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Arlene Fryar
July 17, 1940 - December 21, 2022
At 11:10 am, on a cold and rainy Tuesday four days before Christmas in 2022, Arlene Collins Fryar departed this life, much the sorrow of those of us left behind. She was a good and loving wife, mother, sister, aunt, and friend whose love of family was her most lasting legacy. Arlene was a native of South Carolina, the oldest daughter of George Cleaveland Collins and Alma Johnson Collins. She is survived by two sons, Jack Fryar Jr. and George Dean Fryar, two daughters in law, three grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and a host of brothers, sisters, and extended family in North and South Carolina.
As part of a large family of tenant farmers, she moved around Horry County for much of her early years until moving to Wilmington in her late teens and securing a job at the old Jarman's Pharmacy on the corner of Market and Sixteenth Streets, just down from New Hanover High School. It was there that a young man with an abundance of confidence met her at the soda fountain and asked her out. She finally relented, but second guessed her judgement when the fellow, Jack Fryar Sr., told her on that first date that he was going to marry her. But instead of it becoming an episode of Dateline, the boy was true to his word. They shared a marriage that lasted forty-seven years – sixty-two, if you consider that she never entertained the idea of dating again, and died still in love with the man she pledged herself to at Calvary Baptist Church in May of 1960.
Arlene stayed married to the same man in the same house for all of her adult life, and was there to kiss his brow when cancer took him in 2007. She raised three sons and buried one of them in 1993. She was a surrogate mother and grandmother to countless people, and the calm, even-keeled voice when our lives got stormy. Arlene Fryar was a fierce defender of her family, able to stand up for them even while acknowledging and holding them accountable when they were in the wrong. She loved unconditionally.
She spent most of her working life as a phlebotomist at New Hanover Hospital and retired from there a while ago now. She was the best they had, able to find a vein when no one else could. When doctors needed their own blood drawn, it was mom they sent for because she was accurate and painless with a needle. Of course, all of this was in the future when, after getting the job, she came home wanting to type all of our blood. I remember sitting with my arm outstretched, a tourniquet around our young arms as her needle inched closer to our veins, thinking to ourselves how we could have been MUCH better sons. To our relief and surprise, she didn't miss and it was pretty much painless. That's about the best compliment you can pay to someone who draws human blood for a living.
She was adventurous, funny, beautiful, and smart. She loved to dance, to listen to old rock n' roll while she cleaned house, and was addicted to Facebook (their stock will likely take a hit now that she is no longer there to lurk to keep up with her family and friends, and make the occasional post). She loved to cook for her family, and the Cuban Sandwiches she made for us on special occasions were something to behold.
Arlene was a good friend, still close to a handful of people she has known for more than four decades. She expanded her sons' worldview by actively participating in things like Scouting as a chaperone and den mother, camping, hiking, and roughing it right alongside the young boys of her sons' troops.
In short, Arlene Collins Fryar was as good a woman as God ever put on this Earth. Whatever good is in her sons is a direct result of the things she taught us, the faith she tried to instill in us, and the love she freely shared with us. For those who knew and loved her, cancer has cost us yet another beautiful soul who we will miss for the rest of our lives. But oh, what a gift she was while we had her!
Maryann Long says:
Jackie and Dean, Your mother was a fine person! She will be missed by all. May your wonderful memories of her help you get through your daily life. Hugs and prayers for all! MaryAnn Fulenwider Long
Gloria Aman says:
Sorry to hear about Arlene's passing. I worked with her in the lab at New Hanover Memorial Hospital from 1978-1980. She loves life and was always laughing. She will be missed by everyone who knew her.
Sorry to read about Arlene's passing. I worked with Arlene back in 1978- 1980 at New Hanover Memorial Hospital with her in the lab. She kept us all laughing. A very happy go lucky person who loved life. She will be missed by everyone who knew and worked with her.
David and Sharon Meizen-Miles says:
Shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Arlene, a very helpful, gracious lady and friend to both my wife and I through numerous years working together at New Hanover Hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this very sad time. RIP dear friend.
Thom Walter says:
Arlene, I remember way back to the early 80's when you guided me not only how to successfully draw blood but also how to comfort the patients and make them feel valued. You helped shape my future in medicine to where I am today. Though we didn't get a chance to talk in person over the past years I cherish my memories of our collaboration here on earth. I hope you and Jack enjoy an eternity together.


The only way you could possibly be oblivious to the larger than life personality that is Miranda Hart, is if you have lived as a hermit in some remote cave or on a desert island for the last 6 or 7 years. The writer, comedienne and actress has become very much a household name in a short time, making her first noticeable debut on British TV in the sitcom Not Going Out, starring alongside chief writer Lee Mack and Time Vine.
Interestingly though, she was only destined to have a small bit part in the TV series, as an acupuncturist. It was only that the producers were so impressed by her performance and comedic timing that they decided to write a part especially for the actress. Before Not Going Out, she had a starring role that she won a Comedy Award nomination for in the hilarious sci-fi comedy Hyperdrive, in which she played the character Teal alongside British comedy mainstays Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon.
After Hyperdrive and Not Going Out, she had success with her self-penned semi-autobiographical BBC Radio comedy series Miranda Hart's Joke Shop. This show became the inspiration for the self-titled TV series for which she is mostly well known – Miranda. The BBC commissioned the show based on the success of the radio series. The series starred some of the best comedy actors in Britain including John Holmes, Sally Phillips, Patricia Hodge, Sarah Hadland and handsome Tom Ellis as her "will they won't they" love interest.
The success of her role in Not Going Out, Hyperdrive and Miranda probably owed a lot to the actress cutting her teeth in a wide array of different comedy series such as Smack The Pony (which she wrote, as well as starred in as part of the video dating agency sketches), The Vicar Of Dibley, William And Mary, Lead Balloon, Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders and My Family and Other Animals.
Miranda went on to branch into more dramatic work playing a lead character in the BBC medical period series Call The Midwife, as Camilla 'Chummy' Fortescue-Cholmeley Browne. More recently she was seen playing the role of the mother in the BBC adaption of David Walliams bestselling children's novel Gangsta Granny, about a supposed jewel thief grandmother and her grandson. The one-off aired during the Christmas period.
In October 2012, Miranda took her first foray into the literary world with the release of her semi-autobiographical book called Is It Just Me? which was a big seller. In 2014, Miranda is taking to the stage to perform her one-woman, stand-up show as part of the The What I Call Tour and is playing a number of dates in London at the o2 Arena. If you live in the London area, and are a fan of the larger than life woman, you will want to get your hands on Miranda Hart tickets at the o2 online or at the box office. However, if you do not live in the London area, don't worry, as the tour stops at towns and cities all over the UK.


