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Mapfre AM launches an investment fund based on behavioural economics
MAPFRE AM is launching the 'MAPFRE AM Behavioral Fund' – a fund that aims to exploit pricing inefficiencies in European equities caused by the behaviour of market participants.
MAPFRE AM has developed a proprietary methodology for identifying opportunities caused by investors reacting to new information in exaggerated or irrational ways. The managers then apply detailed fundamental analysis to determine whether these equities represent attractive long-term investments.
Álvaro Anguita, CEO of MAPFRE AM, explains that Fund managers, Luis García and Michael Morosi, "Have identified a set of circumstances in which certain cognitive biases have a tendency to make stock prices deviate significantly from their intrinsic value, offering a margin of security to invest cost-effectively, and at lower risk, over the long term".
"Understanding why market participants behave as they do is an important aspect of asset management and a great tool for those that follow a value investment philosophy," said Luis Garcia.
Advisory Board of the Fund
The Managers' investment process will be supported by an Advisory Board composed of recognised experts in the field of the behavioural economics. The team is made up of Natalia Cassinello, Professor of Finance of The Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE); Pedro Rey Biel, Professor of Economics at ESADE; Pedro Bermejo, Neurologist at The Puerta de Hierro University Hospital of Madrid and President of the Spanish Association of Neuroeconomics; and, Guillermo Llorente, MAPFRE's General Director of Security.
Álvaro Anguita said, "We have brought together a great team of committed people who will help us integrate the finances of behaviouralism into our work as value investors ". The fund, which is the first of its kind to be launched in Spain, will seek to invest primarily in companies that have a simple business model, are capable of generating cash, have a sustainable competitive advantage, a low level of indebtedness and, in many cases, managed by the founding families whose interests are well aligned with those of their shareholders. The fund will be distributed mainly in Spain and France and will be domiciled in Luxembourg, so that it can be available to other international investors.
MAPFRE AM Is the group's fund management company in Spain. Its philosophy is to combine the creation of Long value Term value with capital protection. Its main strengths are in equities, European fixed income and asset allocation.
MAPFRE Is a global insurer with a presence in five continents. It is a leading company in the Spanish market, the largest Spanish insurer in the world, the third largest Insurance Group in Latin America and is in the Top 10 in Europe by volume of premiums. MAPFRE has more than 35,000 employees and in 2018, its income approached €27bn and its net profit was €529m.
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It is not uncommon for a person to request a change to their divorce decree, regarding issues involving the children such as child custody and support are concerned. While the decree may be suitable at the time it is issued by the court, no one can predict the future and people often experience both substantial and ongoing changes of circumstances. Here are four situations in which you may need to explore your options to a Decree of Divorce or Paternity.
In today's economic climate, you can be enjoying a steady and predictable income one day and be unemployed tomorrow. Finding another job with comparable pay can take time, and until that happens, you may not be able to afford to pay the alimony or child support amounts specified in the divorce decree.
If you have an amicable relationship with your ex, he or she may volunteer to waive child support or at least reduce the amounts until you get another job. Don't do it. Unless the original decree is modified, you are under court order to pay the amount specified in the Decree. Even if your ex doesn't mind an informal change, the authorities certainly will. A "certified" agreement is worthless unless signed by a judge, and a Motion to Modify is required to change your financial obligations.
If you are a noncustodial parent who receives a job offer in another city, a decision to move will impact the current visitation schedule. While many divorced spouses deal with this type of situation by informal agreement to spare the time and expense of getting a new order, such an arrangement will only work as long as you and your ex continue to honor the new arrangement. If problems arise, a judge will not be able to enforce the changes unless they are part of a new court order. You should seek a court order detailing any change in visitation.
When family court judges determine custody arrangements, they take into account each parent's ability to provide the children with a stable living environment. If a parent becomes dependent on drugs, alcohol, or any other addiction, a Motion to Modify is appropriate. Depending on the urgency of the situation you might need an Emergency Order to protect the safety of the child(ren).
Divorce and paternity decrees are legally binding, but as you can see, they are not set in stone. You can technically request a modification at any time, provided that a substantial change in circumstances has occurred since the previous order was entered.
For maximum efficacy, motions to modify should be composed and presented to the court by an experienced family law attorney. For assistance in this regard, please contact us at Bedlam Law today.


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RFD-TV's Original TV Series "FarmHer" Wins Cynopsis TV Award for
RFD-TV's Original TV Series "FarmHer" Wins Cynopsis TV Award for the "Best Reality Series: Family-Focused" Category
Thursday, February 9, 2017 5:36 PM EST
Honorable Mentions in the "Best Reality Series: Food/Lifestyle and Documentary" Categories
(NASHVILLE, TENN. — February 9th, 2017) RFD-TV is proud to announce that its new documentary series "FarmHer" has been selected as a winner of a Cynopsis TV Award for the "Best Reality Series: Family-Focused" category. Honorable mentions were also given for the docu series in the "Best Reality Series: Food/Lifestyle and Documentary" categories.
The Cynopsis TV Awards and 20th Anniversary Gala were held in New York on Tuesday, February 7, 2017. The event included an anniversary reception followed by a dinner announcing the TV Award winners.
"It was an honor to be in NYC and accept this award on behalf of "FarmHer" and RFD-TV," said Raquel Gottsch "FarmHer" executive producer. "This show is all about family, hard work, and updating the image of agriculture to include women. These are beautiful women doing amazing work and it's our job to capture them in their everyday lives. We visited over 43 farms and ranches during season one, and even though they are all so very different, they are also very similar in their love for the land, care for the community, and desire to feed the people. The FarmHers we profile each week are the true stars of the show, so we humbly share this award with them."
"I am incredibly proud of the TV show we have built around FarmHer," said Marji Guyler-Alaniz, founder of FarmHer. "To see my vision of showing the world how important women are to agriculture come to life in such an amazing way is beyond exciting and to have our efforts recognized by the television industry just solidifies the work we are doing."
RFD-TV's original series, "FarmHer" premiered in September 2016 and focuses its camera lens to shine a light on women in agriculture through the eyes of professional photographer and TV host Marji Guyler-Alaniz. Female farmers have often gone unnoticed, despite making up 30% of the farming workforce and tripling over the past four decades. "FarmHer" takes viewers on a journey through a day in the life of many diverse women, telling their story and aiming to create a dialogue that highlights the importance women play in agriculture. Each episode of "FarmHer" follows a different female farmer and explores their lives on different farms around the country. From an urban goat dairy farm in Tampa, Florida to an alpaca farm in Salida, Colorado, "FarmHer" takes viewers inside the nitty-gritty lives of female farmers.
FarmHer was founded by Marji in 2013 just after the "God Made a Farmer" Super Bowl Ram commercial aired. A few days after the commercial captivated America, she read an article discussing how it was a beautiful representation of America, but where were the women? She struggled with this fact and decided she wanted to utilize her passion for photography to begin changing the image of agriculture to include women and share their stories. The FarmHer concept started as an online community and photo project and has now grown into a new primetime television series on RFD-TV.
This original series is produced by RFD-TV in partnership with "FarmHer" and presented by Syngenta U.S. Additional sponsors include Mahindra U.S., Nationwide Agribusiness, and Puracyn.
"FarmHer" airs Fridays at 9:30 p.m. EST (encores Saturdays at 11 a.m., Sundays at 9:30 p.m., and Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. EST).
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RFD-TV is the flagship network for Rural Media Group. Launched in December 2000, RFD-TV is the nation's first 24-hour television network featuring programming focused on the agribusiness, equine and the rural lifestyle, along with traditional country music and entertainment. RFD-TV produces six hours of live news each weekday in support of rural America and is a leading independent cable channel available in more than 50 million homes.
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and to be relevant into the next decade.
Gartner analysts Robert Naegle and Jim McGittigan go on to note that tech-centric organizations must move to a services mindset, from supply driven, functionally aligned, and technically siloed to demand driven, customer centric, service obsessed, and process based.
