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Wha-?! A Glee Star & Her Man Broke Up MONTHS Ago & You Had No Idea
For every happy Glee cast member announcement, there’s an equally sad one. In 2016, people were thrilled to learn that, by year’s end, Becca Tobin (Kitty) married her love, and Dean Geyer (Brody) got engaged. But, around the same time, Naya Rivera (Santana) filed for divorce, and Melissa Benoist (Marley) & Blake Jenner (Ryder) ended their marriage. And it looks like the train’s still going, as another star of the Fox dramedy called it quits with her bae.
According to People, Lauren Potter, who portrayed Becky Jackson, Sue Sylvester’s student sidekick, throughout the duration of the series, and her longtime love, Timothy Spear, are no longer tapped to get married. The blonde actress, who accepted a promise ring from her childhood friend-turned-boyfriend last August, reveals that she’s single again. “It hurts,” she admits. “After we got married, I wanted to wake up and see him make breakfast for me. I loved him so much.”
Lauren reportedly had been talking to TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress, plus a wedding dress designer, when Timothy ended their relationship over the holidays — as in, months ago. “He did not like the publicity,” Lauren’s mom, Robin Sinkhorn, explains. “It was overwhelming.”
The two became friends before they could even speak, as, according to a previous People report, their families participated in the same infant stimulation classes at the Children’s Center in Riverside after Lauren and Timothy were born with Down Syndrome. But, despite their history, a lifelong relationship was not meant to be. Lauren’s still optimistic about love, though. In fact, she’s already gone out on a few very promising dates.
Since we mentioned that for every happy Glee cast member announcement, there’s an equally sad one, that means a happy one is soon to come, right? …Right??
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Phil Collins, a video artist, was at a pay phone in the subway in Brooklyn when he found out that he’d been nominated for the Turner Prize, the world’s best-known contemporary-art competition. “I was incredibly startled,” Collins said. “The prize might be a stage for mockery—I might make a fool of myself on a grand scale. I imagined a scene out of a Brian De Palma movie. I felt like Carrie, covered in pig’s blood.” Collins was taking a cigarette break on the massive neoclassical steps of Tate Britain, the original Tate museum, in London, which sits upriver from its sexier, younger sibling, Tate Modern. An enormous statue of Britannia, helmet on her head, trident in her fist, glowered down from the roof. Collins, who is thirty-six, has an asymmetrical haircut and wears carefully culled thrift-shop clothes. “It took me a week to accept the nomination,” he said. “I had to think hard about the joys and threats of exposure.”
The Tate inaugurated the Turner Prize in 1984, and its history is, in part, a tale of newspaper headlines. In 1995, Damien Hirst made news on several continents when he won the prize after a show featuring a work in which a cow and its calf were bisected and displayed in four tanks of formaldehyde. In 1999, Tracey Emin received so much attention for her entry—an installation that included her own unmade bed, littered with blood-stained underwear, condoms, and empty liquor bottles—that many people believe she won the prize, even though she was only a finalist. And in 2003 Grayson Perry, whose principal medium is ceramics, and who likes to wear dresses befitting a Victorian six-year-old, accepted his award by saying, “It’s about time a transvestite potter won the Turner Prize!”
For the past several years, sales of contemporary art have been setting records all over the world. When the focus on the present is such that no one waits for history to make decisions about what is great, good, or simply competent, marks of validation like the Turner Prize become more important. Unlike other art prizes, such as the Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize and the Whitney’s Bucksbaum Award, which are just a line on an artist’s C.V., the Turner Prize is a cross between the Academy Awards and “American Idol”; people take sides, argue about the contest at dinner parties, and even place bets on who’s going to win. Every May, four artists are short-listed by a jury of four judges selected by Sir Nicholas Serota, the Tate’s director. The artists must be younger than fifty, based in Britain, and have attracted the jury’s attention with an outstanding show sometime during the previous year. In October, each of the four nominees opens an exhibition in one of the grand rooms at Tate Britain. Eight weeks later, the jury reconvenes and chooses a winner. That evening, at a glamorous awards ceremony broadcast on television, the winner is presented with a check for twenty-five thousand pounds by a celebrity host (hosts have included Brian Eno, Charles Saatchi, Zaha Hadid, and Madonna, who distinguished herself by saying “motherfuckers” on live TV).
The nominees for the most recent Turner Prize could hardly have been more different from one another. In addition to Phil Collins, the video artist, there was Rebecca Warren, a sculptor; Tomma Abts, an abstract painter; and Mark Titchner, who works in several mediums.
One morning in October, several dozen journalists and photographers showed up for a press preview of the Turner Prize exhibition. Rebecca Warren’s room contained three types of sculpture: gestural figures made of bronze, unfired clay forms, and vitrines that held bits of detritus, including a cherry pit and a used cotton ball. The bronzes were like Giacometti sculptures that had been given a good meal. The clay pieces had a look that was more preschool than art school.
A petite curator in low-rise black jeans briefed the journalists on Warren’s work. “These female approximations embody unleashed and exuberant creativity,” she said, adding that Warren’s influences included R. Crumb, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin. The press people weren’t buying it. “Unfired clay?” one murmured. “Is that half baked or entirely unbaked?” The photographers cheered up a bit when they discovered the suggestion of a few breasts protruding from the mounds of gray clay. (When the short list was first announced, the Daily Star ran a story headlined “BOOBY PRIZE FOR ART.” It showed one of Warren’s figures with gargantuan buttocks next to a speech | [
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In north Sudan in 2017 a very advanced irrigation system has been built to provide water to an agriculture plants located in Shandi close to the Nile river.
The water is sucked from a deep well by a Marly borehole pump, which is electrically supplied by a solar photovoltaic panels system.
Marly borehole pumps have been used to feed an agriculture irrigation system of 250.000 m2 surface. The pump has been supplied with a sophisticate electrical solar panels system capable to produce up to 244Kw/h at 300Amp.
This solar eco-friendly energy production system contributes to save 52.800 Lt/year of diesel fuel. Marly has supplied a 12” size borehole pump to be used to boost the water from the master well to the Pivot irrigation system.
The feeding well size is 14” with a total depth of 100m, while the water table level was found at 90m. Due to the peculiarity of the energy supply source the Marly pump was properly selected in order to grant the best hydraulic efficiency solution (79% hydraulic efficiency and 88% motor efficiency).
The supplied Marly pump model is E12A/4 equipped with a 4 semi-axial impellers type stages. Delivered flow is 270 m3/h at 9 Bar pressure and hydraulic efficiency of 79%.
Moreover thanks to the special materials used for pump impellers, diffusers and bearings bushings, this pump is able to manage a very high quantity of sand as it is shown in the start-up phase picture here on the bottom picture (pumped water is yellow coloured due to the high sand content ).
The 10” borehole electric motor model 10I 200 of 147Kw is a ”water cooled” type, rewound stator with special insulation class PE2+PA wire.
The motor thrust-bearing was reinforced so to grant a long life to the pump set and to improve the motor efficiency by reducing the bearing mechanical dragging.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NanoMech Industries has been named a 2017 Award Winner by the internationally renowned Edison Awards™. The distinguished awards, inspired by Thomas Edison’s persistence and inventiveness, recognize the top in innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy. This honor is the third Edison Award in four years for NanoMech, a truly historic achievement never before accomplished by an Arkansas-based company.
“It’s exciting to see companies like NanoMech continuing Thomas Edison’s legacy of challenging conventional thinking,” said Frank Bonafilia, Edison’s Awards’ executive director. Edison Awards recognizes the game-changing products and services and the teams that brought them to consumers.
nGlide® Superflo SPF Coating Lubricant
The patented macromolecular powered nGlide® Superflo is a specially formulated, spray-on high temperature coating lubricant that has been engineered to not only increase the efficiency/performance of metal processing, but also to ensure a higher level of protection for the equipment it runs on. It utilizes a blend of proprietary nano-engineered multi-component materials to achieve difficult superplastic metal forming (100%+ sheet metal elongation rate for aerodynamic body) and manufacturing yield. nGlide® Superflo has demonstrated success at SPF (High Temperature Superplastic Forming) with major 30% productivity enhancement, better surface finish and staggering 67% reduction in part cleaning time under severe SPF metal forming conditions. This innovation is based on an environmentally friendly water-based system, easy to apply, non-staining and non-corrosive. Meanwhile, it only costs 33% of legacy product ($60-75/gallon compared to $190+/gallon), demonstrating NanoMech’s “less-is-more” sustainability mission critical supremacy. It strategically increases industrial competitiveness and consumer value. nGlide® Superflo has the ability to make the SPF process a reality for traditional automotive OEMs such that advanced energy-saving body designs can be manufactured in high volume and at an affordable price.
- 30% productivity enhancement by providing less intervention from less or no material accumulation in the die;
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James M. Phillips, Chairman and CEO NanoMech Industries, stated, “Globally, automotive vehicles, aircraft, race cars, spacecraft, and motorbikes demand complex aerodynamic and aesthetically appealing body shapes, that simultaneously increase fuel efficiency, control and safety. These bodies are monolithic lightweight metals manufactured by superplastic forming (SPF), using complex dies under severe pressure and temperature demanding high productivity that is dramatically improved by our award winning nGlide® Superflo.”
Dr. Ajay P. Malshe, CTO and Founder, added “nGlide® Superflo has the ability to make the SPF process a reality for advanced vehicle bodies including for automotive OEMs such that advanced energy saving body designs can be realized! They are manufactured by stretching sheet-metals more than 100%, and traditional lubricants fail due to friction, resulting in ruptured parts with production yield. The problem is at nanoscale and therefore the solution must be at nanoscale and nGlide® Superflo is the most advanced nanoengineered multi-functional coating for metal forming applications manufactured in high volume and at an affordable price. nGlide® is the world’s first nano-engineered design innovation, unlike ineffective nano particles approaches."
Deborah Wince-Smith, CEO of the Council on Competitiveness (www.compete.org) and also a member of NanoMech’s Board of Directors, praises NanoMech Industries for their innovative work. “In a world of turbulence, transition and transformation, nothing matters more to the competitiveness of companies and countries than innovation and manufacturing prowess. The ability to develop and deploy the most cutting-edge tools and products to bolster U.S. advanced manufacturing will deliver outsized benefits to the U.S. industrial base. NanoMech and nGlide® are at the leading edge of a resurgent U.S. manufacturing capability – one that is not dumb, dirty, dangerous and disappearing: but is smart, safe, sustainable and surging.”
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Originally established in 1987 by the American Marketing Association, but an independent organization since 2008, the Edison Awards™ have recognized and honored some of the most innovative products and business leaders in the world and is among the most prestigious accolades honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, design and innovation.
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Humans might not be the first beings to reach deep space after all — instead, it might be robots.
In an effort to accomplish some of the major goals the space agency outlined last year — including designing a new exploration system, seeking proposals for deep space journeying and kickstarting initiatives to send astronauts to Mars by 2030 — NASA scientists and engineers are turning to humanoid robots as a way to test out conditions for space travel, serving as a sort of litmus test, and in effect paving the way for their human counterparts.
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Mepolizumab (Nucala) is licensed as an add-on treatment for severe refractory eosinophilic asthma in adults.
The NICE guidance states that mepolizumab, as an add-on to optimised standard therapy, is recommended as an option for treating severe refractory eosinophilic asthma in adults, only if: the blood eosinophil count is ≥300 cells/microlitre in the previous 12 months; and the person has agreed to and followed the optimised standard treatment plan.
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If the asthma has responded adequately at 12 months treatment may be continued with an annual assessment of response thereafter. An adequate response is defined as: ≥50% fewer asthma exacerbations requiring systemic corticosteroids in patients with four or more exacerbations in the previous 12 months; or a clinically significant reduction in continuous oral corticosteroid use while maintaining or improving asthma control.
Mepolizumab must be provided by the company with the discount agreed in the patient access scheme. Patients whose treatment with mepolizumab had started before the guidance was issued may continue without change according to whatever funding arrangements were already in place. | [
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Southeast Asia Construction – Jul-Aug 2009 Emirate Airlines recently constructed a seven-storey building to house the company’s call centre operations in the Dubai Outsource Zone (DOZ), the UAE.
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The Province – 7 July 2009 In response to recent remarks by U.S. president Barack Obama regarding “…new concrete materials that last longer and are waterproofed from the inside out…”
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While Railtrack's chairman seems powerless to bring about an end to the dispute in the face of intransigence from both the unions and the Government, the losses to the railways are mounting. After 22 strike days, they have lost more than pounds 150m, 5 per cent of annual turnover. Almost all of this money would otherwise have been invested in much-needed improvements to the railway and the track.
More worrying still, the losses are increasing, despite the fact that with each strike day a higher proportion of the network is open. The most recent figures show that over the week that included the recent bank holiday and a 48-hour strike spread over three days, BR's takings were down by 24 per cent compared with last year. Given that fares are around 5 per cent higher, the figures suggest that BR is losing almost a third of its passengers in some weeks. Moreover, anyone travelling on the network on non-strike days will have noticed that there are fewer passengers on the railway.
On the East Coast Main Line, for instance, BR's most modern long-distance route, trains from London to Edinburgh have started running on strike days for the first time in the past two weeks. Yet the line is still losing more passengers each week. A spokesman explains: 'In June, we were only losing about 12 per cent of our revenue, as people were adjusting their travel plans. Now in some weeks the percentage is in the mid-20s.' He reckons that people are just becoming fed up with the railway: 'It is doubtful if many of these passengers will ever come back.'
Other parts of the railway have suffered similar losses. Even the Great Western InterCity services out of Paddington, which have managed to run an almost complete service, are losing pounds 250,000 - half their normal daily revenue - every strike day.
Most people have taken to the road, using either their own cars or sharing with colleagues and relatives. Business travellers have discovered that since the late Eighties air traffic delays have been sharply reduced and internal flights offer a much improved service. Many leisure passengers have discovered that buses now offer videos and a trolley service. Railways find themselves in a more competitive market and have been found wanting. British Midland reports that since the strike began, on its Leeds/ Bradford-Heathrow route, passenger numbers are up 30 per cent and on Teeside-Heathrow 24 per cent up, compared with last year. And the increase has been throughout the week, not only on strike days. Less surprisingly, National Express reports a sharp increase in passenger numbers on strike days.
Yet the scale and implications of the catastrophe for the railways has attracted little attention. British Rail's chief executive, John Welsby, suggests this is a result of the railways' diminished role in society: 'Twenty, or even 10 years ago the economy was much more dependent on the railways. Now it can cope without them, and the extent to which it has been doing that, particularly outside London and the major conurbations, worries me. There's been no enormous outcry about the strike because it's our business only that's been damaged, not the economy. Most people are concerned with their own problems and don't shout about other people's'
This year, the railways are being presented with their best opportunity this century to boost their freight business. The Channel tunnel began to carry freight in May and BR had hoped to be sending 6 million tonnes through it by the end of 1995, three times the amount carried on the existing rail freight boat train. BR has had to delay the expansion of the service because of the strikes, which have dented confidence in the service. As Mr Welsby put it, 'I am going round trying to convince car manufacturers that they should use rail. And they say to me, 'We hear what you are saying, but we would like to see the service run smoothly for a while before we commit ourselves.' '
He is also worried that three-quarters of BR's long-term freight contracts are up for renewal in the next nine months: the strikes are not exactly enhancing rail's prospects of keeping them.
There seems to be no way to break the strike deadlock. As one Railtrack manager put it, 'Where is the next move coming from?'
The Government seems content to let the dispute rumble on for two reasons. First, ministers see any trade union dispute as bad for Labour - although there is considerable evidence to suggest that they have misread the political runes and that the public blames them, rather than the unions or the Labour Party, for the dispute. Second, the strike has become the crucial test of public-sector pay restraint, a policy that is expected to continue for at least another year.
The RMT, in the hands of a left-leaning executive, superficially has little to lose by prolonging the strike, because it disrupts the Government's rail privatisation plans. Jimmy Knapp | [
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Public meeting arranged to discuss A1 closure
A public meeting has been called about a planned closure of the A1 in north Northumberland.
Berwick MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan has called the meeting, which will also be attended by Northumberland County Council leader Peter Jackson and David Wheatley, head of scheme delivery at Highways England.
It will be held at the Blue Bell Hotel, Belford on Saturday, February 24 at 11am.
This public meeting has been called following a meeting that was held last week by Anne-Marie with Peter Jackson and Highways England, regarding the proposed closure of the A1, which will be closed from Warenford to Wandylaw from March 2 for 17 days.
Anne-Marie said “Last week I demanded a meeting with Highways England to lay out, in detail, the serious concerns that everyone in the community has about the proposed closure, and the potential impact on those communities, businesses, and residents. The lack of public consultation is a deep concern of mine and I want to make sure that the communities voice is heard loud and clear on this, and that is why I have called this public meeting.”
“Highways England have apologised for their lack of consultation and they assured me last week that there will be 24 hour access to all emergency vehicles. Critically, Highways England agreed with us that they would hold a door to door impact survey of residents in conjunction with this public meeting so that the wide-ranging concerns of the many, many constituents who have contacted me can be aired, and discussed fully, so that we can minimise the impact of any roadworks on businesses and residents. I would encourage everyone to come along to make their voice heard." | [
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Why did Christian Carino and Lady Gaga separate? Bio | Age and Net Worth 2023
Facts of Christian Carino
|February 24, 1968
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|Isablee Carino and Lola Carino.
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- 1 Early Life of Christian Carino
- 2 Dating Life of Christian Carino
- 3 Past Marriage and Relationship of Christian Carino
- 4 Christian Carino and Lady Gaga’s Relationship
- 5 Children of Christian Carino
- 6 Christian Carino’s Net Worth
- 7 Height of Christian Carino
- 8 Professional Career of Christian Carino
- 9 FAQs of Christian Carino
American celebrity agent Christian Carino is famous for being the ex-fiancee of an American singer, songwriter, and actress Lady Gaga. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga is famous for her image reinventions and musical versatility. She began singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays.