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Langford, Capt Thomas Netherton
Name Langford, Capt Thomas Netherton [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Born 12 Apr 1805 Bath, Somerset, England [2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14]
Died 24 May 1883 Age: 77/St George Hanover Square Knightsbridge, London, England [4, 6, 8, 9, 12]
Buried Kensington, Middlesex, England [12]
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Last Modified 24 Mar 2016
Father Langford, Edward, b. 11 Aug 1777, Madron, Cornwall, England , d. 18 May 1843, Bath, Somerset, England (Age 65 years)
Mother Whitmarsh, Mary, b. Abt 1780, Somerset, England
Married 30 Oct 1800 Bath, Somerset, England
Family St. Leger, Caroline, b. 20 Sep 1810, Tipperary, Ireland , d. 28 Oct 1868, Age: 58/Kensington, Middlesex, England (Age 58 years)
Married 11 Feb 1835 Ryde, Hampshire, England [3, 5, 14]
1. Langford, Mary Katherine, b. Abt 1836, Gloucestershire, England [Natural]
+ 2. Langford, Caroline Charlotte Jane, b. Jul 1840, Gloucestershire, England , d. 15 May 1909, St George Hanover Square Knightsbridge, London, England (Age ~ 68 years) [Natural]
3. Langford, James Mary, b. Abt 1841, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England [Natural]
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6. Langford, Eliza Matilda, b. Abt 1846, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England [Natural]
+ 7. Langford, Alice Louisa Elizabeth, b. 09 Mar 1847, Warwickshire, England [Natural]
8. Langford, Charles Frederick, b. Abt 1850, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England [Natural]
Born - 12 Apr 1805 - Bath, Somerset, England
Died - 24 May 1883 - Age: 77/St George Hanover Square Knightsbridge, London, England
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Total Control Download (1996 Strategy Game)
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In Total Control the player controls one of six rival parties which want to gain control of a random generated world. The game starts in the sector of the map were his base lies. The first tasks is to build all necessary buildings and troops. Mines are used to get four different kinds of ore which ensure the cash flow. Other buildings have the use of defending the base, e.g. anti-aircraft gun or radar towers, or attacking the enemy, e.g. combat robots or aircraft fabrics. A computer central improves the performance of all other buildings. Every building can be upgraded separately.
The main goal is to military defeat the other parties. At first the player needs to know where the enemy sits and uses his scout planes for this matter. With transporters the robots get to the enemy base. The combat is completely in real time but air combat gets fight out in an extra screen as opposed to the world map were the rest of the game takes place.
This game has been set up to work on modern Windows (10/8/7/Vista/XP 64/32-bit) computers without problems.
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The Statement of Cash Flows Reports
August 21, 2021 August 12, 2021 by C.A. Nadeem
What is a use of Statement of Cash Flows Reports ?
The balance sheet is considered as a snapshot of the entity's financial resources and obligations at a particular time. The statement of profit and loss can reflect the financial performance for the period. These two components of financial statements can be based on the accrual basis of accounting.
The statement of a cash flows can include only inflows and outflows of cash and cash equivalents; it also excludes transactions that is not affecting cash receipts and payments.
During the reporting period, the information on cash flows can be useful for assessing sources of generation and deployment of cash and cash equivalents. The statement of a cash flows can basically also be used for comparison with earlier reporting periods of the same entity and other entities for the same reporting period.
As according to the Ind AS 7, Statement of Cash Flows can prescribe principles and guidance on preparing and presenting the cash flows of an entity from operating activities, investing activities and financing activities for a reporting period.
1 What is a use of Statement of Cash Flows Reports ?
2 Meaning of Statement of Cash Flows Reports
3 Objective of the The Statement of Cash Flows Reports
4 SCOPE Cash Flow Statement
5 DEFINITIONS or What is cash flow ?
6 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
7 Presentation of cash flow statement indirect method cash flow.
8 REPORTING FROM CASH FLOWS AND FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Meaning of Statement of Cash Flows Reports
A cash flow statement, in simple words, is a statement, which provides details about how an entity generates the cash during the particular reporting period and how it is applied. While doing so, it considers the opening balances of cash and cash equivalents, by adding the cash which is generated, deduction of the cash payments and reconciles it with closing balances of cash and cash equivalents. The cash flows are classified into the following three main categories:
(a) Cash flows from Operating Activities.
(b) Cash flows from Investing Activities.
(c) Cash flows from Financing Activities.
Objective of the The Statement of Cash Flows Reports
Ind AS 7 have specified the following objectives of the Statement of Cash Flows:
For providing details about any historical changes in cash and cash equivalents-
The cash flow statement aims at providing information about how the cash has been generated during the year and for what purposes it has been utilized. The information will be provided for the current year and immediate previous year.
To assess the ability for generating cash and cash equivalents-
The cash flow statement is deliberate to provide the stakeholders about the efficiency of generating cash and cash equivalents of the company. Some companies may also seems like profitable as per profit and loss accounts, but whether they have enough cash to pay their debts and creditors has to be assessed using a cash flow statement.
For understanding the timing and certainty of their generation-
The historical analysis of the cash flow statement can set the trend regarding the years in which a company could generate a fair amount of cash flows and the probability of generating it.
BENEFITS OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
Providing information about enabling evaluation of changes in net assets and financial structure-
The cash flow statement can reconcile the cash and cash equivalents opening balances with the cash and cash equivalents closing balances, giving the reasons for the changes during the year for free cash flow. Thus, it also provides a clear picture of cash inflows and outflows that have taken place during the reporting period.
Assesses the ability to manage the cash and to make free cash flow-
The stakeholders get an idea about the source of generation of cash and how it can be used. The information can give a fair idea about the efficiency and ability of the company to generate cash. Cash flow statements can also indicate whether the company could generate sufficient cash or not.
Assessing and a comparing on the basic present value of future cash flows-
The past trends of cash flows can help the company for predicting the future cash flow. Such information can be useful while the evaluation of the projects on capital budget or valuation of shares. Thus, it can form the base for future projects and can be discounted using discounting techniques.
Compares the efficiency of different entities for free cash flow-
Accounting profits of various entities might be having different assumptions, policies and definitions. However, cash flows can be calculated by the usage of the same technique. Finally, all different assumptions across the companies will meltdown, and the entity will reach a common comparable base of cash and cash equivalents.
SCOPE Cash Flow Statement
An entity should create a statement of cash flows by following the unavoidable points of this type of Standard and should present it as an integral part for each period of the financial statements for which financial statements are presented. The Standard requires that all entities to a present a statement of cash flows in AS.
Whether it is small or big, whether it's a manufacturing or service organization or trading concern, every organization requires cash for running its business. The cash is also required for various future investments. Cash would also be required for payment of dividends, repayment of loans as well. Thus, any organization is required to generate cash and utilizes cash continuously.
Banks and Financial institutions are also cannot be an exception to the same. Even if they are dealing with the financial product, accept deposits and give loans day in and day out, they need to generate cash profit for their organization. They needed for making investments in terms of new branches, setups etc. Thus, a statement of cash flow is equally important for Banking and Financial Institutions as well.
DEFINITIONS or What is cash flow ?
The following terms can be used in this Standard with some meanings which are specified:
Cash comprises of a demand a deposits and cash on hand.
Cash equivalents are considered as a short-term, highly liquid investments that are readily convertible for knowing the amounts of cash and subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value.
Cash flows of cash and cash equivalents are inflows and outflows.
The principal revenue-producing activities of the entity and other activities are operating activities that are not investing or financing activities and help in equity Multiplier .
Investment activities are mainly the acquisition and a disposal of a long-term assets and also other investments not mainly included in cash equivalents.
Financing activities result in changes in the size and composition of the contributed equity and borrowings of the entity.
Cash Equivalent means investments that can be realized easily in cash in a short period from the date of investing the same.
Purpose: Cash equivalents are held to meet short-term cash commitments rather than for investment or other purposes.
Known amount of cash: This means that the cash amount received on redemption should be familiar at the time of the initial investment. The instrument is not sufficient to readily convert into cash and has a determinable market value. Instead, it means that the entity is satisfied that the risk of changes in value is insignificant at the time of the initial investment. Therefore, the amount of a cash is mainly to be received on redemption is known.
Liquidity and Risk: For an investment for qualifying as a cash equivalent, it must be convertible, which is ready to a known amount of cash and be subjected to an insignificant risk of changes in value. Therefore, an investment can be normally qualified as a cash equivalent only when it is having a short maturity likely three months or less from the date of acquisition.
Equity investments are a excluded from a basic cash equivalents mainly unless they are, in a substance, a cash equivalents.
Bank borrowings are mainly generally is to be considered to be also financing activities. However, the bank overdrafts may be an integral part of an entity's cash management, in which case they will be included as an important component of cash and cash equivalents. The characteristics of such banking arrangements is that the bank balance often fluctuates from being positive to overdrawn. Further, it is necessary to be noted that the bank overdraft due to the issuance of cheques at the cut-off period is not a part of cash and cash equivalent.
Cash Management: Cash flows exclude movements between items that constitute cash or cash equivalents because these components are part of an entity's cash management rather than be the part of its investing, financing and operating activities. Cash management also includes the investment of excess cash in cash equivalents.
Presentation of cash flow statement indirect method cash flow.
The statement of cash flows can be required for reporting cash flows during the period which are classified by activities such as operating, investing and financing are component of indirect method cash flow.
Operating Activities:
Cash flows from operating activities can be primarily derived from the principal revenue-production activities of the entity, i.e., from operations of the business. Therefore, in general, they are the result of the transactions and events that can enter into the determination of profit or loss.
The amount of cash flows can be arised from several operating activities, which can be an important indication towards the extent to which the operations of the entity have generated sufficient cash flows or not. If the cash flow from various operations is positive, it will be treated as a positive indicator.
In contrast, negative cash flow from operations will denote that company's ability to generate revenue from its main operations is very weak. The companies in the initial stage of their business or the companies facing economic problems will generally have a negative cash flow from operations which help us to know what is free cash flow.
Cash flow from operations is used to maintain the operating capability of the entity, pay dividends and make a new investment without recourse to external sources of financing. Therefore, it is necessary to assess how much cash is generated by the business from operations? Are they sufficient to take care of their future investment plans? Can loans be repaid in time without default from such cash flows? Is there a sufficient amount for payment of preference dividend? Is anything left for equity shareholders after making all these payments? Answers to all these questions will can be dependent on whether the entity has generated enough cash or not.
Certain Specific Issues of operating activities-
Profit/ Loss on Sale of Assets= Some transactions, such as the sale of an item of plant, might give rise to a gain or loss which is included in recognized profit or loss. The cash flows can be related to such transactions are cash flows from investing activities.
Properties built to let out= Cash payments for manufacturing or acquiring assets which are held for renting to others and subsequently held for any sale are cash flows from operational activities. The cash receipts received from rents and subsequent sales of such assets can also be the cash flows from operating activities.
Investing Activities:
Investment means a sacrifice of current resources in a view to getting more returns in the future. All entities need some amount of investment for their future survival.
Ind AS 7 states that investing activities can represent the extent to which the expenditures are has been made for resources which are intended for generating future income and cash flows. Only expenditures are those that results in a recognized asset in the balance sheet are classified as investing activities.
When a contract have been accounted for as a fence of the position which is identifiable, the contracts of cash flows can be classified in the same manner as the cash flows of the position being hedged.
Financing Activities:
During the lifetime of the entity, it needs money for long-term investments and working capital purposes. The company can raise the capital by way of equity or loans. Thus, the cash flows related to raising funds and redemption of funds will be covered under Cash flows from financing activities. The cost of capital is now also a generally is covered under the category of Financing Activity.
Ind AS 7 states that the cash flows from financing activity can be useful for predicting claims on future cash flows by providing capital to the entity.
Recourse factoring:
The cash which is received by classifying as a financing cash inflow as the entity can continue for recognizing the receivables and the amount can be received from the factor is indeed a liability; the substance of the arrangement can be financing, as the entity can retain substantially all of the rewards and risk of the factored receivables.
When the factor is collecting the cash, the liability and the receivables can be de-recognized. It is acceptable for this that can be disclosed as a non-cash transaction because the settlement of the liability and the factors which are receivables doesn't result in a cash flows. The main net impact of these type of transactions which is on the part of cash flow statement that can be present on a cash inflow from financing, but from the original sale to the entity's customer, there is no operating cash flow.
Non-recourse factoring:
Where an entity de-recognizes the factored receivables and receives cash from the factor, the cash receipt is classified as an operating cash inflow. It is because the entity has received cash in exchange for receivables that arose from its operating activities.
REPORTING CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
An entity should report cash flows operating activities by using either:
(a) According to the direct method, whereby major classes of gross cash receipts and gross cash payments are disclosed.
(b) According to the indirect method, whereby profit or loss can be adjusted for the effects of transactions of a nature of non-cash, any accruals or deferrals of past operating cash receipts or future operating cash receipts or various payments, and items of income or expenses which are associated with the investment or financing cash flows.
Entities that are basically encouraged to a report of a cash flows from the operating activities that are using one of the direct method. The direct method can provide information that may be useful in estimating future cash flows, which cannot be available under the method which is indirect. Under the direct method, details about major classes of gross cash receipts and gross cash payments which can be obtained either by:
(a) From the entity's accounting records.
(b) By the adjustments of the sales and the cost of sales and other items in the statement of profit and loss for:
Changes made during the period of inventories and operating receivables and payables.
Other non-cash items.
Other items by which the cash can be effected by investing or financing cash flows.
According to the indirect method, the net cash flow from the operating activities can be determined by the adjustments of profit or loss for the effects of:
(a) Various changes during the period in inventories and operating receivables and operating payables.
(b) Non-cash items like depreciation, provisions, deferred taxes, unrealized foreign currency gains and losses, and undistributed profits of associates.
(c) All other items by which the cash have been effected are investments or financing cash flows.
Otherwise, the net cash flow from operating activities can be presented under the indirect method by indicating the revenues and expenses disclosed in the profit and loss statement and the changes made during the period in operating receivable and inventories and payables in order to arrive net cash flow.
REPORTING FROM CASH FLOWS AND FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES
An entity is required for reporting separately major classes of gross cash receipts and gross cash payments which have arising from investing and financing activities, except to the extent that cash flows are permitted to be reported on a net basis.
REPORTING CASH FLOWS ON A NET BASIS
If nothing is specifically mentioned, then as per Ind AS 7, the cash flows will be presented on Gross Basis. Gross basis means one of the receipts that would be mainly shown it a separately, and also the payments that will be basically shown separately.
FOREIGN CURRENCY CASH FLOWS
Cash flows can be arised from the transaction in a foreign currency should be recorded in an entity's functional currency by the application of the foreign currency amount the exchange rate between the foreign currency and the functional currency at the date of the cash flow.
The cash flows of any of foreign subsidiary that should be mainly translated at exchange rates that are between the foreign currency and the functional currency at the dates of the cash flows.
Unrealized of gains and a losses which are arising from a changes in overseas currency exchange rates are not cash flows. However, the effect of exchange rate can change the cash and cash equivalents which are held or due in a foreign currency for being reported in the statement of cash flows for reconciling the cash and cash equivalents at the beginning and the end of the period. This amount can be presented separately from cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities, and it also includes the differences, if any, had those cash flows been reported at the end of period exchange rates.
Treatment of differences in foreign exchange arising from unsettled transactions relating to operating activities-
Under the indirect method of preparation of a statement of cash flows, the differences in exchange that arise on translation at the balance sheet date, for monetary items that form part of operating activities, will require no adjustment in the reconciliation of profit to net cash flow from operating activities.