Nicolas Jacques of the Open Daylight Project brings the point home with a positive outlook, as heard in this recording of the "Business Implications of Software-Defined Networking panel discussion at Cisco Live Milan in January.
This is where a unified-architecture process steps in—the next logical evolution of the IT journey— providing a consistent methodology that's embedded into the IT operating model over time. With a unified architecture comes synergies that promote holistic, consistent engagement between IT and the business, including sales, services, and engineering. When IT moves out of the silo and aligns with the business, critical pipelines form between groups. For example, a pipeline between IT and engineering means that customer needs can be communicated to developers, and, in turn, development can position solutions to meet customer needs. This type of connection fosters higher quality, faster speed to adoption, easier integration, a better user experience, and lower TCO. These benefits together translate to a major competitive advantage, which, of course, is good for business—and what's good for business is good for IT.
It's already 2014, with 2020 just around the corner. As an IT leader, it's time to take your seat at the business table—you'll get a much better view than you'll ever see from the silo.
Join the conversation on Twitter via #FutureOfIT. To learn more, visit Cisco Executive Perspectives.
We certainly live in interesting times where entire industries can transform in just a few years. In many cases industry transformation is caused by some sort of technological change. Some examples? Video rentals (Blockbuster / Netflix), Books (Borders / Amazon), Mobile Phones (Blackberry / Apple). It is critical IT departments adapt to the changing needs of the business. This is why cloud technology should be embraced. It helps enable flexibility, scalability, as well as reduce over costs.
and I thought tech was moving fast from mainframe to mid/then mini then PC. Looking back now we moved at the speed of glaciers (pre global warming). Things move at a very quick pace. IT needs to lead or get left behind.
For many CIOs that moved up the ranks of IT organizations that pride themselves on performance metrics that measure system up-time and availability, talking the language of business is a goal (aspiration) they hope to achieve — some time in the foreseeable future.
But there's a good reason why most cloud services are being procured by Line-of-Business leaders. These executives can't wait for the legacy CIO and IT manager to make the transition.
My point: earning a seat at the table requires more than a desire to evolve up the value-chain — you also need appropriate skills.
Great point and you are spot on. You need to have subject matter expertise to be relevant. I should have called that out.


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Here, we can clearly see the self-reflective tendencies, in which the poet discusses how many more lines he needs to finish a traditional sonnet (lines 1-4), he directly comments on the traditional subject-matter of the sonnet, the rejected love of the speaker (alluded to in line 3), he adds an amusing allusion to the normal requirements of rhyme, meter and iambic pentameter, which the poet.
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But the story of those years casts a shadow on the current life. Philip Roth, and the émigré Isaac Bashevis Singer. There were the poets of the Lowell-Bishop-Berryman generation; Susan Sontag, an.
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In 2010, The New Yorker named her one of the 20 best writers under 40. and more. Alma Singer from The History of Love shares the same name as the wife of Isaac Bashevis Singer (whose archive.
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Joan Chapman went on to tell this story: One day about that time my mother was asked. Stein—or for any Jew (practicing or non-practicing)—to say. As one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's characters puts.
Schwarz roams through a fertile 20-year period from around 1945 to 1965, and covers subjects ranging from diaries penned during the first days after liberation to the mature prose of Isaac Bashevis.
Aug 5, 2016. "He never got to practise law in Poland," she tells the 80 people at the one-day. the sister of her father's best friend – a Pole – who witnessed what happened next. "The story was everything," Ms. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explains. Isaac Bashevis Singer; and Emanuel Ringelblum, historian of the Warsaw.
He had already secured writers like Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and John Hawkes. if the next several hundred would tell me anything I didn't already know. He can coin.
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Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," William Maxwell's "The Château," and Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Spinoza. monologue of the person who does not tell a story so much as.
Be a Helicopter, Vivian Paley (1990) tells why story is so important to teaching:. best means available for students to organize their experiences and make meaning for. I have always loved I. B. Singer's reminder in Naftali the Storyteller and His. Storyteller Jay O'Callahan defines storytelling as the " theater of the mind.".
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I found that I had much in common with believers and apostates such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Andre Dubus. honest and intelligent memoir "Jesus Land," which tells the story of her raising in rural.
Jan 31, 2013. In "Ted Hughes, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and an Interview with Jules. moratorium on use of the expression 'peanut-crunchers' to describe. Rollyson has a narrative writing style that is an easy flow of words, that tells a very good story, The 'Bee' poems are good, but which of them represent Plath best?
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Mr. Vitz also tells the story of a high school student. One example of the educational revision that some textbooks engage in involves Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize-winning author. In his.
"We have what is practically a form letter," Ms. Hauck reported, "saying that long ago we had to decide that it's better to put those words in the dictionary and unequivocally tell people. note the.
Book reviews, interviews, columns, and musings. April 18, 2016. In anticipation of the final issue of Bookslut, which will feature more Anne Boyd Rioux for your reading pleasure, here is a question: Did you know that Rioux has a monthly newsletter that features a largely forgotten woman writer of the past in each new edition?
In the 50-year history of the awards, only two other writers who weren't native English speakers have taken home the fiction prize: Isaac Bashevis Singer and Jerzy Kosinski. One of his best stories.
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But the leaders were so obsessed with Americanism that they neglected to tell. Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose works-in-progress still appear three times a week in The Forward, as they have for nearly.
They draw on Jewish tradition and folklore, the legacy of Sholom Aleichem, Kafka and Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Angel of Forgetfulness interweaves a clutch of narratives that, we gradually come to.
At their best, these fables invite reflection; often, their rhythm is that of the. "Top ledge" (19) tells of an iguana who uses education to climb to the top only to find a. The dust jacket describes the book as a "droll updating of a story from Aesop, ". to modern writers, from Hans Christian Andersen to Isaac Bashevis Singer.
As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about. The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.. Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Jul 24, 2018. One of Phillip Roth's best books is not a novel, nor even a collection of short. It is a genuinely fascinating conversation which has an interesting story behind it, The interview tells us something of the rapport between Roth and. he interviewed four (Levi, Appelfeld, Klima and Isaac Bashevis Singer).
This enlightening book, which has been translated into 15 languages, gets its title from a quote by Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Isaac Bashevis Singer. He said, "In relation to them, all.
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Adriana Lima manoeuvres her packed fashion week schedule with military-like precision. "To have a good fashion week you have to be organized," the 37-year-old model and Maybelline spokesperson tells me during a meeting at Maybelline House, a pop-up space open to the public during New York Fashion Week. Lima is not walking in any shows herself this season (last September marked her 20th anniversary of runway modelling). Instead, she's sitting front row—like at Tom Ford, where she met a fawning Cardi B—and making appearances at a number of events. Here, her guide to getting it all done.
"I am always punctual—no matter what—and I am very professional. Usually during fashion week, I don't party. There are so many after parties! I don't do those things because my days start early and I like my beauty sleep. As soon as my job is finished, I like to [leave and] rest to be ready for the next day."
"I get inspired by movies and different characters. Yesterday [my look] was a mix of Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface and Lauren Bacall. I was wearing SuperStay Matte in Heroine. I really do love it. It's something that I carry in my bag everywhere I go. Not one shade, but two or three shades. Because you are going back-to-back to different events so you have to be ready in every way. It doesn't come off—if you go and have a tea or something, it doesn't stain the cup and you don't have to worry about it."
Stick to your regular schedule as much as possible.
"I wake up at five in the morning; I have kids, so I have to get them ready. I wish I could bring them with me [to NYFW] but they are in school. Sometimes I drive them, but I need to put my mascara and my lipstick on first. I need to feel beautiful and alive and then boom! I'm ready for the day. [Laughs] That helps you know! Usually I use [Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick in] Lover and I fluctuate between The Falsies and Temptation mascaras. It's so funny, because this year the kids started waking up at 7:30 a.m., finally. But I still wake up at five no matter what!"


