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Ditching the children did not make for much better results. Either that or I need to lay off the doughnuts.
Also known as the “Goldie Hawn Needs To Lay Off The Collagen Injections Tree”.
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir - Yosemite, CA
July 29, 2006
The gimme a smooch size.
Cairo, February, 2009 – The Human Resources department of the Cairo Marriott Hotel has been recently awarded during the Scientific Committee & New Accounting Thought Association's Conference that was held under the patronage of their Excellencies, the Minister of High Education, the Minister of Administration Development & the Minister of Social Solidarity. This award came as recognition of the hotel’s pioneer positive applications & handling of the current economic situation. Where the HR department didn’t lay off any associates, instead it worked on increasing associates’ salaries based on their work’s evaluation during 2008! The award was presented to the HR team by Dr. Mohamed Taha, Chairman of the Arab Gulf Center & the New Accounting Thought Association.
Seen in the Photo: Ulrich Huth, General Manager of Cairo Marriott Hotel, Soheir Jarrar, Director of HR department with the HR team.
فى فندق ماريوت القاهرة...... الإهتمام بالعاملين هو الأساس!
القاهرة، فبراير 2008 تم تكريم إدارة الموارد البشرية بفندق ماريوت القاهرة مؤخرا بمنحها درع مؤتمر الموازنة و الهيكلة و المستقبل تحت رعاية السادة وزراء التنمية الأدارية ، التضامن الإجتماعى و التعليم العالى و ذالك أثناء مشاركه الفندق بالمؤتمر. و قد جاء هذا التكريم كتقدير لتطبيقات الفندق الإيجابيه فى التعامل ى مع الأزمة الأقتصادية الحاليه . و التى إعتبرها المؤتمر إحدى التجارب الرياديه! حيث لم يلجأ الفندق لإقالة أى من العاملين بل عملت إدارة المارد البشرية على زيادة المرتبات بعد تقييم جهود العاملين عن عام 2008. و قد قام بتسليم الدرع الدكتور / محمد طه ، رئيس مجلس إدارة مركز الخليج العربى و جمعية الفكر المحاسبى نيابة عن السادة الوزراء.
يظهر فى الصورة أولريش هوت، مدير عام فندق ماريوت القاهرة، سهير جيرار ، مدير إدارة الموارد البشرية مع فريق عمل الإدارة.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
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One of my newly acquired power converter boards didn't want to work. A closer look revealed the reason - Mr postman has been playing football with my package, and the inductor is rather beaten up.
Close inspection showed another board had similar, but less serious damage, and was still working. This one however is dead.
Oh well, could be worse. Only a 25p component, I'll change it over.
Only tricky bit is it is only 2.5mm wide - see, it is a macro! Best I lay off the caffeine before I do this one!
The board is an AA power board from Jeelabs.
This clever little board mounts a single AA or AAA battery (rechargeable if you like) and converts the 1.2v or 1.5v into 3.3v to power the JeeNode boards I use for my flash triggers (amongst other things). I've got a few code changes to make which will improve the power consumption of my remote flash triggers, but even now, thanks to this board, a single 2400mAh NiMH rechargeable battery can run a remote unit for 20 hours solid. Far longer than both I or my camera battery can last! Plus as this DC power converter board will produce 3.3v from input voltage as low as 0.8v I can even run it on batteries that are "flat" as far as the flashes are concerned.
I guess I should have a look at mounted a solar panel and NiMH charging circuit in the box and then the remotes will recharge just by putting them on the window ledge!
The title? Well inductors are measured in Henry's after an American Scientist Joseph Henry who discovered electromagnetic induction at about the same time as Michael Faraday. Faraday had already given his name to capacitance, so Henry managed to avoid an argument on this unit!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_%28unit%29
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Shot in manual mode with a 50mm f/1.8D stopped to f/11 mounted on the front of the full set of DIY modified cheap Chinese extension rings.
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Lighting via SB800 in TTL mode triggered by CLS. Flash is about 5m above the board slightly to the right pointing down at 45 degrees. The SB800 has a built in catch light bounce card, which I deployed, this acts a great reflector on a target this small and throws some light from the left hand side.
www.arqueologiadelperu.com/violent-protests-at-la-oroya-a...
One person has died and four seriously wounded since workers in La Oroya began blocking the central highway early Tuesday, using tires, rocks and tree trunks along 10 km of the road.
Police chief Gen. Jorge Flores said that the front line of police are armed with non-lethal weapons, and that the police have identified several people among the protestors who are armed. “We cannot permit that a road that is so important to the Republic be blocked, and the police will act according to protocols and the law.”
The protesters are demanding that the regional government of Junin act as an intermediary in the sale of the La Oroya refinery complex, which would be scheduled to go into liquidation because the government has been unsuccessful in attracting bidders.
The townspeople and 2,400 smelter workers fear a collective lay-off and an impending liquidation of Doe Run's assets in Peru, which include the Metallurgical Complex of La Oroya and the Cobriza mine.
At a town hall meeting held in the sports coliseum in Yali on Monday night, regional president Angel Unchupaico called for “calm, and to work towards dialogue to find a solution to this very delicate social problem, but we cannot take forceful measures.”
Unchupaico said the blockade would cause serious financial harm to the five regions connected by the highway.
The Carretera Central is the main connection between Lima and not only the commercial hub of Huancayo and other central Andean towns but also the central jungle as well as parts of the Huancavelica and Ayacucho regions.
Several district mayors and two members of Congress for Junin were at the meeting, and Unchupaico and the congressmen traveled to Lima immediately after the meeting to request that Premier Pedro Cateriano install a technical negotiating team.
The townspeople and workers of the La Oroya smelters are demanding that the government be more flexible in its environmental standards, that an emergency decree be issued to protect the 2,400 jobs, and that the sale negotiators — UBS and Profit Consultoría— be changed. The previous administrating company, Business Right, was rejected by the employees in August last year, when the creditors decided to stop restructuring the company and focus on its liquidation.
Last week, on August 6, there were no bidders at the auction of the Metallurgical Complex, despite an initial interest and due diligence by nine companies late last year. The schedule set by the creditors was that if the sale was unsuccessful, the company will go into liquidation on August 27.
Profit Consultoría stated that the absence of bidders was due to the rigidity of the environmental regulations recently approved by the government.
According to Luis Castillo, representative of the worker creditors, potential bidders had noted that meeting the annual and daily air quality standards would be financially difficult.
