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Skip to 0 minutes and 8 seconds Online language teaching can be all sorts of teaching. It can be teaching groups, individuals. I've taught a number of different learners one on one and in groups. Most recently, I taught a group of refugees who were based all over the world in lots of different time zones. They were all a similar level of English. They were all intermediate level. It can be teaching on a platform, so that means an online school where you sign up as a teacher, and then you deliver lessons to their students, much the same as you would do in a face-to-face chain of schools. For one thing, they help plan your lessons for you.
Skip to 0 minutes and 43 seconds So a lot of the different online platforms have different structures already built in. Some online tutors, they own their own business, so they will be finding students and teaching them and managing all that process themselves. My online tutoring is in the context of business English, so it's normally middle managers who are going abroad. So regarding how much time I spend doing that each week, it fluctuates. I have certain clients who, if they're going abroad, I'll see them quite a lot. I also have people that will contact me while they're abroad– they've heard something when they're out and they want to ask me immediately.
Skip to 1 minute and 30 seconds And that's one of the real benefits of online tutoring, is that they've got that kind of immediate access to the teacher. They don't have to wait until they return from being abroad. Teaching online is any teaching that you do online, it can be all sorts of ages– very young children– I know of a lot of teachers who work with three, four-year-olds. The types of classes I teach can vary quite a bit depending on the ages. So I teach anything from three years old to 12 years old, so you can imagine there's a really big range in the types of classes they have. For the really little kids, it's really focused on vocabulary and a little bit of phonetics as well.
Skip to 2 minutes and 11 seconds So being able to break down the actual sounds, focusing on the alphabet and basic vocabulary of numbers, colours, toys, things like that. You might work with adults. You could teach business students, professionals– really the same range of students that you would get in a face-to-face context, you could get them online as well. People are studying in their home environments, in their living room, in their car. I had one lady working from her car. She wasn't driving. A successful online lesson is a lesson where your student goes away knowing something they didn't know at the beginning, or being able to do something they couldn't do at the beginning.
What does it mean to teach English online?
Let's begin by talking about what we mean by online teaching. Who do you teach? Who do you work for? In this video, some of our teachers tell us about their teaching contexts.
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Mission and Vision
Currently there is an unmet clinical need to treat patients living with Parkinson disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in people living with Parkinson's is widespread and has significant clinical effects. At the moment there is no treatment available for PD-MCI. In fact, the underlying pathology of MCI in Parkinson's suggests that nicotinic agonists are specifically relevant for this condition, and there is sufficient preliminary (pre-)clinical evidence in support of this hypothesis. Hence, the major aim of the project PD-MIND is to identify the potential of the nicotinic α7 agonist AZD0328 in a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group, international multicentre study on cognitive function in people diagnosed with PD-MCI.
PD-MIND hopes to find early proof-of-concept for new mechanisms with the potential to rapidly bring a novel drug to patients with this high unmet need. The project exploits a novel target in a large population of 1.2 million people living with Parkinson's already in Europe alone. PD-MCI-diagnosed people and their carers experience a significantly reduced quality of life. People living with PD-MCI also undergo a rather shorter time to developing dementia. In this regard, the development of the first ever drug to effectively improve cognitive functions in PD-MCI-diagnosed people would deliver important socioeconomic and clinical impacts.
PD-MIND's ambition is to determine the potential effectiveness of a nicotinic receptor agonist on cognitive decline as a primary outcome measure in PD-MCI.
The project could result in the first systematic evidence of improvement in PD-MCI patients, because the project aims to develop a drug for the first phase 3 clinical trial for PD-MCI. Since Parkinson's affects 1% of European citizens over 65 years, this envisioned outcome is expected to have a huge socioeconomic and clinical impact.
Secondly, PD-MIND strives, even in the context of a drug repurposing program, to optimise drug development timelines. Generally, trial duration will be kept to a maximum of 22 months, thanks to the use of highly experienced, large recruiting centers and short follow-up sessions necessary. In comparison with conventional drug (repurposing) developmental programmes wherein phase 2 and phase 3 trial period span 8 years or more, PD-MIND allows an expected time to clinic/market of 6 years only, i.e. a 2 years gain.

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The 10 Most Unanswered Questions about Limos
The Best Ideas For Getting The Right Airport Services
When you are planning any trip, you must ensure that you factor in most of the details. You should figure out your transport needs by searching on the airport services into the country or state that you are headed to. To get the high-quality service, you should use the following pointers when hiring any transport service.
The Ratings Of The Company
You need to be sure on the past works that the company has handled. It is easy to obtain the records of the company by checking on what their clients are saying about them. To have a clear detail of the taxi business, you should ensure that they are rated with several people. The companies that are offering the best services should be considered for the airport services.
Check On The Rate Of The Convenience
When you have never been to the areas before, you should ensure that the company arranges for your curb on time. You should check on the operation hours of the company and ensure that they function on a 24hours to get your service anytime. When the company has fixed operational hours, you should find out if they can decide to ensure that you are transported on time.
The Number Of The Passengers
You need to inform the customer attendants of the number of the passengers that will need the car. You should ensure that you are comfortable inside the vehicle and that can be achieved by hiring the right type of the vehicle. You should also give clear details of the sizes of the luggage that will need to be transported.
The Credentials Of The Company
Any company that is offering the airport services need to be reregistered with the local authorities. You should ensure that you check the licenses and the insurance of the companies to ensure that they are within the laws. You should hire the company when you are sure that they meet all the law requirements.
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You should ensure that you do a research about the market prices of the airport services. Companies that are very cheap can be an indicator that they are not meeting certain obligations. To get the best rates especially when travelling in groups, you should ensure that you identify the companies that are offering discounts.
You need to be informed on the leading companies that offer the airport services. You should research on the different companies to get the one within your budget and which offers the best service.


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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — One Long Island community is now considering a moratorium on new development.
The mayor of Farmingdale is proposing the move — and it's getting support from some residents and business owners who say downtown is growing too fast, CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reported Wednesday.
The turnaround seemed to arrive overnight — explosive growth in the village of Farmingdale. The demolishing and rebuilding has taken center stage near the Long Island Rail Road station.
"One hundred million dollars worth of development in our downtown area," Farmingdale Mayor Ralph Ekstrand said.
The mayor, who is also a village pharmacist, has been hearing some complaints.
Farmingdale's master plan in 2013 was to build 375 units of housing over 25 years, but in just six years it has already surpassed 250 units.
The village is buzzing as an up-and-coming destination, but some residents are pushing back, worried about a sudden change in the character of their hometown.
"It's almost getting to … have you ever been to New Orleans? It's like a Mardi Gras," one person said.
"There's lot of new shops, a lot of new little restaurants that we can all enjoy," another said.
"Parking is extremely difficult on Main Street," another added.
Bars, restaurants, shopping and millennials. Vision Long Island's Eric Alexander said multiple Long Island villages are going through such a resurgence.
"But of course they want it at a pace that they can digest, that works with their quality of life," Alexander said. "We always have to listen to the local community."
Citizens Campaign for the Environment, which is located on Main Street, said challenges come with smart growth.
"Increased litter, a lot more congestion, a lot more truck traffic making deliveries and a lot of noise," said Citizen Campaign's Adrienne Esposito.
Entrepreneur Kelly Zhou said municipalities have to address that, but not at the expense of new businesses.
"We see a lot of young people coming into the area from the train station, from the new apartments upstairs," Zhou said.
When asked if it's time to hit the pause button, Mayor Ekstrand said, "That's correct. Let's look at everything that's been done in the past six years. Let's look and see if we have to tweak the master plan a little bit."
A six-month moratorium on new downtown development will be voted on at the next village board meeting.
Following a contentious community hearing, a proposal to build another 54-unit apartment building and performing arts center on Main Street has been withdrawn.


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Doublethinking:: "Aww, that's too bad…" and "Yesss! Yesss!". I kind of feel like a bastard. But sometimes being a bastard kind of feels good.