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Terrängen runt Germatyuk är platt österut, men västerut är den kuperad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km sydväst om Germatyuk. Runt Germatyuk är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.. Närmaste större samhälle är Lankaran,  km norr om Germatyuk.

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Yemen has the highest rate of deaths in pregnancy and childbirth in the Middle East. It also has the lowest level of women attending for antenatal care, and the lowest percentage of births attended by skilled health workers. With half of Yemen's estimated population of 25.5 million people living on less than $2 a day, the cost of accessing medical care is prohibitive and one of the main reasons for not seeking care.
We are leading an innovative project to increase the use of quality maternal health services and family planning through a voucher system. This allows women from poor, rural areas to access medical services at little cost. Working with the Ministry of Public Health and Population and local NGO Yamaan, we designed a voucher scheme which we are now implementing across 16 districts in Yemen.
The project is increasing the uptake of safe motherhood services, with particular focus on skilled birth attendance. The vouchers also enable women to access long-acting methods of family planning at private and public sector health facilities. Vouchers are either sold at a nominal price (in the case of maternal health services) or distributed to women for free (for family planning services). Services are provided through health facilities that meet agreed minimum standards of quality in the provision of services offered under the voucher programme.
The vouchers enable Yemeni women and their families from low-income households to access a package of reproductive health services (covering pre- and postnatal care, safe delivery, transport for delivery and family planning) free at the point of delivery. Once they have received a service, the provider then submits the voucher to a claims processing agency, and is reimbursed at a contracted price. By allowing women to access services at little or no cost, the project removes the major financial barriers that often prevent them from accessing health care. It also ensures a minimum standard of quality and provides funds for service providers that can be reinvested in staff incentives and further quality improvement.
Project achievements
Our vouchers were used by women in Yemen to access 29,345 antenatal visits; representing a 67% increase in the number of women accessing antenatal services.
In the areas where our vouchers were distributed, 2,714 caesarean sections were performed for women and 66% more women received family planning counselling, short-term methods and/or long-acting methods.
24,387 babies were delivered safely by a trained health care worker.
The voucher scheme is making a significant contribution to improving the health and social welfare of the women reached.
Results as of 2016.
Our programme is working with more than 113 public and private service providers
66% more women received family planning counselling
29,345 antenatal visits and 2,714 caesarean sections done
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Rule 35 and Prior State Sentences
United States v. Hankton, No. 16-31126 (5th Cir. Nov. 16, 2017)
In Hankton, defendants, at their federal sentencings, had the time they had served on prior, related state sentences credited toward their federal sentences. Quoting Hank Sadowski, former and now-retired Bureau of Prisons' Regional Counsel, who has written and lectured extensively on the subject and is now consulting with our law firm, the panel noted that this was "probably the single most confusing and least understood federal sentencing issue."
Thirteen days after sentencing, the government filed a Rule 35(a) motion to correct the sentences to remove the credit for the prior state sentences. The district court, the probation officer and defendants had to scramble with just one day remaining in the 14-day time limit for correcting sentences under Rule 35(a) to address the government's motion. "Under this extreme time pressure, the district court granted the Government's motion."
The panel first emphasized that Rule 35(a) "is not intended to afford the court the opportunity to reconsider the application or interpretation of the sentencing guidelines or for the court simply to change its mind about the appropriateness of the sentence." Second, even if Rule 35(a) allowed district courts to correct legal errors, they must be clear errors—the crediting of prior, related state sentences are anything but clear, according to the panel. According to the panel, "[t]he real error here occurred when the Government convinced the district court at the eleventh hour that the court was impinging on the BOP's authority." While the "BOP [is] primarily responsible for ensuring that defendants receive credit for previous time served," "[s]entencing courts, however, retain residual authority to reduce defendants' sentences based on previous time served related to their offenses. U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) permits a court to adjust a sentence if a defendant has served time on an undischarged term." The panel then explained the intricacies of various Guidelines provisions for how and when sentencing courts may reduce a defendant's sentence based on previous state time served. The panel concluded by vacating the district court's order "correcting" the sentences and reinstated the original judgment.
Will Former National Security Adviser Flynn Serve Time?
United States v. Michael T. Flynn
On Friday, December 1, 2017, former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (ret.) pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with one count of making false statements pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1001 in connection with the Government's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A section 1001 charge carries a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Per the terms of his very generous plea agreement, however, Flynn and the Government will recommend to Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the applicable Guideline is 2B1.1 and that his final offense level, with acceptance of responsibility, is no more than four. Thus, Flynn's sentencing range would only be zero to six months' imprisonment with a fine range of $500 to $9,500.
According to our sentencing analysis of U.S. Sentencing Commission sentencing data, between 2006 and 2016, there were 1,250 defendants who pleaded guilty to violating section 1001, were sentenced under 2B1.1, with a final offense level of 4 and in Criminal History Category I. The national average sentence was two months and the median was zero months, i.e., probation. Given that Flynn is cooperating with the Government pursuant to his plea agreement, he could receive a term of probation and a modest fine.
However, as the Guidelines calculation in the plea agreement is not binding on the Court, Judge Contreras could apply the Guidelines in a less favorable fashion. For example, Judge Contreras could use the "Fraud Involving the Deprivation of the Intangible Right to Honest Services of Public Officials" Guideline at 2C1.1 (by way of a cross-reference from 2B1.1), which we estimate would increase Flynn's offense level to 18 since he was a high-level government official at the time of his offense conduct. Judge Contreras also could add an additional two levels for obstruction of justice for a total of 20. With acceptance, that would reduce Flynn's final offense level to 17 for a sentencing range of 24-30 months.
Still, the likelihood of probation even here is high. There were only 31 such cases sentenced under 2B1.1 with a final offense level of 17 in CHC I between 2006 and 2016. The average sentence was nine months and the median was only five months. The average downward departure from the bottom of the Guidelines range for cooperation was 21 months, which would take Flynn to a sentence of imprisonment of just three months if he receives an average downward departure for his cooperation.
Still, given his level of cooperation, a sentence of imprisonment still would be highly unlikely even under this scenario. In fact, if Flynn is sentenced after November 1, 2018, it is likely that favorable amendments to the Guidelines now pending before the U.S. Sentencing Commission will have taken effect by then, which would reduce Flynn's final offense level by at least one additional level, making a probationary sentence even more likely under either sentencing scenario.
We will monitor the case as it progresses (as well as others who have been indicted or pleaded guilty in connection with Special Counsel Mueller's investigation) and update our readers accordingly.
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City honour superfan Michelle Dack as voting opens for Fan of the Season
Voting is now open to choose QD's Norwich City Fan of the Season, and the Club are delighted to announce the award will be dedicated to Canaries superfan Michelle Dack, who sadly passed away in January.
Michelle had been to 908 consecutive Norwich matches by the time of her last match at Portman Road in October, and her commitment to the Canaries cause epitomises everything the Fan of the Season award embodies.
From next season the award will be known as the Michelle Dack Fan of the Season, and her partner of 17 years, Ian Mitton – also a season ticket holder – will present the award to this season's winner at City's match against Cardiff at Carrow Road on April 14.
Ian has also been gifted a season ticket for life, and he has taken the decision to pass on the ticket to Michelle's daughter Samantha Stork, also a huge Norwich City fan and current season ticket holder.
The Club received over 250 nominations for the QD Fan of the Season, and a Norwich City judging panel had the difficult task of whittling the nominations down to three finalists...
Lillian Kemp
Lillian's passion for Norwich stems from her relocation several decades ago from Walthamstow to be with her husband, a Norwich local. Since then, Lillian has never looked back. At 88 years old, Lillian is a passionate Canaries fan and is a regular at home and away fixtures, which she attends with her great grandchildren.
