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Facing A Criminal Charge?
When facing a criminal charge of any kind, your reputation and more is at stake. You deserve to have your constitutional rights protected. At Powell Law Firm P.A., I use my experience defending and prosecuting thousands of criminal cases to aggressively represent you.
A Former Prosecutor Defending You
I am very experienced with criminal law matters. A criminal court is no place for amateurs. Everyone working for the prosecution is professional and focused on obtaining your conviction.
You need to have an equivalent professional focus to protect your rights and your future. I have the confidence necessary to achieve the best outcome for your case base on your facts when facing these types of charges:
- Sex crimes: Florida’s sex crime laws are some of the most stringent in the country. I represent clients who face charges in a sexual battery, lewd molestation and battery, child abuse and neglect, unlawful sexual activity with a minor and failure to register as a sex offender.
- Drug charges: Drug possession and trafficking are serious offenses. If convicted, the consequences in these cases can take away many of your liberties.
- DUI: The laws surrounding DUIs are complicated and have several levels. Repeat offenders can be on the hook for major fines and jail time. A vigorous advocate is essential in the outcome of your case.
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On Thursday morning, German police raided the Frankfurt headquarters of Deutsche Bank, President Donald Trump’s biggest lender, in connection with a money laundering investigation. The raid focused on an alleged money laundering operation that may have involved as much as $350 million and was exposed with the 2015 release of the Panama Papers—a trove of documents detailing the creation and use of offshore bank accounts. The investigation is the latest in a string of scandals and financial setbacks for the bank, which holds the mortgages on several of Trump’s most prized properties, including his Doral golf resort and his Washington, DC, luxury hotel. Speculation for months has swirled around the possibility that another company could take over the ailing bank—including rumors that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a Chinese state-owned bank, might be interested. This is significant because any entity that controls a large chunk of Trump’s debt holds a certain amount of leverage over him—an unprecedented situation in the history of the US presidency.
Trump has a long relationship with Deutsche Bank dating back to the early 2000s. At the time, most US banks refused to loan money to Trump following his string of bankruptcies and Atlantic City failures. But Deutsche Bank continued to let him borrow hundreds of millions of dollars—as of his inauguration, Trump owed the German bank as much as $364 million. Once a powerful player in international banking, Deutsche Bank has paid out billions in settlements to both US and European regulators for its role in the 2008 financial crisis and other scandals. When Trump took office, he refused to divest from his company, meaning he continues to owe the bank money—several of the loans are personally guaranteed by the president—even as the Department of Justice has opened new investigations into the bank’s activities.
In 2017, the bank paid regulators $670 million in fines for its involvement with “mirror trades” in Russia—a complicated scheme to allegedly help wealthy sanctioned Russians move currency out of the country. Deutsche Bank is also embroiled in a scandal involving Danske Bank, a Danish company, which allegedly was involved in laundering billions of dollars from Russia. Danske is under heavy scrutiny from the Justice Department and European regulators, and Deutsche Bank has reportedly been contacted by US investigators for its role in handling some of Danske’s suspect transactions.
Thursday’s raid is not related to either of those scandals. In a statement, the bank confirmed it had been raided in connection with offshore transactions revealed in the Panama Papers, and said it is cooperating with the investigation.
The fines and ongoing controversies have sent Deutsche Bank into a financial tailspin and tanked its stock price, which in turn has raised the possibility of a takeover. In July, Deutsche Bank’s stock briefly rallied after it was reported by the German business press that JPMorgan and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China were both interested in taking big stakes in the troubled bank. A scenario in which the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which is the country’s largest bank, took control of Trump’s mortgages would potentially pose an enormous conflict of interest for Trump, if not a national security threat. That said, the bank is already the single largest tenant in Trump Tower, and its lease is due to expire in October 2019, setting up another major conflict.
Even as it stands, Deutsche Bank’s ownership is rife with conflict of interest landmines for the president. Currently, Chinese financial giant HNA Group, which has sparred with American regulators, owns 8 percent of the German bank—though it is under pressure to sell that piece. American hedge fund Cerberus Capital—co-founded by Stephen Feinberg, a major Trump donor whom the president appointed to head his intelligence advisory board— owns another 3 percent.
