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April 23, 2018 /0 Comments/in From St Louis Cleaning Team /by Theresa G.
As we move further into 2018 we would just like to say Thank You!
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We at GDAX couldn’t be more excited by the explosion of interest in digital currencies. The last few weeks has seen an unprecedented increase in the price of digital currencies. More people are engaging with our platform than ever and that bodes well for the future of the digital currency. At the same time, it does create extreme volatility and stress on our systems. We take this very seriously and wanted to share some important thoughts.
Despite the sizable and ongoing increases in our technical infrastructure and engineering staff, we wanted to remind customers that access to GDAX services may become degraded or unavailable during times of significant volatility or volume. This could result in the inability to trade for periods of time. Limit and stop-loss orders may not execute in periods of high volatility if there is not sufficient liquidity on the other side. Despite ongoing increases in our support capacity, our customer support response times may be delayed, especially for requests that do not involve immediate risks to customer account security. You can read more in our GDAX User Agreement.
We also wanted to remind customers of some of the risks associated with trading digital currency. Digital currencies are volatile and the prices can go up and down. Due to the rapidly changing price of digital currencies, some customers may not have withdrawal limits that are sufficient relative to the value of total digital currency they are storing on GDAX.
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We will continue to update customers on our website, our status page, via email, on our blog and on Twitter.
Please invest responsibly — an important message from the GDAX team was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. | 2019-04-23T06:17:21Z | https://tops-from-world.tk/2018/11/11/82939/ |
Himachal Pradesh is a Hiker’s paradise. Hiking in is the best way to see beautiful landscapes and explore vast wilderness areas in the state. So grab a bagpack and put on your walking boots. So, we found the “Best hiking shoes under 5k for mountain lovers”. It is available within the range of Rs 3299-4600 exclusive of delivery charges.
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2 2.5.2 Use of any unsafe ammunition as defined in Section A participant who abandons a firearm during a stage in any unsafe location other than a safe abandonment location as stipulated in the stage briefing, shall be disqualified If a participant abandons an unsafe firearm during a stage in the designated abandonment location, participant shall receive a 30 second procedural penalty. Firearms will be considered safely abandoned and not incur a penalty or disqualification in any one of the following conditions: Loaded, safety catch fully engaged, muzzle pointed in the designated safe direction Completely unloaded (no ammunition in the firearm), detachable magazine removed, muzzle pointed in the designated safe direction Re-Holstering of a loaded firearm is prohibited even if the firearm is placed on safe. Re-Holstering of a loaded firearm shall be a Match Disqualification Allowing the muzzle of a firearm to break the 180 degree safety plane In the case of a participant facing downrange, the muzzle of a loaded handgun may point slightly up range while drawing or reholstering, so long as it does not point outside an imaginary circle of three (3) feet radius from the participant s feet In the case of a unloaded slung firearm, the participant is not required to maintain the 180 degree rule until ammunition is placed into the firearm, i.e.: magazine being inserted or rounds being loaded into the tube Engaging a steel target in an unsafe manner, such as by: Engaging steel targets with handgun ammunition at a range of less than 30 feet Engaging steel targets with shotgun birdshot shot ammunition at a range of less than 30 feet Engaging steel targets with shotgun slug ammunition at a range of less than 90 feet Engaging steel targets with rifle ammunition at a range of less than 100 feet Allowing the muzzle of a firearm to point at any part of the participant s body during a course of fire (i.e. sweeping) Exception - sweeping of the lower extremities (below the belt) while drawing or re-holstering a handgun, provided that the competitor s fingers are clearly outside of the trigger guard Using a tube-type shotgun speed-loading device without a primer relief cut Pointing a firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, in any direction deemed by event officials to be unsafe. 3. Ammunition 3.1 Handgun ammunition shall be 9mm Parabellum (9x19mmNATO) or larger, unless otherwise stipulated under equipment division rules. 3.2 Rifle ammunition shall be.223 Remington (5.56x45mmNATO) or larger, unless otherwise stipulated under equipment division rules Rifle ammunition containing any type of steel core or steel penetrator shall NOT be used during the match. Rifle ammunition may be checked at any time during the duration of the match by any match official. 3.3 Shotgun ammunition shall be 20 gauge or larger, unless otherwise stipulated under equipment division rules Birdshot must be no larger than #6 birdshot, and be made from lead or bismuth only. Iron/steel/tungsten birdshot is unsafe and prohibited. 3.4 Ammunition containing tracer, incendiary, armor piercing, steel jacketed or steel/tungsten/penetrator core projectiles is unsafe and prohibited. 3.5 A chronograph may be used by Event Officials to verify compliance with Heavy Metal division power factor requirements. Participants may be selected for testing on any basis approved by the Match Director. The chronograph procedure is as follows: An Event Official will collect five (5) rifle rounds and five (5) handgun rounds from the participant One (1) of the rifle bullets and one (1) of the handgun bullets will be pulled and weighed to determine actual bullet weight Up to four (4) of the rifle rounds and up to four (4) of the handgun rounds will be fired by an Event Official over the official chronograph Power factor will be calculated according to the equation: PF = Bullet Weight (grains) x Velocity (fps) / 1000.
3 4. Firearms At least one (1) of the rifle rounds and at least one (1) of the handgun rounds must make the required power factor. 4.1 All firearms used by participants must be serviceable and safe. Event officials may inspect a participant s firearms at any time to check they are functioning safely. If any firearm is declared unserviceable or unsafe by an event official, it must be withdrawn from the event until it is repaired to the satisfaction of the Range Master(s). 4.2 Firearms capable of fully automatic- or burst-fire ( machine guns ) may NOT be used during the event. 4.3 Participants must use the same firearms (handgun, rifle and shotgun) for the entire event If a participant's firearm becomes unserviceable, that participant may replace their firearm with another of a substantially similar model, caliber and sighting system only with the approval of the Range Master(s). 4.4 Participants generally may not reconfigure any firearm during the course of the event. Explicitly prohibited acts include changing caliber, barrel length, shotgun magazine tube length, sighting systems and/or stock style. Explicitly permitted acts include changing of chokes, installing or removing support devices (e.g. bipods), slings and other minor accessories (e.g. scope covers) If a participant's firearm becomes unserviceable, that participant may repair their firearm with directly equivalent replacement parts. If replacement parts result in a significant change to the firearm configuration, then the repair must be approved by the Range Master(s). 4.5 Unless otherwise stipulated in the stage briefing, required firearms will begin the stage in the following ready conditions: Handgun: Loaded to division start capacity and holstered. In the case of single-action autos or double-action autos with manual override safeties, the safety catch must be in the safe position. In the case of double-action only autos & revolvers, the hammer must be down/forward Rifle: Loaded to division start capacity and held with both hands. Safety catch must be in the safe position Shotgun: Loaded to division start capacity and held with both hands. Safety catch must be in the safe position Participants may not touch or hold any firearm loading device or ammunition after the Standby command and before the Start Signal (except for unavoidable touching with the lower arms). 5. Equipment Divisions 5.1 Participants will declare one equipment division at the beginning of the event. 5.2 Open division Equipment divisions are: Open, Tactical Scope, Tactical Limited, Heavy Metal Scope and Heavy Metal Limited Failure to meet all of the equipment and ammunition requirements for the declared division shall result in the participant being placed into Open division. If the requirements of Open division are not met, the participant s scores will be excluded from the final event results Handgun holsters must safely retain the handgun during vigorous movement. The belt upon which the handgun holster is attached must be worn at waist level. Shoulder holsters and cross draw holsters are prohibited Handgun Rifle Shotgun 5.3 Tactical Scope division Magazine length may not exceed 170mm Supporting devices (e.g. bipods) are permitted, and may begin any stage folded or deployed at the participant s discretion Speed loading devices and/or detachable box magazines is permitted Tubular speed loading devices must feature a primer relief cut Firearms must be of a factory configuration. Internal modifications are permitted providing they do not alter the external appearance of the Handgun holsters must be a practical/tactical carry style and must safely retain the handgun during vigorous movement. The holster material must completely cover the trigger on all semiautomatic pistols. Revolver holsters must completely cover the trigger and the cylinder. The belt upon which the handgun holster is attached must be worn at waist level. Shoulder holsters and cross draw holsters are prohibited Handgun Electronic sights, optical sights, extended sights, compensators or barrel porting are prohibited.
5 must completely cover the trigger on all semiautomatic pistols. Revolver holsters must completely cover the trigger and the cylinder. The belt upon which the handgun holster is attached must be worn at waist level. Shoulder holsters and cross draw holsters are prohibited Handgun Electronic sights, optical sights, extended sights, compensators or barrel porting are prohibited Magazines length may not exceed 170mm in the case of single column magazines, and may not exceed 140mm in the case of staggered column magazines Rifle Shotgun 5.6 Heavy Metal Limited division Not more than one (1) optical sight is permitted A supplemental magnifier may be used with the permitted optical sight provided the magnifier does not contain an aiming reticle, cannot be used as an aiming device by itself, and remains mounted in the same location on the rifle for the duration of the event. A participant may use the magnifier in either the magnified or unmagnified mode without restriction Supporting devices longer than 5 (bipods, etc.) are prohibited Compensators and muzzle brakes may not exceed 1 inch in diameter and 3 inches in length (as measured from the barrel muzzle to the end of the compensator) Minimum caliber is Minimum power factor (bullet weight x velocity/1000) is Only tubular magazines are permitted Electronic or optical sights are prohibited Supporting devices longer than 5 (bipods, etc.) are prohibited Barrel devices designed/intended to reduce recoil or muzzle movement (e.g. compensators, barrel porting) are prohibited Speed loading devices and/or detachable box magazines are prohibited Not more than nine (9) rounds total may be loaded at the beginning of any stage, unless otherwise stipulated in the stage briefing Minimum bore size is 12 gauge Firearms must be of a factory configuration. Internal modifications are permitted providing they do not alter the external appearance of the Handgun holsters must be a practical/tactical carry style and must safely retain the handgun during vigorous movement. The holster material must completely cover the trigger on all semiautomatic pistols. Revolver holsters must completely cover the trigger and the cylinder. The belt upon which the handgun holster is attached must be worn at waist level. Shoulder holsters and cross draw holsters are prohibited Handgun Rifle Electronic sights, optical sights, extended sights, compensators or barrel porting are not permitted Magazines length may not exceed 170mm in the case of single column magazines, and may not exceed 140mm in the case of staggered column magazines. Magazines may be loaded with not more than ten (10) rounds Minimum caliber is Minimum power factor (bullet weight x velocity/1000) is Not more than one (1) non-magnified electronic or optical sight is permitted. Electronic or optical sights originally designed to be capable of any magnification (whether used or not) are prohibited Supporting devices longer than 5 (bipods, etc.) are prohibited Compensators and muzzle brakes may not exceed 1 inch in diameter and 3 inches in length (as measured from the barrel muzzle to the end of the compensator) Magazines may be loaded with not more than twenty (20) rounds Minimum caliber is.30.
7 be used as official calibration tools only by the Range Master(s) or designated testing personnel. Designated calibration firearms and ammunition are not subject to challenge Frangible targets (e.g. clay pigeons) must break by gunfire to score. A target with a significant piece visibly detached is considered broken Frangible targets that do not break will incur time penalties as follows: Target did not break, but target was engaged = 10 second penalty (Un-hit Target) Target did not break and target was not engaged = 15 second penalty (Target Not Hit and Not Engaged) Disappearing targets may only be engaged after their appearance and before their disappearance Scoring hits on designated No Shoot targets will incur a 5 second penalty per hit, up to a maximum of 2 hits per no-shoot. Steel No Shoot targets must fall to receive a penalty. Frangible No Shoot targets must break to receive a penalty Failure to follow the procedure in the stage briefing will result in a 5 second penalty. If a competitive advantage is deemed to have been gained, procedural penalties may be applied on a per shot basis Stage Not Fired (SNF) penalty is 300 seconds per stage not fired The Match Director may specify a time limit for completing any stage by stating it clearly in the stage briefing. If a participant exceeds the time limit, they will be stopped by an event official and the stage will be scored as shot with the time to the last shot and all applicable miss and TNE penalties The time limit established for this match per stage is 150 seconds : The signing of a competitors score sheet by either the Range Officer or the competitor shall not be a final act. The signing of a score sheet will not be relief from further penalties or disqualification should Match Official's deem it necessary. 6.2 Match and Stage times Total stage time will be by time plus with the time adjusted for any penalties incurred Total time accumulated for all stages will be factored against the fastest time to determine stages points. Each stage is worth a maximum of 100 stage points. Stage points will then be placed highest to lowest for each stage to determine the event placement by division The order of finish from top to bottom will be determined by the highest accumulated points to lowest accumulated points by division. 6.3 One or more of the following individual participant categories may be recognized at the discretion of the Match Director: Lady: Participants who were of the female gender at birth Junior: Participants who were under the age of 18 years on the first day of the event Senior: Participants who were over the age of 55 years on the first day of the event Military: Current or honorably retired military personnel Law: Current or retired full-time law enforcement officers with arrest/apprehension authority. | 2019-04-23T00:32:49Z | http://sportdocbox.com/Paintball/70121068-Generation-iii-gun-championship-rules.html |
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It’s official, we lagged last month. Due to some unforseen circumstances we couldn’t get it together but we are back now! Special guest set this month from Trevor Church of Beastmaker. Talk is cheap, here is the set list and the link. | 2019-04-20T19:14:47Z | https://www.ridingeasyrecs.com/potcast12/ |
For all you out there who may not understand the difference between MLM & Network Marketing…here is a small article that may help you.
When searching for ways to make money, or home business opportunities, you will consistently come across one business model. You will see this referred to as mlm or network marketing.
This brings up the question of whether there is a difference between network marketing and mlm opportunities? MLM is short for multi-level marketing. This business model has been around for over 50 years. The co-founders of Amway are credited with starting multilevel marketing.
The concept is that you get paid on several levels of business partners underneath you. This is what multi-level means.
Over the years this carried the negative reference of being a pyramid scheme. In reality honest MLM companies are not pyramid schemes.
This is true for a couple of reasons.
1. You can make more money than the person above you. 2. You can achieve a higher position and climb through the various ranks faster than the person above you.
In a true pyramid scheme the person at the top of the pyramid would be the one making the most money. This is not true in MLM companies because there are numerous examples of people climbing to the top of the company they are in no matter how late they started.
Several years ago mlm opportunities began to be referred to as network marketing. This phrase was coined to offset the bad reputation multi-level marketing had developed.
This is actually a better way to describe this business model because so much of your success is built on networking and relationship building. Even for marketers who primarily use the Internet, social networking has became a big part of growing an Internet business using mlm marketing.
That is not the only change that has happened in this industry. Almost every MLM company has an online presence.
Because all of your sponsoring and retail sales can be done on the Internet, this makes it easier to build a business quicker. You can use the Internet to sort through prospects and develop new leads for your business as well.
Network marketing companies now provide websites and marketing materials that you can begin promoting immediately. They also handle all product shipments and send out commissions to your downline as well.
You can also be in more than one mlm business at once. This was not possible before.
However, it’s not unusual for successful network marketers to be promoting more than one opportunity at a time. This really makes it possible for you to create residual income in more than one way.
It is also smart for you to join an MLM company that you have a need for a product in. This way you can develop customers to help generate income in that niche as well as purchase products from yourself.
In summary, when we look at whether there is a difference between MLM and network marketing, the answer is yes. The business model is the same, but the opportunities are greater today.
I hope this article brought you some insight. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Below I included additional articles on the subject that you may enjoy!
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RSS has become a useful tool when it comes to getting your posts to your subscribers, but those people will quickly leave if you aren’t giving them what they ask for. The three tips below are the ones the experts use when they want their subscribers to remain just as they are.
The first thing to keep in mind when you want people to see your blog as something valuable is to refrain from creating paid reviews. Even if you are writing them, always ensure that you are keeping them to a minimum. The reason you’ll want to stay away from paid reviews is because there is a stigma attached to them and people’s motivation is typically money-motivated instead of providing an honest review. The whole reason you’re doing reviews is so that you can weigh the pros and cons of the products. Paid reviews aren’t going to seem very genuine. If people sense that you’re doing this, you are going to have people unsubscribing from your Blog’s RSS feed left and right.
The best way to get people to remain subscribers is to provide true value without distracting them. For example, when you include too many hyperlinks, you will see people divert in other directions. You want their whole focus on whatever content you provide, so that it benefits them the most. That’s why you don’t want to leave too many ways for them to escape. Whenever you post, you need to focus on providing true value, so that your readers always feel satisfied that they got what they came for. Readers are always searching for those webpages that offer the entire bulk of the information they seek, as it’s annoying to have to go searching for more. Links are ok to use after your posts, as they’ll be done reading and ready to go somewhere else. The bottom line is that your subscribers should always get just what they came for when it comes to your page.
Your readers should always feel as though you care about their needs or else they won’t be subscribers for long. That’s why you will always want to respond to their communications and also to whatever feedback they offer. This will reveal to them that you actually do value them that you took time out of your day to answer their communications. Not only that, but it gives you the opportunity to find out how to talk to your readers and also how they feel about your product. This goes beyond the typical customer service because here you’re genuinely trying to help your readers, which gives them a reason to stay connected to you.
You should now see that keeping your Blog’s RSS subscribers is actually quite easy. Just always remember that your Blog’s RSS subscribers are on your list because of the value you provide, so never ignore that.
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Virtual Marketing Empire, LLC was founded by Adele Coco Roberts and Christina Forestieri in 2013. Together both Founders have a combined 40+ years of successful business experience from the Fitness industry to the Non-Profit industry. Adele and Christina are both pioneers in regards to both marketing and operations. The Virtual Marketing Empire corporation was created as an official site for all top of the line online marketing products, tools, home based business opportunities and free online training center for all the products and businesses this site offers. | 2019-04-24T17:57:34Z | https://virtualmarketingempire.wordpress.com/tag/pure-leverage/ |
A special edition of World10, highlighting the top 10 moments from Atlas Network's 2017 Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner. Special thanks to the Smith Family Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, & the rest of our generous sponsors for making Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner possible. Above: British MEP Daniel Hannan delivers the Toast to Freedom at Freedom Dinner 2017.
The historic Capitale was bursting at the seams with more than 650 people from 50 countries when Daniel Hannan paid homage in his Toast to Freedom to Atlas Network’s founder, Sir Antony Fisher, who once was a very successful chicken farmer. “Chickens are not exactly the eagle, the American crest, and yet under their feathers, they embody freedom,” said Hannan. He went on to describe how without free trade, a chicken sandwich would likely be out of reach for most people in the world. Thank you, Daniel, for bringing the house down at this year’s Freedom Dinner!
Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) won this year’s prestigious $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award for its revolutionary “3de3” campaign to establish a comprehensive legal infrastructure to combat corruption in Mexico. As of July 18, 2017, it is required by law that every politician (every!) must publish his or her declarations of assets, taxes paid, and possible conflicts of interest. It is never easy to enact change at the highest level of any country, but IMCO’s citizen-led legislative initiative reminds not just Mexicans – but citizens of democratic countries everywhere – that shaping the apparatus of government is never truly out of reach.
