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NEW YORK — Relax, take it easy, don't be so stiff.
At least when it comes to their clothing choices, casual appears to be the way to go for many U.S. women today.
American women spent over $26 billion last year on casual sportswear, by one estimate, and surveys of their attitudes related to clothing show that they've become increasingly interested in wearing relaxed looks —?or avoiding dressed-up ones — over the past decade.
STS Market Research, based in Cambridge, Mass., found through polling that U.S. females aged 13 and up last year spent $26.2 billion on casual clothing, including jeans, casual pants, knit and woven shirts, sweaters, athleticwear and shorts. That translated to about $228.82 a person.
The total U.S. population of females aged 13 and up was 117.9 million as of 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The STS numbers showed that casual sportswear sales in 2002 were flat with prior-year levels, reflecting the soft U.S. economy.
The only group of women that increased spending on casual sportswear last year was aged 50 to 64, who spent $5.5 billion on the category, up from $4.8 billion in 2001. Their 2002 spending represented 21 percent of all spending on the category. In 2000, women in that age group represented 18.3 percent of the U.S. population of women aged 13 and up.
Teen girls cut their spending to $3.4 billion from $3.7 billion. Their outlay represented 13 percent of all spending on the category, while they had represented about 10 percent of the population in 2000.
Art Spar, president of STS, said that marked a major shift in the market.
"If we were talking about 2001, I would have been saying the big dollars were coming out of the youth market and teen market," he said.
Two factors drove the shift, Spar suggested. One was the lack of must-have items drawing teens into the stores last year, as low-rise jeans and midriff-bearing tops did the prior year. A second, and perhaps more important, factor was the softening economy.
"The recession has constrained this limited deep pocket the teens seem to have, and whether they're poor on their own or their parents are contributing by forcing them to buy more practical clothing in line with their family's budget, the fact is they're not spending as much," he said.
Older women, he suggested, are spending more to spiff up their work wardrobes, opting for casual pants and tops for that purpose.
It was also clear that the economic slowdown has crimped the spending of lower-income women more so than their higher-income counterparts. In households with income under $39,900, women cut their outlay on casual sportswear to $8.7 billion, down 6.5 percent from $9.3 million in 2001. Women in households earning $70,000 and above spent $9 billion, up 7.1 percent from $8.4 billion.
In between those two groups, spending remained flat at $8.5 billion.
While women's spending may be constrained by the soft economy, they're running in droves to the mass merchants. The leading channel for casual sportswear purchases last year was specialty stores, which accounted for 28 percent of spending on the category. Discount stores came in second, with 19 percent market share.
The strength of the specialty channel reflects the success of chains like Chico's in attracting middle-aged women shoppers with more flattering fits and realistic designs, Spar suggested.
The sheer size of the individual mass merchants and national chains made them dominant in the category, though. The top outlet for casual sportswear was Wal-Mart Stores, which drew $2.5 billion of women's spending. Old Navy ranked fifth, pulling in $800 million on the category.
Old Navy, however, was the leading brand for women's casual sportswear, according to STS, with 3 percent market share. Gap came in second, and Levi's, Liz Claiborne and Tommy Hilfiger rounded out the top five. For casual pants, the top three brands were Liz Claiborne, Dockers and Gap, according to STS. It said the top brands for shirts and sweaters were Old Navy, Liz Claiborne and Gap. For athleticwear, they were Hanes, Nike and Old Navy.
Women devoted the largest chunk of their casual sportswear budget to shirts, on which they spent $77.26 last year, according to STS. Jeans came in second, with an average outlay of $71.42.
When women go shopping, they have casual occasions on their minds, regardless of what it is they're buying. According to Cotton Inc., women aged 16 to 55 last year devoted 58.3 percent of their clothing budgets to garments primarily intended for casualwear. Business-casual garments represented another 20.3 percent of their spending. Last year, the share of women's apparel spending on clothing intended for purposes other than casual occasion shrank.
Women own plenty of casual clothing — 56 percent of women surveyed by Cotton Inc.'s Lifestyle Monitor said they owned more casual clothing than work clothing, while 35 percent said they had more work clothing. But that doesn't stop them from wanting more: Asked if they were more likely to buy a new outfit for a vacation or for a business meeting, 64 percent told Cotton they'd buy a vacation outfit, while 27 percent said they would choose new work clothes. (A free-spending 5 percent said they'd get both.)
The growth in enthusiasm for casual apparel also reflects the overall increased casualization of the American lifestyle. According to the Cotton Inc. poll, 68 percent of women last year said they prefer to go places where they wear jeans. That's up from 63 percent who expressed that preference in 1994.
Many consumers opt to wear casual apparel because it feels more comfortable to them. Fifty-one percent of respondents to Cotton's 2002 survey said they'd opt for more comfortable, rather than better-looking, clothes for a night out on the town. That's a switch from 1994, when 59 percent opted for the better-looking clothes at the expense of comfort.


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If you grew up with Oreos, you know that there are lots of different ways to eat them. Double Stuffed No-Bake Cheesecake is one of them!
These delicious, cream-filled, chocolate cookies are great on their own or with a big glass of milk. You can eat them whole or twist them apart and scrape out the center. But this episode of Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking introduces an Oreo No-Bake Cheesecake and it's a new take on Oreos that you're definitely going to want to see. The cheesecake is super easy to make, uses just a few ingredients and it's layered, making it easy to assemble.
Learn How To Make This Delicious And Mouthwatering Cheesecake Here! Excuse Me While I Make Mine!

