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The Changing Face of Chicago Protesters

In Chicago, young people are taking the lead in demanding the social justice changes they want to see in their home city.

In Chicago, young people are actively taking the lead in demanding the social justice changes they want to see in their home city.

"The face of the movement is definitely changing," said organizer Damon Williams, 23. Instead of relying on household names such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton or other community leaders who have historically been trusted to ignite the change that disenfranchised groups in the city want to see, Williams says it is now everyday black youth who are organizing and taking to the streets to address the politics that affect them.

After the release of video showing the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, it was youth organizers who shouted Jackson off the microphone during a rally on Black Friday, bringing to the forefront a sense among young residents that the old leaders of their city need to make room for new voices.

"Young black leadership needs to be sought after by folks who are considered the gatekeepers of our neighborhood," said Veronica Morris Moore, 23. "We are the people who are directly impacted by a lot of the issues that face our communities. Therefore, we need to be the source of the solution."

Morris Moore is a youth organizer with Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), an organization founded in 2007 that works to nurture young people's vision for change. FLY, along with the Black Youth Project 100, have been working to arrange meetings and marches for and by young people to address the systematic oppression they see entrenched in their communities. The groups are also fighting to hold politicians accountable for their actions.

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Veronica Morris Moore is a youth organizer for Fearless Leading by the Youth.NBC News

For Morris Moore, accountability is something that applies to more than just elected officials — also to community leaders who have been complicit in corrupt politics within the city.

Chicago Mayor "Rahm Emanuel needs to stop apologizing and resign, but so does everyone who supported him — the Jesse Jacksons, the Father Pflegers — so many people who were telling us to vote for Rahm, those who have been standing behind him in press conferences," Morris Moore said.

"All those people need to stop calling for his resignation, and they need to apologize," she said. "They need to say, 'I need to be held accountable, because I was supposed to be a servant of the people and I led the people astray.'"

Rev. Jackson said that he mobilized for candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in the last mayoral election, but that it is important to connect with all elected officials even when there is a difference in views.

Bishop Larry D. Trotter of Sweet Holy Spirit Church, on Chicago's South Side, has been working to mentor young people who want to see change, and he understands the lack of trust young people have for community leaders.

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Damon Williams, co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective.NBC News

"They wonder, is a Bishop Trotter or a Jesse Jackson going to go into a room and cut a deal, then come out and tell us everything is fine. Or can I trust them as spokespersons behind walls where we cannot go?" Trotter said.

According to Trotter, the only way to build that trust is to work together and learn from what each generation has to offer.

Williams agreed, saying he respects what the generations before him have achieved and knows that intergenerational participation is key to making change but that times are changing, and with change come new concerns and demands.

"The distinctions we have in our politics are important and come from new realizations, and those realizations should be respected, and how we choose to operate based on those realizations is important and should be respected," he said. "Don't de-validate what young people are doing because they are young or you are not in agreement with it or it doesn't align with your politics."

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For Jesse Jackson, young voices are welcome, but they need to understand that even those who are now seen as leaders, like he is, were once young activists who needed to take notes from those who came before.

"When we were marching, our cover was the church. Some ministers may have been slower than we were, but they gave us a womb to hatch our eggs in," he said, adding that the fight for social change is one of endurance and requires a look at the big picture.

Despite any differences in opinion, Jackson and BYP100 have stood together in protests throughout the city.

While both generations try to understand each other's needs and concerns, it is clear that organizers on both ends agree that Chicago needs change and that young black people need to stop dying at the hands of police without all citizens asking questions.


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January 19th, 2017

NCLD Statement Urges Senate to Resolve Concerns Before Voting on DeVos Nomination

Statement by Mimi Corcoran, President & CEO, National Center for Learning Disabilities on the Confirmation of Betsy DeVos for U.S. Secretary of Education

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) has serious concerns about the commitment of U.S. Secretary of Education nominee, Betsy Devos, to uphold federal civil rights law.  NCLD urges the U.S. Senate to resolve these concerns by requesting a public statement from Ms. DeVos clarifying her position before voting on her nomination.
On behalf of parents of the 1 in 5 children with learning and attention issues – 2.4 million of whom have identified learning disabilities and receive special education – I listened closely to Ms. DeVos’s confirmation hearing eager to hear her commitment to students with disabilities and upholding the law.
Instead, what we heard was a nominee for the highest education post in the country who is unfamiliar with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the 40-year civil rights law that has provided students with disabilities the right to a public education.  This blatant disregard for one of our nation’s most significant federal education laws is as shocking as it is harmful.  Students with disabilities and their families cannot afford to have a Secretary of Education who questions their fundamental civil rights and publicly ponders whether to reverse more than four decades of legal protections.
What’s most unfortunate about Ms. DeVos’s confirmation hearing is that parents of children with disabilities are left to wonder if their child’s right to a free, appropriate public education is in doubt.  Will Ms. DeVos permit states and school districts to decide when and if to follow IDEA, an alarming and consequential prospect given the fact that IDEA impacts the daily lives of more than six million families?  Will she support or tolerate efforts to undermine IDEA and, in doing so, relegate students with disabilities to a second-class education, rolling back four decades of progress? I sincerely hope not, but her testimony to date leaves more questions than answers.
Families of students with disabilities, including those with learning disabilities, need to hear that Ms. DeVos is committed to honoring the history and vision of IDEA and boldly enforcing the law.  Anything less is inexcusable, especially because we know that, when given the right services and supports, students with disabilities can and do thrive in school and life.
NCLD stands ready to work with Ms. DeVos and to provide her with information and insights from parents of children with learning and attention issues and experts in the field, to ensure a full appreciation of the importance of IDEA.
As such, NCLD urges the Senate Health Education Labor & Pensions Committee and the full Senate to require much needed public clarification from Ms. DeVos before voting to approve her for such an important leadership position.

Full statement available here.

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Three colleagues and three ways of getting started at NEDCON. Meet Freek, Rafael and Stefan!

In recent months we have welcomed many new colleagues including Rafael, Freek and Stefan (also shown in this order on the photo). All three of them have followed a different trajectory of joining NEDCON. Freek became part of our System Integrators team after completing his internship, Rafael is from Chile and wanted to work in the Netherlands and Stefan is back at NEDCON after 10 years of working in Germany. Read more about their experiences below!

Rafael is from Chile and lived in Italy for a while. He had a preference to live in the Netherlands. What are his motivations in choosing NEDCON?

You come from Chile. Do you like it in the Netherlands so far?
Yes, I definitely like it in the Netherlands. It has been a great experience so far. Although I came to the Netherlands in the middle of the last lockdown, I was quickly surprised by the bicycle culture and stroopwafels. I also visited many cities in Gelderland. In my experience, the Dutch culture is very welcoming to internationals. For example, I was helped by agencies with all the immigration procedures, settling in a new city and even finding the job I wanted.

Why did you choose to live and work in the Netherlands?
I did my master's in Italy but I always looked up to the Netherlands. When other friends and colleagues migrated to the Netherlands and found a place to live, I was motivated to do the same. I read a lot about the healthy Dutch balance between free time and work, so I was soon planning my next step to thus live in the Netherlands.

How did you get in touch with NEDCON?
I wanted to work in a company that deals with storage because I was also working in that field in Chile. I made a list of all the possible companies in the field of storage. However, I was not quite sure about sending my applications, I felt that I was not yet proficient enough in the Dutch language. I then read the story of an Italian Structural Engineer on the NEDCON website. This encouraged me to contact him. After our first conversation, it was clear that NEDCON was a company that was open to internationals like me. I then contacted the recruiter. I was surprised by the clear and structured selection process. In general, the communication with the people working in the company has been easy from the beginning.

Why did you choose to work at NEDCON?
NEDCON is a leading company in automated rack design with in-house development of solutions. This gave me the opportunity to work with a team of highly experienced and friendly colleagues who are open to explaining and discussing in-depth engineering projects in an accessible environment. In addition, the company offers excellent working conditions and smooth communication among colleagues.

