I finally did it! With the help of many encouragements from some of my dear friends and family members (and especially my hubby!), I finally worked up the confidence in my skills to test the waters of portrait photography. One of our friends, Liz, was willing to be my guinnea pig for senior portraits at the beginning of September.
There were a few challenges that arose (thanks a lot, wind...), but we still had a good time. Chad and I worked together to get some really nice shots of a gorgeous senior. The overcast afternoon sky made for great diffusion & we really just needed to bounce a little light to fill the shadowy areas.
About a month ago, I purchased some new photo equipment that was much needed for nice portraits: a couple of Canon speedlites, a softbox, diffusing/reflecting disc, and a couple of light stands with umbrellas. I've been practicing with it all here and there to get the hang of using it together, which definitely helped when we shot Liz's photos.


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Omicron fears: Aircraft takes off to bring home the Romanians in South Africa
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A plane left, on Sunday night to Monday, for South Africa, from where it will bring home the national rugby champions and other Romanian citizens, blocked after the European Union canceled the flights to this part of the world.
The European Union has suspended air links with 8 countries in southern Africa due to fears about the new coronavirus variant, Omicron.
B.1.1.529, or Omicron is a strain of the COVID-19 with over 30 mutations for that part of virus targeted by the existing vaccines, and is, probably, much stronger than the one detected through tests.
The Foreign Ministry announced there are 39 Romanians to be repatriated with the special flight. The TAROM aircraft will also take other European citizens. The plane, which has three crews, is to return to Romania on Tuesday morning.
Marius Popescu, TAROM spokesman said that the plane "will make a stopover in Mombasa, Kenya, where it will stay for 12 hours". "Later, another crew will take over this aircraft and take off for Johannesburg, South Africa. We are talking about an aircraft with 116 seats. Only 90 seats will be occupied for this aircraft to fly as far as possible. We are talking about 90 passengers, over 50 passengers will be European. European citizens will be redistributed according to expected needs," he explained.
The head of the Department For Emergency Situations (DSU), Raed Arafat, had announced that a TAROM plane will be sent to bring back the Romanian citizens that are trapped in South Africa, after several flights were canceled.
"It was established that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, through DSU and the Ministry of Transportats, that they will work together for repatriating the Romanian citizens that cannot get back to Romania because of the interference with air transportation in that area, several flights being canceled and more of them being full, that are reaching Europe. We started to undertake measures along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Transportation, through Tarom, for sending a plane, following the Government's decision, that will leave from Bucharest – Mombasa – Pretoria and will bring the Romanian citizens back", Arafat said on Sunday.
According to him, through the European civil protection mechanism, assistance will be granted to other European citizens as well.
At the start of the Government session, PM Nicolae Ciuca announced that a Tarom aircraft will fly to Pretoria to recover the Romanian citizens trapped in South Africa, and also highlighted that it is the Government's duty to take such decisions for its citizens.
Cancelling flights to the European Union is taking place because of a discovery of a new variant of coronavirus in South Africa.
Omicron, the new concerning Covid variant in sight
On 26 November 2021, WHO designated the variant B.1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO's Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision was based on the evidence presented to the TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an impact on how it behaves, for example, on how easily it spreads or the severity of illness it causes. Here is a summary of what is currently known.
Two rugby teams that participated in the South Africa's tour, also attended by the Romanian rugby players from Baia Mare, could not leave South Africa after two positive Covid-19 cases were confirmed in their squad. One of the case is suspect of Omicron variant.
"Cardiff Rugby have been unable to depart South Africa following two positive cases of Covid-19, one of which is suspected to be the new variant Omicron," the team announced on Twitter.
Current knowledge about Omicron
Researchers in South Africa and around the world are conducting studies to better understand many aspects of Omicron and will continue to share the findings of these studies as they become available.
Transmissibility: It is not yet clear whether Omicron is more transmissible (e.g., more easily spread from person to person) compared to other variants, including Delta. The number of people testing positive has risen in areas of South Africa affected by this variant, but epidemiologic studies are underway to understand if it is because of Omicron or other factors.
Severity of disease: It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta. Preliminary data suggests that there are increasing rates of hospitalization in South Africa, but this may be due to increasing overall numbers of people becoming infected, rather than a result of specific infection with Omicron. There is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with Omicron are different from those from other variants. Initial reported infections were among university students—younger individuals who tend to have more mild disease—but understanding the level of severity of the Omicron variant will take days to several weeks. All variants of COVID-19, including the Delta variant that is dominant worldwide, can cause severe disease or death, in particular for the most vulnerable people, and thus prevention is always key.
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This project was a renovation of a 100 square meter condominium on the 10th floor of a 40 year old mid-rise building. The new plan was limited by the presence of two concrete interior walls and a concrete service shaft which could not be taken out because of condominium regulations. Unable to fundamentally alter the standard hallway / living-dining-kitchen (in Japan abbreviated as LDK) plan structure – in particular the LDK spaces – the question we faced was how to create interesting architecture despite these limitations? By focusing on the design of the hallway space (rather than the LDK spaces), we have discovered new possibilities within this restrictive condominium framework.
In a typical Japanese condominium, the hallway space receives little natural light and is commonly seen as "wasted area" to be minimized. In this case, we decided to address the hall space in a more positive fashion, actively extending and transforming it. Though hallways are dark, they can serve perfectly well as storage use – in one sense, like extended closets. In this case, by extending the hall space, and then giving this elongated space a variety of angled walls, a lower ceiling height and darkened finishes, we created a sense of anticipation and contrast to the living spaces beyond. One must first pass through this dark, dragon-shaped extended closet before arriving at the well-lit living, dining, kitchen, and bedrooms.
