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Guided Visit: British Ceramics Biennial 2019
Guided Visit: British Ceramics Biennial 2019
Thursday 10th October 2019
Tickets £35 (£33 Members & concs), price includes a drink on arrival at the festival cafe.
Lunch is not included in the ticket price.
Meet outside Bluecoat Display Centre on College Lane at 8.50am, the minibus will leave Liverpool promptly at 9.00am.
Following the success of our previous visit two years ago, we are planning a day trip to British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) 2019. This launched in 2009 and showcases contemporary ceramics from around the world. It takes place in Stoke-on-Trent, the heart of the UK ceramics industry, in established venues and non-traditional spaces across the city.
The morning will be spent at the Spode China Hall where we will enjoy coffee followed by a 45 minute talk and tour of this large site. There will be time to explore the work and have a light lunch, (not included in the price).
We will then travel by mini bus to World of Wedgwood Museum to visit the BCB installation 22 Hands browse and as much of the museum as time allows.
We will leave Stoke at 3.00pm return to Liverpool by 5.00pm.
so do bring warm coat with you as we found the Spode Hall very chilly, last visit!
To see more visit BCB website www.britishceramicsbiennial.com and to book your place please call Bluecoat Display Centre on 0151 709 4014. Places are limited for this event.
BCB 2019 Adam Buick Ceramics
China Hall, Ceramics by Sam Lucas. Photographer Jenny Harper
China Hall, the original Spode factory site, photo Joel Fildes
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How to Become a Real Estate Broker
Whether you are looking for information on how to become a real estate broker, or interested to know more about the education and license requirements, you will find in this in-depth article all you need to get under way on a solid ground.
I have provided answers to questions you may have including: what is a real estate broker, the skills you must possess to succeed as a broker, salary information, job prospect, pre-licensing classes and licensing information as well as life after certification.
Although the requirements differ by state, there are a few general national requirements you must fulfill as a licensee. Such obligations include fulfilling course requirements, having previous real estate agent experience and passing licensing exams.
What Is a Real Estate Broker?
A real estate broker is a certified expert who deals with the selling and leasing of income-yielding estate properties like apartments, shopping centers, stores, depots and industrial parks.
Each of the 50 states in the U.S. has distinct laws that define the relationships between clients and real estate brokers.
In the U.S., the affiliation between a broker and his clients was primarily recognized in the English common law of agency. During this time, the broker was given a fiduciary relationship with clients. The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) was created to bring together Minority Real Estate Professionals all over the country to promote evocative exchange of ideas within the Real Estate industry.
Real Estate licensing laws and regulations can, thus, change from time to time. To ensure you stay up-to-date with the current trends in the Real Estate industry, I have provided you with the link to check possible changes in real estate broker license law.
Skills You Need to Be a Successful Real Estate Broker
To succeed as a broker you must possess the following basic skills:
Strong communication skills. You need strong communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with your clients, associate brokers or estate agents who work under you and be able to negotiate on your clients' behalf to ensure that you meet their individual needs.
Independent working ability. As a broker, you are expected to work independently. Thus, you must possess excellent skills at attracting and retaining clients.
Management ability. You must be able to manage your employees and appropriately manage your brokerage finances.
Real Estate Broker Classes and Training Requirements
Real estate broker classes and required pre-licensing training vary from state to state. You would generally be required to be trained for some of the following courses:
- Law of Agency
- Property Management
- Law of Contracts
- Real Estate Practice
- Advanced Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Accounting
- Real Estate Principles
- Business Law
- Trust fund handling
- Consumer protection
- Fair housing
- Ethics
- Risk management
- Escrow
- Real Estate Office Administration
- Advanced real estate law
- ICT Applications in Real Estate
- Common Interest Developments
Ensure you enroll with an accredited institution.
Obtaining a bachelor's degree or higher education from licensed institutions may exempt you from the associated real estate training requirement but you may be required to submit your transcript for verification. California, for example, allows accredited attorneys to become brokers without taking the requisite classes if they pass broker's licensing exam.
Real Estate Broker Exam
When seeking how to become a real estate broker, you must first possess a real estate agent license and gain experience as a real estate agent under a brokerage for a number of years.
The licensing exam requires you to understand basic national and state real estate laws. The number of course hours you require depend on your previous experience as an estate agent. You must complete your state's continuing education requirements after passing the national real estate broker exam to be certified.
State requirements are varied. California and Florida, for example, require a minimum of two years of experience as a licensed estate agent; Indiana only requires one year of experience and Arizona needs three years of experience.
California licensees must complete 45 hours of ongoing education every four years. Several states recognize licenses from other states and issue licenses to existing brokers on demand without supplementary education or exam. However, such brokers cannot operate legally in the state without first being licensed.
Obtaining a Real Estate Broker License
The licensing requirements and fees vary from state to state but generally, you must:
- Be at least 18 years of age.
- Fulfill specific course requirements: you must complete a given number of real estate college classes depending on your state's requirements.
- Have a certain amount of years of experience as an estate agent.
- Carry out finger print checks for criminal records.
- Do background checks.
- Pay appropriate licensing fees.
- Take and pass the licensing exam. If you fail either State or National exam, you'll be required to complete 30 hours of qualifying classes and 60 hours of qualifying classes if you fail both exams.
Real Estate Broker Job Prospect
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), job prospect for real estate brokers depends on the overall economy. The forecast shows a slow employment growth of 2% between 2014 and 2024. BLS statistics also show that average employment of real estate brokers will spike correspondingly with the nation's overall employments by 11 percent between 2012 and 2020.
Real Estate Broker Salary Range
As a real estate broker, you'd typically receive commissions for a successful match of a seller's real estate with a buyer and help sellers market and sell their property under the best terms and at the highest possible rate.
Your salary expectation would depend on your state, the housing market, your reputation and experience, the amount and types of transactions you complete, your ability to attract clients and your network of customers.
In some states, the average salary ranges from $51,267 to $57,360 annually. However, the average national estimate for Real estate broker's salary in the U.S. is $38.56 per hour and $80,210 per annum.
Your Job as an Estate Broker
As a real estate broker, you act as a mediator between sellers and buyers of real estate property. Your role as an estate broker is generally to provide advice to prospective sellers or buyers given that the real estate law varies from state to state and province to province. These roles may change. Endeavour to stay up to date by checking out the current real estate trends. You may be required to handle any of the following roles:
- Conduct comparative Market Analysis.