Why would you recommend it to another person to also work at a Dutch company?
I would recommend it because of the constant concern for improvements and developments of processes. Moreover, they take good care of your personal as well as career development. In addition, the Dutch culture encourages international environments because of the international projects and clients that are worked with. In addition, English is a widely spoken language, which can come in handy when first starting out in many Dutch companies.

Freek joined the company as a Sales Engineer after completing his internship.
What are his motivations in choosing NEDCON?

Why did you choose to stay at NEDCON after completing your internship?
At NEDCON, growth and development are highly valued. During my internship, I noticed that they pay a lot of attention to developing and developing talent, something I look for in an employer at my age. In addition, it is a company with a down-to-earth character and an informal atmosphere, this also appealed to me.

What position do you have and what are your duties?
I am a Sales Engineer in the System Integrators department in team Europe. In this position I am involved in the sales phase of projects. It is up to me to translate the customer's request into a quotation. I do this by making calculations and putting components together. I then discuss this with the Account Manager so that he can go to the customer with a clear story.

What would be your dream job at NEDCON (or is it already)?
My dream function within NEDCON is to be Account Manager. Building relationships and securing great orders are core tasks that I would like to take on. For now, I'm still busy with gaining all the product knowledge and my development as a Sales Engineer so that hopefully in the future I can hold the position of 'Account Manager' for NEDCON.

What is the most important argument you would give another person to work at NEDCON?
It is a project driven organization where almost all facets of the process are in-house. From sales and engineering in Doetinchem, to production in the Czech Republic and installation in (mainly) many European and North American countries. NEDCON does everything in-house. This makes it a unique company where a lot of knowledge is available. A place where everyone can learn something!

Stefan has been employed by NEDCON for over 10 years in the past and then moved to Germany and took a job there. Now he is back in our team! What are his motivations in choosing NEDCON?

You came back to NEDCON after working somewhere else for a while. What was the reason?
I was working for a company in Germany and was therefore away from home a lot. I wanted to spend more time with my family.

How does it feel to be back?
It feels familiar again and like coming home to both old and new colleagues!

What has changed in the company NEDCON in recent years?
The organizational structure has changed to a Business Unit structure. This means that the types of products/systems we sell to our customers are divided into three departments. I myself am now working in the System Integrators department which means that I am involved in designing and selling racking systems in cooperation with System Integrators (they supply e.g. the shuttle) to end customers. These are mostly large, international projects.

What is the most important argument you would give another person to work at NEDCON?
The pleasant working environment, being able to work independently and taking your own responsibility. If you are not satisfied with the work you are doing at that moment, we will look for alternatives within the organization.

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The NEDCON head office is located in Doetinchem (The Netherlands). We also have our own production facility in Pardubice (Czech Republic) and there are NEDCON offices in various European countries and the United States.

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Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe

This recipe for snickerdoodle cookies is shared by Jennifer Nickel. She is a great baker and I loved all her recipes. They all are easy and you can make these cookies for your next season baking holiday tray. This recipe will make 36 cookies.

For storing cookies, place cooled cookies in a plastic container or plastic bag with a piece or two of bread to keep cookies soft. Why is the cream of tartar in snickerdoodle cookies? It’s what separates a tangy, chewy snickerdoodle from an ordinary cinnamon-coated sugar cookie. The acid in the cream of tartar gives snickerdoodles their distinctive tangy flavor, and the chew happens because the cream of tartar prevents sugar in the cookie dough from crystalizing into crunchiness. You can also freeze balls after coating.

Ingredients Of Snickerdoodle Cookies

  • 1 ½ cups white sugar
  • 1 cup softened butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • For Coating
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Method Of Snickerdoodle Cookies

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease.
  • Beat 1 1/2 cups white sugar, butter, and eggs together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl; stir into creamed butter mixture until the dough holds together.
  • Mix 2 tablespoons of white sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Form dough into 2-teaspoon-size balls and roll in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place dough balls, about 2 inches apart, on the prepared baking sheet.
  • Bake in the preheated oven on the center rack for 8 to 9 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. I used candy holly and piped on a little white chocolate and placed the holly candy on top and it dried hard and held in place.
  • When removing cookies from the oven, they make look doughy still. Allowing them to continue to cook on the cookie sheet out of the oven prevents hard cookies.

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Finals Week Food for Thought – Spaghetti and Meatballs

By Chef Egg

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Neon Entertainment’s chef, Chef Egg teaches you how to create the ultimate meal for finals week, spaghetti and meatballs. Today we are going to make homemade spaghetti and meatballs. I am going to teach you how to cook your pasta perfectly so it soaks up flavor from the cooking water and the sauce. I am also going to show you how to make meatballs that will stay moist and burst with flavor. You can use homemade sauce or your favorite jarred marinara. I would say that this is something you do not want to skimp out on. A good sauce will make or break this dish.

Now let’s get cracking!

Chef Egg

Spaghetti and Meatballs

1 Egg
1/4 C Milk
1/3 C Bread Crumbs
1/4 C Parmesan Cheese, shredded
2 tsp. Dried Italian Herbs
1 tsp. Salt and Pepper
1 lb. Ground Beef
1/2 lb. Mild Italian Sausage – 2 links
2 tbsp. Olive Oil
1 qt. Marinara Sauce – homemade or from a jar
1 lb. Dry Spaghetti
1 tbsp. Salt

1. Place the first 6 ingredients into a medium bowl and mix well. Let this sit for 15 minutes. This mixture is going to season the meatballs and keep them light and moist while you simmer them.

2. Place the beef into the bowl, and then squeeze the sausage out of it’s casing and into the bowl. Mix everything together until just incorporated. The beef adds beefy flavor and the sausage is going to give you pork flavor and add extra Italian seasoning to the meatballs. Do not over mix this mixture or you will have heavy meatballs.

3. Take a 1/3 cup scoops of the meat mixture, lightly roll into even balls and then place on a plate. The scoop size is up to you, but I like my meatballs to be manageable size while I brown them.

4. Heat a large skillet over medium heat, add the olive oil and when it smokes, gently place the meatballs into the skillet. Cook for 4 minutes and then turn the meatballs over and repeat. Browning the meatballs is very important and is a big step in adding huge layer of beefy flavor to the recipe. You are just browning the beef and it will not be cooked through.

5. Place the meatballs into a medium saucepan, add the marinara and cover. Simmer for 30 minutes on low heat. This will cook the meat balls though and incorporate the flavor of the meat ball to the sauce and vice versa.

6. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add the salt. Add the pasta, stir well and cook for 9-10 minutes. Drain the pasta and save 1 cup of the pasta water. Do not rinse the pasta. The boiling, salted water will cook your pasta to exact doneness and season it well enough for your to actually taste the pasta goodness. The starchy pasta water will help thicken the sauce in the next step as well as the hot pasta.

7. Place the hot pasta water and 1.5 cups of the simmering marinara sauce back into the pot and bring to a simmer. Add the pasta to the light sauce and toss well, cook until the pasta soaks in the sauce. Finishing the pasta in the sauce helps to soak in further flavor.

8. Place the pasta into a bowl and top with meatballs and extra sauce. Top with Parmesan cheese and fresh pepper.

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Business groups unite, call on Ottawa to drop federal tax changes

Business in Thunder Bay

Thirty-five organizations from across the country have come together to form the Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness — a unified voice to oppose the federal government’s tax proposals that would dramatically change the way incorporated small businesses are taxed in Canada.

“These proposals, while intended to target the wealthy, will hurt middle-class business owners from every sector of the economy. These are shopowners, farmers, doctors, financial planners, homebuilders and trades in all sectors — the entrepreneurial families who are the backbone of the economy and responsible for the majority of the job creation in Canada,” said Dan Kelly, President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and member of the Coalition. “Our coming together highlights the urgency of combatting these proposals which, if legislated, would signify the biggest changes to the business tax system in decades.”