Early Life of Christian Carino
Christian Carino was born on February 24, 1968, in the United States of America. As of now, he is 53 years old. Christian Carino Ooze is his full birth name. By birth his sun sign is Aquarius.
By nationality, he holds American citizenship and is of white ethnic background. He follows the Christianity religion. He got a degree in computer science.
Dating Life of Christian Carino
Christian is in a romantic relationship with Robin Baum. Robin is a publicist by profession. They have been dating for a long time. Both of them have kept their relationship private. In the near future, the duo might take their relationship to the next level.
Past Marriage and Relationship of Christian Carino
Christian was in a marital relationship with his long-term girlfriend Brooke Baldwin. The couple tied the knot in the year 1997. But after some time their relationship did not work well. So, Baldwin applied for divorce in 2015. Also, Carino was said to pay her over $20 thousand in spousal benefits per month until 2023.
After that, he began dating Lauren Cohan of The Walking Dead. They began dating each other in the year 2014. The love bird was also seen playing a hockey game at Madison Square Garden between the Florida Panthers and the New York Rangers in the year 2016. After a year the couple got apart due to some serious reasons.
Christian Carino and Lady Gaga’s Relationship
Christian and Lady Gaga were seen during a casual date at The Forum in Inglewood, California, in early 2017. After dating for a while Christian and Lady Gaga secretly got engaged in November. Christian proposed to Gaga after he asked Gagas’s father for her hand in marriage. After keeping their engagement secret for a while Gaga revealed her engagement in 2018 at Elle’s 25th Annual Woman Celebration by calling Christian her fiancee.
After two years of engagement, they broke off their engagement. Gaga confirmed her break up with People in Feb 2019. They broke up as Lady Gaga was not happy with the treatment she was receiving from her ex-fiancee Christian. The rumor about their breakup started to circulate even before Gaga confirmed it herself. As fans noticed Gaga did not have her engagement ring during Grammy Awards on Feb 10, 2019.
Children of Christian Carino
Chriatian is a father of two children with his ex-wife Brooke. They gave birth to two adorable daughters named Isablee Carino and Lola Carino.
Christian Carino’s Net Worth
Christian has a net worth of around $12 million as of 2023. Similarly, he has an annual salary of $1 million.
Carino is able to collect this decent sum of fortune from his successful long-term career as an American Artist Agent. From his career, he has gained both and face at the same time.
Height of Christian Carino
Christian got a good height of 5 feet 9 inches tall. Similarly, his total body weight according to his height is around 70 kg. He has a body measurement of around 42-32-35 inches. He has got dark brown color eyes with dark brown color hair.
Professional Career of Christian Carino
- Christian began his career as an agent for the talent management group Creative Artists Agency.
- He has collaborated with a variety of top Hollywood celebrities.
- He has also directed various talented and renowned artists, songwriters, musicians, and record producers as well.
- Apart from this, he is also interested to work in the music industry.
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At their best, cover albums have a strange way of galvanizing an artist by returning to the songs that inspired them; the artists can find the reason why they made music in the first place, perhaps finding a new reason to make music. Robert Plant's Dreamland – his first solo album in nearly ten years and one of the best records he's ever done, either as a solo artist or as a member of Led Zeppelin – fulfills that simple definition of a covers album and goes beyond it, finding Plant sounding reinvigorated and as restless as a new artist. Part of the reason why this album works so well is that he has a new band – not a group of supporting musicians, but a real band whose members can challenge him because they tap into the same eerie, post-folk mysticism that fueled Led Zeppelin III, among other haunting moments in the Zep catalog. Another reason why this album works so well is that it finds the band working from a similar aesthetic point as classic Zeppelin, who, at their peak, often reinterpreted and extrapolated their inspirations, piecing them together to create something startlingly original.
Robert Plant, perhaps the greatest and one of the most recognizable voices in rock and roll delivers MIGHTY REARRANGER, an extraordinary accomplishment from one of the most inventive, consistently daring and talented figures in contemporary music. On the album, Plant is joined by his band The Strange Sensation who worked with him on 2002’s Grammy nominated DREAMLAND and have been vital in the development of Plant’s musical growth. The record is an inspired collection of new songs that are raw and bristling with energy but also rich in texture and detail.
"Sixty Six To Timbuktu" is a double disc set of 35 songs spanning the career of this seminal artist from 1966 to present. It features previously unreleased tracks, limited release tracks, and classics from Robert Plant as well as The Honeydrippers.
Pictures at Eleven is the debut solo album by former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, released in 1982. Genesis drummer Phil Collins played drums for six of the album's eight songs. Ex-Rainbow drummer Cozy Powell handled drums on "Slow Dancer" and "Like I've Never Been Gone." The title is an often-heard phrase in U.S. television news that would follow a brief announcement of a story of interest to be shown later during a station's 11 p.m. news program.
When Led Zeppelin hung it up in 1980, Robert Plant wasted no time in mounting a solo career that would exceed all expectations. The singer went beyond the blue-rock format he was famous for, exploring variances of Celtic and English folk, American blues, early rock 'n' roll, psychedelic rock and jazz as well as Arabic, Moroccan, West African, Indian — you name it. To commemorate Plant’s illustrious run, Rhino has reissued all nine of his solo albums with bonus tracks and expanded packaging. Yeah, that’s right, we’re talking Pictures At Eleven, The Principle Of Moments, Shaken 'N' Stirred, The Honeydrippers Volume 1, Now & Zen, Manic Nirvana, Fate Of Nations, Dreamland, and even his most recent disc from 2005, Mighty Rearranger.
In 1993 and 1994 Robert Plant toured with a small team around the world playing only unplugged concerts. The DVD contains live recordings of his concerts in Italy, UK and Japan and also contains a few television appearances. A very special document and a real must have for all his fans.
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The Lamptron TC20 PCI RGB controller and fan display provides extensive control over RGB lighting from fans or strips. For example, the RGB LED lighting of fans or strips with up to 20 watts can be connected and controlled via a 4-pin connector (12VGRB). The controller supplies a total of 60 LEDs with power, which is fed via a SATA connection and a Molex connection. So it is also possible here to connect several RGB LED products by daisy-chaining or with the aid of a Y-cable.
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It can also connect a fan or loop through. The TC20 supports both fans with and without PWM. The fans are still controlled via the motherboard - the cable for looping through the signal is included with the controller. The display then shows the rotational speed of the connected fan.
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A team of New Jersey researchers has shown that changes in perceptual certainty and response bias, two central metrics of signal detection theory (SDT), correlate with changes in cognitive fatigue.
They also show that SDT measures change as a function of changes in brain activation. This finding was reported in Frontiers in Psychology on January 15, 2021, in the open access article "Using Signal Detection Theory to Better Understand Cognitive Fatigue"
The authors are Glenn Wylie, DPhil, Brian Yao, PhD, and John DeLuca, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, and Joshua Sandry, PhD, of Montclair State University.
Cognitive fatigue is a common experience that affects the healthy population as well as individuals with brain injury or neurodegenerative disease.
A large body of research shows that subjective feelings of cognitive fatigue do not correlate with performance--that is, a person may experience cognitive fatigue and yet objective measures of their performance, such as their response time or level of accuracy, do not necessarily worsen.
As a result, researchers have long lacked an objective behavioral measure that covaries with the subjective experience of fatigue.
While previous research has indicated that one metric of SDT, perceptual certainty, may change as a function of fatigue, it remains unclear whether perceptual certainty covaries with fatigue. Moreover, there has been no research investigating the effect of fatigue on the second key SDT metric, response bias, which is the amount of evidence one requires before releasing a response.
Understanding if and how cognitive fatigue covaries with both SDT metrics is essential to the development of effective interventions for people with this condition.
The study was conducted at the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation, a specialized facility dedicated solely to rehabilitation research. To investigate cognitive fatigue using SDT, the investigators induced cognitive fatigue in 39 healthy volunteers while acquiring both structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.
They assessed subjects' cognitive fatigue using a visual analogue scale of fatigue (VAS-F) at baseline and after each of the eight runs of the tasks. This enabled the team to assess whether perceptual certainty and response bias covary with cognitive fatigue, and whether similar patterns of brain activation underlie cognitive fatigue and SDT measures.
Researchers found that both SDT metrics were correlated with changes in cognitive fatigue. As fatigue increased, subjects became more conservative in their response bias and their perceptual certainty declined. This study is the first to show that changes in cognitive fatigue are correlated with changes in perceptual certainty.
Furthermore, the research team found that activation in the striatum of the basal ganglia--an area of the brain Kessler researchers have previously identified as sensitive to changes in cognitive fatigue--was also related to response bias and perceptual certainty.
Our results show that cognitive fatigue is related to changes in subjects' response bias and perceptual certainty. We theorize that as cognitive fatigue increases, subjects make more errors because their perceptual sensitivity declines and they compensate for this by adopting a more conservative response bias."
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Since July this year, Veco has switched to green energy: energy we use from then on is 50% solar energy and 50% wind energy. This is just another great step for Veco to go (further) green. Besides switching to green energy, Veco has been actively contributing to sustainable economy and environmental friendly solutions, for example joining the HyScaling project.
HyScaling: make better electrolysers in a better way
The Hyscaling project is part of ISPT's Hydrohub Innovation Program, aiming to develop better electrolyser systems and make electrolyser systems in a better way. The specific objective of HyScaling is to achieve 25-30% cost reduction for levelized cost of hydrogen compared to the state-of-the-art by bringing the HyScaling innovations to full implementation and roll-out by 2030.
Veco: committed to higher efficiency at lower costs
Veco is proud to be part of the project, which is based on intensive collaboration of a very diverse, strong consortium of large companies, SMEs, and start-ups with various innovations and expertise. With the world leading Electroforming technology for micro-precision manufacturing, Veco is committed to empowering the industry to enlarge hydrogen production more efficiently and at lower costs.
In HyScaling novel hardware, low-cost manufacturing processes, optimized integrated system designs, and advanced operating and control strategies are developed that all contribute to the overarching target. HyScaling aims to establish a Dutch electrolyzer industry. More than half of the consortium partners aim to enter the market by making their innovations into products. These include novel components, electrolyzer stacks and complete systems (stack & BoP). Some members aim at commercialization before the project end (e.g. Ionbond coatings, Veco electrodes).
HyScaling is market focused. Use cases for green hydrogen run as a red line through the project. The use cases connect hydrogen application (in industry, mobility and residential use) to renewable power supply (from offshore wind to small-scale PV system – spanning across orders of magnitude from GW to kW scale), creating a consistent vision of the market development towards 2030. This integral description of the market secures that societal contribution and social acceptance are fully embraced alongside the technological developments.
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The SSIS Primary School Counselling Programme focuses on prevention. Through this programme the social and emotional development of primary age students is supported in a variety of ways.
Our programme provides regularly scheduled classroom lessons that teach children positive social skills. These lessons are developed to teach specific skills that address classroom and individual concerns. The lessons include friendship skills, problem solving, managing feelings and study skills. These counselling lessons also provide instruction and practice opportunities for students to learn our I4C values; initiative, communication, care, collaboration and commitment.
Individual and small group counselling is another component of our primary counselling programme. Parents or staff may refer a student to get additional support for social or emotional concerns in weekly sessions. Students have the opportunity to work on anger management, issues related to loss and other concerns that may interfere with a positive learning experience.
Our counsellor works closely with staff to provide in class support for students when necessary. Collaborating with teachers and parents, our counsellor helps develop plans for individual students who may need support.
Consultation for parents is provided through our primary counselling programme. The parent newsletter offers weekly parenting tips. Parents have the opportunity to meet with the counsellor to discuss social and emotional concerns regarding their child. Many parents find this opportunity to be a valuable resource.
Our counselling programme is designed specifically to support our diverse student demographic. We focus on providing a safe and happy environment through communication and support to allow for the social, emotional and academic growth of our students.
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Thunderstorms will shift to the Atlantic Seaboard along the same cold front that ignited severe storms and tornadoes in the lower Mississippi Valley Wednesday and Wednesday night.
While the setup is not as intense as that which yielded the wild weather Wednesday, a few of the storms can become severe into Friday.
Greenville, S.C., Charlotte, N.C., Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va., Martinsburg, W.Va., Altoona, Pa. and Rochester, N.Y. are among the cities that could lie in the path of the storms, which have the potential to be gusty at the local level into Thursday evening.
The greatest risk from the storms is for gusts strong enough to knock over trees and power lines. A couple of the strongest storms can also bring hail and produce a short-lived tornado.
Heavy rain and frequent lightning will be found in thunderstorms, whether they turn severe or not. Motorists should be prepared for blinding downpours during the afternoon and evening commute, especially along stretches of I-40, I-81, I-85 and I-95.
Thursday night, the storms will shift eastward to the mid-Atlantic coast, putting Wilmington and Raleigh, N.C., as well as Richmond and Norfolk, Va., at risk for drenching rain and locally strong winds.
Rain and thunderstorms will focus across the mid-Atlantic and portions of New England during at least part of Friday.
**New York City lies within the area that could experience major weather-related travel delays during Friday from urban flooding, blinding downpours and locally gusty thunderstorms.**
"@KATV_Weather @MRHstormchaser just north of Hazen. It was trying. twitpic.com/b546hp," tweeted Michael Hook.
Behind the passing front, the weather will be mild and sunny along the I-95 corridor over the weekend. Highs will be in the 60s and 70s in the big cities from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Meanwhile, cooler weather with spotty showers will move into the interior Northeast over the weekend. Highs will top out in the 50s across much of the interior on Saturday.
Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski contributed to the content of this story.
The chilliest air of the season so far will settle over much of the Northeast Thursday into Friday and will bring frost to more areas than experienced frost early this week.
Tropical moisture from the approaching Odile will deliver another round of heavy rain and flooding downpours to the interior Southwest by the middle of this week.
The remnants of Odile have the potential to bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the Plains and Midwest late this week after hitting the Southwest.
Edouard has become the first major hurricane in the Atlantic since Sandy. While remaining at sea, rough surf will reach some Atlantic coast beaches.
A raging wildfire, which erupted Monday afternoon, has damaged or destroyed more than 100 structures and has forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents in Northern California, near Weed.
On Sunday night, a fiery ball of light ignited across the darkened skies of the northeastern United States, illuminating the heavens in a momentary flash of eerie daylight.
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Carolina-Virginia Hurricane: 28.25 inches of rain, 76-mph winds at Cape Hatteras -- great wind damage in VA and MD. Twenty-one lives were lost; $1 million damage.
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This rifle is distinguished as America's first magazine-fed, repeating, brass-cartridged, smokeless-powder rifle. The repeating magazine was a very unusual, side-loading, under-and-around-the-bolt feeding system, which did not lend itself readily to stripper clip loading. A Norwegian design (by Captain Ole Hermann Johannes Krag, director of the Royal Norwegian Arms Factory at Kongsberg, and Erik Jørgensen, also of Kongsberg, Norway), it nonetheless served the US well in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, but was out-performed by the Spanish-Cuban army's Mauser Model 93s, with their faster reloading (using stripper clips) and heavier bullets. This disparity led directly to the development and production of the US Springfield Model of 1903, a virtual copy of the Mauser system. Still, while it lasted, the Krag was very popular with the troops, boasting the smoothest operating bolt action of any rifle ever made in quantity, and giving rise to the highest praise, even today, for a bolt rifle in comparison: "Almost as smooth as a Krag!"
My Model 1896 was built in 1898, incorporating the many minor improvements made in the previous two years, and was apparently restocked at some point in its early life, since the only stamp on the wood is the firing proof 'P' aft of the trigger guard. The metal retains near-100% blueing, and the wood is near-100% perfect, with no dings, scratches, or gouges. The bore shows a light surface frosting in the 1/3 nearest the chamber, but as you can see below, there is absolutely no negative effect on accuracy.
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Cristelle Comby Releases “Russian Dolls” – The First Edition
Of The “Neve & Egan” Detective Series
“Russian Dolls” marks the beginning of a new detective series.
Everybody who has seen the pre-release could not put it down.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, February 20, 2013, Cristelle Comby has announced the upcoming release, on 13/03/13, of the first book in her new “Neve & Egan” detective series. Mark the calendar, as this first entry, Russian Dolls, is sure to set the literary world on fire. Cristelle has mastered the art of spinning an engrossing crime drama, while making the reader feel that they are part of the story.
Russian Dolls has all the elements of a successful new-adult crime drama. The story opens with the main character, Alexandra Neve, a student at a LondonUniversity, as her world is shattered by the news of her best friend’s “apparent” suicide. The policemen involved in the case are not willing to look deeper into the matter, so what can she do to prove there’s more to it? And if her friend’s death was not a suicide who was it that killed her?
Soon enough Neve comes to realise that she needs help, but doesn’t know who to turn to. In steps Professor Ashford Egan, a blind middle-aged history teacher, who’s willing to accompany her on her dangerous journey of discovery. The two of them become one of the most unlikely team of investigators who, in order to accomplish their goal, have to overcome their deepest fears and confront an all-powerful enemy, the Russian mafia.
Neve and Egan are two seemingly ordinary people, who in the course of the investigation manage to become extraordinary, and thus form a team unlike any other in Detective fiction. Russian Dolls, their first adventure, is a story of self-discovery in a way; the ones to follow will highlight their crime-fighting future, a future that the reader will be thrilled to discover along with them.
For more information on this new release, visit www.Cristelle-Comby.com
About The Author:
Cristelle Comby was born and raised in the French speaking area of Switzerland, in Greater Geneva, where she still resides. Her English is quite fluent as a result of her insatiable thirst for American and British action films and television dramas.