QOTD (yesterday) : "Before Bush, they just stayed in their little holes and went "God God God God God God…"…and nobody cared. Now they're coming out of their little holes…" -JR
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Selling Pressures Rise in China
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THE MASSIVE PILE OF CASH that's been driving gains in china's stock market is about to run into an equally large pile of new shares for sale.
That doesn't bode well for Chinese investors.
The new stock comes from several places, including previously non-tradable stakes in companies that recently have been freed up by government reforms. Also, investors this year will be allowed to sell large blocks of stock that were acquired in last year's wave of initial public offerings.
It's not a trivial sum. Analysts expect about 1.6 trillion yuan ($225 billion) worth of shares to become available for sale in 2008 alone. Add the stock that was freed up last year but remains unsold, and you are talking about increasing the number of tradable shares by about one-third, Morgan Stanley's China strategist, Jerry Lou, estimates.
The sales compound existing problems. The Shanghai Composite is down 17% this year and 28% from its all-time high, reached in October. One major worry: that fund-raising by Chinese companies will soak up any extra cash in the markets -- making it difficult for other stocks to rise.
Still, even the biggest of those offerings, a combined stock and bond issuance from Ping An Insurance (Group) of China (ticker: 2318.Hong Kong), comes to just one-tenth of the value of stock to be unlocked this year. Lou notes that a massive amount of this stock, worth about 300 billion yuan, is due to be unlocked in March.
The government -- seeing this coming -- has imposed restrictions on the pace of selling. If things do get really hairy, Beijing could take further steps to discourage sales. And it's worth noting that almost all of the stock that was unlocked last year remains unsold.
Then again, if greed played a role in discouraging selling last year, fear might play a role in encouraging it this year. Not only will some sell because they know valuations have been stretched, but others -- like property developers -- need the cash, says William Liu, head of China research at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets.
"I would say currently, a lot of people have the incentive to sell," he says.
To Liu, however, this selling pressure is much less worrisome than the potential impact on corporate earnings of the stock-market decline. Figures vary depending on the source, but according to an estimate last year by Chinese data provider Wind Info, in the first nine months of 2007 about 28% of corporate profits among Chinese companies came from investment gains.
That's twice as much as the year before and it's not restricted to financial companies.
This could have a cascading effect -- as the market declines, so do corporate profits, further pressuring the markets. Insurers that "subscribed heavily into IPOs in the past year" are particularly vulnerable, Lou says. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JPMorgan, estimates that 24% of the 2008 earnings of Ping An, China Life Insurance (LFC), and PICC Property & Casualty (2328.HK) will have come from investment income.


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I have checked the datasheet for the Meraki MS250 switch and it states that all models provide 4 x 10GbE SFP+ uplink ports, however, the documentation does not state if the uplink ports also support 1GbE? I need to install a couple of these switches with 1GbE SX uplinks initially before switching to 10GbE SR.
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Conceptual Change and the Constitution
Edited by Terrance Ball and J.G.A. Pocock
In this volume distinguished historians and political scientists examine political discourse during that short span of years from the Revolution through ratification, a period of profound political and conceptual change. The concepts of "sovereignty," "representation," "liberty," "virtue," "republic," "democracy"—even "constitution" itself—were virtually recoined. Others, like "federalism," were new inventions. Out of the vehement political arguments and debates of the period came not only a new Constitution but a new political vocabulary—a political idiom that was distinctly recognizably American.
"A corrective to the all-too-facile tendency to find a conceptual uniformity in the Founders' thought."
"Politics is a communicatively constituted activity. Words are its coin, and speech its medium. And yet, notoriously, the words which make up this medium have hotly contested and historically mutable meanings."
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"These well-written essays provide new insight into the history of the period."
—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
"This volume calls attention to the changing or multiple meanings of key concepts and terms in Revolutionary-era political thought. As against the tendency to stress the relative homogeneity of the ideas that coalesced in the late 1780s, this collection creates, in effect, a set of case studies that illuminate the range of issues around which new and disputed positions formed."
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As progressives consider proposals to implement universal health care, it's important to define the principle that's driving them. What unites Democrats right now is the idea that health care is a right afforded to all. If that's the self-imposed litmus test, it's essential to define "all" when discussing universal health care.
Millions of people who live in the United States are currently uninsured. High costs remain a major barrier to coverage; 46 percent of uninsured adults said costs were a primary reason according to a 2015 Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Proposals by Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Brian Schatz (D-HI), who are advocating to expand public programs like Medicare and Medicaid, respectively, strive to make care affordable.
But even if rising costs to care were miraculously resolved, one group of people would still be excluded.
In 2015, 23 million non-citizen immigrants resided in the United States, which accounts for 7 percent of the population. (Non-citizen immigrants account for both lawfully present and undocumented immigrants.) Non-citizen immigrants are significantly more likely than citizens to be uninsured. Seventeen percent of lawfully present immigrants and 41 percent of undocumented immigrants are uninsured, compared to just about 9 percent of U.S. born and naturalized citizens.
A single-payer system addresses health care financing, and a single public or quasi-public agency organizes care. Often, the progressive mission (universal health care) and the method (single payer) are conflated. But single-payer is hardly the only avenue to reach universal health care. In the various Medicare-for-all bills floating around Capitol Hill, not everyone — especially undocumented people and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients — living in the United States would be guaranteed government-run health coverage.
Founding member of the consumer advocacy group Families USA Ron Pollack wrote about viable alternatives to single payer, as progressives strive for high-quality, affordable health care for everyone. He outlined four ways to inch closer to universal coverage, none of which promotes scrapping the current system but instead expands upon existing plans. One suggestion: extend care to immigrants who currently are ineligible for insurance.
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), people with various immigrant status qualify for the marketplace coverage. Lawfully present immigrants can buy subsidized care, but undocumented and DACA recipients are unable to. Immigration status as well as mixed-status families, where one person is undocumented, largely prevent people from obtaining insurance.
Providing preventative health care to all immigrants — regardless of status — is as politically controversial as single payer. In the Better Care Reconciliation Act, Republicans looked to bar certain immigrant groups that gained coverage under the ACA. Only permanent residents and asylum seekers qualified for care under the GOP bill.
As Medicare-for-all advocates discuss its highly ambitious health policy proposal, know that this is guaranteed universal health care for lawfully present immigrants only. Perhaps for now, that's enough, given that key details — like the bill's funding language — are delayed.
Sen. Bernie Sanders released his vision for universal coverage Wednesday. Sanders wants to scrap the current employer-based health care model and implement a Medicare-for-all national health insurance program. Under the "Medicare for All Act of 2017," residents would be provided a universal Medicare card upon enrollment. Here is who would gain coverage under the bill:
The transition to the single-payer system only allows "an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence" to buy into Medicare, as under the ACA. But once single-payer is fully implemented, the discretion of which immigrant qualifies is ultimately left to the White House, leaving the fate of every immigrants' care in the hands of whoever is president.
During Sanders' news conference on Medicare for All Wednesday, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said "all the people in this country should have health care," including the 11 million undocumented and nearly 790,000 DACA recipients. She was the only lawmaker who connected universality to immigration status.
Wednesday's bill is hardly its last iteration, and has largely been framed by proponents as the start of the conversation. As lawmakers litigate this bill and bills similar to it, the question of who is "all" in Medicare-for-all will arise. For political purposes, it'll be tempting to separate immigration and health care; although, for those affected, it's hard to do that. Perhaps a comparable solution is to leave it to the states, which have largely taken it upon themselves to do so already.
California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington use state money to provide care to the undocumented. California, where almost one quarter of the nation's undocumented immigrants reside, expanded coverage by innovating two existing health care systems. First, the Health for All Kids Act provides undocumented immigrant children with access to coverage through Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid program.