The White House did not return a request for comment on whether the administration has any plans for how to handle conflict of interest concerns if Deutsche Bank is taken over.
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Three Shi’ite Muslim men were sentenced to death by a Bahrain court on Thursday and seven others were given a life term for killing three policeman, the kingdom’s Public Prosecution said on its Twitter account.
The ruling is the latest in a series of strict penalties handed down to those accused of seeking to destabilise the Western-allied kingdom.
Sporadic protests and occasional bomb attacks have shaken Bahrain since the Sunni Muslim-led government quelled mass protests in 2011 led by members of the Shi’ite majority demanding reforms.
The men were found guilty of killing three policemen last March, including Lieutenant Tareq Mohammed al-Shehhi from the neighbouring United Arab Emirates.
“Three defendants were sentenced to death and life imprisonment (was handed down) for the remaining accused,” the public prosecution said on its Twitter account, adding that a number the men will be stripped of their nationality.
Bahrain crushed demonstrations that began on Feb. 14, 2011, amid the protest wave sweeping other Arab countries, but it has yet to resolve the conflict between majority Shi’ites and the Sunni-led monarchy they accuse of oppressing them.
In 2011, Saudi Arabia and the UAE sent forces to support Bahrain’s rulers and confront the protests.
Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, has accused Iran of fomenting unrest in the country, a charge Tehran denies.
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Oyster Mushrooms Grow Kits
WHY GROW YOUR OWN OYSTER MUSHROOMS AT HOME
Oyster mushrooms are velvety, savory, and mild and pair perfectly with just about any recipe! Our oyster mushroom kits are reliable producers and tend to yield large flushes of beautiful mushrooms when given adequate humidity.
Your kit includes an amended sawdust or straw block fully colonized with mushroom mycelium. It may appear covered with a soft, white, mold-like substance - that's the mushroom mycelium! It is completely normal. The mycelium of some species is more prominent than others.
qUICK details about the kit
PRICE; Ksh 500 ($4.5)
Skill level; Beginner
Grow location; Indoors
Grow speed; 1-2 weeks
Shelf life; 3 months (refrigerated)
Flavor profile; Savory, meaty, earthy
Available Colors; White (Other colors available on order)
Kit weight; 2 kg, Expected output: 4kg
AVAILABLE KITS FOR SALE
The oysters take one month to grow and you harvest for 2 months.
We also can make other kits of a variety of colors such as white, grey and blue. ONLY ON ORDER.
Reishi take their time and grow very slowly. Depending on your needs, you can harvest your kit early when the mushrooms resemble antlers and are only a few inches tall. Or, you can allow the mushrooms several more months in the bag to form more interesting growth patterns.
The fruit body is slow to grow, but requires little care. Harvest at its’ prime and make medicinal tea and/or tinctures.
Kits may be grown indoors, and may also be fruited outdoors during the spring and fall. A humid environment is important to mushroom formation, and can be created by misting water from a spray bottle into a humidity tent.
All natural ingredients. Your kit contains a mushroom culture grown on pure hardwood sawdust and organic Canadian wheat bran. No chemical fertilizers, nor pesticides, used. Kit size ~1.9kg
Our lion's mane mushroom kits are reliable producers and tend to yield large flushes of beautiful creamy white mushrooms when given adequate humidity. With continued proper care, you may be able to get multiple flushes. (We 100% guarantee your first flush of mushrooms, but hope you'll try for 2 or 3!) Note: Lion's mane can be prone to drying out if the ambient humidity is too low, so we recommend that you water it generously.
The spawn used in our mushroom kits is grown on organic grain and made with organic cultures from our own culture lab. Our kits are handmade from a blend of locally sourced, all-natural, organic, and non-GMO woods and supplements from farms and forests in Kenya.
1) Provided is an straw /sawdust block that has been completely colonized by mushroom mycelium.
