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Bonkers (TV series)
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|Also known as
|'Disney's Bonkers'
|Created by
|Robert Taylor
|Voices of
|Jim Cummings
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Running time
|22 minutes
|Original network
|Disney Channel/Syndication
|Original release
|September 4, 1993 –
February 23, 1994
Bonkers is an animated Disney television series. Originally was the spin-off of the 1992 television series Raw Toonage. The series was originally shown from September 4, 1993 to February 23, 1994. It had 65 episodes.
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- Bonkers D. Bobcat
- Lucky Piquel
- Miranda Wright
- Fall Apart Rabbit
- Toots
- Dyl Piquel
- Marylin Piquel
- Chief Leonard Kanifky


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MyCFAVisit code is the survey code which is required to complete the MyCFAVisit survey. The survey code/number is present on the top of the receipt of the visit to the restaurant.
MyCFAVisit Codes
The survey code is different for every customer and is essential if the customers are willing to take part in the survey. The survey consists of a questionnaire which the customers need to answer and give their feedback.
It is the Chick-fil-A guest experience survey which is done to gather the customer's feedback and opinions about the services and products offered by Chick-fil-A restaurant.
What is MyCFAVisit:
MyCFAVisit is the official online portal of the Chick-fil-A restaurant to receive feedback from its customers. It looks at the online customer support and takes the suggestions and opinions from the customers to improve the service of Chick-fil-A restaurant.
It conducts every online customer engagement activity of the Chick-fil-A restaurant.
MyCFAVisit Survey Rules:
- The person taking part in the survey must be at least 18 years old.
- A person can participate in the survey only once on one receipt. If the customer is willing to take part in the survey another time then the person will need another receipt.
- The person must be a resident of the United States.
- The participant should have knowledge of English and Spanish language.
Things required to complete the survey:
MyCFAVisit has made the survey accessible to every customer. Things required to complete the survey are:
- Any digital device like computer, laptop or mobile phones.
- The customer needs to have internet access.
- The customer should have a valid receipt of the Chick-fil-A.
- Survey code from the receipt.
Details required in case of non-availability of survey number:
In case of non-availability of the survey number, the customer who is willing to take part in the survey should provide with the personal details.
Also provide the detailed information of the visit to the restaurant like the store number, date and time of the visit to the restaurant.
Reasons for conducting the Survey:
Chick-fil-A conducts an online survey for the following reasons:
- Attract more consumers and create additional traffic on the website- Through the online survey and taking customer feedback they attract new customers and also generate more traffic on their website.
- Getting to Know the opinions of customers- The customers provides with honest feedback, give suggestions and opinions about the product and service of Chick-fil-A.
- Database of the customers- Chick-fil-A acquires the information of the customers to build a database of the customers who are interested in their products and the service provided by the restaurant.
- Attract new customers- Through the survey, Chick-fil-A attracts new customers to their restaurants.
Read More: Chick-fil-a Secret Menu
MyCFAVisit is the survey code which is assigned to every customer after their visit. Chick-fil-A conducts the survey to know the consumer and the demands and requirements of the customer.
The MyCFAVisit survey is carried out online on their website and the official app. The company also gives a chance to win a free sandwich coupon to the participants who take the survey.

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1. Characterized by rich or profuse growth: a luxuriant garden; luxuriant hair. See Synonyms at profuse.
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b. Extremely productive: a luxuriant imagination.
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[Latin luxuriāns, luxuriant-, present participle of luxuriāre, to be luxuriant; see luxuriate.]
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1. rich and abundant; lush
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The Staunton Augusta Art Center presents the Annual Juried Youth Art Show, mixed media by the best K-12 artists from public, private, and independent schools in Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro. The Staunton Augusta Art Center appreciates the collaboration with area teachers who were tasked with the difficult duty of determining which limited number of pieces could be submitted for this very professional setting. Congratulations to the art students!
The exhibit runs March 2 through March 29. Routine gallery hours are 10am-5pm Monday – Friday and 10am-4pm Saturday, at 20 S. New Street across from the public parking garage in historic downtown Staunton. There is no admission charge, and everyone is welcome.
Special thanks is extended to the sponsors of this exhibit: Dr. Earlynn J. Miller and Mr. Donald Albright. This event is also partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Arts. Jim's Photography (photo booth) and United Bank (popcorn popper) helped make the Opening Reception extra fun. Thanks, also, to Kelly Skeen for her many volunteer hours throughout the week of installation.
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What does it mean to live well? Philosophers and theorists have described the "good life" for thousands of years as the pursuit of happiness and success - living well. Today, Americans spend over 90% of their time indoors and in traffic. Whether an individual is indoors or outdoors, their bodies are continuously reacting to the queues of the surrounding environments. Indoor air quality, exposure to natural daylight, and proximity to views are just some of the triggers that influence a building occupant's mood and wellness. With time being limited during the week, it's often hard to maintain positive states of mental, physical, and occupational wellness on a daily basis. Through the exploration of space and connection to building occupant well-being, the goal is to redefine the daily lifestyles of Washington D.C. residents and employees through mixed-use development.


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Python has a handy built-in function called enumerate(), which lets you iterate over an object (e.g. a list) and have access to both the index and the item in each iteration. You use it in a for loop, like this:for i, thing in enumerate(listOfThings): print("The %dth thing is %s" % (i, thing))
Iterating over listOfThings directly would give you thing, but not i, and there are plenty of situations where you'd want both (looking up the index in another data structure, progress reports, error messages, generating output filenames, etc).
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You are required by Law to carry your original Iqama with you wherever you travel in Saudi Arabia. If you are caught not carrying your Iqama, you can be fined or deported from Saudi Arabia in extreme cases. Have a look at this article for further details about fines and penalties. However, it is possible that plastic card of your Iqama is damaged or broken at any time. This damaged card will not be accepted by the authorities so you will have to replace it from Jawazat. The process of replacing the Iqama is very simple and explained in the below paragraphs.
Step by Step Process for the replacement of Damaged Iqama
First of all, ask government relations officer of your company to fill the form to replace damaged iqama. You need signatures and stamp of your Kafeel upon that form. Recommended: Download form 58 to change iqama profession or replace lost, damaged Iqama
If your Iqama is still valid for one year, make payment of SR 500. If it is valid for more than one year, make payment of SR 1,000/-. Again, government relations officer of your company or the agent sitting in front of the main gate of Jawazat office will help you in this regard.
Check if you have any unpaid traffic violations or fines under your Iqama. You will have to pay them before going to Jawazat Office.
Now go to Jawazat office and ask someone in the office where you need to go within the Jawazat building. You will have to have following documents with you. You will be given a print of New Iqama after successful submission of application.
- Iqama Form
- 2 passport size photos
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- Damaged Iqama
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The Victorian Opposition is calling on the State Government to develop a network of roads that are safer to use in bushfires.