Second, My Health LA, which is a Los Angeles County based health program, extended coverage by not defining who's eligible. The idea is, anyone who is ineligible for anything else should go to a contracted clinic; this is not insurance. County officials pushed for the program and said it would cut down on the use of emergency rooms by uninsured immigrants, which is costly.
It's unclear what the aforementioned health care plans would look like under Sanders' bill. Presumably they'd be deemed unnecessary as the health care system is streamlined. And there are a host of other concerns to address when discussing single payer, said Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles' Cynthia Carmona. "During the four year transition, we will face significant challenges," she told ThinkProgress. Namely, how do you phase out health plans, that know the U.S. system, for all its fragmented ways to provide care for lawfully present and undocumented people.
CCALAC has come out in support of universal health care and has worked hard to ensure that undocumented immigrants in California have access to health care. Carmona recognizes, from a provider perspective, that the devil is in the details. "Just because you create a bill like this [Medicare for All], doesn't mean you create access," she said.


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Lord Chancellor welcomes promotion of new silks
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of 108 new Queen's Counsel.
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of 108 barristers and solicitors as new Queen's Counsel (QC). The title of QC is awarded to those who have demonstrated particular skill and expertise in the conduct of advocacy.
Her Majesty has also approved the appointment of 6 new Honorary Queen's Counsel (QC Honoris Causa). Their biographies are listed below. Honorary QCs are awarded to lawyers and legal academics who have made a major contribution to the law of England and Wales outside practice in the courts.
On 11 March 2019, the Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony at Westminster Hall, where he will formally bestow the title of QC upon the successful applicants and award the honorary QCs.
Lord Chancellor David Gauke said:
I congratulate each of the 108 barristers and solicitors who are to become Queen's Counsel and also the six Honorary Queen's Counsel on their forthcoming appointments. The award of the title of Queen's Counsel is a recognition of depth of expertise and eminence in their fields. It is this expertise that gives the English legal system its world-leading reputation.
Honorary Queen's Counsel biographies
Professor Mads Andenæs
Professor Mads Andenæs is a leading academic and has been recommended for his work in the fields of comparative and international law, in familiarising academic and practising lawyers and the judiciary in this jurisdiction with other systems of law and by encouraging exchanges of views and approaches between common and civil lawyers. He has written many books on the subject and has established a series of annual seminars on pressing issues as seen from European Supreme Courts. This was inaugurated by a seminar in the UK Supreme Court with the participation of a number of leading UK practitioners and judges. He was also member and Special Rapporteur in the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and contributed to its report « Basic Principles and Guidelines » (2012). This report has been referred to in UK Supreme Court judgments.
Professor Sue Arrowsmith
Professor Sue Arrowsmith is the author of the principal treatise used by practitioners and academics in the field of public procurement law, which has been formally recognised as an authoritative work of reference by the courts. She also founded the Public Procurement Law Review in 1992 (and has remained General Editor since then), providing information and debate on legal developments for both practice and academia. She is Director of the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham, the pre-eminent European centre for public procurement research and teaching, which she founded there in 1998. For more than 20 years she has organised a major international conference on procurement at Nottingham bringing together policy makers, practitioners and academics. She has made a substantial contribution to the reform work of many international committees on public procurement, including (for more than 20 years) the European Commission's independent Advisory Committee, the UNCITRAL Expert Committee and the World Bank Advisory Group, and recently was appointed as Expert to the Task Force on procurement of the International Partnership Against Corruption in Sport.
Professor Richard Fentiman
Professor Richard Fentiman is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Cambridge where he was formerly Chair of the Faculty of Law. He is internationally acknowledged as a leading scholar in his field and is recognised especially as an expert on the law and practice of international commercial litigation. He is the author of two major works, International Commercial Litigation (2015) and Foreign Law in English Courts (1998), and of numerous other publications. His work, which emphasises the law's practical context, has contributed both to legal scholarship and to the law's development. His writings are frequently cited in the courts of England and other common law jurisdictions and he has been extensively involved in law reform in England and internationally. His expertise and distinction have been recognised by invitations to give evidence to Parliamentary committees and advise public bodies in the UK, including the Financial Markets Law Committee, and to represent an English law perspective in the work of international institutions such as the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the European Commission and the European Parliament. Through his work on international co-operation in civil justice he has promoted understanding of English law beyond the UK, particularly within the European Union.
Jonathan Jones
Jonathan Jones is the Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department (GLD). He has brought together all Government legal teams to establish a unique legal shared service for the GLD. He has played a critical personal role in providing legal advice to the Government under the exceptional circumstances of Brexit. He has also demonstrated great drive to improve diversity and inclusion, both within the GLD; across the wider civil service as its most senior Health & Wellbeing champion, where he has championed initiatives to improve the working lives of all civil servants; and in the legal profession, where he plays an active role in legal training for new barristers. He also contributes to the education of barristers in his role as a Bencher of his Inn.
Professor Charles Mitchell
Professor Charles Mitchell is one of the outstanding and most respected academic authorities on the law of unjust enrichment and the law of trusts. He has written books on subrogation; on contribution and reimbursement; on unjust enrichment; and on trusts. His work on the most recent editions of Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment has proved invaluable in cases which have come before the Supreme Court. He has shown dedication to bridging the gap between theory and practice, through his development and clarification of the law, including particularly difficult areas of law where conflicting authorities make underlying principles hard to discern.
Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin
Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin is an academic who has also served the Welsh Assembly Government as its first principal Legislative Draftsman. His book, The Legal History of Wales, published in 2007, is the first comprehensive history of law in Wales from the Roman invasion to devolution. He is the general editor of the University of Wales series The Public Law of Wales. He was centrally involved in establishing and building the legislative drafting capacity of the Welsh Government – in both English and Welsh - in the initial years of primary legislative devolution for Wales. Prior to that, he was the founding head of the Law School and first Professor of Law at the University of Wales, Bangor.
Notes to editors
- The list of 2018 to 2019 Queen's Counsel appointments
- The 108 Queen's Counsel (QC) (also known as silks) appointments includes:
- 30 women applicants of the 55 that applied. Last year, 32 out of 50 female applicants were successful
- 13 applicants who declared an ethnic origin other than white of the 30 that applied. Last year 18 such applicants out of 33 were appointed
- 19 applicants aged over 50 were appointed. Last year 21 such applicants were appointed. The youngest successful applicant is 38-years-old and the oldest is 61
- 4 solicitor advocates of the 5 who applied. In the previous competition 5 solicitor advocates were appointed.
- QCs are appointed by The Queen, on the advice of the Lord Chancellor. He is in turn advised by an independent Selection Panel which receives and considers each application and makes recommendations as to appointment.
- For further information, please call the Ministry of Justice press office on 020 3334 5422. Follow us @MoJGovUK.


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Tully Smyth Tips For Learning to Love Yourself
Tully Smyth on Learning to Love Herself: "It's OK Not to Have Your Sh*t Together at 30"
This feature is dedicated to our #NoChangeNoFuture initiative. From the Women's March, to Australia voting yes to same sex marriage, and the #MeToo movement, 2017 taught us to look beyond ourselves and come together as a collective of powerful women who are writing our own history. Join us as we cancel setting one-dimensional personal resolutions this January and commit to being the change we want to see. Because without change, there is no future.
Last October, I turned 30 years old.
I also had a teeny, tiny bit of a mental break down. A mini meltdown, if you will.
It surprised absolutely no one. I had been dreading turning the big 3-0 ever since I turned 29, for all the usual clichéd reasons.
I was single — in fact, recently dumped. I wasn't where I thought I would be at 30. I didn't have the job I'd always dreamed of, or the apartment I felt I probably should own. Didn't even own a fruit bowl of avocados. All I had to show for the last four years of my life was a bunch of Instagram followers and while I love each and every single one of them, they don't exactly keep you warm at night.
All I had to show for the last four years of my life was a bunch of Instagram followers.
