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During the last decade, a great number of extremely valuable large-scale genomics and proteomics datasets have become available to the research community. In addition, dropping costs for conducting high-throughput sequencing experiments and the option to outsource them considerably contribute to an increasing number of researchers becoming active in this field. Even though various computational approaches have been developed to analyze these data, it is still a laborious task involving prudent integration of many heterogeneous and frequently updated data sources, creating a barrier for interested scientists to accomplish their own analysis.
We have implemented Dintor, a data integration framework that provides a set of over 30 tools to assist researchers in the exploration of genomics and proteomics datasets. Each of the tools solves a particular task and several tools can be combined into data processing pipelines. Dintor covers a wide range of frequently required functionalities, from gene identifier conversions and orthology mappings to functional annotation of proteins and genetic variants up to candidate gene prioritization and Gene Ontology-based gene set enrichment analysis. Since the tools operate on constantly changing datasets, we provide a mechanism to unambiguously link tools with different versions of archived datasets, which guarantees reproducible results for future tool invocations. We demonstrate a selection of Dintor’s capabilities by analyzing datasets from four representative publications. The open source software can be downloaded and installed on a local Unix machine. For reasons of data privacy it can be configured to retrieve local data only. In addition, the Dintor tools are available on our public Galaxy web service at http://dintor.eurac.edu.
Dintor is a computational annotation framework for the analysis of genomic and proteomic datasets, providing a rich set of tools that cover the most frequently encountered tasks. A major advantage is its capability to consistently handle multiple versions of tool-associated datasets, supporting the researcher in delivering reproducible results.
Analysis of high-throughput genomic and proteomic datasets requires familiarity with the use of specialized tools and web servers, and heterogeneous, complex data from various databases. This is often a barrier for interested researchers . Furthermore, external databases and web servers are undergoing constant update cycles, leaving the analyst with the burden to archive and version data for reproducibility of results [2, 3]. Numerous solutions have been developed to assist researchers in data exploration, mostly published as web services, with notable efforts to generate workflow management systems that are able to integrate command line tools or other web server’s data [4–9], as part of a programming environment , or as stand-alone programs [11–13]. In many of these efforts emphasis is put on solving a specific problem, such as gene set analysis [14, 15] or disease gene prioritization , with less importance put on documentation and management of underlying data. Web-based solutions in particular usually do not provide any means for archiving the source data that were used in the computations, with the result that analyses cannot be reproduced once the web server is updated. Conversely, some approaches are dedicated to prudent data handling by employing data warehousing methodologies (briefly reviewed in ), but by definition offer little means for data analysis.
Consistent use of software alongside well-defined versions of underlying data is highly appreciated in long-standing collaborations or when addressing questions raised during the review process of a submitted manuscript. Therefore, our goal was to develop a tool suite that facilitates exploration and analysis of large-scale genomic and proteomic datasets and that provides means to easily identify and exchange the underlying datasets used by the analysis tools. The resulting Dintor framework consists of more than 30 tools, based on well accepted, published, and popular methods that provide rich functionality for handling single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data; gene, protein, and transcript identifier conversions; functional annotation of SNPs and genes; gene prioritization and gene set enrichment analysis; as well as biomedical annotation. The framework distinguishes itself from similar approaches by employing versioned data files as tool data sources, which assures reproducible results for tool invocations at any time in the future. This is especially important when working on long-term projects, where results from data analysis are used as feedback to experimental designs, which then produce the next generation of data to analyze. The tools can be executed on our Galaxy web server, http://dintor.eurac.edu, and for reasons of performance, privacy or data security they can be installed and run locally on Unix-like environments, with the additional option to set up a local mirror of the Galaxy sever (see Fig. 1). The Dintor framework is an open, extensible, and easy to use solution for reproducible functional analysis of genomics and proteomics data.
The tool suite has been designed as an open and modular framework with equal importance given to both functionality and dataset versioning. The tools are intended to be invoked in pipelines and therefore were planned as independent and reusable units that fulfill a special purpose in order to achieve a certain, more complex goal. Tools are given a high degree of flexibility for accessing data by allowing users to define specific versions of their underlying data resources. This is implemented with a global, version-aware, and extensible configuration directory. Each Dintor release comes with its own configuration directory that explicitly links data files and databases with tools. Versioning is guaranteed by storing data files and databases with time stamps. Each time a tool requests access to data, it is pointed to the appropriate data source through the configuration directory. We have chosen Ensembl as the principal source of data for our framework, since their Biomart data warehouse [18, 19] provides a comprehensive and regularly updated resource for genomic data.
The modules have been implemented in the programming languages Python and Perl, the latter is required by the Ensembl application programming interface (Fig. 1). Dintor tools process input as tabular text files and generally append resulting columns to each row without altering the content of the input rows. Thus, information can be passed on seamlessly between tools in a pipeline-like manner. Each tool is accessible via a consistent command line interface, which is wrapped by a Galaxy server. Therefore, the framework addresses both graphical interface-oriented users through the web server and bioinformaticians through the command line tools. In both cases, pipelines are built with either the graphical interface of the Galaxy tools or by utilizing a Unix shell script harnessing the command line tools.
One of the added values of the framework is that each tool is tied to a set of predefined and well-documented data files. Therefore, the origin and date of the different data sources are always defined when running a tool. We have stored updates for the data sources of the different tools since their implementation up to the last GRCh37 release of the Ensembl genome browser (Ensembl 75). Our earliest datasets range back to Ensembl 65 so that users can reproduce previous results. For example, Human Genome Organisation Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) gene symbols, which frequently change names, can easily be queried with their identifiers used at any point of time during the last three years. The Dintor release cycle is following the update cycle of the Ensembl database, providing a self-contained set of tools and data. To gain maximum flexibility, any tool can ultimately be furnished with user-defined data files.
We assure high standards of code stability and quality by running more than 800 unit tests on a nightly basis. Each of the 30 tools comes with a concise description on the command line level and with extensive documentation in the Galaxy framework, including example invocations and a tutorial explaining selected tools and workflows. An overview of all Dintor tools is given in Additional file 1.
The data integration framework is split logically into the following groups: (1) basic functionality, for dealing with gene location and gene identifier conversions; (2) annotation retrieval, where information relevant to given variants and genes is retrieved from established function-related databases; and (3) computational methods, which are used to investigate relationships between genes, gene products, and within gene sets.
Variation data represent the core of many genomic analyses. Therefore, we offer a set of tools that provide an interface to dbSNP and SNP-related data. Information such as the location on the chromosome, alleles, Ensembl validation state, and conservation scores are readily at the hands of the researcher. For pairs of SNPs it is possible to compute linkage disequilibrium (LD) expressed either as D’ or r 2 scores . If the variation locates within a gene then variation consequences and deleteriousness measures [22–24] are accessible on a transcript basis. Locations may also be queried for overlaps with Ensembl regulatory regions .
Genes are frequently reported in different identifier systems, which hinders establishing connections between heterogeneous datasets. We supply conversion tools between the most widely used identifiers in human and the model system fruit fly. In addition, translation procedures are available to map between genes, transcripts and UniProt identifiers, and pairwise orthology can be inferred between human and the model organisms fruit fly, mouse, and C. elegans. The conversion schemes have been implemented generically to facilitate extension to any desired organism.
We have developed a means to establish a link between SNP data (in the form of genomic coordinates) and genes through LD-based haplotype blocks . This is especially useful when analyzing tag SNPs reported in human genome-wide association (GWA) studies, which are considered as a marker for the genes contained in their respective LD block. In addition, genes can be queried for known transcripts and their intron/exon composition.
Modules in this tool group allow users to annotate genes and proteins with high-level information concerning their functional role in an organism. We report protein-protein interactions or protein complexes based on the iRefIndex database , pathway information is made accessible through the Reactome database [29, 30]. In addition, Gene Ontology (GO) annotations are accessed by either querying the official GO database or a local database instance. Finally, tissue specific gene expression data is imported from the GeneAtlas database .
One of the ultimate goals of human genomics and proteomics research is to identify relationships between genetic variation and phenotypes. Both ClinVar and the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) provide annotations for human genetic variation and their role in health and disease. These resources are accessible with Dintor. A license is required to access HGMD, and license holders may use the command line version in combination with a local database installation. Drugs and their targets have also been integrated into the Dintor suite by providing access to DrugBank . In addition, pharmacogenomics annotations are available from PharmaADME (http://pharmaadme.org).
The tools described so far retrieve information from available databases to establish links with data of interest. We have implemented a set of tools that goes beyond data integration, where functional and semantic similarity between pairs of proteins is calculated by applying selected approaches . Furthermore, the Dintor framework provides a means for elementary gene set enrichment analysis based on GO terms. In addition, we have created a gene prioritization module that combines different types of evidence based on GO term annotations, protein-protein interactions and co-complexes, Reactome pathway models, and protein functional similarity through a rank-based approach similar to that implemented in the MetaRanker method .
In the following four sections we present use-cases demonstrating the capabilities of the Dintor framework to build pipelines and to take advantage of versioned datasets. The use-cases were chosen from recent, representative publications to cover a wide range of Dintor’s functionality. In the first example we illustrate the steps to convert signals from human GWA studies to testable candidate genes from model organisms. We present a simple pipeline that takes dbSNP entries associated with Parkinson’s disease and walk through the steps to find fly orthologs for the genes contained in the respective LD-based haplotype blocks. In the second example, we investigate Dintor’s annotation possibilities by analyzing a small dataset consisting of non-synonymous point mutations associated with autism spectrum disorders . Next, we explore the possibility to use versioned data by repeating a gene set enrichment analysis employing data from 2012. Finally, we compare our gene prioritization tool with commonly used tools based on a benchmark dataset from 2010 . Unix shell script pipelines, input files and result files are included as Additional file 2 for the first three examples.
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopamine generating cells in the brain’s substantia nigra, resulting in tremor, bradykinesia, and rigidity. Genes associated with PD can be tested in fruit flies by studying movement in fly lines with silenced orthologous candidate genes. Recently, Nalls et al. published a highly powered GWA study, which lists 26 loci with their respective tag SNPs significantly associated with PD. In this example, we demonstrate the capabilities of the Dintor framework by outlining the steps to obtain orthologous candidate genes in fruit fly for the genes located at these 26 human loci. This pipeline is also available as a tutorial on our Galaxy web service (http://dintor.eurac.edu).
In a first step we take the dbSNP entries from Table 1 of the abovementioned publication and convert these dbSNP identifiers to coordinates on the human genome (version GRCh37). With these coordinates we look up the closest LD-based haplotype block and find that all SNP locations are contained within LD blocks. In the next step we select the genes located within those LD blocks, as these genes might include PD causal variants. The HGNC symbols of those genes are obtained based on their Ensembl identifiers, which are mapped to fly orthologs using Ensembl Compara orthology tables . Two additional conversions based on the orthologs’ FlyBase gene identifiers provide us with the fly annotation symbols (CG numbers) and the respective Vienna Drosophila Resource Center (VDRC) transformant identifiers, which can readily be used to order fly lines for RNAi knock-down experiments.
In this small example, we started with a table consisting of 26 dbSNP entries, corresponding to the 26 loci identified by the GWA study. Each step was carried out with a distinct tool and added specific information to the original input table (Fig. 2). For cases where multiple hits were reported for a single entity (for example several genes in an LD block, or multiple fly orthologs for a single human gene), each hit was reported in a separate line. To summarize, for the 26 loci/LD blocks we found 79 human Ensembl gene IDs related to 44 fly orthologs, which can be targeted by 106 VDRC fly lines.
Many of the Dintor tools are useful for variant annotation as demonstrated in the following example, where we retrieve relevant information for a small set of selected variants. The example is based on a publication reporting the exome sequencing of family trios with idiopathic forms of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) , a mental health disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction, which usually is diagnosed during the first two years of childhood. The study aimed to identify de novo private, protein-altering, spontaneous mutations in persons suffering from ASD by sequencing the exomes of the affected individuals and their parents. This study is a representative example where individual level data is used to query various annotation databases, which in many countries is strictly regulated by privacy law. Therefore, utilizing Dintor tools in combination with local database installations provides a means to comply with such legal regulations, as no data are sent to public servers.
In the example pipeline (see Fig. 3) we focus on annotating three disruptive de novo point mutations that were found to be potentially causative for sporadic ASD in three different genes, as listed in Table 2 of the publication : LAMC3 (encodes for laminin gamma 3 chain), SCN1A (encodes for a voltage gated Na+ channel protein), and GRIN2B (encodes for an ionotropic glutamate receptor). As many publications from around the year 2011, this ASD study still reports genomic locations based on the NCBI36 genome version. We therefore start with lifting the coordinates to Dintor’s current reference genome, GRCh37. In a following step we retrieve the GERP conservation scores for 37 eutherian mammals from the Ensembl database. For all three mutations we observe conservation scores close to 5.0, an indication that the positions are under evolutionary constraint. We continue the annotation process by investigating the effects of the three mutations with a Dintor tool that reports multiple types of transcript-related information, such as Ensembl transcript identifier, consequence type, codon change, SIFT and PolyPhen2 scores. In all transcripts, the mutations are characterized as highly deleterious by SIFT and PolyPhen2. The mutation in gene GRIN2B occurs at a splice site, whereas the other two are missense mutations in exons 5 and 26 of LAMC3 and SCN1A, respectively. There is a single transcript of LAMC3, and the respective mutation results in a change of a negatively charged aspartic acid to a glycine with neutral charge. In each of the four protein-coding transcripts of SCN1A the respective variation results in a substitution of a proline residue to leucine.
