 Championship games.
"The biggest thing for me is that we concede too many goals and we are soft," said Robins.
"The goal we conceded for the penalty, Callum O'Hare's arms are above his head and gives the referee another decision to make.
"We've given a second penalty away that's cost us a game in a week, two penalties that we should never have been in a position to give them away and it really hurts.
"They've got to understand, I'm looking for warriors, it's a tough league and I'm not expecting us to roll over and die, we can make sure that we're more committed.
"It's really difficult because they're giving me everything, but we're playing against individual players and teams that are better.
"As a team we're starting to get there, we're putting really good performances in and it's very difficult when we're losing games like we are, we have to be better and understand that we're going to have to put bodies on the line on a more regular basis."
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Share this Story: Veggies thrive in permaculture garden
Veggies thrive in permaculture garden
When the family moved in six years ago, the yard was just lawn, plus some raspberries and nettles. Four years ago, Shawn Fulton started a garden and discovered permaculture.
Shawn Fulton´s permaculture garden in Regina. Photo by TROY FLEECE /Regina Leader-Post
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WHO? Shawn Fulton, his wife Kendra Kembel and their two children.
WHAT/WHERE? The garden at their Cathedral-area home in Regina.
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WHEN? When the family moved in six years ago, the yard was just lawn, plus some raspberries and nettles. Four years ago, Fulton started a garden and discovered permaculture.
WHY? "I like gardening, I like the outdoors, I'm a very frugal person," Fulton explained. "I read somewhere once that you could save close to $3- or $4,000 a year if you have a really productive garden."
Plus, his own garden would ensure fresh, organic food for his family, and save on plastic packaging from the grocery store.
"It's a really small step in trying to help save the world," said Fulton — which is the same reason he started keeping bees this year: "I'm constantly thinking about how I can improve through little tiny steps, thinking globally, acting locally."
HOW? From the palette compost to the shelf-and-window fence to the box-spring wood storage, everything in the garden has been salvaged. That practical reuse extends to the plants, too: Everything works in concert with everything else.
When Fulton started with six raised beds on the lawn, rabbits would harvest the beans. So he replaced the grass with their preferred clover; in turn their droppings fertilized the earth.
"Every plant has more than one purpose and if you have problems with your garden, often those problems can be seen as the solution," said Fulton. "Instead of trying to fight a pest or whatever, it's more about adding something to help balance the systems out."
Every plant is grown with a companion: Chives at the base of apple, cherry, plum and pear trees help keep away fruit-loving pests; rhubarb funnels rainwater to the tree roots and shades the soil from evaporation.
Beans, peas and squash thrive as they climb up the stalks of sunflowers and fruit trees.
Fulton mixes flowers among the lettuce, swiss chard, kale and tomatoes, because aphids prefer marigolds to produce.
He built swales into the front yard to prevent run-off. Underneath it all are chunks of rotten wood and tree stumps, which break down over time to absorb water and feed the roots.
"It's really complex and diverse and interesting, all the different things you can add to this system to make it regenerate topsoil, retain groundwater, produce food in luscious abundance."
The big compost consists of kitchen scraps and fall leaves. Whatever doesn't get whipper snipped for ground cover gets tossed in too.
The compost provides some surprises — "I didn't plant any of the squash," said Fulton. "A lot of the tomatoes too."
Fulton never pulls weeds. He'll shear them once a week and leave them where they fall, like instant compost; their roots help pull nutrients from the earth and keep the soil loose.
Raspberries, strawberries and berry bushes lead the way into the back yard, which features grapes, hops and honeybees — "just like little jet planes flying around because they're working so fast to make so much honey."
Fulton wanted to create a space his family would spend time in. His son and daughter spend "hours and hours" swinging from the linden tree in the front yard and snacking on parsley from the "keyhole herb garden."
Once his fruit trees grow, he hopes to create archways by braiding their branches together. As vegetables climb up their trunks, there could be "squash and pumpkins hanging from a fruit tree at the same time that an apple or a cherry is."
He also hopes frogs and ducks will one day enjoy the back yard pond.
"That hasn't happened yet, but with this whole permaculture idea, they say eventually it's going to happen," said Fulton, "because you've created an environment where they're like, 'Hey this is great, let's stay here.'"
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Winter can be boring, there's no doubt about that. Particularly when you're snowed in at your college dorm, it can start to feel like you're totally going stir-crazy. While some people take refuge in a Netflix binge or making snow angels outside, one University of Michigan student has decided to take it upon himself to spam his fellow classmates' accounts with lyrics to "Hotline Bling."
Someone known as Michael (hot tip: make your MacBook name private before you spam people in your network) has been sending his classmates a flurry of emails that recite the lyrics sentence by sentence. Apparently, ol' Michael figured out how to send emails to a listserv of sophomores in the College of Literature, Science and Art. They know when that hotline bling, it can only mean one thing...Michael is at it again.


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Leipzig's Sven Tasnadi makes his Smallville debut, turning out three new productions, ranging from the pirouetting triplets of 'Waiting For You (Again)' to the finely honed echo tremors of 'Waiting For A Sign', taking in some chugging filtrations via 'Waiting For Your Love' along the way. Smallville - we love you!!!


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Rubrik Raises $41 Million Series B Led by Greylock Partners, Announces General Availability of r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance
Rubrik raises over $51 million in just 15 months since inception
Explosive demand for Rubrik Converged Data Management, which eliminates backup software, fuels company's rapid growth in $47 billion data management market
Rubrik r300 Series appliance globally available exclusively through the Company's channel partners
Palo Alto, CA – May 26, 2015 – Rubrik, the Converged Data Management company, announced a $41 million Series B investment led by Greylock Partners with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and existing angel investors. Concurrently, Rubrik introduced the r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance underpinned by its Converged Data Management Platform. The Company will use the funding to accelerate its rapidly growing global footprint of customers and channel partners.
"We are truly humbled by the tremendous response to our Early Access Program announced in March," said Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO, Rubrik. "This early customer traction demonstrates the latent market demand for a platform that delivers radical improvements in TCO while eliminating a complex data management infrastructure with a simple, converged system."
Redefining the Data Management Landscape
Industry analyst firm IDC estimates that businesses will spend $47 billion in 2015 on infrastructure to protect data, manage disaster recovery, enable DevOps, and archive for compliance and long-term retention.
"We partner with world-class teams building category-defining companies in large markets," said Asheem Chandna, Partner, Greylock Partners. "Rubrik is a game-changing company that radically simplifies data management, and has the potential to redefine the backup and recovery markets." As part of the investment, Mr. Chandna has joined Rubrik's board of directors. Greylock's enterprise investments include Data Domain, Docker, Legato, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage and Workday.