- Give Overall Market Overview.
- Give your Broker's Price Opinion.
- Market sellers' real property to potential buyers.
- Assist buyers and sellers through the procurement and selling process.
- Assist sellers to do FSBO paperwork preparation.
- Prepare guides on best property marketing and selling strategies.
- Carry out consultation with clients for a fee.
- Engage in leasing deal for a fee or commission.
- Take care of Property Management.
- Do property swap and property Dutch auction.
- Prepare contracts and lease terms in some states.
How Long Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Broker?
The time period varies from state to state but it is generally between one to three years in duration. You must have worked as an estate agent within this stretch of time before applying for a broker's license. The time period may also depend on how long you take to obtain the required training and pass the licensing exams.
Life after Training and Licensure
As a licensed broker, you can either work independently or in collaboration with another broker. An independent broker is also referred to as principal or qualifying broker while an associate broker works in collaboration with another broker in a brokerage.
Independent brokers open up their own real estate company while as an associate broker you'll continue to carry out a role similar to the one you had as an estate agent within a brokerage. As an associate broker, you may still be able to work with the brokerage that employed you as an estate agent.
Working as an associate broker helps you to gain experience that will be invaluable when you eventually decide to launch your own firm. If you want to be independent, you must develop strategies to get clients. You must be able to launch aggressive marketing campaigns both online through the social media and offline through conventional media and through word-of-mouth recommendation to friends and previous clients.
You have enough information to guide you in your career path as an estate broker. Ensure you that meet all the requirements stipulated in this article, if you want to succeed. You can, as well, obtain information about licensing and license renewal through the officials of Association of Real Estate License Law.

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Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Collects essays from the New Yorker columnist about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including comedy sketches that helped elect a reality-television president, and touching on the impact of #MeToo.
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
A collection of literary essays by the cultural critic, MTV News columnist and author of The Crown Ain't Worth Much uses music and culture as a gauge for better understanding the world, the self and the challenges of today.
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
An analysis of the iconic American writer's enduring influence on counterculture music traces Burroughs' rise to fame against a backdrop of three decades of music history and includes coverage of his sexual orientation, heroin addiction, banned books and celebrity collaborations.
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Presents the life of the rock musician and songwriter, describing his early rise as a musical prodigy, his numerous collaborations, the ups and downs of his solor career, his struggles with drugs and alcohol, and the acclaim he received after his untimely death.
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The Manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen's hush money payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter.
A state investigation would center on how the company accounted for its reimbursement to Mr. Cohen for the $130,000 he paid to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, who has said she had an affair with President Trump, the officials said. Both officials stressed that the office's review of the matter is in its earliest stages and prosecutors have not yet made a decision on whether to proceed.
State charges against the company or its executives could be significant because Mr. Trump has talked about pardoning some of his current or former aides who have faced federal charges. As president, he has no power to pardon people and corporate entities convicted of state crimes.


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JHU Algo Trading Team Wins Trading Technologies' Algo Design Showcase
January 26, 2017
The Johns Hopkins Algo Trading Team spent the fall semester designing and implementing trading algorithms in Trading Technologies' Algorithm Design Lab. Schools from across the country created algorithms for TT's showcase, and presented their work on January 15th in Chicago at Trading Technologies' headquarters.
The Hopkins' team is comprised of Financial Mathematics M.S.E. students. The team was created by Eddie Costantini (far right), and was represented by (from left to right) Yunfan Zhao, Daniel Chen, Shiqing Sun, and Leslie Sun.
For their hard work and implementation of separate low and high volatility algorithms, the team took home the Best Algorithm Design Award.
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Though only one show has been definitely announced (as of May 4) for the 1998-99 season at NY's Joseph Papp Public Theatre (Ellen McLaughlin's Tongue of a Bird, starring Marian Seldes (Ivanov, Three Tall Women), three other works are serious contenders, according to a brochure mailed by the Public to solicit subscriptions.
The three other pieces under serious consideration for the 1998-99 season are:
* Pericles, the William Shakesepeare comedy/drama/fantasy, to be directed by artistic associate Brian Kulick (A Dybbuk).
* Wild Party, artistic director George C. Wolfe directs a new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (The First Lady Suite, The Petrified Prince). LaChiusa, who earned a cult following with his Hello Again Off-Broadway and Chronicle of a Death Foretold on Broadway, is also collaborating with director-choreographer Graciela (Ragtime) Daniele on the Broadway-bound Marie Christine, which is described as "a quasi-operatic version of Medea, set in 1880s New Orleans and Chicago."
* The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. Why shouldn't the Public Theatre be part of the Arthur Miller renaissance? This New York premiere will be directed by Scott Elliott (Present Laughter). Elliott directed the show's U.S. Premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 1996. Miller plays revived in NY during the 1997-98 season included A View From The Bridge, All My Sons and The American Clock.
* As for Tongue of a Bird, author McLaughlin provided one of the most memorable theatre images of the 1990s, playing the angel in Angels in America, before turning to playwriting. She debuted her latest drama, Tongue of a Bird at Seattle's Intiman Theatre and then brought it to London's Almeida in November 1997.
One unusual aspect of the Seattle production: everyone in the cast, design and production team was a woman, led by director Lisa Peterson. Tongue of a Bird is described as "the powerful and poetic story of a search-and-rescue pilot who hunts for an abducted girl, while trying to come to terms with the loss of her own mother. . . about one woman's lost child, and another's lost childhood."
Originally commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the play was developed in Seattle in a February 1997 reading on the "New Voices at Intiman" series. The mainstage premiere was made possible by a grant from "AT&T OnStage."
McLaughlin's other plays include "Iphigenia and Other Daughters," "A Narrow Bed," "Infinity's House" and "Days and Nights Within."
Also expected from the NY Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre is the return of On The Town, with rehearsals scheduled to get underway in August for an opening at a Broadway house in October. Artistic director George C. Wolfe will again direct as he did at the Delacorte, though no choreographer has yet been chosen. (According to the Public Theatre press office, reached Apr. 21, Wolfe is home recuperating well from recent surgery.) As of Apr. 21, casting and venue have not yet been announced.
A dispute between director Wolfe and choreographer Christopher d'Amboise was blamed for postponing the planned Broadway transfer of the successful summer 1997 Central Park revival of On the Town, The New York Times reported Jan. 12.