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Describe yourself in 1-2 words ? Easy going
Where do you most want travel to but have never been? Any where in Italy or Sicily
What was your favorite subject in school? Art
What motivates you to work hard? The sense of accomplishment and seeing a job finished.
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All Spanish clash for European football glory
15 May 2007
GLASGOW – Sevilla's chase for a league, cup and European treble is starting to hurt.
The Andalusian team needs to overcome fatigue as well as Spanish rival Espanyol to win Wednesday's UEFA Cup final.
Defending champion Sevilla is chasing an unprecedented sweep in Spanish soccer of league, Copa del Rey and UEFA Cup, and coach Juande Ramos is worried his team could run out of energy at Hampden Park.
"We know that we are fighting on three competitions," Ramos said Tuesday. "This means wear and tear and fatigue. Some people are telling us not to concentrate on all three, but which one should we not concentrate on?"
Sevilla is two points behind leaders Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in the Spanish league with four games left, and is without a league title since 1946.
Sevilla also plays Getafe in the Copa del Rey final on June 23, chasing its first domestic cup win in 45 years.
Still, the UEFA Cup's first all-Spanish final gives Sevilla the chance to become the first club since Real Madrid in 1986 to win consecutive finals, and could make Ramos the first coach to win the trophy in successive seasons.
His Espanyol counterpart, Ernesto Valverde, lost the two-legged 1988 UEFA Cup final as a striker with the same club. Espanyol won the first leg 3-0 in Barcelona but missed the return in Germany, where Leverkusen won 3-0 and then won on penalty kicks.
"A long time has gone by and I don't suffer from that defeat," Valverde said.
Valverde follows Huub Stevens and Dino Zoff as the third man to appear in a UEFA Cup final as a coach and a player, but could be the first to lose as both.
Espanyol, which avoided relegation from the Spanish league on the final day of last season, qualified for the UEFA Cup by winning the Copa del Rey. A month later, coach Miguel Angel Lotina resigned and Valverde took over.
"We went through ups and downs (last season) and this is going to be a moment to enjoy for us," said Espanyol striker Walter Pandiani, the competition's top scorer with 11 goals.
The teams beat each other in the Spanish league this season, with Sevilla's 3-1 home win on April 29 the most recent. However, Espanyol is 12th in the league and has been focusing on the UEFA Cup.
"We wanted from the outset of this season to come here," Valverde said. "It was a clear call. It motivates us."
While Espanyol eliminated Benfica in the quarterfinals and Werder Bremen in the semifinals, Sevilla survived a scare in the round of 16 when it needed a headed goal from goalkeeper Andres Palop to beat Shakhtar Donetsk. It then defeated two-time champion Tottenham in the quarterfinals and Osasuna in the semifinals.
Sevilla retained the bulk of the squad that defeated Middlesbrough 4-0 last year to win its first European trophy.
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Let's start with some real talk about jackfruit. It's huge. It's heavy. It takes a long time to prepare. But it's so, so good. So if you have the time, and the inclination… or if you'd just like to look at one, come along for the ride.
What is Jackfruit?
Jackfruit is an enormous tropical fruit that has a thick, fibrous texture. It's about the size of a large watermelon, and it weighs about the same too – but it has hard, prickly skin. It's probably most famous for its use as a meat substitute. (If you cook it down, the fruit has a stringy texture that's analagous to shredded beef or pork.) When the fruit is ripe, you can eat it raw. (It tastes like a not-too-sweet combination of a banana and a pineapple.)
Jackfruit is available in many stores in canned form (either in brine or in syrup) and it's frankly easier to cook that way. But if you're like us, you like the adventure of cooking something crazy… and you hate the idea of starting off any recipe where the starring ingredient comes from a can. We got a whole one from Melissa's Produce , a distributor that is increasingly sending them to in grocery stores. Note: If you want it but don't see it, ask your produce manager.
How Do You Cut A Jackfruit?
Now you're ready to dive in. You just need a knife, a plastic-wrapped cutting board, and plastic gloves. Gloves? Yes, the fruit has a sticky resin inside that can be hard to clean off. It's best if you start out this project with a little protection.
First, using a sharp knife, cut thick cross-sections of the fruit so that you have several large discs to work with.
Next, cut a line through one of the discs into the center, and carefully cut out the hard round center core.
Open up the circle, and you have a nice long strand of flesh and pith to work with.
The main part you're going for is the thick, golden pods that encase the seeds. You'll want to pull out the seeds and also pull away the membrane that surrounds the seeds, as well as the white pith. (Note that you can eat the seeds! More on this in a moment.) You will end up with pretty golden curved pieces that looks like pouches – and taste faintly sweet.
What Does Jackfruit Taste Like?
Raw Jackfruit is sweet.It tastes like a combination of mango and banana, with a fibrous texture more like pineapple. When it's cooked, those fibrous pieces hold up to cooking. That's why it makes a great substitute for pulled pork.
The smell is also faintly sweet, but the pith and skin may have an odor. That's why, when you're ready to store it in the fridge, store it in a sealed container. (As opposed to just wrapping it in plastic.) You can also freeze jackfruit once it is prepared and properly sealed.
What Do You Do With Jackfruit?
Now, what to do with this golden abundance? We've got some great choices for you.
Vegan Shredded BBQ Jackfruit Sliders
And remember how we said that you can use the seeds? It's true. Here's a tasty hummus made with jackfruit seeds:
If you've created something delicious with fresh jackfruit, let us know! We're always looking for a good project.
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Post Malone & Crocs Drop Second Collaborative Model
Dressed in barbed wire.
2018 saw some special collaborations including the surprise team up between multi-platinum-recording artist Post Malone and footwear manufacture Crocs.
Following up on their first release, which dropped earlier in November, the duo have once again set their sights on Crocs' iconic Classic Clog. This time featured in an all-yellow color palette, the latest silhouette sees a barbed wire graphic emblazoned across the front, while six new unique Jibbitz™ charms, including a saw blade, snake and "PM-2" logo, have been added. Finally a Posty Co™ motif on the lateral heel finishes off the entire look of the collaborative model.
Interested fans will be able to purchase the Post Malone x Crocs Barbed Wire Clog starting Tuesday, December 11 at 2:00 p.m. EST for $59.99 USD on crocs.com. The model will also release at the following Crocs retailers:
Crocs New York
152 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10120
Time: 8:00 a.m. EST
Crocs Sunrise
Sawgrass Mill
12801 W Sunrise Blvd Space 289
Sunrise, FL 33323
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Crocs Orlando
8001 S Orange Blossom Trail
Orlando, FL 32809
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Crocs Grapevine
3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway
Grapevine, TX 76051
Time: 10:00 a.m. CT
Crocs Glendale
2148 Glendale Galleria Unit 2163
Glendale, CA 91210
Time: 10:00 a.m. PST
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Twitter's 'bluesky' releases Ecosystem Review of decentralized protocols and apps
The Bluesky initiative, a project focused on creating a decentralized social network backed by Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey, shared a 61-page Ecosystem Review of viable protocols and apps.
On December 11, 2019, Jack Dorsey, Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, posted a surprise tweet announcing Bluesky, an initiative to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. Very little was said about the project throughout 2020, but on Thursday, January 21, 2021, the Bluesky Twitter account tweeted an update on their progress.
One of the goals when we announced bluesky was to develop a grounded understanding of relevant work that many talented people in the decentralization community have been doing. Today, we want to share an update on this. Starting last February, we invited a diverse group of people from different parts of the decentralization community to a virtual forum for collaboration + discussion. They led an inspiring conversation on the purpose bluesky is intended to serve and the directions it can take. Working virtually through the pandemic, this group self-organized, invited additional experts, and created a review of the ecosystem around protocols for social media.bluesky via Twitter
Bluesky released a 61-page Ecosystem Review (PDF) that was written by Jay Graber, along with fourteen other collaborators.
The Review was an overview of the most viable decentralized social network protocols and apps. It listed very few advantages and disadvantages, opting to explain instead how each protocol and app functioned. These are the protocols and apps the Review covered.
Decentralized Protocols
Decentralized Applications
- Aether
- Blockchain social networks
- Diaspora
- Mastodon
- SSB social networks
The document acts as an excellent primer to better understand the decentralized social network ecosystem. The next stage in the project will likely focus on each protocol and app's pros and cons. It's possible that if none of the protocols and apps fully achieve their goals, they may create a new solution.
Bluesky also stated they're still looking for someone to lead the project and hope to pick someone in the coming months.
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Johnson, Pamela Hansford (Vol. 1)
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Johnson, Pamela Hansford 1912–
English novelist and critic. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
The novels of Pamela Hansford Johnson are the basic material of the publisher looking for a well-made, intelligent novel that stands the chance of a book club selection and will go well with a public that wants its fiction neither light nor heavy. It is the kind of fiction that keeps the novel going in between the valleys and the peaks. It handles ideas in terms of the people involved; it rarely aims at abstractions, and the conflicts themselves are those one encounters in daily life. Emotions are of course played down; there are few powerful climaxes, few dramatic intensities that would weight the novel unduly. In brief, the novelist makes no attempt to exceed the tight, well-controlled world over which he or she is a master.
Frederick R. Karl, in his A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel (reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.; © 1962 by Frederick R. Karl), Farrar, Straus, 1962, p. 275.
[Pamela Hansford Johnson] has been a professional novelist for many years now; This Bed Thy Centre (1935), a study of working-class life in south London, written when she was twenty-two, remains one of the most interesting first novels of the thirties. But through the years her talents have steadily deepened and her insights broadened until now she writes with complete authority. By that I mean that, having read her, one feels that the whole truth has been told about the characters and the situations in which they find themselves. One has a sense of her complete knowledge of them, and this sense is the effect, it seems to me, of her technical mastery and of her moral discriminations.
Walter Allen, in his The Modern Novel (© 1964 by Walter Allen; published by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. and used with their permission), Dutton, 1964, p. 258.
Admirers of the work of Pamela Hansford Johnson (Lady Snow) have not always seen a preoccupation with the problems of right-doing, sometimes resolving itself into questions of the final sanctions of morality, which lies hidden under the complexities of her novels, as well as their wit, accurate reportage, and delight in the surface of life…. As with Graham Greene (whom she in no way really resembles) we are tempted towards moral judgements that orthodoxy would not condone…. No novel of any complexity can ever have the directness of a moral tract, but the virtue of Pamela Hansford Johnson's work often lies in its power to present the great issues nakedly—forcing us not so much to a decision as to a realization of the hopelessness of decisions. If, that is, we are not saints and martyrs.
I ought to stress that all Miss Hansford Johnson's novels are notable for a kind of grave lightness of touch, they are never without humour.
Anthony Burgess, in his The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction (reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.; © 1967 by Anthony Burgess), Norton, 1967, pp. 66-7.
[Pamela Hansford Johnson] commands respect because she never uses a formula or a gimmick; in a sense because she has never written a spectacular best-seller, and is never considered as the author of a single book, but must be judged for her work as a whole. (p. 5)
[Her] strong point … has always been social description, atmosphere, situation, a sense of how things feel, look, taste and sound in a particular group, at a particular level: her people are always part of the wider world they live in, they are professionally, socially, externally recognizable, as well as personally known and understood. Personal relations matter, of course, they even matter supremely to the people involved in them; but her people live a good deal in the world of telegrams and anger, they are conditioned by money and jobs and responsibilities and all the external pressures of work, friends, background, family, old loyalties. No one lives in a vacuum, no one nurses feelings in isolation from the rest of life, untouched by responsibility for others. (p. 6)
Miss Hansford Johnson does not see the world from a specifically feminine point of view, certainly not from a sheltered social position: she can even write credibly in the first person as a man—an unusual achievement for a woman. As an artist she is able to forget her sex, as she is able, in a sense, to enter backgrounds she cannot know as intimately as she appears to. (p. 6)
Pamela Hansford Johnson is untypical in that she deals with situations that are untypical, 'unfictional' in the sense that they have not the neat, ready-made air of so many chosen by novelists…. Even in the earliest books everything was seen as fluid with possibilites, the present opening into the future; life was never a series of compartments, fixed and sealed by a particular situation. Things were always relative, becoming, unfinished, open to every sort of possibility. (p. 8)
[In her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre] Pamela Hansford Johnson showed nearly all the basic characteristics of her later writing: its realism, its seriousness without solemnity, its use of social colour and atmosphere, its examination of love in many aspects, with very varied lovers and reactions to love, its lifelike dialogue—abrupt, easily embarrassed, totally 'unliterary.' (pp. 10-11)
Probably the three novels of the trilogy [Too Dear for My Possessing, An Avenue of Stone, and A Summer to Decide] are together Pamela Hansford Johnson's most impressive achievement. In them, for the first time, she used the public and private lives—the outer and inner worlds—of her characters with complete assurance, and manipulated a large number of these characters and worlds, covering a wide social field, without any sense of strain. (pp. 17-18)
None of her novels repeats what its predecessor has done, or even repeats the manner and methods of its predecessor…. After more than twenty years as a 'straight' novelist, she turned to the satirical Skipton, which may be her best novel; after Skipton she went back to realism of the most moving, feeling sort, in The Humbler Creation; then to a kind of metaphysical society comedy, or mixture of two genres: the philosophical and inquiring, and the near-thriller, socially observant, sharp, exciting. Then she was back with the Skipton characters, and something of the Skipton manner. Always she has been a novelist of minutely exact observation, pin-pointing exactly this or that class, time or age-group; yet within that class, time or age-group always dealing with people who are intensely individual, quite outside the run of fictional characters that can be labelled hero, heroine, young, old. Indeed her most memorable characters are the eccentrics, the outsize outsiders, who fit nowhere, certainly no exact category…. [Hers] is not the mild talent called character-drawing; it is the creation of people who live outside the novels' pages, who enrich our knowledge of others. It is probably the most creative—the most importantly creative—of the novelist's gifts: the ability to fashion people we come to know more vividly and closely and fruitfully than we know most of our friends, people full grown, credible, feeling, responsive, whose unmentioned feelings we can gauge, whose undescribed reactions we can always imagine, who do not fade and diminish when we shut the book. (pp. 43-5)
Isabel Quigly, in her Pamela Hansford Johnson, Longman Group Ltd., for the British Council, 1968.