Gary Moon
Gary suffered a terrible farming accident in March last year, leaving him with a broken neck and nerve damage to both arms. One year on and after three life-changing operations, Gary still attends games both home and away despite suffering from constant pain. He's only recently been able to work after not being able to for a year due to his accident but he still bought his and his daughter's season tickets for next season.
James Frost
James is an ever present at Carrow Road, following both the first team and Under 23s. James suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which means he is a full-time powerchair user and depends on the help of others for his personal care. He is a familiar, positive face among the Canaries fanbase.
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A farmer with iGrow. Pic: Facebook/iGrow
500 Startups, East Ventures invest in Indonesian agriculture-tech startup iGrow
By Tech Wire Asia | 24 June, 2016
LEADING global venture capital seed fund and startup accelerator 500 Startups and early stage investor East Ventures have invested an unspecified amount in Indonesian agriculture-tech startup iGrow.
iGrow, which won Tech in Asia's Startup Arena in Jakarta in 2014, is a long-term project that aims to link investors to underemployed farmers in order to make use of under-utilized land and produce organic food and sustainable incomes.
In short, an individual invests a small sum of money, which a farmer will use to plant and cultivate crops chosen by the investor, which can be almost anything from bananas to avocados to longans.
The startup has been dubbed the 'Farmville for real life', and has been hailed for leading the way towards sustainable agriculture in Indonesia, reports Forbes.
The investment is a long-term one, and individuals will have to wait for the crops to yield harvests, which can take a few years. However, once the harvests are sold, investors receive money back, which varies according to the growth cycles and expected return on investment (ROI).
Organic food rules! Say hi to @iGrowAsia at Demo Day 16! #500STRONG pic.twitter.com/g5WhKzRSyu
— 500 Startups (@500Startups) May 13, 2016
According to Tech in Asia, iGrow announced it has received a round of seed investment from 500 Startups and East Ventures.
The company intends to use the money to expand its operations overseas by the end of the year. It is targeting Turkey, specifically for olive farming, and possibly Japan.
In tits home base, iGrow has put 2,200 farmers to work and 1,197 hectares of land to use. CEO and co-founder Muhaimin Iqbal told Forbes the idea stemmed from the day-to-day problem of how to provide "massive food supplies for Indonesia's 250 million population".
He said: "We have enough fertile land but we import so much food supplies, because a lot of our land is idle or under-utilized – therefore we want to maximize the land utilization and to improve the environment as well."
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Jack Kirby wrote Challengers of the Unknown until issue 8. His story continues in Fantastic Four issue 1.
Both series begins with four friends surviving a plane crash (or rocket crash) and then dedicating their lives to doing good.
The first crash made them friends, the second crash gave them powers.
In the early years, the Challengers/FF headquarters looked the same. They even stood in the same poses!
The first Challengers story is about mind control: the giant is in the mind, and the energy globe communicates in the mind. In the next issue, the giant robot communicates and controls through the mind. Fanastic Four 3 is about mind control and another red monster who is defeated when they realise he is all in the mind. Fantastic Four 7 and 8 also rely on mind control.
...who wears a hooded cloak, and possesses incredible inventions.
He lives in a castle... in America!
At the end Morelian appears to die, but he was wearing a ring that gave him immortality, so it is very likely that his mind would simply transfer to another body. Just as Dr Doom gained this power in FF 10, though annual 2 hints that he may have already had something like it.
The Challengers/FF visit outer space, underground, under the oceans, and every other exotic location. The first Challengers story has then fly to a remote island where they find a monster. The first Fantastic Four story has them fly to Monster Island.
In Challengers 3, Rocky gains the powers associated with the Fantastic Four: flame, invisibility, changing his body size, and great strength.
The Challengers exist to challenge the unknown. So it is natural that the rest of them would explore gaining the same powers. And they do, in Fantastic Four issue 1.
Something about Rocky's trip must have been extremely painful or distressing. Because when he came back he violently attacked anybody associated with taking him into space: not just "Ace" (the example above) and the professor (below), but also the men involved in the space programme.
We can explain this as a kind of madness, or of him losing his memory. But that is just opinion. All we know for sure is that the exact same thing happened in the Fantastic Four. Here I have removed Stan Lee's dialog, so we can more clearly see Kirby's intent: changing makes the men angry and violent.
The alien process gave them whatever powers they needed at the time. Ben wanted to hit Reed, and Reed wanted to tie up Ben. So Ben gained strength, and Reed gained the ability to stretch. That is exactly as explained in Challengers 3. However, Reed (who planned the space flight) was not an expert on powers, so they didn't get general purpose abilities: were stuck with the first power they experienced.
This anger between Ben and the others was probably the biggest thing that made the Fantastic Four stand out from other comics. Yet it comes straight from the Challengers.
Notice how Rocky was able to recover when June held him and treated him with kindness. But Ben was never able to recover because he lost Sue forever. We will turn to that now.
But generally, Stan's dialog simplifies the story, and loses the essential love triangle. If we ignore Stan's writing, and just focus on the art, we see that the love triangle explains all of Ben's anger and depression.
Let's start with issue 2: when Ben is normal, Sue is smiling. When Ben becomes a monster again, Sue does not seem sad or worried, she just seems uninterested: she even avoids eye contact.
In issue 3 Johnny is siding with Reed, the winner in the love triangle. He seems to be saying "get over it". A Kirby expert once pointed out that Johnny's position in that middle frame looks odd: possibly it is redrawn to make it more mocking? Either way, Johnny is siding with Reed, the man who caused Ben's problem and is now dating Sue.
Issue 4 is even clearer. Again, ignore the dialog and look at the art: Sue is siding with Reed, and it drives Ben crazy! I am not saying that Stan's dialog was completely different from what Jack intended, but the obvious romantic nuance is completely ignored in the text.
Finally, issue 6 is the clearest example yet: Sue is in another man's arms and it drives Ben wild! Worse, Ben is restrained by Sue's official boyfriend!
The title, "when friends fall out", was probably drawn in by Kirby. Does it refer to Namor and Doom? No, because they were not friends, and we do not learn that Doom has betrayed Namor until next chapter. This chapter is about them all fighting over Sue.
In FF 8 Ben finally leaves. Sue has sided with Reed, and Ben no longer wants to be reminded of that every day. Sue asks him to come back, but she is staying with Reed and Ben just wants out.
And at the end he finds a girl who looks exactly like Sue. But in a reversal of issue 2's events, this "Sue" loves him as The Thing.
In summary, the angry fighting between team members is classic Kirby, and arises naturally from the situation (unknown radiation can change people) that Kirby set up in Challengers.
Why did Reed take his girlfriend and her kid brother along?
Because together they were the Challengers of the Unknown, the four people best suited in all the world to this task.
Why was Ben so concerned about shielding when the others were not?
Because he had previously suffered the results.
Why was Ben's appearance changed? And why was he unable to turn back?
Why didn't the team get the same powers, or all powers?
In Challengers 3 it was shown that a liquid plus radiation is needed for all powers. The monkey who only received the liquid only exhibited one power - immunity to flame.
Why did they get those specific powers?
This is explained in Challengers issue 3: the process is designed by aliens, to magnify existing tendencies, in order to let beings survive hostile environments. So the hothead got flame, the non-violent person got invisibility, and the mentally stretching person got physical stretching.
What did Jack Kirby intend?
Q What information, if any, do you have concerning the creation of The Fantastic Four?
A In discussions with my father The Fantastic Four basically was a derivative of the, from what he told me, basically he came up with the idea just as a derivative from the Challengers of the Unknown that he had done several years earlier.
Kirby: "The Challengers are us"
GROTH: "Can you tell me how you came about creating Challengers of the Unknown?"
This is important. People sometimes complain that the Challengers don't have distinctive personalities. This is partly true, because they are deliberately blank slates: their purpose is to represent the readers, to see how we would solve a problem. They did not develop distinctive personalities until the Fantastic Four.
Kirby: The Challengers "were always precursors to the Fantastic Four"
The Challengers dealt with radiation and its effects (e.g. in Showcase 6, Challengers 3, Challengers 8, etc.). It is only natural that the next step focused on individual characters.