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Revista de Medicina Veterinaria
SANCHEZ KLINGE, Marta Elena; CALVO ROBAYO, Pilar and MUTIS BARRETO, Claudia Aixa. Dirofilaria Immitis: A Zoonoses Present on a Global Level. Rev. Med. Vet. [online]. 2011, n.22, pp.57-68. ISSN 0122-9354.
The Dirofilaria immitis or heartworm is a worldwide distribution disease spread by mosquitoes of the Aedes, Anopheles, Culex and Taeniorhynchus kind; in humans, this filaria causes skin and lung lesions, though some cases of human dirofilariasis have already been reported with different locations, such as large mesenteric vessels, peritoneal vessels, the spermatic cord and even the right side of the heart. Unlike in dogs, there is no filaremia in humans. The most common symptoms are: retrosternal pain, coughing and hemoptysis. A fibrotic nodule (with a diameter from one to three centimeters) is often asymptomatic and can only be identified in chest X-rays as a coin-shaped lesion. Around fifty cases have been reported in humans in the United States, although cases have also been reported in Japan, Asia, Australia, Brazil and Argentina. A research was carried out at La Salle University in order to determine the frequency with which Dirofilaria immitis occurs in dogs in Bogotá D.C. (2600 meters over sea level) through the Elisa Petchek® enzyme test, which is specific and does not show any crossed reactions with other parasites, thus providing a quick and accurate diagnosis of the disease. A frequency of 1% was found of dogs that came out positive with Dirofilaria immitis. Considering that the dog population in this city is of approximately 800,000, the possible number of animals that would come out positive for the parasite would be of around 8,000 dogs, which could potentially spread the disease to humans through a mosquito bite. The number of dogs exposed to the heartworm disease in the world is increasing, and due to the fact that dirofilaria is rarely seen in humans, its prevention depends largely on the reduction of the disease's prevalence in dogs, since, even in Colombia specific antibodies were detected against the antigens of the adult Dirofilariaimmitis worms complex in individuals from an isolated Tikuna community in the Colombian Amazon.
Keywords : Dirofilaria immitis; zoonoses.
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Several activities have been organized in March 2017 in Baghdad by the Iraqi Social Forum celebrating the International Women's Day and aimed at supporting Iraqi women and strengthening their position in society.
In cooperation with the Solidarity Center the Iraqi Social Forum organized a workshop on women rights in the new Iraqi labor law. Number of working women, unionists in the Iraqi trade unions and activists of the civil society organizations participated in this workshop, which lasted for two days (8th, 9th) of March.
The workshop discussed topics related to the status of women in the work place, including the challenges they're encountering such as harassment at work, arbitrary termination of employment, low wages and restrictions on trade union freedoms in the public sector.
The Sport Against Violence in cooperation with the Municipality of Baghdad also organized a race for women. This race comes within a series of preparatory races targeting specific groups of the society. The race was organized on Saturday, March 11, 2017, in Zawraa Park in Baghdad, with the participation of 40 contestants from different age groups. The contestants raced on the first three places after running more than one kilometer, and they also participated in organizing Shahrazad bazaar which took place at the same time and place.
The celebration of International Women's Day continued with Shahrazad bazaar which was organized by the Iraqi Social Forum, and devoted for women as well. The bazaar included 19 booths of handcrafts, accessories, art crafts and homemade food. Moreover, one of the booths was dedicated to advocate for women's issues and women public rights.
This bazaar aimed at providing an opportunity for worker women to display their work and their activities and to promote for the influential role that women can play in the different fields of work.
Another booth was dedicated for a campaign "to stop gender-based violence in workplaces", this space was managed by the Iraqi Social Forum and Solidarity Center teams. Copies of the new Iraqi Labor Law and brochures that defined worker women rights were provided in the booth, in addition to that, there was a booth that provided brochures on the activities of the Iraqi Social Forum and its Masarat (paths).
The bazaar also included exhibitions of paintings that were drawn by a group of young women, and some musical performance. The bazar concluded with a stand-up comedy show that was presented by a young Iraqi man about Iraqi mothers.