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In his retirement, Mark S., a long time member of Old First, will be giving tours of our historic sanctuary starting on Wednesday the 26th. He had previously given tours at Independence Hall and Congress Hall. You'll see him in the lower narthex on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 am to 1 pm.
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MASERU — Edwin Tšiu is forthright, sturdy and fearless.
But then those aren't surprising qualities of a man who terrorised defences throughout a glorious, but sadly forgotten, career that spanned 15 years.
A fierce forward — firstly for Qacha's Liphakoe and then famously for Matlama — Tšiu is a footballing immortal.
As part of a team that, on a cold autumn day 37 years ago became Lesotho's first ever national side, the name Edwin "Scara" Tšiu will forever be engraved in Lesotho's history books.
The game itself, a 1974 World Cup qualifier against Zambia on April 30 1972, ended in a 1-1 draw at Setsoto Stadium.
"It was so cold that day," Tšiu recalls. "I had never felt anything like it, (but) the match was of a high standard . . . we had a proper team."
The return leg in Lusaka two weeks later ended in defeat, but for Tšiu memories of that "family" still glow.
"This name of Likuena is a new thing," Tšiu says.
"I don't know Likuena. I never played for Likuena, we were Basotho," he adds bullishly.
The debilitating effects of age have slowly diminished the bull in the 64-year-old, but the passion within still beats as stoutly as ever.
"You see that picture," Tšiu says, pointing to a portrait of him in Matlama splendour. "You would never believe that's me.
"You don't see our players like that these days, you rarely find them.
"Players today are not fit."
"They check the training schedule — as soon as they see that there is physical training involved they dodge," he laughs.
Tšiu's views on Lesotho football, Matlama in particular, echo passion and hurt in equal measure.
After retiring in 1980, Tšiu coached Matlama and Lioli in the eighties.
These days he runs the Scara Tšiu Youth Development Football Club.
"People these days just don't love football. It's not like in our days," Tšiu says ruefully.
"I rarely go to matches anymore because it hurts me to see what has happened to our football.
"Matlama are worse . . . this is not the Matlama I knew and loved."
Indeed, in the just-ended Premier League season Matlama not only missed out on the title but suffered the indignity of finishing outside the top four.
"I started playing in 1965 for Liphakoe while I was still at Masitisa High School," Tšiu beams.
"Then in 1966 Matlama came to me.
"At that time the (major) teams were Linare and Matlama.
"Lioli and Majantja we also there, but LDF came much later."
Tšiu was a vital cog in Matlama's 1974, 77 and 78 championship teams.
However, harping on about past glories is not what Tšiu wishes to do.
The current state of affairs is too grave, too alien to what he once knew.
Lesotho's senior team is floundering, his beloved Matlama is "worse".
Tšiu is a concerned man.
"The coach (Zavisa Milosavljevic) needs to be helped," he says.
"He was supposed to have been given the old players that have retired, that have played international games as advisors.
"Not that we want be the coaches, but to assist. They (retired players) should be employed out of respect for what they have achieved.
"It is true that they have experience, we cannot deny that.
"And when you have people like those, you have to put them close by."
He adds: "This (Likuena) is not a team — they have not even won a match.
"Swaziland and Botswana were never a match for us; they were write-offs, but things have changed."
But where are Lesotho's football legends? Is it not fair to conclude that they aren't interested in the state of football?
"People will say that they are lost. This it is not true, it's just that they have not been taken care of," Tšiu says.
"There are so many around, in Leribe, in Maseru, Mafeteng, Majantja — they are there.
"We want to join and help out but there is a barrier there.
"I'm not here to talk bad about other people, but this is the reality.
"In other countries teams are run by mature people, but our football has discarded its retired players."
Whereas men Tšiu once shared the field with — like Kaizer Motaung, Jomo Sono and Screamer Tshabalala — have helped shape football in neighbouring South Africa, in Lesotho it's very different.
"Today Pele is considered something huge in his country and that is down to the people of that country," Tšiu says.
"It's the same with our neighbours (South Africa).
"But right now there is no one who knows if I'm alive or dead. We meet accidentally at funerals.
"There is a lack of respect. That passage of traditions has completely died and there is no discipline."
"Mocholene (Matlama coach Ntebele Taole) has many good players there (at Matlama), but they lack discipline," he adds.
"The supporters of Matlama also have to make sure that they don't get into the affairs of the team.
"Matlama now has groups and factions. That's why they are not playing well.
"The biggest problem is discipline. And this discipline thing, when you talk about it, it's something strange to them.
"When you have taken the choice to be a footballer you have to sacrifice.
"The standard now is low — if you're a coach you have to teach these players how to control the ball or how to trap.
"That is something that they have to do in their own time."
And 29 years after his retirement, Lesotho's football remains a mostly amateur, social affair.
"This is pathetic," Tšiu says with disappointment. "This is wrong because things are changing.
"We have to turn professionals too. Whether it is R5 or R10 (player salaries), we have to start somewhere. We are too late.
"These are things the country in general should have been able to provide a long time ago.
"For instance, if you go to LEFA you won't find any records from the past. There are greater players than me, players who played before me, they are unknown," Tšiu laments.
"Right now a bright future for our football is not there.
"We have great talent but there is a serious problem in organisation at the top.
"Players have forgotten what it means to play football. The only team now is Lioli."
Despite his misgivings about the status quo — and Maseru's chilly winter breeze — Tšiu remains ablaze with memories of a magnificent career.
"I remember we were playing Mauritius (Africa Cup of Nations qualifier), we had to win the game and the scores were level," he recalls.
"And we had been given a penalty so we gathered as the senior members of the team to discuss who was going to take it.
"In the meantime 'Frisco' (Senator Tšeliso Khomari) was loitering around . . . he was one those rebellious players . . . we didn't take notice of him.
"All of a sudden he just ran up and kicked the penalty over the bar.
"We were amazed and upset because we failed to qualify."
He adds, with a chuckle: "It might be funny now but it wasn't funny then."
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LG will unveil its webOS 3.0 smart TV at CES 2016 in Las Vegas in January.
The new system introduces Channel Plus, providing a wide range of OTT content through a unified channel list, which combines OTT content with broadcast TV channels. The new feature can also be controlled with an app to provide programme recommendations via on-screen widgets.
"We are excited about webOS 3.0, a major update since this advanced TV platform technology was first introduced in 2014," said Brian Kwon, president and CEO at LG's Home Entertainment Company.
LG webOS 3.0 has three smart features – magic zoom, magic mobile connection and an upgraded magic remote. The zoom enables users to magnify objects and letters, without degrading the picture quality. Magic mobile connection allows users to connect to mobile apps on the TV screen. The upgraded remote has added several new buttons, as well as a total redesign to simplify the interface.
"The webOS story of Simple Connection, Simple Switching and Simple Discovery has really connected with customers and illustrates very clearly our commitment to securing a leadership role in the smart TV market with innovation and creativity," added Kwon.