“In ten years at the Canadian Chamber, I’ve never seen an issue that has generated greater concern among our members. To make matters worse, allotting only 75 days for comment in the midst of the summer holidays is not a consultation, it’s a stealth attack on farmers and family businesses. The vast majority of our network’s more than 200,000 members across Canada are SMEs. They will be contacting their MPs to say that these proposals must be scrapped and replaced with measures that support Canada’s entrepreneurs,” added Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

If implemented, the proposals will restrict small business owners from sharing income with family members; limit certain forms of saving in the business, making the firm more vulnerable in bad economic times and less able to innovate and grow; and change capital gains rules which could make it more difficult for business owners to transfer their business to the next generation.

The 35 business groups — on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of members they represent — have presented a letter to Finance Minister Bill Morneau asking the government to take these proposals off the table and instead meet with the business community to address any shortcomings in tax policy affecting private corporations.

Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness by on Scribd

Signatories of the letter include:

Advocis – Financial Advisors Association of Canada

Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance

Canadian Association of Farm Advisors

Canadian Association of Management Consultants

Canadian Association of Optometrists

Canadian Association of Radiologists

Canadian Bar Association

Canadian Cattlemen’s Association

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Canadian Construction Association

Canadian Dental Association

Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Canadian Federation of Independent Business

Canadian Home Builders’ Association

Canadian Horticultural Council

Canadian Institute of Financial Planners

Canadian Institute of Heating and Plumbing

Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Mortgage Brokers Association

Canadian Pork Council

Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Canadian Water Quality Association

Coalition of Ontario Doctors

Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting

Family Enterprise Xchange

Federation of Ontario Law Associations

Grain Farmers of Ontario

Grain Growers of Canada

Independent Financial Brokers of Canada

Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada

National Exempt Market Association

Ontario Association of Radiologists

Ontario Medical Association

Restaurants Canada

Retail Council of Canada

The Coalition for Small Business Tax Fairness is encouraging those concerned about these changes to contact their Members of Parliament and use the hashtags #unfairtaxchanges #taxesinéquitables on social media.

Statements from Members of Coalition

“These complex proposed changes will very much impact investment and growth in the ITC sector, one of the most robust sectors in Canada; and the rushed consultation process this summer is counterproductive to creating effective tax policy and is unacceptable to us.” — John Reid, CEO, Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance

“Budget 2017 identified Canadian agriculture as a sector primed for growth, based on the bright economic outlook for thousands of small, family-owned and operated businesses. If these tax changes are implemented as proposed, we’ll see increased tax burden for farms, reduced investment in growing our operations, and even more uncertainty and  complexity for farm ownership transfers. We need to rethink these proposals to ensure that Canadian agriculture stays globally competitive.” — Ron Bonnett, President, Canadian Federation of Agriculture

“Small- and medium-sized businesses – many of which are also family-owned – make up the vast majority of home building and renovation companies. These entrepreneurs take significant financial risks to start their businesses and make them grow. The full impact of the proposed tax changes for private corporations will mean fewer small businesses will survive in our industry, fewer jobs will get created, and home prices will go up due to increased taxes and less competition. This is going to hurt the economy and our communities.” — Kevin Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Home Builders’ Association

“Canadian fruit and vegetable producers will be the victims of collateral damage if these small business tax changes are allowed to go through.” — Mark Wales, Chair of Business Risk Management Committee, Canadian Horticultural Council

“Mortgage brokers are small business owners, who employ others – however, the proposed new tax measures will force many to terminate those employees or shut down business.  The terminated employees can always collect employment insurance, but not the self employed broker, left with business debts and no safety nets.” — Samantha Gale, Executive Director, Canadian Mortgage Brokers Association

“Tax fairness is an important goal, but such sweeping proposals will have serious unintended consequences and warrant far more than a brief consultation period. To get it right, the Minister needs to slow down.” — Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation

“There are hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized family businesses in our country, most of them middle class Canadians, who are the backbone of our economy and responsible for the majority of job creation. These federal tax proposals send a very negative message to these family businesses about the nature and importance of their role in our economy.” — Bill Brushett, President & CEO, Family Enterprise Xchange

“Ninety-seven per cent of Canadian farms are owned by families who form the backbone of rural economies and face unique challenges as independent businesspeople. The proposed changes to the Tax Code will dramatically limit the ability of these families to invest in their businesses, encourage the next generation to remain on the farm, and engage in succession and retirement planning.” — Jeff Nielsen, President, Grain Growers of Canada and incorporated grain farmer

“Doctors face serious uncertainty following Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s proposed federal tax changes for incorporated professionals. With approximately 20,500 doctors in Ontario structuring their medical practices as private corporations, these proposals will make our country an undesirable place to practise medicine. We should be making changes to improve health care in our great country, not chasing away our best and brightest doctors.” — Dr. Shawn Whatley, President of the Ontario Medical Association

“We support going after tax avoidance but it is important not to sweep up legitimate business arrangements along the way, for example, the payment of incomes to family members.  There’s a reason why they are called family businesses, because of the involvement of family in all aspects of operations, both formal and informal and in the sharing of risk.” — Diane J. Brisebois, President and CEO, Retail Council of Canada

“Restaurant owners who plan to use the equity from their business for their retirement, will be devastated by a sudden change of rules, that wreak havoc with their plans and completely counter the tax planning guidance provided to them.”  — Shanna Munro, President and CEO, Restaurants Canada


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Granville's Dils wins youth soccer Dana Cup

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Ella Dils is now a world champion.

The Granville eighth-grader traveled across the pond and helped her All-American FC team win the G13 women's division last month during the Dana Cup in Denmark.

Granville eighth-grader Ella Dils helped her team win an international event in Denmark last month.

All-American, which is primarily made up of players from Richland County in north central Ohio beat Viking FK out of Norway 4-0 in the championship match. Dils finished second on the team with eight goals during tournament play.

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Health Care is Rising. As the U.S. and many other nations try to figure out how to pay for the challenges of the aging population, individuals are realizing that they need to take responsibility for their own health through their lifestyle choices, while also utilizing chiropractic as their first choice for care.

People are living longer than ever. Our generation is the first in history that is getting the advance notice that whether we like it or not, want to or not we will probably live longer than we ever thought. The question is what will our quality of life be like along the way? Will we enjoy an active, healthy, purposeful life with meaningful relationships or will we follow in the path of the many elderly now residing in nursing homes? When it comes to health care values, how will we raise our children differently?

Hundred year old people are the world’s fastest growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census expects this group to grow by 746% between now and the year 2040. This is a staggering statistic as the Baby Boomer Generation moves into their later years. Unfortunately, Baby Boomers are watching their parents and grandparents suffer in their longevity with deterioration and chronic disease. Simultaneously, as they themselves get older, they are waking up to the reality that they need to live their lives differently and make their health a priority before they get sick. This is a philosophical shift that goes way beyond the concept of Affordable Care.

When Dr. Eric Plasker wrote The 100 Year Lifestyle in 2007, the United States was ranked 37th in Life Expectancy and 35th in Infant Mortality. Upon researching the statistics for The 100 Year Lifestyle Second Edition, available now, he was disturbed that our country has become worse in both categories: dropping to 51st in Life Expectancy and 44th in Infant Mortality.

While quality medical care may be necessary when there is disease or a severe accident, Health Care is different. Health Care is about keeping your body, mind and spirit functioning at full potential. It’s about keeping yourself fit, balanced and healthy, and optimizing the function of your nervous system. Chiropractors who are practicing this philosophy of The 100 Year Lifestyle are providing this solution for the people in their communities.

Millions of families – three, four and five generations of them – have been utilizing chiropractic care since birth or early childhood and are some of the healthiest people. I look at my family members who have been fortunate enough to grow up with a healthy spine and nervous system and healthy lifestyle choices and I have seen them thrive as they become healthy adults. This is the direction that humanity needs to follow.

In 1903 Thomas Edison, the great inventor, was quoted:

“The doctor of the FUTURE will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

Well, that was 110 years ago. Enough time has passed to have the “future” be now. The new quote says:

“The doctor of the PRESENT will give no medicine but will interest their patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of Dis-ease.”