"Rubrik is modernizing the secondary environment with a single, software-defined fabric in the same way that Nutanix has transformed the primary environment with a single, software-defined fabric. Rubrik's rapid growth is a testament to the real pent-up demand for innovation in backup and recovery," said Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder & CEO, Nutanix and Rubrik's early investor.
"Rubrik has delivered a transformative enterprise product in record time," said Ravi Mhatre, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. "Moreover, channel partners will love the customer value, partner economics and simplicity of Rubrik r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance."
Introducing Rubrik r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance
The Rubrik r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance, a 2U unit containing up to four x86 nodes, comes pre-configured with the Rubrik Converged Data Management Platform (RCDM). The Rubrik platform is anchored by a patent-pending Cloud-Scale File System, a distributed system built from scratch to be version-enabled with intelligent management of flash and spinning disks. Rubrik Converged Data Management is designed to scale out to tens of thousands of nodes.
Primary benefits of Rubrik r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance include:
Easy Setup – Get up and running in less than 15 minutes. Compare to months.
Zero-time Recovery – Instantly recover applications by utilizing Rubrik as a mountable live storage endpoint. Compare to weeks.
Public Cloud Economics – Intelligently deliver long-term data retention by leveraging public cloud storage. Compare 10x cost savings.
Google-like Search – Instantly locate any data with predictive search results based on data stored across private and public clouds. Compare to days.
Accelerated App Development – Rapidly provision data to developers by turning Rubrik into a storage endpoint. Compare to weeks.
Rubrik r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliances are globally available through the Company's channel partners.
For more information, visit http://www.rubrik.com or email info@rubrik.com.
Jaime Huizar, Senior Architect, Power Integrations
"In my twenty years of IT experience, I've used pretty much used every solution in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and they're so complicated that you need a PhD to operate any of them. With Rubrik, it took ten minutes to get up and running. Our upfront software and hardware costs were reduced by 4x."
Matthew Day, IT Manager, Langs Building Supplies
"Nothing is as easy as Rubrik. Rubrik is measured in seconds to minutes, not hours – whether it is searching for data, live mounting a snapshot, or restoring lost data in production. We reduced our backup infrastructure acquisition spend by 2x."
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George Crump, President and Founder, Storage Switzerland
"Rubrik is one of the more interesting technologies I've seen recently in the backup and recovery space. Their ability to converge data protection architectures while making backups live, changes not only the way companies purchase, deploy and manage data protection, it should also change the way companies think about data."
Vinny Choinski, Senior Lab Analyst, ESG
"ESG Lab is excited to be in the initial testing phase of a project highlighting Rubrik's scale-out data management platform, which converges backup software and deduplicated storage in order to eliminate the need for traditional backup software. Our testing is focused on validating how Rubrik users can get started quickly, drive down RTO with live data access, and locate data instantly with Google-like search. Look for our full results soon on the Rubrik and ESG websites."
About Rubrik
Rubrik provides the industry's first Converged Data Management platform with the Rubrik r300 Series Hybrid Cloud Appliance, fusing enterprise-class data management with web-scale IT. Organizations use Rubrik to deliver live data access to recover from failures and accelerate application development. Rubrik is built by key engineers behind Google, Facebook, VMware, and Data Domain. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Rubrik has raised over $51 million from Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and enterprise IT luminaries, including John W. Thompson (Microsoft Chairman, Symantec Former CEO), Frank Slootman (ServiceNow CEO, Data Domain Former CEO), Dheeraj Pandey (Founder and CEO, Nutanix) and Mark Leslie (Leslie Ventures, Veritas Founding CEO). For more information, visit http://www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter.
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Do you think that a truly great party deserves time, effort, and all you can give it to make it the best night ever? If you're one to go above and beyond to show your friends a good time, this Ultimate Movie Party is for party royalty. Marie Antoinette, like the woman herself, is not without its flaws, but man does it make for a great party movie. Here's why Marie Antoinette should be your Ultimate Movie Party choice. On y va!
Can you imagine anything more sinfully decadent and visually-striking than 18th-century Parisian high society? In the upper echelons of Paris, one woman stood out amongst the crowd as a taste-maker, a curator of haute couture, and a style maven. Marie Antoinette, for all her ills, is remembered today for her boldness and c'est la vie attitudes about fashion, food, and partying. It is no surprise that another standout woman, director Sofia Coppola, would make Marie Antoinette the subject of one of her most elaborate, gloriously over-the-top and audacious films to date.
France's most iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, is the subject of Sofia Coppola's modernist period piece. The life of Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, from her engagement through her infamous final months as queen, is utterly fascinating. Coppola's vision for this iconic, extravagant queen, famous for flaunting her raucous lifestyle while the people she ruled suffered, is just as sugar-soaked and extraordinary as the queen herself. That is, of course, until the fall of Versailles.
It may not be the easiest party to convey in an invitation, but if you are going to party like Marie Antoinette, you had better prepare to make absolutely everything about your party lush, sumptuous, and ornate. Party attendees, at any time, should be encouraged to dance, nap, eat, or play at their leisure. And yes – OH HELL YES – indulge their inner party monsters for this special occasion.
There's no easy way to say "turn your home into a palace," so I'm just going to say it: Turn your home into a palace! Shiny gold, silver, neon, bright pastels, heavy patterns – anything and everything that makes you think you've gone way above and beyond your tasteful sensibilities should be center stage. You certainly don't have to be a millionaire to pull it off either. Easy, cheap, DIY photo backdrops like these are the perfect way to make a bold statement.
It's seldom that a party invitation should say guests can look forward to a lounge-worthy good time. However, for the sake of really channeling the pre-Victorian Era Parisian royalty lifestyle, you may want to encourage your guests to bring their own pillows, lounge chairs, and hammocks. If you're going to party like a queen, you're going to need to crash like a queen too!
What would high society functions be if everyone didn't indulge in fashion-forward cheekiness? Whether it's tuxedos and ball gowns or a pajama soiree, your Marie Antoinette movie party should be all about being as fab as you can be. Let's just say that if you own a pair of Shoe Bakery's confectionary heels, this party is the time to bust them out and show them off. And pajamas or not, 18th-century wigs are always a good call (even if they're made of paper). Masks, mini hats, feathers, corsets, and parasols will keep the party in fine Parisian fare, but that doesn't mean that you can't go modern AF with it. Hell, even Coppola knew that when she hid these candy-colored Converse in Marie Antoinette.
The great news is that entertainment is built into this party. If the music is pumping, the food is flowing, and the phones are snapping hundreds of pics of everyone's costumes, you are already doing an excellent job of entertaining. A Marie Antoinette party should be like a French salon, buzzing with discussion, movement, and face-to-face interaction. In addition to actually watching the movie, you certainly don't want to miss the opportunity to play socializing games that keep everyone laughing, like Who Am I or Cards Against Humanity.
