Rugby is a game that requires a combination of strength, agility, and endurance. It is a sport that demands a lot from its players, both physically and mentally. For some, the thrill of the game can be worth the cost of injury and pain. But for others, the risk is too great. This is the story of a rugby player who, despite his love for the game, had to walk away from it because of a biological limitation. He has no regrets, however, and believes that his decision was the right one. This article explores his journey and the lessons he learned about listening to his body and making tough choices.
In the coastal city of Malmö in southern Sweden, it’s March 2021 and the country is on the verge of lockdown due to another wave of Covid. At a pedestrian crossing, one cannot miss the towering figure of Charlie Ryan, Leinster’s second row. Despite being 6ft 7ins and 115kg, he is struggling to cross the road as he leans heavily on crutches following surgery to both knees. His tendonitis has been a persistent issue since he was 16 and eventually leads to his retirement from rugby in January 2023. Ryan made a solitary trip to Sweden, armed with necessary travel documents, to visit the renowned professor Håkan Alfredson, who operates on his knees while he is awake over the course of two days. An epidural allowed Ryan to forgo general anesthesia-induced grogginess, but he had trouble hearing his phone while watching The Office during the surgeries. The experience was odd, made stranger since he had to carry himself out of the hospital unaccompanied. Ryan was staying at a hotel a brief walk down the street from the hospital, but his slow pace was a source of embarrassment, given the traffic lights usually turned red before he could make it to the other side. Ryan’s story exemplifies Leinster’s and his own efforts to get him back to full fitness, which eventually proved futile, leading to his retirement at the age of 23. Despite his promising rugby career and leadership of the Ireland U20s in securing a Grand Slam victory in 2019 and the Leinster A team to win the Celtic Cup, Ryan feels at peace with his decision because he recognizes the significant effort that went into his recovery. In a Dublin cafe, Ryan reminisces about his arduous road to recovery and the love, care, and support provided by those organizations he worked with, including Leinster, despite not getting a senior cap for the province. Ryan’s knee pain began at Blackrock College, where he was identified as a rugby talent worth nurturing. His condition was diagnosed as tendonitis as he donned the Ireland u-18s jersey, giving him the confidence that he could pursue a professional career in rugby. Ryan is grateful to Karl Denvir, his physio at Leinster, for going above and beyond in helping him recover from his ailment. Ryan applied for senior contracts even after being sidelined for nearly two years, and he felt a sense of gratitude to the coach, Leo Cullen, for granting that chance. Despite facing disappointment and taking it hard initially, Ryan learned to turn such experiences into lessons while building resilience and managing stress, valuable qualities that he would take with him even after his career was cut short.
In conclusion, the story of one rugby player who biologically couldn’t play the sport has shed light on the importance of listening to our bodies and accepting our limitations. While it’s easy to get caught up in the hype of a particular sport or activity, we should always consider our individual physical capabilities and prioritize our health and wellbeing. This rugby player’s journey may have come to an end earlier than anticipated, but their story serves as an inspiration to anyone struggling with accepting their own limitations. As they put it themselves, there’s not one bit of regret in doing what’s best for our bodies and minds.
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Social Security Fund Allocates Majority of Mortgage Loan Budget for Disability, Old Age and Death Program in 2022
The promotion took effect and last year, the Social Security Fund (CSS) managed to allocate the majority of its budget for mortgage loans already retired, whose resources are totally destined to the program of Disability, Old Age and Death (IVM).
Luz Briceida González, head of the CSS Loan Center, reported that in 2022 they placed $18 million in mortgage loans and $17 million in loans to retirees, out of a total of $20 million allocated for each one.
At the end of 2022, the CSS managed a portfolio of $117 million in personal and mortgage loans, with 2,330 clients, 1,350 in the retiree segment and 980 in the housing segment.
Mortgages
González explained that the CSS It lends up to $300,000 to those interested in buying homes, transferring mortgages, and consolidating debts.