2) Slice an 'X' into the plastic on the bag underneath with a sharp knife or scissors. (10-20 holes)
3) Use a hand sprayer with tap water and generously mist the plastic where you sliced your 'X' shape. Mist your kit at least twice daily - more if you're in a particularly dry climate. (If your mushrooms start to grow but dry up and die, your growing conditions may be too dry and you should make a humidity tent!)
4) Place your kit in the most humid part of your home and outside of direct sunlight. We suggest putting it on a kitchen counter close to a sink. The mushroom mycelium will sense the oxygen in the air and produce mushroom 'pins,' another term for 'baby mushrooms.'
5) It usually takes 5-14 days for pins to form. Once pins begin to form, mushrooms will grow quickly. So when you spot your first pins keep an eye on them. The warmer the environment the faster they will grow. Mushrooms should be ready to harvest 2-5 days after pin formation.
If you're not ready to use immediately, your Oyster Grow Kit can be refrigerated or stored in a cool dry place, out of direct sunlight, for up to 3 months.
Our recipe is to chop the oyster mushrooms and sauté them in a heavy pan on medium heat with butter, garlic, and loads of fresh thyme and rosemary (or whatever other herbs you happen to have on hand!).
Cook until the mushrooms have released their liquid, then continue cooking until that liquid has cooked off and the mushrooms begin to brown. This can take from 20-30 minutes. Deglaze your pan with a splash of white wine, reduce once more, and finish with a touch of heavy cream. Season generously with salt.
Simply take a trash bag or other loosely fitting plastic bag and put PLENTY of 1/2 inch holes in it (THIS IS IMPORTANT: Mushrooms exhale CO2 and inhale oxygen. They will suffocate themselves if there isn’t adequate airflow! Oysters that look stringy or strange are usually growing that way because they need more air!). Spray the slice at least once per day with the included spray bottle. If you choose to use a humidity tent make sure to spray the inside of the tent once per day to maintain humidity.
If you’re going to consume home-grown mushrooms, make sure to cook your fresh mushrooms thoroughly with heat. If it is your first time eating this species, it is best to start with a small amount to check for allergies, even if cooked.
Mushrooms grow spores as they develop. This is a natural means of reproduction. This is when people with allergies or compromised immune systems may want to consider putting fruiting mushroom kits outdoors or in a well-ventilated area. Spores in mushrooms sometimes cause respiratory irritation.
In rare cases, spores may also cause irritation for some non-allergic or non-immunocompromised mushroom growers. If you are one of them, it is recommended to reduce the overall spore load by harvesting mushrooms while they are still in their younger growth stages.
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This is best for big families, restaurants, schools, hospitals and others looking for reliable and constant supply.
Join like minded growers in a member only community where the growers share their tricks and tips.
As a member, you enjoy experiments and research we constantly do and member only networking meetings every 2 months.
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Love at First Sight
Bella and Edward are in the same Biology class and Edward formally introduces himself. They are completing a class project on mitosis and engaging in small talk. Edward is unable to read Bella's thoughts, so he asks her a lot of questions trying to get to know her. Later, Edward saves Bella from getting hit by a car in the parking lot and again from drunken frat guys. Later, Edward reveals to Bella that he's a vampire but instead of being scared Bella is intrigued and okay with it. The two are drawn to each other and become inseperable.
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Kien Bed & Breakfast Studios, Amsterdam
|Tweede Weteringdwarsstraat, 65, Center, 1017SV, Amsterdam, North Holland, NETHERLANDS.|
Description: Kien Bed & Breakfast StudiosKien Bed & Breakfast Studios is a charming boutique property, located on a quiet street in the heart of Amsterdam's historic centre. Set in a carefully restored typical Amsterdam house, this elegant, spacious B&B has a quiet garden behind the house, where guests can relax, and offers comfortable accommodation in just five large studios.
Kien Bed & Breakfast Studios is ideal for visiting this fascinating city. It is just a five minute walk from the Rijksmuseum, while the Van Gogh museum is also within easy walking distance. Handy tram stops close by mean that all of Amsterdam's landmarks and attractions are also within easy reach.