Querying the current ClinVar database with the respective Dintor tool reveals that the splice site mutation in GRIN2B is associated with mental retardation. Looking at this annotation historically, it turns out that the ClinVar entry originates from a later publication on ASD by the same group .
We ultimately want to find out if the proteins encoded by these three genes appear in a pharmacological context. This can readily be answered by searching the corresponding UniProt accession numbers in the Drugbank database utilizing the respective Dintor tool. No drugs are found to act on LAMC3, but the voltage gated Na+ channel protein SCN1A is inhibited mainly by anticonvulsant drugs to treat epilepsy. Protein GRIN2B is targeted mainly by antagonistic drugs, including anticonvulsants for treatment of epilepsy, but also as severe pain reliever or in treatment of schizophrenia and other psychoses. A literature research shows that anticonvulsants prescribed for epilepsy treatment such as topiramate (which acts on SCN1A) have also been investigated as medications for ASDs, however with only small success .
Gene ontology-based gene set enrichment (GSE) is a method to detect over- or underrepresentation of GO terms in a defined set of input genes. We have implemented a simple GSE method applying a hypergeometric statistical model and Fisher’s exact test to detect GO term enrichment, depletion, or both . With this GSE tool, we investigate to which degree of detail we can reproduce a typical enrichment study published in 2012 , in which a set of 71 genes was identified to be significantly differentially expressed upon treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cell lines with dexamethasone, a synthetic glucocorticoid used during ALL treatment.
We take the HGNC gene symbols from Table 1 in and convert them to Ensembl gene identifiers using the gene identifier conversion tool based on data retrieved from Ensembl release 65, corresponding to the earliest release of our Dintor framework in April 2012. This allows us to rescue three gene symbols (listed as C18orf1, C6orf81, and C7orf40 in the publication, now assigned to gene symbols LDLRAD4, ARMC12, SNHG15), losing C1orf107, which has been renamed to gene symbol DIEXF before Ensembl release 65. A second lost gene is traced back to a misspelling in the article (DPED1). Six additional gene symbols cannot be mapped. These correspond to retired Ensembl gene models (2), non-protein coding genes (3), and one uncharacterized gene. The resulting 63 gene identifiers are then mapped to UniProt accession numbers, which form the input for the GSE tool.
Enrichment is performed with a microarray-specific set of background genes, retrieved from the series matrix of the original article, deposited with Gene Expression Omnibus identifier GSE29003. In order to replicate the results we search for enriched GO terms in the biological process ontology, reporting Benjamini-Hochberg corrected p-values at a false discovery rate of 5 %, they are listed in Table 1.
The results indicate that the enrichment tool clearly identifies the apoptosis process as discussed in the original work. Running the analysis with recent GO data (July 2014) yields a larger number of overrepresented GO terms compared to performing the analysis with data from early 2012. In both cases however, the analysis identifies highly significantly enriched GO terms equal to those ranked high in the original work. Our results are also in agreement with enrichment analysis output obtained from the current Gene Ontology web site, http://amigo.geneontology.org/rte (data not shown).
The goal of gene prioritization is to identify the most relevant genes for a particular phenotype or a disease of interest, from a large set of input candidates, for example, resulting from a high-throughput genomics experiment. A multitude of computational prioritization methods have been developed in recent years using different data types and integration methods; eight popular tools have been evaluated by Börnigen et al. in 2010 . To establish a common benchmark dataset, the authors first reviewed the literature for previously unknown disease-gene associations and defined a validation dataset with 42 disease genes. For each of the test cases, they identified genes already associated with the respective disease (training genes), collected disease-related keywords from databases such as OMIM , and gathered input candidates by taking all genes from a 10Mbp region around each disease gene in the validation set. Then they queried each prioritization tool and computed different rank-based performance measures Table 9 in ).
In order to correctly assess the performance of the Dintor prioritization tool, it is crucial to use the same data that were available in May 2010, when Börnigen et al. performed their literature review. If newer data were used instead, we might benefit from a ”knowledge contamination” , where the publication that reported the disease association has later been incorporated into databases such as GO or Reactome, which are then used in the prioritization. This would result in overly optimistic results and does not reproduce a real application scenario.
Dintor’s prioritization tool can be instructed to use different types of evidence; we used the default setting that incorporates protein-protein interactions and co-complex associations (obtained from iRefIndex v7.0), functional annotations and functional similarity (using GO release 2010.05), and biochemical reactions and pathways (Reactome release 32) into an overall ranking.
The newer Ensembl release 75 was used for creating the training and candidate gene sets by mapping the gene symbols provided in Supplementary Table 3 of Börnigen et al. , and for retrieving the candidate genes from the 10Mbp genomic regions around the disease genes, provided in the same table. Spurious mappings were manually resolved.
We assessed our tool by computing the same performance measures used by Börnigen et al., in particular, response rate, median of all rank ratios, and in how many of the 42 test cases the disease gene was reported in the top 5 % (true positive rate (TPR) in top 5 %), top 10 %, and top 30 % of all ranked candidates (see Table 2). The choice of the right measure to judge the performance of a method depends on the particular task. Given that limited resources commonly restrict the number of candidates that can be subjected to further experimental validation, we argue that the measures that indicate top positions (TPR in top 5 % and 10 %) are of more practical relevance than those indicating the overall distribution (TPR in top 30 % and median). Dintor achieves good results when evaluated using measures of the former category, in TPR in top 5 % only ToppGene achieves a better performance. Dintor relies to a considerable extent on GO annotations for prioritization, and the sparse annotations in the older 2010 annotation data might explain the poor median performance. It would be of great interest to further investigate the relative strengths and weaknesses of the different prioritization tools based on an updated benchmark test set.
This example shows that Dintor’s gene prioritization tool achieves a performance comparable to state-of-the-art prioritization suites when the goal is to select top ranking candidates, and it also demonstrates the capacity to perform analyses using datasets from a user specified point in time.
A simple gene prioritization example is provided in the tutorial section of our Galaxy web service (http://dintor.eurac.edu).
We describe Dintor, a data integration framework for the analysis of genomics and proteomics data. Dintor provides multiple tools for characterizing and annotating genes and their products, as well as methods for investigating gene/protein relationships and candidate prioritization. The underlying datasets used in the analysis can be exchanged by design, allowing more control by the user and better reproducibility of results. Multiple interfaces are provided to fulfill the needs of users with different demands in terms of usability, functionality, and control. Dintor is available as a public web service but can also be installed locally for improved performance and data security under an open-source license.
Dintor will be updated regularly and developed further. In particular, we intend to include additional databases covering pathways and molecular interactions, and we plan to include additional ontologies, like the Mammalian Phenotype Ontology . We also intend to further develop methods for investigating relationships between candidate genes/proteins. Finally, we encourage future collaborative software development based on the open source licensing model.
The authors thank Daniele Di Domizio for support in setting up the Galaxy web server and Johannes Rainer for proposing the gene set enrichment analysis example and for providing further insights on that study. We thank Peter Pramstaller for his general support. The research was funded by the Department of Innovation, Research, Development and Cooperatives of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol.
Additional file 2: Data files for Dintor use-cases one to three.
CXW, HB, AP, EK, YD, and EB implemented software components and unit tests designed by CXW and HB. YD, AP, and CXW performed Galaxy web server integration. CXW and FSD conceived of the software framework. CXW, HB, and FSD wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. | 194170869 |
Le Dernier Appel/The Last Cry was created by the Marrugeku company of Broome and Sydney, a group with a growing history of intercultural performance and collaboration. This was a powerful exploration of colonisation and its aftermath, all embodied in the dancers’ physiques. Their diverse cultural backgrounds and training was a visual delight in this tightly choreographed, strongly technical piece.
One standout performer for his virtuosic command of movement was Krylin Nguyen. His body held the most beautiful sense of flow, twisting and flipping over and around itself and the space seemingly unimpeded by gravity, in various hip-hop-styled sequences.
Co-choreographer Dalisa Pigram, of the famous north-west Australian artist family, was a consistent anchor, alternately quietly present and strongly foregrounded. The intense physical fight between her black and fellow dancer Miranda Wheen’s white woman was hard to watch as it thrashed on and on – a discomfiting and visceral insight into the daily struggles for survival of many colonised people.
The growing intensity of the performance was backgrounded by a signboard hoarding typical of tourist advertisements. This gradually transformed from apparently banal depictions of tropical paradise to increasingly provoking headlines of injustices wrought upon Indigenous peoples over centuries and nations. The dancers’ intensity was highlighted by ever-faster slides of blood-red destruction. Ngaiire, Nick Wales and Bree van Reyk's diverse soundscape provided an evocative sonic backdrop.
Same but Different was entirely different in style, though not in substance. This show was much more personal, sometimes homespun, with each woman sharing an aspect of her life from a different Indigenous country within Australia. The audience tracked the performers through a series of small rooms, each one offering a story-performance-exhibition of one choreographer. Earthy, family themes abounded, such as accounts of time spent camping, fishing and yarning, along with strong evidence of the vital connection to land and country.
Ngioka Bunda-Heath’s solo Blood Quantum, beginning with the dancer's strongly weighted plunging to the earth over and over, was poignant and challenging. Video and voice told the tragedy of children being taken from their mother as Bunda-Heath’s movement gradually intensified to thrashing despair.
The grief-stricken sequence was counterpointed by projected images of her family in both pedestrian and significant activities: three generations swimming in a river, family visits and wedding portraits, in which Aboriginal people were dressed in formal western clothing such as army uniforms. It evoked the sense that Aboriginal people’s life experiences include those that are just like the everyone else’s – and yet so not like everyone else’s, with the ever-present risk of powerlessness in subjection to patriarchal colonisers.
Same but Different closed with four giant portraits of the performers projected on to the walls, a lovely way of honouring and acknowledging their distinct characters and histories.
These two performances offer a welcome perspective of contemporary Australia and our Pacific neighbours; the kind of art we need to be seeing, featuring the diversity and richness of our stories and our people. | 298380897 |
Richard F. Kessler, a resident of the Abramson Residence in North Wales, Pa., passed away Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. He was 90.
Born in Newark, N.J. on June 6, 1922, Mr. Kessler was a longtime resident of Maplewood and South Orange, N.J. He moved to this area in 2008.
Mr. Kessler is survived by his daughter, Jane E. Kessler and her husband, Anthony W. Clark, of Solebury, Pa.; his daughter, Patricia F. Kessler and her husband, David Carta, of Hillsborough, N.J.; his stepdaughter, Marjorie O'Malley and her husband, Charles O'Malley; and his stepson, Michael Glaubach. He is also survived by five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was married twice. His first wife, Natalie Finkelstein, died in 1984. His second wife, Joanne Glaubach, died in 2002.
He attended Cornell University prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army, Fourth Infantry Division. A veteran of three years service in World War II, Mr. Kessler participated in the D-Day landing in France on June 6, 1944, his 22nd birthday. Thereafter, he served as a Staff Sergeant with the Military Intelligence Service in both France and Germany.
Upon return from duty, Mr. Kessler entered Rutgers Law School. He practiced law with the firm Kessler and Kessler in Newark, N.J. from 1948 until 1984. From that time on, he practiced as a sole practioner. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1956.
He was the owner / manager and president of King Solomon Memorial Park, Cresthaven Cemetery Association and West Ridge Lawn Cemetery from 1980 until his death.
A former member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Trust Company of New Jersey, he was a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey and was a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish News. He was the past secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Upper New Jersey chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and a former vice-president and member of the Board of Directors of YM/YWHA of Essex County, N.J. He was active in the Jewish Appeal from 1949 and was one of the founders of the Young Men's Service Group. Mr. Kessler was the first co-recipient of the Julius and Bessie Cohn Leadership Award in 1957.
He loved to play tennis. He also loved Big Band music of the 1940s and played the drums in many bands from college on. He was also an excellent bridge player. During the time he lived at Lakeview in Doylestown, he enjoyed playing bridge at the Central Bucks Senior Citizens Center.
He spent the last two years at Abramson Residence in North Wales. The family is extremely grateful to the extraordinary staff at both Lakeview and Abramson for their care of Mr. Kessler.
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I have my own highlights, among them: producing a series on D.C.’s unemployment divide; asking why the local crime and punishment museum hires black men to wear prison jumpsuits; exploring what’s behind rock bands playing D.C.’s Ethiopian restaurants; and writing about gentrification — a lot. I’m also grateful that I’ve been able to share some personal stories about identity. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my posts at least half as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.