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The JCPenney Black Friday 2022 ad dropped on Nov. 1. JCPenney's Black Friday sale runs for nine days, from Nov. 20 through Nov. 28. This ad is larger in size than previous JCPenney ads, but features similar price structures with coupons and mail-in-rebates.
What's different this year is that JCPenney will be giving customers who shop in-stores on Black Friday coupons to use on purchases. You must be 18 or over to get the coupon and it's on a first come, first serve basis.
*Coupons: $10 off of a $10 or more coupon, $100 off of a $100 or more coupon and $500 off of a $500 or more coupon
The Black Friday ad can be a bit complicated to look at due to its amount of deals and layered sale pricing: The sale price is shown below, along with the regular price of the item, and some deals include a mail-in rebate form that must be sent in for compensation.
All items listed in the ad will be available online and in stores while supplies last. Smart shoppers will want to pay extra attention to the ad listings, as not all items involve a mail-in-rebate.
JCPenney will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, but they will open their stores at 5 a.m. local time on Black Friday. Shoppers wanting to avoid crowds during the pandemic can shop JCPenney's Black Friday sale online.
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- Cuisinart® Precision Master™ 5.5-Quart Stand Mixer for $199.99. (39% off)
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Seaport Global Securities' Daniel McKenzie upgraded American (ticker: AAL) stock to a Buy rating with a $27 target on Friday. While it's still early in the recovery, he wrote, "increased comfort" around corporate and trans-Atlantic revenue, combined with the carrier's plans to strengthen its balance sheet, are driving "increased conviction" in earnings for 2022.
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Happy, Energetic Mojo Needs A New Family
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Written by For The Love of Paws:
My name is Mojo and I am a seven year old Beagle/Boston Terrier mix. Some people refer to me as a Boggle or Boglen Terrier. I am a happy, easy going, low energy fella. I am happy just hanging out and cuddling. I enjoy getting a good belly rub and neck scratch. I love people and currently live with other dogs in my foster home. I typically hang out with my older foster sister as she is low key like me. I watch from the couch when my foster siblings play.
I enjoy being outside and like going for walks but not too long and I walk slow so I can smell everything. I am a good boy and I am house trained. I have no food or toy aggression. Life is short, no reason to stress, that is my motto. If you are looking for an older fella to cuddle and watch tv with, I am your guy.
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In April I see…
liveliness as the neighborhood stirs with eagerness to enjoy the day,
blossoms of perfect pink on the Kwanzan cherry tree,
wisps of yellow forsythia all around,
vibrant color of the lush green grass.
In April I hear…
honking of the gaggle of geese flocking to claim their territory,
pitter-patter of April showers on a hushed afternoon,
a chorus of spring peepers amidst wet, soggy ground,
cheering of children playing baseball at the park.
In April I feel…
crisp, clear air as the sun rises during a morning run,
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Kim Kardashian West is officially a billionaire, according to Forbes
Kim Kardashian West has reached billionaire status.
The reality star and businesswoman is now worth $1 billion, up from $780 million in October, according to a Forbes report published Tuesday, earning her a spot on the outlet's World's Billionaires List.
Forbes primarily credits Kardashian West's "two lucrative businesses," cosmetics company KKW Beauty and shapewear company Skims, for accelerating her to 10 figures.
The business magazine says it determines a person's wealth using stock prices and exchange rates from March 5, 2021. "We value a variety of assets, including private companies, real estate, art and more. We don't pretend to know each billionaire's private balance sheet (though some provide it). When documentation isn't supplied or available, we discount fortunes," it notes in its methodology.
This isn't the first time a member of the famous "Keeping up with the Kardashians" family has made the billionaires list – well, at least momentarily.
In March 2019, Forbes named Kardashian West's sister Kylie Jenner the youngest self-made billionaire, but the title didn't last long. In May 2020, Forbes refuted its own report saying that Jenner's cosmetics company, Kylie's Cosmetics, was "significantly smaller, and less profitable, than the family has spent years leading the cosmetics industry and media outlets."
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Forbes cited filings released by publicly traded Coty, Inc. which bought a $600 million stake in to Kylie Cosmetics in November 2019.
"Kylie Jenner sold half of her cosmetics company in one of the greatest celebrity cash-outs of all time. But the deal's fine print reveals that she has been inflating the size and success of her business. For years," the report stated, while re-estimating her worth at "just under $900 million."
The 22-year-old addressed the refutal on social media.
"what am i even waking up to. i thought this was a reputable site.. all i see are a number of inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions lol. i've never asked for any title or tried to lie my way there EVER. period," she tweeted.
Still, Kardashian West seemed to take a page from Jenner's playback. KKW Beauty was founded in 2017, three years after Jenner launched Kylie's Cosmetics.
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Last year, Kardashian West also sold a stake of her line to Coty: 20% for $20 million, a deal that valued the company at $1 billion, Forbes reports. Careful to not make the same mistake twice, Forbes noted the "figure is a little bloated" and Coty "is known for overpaying." It estimates Kardashian West's remaining 72% stake is still worth about $500 million.
Then there's Skims, the company Kardashian West launched in 2019 then quickly shifted focus to loungewear as the COVID-19 pandemic forced people in their homes and increased the demand for comfy fashion. Though Skim's revenue isn't disclosed, Forbes estimates her stake is worth a "conservative $225 million."
Kardashian West's representative denied comment to USA TODAY.
Kardashian West may be busy running her businesses and cashing checks, but her year hasn't been without hardship.
In February, the star filed for divorce from Kanye West following almost seven years of marriage, Kardashian West's rep Christy Welder confirmed to USA TODAY. The couple shares four children: daughter North, 7, son Saint, 5, daughter Chicago, 3, and son Psalm, who turns 2 in May.
Musician and entrepreneur Kanye West also lands on Forbes' 2021 World's Billionaires List, estimated to be worth $1.8 billion.
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text: The Ministry of Environment has today released the text of the new binding EIA statement for the remaining 32 km of the D4 motorway, which is included in the PPP project, on the Cenia portal. Together with the text of the binding opinion, an authorised person opinion is also published. By issuing the binding statement a repeated EIA process culminated and MoE confirmed that the D4 motorway is feasible in the territory without major negative environmental impacts. The assessment was carried out in accordance with the most recent version of the EIA Act implementing the relevant EIA EU Directive. EIA process documentation is available on the Cenia website https://portal.cenia.cz/eiasea/detail/EIA_MZP479.