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Older Americans lose $2.6 billion or more annually due to elder financial abuse and exploitation and it’s estimated 60 billion is lost annually due to Medicare Fraud. Unfortunately, it occurs in every demographic and can happen to anyone—a family member, a neighbor, even you. It is estimated that only one in five of these crimes are discovered. Scammers are using COVID-19 as an opportunity to exploit people. Education is the key to prevention. In this presentation, you will learn about COVID-19 Scams affecting Medicare Beneficiaries and general banking scams that people should look out for.
Learn about Medicare COVID scams and general banking scams everyone should look out for….
Friday February 26, 2021, 10:30 am to Noon
Kisha Hull, SMP Coordinator of Volunteers at Agency on Aging South Central CT.
Kathleen Titsworth, Banking Outreach Coordinator at Connecticut Department of Banking
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Delmarva Public Radio produces the program Delmarva Today hosted by Delmarva Review's very own Fiction Editor, Hal Wilson.
This edition features Delmarva Review, Volume 14 with guests Wilson Wyatt, Jr., Executive Editor of the Review, poetry editors Anne Colwell and Katherine Gekker, nonfiction editor Ellen Brown, and fiction submitter Ronan Keenan. Each read a short selection from the Review.
Anne Colwell is a professor of English at the University of Delaware, Katherine Gekker's poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, Ellen Brown is a nature and environmental writer, and Ronan Keenan’s fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in a number of well-known magazines including The Atlantic.
Please note, the submission period for volume 15 is also open and submissions are being received in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction.
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As we continue to face the negative impact of plastic on our environment, there has been an increased awareness and interest in biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics are plastics that can decompose naturally into organic matter through biological processes. One common type of biodegradable plastic that is gaining popularity is the biodegradable plastic bag. But the question is, how long does a biodegradable plastic bag take to decompose?
What does biodegradability mean?
Firstly, it is essential to understand what biodegradability means. Biodegradable means that a material can break down into naturally occurring substances such as water, carbon dioxide, and organic matter when exposed to microorganisms, sunlight, and oxygen. Unlike traditional plastic bags that take centuries to decompose, these bags are designed to decompose within a shorter time frame.
The time it takes to decompose depends on several factors such as the environmental conditions and how it was disposed of. Generally, it could take anywhere from 3 months to 6 months to decompose fully. However, if the bag is not disposed of properly, it may take longer to decompose, or it may not decompose at all.
Factors affecting decomposition include the following:
Material Composition: Biodegradable plastic bags can be made from a variety of materials, each with its own decomposition rate. Some biodegradable plastics break down relatively quickly, while others may take longer.
Environmental Conditions: The rate of decomposition is influenced by environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, oxygen levels, and microbial activity. Warm and moist environments with ample oxygen tend to accelerate decomposition.
Industrial Composting: Biodegradable plastic bags are often designed to decompose more rapidly under specific conditions, such as those found in industrial composting facilities. In these controlled environments, compostable materials can break down within a matter of weeks to months.
Home Composting: Biodegradable plastic bags may also decompose in home composting systems. Although this process may take longer compared to industrial composting. The decomposition timeline can range from several months to a few years, depending on the specific conditions of the compost pile.
While biodegradable plastic bags offer certain environmental benefits compared to traditional plastics, it’s important to consider their potential implications:
Microplastics: Some biodegradable plastics may break down into smaller fragments known as microplastics. These can still persist in the environment and pose risks to wildlife and ecosystems.
Soil and Water Quality: The decomposition of biodegradable plastic bags can release byproducts into the soil and water. This could potentially affect soil fertility and aquatic ecosystems. It’s essential to monitor the environmental impacts of biodegradable plastics and ensure proper disposal practices.
The decomposition timeline of biodegradable plastic bags can vary depending on factors such as material composition, environmental conditions, and disposal method. While these bags offer a more sustainable alternative to traditional plastic bags, it’s crucial to use them responsibly and dispose of them properly to minimise their environmental impact. By understanding the decomposition process of biodegradable plastics and making informed choices, we can work towards a cleaner and healthier planet for future generations. | [
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Nov 02, 2021 · Costa Rica’s two international airports, San Jose’s Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) and Liberia’s Daniel Oduber Quiros International Airport (LIR), are served by several major airlines.
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Jun 10, 2013 · This is one of the key reasons why Costa Rica has become so popular with expats and many tourists come simply to receive medical care. Nosara real estate for sale in Nosara’s newest community: At 1,000 feet in elevation, La Paz offers the very best of Nosara. Smokin’ ocean views (some lots see 50 miles of coastline!).
Properties in Costa Rica Real Estate listings include the most beautiful farming areas and homes for sale in the mountains of Costa Rica. We provide with farms for sale and mountain properties in Arenal, San Carlos, Heredia, San Jose, Cartago, Guanacaste, la Garita, la Guacima (Alajuela) and other regions of Costa Rica. | [
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Smart work and smart technology are the emerging dictums for success in business. Given the agricultural dominion in India, smart farming is the way forward to push the agri sector to the next level. With the fast-evolving startup ecosystem in India, many young innovators are coming forward to address the typical challenges of the farmers and are working on a different tangent to maximize agricultural output and profit. AgSpert, a startup from Assam, is among the pioneers to introduce smart farming services in the state, leveraging IoT, robotics, drones and AI to increase the quantity and quality of agricultural output while minimizing human efforts.
Based out of Jorhat, AgSpert is founded by NIT Silchar alumni, Siddhartha S. Bora and Dhritiman Talukdar, along with the Dibrugarh University alumnus, Kookil P. Goswami, who is working on proposing a range of promising smart farming services to aid crop quality and quantity. They have on offer on-demand UAV and smart robot services for crop spraying, scouting, and planting applications; computer vision-based in-farm phenotyping, early mapping of disease/pest attack patterns, full crop cycle data-set generation and visualization; and machine learning-based yield prediction and real-time plant environment data collection systems with open-source cloud processing, etc. Apart from Siddhartha, Dhritiman, and Kookil, the founding team also includes IIT Guwahati alumni, Akash Sharma, Manik Mittal, and Nitin Chauhan.
Conventional farming is plagued by numerous challenges like labour paucity, labour price fluctuations for in-farm operations, lack of phenotype data for optimizing farm inputs, absence of accurate data for initiating better crop insurance, limitations of continuous human presence for farm surveillance and monitoring, etc. With AgSpert, the users can draw intelligence from things and transmit them over the internet. These IoT devices installed in farms can collect and process data in a repetitive cycle that enables the farmers to react quickly to emerging issues and changes in ambient conditions.
The sensors attached to the drones record observational data from the crops, livestock, soil, and atmosphere. The sensor values are fed to a cloud-hosted IoT platform with predefined rules and models that ascertain the condition of the examined object and identify the deficiencies and needs. Once the issues are revealed, the machine learning-driven components of the IoT platform determine whether location-specific treatment is necessary at all.
AgSpert is the brainchild of Siddhartha Bora, who, after completing his M.Tech from NIT Silchar, saw numerous bottlenecks in the agri-value chain while working in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Technology Officer.
“I wanted to build a unilateral platform for small farmers who account for more than 70% of our farming population. Impacting small farmers’ lives is the only sustainable way to improve dwindling productivity and plight of farmers,” Siddhartha says.
AgSpert gets an edge with its team of professionals pulled in from diverse backgrounds – right from agriculturists to data scientists – all working towards a common vision of making data-driven agriculture more than just a pipe dream among small farmers of India. While the pandemic compelled many business houses to shut down their operations either temporarily or permanently, the founders were burning the midnight oil to develop an android-based multi-lingual platform (including Assamese) – AgSpeak – for farmers to smartly manage their farms and remotely monitor distress activities.
Driven by hyperlocal crop data obtained through satellite and smart IoT devices, AgSpeak considers up to 20 local crop parameters as key health indicators like temperature, rainfall, sunlight hours, soil health status, etc. to alert farmers about probable crop threats in advance and chart out best practices to tackle the incoming threats. The platform also helps the farmers manage their yield and connect to buyer pools to reinforce food traceability and transparency in the agri-supply chain.
Working dedicatedly on its mission to revolutionize agricultural methodologies through Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, AgSpert has completed its piloting with 500 farmers to date and have received encouraging feedback from the users. They are, arguably, the first to take such an initiative in North East India and are prepping up to officially launch the application by the end of November this year.
Apart from the application, the startup is also working on a smart farming product for large commercial tea plantations to monitor and survey farm health through drone scouting. It’s a one-off platform for plantation farm managers to automate scouting processes and identify areas of distress like disease and pest incidence, water stress, etc. Such a platform would save farm managers lots of time and resources in identifying crop threats and making timely interventions. The product is, currently, in the final leg of R | [
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Most of the world’s key fisheries and their natural habitats are being depleted from over fishing and ecosystem degradation. Aquaculture-based fisheries restoration or stock enhancement can help to increase natural populations and improve coastal habitats.
At Harbor Branch we are responding to the growing need for freshwater and marine stock enhancement. Our scientists grow popular salt water sportfish, as well as freshwater snails to stock lakes as food for endangered birds. We are also poised to assist with restoration of coral reefs, mangrove, and marsh habitats.
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Feline Leukemia Testing: One and Done for Everyone
Recorded On: 12/15/2021
- All Users - Free!
Presented by Monica Frenden-Tarant and Dr. Julie Levy
In 2020, the AAFP released new retrovirus testing guidelines that recommend one quality point of care test then moving forward with a live-outcome pathway. In accordance, Austin Pets Alive!, home of the most robust FeLV adoption program in the world, changed its FeLV testing protocols. No more serum testing. No more "confirmation" testing. What does this mean in practice, how do we pathway plan for cats with different diagnoses, and why is this the new recommendation? Join Monica Frenden-Tarant and Dr. Julie Levy as they break down the latest guidelines and tell you everything you need to know about testing for feline leukemia.
Earn 1.0 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits from The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and from the National Animal Care & Control Association.
This webinar has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit until December 23, 2023 in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. Pass the quiz with a score of 70% or higher to access your CE certificate and then upload it to https://CEBroker.com. This is the broker that the AAVSB uses to track your continuing education credits.
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HE Transport Minister Meets French State Minister for Foreign Trade
(MENAFN - QNA) HE Minister of Transport Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti met Wednesday with Matthias Fekl, French minister of state for foreign trade, the promotion of tourism and French nationals abroad.
The meeting discussed aspects of mutual cooperation and enhancing bilateral ties in the field of transport between Qatar and France.
French Ambassador to Doha Eric Chevallier attended the meeting.
Following the meeting, the two ministers witnessed the signing of a contract between the new port project and French communication and security provider Thales in relation to security systems in the operational phase of the new port project.
Moyassar Jameel Al-Qatami, acting executive director of the new port project, signed the contract from the Qatari side and Jean-Marc Budin, Thales vice president for Middle East, Africa and India, signed on behalf of the French firm.
According to the contract, Thales will construct the infrastructure of the communication and security systems required for the operational phase in the new port project, fix all the equipment of security services in the projects, and fix the security systems of the watchtower, the control room and the quays. It will also merge and link the operational systems that it created to the port's operational systems.
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Chen, G., & Wang, B. (2017). Reexamination of the wave activity envelope convective scheme in theoretical modeling of MJO. Journal of Climate, 30(3), 1127-1138.
Reexamination of the Wave Activity Envelope Convective Scheme in Theoretical Modeling of MJO
Earth System Modeling Center, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, and Department of Atmospheric Sciences and International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Department of Atmospheric Sciences and International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Earth System Modeling Center, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
(Manuscript received 19 April 2016, in final form 20 October 2016)
The skeleton model is one of the theoretical models for understanding the essence of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO). The heating parameterization scheme in the skeleton model assumes that precipitation tendency is in phase and proportional to the low-level moisture anomaly. The authors show that the observed MJO precipitation tendency is not in phase with the low-level moisture anomaly. The consequence of the wave activity envelope (WAE) scheme is reexamined by using a general MJO theoretical framework in which trio-interaction among convective heating, moisture, and wave–boundary layer (BL) dynamics are included and various simplified convective schemes can be accommodated. Without the BL dynamics, the general model framework can be reduced to the original skeleton model. The authors show that the original skeleton model yields a neutral mode that exhibits a ‘‘quadrupole’’ horizontal structure and a quadrature relationship between precipitation and low-level moisture; both are inconsistent with observations. With the BL dynamics and damping included, the model can produce a growing mode with improved horizontal structure and precipitation–moisture relationship, but deficiencies remain because of the WAE scheme. The authors further demonstrate that the general model with the simplified Betts–Miller scheme and BL dynamics can produce a realistic horizontal structure (coupled Kelvin–Rossby wave structure) and precipitation–moisture relationship (i.e., the BL moisture convergence leads precipitation, and column-integrated moisture coincides with precipitation). | [
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Dr. Sunil Moti Lala, Advocate, has conducted a detailed study of the provisions of the Income-tax Act relating to ‘Base Erosion and Profit Shifting’ (‘BEPS’), General Anti Avoidance Rule (‘GAAR’) and other critical issues affecting the global arena. Based on this study, he has offered 25 suggestions which can be incorporated in the impending Finance Bill
Background w.r.t. BEPS and GAAR
BEPS – Global Initiative
International tax rules have not always kept up with the development in the world economy and globalisation has increased the need for countries to cooperate with each other to protect their sovereignty on tax matters.In 2013, the shifting of profits by Multi-National Enterprises (MNEs) had gained unprecedented political significance and rightly so.
The corporate tax affairs of these US-based MNEs viz. Starbucks, Apple, Amazon & Google were initially placed under the spotlight by the UK government, which initiated a global and public debate about how large multinational companies organise their tax affairs – in particular those relating to their intangible assets – in terms of the profit they book in certain jurisdictions.Yet they had all emphasised that they were following the tax laws to the letter. The issue here was Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). BEPS refers to tax avoidance strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in tax rules to artificially shift profits to low or no-tax locations.
With an objective to counter tax avoidance, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and G20 countries took a global initiative in early 2013 to frame anti-BEPS measures. Accordingly, in 2014, the OECD released 15 interim reports, which in 2015, culminated into 15 Action Plans containing anti-BEPS recommendations. Subsequently in 2017, the OECD has also provided further clarifications by way of additional reports to a few action plans and made certain amendments to the Model Conventions in line with the suggestions provided for in the Action Plans. The Action Plans as a whole seek to align a country’s rights to tax with the economic activity carried on therein in a fair and equitable manner.
BEPS – India Initiative
India took the first step towards implementation of BEPS within its taxation framework vide the Finance Act 2016 and over the last three years has implemented the various BEPS recommendations as under:
(i) Action Plan 1 – Introduction of the concept of ‘Equalisation Levy’ by insertion a new Chapter titled "Equalisation Levy" in the Finance Act, 2016 and ‘Significant Economic Presence’ by insertion of Explanation 2A of Section 9(1)(i) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act)
(ii) Action Plan 4 – insertion of section 94B of the Act to counter profit shifting through thin capitalisation practice
(iii) Action Plan 5 – insertion of section 115BBF of the Act dealing with preferential rate of tax on income from patents
(iv) Action Plan 7 – substitution of clause (a) to Explanation 2 of Section 9(1)(i) of the Act to widen the scope of business connection arising out of dependent agents
(v) Action Plan 13 – amendment to section 92D of the Act and insertion of section 286 of the Act dealing with master file and Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting
India is also a signatory to the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures (‘MLI’) prepared in accordance with Action Plan 15. The recommendations made in the said BEPS Action Plan 7 have been implemented by way of inclusion in Article 12 of the MLI. Further, vide the MLI, India has also adopted the simplified Limitation of Benefit (LOB) Clause and the suggested Model Commentary on the taxability of Capital gains on immovable property (contained in Action Plan 6).
GAAR – Global Initiative
Universally, it is accepted that tax evasion through falsification of records or suppression of facts is illegal and Tax reduction through legal means is a matter of taxpayers’ right. With the increasing globalisation of economies and growth in cross border transactions, tax avoidance cases have been on the rise globally and in India over the last many decades. Anti-avoidance rules have been framed by various countries to counter harmful tax practices by inserting specific anti-avoidance rules in domestic tax laws, through judicial guidance or general anti-avoidance rules.Different countries have taken different approaches in this regard. Australia was in the forefront of introducing General Anti Avoidance Rule (‘GAAR’) as early as 1981. Mature economies such as Canada, New Zealand, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and South Africa have also introduced GAAR. Emerging economies have also started introducing GAAR with the phenomenal growth of their economies.
GAAR – India Initiative
Similarly, India also introduced GAAR provisions in the Act. Introduction of GAAR provisions in the Act has involved an unprecedented history of | [
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Daily cleaning, installation of cabin HEPA filters on flights from Philadelphia to Memphis
American Airlines and Qatar Airways have all waived their change and cancellation fees on flights from Philadelphia to Memphis. Confirm policies on booking site.
The United States has restricted the entry of all foreign nationals who have passed through or have been in China, Iran, Most European Countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City), the UK, Ireland, Brazil and South Africa in the past 14 days.
With the exception of certain travelers which includes certain family members of US citizens or permanent residents including; spouses, children (under the age of 21), parents (provided that his/her US citizen or permanent resident child is unmarried and under the age of 21), and siblings (provided that both the sibling and the US citizen or permanent resident are unmarried and under the age of 21);
There is also an exception for travelers with the following visas: A-1, A-2, C-1, C-1/D, C-2, C-3, CR-1, CR-2, D, E-1 (as an employee of TECRO or TECO or the employee's immediate family members), G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4, IR-1, IR-4, IH-4, NATO-1 through NATO-4, or NATO-6 visa;
Members of the US Armed Forces, spouses, and children of members of the US Armed Forces;
Travelers with invitation of the USA government for a purpose related to the containment/mitigation of the Coronavirus (COVID-19);
Travelers with documents issued by the US Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, or US Department of State indicating that the traveler is exempt from the restriction;
B1 crew crewmembers that are engaged in lightering, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) activity, wind farm activity, private air/sea crew and other similar crewmember activities;
Students with an F-1 or M-1 visa and their F-2 and M-2 dependents, if they arrive from or have been in Ireland, the UK or Schengen Area in the past 14 days.