I had taken to hanging out with my psychologist more frequently than my best friends (love you, Jane) until one day, towards the end of one of my appointments, Jane dropped a bit of a truth bomb I'm not sure I was quite ready to hear. "Tully, she said."It sounds to me like you think you're unlovable, or that you're hard to love."
Woah. F*ck, Jane. Way to blow my whole loud-mouth, party-girl, independent-woman-who-needs-no-man bravado out the window.
Of course, I immediately burst into tears. Because Jane — sweet, wise, Jane, who had only recently met me — had hit the nail right on the head. She'd cracked the code I'd been struggling with for 30 or so years and it had left me feeling derailed and lost.
Did I really believe that? That I was unlovable? It would certainly explain a few things . . . like why I kept trying to date emotionally unavailable men who blatantly told me they weren't interested, but who I kept fighting for and pursuing for months after they attempted to cut the cord. Romantic or psychotic? Don't answer that.
No, Jane was right.
These days you can't scroll through your social feeds without seeing something about "self-love." According to social media, health experts, celebrities and nearly everyone else on the planet, it's now more important than breakfast and we should all be doing it — but if you don't even like yourself, how are you supposed to love yourself?
As someone who was quite confident for most of her adolescence, the sudden realisation that I didn't really like myself as a person, let alone love myself, hit home hard.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'm awful. I've got some great redeeming qualities. I'm a very reliable and loyal friend. I have a pretty switched on brain, a decent sense of humour. I am extremely thoughtful and generous.
So would I grab a coffee with myself? Sure. But would I date me? Probably not. How on earth am I supposed to expect anybody else to want to date me if I don't even want to date myself? This realisation might seem obvious to most of you but as someone who was quite confident (some might say cocky) for most of her adolescence, the sudden realisation that I didn't even really like myself as a person, let alone love myself, hit home hard. And I wasn't quite sure what to do about it.
Do I take myself to a movie? Treat myself to a fancy dinner? I had a sneaking suspicion this was going to be more about looking internally and dealing with some repressed demons. Facing up to some hard truths. And that just sounded like a lot of admin, if I'm honest.
However, as with most things in life, nothing worth having ever comes easy. So I began taking some (baby) proactive steps towards learning to not only like myself, but love myself.
- I got back into my exercise routine. I researched some great meditation, reiki and kinesiology healers (not for everyone but when you've hit rock bottom, you're open to anything!).
- I started eating better. Sure, there has still been the occasional cheeseburger here and there but I was making better choices when I could. Mineral water over Coca Cola. Grilled salmon over battered fish.
- I put myself on a dating ban: no dinners and definitely no sleepovers!
- I started hanging out more with people I admired or looked up to, friends that seemed to have their shit together or were successful in achieving their goals. Surrounding yourself with good people rather than toxic succubi is so important.
- I started to be more honest with myself and my feelings, instead of always slapping on a happy face or pretending everything was OK. Sometimes bathing in your sadness is the only thing that's going to help you deal with it and move on.
- As recently as this week, I decided to go on a drinking detox, because that liquid Band-Aid isn't really doing it for me anymore.
- Perhaps most importantly, and I urge every single person who reads this to do the same, I started being kinder to myself.
We are only human. We're learning and growing each and every day. It's OK to not have your shit together at 30. At 40. At 50 and 60 years old. It's OK to make mistakes. It's OK to stuff up or fall off the wagon. That doesn't make you a shitty person, it just makes you human.
I think perhaps my biggest realisation when I turned 30 was that self-love is a process. You don't just wake up one day, look in the mirror and say, "Hey, you! You're f*cking wonderful!" If it were that simple, the magazine, beauty and fashion industries would be bust.
It's something we've got to work on every day. So go to work. Give yourself a pat on the back and remind yourself that you're doing alright. You're doing the best you can.
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A bizarre story that originated from the conspiracy theory blogosphere going viral on social media claims that in 1969, Soviet scientists covered up the discovery of a perfectly preserved 800-million-year-old human body. The perfectly preserved 800-million-year-old body of a beautiful girl was found inside an intricately designed marble casket at a coal mine outside the remote village of Rzhavchik Tisulskago in the Kemerovo region of Russia.
While many readers on Disclose TV dismissed the story as a fabrication based on the fairy tale "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs," some out-of-place artifact conspiracy theorists argued that the story was authentic and that Soviet scientists conspired with the communist authorities to cover up the discovery of the body because it disproved Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Some claimed that the story originated from a Russian language documentary (see YouTube below) first uploaded to YouTube in 2014. Others argued that the video stole images from a different case: the Taklamakan mummies discovered in the Chinese desert.
The Russian language video, according to versions subtitled in the English language, claims that the intricately crafted marble coffin containing the perfectly preserved body was found about 70 feet underground by local miners in 1969. The casket was first found by a miner identified as Karnaukhov.
Alexander Masalygina, the official in charge at the site located near the small and remote village of Rzhavchik Tisulskago in the Kemerovo region of Russia, ordered work to stop immediately after the miners discovered the mysterious and skilfully crafted marble coffin, according to the conspiracy theory blog Ancient Patriarchs.
Workers brought the strange artifact to the surface and opened it by gently chipping fossilized putty off the edges of the coffin. But as they tried to open the casket, heat from the sun melted the putty and a strange liquid flowed from inside the casket.
When the miners opened the coffin, the found inside it the body of a beautiful young woman — about 30-years-old — preserved perfectly in a mysterious pink and blue liquid.
The young woman's blue eyes were wide open. She had soft pale hands and neatly cropped nails. She was dressed in a sheer white dress that reached her knees.
A small rectangular metal object that looked like a cell phone was placed close to her head.The body was so well-preserved that it seemed to the miners that the young woman was sleeping rather than dead.
After the casket was opened, dozens of people at the site gathered around to look at the beautiful woman inside the casket. But district officials learned of the discovery, and within 24 hours, government officials in Moscow sent a red helicopter to retrieve the coffin.
But because the helicopter was unable to lift the heavy coffin, officials decided to remove the pink and blue fluid. However, the corpse blackened and became unrecognizable after the fluid was removed. But when the mysterious liquid was poured back into the casket, the corpse regained its fresh lifelike appearance.
Woman Discovered In A Perfect Marble Casket In Russia Is 800 Million Years Old https://t.co/J4fKMxj9TF— mikulaš mikulec (@mykykulec) January 8, 2017
The officials closed the coffin, and a bigger helicopter was sent to transport the coffin. Government agents were also sent to quarantine the site. The witnesses were rounded up and kept in isolation for several days. During the period, security operatives advised them never to talk about the strange discovery.
An elderly professor from Novosibirsk was summoned to investigate the body. After examining the corpse, the professor concluded that a discovery had been made that would revolutionize our understanding of Earth's history. He said the discovery was so shocking that it was unbelievable.
Part of his shocking conclusion was that the body and the casket were at least 800-million-years-old. He said the woman inside the coffin was older than the coal deposit in which she was found. He also concluded that the discovery disproved Darwin's theory of evolution.
Woman Discovered In A Perfect Marble Casket In #Russia Is 800 Million Years Old #Novosibirsk https://t.co/DCGcPLrKnM— Disclose.tv (@DiscloseTV) January 6, 2017
"Today, we are the same as our ancestors 800 million years ago! No evolution!" the researcher said.
Researchers who examined and analyzed the fabric used to make the dress were baffled because they could not determine its nature and its age. They concluded that the technology used to manufacture the fabric is unknown today and that it was much more advanced that present-day technology.
Scientists were also unable to identify the pink and blue fluid used to embalm and preserve the body despite several attempts by top laboratories in the U.S.S.R. However, subsequent analysis identified two components of the fluid as onion and garlic.
Soviet authorities ordered security agents to hush up the mysterious discovery. Soviet security agents were sent to round up and arrest witnesses. The witnesses were threatened with charges of sedition to keep them silent.
But despite efforts by the authorities to cover up the incident, some villagers who saw the strange marble casket and the corpse talked about it, and the story spread to surrounding communities. One villager campaigned to let the truth be known, but he died mysteriously after he wrote letters to some members of the government Central Committee. The official cause of his death was a heart failure.