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Q: laserjet m1132 plugin ubuntu I've installed hplip-3.19.3.run on my Ubuntu 16.04 to use my LaserJet M1132 MFP and the driver was installed, but it keeps asking for an installation of proprietary plugin. I downloaded the plugin from the HP site and passing it through a existing location but the installation always fails:

I tried to run the plugin file through the terminal:
root@pc:/home/user/Downloads# sh hplip-3.19.3-plugin.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.19.3 Plugin
Self Extracting Archive..............................................................

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.19.3)
Plugin Installer ver. 3.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Plug-in version: 3.19.3
Installed HPLIP version: 3.19.3
Number of files to install: 64

Done.

But I'm still getting the installation required plugin message.

Still no printing... It seems that the printer getd the print command  but the paper is blank.
Can anyone can help me?

A: I'll write complete explanation here to make things more clear.
Really you do not need binary driver package from HPLIP SourceForge site.
If you have already downloaded, then remove it with and setup MFP with steps below:

*

*Navigate to the folder where hplip-3.19.3.run saved.
cd ~/Downloads

*Remove this HPLIP 3.19.3 from the system if was installed with
sh hplip-3.19.3.run --noexec
cd hplip-3.19.3
sudo ./uninstall.py
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/hplip/

*Then install HPLIP deb-package with APT from the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

*Launch HPLIP setup
hp-setup

and follow wizard steps:

*

*Select your connection type and click "Next".

*Select your printer from "Selected Devices" list and click "Next".

*Enter your root password when prompted and click "Next".

*Use the recommended installation method and click "Next".

*Check the box to accept with the "Driver Plug-In License Agreement" and click "Next".

*Finish the installation of the printer as normal, however you may be prompted to re-enter your user name and password.

*And finally install the HPLIP binary plugin/addon:
hp-plugin

*Enjoy!

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It has been a season to remember. We now stand on the finish line with only the Tour Championship to be played. The last event of the year will be held at the beautiful East Lake. East Lake is a long course and measures 7,307 yards and plays as a par 70. Jason Day has been in the form of his life and it now appears only the bravest of men will bet against him to win the FedExCup. Day has given some frightening insight into how tough it will be to catch him in the seasons to come. That obviously takes a lot for granted however he has proven to be totally untouchable when he's firing at the top of his game. Either way, golf is in great hands and has the brightest of futures. Mcilroy, Speith, Day, and Fowler to name a few will breathe life into a game that desperately requires young stars to bring the younger generation back. It has been a humdinger of a season and East Lake promises to be another battle royal. Will Day canter to the $10m? or will Speith show the same form that won him 2 majors this season? The finale is only 48 hours away. Strap yourself in, this is going to be a roller coaster ride.
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Cop who led band of jewel thieves released after serving his time
January 15, 2012 Dapper_Don
William Hanhardt, once a legendary Chicago cop who rose to deputy superintendent only to fall from grace with his conviction as the head of a crafty crew of mob-connected jewel thieves, was released from custody Friday after completing a 12-year sentence, his lawyer confirmed.
Hanhardt, 83, has been confined at his home since his release from a halfway house on Chicago's Near West Side in late September. He served the bulk of his time at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. In all, he served more than 10 years in custody.
"Mr. Hanhardt served his full sentence and did so without incident, and is simply seeking to spend whatever is left of the remainder of his life quietly with his family," said his attorney, Jeffrey Steinback.
Hanhardt, a former Chicago police chief of detectives, pleaded guilty in 2001 in federal court in Chicago to running a ring that used stealth and cunning to stalk jewelry salesmen across the country and steal more than $5 million in diamonds and gems over 20 years.
When Hanhardt was sentenced in 2002, his lawyers said he was in declining health, citing congestive heart failure, pulmonary disease, emphysema, spinal cord issues and surgeries for testicular cancer. Steinback declined to discuss Hanhardt's current health.
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Harsh: State Govt must respond to protesting lecturers.
Coming down heavily on the State Government for perpetuating discrimination against the educated youth of Jammu while divesting them of their due share in employment besides adopting the policy of 'use and throw' against them, NPP leader and former minister Harsh Dev Singh exhorted the BJP-PDP Govt to immediately respond to the genuine call of the protesting plus two contractual lecturers who had been observing chain hunger strike for last more than 200 days.
Expressing solidarity with the plus two contractual lecturers sitting on chain hunger strike, Singh said that the teaching fraternity had been rendering their services with zeal and honesty in schools on paltry salary of Rs 7000 per month with a hope that they would be regularized to earn with dignity and honour. He regretted that many of them who had given several valuable years of their life to the Education Department were ruthlessly terminated by the Government after taking their services for more than a decade.
Singh said that earlier instances where the highly educated youth of Jammu including PhD's, MPhils and double Post Graduates had consigned their degrees to flames considering them as in fructuous had exposed the Government and Saffron brigade in particular that they were power hungry who had mortgaged the aspirations of youth for their petty political interests. Perturbed by the deteriorating condition of several lecturers while on prolonged protests and hunger strikes, he cautioned the State Government and the BJP leaders in particular to immediately respond to the calls of the teaching community rather than closing their doors on them.
Harsh Dev sought a policy of regularization for all such highly qualified lecturers who had always been the assets to the otherwise sick educational system in the State and pledged that harassment of the underemployed youth shall be fought vigorously by the Panthers Party along with the aggrieved young fraternity until rights and justice were delivered to them.