We worked primarily with two themes to give special character to the hallway: "delicate" scale and "hidden" space. To create it a sense of "delicacy," we adjusted not only its dimensions, but also its surface textures. Patterned wallpaper and gridded doors create a finer sense of scale, one typically associated with furniture or clothing.
The sense of "hidden space" was created through darkness and extension. Darkness renders the contours of objects indistinct and blurs spatial boundaries. The deep purple walls blend into the darkness, while the arabesque patterns on the wallpaper float in the space; the eye has to strain to pick up the outline of everyday objects. Dividing and bending spaces – such that they cannot be grasped in a single glance – creates the sense of extension. The inability to see all the spaces in sequence creates a sense of expectation as one moves through it, reinforcing its bends and curves.
Delicately scaled, hidden spaces create a sense of tension as we experience them – a break from our daily routines and expectations. The transformation of the hallway into a darkened, delicately scaled, extended closet space creates a different time scale that contrasts with other spaces of the condo. With this project, we believe we have uncovered new source of interest and variety lying dormant within a standard Japanese condominium plan.


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Since 2016, choreographer Lenio Kaklea has been collecting the practices of Europeans. Taking to the streets and pathways of Athens, Aubervilliers, Essen, Guissény, Nyon, and Poitiers, she has gathered nearly 600 unique stories. This compilation testifies to the familiarity and diversity of habits, of rituals, and of trades that compose and distinguish these territories.
From hunting to plumping, by way of idleness to Zumba, Practical Encyclopædia. Detours exposes a contrasting landscape where different manners of moving through the world intersect. In transcribing the voices of these actors, the choreographer composes an epic work that departs from our intimate relation to movement, and invites us to consider the space where the subject is built in action. Opening with an autobiographical essay, this multilingual book (German, English, French, Greek) situates the work of the dance studio vis-à-vis the places, gestures, and relations that Kaklea has investigated.
Choreographer Lenio Kaklea trained at the Greek National School of Dance in Athens (SSCD), the Centre national de danse contemporaine (FAC) in Angers and graduated from the MA programme in experimentation in the arts and politics (SPEAP) directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po, Paris.
She has worked as an interpreter/performer with Alexandra Bachzetsis, Gerard & Kelly, Claudia Triozzi, François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea, Emmanuelle Huynh, Boris Charmatz, Moser & Schwinger, Fanny de Chaillé, Laure Bonicel and Hela Fattoumi & Eric Lamoureux.
Since 2009, she has created choreographic works such as Matter of Act (2009), Fluctuat nec Mergitur (2010), Arranged by Date (2012), Deux • L (2013) in collaboration with Lucinda Childs, Margin Release f/f (2015) and Arranged by Date, A Guided Tour (2016).
Her work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, ImpulsTanz, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Le Quartz-Scène National de Brest, Latitudes Contemporaines and La Ménagerie de Verre.
In 2016 she curated "Iris, Alexandra, Mariela, Katerina et moi", a programme exploring the production of choreographic work by women in Athens, presented at the DansFabrik festival, Quartz-Scène Nationale de Brest.
In 2017, in the capacity of choreographer, she began collaborating with Joris Lacoste and L'Encyclopédie de la Parole on the piece Suite n° 3, and has been invited to take part in the Biennale "Phenomenon 2", organised by Iordanis Kerenidis and Piergiorgio Pepe on the Aegean Island of Anafi.
Edited by Lou Forster and Lenio Kaklea.
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27-year-old Kuwaiti Khalid Al-Mutawa is one versatile man. He travels around the world, runs Studenthub, a platform for connecting students with universities, cofounded The White Book for event planning, and most recently founded Plugn, a comment management tool for Instagram.
Al-Mutawa used Zendesk to manage his customer service on Facebook, Twitter and email. But since the service doesn't cover Instagram, he wanted to offer an alternative to fill the gap.
What started as a personal solution became a full-fledged service, officially launched in February.
In Al-Mutawa's words, Plugn converts Instagram into a Whatsapp conversation.
Users, of which there are around 400, can register with their Google, Microsoft or Slack accounts, or they can simply use their email addresses to join. Once users link their Instagram accounts, the service goes through all their posts, sees who commented and enables admins to give access to other people to manage the work. Plugn also groups all comments together, making it easier to add notes and respond to comments as a team.
It has a developer's portal and guidelines for those who want to integrate with their service.
The app costs $7 per month for one Instagram account or $159 for up to 30 accounts.
Al-Mutawa said they were mainly targeting agencies in Kuwait and worldwide, that run lots of Instagram accounts. Agencies are now able to track all historical interactions with their customers using a familiar messaging interface.
Superiors in companies can now gain insight on how their agents are performing by tracking their activities and know who deleted a comment and when.
Plugn provides agents with a daily metrics on content performance. They can analyze trends and changes, type of followers and content they post.
The founder hopes to generate enough revenues to develop it further and a public application programming interface (API) that allows businesses to integrate with Instagram without having to go through an approval process.
Al-Mutawa's goal for the future is to expand globally and to bring on board as much users they can. He hopes to break even in a month.


Fuhong Bridge, located at the western mouth of the Back Lane, is a stone-beam bridge of unique styles. The stone bar in the middle of the bridge is engraved with symmetrical patterns surrounding the three Chinese characters for Fuhong Bridge in the center. Local residents would call it Hong Bridge while nearly forgetting its real name. The bridge was built in the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. It was rebuilt in the 49th year under Emperor Qianlong (1784). The bridge stretches 16.4 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, and 4.7 meters in span.