The complex — built by the Cerro de Pasco Corporation in 1922 (copper) and 1928 (lead), transformed polymetallic ores for several mining companies into metals that include copper, zinc, silver, lead, gold, selenium and several by-products. It was nationalized in 1971 during the military government led by Gen. Juan Velasco.
Doe Run acquired the complex and the Cobriza mine in a privatization process in 1997 and was faced with a challenging pollution problem that it reduced measurably over the next several years. However, pollution remained serious — by 2007, it still ranked among the world's worst polluted places— and attempts to move the population further from the refinery were unsuccessful. In 2009, when Doe Run decided to remove its personnel, the company owed Peru $163 million. Since then, La Oroya has been in the hands of administrators chosen by the creditors.
Pictures from the Vanarama National League North clash at Broadhurst Park between FC United of Manchester and Darlington.
The game finished in a hard fought 3-2 victory for Darlo. who were 2-0 up inside 27 minutes.
Hardy opended the scoring for the visitors latching onto a superb ball from Thompson before slipping the ball past the advancing keeper.
Quakers went two-up on 27 minutes but it should have been more as thye spurned a host of chnaces. Liam Marrs’ free-kick was headed down by Mark Beck for Hardy to lay off in turn for Thompson to fire across Frith.
Against the run of play United pulled a goal back on 42 minutes when Jason Gilchrist spotted Jameson off his line, and chipped the ball over the keeper followed by an equaliser on 66 minutes from Thomson.
A draw looked on the cards however with 10 minutes left subsititute Cartman cleverly found Purewal with an overhead kick for his fellow sub to charge up the left. His ball to the far post was blocked, but it came back out to Cartman, who struck a low shot that took a deflection and beat the keeper to make it 3-2. Darlo were able to weather a late storm to secure all 3 points!
Katie Ringo, Fiscal & Business Specialist, began working at USF Health in 2008 for the Office of Research before transferring in 2011 to her current position in Mental Health Law & Policy in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences. In this position, her outstanding performance and strong teamwork skills have resonated positively throughout the department, improving overall success and achievement in research.
Katie has taken on several challenges that have positively affected the amount of funding received in the department, which impacts the ability to fund positions and complete deliverables. Due to Katie’s unwavering dedication and perseverance, she helped to oversee a new deliverables submission and payment process between the funding agency and the Research Financial Management Division. Additionally, her careful accounting has enabled many people to keep jobs that might have been eliminated and has minimized lost wages from reduced hours and lay-offs.
In a letter of support for Katie’s nomination, Research Faculty Assistant Airia Papadopoulos said: “I appreciate Katie’s tremendous work ethic and her steadfast enthusiasm and positivity. Her professional endeavors while maintaining a positive attitude speak volumes about her character and determination as an employee and human being.”
At the end of September, 2014, the bean counters at Disney are laying off some of Epcot's favorite musical acts. Beginning in fiscal 2015, guests will no longer be able to enjoy the middle eastern rhythms of MoRockin' in the Morocco pavilion. One can only assume that the belly dancer will still be performing for diners in Restaurant Marrakesh.
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Aug 5 2021, Winnipeg Manitoba - Feltmates (# 36 Hamilton Ti-Cats ) CFL debut against Winnipeg .
Bailey Feltmate played in 31 games over four seasons at Acadia (2016-19), recording 203 total tackles, 14 tackles for loss, three quarterback sacks, three forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries and five pass breakups, helping Acadia to two Loney Bowl Championships (2017, 19) during his time with the Axemen. The 6-2, 240-pound native of Moncton, New Brunswick’s numerous accolades at Acadia include being named an AUS All-Star three times (2017, 18, 19), a U SPORTS Second Team All-Canadian twice (2017, 19), the AUS Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year twice (2017, 19), and was the recipient of the AUS Student-Athlete Community Service Award in 2019.. Did Summer employment as a valued member of the Acadian outside maintenance workforce serving under the watchful eye and tutelage of the award-winning Master landscape designer and cutting-edge groundskeeping technologist Mssr Markus Morine..
Unfortunately, CBC doesn't appear to sponsor the long-running Men's Canadian Football League and will not be broadcasting Men's CFL games and so Canadians won't be able to watch our male gender University athletes like Bailley perform in the pros ? Howebver, fans will easily be able to watch our Canadian Women graduates as CBC gives full support and full media coverage to the brand new start-up Canadian pro Women's soccer, hockey, and basketball leagues,, www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ?
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Some relevant news clippings,,
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to broadcast the Men's Hockey leagues like the AHL, the ECHL, or Men's USports University hockey ? And Canada just won both Golds at the recent 2023 international University Hockey FISU tournament. But the Gold medal final games, in fact the whole tournament, was not shown on the CBC ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
Halifax, Canada Jan 2023 - This time around the IIHF Men's World Juniors hockey tournament is being held in Canada. No games were shown on CBC, and many Canadians were unable to watch Canada's finest male Junior hockey players incl Connor Badard play in their home Country and win the Gold for Canada ?
However, although CBC ignored and did not televise any of the IIHF Men's junior hockey games played, they were sure to make daily news reports and give a lot of air time focusing on an alleged past scandal that had involved a previous Men's IIHF Junior hockey team ? cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
New Women's Pro Hockey PWHL - CBC will be giving its full support, full coverage, and will be backing the girls with massive air time, TV ads, coast to coast live broadcasts, player bios and a game each week complete with hosting and game analysis,, "CBC/Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster of the Professional Women's Hockey League"
However, CBC seems to have a different attitude when it comes to supporting or televising many pro sporting events played by male athletes such as the Grey Cup, FIFA, Copa America international Men's soccer football and the Men's World Juniors, and a huge Canadian fan base is not able to see Canada's star male pro athletes like Acadia Axemen footballer Bailey Feltmate in the Grey Cup, or Nova Scotia's Jacob Shaffelburg in the Copa international Men's soccer tournament or Connor Badard in the IIHF World Men's Juniors hockey tournament ?
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-... cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
CBC doesn't seem to support Men's soccer or Men's CFL pro football ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/album-7...
Jun 11, 2024 - Women's Pro soccer, the Halifax Tides, - CBC giving full media support and coverage to the brand new start-up Women's Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female Acadia University athletes like Mya Harnish, who has now turned Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay out over $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Breathtaking salaries for CBC/Radio-Canada’s corporate management ? President and CEO Catherine Tait had a base salary range of $390,300 to $459,100 in 2019 ? That's more than the P.M. makes ? tnc.news/2022/01/26/cbc-salaries-include-125-senior-direc...