استفاده بهینه از ضایعات کشاورزی بعلت بازیافت و امکان تولید مواد با ارزش افزوده، مزایای اقتصادی و اکولوژیکی فراوانی را دارا می باشد. استفاده از روش بیولوژیکی به منظور تجزیه ضایعات کشاورزی روشی جدید برای بهبود قابلیت هضم این مواد و تسهیل تجزیه توسط سایر میکروارگانیسم‌ها می‌باشد. دراین مطالعه قابلیت تجزیه زیستی چندین گونه و همچنین جدایه از جنس تریکودرما روی کاه و کلش گندم انجام شد. دو هفته پس از تلقیح حدایه ها به کاه وکلش، خشک کردن آنها در دمای 75 درجه سانتی گراد، نمونه‌ها را وزن کرده و کاهش فیبرهای شوینده اسیدی (ADF) و فیبرهای شوینده خنثی (NDF) برای هر نمونه در اثر رشد قارچ در مقایسه با نمونه شاهد بررسی گردید. نتایج نشان داد که تجزیه زیستی ضایعات گیاهی به گونه قارچی و حتی جدایه آن بستگی دارد. NDF و ADF کاه و کلش گندم توسط گونه‌های تریکودرما ریسه‌ای، لانگی‌براچیاتوم بیشتر از سایر گونه‌ها کاهش یافت. بطور کلی کاهش NDF ضایعات کشاورزی توسط قارچ نسبت به ADF بیشتر بود. اگرچه تریکودرما ریسه‌ای مقدار ADF کاه و کلش گندم را کاهش بیشتری داد. بنابراین برای بهبود قابلیت هضم و همچنین کوتاه نمودن مدت زمان کمپوست سازی، تیمارکردن کاه وکلش و بقایای گندم با قارچ تریکودرما و بویژه گونه‌های ریسه‌ای و لانگی‌براچیاتوم می‌تواند از کارآیی بهتری برخوردار باشد.
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Many people use walks to provide their dogs exercise and to promote calm, well-mannered behavior. But, with high-energy dogs that have poor leash-walking skills, this strategy can create a "Push me—Pull you" effect. If you are training your dog to have better leash manners, consider offering a rousing dose of high-energy exercise like tug, fetch, or even some running off-leash in a safe environment BEFORE you begin a loose-leash walking training session or training walk. Your dog will work off some excess energy and be better prepared to focus on the task at hand—learning how to walk politely with you!
Casey Lomonaco lives in upstate New York, where she offers editorial, writing, and behavior consulting services through her company Rewarding Behaviors Dog Training. When she is not working with or writing about dogs, she is knitting, reading, or hiking in a forest—with dogs.
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RubySynth
What is sound?
Shaping sounds
Drum sounds
Building a sequencer
Building a mixer
The mixing stage
To be able to bring all of these instruments together, we'll need a mixer. A professional mixing desk (often also called a console, interesting, right?), usually consists of a large number of so called channel strips which is where the individual instruments come in. For each channel strip, you can make a huge range of adjustments, of which we'll be looking at a handful.
This one's easy. Different instruments come with different loudnesses. A bass drum is much louder than, say, a harp, just as a function of their physical attributes. The same is true for digitally created sounds. A bass sound that uses a high amount of filter resonance will be louder than other sounds, for example. But that's only the first problem. The second problem is that you usually don't want all sounds to have the same volume. A hihat often needs to be a lot quieter than other drum sounds, for example, because otherwise it would just sound wrong. To tackle that, each channel has a large control, usually called a fader, with which you can control the volume of that channel.
Code wise, or rather mathematically, this is just a simple multiplication. We could get fancy here and deal with the fact that volume usually works logarithmically and it would make sense to somehow scale the multiplication value.
An important part of a mixing engineers work is to make sure the different instruments have enough space of their own in the frequency domain. This is a bit hard to explain with words, so let me show you an image that hopefully explains this a bit more. If too many instruments share a certain portion of the frequency spectrum, much as if you would paint with lots of different colors in one spot, the sound gets mushy, undefined and often just unpleasant, just as the picture you're painting would turn brown-grey-gooey.
To help with that, an Equalizer, often shortened to EQ helps you to shape the frequency spectrum of a sound and thus makes it possible to, for each instrument, emphasize different parts of the spectrum, leading to a cleaner, more defined sound.
An EQ is essentially just a bunch of filters, in our case a lowpass and a highpass, that allow you to individually set the volumes for the different parts. With a low pass and a highpass, you can also set the volume of the mid section that's not affected by the filters directly.
Compression in this case does not mean data compression. Instead, a compressor changes the dynamic range of a instrument, meaning the difference between quiet and loud sounds. There are many reasons why you would want to do this, but the main reason is that using moderate amounts of compression makes a track sounding more loud.
Compression works by (more or less) making louder sounds more quiet. For that, the compressor uses a curve like this.
Additionally, a compressor usually has a way to change the attack and decay times, meaning the the loudness reduction does not happen instantly but is fading in after the loudness reaches a certain threshold and if the sound gets quieter again, the compressor takes a while to dial back the signal reduction. This makes it possible to use a compressor not only for actually compressing the dynamic range but also shaping so-called transients, like the attack of a kick drum. If you use a slightly longer attack on the compressor, the signal is not compressed for that time and only ducked down after it, so that the attack of the drum becomes even more pronounced.
There's a very popular effect specifically in modern dance music that can also be done with the help of a compressor, which is nowadays often abbreviated as "sidechaining" which is weird, because you can sidechain all kinds of effects but if this word is used in isolation, you're probably talking about sidechain compression.
Sidechaining means that instead of letting the actual input signal of the compressor drive the compressor algorhythm, you let it be driven by a different signal, typically a simple kick drum rhythm. Each time the kick drum plays, the compressor kicks into gear and ducks down your original signal.
In our machinery, the "sidechaining" is actuallly gonna be done slightly different by triggering a simple envelope each time the kick drum is played. It is easier to parameterize and more consistent and in a lot of productions, the sidechaining effect is actually done in a similar way now.
Insert effects
On a hardware mixer, the number of insert effects per channel is usually limited, as you need a way to actually physically connect these effects. In software, the limit is usually CPU power. As we're not really striving for realtime performance, we're more or less only limited by the amount of time we want to spend on processing.
We can essentially insert any form of processing here we have in mind. For our small example, we're going to stick with two effects for now.
The first one is a very simple effect, a so called waveshaper. The function of a waveshaper is really hard to describe in words, which is why a picture is in order: The x axis is the input value and the y axis is the output value.
A generalized waveshaper would allow you to specify any transformation curve you want, in our case, we're simply using a function with a parameter which allows us to specify the amount of distortion we want to apply. The formula is dead simple:
def simple_waveshaper(input, a)
input * (input.abs + a) / (input ** 2 + (a - 1) * input.abs + 1)
We're going to use the waveshaper in a rather subtle way on the kick drum as this will give our synthesized kick drum a little bit more punch.
The second effect we're going to take a look at is a chorus effect. The idea behind the chorus effect (hence the name) is to simulate the effect of multiple voices "singing" together. The reason a choir sounds so powerful is actually the tiny little imperfections in the voicing which lead to interferences between different voices. This makes the choir sound "fatter" in the lack of a better term.
the way a chorus achieves this is by running half of the signal through a tiny delay and then slightly modulating the delay time. Especially with synth lines, this does make the result sound a lot fatter.
Send effects
Send effects send a portion of the channel strip signal to another channel that is specialized in a specific effect. Two things very often used as send effects are Reverb and Delay, both effects to create the illusion of space. Since you probably, for consistency reasons, want these to sound similar for every channel, it makes sense to simply instantiate them once and then use from every channel.
A delay, in it's simplest form from a code perspective is just a ring buffer, where the length of the buffer is equal to the desired delay time. What you probably need to add to that to get to the specific echo sound is adding some feedback where the output signal is mixed back into the input, thus creating these recurring echoes that get quieter and quiter as time progresses. If you want to get fancy, you can add a filter to that feedback, shaping the frequency spectrum of the feedback loop.
Here's my very simple delay class:
class Delay
# time is given in seconds
def initialize(sample_rate, time)
@buffer = Array.new((sample_rate.to_f * time).floor)
@pointer = 0
# input value, mix (0 = no delay, 1 = only delay),
# feedback (0 = zero feedback, 1 = full feedback (not advised))
# you can supply an additional block to filter the delay signal, for example
# with Eq. parameter is the delay signal value,
# block needs to return the filtered signal value
def run(input, mix, feedback = 0.4)
old_pointer = @pointer
@pointer = (@pointer + 1) % @buffer.length
delayed = (@buffer[@pointer] || 0.0)
if block_given?
delayed = yield delayed
@buffer[old_pointer] = input + (feedback * delayed)
input * (1.0 - mix) + delayed * mix
A reverb is essentially trying to simulate the response a room gives if you make some sound in it. It could be a small room or it could be a cathedral. The reverberation in a real room is created by the sound bouncing off the walls in all kinds of fuzzy ways. Essentially what you have is a huge collection of tiny echoes all adding up and crossfeeding, returning back a muddy but also really really pleasant (usually) version of the original sound. Also: The bigger the room, the longer the reverb.
To emulate this in software we essentially have two choices: Using actual reverb data from real places with a technique called convolution or trying to get as close as possible to the real thing with a combination of echoes and filters.
Convolution reverb works by recording a so called impulse response from an actual room. You would do that by creating an impulse, a very sharp, quick sound and playing it back very loudly and then recording the response of the room. If you are then able to subtract the original impulse from that response, you're left with the actual impulse response you can use for the convolution.
The idea of convolution is simple: For each sample, simply multiply it with each sample of the impulse response. But you can also see how this quickly falls apart: This is a very compute intensive operation. By using a bunch of tricks we can make it more viable and for example the Web Audio API actually has a convolver node that can do this without heavily taxing the CPU, but it also comes with the additional burden of you having to keep these impulse responses around.
For a long time, using convolving wasn't even an option, because computing power wasn't as readily available as it is today, which is why a lot of techniques exist to create reverb effects with simpler measures.
Usually it involves creating a bunch of delay lines with random placement within the desired reverb time and then using various techniques to muddle things up. I've ported a popular open source reverb, which is also used in SonicPi, GVerb, to ruby, which you can find in lib/g_verb.rb if you're interested in the details.
The main mix
The main mix channel simply gives you the possibiliy to adjust the final volume again, so that the output signal is in a good range and you probably have a sum compressor on it as well, to further reduce the dynamic range. For safety we'll also add a hard limiter, which, by brute force, just makes sure the end result never leaves the -1 … 1 range.