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Dr Val Corbett is the Head of Programmes at LawSchool.ie. His principal research and teaching experience are in the area of employment law, the law of contract, and the law of torts. He also teaches Corporate and Business Law (F4) on the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) course at AccountancySchool.ie and Company and Business Law for Trinity College Dublin Business School. He is also co-author of Employment Law in Ireland (Clarus Press, Dublin 2009), the second edition of which is due for publication in 2022. Val teaches the Law of Obligations and Employment Law on the Certificate programme.
Dr Maura Kelly has a wide range of experience in the academic and commercial legal environment. She has been lecturing for over 20 years both in the public and private university sector. Her main areas of expertise are Constitutional Law, Company Law and EU law. She holds a PhD in the area of property rights. Maura teaches Introduction to the Law & Legal Skills on the Certificate programme.


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Anderson knows the community well
Bruce Yoder, Bremerton
Gary Anderson has been my good friend for 35 years. I know him well. His consistent interest in the welfare of the community and his active participation in its development is evident in his personal and professional life.
As a lifelong resident of Kitsap County, a business owner and an active participant in local politics for many years, he has become intimately aware of the growing trends and needs facing our community. His integrity, experience, knowledge, honesty and serving makes him perfect for a position that is responsible for representing all of us.
I highly recommend and endorse him for Port of Bremerton Commissioner.
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CINCINNATI -- "It's total nonsense," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Tuesday, that he'll be relitigating the case of serial killer Anthony Kirkland beginning July 23. To him, the death sentence Judge Charles J. Kubicki handed down March 31, 2010, is an appropriate punishment for a "monster" -- and the remark Deters himself made to prompt the imminent resentencing hearing was an appropriate comment to the jury.
He might even say it again.
"Frankly, I think he is a monster," Deters said. "He killed five girls, two of which were 13 and 14 years old respectively, and if the death penalty is not applicable to Anthony Kirkland, I don't know who the person would be that should get it."
The case touches a personal nerve for Deters: His daughter was the same age as Esme Kenney in 2009, when police discovered the 13-year-old performing arts student's body in a wooded area near her home. Kenney had been raped, strangled and set on fire after leaving home for what her mother believed would be a short jog around the nearby water tower.
Police found Kirkland less than 100 yards away with her iPod and purple watch in his hands. Hours after his arrest, he would confess to killing her as well as three other women found dead in similar states: Fourteen-year-old Casonya Crawford, 45-year-old Mary Jo Newton and 25-year-old Kimya Rolison, all killed in 2006. He had previously been imprisoned for 16 years after killing and burning his girlfriend, Leola Davis, in 1987.
He received a sentence of life in prison for Newton and Rolison's murders in 2010. Deters said defense attorneys argued that ought to be enough for the case of Kenney and Crawford the same year. He deserved a life sentence, which he had already received; he did not, they said, deserve to die.
Deters responded: "So I guess Casonya and Esme are just freebies for him?"
Jurors recommended a death sentence, and Judge Charles J. Kubicki agreed. However, Deters' closing comment became an element of Kirkland's case for appeal.
Citing the 2015 case of Hurst v. Florida, in which the United States Supreme Court said Timothy Hurst's death sentence was issued in a way that violated his Sixth Amendment right to due process, Kirkland's attorneys argued Deters' prosecution had been prejudicial and inappropriate in a way that violated his right to a fair trial.
Four of Ohio's seven Supreme Court justices agreed and granted Kirkland a resentencing hearing.
"It is improper for prosecutors to incite the jurors' emotions through insinuations and assertions that are not supported by the evidence and that are therefore calculated to mislead the jury," the decision said. "Although the crimes Kirkland is alleged to have committed are horrific, due process requires that a jury be free from prejudice before recommending the death penalty."
Deters doesn't buy it.
"I'm not happy that we have to redo this because I think the court lost its way on their decision, but that's the rules we work under, and we'll do it again," he said. "What I said was totally appropriate, and I can tell you right now -- I am very confident in this -- with the makeup of the Supreme Court today, that would never happen."
All of the murders haunt him, but details of Kenney's resurfaced multiple times as he discussed the upcoming resentencing: The all-consuming guilt of her mother, Lisa, who declined an invitation to jog with Kenney that afternoon and later ran barefoot on a gravel road to search for her; her slight stature and naivete; Kirkland's confession that he'd watched her tear at the dirt with her fingernails while he killed her.
They haunt Kubicki, too. He arranged for jurors to receive counseling after the initial trial because he believed it was a rare case in which "the reality was worse than what your imagination could come up with," he said.
"I feel very, very sorry that there's going to be a new set of people that are going to have to go through this and see and hear the things that other jurors did," Kubicki said of the resentencing. "I've never seen as many people affected by it that were connected with the trial."
Even more profoundly affected than the jury were the people required to give testimony a second time, Deters said. Kenney's mother refused to return to Cincinnati to do so. She gave her account of the murder in Seattle -- nearly the farthest place one could move from Cincinnati within the continental United States.
"She has been in Hell this entire time," he said.
Deters said he believes the members of this jury will swiftly reach the same conclusion as their predecessors, and the hearing might even be over by the end of the week.
Kirkland's pleas for clemency resemble those of convicted killer Robert Van Hook, whose execution is scheduled for Wednesday. Both men's attorneys defended them with stories of abusive childhoods, and both received the death penalty. Van Hooks appeals failed to sway his sentence; Kirkland's fate is not yet written.
Deters said he saw another commonality between the two cases: A public and legislature squeaismh about enacting the death penalty.
"If people don't want the death penalty, get rid of it, but stop playing these games," he said, referring to the appeals, before continuing without pause. "We got rid of the electric chair because everyone was wringing their hands, 'Oh, it's horrible, you know, we've got to bring in lethal injection.' Then we get lethal injection. 'We can't find a vein. He was breathing hard when we killed him.'
"We are executing people. This is killing someone. If you don't want to kill somebody, then get rid of the death penalty. The reality is we're killing somebody, so bring back the firing squad. That's constitutional -- very constitutional. Just buy a rifle and shoot him, and then it's over. No one has to worry about 'The drug companies won't sell us drugs' and 'We can't find a vein on the guy.' Just shoot the guy."
Kirkland's resentencing will begin Monday. Deters said jury selection is scheduled for Thursday.


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16: Percentage of companies that are considering reducing or eliminating 401(k) matches
Overall, about 6% of companies have reduced or eliminated employer contributions or matches to their retirement plan, according to a survey of 369 firms by consultancy Pearl Meyer. But 16% said they were considering doing so.
HR and other corporate leaders dealing with economic strain from the coronavirus pandemic are left making a handful of tough decisions–like mulling whether or not to halt or reduce 401(k) contributions in an effort to save money. Although the report from Pearl Meyer finds fewer than 1 in 10 employers have indicated plans to suspend or reduce contributions due to the coronavirus pandemic, many more companies are in wait-and-see mode, meaning numbers might jump exponentially in the coming months.
HR leaders who decide to make 401(k) changes need to properly communicate the decision and the plan to employees, experts say. They should be open and honest about their decision and the details, explain other rewards employees still have available, and encourage workers to keep contributing, if even if the company is no longer doing so.
Related: 4 tips for communicating a halt in 401(k) matches
Another important piece of advice from experts? Try to make any cuts to matches temporary, and reinstate them as things get better. Company matches have long been a recruiting and retention tactic, a way to boost employee morale and loyalty and a proven way to help employees save more for their retirement.