Huge bonuses for CBC brass in 2022,
nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-employees-paid-16-millio...
Aug 12, 2024 - CBC has paid out $18.4 million in bonuses after staff layoffs ? The bonuses went to nearly 1,200 employees ? $3.3 million went to 45 executives ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-bonuses-catherine-tait-1.729...
Apr 04, 2025 - Mark Carney pledges a $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC ? And,, the new Liberal government will make CBC funding statutory ? Last year CBC received an all time record 1.5 billion in taxpayer funding and their CEO Catherine Tait, made more than the Prime Minister ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-cbc-funding-1.7501902
June 28,2021, O Canada at the Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays an unsettling and unflattering version of the Canadian National Anthem on the World stage ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
July 1, 2021 - the Prime Minister of Canada will not be celebrating Canada Day this year claiming that for some Canada Day is not a day to celebrate." Wha-a-a-a-t -t-t ????? Did I hear that right ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1....
February 20th 2023 Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black makes headlines when she changes the lyrics and sings a politicized and personalized ' our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah ?
www.iheartradio.ca/news/jully-black-sings-o-canada-with-s...
video replay of CBC's unflattering version of O Canada ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529
Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black sings her personalized and politicized 'our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem in a performance at Toronto university graduation.. Black was asked to perform her new way of singing the national anthem to reflect the core values of the law program at Toronto Metropolitan University www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
Calgary Stampede O Canada - The original version "in all thy Sons command" National anthem sung at the 2023 Calgary Stampede, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53044391089
Dec 16th 2023 - O Canada sung in Punjabi at the NHL Jets hockey game in Winnipeg,,,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKifMtbbyJg
Nov 4th, 2021 - Pascale St-Onge is appointed to Trudeau's Cabinet. She is the first out lesbian to become a federal Minister and also the first as Minister of Sport,
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pascale-st-onge-making-history-as...
July 2023 - Katherine Henderson is appointed to take over and thereby become the first female CEO and President of Hockey Canada ,
www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/katherine-henderson-hockey-canad...
No more hockey fights: This league plans to ban them dailyhive.com/vancouver/hockey-fights-ban-qmjhl
Skate Canada Dec 13, 2022 - Canada is about to revolutionize male/female gender rules in Sport ? Canadian gender trail blazers led by President Karen Butcher push to change Pairs Ice dancing competition rules from the standard longtime male female separate gender rule ?
theprovince.com/sports/other-sports/skate-canada-redefine...
Federal audit finds Hockey Canada did not use public funds for legal settlements .
discoverhumboldIcom/articles/federal-audit-finds-hockey-...
NHL moves away from Pride jerseys - advocates are disappointed, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nhl-special-jersey-announcement-re...
Nov 20th, Grey Cup 2022 - Many Canadian households in Canada were unable to watch the Toronto Argos win the 2022 Grey Cup game by a score of 24 to 23 because CBC/Radio-Canada and Bell media owned CTV do not schedule nor televise this historic Canadian event for broadcast ? CBC's programming has instead scheduled an unknown variety show that is being held in the USA ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/photost...
CBC quits Twitter when Twitter calls them, "a government-funded media" ?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-media...
Apr 27th 2023 , Bill C-11 - A controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law. Bill C-11, which will force streaming platforms to contribute to funding Canadian content. Critics say the bill is too ambiguous, many issues unresolved.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314
Nov 11th, 2023 - The Liberal Government has ordered the Canadian Military not to use or recite any Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer at this years Remembrance Day ceremonies ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/gunter-we-will-always-pray-f...
The Grey Cup Nov 19th 2023, Hamilton Canada - Why aren't CTV or CBC broadcasting the 2023 Grey Cup game for Canadians to enjoy on Grey Cup Sunday ?
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Dec 2023 - Merry Christmas, and a ho ho ho ? CBC plays Scrooge at Xmas time as it looks at executive bonus compensation while laying off 10 per cent of its workforce right at Xmas time ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-cuts-layoffs-exec-bonuses-1....
CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait faces angry MPs over refusal to rule out bonuses amid looming layoffs' www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGG8quYBb4
Have a very Merry Christmas Canada ? The Canadian Human Rights Commission ( fully funded by the federal Liberal Government) declares that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s colonialist religious intolerance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
Dec 31 2023 - Question.. Is CBC now viewing New Years Eve as a public holiday and tradition that has become inappropriate to celebrate in Canada ? Happy New Year Canadians from your taxpayer owned billion dollar funded CBC ? For the first time ever in memory, CBC will not broadcast the traditional New Years Eve Party, stage show or countdown ? CBC says they can't afford it ? www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/cbc-to-skip-new-yea...
Bill C-18: An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html
Bell media, is a proud Canadian Company ? It's Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas Nevada USA. Prior to the big game CTV has been flooding North American airways with ads to promote their full coverage of the upcoming American Superbowl and they will then broadcast 10 straight hours of uninterrupted prime time live T.V. coverage of this prime American sporting event on Superbowl Sunday 2024 ? However, on the other hand, back home in their home country of Canada, they don't broadcast anything at all, nothing (zero) blanco, zilch, silencio, not even 1 minute of CTV coverage of their own 2024 Canadian Grey Cup game for their fellow Canadians to enjoy ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53523500175/in/datepos...
Feb 2024 - Halifax Nova Scotia,
Bell media and CTV have deafened and blindfolded many East Coast residents after eliminating many critical hours of local and community news programming in the Atlantic region ?
Recent Bell Canada Corporate decisions have now left many Maritimers in a vulnerable position ? East Coast Provinces appear to be the target of severe local live Newstime cancellations and these cut-backs have left many Maritimers without their daily Noon news hour updates that are broadcast everyday all week long ? ATV viewers will now be forced to tune into the other station (CBC) where CBC tends to run mostly world international news along with their select choice of the National News, along with lengthy live news conferences that are put on by the PM and other liberal party members ?