When he was speaking about reforms with big impact — during one of the bazillion engaging breakout sessions at Liberty Forum — Franklin Cudjoe, founding president and CEO of IMANI Center for Policy and Education, nonchalantly mentioned how the Ghanaian minister of finance had contacted him the night before to ask what his ministry is doing right and what it could be doing better. Yet another reminder that it’s all about having good policy ideas ready to go for when the politicians come calling.
In this year's Think Tank Shark Tank competition, a French ‘Rooster’ project channeled an English chicken farmer; a Los Angeles-based former radio host pitched a bold new podcast for the ladies; and a scholar from Turkey pitched a Rule of Law Academy. The expert panel of judges ultimately chose Alexandre Pesey for his pitch to create a civic incubator (“The incubator Le Coquetier”) designed to identify, select, train, coach, and guide intellectual entrepreneurs across France. He received the $25,000 in seed funding for this project.
Russ Roberts’ wildly popular EconTalk podcast came to New York City for a special live taping at Liberty Forum. The podcast featured Atlas Network COO Matt Warner and Simeon Djankov, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Bulgaria and creator of the World Bank's Doing Business series. They discussed Atlas Network’s recently supported research that connects ease of doing business and poverty alleviation — every 5 percent increase in a country’s score in the Doing Business scale results in a 1-percentage point reduction in poverty. Word on the street is that Russ will be publishing the podcast very soon!
Moderated by Atlas Network’s Casey Pifer, several of the Templeton Freedom Award finalists spoke on a panel about the importance of building coalitions that are not ideologically aligned to one’s broader mission. There were so many people wanting to ask questions of the panelists that the hotel A/V staffer providing the microphone crouch-sprinted through the ballroom from person to person. Are we sure we can’t give him an award too?
“All I do is read journal articles ... and in the morning after traffic dies down, I head to work, where I read more articles. And then you hear that the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and I think, maybe if we just read more articles we can solve some of these problems,” said Peter Boettke, who delivered this year’s annual Liggio Lecture on the intellectual laziness of scholars today.
As part of every Liberty Forum and Freedom Dinner, Atlas Network provides a robust suite of trainings, from the 10-day intensive Think Tank MBA facilitated by Rainer Heufers, to the three-day Think Tank Leadership Training taught by several industry thought leaders, to specialized training for board members in the Global Board Leaders Summit facilitated by Mina Merkel. A common thread throughout all of the trainings this year was the importance of improving on our industry’s messaging and storytelling, brought to life by Don Draper’s famous Kodak Carousel pitch, which was screened by Daniel Anthony, Atlas Network’s vice president of marketing and communications, in a storytelling workshop. “It’s time to move our messaging beyond the features ... and start talking about the true meaning of our work,” said Anthony.
A first for Liberty Forum this year, 10 of our industry’s thought leaders gave 10-minute inspirational Cornerstone Talks. “If we can make our content compelling to the right audience at the right time, we win,” said John Tillman, CEO of Illinois Policy Institute, and one of the ten speakers. Other Cornerstone Talks were presented by Linda Kavuka, from Students For Liberty (Africa); Carrie Lukas, from Independent Women’s Forum (USA); and Gabriel Calzada, from Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), among others. Thank you to all who attended this year’s big event. We hope to see you all next November in NYC for Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner 2018. And if you can’t wait that long, check out one of our Regional Liberty Forums in 2018! | 2019-04-25T22:09:11Z | https://www.atlasnetwork.org/news/article/top-10-moments-from-lffd17 |
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Strawberry Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread Recipe - A delcious breakfast treat!
I love an easy quick bread recipe and adding fruit always makes it so much better. This Strawberry Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread recipe is delicious and our new favorite breakfast treat.
I first made this bread in May after we went strawberry picking and I’ve made it four more times since then. That’s how much we love it. I also took it to a family brunch and everyone wanted the recipe. I meant to share the recipe weeks ago and can’t believe I forgot.
If you’re looking for a quick bread recipe, you’ve come to the right place. The combination of cinnamon, sugar, and strawberries is baked to perfection in this recipe. Top it with a simple glaze and this bread won’t last long – I can promise you that.
You just can’t go wrong with an easy quick bread recipe. So the next time you’re craving something sweet for breakfast, pick up a package of strawberries and whip up this delicious Strawberry Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread. It’s especially good with a warm cup of coffee. Come to think of it, it’s also a great afternoon snack and the perfect dessert.
I love an easy quick bread recipe and adding fruit always makes it so much better. This Strawberry Cinnamon Swirl Quick Bread is delicious and our new favorite breakfast treat.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9×5 loaf pan with cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda together.
Combine oil, Greek yogurt, eggs, and vanilla in separate bowl. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
Make the Cinnamon Swirl by mixing the 2/3 cup of sugar and cinnamon together in small bowl.
Pour 1/3 of the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of strawberries over batter. Sprinkle 1/2 of the cinnamon sugar over strawberries.
Pour 1/3 of the batter over cinnamon sugar layer. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of strawberries over batter. Sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar over top.
Pour the remaining batter over cinnamon sugar layer. Sprinkle remaining strawberries over final layer of batter.
Make crumble topping by mixing flour, sugar in small bowl. Cut in the butter using a fork until a crumble forms. Sprinkle crumble over bread batter.
Bake for 60 minute or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
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quickly greeting me with your familiar sights and fears and anticipations.
filled with the overwhelming dread which you cast over me.
I recall memories of uneasiness which I have beheld while in your arms.
You bring anxiety when you envelop me and yet I long for you to never go away.
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All gifts of $2 and over are tax-deductible.
Please make your cheque payable to the ‘ERTM Scholarship Fund’. | 2019-04-23T14:49:48Z | http://artsongperth.org.au/donate.html |
JD News reports the United Arab Emirates has donated a financial gift to help open a pediatric medical research facility at the hold Walter Reed A Medical Center Site in the District. Affiliated with the Children’s National Medical Center, the facility will open in 2020 on about 12 acres in Washington DC. The new Children’s National Research and Innovation Campus will research rare childhood diseases and maintain an outpatient clinic.
The United Arab Emirates is donating $30 million; the Arab nation gave $150 million 10 years ago for the Pediatric Surgical Innovation just a few miles away. Strategically placed, the campus is in the “sweet spot of innovation” adjacent to the National Institutes of Health, the University of Maryland and the U.S. Patient and Trademark Office among other institutions in the area. | 2019-04-21T13:30:09Z | https://www.trialsitenews.com/childrens-national-research-and-innovation-campus-washington-dc-funded-by-united-arab-emirates/ |
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Our Clock Systems provide for accurate, reliable and synchronized time. We offer a wireless clock system, a Wi-Fi Clock System and an Ethernet Clock System. These clock systems are used by many different organizations in different markets. Time is the foundation for which any organization builds its success upon.
Within each one of these systems is an excellent selection of clocks. We offer analog, digital and LCD displays. | 2019-04-21T12:28:20Z | https://www.innovationwireless.com/thank-you/quotation-request.html |
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I visited Seattle Sun Light Spa once or twice a week for six weeks, and when I started my jawline was a hot mess. I had those teeny little blemishes that mostly just make your skin look rough and bumpy, and no amount of exfoliation could shake them. Within two weeks of treatments they were gone.
Bellevue is enjoying a ray of brightness as Seattle Sun Tan celebrates the opening of a noninvasive cosmetic maintenance spa on Main Street called Seattle Sun Light Spa.
With services focused on FDA-cleared red and blue light photofacials to reduce wrinkles and redness, even skin tone, and acne reduction; infrared saunas and wellness pods for relaxation, pain relief and immunity-boosting; LED body sculpting solutions; and LED-activated teeth whitening.
"The new Light Spa by Seattle Sun, a new non-invasive cosmetic improvement spa in Downtown Bellevue, celebrated its grand opening. Party guests enjoyed bubbly and sweets from Café Trophy, consultations with the experts at Skin Authority and explored the new suite of clinically validated light therapy and spa services focused on cosmetic improvement, wellness and rejuvenation." | 2019-04-19T05:03:17Z | https://www.seattlesunlightspa.com/community/tag/Light+Stim |
When Taryn (Deragh Campbell), a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill (Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor) have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby (Hannah Gross), just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other and letting go, looking for love where they’ve found it before and, when that doesn’t work, figuring out where they might find it next. | 2019-04-25T19:53:47Z | http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/i-used-to-be-darker/ |
At the forefront of the global fight against infectious diseases affecting children, the Pediatrics Infectious Diseases and Global Health research team focuses on malaria, a leading causes of death and disability in children worldwide. The group works on human malaria pathogenesis and transmission, with an immediate goal of reduction in death and disability from malaria and a long-term goal of elimination of malaria in areas suited to such campaigns. Research questions include examining why children develop severe malaria, the neurodevelopment consequences of severe malaria, the risks of malaria in children with sickle cell disease and the effects of changing transmission on malaria immunity.
This group houses an exceptional and diverse assortment of postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, along with a steady flow of visiting national and international trainees and scholars. | 2019-04-23T03:55:47Z | https://medicine.iu.edu/research/centers-institutes/wells-pediatric-research/research/infectious-diseases-global-health/ |
The Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge is located in the largest high elevation valley east of the Rockies. This is 16,000 unspoiled acres of wild mountain paradise. Unique wetlands and shrublands teem with fascinating wildlife. Catch a glimpse of squirrels, white-tailed deer, raccoons, geese and nearly 200 species of birds. Black bears, bobcats and mink are not uncommon. Though peaceful and remote, enjoying this natural expanse is easy thanks to 31 miles of roads and trails for hiking, 23 miles for biking, and 22 miles open for horseback riding. Additionally, Canaan Valley is neighbors with Dolly Sods Wilderness.
Located in the northern sector of the Valley, numerous activities are available to capture the outdoor spirit that Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge offers. Hunting and fishing opportunities are available, but limited. Want to learn more about the beauty surrounding the refuge? Attend an interpretation, open to any age, that educates on the history, cultural, and natural resources along the hike such as the blooming wildflowers and chirping birds. All photographic enthusiasts are welcome to capture the surrounding scenery and even attempt to catch a photo of the bobolink, which is a distinctive bird of the refuge. The refuge also includes 20 different hiking trails that pass through and alongside the patchwork of 23 wetland types and shrublands.
Travel along the easier trails which include Freeland Boardwalk Trail, River’s Edge Trail, Hellbender’s Tail Trail, Shady Hollow Trail, Blackwater River Fishing Access Trail, Wilderness Way Trail, and the Fishing Hook Trail. These trails vary from .03 miles to .4 miles long.
Travel along the moderate trails which include Idlemans Run Trail, Beall Trail, Brown Mountain Trail, Brown Mountain Overlook Trail, Camp 70 Loop Trail, Cabin Mountain Spur Trail, Sand Run Trail, South Glade Run Crossing Trail, Middle Valley Trail, Blackwater View Trail, and the Canaan Mountain Trail. These trails vary from .4 miles to 6 miles long.
Travel along the more difficult trails which include Cabin Mountain Spur Trail and Valley Overlook. These trails range from .05 miles to 2.2 miles long.
Experience the easiness of the Freeland Trail as you scour the incredible views the Canaan Valley offers. This short .4 mile boardwalk trail makes accessibility available for almost anyone. Walk slowly and enjoy your surroundings as you pass wetlands, shrublands, bustling beaver ponds, and a bubbling spring. Locate a stand of balsam fir that is a plant community typical to Maine and Canada. If you are looking for a short and scenic route, head to Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge to find this trail.
Travel to the parking area at the end of Beall Lane Road, off Cortland Road, to find the 4.7 mile long Beall Trail system. This moderate trail branches off into many separate Beall trails that offer access to pedestrians, bicycles and horses. Take on the North trail as you find yourself wandering through forests, fields, shrubs, swamps, and bog habitats, or take on the South trail to experience grasslands and the Blackwater River. Wondering how to correctly pronounce this trail so your GPS or Siri correctly shows the correct location? Beall is pronounced as “bell”.
A 2-mile trail of moderate difficulty, winds through the forest with a gently increasing grade that leads to Brown Mountain Overlook Trail.
Tweet Tweet! Hear that sound and many more as you journey through Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge searching for the rich diversity of birds flying among you. The area hosts a variety of events throughout each month especially devoted to bird watching! Grab your binoculars and attend the “beginning birding bird walks” that compares the ethnography of each bird. Feeling a bit more adventurous? Grab a seat on the boat during a guided tour through the Blackwater River to view the birds in the surrounding area. | 2019-04-25T00:49:10Z | https://canaanvalley.org/outdoor-recreation/listings/canaan-valley-national-wildlife-refuge |
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How To Know who Called you When your Phone was Switched Off - MTN Who Called?
The No.1 Mobile Telecommunications Company is here again with a Superb and Great way to solve some of our problems we face, with the call we missed when our phone was switched off or unreachable.
MTN’s Who Called and Notify Me, keep you up to speed with calls you missed while your phone was switched off or unreachable. The service will also send you an SMS message when a number you called but could not reach becomes available.
Please note that you will not receive missed call alerts from callers who hide their caller identity and the service will not require you to activate Voice Mail to use the services.
To activate MTN Who Called with Notify Me, text SET 01 to 100.
To activate MTN Who Called, text SET 02 to 100.
How do I check if you already have the service on your phone?
To check your status, text the word STATUS to 100 and you will receive the following message: Y’ello! 803xxxxxxx has an active Who Called service.
To cancel the service, text the word DELETE to 100. | 2019-04-26T00:06:23Z | https://www.mtndata.com.ng/2016/08/how-to-know-who-called-you-when-your.html |
Edwin Star | El diabolik's World of Psychotronic Soundtracks.
In this episode we feature music from: Walter Kubiczeck, Ennio Morricone, John barry, Bernard Ebbinghouse, Peter Thomas, Edwin Star, Henry Salomon, J.P. Decerf and more!
Episode 46 – Track Listing.
Episode 46 – Record Sleeves. | 2019-04-26T10:33:18Z | https://eldiabolik.wordpress.com/tag/edwin-star/ |
There are no simple answers to these questions, but I'm pleased to let you know that all of my client's who've needed to trade-up, downsize or just find something better, have made it through fine so far. My experience is that correctly priced and promoted homes are still selling well. In 2006 the vast majority of the transactions, which I've personally handled, have been at or above asking prices, and the others within 3.5%. The pace is less frantic than it was a year ago, which will make it an easier process for you overall. You'll have a better selection of available new homes now too.
Real estate is by definition a local market; Manhattan ain't St. Louis or Phoenix. Rumors of a housing 'bubble' in NYC are exaggerated in my opinion. Not only are interest rates relatively low and stabilizing, but we have a unique position as the country's economic center of gravity, as well as a global one. The fundamentals of our market are different. It's international, and homes average over one million dollars, not the couple of hundred-thousand dollar national average, that we often see quoted in the press. I'd suggest that it is a very unique place indeed, to demand almost five times the rest of the country's value. Interest is strong in properties that have a fair perception of value, to a person who actually has a need and desire to move. Speculators and bottom feeders are still having a pretty tough time making sense of why they are not making a fast killing here.
So should you be looking for the next place or putting your home on the market first? The short answer is probably a yes to both. Developing a realistic expectation of the market is something that I can help you do on both transactions. Each parcel of real estate is quite unique and understanding the market context of a particular home is critical to achieving your goals for timing, profit and liquidity; every person's scenario will be a little different. Keep in mind that if you have a home to sell, almost no owner will agree to signing a contract with any sort of contingencies about selling your current residence. Financing strategies for your purchase and superior marketing of your home are going to be crucial to your success. Requesting a Market Analysis is a the first step in well informed process based your specific goals. You're invited to tell me about yours: 212.444.7844. | 2019-04-23T20:16:29Z | http://www.comitini.com/selling/the-buy-sell-scenario.php |
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Labor cost is the single highest expense for hospitals. Rather than relying on new technology, this case study seeks to utilize Human Interaction Management to redesign work structure and process to improve labor forecasting and scheduling outcomes.
Which Drivers of User Engagement Support the Cost-Effectiveness of Online Self-Help Programs? Amazon Turkers Tell Web Managers What Matters.
Open Forest is a provider of online mental health self-help programs and, in this context, it is crucial to understand the needs of potential users. With a high prevalence of ADHD, user needs to establish commitment and loyalty centered on the ability to engage with others online. | 2019-04-19T09:45:26Z | http://mumabusinessreview.org/category/type/article/page/3/ |
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Log into the Members Area by clicking the My Account menu and click on Downloads to view the available content. | 2019-04-22T21:56:42Z | https://www.lightroomqueen.com/members/premium-classic/ |
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Cleveland, OH – Cleveland Browns quarterback Brian Hoyer left Thursday's game against the Buffalo Bills with a right knee injury.
The former third-string quarterback and native of suburban Cleveland, Hoyer, who filled in for an injured Brandon Weeden and engineered back- to-back victories, exited early in the first quarter with a knee injury.
Hoyer was hurt while sliding at the end of a scramble. He broke free along the right sideline and picked up a first down, but was hit from behind by Bills linebacker Kiko Alonso and his legs bent awkwardly underneath him.
Hoyer is scheduled to undergo an MRI Friday.
"I don't want to be premature," Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski said. "Let's find out what the status is and see what the MRI says. Anytime you lose a guy who's done what he's done, it's disappointing. But let's see what the MRI says." | 2019-04-25T02:50:36Z | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/browns-qb-hoyer-leaves-with-knee-injury |
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers are investigating a single-vehicle crash near Alamo that left one person dead and landed another in the hospital, according to a news release.
DPS officials said at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday the driver of a gray Toyota Sienna van was traveling east on Owassa Road from Tower Road when, for unknown reasons, the driver drove across a canal after approaching a dead-end. The vehicle ended up on the other side of the canal.
The only passenger in the van, identified Wednesday afternoon as 42-year-old Rogelio Robles, suffered “major injuries” and was declared dead at the scene, the release states.
It is not known if Robles, a native of Alamo, was strapped in with a safety belt.
The driver, who has not been identified and whose injuries are not known, was transported to a local hospital.
DPS said the investigation into the crash is ongoing. | 2019-04-24T06:30:50Z | https://www.themonitor.com/2017/10/25/dps-man-killed-after-single-vehicle-crash-near-alamo/ |
This children's resource is used to practice what the children have been learning during the month. They provide hands-on activities focusing on monthly concepts as well as serve as a communication tool with families. Children will be so proud to show their families what they are learning! The Journals are bound 16-page booklets with perforated pages. They provide printing practice for letters and numbers for older children and additional theme-related pages for enhancing critical thinking skills. | 2019-04-26T10:45:25Z | https://www.funshineexpress.com/monthly-journals.html |
We brew and bottle our bbq sauce at Rock Creek Lakes Resort in California's Easter Sierras. The resort's open season is generally around the end of May until the second week of October.
Do You make sample size bottles for weddings and partys?
Yes we can fill just about any kind of small favor size bottles for your guests. Send us a message with details about what you would like. We are happy to work with you.
Do you sell your sauce in bulk quantities?
Yes. We can sell sauce in what ever quantities that fit your needs. Be it gallon size jugs for restaurant or catering use, or our usual 12oz bottles for handing out as gifts. If you would like to purchase sauce for resale please contact us for information.
Will you co-pack my bbq sauce for me?