This beat has been challenging, too. Race and class can be loaded, emotionally-charged topics, and they typically come with broad declarations of what’s right and wrong. I’ve learned a lot in my time here, but above all, it’s that things aren’t usually cut and dry. I hope meaningful conversations about these issues continue to happen in D.C., and that they grow in number. Such discussions will be important as we figure out how to navigate all of the changes our city is going through.
And finally, of course, I’d like to thank to you, the readers. I strongly believe in DCentric’s mission: to explore race and class and open up a space for elevated discourse. If I’ve had any success here, it’s in large part to the readers. Thank you for following my work, questioning it, offering insightful comments and contributing to this ongoing conversation, whether in person or over Twitter. I’m moving on, but stay in touch. Seriously!
The foreclosure crisis, lack of accumulated  wealth and the role of a college education in boosting job prospects have all contributed to the decline of the black middle class. Another big factor: cuts to government jobs. Much of the black middle class was built upon public sector jobs, which for decades allowed African Americans to circumvent discrimination in the private sector.
What Republicans call an attack on “big government,” many blacks see as an attack on their livelihoods, given their heavy reliance on the public sector for employment.
D.C. may be considered the best place in the U.S. to find a job, but not everyone is faring well in the current economy. Homelessness is on the rise in the District, according to the results of an annual survey released Wednesday by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
Homelessness has been on the rise since the start of the recession. Large swaths of the city have chronic, high unemployment rates. Affordable housing is disappearing in D.C., with the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment having increased from $735 to $1,100 over the past decade.
“You know, I catch myself crying. I get really depressed . . . it’s been heartbreaking,� Walton said.
Coolidge is a Title 1 school, meaning a high percentage of its students come from low-income homes; 64 percent of the student body qualifies for free or reduced lunches. DeSario said many of her students don’t have access to technology, and that the using the tablets helps them develop good, online research skills.
DeSario has seen increased class participation and better grades from some students after they starting using the tablets. “They’re so much more engaged,” she said.
Senior Lidya Abune said using the tablets has been useful, for both class work and in preparing for college.
That’s not uncommon in the District, which has a clear digital divide. Many people in low-income neighborhoods are not connected to high speed Internet.
Principal Jarrett said many students go to the library to use computers. She’d like to see the tablet program expand, which can pose an interesting alternative to standard computers. For one, they don’t require much space and they can be cheaper than desktops, she noted. The pilot program, which is at eight schools in D.C. and Maryland, is one that Verizon hopes to eventually expand.
The Verizon Wireless program may provide some support in helping these students get into college. But there’s still the matter of how to pay for it. The cost of college has gone up dramatically — it’s tripled over the past three decades — and it’s increasingly becoming out-of-reach for the middle class, too.
Abune said she received help in fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and didn’t know a lot about the college application process. Her family “couldn’t afford it, but I really wanted to try and go to a good college.” She’ll be at Bucknell University in the fall on a full scholarship.
Others have applied to scholarships, but are prepared to take on student loan debt, such as senior Zenayda Berrios. She’ll be attending Bennett College, where tuition, room and board comes to about $24,000. The high cost isn’t deterring her from pursuing a degree in psychology, though.
Principal Jarrett said her approach is to not let the cost of college get in the way of students’ ambitions to attend.
“We encourage them to go for college, and then we’ll worry about paying for it,” she said.
Figuring out how to pay for post-secondary schooling will likely become a big issue in the District; a new D.C. measure requires all high school seniors to take a college entrance exam and apply to a college or trade school in order to graduate from high school.
The overarching story of gentrification in D.C. has been told time and again by local and national news outlets. But international media are increasingly picking up on the story. Last month, official Iranian international news agency PressTV covered demographic changes in D.C. And today, French news agency and wire service Agence France Presse has its own D.C. gentrification story, with much of the narrative focusing on H Street NE.
The achievement gap between white and minority students is due to all sorts of factors, including income disparities. But the way teachers treat students of different races could play a role. Consider this: white teachers give more positive feedback to black and Latino students than they give to white students for the same work, according to a study led by Rutgers University and published in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Over-praising students of color could leave them under-challenged since they don’t feel pressure to achieve beyond low expectations.
“The social implications of these results are important; many minority students might not be getting input from instructors that stimulates intellectual growth and fosters achievement,� notes Harber. “Some education scholars believe that minorities under-perform because they are insufficiently challenged—the ‘bigotry of lowered expectations,’ in popular parlance,� he explains. “The JEP study indicates one important way that this insufficient challenge might occur: in positively biased feedback,� according to Harber.
After weeks of speculation as to whether D.C. Caribbean Carnival will take place because of financial woes, the show will go on. Well, sort of.
The parade that typically marches down Georgia Avenue won’t be in D.C. this year. Organizers announced that the D.C. event will join with Baltimore’s annual Caribbean Carnival/Festival for a parade taking place July 14 at Baltimore’s Lake Clifton Park.
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James Jordan admits that he thinks his wife Ola Jordan will be "stitched up".
Former Strictly Come Dancing pro James Jordan has again hit out at the show, teasing that he plans to watch rival The X Factor this year.
It emerged last month that James will not be back on the next series of the BBC One hit, and he later complained about the corporation's statement on Twitter.
Speaking to Manx TV, James's wife Ola - who will be back - admitted that she is looking forward to returning but suggested it will be "very different" without her husband.
"I'm going to sit at home, crack a beer open with my mates, and watch X Factor," James revealed.
James did acknowledge the positive impact Strictly Come Dancing has had on the world of dance, but he also expressed his concern that the show will be hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman following Sir Bruce Forsyth's departure.
"Brucie, I mean, legend," he said. "What an honour to have worked with him for eight years. It is a shame, you know - it's something different. The BBC, obviously they have these amazing ideas - they don't always necessarily work, but we'll see.
"I think Claudia and Tess individually are fantastic people, I get on with both very, very well. Do I think it's going to work for Strictly? I don't know. I'm a firm believer - ballroom and Latin dancing is a man dancing with a woman, and I thought it was nice to have a man presenting as well, but that's my opinion."
James also warned Ola that she should be wary about her new celebrity partner after she explained that she was pleased to dance with Ashley Taylor Dawson last year.
"I reckon the BBC will stitch you up this year," he said. "I think the BBC will stitch you up - definitely."
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Two part-owners of multiple companies doing business in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana challenged the law, and the Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court decision that the law violates a U.S. Constitution provision governing interstate commerce.
But while the state collected millions from the law change, Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson said Monday that Louisiana only will have to return $23,000 to the taxpayers who filed the lawsuit paid into an escrow account under protest.
“We’re not looking at a run on refunds,” Robinson told House Speaker Taylor Barras, who asked about the court ruling during a meeting of the state’s income forecasting panel.
Ahead of the high court’s decision, Louisiana lawmakers tweaked the tax credit provision earlier this year to attempt to address the lawsuit’s claims that some business owners were subject to illegal double taxation. The changes, which reduced anticipated yearly tax collections, already were built into state income forecasts.
“We’ve got a few fixes that we made in 2018,” Robinson said.
The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, which opposed the efforts to limit the tax break, said the changes made earlier this year didn’t correct all the legal problems identified by the court. Stephen Waguespack, the organization’s president, is urging lawmakers to restore the full credit for taxes paid in other states to the way it looked before 2015.
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Hiya, you poor thing. What an awful time you have been having. I would get their bloods tested for zinc and lead as soon as possible. All symptoms sound like it could be that. Also avian TB can cause weight loss and sudden death. I would suggest you have a post mortem if you loose any others.
My heart goes out to you, I went through something very similar 2 summers ago.
They can pick up zinc from the environment and even their feed. I assume no heavy metals showed up on x-ray? Long term exposure won't show anything on x ray. I have two instances, one was a tiny bit of galvanised metal from the chicken wire and one was a chronic zinc overdose from their feed (which the feed company confirmed for me).
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That’s the view of Ronaldo’s Juventus and Portugal team-mate Joao Cancelo.
Ronaldo joined Juve in the summer just weeks after helping Real Madrid to their third Champions League title in succession.
The Portuguese star has seven goals and five assists in Serie A so far with Juventus six points clear at the top of the table.
Ronaldo missed out on FIFA’s The Best award recently with his former Real Madrid team-mate Luka Modric picking up that gong.
But Cancelo believes there’s no doubt over who should win the Ballon d’Or.
"Every day I train with Cristiano Ronaldo and so far he has won five editions of the Ballon d'Or," Cancelo told Sky Sports Italia.
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It’s No Bull: Bullfighting Comes to Las Vegas!
The bill of faire, though, will be made more palatable, featuring bloodless bullfights.
It has been more than 40 years since bullfights were held in Las Vegas. | 315273467 |
Successful technology PMI is dependent on bringing deep IT capabilities to the table. A Soho team can help clients with their most significant technology challenges in such large scale transformations, by providing support, across the entire IT PMI lifecycle (Due Diligence, Pre-Study, Implementation, Migration Preparation, Go-Live and Stabilization). The team will help you execute the program successfully.
Consultants are technology athletes – they bring a broad range of functional and IT expertise into the project and can support various integration workstreams as needed. These individuals are experienced with business and technical requirements gathering and are also experienced in developing and writing RFP responses as part of the vendor selection process in a PMI environment. They are specialized in running the smart PMO. | 123905516 |
Trek to the top of the highest mountains in each of the 4 nations of the UK – Slieve Donard, Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike.
This is the ULTIMATE mountain challenge in the UK - the 4 highest peaks in the UK, all in the space of a weekend!
We start our challenge early on Friday morning - as we ascend Slieve Donard (850m), the highest peak in Northern Ireland.
Our journey then takes us across the Irish Sea to take on Ben Nevis (1344m) - not only the highest mountain in Scotland but also the whole of the UK.
Still to come are Snowdon (1085m), the highest in Wales and also Scafell Pike (978m) the highest in England.
Each mountain comes with its own unique challenges - for example, although Scafell Pike is not as high as Ben Nevis, there is a much longer approach walk to reach it.
Our friendly and fully qualified staff will be with you all the way.
Positive mental attitude and a high level of fitness for a mountain endurance weekend are pre-requsites.
Option 2 - If you are a Charity Rep or have a group of at least 10 participants we can arrange this challenge on dates that suit you - drop us an email or give us a ring. | 288150996 |
Bathrooms and Toilet facilities are the most expensive part of a renovation per square metre than any other part of a house or commercial premises. This is because all the trades are required to be hired to complete this type of renovation and this can be very costly and difficult to co-ordinate so the project is finished in a timely manner.
Eight top bathroom renovation tips from 33 Years in Bathrooms Determine what will be your must-haves and "lux"-haves. The essentials such as a good-sized bath and extensive storage, need to be accounted for in the budget, while more luxurious items (such as a rainshower), should only be considered when the final costings are completed. | 168378455 |
Ghost Recon 2 is the second edition of this extremely popular game from Ubisoft which was the winner of many awards from across the gaming world. The game itself is flawless in every way from its innovative graphics to its extremely high detailed plot which is very challenging to say the least. I love this game so much and it just keeps me coming back for more again and again.
We have also compiled a Review System for this, of which Ghost Recon 2 is Rated as Five Stars, the highest possible score available from the Game Review Team. | 289531908 |
We offer brewery tours at 2, 3, and 4pm every day starting Friday, May 24, 2019. Each tour is followed by a guided tasting.
Our gift shop and tasting room is open from 10am through 5pm starting May 3rd.
Tours are capped at 25 people and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so If you’d like to join us for a tour come collect a ticket to hold your spot in the tasting room! Tickets are distributed one hour before tour time. We suggest early arrival on days with inclement weather, when we tend to be busy! | 352861705 |
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IBD Via is a learning tool designed to help medical professionals to practice decision making and patient prognostication when managing IBD. Patient cases are based on real patients, real clinical situations and outcomes, and are presented for educational purposes only. Real patient identities have been altered. No real patient identifiers are disclosed. This educational programme has been developed with the support of AbbVie by StratX. | 309902635 |
Suffering is optional, it doesn’t feel that way and it’s a tough thing to wrap our heads around for sure, but optional none the less. According to yogis the reason that we suffer in life is the Kleshas. The five main kleshas are described below. They all have their root in seeing things not as they are, but as we perceive them to be. When we get lost in thinking that a situation will go on forever, or we actually hang onto a situation for longer than it has actually taken to occur. Not to say that when events happen we immediately let them go – that wouldn’t be healthy either as we need to process those events taking place that cause pain. But do we allow the pain to take a deep hold on us? To affect our every day? From a coaching perspective, looking at the events, truly feeling them and observing how they can be incorporated into our lives as experiences rather than as pain would be the objective to ensure that these situations don’t own us; don’t effect our day to day business of truly living.
Read about the kleshas and drop me a line: I’d love to know your thoughts!
Avidya: This is ignorance, although not in the conventional sense. The inability to see things as they really are is at the heart of this klesha, and is actually the root of the other four as well. When we believe that what is actually temporary will last forever we are affected by this klesha.