It is said that during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period (1851—1864), the peasant insurrectionary army rebelling against the rule of the Qing regime suffered defeat because of multiple factors. One troop of the insurrectionary army drifted about and settled down in Zhouzhuang.
Local landlords were terrified. On the one hand they collaborated with the Qing regime to spread rumors that the peasant troop was fiendish features, on the other hand they also waited for their chances to crack down the rebels. One day, Huang Tongling, a major landlord, whipped together armed forces of the landlords and cruelly killed hundreds of soldiers of the insurrectionary army at the Fuhong Bridge. The blood of the soldiers reddened the stone stairs of the bridge and the green jade Hougang River.
Since red shares a partial tone with the hong in Fuhong Bridge, people began to call Fuhong Bridge as Hong (Red) Bridge in memory of the sacrificed insurrectionary army soldiers. The name of Hong Bridge remains going round over a century to these days.


Shirley G. Berresford, 85, of Beaver, passed away Thursday, July 15, 2010.
Born March 11, 1925, in New Galilee, PA, she was a daughter of the late David G. and Meta L. LaFine George and had been a resident of Beaver since 1956. Shirley was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Beaver, and had worked for many years at several doctors' offices.
Preceding her in death was her husband, Delmar W. Berresford, in 1997, and two sisters, Virginia Potter and Grace Showalter.
Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Curtis and Annette Berresford, Rochester; two daughters and a son-in-law, Kathrine J. Berresford, Anaheim, CA, and Holly and James Koury, Queen Creek, AZ; a sister, Pauline Johnson, St. Petersburg, FL; a grandson, Matthew B. Berresford, and a great-granddaughter, Maddison Berresford.
As per Shirley's wishes, cremation services were conducted by the NOLL FUNERAL HOME INC., 333 Third St., Beaver. A memorial service will be held in the First Presbyterian Church on Friday, July 23, 2010, at 11 a.m.
Interment will take place at Beaver Falls Cemetery.


what u guys use ? what u like ?what not to get?
I use a 7 x 40 Meade. Works ok. Love the fog proof feature.
two points to remember when buying binoculars. get as big an objective lens as you can - that determines how they are in low light conditions and the next thing is the magnification should never be more than 1/5 of the objective lens. That makes an acceptable light level in poor light conditions. The more you magnify with a given lens the darker things appear. My 8 x 50 minolta's are pretty nice in those early morning hours just as the hills begin to light up. They stay clear and bright right up through sunset. Sometimes I wish I had a bit more power but I don't think I could hold 10 x 80's steady enough to see anything more than I can with the ones I have.
Beck's Classic. German optics. Had them a long time. Can't remember what I paid for them. Small, light and compact, but effective.
7 is better than 6 but 8 is of no benefit over 7 whatsoever. To get this figure, divide the size of the objective lens by the rate of magnification. 8 x 56 bino's have an exit pupil of 7. So do 6 x 42. And you thought that they just made up these sizes, didn't ya?
But... as a rule of thumb, as an indicator, exensive bino's perform better than cheap ones so a set of swarovski 10x40 will be perform better then a cheap and nasty pair of 8 x 56, even though the exit pupil would be 4.
The other indicator that you should look at - and it sort of points to quality - is the depth of field. The better the glass, the deeper the field. It means that you are not constantly refocusing as you look over terrain - they are more forgiving.
Me? I use a set of Canon 10x30 Image Stabalising bino's. I found them in a camera shop and thought "Well, I wouldn't turn a canon camera away..." and picked them up. Great stuff. I know that they are not as clear as your superb 8x56 but when I hit the button, the clarity is unbelieveable. Your shakes and wobbles get magnified too but mine don't.
They live in my game bag which goes out when I do. In there lives my knife, gloves, range finder, range card, map etc.
Its doubtful I'll ever own a pair, but Swarovski is about the best you can get period. They run $1900 USD though for a pair... once you look through a pair however, you can absolutely see why they cost so much.
The Nikon Monarch's seem pretty good for the money. In fact its the binocular I'm currently saving up for and will buy this fall as we get closer to hunting season.
Nothing wrong with cheap Bushnell binoculars. Thats what I carry. Not to sure of the specific model though havnt seen them since last hunting season.
Reason you might ask ?? Simple unlike alot of the other brands they are small, lightweight and I couldnt care less if I drop them or bang them around.
After all accidents happen, so why buy a 500$ or more binocular just to have them broken ??
I can't say they are the "best", but when I am hunting or when shooting prairie dogs I can look though my NIKON binoculars all day without getting a headach.
Oops. Sorry...Rule 2 instead of rule 3.
Yup...You did, but it doesn't hurt to refresh ones memory. I think that , just like scopes, the power of a pair of binoculars is the choice of the purchaser. My Beck's 12X25's "<grin>" work for me quite well in fact.
Kahles 10-42,made in Austria in same plant as Swarovski for about 2/3 the price.I cant tell any difference between them.
I guess how much you spend for Binos depends on how much money you have to spend on them and what their application is going to be. My 10x42 Nikons pretty much stay in the truck. To heavy to pack around.


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Praise the roof: New apartments proposed atop UWS church at 142 West 81st Street
Joyce Chen Jun 23, 2014
New apartments are coming on top of a church at 142 West 81st Street in the Upper West Side.
Located between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues in the Central Park West Historic District, the existing five-story structure is currently home to Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. The proposed conversion would add two stories and create a total of seven apartments, according to permits filed late last week.