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Ever since my book_ Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food_ came out, I've found myself frequently answering the same questions over and over again about the ocean, fisheries, and seafood. Which fish should I eat? Should I eat wild or farmed fish? Should I quit eating fish altogether?
These are the standard ones. While I'm always happy to entertain questions from people who want to engage with the sea, I feel that many are missing the point about the future of fish, fishing, and seafood.
Since cruising sailors are generally a salty bunch with enough time at sea under their belts to understand that the ocean is a subtle and complex organism, I was happy to sit down with the editors of Cruising World and dig a little deeper into the issues I believe are pertinent to this topic.
CW: Let's start with the word overfishing. A lot of us don't really know what it is. What is overfishing?
PG: We must distinguish overfishing from the more extreme issue of outright species extinction. The ocean is a good deal healthier than the land in terms of wild-species abundance. On land, we talk about saving the last few hundred Bengal tigers or the handful of whooping cranes remaining to us. But in the ocean, the fish we eat are orders of magnitude more abundant. Even Atlantic bluefin tuna, that much-celebrated overcaught fish, still number in the millions. What we're talking about in the ocean is the loss of abundance, the loss of the ability of the particular species in question to feed us. Overfishing quite simply is the act of catching fish quicker than the rate those fish can replace themselves. This distinctly downward trend is also a reversible trend. Many fish grow fast and are very fertile, so even an overfished fish can make a fast recovery if given the chance.
CW: How do you stop overfishing?
PG: As University of Washington professor Ray Hilborn told me, the most effective way to stop overfishing is to limit the number of people who can fish a given population of animals. It's pretty darn obvious that if you let everybody who wants to fish onto a fishing ground, there's going to be too much fishing pressure. The impactful change you can make, therefore, is to set up rules whereby entry into the fishery is controlled. This has started to happen in the United States. In the last few years, the United States began implementing a system called Catch Shares, which pre-allocates the amount of fish that can be caught to a predetermined number of fishermen. This has worked very well with Gulf red snapper and Alaskan halibut, which are rebuilding nicely. It's just now being implemented with New England groundfish, like cod and haddock, although that's a more complicated and controversial story.
CW: Then does it really matter which fish we eat?
PG: Yes, it does matter, but not in the way you think. Choosing a particular fish to eat or not eat is a little like trying to hit a moving target. Fish populations go up and down, and it's very hard to identify a fish in the marketplace by its provenance. It's better to think about the fishermen from whom you're buying than about the fish themselves. My inclination is to buy from small-scale fishermen who use gear that doesn't harm the bottom and that doesn't kill untargeted species.
The fishermen who most often fall into this category are hook-and-line fishers, and many of them have bonded together into a new phenomenon called community supported fisheries, or CSFs. CSF members pre-buy a share in a local fishery and get a certain poundage per week. In the process, consumers get to know their fishermen and learn a lot about their immediate marine environments. Most coastal states now have CSFs, and their numbers are increasing.
CW: Does that mean that you're against farmed fish?
PG: No, there are many good farmed-fish options. Arctic char and barramundi are a couple of good ones. But if your community has a solid, well-managed fishery, why not support it? This leads to a larger point about the American seafood diet. About 80 percent of the seafood that Americans consume is imported, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
I think Americans would do well to eat American fish because they're usually well managed and because it builds relationships in our local ports between consumers and producers.
CW: Speaking of local ports, if I own a sailboat, what can I do in my home port to help fish populations?
PG: Onboard toilets should be up to code and in good working order. Poorly operating heads and sewage overflows introduce nitrogen into the water column. This in turn causes algal blooms, which in turn deoxygenate the water and cause fish kills. Stemming the tide of nitrogen into the marine environment is key.
In addition to reducing nitrogen and other wastes in the water, we need to encourage the revival of ecosystems that can actually do a lot of waste management for us. As competition for coastal resources gets more and more intense, I find there are increasing conflicts between yachtsmen and shellfish farmers.
Throughout New England, I heard many stories from oyster farmers saying that they had great difficulty getting leases for good bottom and that many shore owners, particularly boat owners, resented the presence of oyster farms in their view. I think this is ludicrous. Oysters—and, indeed, all bivalves, such as clams and mussels—filter the water and make it cleaner. The more shellfish farms, the better, in my opinion, and sailors need to understand that and to work with shellfish farmers over coastal mooring rights.
CW: So we should eat a lot more farmed oysters and mussels?
PG: Absolutely. Mussels actually have massive amounts of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids—nearly as much as salmon. And they're very good for the environment. And a dozen oysters have fewer calories than a single large banana.
CW: Is there anything we can do differently to help the ocean? **
**PG: As I said earlier, the key to good fisheries management is keeping fishing limited to a defined number of licensed vessels. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of unsanctioned fishing going on out there. If you're on board your boat and a log freak, it's not a bad idea to note the locations and times that you see commercial fishermen on the water and perhaps informally provide that information to your local fisheries officers. This isn't as big a problem in the United States as it is elsewhere. If you're an adventure sailor who plies the Roaring 40s, it's probably even more important to keep an eye out for fishing vessels out there.
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU, in the parlance of the United Nations) causes a huge amount of damage to fish stocks around the world. A lot of that takes place on the high seas, outside of the territorial jurisdiction of nations and outside of the capacity of most nations to monitor. If you're a cruising sailor, you're another pair of eyes and ears on the water. Helping to keep officials informed on vessel location could be useful.
CW: But is it still OK for me to throw out a line while under sail and catch fish for dinner?
PG: It all depends on the regulations. Remember that inside of three nautical miles, waters are generally state regulated and that you need to check state fish-and-game rules before you go.
Beyond three nautical miles, you're often in federal waters, and you need to check federal laws. Striped bass, for example, may not be killed in federal waters.
Over and above regulations, though, be mindful in your fishing techniques. Replace treble hooks on your lures with single hooks. Use a needle-nose pliers and pinch down the barbs on your hooks to make them barbless. Better yet, ask tackle-shop dealers for circle hooks, which are specially shaped hooks that lodge in the jaws of fish instead of in their guts. Barbless and circle hooks allow for easy release of undersized or unwanted fish, and that means a lot more healthy fish go back into the water.
Also try to figure out before you fish how many fish you'll need. A friend of mine, the great naturalist, avid fisherman, and author Carl Safina, once said to me, "Sometimes 'kill and go home' is better than 'catch and release.' Knowing when to stop fishing is the most important and mindful thing a fisherman can do."
CW: With overfishing, global warming, ocean acidification, energy and mineral mining of the ocean floor—is the ocean doomed?
PG: The ocean isn't doomed. The living ocean is profoundly dynamic, and it's been around far longer than we have. I'm pretty sure that it'll outlast us. But our ocean—the one we evolved with—is at risk. Species are stressed, the environment is changing, things are shifting. The best we can do is to change along with it. Winter flounder and lobster are declining in Long Island Sound, but crabs and summer flounder are increasing. So it stands to reason that we should probably not take so many lobsters and winter flounder from that body of water and shift our eating preferences.
But the worst thing we can do, I think, is turn our backs on the sea. We should eat seafood, but we should keep an eye out for the sea that provides it. And, of course, if you have a choice between a motor or a sail, the sail, environmentally speaking, is the better choice.
Paul Greenberg's Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food_ (The Penguin Press) is the recipient of the 2011 James Beard Award for Writing and Literature and a 2012 Grantham award of special merit; it's also a New York Times bestseller. For additional details about the book and the author, log on to Four Fish (www.fourfish.org) or follow Greenberg on Twitter (@4fishgreenberg)._
• Buy seafood from small-scale fishermen who use gear that does not harm the bottom and that doesn't kill untargeted species.
• Find a community-supported fishery near you. Start your CSF search with the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Local Catch.
• If you eat farmed fish, choose Arctic char and barramundi.
• Cooperate with shellfish farmers in coastal waters near you.
• Eat more farmed oysters and mussels.
• If you're sailing in remote areas, report illegal fishing.
• If you're sailing in state-regulated waters, check first with state fish-and-game authorities so you know the regulations. When in federal waters, be sure to check the federal regulations.
• When you fish, make use of barbless and circle hooks.
• Don't dump raw sewage overboard.
It contributes to an overabundance of nutrients, and this deoxygenate the marine environment.
• If you're fishing from your boat, don't use treble hooks.
• If you have a choice between a motor and a sail, sail.


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Dangerous goods driver licence training provider
When transporting dangerous goods in an individual receptacle with a capacity of more than 500kg or 500 litres you are required to hold a dangerous goods drivers licence.
Training for dangerous goods drivers licenses is undertaken by registered training organisations that are listed on the National Register of Vocational Education and Training.
Registered training organisations listed below are approved by NT WorkSafe to deliver TLILIC0001 - Licence to transport dangerous goods by road.
Note: The below listed RTO's all deliver training locally in the Northern Territory.


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On December 3, 2019, the UK's National Crime Agency announced a £190 million out-of-court civil settlement with Malik Riaz, an enormously wealthy and controversial property tycoon from Pakistan. It was the largest settlement ever made by the NCA, which added that the outcome did "did not represent a finding of guilt".
The settlement included 1 Hyde Park Place, a sumptuous £50 million property in London's exclusive Knightsbridge and which had previously belonged to the son of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
But what happened to the £190 million once it was returned to Pakistan had been shrouded in secrecy.
Finance Uncovered obtained documents and secured interviews with key players to enable Pakistan journalist, Naziha Syed Ali, to write her deep investigation into the matter. Her findings caused outrage among Pakistan's legal community.
Read the Dawn story by Naziha Syed Ali here.