Several of the original witnesses also died mysteriously in car crashes within a year after the discovery.
Is Evolution Hoax? 800-Million-Year-Old Woman Found In Russia - iTech Post https://t.co/IqOM6qoIXQ— Bitchin' Science (@bitchinscience) January 9, 2017
Despite efforts to cover up the discovery people speculated openly about it. Some evolution believers attempted to counter claims that the body disproved Darwin's theory of evolution by arguing that the woman might have been a Pleiadian alien.
However, subsequent genetic analysis showed she was human.
Conspiracy theorists claim that the discovery proves that humans did not evolve but that we and our ancestors have looked the same for millions of years. The human species has been around on Earth much longer than evolutionary science claims.
Human ancestors did not evolve from apes — they came from space, some alien enthusiasts claim. Humans share a common ancestry with the Pleiadian aliens. A branch of the ancient alien Lyrans were the ancestors of the Pleiadians while another branch migrated in starships to Earth long ago.
Four years after the discovery of the "Tisulsky Princess," government officials conducted a secret excavation at a site about six kilometers away from Rzhavchik Tisulskago. The site was cordoned off by armed soldiers. Laborers who were hired to excavate the site were warned not to talk about what they saw. But several years later, one of the workers told people while drunk that they had excavated an ancient burial site that was apparently linked to the casket and body found at the coal mine.
Although very little is known about the nature of the strange findings, one can still find older residents of the village of Rzhavchik Tisulskago willing to confirm the story of the Tisulsky Princess to curious visitors, conspiracy theorists claim.
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Royston firefighters have been praised for their actions after a tree struck a train on Saturday afternoon.
Herts Fire and Rescue Service received a call to evacuate passengers after an eight-coach 1547 Ely to London King's Cross service was hit by the tree, which blocked both lines near Royston.
As a result services travelling from London terminated and restarted from Letchworth, with many cancellations.
Passengers from the train were taken to Coombes Community Centre in Burns Road, where Gillian Morland is the manager.
She told the Crow: "I just wanted to say that the Roston fire brigade were brilliant. By the time I arrived to make sure everyone had what they needed, some passengers had control of the kitchen and were making endless cups of tea and coffee all for free and had a washing up system going.
"All the passengers were in every room of the centre sitting in a dry, warm and safe venue with free wi-fi and were waiting for onward travel to be organised for them to continue their journey.
"The emergency services were all on hand, as well as North Herts District Council emergency staff.
"It did take more than three hours to get buses to the centre just to take the passengers to Letchworth, but they came all the way from Barking in Essex and were organised by the rail authorities.
"All the passengers were very good humoured and resigned to having to wait, but some did end up missing their flights and onward train connections which included EuroStar trains."
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This book was first published in 1987 when land degradation was one of the major conservation issues of that decade. Australian scientists were at the fore in awakening world interest in this complex phenomenon and in contributing to debate. The authors present a broad multi-disciplinary perspective on the challenges and problems of degrading land, including the onsite and offsite effects of soil erosion, nutrient loss, and salinisation and on the conservation policies needed to meet the challenge.


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How to rent a bike in the City of Sevilla.
Our magnificent bicycles have become in a very short time a revolution in urban mobility in the city of Seville as it is a means of transport that has benefits, comfort, economy and respect for the environment. Surf the City is a company that focuses on ecology and respect for the urban environment.
The leader of the bike rental in Seville is Surf The City. The passionate people of the cycling world, share with all the visitors of the city their preference to circulate around the city with this ecological vehicle. The commitment to offer only the best quality bicycles makes Surf The City the best option for renting bicycles in Seville. Explore the more than 100 miles of bike lanes in the city on your own, or join one of its excellent guided bike tours to get a little more context on what you are seeing on the road.
Bicycle rental is booming globally but it is in cities like Seville where it becomes more evident. More than 250 sunny days a year, its history, the quality of its people and the widest network of bicycle lanes, among many other factors, give the city of Seville a privileged position compared to other Spanish cities in relation to tourism urban development and the incipient proliferation of bicycle rental services.
It is a mobility solution that in cities can solve problems for many people of different age groups, not only the youngest ones use them. Renting a bicycle in the city of Seville can be an activity to do as a couple, only in a family way. There are no limits in terms of fun and dynamism, it is also a completely ecological and sustainable option.
Our bikes have been designed exclusively for Surf the City, making renting a bicycle in Seville a unique experience aboard an improved vehicle that you will not find anywhere else. It offers you autonomy, reliability and a quality walk, providing visitors with a unique perspective of the city of Seville.
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See all the beauty of Seville and its monuments while you learn about its fascinating history. Seville is a city that offers visitors a wide range of possibilities at all levels: leisure, gastronomy, history …. There is no better way to get to know and enjoy all that than renting one of the Surf the City bikes. Its features and manufacturing and design qualities provide the visitor with a unique perspective of the city of Seville.
The visitor merges with the culture of the city of Seville while enjoying an unforgettable experience. Surf the City offers a unique and exclusive service of renting incredible vehicles to get to know the city of Seville in a magical way.
Seville is history, civilizations, culture, climate and gastronomy, flamenco, leisure and folklore.
Thanks to a wide network of bike lanes, Seville has evolved, and with it the way to visit the city. Ecologically with the use of bicycles you can discover the most beautiful corners of the Andalusian capital and enjoy a fun and healthy tour on two wheels.
In this context, Surf the City is born, a young and dynamic company dedicated mainly to rental and tourist routes in either biking or other ecological vehicles, with an integral concept of professional advice so that the visitor feels welcome and oriented, and You can enjoy your free time to the fullest of all the facets that our city offers.
Our goal is that tourists take great memories of their visit to our city, with a guided tour on a fun bike, with which they can reach effortlessly at a distance five times higher than with a traditional tour.
To rent a bicycle to enjoy the city of Seville is undoubtedly Surf the City. We have the best and widest offer in the whole city of Seville when it comes to renting a bicycle.
A completely different and fun option to get into the city by doing one of our unforgettable guided tours by experts or simply rent a bike and enjoy autonomously in Seville.
The leading company and pioneer in giving service to rent bicycles in Seville is called Sur the City and is located in Almirante Lobo, 2 shopping center Cristina local 15.
We offer the possibility of renting a bicycle specially adapted by Surf the City, a unique vehicle endowed with innovative and genuine features that provide the visitor with the possibility of getting off at any monument or simply enjoy a break at the time you want and resume comfortably and dynamically your route through the city of Seville when you so desire.
For a short time, if you live or work in one of the big cities of our country, surely you have noticed that more people with bicycles circulate through its streets every day. And is that taking into account that traffic is the main problem to move around the big cities, there are several companies that are starting to offer the bicycle rental service so that everyone who wants, can go comfortably and quickly to work, back home, to the gym after work, just for sightseeing, etc.
Increasingly, the use of bicycles is being imposed in the big cities, and Seville is no exception. As a consequence, the demand for bicycle rental is increasing exponentially in Seville. Against this emerged Surf the City.
In addition, thanks to the fact that it is a very flat city, with a privileged climate, and that has a wide network of bicycle lanes, visiting Seville in BICICLETA, is today, a very good possibility for tourists.
Visitors and tourists can make their bicycle reservations before arriving in Seville. Surf the City offers the service with the advance notice they wish through the rental platform available on our website.
Sevilla in BICYCLE
For example, a tourist visit after renting BICICLETA for the main tourist attractions (Seville Cathedral, Alcazar, Archivo de Indias, Avenida de la Constitución, Plaza Nueva), together with other points a little further away such as "Las Setas", the Buildings of the Expo of 29, the Buildings of the Expo of 92, or the new Shopping Center of the "Torre Pelli", are easily accessible by BICYCLE, since you can use the bicycle lane to move between the different points.