DXA Studio is the architect of record. According to the plan exam application, there will be 4,492 square feet of community facility space and 21,052 square feet of residential space. That's approximately 3,000 square feet per apartment, which seems ridiculously large, but then again, the building does sit on a 62.5′ by 102′ lot. The top two floors will be occupied by a duplex, and the Schedule A filing indicates that there will be a first-floor church lobby and sanctuary in the revamped building. The estimated cost of the alteration is $1.2 million.
Public records say that Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church has owned the property since at least 1976.
In 2006, the church proposed plans to "preserve the [building] facade, demolish the church behind it and build a new, smaller sanctuary and other facilities plus market-rate residential spaces for sale or rent," according to Upper West Side Developments, a blog by the office of former City Council member (now Manhattan Borough President) Gale Brewer.
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church also operates Mt. Pleasant Christian Academy at 2009-2011 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem.
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Another Letter To America
Dear United States of America and Donald Trump,
Here I am writing to you again.
You'll be pleased to know it's not about guns this time. The truth is I can't take my eyes off you and your politics. Suddenly you're a catastrophe waiting to happen. And if the news over the last 24 hours is any guide, the catastrophe's already happening. In slow motion, of course, but nonetheless moving inevitably towards a massive fallout and collateral damage. Your White House is in daily disarray, in case you haven't noticed. It lurches from one crisis to another. It's disastrous, it's damaging, it's chaotic. It's also fascinating. Apologies if I seem to be basking in the warmth of someone else's misfortune. But the chaos won't last forever. It can't. Something has to give.
As a spectator in the relatively safe backwater known as Australia, and a very long way away from you, I can only look on with shock and awe. I could write pages and pages and pages about your President, Donald Trump. Whoever writes his biography will have endless sources of amusement and negativity to wade through. No point in me joining the chorus. It is stating the obvious.
I do want to try and understand you. And the only way I can do that, is to liken you to a famous historic figure of tragedy. A figure, created by the master of dramatic tragedy, Mr William Shakespeare. Donald Trump you really are Shakespeare's modern day Julius Caesar. So many parallels. You are a man who thinks rules, governance and the law don't apply to him. So did Julius Caesar. You fly above it all in a private jet. Ok. Not Julius Caesar, but you get my point.
Like Julius Caesar, your biggest flaw is vanity. You want to bask in public adulation. Adored and admired. To be recognised as a man, way bigger than the sum of many or even any parts. You stand alone. A colossus. But like Caesar your fate is foretold. To be dispatched, to a political gulag. It won't be at the hands of obvious enemies. No sir. Your biggest enemies are your friends, Republican friends in the Congress.
This tornado is getting ready to touch ground, gathering strength for some time. But really the catalyst for what will happen began with the reasons behind the arbitrary sacking of FBI Director, James Comey. You couldn't help himself. Your press lackeys give one version while you give another contradicting them. You blindside your own people. Never tell them of your plans. Why should you? You're Donald Trump. You can say and do whatever you like. Well actually no you can't. You're not Donald Trump the businessman anymore nor are you Donald Trump the TV host who simply says your fired. You are Donald Trump, President of the United States and different rules apply. If you don't believe me, look at Richard Nixon. In fact the word, Watergate is getting used a lot lately.
Why Watergate? Because you are said to be trying to do what Nixon wanted to do and couldn't. Stop an official investigation. You see, your security advisor, General Michael Flynn was sacked after it emerged he lied about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Now, news has broken that former FBI Director Comey, allegedly wrote a memo, accusing you of trying to stop the investigation into Michael Flynn. If it's true, that's political interference of the worst kind. Using your office and power to try and thwart an independent, lawful investigation. That is intolerable. It will not be tolerated by Republican or Democrat. No one admits to seeing the memo. No one knows, for sure, it even exists. But plenty of people are now saying they desperately want to follow the paper trail. And in really bad news for you, one of those people is a Republican. And not just any old Republican. Jason Chaffetz, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. It is the one Congressional committee with the power to follow the paper trail.
"On the surface that seems like an extraordinary use of influence to try to shut down an investigation being done by the FBI," Mr Chaffetz said.
"(We are) going to get the Comey memo, if it exists. I need to see it sooner rather than later. I have my subpoena pen ready."
The committee Mr Chaffetz heads sent a letter to the FBI requesting it to provide the memo – and any other relevant materials from Mr Comey.
Another senior Republican figure, former presidential nominee John McCain, openly compared the current situation to the Watergate scandal.
"I think we've seen this movie before. I think it appears at a point where it's of Watergate size and scale," Mr McCain said to former TV anchor Bob Schieffer at a dinner.
"The shoes continue to drop, and every couple of days there's a new aspect," he said. "Get it all out. It's not going to be over until every aspect of it is thoroughly examined and the American people make a judgment. The longer you delay, the longer it is going to last."
As you might expect, other Republicans are ducking for cover. It prompted CNNs political reporter Chris Cilliza to say: " If you are a Republican in Congress, now is the time to panic."
The story, about the former FBI Director's alleged memo, was broken by the New York Times newspaper. The Times says it hasn't seen the memo, but says one of the former FBI Director's associates, allegedly read excerpts from it, to one of its reporters.
"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go, you allegedly told Mr Comey. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
Now, I'm telling what you already knew. Please forgive the re telling, I know it's boring and repetitive but I like to re tell a story because it helps me understand what's going on.
I also know it's hard to predict what will happen next. But in my experience these things tend to have a mind and a life of their own. I wouldn't put money on betting you won't be in office by Christmas.
It's a real pity, Bill Shakespeare isn't around. I'm sure he'd love to write about you. What am I saying? He already did. Just called you by a different name. And the setting was Rome, not Washington DC. Smart bloke that Will Shakespeare.
Anyhow, let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I remain your friend as always.