Isn’t it time that you and your family be present? Yes, let health care begin rising for you!

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We might think we have it tough with high gasoline prices, inflation, gun violence, crime in our cities, political differences, environmental issues and other problems. This week the Shale Crescent USA Team attended and exhibited at the Select USA Investment Summit at the National Harbor in Washington, D.C. People and companies from around the world showed up in record numbers to learn how they can invest in and expand to the U.S.

The U.S. Commerce Department sponsors Select USA and brings in companies and organizations of all types from around the world who are interested in investing in or expanding to the U.S. It is a big deal. The organizers told me they had a record attendance of close to 4,000 attendees this year. The exhibitors are primarily state economic development organizations from all 50 states like Jobs Ohio, the West Virginia Development Office and Team PA. There are also regional EDOs like the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance and Shale Crescent USA. Organizations like AEP, large construction companies and other service support organizations also attend and exhibit.

SCUSA attended Select USA for the first time in 2019. The event was canceled in 2020. SCUSA was a presenter at the virtual event in 2021 and chose to exhibit for the first time this year. We had meetings with prospects every day starting on Sunday afternoon with a company from Africa interested in manufacturing agricultural products in our region. We had foreign companies reach out to us prior to the event to schedule meetings. We connected to other companies through the meeting app prior to the meeting. Other companies came to our booth. We made good contacts at social events and even meals. In addition, SCUSA held joint meetings between prospects and other EDOs like the West Virginia Development Office and Jobs Ohio.

It was fun and educational to interact with people from all over the world. Individuals are all unique with different cultures and experiences. As we visited with people it was easy to see our similarities are greater than our differences. People want safety, security and opportunity. They want to provide for their families. The Ukraine War is very disturbing to people. Other exhibitors, all said this was the best Select USA they had attended. They felt the interest level for foreign investment was high. SCUSA is leaving Select USA with a stack of contact information from initial meetings with potential leads and four solid foreign prospect companies who want to manufacture products in the U.S. and need to move quickly.

Why do foreign companies want to come to the U.S.? Here are just a few things we learned from those we talked to at Select USA:

* Companies like stable predictable government regulations. They may not always like the regulations but in the U.S., they don’t change depending on the individual regulator like in some countries. Government regulators can sometimes exceed the authority given them in the law. The U.S. has a court system where companies and individuals can go if they believe regulators exceed authority. We were told, regulations in some countries are determined by the individual regulator and how much money you pay them.

* Companies want safety and security. We talked to companies who had operations in Ukraine. No one wants to lose their investment to a missile.

* Companies like our stable economic and monetary systems.

* The U.S. has a large economy they can sell to.

* Companies want a stable government. The U.S. has a peaceful change of power. In some countries regimes can change overnight with a violent over throw of those in power creating turmoil which is bad for business.

* People like the living conditions in the U.S.

* The U.S. has both personal liberty and economic opportunity, a rare combination in the world.

* The biggest reason the companies we talked to want to come to U.S. is for dependable affordable energy. Their gasoline, diesel and electricity prices are much higher than ours. The natural gas they need for feedstock or to fuel their facility is 3-4 times more expensive than their U.S. competitors. Ocean transportation has become very expensive partly due to increased fuel costs. It is also unpredictable. The biggest concern companies in Europe and even parts of Asia have is a secure supply of natural gas. They told us what it is like to have Russia and Putin as a supplier. It is difficult to run a business when your energy supply can be shut off without notice.

The very first comment we heard from some companies was, “You need to understand, we operate 24/7 365 days a year. We need a dependable natural gas supply with NO interruptions. Can you meet that requirement?” The Shale Crescent Region can meet that requirement with a backup even in emergencies. Most of the foreign companies we talked to want to have green power in the mix but demand a constant supply of natural gas. This is a huge advantage for the U.S. and a selling point for our region.

We heard a lot about the U.S.’s climate plan and green energy from the main stage but even the U.S. energy secretary didn’t grasp or discuss our abundant natural gas reserves creating dependable energy they don’t have in Europe or other places. Any company almost anywhere can install solar power on site. We heard China has more weather dependent power than any nation. They continue to increase coal power use to meet demand. Germany is again using coal to produce electricity.

What most countries don’t have is an abundant dependable fuel like natural gas available 24/7, 365 days a year that can come on line quickly. This is the U.S.’s greatest competitive advantage and why companies are interested in the U.S. Being on top of their energy and feedstock and in the middle of their customers is bringing them to the Shale Crescent USA.

Greg Kozera, gkozera@shalecrescentusa.com, is the Director of Marketing and Sales for Shale Crescent USA. He is a professional engineer with a Masters in Environmental Engineering and over 40 years’ experience in the energy industry. Greg is a leadership expert, high school soccer coach, professional speaker, author of four books and numerous published articles.

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Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge claim he is fully fit and ready to play against Manchester City Saturday evening at the Etihad.

Sturridge is yet to play for new manager Jürgen Klopp after injuring his knee in training before Liverpool were due to play Tottenham back on October 17th, yet returned to full training at Melwood this week telling reporters that he is fit and ready to put his injury worries behind him.

“I’m fit and ready to go and it’s going to be a great time for me,” said Sturridge.

“It’s been great under the new manager. I’ve been back training for the past couple of days and I was training when he first arrived.

“It’s an exciting time to be at the club and I’m enjoying working with him and the style of football. It’s important for us to understand what he wants us to do.”

Sturridge admits he is encouraged by what he has seen of Klopp so far but admits every club in the Premiership is capable of winning against each other.

“I was on the outside but it was great to see the boys win at Chelsea,” he said. “We had a disappointing result last time out against Palace but it’s important to move on.

“The Premier League is the best league in the world in terms of competitiveness. There are teams up there this season you wouldn’t have expected.

“It’s up for grabs this season, there isn’t a real favourite. It will come down to who can be the most consistent.”


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When It Comes to Fiscal Position, US Has Some Strange Bed Fellows

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I know there is a portion of the economic populace out there who thinks the government needs to spend its way and stimulate its way out of this recession (see Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences-winning economist Paul Krugman).

However, I do not think it is possible at the moment.

Let’s forget the writings of John Maynard Keynes and if spending by the government would even succeed. The fact of the matter is that I do not think the United States is even in a position to do this. Below, according to the International Monetary Fund, are the countries in the world that have debt-to-GDP ratios of over 100 percent, or larger debts than the size of their economies.

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As we can see, other than Singapore, these are mostly really weak economies. There are four of the five PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) and some small Caribbean nations that have been hurt by the global slowdown as it hit the tourism industry. Most of these countries are experiencing near zero growth or in a recession. In the case of Greece, we have an out and out collapse of the economy, and Japan has basically been in a 20-year recession.

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My point is, even if we should stimulate the economy, we are not in a position to do so. With a debt-to-GDP ratio near 103 percent, and headed to more than 110 percent by next year, the debt is too high to spend more. Most studies show that when your debt gets over 100 percent of GDP, your economy slows and inflation rises.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started his New Deal in the early 1930s and Japan began its downturn in the early 1990s, both countries had debt-to-GDP ratios of less than 30 percent. They had room to spend.

Therefore, even if you believe in Keynesian economics, the United States has betrayed the belief that you should save during bad times to have money to spend during bad times. The United States for the last 40 years has mostly run deficits and failed to save for the rainy day that has now arrived. It’s not so much that austerity works. It’s that it is forced. It’s either you cut back or default or print money and go into hyperinflation.

Right now we need tough decisions to me made. A combination of defense cuts, streamlining of entitlements (e.g., raising the retirement age) and increasing taxes must be implemented. However, both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the likely Republican Presidential nominee, are failing to address any of these real problems. We will probably see the so-called fiscal cliff pushed back another year no matter who gets elected.

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The way this will end is either in stagnation, with rates staying low and little to no economic growth; mediocrity for the next 10 years; or, more likely, sometime in the next three to five years, despite all of the Federal Reserve’s efforts, interest rates will begin to spike and it will cause a crisis that will force streamlining of the economy and real change to occur. My money is on the latter. I feel that the market will force the hands of politicians, not the other way around.