In recent months, different companies have appeared dedicated to organizing guided tours in BICYCLE, in which the tour guides carry out their tour on a bicycle.
Thanks to our pre-rental platform you can rent your bike comfortably from your home or wherever you are whenever you have a device accessible to the Internet from anywhere in the world.
Seville, is one of the most beautiful and largest cities in Spain.
Visit Seville as it is famous for its typical festivals, such as Holy Week formed by Fraternities and Brotherhoods, the April Fair founded by Don José María Ibarra that was created as cattle fair in 1847, all of which are normally celebrated in the month of April.
It has many places of interest to visit in Seville, its famous Cathedral, the Gothic and Renaissance Giralda and that in its construction many architects worked, the Torre del Oro which was the customs house where gold was controlled coming from America, the Real Alcázar World Heritage Site, the Plaza de España which is a large square and symbolizes the embrace of Spain and its former colonies, its bullring La Maestranza where they do the bullfights of all the fairs, the Guadalquivir River where you can navigate through it, its famous neighborhood and bridge (called Puente de Isabel II) of Triana which is located on the right bank of the Guadalquivir and is important for its pottery.
All these sites can be visited on board one of our bicycles. Visit the Callejón del Agua or let yourself be charmed by a ride on our BICYCLE and visit the Barrio de Santa Cruz.
When you visit Seville, you must taste its rich products of the land such as olive oil, Iberian ham, Iberian meats … in its restaurants and bars in the city.
In our gastronomic route, for example, you can taste the fried fish, the grilled prawns, the roman squid, the salted and smoked, etc. We also have to talk about the most outstanding dishes such as the gazpacho that refreshes a lot in summer, the salmorejo (it is similar to gazpacho but thicker), the Andalusian stew (vegetables and legumes), the oxtail that is usually a dish of flavor strong, flamenco eggs, corns, etc. a variety of dishes.
To drink and accompany these delicious dishes, wines from Aljarafe and Montilla, Jerez and Manzanilla are popular.
Weather in Seville is always really good, with a temperature that will allow us to visit the city enjoying a magnificent sun on board our BICYCLE Surf the City.


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Working as a server at a Capital Grille in Tampa, Fla., Kevin Kearney typically picks up more than 30 hours per week, bringing home just enough money to support his wife and two young children. One or two lost shifts at the restaurant, he says, "can make or break me on a monthly basis."
Kearney worries that those one or two critical shifts might vanish in 2014, when many of the regulations under the President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, go into effect. Under the law, companies will be responsible for providing coverage for workers or they will face government penalties -- but not for employees who log fewer than 30 hours per week on average.
In the choice between either cutting workers' hours or settling for a smaller profit margin, Kearney expects most companies will be more concerned with their own bottom lines than with those of their workers. And for good reason: The parent company under which Kearney works, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants -- which owns the Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains -- has already started experimenting with employing more part-timers, with an eye toward health care reform's looming requirements.
"They're ahead of the curve," said the 40-year-old Kearney.
With health care reform set to forever change businesses' health care obligations to their employees, health care experts say there's legitimate concern that the 30-hour bar set by the law will end up encouraging businesses to cut workers' hours, exacerbating the post-recession growth of part-time, unreliable work. Such cuts are probably more likely to hit workers in the restaurant and retail industries, where low pay and irregular schedules are already common and managers are always looking for ways to further shave labor costs.
So-called "underemployment" is already a widespread problem in the weak economy, with many workers unable to get the hours they need to get by. According to an analysis by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), the percentage of workers clocking in on a part-time basis grew from 17 percent in 2007 to 22 percent in 2011. Only 28 percent of companies that offer health benefits make them available to part-time employees, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
"The percentage of part-time workers has been increasing for the past four or five years, and that's happening because of business conditions," said Paul Fronstin, a researcher at EBRI, a nonprofit that tracks trends in workplace benefits. "That's something that may happen anyway, even independent of the Affordable Care Act. Or maybe the Affordable Care Act will cause it to happen even more."
If employers try to duck their obligations by shifting to part-timers, many low-wage earners could find the president's signature first-term legislation to be a mixed blessing. Many restaurant workers may enjoy health coverage for the first time in their careers, but due to the 30-hour cutoff, in many cases that coverage will come no thanks to the employer.
Workers not covered by their employers probably will be able to find affordable health insurance on the new "exchange" marketplaces established by the law. People who earn up to four times the federal poverty level, which is $44,680 in 2012, would qualify for tax credits to defray the cost of health insurance. Workers with incomes up to 133 percent poverty, which is $14,856 this year, would qualify for free coverage on Medicaid if they live in a state that takes up an optional expansion of the program. The law's individual mandate will require most people to choose an option or face a tax penalty.
Hourly workers like Kearney may see less income but would gain affordable health coverage that would protect them against high medical bills and crushing debts.
It's a tradeoff that Kearney has already considered.
Kearney's wife has suffered breathing problems due to an old sinus infection. Although she's covered under his work's health insurance, Kearney said the plan comes with a maximum allowable benefit of $3,000 -- an amount that could be wiped out by one trip to the emergency room. The costs the Kearneys incurred for procedures last year sailed well beyond that limit. "It's something we're still paying for," he said. The health care reform law will ban annual limits on health insurance benefits in most cases.
If life under Obamacare means his hours are cut but he and his wife are eligible for decent, affordable insurance, Kearney said he would consider it a godsend. "Absolutely," he said.
When they wrote the law, the crafters of health care reform had workers like Kearney in mind -- people who work in industries where a health plan either isn't provided, is prohibitively expensive or simply isn't good. Retail workers are the least likely to have access to job-based health benefits compared to employees in other fields, according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation this year. Just 45 percent of retailers offer health insurance to their workers; the average across industries is 61 percent, the foundation reports.
Obama and Democrats in Congress sought to extend health insurance coverage to populations like this by building on the existing system: Jobs are the most common source of health insurance in the U.S. and more than 150 million are covered by workplace health benefits.
Rather than simply mandating that companies provide benefits to all workers, the law employs what's called a "pay or play" approach. Employers that don't offer coverage to full-time workers that is deemed "affordable," or don't offer coverage at all, must pay penalties starting at $2,000 per person if an employee gets subsidized health insurance on the exchanges. Companies with fewer than 50 full-time employees are exempt.
The Massachusetts health reform law, enacted by current Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2006, also enforced requirements on the state's employers. If the experience in the Bay State is any guide, workers may not have much to fear. In 2010, 77 percent of Massachusetts companies offered health insurance to workers, an increase from 70 percent in 2005, according to the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. The national rate in 2010 was 69 percent, the agency reported.
Three to 5 million people will move from job-based health insurance to some other form of coverage under Obama's health care reform law, the Congressional Budget Office predicts.
Employers are weighing a lot of options in advance of 2014, and cutting back hours is just one, said Jeanne Wyand, a senior consultant at Towers Watson, which advises companies on employee benefits. "Reducing hours is an option that hasn't gotten a lot of traction at the moment but I would expect that to be a real consideration," especially for retail, restaurant and grocery chains, she said.
Companies like this want to continue providing good health benefits as an inducement to recruit and retain higher-wage workers, including managers and executives, Wyand said. Employers may be willing to offer a plan that's attractive to those workers even if it means lower-wage employees wind up getting government-subsidized health insurance and the companies have to pay penalties. Some workers may even get paid higher wages and be encouraged to get their own coverage on the health insurance exchanges, via Medicaid or through a spouse or parent's workplace health plan.
Hourly workers will have to consider more than just wages when deciding what jobs to pursue after 2014, Wyand said. "It's going to make their decision that much more complicated," she said. One pizza restaurant may offer a $15 wage without health benefits, leaving a worker to find coverage on the exchanges or elsewhere, while another may pay a dollar less per hour but provide health insurance, she said. "It's going to add a level of complexity into the decision-making process of a workforce who may have viewed the only thing that was most important to them was the hourly wage."