If you haven't already been floored by the Marie Antoinette soundtrack, you're going to want to cue it up for your shindig. A 2017 NYLON magazine article says it "captures what it's like to be a millennial." Swoon!
Is there anything more Marie Antoinette than cake? If it has fat, sugar, and is the kind of food that you normally avoid eating, serve it. Tell your guests to leave their veggie trays at home. This party is 7-layer dip in a trifle bowl or nothing at all. Decadent cakes, pastries, tarts, truffles, mousses, macarons, bread, cheeses, oil, pates, steaks, scallops, and quail eggs are all par for the course. And do keep it coming! But don't think that this hoity-toity food is the only way to indulge. Bust out some Ben & Jerrys, microwave plate after plate of Bagel Bites, and bust out those chips and feel like royalty in your own way.
Like the food, the drinks should not stop flowing. Champagne doesn't have to be your go-to drink, but no matter what you serve, make your guests feel fancy as hell while they drink it. BTW, have you tried a chocolate-flavored wine yet? This might be the ideal time to make a wine run!


Summer is in full effect which means staying cool has been the number one priority around here, and what better way to cool off than with some homemade yogurt bites? Add these to the list of "super easy yet so impressive" snacks, and I'll explain why that is in just one minute.
Yogurt bites were my babies jam when he first started on solids, he could never get enough! But as he gets older and wants to do everything on his own, feeding him actual yogurt is a challenge, but I also couldn't keep investing his ever-dwindling college fund into the yogurt bites you buy at the store when he eats them all in one sitting. So pinterest to the rescue is naturally how this story begins.
One afternoon I saw some delicately piped yogurt bites on my newsfeed and figured I could attempt it, realizing I had neither a piping bag or even a ziplock bag, I did what any mediocre mom would do, I took an old baby Tylenol syringe (those yellow things seem to be everywhere) and dropped yogurt onto a sheet pan, at first paying attention to detail, but then just dropping the yogurt because I could here "all done" growing louder and louder from my tiny man in his high chair.
The result was a whole baby bowl full of frozen yogurt treats, and although little man was not a fan at first, once the weather heated up and teeth started coming in, they became his best friend. I also liked them because it gives me something to snack on that isn't chocolate when I wake up in middle of the night. The cost of the snack is also r in comparison to buying the premade yogurt bites. With a whole sheet pan using maybe four ounces of yogurt, we buy the big tubs of plain vanilla yogurt for $1.89, so essentially, I can make about eight batches of yogurt bites for the price of one bag of the premade ones.
Feel free to mix up the yogurt bites by adding in fresh or frozen fruit, or using a different flavor of yogurt, these are also great thrown together in a bowl with fresh strawberries to just eat as a breakfast meal or a healthy snack.
Thank you! My overall ice cream obsession has been broken by these bad boys at night time thankfully!


As if he didn't deserve it after bringing a championship title to Boston. I think it was in the organizations best interest to compensate him with the greenery. I'm quite sure he's more than pleased. Hell, who wouldn't be.
With his new contract, lets see if the Celtics can repeat & bring the chip home again.


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Instagram live video is here
Instagram's biggest update yet will soon be available to a lot more people.
The app is now starting to bring its live-streaming features to everyone, the Facebook-owned service announced on Monday. Users in the U.S. will start to see the feature today and those in other countries will have access "over the coming weeks," according to the company.
Instagram had previously announced live video was coming to its app. Its features are more like Snapchat than Facebook in that live videos disappear after the stream ends. When someone you follow is live, it will appear in the Stories section of the app and some users will receive notifications when someone they follow is live (based on an algorithm that determines which followers are most likely to be interested.)
If you have post notifications on for an account, then you'll also get alerts when they go live. Live videos will also appear in the app's "explore" section.
To check whether you have access to live video, swipe into the "Stories" camera in the app and look for "live." The live broadcasts themselves are similar to those on Facebook and Twitter's Periscope: viewers can comment and add "hearts" to the streams as they watch.
For Instagram, the update marks one of the app's biggest changes in year as it is the biggest shift yet toward the "in the moment" sharing often reserved for Snapchat. Facebook's photo app has made no secret of its desire to be more like Snapchat in recent months.
The company first rolled out Stories, essentially a copy of the Snapchat feature of the same name, in August. Last month, the app added new ephemeral messaging features, which introduced alongside live video.
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The best thing of MBW is all parts are gen specs, means can be replaced by genuine parts anytime without any issues. No need to do major modification to put gen parts on it. Na Piek is the name of the store. Located in the first floor of the building with green sign, black letter. You won't get the watch until you asked and you need to wait 2-3 days, because the maker need to make and assemble the watch.
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Danish government makes massive COVID vaccination announcement
The Danish government is now only recommending COVID vaccination for citizens 50 years old and older.
This is a significant shift from not that long ago when governments around the world were pushing COVID vaccinations on just about every single one of their citizens, including the very young.
The announcement
The Danish government, back in April, was the first to stop its COVID vaccination program, saying, "spring has arrived, vaccine coverage in the Danish population is high, and the epidemic has reversed." And, prior to that, the Danish government stopped allowing those under the age of 18 to be vaccinated.
The Danish government, nonetheless, made it clear that it would likely reinstate the vaccine program for the fall. And, that it was it is doing, except that it is now only for those aged 50 and above.
The Danish Health Authority made the announcement just recently, saying:
With the autumn vaccination programme, we aim to prevent serious illness, hospitalisation and death. The risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19 increases with age. Therefore, people who have reached the age of 50 and particularly vulnerable people will be offered vaccination.
"We expect that many people will be infected with covid-19 during autumn and winter," the agency added. "It is therefore important that the population remembers the guidance on how to prevent infection, which also applies to a number of other infectious diseases."
Why just 50 and above?
The big question is why the Danish government is now restricting its COVID vaccination program to those 50 and older. The government is very careful how it goes about answering this question.
It says:
The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation, and death. Therefore, people at the highest risk of becoming severely ill will be offered booster vaccination. The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.
The Danish Health Authority continues:
People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from covid-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with covid-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.
There are several things to note here, including that the Danish government admits that the vaccines do "not prevent infection" and that people 50 and younger who are in decent health are "not at particularly high risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19." These are significant admissions.
Coming to America?
At the moment, it is not looking as though America is going to be following in Denmark's footsteps here.
President Joe Biden did just claim that the COVID-pandemic is "over," but he has been contradicted by members of his own administration. This has suggested to many that Biden just made the claim in order to try to win some votes in the midterm elections.