What does this mean? In the long run, it means the end of the American Empire. When cuts are made, it will be the closing of dozens if not hundreds of U.S. military bases and a change in the U.S. political system. It may seem unlikely because they have been open for so long.

However, remember that at one time the “Sun Never Set on the British Empire,” with Britain controlling one-fourth of the world’s land mass. The British Empire was far more powerful and greater than the American Empire has ever been. If it can collapse, so too can the United States.

The only way to really get out of this mess is by making tough decisions, raising taxes, cutting entitlements, cutting spending and ending the empire. The question is, does the United States have politicians with guts enough to make these changes or will the market force the government’s hand?

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George Osborne’s Budget is an attack on the young

Don't vote, don't get.

By Tim Wigmore

Perhaps the young should blame themselves. Only 43 per cent of under-25s voted in the general election, compared with 78 per cent of over-65s. Now George Osborne has shown them the ugly consequences: fail to vote and, especially in an age of austerity, you make yourself an easy target for politicians.

That is the message from the Chancellor’s budget. Housing benefit has been abolished for under-21s. The introduction of a living wage (albeit rather less spectacular than it seems) does not apply to under-25s. Effectively this means people will be regarded as “young” – and paid accordingly – until the age of 25, rather than 21 today, the age when the young person’s minimum wage is applicable until.

And, to particular opprobrium, it has been announced that maintenance grants will be replaced by maintenance loans from 2016-17 – meaning that the poorest students will accrue more debt than the richest ones. At least the maintenance loans will exceed the grants available today, so disadvantaged students will have access to more funds than is currently the case, which is why Les Ebdon, Director of Fair Access to Higher Education, did not condemn the move on access grounds.

Yet there is more bad news in higher education. The government has announced that there will be a consultation into whether the point at which tuition fees are paid back £21,000 – should rise in line with inflation, as was previously planned. If the threshold is frozen for five years, as is being mooted, it means that graduates earning 12 per cent less in real terms will have to endure an extra 9 per cent marginal tax rate. This regressive policy risks undoing the great progressive improvement of the tuition fee changes enacted by the Coalition: that a new graduate on £21,000 has to pay back none of their loan compared with £540 a year under the old system. And it points to a wider intergenerational injustice: we are constantly told that indulgences to pensioners, like the triple-lock, free TV licenses and the winter fuel allowance cannot be taken away without sufficient notice. Yet the terms of under which young people pay back their tuition fee loans now face being changed retrospectively.

So there is plenty for young people to get angry about in the budget. They had better get used to it: with no sign of the turnout gap between old and young diminishing and an ageing population, the young are becoming even easier to ignore.

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Microsoft researchers find cool way to turn home movies into ethereal “hyperlapses”

A team of researchers has figured out how to take GoPro footage and speed it up ten times as fast while also eliminating shakiness.

By Ian Steadman

For most of the history of cinema, directors have had only two options when it comes to moving shots: handheld, or on a crane or rail. Handheld’s dynamic – you can film anywhere the camera operator can carry and point the camera – but it’s also shaky, while the smoothness of a rail or crane shot is countered by only being available where there’s room for the rail or crane.

It took the invention of the steadicam in 1975 to make smooth handheld footage an option. The first ever scene to make use of it in a Hollywood movie, from the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory, is essentially a technical demonstration of the steadicam’s range – the shot starts high on a crane, but then moves to ground level and follows the lead actor as he winds between the tents and crowds of a Great Depression migrant worker camp. (You can watch it here.) Unspectacular by today’s standards, but that’s what 40 years of familiarity can do.

Yet, while it’s all well and good for professional filmmakers to take advantage of camera stabilisers, it’s a bit more difficult for amateurs. The cameras that the average consumer can afford, like the ones in smartphones, are technically excellent but limited by their form. Try holding a phone out at arm’s length for a significant period of time, while walking, and changing direction, and moving between patches of sunlight and shadow. It’s going to be shaky and unfocused and a bit crap, no matter what Instagram filter is used afterwards. Some people might shell out for smartphone steadicam-like products (seriously), but once you’re doing that it seems as if saving up and spending a little bit more would be better for getting a professional-looking shot.

Instead, the cheapest way to fix up shaky footage is in post-production. That’s what image stabilisation is for – it looks at two consecutive frames from a piece of footage, matches them up as much as possible, and centres them both around the same point to create the illusion that the camera was being held steadily the entire time. It’s not perfect, though, because it only really works if the person holding the camera is standing still. Trying to smooth out moving shots from a shaky handheld camera in post-production is extremely tricky.

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The above video demonstrates one cool solution to that problem, though – a “hyperlapse“. It’s the work of a team at Microsoft, who were working with GoPro cameras (those are those tiny, rugged ones that are beloved of extreme sports enthusiasts), and it’s for creating extremely fast timelapse videos that are also surprisingly smooth. It’s not merely a case of stabilising the video and then speeding it up, or even the other way around. Rather, it’s a combination of some very nice mathematical models to create a kind of hyperreal drif through space. It’s a fast-but-smooth effect reminiscent of a game like Quake, which isn’t a surprise considering it’s done by modelling a virtual path through space based on mapping the frames within the video and mapping from the real frames onto it. It’s like Google Street View, extended along an extra dimension.

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Towards the end of the clip is the most impressive bit, a rock-climbing video that comes out seeming more like the first-person view of some kind of bird drifting over the cliff face. The team responsible say they’re planning on releasing a consumer version of the hyperlapse program eventually, which could open up all kinds of interesting new shots to amateur directors. Who knows – maybe even Hollywood would be interested.


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Newswise — Rosemont, Ill. – The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) named board-certified dermatologist Jennifer Tan, MD, FAAD, a Patient Care Hero for making critical skin care and hygiene items easily accessible to individuals experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the state government issued COVID-19 stay-at-home guidance in late March, Dr. Tan and her colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) quickly realized those experiencing homelessness would face unique and difficult challenges during the pandemic, including lack of access to over-the-counter treatments and needed hygienic supplies.

Homeless populations develop skin infections, traumatic injuries and inflammatory conditions more frequently than those with stable living conditions. Approximately 20 percent of emergency department and community clinic visits by people who are homeless are to address skin problems. Prior to the pandemic, Dr. Tan and colleagues had begun to distribute skin care kits to help those experiencing homelessness manage acne, eczema, and dry skin in order to minimize discomfort and prevent infection.

“Patients experiencing homelessness are frequently exposed to harsh climate conditions without proper covering, resulting in skin-related diseases that range from common to life-threatening,” said Dr. Tan. “When COVID-19 began to spread, it was quickly apparent that our Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program patients would not have the resources necessary to prevent disease and maintain hygiene.”

Through the support of corporate and individual donors, as well as staff and medical school volunteers, her team shifted program resources and assembled more than 1,000 COVID-19 care kits for people experiencing homelessness in Boston and Portland, Maine. Dr. Tan noted, “This project was spearheaded by Haya Raef, a third-year Tufts University medical student who has been deeply committed to caring for the homeless. These kits not only provide needed dermatologic supplies, but also remind patients that they are not forgotten during these difficult times.”

Dr. Tan shared the initiative’s success in a research letter, “COVID-19 and health disparities: Innovative ways to meet the dermatologic needs of patients experiencing homelessness” that was recently published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology to demonstrate how the dermatology community can aid the homeless.

“For decades dermatologists have provided specialized care to patients in underserved communities. The level of innovation, agility, and volunteerism I’ve seen in support of our peers and affected patients during the pandemic is inspiring,” said board-certified dermatologist Bruce H. Thiers, MD, FAAD, president of the AAD. “Dr. Tan and her team are shining examples of the dermatologist community’s contributions to the frontline response.”

The AAD created the Patient Care Heroes program to recognize physicians who transform patients’ lives by utilizing their expertise and collaborating with other physicians to treat serious skin disease.