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But now the good news: these high- and low-wage fields are about to experience significant growth, meaning millions of job openings—approximately 8 million by 2023. Let's look at some of the industries in the study, divided by high-, mid-, and low-wage job types.
Basically, the professional future is flexibility—if you're willing to develop future-facing skills to go along with your education and experience base.


No one likes to think about leaving loved ones behind, but it's important to be prepared for the unexpected. When you purchase life insurance, you are safeguarding your beneficiaries against financial burden in the event of your death. There are many different policies to choose from, though. How do you know you are choosing the right one? The following tips can help you make a good decision.
A qualified financial planner is best equipped to help you sort through these factors and come up with a dollar amount. In general, however, you should expect your policy to cover 5-10 times your annual salary.
Two concepts to consider when deciding on the type of life insurance Elk Grove CA, you need are death benefit and cash value. The death benefit is the amount that is paid to the beneficiary of the policy, whereas the cash value is the total of the premiums that have been paid, minus any processing fees charged. As the name implies, a death benefit is only payable upon the death of the policyholder, assuming the account is in good standing. Cash value may be used through a policy loan or by reducing a portion of the policy while the holder is still alive.
A whole life insurance policy offers both death benefits and cash value but can be very expensive. Some permanent policy types, such as universal life policies, allow flexibility with premiums by letting you pay part of it with the amount you have accumulated or adjusting the payout amount. Term life insurance offers a death benefit only, which may be the best option for those who are younger and in reasonably good health.
Purchasing a life insurance policy protects your dependents in the event of your death. It's good to be prepared, just in case.
There is little doubt that businesses the world over will always need cargo lifts and elevators in their commercial buildings. What may be less obvious is the increasing demand for such equipment in private or other residential homes.
Unlike traditional large, indoor cargo elevators, many residential material lifts are installed on the outside of the home. Small and deceivingly strong, these lifts have been known to carry 1,000 pounds or more of material. Their simple, open design can withstand any weather, will not take up much space, and are placed next to external porches or stair landings for easy access. They should also have an aesthetically pleasing design to help add value to your home.
Traditional elevators are well-equipped with a number of safety features to prevent injury, and residential cargo lifts should be held to the same standards. The main cables are among the most important factors in ensuring safety, so be sure to note the recommended weight maximum on the lift, as well as the breaking strength of each cable. The cable brake should also be noted and understood, as this is the component that will lock the lift in place if it begins to fall.
In addition to adding value to your home with a more unique feature, the safety benefits of a cargo lift far outweigh any risks. Moving furniture in or out of a home is daunting, and involving stairs can be dangerous and even deadly. As the population continues to age, the danger branches out to other smaller yet no less difficult everyday items that need to reach the top floors of your home. Installing a cargo lift is the best way to ensure the safety of the heavy lifters in your household.


AFRICA: Kenyan security forces carried out fresh raids on a mosque in Mombasa searching for weapons and supporters of Somalia's Shebab militants.
AMERICAS: Mexican marines killed the chief enforcer of the Knights Templar in the western state of Michoacan, Jose Julio Mendoza Roman, alias "El Parotas".
ASIA: Hong Kong police clashed with pro-democracy demonstrators after a small group tried to break into the city's legislature.
EUROPE: Russian FM Lavrov said Ukraine's leaders must talk directly to separatists in the east of Ukraine and should not treat Moscow as a party to the conflict.
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli security forces destroyed the East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian who carried out a suicide car attack in October that left two dead.
TECHNOLOGY: A top Chinese official on called for protecting Internet "security" at a government-organized conference condemned by a human rights group as an attempt by Beijing to promote its online controls globally.
Iraq and Syria: Kurds call for increased support in fight against Islamic State.
President of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani accused Western countries of not providing enough heavy weapons to help his 'peshmerga' forces deliver a "decisive blow" against Islamic State militants.
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle near the provincial government headquarters in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
Turkish President Erdogan expressed frustration that the US and its allies were not responding to conditions set for his country to play a greater role in the coalition against militants in Syria.
The Iraqi government transferred USD500 million to the autonomous Kurdish region as part of a deal aimed at ending long-running oil and budget disputes.
The UN HCHR Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called on the Muslim world to denounce the "monstrous" crimes of IS, calling its actions both a violation of international law and Islamic tenets.