The Liberal MP for Benambra, Bill Tilley, says legislation governing roadsides is complicated and vegetation often builds up.
He says selected roads should be allowed to be cleared by authorities and the public, for safe access in and out of towns during fires.
Mr Tilley says the clearing of roadsides would also help emergency vehicles by improving road safety and creating solid fire breaks.
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Listing is for ONE (1) PAIR of green teal square Druzy stone. (RK93B19-06)
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The measurement of each druzy is approx.: 10mm
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Points International Ltd. Reports Strong Preliminary Full Year 2017 Financial Results
2017 Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA Expected to Be Near High End of Prior Guidance
TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Points (TSX:PTS) (Nasdaq:PCOM), the global leader in powering loyalty commerce, today announced preliminary financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2017.
"While we are still finalizing our fourth quarter and full year financial results, based on preliminary data, we expect full year Gross Profit1 to be at the high end of our up to 10% growth expectation. Further, due to continued partner growth combined with expense management during the fourth quarter, we expect Adjusted EBITDA2 to also be near the top end of our prior guidance of an up to 10% increase," stated Rob MacLean, CEO. "2017 was a banner year for Points, with ongoing success in both growing longstanding partnerships as well as successfully adding new relationships to the Points ecosystem. Additionally, we are excited to have seen this growth spread across all three of our operating segments as indicated by the numerous 2017 launches and announcements highlighted below."
"In our November 8, 2017 third quarterly results commentary, in addition to strong in-market business performance, we highlighted a number of new initiatives that demonstrated momentum in each of our operating segments," continued MacLean. "At the time we announced a number of upcoming deployments across the business. At the end of 2017 we launched new Loyalty Currency Retailing services with Virgin Australia and are hard at work completing a deployment with another new international partner. Additionally, two new Platform Partners, including a financial services app and a fuel retailing program are expected to launch their services in the coming weeks. Finally, earlier this month we announced a new Points Travel initiative with Etihad Airways and we expect to launch four additional new Points Travel Partners during the first half of 2018."
"With strong operational momentum from last year carrying into 2018, a solid list of new deployments currently in launch phases and steady progress in our opportunities pipeline, we are optimistic about the prospects for continued growth in 2018," MacLean concluded. "Based on this progress, we are pleased to indicate our current expectations for 2018 performance are an increase between 10% and 20% in Gross Profit and an increase in Adjusted EBITDA of between 20% and 40% over our anticipated strong 2017 results."
Points typically releases final fourth quarter and 2017 financial results in early March. Details, including the specific date and time, will be announced during the next several weeks.
2017 Highlights Summary
Loyalty Currency Retailing
- Expanded partnership with Hilton, the world's fastest growing hospitality company, to launch Points Pooling, enabling Hilton Honors members the ability to combine, or pool, points with up to 10 friends or family members, for free.
- Launched new relationship to sell status miles for Air Canada's Altitude program.
- Launched a new collaboration with the WestJet Rewards program, enabling members to buy WestJet dollars.
- Launched service for Etihad Airways, one of the largest Middle Eastern carriers, enabling members to purchase Etihad Guest Miles.
- Launched a partnership with Copa Airlines to enable ConnectMiles program members to buy, gift or transfer their reward miles.
- Launched a new partnership with Spanish airline Air Europa, for core Buy, Gift & Transfer services.
- Expanded relationship with Shangri-La Hotels in China.
- Launched new partnership with Virgin Australia's Velocity frequent flyer program.
- Indicated new international partnership launching early in 2018.
Points Travel
- Launched All Nippon Airways (ANA) Global Hotels and Car Rentals travel booking service, leveraging the full suite of Points Travel functionality to give members the ability to book using their Mileage Club miles or earn miles on hotel and car rental bookings.
- Launched Hotel redemption service for Etihad Airways
- Announced new international carrier to be launched in H1 2018
- Announced an agreement with Air Europa for travel services launching in H1 2018
- Announced additional travel brand launching in H1 2018
- Announced a pending launch with Carlson Hotels for travel services in H1 2018
Platform Partnerships
- Launched partnership with Scotiabank, a leading multinational financial institution and the third largest bank in Canada, to power new loyalty capabilities of Scotiabank's My Mobile Wallet app.
- Launched new international earn and redemption loyalty commerce eStores in collaboration with Collinson Latitude for Melia Rewards, the loyalty program for Melia Hotels International.
- Launched new relationship with Apple and Intercontinental Hotel Group to power special member bonus for online Apple.com store purchases.
- Launched partnership with Groupon, the leading daily deals service, to incent customers through our Platform Partnerships services with up to 10 points per dollar spent with popular hotel and airline loyalty programs, including Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, Choice Privileges, IHG Rewards Club, JetBlue TrueBlue, La Quinta Returns and United MileagePlus.
- Launched ANA Global Mileage Mall and ANA Global Selection in collaboration with Collinson Latitude for additional opportunities to earn or redeem awards
- Announced additional hotel program expected to participate in Apple offering early in 2018
- Announced new partnership with leading US fuel retailer to bonus customers with miles/points for purchases, to be launched early in 2018
Corporate Highlights
- The Board of Directors re-approved the Corporation's Normal Course Issuer Bid (NCIB) with the addition of an Automatic Share Purchase Plan (ASPP) and the intention to accelerate execution of the plan through Q1 2018.
- Named by Branham300 as one of Canada's Top 250 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies. Ranking 30th on the list, this marks the sixth consecutive year that Points has received the honour. In addition, Points was ranked 6th in the Top 10 Canadian Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, and 9th in the Top 25 Canadian Software companies.
- Recognized by Canada's Top 100 Employers as one of Canada's Top Small and Medium Employers, and by Great Places to Work Canada as one of Canada's top 50 Best Medium Workplaces and Best Workplaces for Women. This marks the second consecutive year that Points has received these honours
About Points
Points, publicly traded as Points International Ltd. (TSX:PTS) (Nasdaq:PCOM), is the global leader in providing loyalty eCommerce and technology solutions to the world's top brands to power innovative services that drive increased loyalty program revenue and member engagement. With a growing network of almost 60 global loyalty programs integrated into its unique Loyalty Commerce Platform, Points offers three core private or co-branded services: Loyalty Currency Retailing, which includes the Buy, Gift & Transfer services, retails loyalty points and miles directly to consumers; Points Travel, which helps loyalty programs increase program revenue from hotel and car bookings, providing more opportunities for members to earn and redeem loyalty rewards more quickly, and Platform Partners, a multi-channel service offering which provides developers transactional access to dozens of loyalty programs and their hundreds of millions of members via a package of APIs. Points is headquartered in Toronto with offices in San Francisco and London.
For more information, visit company.points.com, follow Points on Twitter (@PointsLoyalty) or read the Points blog. For Points' financial information, visit investor.points.com.