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How Ryan Wants Us to See Romney

There was a good deal that was artificial in Paul Ryan’s speech to the Republican National Convention—which went over better than any so far; the hall was louder, and more clearly behind him, than it has yet been for anyone—as well as a number of claims that were simply false. (See Ryan Lizza’s post for a list.) But you can learn something from watching a person draw a cartoon. Assuming, for a moment, that the Romney campaign thought hard and deliberately about how Ryan would portray his new boss in his speech, who is the person Mitt and his team hope Mitt can be, or at least seem? How does Romney see himself, and how does he want to be seen?

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Most of Ryan’s speech, it should be said, was not about Romney at all, but about either Ryan himself or Obama or about shadowy “central planners” the President would allow to take over America. (John Cassidy has a full report.) And yet given how little most of the speakers have said about Romney, the picture here is relatively well defined, in its broad strokes.

First, Mitt Romney, as conjured up in Ryan’s speech, is “obvious”—“You see, some people can’t be dragged down by the usual cheap tactics. Because their character, ability, and plain decency are so obvious.” You can see who he is; you shouldn’t have to look hard—in fact, please don’t.

Also, Ryan said, Romney is older than I am, and probably than you are, too:

We are a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And in some ways, we are different. There are the songs in his iPod, which I have heard on the campaign bus—and I have heard it on many hotel elevators.

He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, “Look, I hope it is not a deal-breaker, Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC and it ends with Zeppelin.

He is too busy looking at spreadsheets to learn about music—though he is clever enough to manage an iPod. He is not the boy you are entranced with or the one who is better than you at sports or your loud uncle: he is your steady, but still tech-literate, father. Forgive him.

Ryan continued, “A generation apart—a generation apart, but that does not matter.” Neither would abide a child moving back home after college into his old room, “staring up at fading Obama posters.” (That line worked very well for Ryan in the convention hall.) He and Romney—the Mitt on Ryan’s newly drawn poster—“have had very different careers, mainly in public service, his mostly in the private sector. He helped start businesses and turn around failing ones—and, by the way, being successful in business, that’s a good thing.”

What Ryan is saying there is that people are jealous of Mitt Romney; they don’t like his “success”—success makes them mad. Ann Romney talked about this, too, as have other speakers, to the point that it sometimes sounds like a high-school counselling office, with a hurt teenager being told that the other kid in the fight is just bitter. But “Mitt—Mitt has not only succeeded, but he has succeeded where others could not. He turned around the Olympics at a time when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad.” He treated Massachusetts better than it deserved.

If, in many respects, Ryan can allow himself to be thought of as a younger version of Mitt Romney (or Romney as Ryan, elegantly aged) there is a difference that needs careful treatment: their differing religions, Catholicism and Mormonism. Part of Ryan’s task in this speech was to make the religious conservatives who like him also like Mitt. Here, too, Romney is presented not as a cipher but as plain and clear—an exemplar:

Mitt and I also go to different churches, but in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example, and I’ve been watching that example.

Watch, don’t study. Paul continued with some testimony:

The man who will accept your nomination is prayerful and faithful and honorable. Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. Not only a fine businessman, he is a fine man, worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country.

Most of the qualities that Paul goes on about have to do with character; when it comes to abortion rights, though, someone trying to get them elected wants to make sure there is no doubt.

Our faiths come together in the same moral creed. We believe that in every life, there is goodness, for every person there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the lord of life.

And with that, one has Ryan’s Romney: “prayerful” and successful, bad with music and good with money, an example, a textbook—above all, familiar.

And there, too, is where Ryan suggests a contrast to Obama. Romney is presented as a known type, unlike Obama, whose policies he compares to Europe’s, whose “biggest, coldest power play” is supposedly robbing elderly people, and whose motives he questions: “I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.” Last week, in Michigan, Romney made what was called a joke: “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.” He seemed proud of not having been asked. Is familiarity why he thinks he wasn’t?

The campaign seems to have an interest in insisting that Romney is boring, and that he is plain as day. The challenge here is that Romney, in term of his political positions, has changed so much that his beliefs cannot be taken as obvious at all, but perhaps that is also why this tactic seems appealing—even necessary. Romney needs to be drawn in lines as simple as possible, with an insistence that the portrait needs no close examination, so that the campaign can spend its time elaborating on his opponent—tearing down that poster on the wall.

For more of The New Yorker’s convention coverage, visit The Political Scene. You can also read Ryan Lizza on Paul Ryan’s five hypocrisies; Kelefa Sanneh on Gary Johnson and Ron Paul; Jane Mayer on Republican women; Hendrik Hertzberg on the “We Built It” slogan; George Packer on foreign policy and the R.N.C.; Amy Davidson on the floor fight, on the Romney love story, on Chris Christie, and on shiny things in Tampa; and John Cassidy on Ann Romney’s and Paul Ryan’s speeches.

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Renault Clio TCe 130 first drive

To say the Clio is an important model for Renault would be something of an understatement. The company has sold 15 million, and the car has represented first wheels for countless drivers, been the hot hatch of choice for petrol heads, and represented the French manufacturer in the supermini stakes since its introduction in 1990. Now, the fifth-generation of the popular Clio has been launched, and we went along to the UK launch to test it out.

Review by Chris Lilly

Renault has added a range of two petrol engines to the new Clio, and just the one diesel. It's not expected to be a great seller, so is limited to just an 85 hp Blue dCi, with the petrols made up of 100 hp and 130 hp TCe units. A hybrid option will arrive in the middle of next year. Under focus here is the higher-powered petrol, the 130 hp TCe engine is available with a five-speed manual, though here is driven with a seven-speed EDC dual clutch automatic transmission. The engine is a smooth one, with plenty of oomph from low revs. As a flexible powertrain, the 130 TCe performs well, and will more than cope with whatever the driver throws at it, thanks primarily to the 230 Nm of torque available. The 0-62 mph time is 9.0 seconds, with a top speed of 124 mph possible. This version of the Clio is quick enough for most, though there will undoubtedly be a hot-hatch version in due course. The 100 hp petrol is likely to prove the more popular, but this 130 hp unit will certainly appeal to those that want a little added performance or tackle longer trips regularly. The transmission changes smoothly, and is rarely caught un the wrong ratio. It's a good set-up, but I always think that a car like the Clio works better with a manual 'box.

Renault is well respected as a maker of good driver's cars, and the Clio will only continue that trend. It's one of the best handling cars in its class I reckon, bettered only by the Ford Fiesta perhaps. It grips well, with enough feedback coming through the wheel to let you know what's going on beneath the tyres. The steering is a little light, but this proves a better set-up when driving in town so there can be few complaints there. The suspension isn't a match for a VW Polo in terms of comfort, but then nothing is in this class, and the Renault soaks up the lumps and bumps pretty well. Driving the Clio just about anywhere will see it perform well.

This new Clio is very much an evolution of the current design, but it's a lot more than simply adding the current Renault face to the old model. Beneath the surface is a brand-new platform, but Renault has rightly not messed around with the styling too much. It's a great looking supermini, and the new, sharper design works nicely. Inside, there is plenty of space up front, and the Clio will seat four adults, but space in the rear is a little restricted for taller occupants. Boot space is excellent however, so the Clio will suit some buyers better than others - it makes more sense for those with a young family than those with older kids for example.

Renault Clio first drive interior

Renault is on a bit of a mission in the cabin, dramatically upping its game. We saw it with the new Zoe, and the same attention has been applied to the Clio. The quality of materials used is a step-change over the out-going model, and pushes the Clio up towards the top of its class in terms of interior quality. The design is great too, with enough flourishes to keep things interesting but without becoming flashy. Key to this new look is the portrait touchscreen infotainment system, which performs nicely with good levels of responsiveness - it can be a little laggy on occasion - and decent graphics. It's customisable, connected, and well thought out. Renault hasn't just thrown all the controls within the screen as some rivals have, and kept the core commands, those often used on the move, as physical buttons/dials. It's a great interior, and helps give the Clio a big-car feel.