Aside from terminating the popular weekday ATV Noon hour news show, CTV has also downsized in half the very popular and iconic , 'ATV live at five' 5 P.M. local community news program, (prompting long time popular host Jason Baxter to seek early retirement) ? Adding to the devistating loss of this much needed news reporting that is traditionally broadcast every week, Bell will also now terminate all weekend Saturday and Sunday local news reporting currently running on ATV ? The cancellation and elimination of so much allotted local news airtime that is normally given to Atlantic Canadians surely threatens the safety and security of residents especially now that there will be a 24 hour local news blackout for 2 full days each and every weekend and even for as much as 3 consecutive days every holiday long weekend ? And so it seems that arch rival CBC has taken over prime time live local news reporting in the Maritimes and Bell Canada is blaming the Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for them having to slash so many prime time hours of local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
Halifax, Feb 1st 2024 - Bell Canada Media blames Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash many hours of critical local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
the Junos 2024, Halifax, Mar 24th - CBC and the new Heritage Minister seem to be more interested in their own personal politics than they are in music ? itsthe4thquarter.blogspot.com/2024/03/junos-2024-halifax-...
Angry Canadian - Canadian juno awards ? where ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNieEg-_d1k
Is this a CBC Stanley Cup cruel joke ? June 2nd, 2024 Edmonton ? Fans are upset after CBC had broadcast the first 5 games of the Men's NHL Dallas vs Oilers series, and then, without warning and for no logical reason, CBC blacked out the critical and most important climactic final game that saw Edmonton win and gain entry into the Stanley Cup finals ? It remains unclear why CBC would do this ? Was it arrogance, or was it to be mean spirited, or was it a gender bias issue due to this being Men's pro hockey, or was it maybe a lesson given out to remind Canadians just who is running this Countries main media and who controls the programming ? v=iW0yzPhwC4s" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0yzPhwC4s
The Koncerned Kentvillian asks, "What kind of a Country would show sad and upsetting images of itself when playing their National Anthem on the World stage in front of an international audience ?" www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874/
July 5th, 2024 Jacob Shaffelburg (Pt Williams Nova Scotia) Men's soccer - Unfortunately, CBC doesn't seem to support or sponsor Men's soccer and will not be broadcasting the Men's Copa soccer tournament ? However, you can still enjoy soccer on CBC as they will be giving support and full coverage to the Women's National team and to the new start-up Women's pro soccer league ? www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ? -
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June 29th, 2024 - Bailey Feltmate (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.). - CBC doesn't seem to support Men's football anymore and so most Canadians won't be able to watch graduating male university athletes like Bailey perform in the pros ? However, fans are able to watch many graduating university female athletes perform as CBC will provide full cross Canada media support and live coverage of the new start-up Women's pro soccer league, the new Women's pro hockey league, and upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC is introducing and now including gambling in its media coverage of the Olympic games ?
2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and Sports betting parlor that runs gambling ads during the Olympic events appropriate to the high principles and moral standards exemplified by our youth in the Olympic Games ?
The CBC sport darlings Canadian women's soccer team has been caught cheating at the Paris 2024 Olympics ? The CBC has seemed unusually silent on this story ? heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
2024 Paris Olympics - CBC's full game coverage of the Olympics seems to favor the female athletes while male athletes received only limited coverage and short clips from their events ?
www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/olympic-games-paris-2024
Jul 25, 2024 Paris Olympics - CBC airs entire Women's Olympic soccer games, Women's beach-ball games, Women's rugby games, Women's basketball games water polo and more ? Watch CBC for live full game coverage from St-Etienne, France heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
Grey Cup Nov 17th 2024 - Everyone else is here, but where's the CBC ?
Once again this year CBC will distance itself from a very identifiable and nation uniting Canadian sports extravaganza and will not cover or live broadcast the historic Grey Cup game to Canadians ? However they will be covering a relatively unknown Women's tennis sports event named after Battle of the Sexes winner and Women in sports advocate Billie Jean King being held at this time overseas in Spain ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54147303159/in/album-7...
October 27, 2024 - Demand for CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait to refund the Canadian taxpayers . Why should a civil servant who works for Trudeau make more than the Prime Minister she works for ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-z1ZNza5Fk
Aug 22 2024, Minister of hypocrisy, I mean, Minister of Health Mark Holland says, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ?
the fans are confused ? After Connor McDavid and other NHL Superstar heroes played starring roles in glamorous new betMGM ads to promote gambling on their websites, numerous complaints were filed. And so they eased up on the image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although the McDavid image itself was not to be disconnected from the gambling vice or from the lucrative gambling industry ? A new corrected version will now show Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling whenever you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
Bell Let's Talk ! Feb 4th 2025 - U Ottawa Scotty accuses Bell Canada of hypocrisy,, www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51844732131/in/album-7...
* News Flash * Grey Cup 2024, BC Place Vancouver - Does Bell read the FLICKR comments ? Bell has made a stunning about face ? and it's good news.. After decades of Canadian pro football exclusion CTV will for the first time in a long time actually broadcast this years' playoffs and the Grey Cup game to Canadians. Many more games are now scheduled for the 2025 season, www.cfl.ca/2024/09/06/fall-is-in-the-air-the-cfl-on-ctv-i...
March 30th Vancouver B.C. Michael Bublé sips on his own personal business product while he hosts CBC's 2925 Juno Awards ? Is it appropriate for the CBC to allow the MC to be advertising his personal business when on a job he was hired to do ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54607761592/in/album-7...
2025 Calgary Stampede, CBC distances itself from the Calgary Stampede this year, and will not broadcast any events including the Parade ? You'll have to subscribe to a specialty channel if you are interested in this famous Canadian event ? calstampede.com/calgary-stampede-2025-how-to-watch-date-t...
July 13th 2025 - Men's Pro Rodeo and chuckwagon fans are ignored ? CBC Sports programming ignores and does not include this years fifty thousand dollar finals of the world famous Calgary Stampede, see Sunday's CBC Sports programming,, calstampede.com/shows/calgary-stampede-broadcast-schedule/
Jul 13, 2025 - Men's World Cup soccer is not broadcast on CBC ? FIFA Club World Cup Jun 15, 2025 – Jul 13, 2025 - Chelsea beats PSG 3-0 to win 2025 Club World Cup . Coldplay and Trump and 81,000 attend the final,, but is not televised ? CBC does broadcast an unknown Women's softball tournament ?
apnews.com/live/psg-chelsea-club-world-cup-updates
2025 Toronto Blue Jays - CBC doesn't broadcast Men's baseball ? www.consumersearch.com/fitness-sports/plan-viewing-blue-j...
Funding dirty coal? Not with our money.
Activists hung a banner on Bank of America's Charlotte, NC headquarters to tell the bank: "Not with our money!" People are fed up with Bank of America putting profits before people and planet. The bank is the largest funder of the US coal industry and the leading foreclosure on Americans' homes. Meanwhile, BoA is laying off 30,000 workers and hiking fees left and right. Enough is enough.