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains or incorporates forward-looking statements within the meaning of United States securities legislation, and forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). These forward-looking statements include, among other things, opportunities for new products and partners (including, the expected launch of announced products and partner relationships) and incremental revenue, potential for growth in revenue and gross margin and our guidance for 2017 and 2018 with respect to gross profit and adjusted EBITDA expectations. These statements are not historical facts but instead represent only Points' expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.
Although Points believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to important risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Certain material assumptions or estimates are applied in making forward-looking statements, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. In particular, the financial outlooks herein assume Points will be able to maintain its existing contractual relationships and products, that such products continue to perform in a manner consistent with Points' past experience, that Points will be able to generate new business from our pipeline at expected margins, our in-market and newly launched products and services will perform in a manner consistent with the Company's past experience and we will be able to contain costs. Our ability to convert our pipeline of prospective partners and product launches is subject to significant risk and there can be no assurance that we will launch new partners or new products with existing partners as expected or planned nor can there be any assurance that Points will be successful in maintaining its existing contractual relationships or maintaining existing products with existing partners. Other important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include the risk factors discussed in Points' annual information form, Form-40-F, annual and interim management's discussion and analysis, and annual and interim financial statements and the notes thereto. These documents are available at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov.
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as at the date of this release and, accordingly, are subject to change after such date. Except as required by law, Points does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements made or incorporated in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
The Corporation's financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). Management uses certain non-GAAP measures, which are defined in the appropriate sections of this press release, to better assess the Corporation's underlying performance. These measures are reviewed regularly by management and the Corporation's Board of Directors in assessing the Corporation's performance and in making decisions about ongoing operations. These measures are also used by investors as an indicator of the Corporation's operating performance. Readers are cautioned that these terms are not recognized GAAP measures and do not have a standardized GAAP meaning under IFRS and should not be construed as alternatives to IFRS terms, such as net income.
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1 Gross profit is defined as total revenues less the direct cost of principal revenues. Gross profit is considered by Management to be an integral measure of financial performance and represents the amount of revenues retained by the Corporation after incurring direct costs. However, gross profit is not a recognized measure of profitability under IFRS.
2 Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, foreign exchange, share-based compensation and impairment of long-term investments) is considered by Management to be a useful supplemental measure when assessing financial performance. Management believes that adjusted EBITDA is an important indicator of the Corporation's ability to generate liquidity through operating cash flow to fund future capital expenditures and working capital needs. However, adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under IFRS and should not be considered a substitute for Net Income, which we believe to be the most directly comparable IFRS measure.


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I love artwork and I love it in all forms, especially paintings, photographs, portraits! I was so excited to decorate my house in beautiful pieces that would accentuate the room, but I was having trouble finding a piece of artwork that would cover a decent amount of space on the vast wall in my living room as displayed in the photo above. (Top photo courtesy of JCPenny.com)
I found an outline of a dandelion being blown by the wind online. I love the artistic, natural and dainty appeal of a dandelion and wanted to incorporate this into my modern living room.
I printed the dandelion to where it takes up the majority of a normal sized piece of paper. and copied it with a copy machine onto a transparency paper, available at a local office supply store. I also purchased three canvases, matching paint and brushes from Michael's creativity store. I found that they have the best sales on canvases – wait for a buy one get one free deal!
This step can be a little tricky, but with patience and creativity you can find a way to make it work. I hung the three canvases equally spaced and where I wanted them placed on the wall. I then found a old moving box and cut a large square, large enough for the entire image to be seen through. I taped the dandelion transparency on square hole and placed a lamp on it's side in the box. This will create a shadow and outline onto the wall of the design. I traced the entire image with a pencil onto the canvases and then brought them down to paint. After they were all finished I rehung the paintings and my living room was completely and exactly how I dreamed it look.
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This week, we're sharing stories from children, teenagers and families about the charities that inspire them to give time, money and passion. Robin Fineman wrote about Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, which her family found through unfortunate circumstance, but which inspires them still.
Our 5-year-old son recently helped a 14-year-old girl battling leukemia have a second chance at life. This is not the first life he has helped save, and it will not be the last. He has been helping to save lives since he was a toddler, even when his own survival was very uncertain.
Ezra received a diagnosis of a rare primary immune deficiency called Hyper IgM Syndrome when he was 5 months old, after a scary bout of pneumonia that landed him in intensive care. Hyper IgM Syndrome prevents the immune system from making antibodies to fight infection, leaving those with the disease unable to fight infections properly and susceptible to fatal infections of the liver, lungs and central nervous system. Our family quickly retreated into isolation, fearing germs and determined to keep Ezra safe. The doctors told us that the only cure is a risky stem cell transplant, provided a suitable donor can be found.
After no matching stem cell donor was found in our family, the worldwide donor registries were checked. Not a single donor among the approximately 20 million registered donors was a suitable match for Ezra. We were devastated at the thought that our son may not have access to a cure, but there was no way we were going to accept this outcome passively.
We teamed up with the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, one of the nation's nonprofit bone marrow donor registries, and began running drives across the country to find Ezra a match. Gift of Life was by our side as we organized drives and fund-raising efforts, as determined as we were to help Ezra. When we first started working with Gift of Life, we were shocked to learn that there is a lack of funding to pay for the cost of processing donor tissue typing tests. Gift of Life has thousands of donor test kits sitting on a wait list waiting to be processed. These are cheek swab test kits from people who want to be donors (people who may be someone's miracle match) and there is not enough money to get them on the registry. We feared that Ezra's donor could be sitting in a box in Gift of Life's offices.
Determined not to let that be the case, we formed an online donor circle through Gift of Life called "Help4Ezra," where people could register to be a donor and make donations to sponsor the lab fees for the tissue typing of other donors (www.giftoflife.org/help4ezra). The response to our campaign to find Ezra's match was overwhelming. Family, friends and strangers worldwide rushed to register and donate. The donations poured in, and even children got involved by holding school fund-raisers in Ezra's honor for Gift of Life.
After more than two years of searching and sponsoring nearly 7,000 donors and raising over $300,000 to process donor test kits — efforts that led to matches for 180 other patients in need — we failed to find a suitable donor for Ezra. His doctors believed it was time to move forward with a transplant using an alternative source of stem cells. After months in the hospital, we found out that the transplant was failing, and Ezra's old faulty immune system was growing back.
Then, several months later, Ezra's doctor called to say that a donor had been found for Ezra. He is now one year and four months post-second transplant. He has suffered from serious complications after the transplant, and he continues his journey to recovery. Despite the bumps in the road, his miracle donor's cells have taken up residence in his body. We are hopeful that with time, he will have a new healthy immune system.
During both transplants, we were showered with acts of generosity from family, friends and strangers. Delicious meals arrived every day, often from people we did not know. Presents for Ezra arrived daily. The donor room at his hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was overwhelmed with people coming to donate blood and platelets to Ezra — again, many of them strangers who had heard Ezra's story and wanted to help.