Accomodation at Kien Bed & Breakfast Studios is a relaxed, informal affair. The spacious, light-filled studios have everything necessary for independent stays, and guests are free to come and go as they please. Each studio has its own kitchenette and dining area, and breakfast is served in the studios.
Type of rooms: Kien Bed & Breakfast StudiosStudio:
The studios have an airy, open-plan design, featuring modern décor with Dutch characteristics. Each studio is equipped with a small kitchen area, a comfortable private bathroom with a shower, sink, and WC, and have a typical Dutch garden view. The studios come with free wireless internet, a safe, and a flat-screen TV. Extra beds and baby cots are available on request.
Studio size approximately 60 sq m.
Additional information: Kien Bed & Breakfast Studios
Public parking is available at a nearby location. Charges apply.
Number of rooms: 5
Official category: Bed and Breakfast.
Languages spoken: Dutch, German, English.Smoking policy: Non-smoking property.
Credit cards accepted: Credit cards not accepted. A credit card is only needed to guarantee reservation.
GPS Coordinates: 52° 21' 40.87'' N 4° 53' 25.32'' E
Nearest airport: Schiphol Amsterdam Airport - 14,3 km.
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TabletPOS South Africa
A truly mobile point of sale program for your hospitality business. Our system runs on Apple hardware which is readily available in many countries worldwide, there is no need to install and buy special hardware. ORDERS Your staff can take orders directly at the table using an iPod Touch and our optimised interface. Orders are dispatched in realtime over your local wireless network. CHECKOUT We streamline the checkout process at time of payment, no matter if its split payments or multiple payment methods.
+27 (0)83 2676562
Unit 10/11, San Domenico Building, 10 Church Street
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Upon completion of his or her degree, each council scholar is expected to pledge a modest amount of financial support to the OMWC Scholarship Endowment Fund for a minimum of five years in order to “reseed” the program. This stipulation was designed to teach each scholar the simple but powerful “act of giving.” Each student also is expected to demonstrate his or her commitment to community service by undertaking a volunteer initiative to actively exhibit new leadership skills. Mentors continue to help guide the process, monitor development, and help each council scholar evaluate his or her growth.
For more information about the OMWC or the Council Scholarship Endowment Program, please contact The University of Mississippi Foundation at (622) 915-5944 or (800) 340-9542.
The University of Mississippi Foundation
Brandt Memory House
406 University Avenue
Oxford, MS 38655
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Reactive depression: Introduction
Reactive depression: When a person loses a loved one, when a marriage breaks down, when there is financial loss, for a few weeks or even a few months a person could be feel low, show a loss of initiative and little interest in his daily routine. This feeling fades and the person returns to normal routines and outlook after that. This type of depression is associated with grief or loss and is temporary.
More detailed information about the symptoms,
causes, and treatments of Reactive depression is available below.
Symptoms of Reactive depression
See full list of 14
symptoms of Reactive depression
Treatments for Reactive depression
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy and /or interpersonal therapy are effective in treating this type of depression
- more treatments...»
Read more about treatments for Reactive depression
Home Diagnostic Testing
Home medical testing related to Reactive depression:
- Child Behavior: Home Testing
- Mental Health (Adults): Home Testing
Wrongly Diagnosed with Reactive depression?
Causes of Reactive depression
- When a person loses a loved one
- Marriage break up
- Financial loss
- more causes...»
Read more about causes of Reactive depression
More information about causes of Reactive depression:
Reactive depression: Undiagnosed Conditions
Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:
Misdiagnosis and Reactive depression
Cluster of diseases with difficult diagnosis issues: There is a well-known list of
medical conditions that are all somewhat difficult to diagnose, and all can present
in a variety of different severities.
Diseases in this group...read more »
Undiagnosed stroke leads to misdiagnosed aphasia: BBC News UK reported on a man who
had been institutionalized and treated for mental illness
because he suffered from sudden inability to speak.
This was...read more »
Alzheimer's disease over-diagnosed: The well-known disease of Alzheimer's disease
is often over-diagnosed.
Patients tend to assume that any memory loss or forgetulness symptom might...read more »
Dementia may be a drug interaction: A common scenario in aged care is for
a patient to show mental decline to dementia.