The production, which was announcing casting as late as Jan. 6, was to have started rehearsals Feb. 24 and previews Apr. 7 at the St. James Theatre. The Times quoted a spokesperson for The Public Theatre, the revival's primary producer, as saying the production has been postponed until the fall 1998, presumably with a different choreographer.
The spokesperson said d'Amboise left the project owing to "genuine creative differences concerning the dance sequences that could not be resolved," between Wolfe and d'Amboise.
Choreographic problems have dogged this revival of the nearly through danced Leonard Bernstein/ Betty Comden/ Adolph Green musical, which grew from the Jerome Robbins ballet, "Fancy Free." Several times during the 1997 Delacorte Theatre engagement, condensation on the outdoor stage required choreographer Eliot Feld's dance sequences to be dropped in mid performance. Though the revival generally got excellent reviews, especially for comedienne Lea DeLaria as the randy cab driver, Feld's work was seriously questioned, and he withdrew from the Broadway transfer. Now d'Amboise has done the same, and a new choreographer will have to be found.
As for the rest of this season at the Public Theatre:
as Broadway readies for the Apr. 23 transfer of Martin McDonagh's Beauty Queen of Leenane, Off-Broadway audiences have only a few more weeks to catch the same author's The Cripple of Inishmaan. Cripple runs to May 10, extended past its original Apr. 19 close, with tickets still available for the dates in May. McDonagh's dark comedy was such a hot ticket, the extension was done even before the show opened at the Public Theatre, Apr. 7.
The Cripple Of Inishmaan is directed by Jerry Zaks (A Funny Thing...Forum). Nicholas Hytner (Carousel, The Madness Of King George) was originally scheduled to direct as he did in London, but he had to finish shooting and post-producing the Wendy Wasserstein scripted film, The Object Of My Affection.
In the UK, Inishmaan, McDonagh's bawdy dark comedy, transferred (April 30) from the Cottesloe to the larger Lyttleton Theatre on the West End for a run through Aug. 31.
Inishmaan concerns the gossiping and infighting of a town so small, a sheep born with no ears constitutes big news. When legendary Hollywood documentary director Robert Flaherty arrives to film his Man Of Aran, the whole town wants to get into the act, none more than 18 year-old "Cripple Billy," who sees the production as his ticket out of Inishmaan.
Only one cast-member from the London production is in the U.S. staging: Ruaidhri Conroy. Co-starring with him at the Public will be Eileen Brennan, Donal Donnelly, Christopher Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Franz (Jitta's Atonement at the Berkshire Festival), Michael Gaston, Peter Maloney, Roberta Maxwell (1996's Summer and Smoke at the Roundabout) and Aisling O'Neill.
Designing the show are Brian Nason (lighting), Tony Walton (set), Ann Roth (costumes), Sage Marie Carter (projections) and Guy Sherman (sound).
Inishmaan concerns the gossiping and infighting of a town so small, a sheep born with no ears constitutes big news. When legendary Hollywood documentary director Robert Flaherty arrives to film his Man Of Aran, the whole town wants to get into the act, none more than 18 year-old "Cripple Billy," who sees the production as his ticket out of Inishmaan.
In the UK, Martin McDonagh's bawdy dark comedy, The Cripple of Inishmaan, transferred (Apr. 30) from the Cottesloe to the larger Lyttleton Theatre for a run through Aug. 31.
Starring in the London Inishmaan were Conroy, Doreen Hepburn, Gary Lydon, Ray McBride, Dearbhla Molloy, Aisling O'Sullivan (Hysteria at the Royal Court), Anita Reeves, John Rogan and Owen Sharpe. Designers for the show were Bob Crowley (set), Mark Henderson (lighting), and Paddy Cunneen (music).
For tickets to The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Public Theatre through May 10, call (212) 239-6200.
In further NY Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre news:
John Goodman, burly star of TV's "Roseanne," who's had a busy winter starring in a spate of film releases including The Borrowers and The Big Lebowski, will return to the New York stage this summer, playing Mr. Antrobus in the NY Shakespeare Festival's Central Park revival of The Skin of Our Teeth.
The Wilder play is one of two plays being offered as part of NYSF's annual program of free plays at the Delacorte Theatre, several of which have moved to Broadway (Pirates of Penzance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Tempest) or are in the process of doing so (On the Town). The second 1998 Central Park production will be Andrei Serban's mounting of Shakespeare's Cymbeline (no casting announced, as of Apr. 21).
As reported by the NY Times and confirmed by production spokesperson at the Public (Apr. 21), co-starring with Goodman in The Skin of Our Teeth will be Frances Conroy as Mrs. Antrobus and Kristen Johnston as Sabina. Irene Lewis, artistic director of Baltimore MD's Center Stage, will direct the piece, running June 12-July 12.
Wilder's surreal drama follows the Antrobus family, representing the family of Man, as it struggles to survive the Ice Age, marital infidelity and a hurricane that could presage the end of the world. The Pulitzer winning play also is being adapted as a musical by John Kander & Fred Ebb. The non-musical Goodman version will come first.
Goodman has been mixing theatre with film and TV work for several years. Among his stage appearances, he played Huck Finn's father, Pap, in the original Broadway production of the musical Big River, and can be heard singing "Guv'mint" on the original cast album.
Little information is currently available on Cymbeline, which starts previews at the end of July.
On the smaller stages of the Public -- and already sold-out (May 7-17) -- is Everybody's Ruby: Story Of A Murder In Florida, based on the murder of a popular white doctor in 1952 Florida. A married black woman is accused of the crime, setting off tremendous racial agitation.
"I discovered the story in a footnote in a biography of Zora Neale Hurston," said adaptor Thulani Davis. "It was an amazing untold story about sex, race, money and Southern mores. I started out reading the newspaper clips Hurston wrote, and I couldn't answer to my own satisfaction why she didn't write a book about it. It raises questions about who owns a story."
Davis, a journalist and novelist as well as a playwright, also collaborated with Wolfe and opera composer Anthony Davis (X) on the new opera, Amistad, at Chicago's Lyric Opera. Roberta Levitow directs Ruby.
For more information on shows at NYSF/the Public Theatre call (212) 260 2400.
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The Impact of Market Size and Composition on Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the First Year of the ACA
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Under the Affordable Care Act, individual states have discretion in how they define coverage regions, within which insurers must charge the same premium to buyers of the same age, family structure, and smoking status. We exploit variation in these definitions to investigate whether the size of the coverage region affects outcomes in the ACA marketplaces. We find large consequences for small and rural markets. When states combine small counties with neighboring urban areas into a single region, the included rural markets see .6 to .8 more active insurers, on average, and savings in annual premiums of between $200 and $300.