I often think "how can we possibly adequately give thanks for this outpouring of generosity?" I'm not sure we fully can, but I know that we can start by ensuring that Ezra understands that his life was saved by the generosity of others, and by teaching him the importance of caring for others. We know that he is starting to understand the importance of giving back because when we let him choose the charity that we donate to each month, his choices have ranged from "his hospital," Memorial Sloan Kettering, in order to "help the other kids;" to Chai Lifeline, an organization that supports children and their families dealing with life-threatening illness; to Gift of Life. Despite his life of isolation, we hope that Ezra is learning that he is profoundly connected to others.
The donor whose gift helped the 14-year-old girl battling leukemia registered at one of the drives held to find a match for Ezra. I like to think that the young girl would still have found a match even if our son had not been ill and needed to find a donor, but playing a part in helping others have a second chance at life has been an honor and a privilege. We will never stop spreading the word about the need for more stem cell donors and funding to build a larger donor registry. It is our greatest hope, after curing Ezra, that no other family should ever be told that the possibility of a cure is not an option for lack of a donor.


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WOOSTER, Ohio — Passing the farm business on to the next generation is not automatic. Failure to plan is a plan for failure. Successful farm transition requires preparation and planning. It takes time, effort, communication between family members and legal assistance. The Wayne County Extension office is offering a two-part farm transition workshop on Friday, July 19 and Friday, July 26 to help farm families with the farm transition process.
The location for the July farm transition workshop is the Secrest Arboretum Welcome Center located at 2122 Williams road, Wooster, near the OARDC campus. The workshop will run from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. each day. By attending the workshop, farm families will learn steps necessary for a successful farm transition, get a start on developing a transition plan for the future, discover ways to increase family communication regarding farm transition, and learn strategies on how to transfer management skills and the farm's business assets to the next generation.
Thanks to support from our sponsors, Farmers State Bank, Wayne Savings Community Bank, Farmers National Bank and Farm Credit Mid-America, the registration fee for the workshop is only $25 for the first two persons from a farm business and $10 for each additional person from the same farm business when sharing a resource notebook. Registration is limited to the first 50 persons with a registration deadline of July 12th. Registration includes refreshments, lunch and a resource notebook.
An informational brochure that includes workshop instructors and agenda topics along with a registration form is available on the Wayne County Extension web site at http://go.osu.edu/2019WoosterFarmTransition. Direct questions or requests for more information to the Wayne County Extension office at 330-264-8722.
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The City of Wolverhampton Council's Court of Protection team is trying to trace the relatives of a woman who recently passed away.
Jacqueline Walker, who lived in the Ettingshall area of Wolverhampton, was aged 62. She is also known to have had connections to the Halesowen and Lye areas.
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BUSAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, December 26, 2017 — Jung Seop Eom has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
An expert in the medical field, Dr. Eom has been a clinical assistant professor with Pusan National University Hospital since 2014. His areas of expertise include peripheral bronchoscopy and radial probe endobronchial ultrasounds. His work has been featured in Respirology, PLOS One, and the Annals of Thoracic Medicine. Topics he has written on include fibrotic airway stenosis following radiotherapy in patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma, and "Exposure to mycobacterium tuberculosis during flexible bronchoscopy in patients with unexpected pulmonary tuberculosis."
Dr. Eom began his career with an MB in 2004, before serving in an internship with Pusan National University Hospital from 2004 to 2005. He later served as a resident in the hospital's department of internal medicine from 2008 to 2012, earning a Master's Degree in medicine in 2012. He then held a fellowship with the Samsung Medical Center division of pulmonary and critical care medicine from 2012 to 2014, and a fellowship in interventional pulmonology with the St. Marianna University School of Medicine in 2015, earning an MD in 2017.
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but this may have been the BEST trip to adventure land yet!
(and we have been there quite a few times.)
the day started off cool & cloudy.
they told us the wave pool was closed
(where are you going with this, anna? doesn't sound like the beginnings to the year you have labeled the "BEST"...)
the sun came out.
and to make it up to us for having the wave pool closed,
our parking fee was waved,
free tube rental in the water park,
yes, you read that right.
free pop. no strings attached.
bentley didn't love the rides as much as i had anticipated,
but those were the ones he had to do by himself.
if elsie, caroline, or dad could ride with him,
then he had a blast!
he is still laughing & talking about the bumper cars.
i don't have as many pictures i had thought, caroline had her camera out too.
and i'm pretty sure she took a million.
thanks, dad for another great year at adventure land!
it was a perfect trip.
|on our way to the land of adventure
|out to eat the first night
|bentley was pretty excited about the corner booth
|our monkey jumping on the bed
|caroline regretting letting bentley sleep in her bed
|ready for our adventure! on the ski lift
|cute, right? he cried before it started. got off before the ride started.
|THIS was more his style.
|and this.
|next year, he will have to drive truck # 3!
|before crying.
|we always love the little circus!
|loves grandpa tim. even fell asleep while waiting for us to get off a roller coaster!
|started & ended the day on the carousel
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Photographs of Seán Clancy by Alan Moore
Seán Clancy studied composition in Dublin with Kevin O'Connell, in London with Rob Keeley and George Benjamin, and in Paris with Phillipe Leroux. Since 2009 Clancy has been working towards a PhD in composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire with Howard Skempton and Joe Cutler.
Clancy has held the position of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music Apprentice Composer in Residence since January 2011, a position which has involved being mentored by Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang, as well as being able to work closely with the musicians of the BCMG, particularly in developing a large ensemble piece to be premiered at the end of the residency.
In December 2011, Clancy, along with another Dubliner, Enda Bates, was awarded with a RTÉ Lyric FM and Irish Music Rights Organisation Mentored Composition Bursary. The bursary will give Clancy the opportunity to gain experience in working with and writing for the full RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, under the guidance of the current RTÉ Lyric FM Composer in Residence, Linda Buckley. Clancy's orchestral piece will eventually be workshopped and recorded by the RTÉ NSO.
Clancy's music has developed fluently out of an interesting but somewhat anachronistic engagement with modernistic strict atonality and hieraticism of pulse, through lessons about harmony-timbre drawn from spectral music and a passionate recuperation of forms and gestures from popular music, into the Andriessen and Skempton-influenced compositional style of today. That compositional style might be described in broadly post-minimalist terms, but the category is too limiting for Clancy's protean and still-evolving work. Listen to a wide-range of Clancy's music here.
Clancy's ensemble piece for BCMG under Clement Power and with soprano Susan Narucki, Findetotenlieder, is inspired by LCD Soundsystem's 'Someone Great' and Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco's Obit, and will receive its premiere in CBSO Centre on 3 February in a programme with music by Judith Weir, Gerard Grisey and Gerald Barry.
Ahead of the premiere, I spoke to Clancy about some of his formative influences, about the processes of the residency, and more generally about his status as an Irish composer currently making his career largely abroad.