No. Our operation is so small that we have a full time job keeping up with demand for our sauce. Plus, doesn't that contradict our mission statement? | 2019-04-21T12:53:34Z | https://www.millsauceco.com/faq |
Put your Facebook performance into context and find out who's strategy is working best. Just add your page and get a free social media report that compares you to LA POTE. Download the sample report or learn more about our Facebook benchmarking tool. | 2019-04-26T12:44:04Z | https://www.socialbakers.com/statistics/facebook/pages/detail/137153183009030-la-pote |
By now, you’re probably familiar with the basics of video interviewing: Find a quiet, clean place to have it, make sure your mic’s turned on, and—seriously—put on some pants.
But with more and more employers using Skype or Google Hangout for their first round interviews—and more and more job seekers knowing the basics—it’s a good idea to take your digital interviewing skills to the next level. From enhancing your sound quality to making sure your body language sends the right message on that small screen, there’s a lot you can do to make sure your digital presence is as professional and polished as your IRL persona.
To learn more, we sat down with experts who specialize in looking and sounding great on screen. Here are their (seriously) pro tips.
While you want to dress professionally (again, from head to toe, not head to waist), don’t just pull out any old interview outfit—take care to make sure what you’re wearing works for video. “Certain colors, like many shades of blue—royal, navy, sky blue—look great on video, while others like reds and hot colors like magenta can be too bright,” says job search expert Alison Doyle.
For the ladies: Pay particular attention to anything that might be a distraction, like jewelry (anything too bright will come off “sparkly like a disco ball” on screen, says Paul Bailo, a digital marketing technology executive and author of The Essential Digital Interview Handbook). Same with showing too much skin—a lower-cut top may look fine in person, but when you’re only visible from the chest up, it can seem like way too much.
The first step to creating that digital chemistry? What Bailo calls a “digital handshake.” Think a “slow, confident, professional, firm nod” with “a slight shoulder bend and eyes forward—the other person should not see the top of your head.” When you can’t physically greet the hiring manager, this simple gesture shows that you’re excited to be there and ready to get down to business.
If you’re going to be doing a lot of interviewing—or really want to make an impression at a high-stakes meeting—consider creating a mini-studio at your place. Find a quiet corner, buy a roll of seamless paper (Bailo suggests “professional background paper in a nice neutral color that does not compete with your wardrobe”), and hang it from the ceiling. Having a clean, simple backdrop not only looks professional, it makes sure that the interviewer focuses on you and only you. | 2019-04-26T14:26:28Z | https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-new-secrets-to-rocking-your-skype-interview |
Every item sold by Costaq is carefully inspected before it is shipped. If the goods are found to be faulty all claims must be made 3 days after delivery. Please email us before any returns are sent.
Shipping/Delivery charges will not be refunded. Returned products must be in absolutely new and unused condition.
Refunds will not be given unless found to be faulty for manufacture defects (defective and/or broken). Please note any orders cancelled after being processed will be subject to a 5% surcharge.
Return shipping/delivery costs are the responsibility of the customer, if returning goods please use recorded delivery. If you do not use this service we will not be held responsible for lost items in post. | 2019-04-19T07:07:58Z | http://costaq.com/shipping.php |
The RS Skate is based on S-LAB skate skis but with a little more stability due to the D-Carbon core. This is the extrastiff version. You get a fast ski (the G5 base is top-of-the-line) that is more forgiving and easier to feel comfortable on. The camber, base and structure are designed for all snow conditions. | 2019-04-23T12:32:41Z | https://ebsadventure.com/products/salomon-rs-skate-ski-stiff |
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to March of Dimes and left at the funeral home.
Sarah Ann (Cauthon) Howerton, age 90, of El Dorado Springs, Missouri, passed away at Community Springs Nursing Home on Thursday, April 3, 2014. Sarah was born December 26, 1923, near Gerster, Missouri, to Fred and Lula (Baumgarden) Cauthon. Sarah attended school at King’s Prairie School, near Gerster.
Sarah married Thomas Eugene Howerton on December 2, 1940. They were married fifty-four years before Gene’s passing in 1995. To their union five children were born. During their early married life, they lived in Kansas City, but Sarah returned to the St. Clair County area while Gene served in the Navy during World War II. After this, they moved to El Dorado Springs, where they lived the remainder of their lives. She was a member of the El Dorado Springs First Baptist Church and attended there with her family until her health deteriorated.
Sarah loved her family. They were her pride and joy, and she worked hard making a home and helping to provide for them. She and Gene raised a large garden every year, and she canned many quarts of vegetables, wild blackberries, and gooseberries. Any visitor in her home was offered a glass of iced tea and a piece of cake. She was employed at the International Shoe Company from 1957 until its closing.
Preceding Sarah in death were her husband, Gene; her sons: Kenneth Dean and Toney Eugene; her parents; three brothers; one sister; a granddaughter, Megan Howerton; and two infant grandchildren.
Survivors include her daughter, Mary Ann and Bob Wise, of Huntsville, Arkansas; her sons: Wayne and Sugi Howerton, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Phillip and Peggy Howerton, of Alta Vista, Kansas; daughter-in-law, Donna Howerton, of El Dorado Springs, Missouri; grandchildren: Mickie and Paul Palubicki, of Las Vegas, Nevada; Danny and Theresa Howerton, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Trent and Vicki Howerton, of Olathe, Kansas; and Wayne Lee Howerton, Jr.; great-grandchildren: Daniel Palubicki, Brittney Lebold, Kayla Howerton, Jenna Howerton, and Hannah Howerton; sisters: Vera Estes, of Clinton, Missouri; Juanita Howe, of Raymore, Missouri; and Grace and Russell Bausch, of Titusville, Florida; brother, Richard and Phyllis Cauthon, of Kansas City, Missouri; and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends.
Funeral services for Sarah Howerton were held on Monday, April 7, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. at Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home with Rev. Ron Marsh officiating. Interment followed in the El Dorado Springs City Cemetery under the direction of Bland-Hackleman Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were: Trent Howerton, Danny Howerton, Gail Harvey, Bob Howe, Jimmy Estes, and Regina Roberds. | 2019-04-25T05:10:38Z | http://www.blandhackleman.com/view.php?id=342 |
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We believe our employees are our greatest asset. As such, we treat all employees with respect and appreciation for their contributions to the company. We believe not only in providing ongoing training, but also rewarding outstanding effort and results through bonus and commission programs. If this sounds appealing to you, please take a look at our open positions and submit your resume by fax, mail, or by pasting your resume into our online email form. We are an equal opportunity employer.
Our award-winning Dealership continues to grow and we are always on the lookout for experienced people to round out our professional team.
Obrien Auto Group is a high profile, customer service-oriented dealership offering competitive wages, a clean/safe working environment, and an outstanding benefits package that includes training, medical, dental, and a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan. | 2019-04-21T20:34:29Z | https://www.obrienautogroup.com/oregon-employment |
Going through a divorce will probably prove to be one of the most difficult things you ever do. One reason for this that you might not think about right away is what a breakup will do to your money. However, the following will help you move on financially.
We’ve brought up before that men are often in charge of money in relationships, which leaves women at a serious disadvantage following a divorce. All of a sudden, they have bills to pay, taxes to file, and other routine financial obligations to manage.
While the vast majority of women nowadays are far from financially ignorant, they may still need to make education a priority.
This is especially true for women who go through gray divorces – those who are 50 or older and, thus, may never have been involved in their own finances.
Many men can find themselves in this position too. Their wives may have handled the money or they split responsibilities down the middle. Following a divorce, they now need to look into investing or figuring out how their credit card bill works.
Whatever the case, wherever you’re weak in terms of your financial understanding, make it a priority to educate yourself about it ASAP.
Another task you need to carry out right away is going through your things and looking for all your relevant financial documents. You may have used a shared filing system with your former spouse, so it’s important you get your documents back and copies of any you would share. This is not something you want to ask for a year from now when it’s time to do your taxes and those documents may be lost.
If you have life insurance and/or a will, they will most likely need to be updated following a divorce. You may still love your ex but probably not enough to leave them everything.
Assuming your partner also worked, you’re now living with one less paycheck. Depending on how much you both make, that could be a considerable loss.
In either case, it’s time to create a budget. This can actually be very cathartic. You might realize how much money you were spending on things you didn’t actually want or enjoy.
There are all kinds of apps that help you save these days, too, which will make it that much easier to stick to your new budget.
For the same reason you need a new budget, you’re going to need to put together a new emergency fund. You can’t fall back on your spouse’s paycheck anymore if you were to lose your job, so make sure there’s room in your budget for this priority.
While there are all kinds of things you need to think about leading up to, during and after a divorce, don’t let your finances fall by the wayside. If you’d like help with anything from redoing your investments to coming up with a new plan for retirement, Mooney Lyons can help you move on financially. | 2019-04-26T12:23:01Z | https://mooneylyons.com/move-financially-divorce/ |
A new OECD Health Statistics 2018 report, released in June 2018, shows that health spending in 2016 grew by its fastest rate in seven years, with further growth expected in 2017.
OECD countries spending on health care increased by 3.4% on average in 2016, its highest rate since 2009. That percentage is still below pre-global financial crisis levels, when average health expenditures rose by around 4-6% per year (in real terms), outstripping economic growth. Health spending has tended to follow economic growth since 2012.
Health spending as a share of GDP was 8.9% in 2016 and is forecast to stay at this level in 2017. At 17.2% of GDP, health spending was highest in the United States. Switzerland (12.3%) and France (11.5%) are the second and third highest spenders. At the other end of the scale, Turkey (4.2%) and Mexico (5.4%) each spent less than 6% of their GDP on health.
In per capita terms, health spending in 2017 is estimated to have reached USD 4 069 (adjusted for differences in price levels) on average across the OECD. This is roughly 70% more than OECD countries spend on education for each citizen.
In the United States, the average spend is expected to have risen above USD 10 000 for the first time in 2017. Per capita spending was also much above the OECD average in Switzerland (USD 8 009), Luxembourg (USD 7 049) and Norway (USD 6 351). | 2019-04-20T11:18:26Z | https://www.global-benefits-vision.com/oecd-data-and-health-analysis-shows-rise-in-health-spending-in-2016/ |
who doesnt allow it? your parents?
have you tried to go to settings> injection type> manual map ?
have you tried putting wf in windowed mode = alt + enter ?
edit: have you tried attaching game.exe? idk gonna give all the basics lol.
Last edited by minedead; 2nd May 2017 at 06:29 PM.
do you have Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable ?
and are you using the right x86 x64 injector?
you are trying this with warface right? EU / NA Version.
and you have the game in windowed mode, waited till the menu has fully loaded and then open your injecot type as name "Game.exe" select Manual Map as injection method and then press inject?
Please be aware that a known user here as "levak" is a staff at my.com, he will prevent and report all open and free hacks posted on this forum.
he is moderator on their forums and i dont think that him knowing this site makes a difference cause everybody knows it.
aimbot soon??? Aslo great work! | 2019-04-18T22:41:58Z | https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/warface/212946-warface-chams-dark1027-6.html |
The Days Inn Barrie is located in one of the most scenic cities in Ontario. Situated on Lake Simcoe, there are a number of walking trails, beautiful flower gardens, beaches and playgrounds that are just minutes from the hotel. During the winter months, visitors to the area can ski and enjoy a fun filled day of tubing with the family. The hotel is located directly off of highway 400, right in the heart of the city. The central location makes the Days Inn Barrie one of the most popular hotels in the area. Within walking distance of the hotel there are a number of shopping area, restaurants and golf courses.
The Days Inn Barrie has seventy-eight rooms and suites. The hotel atmosphere is warm and welcoming and you will always be greeted with a smile and friendly service. Guests of the hotel can enjoy breakfast each morning. You can order from the menu or you can enjoy a wonderful European style buffet. The hotel also has a heated indoor swimming pool, which is sure to excite the kids. For the adults there is a steaming whirlpool where you can relax while the children have fun in the pool.
When choosing a room at the Days Inn Barrie you can choose either a standard room or a suite. Each standard room has either two double beds or a king bed. In each room you will find a microwave, mini-fridge, coffee maker, hairdryer and complimentary high speed internet. This is a great option for people travelling with families. If you are in the Barrie area on business you will want to upgrade to the work zone rooms and suites.
Each suite has a king size bed with luxury bedding. There is an oversized work station with an ergonomic chair for added comfort. Each suite has a separate bedroom and living area with a sofa bed and a small kitchen area. Guests still have the option to upgrade even more to a premium suite where you will find a jetted tub and a large fireplace. This is the perfect room for a romantic getaway.
If you are looking for a place to hold a meeting or conference in the Barrie area, the Days Inn Barrie has more than one thousand square feet of meeting space that can hold up to one hundred and twenty-five people. The hotel also has a smaller boardroom are that is equipped with high speed internet and stat of the art audio-visual equipment.
The Days Inn Barrie prides itself on providing affordable accommodations to its guests. This is why they offer a number of specials and promotions such as staying three nights in order to receive twenty percent off the price of your stay. There is a catch to booking a room using this package however, the cost of the room must be paid upfront and it is non-refundable. You can also book a room according to the stay and play package where you will receive hotel accommodations as well as passes to Canadas Wonderland. You will also receive discounts on restaurants in the area as well. Children under the age of eighteen can stay free at the hotel but there is a limit of two free children per room per stay. There are a number of other packages offered during both the summer and winter months. To find out more about the packages that the hotel offers, you will need to contact the hotel. | 2019-04-23T06:29:43Z | http://www.hotel-r.net/hotel/days-inn-barrie |
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Christmas Ornaments, is an original folk art rug hooking pattern designed by Breezy Ridge Rugs. The pattern is hand drawn on cloth straight of the grain. The edges have been serged to prevent fraying. | 2019-04-19T16:15:19Z | http://www.breezyridgerugs.com/christmas-ornaments/ |
Although I like making traditional jams and jellies, freezer jams and jellies have the flavour of fresh fruit with no concerns about burning yourself on hot liquid!
Combine fruits, sugar and lemon juice in large bowl.
Stir well and let stand 10 minutes.
Add liquid pectin to mixture, stirring for 3 minutes until most of the sugar is dissolved.
Pour into sterilized jars (or very clean class jars or plastic containers with tight lids.
Let stand at room temperature until set (may take 24 hours).
Store in freezer or for up to three weeks in refrigerator. | 2019-04-23T20:10:01Z | https://veronaleslie.com/freezer-blueberry-strawberry-jam/ |
Below you can browse a selection of woods currently in stock. Please click the images for futher information and pricing. If you have specific wishes for your bass, please contact me! | 2019-04-21T03:18:13Z | https://www.clementbass.com/available-wood/nggallery/tags/slim-tops |
Apulia Wedding Photographer – Brindisi Cathedral & Masseria Tenuta Moreno. Apulia in our opinion is one of Italy’s most interesting regions, with it’s warm sun, amazing shores, beautiful countryside and excellent food…actually one of favourite locations for weddings! Its unique masserie, ancient farm houses now transformed in charming hotels, are the perfect venue for an authentic Italian country wedding. This particular wedding was celebrated with a catholic ceremony in the beautiful ancient Cathedral of Brindisi. We then went for a walk in the quaint alleys and squares of the town with the bride and the groom. Dinner reception took place in a typical luxury Apulian masseria, Tenuta Moreno. | 2019-04-19T00:33:49Z | http://www.rossiniphotography.it/eng/puglia-wedding-photographer-brindisi-cathedral-masseria-tenuta-moreno/ |
Young Desire (1930). Mary Nolan as Helen Herbert and Mae Busch as May Roberts. Mae Busch "the versatile vamp" had an interesting career. She was one of the "Princesses" at Riviera in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives. She was a great comedienne at the Hal Roach Studio, often with Laurel & Hardy.
Sog.: dalla pièce Carnival di William R. Doyle. Scen.: Winifred Reeve, Matt Taylor. F.: Roy Overbaugh. M.: Charles Craft. Mus.: Sam Perry.
Int.: Mary Nolan (Helen Herbert), William Janney (Bobby Spencer), Ralf Harolde (Blackie), Mae Busch (May Roberts), George Irving (signor Spencer), Claire McDowell (signora Spencer). Prod.: Carl Laemmle Jr. per Universal Pictures Corp. 35mm. D.: 68’. Bn.
From: Universal, a Comcast Company.
Dave Kehr (Il Cinema Ritrovato): "Another of Hollywood’s tragic blondes, the hauntingly beautiful Mary Nolan first found fame as a Ziegfeld Girl under the name Imogen ‘Bubbles’ Wilson. But when her married lover, Ziegfeld comedian Frank Tinney, beat her so badly that she landed in the hospital, the subsequent scandal forced her to leave the country. It is said that the gambler Arnold Rothstein financed her trip to Germany, where she changed her name to ‘Imogene Robertson’ and appeared in seventeen films. Returning to the US in 1928 as Mary Nolan, she found work at Universal, then went to MGM where she appeared as Lon Chaney’s brutalized daughter in Tod Browning’s West of Zanzibar and began another abusive relationship with the studio’s notorious fixer, Eddie Mannix. A beating from Mannix led to six months in the hospital and the beginnings of a morphine addition that eventually ended her working life."
"In 1930, Nolan returned with Browning to Universal where, now a star, she toplined Outside the Law and a handful of other films, including this memorably sordid melodrama in which she appears as a carnival hoochie coochie dancer who dreams of quitting the trade and marrying a naive young man (William Janney) from a wealthy provincial family. The director, Lewis B. Collins, does not have Browning’s flair for degradation, but the carnival milieu – a constant in so many films of the early Depression – is well observed, and Nolan has a disturbingly distant, resigned quality, as if she were drifting through a story – of hope inevitably disappointed – that she had encountered many times before."
AA: Helen the carnival girl wants to step out of the cheap grind and gets a ride from a nice young guy, Bobby, who is decent and innocent and eager to help her without strings attached. But they do fall in love. Bobby is the heir of the rich family of Spencer of Spencerville. His father laughs at Bobby's romance, and mother (played by the D. W. Griffith veteran Claire McDowell) does all she can to separate the young. All to the effect of alienating Bobby to the point that he is not going back to college. He will marry Helen and provide with his own work.
But Bobby's parents manage to scare Helen away, and she returns to the carnival. First when Bobby leaves home and follows Helen do the parents realize how deep their love is, and father changes his mind about Helen. Helen with no experience in aerial acrobatics rises to the sky in a hot air balloon and jumps without a parachute.
Directed by Lew Collins from a screenplay by Winifred Reeve and Matt Taylor based on a story by William R. Doyle there is bite in the approach to this tragic story of love across the tracks. The daily grind of the carnival feels believable.
The presence of Mary Nolan is extraordinary. Helen is introduced in a state of profound disillusion. Her sincere romance with Bobby revives her from desperation. The shock is the greater when she resigns from Bobby after a meeting with his mother, who appears at her place like a dark angel. Helen returns to the carnival with her head down, with a stooping posture, like a bird whose wings have been broken. The vision of the deep sorrow she projects is haunting.