All travelers, 2 years of age or older (including US citizens and transit passenger) must present a negative COVID-19 viral or antigen test result issued 72 hours prior to departure or have a proof of recovery from the virus within the last 90 days prior to boarding the plane.
Travelers must complete a disclosure and attestation form before departure.
Exemptions or waiver to the testing requirements may be granted by the CDC on an extremely limited basis when emergency travel (like an emergency medical evacuation) must occur to preserve someone’s life, health against a serious danger, or physical safety and testing cannot be completed before travel.
US citizens and permanent residents arriving from the UK must present a medical certificate with a negative COVID-19 PCR or antigen test result issued within 72 hours prior to departure.
Travelers arriving in New York State must complete the Traveler Health Form.
Travelers arriving in Massachusetts must complete the Massachusetts Health Form.
Travelers are advised to get tested 3-5 days after travel and stay home and self-quarantine for 7 days after travel. Even if they test negative, they must still stay home and self-quarantine for the full 7 days. If the test is positive, isolate to protect others from getting infected.
Travelers who did not get tested, are advised to stay home and self-quarantine for 10 days after travel.
All other info
Travelers are subject to COVID-19 measures set by the state/territory of their final destination. For more information go to CDC website.
Please see our Coronavirus (COVID-19) Travel Restrictions page for more information on restrictions worldwide.
An average nonstop flight takes 2h 41m, covering a distance of 873 miles.
There are 20 (nonstop) flights between Philadelphia and Memphis per week, averaging 2 per day.
In the past 3 days, the cheapest one-way tickets were found on Frontier ($83) and Multiple Airlines ($116), and the lowest round-trip tickets have been found on Frontier ($182) and Multiple Airlines ($191).
American Airlines (2 times daily) is the most frequent flyer on this route.
From Philadelphia to Memphis, Tuesday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Wednesday is the most expensive. Flying from Memphis back to Philadelphia, the best deals are generally found on Friday, with Tuesday being the most expensive.
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Welcome to Earth Week! Today’s event will feature a seminar with guest speaker, Jacob Selander, which will discuss “How Climate Change is Impacting the World Right Now and What We Can Learn from the Montreal Protocol.” It’s understood that Anthropogenic (human) activity over the past 150-200 years has significantly altered the chemistry and dynamics of the Earth’s atmosphere. We are already observing the consequences of this changing climate, ranging from large-scale melting of glaciers and ice caps, more frequent and hazardous extreme weather events, to the effects of climate change on public health. In this presentation we’ll explore why and how climate change at present is vastly different than climate change over geologic time, and its micro- to macroscopic effects.
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Author: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
The District/Central Solar Water Heating Systems Design Guide provides recommendations on optimal and reliable configurations of solar water heating systems in different climates, with design specifications, planning principles, and guidelines for these systems. The guidelines are complemented by numerous case studies of successfully implemented solar supported thermal networks along with results of exemplary simulations of different system options based on real world scenarios. This book also discusses the benefits and disadvantages of large-scale centralized versus decentralized solar thermal systems. The guide was developed by government, institutional, and private-sector parties funded by the U.S. Army Installations Management Command (IMCOM), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program (DOE FEMP), and reviewed and approved by ASHRAE Technical Committee (TC) 6.7, Solar Energy Utilization.
Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved. Now Dan Chiras, author of the popular book The Natural House, brings those principles up to date for a new generation of solar enthusiasts. The techniques required to heat and cool a building passively have been used for thousands of years. Early societies such as the Native American Anasazis and the ancient Greeks perfected designs that effectively exploited these natural processes. The Greeks considered anyone who didn't use passive solar to heat a home to be a barbarian! In the United States, passive solar architecture experienced a major resurgence of interest in the 1970s in response to crippling oil embargoes. With grand enthusiasm but with scant knowledge (and sometimes little common sense), architects and builders created a wide variety of solar homes. Some worked pretty well, but looked more like laboratories than houses. Others performed poorly, overheating in the summer because of excessive or misplaced windows and skylights, and growing chilly in the colder months because of insufficient thermal mass and insulation and poor siting. In The Solar House, Dan Chiras sets the record straight on the vast potential for passive heating and cooling. Acknowledging the good intentions of misguided solar designers in the past, he highlights certain egregious—and entirely avoidable—errors. More importantly, Chiras explains in methodical detail how today's home builders can succeed with solar designs. Now that energy efficiency measures including higher levels of insulation and multi-layered glazing have become standard, it is easier than ever before to create a comfortable and affordable passive solar house that will provide year-round comfort in any climate. Moreover, since modern building materials and airtight construction methods sometimes result in air-quality and even toxicity problems, Chiras explains state-of-the-art ventilation and filtering techniques that complement the ancient solar strategies of thermal mass and daylighting. Chiras also explains the new diagnostic aids available in printed worksheet or software formats, allowing readers to generate their own design schemes.
A Technical and Economic Guide for Project Planners, Builders, and Property Owners
Author: Russell H. Plante
Publisher: Academic Press
Category: Technology & Engineering
Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, and Domestic Hot Water provides a fundamental understanding of heat and energy conversions and of both solar domestic hot water system types with associated components and photovoltaic/inverter system combinations. It provides the information needed to determine and understand the proper siting requirements, the amount of energy needed (based upon usage), the amount of solar energy available, the methods of comparing collectors for both hot water and photovoltaic situations, and the number of collectors necessary for either hot water or electricity. Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, and Domestic Hot Water also details the investment and cost savings advantages of using solar energy through a unique compilation of information and explanations not available in other publications or on the internet. This includes comprehensive financial explanations with examples using basic engineering management analysis methods. These examples include present and future worth relative to break-even costs and cash flow analysis and actual quoted systems and worksheets for typical electrical solar PV and DHW demand scenarios allowing you to calculate your own cost estimates and to evaluate your own projects relative to investment payback. Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, and Domestic Hot Water will enable readers make informed decisions about the economic practicality of solar generation sources for residential or commercial use based upon location, energy demands, associated conventional fuel costs, solar energy system costs, and tax incentives. Provides a fundamental understanding of solar DHW and photovoltaic systems Uses clear guidelines to evaluate solar DHW and photovoltaic systems’ value as a long-term investment vs traditional power and heat generation methods Discusses cost and operating expenses relative to investment and return on capital which will be | [
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When the sun is out, there’s nothing better than driving around backroads with the top down on the 2016 Volkswagen Beetle Dune edition. Of course, that’s what VW intended when they recreated this classic motoring icon.
The VW Beetle Dune is well-priced at an MSRP of $23,995 for a turbo-charged, drop-top that handles like a go-kart in the corners. Part of why it has good handling is where the wheels are located – far into each corner – however, the Dune edition also has a 0.6 wider track than normal beetles.
The wider track leads to a more serious look to the Beetle Dune. Emphasized fenders and a domed body help the newest Beetle iteration retain the nostalgic look of classic Baja Bugs. It even has 0.4 inches of extra ride height to give drivers the edge when the road ends.
Stylish 18-inch Canyon aluminum-alloy wheels were covered in 235/45 all-season tires and stood in stark contrast to the Sandstorm Yellow paint. It will also come in Pure White and Deep Black Pearl. Honeycomb vents cover standard fog lights up front, while out back there’s a rear spoiler and a newly redesigned bumper.
Under the gold medal hood lies the soul of the 2016: a 1.8-liter direct-injection 4-cylinder engine fitted with a turbocharger spinning out 170 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque. Connected to it is a six-speed automatic transmission and a front-wheel drive drivetrain.
The dynamics were sporty (even without sport mode), delivering sharp steering wheel action during brisk corners that still felt easy and relaxed.
Interior refinements include a Composition Media infotainment system accessible via a 6.3-inch touchscreen. VW has included Android Auto, Apple Carplay and Mirror link in the 2016 Beetle Dune edition, and the Fender audio system founds incredible with the top up or down.
Backseats house two extra passengers with shorter than average legs or cooler than average nerves.
A few weeks after the tour of Redmond in the VW Golf, I got a chance to test it out side by side against other serious performance vehicles at the Run to the Sun 2016. While it was not in the same class as the other muscular beasts there, it was a delight to fling the VW Beetle Dune around corners with glee.
A convertible doesn’t need all of the horsepower under the sun to be a pleasure to have on sunny days, and Volkswagen proves that in spades with the 2016 Beetle Dune edition.
The only real drawback is the truck. It’s smaller than a Miata’s trunk and not as easy to access. However, no one buys a Beetle drop-top for the trunk space.
One buys a beetle because on rain-free days, the top can go down and the fun is turned up. When the clouds part and the sun pops out for the barest of moments, the drop top goes down (automatically) in moments and all occupants can bask in some rays.
One buys a Beetle because they’re spirited 4-seater convertibles for a reasonable price. There will always be some trade off to vehicles like this and, unlike the MX-5 or the Fiat 124, there’s room for friends in the backseat (which can double as cargo space when not utilized by friends or children).
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We enjoyed our time with the peppy VW Beetle Dune, it’s fun handling around corners, its cozy interior environment, and the retro look that this Baja-styled Bug brings to a driveway.
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British mothers drinking during pregnancy put us in worst five nations for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
The findings should cause concern, as the researchers have warned of the huge impact alcohol can have on babies' health, and recommend abstaining from booze.
Globally, nearly 10 per cent of expectant mums drink alcohol, a figure which varies widely in different countries - with some as high as 45 per cent.
Scientists said it can cause foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) in children - which can include mental, behaviour and learning problems, as well as physical disabilities.
An estimated one in 67 women who drink during pregnancy will have a baby with the syndrome, they said.
There is an urgent need for more effective prevention strategies to target alcohol use during pregnancy, the researchers concluded.
Worldwide, an estimated 119,000 children are born with the syndrome each year, according to the study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Europe had a higher prevalence of foetal alcohol syndrome - 2.6 per cent - than the global average.
The five countries with the highest rates were all in Europe - Russia, the UK, Denmark, Belarus and Ireland.
The lowest levels of drinking and the syndrome were found in the Eastern Mediterranean and South East Asia regions, as there are high rates of alcohol abstinence in these regions.
In Canada, which has clinical guidelines advising abstinence during pregnancy, an estimated ten per cent of pregnant women still drink, which is close to the estimated world average.
Despite the alarming rates in some countries, not every woman who drinks while pregnant will have a child with foetal alcohol syndrome, the scientists said.
Study leader Svetlana Popova said: "The safest thing to do is to completely abstain from alcohol during the entire pregnancy.
"We estimated that one in 67 mothers who drink during pregnancy will deliver a child with FAS."
But she added that the figure is very conservative, and does not include other types of the syndrome that may occur from alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
These include partial foetal alcohol syndrome, pFAS, and Alcohol-related Neurodevelopmental Disorders, ARND.
Although it is well established that alcohol can damage any organ or system in the developing foetus - particularly the brain - it remains unknown exactly what makes it most susceptible.
This includes the amount or frequency of alcohol use, or timing of drinking during pregnancy, according to the research published in The Lancet Global Health.
Other factors, such as the genetics, stress, smoking and nutrition also contribute to the risk of developing the disorder, the study says.
The estimates from the study are intended to help countries plan public health initiatives and policies.
These can include monitoring foetal alcohol syndrome, and better education on the risks of alcohol use during pregnancy, the researchers note.
The model that the research team used could also help estimate the prevalence of other disease conditions, Dr Popova added.
Her team is currently extending their work to study the global scale of all foetal alcohol spectrum disorders, FASD.
A previous study by Dr Popova and her team, published in The Lancet last year, showed that more than 400 disease conditions co-occur with FASD.
According to the NHS, “Chief Medical Officers for the UK recommend that if you're pregnant or planning to become pregnant, the safest approach is not to drink alcohol at all to keep risks to your baby to a minimum.
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Fushi Kalahari Melon Oil 50ml
Kalahari Melon Oil
Fushi Fresh-Pressed® 100% pure Kalahari Melon oil, with high levels for Linoleic Acid to boost supple, youthful skin.
Lightweight, yet highly moisturising and emollient, this Kalahari Melon Oil seeps beautifully into the skin in seconds.
Fushi Fresh-Pressed® 100% pure Kalahari Melon oil, with high levels for Linoleic Acid to boost supple, youthful skin. The Kalahari Melon oil is an exceptionally lightweight, yet highly moisturising oil, super rich in Linoleic acid for boosting skin suppleness. It helps promote firmer looking skin, whilst being beneficial for unclogging pores and removing excess sebum. Ideal to use for emerging fine lines and wrinkles as well for blocked pores. Packed full of antioxidants, and vitamins, the Kalahari Melon oil helps hydrate and protect the skin and is one of the most easily absorbed oils.
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Directions for use
Massage a few drops into clean skin as a daily moisturiser or use as a night oil.
Cold-Pressed, Unrefined Khalahari seed Oil
Origin: Made in UK
Formula: vegan, 100% natural, free from parabens, phthalates, artificial fragrance and colorants.
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Since a lot of my readers are new-ish and weren't around several years ago when I had rats, hamsters and gerbils. I thought I would show you some of the rats that I've had over the years. I'll show you the hamsters next week.
This was Lucky. He was my 3 legged rat that I adopted after a pet store employee called my daughter and asked her if I would take him because they were going to euthanize him because he had 3 legs. You can read Lucky's Story.
Lucky was the sweetest rat and not having a front right paw didn't slow him down one bit.
Romi was my very first rat. She had a little bald spot on her face and was so affectionate. She always wanted to be out of her cage sitting on the couch with us. I got her from a neighbor who no longer wanted her.
You guys know Flower from my post a couple of weeks ago. She was my only hairless rat.
I also had, Ares, Hades, Brodie and Jasper. They are eating cereal in this picture. They had a big cage and I would open the door next to the couch and they would run onto the couch and run back and forth from the cage to the couch and play with us. They were big rats. Brodie, the one in the back was the smallest of them. They were all cage mates.
This was Dusty and Oreo. They were both so sweet. They loved to be out of their cage and just sit on us. They were cage mates.
This as Scribbles. He was not as friendly as some of my other rats. He did not like to be picked up and held so I would move his cage to the couch and let him come out on his own. He would come out and sit by us and let us pet him but he wasn't as affectionate as some of my others. In the morning when I would clean the cages, he would come out to the table his cage was on and look for a treat while I cleaned his cage.
I bought a lot of toys for the rats so they had something fun to do when they were out of the cage. Scribbles liked this ball pit. He would toss the balls around.
This was Marbles. He was my grumpy boy. He even looks grumpy. He loved treats but didn't like to be held or petted so I let him come out and run around on the couch and let him do his own thing. He would sit next to me as long as I didn't try to pet him. The fact that he always looked so grumpy made me laugh.
This was Fang. He was cage mates with Bandit, Marbles and Patches. Fang was the only rat I had that ever bit anyone. I got these 4 rats from one of my daughters friends who no longer wanted them and they were not socialized much at all. But especially Fang, hence the name. He never bit me and always wanted me to hold him and I do mean always. But he bit Ken 4 times. Once Ken bent down too close when Fang was laying in my arms and Fang jumped up and bit his nose. Ken kept trying though and would feed him bits of food through the bars of the cage and eventually they became friends. Fang would sleep like this all the time. His little arms would just dangle over the sides of the hammock and he would sleep like this.
Patches and Fang were a bonded pair. Patches and Fang were always together, laying on each other. Poor Patches was sick when I got him and even though I gave him antibiotics and medicine from the vet, he only lived a few months after I got him. After Patches passed away, Fang became very clingy to me. If I opened their cage door, Fang would jump on me and either lay down in my arms or crawl inside my shirt and want to stay there and cuddle. So I held Fang all the time. He wasn't very friendly with Marbles and Bandit but he tolerated them.
This was Bandit. He was the friendliest of the 4 cage mates. He loved to come out and play with us and be petted. I had their smaller cage on the couch and the big cage is in the background. I put them in the big cage and Ares and Hades in the smaller cage since they were older and were having a harder time getting around. I didn't want them to fall from the upper level so they got a single level cage and these guys got the big cage.
This was the big cage. 4 rat were very comfortable in this cage. I changed up all the hammocks and cubes each week.
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Four TFD staff travelled on the old RV Manaui early this month to conduct new fishing methods training to 20 fishermen on each remote northern island of Tuvalu included, Nanumaga, Nanumea and Niutao in order to further their knowledge on new fishing methods utilizing new fishing gears provided by the Overseas Fisheries Cooperative Foundations OFCF, Japan. These new fishing techniques were developed to adapt local fishers so that they might also specialise in pelagic species instead of fishing and disrupting inshore marine resources.
The training began with the in-class session with tackle handed out to each fisherman as well they were taught on the installation of every gear. The second portion of the training is where fishermen went out to sea on the old RV Manaui from 2 am to 2 pm for a practical on four forms of fishing, includes vertical longliner fishing, squid fishing, electric reel fishing and mid-water trawling utilizing their new fishing gears.
Nelly Seniola, Fisheries Operation & the development Training Officer, stated, “This fishing trip training is a five-yr program. The govt of Tuvalu is working in collaboration with the OFCF project in Japan on the supplying latest fishing gear”.
‘Nukulaelae and Vaitupu were the first islands to place this training into practice,’ he added.
One of the participants of the training, a fisherman from Nanumea commented that he did learn a lot of new things like fitting new fishing gears and therefore the most vital piece is that he can do other sorts of fishing methods rather than just trolling because it was the principal sort of fishing that they used to which is expensive and time consumed.