You too can tell Bank of America, "Not with our money!"
Photo Credit: John Duffy
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
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Love laying off peeps
Outsourcing is the bomb
I want more for me
Lets gut this outfit
(English version follow) Montréal, la marche des zombies 2014. En attendant les mises à pied, les employés sont des morts-vivants... Une photo lourde de symbolique. Les employés ont l'air triste. À l'arrière, un service des postes sans livraison à domicile c'est comme un service avec une jambe coupée. Enfin une façon civilisée de manifester, sans bloquer de pont. Ils n'ont pas détourné l'événement mais s'y sont intégrés. Merci de partager afin de les encourager.
Montreal's annual zombies walk 2014 (a walk of living deads). Here, a group of workers from Canada postal services demonstrate against the end of door to door postal services. Earlier this year, the gouvernment has announced the end of the door to door postal services. At least 8000 persons will lost their work through Canada. The group has joined the annual zombies walk. The symbolic... in waiting for laying off, the workers are like living deads. Somebody behind show a torn out leg tho tell that a postal services whitout door to door services is really like pulling out a leg.
DSCF1990, Fujifilm X-Pro1, Fujinon XF 35mm F1.4R, ISO-800, 1/4000s, f1.4, Film simulation-PRO Neg, compensation (+1/3). SOOC-jpeg cropped in Silkypix.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
This is hourly data from the entire time since the IESO market was created on 1 May 2002.
You can get the data yourself at www.ieso.ca/imoweb/marketdata/marketData.asp
Aug 2007 - Aug 2008 our home averaged 18 kWh/day, so that means 750 W on average. By my calculations, our home is responsible for one twenty-four millionth of the province's power draw. There are about thirteen million people in Ontario, so I have to assume commercial and industrial buildings are a huge part of our draw, even though we have little traditional "heavy industry" such as aluminum smelters.
The tiny trail of low demand readings around Day 230 is explained here.
Three things: (1) That's cheese. No, we don't feed our children pats of butter; (2) Yes, he has three drinks, but we're learning to count, so lay off. (3) No, that's not Michael Jackson, it's just that he bumped his nose the day before and insisted on sleeping with the bandaid on.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
Great to be back again after two years of a lay off due to the Covid, at Joe Duffy live from Duke Street, just off Grafton Street and meeting a community of people from all parts of Ireland enjoying the best of Fun and banter on the lead into Christmas.
Podcast Link www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/11479025/
I think I've been to reliant on photoshop for my pictures for the past few days, maybe I'll lay off it for a little bit (or at least try). LOST starts tomorrow! Maybe I'll do a LOST themed picture....I don't know.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
Funding dirty coal? Not with our money.
Activists hung a banner on Bank of America's Charlotte, NC headquarters to tell the bank: "Not with our money!" People are fed up with Bank of America putting profits before people and planet. The bank is the largest funder of the US coal industry and the leading foreclosure on Americans' homes. Meanwhile, BoA is laying off 30,000 workers and hiking fees left and right. Enough is enough.
You too can tell Bank of America, "Not with our money!"
Photo Credit: John Duffy
Rainforest Action Network
Bank of America, Not With Our Money!
Funding dirty coal? Not with our money.
Activists hung a banner on Bank of America's Charlotte, NC headquarters to tell the bank: "Not with our money!" People are fed up with Bank of America putting profits before people and planet. The bank is the largest funder of the US coal industry and the leading foreclosure on Americans' homes. Meanwhile, BoA is laying off 30,000 workers and hiking fees left and right. Enough is enough.
As the morning started to slip away four other activists barricaded the main entrance door to BOA's corporate headquarters and held a banner that said "Bank of Coal"
This was all followed up by protest march to the corner of Tryon and Trade Street, where the Rainforest Action Network had several speakers speak before marching over to BOA
You too can tell Bank of America, "Not with our money!"
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
SF-based editorial cartoon.
Perry White: Due to the big losses we've suffered, the Daily Planet is being sold to Lex Luthor... and he's laying off everyone but Jimmy Olsen.
Clark Kent: Lois! I've got to save the newspaper industry!
Lois Lane: Oh, just give it up, Clark, and start a blog.
The Solo Cup Company Manufacturing Facility at 1100 N. Glenstone Avenue. When it closed in 2010, 340 people lost jobs or had to relocate to Georgia. The plant opened in 1952 as Lily Tulip. Solo Cup acquired the Springfield plant -- then called Sweetheart Cup -- in February 2004
www.news-leader.com/article/20110303/BUSINESS05/103030354...
History
1952: Augusta, Ga.-based Lily Tulip opens the factory. The plant employs about 1,700. Its entrance is designed to look like a giant white paper cup. Real estate investor C. Arch Bay is instrumental in bringing the company to Springfield.
1984: Lily Tulip completes a $4.5 million plant expansion.
1986: Publicly traded Fort Howard Cup Corp., a Green Bay, Wis., company, buys Lily Tulip. The Springfield plant's name remains Lily Tulip.
1986: Lily Tulip lays off 225 workers, leaving a work force of about 1,100.
1987: 1,150 Lily Tulip employees agree to a 6 percent pay cut, a two-year wage freeze and reduced benefits to guarantee their jobs.
1988: A group of investors buys Fort Howard, taking the company private.
1989: Sweetheart Cup Co. of Chicago buys Fort Howard, including the Springfield plant.
1989: Springfield Sweetheart plant lays off about 300 workers, leaving a work force of 900.
1993: Sweetheart's work force grows to about 1,300 employees, making it one of Springfield's top employers.
1997: Sweetheart lays off 140 workers.
1998: Sweetheart merges with Valhalla, N.Y.-based Fonda Group Inc. The company has 850 employees at the Springfield plant.
2001: Sweetheart announces it will lay off 200 employees, leaving a work force of about 400.
2004: Chicago-based Solo Cup buys Sweetheart.
2005: Solo announces it will close the plant by the year's end.
2006: Plans to close the plant are called off after Solo signs a new five-year contract with the union.
June 2010: Solo announces plans to close the plant.
July 30, 2010: Solo agrees to sell the plant to Warren Davis Properties LLC for about $7.9 million.
March 2, 2011: The final regular shift at Solo Cup-Springfield reports for work at 11 p.m. Wednesday. Shift ends at 7 a.m. today.
June 8
Last night while we were out at the bar, Lilly told me about her special drink she orders at the Study, Lilly’s Lavender London Fog. This morning, I tried it, and tomorrow I think I’ll try it again. She done good!