Can you describe the moment, or series of moments, when you decided you wanted a life in music?
It's incredibly difficult to answer this question as all of the music I write now deals with these formative influences and I think about these things quite extensively. However, I suppose from the age of about twelve or thirteen when I started playing in grunge bands I knew I wanted a life as a musician. When I decided I wanted to study music in college aged around sixteen, I began to take piano lessons which opened my eyes to a whole other range of music.
I can pinpoint two exact moments when I knew I wanted to be a composer (a very specific kind of musician!).
The first was when I was around sixteen. I bought an ECM recording of The Seasons by John Cage solely because I liked the beautiful cover. On the CD there was a recording of 74. I remember coming home from town and listening to the piece on my bed whilst reading the liner notes. I was completely overwhelmed by the sound of the piece, but even more so when I read about how it was put together or composed. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to write music like this.
The second moment came when was when I was about 17. I went to a RTÉ NSO Horizons concert featuring Gerald Barry. In the concert Gerald had programmed a piece called Lento by Howard Skempton. I was so completely and utterly taken aback by the piece, the players' engagement with it and the audience's attention to it, that if I had ever any doubts about what I was going to do with my life (I had at this stage been briefly seduced by a career in photography) it was now completely obvious. It's kind of nice to think that now things have come full circle as I'm finishing my PhD in composition with Howard, who first inspired me to become a composer.
I think most things I encounter in my life serve as an inspiration for my compositions. For the past three years, however, I would suggest that my principle inspirators have been first and foremost popular and underground music artists, and visual artists, particularly Martin Creed, Gabriel Orozco, Whelm de Kooning and Philip Guston. In terms of composers, I tend to be solely inspired by composers whom I know on a personal level, notably David Lang, Howard Skempton, Joe Cutler, Gerald Barry, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Andrew Hamilton, Ed Bennett and Philippe Leroux. Then of course there's Feldman, who, as everyone should know, is endless.
How have you felt your work growing as you've aged?
As I've gotten older I've become more confident in my musical ideas. I'm less concerned about what others think of my music and as a result I'm not that interested in pursuing what other composers may see as musical progress (I'd suggest that this is a hangover from modernism). This has resulted in my musical language becoming less complex (what Cardew might have called radical simplification), and I'm now trying to re-connect with all of the music that I love in some way, particularly my formative musical experiences, and not just contemporary classical composition. I'd suggest the main 'development' in my music is that I'm no longer concerned with musical invention, but artistic intervention.
Does your music have any global organising goals or objectives, whether these be musical, literary, philosophical or trivial, personal, affective, imagined or otherwise?
I'd suggest that it varies from piece to piece. Each specific piece will have its own specific objective, be it musical, personal, philosophical, etc. I try to embed, within the piece, a reason for one to listen to it as opposed to something else. There are, however, certain things which continuously crop up in my music. The first is artistic intervention; each piece I've written over the past three years has in some way dealt with pre-existing music or art. Other issues that constantly find their way into my music are death and voyeurism.
What kind of things has the BCMG/SAM apprentice composer in residence position enabled you to do?
Basically, I was given complete access to the workings of the organisation both on an artistic and an administrative level. I'd suggest that the main benefits for me were attending rehearsals, meeting other composers, conductors and musicians, getting to work with David Lang, getting to go to New York, being involved with the education and outreach programmes, seeing how programmes were put together, getting to work with world class musicians and soloists, being taken seriously as a composer, the exposure of being associated with such a group, and, last but certainly not least, receiving two commissions of which I'm very proud.
Can you discuss the main ensemble piece you've written as part of the residency? What inspired the piece, and what have been the effects of committing the piece to dialogue with performers and audiences?
The piece utilises two sets of taken material. The first is Gabriel Orozco's Obit, which I suppose is the driving force behind the piece; the second is LCD Soundsystem's 'Someone Great'. The piece is essentially an artistic intervention on these two objects. I had quite a long gestation/composition period with it (beginning in April 2011 and finishing in December 2011), so I had a lot of time to think about it carefully, make revisions, tweak, edit, etc. It's a very exposed piece, there's no margin of error, no safety net, lots of space and intricate (but uncomplicated) writing.
In terms of the dialogue with performers, it was very important that each member of the ensemble was aware of what they were doing to the singer and what she was doing to them; they are mutually aware of each other, there is not a straightforward soloist/support dialogue but both are as integral to the musical material as each other and the piece is riddled with musical signifiers to demonstrate this. In terms of the dialogue with the audience, I'd not like to suggest a reading of the piece, but for me it certainly makes one think of death and our attitudes towards it in the twenty-first century, as manifested through the media.
You've also recently been awarded a bursary to compose an orchestral score for the RTÉ NSO. What is your reaction to the award, and how do you feel looking ahead to the composition of the score?
I'm absolutely thrilled about receiving this award. Ever since I was a teenager going to NSO concerts on Friday evenings I always wanted to write for them. It's a little daunting looking ahead to the score. I've written two orchestral pieces before but neither were performed so I don't know if they would actually work in reality or not! Knowing that this piece will definitely be performed in the coming months raises the stakes a little and makes one take it a lot more seriously.
I've a fair idea what I want to do with it. I often find that orchestral music is very polished. Every change in section or material is really well dovetailed and disguised, and I find that highlights an anxiety on the composer's part. This anxiety of change just doesn't exist in rock music. I'm particularly interested in a certain Faith No More song at the moment on which I'll probably intervene, because structurally it's very interesting and contains no anxiety whatsoever. Either way, I'm interested in trying to make the orchestra sound a little less like an orchestra, but not in a 'new musicky' kind of way. How successful I am at this remains to be seen, but I relish the challenge.
Finally, as an Irish composer living abroad, how do you think your ethnic identity (if you accept one) affects your music, and secondly, what do you think more generally about the situation of the Irish composer — émigré or not — at the start of 2012?
I'd accept my ethnic identity because up until the age of about twenty all of my experiences were intrinsically Irish, and these have formulated the way I think and act, etc. In Ireland we don't have the tradition of classical music that exists in other places (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, etc.), so we don't necessarily feel as if a torch has been passed to us in some way. I think this leaves us open to acting like magpies and taking what we find interesting from different musical traditions, whatever they may be. Living abroad one sees these traditions in operation because one is removed from them, one can never get into them, so you just sit on the outside and take notes, which obviously affects the way you write and the way one's music is received. I think this can only be a positive thing. One becomes more concerned about the music rather than the things that surround the music.
I think Irish music is in an incredibly healthy position at the moment. Composers like Gerald Barry, Kevin Volans, Donnacha Dennehy and Ian Wilson are internationally known and are given as much credence as anyone else you'd care to imagine. Coupled with this, there's the likes of slightly younger composers like Jennifer Walshe, Andrew Hamilton, Ed Bennett, Dave Fennessy, Linda Buckley and Judith Ring who are also household names across Europe and beyond. Then there's my generation, many of whom are winning or at least being nominated for international prizes as well as doing their own thing.