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2. "Dock"? I haven't seen folk use docks for over a decade as we are pretty wireless except for power.
Just got a new job, and they're giving me a Dell XPS 12 to use at work and remotely. I have an iMac and Macbook at home, so I'm considering getting rid of everything Apple and going with a new PC with dual monitors, and attach a docking station. I need a PC at home so laptop/docking station alone won't work (others use desktop).
1) If desktop is connected to monitors, and I also connect the monitors to docking station, how do I switch monitors for laptop use when I have the laptop connected to docking station?
2) Is there some kind of adapter/switch that would let me switch all the peripherals (keyboard/mouse/monitors) from desktop mode to laptop/docking station?
3) I plan to get a desktop with high end video card (maybe dual)...I know the laptop won't be able to drive the monitors with same resolution as desktop, but will switching from desktop to laptop create any resolution probs or will the monitors just default to laptop's display settings?
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Many of the migrant children who remain separated from their parents will have to appear in immigration courts alone and are at greater risk of deportation, legal experts told HuffPost.
“In some cases, children as young as 5 will be in front of an immigration judge, expected to explain why they should not be deported and manage the legal process that is required to prove that,” said Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an immigration lawyer who has been interviewing migrant women.
Trump announced an executive order last week to end family separation at the border, and immigration officials announced Friday that 500 parents and children have been reunited. But the government doesn’t plan to bring the remaining families together until a parent has finished their deportation hearings ― a process that can take several months ― and advocates say there is still no clear reunification system in place. As a result, children who aren’t even old enough to know the name of their home country will be forced to navigate a complex legal system by themselves.
Last year, only 33 percent of unaccompanied minor children ― the category that these separated kids fall under ― had lawyers to help them through the process, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. Since migrants are not entitled to public defenders at their hearings, they rely on limited pro bono legal services.
There’s no minimum age for appearing in immigration court.
“Babies are subject to deportation,” said Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, an organization that pairs unaccompanied minors with lawyers. “The norm is that babies are supposed to be with their parent and the parent would speak for the baby [in court]. But, in these cases, we’re seeing them separated.”
“They are just completely disoriented, and they are in the middle of their trauma. Their singular focus is ‘Where’s my mommy and how will I get back to her?”
It’s already the case that children who arrive at the border without their parents often go through court proceedings alone, a fact that immigration advocates have always denounced, but legal experts say that these children who have now been forcibly separated from their family by the U.S. Border Patrol experience a unique kind of distress.
“They are just completely disoriented, and they are in the middle of their trauma,” said Lincoln-Goldfinch. “Their singular focus is ‘Where’s my mommy and how will I get back to her?’ So all of this other business is almost irrelevant, when, in fact, a lot of these people are fleeing violence, and if they get sent back they could be killed. And yet the child can’t focus on that.”
At the hearings, a judge will ask the children basic questions ― name, date of birth, home country ― and whether they admit or deny allegations, such as if they crossed the border illegally. Children who go through this process without parents or a lawyer have to describe why a situation back home is so bad that they shouldn’t be deported. If successful, they can apply for asylum or other forms of relief.
Kimi Jackson, the director of ProBAR, an organization that provides legal assistance to immigrants, said that in some cases migrant kids are so young that they might not know their parents’ names or be able to speak. But even if they can talk, most children who go through the court system on their own have no idea what is happening. In 2016, Lincoln-Goldfinch filmed a mock deportation hearing with her 3-year-old child to protest a California judge who said kids should be able to represent themselves in immigration court. When she asked, “What defense to deportation are you seeking?” her daughter responded, “Hide and seek.”
The confusion is even worse for children who have fled violence at home only to be separated from their parents upon arriving in the U.S. Mary Lehman Held, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Tennessee, says these children’s brains are stuck in “fight, flight or freeze mode” due to extreme stress, which makes it hard for them to remember information. Elissa Steglich, a clinical professor in the University of Texas School of Law’s Immigration Clinic, thinks the fact that their developing brains are experiencing layers of trauma means “it will be particularly challenging if not impossible to get a full story from many of these children.”
And in other cases, migrant kids simply might not know the full details of why their parents brought them to the U.S. “If a mother is taking her child out of a situation where the child is in danger, she’s not going to tell her daughter that she could be raped or killed,” said Lincoln-Goldfinch. “She’s just going to tell her she’s going somewhere safe.” But if kids don’t know why they need asylum, Lincoln-Goldfinch added, they are at greater risk of being deported.
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Indexed on: 08 Nov '16Published on: 08 Nov '16Published in: arXiv - Statistics - Applications
There lies a latent danger in utilizing some known mathematical results in ecology. Some results do not apply to the problem at hand. We identify one such trend. Based on a couple of theorems in mathematical statistics, Link (2013) cautions ecologists about the inappropriateness of using the discrete uniform prior in their analysis under certain conditions and instead recommends the routine use of the scale prior during analysis. This recommendation is been absorbed immediately and widely among ecologists. In this study, we consider the two fundamental capture-recapture models used widely in ecology, $M_0$ and $M_h$, and derive conditions for posterior propriety by examining the behavior of the right tail of the posterior distributions of animal population size $N$ in a Bayesian analysis. We demonstrate that both these likelihoods are far more efficient than the ones considered in Link (2013). We argue that no particularly prescriptive approach should be adopted by ecologists in regard to choosing priors of the fear of posterior impropriety. Instead, we recommend the efficient construction of likelihoods for the problem and data on hand, choosing priors based existing knowledge of a parameter of interest and encourage examining posterior propriety by asymptotic arguments as demonstrated in this study. | [
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Who: Year 12 Student
Where: Canberra, Australia
When: January 2018
Award: Up to 70% of travel and registration costs
Deadline: 15 March 2017
What: 12 days of cutting-edge scientific workshops, demonstrations, and social activities.
The National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) is a 12 day residential program for students entering year 13 in 2018 who are passionate about science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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KEEN: 'Serpentine' belts do many tasks
Q: I have a 1993 Plymouth Voyager with 63,000 miles on it. My job takes me all over the western U.S., and during my last trip, the fan belt began making a high-pitched squeal-like noise. I took the van to a dealer. They replaced a "serpentine" belt, which they explained was the "only" belt on the motor. The squeal is gone, but after spending nearly $100, I'm confused why they told me my car needed the "timing belt and waterpump" changed if my motor only uses one belt. Also, they advised me that I needed to have the 60,000 mile service done at their shop in order to "protect" my extended warranty. Were they telling me the truth? What would you do? C.G., Port Orchard
A: Your confusion about belts stems from how engine designs have changed. Years ago, if your car needed the "belts changed," it was clear that the belts referred to were used to drive the waterpump, A/C compressor, power steering pump, or the alternator or generator. Generally, there would be at least one belt for each accessory that was driven.
The belts used on cars back then were referred to as "v-belts" because, in cross-section, the sides of the belts sloped together. Today, serpentine belts have become the norm. Serpentine belts are wide and flat. In cross-section they are smooth on top and ridged on the bottom. They run cooler, last longer, take up less space, and have a greater contact area than traditional v-belts.
A single serpentine belt will take the place of several v-belts, so it's easy to make the misleading statement that the serpentine belt is the "only" belt on the engine. On many engines, that statement is strictly true. In the case of your Voyager, it's not. There is an additional belt, the timing belt, hidden beneath a plastic cover at the front of the engine.
The timing belt connects the camshafts to the crankshaft. The crankshaft is turned by the combustion of the air/fuel mixture acting upon the pistons. As the timing belt is turned by the crankshaft, it turns the camshafts, which open and close the valves, which allow the air/fuel mixture to enter and exit the combution chambers at the proper times.
The camshafts stop turning almost immediately if the timing belt breaks, but the crankshaft keeps turning a while longer due to drivetrain inertia. On some engines a broken timing belt will cause the pistons to hit and bend the valves. Engines of this design are referred to as "interference" engines, and cost hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars to repair if a timing belt breaks. The engine on your Voyager is one of these.
I recommend that you take the advice of the dealer and have the 60,000 mile service performed. According to a Supreme Court decision made nearly 30 years ago, it is not necessary that you to have the service performed by a manufacturer dealership in order to maintain your warranty. It is only necessary that you have the maintenance services properly performed and documented. If the waterpump is closely associated with the timing belt, it is economical to change it at the same time.
(Chip Keen is an ASA-certified Master Automotive Technician and the owner of Hansville Repair. Readers may send questions to: Car Forum, The Sun, P.O. Box 259, Bremerton, Wash, 98337, or e-mail email@example.com.) | [
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MAGPIES are remarkably adaptable to pressure across wide areas of Australia, that is the finding from Dr Heather Neilly, an ecologist who has examined the impacts on native wildlife of different agricultural practices.
“We looked at how cattle grazing in the Australian landscape affects birds,” Dr Neilly said.
“Grazing has some impact on birds that forage on the ground or on low shrubs or tree branches, but some species fare much better than others.
“Australian magpies increased in abundance in the most heavily grazed paddocks, whereas, for example, the red-backed fairy-wren decreased.”
Over 40 per cent of the total area of Australia is grazing land operated by beef cattle and sheep businesses.
“Grazing occupies so much land that even small adjustments to farming strategies can have big effects on biodiversity and conservation.
“Our objective was to discover the cattle grazing methods that caused least harm to biodiversity,” Dr Neilly said.
“We studied the impacts of four grazing strategies on tropical savanna bird communities at Wambiana station in northern Queensland, a long-term test site.
“We found that the community structure, or the number of birds of different kinds, was the thing influenced most strongly by different grazing strategies.
“It turns out that the most conservative grazing method, using a moderate stocking rate, is the bestfor native species.
“It is also the most profitable farming approach in the long term, as the approach maintains grass and healthy soil.
“The cattle industry is often seen as an opposing force to conservation, but graziers often say that their business is really growing grass and that they know that they need to look after soils and vegetation.
“We have studied reptiles and mammals as well as birds, ecologists use measurements such as abundance and species richness, but we also need to examine individual changes within communities to truly understand human impacts on biodiversity and how to address them.”
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PROGRAM LETTER 98-7 (REVISED)
|FROM:||Karen J. Sarjeant, Acting Vice-President|
|Office of Program
|DATE:||October 28, 1998
|SUBJECT:||Subgrant Agreements for 1999: Requests for Approval|
This Program Letter is to provide guidance regarding submission of 1999 subgrant agreements for LSC approval.
Announcement of 1999 LSC grant awards is not expected until the first week of December 1998; however, the 45 C.F.R. Part 1627 grant approval process allows 45 days for LSC review of proposed subgrant agreements. Thus, recipients that contemplate entering into a subgrant which has a January 1, 1999 commencement date, should submit their subgrant approval requests without awaiting outcome of the grant approval process in order to avoid disruption and allow time for compliance with the prior approval procedures of 45 C.F.R. Part 1627. (1)
In view of the 45 C.F.R Part 1627 time line, subgrants with a January 1, 1999 commencement date should usually be submitted to LSC for approval by November 14, 1998. However, due to the time line of the competitive process, LSC will consider any subgrant received by December 1, 1998 to be submitted timely for January 1, 1999 approval.
Until further notice, LSC will continue the current procedures for requesting approval for subgrant agreements for 1999 and will use the same Subgrant Agreement Form used in 1998. Also included in this package are a 1999 Budget Form and a Subrecipient Profile Form, which must accompany each request for approval of a subgrant agreement. To obtain approval, recipients should submit two fully executed copies of the agreement. In addition, recipients should ensure that an audit for the 1998 subgrant, has been submitted to the Office of the Inspector General in accordance with the terms of the 1998 subgrant agreement.
To facilitate and expedite the review of your request for approval of 1999 subgrants, you are encouraged to use the Subgrant Agreement Form enclosed. If you do not use the Subgrant Agreement Form, your proposed agreement should, at a minimum, include the substance of the provisions in that form and must include the Budget Form and Subrecipient Profile Form, if it is to be approved.
In addition to 45 C.F.R Part 1627, subgrants are also affected by 45 C.F.R. Part 1610. This is the regulation designed to implement statutory restrictions on the use of non-LSC funds by LSC recipients. Section 1610.7(c) is particularly relevant, which provides :
"For a transfer of LSC funds to bar associations, pro bono programs, private attorneys or law firms, or other entities for the sole purpose of funding private attorney involvement (PAI) activities pursuant to 45 C.F.R. Part 1614, the prohibitions or requirements of this part shall apply only to the funds transferred."
Please contact Jay Brown, Program Analyst, at (202) 336-8828, if you have any questions concerning this memorandum.
Enclosures: Subgrant Agreement Form
Subrecipient Budget Form
Subrecipient Profile Form
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FROM Arturo Sarukhan
Mexico's Lopez Obrador Is Not Going Quietly All the elements are in place for big trouble in the aftermath of Mexico's disputed presidential election. Manuel López Obrador appears to have lost to conservative Felipe Calderón, but says he'll declare himself the "legitimate" president of a "parallel" government. His claim that the official vote count was fraudulent has been rejected unanimously by the nation's top electoral court. The leftist supporters of the former Mayor of Mexico City already occupy the public venues where the conservative current president, Vicente Fox, plans traditional ceremonies on Friday. Can López Obrador make political life impossible and force another election? If Fox exerts his authority, will there be violence? What's the possible fallout North of the border?
Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
Will the Senate write a healthcare bill in secret? While Democrats and Republicans argue White House relations with Russia, another question is being decided behind closed doors: who gets help buying health insurance and who doesn't? We hear how the pros and cons are being shrouded in secrecy.
The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them. | [
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The so called ‘gig economy’ has seen a host of cases before the Employment Tribunal in recent times, the key question being whether the individuals engaged are self-employed contractors or workers.
Self-employed contractors have no employment rights, whereas workers are entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage and holiday pay amongst other things.
Recent case law demonstrates that the Tribunals are unlikely to agree that individuals are self-employed where they are presented to the outside world as an integral part of a fleet, rather than as independent businesses in their own right.
There have been a number of first instance decisions, where the Employment Tribunal has found that cycle couriers for Addison Lee, Cityspint and Excel Group Services were all workers, and it has been difficult to avoid the much publicised decision that an Uber driver was classed as a worker. The Court of Appeal also found that a plumber engaged by Pimlico Plumbers was a worker rather than self-employed. While 3 of those cases are currently subject to appeals, the approach being taken by the Employment Tribunal is clear.
The most recent case to be determined involved individuals engaged by Addison Lee as private hire taxi drivers. The Employment Tribunal found that 3 drivers were workers and should therefore receive the minimum wage of £7.50 per hour, as opposed to the £5.00 actually being earned. Addison Lee reportedly has 3,800 drivers on its books and it is estimated that this decision, which equates to about £4,000 per worker, could cost them more than £15M in back pay. Given the implications of the decision, we expect Addison Lee to appeal.
It is important to be aware that while classification as a worker affords some employment rights, it is not the same as being an employee. An employee is entitled to additional protection such as the right to claim unfair dismissal, and entitlement to redundancy payments (subject to satisfying qualification criteria).
Solicitor, Employment & HR at Berry Smith Lawyers
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No body’s perfect, however it appears there are a few errors which have more dire effects on your love relationship than the others. Make your marriage a success by avoiding these relationship traps.
Error 1: Attempting To Change The Partner
“me enough, they will switch to please me personally. when they love” many genuinely believe that they may be able and can change their partner. It’s merely a matter of the time. They do say, “If he really loves me sufficient, he will alter that little thing to please me.” But to your spouse, that “small thing” isn’t therefore little. Also if they do you will need to alter to please you, frequently they become resentful. “that you don’t love me you want me to be,” they say for myself, but for the person. And it is real. Them they feel you don’t really love them when you try to change. You want to turn them into you to definitely fill your preferences.
Mistake 2: Experiencing As You’re A Deep Failing In Relationships
Whenever some social individuals note that things are not working they become depressed. They begin to feel as if they may be not loveable, that destiny is that they will always be a failure in love against them or. The reality is that you aren’t a failure. You simple have never yet been taught essential truths about relationships. Once you understand and practice brand new a few ideas and techniques, you can handle your lifetime in method you may possibly have never ever thought possible.
Error 3: Thinking You Need To Be “Good Sufficient” To Help Keep Their Love
Many feel they may be not “good enough”. They feel they need to develop into a pretzel to help keep another person’s love. Recently a female found me and stated, “I finally discovered a man that is wonderful i am miserable in the relationship. Each day we stress which he’ll discover whom i truly am and then leave.” This girl not merely expected rejection, she really did small things to take it about. Quickly she started initially to sabotage the connection, finding fault with him at every change. It, she did this to feel better about herself although she didn’t realize. The reality is we are able to never ever earn someone else’s love. The greater amount of we decide to try the even worse we feel. We ought to merely recognize that who we really are is completely loveable. We ought to learn how to it’s the perfect time with ourselves.
Mistake 4: Rejecting Your Partner So they can’t first do it
Numerous reject their lovers as security individuals against being refused by themselves. The important thing is these might not feel they deserve a relationship, they feel they can not hold onto somebody since they have not accepted on their own.
Mistake 5: Thinking Your Spouse Should Read The Mind, And Know Very Well What You Desire Without Your “Interacting” Obviously
“If he or she actually enjoyed me personally, they’d understand what we required and present it in my experience.” numerous genuinely believe that if their lovers really liked them, they might read their minds. It couldn’t be essential to need certainly to in fact ask for just what they desired. That is perhaps one of the most mistakes that are serious make in relationships. No relationship can flourish without truthful, open, communication. Effective communication, but, could be an art and craft. And that you have repeated yourself a thousand times, that YOU HAVE communicated though you may feel. You will find available communication strategies which, in and of by themselves, can save your self your relationship. It is not only necessary to understand what you prefer, and also to ask it is also necessary to be able to accept both yes and no for it clearly (without producing guilt.