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Two-headed Turtle Discovered In Malaysia (Photos)
The shocking news trending on the internet has it that a two-headed turtle has been discovered on Mabul Island, off the Malaysian part of Borneo.
The two-headed turtle was found in a nest alongside about 90 others hatched on 15th of July. The two-headed turtle only survived for 2 days after it was discovered.
A marine biologist and conversation manager, David McCann for the group called "SJ SEAS" said;
"The right head seems to control the front right flipper, and the left head the front left flipper. Yet they are capable of coordinating their movements in order to walk and swim."
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What type of anesthesia is used for Lumbar Non-Traumatic procedures?
Patients are given IV sedation and a local anesthetic. Conscious sedation and a local anesthetic are the ideal and safest way to anesthetize a patient for a Non-Traumatic Discectomy. Patients are very comfortable and are able to become fully conscious very quickly after the procedure
Can spinal stenosis or foraminal stenosis be treated?
The procedures done at our center can treat these conditions removing impingements to the spinal or foraminal canal and freeing the nerve. Pain and symptoms will be relieved.
How many spine procedures will I require to solve my back pain?
One procedure is usually sufficient to treat a patient's spine problems. However, some patients need treatment at multiple levels and this can also usually be treated during the same operation. Very rarely a patient needs to return for a second surgery. There are rare cases where patients re-injure themselves and need to return for another procedure.
Am I a candidate for a Non-Traumatic spine procedure if I have already had an open operation that didn't work?
Yes, many spine problems can still be corrected following a failed surgery or can be redone using a non-traumatic method. Sometimes patients injure discs at different levels than what was treated in a previous operation. Non-Traumatic spine procedures will not create more instability in the spine and will not create more scar tissue, unlike an open revision surgery.
Are there any medications that I should avoid before having a Non-Traumatic Discectomy at the Back Institute?
Patients should avoid any type of blood thinning medication whether over the counter or prescribed.
If a patient is taking a prescribed medication, such as Coumadin, please consult your doctor before discontinuing its use as a medication prior to surgery. If you are taking any other medications, please inform us at the time you schedule your procedure so we can instruct you on a case by case basis whether to continue them or not.
Can I drive after surgery? When?
Patients cannot drive immediately after a procedure. However, 24 hours after coming out of conscious sedation will be a safe time to start driving again.
I have a protruding or herniated disc. Can it be treated?
Yes. The main purpose for doing a procedure is to remove the offending disc material while not causing trauma to the surrounding tissues. Some centers feel that cutting the bone and freeing up some space around the problem is enough. Our position is that there is no need to dissect and traumatize the surrounding tissues instead of treating the disc herniation/protrusion itself.
How do I determine if I am a candidate for a Non-Traumatic Discectomy at the Back Institute?
Potential patients can contact us by phone or by filling out the online patient form on our web site. A patient advocate will answer any questions. Patients can fax in their written MRI reports for a free review by one of our medical staff. Back Institute medical staff will determine if you are a candidate for a Non-Traumatic Discectomy or another procedure. Back Institute offers a comprehensive analysis of the spine and our center treats all spine problems. We treat spinal conditions with the best procedure done in the least invasive way possible anywhere in the world
How long will I have to stay in Los Angeles if I am coming from out of town?
3 nights in Los Angeles is the typical stay for patients from out of town. We have a 2 day program in some cases as well. Patients do not need to stay overnight in the surgery center since the procedure is outpatient, however patients will get to enjoy 3 nights in a nearby Los Angeles or Beverly Hills Hotel.
What will my limitations be after having a Non-Traumatic Discectomy and will I have to miss any work?
Patients begin with passive therapy after the procedure (massage, ice, heat). After 2 weeks patients move on to pool therapy, and then at 4 weeks, patients begin active physical therapy. Most patients can return to work a couple of days after having the procedure. If a patient's job is strenuous, then we recommend waiting 6 weeks or starting with light restricted duties such as desk work.
What arrangements do I need to make before having my procedure at the Back Institute?
Due to sedation, patients cannot drive themselves after a procedure. Patients need to bring all medications they are currently taking.
Why don't more surgeons around the country perform Non-Traumatic Discectomies?
The advancements in proprietary equipment and totally non-traumatic techniques that the Back Institute has made over the last 20 years make us the leader in performing Non-Traumatic Spine Procedures. Many surgeons around the country, even in the biggest centers, claim to do minimally invasive spine surgery when the fact is they are just beginning to learn how to do it. The problem is that the words "minimally invasive" have lost their meaning from over 20 years ago when the Back Institute pioneered the techniques. Today, surgeons around the country are using smaller openings in their procedures, but they are missing the point to "minimally invasive," which is not to cut muscle, not to cut and remove bone, not to cause scarring, and not to alter the normal anatomy of the spine to get to the problem disc area. Spine centers around the country rely on clever marketing and catchy words like "laser" to attract patients, but they are missing the experience, expertise, credentials and technology to do a Non-Traumatic Procedure. In fact laser is rarely needed in any of these procedures, whether done at the Back Institute or elsewhere. Back Institute is the only center in the world that can accomplish these truly Non-Traumatic techniques, and that is why our procedure is a "Non-Traumatic Discectomy."
What is the best way to learn about my treatment options if I think I have a herniated disc?
An MRI is the best way to tell what is going on in the spine. Your local doctor can prescribe one for you. You can then fax in the written report and mail the actual films or CD to the Back Institute for a free evaluation.
What causes a herniated disc?
There are many things that can cause herniations including falling, having an accident, aging, and working.
What should I do first to relieve the pain and symptoms of my herniated disc?
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His achievements at the 2012 Olympic Games have been eclipsed by Reeva Steenkamp's death on 14 February 2013.
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Britney will include a couple of new songs on the upcoming Piece Of Me summer tour.
Britney will include a couple of new songs on the upcoming Piece Of Me summer tour.
Fans attending Britney's forthcoming Piece Of Me shows this summer are in for a treat! The princess of pop confirms she has "so many changes" in store for us, as well as a couple of new additions.
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"I haven't been to Europe in a while," Britney tells People. "I'm adding a couple of new songs in the show."