Just over a year ago I ventured into adulthood and started working at Christians Against Poverty. I've loved it. I thoroughly enjoy my job, my colleagues are great, even my office is pretty brilliant… but most of all I love what we do. CAP does brilliant work delivering free debt counselling (that's my bit), alongside tackling some of the root causes of debt such as unemployment, addiction and struggling on a low income.
From the 3rd to 23rd October, I'm going to be taking part in CAP's 20 for twenty challenge and living off the benefits I'd be entitled to if I lost my job tomorrow. I'll be donating the money I save to CAP and writing updates on here. I'm doing this because I make budgets for individuals and families struggling to survive on low incomes and have no idea what it's like. Most of the time I only half think about the price of my supermarket shop. I don't count the pennies. I have a budget, but it's not something I think about all the time. I think, as people, we have a duty to face up to the reality of what people around us are having to deal with and this is my attempt. I'm also doing this because in the past year I've learnt that there's a lot of stigma and shame related to being in debt, when financial hardship can happen to anyone.
If I lost my job, I'd be faced with getting by on under 25s JSA until I found a new job, which can so so hard and definitely does not happen overnight. I'm pretty sure I would not manage to budget for the sudden change in income, even though I'm trained in debt counselling and making budgets.
Disclaimer: I know I won't really know what it's like to be living on such a tough budget, because I have food I'm ignoring for 20 days in the other cupboard. I have money in the bank. I can throw in the towel when I want to. There are 621, 000 16-24 year olds unemployed in the UK who don't have that choice (side note: you can't apply for JSA unless you're 18, although there are some exceptions, but this the only figure I could find). I don't know what that's like and this is only going to give me the barest idea.
According to benefit calculator, www.entitledto.co.uk, I would be entitled to the standard under 25s rate of Job Seekers Allowance, at £57.90 a week. Alongside that, I would also be entitled to Council Tax support reducing my bill to £4.52 a week and Housing Benefit of £58.42 a week.
Unfortunately, all of that money put together would not pay my rent. As I don't think my landlord would reckon much to me not paying my rent for 20 days (even for charity), I am fake charging myself £11.10/week rent top up. The figure has a semi-relevant benefit basis (it's the standard deduction of a housing benefit overpayment from someone's ongoing benefit award) but it's essentially arbitrary. The fact is, if I really lost my job tomorrow, I wouldn't be able to pay my rent. I might qualify for extra support in the form of discretionary housing payments, but given I have a spare room I doubt I'd be eligible for this for very long. I'd have to move and would probably walk away with some serious rent arrears.
When I first started being trained in benefits, £57.90 (£73.10 for those over aged 25, because apparently being 24 is £15.20 cheaper) a week didn't sound too bad. Then I started making people's budgets and realised just how much that £57.90 had to stretch.
Council tax. You can go to prison for not paying your council tax. You're more likely to have enforcement agents turn up to chase this but it's still pretty important to pay.
Water. Actually, water companies can't do as much as most priority bills. They can't cut you off, but again they can go down the legal route and send enforcement agents round.
Electricity. Technically have the power to cut off you supply, but are more likely to apply for a warrant to fit prepayment meters then deduct the arrears from what you owe at much higher than you want to pay.
TV Licence. Again, not paying this is criminal.
Rent. As in my case, often housing benefit does not cover all of this.
Mobile. For me, I'm tied into a contract. Even if I wanted to reduce this cost, I'd have to try and renegotiate my contract or face extra charges and cancellation fees.
Internet. An eligibility requirement of JSA is to be actively seeking work, which often means you have to apply for a certain number of jobs each week, which is a lot more challenging without wifi. Again, these are often contracts.
Travel costs. For many, the job centre is a bus drive away and attending is requirement to avoid being sanctioned, without taking into account going to the shops or visiting a family member. Personally, my travel costs are quite low because I live in the city centre very close to work. Train and journeys to see my family or friends add up though.
Household. Bin bags, kitchen roll, oven cleaner. All pretty necessary.
Toiletries/medicine. How expensive is shampoo, anyway?
Leisure. Everyone deserves to be able to meet a friend for coffee or go to the cinema, whoever you are.
My ongoing bills (which I know are the cheapest they can be, having moved into my flat last month) and ongoing contracts, add up to a total of £44.13 a week. That's the Council Tax I'd still have to pay, water, electric, TV licence, internet, mobile and my rent top up. This leaves me with £13.77 a week for travel, food, household, toiletries and leisure.
As my housemate moved out last week, I'm using his just-emptied food cupboards for the food I'm allowed to eat during the next twenty days. I'm going to continue using the toiletries/cleaning stuff I already have, but if I run out that comes out of the £13.77 budget. Updates will be coming here.
Wish me luck and please donate if you can!


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Home» Guest Post» Why Ron Weasley Matter in Harry Potter Books?
I was browsing Quora, and someone has requested the answer to the Question – Is Ron Weasley really needed in Harry Potter Universe?
For a moment, I was confused about why anyone would ask this type of question. After reading some answers, I realize that the root of the problem is not Ron Weasley here.
The Journey of Harry Potter -
Harry Potter series is one of the most popular series of all time. Harry Potter's journey is interesting to people of every age and enjoyed by a whole generation of kids. I am one of them. When the series span for a long time and has many books, like Harry Potter or The Mortal Instrument, no single character readers follow. So, Harry Potter was not only the journey of Harry Potter. It was the journey of Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Draco, and many other characters.
Harry Potter's story has two sides. One is from Hermione, the smart and intelligent girl. On the other side is Ron Weasley, the poor and loyal friend. Most of the readers find the help provided by Hermione more useful than Ron. They think Ron was just there to make people laugh or to make mistakes. And Rowling does not help.
Dilemma of Rowling
JK Rowling said in her interview that she regrets writing Ron and Hermione. She wanted to end Harry and Hermione together. But she was restricted by the arc she created in the previous book. It is a very terrible thing to say, and I know Rowling has a habit of saying the stupidest thing nowadays. But still, Ron and Hermione were a good couple.
The reason behind thinking that Ron does not deserve Hermione might be that Rowling has written herself as Hermione. And she thinks she can do better than Ron. When there is Harry Potter, who is available, Ron seems like a bad choice. But that is when you look at it from a biased point of view of self-importance. Ron may not be the protagonist, but he is too strong to be discarded like that.
Rowling also said that she wanted to kill off Ron in the middle of the series. It feels bad when the author who has written such a beloved character does not love him. There is a various reason why Rowling does not love Ron. One big reason is she does not like Hermione to end up with him. She sees Hermione as her, and she wants Hermione to ends with someone important, not with a poor and aloof guy.
Also, Rowling does not like Ron because she does not consider him a nice boy. For her, Ron is always a boy from a less prestigious family with lots of siblings and impoverished background. She does not want to give such a character to her heroine. But again, the reason is more rooted.
Attitude towards Side Character
It is the same as the avoiding attitude towards side character. We, as a reader, never want to think about the feeling of a side character. We think of him as a tool that should be used when the times come. We believe that this character is going to be sacrificed when the moment is right. So, we don't care whatever happens to them. But she forgets the opposite attracts. And Hermione and Ron's arc are more believable than Hermione and Harry's. Ron developed into the finest character. Nearly like Samwise Gamgee.
The other problem here is too much oversaturation of the second main character as the story's Joker. There are lots and lots of side characters whose work is only to create comic relief in the book. These characters are there to make the situation light or make the stupid mistake so the villain can have some advantage over Hero.
The hero often makes a good plan, but at the last moment, the side character does something stupid, so the Hero has to protect the side character by fighting or good presence of mind. It is a good and very much overused way of creating a difficult situation for the protagonist. In a way, the side character becomes a tool that could be used to reflect the qualities of Hero or the values of Hero. Even Harry Potter is not saved from such a cliché.
In a Room of Requirement fight, Ron does not want to protect Draco, but Harry does. Hence establishing the fact that Harry has more patience and moral values than Ron.
But are side characters, or Ron only exist to make the Hero look good. Or do they have another purpose?
Now, one thing is Darkness.
As the story goes, on our Hero's journey, a moment came when he falls into hopelessness. He loses his motivation and does not want to continue his journey. He finds himself questioning everything about himself and start doubting his own abilities. A side character is precious at that moment.
They not only take care of the protagonist but also motivate him. Sometimes they become the reason for motivation. It happens when the side character dies, and the protagonist comes back to his senses.
Ron provides that angle to harry. Hermione does not do that; Ron does that. When Harry was drowning in the lake, or when Harry was fighting his own battle with Dark Lord. Ron was always there to support him. Despite the little feud, Ron was a good friend.
Supportive Friend
Ron is always like a guide for Harry. Both Harry and Hermione were new to the world. Ron was not. But the lack of money does restrict people from exploring much, so Ron has not involved in the wizarding world himself. That makes Harry and Ron's friendship that powerful.
Ron becomes the pillar at which Harry leans in the beginning. But as the story process, we start to avoid Ron standing on his ground and providing emotional and physical support to Harry, and we see Harry more than anyone. Harry and Hermione do great things that are of no doubt, but those great things cannot diminish what Ron has done.
Ron was the one who gave the house to both. In the second part, Ron abducted Harry, and that scene perfectly captures the extent to which Ron could protect Harry. At that time, there was no stake than the first part, where the Dark Lord was coming back.
Ron did all that because he misses Harry and he wanted to see if he was alright. Harry Potter is one of the series in which supporting characters grew up and develop beautifully. Rowling has done it smartly.
In the end, Harry trusts him for the task of destroying the Horcrux. Harry was chosen to do the job, which was done not with Ron's help but by Ron himself. In the end, after fighting so many obstacles, Ron does stand his ground against the Dark Lord. Ron does prove his friendship, and he also shows how nice a person he really is by saving all of the House-elves.
When people say why Ron Weasley matter or Ron Weasley was not important, I do not understand what to say to them. Because Ron does matter. Characters like Ron Weasley will always matter. They are the characters that make the story powerful. They are the characters that make the story believable. And they are the characters people mostly relate to.
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Aastha June 6, 2020 at 9:52 AM
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Daikin seminars on building performance
UK: Bridging the gap between the predicted and actual energy performance of buildings is the subject of a new series of Daikin seminars.
The latest in Daikin UK's Future Thinking series of seminars take place across the country from next month.
With the energy performance of buildings up to five times higher than predicted during design, Daikin UK says the seminars will identify why and how the performance gap occurs. It will explain how to add client value, by influencing energy performance beyond design; stay ahead of the competition by using dynamic energy performance modelling; and how to design whole-building climate control systems that deliver on their promises.
Daikin promises speakers from the Carbon Trust and dynamic modelling specialist IES – industry-leaders offering expertise and tools to help close the building performance gap.
Future Thinking seminars are from 6pm and include buffet, drinks and networking.
Further information and details of dates and venues can be found here.