Whereas this can, of course, occur due to various medical conditions,
such as a stroke or ...read more »
Tremor need not be Parkinson's disease: There is the tendency to believe that
any tremor symptom, or shakiness, means Parkinson's disease.
The reality...read more »
ADHD under-diagnosed in adults: Although the over-diagnoses of ADHD
in children is a well-known controversy, the reverse side related to adults.
Some adults can remain...read more »
Rare diseases misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease: A rare genetic
disorder is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease for men in their 50's.
The...read more »
Bipolar disorder misdiagosed as various conditions by primary physicians: Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder)
often fails to be diagnosed...read more »
Eating disorders under-diagnosed in men: The typical patient with
an eating disorder is female.
The result is that men with eating disorders often fail to be diagnosed or
have a...read more »
Depression undiagnosed in teenagers: Serious bouts of depression can be
undiagnosed in teenagers.
The "normal" moodiness of teenagers can cause severe medical depression
to be overlooked.
See misdiagnosis of depression or symptoms of...read more »
Undiagnosed anxiety disorders related to depression: Patients with depression (see symptoms of depression)
may also have undiagnosed anxiety disorders (see symptoms of...read more »
Read more about Misdiagnosis and Reactive depression
Reactive depression: Research Doctors & Specialists
Research related physicians and medical specialists:
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Hospitals & Clinics: Reactive depression
Research quality ratings and patient safety measures
for medical facilities in specialties related to Reactive depression:
Hospital & Clinic quality ratings »
Choosing the Best Hospital:
More general information, not necessarily in relation to Reactive depression,
on hospital performance and surgical care quality:
Reactive depression: Rare Types
Rare types of diseases and disorders in related medical categories:
Evidence Based Medicine Research for Reactive depression
Medical research articles related to Reactive depression include:
Click here to find more evidence-based articles on the TRIP Database
Prognosis for Reactive depression
Prognosis for Reactive depression:
This type of depression is not actually severe, due to the fact that depressive person may be relieved when engaged back in particular interests.
More about prognosis of Reactive depression
Research about Reactive depression
Visit our research pages for current research about Reactive depression treatments.
Reactive depression: Broader Related Topics
Types of Reactive depression
User Interactive Forums
Read about other experiences, ask a question about Reactive depression, or answer someone else's question, on our message boards:
Contents for Reactive depression:
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2000 Chevrolet Tracker
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"We can confirm than an investigation is under way in the case of the disappearance of Mr. Malkovich's personal belongings," a Mandarin Oriental hotel rep told the news organization. Czech Republic's iDNEZ.cz quoted the Prague Spring Musical Festival's director as saying that Malkovich also had two cell phones stolen from him. Malkovich was in town to perform in the festival's production of the serial-killer melodrama Infernal Comedy.
Malkovich was due in Lotz, Poland on Friday and the burglary delayed his trip by several hours. Once there, he screened his directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Apply to multiple districts at once!
To complete your online application, click on "Start an application for employment" and click or type where necessary. It is recommended you include scanned attachments. Review the closing statement before clicking the final send button. Once you have submitted your application it is valid for one year.
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Product Announcement from Econo Lift Limited
Econo Lift Drive-On Tilt Tables features a 0-45° tilt angle, and six different models that can hold up to 4,000 lbs.
- Velocity fuse on each cylinder to eliminate tables from collapsing due to hose failure.
- Hold down tabs on all four corners.
LOWERED HEIGHT OF TABLE
- Floor level
- A/C 110 volt (standard) with single phase motor (hand or foot operated controls available)
- A/C 460/575 volt (optional) with three phase motors
- Air/Hydraulic (standard) foot operated
- Different platform sizes
- Bellow safety skirting
- Limit switches
- Photo Eye
- Semi-portable c/w dolly handle
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Last year’s final ITT set off east of Milan, this time the riders start north of Italy’s key centre for finance. The route is virtually the same – namely, as flat as can be – although it is almost twice as long.