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It's not clear what songs Britney is choosing to add to the show, but one safe bet is "Change Your Mind (No Seas Cortes)." Brit recently posted a video of her slaying choreography to the Mattman & Robin-produced track on Instagram. Let's hope we'll get "Overprotected" and/or "Hold It Against Me" performances as well!
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Scratching the Itch.io: Lords, Kings, and Princes (and Ladies, Queens, and Princesses)22 Jan 2018 0
Whether you stuck around for our New Year's edition of Scratching the Itch.io, or decided that even reading was too much of a chore to take on over the holidays, there's little excuse to skip out on this week's edition – unless you're not into the idea of royalty, anyway.
For our seventh stab at uncovering the hidden gems of unfinished indie and amateur games buried deep in Itch.io's algorithms, we've set our sights on the idea of Lords, Kings and, because there's still a lack of diversity in the medium, Princes. It shouldn't be too hard to make a second character have some more feminine features, right?
6 Week Lord
Though its filenames and header call it something different at every turn, the more consistent name for this sharp and short resource management game is 6 Week Lord. While the thought of anything consisting of six weeks sounds far too long, each 'turn' is a week in this world as you, the Lord, decide to rest for the remaining 6 days of the week after throwing gold at two people or laughing in their face.
Going about your duties in a field, we can understand the want to stay back at the castle, palace, or wherever it is you're based, after trekking all the way out just to listen to a peasant and some other guy whine about their lives and ask for your cash. You're either a massive introvert, or you live in a place where rain is highly likely at a moment's notice – like England.
With your Adviser rightfully detailing the contents of your coffer and the happiness of your people as a similar 3-digit number, each turn simply has you manage your gold in a way that's best for the kingdom. After inheriting the place and its debts from your predecessor, the idea is to be wise with money to keep debt collectors from showing up in 6 weeks time. It isn't clear whether this can actually happen unless you throw cash at every request, but it's interesting to hear the stories behind what you're backing – or laughing off and arresting the man who asked you to pay off his daughter's would-be husband.
There's either little strategy involved here or absolutely none, but the pitch is clear enough to see what this would become if the developer was committed to fleshing out the idea. A few spelling errors and nonsensical requests aside, it's a clean game that deserves a mention.
It's become almost mandatory to pick out a game that looks sub-par only to be surprised by its strong execution. Itch.io titles constantly run the risk of being glanced over by having an unflattering name or preview image attached. All The King's Men merely fit this week's theme, but it's logo caught my eye for all the wrong reasons. Thankfully, it's the strongest game of the bunch with addictive gameplay, solid controls, and randomly generated content that could absolutely work as a full title.
All The King's Men puts you more in the place of the King's Guard than the King himself. Hoping to take a stroll on a quiet Sunday morning, the King is ambushed by colourful tree ninjas at every turn. Going out without a guard might have you think the guy is as naive as he is short, but there's a bunch of men stationed along the path, ready to put their lives on the line to project the royal against the assassins hoping to ambush the ruler of what we can only imagine is a grand kingdom.
Best played with a controller, every guard you call for moves together as a group, with positioning handled solely through colliding with other objects – like trees, ninja, and the King himself. The road is long and twisted, leaving plenty of corners to cut to get your men surrounding who they must protect. Ninja appear from lightly shaking trees, giving you a second or two to reposition and make sure someone is ready to bounce off the enemy to send them packing. Ninja come in three flavors; melee, archer, and bomber. Taking the melee head-on is just fine, but the other two require either taking an arrow to the heart, or grabbing the tossed explosive and heading off into the distance to minimize the risk of splash damage wiping out your men.
With more guards joining the party as the King walks on by, the more difficult it becomes to manage how they move. Treasures are hidden within nearby trees and can only be collected by having a guard grab the loot and pass it to the King. If you attempt to take too much on, you're certain to leave an opening in your defences, inviting the ninja to make their move. It's rare to see a strategy game have such a hands-on approach with formations being of both utmost importance and deceptively difficult to manage as you traverse more land and gain more men. Even with all that and 3 difficulty options to choose from, my favourite part is how you recall the names of the men lost at the end of the perilous journey.
Rest in peace, Hipolito Kingsley. We will forever remember your sacrifice (and how you killed your own allies).
The Mad Prince
We've listened to the pleas of our people and taken a relaxing stroll through the ninja-infested forest. Now it's time for a ruler to think of nobody but himself. The Mad Prince is more simplistic in its style than our other two choices this week, but has arguably more thought put into it than our first.
Doing far better on the sound design front than All The King's Men, The Mad Prince boils down to another resource-management strategy sim – only the resources are mostly masked as three flavors of troops like archer, spearmen, and knights. With a handful of each and a sliver of gold to top up your preferred army before charging into battle, combat is little more than a rock, paper, scissors situation where balancing out your units to counter your opponent's is about all that matters.
Spears beat knights, knights beat archers, and archers beat spears. That's it. Your kingdom is surrounded by other lands ripe for the taking, and with the apparent inside knowledge of their exact army composition, you spend gold to build up your ranks in a way that will counter whichever town you want to conquer first. Depending on the size of your target, you'll swipe a pre-determined amount of Gold upon victory to fund the troops you'll need to take on the next. Annex each to add a statue to your fort with 4 being all you need to win the game. There's a working victory condition, but the same can't be said about losing. If you're unable to make a move, all you can do is exit.
We don't have much to praise this one for, but it does include the best end-game sequence of our picks this week. We'll let you learn if for yourself, but your final score does amount to something worthy of the game's name – and failure is your only option thereafter. Say hi to the eagle/balloon ships for me.
Games have always been seen as a form of escapism, so having each of our picks here represent a ruler someone could relate to is a boon that wasn't entirely anticipated. Would you be the mad prince, the unexpected heir to the throne, or the kind of ruler that just wants to go out for a nice walk on the weekends? Whichever fits you best, there's a game to let you live that dream for 10-20 minutes at a time.
That's all for this week's instalment of Scratching the Itch.io. Seen you all again in a couple of weeks!
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French yoghurt makers fined over price-fixingComments
France's competition authority handed the country's top yogurt makers 192 million euros in fines for fixing prices over the course of several years.
Prosecutors say those involved struck secret deals in hotel rooms and on special phone lines created to avoid detection. The ruling found that the companies agreed on how and when to raise prices from 2006 to 2012, and divided up volumes, seriously disturbing the market.
The decision affects 11 companies – including Yoplait and Lactalis – that represent 90 percent of the French market in yogurt and related dairy products.