Asmita: Identification with ego, or rather an over-identification. We all identify with our egos to some extent. When that identification affects our ability to connect to our higher selves, though, we are affected by asmita. This influences how we see ourselves; we begin to believe that we are our jobs and our roles in life rather than recognizing that these are simply things we are doing. We are blessed beings in human form. As Deepak Chopra says, we are not so much human beings as we are being human.
Raga: Attachments are the cause of this form of suffering. When we are attached to the things that provide pleasure, we suffer when we cannot have those things. When we simply experience pleasure in the moment and let it go freely and willingly when the experience has ended we are able to maintain our equilibrium. We experience pleasure but core happiness is unaffected by giving it up.
Dvesha: This is the opposite of raga. It is the aversion to those things that are unpleasant. When we seek to avoid unpleasant experiences or are repulsed by them we are not able to fully live in the present moment; we allow fear and anxiety to affect our mental state. When something unpleasant is occurring we deal with it, but we do not live in the state of waiting for such experiences.
Abhinivesha: Fear of death is the final of the five kleshas. For some this fear is so strong that they do not really live; they are unable to fully enjoy the experiences of life because you are concerned with it ending. We will all die, that is a fact. And while we need to be aware that this life is temporary the focus does not need to be on its end. It is cliché perhaps, but we need to focus on the journey not the destination.
As we go through our lives we can work with the kleshas. Through meditation and mindfulness we become more aware that they are there and can look at how we are affected by each. We can work with our fears, attachments, and aversions and continually open our minds to new possibilities so we become less ignorant. Bit by bit the kleshas can diminish. They are part of our human experience, I don’t know that they can disappear completely; we must remember to practice compassion with ourselves and not judge our suffering as good or bad, but simply experience it. | 106015775 |
Constructed in sumptuously soft fleece, this cosy throw is perfect for snuggles on the sofa. Design features include a white base finished with a striking yellow and grey geo pattern. Part of our Native Earth trend. Dimensions: 150cm x 130cm. | 253843672 |
Student accommodation help for Pakistani students who want to study in the UK.
SI-UK provides UK accommodation for Pakistani students seeking safe, convenient, and high quality housing in London and throughout the UK.
If you need assistance on where to live while studying in the UK, arrange a free consultation today. | 236979366 |
Every year we see new breakthroughs in medical science that allow us to treat, and sometimes even cure, diseases that were previously untreatable. In the case of rare diseases, one of the biggest challenges for physicians is making the correct diagnosis – currently it takes 5-6 years, visits to many specialists, and sometimes up to hundreds of tests before a patient gets the correct diagnosis, and thus the right treatment. During this long and tortured journey, rare disease patients and their families undergo potentially avoidable pain, suffering, and expense.
Prognos, a leader in using AI to manage healthcare data, has leveraged our extensive proprietary patient registry of over 200 million patients (and growing!) to work with companies who provide rare disease treatment options for over 6 years. Now, armed with this experience, Prognos is building a platform that leverages our registry along with our clinical expertise in rare disease and AI to help healthcare organizations, providers, payers, and other stakeholders identify patients at high risk for certain rare diseases earlier in their journey, allowing them to get the correct diagnosis and start treatment earlier.
Of course, we can’t do this alone. As Prognos builds our rare disease capabilities we are also building partnerships with the many stakeholders across the rare disease ecosystem, including health systems, children’s hospitals (because about half of rare disease patients are children), rare disease labs, pharmaceutical companies, patient advocacy groups, and government organizations.
So, how exactly are we doing this? Our AI-derived profiles look for combinations of signals (clinical, lab results, drug treatments, etc.) that identify patients at high-risk for a given rare disease. We currently support a handful of rare diseases, and are actively expanding to a broad range of conditions within the next few months. | 108706035 |
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To login to the PayPlus Client Area, you will need your username and password provided. This area includes downloads of updates, FAQs, Technical Documents, and access to your support tickets. Use the form above to login or Contact PayPlus Support to reset your password.
We host an annual PayPlus User Conference that covers a variety of topics. We have vendors come to talk about their interfaces to PayPlus, mini-training sessions on PayPlus topics and we also have clients do presentations on topics pertaining to their (and your) business. The PayPlus User Conference is packed with information and you meet other PayPlus users that you can stay in contact with throughout the whole year. Stay tuned for more information!
We offer customized training to all clients. Our trainer will come on-site and train your users. This could be new employees or existing employees that need some brush up. We also offer smaller training sessions via GoTo Meeting which are one to two hour Internet training sessions. Contact Us for more information. If you or your staff need other training or want to cover additional topics, let us know.
PayPlus has a list of vendors that it works with for PayPlus compatibility. There are discounts from these vendors for being a PayPlus user and purchasing from them. In other cases, they have interfaces setup that work seamlessly with PayPlus functions. Click Here for their information. | 192098009 |
Is there a specific order for taking my doors off my Cuda?
Do I take the hindges off of the car or take the door off the hindges?
Fenders first to make it easy, after that it does not really matter what side you do first.
Thanks Barry, got em off. | 40862453 |
Our specialist Planning team helps land and property owners achieve their strategic goals, whether it be obtaining planning permission for a new development or assessing the impact of major infrastructure schemes on their land and interests.
Working alongside builders, developers and local authorities we take a commercial and practical approach to what can sometimes be a lengthy and complex area of law. In conjunction with our Commercial Property team, we provide a complete and comprehensive service, tailored to suit individual needs.
If you would like to find out more, speak to Shruti Trivedi 01775 842810. | 132963932 |
When it's rainy outside, and my three-year-old is stir crazy, The Elmo Slide is our answer. The catchy little dance is easy for preschoolers to follow — and Mason will spend hours watchig this video and singing and dancing to it. Check it out — and let us know what you think!
What's your rainy day trick for entertaining your kids? | 348981749 |
1. a person or entity invests at least $500,000 into the offer, or 2. A person has obtained a qualified accountant’s certificate not more than 6 months old that a.) has net assets of at least $2.5 million, or b.) has a gross income for each of the last two financial years of at least $250,000, or 3. An entity that is controlled by a person that meets the requirements of (a) or (b) above. | 52190158 |
Winemaker's note: 777 is from one of the new and more popular series of clones appearing in the United States since 1987. Its origins stem from the Domaine Ponsot in Morey-St-Denis, Burgundy, France. Winemakers prize [this clone] for its impressive concentrations, great intensity, and depth of black fruit flavor (John Haeger, North American Pinot Noir). Because of the resurgence and attention put towards this newer clonal material, almost every new pinot noir vineyard in California and Oregon will have some plantings of this popular clone. Melville, for instance, has over eleven acres committed to it. It is known as an early ripening clone with small clusters and a tight berry configuration. It also offers dark red colors and tastes rich, velvety and nuanced. It produces a very complete wine on its own and thus is often bottled individually as a stand-alone wine. Consistent with those qualities mentioned above but with the added complexity of intense pure red tropical and blue fruits with a very silky, velvety texture. Lends itself well for stem-inclusion during fermentation where we generally use about one-third to half as whole clusters. | 99622906 |
Posted: 2011.12.03(Sat)5:02 Post subject: Identify my fish...please!
My name's Jamie, and I just got a new tank. After waiting a week, I just got some new fish today.
But here's the problem: I'm a British expatriate living in Japan, and I couldn't tell what variety of fish I bought! I chose according to colour and whether or not I found the fish aesthetically pleasing.
So please help me identify my fish! I think some of them are neon tetra, but I'd love to know what the black ones are.
In the first photo, the red-nosed fish are rummynose tetras. The fish in the second photo are black mollies, they are livebearers. They are common fish and you can find their information on this site and other popular fishkeeping sites.
You have rummy nosed tetras and cardinal tetras and black mollies.
You say you waited a week?
If so most of these fish will probably die as the tank is not ready for sensitive fish. Please read the articles << about cycling.
Do you know anyone with a healthy , mature fish tank? If so beg some of their filter media or the gunge out of their filter to seed your filter with the bacteria that break down the fish's wastes.
Otherwise change 50% of the water every day adding dechlorinator to the new water and matching the tank temperature.
You are not the first to make this mistake. How big is the tank?
I am sorry to tell you but the tetras are likely to die.
What fish is your best one?
If you want to keep the tetras(cardinal or rummy nose) you need soft water, if you don't they die in a few months.
If you want to keep the mollys the need a little salt in the water(1 tea spoon per 10 liters) and you need harder water.
And pleas give your tank size.
Just for the record (I know this topic is a little bit old, but I didn't want the misinformation sitting around): The hardness of the water is not a big issue for most fish unless you intend to breed them. Certain fish are more sensitive than others (discus being a prime example), but in this case, the water hardness is not liable to cause any problems. I've kept the same set of rummy-noses in my extremely hard tap water (pH 8.3) for seven years now with no health issues. | 262359294 |
Patients with active, progressive and advanced disease are eligible for hospice services. This includes patients with both malignant disease and non-malignant diseases for example, cancer, heart disease, lung disease and neurological diseases.
Hospice services include Day Services, Out-Patients, St Gemma’s community team and In-Patient care.
If your referral is urgent, we would advise that you also ring the team on 0113 2185540 to ensure we can the gain sufficient information to offer a timely response.
Patients at home are assessed by the St Gemma’s community team. Patients in hospital who wish to be referred to the In-Patient Unit need to be assessed by the Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team who then forward a referral.
Referrals are considered at a meeting held each weekday morning. Urgent referrals (i.e. requests for admission that day) for patients in their own homes are considered on an individual basis based on a variety of factors including patient needs and availability of beds.
Within St Gemma’s In-Patient Unit, we have 5 nurse-led, end of life care beds. The beds offer the choice to patients whose wish is to die in a hospice and who do not have complex symptoms or specialist palliative care needs, but who require nursing care from highly-trained nurses and healthcare assistants.
Referrals are responded to within 2 working days. However, if you consider a patient needs a more urgent assessment, please contact the team directly on 0113 218 5540. The St Gemma’s community team service runs 7 days a week, 8.30am to 5pm.
Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm please call 0113 218 5540.
At other times please call the Nurse in Charge on 0113 218 5511. | 149987579 |
"We have multi-industry focused competitions that will reward startups with different kind of study exchange trips, cash, and in-kind awards," Techne Summit's Founder Tarek El-Kady tells Startup Scene.
The annual Techne Summit is back with good news for startups and entrepreneurs involved with health tech, architecture, and real estate. Taking place at Alexandria's timeless Bibliotheca Alexandrina between September 29th and 30th. "What's different this year is that we have added a couple of new tracks, which are the Health-Tech track and the Architecture and Real-Estate track," Techne Summit's Founder Tarek El-Kady tells Startup Scene.
Techne Summit 2018 will be held under the auspicious of both ministries of Communication and Information Technology, Investment and International Cooperation and The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Other tracks include Marketing and Media Technology, FinTech, and Investment Track which is only exclusive to investors. There's also the E-commerce Track and Startup Academy Track which tackles the business side of the startups and includes workshops and one-on-one mentoring. Startup Academy would focus on startups' needs and would help them understand about setting up their businesses, raising funds, understanding markets and consumers.
Alex Angels, which is also founded by El-Kady, will launch their Q3 2018 Pitch Event within the Investment Track. Startups will get a chance to pitch for investment form Alex Angels Investors, other Solo Investors and networks from the MENA, Mediterranean and GCC regions. "We have more partners onboard, more startups who have signed up, and there's a significant participation from the Mediterranean region," El-Kady adds. "The competitions line-up is also very exciting, we have multi-industry focused competitions that will reward startups with different kind of study exchange trips, cash and in-kind awards." | 338766494 |
Cut shortening into flour, add salt and water as needed to form a ball of dough. Separate into three pieces. Roll out each piece to fit three 4-inch pie pans.
In a small sauce pan add sugar, syrup and butter. Add corn starch slurry, bring all ingredients to a boil and take off heat. In a medium bowl, whisk egg. Stir in warm sugar mixture to whisked egg. Stir in vanilla and pinch of salt. Separate toasted piñons into pie shells and cover equally with sugar mixture. Apply egg wash to crust.
Bake for 20-25 minutes at 325 degrees.
Corn stock- Depending on how strong of a corn flavor you want (video shows a light corn stock that was boiled for 20 minutes), add 2 cups water to a pot and bring corn cobs to a boil (add more water, another corn cob and longer boiling time if you want a stronger corn flavor). Reduce uptill you have 1 1/4 cups stock.
Pudding- Bring corn stock and coconut milk to a simmer, add amaranth and amaranth flour. Simmer for 15 minutes. Add pinch of salt, lime juice and maple syrup before cooling down and serving.
Bring wild rice and water/broth to a boil. Lower temperature and simmer for 30-40 minutes, until liquid has evaporated. Steam or soak cranberries in hot water to re-hydrate for about 5 minutes. Toast pine nuts. Rice is done when grains have bloomed or curled. Add all ingredients with optional butter and mix. | 10800176 |
Cheers Richard. Some of our regulars are Queens Head (Horsham), Prince Albert (Copthorne- can be a bit iffy though) John Harvey Tavern (Lewes- very small though) Shelley Arms (Broadbridge Heath- near Horsham) and Tanners Arms (Horsham) though the latter is unusual in that the Landlady encourages original material and full credit to her for that as she got my songwriting out of retirement bless her.
most I've been paid is 950euros, but usually I only get my expenses covered and a pint. Often, I just play for free if it looks like being a cool party and I know it will be well organised.