Take care and kind regards.
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By Liz Wood
Following the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, Tom Petty approached Rolling Stone with his desire to speak out in favor of the decision and express a long-held regret for his past use of the flag. During his tour for the 1985 album Southern Accents, Petty often played in front of the flag, a kind of a marketing gimmick born out of the song "Rebels" about a character who "still blames the North for his life." In his editorial, Tom Petty says that he has always felt "downright stupid" for his part in perpetuating the symbol, saying that its use in the South represents a mentality that fails to look at all perspectives: "But when they wave that flag, they aren't stopping to think how it looks to a black person. I blame myself for not doing that."
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Arsenal TV claim this is our best league campaign for a while. Is it?
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Even before last night's game the boot was going into Mr Emery as can be seen from the headline, "Shades of Wenger? Stubborn Emery's latest stance may cost Arsenal CL qualification" – that was published by the apppropriately named The Boot Room. They were not alone in expressing their doubt.
And as you know we lost, and this is how the table looks now…
1 Manchester City 35 29 2 4 89 22 67 89
2 Liverpool 35 27 7 1 79 20 59 88
3 Tottenham Hotspur 35 23 1 11 65 35 30 70
4 Chelsea 35 20 7 8 59 38 21 67
5 Arsenal 35 20 6 9 69 46 23 66
6 Manchester United 35 19 7 9 63 50 13 64
Now in the post-match discussions on Arsenal.com one of the "experts" on the club's own internet TV station tried to tell us that things were actually getting better. "We have slowly been getting worse and worse – this is our best league campaign for a while," he said.
So I thought that since no one contradicted that statement on the TV programme, we ought to look and see if it was true.
As the table above shows we have 66 points after 35 games, with a goal difference of +23. Here is how the situation looked at this stage in previous years…
Pos P W D L F A GD Pts
6 35 17 6 12 67 48 19 57
5 35 20 6 9 68 42 26 66
So immediately we can see that this is not our best league campaign for a while. We are in a slightly worse position than in 2017.
4 35 18 10 7 58 34 24 64
Again in 2015 we can see "this is our best league campaign for a while," is not accurate. We are better off than we were at this point last year, but that's about the best we can say. Two seasons back we had the same points and a slightly worse goal difference. We are fractionally better than 2016, but a few points behind the 2015 position.
And although it could be said we are only four points behind where we were in 2015, the goal difference is slightly more worrying, in that it has declined by nine goals.
On the other hand one could argue we are only four points off our best number of points at this stage in the past four seasons, and we have scored more goals than in the 2014/15 season – and indeed we are just one win behind where we were in 2015.
Or put simply, our problem is not so much that we have got worse and worse, but rather that we have stood still while the remainder of the top six clubs have progressed. That is the problem in a nutshell. Unfortunately it does not fit into the simplistic "it was Wenger's fault" model that the pundits on Arsenal TV support, so they bend reality to try and fit their own preconceptions. And because it seems to be the official line, the chair of the debate makes no move to correct anything.
What has complicated the understanding of this fairly simple situation is, in my opinion, the fuss made by the anti-Arsenal-Arsenal groups who spent their time promoting the notion that by getting rid of Mr Wenger things would somehow improve. Yet this on its own was never likely to be the case. In my view, with the finances available at Arsenal, compared with the finances available at other clubs, Mr Wenger did as well as, if not better than, anyone else could. Simply replacing him was by itself not likely to make much difference. Mr Emery has done well just to hold us where we were.
And indeed this offers one explanation why the club is willing to have pundits on Arsenal TV putting forward the "it was worse under Wenger" falsehood. As long as people keep believing things are getting better, that will distract from the activities of the owner in keeping the transfer money limited.
The problem is that we are a long way behind the clubs at the top; to be there we need to be scoring 20 goals a season more and conceding 20 goals a season fewer – a huge task. But that is not the manager's fault, in my view. He is doing his best with the resources he is given, just as Mr Wenger did.
But of course claiming that Mr Wenger took the club downhill – getting worse and worse as the pundit said – while now we are making the long slow journey back, is the message the owner of the club will like because it gives hope for the future. It is not reflected in the facts for the simple reason that other clubs have been progressing faster than we have and in 2015 we were in quite a decent position – not league winners but quite a decent performance.
We have benefitted from the turmoil at Manchester United combined with the extraordinary newspaper hype surrounding their new manager – which of course was a bubble that had to burst. And we have benefitted from the turmoil at Chelsea where the owner has not been seen since his working visa was rescinded and he walked out in a huff with the whole stadium project seemingly abandoned.
But we can hardly bank on such things continuing in the future any more than we can bank on supporters being hoodwinked by palpably untrue statements from pundits on Arsenal TV.
The approach of the station last night in not having anyone to correct such inaccurate commentaries was shocking, and possibly heralds a new era of hoodwinking the fans.
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Kun Aguero and Raheem Sterling who are at Man City before Pep Guardiola, the current Man City manager came to the club. And they are the major strike force in the Man City lineup last season and in this season's campaigns in all competitions who have scored many goals and assisted many others which had led to the club winning the Carabao Cup and the PL title last season and retained the Carabao Cup this season. And looking could retain the PL title this season.
Arsenal who used to have reliable goal getters on the consistent basis like Thiery O'Henry and others used to be for the club in the past don't have them anymore nor have the likes if them now who can help the club to win the PL title again after it won it in 2003-2004 season. And Arsene Wenger, the immediate past manager of the Gunners who assembled most of those incredible winners of 2004 season at Arsenal culminating to the invisibility of the club in the PL. But could not assemble the same quality of players that won the PL title in 2004 after that invincible PL winning team of 2300-2004 season disbanded. Talk-less of him to assemble above that team quality players. This failure by Arsenal to rebuild the Gunners team properly to make them compete decisively to win the PL title again after many a near miss to win it again is as a result of the inability of Arsene Wenger to find hidden talents of top top quality players again who could become world class players after they've been signed on the bargain like those in the invincible team of 2004 season when he signed them and latter developed some of them to become world class players at Arsenal.