The main event this afternoon was the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey. It’s crazy to me that this administration has found a way to make C-SPAN appointment television. The jis of the testimony: Trump is a liar, he asked for Comey’s loyalty, he asked Comey to lay off Flynn, and John McCain is a nonsensical old man. It was super entertaining.
After work we took Arri to North Lakes Park, where she got a serious case of the zoomies. She’s very fast, but she looks like a doofus when she runs. Proof.
Emily and I had dinner at the Greenhouse and then finished season 2 of Master of None. I’m now in love with Francesca, the Italian love interest. Sorry Emily.
Greg, Jim Bowen, Rob, Bob, and Cindy cooking out. I was pretty thin back then. I need to start laying off the fries.
(Sarcasm Alert: The Following May Contain Sarcasm.) I sure do miss Jim Bowen. He was one heck of a guy, and a friend to all he met.
Taj-ul-Masajid is a Mosque situated in Bhopal, India. The name is also spelt as Taj-ul-Masjid. However the correct Name is Taj-ul-Masajid and not Taj-ul-Masjid. "Masajid" means "Mosques" (Plural of "Masjid") and "Taj-ul-Masajid" literally means "Crown Among Mosques". It is the largest Mosque in India.
HISTORY
The construction of the Mosque was initiated during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar by Nawab Shah Jahan Begum (1844–1860 and 1868–1901) of Bhopal (Wife of Baqi Mohammad Khan) and continued to be built by her daughter Sultan Jahan Begum, till her lifetime. The mosque was not completed due to lack of funds, and after a long lay-off after the War of 1857, construction was resumed in 1971 by great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari and Maulana Sayed Hashmat Ali Sahab of Bhopal. The construction was completed by 1985 and the entrance (eastern) gate was renovated grandly using ancient motifs from circa 1250 Syrian mosques by the contribution of the Emir of Kuwait to commemorate the memory of his departed wife.
ARCHITECTURE
The Mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes. The Mosque also has three huge bulbous domes, an impressive main hallway with attractive pillars and marble flooring resembling Mughal architecture the likes of Jama Masjid in Delhi and the huge Badshahi Mosque of Lahore. It has a courtyard with a large tank in the centre. It has a double-storeyed gateway with four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings in the main prayer hall. The Quibla wall in the prayer hall is carved with eleven recessed arches and has fine screens of trellis work. The massive pillars in the hall hold 27 ceilings through squinted arches of which 16 ceilings are decorated with ornate petaled designs.
ANNUAL CONGREGATION
Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima is an annual three-day congregation that draws people from all over the world. It was held at Taj-ul-Masajid until it was shifted to Islam Nagar outside the city due to shortage of space.
WIKIPEDIA
OK.. very new here..
I took this picture of my daughter. It was about 6.30 in the morning..
And the sun was just rising.. I love this picture.. and I don't know whether it is because I am biased..
please feel free to criticise as much as you like.. but hey.. lay off the girl !!
It was taken on Nerja beach, Spain
Landing Craft / Multi purpose inshore vessel . Seen assisting with cable laying off the coast of North East England near the Port of Blyth
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Anderlecht's Alexandar Mitrovic (L) and Gent's goalkeeper Matz Sels fight for the ball during the Jupiler Pro League match between KAA Gent and RSC Anderlecht, on April 30, 2015 in Gent, on the fifth day of the Pfootball lay-off 1. AFP PHOTO / BELGA / VIRGINIE LEFOUR - Belgium Out - (Photo credit should read VIRGINIE LEFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
Bakersfield is a large city in rural Kern County, marking the Southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. It is the most productive county in terms of agriculture and oil production in the United States. The traditional homeland of the Yokuts, the area was not settled by Anglos until the 1850s. Even then it remained largely rural. After Christian Bohna's 1860 settlement was swept away by the floods of 1862, Thomas Baker established a stopover on the banks of the Kern River. Baker's Field became Bakersfield by 1870. It incorporated in 1874, only to disincorporate 2 years later, supposedly to "lay off" a high-handed sheriff the city otherwise could not get rid of. Oil was found in the 1880s, allowing the community to take off.
Bakersfield remains a transportation, agricultural and oil hub. It is one of the fastest growing cities in California, increasing from 70000 to 350000 between 1970 and 2010. The city can be extremely hot, and experiences some of the highest air and ozone pollution in the country. The city has a higher than average crime rate and a history of police brutality, with a 2015 study showing that Bakersfield police killed civilians at the highest rate in the U.S.
Bakersfield has a significant Basque community and is known in country music circles for the "Bakersfield Sound" the use of steel guitars best reflected by Buck Owens.
"Don't Mind Me" was created by artist Bumblebeelovesyou in 2017.
Downtown, Bakersfield, California
Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson NJ was built during the Great Depression with grants from the federal government. A large portion of the labor came from layed off mill workers in Paterson NJ.
That federal investment in a construction project gave Paterson a 10,000 seat stadium that was used through the mid-1990s. Now in need a major renovations voters approved a ballot measure in 2009 to restore this historic structure.
On the 24th June 2020 I was was walking through Bury St Edmunds . On a Wednesday its market day and thankfully more and more stalls are returning following the Covid 19 Lockdown.
Early morning Romilly was setting up for a busy day on the Burger Van that she helps run in the Buttermarket in Bury St Edmunds. On a hot day it was sure to be a warm kitchen. Romilly was pleased to be back working after a long lay off due to the Covid 19 Pandemic. Its only in the last 2 weeks that the van has been able to be back in business.
Normally her family would head down to Cornwall for their summer holidays but this was cancelled .
The Post Office is in the Constitution. Don't let Congress continue to undermine the Post Office by mandating poison pill policies. Corporations want to carve up the Post Office, sell off the assets, lay off workers, steal the pension funds, increase costs, and reduce services.
The source image for this caricature is a portrait of Benjamin Franklin published by the Detroit Publishing Co. and available at the Library of Congress.