If you can pull a crowd, putting on your own gigs and selling tickets is the best way to go.
We did one last year at the Forum in Aberdeen.
Bit more stressful, but worth it.
It's all about the Thrash!
average pub gig in the midlands 200 - 350 for a standard pub gig 25-30 tunes for a 4-5 piece band. Stingiest pubs will give less than 200.
I really need to get something sorted again.
Is that a real band? Sounds cool.
yeah they're a localish band that were looking for members a while back.
I would not approve of their tunes. But I thoroughly approve of their name. One day I'll find something else the calibre of Gallus Cooper.
One day I'll find something else the calibre of Gallus Cooper.
Is it? I was sure it was E and A. I've spent five or so years avoiding it, though.
I don't think I'm technically good enough to play in a covers band.. I play my stuff alright though, but even that could do with a brush up.
What I'm saying: its not an easy job being in a covers band. | 342616460 |
James Lee is CEO of New Zealand investment and advisory group FNZC which has announced it will change its name to Jarden in the middle of the year.
Against a backdrop of global volatility and geopolitical uncertainty, and a couple of significant New Zealand specific issues, it’s shaping up to be an interesting year in our capital markets.
There are plenty of big topics to dominate the headlines. These include micro issues like whether the listed equity markets will give up recent gains, or macro issues like what the foreign exchange and interest markets will do around Brexit, China’s slow down or looming trade wars.
Looking at the state of New Zealand’s capital markets, we’re seeing a couple of significant issues emerging which, considering their combined potential impact, need real focus and analysis to quantify the impact on our economy.
Discussions currently underway on the merits of the proposals from Sir Michael Cullen’s Tax Working Group and the changes at the Reserve Bank proposed by Governor Adrian Orr, have potential to impact both the short and long term market environments in New Zealand.
These are structural issues that change capital formation – not just cyclical ones that impact short-term profits.
Both proposals have their origins in an economy where for some time the housing market was going up and up. But given house prices are cyclical – and the latest cycle in New Zealand of them rising appears to have faded – these proposals need to be carefully re-considered in this new market environment.
Likewise, the timing of implementing not just one, but two such significant proposals – against what is markedly different economic backdrop to when they were initially considered – should be enough to give pause.
Does the inherent problem we were originally trying to fix still remain once these two proposals take effect? What are the anticipated or unanticipated structural consequences of the proposals, particularly in terms of capital formation in New Zealand?
We think the potential impact to the economy from each proposal may lead to a fundamental change in capital formation, structurally changing the cost of sourcing debt and equity.
Capital formation is how an economy uses equity and debt in conjunction with ideas and people to grow. In turn this determines tax revenue, the availability of new jobs, funding of new ideas, and replacement of our infrastructure. It’s a critical agenda item for a nation to get right.
An entrepreneur borrowing against their house to start a business, a developer borrowing to subdivide, a company issuing new shares to fund an acquisition or a government issuing infrastructure bonds to fund a new light rail network – these are all examples of capital formation in action.
When capital markets are efficient and working well, they connect users and suppliers effectively, lowering the cost of borrowing, and lowering the cost of sourcing equity.
Getting the combined cost of debt and equity as low as reasonably possible, is ultimately the core purpose of a capital market. That combined cost is called a company’s cost of capital because the less expensive it is to raise money, the easier it is for a company to invest, take risk, build factories, make acquisitions and grow.
The Reserve Bank’s announcement that it would like to create a safer banking system is noble. But before we seek to make changes the question must be asked – how unsafe is our current system?
By changing the capital requirements and other rules, as the Reserve Bank is proposing, banks will need to accept lower returns and less growth. Invariably this has two impacts: the cost of borrowing goes up while the availability of funding declines.
This affects every person and business who uses capital because the suppliers of debt capital will have less to provide and it will be more expensive. This directly increases the cost of capital across the New Zealand economy, lowers the investment, and ultimately reduces capital formation.
Given the rapidly changing housing market in Australia and the change beginning to be seen in ours, we need to seriously ask ourselves, are these outcomes the anticipated effects of the Reserve Bank’s proposal? Particularly in what could be a tough decade ahead, are we creating unnecessary pain for the economy by trying to do what we thought was the right thing in a previous cycle?
Perhaps the right thing to do now, instead of pushing ahead, is to retest the assumptions that led to the proposal in the first place.
If this kind of structural change proposed by the Reserve Bank was to happen in isolation, we would likely see people gradually shifting from debt to equity for funding.
But at the same time, on that side of the market, the Tax Working Group’s suggestions are set to have a direct impact on the suppliers of equity capital.
By taxing small business owners, KiwiSaver providers, farmers and start-up investors on capital gains, it will lower the availability of capital and increase the return requirements of investor. This directly increases the cost of equity capital – at exactly the same time the cost of debt capital is increasing.
For a business today, the combined impact of these two changes are that debt will be harder and more expensive to source domestically, and equity capital is going to get more expensive domestically. Invariably this lowers capital formation and the cost of capital, which lowers growth within our country.
If the ultimate goal in our economic system is safety and fairness, we need to ask, on a global basis, how unsafe is our capital market, and we need to think seriously how these two proposals will impact the economy.
We believe strongly our country should be a fair and financially secure place to do business to help provide for this and future generations of New Zealanders. We would argue the best way to do that, is to grow the economy towards a common vision with clear rules of engagement. After all – no one has ever shrunk their way to greatness.
Looking at face value today, we believe the combined impact of these proposals has the potential to reduce capital formation at the exact time we are seeing the market they are aimed at impacting, already slowing. | 354608312 |
Tettsittende boksere, laget med Stances Wholester-teknologi. Posen er laget med et enkelt stoffstykke med ribbestrikket mikrofiber som gir god sttte uten at 3 Nordic utstillinger-Doverodde Book Arts Centre, Danmark 2014. Cley14-Cley. London Artists Book Fair-represented by Kaleid Editions, London. 2010 Offprint Paris, Paris 2015, Archipelago, Photobook Exhibition, London 2015, London Art Book. Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2015, On Landscape 2 Vr pris 95-. Winner of the Costa Childrens Book Award Winner of the London Book Fair Childrens Travel Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Independent 24. Mai 2018. Under den internasjonale bokmessen London Book Fair mttes forleggere fra hele verden for snakke markeder, bestselgere, for utveksle With no single title emerging as the big book of the fair, we offer a rundown of some of the novels, and big nonfiction titles, people were talking about in London London Book Fair in April 2014. Africa39 will be published in English throughout the world by Bloomsbury. Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club Norway has been exporting its authors to the London Book Fair for 19 years and counting. In that time, Norwegian literature in English has exploded, sparked by Jonathan Bing, London Book Fair: right place, right time: Europes No. 2 after Frankfurt is growing as a mecca for booksellers, rights dealers, Publishers Weekly Statsminister Erna Solberg pner antidopingkonferanse i Oslo 25. Juni arrangeres Clean Sport Fair Outcome-konferansen p Grand Hotel i Oslo 9. Apr 2018. Italia og Frankrike har fulgt p de siste dagene, og boken er n p hotlistene til en rekke litterre scouter i forkant av London Book Fair denne Lydbok p MP3-CD Hovedkategori virkade mobil fodral. Nord same bunad Underkategori stativer til kneby. How a scandinavian looks like during summer 20. Jan 2009. Brd Nss og Merci Abrahamsen ser med spenning fram mot London Book Fair der den endelige dommen faller. Foto: Arkiv. Av Trond London. Fly hotell Fra 2599-Budapest. Fly hotell Fra 2799-Roma. Fly hotell Fra. 2899-Norwegian Reward. Slik fr de drmmeferien 23. Okt 2014. Barnebokmessen i Bologna, Bokmessen i Gteborg og The London Book Fair Bokmessens historie. Trykkekunstens tid. Bokmessebyen i . | 175983662 |
Invite customers inside your business with Google Street View. Kassady is a Google Trusted Photographer will help take your online presence to the next level. Shoots are worked around your schedule and results are live on Google in just a few weeks. Your virtual tour will be displayed on Google Search and Google Maps, plus, they can be embedded in social media or websites.
With Google Street View, let customers walk around, explore, and interact with your business like never before. Customers will be able to experience your business - just like being there!
On average, 41% of these place searches result in an on-site visit.
What do you get with your tour?
You'll get a fully interactive virtual tour using Street View technology.
Each shoot package come with 10-15 additional photos that you can use to enhance your Google My Business listing.
Support establishing your Google My Business listing with our Google Trusted Verifier.
Take a tour of some of our favorite tours!
Learn more about Google Street View tours and how they can help your business. | 100232819 |
Hey, isn’t there a song along those lines?
In just 3 sleeps, I head out for my big adventure. An adventure that I have been pondering, planning, preparing and training for – for a very long long time.
Wednesday early afternoon, I begin a four flight trek, and overnight stay in Spain, then a bus ride to Sarria – to begin this life altering, self discovery, planning my future, praying for my loved ones, and working on ‘myself’, on how to be less of an introvert. Be more decisive, and to become more independent.
There are so many things rattling around in my head at this moment.
Am I physically ready for this challenge?
Can I walk up to 15 miles a day?
Will I be safe alone?
Will this be everything I have been imagining it to be?
Will I be strong enough to complete this?
To prove that I CAN do this?
Will this help me to be more confident and direct?
There is so much more that I want in my life, and I am not talking about ‘things or ‘stuff”.
My hope is that this experience will help define that for me. To help rid me of my ‘stuff’ and ‘burdens’.
Then again, this may turn out to be completely different than what I expect.
For today, I am ready to go, armed with many questions and prayers. | 157237206 |
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Our debt to those who made the ultimate sacrifice can never be repaid. These heroes will not be forgotten, and America is forever grateful for their service.
Today, it does matter what your race, gender, sexuality, religion or political beliefs are, every American who enjoys their freedoms should respect our military.
Patriotism is love and admiration for one’s country and healthy and constructive criticism of government. You can hate the government and still love your country, the two are separable.
Make no mistake, America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. The reason for our exceptionalism is because of those who fought to preserve it.
On this Memorial Day, we also remember that freedom is not free. The land of the free and the home of the brave is only free because of the brave.
Whether on the beaches of Normandy, the jungles in Vietnam, or any conflict the United States has come across, those who answered their calling and dawned the uniform fought for not only a better America, but for a better world.
If you are an American, you have an obligation to thank those who have made sacrifices for the freedoms we all enjoy. You also have the freedom to ignore that obligation, but with freedom comes responsibility in a democratic republic.
Whether you’re just relaxing on this holiday or you’re out having a good time, take a moment to realize how blessed you are to live in this country, and maybe even say a prayer for those who are no longer with us due to their service.
And for the men and women who passed away in the line of duty, we honor and salute you. We will never forget you.
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Eight years ago, Redskin quarterback Doug Williams came within nine points of being the first black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl.
It was only his second season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the week before, he had led them past the Philadelphia Eagles by seven points.
Then, in the NFC championship game against the Rams on Jan. 6, l980, at Tampa, Williams completed just 2 of 13 passes for 12 yards before leaving the game midway through the third period with a torn biceps muscle.
"Sure," Williams said last week when asked if he had learned anything from the loss. "I learned you can't win it by yourself. You've got to have people around you to try and help you win it."
In other words, you admit you tried to win that game all by yourself?
"I had no other choice," Williams said.
In other words, Tampa Bay was that bad.
For the record, Williams' replacement, former USC quarterback Mike Rae, also completed 2 of 13 passes.
The worst part about playing for the Buccaneers in those days, according to Williams, was "getting hit every play." The play that knocked him out of the game was a collision with Ram defensive lineman Mike Fanning's helmet.
The next-worst thing was the departure of offensive coordinator Joe Gibbs. Gibbs left after Williams' rookie year to help run Don Coryell's Charger offense.
"If coach Gibbs hadn't left, I think I would have played in a Super Bowl for the Buccaneers," Williams said.
But Williams balks at the suggestion that the only reason he's in the Super Bowl now is because he has been reunited with Gibbs.
"People say, 'Doug, you're different now. You sit in the pocket,' " he said. "They say, 'You throw short. You didn't do that at Tampa Bay.' I didn't have a choice at Tampa Bay. I was always on the run there.
"Look, I can play anybody's system. The system there was: Pitch left, pitch right, on third down throw long."
NFL quarterbacks and third-and-long get along about as well as Dan Rather and George Bush.
The Ram team that beat the Buccaneers that day had had troubles of its own in the 1979 season. There was the death of owner Carroll Rosenbloom, constant front office tension and an injury to regular QB Pat Haden.
Haden's replacement, Vince Ferragamo, completed 12 of 23 passes for 163 yards, however, and Tampa Bay's offense didn't cross the Ram 50-yard line until the fourth quarter. It needed an option pass from halfback Jerry Eckwood to get that far.
The Rams managed just nine points on three field goals by Frank Corral, even though they got inside the Tampa 10 three times.