Error 6: Thinking It Is Your Lover’s Job To Get You To Happy
Your lover just isn’t here to fulfill all your needs. If she or he states no, it does not suggest he or she does not love you. Some demands might be impractical to meet. It is really not your spouse’s work to get you to delighted. Your lover must certanly be right right here to grow and share with you.You must figure out how to make your self pleased, and also make others happy too. Love is based upon communicating, consideration and providing. First, but, you really must be delighted with yourself, before another will make you pleased.
Mistake 7: Thinking It Really Is Hard To Get Him To Talk
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automotivated: “Dodge is auctioning a one-of-one 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat the most powerful and fastest muscle car ever built, at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas The donated vehicle.
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Clathrin-coated vesicles mediate a variety of endocytosis pathways in cells, including endocytic events at synapses. AP180 and clathrin assembly lymphoid myeloid leukemia protein (CALM) are clathrin accessory proteins that promote the formation of clathrin-coated vesicles. Both proteins bind to membrane lipids through their epsin N-terminal homology domains and interact with clathrin and related protein components through their carboxyl-terminal peptide motifs. We examine their neuronal expression and synaptic distribution. We show that both proteins are detected in synapses but demonstrate different distribution patterns. AP180 is located predominantly in presynaptic profiles, whereas CALM is found nonselectively in pre- and postsynaptic profiles and also in perisynaptic processes. These observations reveal an unexpected relationship between AP180 and the presumed non-neuronal homologue CALM. We propose that both AP180 and CALM function as endocytic accessory proteins at synapses, but each may regulate distinct clathrin pathways.
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Excilor represents an alternative therapy for the treatment of nail fungus. However, the medical products do not contain an antifungal agent.
The ingredients are not directed against all nail fungus pathogen species.
Here you can find all information about Excilor products.
Advantages and disadvantages of Excilor products
- Natural ingredients
- No filing necessary
- Uncomplicated application
- Solution washes off easily with water
- Not against all nail fungus pathogens
- Twice daily application necessary
- Possible skin irritation on the treated area
- It cannot be combined with cosmetic varnish at the same time
- Smell of vinegar
Effect of acetic acid
It is of natural effectiveness due to the acetic acid. It changes the environment and creates an unfriendly acidic environment for fungal growth (pH<4). This prevents the dermatophytes from multiplying.
Due to the TransActive Penetration technology, Excilor’s solution penetrates deep into the nail, making additional filing unnecessary.
Conclusion about Excilor against nail fungus
The acetic acid in Excilor products against nail fungus creates an environment unfriendly to fungi and thus inhibits the spread of the fungus.
The effect is purely physical.
There are no known resistances, and nourishing ingredients support the nail build-up.
The treatment of nail fungus can be backed by antifungal drugs, i.e., drugs that kill the fungus.
Various preparations, such as nail polish or cream, are available for this purpose.
Contents of one package
- 3.3ml solution with acetic acid (33%) and lactic acid ethyl ester.
- enriched with glycerin, nail caring lipids, and biotin
Apply Excilor twice a day, preferably in the morning and evening, and let it absorb for 1-2 minutes.
Directions for the use of Excilor
The affected nail should be thoroughly cleaned before treatment, and any cosmetic nail polish should be removed with a nail polish remover.
The solution is generously applied to the entire nail and the underside of the nail edge using the applicator or a pen. After that, it takes about 1-2 minutes for the product to be absorbed. After that, socks and shoes can be put on.
It may be possible to notice a slight tingling sensation in the treated areas. This is a sign that the solution is fully absorbed into the nail.
The solution should be applied 2x a day (morning and evening) for at least 3 months and it is recommended to continue the treatment until the diseased nail grows out completely.
Do not use the product in case of hypersensitivity or allergy to any of the ingredients.
Diabetics with foot problems should consult their doctor before use.
The products are not suitable for children, as there is no clinical data on use for children.
Side effects of Excilor
Very rare (only in one in 100,000 cases): skin redness, itching or mild local pain.
Isolated cases of detached nails and vesicles next to the nail have been reported.
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The West Virginia Mountaineers women's soccer team have now won consecutive games for the first time this season.
WVU beat Boston University, 4-0, on Saturday evening at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. Boston did not have a single shot-on-goal all game.
Head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown’s squad got off to a very dominating first half at home. WVU (3-2-3) outshot Boston 13-0 (5-0 on goal) and held an advantage on corner kicks, as well, 5-1. For much of the half, the ball was in Boston’s third of the field, keeping pressure on the Terriers keeper, Morgan Messner, forcing her to save three shots.
“It was a great team offense all together. A lot of people stepped up individually,” said senior Grace Cutler. “We were able to get a lot more through balls than we were usually. Overall, we all stepped it up together.”
Off of the Mountaineers first corner of the game, Addison Clark had a shot that hit the post and bounce out in the second minute. The pressure put on by WVU in the first few minutes of the half were a sign of things to come in the rest of the half number one.
In the span of six minutes, Hannah Abraham and Grace Cutler both had chances inside the box but only yielded a second corner.
The next minute, Cutler had yet another chance, but again, nothing to show for.
In the 19th minute, Boston (1-7-1) had their first chance, as they won a corner kick, but the ball went out of play behind the goal. In the first 45, that was the only real chance the Terriers had. WVU starting goalie Rylee Foster did not even have to make a save.
In the 22nd and 26th minute, WVU won their third and fourth corner kicks, but still remained goalless on the scoreboard.
Just one minute later, in the 27th minute, WVU found its breakthrough, in the form of sophomore midfielder Stefany Ferrer-vanGinkel. The Spanish international had a breakaway and capped it off with a clever chip shot over Messner to get West Virginia on the score sheet.
Nadya Gill took a free kick in the in the 30th minute. Her shot went around the wall, but just over the cross bar.
West Virginia’s second goal was scored by substitute Alina Stahl. Her left-footed shot hit the far post and went in for her first goal on the season.
“I think this team is really focused and realizes that everyone does their job,” said Izzo-Brown. “It’s [just been] extra effort, being brave, whatever it is, around the 18, and I think that you can see that. That everybody has been a little bit sharper when it comes to finishing and tonight it finally happened for us and we were able to get four.”
In the second half, it was much of the same story for both teams.
It only took WVU about 10 minutes to pick up where it left off. Senior Sh’Nia Gordon scored her first goal and recorded her first point of the season in one kick, as she scored in the 54th minute. She dribbled through the box and beat BU’s keeper at the near post.
Four minutes later, Ferrer-vanGinkel scored her second of the game from the penalty spot. Hannah Abraham drew the foul in the box to give WVU a penalty kick.
There were two more chances for WVU, as Louis Joel and Lizzie Mayfield both had shots that hit the post and bounced back into play.
West Virginia’s second half was arguably more dominant than the first half. WVU got off 14 shots (one better than the first half total) and won five corners.
Senior Bianca St. Georges was left off the team sheet on Thursday evening. Izzo-Brown said “as a senior, you want to give everyone rest when you can, and this was a great opportunity for us to rest her up.”
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So below is a character sheet that comes from the mid-1980's from Villains & Vigilantes 2e. Specifically, the "Freedom Force" campaign that Charles Braden ran- set in the 1950's, a sequel to a FF campaign set in the 1940's. This would be my character, Dr. Neutrino, a self-involved and self-aggrandizing super-scientist. He partnered up with better and more noble heroes in order to make a name for himself. We played quite a few sessions with this guy. And as you can see below, I had a pretty minimal character sheet- a few numbers and stats scrawled on a sheet- just the basic needed. That plus my notes and sketches chicken-scratched across it. Interestingly, I later ran this character's son in a homebrew supers campaign Art Lyon ran. Dr. Neutrino, Junior was an earnest and enthusiastic supers- believing in the ideas of herodom and usually getting kicked in the face for it.
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- Artist: Bella Shmurda
- Genre:Hip hop
- Released: 2022
The vibrant artist, Bella Shmurda comes through with a new song “Mood“" for the listening pleasure for the fans.
“Mood“ brings with it another taste of the unique sound and creativity that have placed Bella Shmurda on charts music scenes.
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Nim's Island Reviews
April 4, 2012
Breslin's young performance is cute and an ingredient on making this family film a fun one. Besides Breslin, both Foster and Butler done as well. (B+)
(Full review coming soon - with better wording)
July 20, 2014
An enjoyable kids film, with Jodie Foster (who's great in any role). Outstayed its welcome a bit, but silly fun.
June 17, 2014
Despite the creative nature of the film, I was shocked and appalled that the film company would set the island name to be Rarotonga, and perceive the habitants there as peasants gathering around tourist asking for money.
Rarotonga in reality is a beautiful island, even Hilary Clinton visited Rarotonga herself.
June 11, 2014
I saw a little bit of this movie on television a few years before and was disappointed by it. I couldn't keep my eyes on it and so, I ignored it. My experience of the movie back then was that it wasn't what I expected.
In the beginning, it has Nim narrating the story. Nim is a spirited little girl who inhabits an isolated island with her father, who's a scientist and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. So the plot wasn't great neither.
This film is a tad too annoying, too funny, too fun, too suspenseful/serious, and fascinating. The music was too dramatic which was of course due to the film. The actors, compared to the poster were a pretty bad pick, though they all did well. I give it a 6.1.
May 29, 2014
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May 24, 2014
Gerard Butler - never knowingly palatable.. Move is so so, does nowhere in no great hurry but doesn't overly suffer for it, Butler free it could have been average
April 9, 2014
think this is 2.5 or 3 stars but want to see again.
January 21, 2008
I have heard this movie described as Indiana Jones for girls. I would just like to say 'No Way!'. After saying that I feel better. It was not a bad movie, just a little too kid friendly with a sappy, happy ending. Gerard Butler was in it so that was all the encouragement I needed to watch it.
March 8, 2014
Nim's Island is engaging for the most part, and the story isn't half bad. The execution is about right, and the movie almost lives up to its full potential.
February 24, 2014
good family action adventure yarn
February 1, 2014
I think this is a really good movie. It's sweet and cool and i'm a kid and kids don't usually say stuff like that.
December 13, 2013
It has an implausible plot and it's really boring.
January 20, 2014
I quite liked the idea of the story and indeed the film started so well with the lovely animated introduction but just seemed to go down-hill from there. Everything was overdone. If it was a cake it would be a cup cake with wedding cake sized icing, sickly, hard to swallow and with very little content. Abigail Breslin was fine, Gerard Butler was quite good in his double role but the supporting cast of exaggerated stereotypes where tiresome and Jodie Foster's performance is probably among the worst I've ever seen. Her attempts at physical comedy made me want to throw things at my television and shout bad words. Not what you want from a 'Family film'. I think the directors (always be weary when there is more than one) had great intentions initially, they just got lazy and went all Hollywood. I'm surprised this got a cinema release and didn't go straight to video.
December 22, 2013
While it doesn't stand its ground when viewed as anything other than a movie for kids, it's still an okay movie for kids. It's not one of the rare gems that the whole family will likely enjoy but the genre could, and has, done a lot worse.
I feel that it's only fair to take into consideration a film's target audience when judging it and this is most important with regards to children's films. Indeed, the true greats from The Wizard of Oz to Toy Story hold up in anyone's eyes but most films in this genre aren't so lucky.
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Hello! Well, first I'd like to congratulate JCC Jr. for fighting a good and hard fight. It was very entertaining. Okay, on to the meat!
1.) JCC Jr. is still pretty one dimensional. He can move around agst Manfredo, and he can pressure some against Andy Lee, but we talkin' Andy Lee, ANDY LEE! He can walk thru a contender or fringe contender.
2.) I'd like to join everyone and being hyped up about JCC Jr., especially after a good win, but on a closer look I still think he's slow as crap. He throws big and wide punches and leaves himself open afterward or off balance.
3.) His footwork is slow, plodding and god-awful. I think the only person he could catch is Margarito! Maybe Angulo with a flu! Martinez will light him up on that alone, and JCC Jr. will never get him stuck on the ropes even if he is 220 lbs. that night!
4.) JCC Jr.'s large size is overrated. Yes, he can walk through some punches, his punches have a little more weight, and he can be rugged, but it still remains his hands and feet are slow as crap, his defense is marginal, and I don't know if he could adjust to a true elite opponent like Sergio Martinez.
5.) His chin is world class. It got dinged and it never flinched.
6.) Infighting - It's alright, not great. There are a lot of lulls in his infighting because he needs time to get set, find openings, and get a rhythm. Martinez would be gone by the time he throws, or after 1-2 shots. He goes pretty heavy to the body, but only agst someone who will sit on the ropes agst him.
7.) JCC Jr. seems to get slower, and sloppier the more he opens up, that's not good! A good pressure fighter usually gets cooking as the rounds go on like Joe Frazier or a focused Brandon Rios.
8.) JCC Jr. vs. Canelo? Based on what I've seen so far I'd have to go with the Cinna-bum. Cinnbum seems to have better fundamentals, fights a little cleaner, have better defense, more polish, crisper punches, more and better combinations, and more dimensions. There is the size factor, which could play some factor, but I'd stick pick Canelo anyway. That would be a fun fight!
That's about it. Athletically and skill wise I just don't see what's so special about JCC Jr.,to be blunt, ANYTHING special about JCC Jr.! Okay, I did like how he was about to keep his right glove up to block Andy Lee's right hooks, that's about it. See ya! | [
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Bali After the Bombings
“Hello! Looking? Yes?”
Walking along any tourist region on the Indonesian island of Bali, you are likely to be touted and hustled. Merchants stand in the entrance of their shops, desperate to get you inside. Drivers are even worse - sometimes they’ll follow you up the street as you walk…
“You want driver. I drive. You want trip?” they’ll say while miming out the act of driving.
Big mistake. If you reply, you are simply giving them an incentive to talk more.
“How about tomorrow? Yes? We go to Ubud, and then volcano…”
“No thanks, really. I’m just going to the beach.”
“How about weekend? Here is my card…”
The 2002 bombing in the Kuta region of Bali, when 202 people were killed, followed by the bombings in 2005, have left the formerly popular Indonesian island holiday favorite relegated to a paradise lost; only worthy of the brave, the fearless … and, of course, surfers. Slowly the tourists have started to come back, but they are not flocking.
A Swedish woman staying at my hotel, who had been to Bali before the bombings, commented: “Isn’t it sad? It’s so quiet now – like a ghost town. It used to be so full of life…” I had never traveled to Bali before the terrorist attacks, but I could well imagine that this is not the typical Balinese spirit of old.
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I started my trip in the quieter town of Sanur - a place for families, for those who no longer feel the need to go partying and clubbing until the late hours; a place to relax… so they say. But the locals want business, and they start as soon as you arrive; trying to strike up a relationship, trying to make an impression—
“Hello! Where you from?”
Within a few minutes of hopping out of the taxi, I was hustled into buying some new flip-flops, for which I think I paid more than double the normal price.
Wild Monkeys and Fire Dances
The next stop on my itinery was the quieter town of Ubud. On the way, I passed a large crowd of men shouting so I asked my driver to stop. It turned out to be an authentic Balinese cock fight.
This is one way in which local men entertain themselves by putting on a few choice bets. Sharp knives are tied to the poultry gladiators’ feet before they do battle.
I finally arrived at my next destination – Ubud. Famous for art and craft, Ubud is a must visit to get the feel of traditional Bali. It is situated just south of the centre of the island; which means that the altitude is higher, bringing more rain, and of course – there is no beach. It is a very different side of Bali that not everyone gets the opportunity to experience.
One of the most memorable aspects of Ubud is the sacred monkey forest. Guarded by two giant stone monkey statues, the forest is overrun by, albeit, friendly monkeys who will hassle you for bananas as you stroll through. Sometimes they will even follow you and try to steal the contents of your pockets!
Next, I traveled down to Legion, just north of Kuta. The beaches here are the best in Bali, and it is busier with crowds of surfers and partygoers. However, when you walk around the shopping areas of Kuta, most of the bars remain practically empty, except for one or two nightclubs – and the owners look just as depressed and desperate to get you inside as those in the quieter town of Sanur.
There is a huge memorial in Kuta dedicated to the bomb victims who died there; a shrine and a symbol of remembrance for the tragedies that happened. As a post-attack tourist, it does nothing for the holiday spirit and there is still a sense of danger in Kuta; with a third bombing not beyond the realm of possibility.
Bali is still a holiday paradise, but it has become political. No doubt that almost any country you visit these days will have similar risks of terrorist attacks as Bali does – especially in big cities and tourist hotspots.
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Q.) What are theees "Queens Of The Stone Age?"
A.) That'd be a band that makes hip-shakin' heavy rock 'n roll for adults.
On the second night of their sold-out stand at The Warfield, the red-headed sloe-eyed frontguy Josh Homme stepped to the mic between song and announced that the night before he'd been drunk as heck onstage and therefore "tonight, I'll let the music do the talking."
Danged if he didn't do that.
Backed by a road-tested band, Homme whip-sawed through QOTSA's canon: b-sides, quasi-AOR hits, and desert roadtrip rumblers were delivered fresh 'n thick in front of an amped-up Warfield crowd.
Fist-pumping, head-shakin', boot-stompin'; this is music custom-built for those rare, dusky nights at the bar that actually generate the best tales afterwards.
Plenty more pictures of the show after the jump. | [
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Mahr Inc. has introduced the MarOpto MT 100, the first in a new series of Fizeau interferometer towers for measuring optics directly in production. The MarOpto MT 100 was featured at the SPIE Optifab Exhibition on Oct. 17-19, 2017 in Mahr's booth.
Fizeau interferometers from Mahr are supported by the company's proprietary Intelliwave software to allow easy measurement of both radius and form deviations. A measurement wizard guides the user through the steps to complete the measurement.