Workers in low-wage fields aren't accustomed to a long menu of choices. Dave Willingham, a 32-year-old who recently took a job at a community college cafeteria in Washington State, said he expects most decisions will still belong to employers at the end of the day. When he recently accepted his job after a bout of unemployment, he was told up front that he would not be getting more than 19 hours per week. That's because workers who average 20 hours per week qualify for benefits like health care, vacation and sick pay, he said.
Willingham earns a little above minimum wage. Asked how he'd feel about having part-time hours but better health care options, Willingham, who's currently uninsured, called it "a difficult tradeoff," comparing it to his current situation, in which he works a job yet still receives food stamps.
"That subsidy is a huge blessing for me," Willingham said. "But at the same time, I'd rather have the agency and dignity that would come with actually having more money coming in and getting to make that decision for myself. ... Ultimately, it would be nicer to feel more in control of my own life and destiny."
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- USB or a low capacity storage media
Stellar Partition Manager 3.0 is the latest version of the software. For other details regarding the product, you can visit Stellar Partition Manager.
While performing any operation on boot partition, Stellar Partition Manager prompts to create a bootable media. Is it necessary to create a bootable media whenever I perform an operation on the boot partition?
To create a bootable DVD using Stellar Partition Manager, perform the following steps:
- Run Stellar Partition Manager application.
- Click Continue.
- Select the boot drive from the Hard Drive(s) section. Application displays the Create Bootable DMG dialog box.
- Click Continue.
- Application displays the Create Bootable DVD dialog box.
- Click Create Image button.
- Select destination and click Choose to save StellarBootPartition.dmg
- After successful image creation, double click on the created image to mount it.
- Connect an external media to your system and open Disk Utility from '/Applications/Utilities'.
- Format the connected external media in 'Mac OS Extended (journaled) with 'GUID Partition Table' Partition Map Scheme'.
- Choose mounted image from left panel of Disk Utility and select Restore tab.
- Drag and drop the mounted image to source and press Restore.
- Now, you can use your external media to boot your system after successful Restore.
Requirements for creating a bootable media are:
- A blank USB
- A Mac OS X
For creating the bootable DVD using Stellar Partition Manager software, do the following:
- Connect an empty USB or any other low capacity media to your system.
- Click Go and then click Utilities. Select Disk Utility to open Disk Utility window.
- Format the connected media, locate & select StellarBootPartition.dmg file and click Restore button.
- After successfully restore, Stellar Partition Manager software will be ready to use.
You can boot your Mac using the bootable media in three ways. They are as follows:
- Press C Key Method - Use 'C' keyboard button to start the system from bootable media.
To run your Mac using the bootable media using C option:
- Insert Stellar Partition Manager bootable media to the system.
- Restart your Mac.
- Keep the C key pressed. Mac will boot from bootable media or USB.
- Stellar Partition Manager License Agreement screen appears on startup.
Click I Agree to continue.
Stellar Partition Manager application window appears automatically.
- System Preferences Option - You can use this option to start your Mac using the DVD drive. This option changes the startup disk of your Mac.
Note: Changing the startup disk means changing the boot preference of your Mac . This option requires that operating system should be working properly.
To change the boot preferences using System Preferences option:
- Click Apple icon and select System Preferences to open System Preferences window.
- Connect Stellar Partition Manager bootable media.
- Under System pane, select Startup Disk. All the available Mac start up booting options such as, DVD drive, Hard Drive are displayed.
- Select desired bootable drive option.
- Click Restart.
- Stellar Partition Manager License Agreement screen appears on startup.
Click I Agree to continue.
Stellar Partition Manager application window appears automatically.
- Keyboard Option key - Users can change the startup disk by using the keyboard's Option key such that all the available booting options are displayed when the Mac starts.
To use the option key to change the startup disk:
- Connect Stellar Partition Manager bootable media to the Mac machine. Restart your Mac.
- Press Option key.
- All available Mac start up booting options such as, DVD Drive, Hard Drive are displayed.
- Select the Hard drive option to boot your Mac using the connected media.
You can set the preferences of Stellar Partition Manager according to your personal requirement.
To set preferences for customizing Stellar Partition Manager as per your requirement, follow the step given below:
- Run Stellar Partition Manager.
- Click Continue.
- On StellarPartitionManager menu, click Preferences option.
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return a different type...The TWordBitHelper will no longer work on the result.
Quote from: Martin_fr on August 22, 2018, 02:40:15 pmThe TWordBitHelper will no longer work on the result.I have tried exactly as you typed and it doesn't work like that on my Laz 1.8.5 + FPC 3.0.5. If I understood well your reply, Line 7 shouldn't compile any more after this change - but it does. I have also tried to put TMyHelperWord into proper places in getter method, but the result was the same. Maybe I misunderstood something?
The TWordBitHelper will no longer work on the result.
The output is still wrong. It is still 1274. What he means is that 250 should have changed into 100.That is not the case, because of copy semantics.That code compiles, doesn't mean code does what you want.
@ASergeYes, I understand that. Hard to find a way around it for (nested) simple types. If we could expose the pointer to the actual underlying data the problem can be solved.As yet, I can't find a way how to do that with nested type helpers. Also, why has the nested type helper copy semantics while the outer helper doesn't?You would expect it to use the actual underlying data.
Maybe because first GetWord is called, that returns a new value and then on that value SetByte is called. Just a guess!
That's not guess. This is normal behavior, fully consistent with the fpc language. Delphi behaves similarly.What is MyLongword.Byte[1] := 4. It is TLongwordBitHelper(MyLongword).SetByte(1, 4).What is MyLongword.Word[1].Byte[0] := 100. It is TLongwordBitHelper(MyLongword).GetWord(1).SetByte(0). The result and the variable are not related.
Unless I mis-understood Avra..
Quote from: Thaddy on August 27, 2018, 07:36:15 pmThe output is still wrong. It is still 1274. What he means is that 250 should have changed into 100.That is not the case, because of copy semantics.That code compiles, doesn't mean code does what you want.I just explain by example the idea of @Martin_fr to prevent incorrect use of such a construction. The code does not compile if you do what I said above. Because from @avra "...but I am looking for ways to either make line 7 possible or to forbid users to use such nested/propagated helpers..."


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Those days I used to spend half of my preparation time in making documentation: lots of research and survey on what I need to focus on to make my preparation smart and best.!! Even today I feel the same!!
I just kicked off with my professional corporate life where in final outcome is more important that what your knowledge is.Here all that we have is lots of resources available but very few guidelines on what you need to know exactly to accomplish your task: the thing is that resource is huge that you will be lost if you try to learn everything. In this scenario we need to be smart worker than a hard worker to lessen our burden and work pressure.
Here I like to quote "Hard work never kills but why to take risk.!!" :):)
It sounds very true to me in this corporate life. No doubt hard work always pays and we will succeed but once we cross a stage of life we have less time to work hard and we have to accommodate lot many things in the same amount of time as we had in our student lives. So, to make it all that we need is smart work, good people around us to exchange knowledge with. Specially, here all that helps is best documentation of what to focus on and prepare thorough for challenging work tomorrow.
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Weeki Wachee Spring Florida, Published in Harpers Bazaar 1947, considered her finest work, has been used for album covers and is much emulated.
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Bizarre photographer...touching so very much!!!
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Her work is brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing this.ReplyDelete
I adore the glamour photographs but the little boy in the Blitz took my breath away, haunting and so sad. xxxReplyDelete
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I am with Vintage Vixen...the photo of the little boy is positively heartbreaking. But the second photo from the top took my breath away. So gorgeous and made me think of Ophelia.
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What fabulous photos .. I love the one of the girls drinking beer and the boxer dog.. Hope you are well Dash .. sorry I have not been blogging or reading much lately .. I intend to catch up xxReplyDelete
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The black & white photo of the woman in white floating in lake in Florida is a popular poster on AllPosters.com,
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Washington: The US has come to the defence of US television host Jay Leno and said the visual of Golden Temple in Amritsar during "The Tonight Show" was a "satirical" reference to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's vacation home.