In addition to this, Irish composers have fervent advocates for their music in the Crash Ensemble, Concorde, RTÉ NSO, Fidelio Trio, Ergodos and organisations like the Contemporary Music Centre and the Association of Irish Composers. We may not have as much money or as many compositional opportunities as other countries but we've certainly got a lot to be proud of and a lot to look forward to in 2012. I genuinely believe that much of the best music being written at the moment is being written by Irish composers whether at home or abroad. I will, however, probably be crucified for making such a sweeping nationalistic generalisation!
Published on 26 January 2012
Stephen Graham is a lecturer in music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He blogs at www.robotsdancingalone.wordpress.com.
Stephen Graham is a lecturer in music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He blogs at www.robotsdancingalone.wordpress.com.


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Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
of the British School in Tokyo (BST)
All parents are members of the PTA automatically by way of their children's enrolment at the school. The PTA supports BST's activities by looking to enhance the BST students' experience of studying and living in Japan. We also welcome new families to BST, nurture a sense of community within BST and raise funds to support each of these objectives. Our aim is to fulfill these commitments in a fun, rewarding and positive environment.
The PTA is guided by an Executive Committee comprised of parents, teachers and other staff. The PTA elects a Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer to serve two-year terms. Whilst the PTA has an Executive Committee, we encourage all parents to participate throughout the school year in the many activities and events that the PTA organises to enrich the BST community. It is important to us that parents feel they have a voice in how the school is supported.
PTA activities and events include:
- Shibuya Friday coffee mornings sponsored by the PTA and organised by our multi-talented School Librarian and master baker, Mr. Steven
- Showa monthly coffee mornings, usually the last Monday of every month
- New joiner and other welcome events, usually at the beginning of term, at which many PTA parents provide support and valuable information to new families
- Student-centric Winter Wonderland and Christmas discos and other events
- School-wide picnics in Yoyogi Park, generally in September and June of each school year
- Secondhand uniform sales, Book and ski sales, etc
The PTA also supports parents who come together to organise the annual Spring Fair with the help of sponsors in the local community. Whilst Spring Fair is the key fundraising event for the PTA, its main purpose is to bring together BST students, their families and the BST staff for a fun and memorable day out.
All funds raised across the school year are funneled back into the school through a bid system that invites bids from BST staff, students and parents alike, to pay for items that enrich the school community. Bid meetings take place twice a year, generally in May and in November. Parents are encouraged to attend, to help decide on which items add the most value to life at BST.
Some of the items that the PTA (and therefore every parent) has supported in the last few school years include the overhaul of Primary classroom reading books, purchase of 3-D printers, Virtual Reality equipment and materials, vinyl cutters and design materials, DJ equipment for after-school clubs, wall mirrors for the gym and a new Year 3 football kit, and funding of expanded Secondary parent coffee meetings and author visits to support the School's reading curriculum.
Communication between the school and BST parents is further aided by an amazing class parent network.
Brief descriptions of the key PTA Executive Committee positions and committees for key events held across the school year are listed in the booklets below.
The PTA's main aim is to support BST throughout the school year. If you are interested in joining the Executive Committee or one of the other named committees or general volunteering opportunities, please contact [email@example.com].
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A Spring Pulpwood Drive
The Library of Congress website has a collection of 169 FSA/OWI photographs taken by photo-ethnographer John Collier in the spring of 1943. He was chronicling a pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Western Maine—particularly on Dennison Bog Brook, Kennebago River, and Mooselookmeguntic Lake. The pictures of the river drive are interesting enough, but it's the candid images of woodsmen at rest that really grabbed my attention—whether they're gambling with Canadian cash in the bunkhouse, getting a haircut from the camp handyman, or eating a hearty breakfast of "hot cakes, syrup, baked beans, scrambled eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, biscuits, molasses cookies, gingerbread, pie, coffee, bread and butter."
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The Troy Turkey Trot is a premier road race featuring 5k and 10k distances, among other events. Since its humble beginnings 100 years ago, when six runners entered, the Troy Turkey Trot has grown into one of the largest and oldest turkey trots in the United States. 2019 will feature four events: the competitive 5k and 10k runs, the one mile Turkey Walk and the Grade School Mile. Join us in this proud annual tradition and help our agency's Code Blue and Inn From The Code programs by donating upon registration.
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We do like a challenge, but when we set ourselves the task of compiling a list of the best Scottish crime books we hadn't realised quite how hard it would be. In the end we decided to go for a broad mix – what do you think to these choices?
The seventh book in the Vera Stanhope series – now the major ITV detective drama, starring Brenda Blethyn.
Life seems perfect in valley farm, a quiet community in northumberland. then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist named patrick, to look after the place while they're away. But patrick is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley.
DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, with her detectives Holly and Joe. When they look round the attic of the big house – where Patrick has a flat – she finds the body of a second man. All the two victims have in common is a fascination with moths – catching these beautiful, rare creatures.
Those who live in the valley farm development have secrets too: Annie and Sam's daughter is due to be released from prison any day; Nigel watches, silently, every day, from his window. As Vera is drawn into the claustrophobic world of this increasingly strange community, she realizes that there may be deadly secrets trapped here...
Nate Colgan: a violent man; 'smart muscle' for the Jamieson organization. someone to be afraid of.
But now, with its most powerful individuals either dead or behind bars, things within the Jamieson organization are beginning to shift. When nate, long working on the fringes of the business, is reluctantly appointed its new 'security consultant', he can little imagine how things are about to unravel...
It begins with an execution, a message; and soon the various factions within the organization are sent into chaos. But out of the confusion comes one clear fact: a new group has arrived in Glasgow, and in their quest for power they are prepared to ignite a war. but who is behind the group? And why has the calculating Zara Cope - the mother of Nate's child - suddenly appeared back in town?
Meanwhile DI Fisher, buoyed by his recent successes in finally jailing some of the city's most notorious criminals, is prowling on the edges of these latest battles, looking for his chance to strike before all hell breaks loose...
It might not be the first book in Ian Rankin's Rebus series, but it's the one that put the novelist and his leading man at the forefront of the tartan noir genre. It's especially exciting because the fictional Rebus is working on a real life case – that of the Glaswegian serial killer Bible John. Can Rebus solve a mystery that technically remains unsolved today?
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Though Holmes himself is English, his creator was born in Edinburgh and the magnificence of what he created was first recognised by The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald when they reviewed a Study in Scarlet. Any excuse to feature the great Baker Street detective in a reading list can't be missed!
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Lin Anderson's Rhona Macleod series has been widely acclaimed over the past ten years. A forensic scientist, Macleod's latest outing sees her investigating the death of a young man, whose body is found inside a neolithic stone circle high above the city of Glasgow. When a second body is found in similar circumstances, a pattern begins to emerge, of a killer intent on masterminding a gruesome druidic game that everyone will be forced to play. Anderson is also a co-founder of Bloody Scotland, Scotland's international crime writing festival.