Since Arsenal won the PL title in 2004, the transfer price for new senior players signing has gradually been on the increase. And as a consequence of Arsenal dabbling into building the Stadium, the club ran into acute financial shortages making it difficult for Arsenal to compete with other top PL club sides to sign finish article world class players of repute consistent goal scoring ability such as Zlatan Ibramovic when he was in his hay days, Kun Aguero, Luis Suarez, Gareth Bale and Diego Costa if to mention a few whom If Arsenal had signed at least 2 of the above world class players when their transfer cost price should be within Arsenal financial reach had the club not dabbled into building the Emirates Stadium at a huge financial cost at the time they did. Perhaps, Arsenal might have won the Premiership again, again and again in 2010 to 2016.
This brings to mind on the subject article on the UA suggesting that Arsenal should sign Gareth Bale during next summer window? On my 2nd thought after I opposed the suggestion, I've decided to succumbed to the suggestion. Because Bale could guarantee scoring 14 PL goals or above that for Arsenal next season from the LW he plays mostly from. His likely double digit goals scoring exploits for Arsenal from the LW will amount to a major upgrade to the current goals scoring number at the Gunners LW this season in the PL which Alex Iwobi is currently manning.


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Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books. Whether enjoyed in the classroom or for homeschooling or independent reading, Charlotte's Web is a proven favorite.
Sixty years ago, on October 15, 1952, E.B. White's Charlotte's Web was published. It's gone on to become one of the most beloved children's books of all time. To celebrate this milestone, the renowned Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo has written a heartfelt and poignant tribute to the book that is itself a beautiful translation of White's own view of the world—of the joy he took in the change of seasons, in farm life, in the miracles of life and death, and, in short, the glory of everything. We are proud to include Kate DiCamillo's foreword in the 60th anniversary editions of this cherished classic. Charlotte's Web is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn. With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him, and by a wonderfully clever plan of her own, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur, who by this time had grown up to quite a pig. How all this comes about is Mr. White's story. It is a story of the magic of childhood on the farm. The thousands of children who loved Stuart Little, the heroic little city mouse, will be entranced with Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig, and Fern, the little girl who understood their language. The forty-seven black-and-white drawings by Garth Williams have all the wonderful detail and warmhearted appeal that children love in his work. Incomparably matched to E.B. White's marvelous story, they speak to each new generation, softly and irresistibly.
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This teaching unit helps introduce fine literature to students with a wide range of reading abilities. Each teaching unit promotes oral and written language proficiency through discussion questions and writing assignments that develop comprehension, application, synthesis, and evaluation skills. Reproducible pages contain classroom-tested activities that reinforce thinking skills while introducing the concept of analysis through class discussion. Extensive background information is provided for the teacher; students are presented with the elements of fiction, including setting, characterization, plot, point of view, and theme.
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A mouse, a pig, a spider-characters from the imagination of author E. B. White. What does the reviewer think of the books Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web? Does the reviewer like each book's movie adaptation? Will you want to read the books and watch the movies? If so, will you agree or disagree with the reviewer's judgment? Read these reviews to find out.
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Author : Michael Sims
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White obeyed that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours as a child and adult. Painfully shy, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It's all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. Michael Sims chronicles White's animal-rich childhood, his writing about urban nature for the New Yorker, his scientific research into how spiders spin webs and lay eggs, his friendship with his legendary editor, Ursula Nordstrom, the composition and publication of his masterpiece, and his ongoing quest to recapture an enchanted childhood.
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As a result of advances in genome sciences in recent years, the treatment of a variety of diseases, especially cancer treatment, has entered a new phase.
We have been steadily drawing away from the standardized approach of the past in which indications and treatment methods were decided according to the histological type, site, and stage of the cancer, and approaching an era of individualized therapy in which diagnosis and treatment are performed on the basis of genetic information, such as gene abnormalities and mutations, changes in gene expression, etc., that occur in each individual cancer.
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The company, founded in 2014 by Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky, will relocate this year to the former Arvato Digital Services building.
WEAVERVILLE — No Evil Foods, a manufacturer and distributor of plant-based meat products in Western North Carolina, plans to relocate to Weaverville and expand its operations into an existing facility.
The company, founded in 2014 by Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky, will relocate this year to the former Arvato Digital Services building. It had been operating at Blue Ridge Food Ventures, a shared-use incubator kitchen, in Candler.
No Evil Foods partially attributes the need for its expansion to its "accelerated growth and production demands." The move is expected to quadruple the company's production requiring, in turn, for the addition of 15 living wage jobs to be added by the end of the year, the company said.
"The new space will help us significantly increase our production volume, allow for more efficiency and give us the flexibility to develop new products and quickly bring them to market," Woliansky said in a news release. He added that the new space also will have an "innovation kitchen," where Schadel will develop new products for the brand.
That space, he said, eventually will evolve into a tasting room "so we can keep everyone excited about what's coming next from No Evil Foods."
The new facility, which has been dubbed "The Axis," is expected to be operational by late spring 2018.
No Evil Foods features a variety of products under its umbrella, including Comrade Cluck vegan "No Chicken," The Stallion Italian Sausage, Pit Boss, a smoked barbecue plant meat, as well as The Pardon, a turkey alternative. Its products are found in at least 25 states and most recently have been carried by Whole Foods Market in the Rocky Mountain region.