While the US had "absolute respect" for the people of India, including Sikhs, "The Tonight Show" host's comments "are constitutionally protected in the United States under free speech", State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters Monday.
The US, she said, had so far "had not had any communications from the Indian government" on the controversial comments that have angered the Sikh community in the US which has launched an online petition against Leno.
Asked about the US government's stand on the issue, Nuland said: "Well, I think that Mr. Leno would be appreciative – I hope he'll be appreciative – if we make the point that his comments are constitutionally protected in the United States under free speech, and frankly, they appear to be satirical in nature."
"But from a US official government perspective, we have absolute respect for all the people of India, including Sikhs here, there," she said.
Noting that President Barack Obama was the first president ever to host a celebration in honour of the first Sikh guru Guru Nanak, Nuland said "our view is, obviously, that Sikh Americans have contributed greatly to the United States".
Visiting Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi had Sunday asked the Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao to take up with the State Department the issue, featured on Leno's show Thursday.
"It is quite unfortunate and quite objectionable that such a comment has been made after showing the Golden Temple," Ravi told Indian reporters here.
"The Golden Temple is Sikh community's most sacred place. Even our prime minister went there for praying in the New Year. I believe that the person who has shown it is not that ignorant. The American government should also look at this kind of thing," Ravi had said.


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Carabao Cup: Contrasting ties for London rivals
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Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham United were handed constrasting ties when the third round draw for the Carabao Cup was made on Wednesday night.
The Gunners will play host to Championship outfit Nottingham Forest, who beat Midlands rivals Derby County 3-0, in the week commencing September 23, while north London rivals Spurs - who also enter at this stage due to their involvement in European competition - travel to League Two outfit Colchester United.
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The Essex club produced the biggest shock of the second round as they upset top flight Crystal Palace this week, winning on penalties after their tie at Selhurst Park ended goalless.
The Hammers, having avoided a potential banana skin with a 2-0 win at Newport County on Tuesday, must travel again as they visit League One side Oxford United, who knocked out Millwall on penalties following a 2-2 draw at the Kassam Stadium.
Third round draw: Wolves v Reading, Oxford United v West Ham, Watford v Swansea, Brighton v Aston Villa, Sheffield United v Sunderland, Colchester v Tottenham, Portsmouth v Southampton, Burton v Bournemouth, Preston v Manchester City, MK Dons v Liverpool, Manchester United v Rochdalee, Luton v Leicester, Chelsea v Grimsby or Macclesfield, Sheffield Wednesday v Everton, Arsenal v Nottingham Forest, Crawley Town v Stoke.
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I liked this! I shared it with my mom and two sisters. My mom said: "He seems like a sweet soul". I danced a little, but most of the circulation was going to my face due to laughter and huge smiles. I like the "Sick sick" rapper too that you posted more recently. Yay!...more reasons to laugh and smile.ReplyDelete
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Help choosing digicam: FinePix S5000, DiMAGE Z1, or ???
I am looking for a digital camera that needs to be able to take good pictures in a low light setting. It also needs to be able to take good pictures of fast sports action in a low light setting. My current camera, the Argus DC3550, doesn't fare so well in the low light department. I liked the DC3550, but I feel that I need a better camera for my application. I am looking for something that will do alot better in low light conditions.
I am looking at cameras in the $300 range with long range flashes. So far I have found the Fuji FinePix S5000 and the Minolta DiMAGE Z1. I have read reviews on both cameras and both seem to have their pros and cons, the S5000's being too much JPEG compression, and one of the reviews I read for the Z1 said that it had "mediocre low light focusing" and that night shots "didn't come out."
Truth be told, I will mostly probably be using the AUTO settings for alot of the features on my camera, at least until I become more learned in photography.
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Giorgio Armani has pledged that starting with his fall/winter 2016 collections, every one of his labels is now fur free.
"I am pleased to announce that the Armani Group has made a firm commitment to abolish the use of animal fur in its collections," the designer is quoted as saying in an announcement by the Humane Society International. "Technological progress made over the years allows us to have valid alternatives at our disposition that render the use of cruel practices unnecessary."
Armani's promise comes after a similar commitment was announced by Hugo Boss last year. Claire Bass of the Humane Society International described the move as "hugely significant for the global fashion industry".
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As Product Managers, our main job is to have such a deep understanding of the customer that we can identify their problems and prioritize them in to deliver maximum value to the customer. Many organizations that I've worked with and PMs that I've spoken to will usually agree that they are constrained by resources to be able to do this. Although nothing beats getting out of the building and talking to customers, leveraging Google's big data will take you one step closer in the right direction.
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Dr. Merrill is an ordained minister and has served as senior pastor of Parma Christian Fellowship Church in the Hilton, NY since 2002. He has served as a regional and the national director of youth ministries for the Free Methodist Church, N.A., 1979-1998, and a Healthy Church trainer for Sonlife Ministries, Elgin, IL, 1993-2002.
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ON THE MARCH A group of South Mayo-based childcare providers at last week's march in Dublin, including Frank Keane (left) and Kate Keane (second, from right).
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"THE incoming government needs to sit up and listen. This is an investment, not a cost. Most childcare providers are going to pull out of the industry because this is not affordable in the long term."
That's the view of Ballinrobe childcare providers Frank and Kate Keane, of Ballinrobe Bright Beginnings, who joined the tens of thousands of childcare providers, teachers, and parents who took to the streets of Dublin last week calling for greater government investment in the sector.
The Keanes feel they have no choice but to speak out on behalf of all the childcare providers in the area who feel they are being left behind on the education ladder and are coming under increasing financial and regulatory pressure.
They say the current childcare model in Ireland is broken, pointing to lack of funding, spiralling insurance costs and low wages.
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"It's a constant battle to keep the doors open," Frank told The Mayo News last week. "The Government needs to spend more money on childcare.
"There is research out there that has proven that for every euro spent on a child's early years education, you get €7 back into the economy. The Irish Government spends only 0.2 percent of their GDP on early-years education, compared to the likes of Sweden, who are admired because they spent 1.9 percent."
The Keanes established their business in 2015. Since opening, they have seen their insurance costs more than double. Because of low industry wages (more than 60 percent earn less than €12.30 an hour), they struggle to attract staff, meaning they're always bogged down with increased working hours.
"A lot of people are putting the industry down as child minders and not educators," Frank said. "And the reality is that everyone in this practice is a qualified educator.
"There are people coming out of college after four years with degrees, and all they can be guaranteed is €12 an hour. People think we as business owners are cleaning up, but we're not, we're not getting money from the Government to pay staff.
"Everyone is struggling to attract staff for the long term, which is very important from the children's perspective, because they benefit from a bond with their educator."
The inspection system is another major issue facing all providers. Currently, inspections can be randomly carried out by four different bodies, and they are increasing childcare providers' workload vastly. The industry wants the four inspection bodies to be replaced by one streamlined body.
"You're working from 8am to 6pm every day, and then you could be hours doing admin work at home," Kate added. "The amount of paperwork is growing all the time.
"There's inspectors who can walk in off the street, meaning you're forced to stop your work and look after these inspectors when you're supposed to be looking after the children, and your [educator-to-child] ratios are then split.
"The industry needs one body of regulators because there's a need to cut down on the paperwork and requirements. The children are more important than that."
In a statement released by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs last week, it said that it is looking at ways to streamline the various regulatory bodies, but that the safety of children is a key priority and stronger regulation has been called for.
The statement also claimed that funding of the early-learning and school-age care sector has increased by 141 percent in the last five years.
However, the Keanes will tell you that the feeling on the ground is one of disarray and worry about an uncertain future.
"I'm sure all the newly elected TDs are aware of the importance of education," Frank added. "And hopefully they'll know that early-years education is not a burden to the economy, it's a benefit."


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