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Another from an author in Scotland, though this time one whose protagonist is significantly further away... in Botswana, Precious Ramotswe becomes a detective and sets up the first ladies' detective agency. This novel, like the rest of the series, is much more focused on the investigation aspect of a crime than the crime itself, and is as much about the place and people of the novel as the events.
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No list about Scottish crime would be complete without a McDermid novel – her three crime series featuring Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, and Tony Hill and Carol Jordan are loved in their native Scotland and far beyond. The Distant Echo is her 2003 novel which sees four murder suspects become victims – or potential victims – in their own right. Can they find the original killer to save themselves?
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By Tom Pawlak
On a break from the Maine Boatbuilders Show in March, we visited Hodgdon Yachts, Inc. and found significant progress on their latest build, a 155′ Bruce King designed wood/epoxy ketch, named Scheherazade. This is Hodgdon Yachts' largest wood/epoxy vessel to date. The project is roughly 60% larger than Antonisa, the 124′ sailing yacht they launched last year.
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Join us on Wed, Jan 25th upstairs in the Stag's Head. the theme for this month is the hugely topical subject of "Money". Resident MC Kalle Ryan will be in place again to host proceedings humorously. resident sound man Enda Roche will also be in the corner co-hosting and delivering the decibels.
The following brilliant performers will be on the lineup:
The Dying Seconds
The Dying Seconds are a bombastic, brooding, sweet, and tender six-piece from Dublin, Ireland. Their recent album "Glimmerers" was met with stunning acclaim from critics and musicians alike. Hailed by The National's Aaron Dessner as 'the ferocious coming out of a great new band, a stunningly beautiful and ambitious debut album' The Dying Seconds are set to take the music world by storm. This is a rare opportunity to catch a sneak preview of the band in action before their Crawdaddy headliner the following night and their imminent departure to London. the brownbread mixtape is truly bursting with excitement to welcome The Dying Seconds to the stage. Expect excellence.
"Glimmerers is an excellent record that combines the broodingly intense with the warmly melodic. " – Daniel Harrison, State.ie
The Lazy Band
The Lazy Band are a collective of the finest trad, roots and folk musicians in this fair city. They get together every Monday evening at 8pm in Bewleys Cafe Theatre on Grafton St, Dublin to play a terrific FREE gig. It's a lovely little room that they fill with songs of their own and others. It's loose, it's lively, it's lovely. the brownbread mixtape is so happy to have them perform their infectious good time tunes with us.
Trevor Browne
Shane Langan
The Brownbread Players
We will be having our monthly RAFFLE with highy desirable and coveted prizes
And you can expect lots of surprises and silliness
It would be a pleasure to see you all there!
The brownbread mixtape is a free monthly comedy, poetry & music show in the Stag's Head pub in Dublin, Ireland.
Each show has a theme. Each act does a performance based on the theme. We all have loads of fun. Simple as that.
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2019 June 14
two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart.
Known as The Mice because they have such long tails, each large
spiral galaxy has actually passed through the other.
Their long
tails are drawn out by strong
gravitational tides rather than collisions of their
individual stars.
Because the distances are so large, the
interaction takes place in slow motion --
over hundreds of millions of years.
They will probably
collide again and again
over the next billion years until they coalesce to
form a single galaxy.
NGC 4676 lies about 300 million
light-years away toward the constellation of Bernice's Hair
(Coma Berenices)
and are
of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies.
Not often imaged in small telescopes,
this wide field of view
catches the faint tidal tails several hundred thousand
light-years long.


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A new UNICEF report has found that millions of poor urban children are worse off than their rural peers. Poor transport links, insufficient access to parks and growing air pollution are negatively impacting their outcomes.
UNICEF released a report last Tuesday showing that millions of poor urban children are actually faring worse than their rural peers. These findings overturn the popular assumption that children in cities benefit from what is commonly known as the 'urban advantage': the idea that higher incomes, better infrastructure and proximity to services grant urban dwellers better lives.
Instead, UNICEF identified what it calls the 'urban paradox', which is when environmental and health hazards mean that many urban residents – including children – miss out and suffer more severe deprivations than their rural peers.
"For rural parents, at face-value, the reasons to migrate to cities seem obvious: better access to jobs, health care and education opportunities for their children," Laurence Chandy, UNICEF Director of Data, Research and Policy, said in a statement. "But not all urban children are benefitting equally; we find evidence of millions of children in urban areas who fare worse than their rural peers."
The report identifies 4.3 million poor urban children worldwide who are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than those living in rural areas, and said 13.4 million are less likely to complete primary school.
"Children should be a focus of urban planning, yet in many cities they are forgotten, with millions of children cut off from social services in urban slums and informal settlements," Chandy said.
Up to 1 billion people are estimated to live in slums, hundreds of millions of whom are children, according to the UN children's agency.
Patrin Watanatada of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, a child advocacy organization, welcomed the report. "Cities can be wonderful places to grow up, rich with opportunities – but they can also pose serious challenges for a child's health development," she told This Is Place, adding that poor transport links, insufficient access to health clinics and parks, as well as growing air pollution can all exacerbate life for urban children.
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There isn't one girl who has watched a Disney film and not wanted to wear the princess's wedding dress (maybe even more than wanting the handsome Prince!), but Disney fans who have dreamed about the fairytale, worn the Disney Couture Jewellery and found her Prince can now also have the Disney dress!
Designed by Alfred Angelo the Disney inspired collection is based on several Princesses, including Belle, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Jasmine. We love these glamorous and elegant designs, and you can clearly see the link between the characters famous dresses and gowns and Angelo's creations.
With a different celebrity wedding happening each week, we've seen so many different wedding dress styles in the past weeks, including fashion royalty Kate Moss and actual royalty Kate Middleton. We even have another royal wedding to come, with Zara Phillips marrying this month, as well as reality TV Queen Kim Kardashian's wedding at the end of summer!
So as it's a very busy wedding season, we feel it's the perfect excuse to get wrapped up in the fairy tale!


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Lewis and Clark from a woman's point of view
Jean Kirsten Johnson
The fringes on her white buckskin dress
swayed, and in her moccasins her steps were soft. The crowd gathered at
Washington State University's Vancouver campus was hushed. Sacagawea's dark
eyes shown in the lighting and her long black braids hung over her breasts.
She stood center stage – chin high, shoulders down. She took a sip of water
and then began, her voice full of gravitas.
"Water is very important," she intoned. "And whenever we begin something it
is good to give thanks. Thanks for the water. Thanks for all of life,
because we were taught that life is fragile."
Dr. Jeanne Eder, member of the Dakota Sioux tribe, associate professor of
History and director of Native Studies at the University of Alaska at
Anchorage, has been impersonating Sacagawea since 1997. She accepted the
invitation of the WSU History Department's Pettyjohn Committee to come down
to the lower 48 and do the performance for her alma mater.