The coming weeks we introduce you to about 25 different natural health teas (without added flavours and other additives). Here an introduction. All teas at Yum Eat Cafe are served in-fusion.
Beverage produced by steeping top leaves and buds of the tea plant in freshly boiled water. It originated in China about 2700 BC, possibly because of the need to boil drinking water for health reasons. Cultivating of the tea plant in Japan began about AD 800. The use of tea later spread to other Asiatic countries and by the first half of the 18th century, tea was a popular beverage in Holland, England and the American Colonies.


How did this Sioux Falls Pizza Ranch became No. 1?
Todd and Patty Pharis found the recipe to grow a pizza business into an entertainment complex centered on food.
Sure, Pizza Ranch has pizza. But you can't talk to local franchisees Todd and Patty Pharis for more than a minute without them showing you the many other things driving Pizza Ranch's success.
"I've got to show you my system for deliveries," Todd Pharis said, ushering the Sioux Falls Business Journal into the kitchen and before a screen that shows the location of every one of his delivery vehicles and sends notifications if the driver takes a corner too fast or speeds. Does a customer want to know where their food is? Easy.
"We can go right to this and say, 'They're a half a block away,' " Pharis said.
The Pharis family is reinventing the pizza game through technology, video games and event rooms. They're transforming the idea of a humble pizza restaurant into what their Pizza Ranch is now: an entertainment complex centered around selling good pizza and chicken, with a side of fundraising for good causes.
"It's very tough for our competitors to offer what we offer," Pharis said. "And that is a game room, meeting and party rooms at no charge, fundraiser nights where twice a week we give 10 percent of the sales and 100 percent of the tips to the groups."
Their work earned them recognition from Pizza Ranch as the No. 1 franchisee, serving about 30,000 customers a month from their location at the corner of 41st Street and Kiwanis Avenue in Sioux Falls.
"We get so many people just because we are the full package," Pharis said.
"They're our No. 1 store, and they've been our No. 1 store since they opened up," said Pizza Ranch President Adrie Groeneweg. "And he's not just No. 1. I won't give specific numbers, but he's set the bar high, and no one has come close to him."
The Pharises weren't always at the top of the pizza game. Todd Pharis was a vice president of GE Capital in Los Angeles, with plans to move for the company to London. But they were also owners of half the Pizza Ranch location in Brandon. Then they built a new Pizza Ranch in Hartford and bought the location in Lennox.
"Now I had three, and I had to figure out how I was going to be active in three when I'm living over in London for three years," he said. "That's when we decided it would be a good time for us to leave corporate life in 1994 and move back to Sioux Falls."
Since then, growth has been the story. Pizza Ranch, which is based in Orange City, Iowa, was founded in 1981. When Pharis left GE Capital, Pizza Ranch had just under 60 locations. It now has more than 200, and it has expanded both regionally and in restaurant size and into larger markets.
Todd Pharis has opened eight Pizza Ranches in towns of all sizes and now co-owns the location at the corner of 41st and Kiwanis with partners Mark Moeller and Pharis' son Michael. Patty Pharis does the books. They opened the store 11 years ago in November, betting on its prime location on a busy commercial intersection.
"And we've been up every single year" in sales, Pharis said. "And we'll have a bigger year (this year) than last year, too."
The Pizza Ranch concept has far outstripped pizza. Franchisees found success with broasted chicken, so the company expanded the offering across all its stores. But it's also grown into a catering and delivery service, doing $1 million in catering last year and making 58,000 deliveries. And Pharis spearheaded the Fun Zone game room concept that is quickly being incorporated in numerous Pizza Ranches.
Baking a pizza might seem like a low-tech endeavor. But offering it in a Pizza Ranch is anything but. In addition to the real-time delivery tracking system, there's plenty of other technology to be found behind Pizza Ranch's buffet tables.
Workers can keep a watchful eye on the buffet tables via video cameras to track what needs to be replenished. Parents can watch their children in the Fun Zone on video screens in the dining room. Anyone who hits a buzzer to seek help in the Fun Zone sets off alarm lights in the dining room and kitchen.
Ultimately, serving pizza and chicken is an information game.
"We need to know exactly what's going on in the dining room and the kitchen," Pharis said. "We need to know in the kitchen and the dining room what's going on in the Fun Zone; we need to know in the kitchen where our delivery drivers are."
Pizza Ranch is also working to grow its customer base by staying on top of online ordering, which Groeneweg says makes up 40 percent of Pizza Ranch's business.
Pharis' Pizza Ranch has also made a name for itself as an event space, with multiple dividable rooms that can seat dozens for events, presentations, parties, reunions and more. At one time, there was a basketball court in the back of the store. That's now been converted into additional seating space.
"I think we'll have 12 parties on Saturday, at least 12, and it's not unusual for us to do that," Pharis said.
Pharis cooked up the Fun Zone arcade and game room concept and fleshed it out over several months before installing it in his own store, in additional space he was fortunate to obtain from his landlord.
The concept is this: Put the latest video and arcade games and a prize booth into a room. But the Fun Zone concept makes Pizza Ranch an entertainment destination for children and adults alike and provides an additional revenue stream.
Pharis is now evangelizing the Fun Zone concept to other franchisees. So far, 12 Pizza Ranches have Fun Zones, and there are 19 in development.
"Todd really put Fun Zone on the map for us," Groeneweg said, "It's actually becoming part of our concept, and I give him full credit for that."
Pharis attends amusement expos to stay on top of the latest developments in games and pricing. And he pays a premium to buy the newest games. He later replaces them with even newer games, selling the older games to local arcades or his main buyer -- the arcade at the Mall of America in Minnesota.
The Fun Zone also provides additional insulation against competition, Pharis said.
"If you're going to take customers away from me, you've got to have good pizza, good chicken and an entertainment area like Fun Zone," he said.
Pizza Ranch regularly works to adopt franchisee ideas, Groeneweg said, as a way of both growing its bottom line and staying ahead of competition. Todd Pharis is a great example of a franchisee leader who both mentors others and comes up with ideas worth replicating, he said.
The company has grabbed hold of its stores' volume potential, a trend that fits perfectly with the Pharis model of using technology and additional space to create an experience that transcends buffet service.
Pizza Ranch was previously willing to open in towns of any size, but they shifted to a minimum population of 3,000. Now the minimum is 30,000 population. As the Pizza Ranch store concept has grown in size, it has boosted the cost of opening a new location. A new Pizza Ranch, including the land on which it's built, prices out at $3.4 million, Pharis said.
"So if you're going to spend $3.4 million on a Pizza Ranch, you have to be in towns with a lot of people, heavy population," he said.
When Pharis and his partners opened the 41st and Kiwanis location, it had an impact not unusual for a new Pizza Ranch, he said.
"Usually when we go into a market, we are the No. 1 place. When we opened up here, Pizza Hut closed the day before we opened. That happens a lot in towns where there is a competitor, they'll actually close before, knowing they're probably not going to survive, if you have a good (Pizza Ranch) operator."
Pharis' son Michael is now a partner in the store, which isn't an unusual move in Pizza Ranch's corporate offices or its franchises, Pharis said, where family members are frequent business partners.
"A lot of us owners, their sons and daughters came in the business, and they'll be the new leaders of Pizza Ranch," he said. "It puts a different pressure on us, because now we're not just looking at the next five to 10 years to make sure we're the No. 1 in our market.
"We have to make sure 30 to 40 years down the road, those younger people are also going to be the No. 1 pizza and chicken restaurants in their community."