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hey man, it is kinda easy to save money if you dont have to burn through it on bills. fortunatley i know how to save and that is the only way that i am staying afloat right now. after getting layed off 2 months ago i am depending on my savings to keep my head above water. well for starters, take your lunch and snacks to work with you. get you a good sized lunch bag and pack you a luch. instead of getting the coca cola brand or pepsi brand drinks get store brand drinks get a big variety pack of tater chips. make you a sandwich or something and take it all with you. when i was working i figured it up and when i started doing this i saved my self about 100 dollars a month. now the key is to set a goal for your self. everyone needs atleast 3 months of savings. that covers all your bills. figure up how much you need to survive for 3 months. rent, electic, water, insurance what ever. and you also need an entertainment fund. figure out how much you need to survive (not have a blast) survive from week to week. take what you have left and put 75 percent into your savings and the other 25 perent in your entertainment fund. the trick is to only use what is in the entertainment fund for entertainment. dont dip into the emergency fund to have fun off of. just make a goal and stick to the goal. oh yea, before you start putting away for your emergency fun gather all your bills, ones that are not like electric rent, gather any out standing medical bills, car payment, what every and take what you would put into your emergency fun and knock out these bills. you knock out those bills and then start saving. if you do this (and lord forbid you loose your job) all these little bills will be payed off and you will have 3 months of savings that you can depend on and still have a little in your entertainment fund if you need it. man i know that i rambled on and on but trust me right now now one can afford to throw away money (well some can) save every penny that you can put it away for your future. right now i am living off my savings and it is running to a quick end and i hope that i have a job before then but if i didnt have these savings i probably would not still have a roof over my head or food on the table for my family. good luck with your savings. It is never easy to save money, for one, you have to be smart and try not to spend more then you earn, so with that being said, it is not an easy thing to do, to control your spending before earning the cash and as soon as it comes in you have to save it and keep saving it and not buy expensive things every day of your life
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
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Llandrindod Wells is an amalgam of two very different settlements. Early Llandrindod in the
form of the old parish church and Llandrindod Hall occupies a spur sandwiched between
valleys that drop down towards the Ithon from the high ground to the east. One kilometre to
the north-west on lower ground which has been ridged and hollowed by several streams is the
Victorian and modern creation of Llandrindod Wells.
This brief report examines Llandrindod’s emergence and development up to 1750. For the
more recent history of the settlement, it will be necessary to look at other sources of
information and particularly at the origins and nature of the buildings within it.
The accompanying map is offered as an indicative guide to the historic settlement. The
continuous line defining the historic core offers a visual interpretation of the area within
which the settlement developed, based on our interpretation of the evidence currently to hand.
It is not an immutable boundary line, and may need to be modified as new discoveries are
made. The map does not show those areas or buildings that are statutorily designated, nor
does it pick out those sites or features that are specifically mentioned in the text.
We have not referenced the sources that have been examined to produce this report, but that
information will be available in the Historic Environment Record (HER) maintained by the
Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. Numbers in brackets are primary record numbers used in
the HER to provide information that is specific to individual sites and features. These can be
accessed on-line through the Archwilio website (www.archwilio.org.uk).
History of development
The name refers to the 'Church of the Trinity', but the former name of the church and its
parish was Llandow in 1283 and Lando in 1291 meaning ‘church of God’. Llandynddod
appears only in 1535, but the change to the Trinity is one that can be recognised in several
other churches in Wales.
The earlier focus occupies a spur overlooking this area. Whether the church represents an
early medieval foundation is unclear. The 'llan' prefix might suggest this but there is no
corroborative evidence. Its later history, too, is uncharted. The occurrence of platforms
opposite the church hints at more than just an isolated church, but the evidence as yet is not
compelling.
Llandrindod Hall by the old church was converted into a large hotel in about 1749, but it
functioned for less than forty years and was demolished by its proprietor, reportedly because
of its unsavoury clientele. It was replaced in the 19th century by a farmstead.
Reportedly the origins of the spa town go back to the late 17th century. Cae-bach Chapel
(30000; Grade II listing) in Brookland Road was founded in 1715. Saline and sulphur springs
were discovered in the 1730s and these were noted in various publications in the following
twenty years. But the emergence of Llandrindod Wells is essentially a 19th-century
phenomenon and thus falls outside the scope of this report, although in expanding over
Llanerch Common, the town enveloped the Llanerch Inn, which has some 17th-century
features.
The heritage to 1750
The old parish church of Holy Trinity (16027) lies more than 1km south-east of the town and
was sited on the edge of an extensive tract of common upland. It originally had a single
chamber of 13th/14th-century build with a south porch and small west spire. It was completely
rebuilt in 1894, after the archdeacon of Llandrindod had removed the roof in order to
'encourage' townspeople to attend the new church in the town. The old church houses several
18th and 19th-century monuments but its 'sheel-na-gig' (5960) uncovered during building work
in 1894 and presumably of medieval origin, is now in the local museum.
The churchyard (16199) is irregular in design, its shape on the west and south dictated by the
natural topography. The Tithe map depicts a smaller enclosure around the church, a short
distance away from the road and no longer distinguishable at ground level, but may not be an
accurate representation. A holy well (81710) lay close to the churchyard, though the story
attached to it point to a healing well.
The spur on which the old church sits is naturally irregular with rock outcrops protruding.
North of the church on land that was common until the 19th century are several flat terraces
some of which are certainly artificial constructions that probably supported dwellings
(16094); there is at least one authentic platform and perhaps two others, together with
enclosure boundaries and a trackway. Further earthworks (16095), the most obvious a low
curvilinear bank of unknown function, are apparent just to the south-east of Llandrindod Hall
(30020).
Capel Maelog (2055) which was excavated between 1984 and 1987 lay off Cefnllys Lane less
than 1km east of the town centre. Its foundations have now been reconstructed near County
Hall.
Information can be found here
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Dow tumbles 876 points and stocks enter bear market on worries of drastic rate hikes
New York (CNN Business) US stocks have plunged into a bear market as Wall Street investors grew increasingly nervous about the prospect of even harsher medicine from the Fed to take the sting out of inflation.
The Dow (INDU) sank 876 points or 2.8%. The Nasdaq was down by 4.7% and has tumbled more than 10% in the past two trading sessions.
The broader S&P 500 fell 3.9%. That index is now more than 20% below its all-time high set in January, putting stocks in a bear-market.
Recession fears mounted after Friday's miserable Consumer Price Index report showed US inflation was significantly higher than economists had expected last month. That could make the Federal Reserve's inflation-control efforts more difficult.
After raising rates by a half point in May — an action the Fed hadn't taken since 2000 — Chair Jerome Powell pledged more of the same until the central bank was satisfied that inflation was under control. At that point, the Fed would resume standard quarter-point hikes, he said.