The institution does not grant preferential interest, although it finances homes in that range. The interest that it manages is always 1% less than what is current in the market.
According to the official, a common practice is that those borrowers whose loan expires preferential interest, they change their mortgage to the CSSsince it is more practical and the letter that they will pay is smaller.
Given the rise in interest rates that sensitively affects the mortgage portfolios, González informed that the technical unit of CSS inversion analyzes market interest rates and updates the information, always maintaining a lower interest rate than the current one.’
300
One thousand dollars is lent by the Social Security Fund for the acquisition of housing.
4.75
and 5 percent are the interests currently managed by the Social Security Fund.
Currently, the interests that are handled are between 4.75% and 5%
Another facility for families who intend to buy their home is that it is allowed to calculate the income, take into account parents, siblings and all relatives within the first and second degree of consanguinity.
98% of the value is financede sale or appraisal of the residence and the terms are given according to age, but the maximums are 30 and 35 years.
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Other requirements that are the appraisal of the property to be finance for acquisition or transfer, work letters, copies of identity cards and APC certification.
Loans to retirees
In the case ofs loans to retirees, the interest currently handled is 4.75%.
It is lent up to 65 years of age, with terms of up to 18 years, without charging handling costs and commissions.
The requirements that must be submitted are APC certifiedcopy of the identity card and a public service receipt stating the applicant’s address.
The expectation for this year, said the head of the Loan Center, is to place the entire budget for both portfolios, which is $40 million. Those interested in accessing the loans provided by the CSS can call the phones 513-1250, 513-1256, 503-3524 y 503-3529.
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ANSES Week: the payment schedule for retirees, AUH and Family Allowances
The National Social Security Administration (ANSES) begins next Monday the second week of the March 2023 salary payment calendar for retirees, holders of the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and Family Child Allowance (AFH) with an increase of 17.04%.
The sums that will find a minimum floor of $58,646 for the first group, will be attached with the liquidation of a bonus of up to $15,000 according to the level of income contemplated by the pension agency.
Retiree payment dates
already charged
– DNI ending in 0: March 8
– DNI completed at 1: March 9
– DNI finished in 2: March 10
remain to be collected
– DNI finished in 3: March 13
– DNI finished in 4: March 14
– DNI finished in 5: March 15
– DNI finished in 6: March 16
– DNI finished in 7: March 17
– DNI finished in 8: March 20
– DNI finished at 9: March 21
Universal Child Allowance: collection schedule for March 2023
already charged
– DNI ending in 0: March 8
– DNI completed at 1: March 9
– DNI finished in 2: March 10
remain to be collected
– DNI finished in 3: March 13
– DNI finished in 4: March 14
– DNI finished in 5: March 15
– DNI finished in 6: March 16
– DNI finished in 7: March 17
– DNI finished in 8: March 20
– DNI finished at 9: March 21
Family Allowance per Child: collection schedule for March 2023
already charged
– DNI ending in 0: March 8
– DNI completed at 1: March 9
– DNI finished in 2: March 10
remain to be collected
– DNI finished in 3: March 13
– DNI finished in 4: March 14
– DNI finished in 5: March 15
– DNI finished in 6: March 16
– DNI finished in 7: March 17
– DNI finished in 8: March 20
– DNI finished at 9: March 21
Ing. Petar Borov is 84 years old, continues to work and proposes to raise the retirement age first to 67 and then to 70! And the working day should be 6 hours. The former mining engineer of “Gorubso” has written collections of poetry for children, collections of mining poetry and economic books such as “Bulgaria – Belgium in the Balkan Peninsula”. In the latter, he draws a comparison with four 20th-century countries: Belgium, Finland, Greece and Bulgaria, and provides ideas on how the country could develop much more successfully.
Engineer Petar Borov spends his days in his small copier office opposite the technical university. There, everyone can find the old man buried in internet news and data, while he writes his next book or responds to emails. For those unfamiliar with the 84-year-old, the show is highly unusual.