Helen Herbert, a dancer in a carnival sideshow, wearying of her drab life, leaves the show and falls in love with young Bobby Spencer, who insists on helping her. She hesitates to marry him, however, because of her past, but he insists. Realizing that their marriage would alienate Bobby's family and jeopardize his future, Helen returns to the carnival, and though Bobby follows, Helen's companions keep her concealed from him. After a talk with his father, Helen resolves the dilemma by volunteering for a balloon ascension and leaps to her death. | 2019-04-19T01:21:44Z | https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.com/2017/06/young-desire.html |
''Big, Bold & Beautiful'' highlights six exceptionally talented photographers, Harry Benson, Ken Browar, Andre Lichtenberg, Deborah Ory, Melvin Sokolsky, and Joyce Tenneson, who have expanded the boundaries of their work by incorporating technological advancements in their photographic prints. These highly-acclaimed, celebrated photographers, who have had their photographs printed on paper, are using the sublimated aluminum process to enhance the presentation and resonant potential of their work within the fields of portraiture, fashion, photojournalism, and landscape photography.
Long before the camera became ubiquitous in our culture, photography started as a scientific invention. People long held the yearning to capture special moments and to preserve them. This idea has continued throughout the history of photography, evolving, changing, continually reinventing itself and showcasing the medium's malleability to find new forms of presentation. From daguerreotypes to photograms, and from film negatives to camera-less photography, photography's linkage to science and technology has always challenged the limitations of the medium, searching and providing for a more versatile way to develop the medium's potential.
Seemingly present within walking distance of every significant cultural moment, from the Beatles first landing in America to MLK speaking in Canton, Mississippi, Harry Benson's photojournalistic style and candid approach effectively create penetrating portraits that preserve the legends and memorable instants of world history. He has taken some of the most impactful, influential images of any photojournalist of our modern time. Harry Benson's archive is truly "living history."
Photography innovator, Melvin Sokolsky, whose bold ideas and experimental approach to fashion shoots expanded the creative limitations of the genre; going against the grain of 1950's studio photography, he created poetic illusions, predating the idea of photoshop and changing the course of fashion photography. Sokolsky's images were so uplifting they appeared to defy gravity and highlighted the enormous potential for allure and magic in image-making.
Joyce Tenneson's elegant, harmonious, and ethereal images, are records of the phenomenon of an intrinsic spirit. Whether the photographer captures an incisive and straightforward portrait, a profile of an apple tree in situ, or a detailed, color study of a flower, Tenneson's work delves into the essence and luminous capacities of live beings. The spirit that animates a living entity continues to fascinate her.
Andre Lichtenberg's dreamlike childhood memories, sensibility with color, and inclination towards highly technical, scientific work create a unique perspective and savvy aesthetic. His series "Impossible Utopias," is made of a multitude of separate images fused into a dreamscape, inspired by the landscape's horizon and the sea looking out over the English Channel. Andre Lichtenberg ultimately delves deeper into tropes that have interested him since childhood, art and math, creating highly original photographs pieced together almost like a puzzle.
For a duo concerned with capturing the world of New York City dance, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, create images that capture with exceptional quality, the bodies, movements, and infinite grace of some of the world's greatest living dancers. Their branded name "The NYC Dance Project," is a collaboration between a commercially successful photographer and a classically trained dancer that together creates a unique series that records dancers from different companies and theaters paired with high fashion to capture beautifully detailed, moving images of dancers whose bodies are stopped in mid-flight by the camera.
These photographers using sublimation onto metal produces beautiful and luminous photographs. This process, in turn, creates high definition, visually stunning images that also contain protective capacities unattainable with prints on paper. The attributes of the aluminum print maintain a scratch-resistant and fire-retardant quality, as the image is infused beneath the exterior coating. The images are archival, as well as fade resistant. This photo printing process creates prints that present the look of analog photography while relying on new standards for image printing using innovative technology.
"Big, Bold & Beautiful" is an exhibition devoted to the joy of large-format photographs that amplify and maximize the content within each image. Opting to use this technique of infusing dyes directly onto specially coated metal prints helps create photographs that become bold, vibrant images, with beautiful clarity and exceptional quality.
Blazing Editions and Chromaluxe have generously sponsored this exhibition. | 2019-04-20T06:52:41Z | https://www.all-about-photo.com/photo-events/photo-exhibition/1211/big-bold-and-beautiful-new-perspectives-in-contemporary-photography |
It was another good UK-Racketball event, follow this link to download all results, read the reports and access links for the photos which as always are on our facebook page.
The Hallamshire Racketball Open is set to be another good UK-RB Series event with over 50 players signed up.
Check out the entry list below to see who is playing.
Follow this link to see when the draws and schedules are due to be released!
Follow this link to the Hallamshire page to download the entry list!
Click on the rankings tab above for the latest rankings.
It's going to be one of the best first time events that we have ever run at one of the countries best squash and racketball clubs!
Please see attached pdf copies of the June rankings with information on which tournaments were included. | 2019-04-20T20:49:11Z | http://www.uk-racketball.com/home/archives/07-2015 |
1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan or wide, shallow saucepan and fry the peppers and onions for 8-10 minutes, stirring frequently until softened and lightly browned.
2. Add the sweet potato chunks, stir in the curry paste and coconut milk, bring to a simmer. Cover with a lid and cook for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally until the vegetables are very soft and beginning to break up.
3. Season to taste and stir in half the coriander with a splash of water, if needed. Scatter with the almonds and remaining coriander. Serve with pilau rice or warmed naan breads. | 2019-04-24T18:41:31Z | https://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/g/gujarati-sweet-potatocurry.html |
Serve yourself a little me-time while shopping in environments of unlimited possibilities. Instore sampling enhances brand visibility on the shopping floor by literally taking the product of the shelves and subtly into consumers' baskets via small introductory samples, enabling consumers to experience at their own time and day. The short consumer interaction during each shopping spree allowed our Brand Ambassador to plant a small seed, eventually growing successful demand in retail. | 2019-04-18T20:50:05Z | https://www.startthechase.com/projects/fuze-tea1 |
Keller Supply Company is proud to present this decorative item, by Duravit. The XL543708989 is made from premium materials, this Item offers great function and value for your home. This fixture is part of Duravit's decorative X-Large Collection, so make sure to check out other styles of fixtures to accessorize your room. | 2019-04-23T09:55:04Z | https://www.kellershowrooms.com/Seattle-Portland-Bend-Bozeman/Duravit-XL543708989-Item.HTM |
Answers to the where, what, when and how.
Ready to drop off your donations? Just stop by during regular business hours and look for the “Donation Drop Off” sign. We’ll be more than happy to help you unload and provide you with a donation receipt. The whole process takes just a few minutes.
I want to donate items to Habitat’s ReStore. How can I do so?
I have a bunch of stuff to donate. Will ReStore pick it up?
Pick-up services are also available for large or bulk donations; call (614) 364-7028 to schedule. Pick-ups are usually scheduled for pick-up within one week.
Do I have to uninstall the items from my home that I wish to donate?
Yes. All items must be organized and removed from your home. Items must be in a garage or outside. We will not remove/disconnect items from the house.
Do I have to remove nails etc, or clean my items before donating them?
Most donations are tax deductible. You will receive a receipt for your donation to use for tax purposes. Habitat's ReStore will not estimate the value of your donation; you will do that.
When can I bring my donation to the store?
Donations may be made at the ReStore until one hour before closing each day. Our staff and volunteer can assist you with unloading.
When is ReStore open to the public?
Yes. Purchased items can be held for up to 3 days.
Can you deliver my purchase to my home?
No, we are sorry but we do not currently offer delivery services. We have a limited number of trucks, staff, and volunteers and cannot support these additional services.
Can I pay by check or credit card at ReStore?
May I return my purchase if I find that it is defective or I change my mind?
All sales are final. Please check your items for completeness and proper function before leaving the store. Also, please know the exact measurements for your project before purchasing materials from the store.
If I call the ReStore, can someone locate an item and price for me? | 2019-04-22T17:09:18Z | http://www.restoremidohio.org/faq/ |
This bright and cheery, compact canna is perfect for containers or water gardens. Gorgeous yellow flowers with bronzy spots, creating interesting patterns. Sure to be a hit! | 2019-04-25T18:38:53Z | https://www.bohnsfarm.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.plantDetail/plant_id/5738/index.htm |
Being in possession of all the facts before committing to any major business investment is critical and investing in broadband is no different as this cautionary tale shows.
A recent study of broadband services in a rural area of England, involving both a mapping study and a survey of businesses, threw up a fascinating insight into the problem of developing a clear understanding of demand and availability. The name of the area will remain anonymous but it could have been of any number of communities.
The received wisdom in this area was that a number of small towns were poorly served by broadband and the survey of local businesses largely supported this view. However it was strongly contradicted by the mapping exercise which suggested quite the opposite. In an attempt to reconcile the difference it was much easier to check the cold, hard data than to suggest to businesses that they might be mistaken, so the logic of the data was re-evaluated.
As further checks, line tests were carried out on each of the businesses lines, and a software speed checker was used to test the existing business broadband services. Both of these checks further corroborated the data. There remained little scope to support the business community’s belief that they were poorly served by broadband.
So what was going on? A theory was developed along these lines: Defined market towns tend to build up their own support structures which can lead to the community becoming reliant on a narrow and possibly isolated pool of expert advice; the more esoteric and scarce the skill, the greater the scope for that advice to be of less than the highest quality. In this environment a respected opinion can become the received wisdom and a local mythology can easily develop. This mythology can then be readily propagated and perpetuated in a tight-knit, well-structured community.
Contrast this with more sparsely populated areas where people tend to travel further to plug into support networks and different people may seek support in different directions. This is likely to create a richer, more diverse advice network where myths are more readily challenged. More sparsely populated communities are perhaps also more accepting of poorer infrastructure, and may have less effective communication channels. As a result, sparsely populated rural areas – relative to small towns – may under report their broadband problems.
As the shape of the digital divide hardens, with the most densely populated urban areas seeing some form of superfast broadband investment while other areas remain largely as they are, the debate is increasingly becoming emotive. And this can make it harder to understand the business case for investing in broadband.
The lesson to take away from this case study is that, while the narrative of communities is important in developing a business case for broadband, it should mainly be used to add colour and to personalise cold, empirical data. The description of the problem should be based on facts, while the narrative gives voice to the kinds of services the community may demand. | 2019-04-24T23:46:58Z | http://www.beyondbroadband.coop/kb/importance-maps |
This classic sweater style by Kerisma is one of our go-to pieces. Easy to layer over everything from leggings to denim. An oversized fit with half sleeves is paired perfectly with a deep vee neckline and pocket. | 2019-04-25T04:10:20Z | http://frenchcuffco.com/raven-sweater-2617.html |
This exceptional piece of furniture is majestically designed in the Louis XV style, featuring graceful curves and exquisite Vernis Martin painted panels.
Standing at nearly two metres in height, this large and impressive antique vitrine, or display cabinet, has been designed for the finest luxury interiors. Combining vibrant forms with luxurious materials, the vitrine beautifully embodies the finest elements of the Louis XV style.
The bombe-form kingwood cabinet consists of a central glazed apron door with a curved window at either side. The interior of the cabinet contains two glass shelves with mirrored backing, and the floor of the interior is lined with green velvet.
The lower part of the vitrine is decorated with five Vernis Martin (the name for a French variety of imitation lacquer) panels, showing fête galantes scenes. Fête galante refers to a genre of 18th Century French painting, typically depicting elegant men and women in romantic outdoor scenes. The term was first used by the French Academy in 1717 to describe the work of painter Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721), and the genre became a crucial part of the development of the Rococo style of painting and decoration in France.
Elegant ormolu mounts grace the edges of each panel, as well as along each corner of the piece. The ormolu mounts take the form of scrolling foliage and shells, and beautifully emphasise the graceful curves of the piece.
The cabinet is set on six cabriole legs, and is surmounted by an ormolu rocaille design. | 2019-04-24T08:14:11Z | https://www.mayfairgallery.com/louis-xv-style-ormolu-and-vernis-martin-vitrine-cabinet |
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BOSTON (CBS) – Breaking down in tears, Gold Star wife Allie Emond returns to Boston and the Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Memorial in the seaport for the first time since losing her husband, Green Beret Eric Emond.
“I don’t want my husband’s name to be forgotten,” she said.
Sgt. First Class Emond was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last year. He was only 39 years old. He leaves behind his wife, Allie, and three young daughters.
Now, Allie is back in Boston to run the marathon in memory of her husband and to help raise money for Massachusetts Fallen Heroes, an organization Eric helped start back in 2010.
“He wanted to make sure his family was taken care of, and in a horribly ironic kind of way, he’s still taking care of us,” she said.
Mass. Fallen Heroes is a multi-purpose organization to honor the fallen, support Gold Star families and empower veterans through advocacy. Allie says she proud to run the marathon alongside the other members of her team.
“These folks have volunteered their time to take on the marathon and to take on our mission,” Mass. Fallen Heroes Executive Director Dan Magoon said. It’s been just over five months since Eric passed away. Soon, his name will be added to the memorial site.
On Marathon Monday, Allie she will remember her husband and the help all Gold Star families need.
“My daughters and I are still waking up every day without Eric, and Mass. Fallen Heroes is still there,” she said. | 2019-04-24T01:05:43Z | https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/04/13/boston-marathon-eric-allie-emond-mass-fallen-heroes/ |
Think about this: either God hears you or He doesn’t. If He doesn’t, then of course there’s no point in praying. But if He does (and He does!), we have to figure out how to really commune with Him in prayer, recognize answers, and faithfully move forward.
When we feel He’s not listening, maybe we need to experience some personal growth. You might ask yourself a few questions: Am I clean? Are my motives worthy? Am I willing to do what He asks?2 If the answer to each of these is yes, you can trust that “the Lord thy God shall … give thee answer to thy prayers” (D&C 112:10). Remember, sometimes answers come in subtle or unexpected ways.
If you answered no to some of those questions, it’s never too late! Make the necessary changes in your life so you can have the Spirit. Be willing to act on promptings you receive.
And don’t forget that everyone receives answers differently. Pray that the Holy Ghost will teach you how you can recognize answers. It might not be easy to recognize them at first, but it’s like any other skill: practice makes perfect. Have faith and trust that Heavenly Father is always listening.
Try to listen to the Holy Ghost. People hear the Holy Ghost in different ways, so maybe you’re listening for a still, small voice when the prompting may come as a feeling. I know that the Holy Ghost will tell you all that you need to know—you just have to listen.
Once I had a huge doubt about whether to go on a date with a nonmember. One Sunday in sacrament meeting, a sister gave a talk that seemed to be directed personally to me. At that moment, I received an assurance that the Lord had answered my prayer. Before, I had been confused about what to do, but then I was comforted by the Holy Ghost, who filled my heart with joy and courage. God answers us through feelings, thoughts, the scriptures, and even speakers at church!
I know God hears us because prayer produces a feeling of peace, relief, and love in my heart. I see that He frees me from many dangers from day to day and that He protects my family, and I feel loved by Him. Before I go to school, I always say the Young Women theme; it helps me remember that I am a daughter of Heavenly Father, who loves me.
I know Heavenly Father hears my prayers because of these words in the Primary song “A Child’s Prayer” (Children’s Songbook, 12): “Heavenly Father, are you really there? And do you hear and answer ev’ry child’s prayer? Some say that heaven is far away, but I feel it close around me as I pray.” When I remember that song, I know He is listening because I feel the Spirit and His infinite love for me. As I remember that He loves me, I feel comfort and know that He hears my prayers.
Heavenly Father always listens to our prayers, but sometimes it seems like He isn’t answering our prayers because He may not answer us how or when we want Him to. We need to be willing to submit our will to His and have faith that He knows what’s best for us. Heavenly Father loves us and will always try to help us learn and grow as He answers our prayers.
Through the scriptures, we are taught that God will always hear our prayers and will answer them if we address Him with faith and real intent. In our hearts we will feel the confirmation that He does hear us, a feeling of peace and calm. We can also feel that everything will be fine when we follow the Father’s will. If we doubt that He hears us, we ought to seek guidance in the scriptures and then ask if those things we read are true.
I once wondered if God could hear my prayers, and then I felt the answer in my heart. I heard someone bear testimony about prayer, and I could feel the Holy Ghost. My other advice would be to ask your parents, bishop, or other members of your ward. You could even pray for help on this topic!
After your prayer, you can listen to the feelings and intents that come to your heart. One of them may be the answer to your prayer. When we pray with real intent and a sincere heart, our Heavenly Father responds according to the faith we have in Him. He doesn’t respond just to satisfy our curiosity.
See Matthew 7:7; James 1:5–6; Alma 33:4–11; Doctrine and Covenants 8:1–2.
See Richard G. Scott, “Learning to Recognize Answers to Prayer,” Ensign, Nov. 1989, 32.
Elder James B. Martino of the Seventy, “Turn to Him and Answers Will Come,” Liahona, Nov. 2015, 59.
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Original concrete silo type S041 [4100 tonnes capacity] built in 1934. Also steel silo and large bulkhead;construction dates and capacities unknown.
Original concrete silo type S008 [800 tonnes capacity] built in 1933.
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Concrete silo type S027 [2700 tonnes capacity] built in 1935.
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Environmental heterogeneity, emerging pathogens and limited access to financial and agricultural inputs prevent farmers from producing consistent crop yields in many developing countries. Yield instability impedes establishment of processing and export industries, thereby inhibiting economic development. Modern varieties offer significant increases in yield stability.
A deeply collaborative, multi-national germplasm trialing network was established in West Africa to identify tomato varieties well adapted to each country and mobilize those varieties into local seed distribution networks alongside an integrated pest management program. Research partners in seven West African countries evaluated over 100 tomato varieties for resistance to tomato leaf curl disease (ToLCD). Using biotechnology, the identity and distribution of the key viruses (begomoviruses) causing ToLCD in these countries were identified, and a vector-independent inoculation method (agroinoculation) was developed. The trials identified a set of high-performing varieties with resistance. Agroinoculation with the three prevalent begomoviruses confirmed resistance.
These trial results fulfill the new Economic Community of West African States harmonized seed regulation policy, which requires at least 2 years of national performance trials prior to commercialization of a tomato variety. To compete with a rapidly expanding canned tomato import industry, West African growers need to increase productivity and processing capacity; therefore, we also assessed processing and export trade data for fresh and processed tomatoes from each of the seven countries.
Vegetable farmers in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa (SSA) face many constraints to agricultural productivity. South of the Sahara Desert, north of the humid Guinean region, the Sudano-Sahelian zone presents difficult environmental conditions including poor soil fertility , extreme heat and insufficient or unpredictable water supply , all of which have only become more precarious due to climate change . Biotic stresses create additional losses, with newly emerging plant diseases and pests causing decreased yields and serious reductions in produce quality [4–6]. In the developed world, these challenges can often be managed by technologies such as drip irrigation or pesticides. Farmers in West Africa, however, often lack the financial means or physical access to technical solutions that can mitigate their risks. Furthermore, improved seed is minimally available on a commercial basis in West Africa. This is particularly true for vegetables [7, 8]. High-yielding, adapted vegetable varieties with resistance to pathogens are even more important for smallholder farmers, especially given the high incidence of nutritional deficiency and malnutrition in the region [8, 9]. Technology adoption is dependent on available assets; therefore, technologies that require fewer assets will be more readily adopted . Infrastructure constraints also play a major role in limiting the success of smallholders in West Africa post-harvest [9, 11]. In West Africa, lack of climate-controlled shipping, roads in poor condition and few operational processing facilities limit farmers’ capacity to successfully move their products to market [12, 13].