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Called as the Pink City of India, Jaipur is certainly one of the places which would be on the bucket list of every traveler. There are a lot of things that one can possibly do in Jaipur and traveling budget-friendly to this place will happen when things are planned. This is one of those places which you must visit at least once in lifetime because of the culture and also the rich heritage that this place has. The majestic forts, the amazing palaces and the historical monuments present in this place would leave you baffled.
Let us quickly take a tour of Jaipur and also see how pocket-friendly can we plan a tour to this heavenly destination! There are a few places that you must and should visit when you are here in Jaipur. Instead of taking cabs, you could always choose to take the public transport when you are planning for a pocket-friendly trip. You must also look for places where there are minimal or no entry fee if you are planning to save even on that.
How to reach Jaipur
Jaipur is well connected through all means of transport from almost all the cities. The Jaipur International Airport has flights that connect from all the cities and the closest railway station is the Jaipur Junction.
Chand Baori
This is one of the must visit places in Jaipur. The construction of the step wells in Chand Baori would make you go gaga the very instance you see it. There is no entry fee to this place and the marvelous architecture of this place would take you back in time. Hence, this is one of the places that you must definitely plan visiting when you are strolling around the lovely city of Jaipur. Getting to know about the 9th century architecture is not a joke indeed, isn't it?
Anokhi Museum
If the artist in you is still alive, you could add more life to it by paying a visit to the lovely Anokhi Museum of Hand Painting. The traditional Rajasthan paintings and everything about it would be explained to you in detail here. This is one of those places where the tradition of craft block painting comes to life and when you are here; do not forget to try making these paintings all by yourself. Entry fee at this place is pretty less hence, you can add this place too on your travel list.
Street Shopping
Jaipur is one of the best cities to go street shopping. Some of the India's best local shopping bazaars like the Chandpole Bazar are situated here. Known for its marble showpieces this market attracts a lot of tourists across worldwide. You could also do some shop hopping collecting the best silver jewelry and traditional Rajasthan style jewelries for your loved ones. There are a lot of trinkets that can be collected from this market street. So, don't you think you should have this listed as well?
Palace visits
Hawa Mahal, Amber Palace and the Jaipur Palace are some of the prominent palaces that one can visit during their travel in Jaipur. These palaces are all architectural wonders and they all have great history attached to them. These palaces have stood the test of times and they sing the glory of Jaipur.
Best time to visit Jaipur
October to March is the apt time to plan your trip to Jaipur because the winters are amazing and chilly. You can go around the places and binge on the best local delicacies as well.
Summers start from April and lasts until June – It can become extremely hot and dry hence, this may not be the right time to go to Jaipur
Monsoons are from July to September and even this season may not be the right one. Though the rainfalls aren't heavy, it might ruin the plans of travel.


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New SGA program targets food insecurity
October 4, 2018
By José Da Silva, news correspondent
Swipe2Care, a new initiative pushed forward by the Student Government Association, attempts to help students struggling with meal plan affordability through a meal swipe donation system.
The initiative, which the university administration approved this fall, is a collaboration between SGA, Northeastern University Dining Services and Northeastern Student Affairs. Swipe2Care allows students to request and donate meal swipes online through myNortheastern.
An end-of-year student priority survey conducted by the Student Government Association, or SGA, indicated that a main issue students had was with meal plan affordability.
"One of the main asks we made of the administration was to make [the] meal plan more affordable," said Nathan Hostert, the SGA president and a third-year political science major.
Students can request swipes by indicating how many swipes they want for the week and their reason for needing them. Dining Services checks and approves the requests.
Swipe2Care rolled out Sept. 11 when the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Student Affairs emailed the student body to inform students of the new initiative.
"The program is designed to allow you to seamlessly contribute meals from your meal plan while providing a confidential and efficient method for other students who may be having difficulty, for whatever reason—to find their next meal," according to the email.
Students have already begun using the features of the Swipe2Care program, Hostert said.
"It has already worked, kids have already donated and received swipes, and we are only a couple of weeks in," Hostert said.
Noah Brown, a second-year business administration major, did not know about the initiative and said the initiative could have been advertised better.
"I had never heard of this," Brown said, "but it seems like it is good."
Luca Filosa, a second-year mathematics major, knew about the initiative, but said the university should have raised more awareness.
"If there was a banner on myNortheastern every time you logged in that displayed it, that would have helped," Filosa said.
While Hostert said Swipe2Care has worked so far, he wants students to know that the student government is not done making meal plans more affordable.
"I don't see this program as an end to all financial need," Hostert said.


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Can You Pass the ACID Test?
If you grew up in the '60s then an ACID Test was a phrase associated with Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) as part of his investigations into hallucinogenic drugs. However, the meaning of an acid test goes back much further – to the gold rush – when acid was used by miners to determine if they had found the riches they were seeking. Since then, it has come to have a more general meaning, neatly summarized as: A sure test, giving an incontestable result.
In the world of MarkLogic and enterprise databases in general, ACID is another acronym. It does not refer to a test at all but the allusion is relevant since, simply put, MarkLogicians would say that ACID compliance means "that we don't lose your data."
This seemed like a somewhat limited explanation for such an important differentiator of our Enterprise NOSQL offering. I wanted to understand what the emphasis on ACID compliance really meant and be able to explain it simply. So here comes my Light Summary Description (LSD) for ACID:
ACID is an acronym which stands for four properties of a database which mean that it processes transactions reliably:
- A is for Atomicity: The database must execute the whole transaction and not just part of it – all or nothing.
- C is for Consistency: The database must enforce the system rules, e.g. you can't put a value in a field if that value is not allowed.
- I is for Isolation: If multiple transactions are running at the same time they will run independently and the end result will be as if they were executed one after the other.
- D is for Durability: Once a transaction is done, it stays done (even if the system crashes thereafter).
In most NOSQL databases these properties are relaxed or are non-existent in favour of performance. This may be acceptable in a prototype or non-mission critical application but it is hard to imagine why most organisations would want to work with their vital data assets in this way. In addition many databases rely on locking to guarantee ACID compliance. Locking is the process of not allowing data that is being used in one transaction to be changed by another transaction until the first one is finished. Locking can cause serious performance issues for some users if others are running complex, lengthy queries. It is not an issue in MarkLogic thanks to multi-version concurrency control and time-stamping. You can learn more about locking and many other MarkLogic features from Jason Hunter, Chief Architect at MarkLogic, in his updated White Paper Inside MarkLogic Server.
Just how important is ACID compliance? Jason writes: "ACID transactions are considered commonplace for relational databases but they're a game changer for document-centric databases and search-style queries." Philip Howard of Bloor Research emphasized the importance of ACID compliance as one of MarkLogic's differentiators in his recent article on NOSQL databases: "they have over 350 real, live, actual paying enterprise customers (many of them major companies) and, perhaps most importantly, the product is ACID compliant. That seems like a contradiction in terms doesn't it? NoSQL and ACID compliant!"
In addition, the cost of not having ACID compliance is something that those 350+ MarkLogic customers decided was too high. Take durability as an example – they decided that it was NOT acceptable to lose completed transactions in the event of a complete system failure. They wanted to bring the system back up from disaster knowing that everything that had run up to that point was still there, finished and waiting to be used – no doubt about it.
Thus you can be sure that as a result of ACID compliance, a transaction executed in a MarkLogic database will deliver "an incontestable result". So next time you are talking to one of the "plethora of suppliers that most of us have never heard of" in the NOSQL space, perhaps the first thing you should ask them is: Can you pass the ACID test?