"It's justice," said Los Angeles running back Wendell Tyler after the game. "We've been here so much, something right had to happen."
Four of the previous five years had ended for the Rams in the NFC championship game.
"They were just that much stronger than us," Tampa coach John McKay said. "But I don't think Doug Williams is the reason we lost this game. Someone has to block someone. I thought he did a pretty good job of not getting sacked."
He has survived. And now they are canonizing Williams in the nation's capital.
Wrote Courtland Milloy, a black columnist for the Washington Post: "So many people would have given up after such a frustrating ordeal, copped a bad attitude and when opportunity knocked just blown it. Instead, Williams grabbed the bull by the horns, as they say, and rode that sucker to victory." | 31056838 |
Review: Crash Course In Media Literacy, Faith Rogow Ph.D.
Forced by its format to distill a subject area’s central tenets into just a few sessions, a “crash course” should be an excellent place to uncover the essential elements of a topic or field. Viewed through that lens, Complexly’s YouTube offering, “Crash Course in Media Literacy,” provides an illuminating, if sometimes confounding opportunity for reflection.
Media texts are exponentially displayed in physical and virtual public spaces and their impact on humanity is unimaginable. Teachers of all fields face the challenge and the responsibility to educate sensitive humans able to critically consume or produce media messages. English language teachers are no exception. In this paper, the author describes a qualitative research study exploring how a group of Colombian pre-service English teachers developed critical awareness of media as they deconstructed advertisements displayed in the public spaces of their rather rural communities. Findings, conclusions, implications for teacher education, and new questions for further research are presented.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between digital games and temporality based on the relationship between the technological elements that establish the relationship between player and game. From an arbitrarily established chronology, it is proposed to associate three generations of digital games, each with its respective way of dealing with the value produced by the player, namely: expenditure (arcade), investment (console and PC) and capturemobile games). For this, the analysis of the mobile version of the SimCity franchise is made, comparing some of its features with its PC version.
This study proposed a definition of perceived crisis severity and created a valid and reliable scale to measure the construct following Churchill’s scale development procedure. The proposed scale, after rigorous pilot testing and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, contains 3 factors with 12 items. This study discusses potential applications of the developed measures and provides future research directions.
Open source projects often consist of mostly white, male, and English-speaking software developers. For the past decade, women and people from minority backgrounds have sought to bring more diversity to open source projects and make them more inclusive. This presentation summarizes research findings of how projects signal diversity and inclusion to attract these people. A key finding is that signals for diversity and inclusion are wanted, but projects struggle to put them into practice. The presentation discusses implications for signaling theory and open source projects.
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This Basic Course Forum highlights authors’ responses to the following topics: What curricular programs present the best opportunity for curricular connections to the basic course? Building upon conversations from the July 2018 Basic Course Institute (hosted by University of Dayton), what administrative successes and challenges do basic course directors face? | 307088691 |
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The answer has to do with the security and protection that these places offer, and regardless of if they’re truly safe or not, it’s about how they make your cat feel. Science of Us explains how the borders of a box or corner under the couch make your cat feel comfortable, unlike sitting out in the open. When they wedge themselves into these spaces, they can relax and have an easier time keeping an eye on the limited points an attack might come from.
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Responding to a hissy fit ginned up by a random Weekly Standard writer, and carried along by Fox News, Democrats just changed their platform a day after they adopted it, adding language saying that “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel,” and adding a reference to God.
Both parts were in the 2008 platform, but were removed this year. Sources indicate that most of the stakeholders who saw copies of the platform prior to the unveiling had no problem with the language previously. But Daniel Halper, a writer for the Weekly Standard, compared the language between 2008 and 2012, and wrote that Democrats “removed pro-Israel language” from the platform. Evening broadcasts on Fox News included graphics saying “No Jerusalem in Dem platform.” (Incidentally, this is a BS issue.) In addition, conservatives tried to stir a similar kerfuffle over the omission of a reference to Americans’ “God-given talents.” Mitt Romney pounced on this as well.
The Republican noise machine, then, successfully changed the Democratic platform document, a day after the fact. For context, there were lots and lots of liberals who spoke out about deficiencies in the platform, on housing, on civil liberties, on all kinds of subjects. None of them merited a change. But when one Weekly Standard writer and a group of trolls carp, Democrats leap to attention. Never mind that this kind of tactic never once leads to conservatives somehow letting up on their criticism. The olive branches never lead to anything positive.
What we saw last night is how Democrats often talk and campaign. What you saw today with the platform is how they govern.
UPDATE: Clearly AIPAC rules the Democratic Party and has for some time; they play a role here. But I find it impossible to believe that they never saw the platform before yesterday: how this works usually is that stakeholders clear the language. Also, the addition of the “God” reference as a last-minute platform change, just an offhand reference to “God-given talents,” suggests that AIPAC (who clearly wouldn’t care about that) wasn’t driving the boat on this.
Changes between the 2008 Democratic Party platform’s language on Israel and the 2012 version were due to a deliberate effort to refocus the platform toward President Barack Obama’s policies, two officials directly involved in its drafting process told The Cable.
Leading pro-Israel groups such as AIPAC were heavily involved in the platform-drafting process, saw final language of the draft platform, and told platform drafters they were satisfied with it, both officials said.
AIPAC denied this, but only after the omission of the Jerusalem language became controversial.
…Obama personally intervened to get the platform changed, by the way, according to multiple sources. | 285338056 |
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Just think about what it would be like if you had no voice at all?
Consider: In a 1974 US Senate election in New Hampshire, Republican Louis Wyman beat Democrat John Durkin by just two votes. Four years ago, in 2008, Democrat Al Franken beat Republican Norm Coleman in a Senate race in Minnesota by only 312 votes. And who can forget the presidential race of 2000, when a scant 537 votes in Florida put the country on a knife-edge for weeks? | 331559378 |
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On the 19th of May, the Republic of Cyprus successfully completed its six-month term at the helm of the Committee of Foreign Ministers of the Council of Europe.
Foreign Ministers, Deputy Foreign Ministers and Permanent Representatives from the rest 46 member states plus observers from the USA, Canada, The Holy See, Mexico, Japan and Israel flocked to the Cypriot capital to pay their respect to the island republic and hand over the chairmanship of the Committee to the Czechs.
The mission of the Council of Europe is to promote the shared values of peace, tolerance, fight against racism, prevention of torture, protection of minorities; in other words democracy, social and cultural development across the board of its membership.
The day could not be more symbolic: 19th of May is the day of remembrance of the Ottoman and Young Turks’ Genocide of Pontian Greeks. The Council of Europe Foreign Ministers’ concluding meeting in Lefkosia (Nicosia) passes the message that the Republic of Cyprus has never become extinct as those in power in Ankara have propagated time and again in their self-important effort to impose their suzerainty on the Greek Cypriot majority islanders. The Greek Cypriots, constituting 80 per cent of the island’s population with the longest historical presence – 3,000 years – of all ethnic groups on island will never compromise with the Turkish military occupation of the northern third of their country. They will not accept a cover up presence of Turkish troops under the shameful guise of protection of the Turkish Cypriot minority.
If there is an entity on the brink of extinction on the island this is not the Republic of Cyprus whose leaders fully recognize the need to restructure it – this should be the aim of the Cyprus talks – but it is the Turkish minority whose demographic character is grossly adulterated by the implant of tens of thousands of settlers from Anatolia and utterly diluted by the overwhelming presence of 40,000 Turkish troops. Taking into account the flee of thousands of indigenous TCs to democratic states, including the Republic of Cyprus since virtually all of them enjoy the benefits of Cypriot citizenship, then we can easily deduce that in the Turkish military occupation zone the autochthonous Turkish Cypriots constitute a sad minority!
To be sure, the Turkish government has a lot to answer on a long list a number of counts central to the ideal and mission of the Council of Europe. Ankara is answerable for the near extinction of the TC minority in Cyprus which is forced to live under military rule for the past 43 years. Those who propagate the myth that the Turkish Forces occupying Northern Cyprus protect the TCs should answer a set of questions: i) Who has the last word in that part of the island ii) Are the TCs happy with the Turkish military having the upper hand on all vital policy issues? iii) Why is the number of autochthonous TCs dwindling over the long years of occupation while the number of troops remain constant and the number of settlers and grandiose mosques built to serve the latter mushroom?
Not to speak about the treatment of minorities – Christian (Armenian & Greek Orthodox) and Muslim (Alevi & Kurdish) in Turkey itself. Not to speak of the incarceration of thousands of journalists and the persecution of voices of dissent and the widespread use of torture by the Turkish police.
Asked if Turkey could be expelled from the CoE, Kasoulides, the Cypriot FM, noted that the CoE Parliamentary Assembly has looked into this issue and has brought back the monitoring status. He added that an independent domestic means of legal redress has been determined, under CoE monitoring, to which each Turkish citizen can apply before lodging a complain to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In the true interests of every Turkish citizen, irrespective of creed or ethnic origin, let us ask Mr. Kasoulides: has the domestic means of legal remedy, the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) established by Ankara in its puppet administration, the ‘TRNC’ delivered any justice to the thousands of his countrymen deprived of their property rights by the illegal Turkish occupation? If anything the IPC stopped accepting filing of applications by Greek Cypriot plaintiffs while those few that did apply had to endure a travesty of justice adding salt to the insult.
Kasoulides should have posed those questions directly to the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the CoE. The latter did arrive at Larnaca airport to attend the Lefkosia meeting despite his government’s noisy rhetoric that the RoC is extinct. In the 43 years of Turkish occupation, Ankara has been employing persistent efforts to present the RoC as extinct; much to its chagrin the RoC is alive and kicking on the international scene as the CoE Lefkosia Meeting proves beyond any doubt.
In Russia, if we are to take a good example of a P5 member, there is no doubt about the sovereignty of Cyprus: Moscow send its Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, not only to attend the multilateral CoE Ministerial Meeting but importantly to engage in a two day frank discussion of bilateral relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Cyprus.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the two countries share common or close positions on many issues. Both countries support a swift return to constructive Russia-EU negotiations, strengthening the UN’s central role in international relations as the universal organisation for supporting peace and security, and collective responses by the entire international community to modern threats such as international terrorism, trans-border crime, and drug trafficking. Moscow added that the EU’s sanctions against Russia and the measures which Russia took in response had led to a drop in trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, but that Russia continued to search for ways to mitigate the problem.
If anything, the Council of Europe Ministerial Meeting in Lefkosia given prominence by the attendance of Sergei Lavrov dedicating time and effort in further promoting bilateral relations while seeking to mend relations with the EU, the bloc to which Cyprus belongs, has shown that both Cyprus and Russia, far from being isolated, place themselves at the forefront of efforts to normalize relations for peace, security and prosperity in the Old Continent. | 212782333 |
As a part of the montly topics that the members of the CSOWG are writing at the mixoloseum blog i choosed to write about the Kamehameha Rum Punch.This interesting drink recipe is from Sippin`Safari and originates from the Hotel King Kamehameha in Kona, Hawaii, as the origin of the drink around 1960.
But there´s more to the name than that.
I also found a very interesting version called The Kamehameha Mighty Punch.
Kamehameha Punch – an exotic blend of dark and light rums, fresh juices, blackberry brandy and more..
The Mighty Punch is a tasty mix of tropical juices, mango pure, Tahitian limeade and cayenne pepper!
So head over to the Mixoloseum blog to read more about this Royal Punch and the Mighty Punch and sample the recipes and the story about this punch!
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Jolyon’s work in leadership and change has brought him into contact with remarkably diverse people and organisations and had him move from one side of the UK to the other. He has over 10 years’ experience in leadership development, organisational transformation and behavioural change. Coming from a background in psychotherapy and non-violent communication he is able to quickly get to the heart of the matter, and help teams do the same.
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I then moved to London to take on a role at the Institute of Social & Ethical Accountability (AccountAbility) where I worked alongside the CEO to initiate and develop Corporate Social Responsibility programmes for multinationals such as KPMG, the Cooperative Bank, Nike and Shell. During my time at AccountAbility I realised that to truly make a difference in organisations I needed to help them breathe life into their CSR policies by ensuring their principles were fully integrated in the company.
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Do you want to be counseled by Robert Kiyosaki?
Here’s an interesting article called ‘Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur?’ that investigates Robert Kiyosaki: from ABC News.
How easy is it to make money? If someone handed you $1,000 and gave you 20 days to turn a profit, would you have any idea where to start? “20/20” challenged three would-be entrepreneurs to find out. To give them guidance we brought in famous get-rich guru Robert Kiyosaki to offer them his secrets for money-making success.
It throws down a challenge to three contestants who are counseled by the Guru and examines what happens to them over 20 days.
For more about what happens, it’s worth reading the full story. And yes, I know it’s an old story, but still! I hadn’t seen it before! | 288686392 |
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Alleged Canadian ISIS fighter Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed is shown in a video released by Kurdish forces on Jan. 13, 2019.
Global Affairs Canada has not responded to questions about Mohammed.