Filippo Ganna stormed to commanding victory on the final day of the 2021 Giro, finishing 32 seconds faster than Victor Campenaerts and Rohan Dennis.
As far as the route is concerned: it’s flat and it’s fast. On long straight roads the specialists can push a big gear, so breakneck speeds are to be expected. The intermediate time checks are situated at kilometre 9.2 and kilometre 18.8.
Last year’s final ITT turned out to be decisive and saw Tao Geoghegan Hart move into the pink jersey. Having started dead-level on time with Jai Hindley, the Briton went 39 seconds faster than the Australian to secure the GC victory.
Another interesting read: final GC and results 21st stage 2021 Giro.
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Stell Roofing is a family owned and locally operated Roofing Company which has proudly served Arizona since 1991. We specialize in Arizona roof installations. Stell Roofing understands the complexity and importance of keeping the customer aware by explaining each step in the repair or replacement process and for each client to understand and feel comfortable as we explain each step. Our mission is for our customers to have complete trust in us; it’s the only way we feel we can totally serve you.
- Phoenix, Sun City, Glendale, Scottsdale, El Mirage, Tempe
- American Express, MasterCard, Money Orders, Personal Checks, VISA
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Products & Services
We are residential roofing experts that have seen it all. We realize that most residential property owner’s are hesitant to get a new roof. They place adding a new roof to their home on the back burner and procrastinate.
Consider the following. A typical roof lasts less than twenty years. Perhaps, your roof is near this age. Have you noticed odd changes in the shape and structure of the shingles on your roof? This is a sure sign that the roof is wearing out.
Our Phoenix roofers specialize in installing and repairing many different types of roofs. Our specialties are residential three tab, dimensional shingles, flat roofs, and modified roofs.
With monsoon storms and dust storms common for our city, this can lead to damage to roofs. Stell Roofing Company has the necessary experience to fix any damage the weather causes.
Stell Roofing gave my family and I am awesome experience! Mike and Michelle are phenomenal and super professional! They are very responsive and made us feel like a priority. Thanks to them, our roof is fixed and there are now no leaks when it rains! We love our new shingle roof! We hired a company based off of a mutual friend and they exceeded our expectations. Plan to use them if we need them again, as well as spread the word. Thanks again Mike!
It is a pleasure to work with Stell roofing. They are professional and know what they are doing when replacing a roof. Mike Stell and staff are punctual and respectful. They answer all questions and keep a tidy work area. The roofing crew laid out tarps around the perimeter of the house and used a magnet to remove metal that fell from the roof. They also checked twice to make sure that they didn’t miss debris.
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I contacted Stell roofing after researching and finding great reviews. They were prompt to return my inquiry, and were honest that estimates were booking 2-3 weeks in advance after the volume of calls after the recent storms. I was happy to wait, and am SO glad that I did. Mike came out, on time. I received a confirmation call from the company a few days prior to the appointment. He immediately diagnosed our issue, and sealed it on the spot. He was friendly, professional, and honest. It is so rare to find companies who are doing honest work and aren't interested in nickel and diming you these days. Stell was fantastic! I would recommend them to anyone in a heartbeat.
Mike came out and gave us an honest assessment of our roof. Rather than trying to make a sale, he let us know that it was in good shape. When we need any repairs or a new roof, Stell Roofing will be our first choice.
I see why this company has such stellar reviews. Thinking it was time for a new roof on my house, I called them. Mike came out, checked out my situation and gave me his opinion-I'm good for a few more years. I felt like I'd won the lottery. Thank you Stell Roofing for your honesty and integrity. Count me as a believer.
Stell Roofing does a great job. This family owned busness ran by its Owner Mike Stell treats you as if you are part of his family and his work reflects that.ey are so personable, you feel like family. Stell Roofing did a fantastic job keeping a roof over my head.
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Finding solutions through collaboration
A lot has changed since I joined the industry in the 1970s – the heyday decade of trucking culture. In 1980, deregulation changed the game, bringing with it more trucks, lower costs and greater competition. More than 30 years later, our vehicles have become more sophisticated, driver shortages are skyrocketing, and the cost of doing business is rising across the board – from salaries to fuel, equipment to maintenance, and highway tolls to insurance and beyond.