MarOpto MT 100 is ideally suited to precision optics production up to 4" diameter. Spheres and flats can be measured with lambda/20 accuracy and the Z axis covers 800 mm at a resolution of 0.5 µm for precision determination of the radius in the optic under test.
Other MarOpto measuring tower models will cover a large range with measuring areas from 1/2" (small table-top tower) to 12" (CNC stitching tower). Vertical tower solutions offer easy handling of lenses and quick measurement. They include internal vibration damping and utilize only a small footprint. Besides tests of form deviation, towers with scales can measure radii with high accuracy as well. Motorized axes allow easy and fast operation and options are available for automation as well as dedicated analysis.
Spheres, aspheres and flats can be measured. Towers can also be upgraded with a second stage for CGH (computer generated hologram) holders or XY tilting tables. Comprehensive accessories, including a large number of Fizeau lenses, objective lens extensions, objective lens protection, different lens holders, CGHs, etc., enable application driven configurations for each particular measuring tower. In addition, some models offer special housings to provide dedicated protection against environmental influences in the production area. | [
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What I mean by symbol here is anything in a photograph that represents, in a viewer's mind, some larger thing. A cross might stand in, or evoke, a collection of ideas about religion, for instance.
People, especially people with specific collections of accessories, are powerful symbols. A man wearing a pinstriped suit, talking on a cell phone, could be very evocative. For some viewers he might represent banking, or industry. For another viewer the man might represent Dad. Most viewers have known many people in their lives, and have seen many photographs of people. All of this experience is in play when the viewer sees a person in a photograph.
Since people are things we're intimately familiar with, we're more likely to compare the image of a person with other people's images we have stored away in our minds. A viewer with expertise in bulldozers would do the same with an image of a bulldozer. While few of us are experts on bulldozers, most of us are experts on people.
Pictures with people in them are potentially pretty powerful stuff, but potentially lead to a wider range of interpretations of your image. | [
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Cordial welcome, professional staff, and the work was done quickly!!
Rhonda, we're so happy to hear that you had a positive experience. We look forward to continuing to work with you.
John was very helpful. He was concerned for my safety and quickly got the problem with my car resolved.
Excellent service, knowledgeable service representative and overall pleasant experience.
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Webinar on post COVID-19 pandemic recovery of the European economy
On the 2nd of June 2020, more than 200 researchers, innovators and policymakers discussed the post-COVID-19 recovery of the European economy based on the EU Green Deal and green technologies through a webinar entitled “Post-COVID Green Deal Technology-Powered Recovery in Europe”. It is evident that the Green Deal still remains as an important step forward for the European economy. The participants of the remote seminar and guest speakers were Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius, President of the European Association of Research and Technology Organizations (EARTO) and VTT Technical Research Center in Finland Prof. Antti Vasara, Member of the Management Boards of EARTO and RTO Lithuania, Director of the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) Prof. Gintaras Valušis.
The webinar was recorded and published online for public viewing. Some of the topics which were addressed are:
How will COVID-19 affect the European Green Deal;
What will be the process of post-pandemic recovery in the European Union; and
Will it be based on scientific knowledge and technological innovation.
At the event, Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius shared that green technologies are at the heart of the solutions Europe currently needs. In discussions on the importance of high added value of science and technology innovations for national economies, G. Valušis pointed out that the Lithuanian laser sector in the face of the previous crisis has shown that it is much more resilient to economic shocks than many other economic sectors.
To read the full article about the remote seminar, please click here. | [
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SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Senate will consider two resolutions regarding critical race theory and Utah becoming a Second Amendment sanctuary state during the extraordinary special session on Wednesday, May 19.
The Senate Majority Caucus issues the following statements:
Critical Race Theory
“Everyone is created equal and should be judged by their character, not the color of their skin. For this reason, we oppose critical race theory being taught in schools. American history should be taught in a way that highlights our country’s highs and lows, triumphs and mistakes. We do not want to erase or bypass history, but we need to prevent schools from endorsing discriminatory concepts.
“We have heard from numerous concerned parents across the state regarding critical race theory being taught in the classroom. We are committed to listening to constituents’ concerns and uniting to find positive solutions that create inclusive learning environments for all students.
“Though our country’s history is complex, we are still the nation that continues to break barriers and strives to be better than those who came before us. As we look toward the future, we want our students to lead the nation on a brighter path forward and encourage the Utah State Board of Education to consider appropriate action.”
Second Amendment Sanctuary State Resolution
“We are committed to protecting the Second Amendment rights defined in the U.S. Constitution by our Founding Fathers. Our most important duty as legislators is to preserve Utahns’ freedoms, including the freedom to bear arms without government interference.
“As the majority caucus, we support and recognize that most Utah citizens stand by the Second Amendment. It is concerning to see what is happening at the Federal level to threaten our right to bear arms. We are and will continue to work on legislation to address this pressing concern.”Tags: Critical Race Theory, Second Amendment, Second Amendment Sanctuary State Resolution, Senate Majority Caucus | [
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Classical field theory admits a comprehensive mathematical formulation in a very general setting of reducible degenerate Lagrangian systems on an arbitrary fiber bundle. However, we really observe only three classical fields. These are Dirac fermions, electromagnetic and gravitational fields. It may happen that a Higgs vacuum is a classical field, too. One also considers classical theory of non-Abelian gauge fields though these fields that we know (W and Z bosons and gluons) are quantum fields.
A problem is that contemporary quantum field theory mainly is developed as quantization of classical fields. Namely, the propagators in Feynman diagrams of perturbative quantum field theory are Green’s functions of classical field equations. The Feynman diagram technique is formalized in the terms of functional integrals which contain classical field Lagrangians. Thus, classical field theory is a necessary step towards quantum field theory of today. Note that there are many different hypothetic quantum fields in contemporary quantum filed models. To describe them, one therefore, one should be able to consider the classical counterparts of these fields. For instance, it may happen that ghosts, which play the role of parameters of gauge symmetries in BRST theory, are real fields.
However, there are classical field models which can not be quantized in principle. Quantization of a Lagrangian field theory essentially depends on its degeneracy characterized by a family of reducible Noether identities. Such a family is defined if and only if a certain condition holds. Fortunately, this is the case of irreducible Lagrangian systems, including all the above-mentioned field theories.
It is a general tendency that theoreticians develop their theory in a very general form though only its particular variant is realistic. Then we understand its peculiarity. For instance, gravitation theory on an arbitrary manifold is formulated, but a real space-time apparently is globally hyperbolic and parallelizable. Hamiltonian mechanics on an arbitrary symplectic manifold is considered, but a momentum phase space of a mechanical system usually is the cotangent bundle over its coordinate space, and so on.
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Orca ramming attacks strike fear into yachtsmen
Spain has suspended yachting off its north-west coast after a series of attacks by orcas ramming into sailing boats in the Atlantic.
The week-long ban is in place as scientists try to fathom the killer whales’ unusual behaviour.
The transport ministry has banned vessels under 15 metres (49 feet) sailing in a 100 kilometre (62 miles) stretch of sea. It said the measure had been taken to “guarantee the safety of people and the orcas themselves”.
Vessels can leave port to go into the open sea between the capes of Prioriño Grande and La Punta de Estaca de Bares, but they must not sail near the coast.
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"The ultimate antidote for perfectionism is perspective: Here's who my child was, here's who he is, and here's who he's likely to be -- I should try to stop insisting that he become something he isn't."
It's true as a parent. It's true for how I relate to myself. It's true for how I relate to other people, and what I expect of them. It's really really really true.
Obviously, when I express this, I'm going to not get it quite right, because that's just kind of how I am and I continually try to improve, but I have to be realistic about my communication skills. But if you ever talk to me about my kids, and I say, "This kid is not going to ever do X." (say, this kid is never going to drive a car), I will not parent in a way that gets in the way of that kid learning to drive a car. I will do everything in my power to help my kid get to a point where he or she can learn to drive a car in compliance with the law, safely, etc. But while I'm doing all that, I'm setting expectations for me, my family and the community we exist in so that as my kid develops, if he or she never drives, that's not viewed as a failing.
And if my kid, by some miracle, _is_ someday able to get a license and drive, that will be properly appreciated as the miracle which it truly would be.
The envelope of expected outcomes for any child should be set so that the child, with a reasonable amount of effort, can exceed those expectations and, by failing to exert any effort, their failure is not spectacular, but merely a less optimal result still within the expected envelope. If the absolute most effort the kid can expend, constantly, over time, will barely meet the minimum, and that only grudgingly, then the people around that kid have created a world of expectations so cruel that it can only be experienced as a form of Hell.
Let's do better than that.
ETA: I should add -- I usually do -- that a large chunk of my prediction about my child and driving is driven by two salient facts often not in the possession of my audience. (1) I probably would never have learned to drive if I could have avoided it (and numerous members of my extended family do not drive because they were a lot better at fighting The Pressure than I was). (2) I have a set of expectations about what our world will look like over the next few decades that suggests driving will become less and less of a normal/useful/typical adult activity. As we centralize -- for many reasons -- driving becomes less necessary, more complex and more dangerous, requiring better emotional control, cognitive ability and executive function. By the time my child might be mature enough to consider learning to drive, my child will likely have established adult routines that render driving largely uninteresting and optional. That appears to be already happening with children in general. | [
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features a built-in editor for the two carriable items (dagger and shurikane). Press 'e' to enter it (see DOS screenshots).
is one of the few PC titles that supports 16 colors exclusively in Tandy mode.
On March 31, 1989, Ninja Mission
was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games
According to the magazine Retro Gamer (issue #1), the game was Mastertronic's #16 best selling game (194.897 copies).
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Due to the challenging times, we’re living at the Sanctuary money-wise, regretfully, we had to minimize our rescue work since mid-2016. Rent fundraiser is stuck at 53% and our Cat Sanctuary future is uncertain however when urgent cases arise out there we can not turn our back on them. Every summer, abandoned cats show up, out of the blue, and this summer is no exception. Charlie was spotted a few days ago. He looks very dehydrated and sick; he has watery eyes and his coat looks in very poor conditions. Although he does not trust us as yet, he looks rather friendly so hopefully, we’ll be able to pull him off the streets shortly.
Making progress! This evening we brought some boiled chicken to Charlie and he ate it all!!! He still looked hungry so we gave him some tuna too Charlie kept getting closer and closer to get his dinner but we when we slowly tried to pet him he got scared and hid under the car again. He’s made some great progress in less than 48 hours so we are hopeful that with a little time and patience we’ll be able to bring him in. Until then, please send your positive vibes and prayers his way to help him survive another night out there on his own.
Paul setup a special feeding station for Charlie where he can easily get his dry food and water, day and night. His feeding station is well hidden so he can go there and eat quietly without being seen. While he is on the streets and until he decides to put his trust in us, we want to make sure he has everything he needs to be as safe as possible.
Paul and I went to visit Charlie and brought him some delicious tuna mousse he really enjoyed eating 🙂 We sat nearby and kept our distance while he was having his dinner. Slowly but surely, we are making progress every day. Baby steps!
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Matthew Smith is an instrument maker and percussionist living just outside Philadelphia. For over twenty years, he has been making high quality percussion instruments out of his own shop, Ritmo Studios. His instruments have traveled the world, used by some of the finest Latin music groups and orchestras. He makes congas, bongos, timbales, cowbells and other percussion instruments, and is admired by many of Philadelphia’s great percussionists for his exceptional work. For PFP’s Community Supported Arts program in 2012, Mr. Smith made by hand 50 limited edition cowbells. He says, “They are of steel and are not bent by machine. They are hand hammered and each one is tuned to be a beautiful-sounding instrument. It’s the instrument that elevates the music and gets people up and dancing!” Mr. Smith was a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant for traditional and folk arts. | [
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Leica Geosystems announced v7.0 of its PaveSmart 3D (LMGS-S) machine control system for concrete paving applications. With v7.0, LMGS-S now additionally supports Guntert & Zimmerman (G&Z) S600, S850 and S1500 mainline concrete pavers. 3D machine control solutions also are available for G&Z’s PS1200 placer spreader.
Designed specifically for concrete paving applications, LMGS-S’s features and capabilities allow slipform paving contractors to reap the significant productivity and precision benefits of 3D paving technology from the outset, according to the manufacturer.
Building on Leica’s experience in delivering 3D machine control solutions for mainline concrete paving applications to the highway, aviation, rail and tunnel paving segments since 1999, Leica Geosystems has worked with the engineering team at G&Z to provide a “plug-and-pave” interface to G&Z pavers.
G&Z microcontrollers’ new “Direct Connect” CAN-Bus interface provides seamless integration of Leica Geosystems machine control allowing paving contractors to completely remove the cost, effort and logistical problems associated with traditional stringline setting for slipform paving applications, while maintaining and enhancing the optimal concrete surface smoothness demanded by today’s infrastructure developers, according to the manufacturer.
For more information, visit www.leica-geosystems.us/machinecontrol.
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Vitamin D Benefits
Picture yourself taking a break; turning away from the computer, putting away those books you were reading, or perhaps turning off your mobile device.
Now walk outside, into the sunshine (leave that sunscreen for now); find a nice patch of grass, and perhaps lie down on it. Feel the warmth of the sun on your upturned face, your bare arms… Doesn’t that make you feel better already? You may not think about it very much, but when you’re soaking up the sun’s rays, you’re also soaking up vitamin D.
It’s sometimes called the “sunshine vitamin” because it’s produced in your skin in response to sunlight. Vitamin D has multiple roles in the body, but because of the growing fears of harmful UV rays, it is estimated that about half the global population is vitamin D deficient. So why is it so good, and why should we give ourselves sensible sun exposure on a regular basis?
Vitamin D Benefits For Health
Building strong bones and teeth
Perhaps the most vital benefit of Vitamin D is regulating the absorption of calcium and phosphorous, and facilitating normal immune system function. Getting a sufficient amount of vitamin D is important for normal growth and development of bones and teeth, as well as improved resistance against certain diseases. If your body doesn’t get enough vitamin D, you’re at risk of developing bone abnormalities such as soft bones (osteomalacia) or fragile bones (osteoporosis). More tips for healthy eating.
Vitamin D supports the “killer cells” of the immune system. These are important for seeking out and destroying pathogens. These “Killer cells” lie dormant around the body until they’re needed to fend off an invader. They rely on signals from the body to be activated. Vitamin D is one of the most important ingredients for these signals. Vitamin D plays a role in the cell’s ability to go into alert mode, and tells the cell to calm down when the job is done. If the “Killer cell” continues to rampage through the body, it can cause collateral damage and may contribute to autoimmune disorders.
In addition to its primary benefits, research suggests that vitamin D may also play a role in: reducing your risk of multiple sclerosis; decreasing your chance of developing heart disease; regulating insulin levels and aiding diabetes management; supporting lung function and cardiovascular health; and even helping to reduce your likelihood of developing the flu.
Research has shown that vitamin D might play an important role in regulating mood and warding off depression. In one study, scientists found that people with depression who received vitamin D supplements noticed an improvement in their symptoms. In another study of people with fibromyalgia, researchers found vitamin D deficiency was more common in those who were also experiencing anxiety and depression.
Helping with weight loss
Consider adding vitamin D supplements to your diet if you’re trying to lose weight or prevent heart disease. In one study, people who took a daily vitamin D supplement did not lose a significant amount of weight, but were able to improve their heart disease risk markers. People taking a daily calcium and vitamin D supplement have also been shown to be able to lose more weight than subjects taking a placebo supplement. Extra calcium and vitamin D likely have an appetite-suppressing effect. Here are some more easy tips on losing weight.
Influencing genes involved in cancer development
Activated vitamin D is one of the most potent inhibitors of cancer cell growth, and can influence the expression of genes involved in cancer development. For example, seventy percent of women with breast cancer are vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D has been shown to prevent breast cancer cell growth and decrease the expression of cancer causing genes.
How do you know you are Vitamin D-ficient?
Many lifestyle and environmental factors can affect your ability to get sufficient amounts of vitamin D through the sun alone. These factors include: pollution; use of sunscreen; spending more time indoors; living in big cities where buildings block sunlight; having darker skin.
These factors contribute to vitamin D deficiency in an increasing number of people. The symptoms of a vitamin D deficiency in adults include: general tiredness, aches and pains; severe bone or muscle pain or weakness that may cause difficulty climbing stairs; stress fractures, especially in the legs, pelvis, and hips.
Where to get Vitamin D
Your body produces vitamin D naturally when it is directly exposed to sunlight. This doesn’t mean you need to get out there and expose your bare skin all day, everyday. A little can go a long way. All you need is about 10 minutes a day of midday, pre-sunscreen sun exposure.
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Behavior And Reproduction
Cephalopods have large brains, well-developed eyes, and complex behaviors. Some species, such as octopuses, lead solitary lives, while others, like cuttlefish, live in small to very large groups called schools. Some cuttlefishes or squids get together only to find a mate and reproduce. Many species live at depths of 1,310 to 3,280 feet (400 to 1,000 meters) during the day and swim closer to the surface at night to feed, but the activity patterns of most are unknown. Most cephalopods do not guard or defend territories. Some species will change their colors as a means of camouflage or to startle predators. Many squids and octopuses have special glands for making a defensive inklike fluid that is squirted in the water to confuse their enemies.
Both males and females are required for reproduction, but the mating behaviors of most cephalopods remain unknown. Although nautiluses reproduce many times throughout their lives, most cephalopods do so only once. The time for reproduction in these species may be either very brief or extended over a long period of time. In some species, the male simply grabs the female and places a packet of sperm in a specific place on or inside her body. Others engage in elaborate courtship behaviors that involve lots of touching just before they mate.
Depending on the species, females produce dozens to hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. One or more layers of a special, protective coating surround each egg. The eggs are usually laid in masses, either on the ocean bottom, in between rocks, or inside seashells, while others release them into the open water. Only some kinds of octopuses and squids care for their eggs until they hatch.