WATCH: On Dec. 11, 2018, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said there was no “good solution” to the problem of allowing the children of Canadians who left to fight for ISIS return home.
Kurdish forces have on occasion misidentified the nationality of captured fighters but terrorism researcher Prof. Amarnath Amarasingam said he had learned independently that Mohammed was from Toronto.
Including Mohammed, Global News has identified four Canadian men, three women who had married ISIS foreign fighters and seven children who are being held. But an organization representing families of those in custody said it was aware of 21, mostly children.
The detention of the Canadian citizens by Kurdish fighters has created a challenge for the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, raising difficult questions about how to deal with them.
Already battling ISIS and facing more conflict with Turkey and the Syrian regime following a promised U.S. troop withdrawal, Kurdish forces want to hand their captives to their respective governments.
But the RCMP has sometimes struggled to bring charges against ex-foreign fighters and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said last month Ottawa was under no obligation to facilitate their return.
In a video released by Kurdish forces on the weekend, Mohammed was shown wearing a beige camouflage jacket and answering questions.
“I am originally from Ethiopia, I came from Canada,” he said.
According to the Kurdish forces, Mohammed said he crossed into Syria from Turkey and went first to the northeastern city Idlib. He spent about two months around Aleppo before arriving in Raqqah, the ISIS capital.
He then lived in camps around Deir Al-Zour, near the Iraqi border. He commanded about 17 fighters, and rubbed shoulders with foreign nationals from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco and Europe.
During an attack on a military position, he was captured by the Shahid Abu Hamza unit of the SDF, the militia that controls the Kurdish region in Syria’s northeast. He is detained in Hajin.
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What we call “online harassment” is just the centuries-old fight to keep women out of public life. The good news is women already have the solution.
“Online harassment” is no longer useful, or adequate, as a shorthand for the sustained campaigns of abuse women face in the public that is the Internet. Yet this is how the mainstream press and online commentators alike described — to offer just two very recent examples — racist attacks aimed at an incredibly high-profile actress and comedian like Leslie Jones, and the misogynist threats that led feminist writer Jessica Valenti to leave social media this summer. Jones is black; Valenti is white. Jones starred in a summer blockbuster; Valenti is an author of several books on gender. Jones became the target of a right-wing pundit who used his real name; Valenti has received pseudonymous threats against herself and her family.
If this is what harassment looks like, what lesson are we to learn from their experiences? That no woman, no matter how famous, is safe from such abuse online? That the Internet is now fundamentally dangerous for all women?
Of course the most powerful information and communications network is the site where those who want to deny women a public life would attack. This is the history of women in public.
If Wired wants to use the language of “blight,” something usually marshaled by champions of so-called “urban renewal” and other clean-up campaigns, it should go a bit deeper. What the Internet was 25 years ago is also what it was nearly 50 years ago when the Department of Defense funded its development. The Internet was just less densely populated. It took decades for it to become a nearly seamless part of everyday life, and, eventually, for writers (and outside publications like Wired) to treat “what happened online today” as a story at all.
What has made the Internet “dangerous” for women isn’t anything fundamental about its design or operation; it’s that it has become absolutely indispensable for millions of women. The Internet is to women of the turn of this century what the street, the train and streetcar, the telegraph and telephone, and the workplace were together at the turn of the last one. It is where we make ourselves public.
Of course the most powerful information and communications network is the site where those who want to deny women a public life would attack. This is the history of women in public. They understand that being free to move, to express ourselves, and to create our own lives is the foundation of women’s social, economic, and political power.
The often (but by no means always) anonymous people we call “online harassers” don’t care what we publish. They care that someone might respond, and that it might matter. They don’t want to silence women. They want to discipline us.
What we might learn from the experiences of Jones and Valenti and countless others is what they do have in common: the tactics of their abusers, how these anonymous individuals were able to team up and make one valued part of their public lives — their online presence — unlivable to them. This is the key to understanding what has been mislabeled “online harassment.” What these people’s abusers seek to accomplish isn’t to make the Internet dangerous, but to cut off their access — wherever they can land an attack — to public life.
Twitter did ban the right-wing writer who played ringleader in the relentless campaign against Jones. But this did not shield Jones from further racist abuse. Her abusers simply shifted from Twitter to her website, which they hacked. This act of escalation is terrifying. When an abuser shifts venues, it signifies dedication. It is, of course, a tactic that predates social media. What’s new now is that the Internet affords many more venues for an abuser’s harassment to propagate and generate more abuse.
What is our responsibility to women being run out of public life? To raise awareness of abuse? Or to ensure their right to an open and accessible public? These may not be the same thing.
Which is why the focus on delineating this abuse as “online harassment” is perhaps itself dangerous. In a conversation at Motherboard, Internet theorist Whitney Phillips expressed concern that, when journalists report on these stories, we run the risk of amplifying the network effect of the abuse. We extend their attacks into yet more public space.
Our late 20th-century approach to combating the abuse of women, to encourage those who have been abused to “break the silence,” may have unsettling limits in such an intensely, immediately networked age of communication. What is our responsibility to women being run out of public life? To raise awareness of abuse? Or to ensure their right to an open and accessible public? These may not be the same thing.
Feminist activists working at the cutting edge of digital security see no reason to wait for appeals to technology companies and states to be heard. They are working right now to demystify Internet safety, to put the power back in the hands of people who are most likely to be targeted, before any more women are pushed out of the network.
In a hack of her website on Wednesday, the Ghostbusters star confronted a foe plaguing celebrities and the general public alike: the nastily persistent nature of private and malicious information on the Internet in the U.S. | 163149425 |
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(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has closed a new round of funding that values the online taxi-hailing company at nearly $51 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Uber raised close to $1 billion in the round, bringing its total funding to more than $5 billion, WSJ reported on Friday, citing one of the people.
Investors in the latest round include Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and the Indian media conglomerate Bennett Coleman & Co’s Times Internet, the report said.
However, Bloomberg, citing a person with knowledge of the matter, reported that Microsoft was considering the investment and hasn’t made a final decision.
“We filed to authorize this new funding more than two months ago,” Kristin Carvell, a spokeswoman for Uber said in an email.
“We aren’t commenting on additional speculation,” she said.
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Times Internet is the digital arm of Bennett Coleman & Co, which also runs India’s largest English language daily, “Times of India”.
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“You’re expected, Ma’am,” the corporal told her, and reached back one hand to press the button for the admittance chime.
“Yes, Corporal Sanders?” Helen recognized the voice of Chief Steward Joanna Agnelli, Captain Terekhov’s personal steward.
“Ms. Zilwicki is here,” Sanders said.
The hatch slid open a moment later, and Helen stepped through it . . . then paused in surprise. There were rather more people in the Captain’s day cabin than she’d anticipated.
Terekhov himself sat behind his desk, in the act of sipping from a cup of coffee. That much, at least, she’d expected. But Lieutenant Abigail Hearns sat in one of the comfortable armchairs facing his desk, and there were three other officers present, as well. One of them was Commander Kaplan, and Helen was both astonished and delighted to see how much better Kaplan looked than she had the last time Helen saw her, but the other two were a commander and a senior-grade captain Helen had never seen before in her life, and she braced quickly to attention.
“At ease, Helen,” Terekhov said, then smiled and waved his coffee cup at the chair beside Lieutenant Hearns. “And have a seat,” he added.
Helen obeyed his command and sat, hoping she sounded less mystified than she felt as she parked herself in the indicated chair. She sensed a presence at her shoulder and looked up to see Agnelli standing there with another cup and saucer in one hand and the coffee pot in the other. Helen was scarcely accustomed to sitting around sipping coffee with such astronomically superior officers, but she knew better than to decline the offer . . . which presumably indicated that this was at least marginally a social occasion. She took the saucer and held the cup while Agnelli filled it, then took a sip and nodded in appreciation before she turned her attention back to Terekhov.
Helen’s eyes flipped to the petite, fine-boned blonde with the improbably dark complexion. Kaplan happened to be looking at her at the moment, and the commander smiled at Helen’s obvious surprise. And her chagrin, for that matter, as she scolded herself for not noticing the white beret of a starship’s CO tucked under Kaplan’s epaulet.
This time both of Helen’s eyebrows rose in astonishment. Hexapuma had been back in home space for substantially less than two days. In fact, she’d only docked here at Hephaestus three hours ago. The Captain hadn’t even been off the ship yet — couldn’t even have had so much as the opportunity to give his wife a hug! Things simply didn’t change this quickly and drastically — not even in the Navy!
“As I’m sure both of you were already aware, things have changed considerably since we first deployed to Talbott,” Terekhov said, almost as if he’d heard her thoughts, and smiled thinly. “Quite a bit of that seems to be our fault, as far as the Admiralty is concerned, so they’ve decided we ought to do something about it.
“Obviously,” he continued, “the Navy’s deployment plans in general are in what we might charitably call a state of flux. The cancellation of the summit talks with Haven and the decision to resume active operations make it even more unlikely that the Admiralty is going to be able to free up wallers to reinforce Admiral Khumalo anytime soon. In addition, it’s effectively anchored Admiral Blaine to the Lynx Terminus, where he can get home in a hurry if he has to. Which has lent added emphasis to the Admiralty’s decision to reinforce Talbott primarily with lighter units.
Helen glanced at Lieutenant Hearns, who seemed remarkably composed, given how caught-in-the-slipstream Helen felt as the Captain’s — no, the Commodore’s — explanation rolled over her. She hoped she looked like she was at least managing to keep up with him, although she was at a loss to understand how he could be so calm about it all. He sounded as if things like this happened to him every day!
“I’m sure that by now both of you are wondering why I’ve dragged a pair of such relatively junior officers in to explain all of this to them. Well, I do have a reason. Two of them, in fact.
“With so many ships moving in so many directions in such a short period of time, the Admiralty is finding it just a bit difficult to meet everyone’s manning requirements. For example, Commander Pope didn’t know until last week that he was going to be anyone’s chief of staff, and the decision that he was going to be my chief of staff was actually made this morning. It looks as if we’re going to be deploying at least one or two people short for the rest of the staff, as well, although BuPers has given me permission to poach additional officers from Admiral Khumalo when we get back to Spindle. Commodore Chatterjee, the senior officer of Commander Kaplan’s destroyer squadron, is in rather better shape than that where his staff is concerned, but several of his units are undermanned.
“And the reason we’ve called the two of you in for this little conversation is that one of the slots I still need to fill is the flag lieutenant’s billet, and Tristram needs a good tac officer.
“Helen,” he looked directly at her, “you worked out very well as my liaison with Mr. Van Dort. I believe we have an established and efficient working relationship, and you’re already very familiar — especially for an officer of your youthfulness — with the political and military realities of the Cluster. I mean, the Quadrant. Normally, this slot would be filled by someone rather more senior than you are at the moment, and I’m well aware that what you would really prefer at this point in your career is to move directly into a tactical department slot somewhere. I don’t want you to feel pressured, and if you decide you want a tactical assignment, I will unreservedly recommend you for it. At the same time, the opportunity for this sort of experience, this early in your career, doesn’t happen along every day. And, unfortunately, given the time constraints involved, I need your decision almost immediately — within the next twelve hours, at the latest. And I, also unfortunately, am about to leave for several hours of conferences at Admiralty House. Since I needed to speak to you personally about this, I had to cram it at you before I leave the ship, as it were.
Helen’s brain had been doing its best to imitate a chipmunk in the headlights as she tried to assimilate Captain — No, damn it! she told herself sharply — Commodore Terekhov’s offer. Now, despite herself, her head snapped around towards Abigail.
At a hundred and eighty-nine thousand tons, the Roland was bigger than a pre-MDM light cruiser . . . and she was armed with Mark 16s, just like Hexapuma. She and her sisters were the plum assignments of the Navy’s destroyer force, and they were offering a Roland’s tactical department to a brand new senior-grade lieutenant?
One BC-Squadron more or less with 8th/Home Fleet isn’t so big a difference in combat strength (don’t forget the system defense version of Apollo, which will be availabe soon after the BoMA), so … no, there is no reason, why Overstegens squadron shouldn’t go to Talbott.
Actually, I can see it going back to Trevor’s Star. With 8th Fleet covering Manticore, nothing can get passed it. Trevor’s Star on the other hand has just the lighter units of 8th Fleet guarding it. Until heavier units can be built or moved to cover it, Oversteegen has the heaviest free unit to cover it.
Post BoMA the Manticoran Alliance doesn’t have much in the way of Fleets.
The Grayson Home Fleet and Protectors Own.
The Manticoran 8th Fleet, Admiral Sarnow’s Fleet in Silesia, the units in Talbott, and the various squadrons and task forces guarding allied and other planets between Manticore and Haven.
The Andermani Home Fleet and it’s units in Silesia, plus what ever other units it has guarding it’s planets.
Haven has I believe another 3 or 4 hundred of the wall guarding it’s planets.
Of course, Abigail has actually fired the torpedoes in question, iirc. Something about the former Monican Navy, now deceased. And I imagine if a Commodore asks for a Flag Lieutenant who does have a positive record of various sorts, well, she can always be promoted a bit.