His life is like a Jack London story. As a young man he graduated from a military school and while working as a border officer he studied engineering and political economy. He was kicked out of the army by some “ex-guard” and suddenly became a miner.
“I became a miner out of nowhere – the wind took me there. Previously I served as an officer for 7 years. That’s why I am so critical of the army, and I personally saw what “broken command” was during the period of the Soviet Union,” says the engineer.
He was fired from the army and the mine was nearby. He was unable to start work there because the Ministry of the Interior gave him one hour to leave the border area. This is how he started as a concrete worker in Kremikovtsi. A boy there said to him:
Money is scarce here: let’s become miners!
At that time he was just studying, he took his exams and went to the mines.
“That’s how I became a mining engineer and a miner – not that I’ve dreamed of it since I was a child! My father is a miner… only the wind takes me there. I entered the former mines of Atanas Burov for the first time” , recalls Petar Borov. Graduated in political economy in 2 years instead of 5. “That’s why I say I graduated not with 6, but with 12!” I worked as a planner in the mines for a month until they told me what my salary would be. When I learned that it would be 80 BGN, I immediately grabbed the pickaxe and ran to the slaughterhouse: there I took 4 times more,” recalls Petar Borov.
In his book “Bulgaria – Belgium on the Balkan Peninsula” Borov draws a curious comparison between our country and three other countries. The comparison with the small country between Germany, France and Holland was first made by Konstantin Stoilov – our prime minister after Stambolov. With Finland and Greece 100 years ago, we are almost on the same economic level. Now, however, these two countries have come a long way and Finland even surpasses Belgium. Engineer Borov used data from the book of the British economist Angus Maddison “Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century”.
“I explain how the wolf can be full and the lamb whole
If I am Prime Minister, I will immediately raise the retirement age to 67 and reduce the working day to 7 hours. Soon after I raised the age to 70 and the working day to 6 hours. Many places talk about a 4 day work week. I don’t have the institutes to research what will be more effective,” admits engineer Borov.
Urges our rulers to learn from countries like South Korea and Finland. The engineer recalls that due to the war with communist North Korea, the entire southern part of the country was completely destroyed. “In 1950, Korea was far below us, and now it lives twice as good as we do. Progress in South Korea began with a dictator who had served the Japanese during the war,” says engineer Petar Borov .
He says that having worked for 25 years in “Gorubso”, 13 thousand people worked at the Burov mines, at the Kardzhali Lead-Zinc Combine. 3 thousand of them were officials. “If Gorubso were my company, there would be 5,000 workers and 500 office workers for the same production,” says the engineer.
The engineer says that the Bulgarian economy has always been “miserable” – both in the times of the Coburgs, and in the times of the “First”, and even today in the times of the “One percent”. “We have an economy, but talking nonsense like in 1990 about the fact that we fed Europe is complete nonsense! I calculated that even if Jesus Christ came down, with the wheat we produced, he would not be able to feed Europe ”says Borov.
The engineer calls
create an “Economy of Added Value”.
According to him, private capital cannot create such an economy because it is not interested. Petar Borov is not talking about a return to communism, but about the state as one of the capitalists. There is something similar in France and Russia. On the one hand the system works well, on the other it doesn’t.
“The state would create a plant for the production of 20-30 thousand light cars under western license. It would have to have western technology and western salaries – an average of 3,000 euros. The cars will be competitive because the state will sell them without intermediaries. So the prices are lower by 20%,” engineer Borov calculated.
His notion that the plant is state-owned and will be operated independently by the president and prime minister is rather utopian. Borov wants to create a public council for the economy. He will lead the contests.
His other idea is the creation of a social bank that would lend up to 50,000 levs to the poorest Bulgarians. Like any communist, Ing. Borov is not very aware of what will happen when the “poor Bulgarian” becomes insolvent and who will pay for this lost money. “The state will force him to repay the loan – will provide him with a job and somewhat violently, as they say: ‘So meek, so good and so malko kotek’, he will take the money. If he doesn’t want to work voluntarily, he should be sentenced ”said the engineer categorically.