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Corporate Domination of Food Threatens Cultural Identities
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Genetically engineered and patented foods threaten not only biodiversity and environmental health, it also threatens cultures, and the cultural identity of peoples around the world
Our food system is highly concentrated in terms of being a monoculture and in ownership of these few precious crops. Far from satisfying the world's food needs, this concentration ensures food insecurity
Free trade agreements are really forced trade deals, and by creating international laws that supersede national laws, they virtually guarantee quality and safety of food will be as low as possible
In the featured TED Talk, Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life, environmental activist Winona LaDuke addresses some of the more hidden dangers of global corporate domination by companies such as Monsanto.
"Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings, fins, or roots... Food has a culture. It has history," Winona says.
Many Westerners may have forgotten any ancestral traditions revolving around food. But for American Indians, Hawaiians, Maori, Mexicans, and many others, food still has a special role within their culture and history.
Genetically engineered (GE) foods, which are not only altered in various unnatural ways, are also patented. Farmers must pay user fees to plant them and are prohibited from saving the seeds for the next season.
This unnatural system threatens not only biodiversity and environmental health, it also threatens cultures and the cultural identity of peoples around the world.
At present, biotech corporations are fighting tooth and nail to ensure genetically modified organisms (GMOs) gain unrestricted access to the markets around the world, and the food industry as a whole is also poised to achieve global domination via free trade deals that usurp nations' rights to make and uphold their own food laws.
To the American Indian tribe Ojibwe, wild rice (minoman) is sacred. The tribe was led by the Creator to settle where minoman grew, and wild rice is the first and last food tribal members will eat in this life. It's featured in sacred feasts and ceremonies, and minoman is grown today in much the same way it was grown a thousand years ago.
Similarly, taro holds a special place in the Hawaiian culture. To the Hawaiians, taro is part of their cosmogenealogy; they consider themselves related to taro—to them, taro is their older brother. To the New Zealand Maori, the peruperu potato is sacred.
All of them have fought to prevent these culturally important foods from being genetically modified (GM) and patented. So far, they've all won.
Yet the march of GMOs continues unabated, with more and more "redesigned" crops being released, and with it, biodiversity declines. Not only are GMOs replacing conventional seeds, but GMOs also spread and pollute other non-GMO crops, thereby posing a double-threat to diversity.
Engineering Extinction
Over the past 100 years, we've lost an estimated 75 percent of our agro-biodiversity, and this has environmental consequences that many fail to consider. Loss of access to traditional foods also leads to poorer health.
Across the world, when people abandon their traditional whole food cuisine for processed foods, obesity and related diseases inevitably follow.
Winona also discusses the economic ramifications of seed patenting. At present, commercially available seeds are owned by seven corporations, and farmers are stripped of the inherent wealth associated with owning, saving, and sharing seeds.
Our current food system is highly concentrated—first, in terms of being a monoculture with very few varieties available, and second, in terms of ownership of these few precious crops. And far from being the answer to the world's food needs, this concentration actually ensures food insecurity.
Add to that the fact that many of the older varieties of crops were higher in valuable nutrients too. As just one example, work by Dr. August Dunning, chief science officer and co-owner of Eco Organics, shows that to receive the same amount of iron you used to get from one apple in 1950, by 1998 you had to eat 26 apples.
Free Trade Agreements are Really Forced Trade...
Free trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which involves the United States and 11 other countries, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and Europe, have major implications in terms of our economy, our daily lives, as well as our states- and national sovereignty.
While they're deceptively described as free trade agreements, they're actually lead to forced trade, and by setting up international laws that supersede national laws, they create a situation in which quality and safety of food is virtually guaranteed to be as low as possible.
Many European countries worry that these trade agreements may undermine or circumvent many of their established laws against GMO's and other American food practices, such as disinfecting chicken in chlorine and the routine use of hormones in beef production, neither of which is permitted in the EU.1
Based on what has happened with other trade deals, such fears are warranted. The difference between Europe and the US in terms of how farmers and consumers view GE foods is mirrored in the amount of GMO's grown and used in food.
In the US, 88 percent of all corn, 94 percent of cotton and 93 percent of soybeans are genetically engineered varieties. In Europe, less than one percent of the farmland is dedicated to GE crops—primarily in Spain—and Europeans are strong proponents of the precautionary principle.
In the US, regulators tend to approve new technologies based on short-term studies done by the manufacturer.
European regulators tends to be far more cautious, and acknowledge that what they don't know is perhaps more important than what little they do know about the product in question, so they're less likely to approve items that are poorly studied.
As noted in The Washington Post:2
"Genetically modified crops are broadly unpopular in Europe, and farmers and environmentalists fear that if trade restrictions are lowered, both genetically modified seeds and U.S.-grown genetically modified products would quickly take over European farmland and grocery stores.
Some farmers are hoping to stop the talks if rules that govern their work are thrown into the mix, and they are determined to keep U.S. industrial farming an ocean's-length away...
"We will fight this until we cannot fight any more" if it appears that restrictions on growing genetically modified crops are about to be loosened, said Reinhard Jung, the head of the Brandenburg Farmers' Federation."
Why are Free Trade Agreements Negotiated in Secret?
Free trade agreements really do little to boost local economies; they simply empower corporate superpowers to become even more dominant. Unfortunately, trade agreements are poorly understood by most people, which isn't surprising considering they're negotiated in secret, and the public is rarely engaged in the process.
If you missed my interview with Ben Lilliston, Vice President of Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, in which he discusses the workings of international trade agreements, I highly recommend taking the time to listen to it now. These agreements really do little to boost local economies; they simply empower corporate superpowers to become even more dominant.
Trade agreements are poorly understood by most people, which isn't surprising considering they're negotiated in secret, and the public is rarely engaged in the process. If you missed my interview with Ben Lilliston, vice president of Program at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, in which he discusses the workings of international trade agreements, I highly recommend taking the time to listen to it now.
You can also learn more about these and other trade deals on the Public Citizen's Globalization and Trade website.3 They also have a page dedicated to the issues relating to the TPP,4 where they note that this trade deal could:
Offshore American jobs and increase income inequality5 Introduce SOPA-like threats to Internet freedom6
Increase cost of medicines7 Empower corporations to attack US environmental and health safeguards8
Expose Americans to unsafe food and products9 Undermine Wall Street reforms10
Ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs11
Bad News: Industry 'Bought' TPP Fast-Track Approval
At present, the TPP and the TTIP are under negotiation, and the stakes include rules relating to medicines, local food programs, food safety programs, and even labor rights. Unfortunately, the US Senate recently voted to give President Obama the authority to fast-track the TPP. Fast-tracking means Congress will not be able to debate or amend the agreement; it can only vote yes or no on it, as is.
As noted by The Guardian,12 there was a lot of public resistance against fast-tracking the TPP, but corporate money won at the end of the day. On May 14, 62 senators voted yes on the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA); 38 voted no.