I wonder about snippets to this book still coming since the book is already out… isn´t it time to change to snippets from the next Weber book? This book turned out to be a real cliffhanger, since only one small action scene with the battle at New Tuscany and a lot of building up of tension about what will come in the next installment of the Honorverse books… I still love Weber books very much, but this one was clearly only setting the scene for later and not really a full story in itself.
Flag Lieutenant is a position not a rank. An officer doesn’t actually have to be a lieutenant to fill that particular slot on the staff. Helen will stay her current rank. My Flag Lieutenant is Ensign Zilwicki.
Obviously the Flag Lt. is going to be a political/diplomatic position. Can you tell us how that would work?
A Flag Lieutenant position is almost exactly equivalent to the Personal Assistant position in a corporate hierarchy. They act to streamline the clerical workload their primaries have to deal with (by ensuring that anything that reaches their boss’s desk are complete and correct), as well as take notes and collect other information during meetings and interviews. There is usually a lot more to the job, but the particulars would vary depending upon the actual position and just what the boss wants done.
Unless Zilwicki gets promoted to Lt JG if she accepts the post? The might be able to get it to slide as its a wartime promotion.
Well, this clears up a problem I had with Overstegen being apparently in two places at once.
That’s easy if you have a split personality.
Keep in Mind, Honor get confirmation, tight before the Battle that someone else is responsible for the return to hostilities, don’t remember guess it is time to reread, if she knows who. Which means that Talbot will be where the action is as soon as she can sit on the Queen. If that is possible.
A Flag Lieutenant is the factotum for the flag officer in question. He or She will do every little strenuous task for the flag officer.
About Overstegen, well as mentioned, the system defense variant of Apollo will be deployed in short time. When Haven could manage a new attack on Manticore or Trevors Star Honor will be able to leave Manticore for a short time to defend Trevors Star, as Manticore will be defended by Apollo. Also, remember that the emergency building programs will be launching SD(P)’s in short time. So a squadron of Nikes may be a really awesome formation, outside of the second havenite war, but it is not so much inside of the war.
The biggest rmn-fleet outside the Homefleet is propably the silesian fleet (9th fleet?). I would be interested in the fleet numbers anyway. Home Fleet is the 1st fleet, 2nd is the grayson Homefleet, 3rd was the Trevors Star Fleet. But where are the fleets between 3rd and 8th?.
I see one uses for the Protectors Own.
It could be used to cover Trevor’s star, as, right now, only the lighter units of 8th fleet are available. A limited strike by hevan could retake the system.
I agree that one battlecruiser squadron will probably continue to be deployed to Tabbot. The existing light units of 8th fleet can now be drawn down (they are probably have an overabundance of lighter units, that were being used in a scouting role, that, if 8th fleet turtles up, can be freed for Tabbot or Silesia.
Manticore is in the unusual position where, (they think) all they have to do is defend the home system for 12-18 months from Haven, and then they will have an apollo equiped fleet ready to blow Heaven out of the sky. They can afford to trade almost anything for time, with the knowlege that it can be retaken.
I don’t think the Graysons would appreciate their Home Fleet being thought of as the Manticoran 2nd fleet.
I agree, there is no reason to assume there are eight actual fleets comparible in power and makeup to Home Fleet or Eighth Fleet.
There is the home system, the junction, Basilisk, Trevor’s star, the allied systems, Sidemore and the Silesians, Talbot.
In War Of Honor, Third Fleet was at Trevor’s Star and Honor commanded Second Fleet at Sidemore.
I think it was the Second fleet of Haven under Admiral Tourville at Sidemore.
Honor had only a TaskForce and the Protector’s own.
I used to work in campus security, and we had boots to place on non-registered cars in our lots. The boots weren’t numered sequentially so as to make people think we had more than we really did.
Perhaps this same logic applies: “Do they have these unknown fleets off on secret deployments?” Remember, Haven kept Shannon’s toy factory secret for quite some time.
In WW II, the US Fleet changed designation when the Admiral at the top change, Spruance or Halsey. It made the Japanese think we had two enormous fleets waiting to land on them, rather than one, and one command staff working up plans for the next rotation. | 88283601 |
Get ready to witness the ups and downs of Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna's headline-making relationship.
In an extended look at their new E! reality show, Rob & Chyna, the two air our their personal issues, including getting into explosive arguments over suspicious texts and 29-year-old Rob's reported depression.
"It's a big change, from going inside for, like, four years, to now being outside," Rob admits, referring to his decision to stay out of the spotlight -- and skip important family events -- in recent years.
Rob also starts spending quality time again with his sister Kourtney's ex, Scott Disick, who jokes, "It's almost like he's been in jail."
But Rob's reported depression is no laughing matter, especially when he and Chyna get emotional while butting heads over text messages.
"Why you wanna keep going through my phone, like you don't trust me?" Chyna, 28, asks as Rob questions her about a person who keeps "hitting [her] phone over and over."
The model later has her own doubts about Rob's faithfulness.
"What are you texting other females about?" she asks, before screaming, "I'm not fu**ing playing with you, why the f**k are you still texting b**ches?!"
"The whole arguing is too much," Rob later tells Scott. "She's too hot and I'm too hot."
However, Chyna -- who's currently pregnant with their first child together -- does show sensitivity to Rob's issues.
"What can I do to help? What really triggers you to go into a dark hole?" she asks her fiance.
Throughout the trailer, the Kardashian family surprisingly acts as the voice of reason for the couple.
"Depression is a serious issue," Rob's sister, Kim, later tells the expectant parents. "What's gonna happen when this baby is born?"
"Everybody argues in a new relationship," Rob's mother, Kris, also at one point calmly tells her only son.
But it's Scott who's most direct. When Rob comments, "We're two different people. I don't expect her to be like me," the father of three shoots back, "I don't even think you know exactly who you are."
Rob & Chyna premieres on Sept. 11 at 9 p.m. on E!
Rob recently talked about his "dark days" and credited Chyna for helping him through it.
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An HR audit has often been called an annual company health check. DCode Research Services does HR process audits anywhere in India for small and big companies to certify that your company is following existing rules and regulations. Because oversights in HR process can prove costly for the company in the short as well as the long run. This could compromise company credibility too. Delegating HR process audits to a third party like DCode Research Services is also important to check whether all your assets and resources are being effectively and efficiently utilized; which an in-house HR process audit might not do objectively.
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The Kerr Arts and Cultural Center, Kerrville, TX, is having a Fiber Arts Invitational exhibit July 1-25, 2010. There are 14 fiber artist featured and Karen Maddox will be exhibiting eight of her hooked rugs/wall hangings. The KACC is located in the historic "old post office", which has been remodeled with three wonderful gallery exhibit spaces and a gift shop. There is no entrance fee--only donations. It is an exciting exhibit! | 245444816 |
Despite the efforts of food safety regulations and rules, food contamination remains a public health concern and prevalent vehicle of pathogens. This study identifies the predictors of food risk in different types of food establishments in Miami Dade County, Florida during the period November 2014 - November 2016. Guided by the epidemiologic triangle model, this correlational study analyzed the log number of risk factor violations and failure rates controlling for US Census sociodemographic data (2010 to 2014) for the food establishment neighborhoods by using linear and logistic regression. Results indicated that most of food entity types are significant predictors of risk violations. Among all the significant predictor food establishments, grocery stores (b = 2.877. p < 0.001) had a higher increase in violations. For the demographic variables, the only significant variable was the number of single parent households (B = .001, p = 0.022). The result reveals a significant association between food entity types and failing inspection (p < 0.005). Among all the entity types, convenience store with significant food service and/or packaged ice (22.2 %) have the highest percentage fail rate within inspection rate outcome. Findings indicate that a risk-based approach to food risk factor violations frequency could reduce the number of violations, particularly in convenience and grocery stores with the most violations and failing rate. | 144768132 |
Klarna Checkout is a payment method that offers the customers the possibility to pay their order by invoice, bank transfer or credit card. The customer’s credit history is checked at the payment and Klarna takes the credit risk when the customer pays by invoice. Klarna also handles the invoicing to the customer, they send out the initial invoice and reminders if needed. You as a merchant don't need to think about sending the invoices or worry about if the customer wouldn't pay. If the customer paid by Klarna Checkout you always get your money.
Company invoice is now available as a payment method in Klarna Checkout. The function can be added on the Settings > Payment > Klarna Checkout > Settings page in the menu for "Customer type". Once the choice is made to add company as a customer type the change will be activated by Klarna within 2 working days. When the customer then places an order they can choose to order as a company and then fill out their organisation number instead of the personal ID.
On the payment page the field for choosing country has been moved to the beginning so that the customer will notice it better (when you have several countries activated).
The button "Continue shopping" in the modal window has been moved to the left corner and there is now a field in the settings for changing the text on the button.
A new setting has been added in order to be able to hide Klarna Checkout from the normal ordering process.
The delivery date is checked for if the shop is using the setting for choosing a delivery date (Settings > Basket settings > Requested delivery date) and the choice is mandatory.
A new field has been added in the settings for Klarna Checkout that can be used to change the text of the usual "Check out" button.
A new setting has been added in order to be able to show the order comment field in the payment modal.
Klarna Checkout is the default payment method in all new web shops. There is no need for a separate agreement with Klarna. When the test shop is activated a request is sent to Klarna to activate the account and within 1-3 days the payment method is activated and payments can be received. You will be informed via email when the payment method is activated.
Until the payment method is activated it is available in test mode and you can make test orders.
If the web shop was created before the 1st of May 2015 or if the Klarna Checkout payment method has been deleted, you can add the payment method again on the Settings > Payment page.
The payment is made in Klarna’s quick checkout that skips the web shop’s usual order process. This allows for a “one page order” that has improved the conversion for many webshops.
The settings for the payment method are found on the Settings > Payment > Klarna Checkout > Settings page.
Payment button on basket page adds a “Buy now” button straight on the basket page. If the customer clicks that button Klarna Checkout is opened in a new modal window on top of the basket. If this option is not used the customer has to go through the usual order process and Klarna Checkout is shown at the end of the order process.
Payment button on product page adds a “Buy now” button already on the product page that then opens Klarna Checkout in a modal window on top of the product page. This is recommended if customer usually buy only one product at a time in the web shop.
Payment button on category page adds the “Buy now” button for products listed on the category page.
Payment form on basket page shows Klarna Checkout straight underneath the basket instead of opening a modal window.
To activate an order means to complete the invoice when the customer has paid by invoice.
You can add the following elements from the Design > Advanced design page.
In the topic area Shopping basket and order you can find an element “Link to the shopping basket with Klarna Checkout” that shows a normal link to the basket but that also has a “Buy now” button at the bottom that opens the Klarna Checkout window from any page.
These elements can be added by clicking the “Insert page element” button in the area where you want the element.
It’s possible to place an order for the content of the basket on any page in the shop. In the payment method settings you can define on which pages the “Buy now” button should show.
If there are other payment methods in use than Klarna Checkout, the "Check out" button brings you to the normal ordering process. The "Buy now" button opens Klarna Checkout straight away.
The customer fills out their details and complete their order in the quick checkout. As a default the customer pays by invoice in Klarna Checkout. Straight after the buy the customer has the possibility to change the payment method to credit card, bank transfer or in installments.
The order’s payment information can be found on the Orders > [order] > Klarna Checkout page.
The Activate reservation button is used to activate a passive invoice in Klarna’s system. (Please note! the orders can be set to automatically activate in different situations in the settings on the Settings > Payment > Klarna Checkout > Settins page). Once the activation is done information will be saved in “Payment activated: date/time”. If you want to activate several orders at the same time, this can be done on the Orders > Orders page by ticking the orders you want to activate and then clicking "Add" and "Klarna Checkout - Activation".
The Cancel reservation button is used to remove a passive invoice from Klarna’s system. When the invoice has been removed information is saved in “Payment removed: date/time”.
It’s possible to make a partial or full refund to the payment for an order on the Orders > [order] > Klarna Checkout > Refunds page. Refunds can only be done once the payment has been activated.
The Do complete refund button is used when you want to refund the full remaining amount to the customer.
If you only want to refund a part of the amount you first make changes in the table and then click the Do partial refund button.
If you make changes to the delivered quantity, then fill out the quantity that was actually delivered to the customer. The difference between the original and the new quantity is used to calculate the refund amount. For example if a customer ordered 4 pieces of a product and you are only able to deliver 3 pieces, then fill the delivered quantity as 3. The customer will the get a refund on the amount for 1 product.
If you would like to give a discount to one of the products you add the discount amount in the Extra discount for product field.
If you would like to refund a part of the product price you change the amount in the field for the total price. The customer will then get a refund of the difference between the original and the new total price.
The Text for the refund field can be used to add an extra text to the discount/refund.
You can also give an extra discount for the full order by adding the discount amount in the Good-will refund for the order field at the bottom of the table. | 259834135 |
DEPOSITS for the 2018/19 Winter Storage Season will be due by July 31st, 2018. Boats 25 feet and under $300.00 those over 25, $500.00. Space not held with a deposit by the due date will be released to those on our waiting list.
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