GROTH: "Looking back on it, do you see the Challengers as a precursor to the Fantastic Four?"
The challengers were generic, but the Fantastic Four brought them into focus as individuals with individual differences.
Kirby: the FF is about the radiation, "not the characters"
Kirby saw the FF as about the effects of radiation, not the characters. The characters only became important later, as people grew used to them.
"The idea for the F.F. was my idea. My own anger against radiation. Radiation was the big subject at that time, because we still don't know what radiation can do to people. [...] The element of truth in the Fantastic Four is the radiation– not the characters. And that's what people relate to, and that's what we all fight about today.
PITTS: You think people relate more to the radiation aspect than to the characters?
We see this in the Challengers as well. The second Showcase issue is about how radiation gave a machine incredible intelligence. In the final issue (Challengers 8) we see similar radiation from space, again giving super intelligence to robots.
Did you notice that wording in each case? The radiation from space gave FANTASTIC powers.
The same word was used to describe the super powered monkey that led to Rocky gaining flame power, invisibility, stretching and strength.
What if all four team member gained these FANTASTIC powers? What would they call themselves?
Kirby: I "allow the reader to interpret it his way. "
"I was presenting my views to the reader and saying 'what do YOU think?' I think that's an imperative for any writer. In other words, no writer should feel that he has the last word on any subject. Because he hasn't got the capacity. He doesn't know! I don't know, see, I'm guessing as well as you [do], except I may be a little more descriptive, that's all. [...] I put enough chinks into the story to allow the reader to interpret it his way. Because I've always respected the reader. [...] I sold the best stories I could. But I didn't present my stories as the final word."
So if we want to say the Challengers become the Fantastic Four, I think Kirby would be perfectly happy with that.
Fiction always has gaps. We do not know every detail about a person and their life, we just see the most interesting parts. This is especially true of the Challengers: most of their life and characterisation is not define. The Fantastic Four neatly fills those gaps. For example, the Challengers does not tell us Red's background. The Fantastic Four reveals that he is June's brother. Since they are gaps, they could be filled in other ways. The Challengers would also fit with fan fiction where Red is no relation to June. There are multiple ways to fill the gaps! But the Fantastic Four fit very neatly.
The nickname Ace means the same as Mr Fantastic: this guy loves himself! He worked on the top secret military space program, so "Morgan" was probably an alias to keep his real name (Richards) private.
"Ace" naturally takes on the role of leader of each team, even though they are in theory equals. His big goal is to enter space. Remember, this was 1958, when America and Russia were racing to be the first in space, and when "the space program" was merely the high altitude part of the air force. In Fantastic Four 1, Ace succeeds. That was 1961, the year when in the real world man also entered space.
"Ace" looks older and thinner in fantastic Four 1. This is easily explained by the youth serum in the previous issue, Challengers 8.
After using the youth serum your age is supposed to return to normal. But the challengers are dedicated to exploring the unknown, and repeated use could easily cause a person's age to rebound too far. But after the first few issues Reed's age did return to Ace's age, and Ace's general appearance, but the grey-ish hair remained.
Ryan, the "circus daredevil", is clearly the youngster of the group: he is always shown as shorter than the others, and the others take the lead. World class circus acrobats do have to be young.
Possibly his age was further reduced after experiments with the youth serum.
Johnny Storm comes from a circus family. Here Stan's added dialog implies that Johnny was new to the circus, but Kirby's art says otherwise: his face is relaxed, as if this is familiar territory. I follow Kirby's FF, not Lee's.
"Red Ryan" sounds like a circus stage name. "Johnny Storm" could also be a code name, but seems to be used as his real name.
Johnny's distinctive hairstyle remains the same. The change from orange to yellow can easily be explained by the comic book printing technology of the time.
June is the less powerful member of the team, and the last to join.
As time goes on, June looks more like Sue. This depends of course on her hairstyle and who is inking: the earlier Fantastic Four inkers were often rushed.
June/Sue is an expert on computers. She is able to short circuit Doom's computer in a second, with her hands tied behind her back.
A cur-off switch does not normally cause a computer to explode! Clearly she understood exactly how the machine worked. Note that her skill was in 1950s era computers: this skill became obsolete once the team gained access to the more advanced computers from planet X in FF 7.
June/Sue makes up for her lack of physical power with her intelligence and bravery. This is often obscured by Stan Lee's dialog, but Kirby's art and plotting makes it clear: June/Sue is a match for any of the boys.
Wen we first meet Sue she is June Robbins. But soon after she is June Walker and has dyed her hair blonde. This implies a marriage to an unnamed Mr Walker, and possible insecurity. This insecurity is supported by her first appearance, where the Challengers are amazed to find a woman in a demanding role: she has to fight 1950s sexism all the time. We don't know "Mr Walker", but "Patsy Walker" appeared in FF annual 3, and had a large extended family in her own comic. Patsy began in "Miss America" magazine in the early 1940s, published by Timely when Kirby was working there, so he was familiar with the name. Here for example is Patsy's younger brother, Michael Walker, who would certainly be old enough to marry June Robbins in 1958. Of course, June could have married a different Walker.
So we can read between the lines: Sue/June had a failed marriage to one of the Walker clan. This explains why she was not romantically interested in the Challengers, despite them being the most alpha of alpha males, and her having so much in common (becoming an honorary challenger due to her own skills).
No doubt meeting the challengers contributed to her failed marriage: in Challengers 2 she would have been engaged to one of the Patsy Walker family, not known for their high intellect. The Challengers were clearly her soul mates - how could she be happy married to one of dizzy Patsy's family? She had made a terrible mistake. We don't know the details of the divorce, she is clearly a very private person, but once divorced she was free to become romantically involved again. Ace and Rocky were the natural leaders of the pack, but who would she choose?
Of all the team member, Professor Haley seems least at ease. He is the odd one out, using his title and real name. When the others look excited and interested, Haley seems cautious or uncomfortable. When the others love action and fighting, Haley prefers to study his books, and the relative silence and peace of the oceans. Once June had joined the team it is natural that Professor Haley would retire.
The Challengers explains the origin of the team's super powers: aliens use a specially designed liquid to heighten their abilities as needed. An ancient humans civilisation managed to create a crude version that could (at least) turn people into giants. Sorcerers down the ages have managed to create simpler versions with limited abilities, e.g. making a person's body young. But they are clearly variations on the same liquid. Note how the de-aging liquid is in the form of a mist: the Inhumans also used a mist to change their DNA.
Has that caught your interest? Good!
Coming soon: an issue by issue review!
In the story, Reed has his own seismograph. At the time, thanks to the 1958 Geneva Convention, there was a network of 150 seismograph stations dotted around the world, designed to detect atomic tests.
Bomb tests often took place underground, and no doubt this was why the Mole Man destroyed nuclear plants in revenge.
The story ends when Reed or the Torch sets off an atomic explosion. The dialog says the Mole Man did it, but that makes no sense: why blow up your own house? The art seems to indicate that Reed set off a bomb after Johnny sealed the entrance. This is confirmed by the Mole Man's dialog when they next return: Reed set off the bomb.
Where did this idea come from? In 1958, when Kirby was writing Challengers, the Americans had just discovered the Van Allen radiation belts.
They were planning to explode a hydrogen bomb in space to understand how they interact. The plan wasned explosion eventually took place in 1962, producing a spectacular light show. Click the link for details, or Google "Starfish Prime"
So when the Fantastic Four entered the Van Allen radiation belts above Earth it was just as Kirby said: it was linked to man's experiments with the atom bomb, and humans did not know what that radiation would do.


"Paris Galaxies a vision for the Greater Paris", performative installation, © Raphaële Bidault-Waddington, Scaling-Up Symposium, Designer Days, 2012.