As the owner of one of the more than 1,000,000 small fleets in North America, I know firsthand how hard these challenges are hitting our industry. Just as new technologies are emerging to enhance fleet performance, we too, as small fleet owners, must innovate to keep our fleets sustainable. While we have made strides to improve conditions for drivers, reduce truck emissions, and increase productivity, we need to do more.
We can start by renewing our efforts to create safe work conditions for women drivers and finding new ways to allow drivers to sleep at home with their families while keeping trucks filled with freight and en route for delivery. To do so, we would be wise to take a look back at what worked in the past, when trucking was as ingrained in North American culture as football and hockey. By applying the technologies and knowledge we have at our fingertips today, we can improve systems and processes.
One thing is for sure – what we’ve been doing for the past 30 years does not work today. This is why I invite you to join me at the NACV Show in Atlanta, Oct. 28-31, for a cross-industry dialogue on the future of fleets, best practice sharing for business owners and managers, and brainstorming solutions to challenges such as these.
I believe that by working together, we can and will discover solutions that benefit us all.
President & CEO of Traffix
Chuck Snow is the Founder, President & CEO of TRAFFIX, a third-party logistics solutions company serving North America. The company is recognized as one of TRANSPORT TOPICS Top 50 Freight Brokers for 2019. Come meet Chuck at the NACV Show Oct. 28 – 31 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta; be sure to visit him at Traffix’s Booth #5966.
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Mahabhulekh 7 12 Utara Online महाभूलेख 7 12 पहा Satbara Utara in Marathi.: Mahabhulekh Maharashtra Bhumi Abhilekh – a land record portal of Maharashtra state that provides 7/12 extract and 8A extract online to citizens. Mahabhulekh is a digital platform for land records satbara and 8 a launched by the revenue department of government of Maharashtra. Before the introduction of MahaBhulekh 7/12, All the tasks related to the record of land such as the satbara, 8 a, etc. were done recording manually on papers. But now the Maharashtra Government has digitalized all the land record activities in the state.
Mahabhulekh 7/12 Utara in Marathi
|Article category||-Information about Mahabhulekh
-Maharashtra Land Record,
|Bhulekh Authority||Revenue Board/Council Maharashtra|
MahaBhulekh Maharashtra is an online portal of Maharashtra Revenue Board that has solved the problem of manual land records in the state. Maha Bhulekh means keeping the account/ record of land. this is extract bhu naksha of Maharashtra state. It includes all the descriptions of the land, Information about Owner Name, Survey Number, and Area of Land.
Check all the important information about how to check satbara Utara online in this article. Here you will get detailed information about Maha Bhulekh, its advantages, how to use it, and other information.
What is a Mahabhulekh 7/12 Satbara Utara?
Satbara Utara is Extract/Document which contains Information about Owner Name, Survey Number, and Area of Land. the register maintained by the revenue department of Maharashtra.
सातबारा उतारा काय आहे ?
सातबारा उतारा हा एक दस्तऐवज आहे ज्यात मालकाचे नाव, सर्व्हे क्रमांक आणि जमिनीचे क्षेत्रफळ माहिती आहे. महाराष्ट्राच्या महसूल खात्याने सांभाळलेले रजिस्टर आहे .
How to check Mahabhulekh 7 12 utara Online?
MahaBhulekh Maharashtra is an online portal and most of the people do not know how it works and how they can use it to check satbara online. If you are one of them, who don’t know how to check, then you do not have to worry. Here we give a step by step procedure to check the satbara and 8 a to help you in this. We have kept the language easy to understand everyone. Anyone can easily follow the procedure to see your satbara utara at your home.
महाभूलेक 7/12 उतारा आँँनलाइन कसा पहावा?
महाभूलेख हे महाराष्ट्र शासनाचे ऑनलाईन पोर्टल आहे ज्याद्वारे आपण आपला सातबारा व ८ अ पाहू शकता. या लेख मध्ये आपल्याला सातबारा कसा पाहावा याबद्दल संपूर्ण माहिती दिलेली आहे. खाली दिलेल्या प्रमाणे महाभूलेख सातबारा पहा .