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Dev Device
Compiling a single device
Sometimes it is necessary to add support for a single device in an already deployed system. Especially when deployment was done using dockerized containers, it is useful to be able to add a device to the system without rebuilding the containers. To add support, follow these steps:
1, Clone agile-core, which also contains the DeviceFactory with device implementations
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Agile-IoT/agile-core
Note: use recursive cloning, or `git submodule update —init`
2, Ensure build environment is installed and JAVA_HOME is set (compilation will fail if JAVA_HOME is unset with "fatal error: jni.h: No such file or directory").
3, Install build dependencies
4, Compile the DeviceFactory
cd org.eclipse.agail.DeviceFactory mvn package
5, Develop your own device code (e.g. MyDevice.java) based on some of the examples in src/main/java/org/eclipse/agail/device/instance/
6, Compile your own device into java class
javac -extdirs target src/main/java/org/eclipse/agail/device/instance/MyDevice.java
7, Deploy this class in the plugin folder of an existing DeviceFactory


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issue contents
May 2018 issue
facility information
feature articles
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 631-641
Open access
The plans for an upgrade of the Swiss Light Source are presented, covering the storage ring lattice concept, the accelerator component designs, the insertion device developments and the science potential of the upgraded facility.
research papers
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 642-649
Open access
Details and performances of a transmissive pulse intensity diagnostic for the LCLS `nanosecond double-bunch' mode are presented.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 650-654
Jitter of XFEL signals due to fluctuations in shot-to-shot time delays and intensities are explored in the frame of a statistical theory of X-ray diffraction from liquids.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 655-670
Open access
Deep learning provides one possible avenue to reduce the data stream generated by serial macromolecular X-ray crystallography. Convolutional neural networks can be trained to recognize the presence or absence of Bragg spots, forming a criterion to veto events prior to downstream data processing.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 671-685
A hybrid model describing the X-ray absorption by a gas attenuator using argon and the subsequently generated plasma is presented. The model is able to reproduce the spatial distribution of the excited stated measured experimentally, as well as the decrease of the gas density along the attenuator axis.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 686-705
Open access
The design, the magnetic optimisation and the characterisation of the Aramis undulators are presented. The SUBLIME model integrates all the information gained during the series production and the test campaign to operate the Aramis undulator beamline, including phase matching and orbit correction.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 706-716
A parallel X-ray reflectivity technique with time resolution of 100 ms, enabled by the application of a polycapillary X-ray optic, is described. This method is applied to the observation of epitaxial thin-film growth.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 717-728
The fractional Fourier transform for numerical wavefront propagation has been adapted for use with X-rays, which alleviates the strict sampling requirements encountered in typical Fourier optics. This approach also allows wavefront propagation through multiple lenses in a single transform, and that property is leveraged in two numerical examples for compound refractive lenses.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 729-737
Characterization of the surface contamination of deep X-ray lithography mirrors exposed to synchrotron radiation
Wet chemical development of exposed resist, and beam calorimetry, are applied to determine the surface condition of grazing-incidence mirrors exposed to synchrotron radiation. Using this technique, the mirror reflectivity can be assessed without directly probing the surface and without the need for spectral analysis.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 738-747
Open access
An original scheme has been formulated for a broadband X-ray spectrometer with excellent resolving power throughout the whole spectral range, while the sagittal spot size is well confined to enhance the detection efficiency. The intrinsic optical nature and the most fundamental problems in the system have been comprehensively investigated.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 748-756
Simulations of X-ray diffraction of shock-compressed single-crystal tantalum with synchrotron undulator sources
Simulated X-ray diffraction patterns of shock-compressed single-crystal tantalum for polychromatic synchrotron undulator sources at different shock velocities and detection geometries are presented, along with their interpretation.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 757-762
Open access
The observation of the effects of radiation pressure of a Gaussian beam by tracking the rotation motion of single-crystal nanoparticles is presented.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 763-770
Beam-induced redox transformation of arsenic during As K-edge XAS measurements: availability of reducing or oxidizing agents and As speciation
Both beam-induced oxidation and reduction occur during As K-edge XAS measurements. The coexisting oxidizing and reducing agents and the solid-phase As speciation were found to be important factors in determining the vulnerability of As to beam-induced redox transformation.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 771-776
Influence of the core-hole effect on optical properties of magnesium oxide (MgO) near the Mg L-edge region
Optical constants of MgO thin film in the energy range 40–300 eV are reported and the influence of the core-hole effect on the optical constants near the Mg L-edge region are discussed.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 777-784
Investigation of the multiplet features of SrTiO3 in X-ray absorption spectra based on configuration interaction calculations
Configuration interaction cluster calculations are a powerful tool for understanding the multiplet structures of the Ti L2,3-edges absorption spectrum of SrTiO3 which yields different energy parameters representing the ground state properties. Simulated absorption spectra with different linearly polarized photons under various tetragonal crystal fields reveal a non-linear orbital–lattice interaction, which, in combination with a detailed analysis of the spectral shifts in different tetragonal crystal fields, offers a theoretical guidance for material engineering of SrTiO3-based thin films and heterostructures.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 785-792
Thickness-dependent structural characteristics for a sputtering-deposited chromium monolayer and Cr/C and Cr/Sc multilayers
A systematic characterization of Cr monolayers and Cr/C and Cr/Sc multilayers as a function of layer thickness is presented. The interior structure, morphology, ligand surrounding and thermal stability are determined in order to understand the initial growth and interfacial characteristics of Cr-based layers.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 793-800
Quantitative study of the influence of swimming therapy on osteoporosis rat models based on synchrotron radiation computed tomogaphy
By histomorphometry analysis and finite-element analysis, the effects of different intensities of swimming exercise were studied in ovariectomized rat models. The results showed that swimming can alleviate the decrease of bone strength induced by estrogen deficiency, and moderate-intensity swimming was found to have the most significant effect.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 801-807
Open access
Development of an X-ray imaging system to prevent scintillator degradation for white synchrotron radiation
An X-ray imaging system has been designed to overcome the challenges from the high flux of white-beam radiation, including degradation of image quality caused by accumulated contamination on the scintillator during intense X-ray exposure.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 808-817
Wavelet processing and digital interferometric contrast to improve reconstructions from X-ray Gabor holograms
A methodology based on wavelet transformation and digital interferometry is proposed to obtain the most essential information from X-ray Gabor holograms.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 818-825
An experimental setup has been developed in order to perform ultrafast X-ray tomography at high pressure and temperature. Pink beam projected through a standard Paris–Edinburgh press and an algebraic reconstruction technique were used in order to acquire a tomograph in about 10 s.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 826-832
Synchrotron X-ray microbeam dosimetry with a 20 micrometre resolution scintillator fibre-optic dosimeter
A scintillator fibre optic dosimeter with a one-dimensional spatial resolution of 20 µm has demonstrated the ability to resolve synchrotron X-ray microbeams.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 833-847
Calculation of the X-ray irradiation dose is developed from first principles. For absorption dependent on photon energy and time, and sample mass dependent on time, the dose integral is formulated. Exact, approximate and asymptotic expressions are evaluated and applied to scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy radiation damage experiments.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 848-856
Effects of soft X-ray radiation damage on paraffin-embedded rat tissues supported on ultralene: a chemical perspective
The radiation damage on biological tissues as a result of soft X-rays is assessed, focusing on the effects upon the embedding and supporting media that can influence further analyses.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 857-868
On the basis of Monte Carlo simulations and experiments, a proof of concept of the rotational radiotherapy technique for breast cancer treatment with kilovoltage photons from a collimated synchrotron radiation source is presented.
short communications
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 869-873
Details and capabilities of an X-ray beam-position monitor and feedback system incorporating a diamond-fluorescence screen for wide detection are presented.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 874-877
Infrared (IR) microspectroscopy coupled with the highly collimated synchrotron IR beam was employed to identify the pigment distribution in the wings of Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis at a high spatial resolution.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 878-884
A scanning transmission X-ray microscope operational at the Pohang Light Source is described.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 885-891
Open access
MX2: a high-flux undulator microfocus beamline serving both the chemical and macromolecular crystallography communities at the Australian Synchrotron
A microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline at the Australian Synchrotron is presented.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 892-898
The evaluation of a new fast XANES scanning scheme in fluorescence mode for spectromicroscopy using a Maia detector with high spatial and spectral resolution at the P06 beamline, DESY, is presented.
computer programs
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 899-905
Open access
Quanty4RIXS: a program for crystal field multiplet calculations of RIXS and RIXS–MCD spectra using Quanty
Documentation of the Quanty4RIXS program is presented with instructions for setup and usage.
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 906-914
Open access
Integrated beamline control and data acquisition for small-angle X-ray scattering at the P12 BioSAXS beamline at PETRAIII storage ring DESY
A versatile C++/Python-based data-acquisition and beamline control system for the P12 small-angle X-ray scattering beamline P12 at PETRAIII (DESY, Hamburg, Germany) is presented.
laboratory notes
J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018). 25, 915-917
Open access
Sample cell for studying liquid interfaces with an in situ electric field using X-ray reflectivity and application to clay particles at oil–oil interfaces
A sample cell for studying liquid interfaces with an in situ electric field using X-ray reflectivity and its application to clay particles at oil–oil interfaces is described.