But after May's hotter-than-expected inflation report, Wall Street is increasingly calling for tougher action from the Fed to keep prices under control. Jefferies joined Barclays on Monday in predicting that the Federal Reserve would hike rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, an action the Fed hasn't taken since 1994.
"After holding their breath for nearly a week awaiting the US CPI report for May, investors exhaled in exasperation as inflation came in hotter than expected," Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA, said in a note to clients Monday morning.
Stovall said the risk of larger hikes dragged the markets lower Monday.
Investors fear two outcomes, neither of them good: Higher rates mean bigger borrowing costs for businesses, which can eat into their bottom lines. And overly zealous action from the Fed could unintentionally plunge the US economy into a recession, especially if businesses start laying off workers and the red-hot housing market crumbles.
There's no sign that the job and housing markets are in danger of collapse, although both are cooling off somewhat.
In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria Sunday, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said a US recession remains possible. But Bernanke said he had faith that Powell and the Fed could achieve a so-called soft landing, the elusive outcome in which the central bank can cool the economy down to get inflation under control without slowing it down so much that it enters a recession.
"Economists are very bad at predicting recessions, but I think the Fed has a decent chance — a reasonable chance — of achieving what Powell calls a soft-ish landing, either no recession or a very mild recession to bring inflation down," Bernanke said.
Analysts appeared to move beyond a "buy the dip" mentality on Monday, signaling that they don't see markets recovering quickly.
"Valuations aren't much cheaper given rising interest rates and a weaker earnings outlook, in our view," wrote strategists at BlackRock in a Monday notes. "A higher path of policy rates justifies lower equity prices. Plus, margin pressures are a risk to earnings."
BlackRock will remain neutral on stocks for the next six- to 12-months, the strategists said.
Bears and bulls
The S&P 500 closed in a bear market, so the bull run that started on March 23, 2020 has come to an end. But, because of the tricky way these things are measured, the bear market technically began on January 3, when the S&P 500 hit its all-time high.
That means the latest bull market lasted just over 21 months — the shortest on record, according to Howard Silverblatt, S&P Dow Jones Indices senior index analyst. Over the past century, bull markets have lasted an average of about 60 months.
The shortest bull market followed the shortest bear market, one that lasted just over a month — from February 19 to March 23, 2020. Bear markets historically last an average of 19 months, according to Silverblatt.
Stocks briefly fell into a bear market on May 20, although a late-day rally rescued the market from closing below that threshold for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq has been in a bear market for some time and is now more than 32% below its all-time high set in November 2021. The Dow is still some way from a bear market. It has fallen about 16% from the all-time high it reached on the last day of 2021.
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‘We’re now in a period of stagflation’ that could devolve into recession, top economist Mohamed El-Erian says
“I think you’ve got to be very modest about what we know about this inflation process,” he said. “And I fear that it’s still going to get worse."
The U.S. is in a period of stagflation leaning toward recession, Allianz SE CEO Mohamed El-Erian said Sunday.
Recession risks are “tilted in a negative way right now,” El-Erian said on CBS’s Face the Nation, Bloomberg reported.
“I think you’ve got to be very modest about what we know about this inflation process,” he said. “And I fear that it’s still going to get worse. We may well get to 9% at this rate.”
In May, U.S. consumer prices were 8.6% higher than the year before, hitting a 40-year high.
El-Erian said the Fed “fell behind” on inflation and that he expects to see a 50 basis points hike at this week’s rate-setting meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee is set to meet Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
El Erian said that the U.S. is “in a period of stagflation,” but that a strong labor market was warding off recession.
“That’s why a recession is a risk scenario, not a baseline,” he added.
What is stagflation?
It’s a combination of economic stagnation and high inflation, with the added struggle of increased unemployment, Veronika Dolar, an economist at State University of New York at Old Westbury and visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York City, told The Conversation.
Typically, economists focus on “three big macroeconomic variables,” she said: gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation.
“Each measure tells its own important story about how the economy is doing,” Dolar said. “GDP—or the total output of all goods and services produced—shows us what the broader economy is doing, unemployment tells us about the job situation, and inflation measures the movement of prices.”
She continued: “But their stories also overlap. And unfortunately, they usually don’t all tell us good news at the same time.”
It’s not uncommon to see a strong GDP with low unemployment counterbalanced by higher inflation—or lower inflation with lower GDP and, perhaps, higher unemployment, Dolar added.
“So, normally there is some good news and some bad news. But with stagflation, there is no good news,” she said.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park. First batch of images here and plenty more to follow.
Chasewater ParkRun January 22nd 2022. Back again after a lay-off due to Avian Influenza at Chasewater Country Park.
Algiers, Algeria - Nicknamed El-Bahdja or alternatively Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The city name is derived from the Arabic word al-jaz??ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off the city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525.
The word Furniture appears on the three sides and the oval topper at one time rotated. Great old neon sign seen in Westminister, California in May 8, 2006
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Levitz Furniture was a nationwide chain of American furniture stores that helped create the "furniture warehouse" genre of retail furniture sales. It was in business for nearly 100 years before liquidating in bankruptcy in early 2008.
Growth[edit]
The company was founded in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in 1910 by Richard Levitz.[1]
In the 1960s Levitz successfully pioneered selling moderately priced brand-name furniture from a warehouse-style store.[2] It suffered in the 1990s as consumers began to prefer showroom sales that featured spaces arranged to look like actual rooms in houses.[3] The chain continued to expand in 2005, when they acquired Seaman's Furniture and Huffman Koos stores after bankruptcy.
Marketing
The store is known for the slogan and jingle "You'll love it at Levitz."
Bankruptcy and liquidation
Levitz was accused of having been poorly run for more than a decade starting in the 1990s. It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice during the period, in 1997 and again in 2005, both times emerging after a corporate restructuring and the participation of new outside backers.[3]
On December 21, 1998, Levitz announced it would close 27 stores and lay off 25% of its workforce. The company downsized its warehouse system from 65 to 17 sites.[4]
The furniture market underwent a prolonged nationwide downturn after the September 11 attacks, and was hurt again in late 2007 by the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.
Levitz filed for bankruptcy the final time in October 2007.[1] As of that time, it was operating nearly 80 stores, mostly in the Northeastern United States and on the West Coast,[6] under the corporation PLVTZ LLC. In October 2008, Levitz Furniture, with bankruptcy court approval, converted its Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7, and started liquidation sales.[7]
The company was sold in bankruptcy to a group of bidders, led by Hilco Merchant Resources,[3] that acted to rapidly liquidate its inventory and close all remaining stores.