The cartel was uncovered thanks to a special procedure that allows companies to report their own price-fixing activity to regulators in exchange for reduced punishment.
Lactalis said it would appeal the decision, arguing in a statement that the fines "overestimate in an obvious way the gravity of what happened, and their impact on the economy." The company insisted that it is committed to obeying the law.
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Is this repo - Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1 stable enough now to be used with openSUSE 12.1?
Is this repo - Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1 stable enough now to be used with openSUSE 12.1?
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why not caf?
not questioning your judgment in any way i am just curious
KDE-4.8 has not been released yet.
The repositories at .../ReleaseL/48/ are in preparation, and do not contain a working set.
The source for KDE-4.8rc2 has been released for testing. This is also known as KDE-4.7.97 and a useable build can be found in:
Previously RC1 was there. I am using this for testing purposes only, it is not production ready.
If you want a usable bleeding-edge KDE system, I would wait until 4.8 is released, and expect ...Release:/48 to contain a working system within about a week following release.
Thanks for posting.
I see that the repo referred to in the original post is made up of kde 4.7.98 - which I assume is a tweaked version of rc2.
just checked again and the packages are now 4.8.0
If you look carefully at the content (the clue is in the build numbers), you will see that those i586 packages are actually builds from 4.7.98 sources.
Wait until 4.8 is released by KDE if you want a working system.
Thanks for the clarification.
I will wait until kde 4.8 is in the main factory repo.
some of kde4.8 is now in the repo
the following requirements are not yet provided
kdebase4-session-4.8.0-63.1.noarch requires kdebase4-workspace >= 4.8.0
libkdeedu4-data-4.8.0-23.1.noarch requires libkeduvocdocument4 = 4.8.0
python-kdebase4-4.7.98-728.1.x86_64 requires python-kde4 = 4.7.98
due to the above the following packages were removed
apart from the above all is working very well
new is high cpu useage after kde desktop comes up, only lasts for about 50 seconds
start jingle has also gone
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Implications of the serpentine phase transition on the behaviour of beryllium and lithium-boron of subducted ultramafic rocks
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The Totalp-Platta-Malenco ophiolites in the Eastern Central Alps offer a unique opportunity to study the behaviour of Li, Be and B in ultramafic rocks in response to serpentinization and to progressive Alpine metamorphism. These units represent the remnants of a former ocean-continent transition that was intensely serpentinized during exposure on the Jurassic seafloor of the Ligurian Tethys. From north to the south, three isograd reactions (lizardite double right arrow antigorite + brucite; lizardite + talc double right arrow antigorite; lizardite + tremolite double right arrow antigorite + diopside) have been used to quantify the evolution of the light element content of metamorphic minerals. We determined the Li, Be and B concentrations in major silicate minerals from the ultramafic bodies of Totalp, Platta and Malenco by secondary ion mass spectrometry. Mantle minerals have Be concentrations (e.g. <0.001-0.009 mu g/g in olivine) similar to the metamorphic minerals that replace them (e.g. <0.001-0.016 mu g/g in serpentine). The mantle signature of Be is thus neither erased during seafloor alteration nor by progressive metamorphism from prehnite-pumpellyite to epidote-amphibolite facies. In contrast, the Li and B inventories of metamorphic minerals are related to the lizardite-to-antigorite transition. Both elements display higher concentrations in the low-temperature serpentine polymorph lizardite (max. 156 mu/g Li, max. 318 mu g/g B) than in antigorite (max. 0.11 mu g/g Li, max. 12 mu g/g B). Calculated average B/Li ratios for lizardite (similar to 1395) and antigorite (similar to 115) indicate that Li fractionates from B during the lizardite-to-antigorite transition during prograde metamorphism in ultramafic rocks. In subduction zones, this signature is likely to be recorded in the B-rich nature of forearc fluids. Relative to oceanic mantle the Be content of mantle clinopyroxene is much higher, but similar to Be values from mantle xenoliths and subduction-related peridotite massifs. These data support previous hypothesis that the mantle rocks from the Eastern Central Alps have a subcontinental origin. We conclude that Be behaves conservatively during subduction metamorphism of ultramafic rocks, at least at low-temperature, and thus retains the fingerprint of ancient subduction-related igneous events in mantle peridotites. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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American History: Know-the-facts Review Game: 100 Must-know Facts In A Q&a Game Format To Help Kids Really Remember Standards-based Social Studies Information
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WCSO corporal wounded in shooting is released from hospital
On Thursday, Aug. 8, two law enforcement officers with the Washington County Sheriff's Office were shot and wounded while reportedly searching for an armed suspect near the north end of Henry Hagg Lake.
Deputy Chris Iverson, the more junior of the two, was only lightly injured. He was treated and released from the hospital that same night, according to the Sheriff's Office. But Cpl. Jeremy Braun was seriously hurt and was airlifted to the hospital by a LifeFlight helicopter.
Now Braun is back at home and on the road to recovery, said Deputy Brian van Kleef, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. He was released from the hospital late last week, van Kleef said.
"We're excited he's making good progress," van Kleef said.
Braun and Iverson were shot with a shotgun, according to van Kleef. The suspect, Dante James Halling, is also believed to have stolen a rifle from a nearby residence, van Kleef said, but he allegedly used a shotgun he stole as well to attack law enforcement officers searching for him.
Braun took a damaging blast.
"A lot of the little lead pellets were basically stuck inside his body, and they're in his neck and his lungs," van Kleef said. "They'll probably stay in his body for several years."
With those extensive injuries, even though he's been discharged from OHSU Hospital, Braun is still facing medical procedures and physical therapy.
"He's kind of relearning how to walk and how to swallow," van Kleef said.
It's unclear at this time whether Braun will return to regular duty with the Sheriff's Office. He is a 16-year veteran of the agency.
Halling was also wounded after deputies and police officers reportedly returned fire. Along with Braun and Iverson, six other law enforcement officers — most of them from the Sheriff's Office, but also including a Hillsboro police officer and a Tualatin police detective — were placed on administrative leave, which is standard policy for any officer involved in a shooting.
Halling has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges, including six counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault and unlawful use of a weapon, and burglary and theft. A hearing has been set for Sept. 23 to possibly determine a trial date.
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On view: Friday, April 6 – Thursday, May 3, 2018
Opening reception: Friday, April 6, 6-8PM
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 26, 6-7 PM
The New Art Center is pleased to present Weightless, an exhibition featuring work by Martha Brill, James Varnum, and Sharon Whitham. Using diverse materials, including acrylics, inks, and watercolors, these three artists create work that explores stark contrasts – of place, material, and spirit.