"Those impressive majorities follow months of behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing by the world's most well-heeled multinational corporations..." The Guardian13 writes. "Using data from the Federal Election Commission, this chart14 shows all donations that corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP15 made to US Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate:
Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 "yea" votes.
The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors...
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who is the former US trade representative, has been one of the loudest proponents of the TPP... He received $119,700 from 14 different corporations between January and March..." [Emphasis mine]
Trade Agreements Weaken Health and Environmental Protections and Destroy Regulatory Standards
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are largely focused on creating "regulatory harmonization" among participating nations. Basically, they seek to set up the same regulatory infrastructure in all countries involved in the agreements. This means participating countries must have similar if not identical (aka "harmonized") rules and regulations for food safety, chemicals, GMOs, intellectual property, medicines, and finance, for example. The ones benefiting from this "harmonization" are the multinational corporations that came up with and negotiated the rules in the first place.
They want a regulatory system that makes it as easy for them to operate across borders as possible. For example, if their product is approved for sale in one country, it's automatically approved in the partnering countries. Or, if they're granted a patent in one country, their patent is protected under the agreement in other countries as well. The problem with harmonizing regulations across borders is that, as a rule, the common standard ends up being the lowest possible standard. Repeatedly, we've seen that trade agreements push regulations down, rather than up; weakening rather than strengthening environmental and health protections.
Harmonization creates a race to the bottom in terms of both quality and safety.16 The lowering of regulations is of particular concern when it comes to environmental and public health safety. If the standard is lowered via a trade agreement, a country must lower its current regulations or potentially face legal challenges.
According to Sebastian Pfotenhauer, a science policy researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):17 "TTIP really falls squarely within the domain of science and technology policy. What is at stake is the sovereignty of countries to interpret scientific data and regulate risks in the way they choose."
According to EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht, the TTIP would not permit companies to circumvent EU food standards, particularly those relating to GE foods. But, as reported by The Guardian18 last year:
"[D]ocuments from various US and Canadian government agencies and business trade bodies suggest strong pressure is being brought to bear from US industries to allow GM products and other foods into EU markets that would violate the EU's current standards, in the name of free trade."
Indeed, a 2013 article in The Hill19 noted that:
"[T]he US Senate Finance committee has recently stressed that any agreement must also reduce EU restrictions, among others, on genetically modified crops. Reaching consensus on this contentious issue is vital to successful negotiations of the TTIP... [W]hile the differences in transatlantic approach towards GM foods pose a concrete threat to the conclusion of the trade agreement, the trade talks themselves provide the ultimate opportunity to enable the authorization and cultivation of GM crops in Europe."
It's important to realize that both the TTP and the TTIP grant corporations special legal rights under the Investor-state Provision, and if a corporation feels a nation's regulation violates one of these trade agreements, they can legally challenge the regulation. As noted by Scientific American:20
"The history of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other such agreements is littered with such cases... The pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly is currently suing Canada under NAFTA after the government invalidated patents on two of the company's drugs in an argument over interpretation of clinical-trial data. Companies have also tried to use NAFTA to force Canada to allow toxic-waste exports and to include an additive in petrol that the nation's regulators claimed was dangerous."
TTIP Already Used as Leverage to Lower or Eliminate Regulations for Toxic Chemicals
Indeed, there are plenty of reasons to expect regulations of toxic chemicals and other consumer dangers to proliferate under these trade agreements. A story in the Guardian21 offers yet another example. In the summer of 2013, EU trade officials were visited by a delegation from the American Chambers of Commerce, insisting the EU ditch its plans to regulate dozens of pesticides containing endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). According to the article:
"Minutes of the meeting show commission officials pleading that 'although they want the TTIP to be successful, they would not like to be seen as lowering the EU standards...' In a high-level internal note sent to the health commissioner, Tonio Borg, shortly afterwards, his departmental director-general warned that the EU's endocrines policy 'will have substantial impacts for the economy, agriculture and trade…'
The series of events was described as 'incredible' by the Green MEP Bas Eickhout. 'These documents offer convincing evidence that TTIP not only presents a danger for the future lowering of European standards, but that this is happening as we speak,'" he told the Guardian." [Emphasis mine]
Trade Agreements Usher in 'Corporate Fascism'
Another major issue in these trade agreements relates to rules of procurement. For example, the US has many farm to school programs in place to support local farmers and local businesses, but public programs like these can be challenged by a foreign corporation because they're not eligible for that program, and that could be considered illegal under the trade rules.
As noted by Lilliston, "The 'Buy American' provisions, which are very common in public procurement programs right now, could be under threat under trade rules." Many states also have their own environmental regulations in place to protect human and environmental health, and these too could be challenged under these trade agreements. This is particularly concerning as it applies to state initiatives to label GMOs. As explained by Lilliston:
"These trade agreements want to set one standard, so they're not going to have any state-based standards that are stronger than the national standard. This particularly comes up in the case of GMO labeling where we're seeing all these states in United States pushing for GMO labeling...
These agreements say, 'No, you can't do that at the state level. Sorry. We need one standard through all the countries involved.' Basically, it's kind of an end run around those state-based [initiatives] that have been very important in pushing for GMO labeling."
World Trade Organization Rules US Country-of-Origin Labels Are Illegal
Another example of how trade agreements destroy the very transparency consumers everywhere want: On May 18, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled US law requiring country-of-origin (COOL) labels on meat is illegal,as it discriminates against Canadian and Mexican meat companies and give advantage to national meat producers.22
As noted by Blue Oregon:23
"In other words, profits of foreign corporations trump your right to know where your meat is coming from. So much for the 92 percent of American consumers who want country of origin food labeling…24
Mike Conaway [R-TX, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee] took all of 48 hours to introduce legislation repealing the labeling law, which covered beef and pork. He even added poultry for good measure. His bill in the House Agriculture Committee passed 38-6, with the blessings of most Democrats. This wasn't the first time that a trade agreement rescinded a popular food labeling law. In 2012, the WTO also ruled against the voluntary labeling of 'dolphin-safe' tuna..."
Compared to the WTO, the TPP actually makes it even easier for a corporation to eliminate laws that cut into profits, as it does not require the company to be backed by government. The TPP's Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) tribunals allow corporations to sue governments directly, without a middleman. And, instead of the case going before a nation's judges, the arbiters tend to be corporate lawyers, and their decision is final... There's no appeals process.
The Rise of Global Corporatocracy—Where Will It End?
At a time when consumers are demanding transparency, corporate fascists are racing to remove all of your rights, and do whatever it takes to control food and economy. At all levels, corporations and industries are writing its own laws, and the running thread is the removal of transparency, loosening of regulations against toxic and hazardous products, and the increasing of corporate control.