Top performer in this section is the diesel Clio, with an official fuel economy figure of 73.9 MPG. This 130 hp Clio is the worst performing model in the range currently, but it still manages to return a very respectible 53.0 MPG. We didn't have the chance to put this to properly to the test during the car's launch, but it certainly didn't seem unattainable, particularly with a few longer motorway runs to make the most of the longer top ratio in the seven-speed transmission.

The Clio range has CO2 emissions as low as 94 g/km with the diesel engine, though the 100 hp petrol is only 99 g/km and the most powerful 130 hp model is 118 g/km. None are particularly bad in terms of official emissions then, and the hybrid model is still to come. The model tested had drive mode select, which includes Eco for improved gear changes and throttle response in economical driving. According to our calculations, the model tested has a Next Green Car Rating of 30.

There are four trim levels to chose from, made up of Play, Iconic, S-Edition, and R.S. Line. Fitted as standard to all models are full LED headlights, air conditioning, cruise control, DAB radio, and electric front windows. Moving up to Iconic adds elements such as 16-inch alloys, a 7-inch multimedia screen with sat-nav and smartphone connectivity, handsfree access, rear privacy glass, rear parking sensors, and leather steering wheel. S Edition adds the larger 9.3-inch infotainment system and a 7-inch digital instrument cluster, electric rear windows, 17-inch alloys, climate control, and automatic lights and wipers. R.S. Line tested includes R.S. Line styling details, a 10-inch instrument cluster, luxury pack with heated leather seats, wireless phone charging, parking assist, 360-degree camera, front parking sensors, and driver modes.

Renault's Clio has been improved in just about every respect, and is now one of the top cars in its class. With further additions to the range set to improve its green rating further still, the Clio goes into its next generation on strong foundations.

Renault Clio first drive rear

Model tested: Renault Clio 130 TCe R.S. Line EDC
Body-style: Supermini
Engine / CO2: 1.3 litre petrol / 118 g/km

On-road price: From £14,295. Price as tested £17,795
Warranty: Five years / 100,000 miles
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Review rating: 4.0 Stars

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Mahindra / Farm Implements Ballarat

Looking for a tractor or farm implement for sale in Ballarat? Sure, you could hire a contractor or rent a backhoe, but suppose the job’s too big to make rental fees feasible, or you don’t want to wait two months for a contractor to get around to it. Sometimes it makes more sense to just buy a tractor or implement outright. However, you want to make sure the equipment you buy is reliable, cost-efficient, and serviceable here in Australia.

Mahindra is an all-around utility tractor – No 1 selling tractor in the world

Mahindra is the only tractor manufacturer to have won both the global Deming Prize for Total Quality Management and Japan Quality Medal. They have earnt a 98% customer satisfaction rating in the USA, and have the longest warranty available among the popular tractor brands. All tractor model come with a 3-year (2000 hr) drivetrain warranty. They’re designed with minimal electronics so they’re easy to service and stay running for a long time in our sometimes-brutal climate.

Mahindra tractors can be used for slashing, lifting, ploughing, harvesting, post hole digging, and trenching all in the one machine, at a very reasonable price! They have the highest lift capacity on front loader and rear linkage for their horsepower range and class. These are extremely reliable, rugged tractors made to last a long time. Parts and servicing can easily be found in Australia from the NGA Group and our other offices.

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You don’t need the expensive heavy-duty farm equipment, but at the same time you want good quality that will last a long time. It can be so frustrating to make a big purchase like this.

    • Is my new tractor reliable?
    • Will I be able to get the parts and servicing I’ll need in the future?
    • Can this tractor do everything I want it to do?
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Go to NGA Mahindra for your tractor needs in Ballarat

When you contact our head office you’ll be talk to a knowledgeable salesperson who’ll help you decide exactly what tractor model you need –

    • is your land hilly or rocky?
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We’ll assist you in getting the best machine for your budget. Additional equipment such as buckets and front loaders are also available.

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If you need something that can be universal around the farm, business and pleasure, look at the NGA Mahindra Ballarat vehicle selection. The XUV500 is a handsome 7-seater, great for families, retirees, and nomads.

It’s built for comfort, with plenty of legroom even in the third row. With a towing capacity of 2.5 tonnes, this XUV is perfect for work and play.

For a no-frills work vehicle, the Mahindra Pikup is built for farmers with its 1.2 tonne payload and 80L fuel tank.

All Mahindra vehicles have great fuel economy and come with long-term warranties.

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No matter what type of earthmoving machinery or farm equipment you have, you want to be able to get parts and servicing from a reliable workshop with minimal delays. Neale Goad Automotive Group (NGA) Head Office has been in the vehicle repair business for over 25 years, and our family has lived in Ballarat for five generations. Neale Goad, our owner, was a mechanic with the Country Fire Authority for 20 years before starting his own business in 1996.

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In addition to meeting Ballarat’s equipment sales needs, our workshop and onsite services maintains all the products we sell, so no worries on that score. Yes, we make farm calls for service and repairs on your equipment – no need to take it into our workshop – we’ll come to you! Scroll through our website and you will find more detailed information on most products complete with downloadable brochures You can call into our Head Office showroom and look at our farming and construction equipment.

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ARLINGTON, Va. – The Washington Capitals have hired Bob Woods from the American Hockey League’s Hershey Bears as an assistant coach, General Mnager George McPhee announced Monday.

Woods, 41, served as Hershey’s head coach last season and guided the Bears to a Calder Cup championship in six games against the Manitoba Moose. He was an assistant coach with the Bears and helped current Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau lead the Bears to a Calder Cup title in 2006. Woods was appointed head coach of the Bears when Boudreau was hired by the Capitals on Nov. 22, 2007.

Woods compiled an 83-47-15 (W-L-OT) record in 145 regular season games with Hershey and was 17-10 in 27 Calder Cup playoff games. Prior to joining Hershey as an assistant coach for the 2005-06 season, Woods was the head coach of the ECHL’s Mississippi Sea Wolves from 2001-05 and compiled a 169-94-25 (W-L-T) regular-season record.
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Red Wings transition into a winner in Game 2

by Larry Wigge

"We knew this was going to be a game of will. The speed made the game flow go from end to end. First it was all us. Then all them. Momentum back and forth."
-- Mike Babcock

DETROIT -- The pace was electric. It was at times a race from end-to-end. The action was frenetic. The transition was non-stop.

Transition. Transition. Transition.

Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final never had the look of a low-scoring game. There was a flow to the action and an intensity befitting the matchup of two high-powered offenses. The competitive juices were boiling over … on both sides.

But we're right back where we were last year. With the Red Wings beating the Penguins 3-1 in Game 2 Sunday night, Detroit has a 2-0 lead in the Cup Final against Pittsburgh for the second-straight year.

Hours before this battle between the Red Wings and the Penguins, three-time Cup champion Brian Rafalski said he wouldn't expect anyone to be asking “where's the offense?" before the series shifts to Pittsburgh for Game 3 Tuesday (8 p.m. ET, VERSUS, CBC, RDS).

"When you come into a series against teams you don't see much of it's only natural that you pay special attention to their great centers, Sidney, Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal. A sign of respect," Rafalski said. "We still respect them like I'm sure they respect our forwards, but …"

It was only a brief pause, like the break-neck transition in the game that was to follow, before Rafalski let out an important strong breath of confidence and explained that he expected coach Mike Babcock to activate his defensemen into the offense for Game 2.

"I would think you could say the feeling-out period is over. I think we can take a chance offensively. Bottom line: This should be fun."

Said Babcock, "We knew this was going to be a game of will. The speed made the game flow go from end to end. First it was all us. Then all them. Momentum back and forth.

"It was pretty exciting to watch. You could really feel the electricity in the crowd."

Valtteri Filppula broke a 1-1 tie at 10:29 of the second period and he seconded the motion about how the Wings' transition game helped back off the Penguins at times.