Arvato Digital Services, a major compact disc and DVD maker and distributor, closed in Weaverville in 2016. The company, which had operated there for 32 years, said it had seen "a decline of about 20 percent a year" in CD and DVD production and that "now it seems time to step out of it."
The move impacted 120 workers at the facility.
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Because of such a high level of media attention, Texas sextuplet parents Lauren and David Perkins had stopped making updates on their website. But they have finally spoken publicly on the progress of their little brood in a press conference at the Texas Children's Pavilion for Women where Lauren had given birth and the infants are currently receiving treatment.
"We are overjoyed to have finally met our six children and are comforted knowing that they are growing stronger and healthier each day," Lauren told reporters. "We are also very thankful for the physicians and staff at the Pavilion for Women who cared for me throughout my pregnancy, delivered our babies safely and continue to provide the best care for our little ones as they grow and thrive in the NICU."
The Pavilion provides care specifically to women pregnant with multiples and their babies. It is the only center of its kind and they offer genetic counseling, fetal imaging, maternal fetal medicine expertise and nutritional guidance, creating a "road map" for the complicated pregnancy and birth of high order multiples. A lot of work goes into planning that road map – it took more than a month to plan for Lauren's labor and delivery and they went through two simulated births, just to make sure that everyone was well prepared. In the end, there were 35 participants in the labor and delivery process, helping to bring the Perkins' sextuplets into the world safely.
Their care is also rather grandiose at the moment as well, the six new members to the Perkins family – three boys and three girls: Andrew Noah, Benjamin Luke, Levi Thomas, Allison Kate, Caroline Grace and Leah Michelle – are all cared for in three connected neonatal units. But they're not there alone – mom and dad get to stay right there at the Pavilion in the private NICU rooms, and they're loving every minute of it!
"We love being able to stay close to our babies during this time and feel so blessed that they are growing stronger every day," Lauren said.
Getting stronger they are! Five out of six of the babies are now breathing on their own and four of them should now be ready to breastfeed, according Dr. Charles Harkins, the physician in charge of the infants' daily care. The only one that seems to be struggling right now is little Leah.
"Leah is a very sick little girl," said Lauren. But her husband added that Leah is a "fighter."
Lauren had pushed her pregnancy all the way to thirty weeks, which is very uncommon for such a high order birth, but little Leah started showing signs of distress, prompting the need for immediate delivery. Right now, she requires a ventilator and help with her circulation. She also needed an operation shortly after birth.
But so far, the prognosis looks good, even for Leah. Despite the fact that all of the babies weighed under 2 pounds, 15 ounces, they were more developed than many sextuplets. And at 30 weeks, the survival rate is averaged at 95 percent, and that's with no health complications.
"Delivering high order multiples is always a high risk situation for both mom and newborns and, at this early stage, the babies require constant observation," said Dr. Stephen Welty in a prepared statement. "In the first weeks of life, the Perkins sextuplets have been progressing well and overcoming the challenges that face premature babies."
Doctors also shared that the infants are not expected to go home before their official due date and that they are not expected to return home at the same time.
A big congratulations to Leah and David on the safe delivery of all six of their infants. We hope to hear good news about Leah soon and wish them all the best with their beautiful brood.
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McDonald's to implement new food-safety strategy
OAK BROOK, ILL. — McDonald's Corp. announced tougher food-safety procedures for its restaurants and suppliers in China in an effort to regain consumer confidence and boost customer traffic.
The chain has outlined plans to enhance food safety at its suppliers. The company said it would review surveillance footage from meat processing facilities in China and increase audits of its suppliers. A majority of the new audits will be unannounced, and audit teams will include third-party auditors and McDonald's management teams.
Additionally, the company appointed Cindy Jiang as interim head of national food safety. Ms. Jiang will report directly to Don Thompson, chief executive officer of McDonald's. Ms. Jiang currently is senior director of McDonald's global food safety, quality and nutrition.
Other initiatives include anonymous hotlines to report unethical or noncompliant behavior.
McDonald's has taken other steps to restore its business in China, which has been hurt by allegations of food safety lapses on the part of its suppliers. Comparable sales in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region decreased 7.3%, reflecting the impact of the food safety scandal. The affected markets, which include Japan, represent approximately 10% of global system-wide sales and negatively impacted the segment's July comparable sales by more than 700 basis points.
"McDonald's China also announced how it has, over the past six weeks, completed third-party audits on all its meat and produce suppliers to confirm safe assured supply to our restaurants," the company said. "McDonald's China has stopped sourcing from the HUSI Shanghai plant and it has suspended all sourcing from all other OSI plants in China. Its current network of meat suppliers have stepped up their capacity to supply to McDonald's China and for all new suppliers, due diligence and qualification are being carried out before they can supply to McDonald's."
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My official title is "Licensed Mental Health Counselor." By definition, my job is to help people improve their mental health. Health is in the definition, and therefore I *should* value health for all people.
And let me say that I DO value health for everyone. But we need to unpack this, because I firmly believe that you personally do not HAVE to value health. You do not have to believe that health is the utmost important thing. In addition, health is simply not accessible to everyone, and if we want to improve societal health, we have to improve access for folks who embody all sorts of identities and have all sorts of different situations.
In order to love your body, you must be healthy.
There are certain weights/body shapes/sizes that represent health.
Everyone must always be working on their health.
Individual choices make people healthy.
I would love debunk these faulty assumptions for you, so let's get on it!