As Rick North writes in Blue Oregon:25
"...[T]he Fast Track bill itself takes dead aim on GMO labeling. It's an official negotiating objective to oppose lsquo;trade restrictions on commercial requirements, such as labeling, that affect new technologies, including biotechnology.'
This, said Peter DeFazio, is 'the smoking gun… Proof that fast track and massive free trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership are written by and for multinational corporations such as agriculture giant Monsanto...' Instead of corporations promoting the well-being of society, society is now employed (at race-to-the-bottom wages) to serve corporations. The means has become the end..."
Another example of this rising "corporatocracy" where corporations rule the world is the creation of laws criminalizing whistleblowers. Last year, Idaho passed an "ag-gag" law outlawing photography and videotaping at agricultural facilities. A records request reveals the legislation originated with dairy industry lobbyists.26 Idaho was the seventh state to outlaw whistleblowers' attempts to expose inhumane and/or unsanitary or dangerous farm practices—a law that clearly benefits no one except the industry. North Carolina is also considering passing a similar legislation.
Also remember, it was a US diplomat who threatened Europe with pain lest they allow Monsanto's GMOs into Europe. It's quite clear that the US government, which is closely tied to Monsanto, has been aiding and abetting Monsanto's tireless and often ruthless quest to control the world's food crops. This pattern can still be seen with Pompeo's bill, "The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act," better known as the "Deny Americans the Right-to-Know" (DARK) Act, which is exactly what the bill does. It's nothing if not a gift to Monsanto and its industry cohorts.
The DARK Act (HR 1599), introduced by Koch-sponsored Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS4), effectively removes citizens' right to know about genetically engineered foods by trumping state law and resolutely strippingstates of the right to pass GMO food labeling bills. The bill also allows unscrupulous food and beverage companies to continue mislabeling GMO-tainted foods as "natural" or "all natural."
While trade agreements may still thwart US states from labeling GMOs, stopping the passing of the Pompeo bill is crucial if we want to have even a glimmer of hope to get GMOs labeled. So please, contact your federal representatives, and demand that they vote NO on the Pompeo bill!
1 Washington Post December 4, 2014
2 Washington Post May 17, 2015
3 Public Citizen, Globalization and Trade
4 Public Citizen, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices
5 Public Citizen, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: More Job Offshoring, More Income Inequality
6 EFF.org
7 Public Citizen, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Restricting Access to Affordable Medicines
8 Public Citizen, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Empowering Corporations to Attack Nations
9 Public Citizen, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Undermining Food Safety
10 Public Citizen, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Undermining Wall Street Reform
11 Public Citizen, The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Gutting Buy American
12, 13 The guardian May 27, 2015
14 Scribd Taylor Channing: TPP campaign contributions
15 US Business Coalition for TPP
16, 17, 20 Scientific American May 28, 2015
18 The Guardian September 5, 2014
19 The Hill October 21, 2013
21 The Guardian May 22, 2015
22 Food Safety News May 18, 2015
23, 25 Blue Oregon May 28, 2015
24 Consumer Reports National Research Center, Food Label Survey 2014 (PDF)
26 Intercept May 28, 2015
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The British Parliament may have the same fate as Notre Dame. British News
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MPs warn that the Palace of Westminster is at risk for a fire that could be as destructive as a fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral, unless quick action is taken to renew the fragile interior of Congress.
Billions of pounds of recovery and renewal programs began in the mid-2020s after deciding to move out of the building so that billions of people could do important work in the past.
The fire safety team continues to patrol Westminster, a New Gothic palace where fire broke out 40 times between 2008 and 2012. A small fire was quickly dispatched by the watchdog.
The Guardian found that in 2016, the lights in the obscure part of the roof caused an electric fire. Experts warn that the aging electrical systems of the Congress and the maze of shafts and corridors mean that the fire can spread quickly and unpredictably. There is no proper fire classification system.
Chris Bryant, chair of the finance committee, oversaw the parliamentary restoration project. "Watching Paris tonight reminds us that our generation is responsible for Westminster Palace, especially Westminster Hall.
"We have already established our fire safety measures for too long, some of the palaces are as old as Notre Dame, and we must take all fire precautions whenever major work is done." God knows we have enough warnings. "
Theresa May 's deputy cabinet minister David Lidington wrote a column to a local newspaper, Bucks Free Press, two days ago that Congress was lucky to avoid a major fire or event in recent years.
"Several times last year, a block of bricks fell out of the building, and we were very lucky that no one was seriously injured." He wrote immediately after the MP evacuated the Commons chamber due to water leaks.
"Even worse, electricity, plumbing, heating, and sewer systems are far beyond their expected life and worn-out condition.
Most of Westminster's old palace was destroyed by fire in 1834 and rebuilt by architect Charles Barry, but the 900-year-old Westminster Hall survived the fire.
Lidington said the restoration work was inevitable even though the buildings turned into museums and the congress was moved to a modern building. "Even if Congress is permanently moved elsewhere, we have a duty to recover and renew the building," he wrote.
"The difficulty is that ministers are members of parliament and have to share time with each ministry and council, so if you move the council, you have to move all the major government ministries, You have to repair it. "
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public class MD5Test {
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    public void testToLowerCase() {
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        String md5 = MD5.toUpperCase("Hello World");
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It's now clear that Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump will be the Democratic and Republican nominees.
Secretary Clinton is a generally fine person, but has a long history of exercising very poor judgment. Email Gate is the latest example. Far more important than her past, however, is her terribly limited vision for the future.
Secretary Clinton has no intention of actually changing things or at least not changing things very much — this at a time when we need radical surgery to fix our country. She will not radically fix taxes. She will not radically fix Social Security. She will not radically fix healthcare. She will not radically fix banking. She will not radically fix energy policy. And she will not radically fix educational policy.
Nor is she prepared to deal with our greatest national security threat, which is North Korea's development of long-range ballistic missiles. These missiles are being developed for one purpose only — to deliver North Korea's now rocket-ready miniaturized nuclear bombs directly to our doorsteps. Her National Security webpage doesn't even include the two words: North Korea.
In addition to having a do-nothing platform, Secretary Clinton defines the word political. She has publicly declared Republicans among her worst enemies. For their part, the Republicans hold her in extreme contempt. Secretary Clinton's election would reinvigorate our decades-long political civil war and produce four more years of political stalemate. Consequently, by choice and by circumstance, she is a do-nothing candidate.
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Millennial Culture: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Kendall Russell October 3, 2014 (Updated: May 12, 2022)
Baby boomers and Generation Xers alike commonly harp on about the apathy of the Millennial generation — that we're lazy, spoiled, unmotivated, or too caught up in our smartphones to make any meaningful contributions to society. But if they were to step back and look at some actual data*, those hecklers would find that they couldn't be more wrong. The Millennials have made great strides of progress across the board, both socially and economically. But that doesn't mean we're perfect; there's still plenty of room for improvement.