West African farmers, particularly smallholders, need the means and opportunity to improve both their actual yields and the predictability of their yields to ensure a consistent supply of vegetables. Improved diagnostics and management of diseases and pests, as well as access to inputs and irrigation, will be necessary to provide consistent production of quality produce in unpredictable markets. Studies have shown that fresh tomato prices in Ghana and Burkina Faso can fluctuate as much as 80% , making grower income extremely unpredictable. Investments in infrastructure, including roads, electrification, cold chain and processing plants, must increase dramatically to ensure that farmers can access necessary inputs, transport their produce safely and efficiently, and process it into value-added products that can either be exported or stored . Increased yield potential, stability and quality are in turn likely to attract additional investment, giving farmers access to inputs and improving infrastructure for transportation, processing and export.
In West Africa, smallholder farmers producing tomatoes have small plots (e.g., 0.5 hectares) that are hand cultivated and watered by a variety of methods by furrow, flood, gravity, drip irrigation, or sprinklers. Typically, these growers plant a range of determinate open-pollinated varieties (e.g., pear-shaped processing types to round fresh market types), purchased in small quantities or seed saved from year to year, and having few or no resistance genes. In some cases, seed of hybrid varieties may be utilized, but this may be more expensive or difficult to find, and are expensive, especially for smallholders in rural areas [7, 8, 16]. Fields are established with transplants produced in seed beds, and varying levels of fertilizer is used depending on the availability. The yields are modest, and the price depends on seasonal availability. There are also examples of commercial tomato production, often associated with canneries (e.g., in Senegal). Here hybrid seed is used as well as larger fields and more modern technologies, e.g., use of tractors for cultivation, application of fertilizer and pesticides and drip irrigation. However, this type of tomato production in West Africa remains relatively uncommon.
Tomato growers in West Africa are faced with a number of disease and pest problems. Soil-borne diseases include bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum and Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici; foliar diseases include bacteria spot caused by Xanthomonas spp., late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans and Septoria blight caused by Septoria lycopersici; and mosaic viruses, such as Tomato mosaic virus and Cucumber mosaic virus, can cause yield loss and produce damage. Pests include worms, such as the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera), nematodes, mining insects, thrips, various aphid species, and mites, e.g., spider mites (Tetranychus urticae). Recently, outbreaks of the tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) have caused substantial damage to tomato crops in some West Africa countries [17, 18]. However, in recent years, tomato growers throughout West Africa have struggled with an emerging viral disease known generically as tomato leaf curl disease (ToLCD) [4, 19, 20]. ToLCD in West Africa and other parts of the world is caused by a complex of whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)-vectored begomoviruses and betasatellites [4, 21]. Begomoviruses (genus Begomovirus) are in the family Geminiviridae, characterized by a circular single-stranded DNA genome encapsidated within twinned isometric virions [22, 23]. ToLCD has become the most serious constraint to tomato production in several West African countries over the last decade, in some cases causing up to 100% yield losses [4, 24, 25]. In West Africa, ToLCD has caused such devastating losses that in many cases, farmers have abandoned tomato production entirely . This paper describes a project spanning seven countries that aimed to improve both the quantity and the quality of West African tomatoes and tomato seed and minimize the impact of ToLCD.
Three years of in-country trials of over 100 tomato varieties led to the selection of tomato varieties for commercialization in the region. Variety performance in the trials was based on adaptation to the local environment, resistance to ToLCD, good fruit type and taste according to preferences in the target market(s). This project established an extensive field trialing network with the capacity to evaluate performance under West African conditions of modern germplasm generated anywhere in the world. The trialing network identified the most appropriate varieties for each environment, collaborating with local farmers in a participatory approach. At the same time, the begomoviruses associated with ToLCD in these countries were characterized and a vector-independent method (agroinoculation) for screening tomato varieties for resistance to these viruses under controlled laboratory conditions was developed. Finally, the selection trials satisfied the recently established ECOWAS seed certification policy [27–30], allowing the seed companies and institutions that donated successful varieties to the project to sell their seed in the region. The governments of seven West African countries collaborated to achieve this goal, as well as several US academic and government institutions, AVRDC—The World Vegetable Center, and many seed companies and public breeding institutions from around the world.
The origins of this project trace to an initiative by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM-CRSP, currently known as IPM Innovation Lab) to improve tomato production in Baguineda, Mali. Outbreaks of ToLCD in the early 2000s had prevented farmers from cultivating tomatoes in this irrigated rice–vegetable production system. To reduce the impact of ToLCD in Baguineda, the IPM-CRSP project worked with local extension officers to implement a 3-month host-free period preceding the primary growing season (September–April). During the host-free period, the primary host species of the virus (tomato) was not grown by any farmers in the area, and an extensive sanitation program was implemented to eliminate old plants from previous crops and volunteers. The host-free period results in a reduction in viral inoculum, including that carried in the local whitefly population, as the life cycle of the whitefly is ~30 days and virus is not transmitted through the eggs of the insect, i.e., transovarially . This can be highly effective at reducing levels of initial inoculum of the virus, reducing populations of the whitefly vector and slowing spread of the virus [19, 32]. A second key aspect of revival of tomato production in Baguineda was the provision of seeds of early maturing, high-yielding hybrids. To assess the relative resistance of these hybrids to ToLCD, a vector-independent method (agroinoculation) was developed that allowed for screening of tomato germplasm for resistance to the predominant begomoviruses associated with ToLCD in West Africa. The tomato host-free period continues to be implemented Baguineda and Kati, Mali.
In March 2004, a workshop of government agricultural researchers from many West African nations selected tomato as the highest priority crop. The increasing incidence of ToLCD was identified as a major constraint requiring immediate attention. The demonstrated need for improved tomato germplasm, and the decision by the consortium of West African governments to focus their efforts on tomato coincided with the initiation of the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSPII) in the USA, a project supported by Cornell University and USAID [33, 34]. The ABSPII research team was assembled from two US universities, Cornell and University of California Davis, the AVRDC, and the national agricultural research services (NARS) of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo was tasked to address the ToLCD epidemic and to improve the quality of germplasm available in West Africa. The project had four main goals: identify and commercialize ToLCD-resistant tomato germplasm well suited to each country; develop an understanding of begomoviruses causing ToLCD in West Africa and a capacity to screening tomato varieties for resistance with a vector-independent method; develop a self-sustaining system that could work with any crop; and most importantly, establish protocols and research connections that could continue to function after donor support was removed. In the best circumstances, improved seed is inconsistently available in West Africa [7, 8, 16]. For those varieties that performed well, the project could demonstrate the commercial potential for the seed companies and public institutions donating to the project.
The new ECOWAS seed regulations establish unified seed quality control and certification in ECOWAS member countries [27–30]. The regulations require that at least 2 years of variety trials are conducted at multiple locations by an official quality control and certification service, or any other accredited private body [27–30]. Certification also requires laboratory analysis of the seed to ensure standards are met, such as germination . If the national variety release committee determines that a variety surpasses quality standards in one country (e.g., it surpasses the performance of a check variety in the trials), it is placed in the West African Catalogue of Plant Species and Varieties (WACPSV) and can be grown and sold anywhere in the ECOWAS region [27–30]. The old system did not require variety trials take place at multiple locations, or by an accredited entity. Previously, an individual, typically the breeder or a seed company representative would submit a variety to the National Certification Authority. Certification was provided as long as the 3 years of data were submitted. This system allowed a company or individual submitting the variety to make the determination that the variety should be commercialized. Whereas the old system was simple and more similar to that used in the developed world, the new system will require that trials are completed by independent agronomists in order to determine whether the variety performs well enough to be commercialized in a given environment. Ideally, this change will ensure that high-quality seed reaches the marketplace and will not deter companies from entering this already underdeveloped market.
Over 100 varieties that were previously unavailable in the region were distributed to a network of agricultural researchers brought together through this project. At each location, the local team of researchers was provided the same tools to conduct ToLCD resistance trials. Through results obtained in this trialing network, we have identified varieties with high levels of resistance to the viruses that cause ToLCD and that have the greatest promise for improving tomato yields in West Africa.
Tomato varieties evaluated during the 3 years of variety trials came from a wide range of multi-national seed companies and public breeding institutions (Table 1) with the understanding that if a variety performed well, that company would consider an arrangement to bring that variety to market in the region. All varieties included in the trials shared the common feature of reported begomovirus resistance (mostly to the invasive Old World monopartite begomovirus Tomato yellow leaf curl virus [TYLCV]), which in most cases is derived from one or more of three genes known as Ty-1 , Ty-2 and Ty-3 . Originally identified in accessions of wild relatives of tomato such as Solanum chilense, S. peruvianum, and S. habrochaites, these genes have all been introgressed into tomato varieties by breeding. In selecting varieties for inclusion in the trials in West Africa, preference was given to materials bred for semiarid tropical climates, but no other criteria were used so as to avoid limiting the germplasm included in the trials. Seed was donated by 11 private seed companies and five research institutions (Table 1). The 40 tomato varieties selected for the preliminary trials were selected from a range of resistance sources including S. chilense, S. peruvianum, S. habrochaites and S. pimpinellifolium and were predominantly hybrid varieties. Trials were conducted from 2005 to 2008 in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, Benin and Togo . The trials were established and maintained by NARS partners at agricultural research stations or in commercial fields in collaboration with local farmers. The 3 years of trials were completed in a total of 22 different locations: eight in Mali, four in Togo, three in Ghana, three in Niger, two in Benin, one in Senegal and one in Burkina Faso. Some trials were repeated in the same locations over the 3 years, while others were relocated to ensure more appropriate climatic conditions and proximity to tomato growing regions to increase ToLCD disease pressure . The first year of the project, the 2005–2006 growing season, saw the systematic evaluation of over 40 begomovirus-resistant tomato varieties in each of the participating countries. Designated as preliminary screens by the partners, these evaluations consisted of non-replicated trials at 11 locations, in which 26 plants of each variety were planted on agricultural research stations and evaluated for disease resistance according to a ToLCD symptom severity scale with 0 = no symptoms, 1 = mild leaf curling, 2 = leaf curling, light green to yellow discoloration and vein purpling; 3 = stunting, distorted growth and strong upward leaf curling and vein swelling and purpling; and 4 = severe stunting and distorted growth, upward leaf curling and vein purpling . Natural levels of virus inoculum, delivered via indigenous populations of whiteflies, were relied upon for disease development in these trials. The regionally popular variety ‘Roma VF’ (Tropicasem) was always used as a susceptible check. Partners encountered a range of problems in the first year, including insufficient disease pressure, poor seed germination and inconsistent trial management practices across countries. Despite these issues, sufficient data were generated to select 11 promising varieties. The 11 varieties were ‘HA 3060’ (Hazera Genetics Ltd.), ‘Atak’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘Bybel’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘Chenoa’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘GemPride’ (Seminis Inc.), ‘Industry DR 10403’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘Lety F1’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘Ponchita’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘Realeza’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V,), ‘Thoriya’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘Yosra’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.). ‘Roma VF’ was always included as a control. The selected varieties were chosen based primarily on demonstrated ToLCD resistance, but also based on yield, resistance to other diseases, or any other horticultural traits.
De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.
Harris Moran Seed Company Inc.
In the second year of the project, the 2006–2007 growing season also included 11 locations, but four sites were moved closer to tomato growing regions. The three trials in Ghana, Togo and Benin were moved from the South to North, and the single trial in Niger was moved West, all to be closer to the tomato growing regions. Over 70 varieties were trialed. These included the 11 varieties selected in the first year (advanced trials), as well as over 60 new varieties that were trialed in preliminary screens. These preliminary screens were conducted similarly to the advanced trials, but without replication. In these trials, most of the varieties with resistance to TYLCV showed moderate to high levels of resistance to ToLCD (ratings of 0–2 and good yields), whereas the susceptible check ‘Roma VF’ showed obvious and strong symptoms (ratings of 3–4 and low yield). Of the more than 60 new varieties tested, many showed substantial levels of ToLCD resistance, and 20 were selected by at least one of the collaborators from the participating countries for inclusion in the third year of the project. Having learned from the mistakes of the previous year, the project partners developed a detailed trialing protocol for the second year in order to resolve inconsistencies among locations and to ensure the statistical relevance of the data. Specific practices related to site selection, seedling nursery establishment, and field management strategies including pesticide and fertilizer applications were standardized across locations. Entries were transplanted into 6.0 m by 1.5 m plots, each having 36 plants arranged in three rows of 12 plants. Three replicate plots of each variety were planted, for a total of 108 plants per variety. The plot design was a randomized complete block. Trials were maintained as if for commercial production, with pesticide applications being used to control diseases and pests other than whiteflies. In addition, attempts were made to plant the trials in areas known to be free of other important regional pathogens, such as root-knot nematode, Fusarium wilt, and bacterial wilt. Only the middle 10 plants in each plot were evaluated for resistance to ToLCD to eliminate edge effects. Plants were evaluated at flowering, fruiting, and first harvest with the ToLCD symptom severity scale. In addition, three randomly selected plants from each plot were evaluated for yield, which was extrapolated to tons per hectare, and for various other traits, such as fruits per plant, average fruit weight, and average fruit size. Overall, the results of the second year’s trials were outstanding. The trials showed a marked improvement in quality over the previous year, indicating the value of hands-on experience in the development of germplasm trialing capacity. With few exceptions, the trials showed significant improvements in yield over typical tomato yields in the region. At the end of the second season, the four top varieties based on ToLCD resistance, yield and farmer preferences were selected for the third year of trials. Collaborators from each country also selected two additional varieties based on local performance and preferences. In several locations, NARS trial coordinators solicited farmer opinions on the varieties being evaluated. Farmers were very enthusiastic about the new varieties and provided helpful guidance for fruit type selection, typically showing a preference for medium-sized firm fruit that stood up well to shipping. In Mali, farmers ranked the varieties from highest to lowest preference as: ‘Industry DR 10403’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘HA 3060’ (Hazera Genetics Ltd.), ‘HMX 4810’ (Harris Moran Seed Company Inc.), ‘Cheyenne E448’ (Syngenta AG) and ‘GemPride’ (Seminis Inc.).
The third year of trials (2007–2008) included multi-location trials of top performing varieties evaluated under conditions encountered in commercial production at 10 locations. The varieties used for this trial were selected by each NARS partner submitting a list of the top four varieties from the advanced trials that they wanted to be included in the multi-location trials of the third year. Most of the NARS partners selected the same top four varieties for inclusion in the multi-location trials: ‘Atak’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘Bybal’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘GemPride’ (Seminis Inc.) and ‘Industry DR 10403’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.). Unfortunately, De Ruiter Seeds did not have a sufficient supply of ‘Industry DR 10403’ for inclusion in the trials. As a result, ‘Yosra’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.) was selected to replace ‘Industry DR 10403’ as the fourth variety in the trials at each location, with the exception of Mali, also due to limited availability of seed. In addition, each NARS partner was given the option of including at least two more varieties in their multi-location trials. Selected varieties included ‘HA 3060’ (Hazera Genetics Ltd.), ‘HMX 4810’ (Harris Moran Seed Company), ‘Lety F1’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘Ponchita’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘Realeza’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.) and ‘Thoriya’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.). The trials began in November 2007.
Multi-location trials were conducted with similar protocols to those used in the advanced trials. However, they were conducted on rented plots on commercial farms (rather than at NARS stations) and in at least two of the major tomato production areas (preferably in different agroecological zones) of each of the seven participating countries. The trials had two goals: to confirm the performance of the selected varieties in the less forgiving environment of farmers’ fields and to publicize the varieties to producers in many regions throughout West Africa. These trials offered an opportunity to evaluate germplasm within the context of actual vegetable production areas and according to the customs of the farmers in the region, rather than in the more controlled environment of an agricultural research station, providing a more realistic view of the potential performance in a production setting. These multi-location trials also served as the bridge between germplasm evaluation and variety distribution. Situated among the fields of commercial tomato producers, these trials served as demonstration plots for these new materials, helping to spread the word about modern varieties and diminishing some of the risk associated with adoption of the new varieties by allowing farmers to learn from others . The trials demonstrated that the selected tomato cultivars could perform significantly better than ‘Roma VF’ both on agricultural research stations and on farmers’ fields. In all locations, all selected cultivars had lower symptom severity scores than ‘Roma VF,’ and in Benin and Mali, tested cultivars had very low symptom severities or even remained symptomless . Farmers who witnessed the trials were uniformly enthusiastic about the new varieties, and many expressed interest in gaining access to seeds. In all trial locations, visiting farmers expressed interest in all the trialed varieties, except for one. ‘Atak’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.), ‘Bybal’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.), ‘Lety F1’ (De Ruiter Seeds Group B.V.) and ‘Yosra’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V.) were mentioned frequently by farmers. ‘GemPride’ (Seminis Inc.) was not preferred by farmers because it produced softer fruit under these conditions; they preferred hard fruit for durability during shipping.
In both the advanced trials and the multi-location trials, the top four varieties selected had lower average ToLCD symptom severities and higher average yields than ‘Roma VF,’ demonstrating lower levels of ToLCD susceptibility and greater yield potential across countries (Table 2). It is notable that average ToLCD symptom severity on ‘Roma VF’ did not change significantly between year 2 and year 3, implying that there was no change in overall ToLCD pressure (Table 2). However, the cultivars under evaluation, ‘Atak,’ ‘Bybal,’ ‘GemPride’ and ‘Yosra,’ did show approximately twofold increases in ToLCD symptom severity and twofold decreases in yield in the switch from the advanced trials to the multi-location trials. This is likely a reflection of the change in environment. While the advanced trials were conducted on research stations with relatively controlled environments and relatively advanced management practices, the multi-location trials were conducted on farms with uncharacterized soils and unknown local disease pressures. While the change to a less-controlled environment had a significant impact on the performance of the selected cultivars, it had an even greater impact on the performance of ‘Roma VF,’ which saw a fourfold decrease in yield for the same transition. While performance varied from one environment to the next, the selected ToLCD-resistant varieties consistently outperformed the regionally popular ToLCD susceptible variety. This is crucial in the heterogeneous, often degraded environments of West Africa where farmers have limited access to inputs and therefore limited control over their environments. By offering consistently higher yield potential in all environments, the selected varieties promise farmers more predictable returns and thus more consistent livelihoods.
Protocols were developed to detect and identify begomoviruses and betasatellites associated with ToLCD in field-collected leaf tissue samples, and to screen tomato varieties for resistance to the predominant begomoviruses identified with the vector-independent agroinoculation method. Samples of tomato leaves with symptoms of begomovirus infection (e.g., stunting, erect and distorted growth and leaf curl and yellow leaf curl) were collected during a survey of West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Togo) conducted in February 2007 and by NARS collaborators from these countries in 2007–2008. Leaf disks from these samples were squashed onto nylon membranes, which were brought to UC Davis and analyzed for the presence of begomovirus DNA by squash blot (SB) hybridization with a general begomovirus probe . Samples positive for begomovirus infection were further analyzed by SB-PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and DNA sequencing to identify the specific begomovirus(es) and betasatellites involved . This involved using a combination of degenerate and species-specific primers, followed by sequencing of PCR-amplified fragments [19, 42]. Taken together, these studies revealed three locally evolved monopartite begomoviruses cause ToLCD in these West African countries: Tomato leaf curl Mali virus (ToLCMLV), Tomato yellow leaf curl Mali virus (TYLCMLV) and Pepper yellow vein virus (PepYVMLV, also known as Tomato yellow leaf crumple virus). An unusually severe symptom phenotype was shown to be due to a mixed infection of TYLCMLV and Cotton leaf curl Gezira betasatellite. A subsequent study revealed an additional monopartite begomovirus associated with ToLCD in Ghana and Togo, Tomato leaf curl Ghana virus, and two additional betasatellites (Tomato leaf curl Togo betasatellite and Tomato leaf curl Ghana betasatellite) [4, 43].