1. Faulty Assumption #1: In order to love your body, you must be healthy.
I say this to everyone: you are allowed to accept your body, right here, right now, no matter what condition it is in. You can say "yep, this is it. This is my body," and incorporate kind, loving, and friendly behaviors toward it simply because it is your body. People often believe that they need to lose weight or achieve a certain health marker and THEN they can accept their body. The problem with this logic is that there is no way to hate your body into health. People who chronically diet, yo-yo exercise, or constantly beat themselves up about their body shape and size don't actually end up healthier in the long run. People who accept themselves wholly are much more free to make choices that are in line with their values and with what their body actually needs.
Faulty Assumption #1 also leaves a lot of people out. If you can't love your body unless you're healthy, what does it mean for people with chronic medical conditions? What does it mean for folks with disabilities? Are folks who are not "healthy" by definition not allowed to love their bodies? In reality, we do not really have total control over our health, and that should not prevent us from moving toward body acceptance.
2. Faulty Assumption #2: There are certain weights/body shapes/sizes that represent health.
Y'all. You can never tell if someone is healthy by looking at them. There is literally no "eye test" to say that someone in a certain body size or shape is "healthy." To that end, what does "health" mean? What health markers are we actually measuring when looking at someone?
Many folks use the BMI as a marker of health, and yet it was developed by a mathematician, not a physician, in the 1800s (who wasn't even looking at health by the way!). If you ask any medical doctor if they continue to use any other instrument or test that is over 200 years old as a marker of health, they would laugh in your face. And yet doctors, laypeople, and well-meaning folks continue to use the BMI to tell us if we are healthy or not. It doesn't take into account anything important, like physical fitness, environment, trauma history, genetic makeup, NONE OF IT.
3. Faulty Assumption #3: Everyone must always be working on their health.
Why must everyone be working toward being healthy? If health is never guaranteed, why must we always be pursuing it?
Some people will tell me "because it's expensive for all of us taxpayers!" Listen: we will always be supporting people with all types of health conditions (including yours!). That's a part of being a citizen. In addition, individual behaviors actually do very little for our actual health markers. Eating salads and working out do much less than not being stigmatized, having enough money in the bank to take care of basic needs, having access to safe places to move, etc.
You do not owe anyone health, nor does anyone owe you health. Health is not a moral obligation.
4. Faulty Assumption #4: Individual choices make people healthy.
More and more research indicates that social determinants of health, including oppression, stigma, SES, racism, etc. actually has a much larger impact than any individual choices people are making. In fact, the numbers demonstrate that individual choices actually account for less than ⅓ of health markers (for example, your insulin levels, cholesterol, HDL/LDL triglycerides, etc.) We get so concerned about people exercising and eating vegetables that we ignore the vast majority of what actually affects people's health. It is lovely to be able to be able to move your body in a way that feels good and eat foods that feel good too. But if we want to improve health, we actually need to look at the ways in which society continues to oppress, stigmatize, and traumatize people.
5. Assumption #5: "Health" is achievable for everyone.
Nope. Sorry to be harsh, but the only guarantee we have in this life is that we will die. The "healthiest" people, including extreme athletes, still get cancer, still have their joints break down, still get unavoidable diseases. Again, individual choices do not make people healthy.
We need to back off this healthist stuff. Say it with me: you do not owe anyone health. You do not have to value health. There are about a million other things to value, including relationships, career, independence, love, compassion, you name it, and health does not have to be on that list for you.
The pressure on being "healthy" is ridiculous, and serves to continue to disconnect us from our bodies. Instead, I am all for finding ways to relate to food and exercise that feel wholesome and connecting and lovely for you and improving access to those ways for all folks in all bodies.
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Regional development and creativity
E. Marrocu
R. Paci
Emanuela Marrocu
Raffaele Paci
The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the educational component (the share of individuals with a university degree) and the creativity component, which considers the actual occupations of individuals in specific jobs like science, engineering, education, arts and entertainment. We define three non overlapping categories of human capital (creative graduates, bohemians and non creative graduates) which are simultaneously included in a spatial model as determinants of regional growth measured by labour productivity. After extending the analysis to control for other relevant factors which may affect regional development, such as physical, technological and social capital, cultural diversity, industrial and geographical characteristics, we provide robust evidence on the growth enhancing effects of graduates, in particular for those of the creative category.
E. Marrocu & R. Paci, 2012. "Regional development and creativity," Working Paper CRENoS 201202, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
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O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
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Today (04.04.2019), one of our yearlings - colt Diamonds Star (Diamant de Semilly - Clinton - Calato) has left our stables for the new home in Hungary. We wish the new owners lots of enjoyment and much success in the future .
The next foal, also a filly but by Stakkato Gold was born on Wednesday the 6th of March at 2.15 pm. We named her Miss Rose as per our tradition, her mother, Holly Rose (Kannan - Clinton) is a very promising young mare, and a new showjumping prospect.
On the 28th February in the very early morning this beautiful filly by HARLEY VDL was born. The proud mother is Carette (Cormint - Quinar), stamm 18b1 .
Today we said goodbye to our 4 year old NIGHT FIGHTER (Cassilio - Linaro - Calato) who is now on his way to a new home. His new owner is already planning his career, so we hope to see him during MPMK*. *MPMK - National young horses competition.
We are proud to announce that Our 6 years old ELIS DE REVEL (Corrado - Quidam de Revel) trained by both Joanna and Michal Tyszko whos been very successful achieving plenty of clear rounds as well as many medals including bronze for the place in CSIYH1* Baltica Spring Tour 2017, has recently been sold to Denmark. We wish the new owner a successful carrier, many clear rounds and a fruitful partnership with this promising young horse!