The eggs take a few days to several months to hatch. The hatchlings of some species look and live like the adults and simply grow larger as they develop. Others look nothing like the adults and spend the early part of their lives as plankton. Planktonic plants, animals, and other organisms live in open water and float about on ocean currents. Eventually, the young planktonic cephalopods settle to the ocean bottom, where they develop to more closely resemble the adults in both form and habit.
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The fear has taken the shape of reality- A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the Fukushima Coast, and a Tsunami warning was issued.
The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said there was no damage or spike in radiation levels at the station after the quake and many sighed in relief.
What many fail to realize, is that the damage is already in progress.
The effects of the nuclear leakage, despite the herculean efforts of the Japanese nuclear experts, have started showing their damage.
Here are just a few facts:
1. The Water Around the Reactor Has Become Highly Contaminated
According to estimates the amount of nuclear radiation that has so been released into the ocean from Fukushima is more than what was released during the entire Chernobyl disaster.
Japan itself has started showing signs of the radiation. Apart from mutated vegetation, a plague of damaged thyroids has already been reported among as many as 40 percent of the children and ancillary ailments, including cancer among elders.
2. The Radiation Is Spreading Across The Pacific Ocean At An Alarming Rate
It hasn’t stopped since.
Reuters reported in August 2013 that 300 tons of contaminated water was pouring into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day. Out of which almost 20 trillion - 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have already gotten into the Pacific Ocean since the Fukushima disaster first began.
According to a recent report, the California coastline is being transformed into “a dead zone”. The report cautions people against eating seafood caught from the pacific and even swimming and surfing in it.
3. The Radiation Is Here To Stay For Generations
Nuclear radiation and its effects can last for a long time.
According to World Nuclear Association, the length of nuclear radiation can last anywhere between five years to several decades. But they confess that they do not have the expertise and knowledge to sufficiently conclude how long the effects of the radiation can be noticeable within the population, soil, and water.
Radioactive elements (Iodine-131, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 etc) are constantly coming from Fukushima and are likely to affect the health of those living the northern hemisphere for a long time to come.
According to the Wall Street Journal, it is being projected that the cleanup of Fukushima could take up to 40 years to complete and even then if the cleanup is not handled with extreme precision and care, its effects may linger and endanger lives for “for thousands of years“.
The earthquake is a reminder of an impending disaster ready to happen. However, it is more than likely that soon the moment of panic we all faced when we heard the news of the quake, will be over shadowed by that of world politics, celebrity antics and whatever else pops up on our news feeds on a daily basis.
This behavior in itself is a disaster, but one that in intangible enough not to be a problem for us.
But what must be realized that the nuclear disaster has not been averted, it is there, it has been there since 2011 and it is not an intangible as we believe. The dots are starting to show and the day they are enough to be noticed as problematic and are connected. We’ll have a web of nuclear damages that will be beyond our control.
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In a decree published on Wednesday, the prefecture of Var has announced a reduction in measures to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. Thus, the wearing of the mask will no longer be compulsory from this Friday in the 58 towns of the coast, the country of Fayence and the valley of Gapeau.
State services have also decided to lift the ban on alcohol consumption on public roads. Finally, the health pass will no longer be compulsory to enter the six shopping centers in the department which exceed 20,000 m2.
1⃣ #COVID19 | From September 17, 3 health measures are lifted in the #Where :
➡the sanitary pass in shopping centers of more than 20,000 m²
➡the ban on alcohol consumption on public roads
➡the obligation to wear a mask in 58 municipalities
– Préfet du Var (@ Prefet83) September 15, 2021
On the other hand, the wearing of the mask remains obligatory in the public enclosures subjected to the sanitary pass until October 4 for the more than 11 years. It will also be necessary to provide protection in outdoor spaces with a high population density, such as markets, garage sales, fairgrounds, places of festivities, etc. Sports establishments, both indoor and outdoor, are also affected by the measure.
A situation that is improving
The mask must always be worn in bus shelters, on the plazas and platforms of bus, railway and maritime stations, indicates the prefecture. It remains compulsory in the queues and in the following shopping centers: Avenue 83 in La Valette-du-Var, the Galerie – Géant in Fréjus and the Village des talents creatifs in Puget-sur-Argens.
According to the latest situation update published Tuesday by the PACA Regional Health Agency, indicators of the circulation of the virus in the region are declining. Concerning the Var, the incidence rate between September 7 and 13 was 154, against 221 at the regional level. The number of patients in intensive care is decreasing and 51 active clusters are currently under study. | [
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Lithia Motors Inc. purchased 10 dealerships across southern Florida and Nevada, which it says will add $950 million in expected annual revenue to the growing company.
Lithia said Tuesday that it bought seven Lehman Auto World dealerships in southern Florida and Esserman International Acura and Esserman International Volkswagen dealership in Doral, Fla., marking its largest transaction of the year.
With the Lehman purchase, Lithia acquired Largo Honda in Florida City, Doral Hyundai-Genesis, Doral Kia, Lehman Mitsubishi in Miami, Lehman Buick-GMC in Miami Gardens, Lehman Hyundai-Genesis in Miami Gardens and Lehman Subaru in Miami Gardens.
Haig Partners, a buy-sell firm in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., represented Bill Lehman Jr. in the sale of his dealerships. The Esserman family sold the two dealerships to Lithia, Alan Haig, president of Haig Partners, told Automotive News.
The Lehman and Esserman transactions closed Monday.
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Icy period piece loosely based on the 1936 attempt to climb the north face of Switzerland's Eiger Mountain. Hoping to gain publicity before the Olympic games, the Third Reich recruits small-town Bavarian mountaineers Toni (Furmann) and Andi (Lukas) to climb the last unconquered peak of the Alps. Their struggles and setbacks are contrasted with the luxury and ease of the propaganda brigade sent to cover the ascent, which includes Toni's former girlfriend Luise (Wokalek). Director Stolzl plays rather fast-and-loose with the facts to heighten the tension and tie his story in with the Nazi ideology that's pervading Germany at the time. The action and drama are riveting when focused on the men on the mountain, however. German with subtitles. | [
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- Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose will lead the UBC team on a national study investigating the burden of COVID-19 infection among aging Canadians
For media enquiries or more information about research at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, please contact Vanessa Hrvatin (Communications Coordinator) or Clement Woo (Communications Manager).
Up to 70 percent of people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) experience cognitive impairment as a result of the disease. This can range from difficulty with memory recall to taking a long time to complete tasks, all of which have a big impact on a person’s day-to-day life. While it’s been known for a long time that cognition can be impaired in MS, the reason behind this particular symptom has remained largely unclear.
Many awards have been handed out to DMCBH students and postdoctoral fellows this week. Congratulations to all the winners!
Jock & Irene Graham Brain Research Endowment (Postdoctoral Award):
Jill Dosso, Postdoctoral fellow
A team of UBC researchers is working with colleagues in Shanghai to implement the use of technology when it comes to treating and managing depression.
Since opening its doors in 2014, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) has been home to ground-breaking scientific research which continues to advance understanding of the brain. In recent months, the DMCBH like many research institutions around the world, has faced an unexpected challenge, with COVID-19 sweeping the globe and forcing a curtailment of on-campus research.
The MacVicar Lab has published two papers today looking at immunometabolism in the brain, an exciting area of research that has gained momentum over the past few years.
Dr. Catharine Winstanley has been elected into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), as a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. This is the first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. She is being inducted along with eight others in the UBC community who have showed excellence in their area of research.
Like many areas of science, neurogenesis is one where little work has been done looking at sex differences.
Neurogenesis is the process where new neurons are formed in the brain, which happens in the adult hippocampus. Previous research in this area has largely focused on male subjects, which has prevented researchers from understanding how this process might differ in females. | [
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December 30, 2017
Detail of the painted ceiling in Waltham Abbey depicting the two faced god Janus
The two faced Roman god Janus appears everywhere at the New Year, his divided gaze peering from blogs, greeting cards and news articles. As he looks into the future and ponders the past, Janus reminds us that everything new will soon be old – and that the past will resurrect, renew and be born again in a fresh guise. This dual aspect of time moves the trendiest new perfumes into the past and brings once outmoded scents to life as fashionably fragrant revivals.The unavoidable nature of time is why the main reason why I gravitate towards vintage perfumes. Every year the new becomes old, but instead of selling or gifting my vintage perfumes, I never let them go. They are my treasured loves, no matter their age. Here are a few reasons why vintage perfumes mean so much to me.
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Memories! Every scent I own is attached to a specific memory. My vintage perfumes are part of a three dimensional, multi-sensory "photo" album that brings together, via olfaction, remembered sights, sounds and atmospheres.
Vintage Fleure de Rocaille by Caron
When I want to visit my great grandmother I dab on a touch from the old Fleurs de Rocaille by Caron. As I open the bottle, decorated with a fragile paper doily, I am immediately transported to her Victorian home. I see antimacassars on the upholstered furniture and feel the touch of the lacy lavender fabrics of her dresses and the powdery violet bouquets she favored.
Vintage Perfumes: Lagerfeld KL parfum, Coty La Rose Jacqueminot EdT, Lanvin Spanish Geranium, Judith Muller Bat-Sheba two different bottle shapes, Dior Diorissimo.
Vintage perfumes can serve as time machines whisking the wearer to places and eras, near and far. Estee Lauder Youth Dew and Lanvin Spanish Geranium recall my mother's dressing table in 1950s Florida.
Vintage perfumes: Norell and Guy Laroche Fidji
Guy Laroche Fidji brings into focus a small boutique in an Italian ski resort many years ago. Mukhallats, top heavy with roses, jasmine and oud, never fail to remind me of the perfume sellers in the Meshed bazaar during the 1970s. Vintage perfumes can recreate moods, the effects of light, atmosphere and even air temperature, bringing every aspect of an experience to life in a rush of nostalgia.
Gail's vintage perfumes: Dana Tabu parfum, Coty Les Muses EdT and EdP, Tuvache Jungle Gardenia skin parfum, bath parfum and parfum extrait.
I cherish every fragrance I own and wear several vintage perfumes on a regular basis. Dana Tabu, the aforesaid Fidji, Lucien Lelong Sirocco, Karl Lagerfeld KL, Judith Muller Bat-Sheba, Coty Les Muses (the 1980s version), Calandre by Paco Rabanne and the original Tuvache Jungle Gardenia are all included in my monthly rotation. There are, of course, the obligatory bottles of Chanel No5 and Guerlain Shalimar. And that brings to mind another important reason why I love vintage perfumes- The Bottles!
Vintage Coty Emeraude
Perfumes bottles are unique to collecting. They offer not only intangible experiences of scent and recollection but also serve as concrete collectable "things". Many vintage crystal and glass perfume flacons are so exquisite as to be almost impossible to resist. I covet the commercially produced bottles of Baccarat, Lalique, Verreres Pochet, Limoges, Steuben and others and am particularly fond of the early to mid-century offerings of Francois Coty (vintage Emeraude for one) and the creations of designer Lucien Lelong. Sometimes these gorgeous relics can be found for much less money than their newer equivalents, albeit harder to track down. The resulting "Treasure Hunt" is an indispensable part of the fun!
Charles of the Ritz Ritual, Nina Ricci L’Air du Temps, Molinard de Molinard, Bijan and Caesar’s Woman parfums
Searching for the scarce and the discontinued is at the heart of the vintage perfumes obsession. "Scoring" a favorite scent memory, housed in an exquisite bottle – for a song – is the dream of many perfume collectors. The hunt can take us to flea markets, garage sales, auction sites, brick and mortar antique stores, on-line grey | [
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A significant portion of Western economies are consumption based. No matter what a person does, we consume: food, energy, goods, services and many others. But when it comes to the most basic aspects of consumerism (I.E. shopping malls, retail outlets, etc.) we are buying behemoths.
According to a 2006 study, women spend approximately eight years of their life (or 25,184 hours and 53 minutes over a period of 63 years) shopping – the study did not consist of their male counterparts.
Over the course of a year, Americans spend trillions of dollars on consumption, and about $450 billion during the holiday season. Many experts have developed a term called a Consuming Addict, which is someone who needs and craves to acquire possessions.
When people do shop, though, they may attempt to find the best deals at the local shopping plaza. Retailers try to find any necessary method to draw in potential customers to purchase their goods or services. In the end, though, items on sale may not even be deals and it will force you to spend more money.
Business will try any tactic to force you to spend more. What are some of the ways retailers trick you into spending more money?
Bundling (and free items)
Outside of a store, there may be a huge sign that states, “Buy one | get one free.” This seems too good to be true (it probably is). They will try to bundle items together at an extra cost to try get rid of their stock.
For example, a store may have a pair of socks priced at $10, but if you buy a bundle that consists of a “free pair” then most likely the price would be raised to $12.50, which is more than what you expected to spend.
$9.99 (not the Herman Cain plan)
You will browse through a store and see all of the items on sale for $1.99, $9.99 and $19.99. Why do they do this? Wouldn’t it make life easier if they had on items selling for $2, $10 and $20? If you sat through your marketing class in high school you will remember studies that suggest shoppers spend more money when prices end in nine.
It’s pretty common for stores to hold sales throughout the year, but if you think about it, the items that are on sale aren’t really on sale. If an item normally costs $89.99, but is on sale for $69.99 then it’s not really a sale because that’s how much the item is most likely worth.
Don’t normally assume that a “sale” automatically means good prices, even though you were forced to believe that throughout your life. Unless a good is normally $100 and is now being reduced to $10, don’t buy into it (literally).
Eye to eye (literally)
A standard method that stores utilize, especially grocery stores, is putting things at eye level. Usually, when you see an item at eye level, it’s pretty easy to pick it up with your hands. This would encourage you to buy it. Why do you think that a majority of grocery items are so easy to get, particularly the food that is bad for you?
Carts vs. Baskets (the saving battle)
Head over to Wal-Mart, your local grocery store or any department store and you will see oversized carts being filled to the rim with useless items. They have these carts on sale so the consumer fills it up. Baskets are a better alternative for shoppers because it will force you to spend less.
If you go to a grocery store, you can spend around between $20 and $30 if you fill up your basket. If you utilize a cart, you can spend an astronomical amount of money on food that will most likely expire.
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Most Popular Exterior Paint Colors
The exterior paint color of your home has a huge impact on the overall curb appeal of your property. It’s a passerby’s first impression and directly impacts the monetary value of your house. But it can also take a toll on your pride! So maybe it’s time for a touch up, or a complete overhaul? To help you pick an exterior paint color that breathes new life into your home, we’re sharing our favorite go-to colors that are modern and timeless. Plus, the best exterior house paint, tested and approved by Helix Painting of Denver.
Exterior Paint Colors
Color trends are constantly changing, which is why it’s important that you choose an exterior house color that is timeless. It will help maintain you home’s curb appeal, as well as the resell value. Check out these popular exterior paint colors that you’ll love for years to come!
- Navy – An always popular color for exteriors, navy blue is a classic choice. It’s also a great alternative if you love the traditional white house with navy shutters, but want to switch things up a bit. We recommend the color In the Navy, which is a rich navy blue.
- Charcoal – Charcoal is not a pure black, but a dusty black. Think of the darkest shade of grey you can get before its black. Home’s with a dark exterior have a great resale value, thanks to the uptick in dark neutral color palettes. We recommend the shade Iron Ore.
- Cream – A warm off-white, cream is a clean and bright color that will lend an cozy but modern look to your property. Our favorite cream color is Shoji White. For a unique look, consider keeping your trim and shutters a crisp white, which will provide some contrast.
- Olive Green – Any green is a beautiful exterior color, but olive green is our favorite. A muted brown-green, it looks great with homes that feature natural wood or stone elements. It also contrasts well with white, when used for trim or on shutters. For an olive green, check out Pewter Green.
- Deep Brown – As with olive green, a dark brown is a great natural color that will lend warmth to your home. You might try Urbane Bronze. It can be complemented with a bright white or a pure black.
- White – If you like a traditional look, you can’t go wrong with white, like the color Snowbound. For a pop of color paint your door or shutters a bright shade, like red or blue. Or maintain a sleek and minimal look with neutral accents.
When choosing an exterior paint color for you home, be sure to consider the weather where you live. Some elements, such as extreme temperatures or high humidity, will impact the colors you should consider. Otherwise, you may up needing a repaint sooner than your wallet would prefer.
Best Exterior House Paint
Aside from choosing a beautiful paint color, you also need to choose a high quality paint. The following exterior paints by Sherwin Williams are our top picks for long lasting protection:
Resilience Exterior Acrylic Latex Paint – A high quality exterior finish, Resilience with MoistureGuard™ Technology for excellent early moisture and mildew resistance. This product is recommended for use on aluminum and vinyl siding, wood siding, clapboard, shakes, shingles, plywood, masonry, and metal. It is available in flat, gloss and satin sheens.
Duration Exterior Acrylic Coating – Formulated with PermaLast® technology, Duration is infused with advanced acrylic co-polymers for long-lasting performance. Duration is self-priming and provides a mildew-resistance coating. It requires just one coat for repaints and two coats for new work. It is available in satin, flat, gloss and low luster sheens.
Emerald Exterior Acrylic Latex Paint – A premium paint and primer in one, Emerald allows you to achieve stunning exterior results that stand the test of time in fewer coats. It offers resistance to blistering, peeling, fading and dirt pickup, as well as a mildew-resistant coating. And is available in satin, flat and gloss sheens.
Want to skip the hassle and hire a professional to paint the exterior of your home? Helix Painting in Denver is committed to helping you achieve ultimate curb appeal. Our exterior painting services include walls and siding, trim, doors, garages, and more! Book your exterior painting estimate or request a free estimate online. | [
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