"The quick transition from our own zone is what makes our offense go on most nights," Filppula said. "When we're breaking up the ice, it's hard to stop our speed."

"I've never played in such a fast-paced game," said rookie forward Justin Abdelkader, who scored his second playoff goal in as many nights just 2:47 into the third period to complete the scoring. "I never thought I could have so much fun."

To be truthful, neither team backed down. But the Red Wings did back the Penguins off a few times with the speed and flow they developed through the neutral zone.

"We both thrive on our speed. But tonight it was their turn to back us off a little more," said Chris Kunitz, a winger for the Penguins who saw plenty of the Red Wings when he played in Anaheim for parts of the last four seasons. "They were in constant motion and when that happens, and they get a lead, they kind of feed off the energy they've created, making them difficult to slow down. Difficult to beat."

The game-tying goal by Jonathan Ericsson, 4:21 into the second period, was the only point on the score sheet by the Detroit defense, but with Nicklas Lidstrom and Ericsson back for their second games in two nights, there was more confidence, comfort and energy from the blue line.

"Nick is always so calm with the puck and without the puck," Ericsson said of the leader of that Detroit transition game. "He's just in the right position every time, so he's making every work for us."

And a great example of how to work the transition game.

Defensemen making that crisp, on-the-tape outlet pass and stepping up into the offense has been very good for both Detroit and Pittsburgh -- in the regular season and the playoffs. It has particularly been a big part of Detroit's arsenal this season, when you consider that until the last weekend of the regular season, Lidstrom, Rafalski and Niklas Kronwall were trying to make the Wings the first team to have three players in the top 10 scoring for defensemen since Serge Savard, Larry Robinson and Guy Lapointe set the record for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1974-75 season. They failed when Kronwall fell to 11th on that last weekend.

Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup Final GearNo slight to finish behind a Montreal defense that spearheaded six Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s.

Now, after two games of the Cup Final, Pittsburgh's 67 goals still leads the playoffs, followed closely by the Red Wings, with 65. What is an even more interesting dynamic is that Detroit defensemen now have 12 goals and 31 assists in the playoffs, while Pittsburgh D-men were right behind with 11 goals and 31 assists.

Pretty close in every way until Sunday night.

"In every game there's these swings in momentum," Rafalski said. "It's how you react to them and how you weather them. We maybe didn't play as well coming out, but we were able to battle through that and get the goal to tie it up and swing the momentum in our favor."

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Get Ready for the Week Without Violence: 17-23 October

Start planning your Week Without Violence (WWV) event. The NIFVS team has met with Family Violence Network Convenors and Libraries across the region to develop messaging for this year’s Week Without Violence.

This year’s messaging is

Listen, Believe, Connect:

Connect with organisations and people who can help.

Since 1999, the northern metropolitan region has marked the WWV, primarily through the Clothesline Project, where every year hundreds of people across the region paint T-shirts.

After two years of having only an online campaign, organisations are planning to reinvigorate face to face Clothesline Project events.

Watch out for more information coming via email, on the NIFVS website and in the next edition of the eNews.

Information will be going out soon to organisations who have previously been involved in the Clothesline Project about how they can get involved this year. If you want to find out more contact


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21st September 2018, Royal Albert Hall London

Innervisions is excited to present its collaboration with Nina Kurtela live on stage at Royal Albert Hall. Nina Kurtela (born 1981 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a visual artist and a dance maker. Her work evolves around choreography, installation, performance and video, thereby effortlessly transgressing the lines between different fields. Performing internationally in a variety of contexts – from museums and galleries to festivals and public places in Berlin, Zagreb, New York, Sarajevo, Tokyo, Vienna, Paris… – this will be the first time that Nina Kurtela will present an ongoing performance practice in a concert hall. She will dance a fragment from “365 routines”, a video and performance piece created together with the artist Hana Erdmann. Throughout 2018, Innervisions has drawn from “365 routines” to create its cover art and visual identity. With the performance at Royal Albert hall the collaboration between Nina Kurtela and Innervisions will go full circle. Merging movement, music and video projections to envelop the visual fragility of the dancing body on stage, Nina Kurtela’s performance will intend to subtly challenge the contemporary idea of high-performance. Rather, and comparable to all the dancers out there, every move will be a code transferring inner states of self-consciousness, sensitivity and sensuality into the space of the social body.

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Nominations for Berlin Art Prize 2018
31st August, exhibitions opening,The Shelf, Berlin

“Productive Work – What is it supposed to be?” at frei_raum Q21, MuseumsQuartier Vienna
opening on the 27.06.2018, 19:00

Artists: Bar du Bois (AUT), Igor Eškinja (HRV), Dušica Dražić (SRB/BEL), Tomislav Gotovac (HRV) & Dražen Žarković (HRV), Ana Hušman (HRV), Jiří Kovanda (CZE), Nina Kurtela (HRV) & Hana Erdman (USA), Dariia Kuzmych (UKR/DEU) & Svitlana Selezneva (UKR), Christina Lammer (AUT), Tihana Mandušić (HRV), Damir Nikšić (BIH), Alicja Rogalska (POL/GBR) & Łukasz Surowiec (POL), Nika Rukavina (HRV), Irena Sladoje (BIH) & Iva Simčić (BIH), Borjana Ventzislavova (AUT/BGR), Jakub Vrba (AUT/CZE)

Curated by Anamarija Batista

As a part of 10th curatorial platform dedicated to performance case studies Nina Kurtela will
give artist talk on the topic Leftovers of endurance.
16th of May at 20h, Atelje Jagoda, Zagreb

Cite des Arts Paris – Nina Kurtela will give artist talk on the topic Leftovers of endurance
28th of March at 19h, (studio 8115) 18 Rue de l’Hôtel de ville, 75004 Paris

Innervisions cover art 2018
A collaboration with the artists Nina Kurtela and Hana Erdman

How is movement affected by the extreme working conditions of today like constant mobility, dislocation, homelessness, exhaustion? Is there a form of communication over distance that functions without speech or signs? Can dance be an imaginary space of belonging? In 2018 Innervisions explores these questions with its cover art through a collaboration with Nina Kurtela and Hana Erdman, two artists and long distance friends. Images taken from their project „365 routines“ depict bits from a year long choreography, their only form of contact. The choreography was developed by exchanging dance movements on a daily basis through video. Routine after routine a sense of remote togetherness unravels on screen. Dancing becomes home for the two.
Since „365 routines“ is a video, Innervisions will coordinatly expand the frame of its visual communication. For that reason the label invited the graphic designer Rafaela Drazic to join the collaboration. Throughout the year Rafaela will create derivates from the videos. Derivates are extracted video stills paired with a typographic and chromatic environment suitable for the hybrid media involved in releases online and in print. In doing so Innervisions attempts to capture the atmosphere of dancing as a humane bond in the age of non-human interaction.

Text by Ana Ofak

The Wall project received Japanese Media Art Festival New Face Award.
The exhibition of award winning works will run from 16.09 – 28.10. 2017 at Tokyo
Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Artist talk will be held on 18th of September at 14h at at Tokyo Opera City Art
Gallery, Tokyo

365 routines (work in progress) presented during 3AM EVENT
27th August 2017, 3AM event, Am Flutgraben 3, Berlin

Into Thin Air; group show with Marc Buchy, Antonije Burić, Stefan Klein, Nina Kurtela, Sujin Lim,
Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, Saman Pourisa.
Curated by Julieta Ortiz de Latierro and Stefan Klein.
05th – 20th September 2017, Gallery SC, Zagreb

Khora; solo show / site specific intervention
25th June – 23rd July, Gallery Flora, Dubrovnik

365 routines (work in progress) as a part of GMK coproduction program
Performances / open rehearsals:
Friday 16.06 at 19h
Saturday 17.06. at 19h
Sunday 18.06. at 19h
Tuesday 20.06. at 19h

Video installation can be viewed from 16. to 24.6 in the working hours of the gallery:
Tuesday – Friday (12-19)
Saturday (11-13)

Artist talk will be held after the final performance on Tuesday 20.06 at 19h