In general, the majority of samples collected during the survey of West African countries and provided by the NARS partners were positive for begomovirus infection, whereas betasatellites were detected in a relatively small number of plants (~5–10%). Based on SB-PCR tests with specific primers for TYLCMLV, ToLCMLV and PepYVMLV and sequencing of selected PCR-amplified fragments, all three viruses were commonly detected in tomato plants with ToLCD symptoms. The relative prevalence of these viruses in different countries varied (Table 3). All three viruses were detected in four countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Togo), two viruses were detected in two countries (Benin and Senegal), whereas only PepYVMLV was detected in Niger. In some countries, especially Ghana and Togo, evidence of other begomoviruses associated with ToLCD was found (i.e., some samples that were PCR-positive with degenerate primers were negative with the virus-specific primers). Subsequent studies have confirmed this additional genetic diversity in begomoviruses causing ToLCD in West Africa [4, 43, 44]. Because of the important role of these three viruses in ToLCD in West Africa, a disease resistance breeding program for ToLCD in West Africa should involve all three viruses; in contrast, betasatellites do not need to be included because of their low incidence and nonessential role in ToLCD in West Africa.
Full-length infectious clones were generated for TYLCMLV, ToLCMLV and PepYVV. Agroinoculation systems were generated for each virus by inserting multimeric copies of the genome into the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Upon introduction of an A. tumefaciens strain carrying a begomovirus multimeric clone into a tomato plant, e.g., into the stem just beneath the shoot apex with a hypodermic syringe, the viral DNA is delivered directly into the nuclei of wounded cells, where it initiates the infection cycle without needing to have been introduced by the whitefly vector . This method is extremely efficient (infection rates are typically ~100%) and reproducible. Using agroinoculation systems generated for TYLCMLV, ToLCMLV and PepYVMLV, tomato varieties were screened for resistance in a controlled environment chamber at UC Davis. A total of 41 tomato varieties, including the 11 that performed best in the multi-country variety trials and susceptible control ‘Roma VF,’ were individually screened with each of the three viruses with this vector-independent method (Table 4). The response of the varieties was classified as susceptible (disease ratings of 3–4 and detection of a high level of viral DNA by semiquantitative PCR), moderately resistant (rating of 2 and detection of a high to medium level of viral DNA), resistant (rating of 0–1 and detection of high to medium level of viral DNA by PCR) and highly resistant (rating of 0 and detection of a low level or no viral DNA by PCR). For all the varieties and each of the viruses, replicates of 5–10 plants were agroinoculated and the experiment was repeated three times. The response of the varieties to the three viruses was similar. Therefore, a general response for all viruses tested is presented. ‘Roma VF’ showed the expected susceptible response in all of the nine experiments (three replications for each of the three viruses), indicating that the agroinoculation technique was successful. In general, most of the tested varieties showed some level of resistance: 20% were moderately resistant, 34% were resistant and 24% were highly resistant (Table 4). This indicates that most of the materials provided for this trial did have some resistance to these viruses. Moreover, as most of the resistance in these materials had been identified based on screening against TYLCV, this appears to be a reliable indicator that a material will be resistant to the monopartite begomoviruses causing ToLCD in West Africa. This is also consistent with the observation that the same genes (e.g., Ty-1, Ty-2 and Ty-3) confer resistance to most Old World monopartite tomato-infecting begomoviruses. Importantly, the 11 preferred materials selected in the multi-country trials based on disease resistance and horticultural traits also showed responses of moderate resistant (‘Industry DR 10403’ and ‘HA 3060’), resistant (‘Atak,’ ‘Bybal,’ ‘HMX 4810,’ ‘Lety F1,’ ‘Ponchita’ and ‘Thoriya’) or highly resistant (‘GemPride,’ ‘Realeza’ and ‘Yosra’). This revealed an agreement between the results of the resistance screening in the field in West Africa and under controlled conditions at UC Davis and provided further support for a begomovirus etiology for ToLCD is West Africa. Finally, this is a good example of how a vector-independent disease resistance screening method can be developed with the tools of biotechnology, and how the results can provide practical information to help manage an applied problem, e.g., an outbreak of a serious disease.
Biotechnology played an important role in characterizing the tomato-infecting begomovirus complex and betasatellites associated with ToLCD symptoms in West Africa. However, many of these protocols could not be conducted in West Africa due to a lack of equipment and expertise. To initiate the development of a self-sustaining biotechnology research program in West Africa, considerable efforts were invested to transfer molecular biology research capacity to the project’s West African NARS partners. A week-long intensive molecular biology and genetics training workshop was held in Bamako, Mali, in August 2007 for over 20 participants from the seven partner countries.
The multi-location trials conducted in the last year of the project (year 3) allowed for the identification of varieties that performed best in each location. Results of the vector-independent screening confirmed the resistance in these varieties to the predominant viruses involved with the ToLCD. Upon completion of the project, variety performance reports were provided to all the seed donors. Given many of these companies and institutions had yet to enter the West African market, the development of distribution capacity from the ground up will be required. This is not a trivial task, as the commercial seed distribution sector in West Africa is severely underdeveloped . Seed distributed through commercial outlets needs to be adapted to the region, including resistance to important pests and pathogens. Varieties such as the commonly available ‘Roma VF’ are becoming increasingly undesirable as disease pressures intensify. NARS partners provided updated information on seed availability and the incidence of ToLCD (Table 5). Two varieties from the trials are widely available including ‘GemPride’ (Seminis Inc., now Monsanto) and ‘Nadira’ (Tropicasem). Monsanto is currently selling ‘GemPride’ in Ghana and Senegal, and also recently starting selling the TYLCV-resistant variety ‘VL-642’ in West Africa . ‘Lety F1,’ another Monsanto variety included in these trials, is not a commercial variety in West Africa . The Tropicasem variety ‘Nadira’ is widely available in many, if not all of the countries included in this project.
In Benin, collaborators from INRAB (Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Benin) indicated that ‘TLCV15’ (AVRDC) and ‘Nadira’ (Tropicasem) are currently sold in the region. ‘LetyF1’ (De Ruiter Seed Group B.V., now Monsanto) was sold in pre-extension trials, but collaborators found that it was rejected by farmers due to fruit size. As noted above, Monsanto is currently not selling ‘Lety F1’ in West Africa; therefore, available ‘Lety F1’ seed in the region would be the result of on-farm multiplications rather than the hybrid included in the trials. The most popular varieties in the region are all susceptible to ToLCD. These include ‘Tropimech,’ ‘Petomech,’ ‘Caraibo,’ ‘Mongal F1,’ as well as three local varieties, ‘Tounvi,’ ‘Akikon’ and ‘Kekefo.’ Once popular variety ‘Roma VF’ has been abandoned, it is very susceptible to ToLCD. In Southern Benin, growers sometimes grow ‘Nadira’ (Tropicasem), which was included in the trials, but it is not well adapted to Southern Benin. Additionally, farmers reported to INRAB that the ‘Nadira’ seed is very expensive. ‘TLCV 15’ (AVRDC) is grown in limited locations in urban and peri-urban areas of Cotonou and Ouidah. The variety is popular with producers, consistent with experimental results obtained at the INRAB research station. ‘TLCV 15’ is the only variety of the trials that INRAB multiplied for sale and registered in the national catalog of vegetable species. There are many tomato varieties that are available in Benin; however, there are few high-quality improved varieties available because the seed distribution chain is not well organized. Due to a lack of improved tomato seed, many farmers grow local varieties of pepper and onion. The only well-known seed distributor in Benin is Benin Semences (formerly Tropicasem/Technisem). During the rainy season from August to November in the South, and August to October and December to February in the North, there is an over production of tomatoes. A new tomato-processing facility has been established in Southern Benin, making year-round production stability even more important.
In Ghana, ToLCD causes significant losses during the dry and fresh market season. There is a lack of improved tomato varieties on the market. In fact, a number of areas still grow landraces rather than improved varieties . Local collaborators reported that ‘GemPride’ from Monsanto and ‘Nadira’ from Tropicasem are sold in Ghana; however, the most popular varieties are ‘Pectomech,’ ‘Pectofake,’ ‘Power Rano,’ ‘Burkina’ and ‘Ada Lorry Tyre,’ local landraces susceptible to ToLCD. A lack of improved tomato varieties has caused farmers to grow other vegetable crops, most commonly chili pepper. Currently, most to all tomato production is fresh market because the cost of production is too high for the processing companies to survive. Due to this underproduction, Ghana imports tons of processed tomato from Italy, China and the USA. Surveys of tomato farmers in Ghana found that cost of seed, management practices and familiarity with the variety, and shelf life due to skin thickness were extremely important . This supports the importance of local variety trialing, as well as our results which indicated a preference for varieties that stand up well to shipping. In June 2015, a workshop was held in West African Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI) called Workshop on Tomato Value Chain in Ghana, which included tomato producers as well as representation from the Tomato Traders and Transporters Association . The workshop brought together participants from WACCI, the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), the Australian International Food Security Research Centre (AIFSRC/ACIAR), Crawford Fund (CF), the University of Queensland (UQ), and local stakeholders in the tomato industry. Whitefly-transmitted viruses such as those that cause ToLCD were cited at this meeting as among the most important pathogens in the region.
In Mali, our collaborators from IER (Institute d’Economie Rurale) indicated that the most popular tomato varieties are all susceptible to ToLCD: ‘Roma VF,’ ‘UC-82’ and ‘Rossol VF.’ The Tropicasem variety ‘Nadira’ is available; however, this variety is not the most popular, but farmers who know its tolerance to ToLCD prefer it. After the trials, farmers who had conducted trials or visited trials were asking for ‘Atak’ and ‘Bybal’ (Enza Zaden Benelux B.V., now Enza Zaden), ‘Cheyenne E448’ (Syngenta AG, now Syngenta), and ‘HA 3060’ (Hazera Genetics Ltd., now Hazera); however, none of these varieties are currently available for commercial sale in the region. A similar situation exists for the early maturing hybrids ‘Shasta’ (Harris Moran, previously Campbell) and ‘H8804’ (Heinzseed) introduced to Baguineda as part of IPM-CRSP (now IPM Innovation Lab). Currently, there are not major shortages of tomato; however, if tomato-processing plants became operational, this may cause a shortage. Recently developed open-pollinated cultivars ‘OPB 149’ and ‘OPB155’ produce good yields under ToLCD pressure. These varieties were developed and distributed to farmers in Kati, Baguineda and Niono by IER in collaboration with IPM Innovation Lab.
Collaborators in Senegal report that Monsanto variety ‘GemPride’ is very popular with farmers. The Harris Moran variety ‘HMX 4810’ was also very popular, but again, seed distribution was a bottleneck. ‘Nadira’ is also very popular. NARS collaborators from INRAN (Institute National de Recherche Agronomique du Niger) indicated that of all the ToLCD-resistant varieties that were included in the trials, only ‘Nadira’ was available. ‘Nadira’ is recommended for cultivation in the rainy season and is readily available from local agricultural retailers. ‘RomaVF’ is currently on sale and is still very popular. In Togo, AVRDC variety ‘TYLCV 15’ had been extremely popular with farmers, but current seed availability was uncertain at the time of this publication.
An examination of tomato exports showed a steady increase in fresh tomatoes exports from Senegal and Burkina Faso from 2003 to 2012 (Table 6). An increase in fresh tomato exports was not observed for the other five countries in this project during this time period, or for any other type of tomato product. Despite this increase in fresh tomato exports in Senegal and Burkina Faso, imported tomato paste dramatically increased starting in the early 2000s and has continued to increase in the region . In Ghana, there was an increase in canned tomato exports in 2006, but this dramatically decreased in 2007 and has continued to fall in an equally dramatic manner. This was most likely due to the common practice of bulking (typically imported) paste and repackaging prior to selling it . In 2003, a factory was established in northern Ghana by Trusty Foods Ltd, an Italian company, to supply West Africa with tomato paste . However, this company primarily imports the paste and repackages it at the factory; just 7% of its product come from tomatoes grown in Ghana . The Ghana export strategy allows the company to benefit from lower tariffs on products from the region . Given the dramatic fall in exports from Ghana in 2008, it is possible that this loophole has been closed. Nigeria is one of the major importers of tomato paste from Ghana, and it may have introduced barriers that resulted in the decline .
For tomato, improved seed sold in the region is either inconsistently available in the marketplace, is not adapted to climatic and disease constraints, or the seed has been repeatedly multiplied on-farm causing the loss of key traits such as disease resistance. Mechanization in any form, including irrigation pumps and tractors, is exceedingly rare and only available on larger, export-oriented farms or in contract farming where processors develop contracts with farmers [12, 13]. Imported canned tomatoes have become increasingly available due to reduced import tariffs and an absence of import quotas . The low price of imported tomato paste and the relatively high cost of locally produced tomatoes make production costs too high for processing companies to make a profit in the region . For example, in 1992 import quotas were abolished in Ghana and tariffs were reduced to 20% . These factors undoubtedly contributed to the closure of tomato-processing plants in the country, and subsequent reluctance to reopen as the prevalence and low cost of foreign tomato paste make it very difficult for local processing companies to break even . In order to compete with foreign paste from China, growers would need to harvest approximately 30 tons per hectare; however, yields have been estimated well below ten tons per hectare, and agricultural input costs are too high to be competitive . Poor quality has also been cited by processors as a restraint to purchasing locally . Fresh tomatoes are typically sold locally for higher prices, or can be sold around the country or internationally to Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, or Burkina Faso . Improved seed will increase yield and quality, which are essential to becoming competitive in the processed tomato market.
The establishment of a West African germplasm trialing network and the introduction of modern high-yielding virus-resistant hybrid tomato varieties address the larger goal of improving livelihoods in West Africa. The continued incidence of ToLCD in the region may cause seed companies to start selling their resistant varieties in the region, particularly given that the additional requirements of ECOWAS seed certification have been completed [27–30]. Theoretically, increased and stabilized tomato yields and improved produce quality will attract investment in the infrastructures necessary to make the tomato industry in West Africa a serious player in the local or even global market. A major goal of this project was to forge connections between the West African seed industry, global and regional seed companies and public plant breeding institutions to develop outstanding varieties, which is extremely important in the region [48, 51].
The trialing network established by this project provides a model for a thorough and efficient means of evaluating breeding materials and for applying biotechnology tools to address a major production constraint (ToLCD). Having access to the trialing network will streamline the breeding process and hasten the establishment of breeding capacity in the region. The participatory nature of the trialing network, with direct farmer input and involvement, promises to make varietal selection more accurate and appropriate for local farmer preferences. This trialing network provides an easily accessible strategy for international seed companies to enter the marketplace via the trialing network and connect into distribution channels for the dissemination of selected varieties to farmers. In Burkina Faso, trial data from this collaboration were used by a local cannery to inform variety selection for contract growers. The future of the vegetable industry in West Africa depends heavily on the introduction of new high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties that will allow the region to compete successfully in globalized markets. The newly established variety trialing network takes one step in that direction by enabling West African governments to evaluate the pool of available germplasm and select the most optimal varieties for the region. It is our hope that this capacity will serve as the foundation for poverty reduction as a host of complementary industries develop to translate better yields of vegetable crops into better livelihoods for producers and consumers. Improved tomato production in West Africa might benefit not only farmers, whose livelihoods would increase due to increased sales, but also those employed in downstream industries including regional or local canning or drying operations, truck drivers, exporters and merchants. Studies of the downstream effects of the adoption of high-yielding rice varieties during the Green Revolution in India found that higher earnings in the agricultural sector led to greater off-farm expenditures, resulting in widespread economic growth .
Kari Perez and Jeffrey S. Froikin-Gordon are co-first authors.
MMJ, RLG, KP, JF-G conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination, and wrote and edited the manuscript. KP, JF-G, IKA, VL, AAA, AM, OB, BH, FA-K, AAM, MN, LCO, LO, KTG, FS, RLG, MMJ participated in the design and/or execution of the variety trials in Africa, as well as compiling the post-trial tomato seed availability and tomato-processing information. RG, TK and MRR conceived and completed the begomovirus characterization work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We gratefully acknowledge Loren Puette for his work in trade analysis featured in Table 6 and acknowledge the seed companies in Table 1 that donated seed to this project. We thank Mary Kreitinger, George Moriarty, Nicole Moskal, Michael Weinreich, Greg Inzinna, Emilda Gomez, Brynda Beeman, Maryann Fink, John Jantz, Nick Vail, Scott Anthony, William Mulhern and B.B. Perez for their critical support and technical assistance, and acknowledge the inspiration and guidance of Eva Wieltzien and Fred Rattunde, and their colleagues in Bamako, Mali, in setting up this collaboration.
The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the USAID-ABSPII (GDG-A-00-02-00017-00), USAID IPM-CRSP, Cornell University, and for collaboration with The World Vegetable Center-AVRDC and ICRISAT. Jeffrey Froikin-Gordon was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and Kari Perez was supported by the SUNY Minority Fellows Scholarship and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Plant Genome Research Program Award DBI-0218166.
ABSPII. Agricultural biotechnology support project II, supporting agricultural development through biotechnology. 2015. http://www.absp2.cornell.edu/.
The Monsanto Company, Personal Communication. 2016. https://seminis.co.za/product/vl-642/691.
West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement. WACCI launches Vegetables Innovation Lab (VIL) to boost tomato production in Ghana. 2015. http://www.wacci.edu.gh/content/wacci-launches-vegetables-innovation-lab-vil-boost-tomato-production-ghana. | 2019-04-24T00:24:41Z | https://agricultureandfoodsecurity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40066-017-0118-4 |
You can borrow ebooks from your library and transfer them to compatible ereaders using free Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software on your Windows or Mac computer.
The following devices work a little differently. Please refer to the articles listed instead.
On your computer, open your library's digital collection (find it using www.overdrive.com).
Borrow an ebook (you'll need to sign into your library to complete this step).
Click the Download button for the borrowed ebook.
Downloaded ebooks open in ADE.
To transfer an ebook to your ereader, open the "Library" view in ADE (click the Library button in the top-left corner, if needed). From there, drag and drop the ebook into your ereader, which should appear on the left under "Devices." You may need to accept a file-transfer prompt on your ereader in order for it to appear in ADE.
Once you've transferred a library ebook, you can read it on your device just like any other ebook.
Go to your Checkouts page (under your Account). From there, click the Download button for the borrowed ebook. | 2019-04-24T22:55:33Z | https://help.overdrive.com/customer/portal/articles/1481624 |
In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors discuss the Efail vulnerabilities in PGP and S/Mime protocols, as well as the rocky disclosure process for the flaws.
The unveiling of the Efail flaws in encryption client software led to spirited debates about the rocky disclosure of the vulnerabilities and who, ultimately, was responsible for them.