La Garantie, association pour le bijou, and PCA organize a two day symposium, Bijou(x). Les pratiques contemporaines à l'épreuve de leur discours.
PCA is launching a new research seminar in the fall of 2013 in collaboration with university and design school partners.
PCA Students collaborate on Paris Galaxies, a vision for Greater Paris in 2030, an experimental art-based research project developed by French artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington.
Paris Galaxie a vision for Greater Paris in 2030 is an on going experimental art-based research project developed by French artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington.


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Higher health insurance deductibles giving workers pain
DAVID MARKIEWICZ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (MCT)
When workers across the country crack open their annual employee benefits packages this fall, many will likely feel immediate relief. Premiums for their employer-provided health insurance will be up, but not as much as in the past.
If they read a little bit closer, though, they might be agitated. Their deductible has probably risen again, increasing their out-of-pocket costs for treatment. That may lead some to decide whether to risk their health by skipping care, or their finances by getting services.
That unappealing choice comes as employers shift a bigger portion of health care costs to employees. In a nation bent on health care reform, where a key goal is to make sure there is quality care for those who need it, that can result in unintended consequences.
Roxanne Atrchin-Lopez, an Atlanta-area elementary school teacher, said she decided against getting tests she needed for a hernia because her $2,250 deductible made the likely out-of-pocket costs too high.
"You can only bleed a turnip so much," the 57-year-old Smyrna resident said, adding that her monthly insurance premium is actually tolerable. "Now," she said, "I'll probably end up having an emergency situation and going to the hospital."
Higher deductibles — what the worker has to pay before his costs begin to be reimbursed — "make it harder for people to get access to care when they need it," observed Sara Collins, vice president for health care coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that promotes a high performing health care system.
The definition of high deductible can vary, although the federal government, for its purposes, pegs it as $1,300 for individuals next year and $2,600 for families. Others say anything over $1,000 for an individual is high.
High-deductible health insurance has been around for years, but it drew less attention than rising premiums. Now, with premiums rising modestly, deductibles are under the microscope. Premiums were up about 3 percent this year, and some projections call for a bump about 4 percent next year.
In its annual employer health benefits survey released this month, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research Educational Trust emphasized the growth of high-deductible plans.
The slow growth in premiums seen this year is welcome news, but "many workers now pay more when they get sick as deductibles continue to rise and skin-in-the-game insurance gradually becomes the norm," said Drew Altman, Kaiser Foundation president and CEO.
According to Kaiser, 80 percent of workers with single coverage have a deductible, up from 55 percent in 2006.
The average deductible this year for workers with single coverage is $1,217, an increase from $584 in 2006.
Next year, four in five large employers will offer a high-deductible plan, up from just over half in 2010, the National Business Group on Health found in a survey. And one in three large firms will offer only a high deductible plan, up from about one in five this year, and just one in 10 in 2010.
Surveys by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health show that from 2011 to 2014, employees' share of total expenses, including monthly premiums and out-of-pocket expenses, rose to 37 percent from 34.3 percent.
Advocates of higher deductibles say there are benefits to the plans beyond holding down premiums.
Because workers will pay a higher share of their medical expenses, the thinking goes, they will seek services only when they really need them, and they will shop around for the best price. This can hold down overall health care spending, a win for everyone.
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But, critics point out, there are downsides. For one, some people who need care, like Atrchin-Lopez, might not seek it because they fear the cost. By not getting treatment at the time, they could wind up getting sicker and requiring higher-cost care later if the problem worsens.
Higher-deductible coverage also disproportionately affects those who suffer the most medical problems. Healthy people require far fewer services, so they pay lower premiums and don't come near reaching their deductible, minimizing their out-of-pocket expenses.
Critics also say that telling workers to shop for a better deal on a medical procedure sounds good, but in many cases it's not practical since health care pricing is complex and confusing.
Workers with high-deductible plans can somewhat protect themselves against a medical financial calamity by contributing to a Health Savings Account or a Health Reimbursement Account. These are rainy day funds for health care that workers, and their employers, if they choose, can contribute money to on a tax-advantaged basis. Employees can tap into what they've saved up to pay for medical costs including the deductible.
RISING DEDUCTIBLES
$1,300 — federal government's definition of a high deductible for individual coverage
$1,217 — average deductible this year for workers with single coverage
$584 — average deductible for workers with single coverage in 2006
80 — percentage of workers with single coverage who have a deductible
55 — percentage of workers with single coverage who had a deductible in 2006
37 percent — typical employee's share of health care coverage cost today
4 out of 5 — proportion of large employers that will offer a high-deductible plan next year
3 percent — typical increase in employee health insurance premiums this year
— Sources: Kaiser Family Foundation; Health Research Educational Trust; Towers Watson; National Business Group on Health
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January 2016 Workout Playlist
We love music and everything that it does for us! You know that moment where you feel like you're fading and then the perfect song comes on that inspires you to keep moving? That is how we feel when we hear good music.
Hope you all love this playlist as much as we do. It's full of fast-paced songs that are sure to motivate you to sweat and stay active.
"Heroes (We Could Be)" — Alesso
"Feel Right" — Mark Ronson, Mystikal
"WTF (Where They From)" — Missy, Pharrell
"Blame" — Calvin Harris, John Newman
"Lips Are Movin" — Meghan Trainor
"Beg For It" — Iggy Azalea, MØ
"Stretch 2-3-4" — Watch Duck, Pharrell
"Rather Be" — Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne
"Fireball" — Pitbull, John Ryan
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Officially earned my first "I TOLD them…"
I talked a while ago about my Mamaw and how I'm pretty sure she had Sjogren's Syndrome…and I also talked about her very special way of saying "I told them…" often when people didn't take her advice or listen to her. It's pretty iconic of her and I can still hear the way she says it in my head.
Well, I've earned my first "I told them…" since I wrote that post. So here goes…
I told them it was autoimmune related fatigue and not disrupted sleep!
I wrote a while back about my doctor ordering a sleep study as he felt that my fatigue level had to be due to something else. So I went for the study a few weeks ago, spent an uncomfortable night with electrodes taped all over my legs, head, face and neck, a tube in my nose to measure my breathing, straps around my chest to measure the rise and fall of my chest, and a pulse monitor clamped onto my first finger, in a foreign room on a bed that's not mine. How anyone can possibly sleep normally like that I'll never know. I had to hide my left hand under blankets or pillows to keep the red glow of the pulse monitor from making me feel like I was E.T. Every time I'd lay on my side (how I normally sleep) the electrode behind ear pressed into my head and hurt like heck.
The next morning they give you a survey to ask how you felt you slept compared to your typical sleep. I actually laughed out loud when I saw "I slept better than normal" was actually an option on the form. If anyone slept better than normal under these conditions then they have a truly horrible "normal" sleeping situation!
Yesterday I got a call from the sleep study nurse giving me my results. She said to have even "mild" sleep disturbance you need to average 5 apnea episodes per hour. My average was zero. Yep, zip, nada, none. I slept just fine…even under those crummy conditions. She said they didn't have an explanation from the sleep study for why I was so tired all the time and that she'd be happy to make me an appt with one of their sleep specialists if I'd like. I explained that I don't really feel it's a sleep problem – that I feel it's fatigue from my autoimmune disease. She actually gave a little chuckle and said "oh, well, yes, if you're body is fighting against itself that would certainly make you fatigued." Hallelujah! Someone "got it"!
I actually said to her "I told my doctor that I slept just fine!" And she said "well, you were certainly right!" So proud to have channeled Mamaw in that moment!
So – a little happiness at being proven correct…but where does that get me? Still fatigued, still not on a treatment plan that's helping…in fact, still on the same treatment I've been on for a year that hasn't helped in that year.
Identifying with Eeyore
If things are "normal" then why am I not "normal"?
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That Nurse sounds like she really knows what is going on. No one ever understands that fatigue. All you get is "Oh I'm so tired too. It's nice to have reminders of your mom.