(left to right) Martha Brill, Nebula Series #5 (2017), acrylic and India ink, 20" x 16"; James Varnum, Desert Pool (2016), watercolor and ink on TerraSkin, 16" x 20"; Sharon Whitham, Rock Meditation #1 (2015), monotype, oil on paper, 30" x 20"
The work in this exhibition was created by three NAC students, each occupied with stark contrasts – of place, material, and spirit. Martha Brill explores space and place on both the macro and the micro level. Her Nebula Series paintings explore the vastness of the universe and the world of distant galaxies, while her Habitat Series of small wooden houses represents the world we can control and design. Experimental watercolorist James Varnum uses a variety of materials and tools, such as bubble wrap, salt, squeegees and combs, to create texture and move pigment across his compositions. He finishes with lines and marks in ink or graphite, emphasizing the topography of each painting. Sharon Whitham focuses on the paradox of permanence and impermanence in her monotype prints of stone cairns. The translucent piles of balanced rock achieve a weightless transcendence that simultaneously lifts and grounds our spirits.
Martha Brill is a painter and mixed media artist. She holds a B.A. in English from Tufts University, and has studied a variety of media and techniques – including drawing, design, watercolor, mixed media painting, collage, and sculpture – at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum School, the New Art Center, and the Concord Art Association. Her work has been exhibited in Massachusetts, at locations including the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA; Concord Public Library (solo exhibition) and the Concord Art Association in Concord, MA; Grace Chapel Art Gallery in Lexington, MA; the New Art Center in Newton; and the DeCordova Museum School Gallery in Lincoln, MA, among others.
James Varnum is an experimental watercolor painter. He has studied art in both Boston and San Francisco, and holds a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also holds a M.Ed. from the University of New Hampshire and a M.S. in Communication Disorders from Emerson College, and worked first as a classroom teacher and later as a Speech Language Pathologist. During the thirty-plus years of his professional life, he kept up his creative side by taking art classes through various continuing education organizations. Upon retiring, Varnum began to pursue art professionally again, and is now an active artist in Newton, MA. He is the current president of the Newton Art Association, and a member of several other art associations. He actively exhibits his artwork in the area, and takes classes at the New Art Center.
Sharon Whitham is a printmaker and a mixed-media artist who spends part of the year working out of her studio in Boston, and nearly half the year on Great Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine. She majored in Fine Arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and holds a B.S. in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an Ed. M. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University. She has studied a variety of media – including printmaking, mixed media, Chinese calligraphy, encaustic monotypes, and painting – at the New Art Center in Newton, MA; the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, MA; the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA; and at Fabrica la Aurora in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico. Whitham's work is shown regularly throughout the New England area, where she also teaches printmaking workshops.
This year's Holzwasser Gallery selections were made by juror Sarah Montross, Associate Curator at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Prior to her work at the DeCordova, Montross was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. Her other professional experiences includes positions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as well as teaching jobs at New York University and Hunter College, New York.


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This is an original political cartoon sketch that was then published in the Dayton Journal-Herald newspaper. It features a large portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the proper right side of the cartoon. Opposite him, are five smaller portraits of soldiers that vertically line the proper left side of the cartoon. Each of the soldiers is depicted in military wear, but each soldier's dress corresponds to a different time period. The top soldier has the most antiquated garb, that of the Revolution, and the following soldiers' dress progressively moves forward in time reading the portraits vertically from top to bottom. Below Lincoln's portrait is a large piece of paper upon which is written a quote: "Men will pass away--die; but the principle of democracy will live, forever. . . --A. Lincoln". The artist signed the cartoon in the bottom proper left corner. "(Dayton Journal-Herald, editorial cartoon for Feb. 12 1954)" is handwritten in blue pencil in the bottom margin. Below this there is a personal note written in blue ink: "To Dr. Louis A. Warren, With kindest regards, Lloyd Ostendorf". The title is written in blue pencil in the upper margin. On the reverse side of the object there is a stamp with the artist's name and address. There is also a piece of paper from the Dayton Journal-Herald with editorial information.
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (APP): Pakistan is getting ready to host the 13th
Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in March this year, an official source said here Monday.
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), which is a priority area for
Pakistan, held its last summit in 2012 and now it is Pakistan's turn to host the meeting.
The member states of the organization are Iran, Pakistan, Turkey,
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"Minister's Oliver's CPP announcement has to be seen for what it really is, a feeble attempt by the Conservative government to blunt the repeated calls for CPP reform. Canadians will not be fooled by such a sham." — Larry Brown, NUPGE National Secretary-Treasurer
Commentary by Larry Brown, National Secretary-Treasurer, National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE).
Ottawa (28 May 2015) — Conservative Federal Finance minister, Joe Oliver, announced on May 26 that the government is now willing to "consult" with Canadians about the possibility of allowing Canadian workers to "voluntarily" make additional contributions to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) that would presumably result in enhanced pension benefits when they retire.
Federal government says it will consider additional voluntary contributions to CPP but critics remain concerned about stability of retirement security
This vague commitment has been greeted with a chorus of commentary saying that this is a major switch of position on the government's part and that they have suddenly abandoned their vigorous opposition to an expansion of the CPP. Some have even suggested the government has taken "a 180-degree turn" by now agreeing to expand the CPP.
That would be sensible: the overwhelming consensus among most provincial and territorial governments, pension policy experts, the labour movement and seniors' organizations is that an expanded CPP is the most effective, efficient and affordable way to improve the retirement income security of Canadians.
Unfortunately, this is not what's happened.
Without mandatory contributions from employers, CPP would become just another individual savings plan for people who can already afford to save
CPP is a mandatory universal pension system that requires both employees, and crucially, employers, to contribute towards an employee's eventual retirement pension. Without that element of a mandatory contribution from employers, it would become just another individual retirement savings plan for those who are already fortunate and wealthy enough to have some extra money to sock away for their retirement.
This announcement is simply a smoke and mirrors proposal from the government, a proposal that is designed to blunt the demands for real reform of the CPP, by offering the vague possibility of this misleading alternative.