The vulnerabilities, which were discovered by a team of academic researchers in Germany and Belgium, affect some client software that implements two popular protocols for email encryption in Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/Mime). The Efail flaws could allow threat actors to obtain the plaintext of messages encrypted with the affected client software.
The researchers' technical paper pointed to faulty email clients rather than the protocols themselves, which sparked a debate about who was responsible for the Efail flaws. While some infosec experts argued the developers were on the hook, others such as Matthew Green, professor at Johns Hopkins University's Information Security Institute, criticized organizations like GnuPG for not taking a more active role in addressing the problem. Additionally, a broken embargo for the branded vulnerabilities led to questions and concerns about coordinated disclosure processes.
Was there an overreaction to Efail? Who takes the majority of the blame for these vulnerabilities? Did the Efail disclosure actually fail? SearchSecurity editors Rob Wright and Peter Loshin discuss these questions and more in this episode of the Risk & Repeat podcast.
Who should take most of the blame for the Efail vulnerabilities?
To highlight the root of the problem, consider a closed system end to end secure mail provider with an OpenPGP standard compliant backend. Because they have complete control, they can easily see and coordinate every step of the mail sending and receiving process. Every sender and every sender is using their system. I doubt any such closed system had any problems with EFAIL. "Proton Mail" is one such system, and they are safe. On the other hand, that only helps those who use that particular closed system - e.g. it does not allow secure OpenPGP communication between a Proton Mail user and and someone outside that system. The Proton Mail website indicates they use a different method - a dropbox with a one time password, to pass messages from Proton users to outside the system.
Now consider the the case of non-closed OpenPGP mail systems. The target is different - communication between any two parties regardless of the flavor/version of the OpenPGP based mail system. The reward is higher (wider communication) but the difficulty/costs is higher (ensuring compatibility between all those different flavors/versions).
It so happens that the OpenPGP standard has required since at least 2003 every message to use an MDC (modification detection code), but there are multiple flavors of that code. The OpenPGP standard is quite flexible about algorithm flavors - that is necessary for a standard that has to meet many different needs.
Because of this difference in MDC format many systems silently dropped support for checking the code. That was the failure exploited by EFAIL. That failure was also a design choice made to maximize accessibility and development speed. That same choice was repeated many times over in many different flavors of mail clients - so in that sense it was predictable behavior in an distributed ecosystem without a central overseer.
Closed mail systems don't exactly compete with non-closed mail systems because their users have different needs. More likely, drop box and other non-mail forms of delivery are the fallback.
One idea for the future of open protocol standards and open software would be open accreditation to accompany the standards / software. Mailers would be obliged to pass various practical tests to get the accreditation. E.g., after a fresh default install, does it follow the complete standard protocol; does it warn every time if a required safety check (like MDC) is not met. The accreditation board should publish compliance records so that users choose safe mailers. That's not an extreme goal if it's considered as an essential component of open standards and software.
Something which is NOT a solution is obscure hard fails. An example would be designing the GnuPG module to hold all encrypted data in module memory before release and blow up if there was a problem with the MDC. Bad software design is not a substitute for good organization design. | 2019-04-22T06:08:41Z | https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/podcast/Risk-Repeat-Breaking-down-the-Efail-flaws |
The haegeum is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a fiddle. It is popularly known as kkangkkangi.It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, and two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.
The haegeum is one of the most widely used instruments in Korean music. The haegeum is used in court music as well as madangnori (ordinary people's music). The haegeum's range of expression is various despite having only two strings, with sounds ranging from sorrowful and sad to humerous. The haegeum is made using eight materials: gold, rock, thread, bamboo, gourd, soil, leather, and wood, and so it is called paleum (eight sounds).
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You are here : Home > News > YouTube have paid the music business $1.8bn in ad money over the past 12 months.
YouTube have paid the music business $1.8bn in ad money over the past 12 months.
YouTube has claimed that it paid out over $1.8bn to music rights-holders in the 12 months to the end of September this year, in advertising revenues alone.
The figure is revealed in Google's new 'How Google Fights Piracy' report, in which it's also claimed that YouTube has paid out more than $6bn to the music industry to date - $3bn of which has come from the monetized use of music in videos via Content ID.
These numbers get extra interesting when we turn back the clock a little bit - and, naturally, when we also look into how they compare to Spotify's industry payouts.
YouTube's $1.8bn claim suggests that it's been paying out circa $150m per month to the music business in ad money over the past year.
Spotify recently revealed that it had paid out 10bn to music rights-holders from its launch in 2008 all the way up to August 31 this year.
In Spotify's own F-1 filing with the New York Stock Exchange, it revealed that it had paid the music business 8bn from the platform's launch to the end of 2017, meaning that, in the first eight months of this year, Daniel Ek's firm handed over circa 2bn to labels and publishers etc.
Spotify, then, is running at an average per-month payout rate of 250m, which, according to an average exchange rate across the period, handily translates into USD at $300m (or $299.66m, to be more precise).
So there you have it: YouTube is paying rights-holders around $150m a month in ad money, while Spotify is paying out $300m a month in ads plus premium subscriptions.
Time will tell if those two headline numbers will grow closer together as YouTube continues to market and roll out its premium YouTube Music app, which launched in June.
Interesting twist: Spotify's ad-funded revenues are currently tracking at around 47m/$54m per month according to its recent Q3 report. If we roughly estimate that 70% of this is going to rights-holders, that means Spotify is handing over around $38m per month to the music industry in ad money - around a quarter of YouTube's equivalent figure.
It's also worth noting the acceleration in YouTube's payments to the industry over the past couple of years.
Finally, let's remember the disparity between what YouTube says it's paying out to rights-holders, and what those same rights-holders claim YouTube pays out.
According to the IFPI's global report for 2017, all digital video platforms (mainly YouTube) paid out just $856m to rights holders in the year.
Yet according to YouTube's own figures, it's now paying more than double this amount to labels, publishers, songwriters and artists within a 12 month timeframe.
In August last year, YouTube's global Head of Music, Lyor Cohen (pictured), claimed that YouTube was paying a higher per-stream rate for ad-funded plays than Spotify or Pandora within the United States.
He wrote: 'Critics complain YouTube isn't paying enough money for ad-supported streams compared to Spotify or Pandora. I was one of them! Then I got here and looked at the numbers myself.
'At over $3 per thousand streams in the U.S., YouTube is paying out more than other ad-supported services.
'Why doesn't anyone know that? Because YouTube is global and the numbers get diluted by lower contributions in developing markets.
To be fair to Cohen, YouTube's own industry payout figures suggest that the company's monetary contribution to the music industry has almost doubled in the near-two years since the end of 2016. | 2019-04-19T16:40:02Z | https://www.label-worx.com/news/youtube-have-paid-the-music-business-1-8bn-in-ad-money-over-the-past-12-months/10277/ |
When all Bakers and Eaters have arrived, our IronCupcake host Charlotte will introduce the competition by running through the rules and the fantastic prizes on offer!
We now have a brand new scoring system at IronCupcake. Eaters will now be nominating one different cupcake entry in three categories: Taste, Appearance and Theme. The cupcake entry with the most nominations across all three categories will win Best in Show. Each category of Taste, Appearance and Theme will then have individual winners.
The voting cards will have a score out of 5 for Taste, Appearance and Theme for each cupcake entry. These scores will be used if there’s a draw in one of the categories. On the voting cards, we’ll be asking Eaters to write what they liked about each cupcake they tasted. When you have judged all the cupcakes in your colour group, hand your scoring card in to Charlotte. You can read more about why the judging has changed on our blog.
Bakers can now meet other bakers and share recipes over in Bakers’ Corner. We will also have cake on offer especially for the bakers!
We’re going on a summer holiday! | 2019-04-20T22:39:06Z | https://ironcupcakeleeds.wordpress.com/new-to-ironcupcake/the-judging/ |
For visiting such a nice country like Romania you need an accommodation. If you are on a business trip, or your time is short, you have the normally first choice: big luxury hotel in a big city like Bucharest, Sibiu, Iasi etc. They have good standards and strive to maintain them. Amazing, the prices for accommodation and meals are comparable with the Western Europe prices, and it is really difficult to find a good accommodation in the peak season under 60 Euros (nevertheless, please contact me for such a delicate thing, as I can give you all the necessary insider tips).
For the meals, never forget my secret tips: you can usually find the best offer in little restaurants or inns, under the name Meniul zilei: for 3 Euros you get a good three courses menu! This is one of the things keeping Romania attractive for the professional budget travelers!
Another tip for a traveler in Romania having more time and not staying necessary on a budget is the accommodation in little pensions scattered all over the country, but mainly in Bucovina, Bran, Sibiu. The human contacts you can find are really amazing, as the unforgettable meals you can get ( smelling and tasting fantastic, as are mainly green products). Thus you can meat a farmer, or a craftsman or even a country teacher who will be very happy hosting you and earning also something with this occasion! In the communist times these human contacts has been banned and punished by the Securitate, but today this is one of the blossoming industries in Romania. Finding these places is not difficult: watch after "cazare" or "Zimmer frei" in the most important touristic attractions, airports, railways etc. Even here there is a huge difference between the established pensions and the locals with some free rooms concerning the conditions of lodging and prices (between 15-40 Euros). Take all the information needed when choosing a room: go and see it, ask for the agreement from the Ministry of Tourism ( preferable) and affiliation to associations and networks, avoiding the unpleasant surprises.
Camping places in Romania are for sure very cheap, but overcrowded on week ends and in the peak season (July-August). Not very many, you can find them in the hills or on the Black Sea coast. The Romanian go there in mass for longer stays. Don't have big expectations from the sanitation, they are underdimensioned and not properly maintained. You have also the chance to find the wooden houses, offering a minimum comfort and a limited intimacy. For the mountains freaks looking their ways in the Carpathians, there a few chalets offering shelter. Some of them are easy reachable, other not,offering a complete isolation; mostly are closed during winter.
In Bucovina, Neamt or near Horezu the monasteries offer shelter for the pilgrim. The offer is not very wide, the little number of beds is always not sufficient. You have quiet, peace, wonderful landscape, very low prices, but don't expect to a warm welcome. And never forget the night service, which can be noisy and unpleasant for the visitors.
A floating hotel is advisable in Danube Delta. | 2019-04-26T01:58:02Z | http://romaniawinetasting.blogspot.com/2012/09/best-accommodation-and-meals-in-romania.html |
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Interestingly, their findings suggest that, in addition to all print-related industries, radio, TV, and broadcast have also failed to recover from the losses of the recession thus far.
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Here’s how the recession affected jobs in newsrooms, publishing, advertising, and more." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Jun. 2014. Web. 19 Apr. 2019.
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"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all," according to Jackie Kennedy (wife of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy). I agree!
As far as I can remember, my interest in reading started as early as seven years old. I used to memorize stories in my Grade 1 English textbook. One of my sisters who worked here in Manila would also buy books as her pasalubong whenever she comes home during holidays or summer vacation. I borrowed Sweet Valley High, Nancy Drew, other classic novels from my classmates. I was also a regular customer in the "pocketbooks for rent" stall in my hometown during high school days. That's how I develop my love for reading which I believe contributed a lot in my passion for writing.
Now that I have my own kids already, one of my dreams is to train them to become prolific book readers. My eldest is showing interest in almost all aspects of communication. Allow me to be a proud momma a bit... She loves to read, she's good in grammar and spelling, and speaks Filipino and English language quite well. She recently joined their school's reading club and asked me to look for a book that she will read and share to her classmates and schoolmates. Since we don't have enough books at home, I browsed my e-book collection and found "Life of Pi" there. We already saw the movie adaptation of that fantasy novel so I think it will help her to make her story-telling easier. Well, we still have to buy the book itself.
The photo below was taken during our holiday vacation in my hometown in 2015. She read "Frozen" with her cousin and playmates.
BTW, that's my first-ever design project through canva.com.
1. Read to your children. Develop early readers by allotting certain time for reading together with your kids. Setting up a home library (with age-appropriate collection) is highly recommended.
2. Keep it fun, for everyone. As you read with your kids, encourage their involvement through question and answer. Creating activities like role-play, games related to the stories will also make reading enjoyable and interesting.
3. Set goals. Set reading goals for the entire year, for each month, for each week or even everyday. Pick what's applicable to them. My daughter's reading club is doing that. They have this so-called Reading Report Card for the teachers to monitor students' progress in reading.
4. Building your own library need not be expensive. Buy cheap, pre-owned books to complete your collection or watch out for sales of brand new books at National Bookstore or Fully-booked.... this tip is actually for me... I've been meaning to set-up a library as home but it's still in my to-do list until now.
5. Limit your or your kids' time in the Internet. Internet is one of the biggest distractions to reading or any worthwhile activities. To fully engage in reading and achieve the goals set, stay away from all Internet-connected gadgets or put mobile phone on silent mode while reading. If you opt to consult dictionary for term unfamiliar to you, use an actual dictionary. | 2019-04-26T00:42:22Z | http://www.wengzaballa.com/2017/01/how-to-develop-love-for-reading-among.html |
I'm currently using TeXLive 2013 (I think I updated just two weeks ago). The most recent documentation I have for the eucl package is dated January 9th, 2013. In appendix B of this documentation it is mentioned that changes have been made, but when I compare this documentation with the one I have from TeXLive 2011, I can't find any differences.
Does anyone know where I can go to readily find out what these changes are?
We use pst-xkey since 2005 and the message refers to a version before that date.
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State Sen. Michael Hastings (D-Tinley Park), and Steve Ferkau, a volunteer with the Respiratory Health Association joins Rick in the studio. Steve is a double-lung transplant recipient and will be making his 15th climb up the Hancock Center later this month on behalf of Respiratory Health Association. Sen. Hastings will also take part in the event. They will discuss #Hustle2017 as well as the current state of Illinois budget crisis. | 2019-04-26T00:01:41Z | https://wgnradio.com/2017/02/19/state-sen-michael-hastings-and-steve-ferkau-on-hustle2017/ |
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Interested in a "Wine and Wheel" Ceramics Party?
If you are interested in booking a "Wine and Wheel" party, you begin by deciding upon a date and contacting me to see if that date is available. Then invite your friends!
On the day of your party, you provide your selection of wine. I will have all the glasses and napkins. If you would like to bring in snacks I will provide plates and silverware.
What will your do during the party?
Once your guests get settled, I will do a demonstration of using the wheel and put your guests on their own wheel. I will be there to help guide and direct your creations. If you have more than 6 guests, I will have half of your friends roll out clay and make wind chimes. After an hour your guests will change stations and either work on the wheel or create wind chimes. This will take 2 hours of art time.
A toast for the party!
After your friends have created a bowl (or bowls) on the wheel and a wind chime, the items will have to dry in the studio. I will ask each person what color glazes they would like each piece glazed. Once I have the items dried, I will glaze and fire again. Once done, I will contact your host and everything can be picked up to enjoy.
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Each of your guests will be charged $40 for the Party. This includes all clay, aprons, tools, firing and glazes. | 2019-04-21T23:18:47Z | http://casamariposaarts.com/custom.html |
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Looking to rent a property in Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street instead?
Cutting through the real estates in Ajman, the road Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid St. is a centrally located thoroughfare in the city. It starts from the Ajman-Sharjah border on the east and ends before Al Ittihad St. flyover. Popular real estates in Ajman such as Al Jurf, Al Amerah and Al Raqaib lie on its northern side, whereas Al Muntazil, Al Yasmeen and Al Rawda lie on to the south.
An epitome of comfort and functionality, properties on Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street feature many residential apartments, each of which is unique in its own way. Unlike most areas of the well-developed and modern cities, the properties that have lined this road are not clammed up. The apartment buildings are not tightly packed in their respective clusters; this gives a sense of openness and airiness in the community. Plus, visitors with their own cars don’t have a hard time navigating around the buildings. One of the trending buildings on Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street is the complex of Conquer Tower developed by GJ Real Estate. It is a high-rise residential building offering a superb collection of freehold studios and 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom apartments. The flats have airy layouts and consist of spacious balconies. It also offers a wealth of amenities to its residents such as a state-of-the-art gym, temperature-controlled swimming pool and 5 to 6 high-speed elevators.
Most of the residential apartments can be acquired with a 20% down payment, with rest of the amount paid in instalments through a 5-year payment plan. The sale price of the apartments in Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street starts from AED 333,600 and goes up to AED 1,321,136, with the average cost more or less AED 832,000. Buying an unfurnished bulk unit would cost you between AED 17,318,500 and AED 22,510,885.
Few of the recreational spots in Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street include lush parklands such as Helio Park, The Lounge and Al Hamidiyah Park. Housing hundreds of fashion and lifestyle brands, restaurants and cafes, a fun-filled play area for kids, and a hypermarket, Galleria Malls is the ultimate shopping destination for residents in this community. Other shopping stores along the road include Kenz Hypermarket Ajman, Salem Shopping Centre and Safeer Hypermarket. The medical institutes on Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Road include Specialist Medical Centre, Ajman Specialty Hospital, Hessa Medical Clinic and Abdul Aziz Medical Centre. Restaurants that are located nearby this community include McDonald’s, Layali Beirut Restaurant and Café, Al Ayaam Grills and Restaurant, Subway Hamidiya and Al Fareej Restaurant and Bakery. Coffee and tea places on Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street include Coffee Shack, Cafeteria Kawakeb, Al Mahara Cafeteria, Bait Al Shai Cafeteria and Tea House.
Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street comprises a few leading firms and government authority organizations such as Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA), Economic Development Immigration Office, Al Hamidiya Police Station. There’s a zone dedicated for educational training called Ministry of Education where training of teachers takes place as a prerequisite in order for professionals to pursue with a teaching career. The prestigious educational institute called Ajman University is just around 8 minutes away from the community of Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Street. Ajman Free Zone, where most of the international trade takes place is just a straight drive of about 15 minutes towards west. Al Tallah Camel Race Course can be accessed with a turn south of the road in under 9 minutes.
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Roshin Yukai (炉心融解) anche popolarmente conosciuta come Meltdown, è un Hatsune Miku canzone che appare nel Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd scritto da kuma(alfred) e prodotto da iroha(sasaki). Può essere sbloccato cancellando Miracle Paint.
"In the dead of night, the cry of a lonely soul becomes an echoing song. Can Rin find a future for herself amid the cycle of self-negation in the depths of her heart? Punctured by a hopeless beauty, Project DIVA F 2nd brings Roshin Yukai to life in this atmospheric vignette." | 2019-04-20T05:21:54Z | https://project-diva.fandom.com/it/wiki/Roshin_Yukai |
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In the first instance it may be helpful to contact the person who is working on your case to discuss your concerns, and we will do our best to resolve any issues at this stage. If you would like to make a formal complaint, then contact us with the details. Making a complaint will not affect how we handle your case.
1. We will send you a letter acknowledging receipt of your complaint and asking you to confirm or explain the details as set out. You can expect to receive our letter two working days of us receiving your complaint.
2. We will record your complaint in our central register and open a separate file for your complaint.
The Principal will send you an initial reply to your complaint within three working days.
The Principal will then begin the process of examining your complaint.
4. The Principal may invite you to a meeting to discuss, and hopefully, resolve your complaint. He will do this within five working days of his initial letter to you.
5. Within three working days of your meeting with the Principal he will write to you to confirm what has been agreed with you.