*Surveys conducted by Pew Research, Social & Demographic Trends
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• Nowadays, young women in the workforce make more money relative to men their age than their grandmothers and mothers did. In 2012, women aged 25 to 34 earned 93 percent of the average hourly wage of men the same age. Although the number should be 100 percent, it's far better than the measly 55 percent of the 1970s.
• A record number of young adults are completing high school and college. In 2012, for the first time in history, an entire third of the country's 25- to 29-year-olds have a bachelor's degree. One other staggering statistic: a whole 90 percent of young adults within the same age range have at least a high school education.
• The population of college students is diversifying as well: 44 percent of college-aged students are non-white, up from 17 percent in 1971.
• When asked, 92 percent of American gay, bisexual and transgender adults agree that society has become more accepting of the LGBT community as a whole in the past decade. In the same vein, the percentage of the American population that supports same-sex marriage has risen around 20 percent since 2003.
• Over an eighth of Millennials say they now have enough money to lead the lives they choose or at least expect to be able to in the future. "I definitely expect myself to be able to live the life I want to in the future," Penn State alumna Maddy Pryor said. "I worked hard in my college years to get a full-time, well-paying job that I enjoy just 3 months after graduation. I don't think everyone in our generation has the money they need, though, and I think the biggest factor there is student loans."
• "In certain issues such as marriage equality, today's young citizens are the most liberal on record. But that may be the rare exception," said Dr. Eric Plutzer, political science professor and director of the Penn State Survey Research Center. "On other issues such as abortion, gun control, they are no different from young voters 10, 20, or 30 years ago."
• Surprisingly, this includes our stance on the environment. Despite the pressing issues of global warming and pollution, Plutzer said Millennials are less likely to identify as environmentalists than any generation prior.
• In the U.S., 36 percent of young adults aged 18 to 31 still live at home (the highest percentage in four decades). That's a lot of musty basements.
• The skyrocketing price of college tuition would make you think graduates are earning more than the generations before them. Unfortunately that's not the case: Millennials make an overall median salary of $35,000, which is barely $5,000 more than that of the Silent Generation in the 60s. In other words, we're inheriting more debt but aren't earning a proportional salary to cover our losses.
• 37 percent of graduates ages 25 to 32 wished they had gotten more experience while still in college. University of Maryland alumnus Ofo Ezeugwu, who started his own business while still in college, also regrets not being more involved while still enrolled. "I wish I had gotten involved earlier with organizations at the university. I would have started excelling earlier, meeting more people in the beginning, and of course, meeting more women," he quipped.
• Two-thirds of recent grads owe student loans, with an average debt of $27,000. That's twice the average debt of graduates 20 years ago. "I have plenty of colleagues — and even myself — that are so worried about not being able to pay them off. My loans are significantly more than $27,000 and I know it will take me a very long time to pay them off, and that scares me," Pryor said.
• According to AmericanProgress.org, 54 percent of those murdered with firearms in 2010 were under the age of 30. An American under 25 dies of a gunshot wound approximately every 70 minutes.
• Although a higher percentage of Millennials are earning degrees, unemployment among graduates is far more likely than any generation before. Today's college graduates also spend more time looking for jobs — an average of 27 weeks, which is a long time to eat only ramen, rice and beans.
Progress is an infinite path, but I'd like to think society is headed in the right direction. Adolescents build upon the achievements of their predecessors, and our parents and grandparents have set solid foundations upon which we'll mount our own accomplishments. With the collective focus of an entire generation, there's still a good chance we won't completely obliterate ourselves.
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Today the Columbia Public School board voted unanimously to raise prices on meals provided to students at Columbia schools with the intent of upgrading the quality of the food they serve children. The increased revenue will be used to purchase more locally-produced fresh foods and vegetables, which are usually produced by smaller, non-industrial farming operations and tend to have more nutritive value.
Belcher said the added revenue could pay for new equipment for more actual cooking to take place in the district's kitchens.
He said he proposed the 35-cent jump as a response to the residents who have been demanding more local and healthier food in the schools.
"I keep getting pushed by the public and rightly so," Belcher said.
School board members agreed. "One thing I hear the most about is school lunches," board member Ines Segert said.
Belcher also said hiking prices now should help keep the district from going into debt to subsidize its nutrition services as other Missouri school districts have done.
"We have no opposition to bringing fresh foods and trying to increase the quality of foods," Belcher said.
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...My dog, Honey. And of course, since it's a poem—and a sonnet, at that—it's about a few other things. Probably more things than it knows. But integrity and love are two of them.
Tranter's reversed the alpha order of the names this year, so my dog and I get an early appearance (after some nice poems by Fiona Wright, Jen Webb, Alan Wearne and Chris Wallace-Crabbe). It's a strong and interesting collection this year. One of my favourites is Luke Davies's "At That Moment". I miss Judy Beveridge and Stephen Edgar and Debby Lim and Susan Fealy and some others, but BAP doesn't aim to be encyclopedic, and shouldn't be expected to round up all the usual suspects. Each issue will reflect its editor's taste. I'm delighted and a little relieved to be in there, my philosophical collie and I.
And Bronwyn Lea has included my poem, "The Artist & His Model," in Australian Poetry Journal 2.2 (out December 2012).
"The Artist" the first poem I managed to finish after the Montreal Prize last year: the scale and weight of that prize had stopped me in my poetic tracks for a month or two. It's a different poem for me: it's a dramatic monologue, for a start. In it, I channel Henri Matisse, imagining his making the drawings and studies that became his painting, "The Artist & His Model". It's a kind of ekphrasis, I suppose.
Nice becomes Kingscliff in the poem; 1919 becomes 2012; and Matisse, I guess, becomes me. It's a poem written just after my fiftieth birthday, after a summer spent on north coast of New South Wales. That coast washes the poem. But it woke into my consciousness during a visit to the Matisse exhibition at GOMA in Brisbane in late December. There is in Matisse's life and work a strain between sensuality and refinement, between wantonness and propriety, between the Bohemian and the Bourgeois, that I seem to understand. There is delight in the shapes and shades of the world; there is a wanting I share to let "each thing on earth...each carnal thing" stand free of all one's desire for it and one's longing to make it over into one's beloved or one's work of art: this I also I understand. And attempt. There is a capacity for love—in Matisse and his work (and for all I know in me and mine)—that, only in art, one can find a way to let himself admit. All this, I guess, along with some birds and weather and gestures toward some Matisse drawings I love, is in the poem.


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Notebook: Central Crossing volleyball team aims to enter postseason on upswing
Central Crossing girls volleyball coach Meredith Shifley would like to see more from her players as the postseason approaches.