Government refuses to acknowledge need for across-the-board mandatory improvements to CPP
Even when announcing this ill-defined proposal, the Conservative government still continues to oppose effective expansion of the CPP. Minister Oliver was adamant in his announcement yesterday that "the government will not entertain an across-the-board expansion of CPP contributions." In fact, he described such a plan as an "economy-destabilizing" move and a "job killer." The reality is that neither of those claims is remotely true, of course. There is simply zero evidence to support those assertions.
When the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), the most staunch anti-pension organization in the country, says it's "delighted" with the proposal, it pretty much proves the point that this is not real reform aimed at benefiting the over 11 million Canadians who currently don't have a workplace pension.
Stagnant wages, job losses are major barriers to people saving more for retirement
Wages in this country have stagnated, and while inflation has been low in recent years, it has steadily eaten away at the value of working people's wages. The simple fact is that workers are not saving enough for their retirement because they don't have enough spare cash to put aside.
The government can create all the tax revenue-draining Tax Free Savings Accounts, RRSP's and the like that they want; the reality is that a huge and growing number of Canadians are not able to afford to save enough for their retirement. It's not because they are financially illiterate, it's because they don't have the money they need.
The mandatory component of CPP allows workers to have stable finances into retirement
The overwhelming evidence shows that voluntary contribution pension plans do not have the same level of success in providing decent retirement security as mandatory contribution pension plans, like the current CPP.
The major reason for the success of our CPP is that it's built on mandatory contributions from both workers and employers. In return, all workers get a secure defined pension benefit when they retire; as it stands, they don't get enough pension. Allowing for a voluntary contributions component to CPP will allow employers to continue to shed their responsibility for helping their employees earn a decent retirement income — it will continue to force most employees to simply fend for themselves.
A voluntary add-on, by which people with spare cash can use the expertise of the CPP to grow their savings, is not a totally bad idea, it's just a very limited one, and it would be very difficult to make the idea workable.
It won't help those Canadians who are already hard pressed. It won't do a thing to force employers to live up to their responsibilities.
Minister Oliver's CPP announcement has to be seen for what it really is, a feeble attempt by the Conservative government to blunt the repeated calls for CPP reform. Canadians will not be fooled by such a sham.
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one of Canada's largest labour organizations with over 360,000 members. Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to build a stronger Canada by ensuring our common wealth is used for the common good. NUPGE


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The library is also open to the public, municipal authorities and companies in the metropolitan area.
You can read and study in the library areas 7 days a week, including weekends and holidays.
How the library services are used during the year.
In the university library you find literature, media and databases of all subjects – either to borrow or to use in the library.
During the year the library acquires
The university library offers courses, tutorials, and tours, and provides subject-specific advice and writing consultancy. You can also use our live chat or ask a librarian at the information desks. Our activities per year:
Some current projects of the university library are sponsored by research funding institutions.
The university library provides you with advice relating to publishing and open access and supports you in publishing your research results.
The University Library has its origins in the institutional libraries and the central library of the "Handelshochschule" (Commercial College Mannheim) founded in 1907. In 1932, these libraries were organizationally combined with the "Städtische Schlossbücherei" (Palace Library). The Palace Library was hived off as the "Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Mannheim" (Academic and City Library).
When the National Socialist dictatorship dissolved the "Handelshochschule" in 1933, the library's stock was handed over to Heidelberg. Founded in 1946, the "Staatliche Wirtschaftshochschule Mannheim" (State College for Economics) got most of these books back from Heidelberg.
The promotion of the State College to the University in 1967 brought not only increased new acquisitions to the library in all subjects represented at the university, but also a large increase in older collections from the Academic and City Library, which was dissolved at the end of 1970.
Over the past 30 years, the book and media stock in the Mannheim University Library has doubled. During the last 10 years the focus of academic journals has increasingly shifted to licensing online. We also have expanded access to licensed e-books.
Our contac persons will inform you about the range of services offered by the University Library. They also organize exhibitions and readings - often in cooperation with external institutions.


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Students come and go all the time and on Friday we said goodbye to some of them. You never get used to it, believe me, no matter how often you do it.
We hope you enjoyed your time with us! ¡Hasta pronto! 🙂
Students come and go all the time and on Friday we said goodbye to some of them. You never get used to it, believe me, no matter how often you do it.
We hope you enjoyed your time with us! ¡Hasta pronto! 🙂
Monday, 2nd May
Tuesday, 3rd May
Wednesday, 4th May
Thursday, 5th May
Friday, 6th May
Saturday, 7th May
Sunday, 8th May
I love spring, but it is so unpredictable sometimes! There was quite a chill in the air on Friday, but the sun came out later on and it got a bit better. Just in time to say goodbye to our students!
Thank you chic@s, ¡ha sido un placer!
¡Hasta la próxima! 🙂
On Tuesday we went to one of our favourite places, el Turó de la Rovira. From here the view of Barcelona is absolute stunning! 🙂
As Tim Mcmorris puts it "We're going up, up up, and up, up, up. We're going up, to the top, won't stop, now I'm feelin it / Celebrate life, good times all around."
Beautiful Barcelona!
Walking through different areas in Barcelona is the best way to discover the city. And it's fun, too! This time we organised a walking tour of Poblenou with our brilliant teacher Ana de Madrid. Our meeting point was the Museu del Disseny and we walked all the way down to the beach! We ended our tour with a refreshing glass of vermut in our hands. "Eso sí que es vida" 😉
Monday, 25th April
Tuesday, 26th April
Wednesday, 27th April
Thursday, 28th April
Friday, 29th April
Saturday, 30th April
Sunday, 1st May
Time to say goodbye to some of our students 🙁 Time passes by too quickly sometimes!
Thank you guys, ¡hasta luego! 🙂
Monday, 18th April
Tuesday, 19th April
Wednesday, 20th April
Thursday, 21st April
Friday, 22nd April
Saturday, 23rd April
Sunday, 24th April
On this sunny Friday we said goodbye to some of our students and we gave them their well-deserved certificates.
Thank you for studying with us!
¡Hasta pronto, chic@s! 🙂
At Linguaschools Barcelona we just love tapas. And our students love them, too!
It's a good way of getting to know different places, as well. On Thursday 7th April we went to L'Hospitalet, a nearby city reachable by metro. It's much more quiet than Barcelona, but we still had plenty of fun!
On Saturday 9th April we took a train and after a short journey we arrived in Sitges, a picturesque fishing coastal town. We had a nice walk discovering various little streets and learning new things (did you know that the original Chiringuito is from here?). We obviously finished our visit off with some delicious food, as expected. 😉