For many years Petar Borov worked on the family farm in Tsalapitsa. There he lived on 10 acres of land. His publishing house “Imeon” is now in the office with copiers. The name comes from the text of Michael the Syrian where he says that the Bulgarians came from this mountain.
No response from the statesmen
After printing his book “Bulgaria – Belgium in the Balkan Peninsula”, he sent it to Boyko Borisov, President Rumen Radev, then President of the National Assembly Tsveta Karayancheva, Tomislav Donchev and Ivan Geshev. I have not received any response from them.
“I put it down to the fact that they can’t read. The president and I went to military schools, but there we were not taught to read, but to follow combat orders. And Boyko Borisov and Geshev went to the police academy and didn’t even teach them to read,” says the engineer.
Eliminate the accusation in one fell swoop
Engineer Borov’s ideas for justice reform are quite curious. He wants judges to be elected by society. “I am introducing the institution of the ‘Public Observer’ – he will supervise justice. Literate people will be elected in each settlement and will be independent. They will meet the requirements of the jury and participate in every case. They will not interfere: this is supervision without interference”, He says. He also suggests that the prosecutor’s office be completely liquidated. “He should be joined in the investigation, because he’s the weak link,” he adds.
The army mourned retired Brigadier General Khazen and his Khazen prestige
The Army Command – Orientation Directorate mourned the death of retired Brigadier General Khazen and Wahiba al-Khazen who passed away on 5/1/2023.
Born: October 22, 1941 – Ashkout – Keserwan.
He volunteered in the army on 10/1/1962, was promoted to lieutenant on 9/3/1965, then rose to the rank of brigadier general as of 7/1/1991.
Recipient of numerous honors and commendations and congratulations from the Commander of the Armed Forces, the General, multiple times.
He has followed numerous courses at home and abroad.
Married and has /3/ children.
Condolences are accepted on 6 and 7/1/2023, starting from 11:00 to 18:00 in the hall of the aforementioned cathedral.
The population of Baden-Württemberg is growing: with the exception of Stuttgart and Mannheim | Regional
Stuttgart – Almost all urban and rural districts of Baden-Württemberg have been growing for 50 years – only in Stuttgart and Mannheim has the population decreased since the district reform of 1973.
As the State Statistics Office of Baden-Württemberg also announced on Thursday, cities have become increasingly less attractive in recent years. This is mainly due to the housing shortage. There are currently 11.1 million people living in Baden-Württemberg. This is about 22% more than in 1973.
Over the past 50 years, population growth has been particularly high in two districts of Baden-Württemberg: Almost 51% more people live in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in 2022 than in 1973. This is followed by the Heilbronn district with a population increase of about 50 percent.
In contrast, fewer people live in the urban districts of Stuttgart and Mannheim today than they did 50 years ago: the conclusion is that Stuttgart has less than 0.7 percent – however, the state capital has been experiencing population growth again for years. In Mannheim, the population has decreased by 5.3% since 1973. In 1973 the so-called District Reform Act came into force, which reduced the number of urban and rural districts from 72 to 44.
According to the State Bureau of Statistics, population development has varied significantly over the past few decades. Growth phases in cities alternated with growth phases in rural regions.
While people were drawn to cities up until the late 1950s, they preferred the countryside from the 1970s through the turn of the millennium. Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe lost inhabitants during this period. The top 22 in terms of population growth, however, were all counties. Here too Heilbronn and Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald took first place.
After the turn of the millennium, however, the trend reversed: more and more people lived in cities again. Especially Heidelberg, Kralsruhe and Freiburg im Breisgau recorded above-average growth.
Rural districts, on the other hand, lost residents. According to the State Statistics Office, this “trend towards the city” has practically come to a halt in recent years. Above all, the housing shortage causes many families to leave the cities and growth there is weakened. Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe have even lost residents in recent years.