The Comets were 3-15 overall and 0-7 in the OCC-Buckeye Division before playing Newark on Oct. 8.
"We'd like to see the girls improve their aggressiveness in all aspects of the game," said Shifley, whose team lost a league match to Pickerington Central 25-8, 25-15, 25-18 on Oct. 6. "We want them to truly show the grit and the heart they have to finish the season with some positives."
The Division I district draw was Oct. 11, with the tournament beginning Monday, Oct. 19.
"They've gotten more comfortable playing with each other and taking on their individual roles on the team," Shifley said. "Both Amy Thompson and Brooke Geddes have stepped up and become key players for our program."
Senior right-side hitter Olivia Everett had team highs in kills (83) and blocks (22) through 18 matches, and senior middle hitter Casey Brooks had 54 kills and 12 blocks. Junior setter Rosalyn Beckwith led with 183 assists and 28 aces, and Thompson, a sophomore setter, had 114 assists.
Senior libero Delaney Pfeiffer had a team-leading 174 digs, and senior defensive specialist Grace Watkins had 114 digs.
•The Grove City boys and girls golf teams entered Division I district tournament play Oct. 13 looking to earn state berths.
The boys finished second (313) in a 14-team sectional Oct. 6 at Darby Creek behind St. Charles (297) to advance to district at Apple Valley.
Jeremiah Bane led the Greyhounds with a 74, followed by Trent Ruffing (77), Nash Linder (78) and Thatcher Wilson and Brodie Scott (both 84).
At district, the top two teams and top two individuals not on qualifying teams advanced to state Friday, Oct. 23, and Saturday, Oct. 24, at Ohio State's Scarlet Course.
The girls finished third (352) in an 11-team sectional Oct. 6 at Blacklick Woods behind New Albany (286) and Olentangy (346) to advance to district at New Albany Links.
Lizzie Saur led Grove City with a 75, followed by Rachael Jones (85), Bella Saur (90) and Kaylyn Henson and Chloe Seeley (both 102).
At district, the top two teams and top two individuals not on qualifying teams advanced to state Oct. 23 and 24 at Ohio State's Gray Course.
—Frank DiRenna
•With no seniors in the program, the future looks bright for the Grove City Christian boys golf team.
The Eagles closed the season by finishing 12th (434) in a 14-team Division III sectional Sept. 29 at Darby Creek behind champion Worthington Christian (330).
Grove City Christian was declared MSL-Cardinal champion after being the only program to enter a complete team in all three rounds of the league tournament.
Sophomores James Cuckler and Quinn Garringer were second-team all-league, and sophomore Kaden Garringer was honorable mention all-league.
Other players eligible to return are sophomores Kolton DeVine, Brian Ott and Nate Prindle.
"This year did exactly what I was hoping it would do," first-year coach Jayson Arrell said. "We needed to get better in pretty much every way and we did that. Our nine-hole average got down to 53.1 by the end of the year, which is a good improvement.
"It was a good year of growth and development for all of them so I'm excited to see what happens the next couple years."
•The Central Crossing boys golf team ended its season in a Division I sectional Oct. 6 at Darby Creek.
The Comets were 14th (423) behind district-qualifiers St. Charles (297), Grove City (313), Upper Arlington (315) and Olentangy Berlin (315).
Thomas Worthington's Paari Kaviyarasu (72) and Noah Jackman (73), Watterson's Carson Trafford (73) and Dublin Scioto's Jack Gawronski (77) qualified as individuals.
Seniors Aiden Phipps (95) and Jimmy Schwinne (98) led Central Crossing, followed by junior Brandon Dildine (113) and senior Justin Spencer (117).
Senior Jackson Phillips was honorable mention all-OCC-Buckeye with a 92.3 average.
Freshman Alyson Dildine shot a 119 competing as an individual in the Division I girls sectional Oct. 6 at Mentel Memorial.
•The Grove City football team earned its second win, defeating visiting Westland 48-12 on Oct. 2.
The 16th-seeded Dawgs were 2-4 before playing top-seeded Pickerington Central in a Division I, Region 3 first-round playoff game Oct. 9.
The winner plays eighth-seeded Gahanna or ninth-seeded Hilliard Darby in the second round Friday, Oct. 16, at the home of the better seed.
Against Westland, Christian Isaacs rushed for 129 yards on seven carries and Trevor Mills added 87 yards and four touchdowns on 12 carries. The Dawgs rushed for 311 yards.
•The Grove City Christian football team saw its four-game winning streak end with a 49-12 loss at Troy Christian on Oct. 2.
Grove City Christian, which fell to 4-2, has a first-round bye in the Division VII, Region 28 playoffs.
The 11th-seeded Eagles will visit sixth-seeded St. Henry in the second round Friday, Oct. 16.
CENTRAL CROSSING BOYS GOLF
•OCC-Buckeye standings: Pickerington Central (12-0), Reynoldsburg (9-3), Lancaster (6-6), Newark (3-9), Central Crossing (0-12)
•Seniors lost: Jackson Phillips, Aiden Phipps, Jimmy Schwinne and Justin Spencer
•Key returnees: Alyson Dildine and Brandon Dildine
•Postseason: 14th (423) at sectional behind champion St. Charles (297)


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New Code improves transparency of transactions in local government finances
CIPFA/LASAAC, a joint board of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Local Authority (Scotland) Accounts Advisory Committee, has today issued the Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom 2018/19 (available here).
The new Code introduces the two new financial reporting standards – IFRS 9 Financial Instruments and IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers. These standards work to promote increased transparency of the effect of transactions on local authority finances. The intention is to help users better understand local authority financial statements and increase effective decision making, stewardship and accountability.
Don Peebles, Head of Policy and Technical UK at CIPFA, said: "CIPFA/LASAAC has worked hard, starting as early as 2015, to ensure that it has understood the impact of these standards and particularly IFRS 9 on local authority accounts and finances.
"Within the boundaries of effective financial reporting, CIPFA/LASAAC has been concerned to understand both the practical and technical aspects of the standard, and as a result both CIPFA and CIPFA/LASAAC have supported the work of government on statutory mitigation for particular investment vehicles".
To help local authorities understand and prepare for the effects of these two new standards, CIPFA/LASAAC last year issued the agreed Code provisions on both standards alongside the 2017/18 Code. In December 2017, CIPFA issued early guidance, IFRS 9 Financial Instruments: An Early Guide for Local Authority Practitioners, to help support local authorities in their adoption of IFRS 9.
Both standards have the potential to have budgetary effects, particularly in terms of the timing of recognition of the relevant transactions. CIPFA/LASAAC has worked with the government and the devolved administrations to support the consideration of both the ongoing and transitional effect of IFRS 9 on collective investment vehicles and will keep this situation under review.
Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom 2018/19