"Back in 1979 when I was teaching at the University of North Dakota, the
state's Committee for the Humanities asked me to portray Sacagawea, but I
refused because she was a heroine of white culture. Instead I did Waheenee
Buffalo Bird Woman," Dr. Eder said. "Finally, though, in 1997 I agreed to
do Sacagawea because my fear was that she was going to become the
Pocahontas of the West, and we'd have another Hollywood movie about how
Sacagawea ran off with William Clark, something she would have never done,
of course."
Dr. Eder plugs into the matriarchy pundits to give Sacagawea the power and
dignity she deserves. Speaking in character, she said: "I tell you, these
Hidatsa women are very smart. They own all the houses, the women. And the
women must not walk beside the man. They walk behind the man," Eder paused
for the punch line. "To tell him where to go."
The crowd takes a breath and laughs, but Eder stayed fully in character.
"The woman has the power. Power over the wingeds of the air and the two
leggeds and the things that crawl. And the ceremonies. The women have that
power because they have all the people and own all the property. But still
they gave the ceremonies to the men along with the power to speak," Eder,
as Sacagawea, again waits for a moment before continuing. "The women tell
them what to say, but the men get to say it."
The evening went on from there. Dr. Eder kept the audience mesmerized for
an hour giving glimpses of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the eyes
of a Hidatsa woman.
"One of the things I learned about these men. They're always in a hurry –
they want things right now. Still, when Clark slapped Charbonneau for
hitting me – that's when I knew Clark was going to be my brother."
One of the reasons Eder is selective in accepting invitations do to
Sacagawea is the caliber of questions audiences tend to pose. "White
audiences tend to want to make me the spokesperson for all Native people,"
she said. "Plus that, the caliber of some of their questions can really
grate: How come Indians gamble? How come they have casinos? Home come they
can't balance their checkbook? That's the worst one.
"Children's audiences are the best, though. They aren't so tainted by
racist views of Native people. They just get into it and want to know about
Sacagawea's dress and her blue beads and cradleboard. Just so focused on
the story."
And it's the story that compels Eder as well.
"I put it this way. Sacagawea was on a journey. We all make circular
journeys in our lives. We all have examples of where we started at one
point, and we journeyed out and around and we came back to that same point.
Sacagawea knew she was returning to the place where she had been captured
by the Hidatsa people. I think that brought fear and anxiousness as well as
Dr. Bill Lang of Portland State University's History Department commented
on Eder's WSU performance and observed that our actual knowledge of
Sacagawea is based on very little written material. "What we have here is a
filling in of a cultural space that is not present in the journals," said
Lang. "And I would argue that the only way to understand Sacagawea is the
way Jeanne is doing it – through her interpretation."
Eder, of course, agrees. Although she is Dakota Sioux herself, she was
married to a Crow and explains that she "has worked hard to raise her
daughter in the Crow traditions. Crows, as you probably know, are cousins
of the Hidatsas." Between her life experiences and the study of American
history, Eder feels she has genuine insight into how a woman from the
Hidatsa tribe might have felt going through the experiences that Sacagawea
did. The absence of references in the Lewis and Clark journals about
Sacagawea doesn't trouble Eder at all. Rather she finds the omissions an
expected outcome of both the era and scenario.
"Sometimes we come back around in the same place we were and say 'what
caused me to go around in that?' For Native people circles are sacred
symbols, and when you complete one of your journeys it's a very special
defining moment," explained Eder.


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Here's the latest fix that works as of 11-3-2019:
SharePoint 2013 installation Error in Windows Server 2012 R2 due to updated .Net Framework 4.5
Issue: - While installing SharePoint 2013 SP1 on Windows Server 2012 R2, the installation error out if windows update has been run prior installation of SP. Following is the error seen in the below clipping. Error: "Setup is unable to proceed due to the following errors SharePoint 2013. This product requires Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5" Scenario:-
1. SharePoint 2013 SP1 pre-requisite installed successfully along with MS Recommended Windows.
2. Windows update essential updates the .Net Framework to version 4.6. This causes a false alert for Sharepoint 2013 installer that pre-requisite .Net Framework 4.5 is required.Solution: -
- Confirm the .Net Version
Open PowerShell and run the following command.
Set-Location 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Client'.
Get-ItemProperty -Path . | Select-Object Version.
The output is shown as below:
2. Open Windows Update and find the KBnumber in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64 (KB3102467).
3. Click on Installed Updates.
4. Browse to find KB number KB3102467.
5. Right Click on the KB and Click on Uninstall and confirm Yes.
6. After restarting the server and run the following PowerShellcommand again to confirm the .Net Framework version.
Set-Location 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Client'
Get-ItemProperty -Path . | Select-Object Version
7. Now you can continue the installation of SharePoint 2013 SP1.Note: Please do not forget to Run an Windows update after Sharepoint 2013 is installed which will possibly install new updates for SharePoint too.
5 Replies to "SharePoint 2013 installation Error in Windows Server 2012 R2 due to updated .Net Framework 4.5"
Here's the latest fix that works as of 11-3-2019:
I was then able to install SPF 2013 on 2012 R2.
After removing KB3102467, .NET version was 4.6.00081. uninstalling this KB3045563, .NET version was 4.5.51641.
Hi Sam,
Thanks for the reply,
If your current version is .NET Framework 4.7, so you can find the following KB's bellow in installed programs:
Microsoft.Net Framework 4.7 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64 (KB31186539)
Microsoft.Net Framework 4.7.1 for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64 (KB4033369)
Microsoft.Net Framework 4.7.2 forWindows Server 2012 R2 for x64 (KB4054566)
You need to uninstall all the mentions KB and try.
Unfortunately, .NET Framework 4.7 is the current version but it does not appear in the list of updates or installed programs.
I just had this issue today (August 9th, 2018).
After removing KB3102467, .NET version was 4.6.00081.
After also uninstalling KB3045563, .NET version was 4.5.51641.
I was then able to install SPF 2013 on 2012 R2.


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September 21, 2012
Celebrate life...
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happy 3.5 years of marriage!! We are going to a wedding tomorrow for a couple who has been dating since 2004...cannot wait! And yep, once you start looking at the little things in life, you realize you are surrounded by joy! This morning I drove to work watching the most beautiful sunrise...something that I never used to appreciate :-)ReplyDelete
Happy 3.5 years of marriage!!ReplyDelete
wow! congrats lady. hope that you're enjoying your half-versaryReplyDelete
I totally agree! Last week I was having a downer and focused on the bad and it's like things got worse, so this week I tried to have a better outlook and have had a pretty dang good week! Happy weekend!ReplyDelete
Totally true! Look for the good and you will find it :)ReplyDelete
love that quote!ReplyDelete
hope you had a great weekend celebrating!! :)