If you do not want a meeting, or, it is not possible, the Principal will send you a detailed reply to your complaint. This will include his suggestions for resolving the matter. He will do this within five days of completing the investigation.
6. At this stage if you are still not satisfied you can contact the Principal and ask him to review his decision and suggestions.
7. The Principal will let you know the result of the review within five working days of the end of the review. At this stage he will write to you confirming his final position on your complaint. | 2019-04-24T07:51:34Z | https://www.ms-legal.co.uk/complaints-policy/ |
I’ve never believed to be true.
I can’t seem to scoop.
but the rain will still wash me grey.
and I am a fork.
Read more poems by the same writer.
Wilfred Yeminifie Deigh hails from Okpoama in Brass LGA of Bayelsa. He hold a bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Niger Delta University and loves writing about love, society, life and host of other things. | 2019-04-26T02:26:56Z | http://michaelafenfia.com/blog/2019/02/12/poem-imagine-you-know-me-by-wilfred-deigh/ |
Hotel Crowne Plaza Antwerp is located near the Antwerp Ring Road, at the exit nr 5, Berchem-Wilrijk. It's become one of the Antwerp landmark buildings that can be easily spotted from the Ring Road.
Driving on the E17 follow indications Antwerpen Centrum. Past the Kennedy Tunnel take the second exit Berchem-Wilrijk (nr. 5). The hotel is next to the exit.
Follow E19. When entering the tunnel take left track indicated as Centrum. Keep left. Turn left at the second traffic light indicated as Singel-Zuid-Hoboken. Warning : You are entering this road from the right. You have only 150 meters before reaching the next traffic lights where you turn left. Make sure you are on the right of this road by then. The hotel is 400 meters on your right hand side.
Driving on the Ring 1 in the direction of Ghent take exit Nr. 5 indicated as Boom-Brussel-Wilrijk. Follow A12 until exit (uitrit) Wilrijk. Keep right. At the traffic light you are in front of the hotel.
Around the hotel, there is free parking for approximately 750 cars.
There is a shuttle bus from Brussels Airport to the Antwerp Crowne Plaza hotel every hour on the hour. See time table.
If you are looking for accommodation, please contact the Hotel Crowne Plaza directly: call (03) 259 7500 or email reservations@cpantwerp.com. | 2019-04-22T10:50:42Z | https://www.itworks.be/location.php?id=CROWNEPLAZA-ANTWERPEN |
Largehearted Boy: Book Notes - Kelly Kerney "Hard Red Spring"
Book Notes - Kelly Kerney "Hard Red Spring"
Kelly Kerney skillfully spans almost one hundred years of American intervention in Guatemala in her compelling novel Hard Red Spring.
"A multigenerational, multi-viewpoint tale that’s a meditation on everything from history to cultural context to personal strife, Kelly Kerney's second novel is an adept meditation on the weight of history."
Hard Red Spring is a novel that explores the bizarre and tragic history of American intervention in Guatemala. Covering a century of slavery, popular revolution, civil war, genocide, and reconciliation, the narrative follows four American women: a farm girl in 1902, the wife of the American ambassador at the height of the Cold War, an evangelical missionary in 1983, and the mother of an adopted Mayan daughter in 1999. The book is an epic tragedy that has always defied my attempts to easily summarize it. I think I'd do better to discuss it through my track notes below. But to understand the various and vital ways that music influenced this project, readers should first know something about me: I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal home, where secular music was not allowed. When I rebelled and fled for college, I'd never listened to Neil Young or Bob Dylan, and had never even heard of Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Vivaldi, or John Coltrane. Since then, in a perpetual effort to make up for 18 years of deprivation, there has rarely been an evening when I am not at home just listening to records. With that, my musical memories of this novel's synthesis are so diverse—ranging from disturbing 1930s Chiquita jingles to drowning my sorrows with Junior Kimbrough to bad, sexually explicit Uruguayan pop. But, for the sake of your enjoyment and the mix itself—I take mixes very seriously!—I will stick to relevant songs that I actually enjoyed.
Hard Red Spring was based on many years of research. To grasp this history, I needed context that reached beyond even a hundred years. With that, I delved back to Spanish rule. I leapt forward to study CAFTA and the immigration crisis. I even found myself studying the Mayan Empire. All these eras cast light on each other—into the past, into the future—informing the narrative in surprising ways. History repeats itself. As you'll see in this mix, I love repetition, how a refrain evolves or refuses to evolve, becoming sly or insistent—much like the themes of the book reverberating over a century. As the Spanish Conquest echoed in the doings of the Cold Warriors, I could not help but think of this song. Every time the American ambassador in Part 2 walked into a scene, I heard the opening verse: He came dancing across the water/ with his galleons and guns/ looking for the new world/ in the palace in the sun.
After listening to Animals every time I got into a jam for seven years, I have to admit I got just a tiny bit tired of it. But there was no other album that could fuel my marathon restructurings. Thank God for Steve Gunn. In 2013, I discovered his album Time Off. Gunn's cyclical style latched onto some crazy dormant receptors in my brain and helped me recapture the deep meditative groove I needed to finish the book. Much like a record on a turntable, these melodies pushed my thoughts around and around, gaining just a tiny bit of distance with each revolution. As for "Lurker," I often felt like a lurker outside of this history. Why would a defunct Pentecostal from the Midwest care about Guatemala? Who was I to try to give insight into this perverse history? Sitting in bed and sipping my fair trade coffee while reading reports on torture and genocide, I often questioned myself.
The chorus says it all: That no one sees the crime/ That no one sees the crime/ That no one sees the crime. America's brutal interference in Guatemala continued for so long—captured in this song's relentless drone—because our involvement was so well-hidden: United Fruit's stranglehold on the country touted as economic development, the CIA-orchestrated coup masked as a popular counter-revolution, covert funding of military dictators, psychological reeducation of the population via missionaries, the forced resettlement of Mayan ethnic minorities under the guise of aid, impunity packaged as reconciliation. Two of the four female protagonists become unwittingly, deeply involved in these invisible crimes along with their husbands: That no one sees the crime/but my true love and I.
I played this song to commemorate my fifth year of working on the novel—both a high and low point. Years of research had crammed by head so full of facts, ideas, characters, symbols, scenes, and dialogue that the first draft had grown to an unwieldy 800 pages. But, I had a draft: My brain hurt like a warehouse/ it had no room to spare/ I had to cram so many things/ to store everything in there. I was both hopeful and despairing. The lyrics (about the doomed state of the world) are so sad, much like my subject. Yet Bowie is belting them out, refusing to just roll over quietly.
Every protagonist in Hard Red Spring will have a swan song and this is Evie's. Evie, the protagonist in Part 1, is eight years old. Living on a farm in rural Guatemala in 1902, she struggles to make sense of the dangers all around—both real and imagined: volcanoes, snakes, ghosts, criminals, government officials, and inscrutable natives. Phrases her parents use light-heartedly terrify her. One of these phrases is “keeping the wolves from the door.” As her family's financial situation becomes increasingly desperate, her father embarks on riskier and riskier maneuvers to keep them in Guatemala. Eventually, Evie comes to distrust even her parents' motivations: This is how it was meant to be/ I was meant to go on hoping/ even though there's really no hope/ in this land or on the sea/ becoming familiar with an illusion… The elastic, manic swings of the singer's voice remind me of a child fitfully protesting an injustice.
From the hills of West Virginia, Mamaw (real name Ella Hanshaw) is my maternal grandmother. She was also the lead singer and songwriter in a gospel group called The Hallelujah Hill Quartet. She recently described her songwriting process to me. The Holy Spirit would enter her, she said, and she'd “lose time.” Hours would pass like seconds and she'd snap out of it with a song. Amazingly, this sounded much like my own writing process where I'd fall into a (sober!) trance for hours at a time—though I do not call it the Holy Spirit. Upon hearing this, I knew where I had come from for the first time in my life. One More Hill is Lenore's swan song. The protagonist of Part 3, she is an evangelical missionary in Guatemala. Undoubtedly a sheep, she fully believes in the military dictator's plan to baptize the entire nation in the middle of a raging civil war. All of my protagonists are well-meaning. I thought of Mamaw often while writing Lenore. Empathy was vital in developing all of my characters beyond their crude dog/pig/sheep designation. That's just theme and I was careful not to mistake theme for character.
Will Oldham's music is like pure emotion. Half the time I suspect that my strong, instinctual reactions to his songs are far off from his intentions. But I've stopped caring. As I hear it, this is Jean's swan song. Jean, the protagonist of Part 4, has invested her entire emotional life in her adopted Mayan teenager, who is growing remote, rebellious, and physically volatile. Rejected and haunted by maternal guilt, she latches onto a woman whose passion, daring, and independence she wishes to make her own. As Jean blazes a tourist route through Guatemala accompanied by her daughter and shadowed by this lover, the U.N. Truth Commission picks up the pieces of a 36-year civil war just recently ended. In this, I hear Jean's loneliness, longing, and liberal guilt. I hear the fear and wonder that come with loving two people she tries to but cannot understand.
This is Dorie's swan song. The wife of the American ambassador to Guatemala in 1954, she becomes involved in a love affair that she believes will lead to a new life. But slowly her lover begins to distance himself from her. Over the course of Part 2, she becomes increasingly drunk, desperate, and delusional about their relationship—reflected here in the building desperation of the singer's voice. The pleading and screeching declarations sung to the instrumental hammering perfectly encompasses her helplessness against the deafening Cold War rhythm that dominates her life. In the streets, a seething populist revolution is being realized while the anti-communist alarm blares in her home. All she can do is try to sing over the clamor.
Here come the dogs! There are many dogs in Hard Red Spring: dictators, military personnel, and hired goons who keep Guatemala in a state of terror. They are trained, funded, and propped up by the pigs. But the dogs have their story, too and I would be a poor novelist if I did not explore them as individuals. The pigs, too. To truly understand how the Guatemalan tragedy happened, we need to understand their perspectives as well and maybe at times even empathize with them. In Hard Red Spring, a United Fruit executive has reinvented himself from enslavement; a peasant must kill or be killed; an illiterate solider is raised up to lead his country; a plantation owner loses everything to land redistribution; a broken boy soldier becomes a televangelist. Waters, in the closing verses, sums up the dog's lot: who was born in a house full of pain/ who was trained not to spit in the fan/ who was told what to do by the man/ who was broken by trained personnel/ who was fitted with collar and chain/ who was given a pat on the back/ who was only a stranger at home/ who was ground down in the end/ who was found dead on the phone/ who was dragged down by the stone.
Lenore is the only character to get two swan songs since she is the only protagonist to resurface in another section. In Part 3, she believes she is doing God's work as a missionary. When she reappears in Part 4, however, she is greatly changed. Indeed, she gets another swan song because her old self has died and she's been reborn. She is the only character who gains true perspective on her deeds. Callahan's simple repetition of It's time to put God away is like the voice of reason. Every time he says it, the suggestion gains a little more weight. Overcome with guilt, Lenore herself is stuck in a loop, obsessively transcribing the stories of the genocide's survivors into notebooks that fill her dilapidated shack. Callahan's voice is so clear, so calm and measured, like the voice of God Himself, disavowing Himself and what has been done in His name. | 2019-04-19T00:50:22Z | http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2016/03/book_notes_kell_4.html |
Now in its second printing, this batch of poems by John Harkey hums the way a hard drive might, its power almost at odds with its small construction. Officially, “mask work” is a series of related images encoded in the layers of a semiconductor chip or the relation of the images as they reflect the surface patterns of the semiconductor chip product. True to its title, these poems “process” information as much as they punctuate it.
John Harkey lives in Atlanta, where he is a post-doc at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D in English from the CUNY Graduate Center (his dissertation, on “small poetry” in the 20th century, focused on Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, and Susan Howe). More recently, he edited a facsimile version of Niedecker’s handwritten book Homemade Poems. He also founded and runs Creature Press, a vehicle for handmade chapbooks; and some of his poems can be found in Marsh Hawk Review, EOAGH, We Are So Happy to Know Something, and 2nd Ave Poetry. | 2019-04-26T04:14:17Z | http://www.textileseries.com/shop/mask-work-by-john-harkey |
Edit March 2016: So far, we know Kawi used black/red or all black for the wire running to the 10-pin JB plug from the start button. This has caused some confusion and errors applying this mod in some cases. This is probably the reason for the headlight problems later in this thread. Will try to get a couple of pics and pin locations up as soon as I can post pics again.
Posting this so more people may become aware of it, recommending it as a preventative mod that could save your stator, or resolve some of the other problems it covers. The mod can also keep you from being stranded.
4) Charging System Failure to charge with a good stator, R/R, etc.
5) Possibly improves ignition voltage. The yellow/red branches off before the Junction Box and feeds into the IC Ignitor box. Hot and cold starting both improved on my bike.
This mod is bypassing unidentified faults and future faults with these circuits in the Junction Box.
michiganteddybear did this 1 1/2 years ago for his start button.
I have the TPE/MOSFET and this mod cured charging system brownouts, low peak charge, dead start button, and hot/cold starts on my bike.
thtanner has the TPE/MOSFET that wasn't charging at all, both of ours are at 14.5v now.
x2 sticky... .. and thanky ODD.
I first did this mod due to the start button intermittently failing to crank engine.. a couple well placed whacks on the left side cover (where junction box lives) sometimes brought life back to it.. traced it back to a failing start relay inside the J/B. The mod has totally removed that issue from my bike.
on a side note, and it wasn't checked at the time (not a concern when I did mod), I don't know what my charge voltage was, but I have stock oem stator, and at that time the stock oem r/r. since the mod I have replaced the r/r with a mosfet (still have stock stator), and I believe my charge voltage is around 13 at idle, but climbs to 14+ by the time its turning 2k rpm..
MTB, I wouldn't have known about the voltage changes without the dash mounted volt meter. Might never would have connected the increase in volts with doing this mod, I also just needed the start button working again.
Thanks for the quick sticky.
Spread the word folks, I think this will help a lot of riders. I'd say it ranks somewhere on the list of things to do when you first bring your Vulcan home, because it could prevent ever having these problems. On the list with checking spline lube, etc. Add to The Verses?
Don't know who might have discovered this bypass first, but I figured it out for myself and as soon as I mentioned it, MTB confirmed it worked for him 1 1/2 years earlier. I then knew to proceed with cutting those wires. Thanks again, MTB.
If anyone sees a mistake in the write-up, or comes up with more info, we'll edit it into the first post as well. Wasn't sure what to call it, JBStarChargVI or JBSCVI (junction box start charge volts ignition) seemed too much, The Two Wire Mod sounds simple, as it is to do.
It's possible this mod might make the ign. coil relay mod obsolete. That yellow/red shorting in the JB, may be responsible for the voltage drop through the yellow/red to the IC and then to the coils. Or the improved voltage on the yellow/red at the IC provides better spark timing adjustment on cranking. I'm just not sure.
without having an internal schematic of the ignitor box, there is probably no way we will ever figure out what happens when the start button is pressed. we can speculate due to what we see happening, but thats about it.
almost makes me want an old one to disect and reverse engineer.
KC2 has repaired some JBs, he may have something to add if he sees this. Haven't seen him for a few weeks though.
Last edited by Spockster; 09-25-2015 at 11:54 AM. | 2019-04-26T00:39:41Z | https://www.vn750.com/forum/19-electrical/77946-two-wire-mod.html |
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To prevent the production of illegal light diesel oil, which contains kerosene or heavy oil, 1 ppm of coumarin is added to either the kerosene or a heavy oil as a discriminator. The analysis procedure for determining the discriminator and its mixing concentration is standardized by the National Petroleum Dealers Association and uses a spectrofluorometer to determine concentration.
Coumarin is hydrolyzed in alkaline solution and becomes cis-O-hydroxycinnamic acid. The cis-O-hydroxycinnamic acid is then isomerized by ultraviolet radiation and converted to trans-O- hydroxycinnamic acid. Since trans-O- hydroxycinnamic acid fluoresces, the product can be quantified using fluorescence spectroscopy.
Scheme 1. Hydrolysis and photoisomerization of coumarin.
While the current procedure is relatively simple, the purpose is to determine the coumarin concentration within more than a couple percent of the related oils. This application note introduces a high sensitivity system to improve the concentration detection limit to less than 1 percent and reduce the quantitation limit.
1000 ppm of undiluted coumarin solution was made by dissolving 100 mg of coumarin in an aromatic solvent such as n-propyl benzene. The standard coumarin samples were prepared by diluting 100 µL of the undiluted coumarin solution using 1 ppm of n-dodecane and further diluting the solution to 0.1 ppm. For the alkaline solution reagent, 10 g of sodium hydroxide and 20 g of sodium nitrate were dissolved in 100 mL of Millipore water and kept in a polyethylene vessel. 40 mL of 1-butanol and 30 mL of ethanol were mixed for the alcohol solution. The standard samples were then mixed in test tubes, according to the specified ratios in Table 1. Following the procedure in Figure 2, the samples were shaken to hydrolyze the coumarin and then extracted in the alkaline solution. The samples were then kept stationary for 5 minutes to allow for separation of the solution layers. The photoisomerization reaction was induced by irradiating the sample using a spectrofluorometer and an excitation wavelength of 360 nm. The fluorescence intensity was detected at 500 nm and used to generate a calibration curve.
Table 1. Mixing ratios of the standard solution.
*The excitation was set at 20 nm to perform photoisomerization effectively for the Time course measurement. Excitation bandwidth was set at 10 nm for the Spectrum measurement in order to suppress reduction of fluorescence intensity due to photolysis.
The time course and spectral measurement data of the standard samples with varying additive concentrations are shown in Figures 2 and 3. Both figures indicate an increase in fluorescence intensity with increasing additive concentration and Figure 2 shows that the photoisomerization reaction is finished in 150 seconds after exposing the samples to UV radiation.
Figure 2. Time Course measurement of the photoisomerization of the standard samples varying additive concentrations.
Figure 3. Fluorescence spectra after the photoisomerization reaction for varying additive concentrations.
A calibration curve plotting the fluorescence intensity at 500 nm as a function of the additive coumarin concentration is shown in Figure 4 and the corresponding values in Table 2. The correlation coefficient obtained for the calibration curve was 0.9993, indicating good linearity.
Table 2. The additive coumarin concentrations with their corresponding fluorescence intensities at 500 nm.
Figure 4. Calibration curve for the coumarin discriminator.
The fluorescence measurements of 0% and 1% standard solution concentrations were repeated 5 times and are shown in Figure 5. The standard deviation for the fluorescence intensity was 0.4357 while the coumarin concentration was 0.0172.
Figure 5. Fluorescence spectra of 0% and 1% standard sample solutions. 5 measurements were taken for each concentration.
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Great interview on Slashdot It's worth reading this Bradley Kuhn (VP of the Free Software Foundation) interview where he talks about software libre.
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For those of you who have been under a rock for the past few weeks (like me), you may not have heard of the changes that Lexis Advance is making to the look and feel of the product next month. Lexis is calling this a “New, Cleaner Look” that doesn’t change the steps you take to research, but changes the way the results appear on the screen and how you navigate those results.
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Here’s a video that just came out for the Academic users, but it shows some of the streamlined changes, and the new tab-less results. The new look is to launch next month, so start getting the word out now. | 2019-04-22T10:00:48Z | https://www.geeklawblog.com/2014/05/lexis-advances-upcoming-changes-aka-no.html |
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