My GP doctor told me to exercise to fight the fatigue
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We had an expert group meeting for JSR-314-EG today. The goal of the meeting was to make process on the issues in our issue tracker of record at <https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectIssues>. Before the meeting, I took each of the issues in the current issue tracker, styled with the winning XSLT stylesheet and put them into 7 roughly equal buckets. I chose seven "issue captains" from the JSR-314 EG and Mojarra team and made each one responsible for "understanding" the issues in their bucket. That meant I could ask various questions to the group of issue captains and expect reasonably informed answers.
An hour before the meeting started, Ryan, Roger, Jim and I spent some time removing duplicates from each of our own issue captain lists. During the first 30 minutes of the meeting, we went through my issue captain list and removed duplicates. The process used in both cases: the "current" issue captain would reach each of their issues and the rest of the issue captains present would have to speak up if one of their issues was a clear duplicate of the "current" issue. The current issue captain would also make an assesment of whether or not the issue should be closed outright for any reason (FIXED, WONTFIX, etc). After 30 minutes of this, we gave up and moved on to the next exercise.
After the obvious duplicates were removed, I asked each issue captain to list their top five or so issues from their bucket list only that they would like to see addressed. This took about 50 minutes. With the remaining time, I asked each issue captain to give me their top five "easy" issues.
Here are some issue tracker queries with our results.
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Intermodal: New Jersey terminal operator awards automated gate system pact to SAIC
On Oct. 28, Science Applications International Corp.'s (SAIC) Transportation and Security Technology Group announced it had landed a contract from Maher Terminals Inc. to provide an Intelligent Intermodal Solutions (IIS) gate system to support Maher's automated receiving and delivery systems at the Port Elizabeth, N.J., facility. The deal's terms weren't disclosed.
Designed to expedite the processing of cargo containers at ports, rail yards and other intermodal facilities, Maher's IIS system will feature SAIC's digital video, optical character recognition and smart-card technologies to automatically identify containers, vehicles and drivers as they enter and leave the terminal, and track them during the terminal transaction.
The system also will include SAIC's Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System, which uses gamma-ray scanning technology to automatically verify empty containers.
The system is scheduled to begin operating in third-quarter 2004. Under the contract, SAIC also will provide system component maintenance and support.
Contact Progressive Railroading editorial staff.
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ABOUT THE SCHOOL SHOW
Age Range: K - 8th grade
Available to: Schools in North Carolina
Cast: The cast is made up of five musicians, two singers, one narrator. The Moravian Brass Quartet adds an extra four musicians.
Music Styles: The show features music styles including Jazz, Bluegrass, Blues, Gospel, Old-time Stringband, Rhythm & Blues, and Moravian Brass. (CLICK HERE for PDF with more information.)
Content: The school show is aligned with State and Common Core Standards for Music, Social Studies, and Language Arts. A musical revue and history lesson is included with songs from North Carolina music greats John Coltrane, Doc Watson, Blind Boy Fuller, Shirley Caesar, Tommy Jarrell, the "5" Royales, Nina Simone, and the Salem Band. (CLICK HERE for PDF with more information on these music greats. To dig deeper into the musical history of the time period in which they lived, CLICK HERE for PDF.)
Message to Kids: Key messages include: music is connected to history, pursue music, do your best, have pride in North Carolina, follow in the footsteps of North Carolina's great musicians.
Extras: Sing-alongs, slideshow, and audience member contest.
Music Class Visit: Bassist Matt Kendrick visits with the music class after the show.
Easy on Schools: Our technical director supplies audio/visual equipment and requires minimal assistance
These lessons accompany Carolina Music Ways' school assembly show, Carolina Live!–Our Musical History. (The 4th grade units are also suitable for students who have not seen the show.)
Please click below for the material you need. (This curriculum is closely aligned with North Carolina standards.)
PRE-SHOW
Kindergarten-2nd Grades Pre-show Overview
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DOC WATSON UNIT
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4th Grade Student Handouts
COLTRANE & "5" ROYALES UNIT
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Middle School Student Handouts
Carolina Music Ways' Educational Director, Elizabeth Carlson, Ed.M, wrote Carolina Music Ways' curriculum material in consultation with teachers and curriculum specialists in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. An elementary school educator who has taught at many grade levels, Carlson has worked with a wide range of students, including gifted and learning disabled students. She holds degrees from Princeton University (American Studies/English) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Language and Literacy).
Explore below to find out more about topics in the show.
Learn more about the seven North Carolina music styles in our school show. CLICK HERE
Learn more about the eight North Carolina music greats celebrated in our school show. CLICK HERE
Learn more about North Carolina's musical history during the time period in which these music greats lived. CLICK HERE
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Reporting and monitoring of school impacts
To support the continued safety of our students, staff, and community, when schools become aware of a PCR or Rapid Antigen Test confirmed case of COVID-19, we will issue a letter to impacted students and staff. As per the Ministry of Education direction, individual classes/close contacts will not be automatically dismissed, and board and school websites will not be updated with COVID-19 cases. Lakehead Public Schools will report absence rates of 30% or greater to Thunder Bay District Health Unit, as stipulated by the Ministry of Health.
Ontario Flowchart #1: You have symptoms and are concerned you may have COVID-19. Please view the following flowchart for direction according to the Government of Ontario.
Ontario Flowchart #2: You've been identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or someone with COVID-19 symptoms. Please view the following flowchart for direction according to the Government of Ontario.
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Total number of individuals to which the policy will apply 2047 100.0% 518 100.0%
Total number of individuals who have attested to being fully vaccinated (with and without supporting documentation) 1705 83.2% 298 58%
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Zimbabwe / Players / Gregory Strydom
Logan Cup
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Gregory Strydom
Full name Gregory Mark Strydom
Born March 26, 1984, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Major teams Zimbabwe, Matabeleland, Matabeleland Tuskers, Westerns, Zimbabwe Under-23s
ODIs 12 10 0 147 58 14.70 225 65.33 0 1 17 3 4 0
First-class 39 68 4 2423 216 37.85 4 15 27 0
List A 55 46 1 965 69 21.44 0 6 18 0
T20s 11 10 1 176 38 19.55 149 118.12 0 0 23 1 4 0
ODIs 12 4 66 61 1 1/28 1/28 61.00 5.54 66.0 0 0 0
First-class 39 2961 1835 42 4/48 43.69 3.71 70.5 0 0
List A 55 776 652 20 4/20 4/20 32.60 5.04 38.8 1 0 0
T20s 11 3 36 40 0 - - - 6.66 - 0 0 0
ODI debut Zimbabwe v Kenya at Bulawayo, Feb 25, 2006 scorecard
Last ODI Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Jaipur, Oct 13, 2006 scorecard
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First-class debut 2000/01
Last First-class Southern Rocks v Matabeleland Tuskers at Masvingo, Mar 23-26, 2010 scorecard
List A debut 2002/03
Last List A Matabeleland Tuskers v Southern Rocks at Bulawayo, Jan 9, 2010 scorecard
T20s debut Easterns (Zimbabwe) v Westerns at Harare, Mar 19, 2008 scorecard
Last T20s Matabeleland Tuskers v Desert Vipers at Harare, Feb 20, 2010 scorecard
52, 0/53, 89, 0/15 Tuskers v Rocks Masvingo 23 Mar 2010 FC
2 Tuskers v Vipers Harare 20 Feb 2010 T20
- Tuskers v Vipers Harare 18 Feb 2010 T20
7 Tuskers v Rhinos Harare 16 Feb 2010 T20
11 Tuskers v Rocks Harare 14 Feb 2010 T20
29* Tuskers v Mountaineers Harare 13 Feb 2010 T20
22, 0/7 Tuskers v Eagles Harare 12 Feb 2010 T20
4, 3/38 Tuskers v Eagles Bulawayo 3 Feb 2010 FC
54, 0/4, 23 Tuskers v Mountaineers Bulawayo 27 Jan 2010 FC
41, 0/23, 13 Tuskers v Rhinos Kwekwe 13 Jan 2010 FC
Gregory Strydom is a clean hitter of the ball who loves to hit the bowlers, especially medium pacers and spinners, out of the park. He scores runs at a quick pace in both versions of the game and is a reliable bowler who mixes medium pace with some off breaks. He has been constantly overlooked by the Zimbabwean selectors despite his brilliant performance in first-class and List A matches until he was named in the squad to take on Kenya in February 2006. His major weakness is that he has limited footwork and that leaves him vulnerable to genuine quick bowlers. He also tends to concentrate on the boundary shots and forget the need to work the singles in between times. His methods can be seen from his record for Matabeleland against Manicaland in Mutare in 2003-04: he scored 128 and 104, with 20 fours and no fewer than 16 sixes in the match. Sated with runs off journeymen bowlers, he struggled when coming up against the top bowlers in the trade, but has been learning to build his innings and work the ball around for singles. Short and of average build, he has powerful forearms that are responsible for most of his big hits, mainly on the leg side. He can be an abrasive character at times, but has settled down under coach Kevin Curran and is showing a more positive attitude
Steven Price September 2006
Mountaineers towering at the top of the table (Dec 7, 2009)
Mountaineers bank on strong batting line-up (Sep 12, 2009)
Coventry poised for Zimbabwe return (Aug 8, 2007)
Easterns secure one-day title (Mar 30, 2007)
Strydom stars in series-clinching triumph (Aug 4, 2006)
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Once the momentum gets moving, apparently, it's tough to get it to stop. On Monday, we noted that the Patent Office had tossed out a second NTP patent out of the five it was reviewing. In April, the Patent Office realized they never should have granted the first one. Today, both NTP and RIM have said that the Patent Office has admitted (well, look at that), that it made two more mistakes on two more patents. There's still one more patent left, but it's not looking very good for NTP at this point. However, for RIM, who has been dragging its feet on finalizing a deal to license these patents, things must be looking up. What's scary, though, is that plenty of people have pointed out from the very beginning that these patents didn't seem at all valid -- and yet countless millions of dollars have been completely wasted in efforts to license these patents and various lawsuits concerning them. Can someone sue the Patent Office for screwing up so badly? Maybe that would get them to be a bit more careful in approving patents. In the meantime, though, this particular situation is far from over. There's still the last patent (still being reviewed) and then NTP still has a chance to go back and plead its case that the patents really are valid. So, at the pace the Patent Office seems to move, we should still have plenty of RIM-NTP stories for the next year or so.
You might want to do a little more research before jumping into the fray on the NTP vs. RIM patent issue. Five of NTP's eight patents have been re-examined, but only two of those five had anything to do with RIM, so it's not really correct to suggest that those re-examinations somehow affected the case with RIM. And of the two that did have something to do with RIM, only one or two claims out of hundreds in each patent had anything to do with the RIM case.
You've got to be kidding about suing the Patent Office. Sure, the PO needs big improvement and has made many poor decisions. However, a slew of lawsuits will bring an already slow, agonizing, and irrational process to a complete standstill.
The PO needs reform, not lawsuits.
Re: Sue the Patent Office?
Yes, it was a joke... However, considering that their admitted mistake cost companies and individuals millions of dollars, shouldn't they get some sort of punishment?


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Customer Activity Affects Bitcoin's Lightning Network
By Hannah January 27, 2018 Digital Currency No Comments
Counterfeiting is irritating. It is as a result of this that many Cryptocurrency traders are resorting to Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Now the network is experiencing problems as many users lack patience when carrying out their Bitcoin transactions. Many users on the network ignore warnings that the developers of the network put out cautioning that work on the network is still work in progress and yet to be completed.
A representative of VPN service TorGuard told CoinDesk upon its decision to accept Lightning transactions that "the testnet just doesn't have the same adrenaline rush"
But they are not alone in this, as Blockstream also started a Lightning-only promotion making use of its own regulations and there are suggestions from a Lightning explorer that over $33,000 Bitcoin transactions have been made with the use of Lightning Networks.
A surge is expected in the usage of the Lightning Network as the network allows faster transactions at reduced costs.
One Twitter user stated that its high time Lightning Network go public despite it still being in its testing phase as this is going to give it the best preparations possible.
Despite several alerts, the Lightning Network is seeing growing figures of more than 205 nodes and 548 channels connected to it with thousands of Bitcoin transactions passing through it. There is no sign that traders on the network will slow down.
But according to the developer, what is slowing down is the Lightning rates to be ready for implementation according to Pierre-Marie Paidou. Paidou went on to say that this affects the development of the system and therefore the release of the technology will be much later than previously planned.
Alex Bosworth, a Lightning developer noted that a growing number of people want to use the technology but it is hard to make them understand that it's just not ready yet.
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i realy want to to know if desmond is coming in assassin's creed Victory?
Unfortunately he will not return, in anyway. But we all hope he will, as does the current day missions and a goods trading system to earn money and exclusive items with.
Desmond's dead dude, he died at the end of AC:3 to save the world. He's also known as the "Sample 17 project"
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New mockumentary-style series 'Abbott Elementary' gets a good grade
"Abbott Elementary" is a late arrival to ABC's fall schedule — and it makes a strong case to stick around in primetime for a while.
The mockumentary-style comedy, written by and starring Quinta Brunson ("A Black Lady Sketch Show"), revolves around life at an inner-city elementary school in Brunson's native city of Philadelphia — notably its staff of harried teachers and its unqualified principal, Eva Coleman (Janelle James), who's there only because she caught the school superintendent in a compromising position.
Abbott Elementary is being filmed for a documentary about about "underfunded, poorly managed public schools in America," which is glaringly obvious as the series opens and we meet its employees. There's perky, earnest teacher Janine Teagues (Brunson), who's trying to remain upbeat while dealing with the soul-crushing frustrations of bureaucratic red tape and staff departures ("trauma bonding" her co-workers, she calls it); no-nonsense Barbara Howard (Sheryl Lee Ralph), a "woman of God" and who's taught at the school for decades and knows how to navigate its pitfalls (she's Janine's idol) over-woke Jacob Hill (Chris Perfetti): "I teach history but live in the present"; the tough-talking Melissa Schemmenti (Lisa Ann Walter), who wonders if the camera crew are cops; and Gregory Eddie (Tyler James Williams), a substitute teacher.
Melissa (Lisa Ann Walter), Ava (Janelle James) and Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph) in "Abbott Elementary."
Gregory was hired as the school's principal before Ava fell into the job and she flirts with him endlessly and shamelessly. But, as the series continues, it's obvious that he has chemistry with Janine… and she's having creeping doubts about her boyfriend, Tariq, a man-child irresponsible wannabe rapper.
All the main characters walking the halls of "Abbott Elementary" are a "type" — it's a sitcom, after all, and it's expected — but they mesh well onscreen and distinguish themselves from each other vis a vis their particular quirks. Kudos to Brunson and her co-executive producers, TV vets Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker. I especially like Williams, 29, who starred on "Everybody Hates Chris" as a kid and has worked steadily on television ever since.
"Abbott Elementary" is briskly paced and doesn't take a sledgehammer approach to the often-perilous state of inner-city schools and the collateral effects this has on teachers and parents. There's no preachy pontificating here; Brunson uses a deft, delicate touch underscored with comedy that's derived from believable situations and relationships — and not broad-stroke generalizations, as is often the case. Nothing is dumbed-down, and that's helped, in part, by the fly-on-the-wall mockumentary format. Thankfully, the annoying mugging/eye-rolling/quizzical/obvious looks to the camera, too often a tempting fallback for actors in this format, are kept to a minimum.
The students at "Abbott Elementary" are in good hands.
The cast, including Tyler James Williams (fourth from left) as Gregory.
"Abbott Elementary" premieres Tuesday (Dec. 7) at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.
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