Step1 – Go to the official website: (अधिकृत वेबसाइट महाभूलेख वर जा ): Visit the official portal of MahaBhulekh but now this Portal is migrated to the New portal Bhulekh Mahabhumi.
This is the official new website: https://bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in/
Step 2: Select Division/District ( विभाग/जिल्हा निवडा ): Then you have to select your division where is the land located. As soon as you select your division or district the browser will redirect you to your district page.
These are the six divisions of Maharashtra state with districts.
- Aurangabad (औरंगाबाद ) – Aurangabad, Nanded, Latur, Parbhani, Hingoli, Beed, Jalna, Osmanabad.
- Nagpur (नागपुर ) – Bhandara, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur.
- Pune (पूणे ) – Pune, Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Solapur.
- Nashik (नाशिक ) – Nashik, Ahmednagar, Dhule. Jalgaon, Nandurbar,
- Amravati (अमरावती ) – Amravati, Akola, Buldana, Yavatmal, Washim.
- Kokan (कोकण ) – Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg.
Step 3: Fill the information. ( माहिती भरा ) : Now fill in the information of your land as shown in the picture below. Such as your district, taluka, and your village.
Step 4 – Select the district: Then, you have to choose the district from the list as shown in the picture.
Step 5 – Select tehsil: After selecting a district, a list of all the tehsils/Taluka falling under that district will appear. You have to select your tehsil/taluka from the list.
Step 6 – Select village: Then a list of the village will appear and you have to select your village.
Then you can find your Satbara in many ways. You can search for Satbara by entering Survey Number, Group Number, First Name, Last Name, Full Name.
Then enter your 10 digits mobile number on which you will receive an OTP.
Step 7: Enter the captcha code ( कँपच्या कोड भरा. ) : You have to enter the captcha to see the satbara. And this is a mandatory step to see the satbara.
Step 8: View Satbara Utara ( 7/12 उतारा बघा ) : Once the captcha is verified, you can view your Satbara. This is the complete procedure to check 7 12 Utara in Marathi.
Step 9 – Save the details: Finally, if you wish you can print the page or can take a screenshot for references. However, details about your land record 7/12 are already in the database and you can check it anywhere, any time online.
If you also want to check other land records on the MahaBhulekh portal then. You must have your Survey number or Gata Number to check the various record of your land. Without a valid survey/ block number, you cannot check your records.
NOTE: शासकीय अथवा कायदेशीर बाबीसाठी हा सातबारा उतारा वापरता येणार नाही त्यासाठी तुम्हाला डिजिटल स्वाक्षरीत सातबारा उतारा पाहिजे.
डिजिटल स्वाक्षरीत सातबारा उतारा ऑनलाईन कसा पाहावा यासाठी येथे क्लिक करा.
Mahabhulekh Pune Satbara Utara 2020
Earlier land holdings were recorded manually in the Board of Revenue. Citizens have to visit the department for every work related to their land. For every work related to land like sale of land, imitation of account, unique code, settlement etc. These were very time consuming and sometimes did not give satisfactory results. But now the situation has changed and the Maharashtra government has computerized the land records system.
All the land records of the citizens of Maharashtra are now handled with the help of information technology. Mahabhulekh Maharashtra is a web portal for keeping track of people’s Land.
Advantages of MahaBhulekh Online Portal
The computerization of land records in Maharashtra has made the work of land records in the state easier day by day. Mahabhulekh 7/12 has various advantages. Below we have shared all the benefits and advantages of this system to the citizens-
For any issue/help you can contact:
जमाबंदी आयुक्त आणि संचालक भूमि अभिलेख कार्यालय
तिसरा मजला, नवीन प्रशासकीय इमारत, कौन्सिल हॉल समोर, पुणे
दूरध्वनी : ०२०-२६०५०००६, ई-मेल : dlrmah[dot]mah[at]nic[dot]in
If you any issue to check Mahabhulekh 7/12 Utara online 2020, then you can ask us in to comment and we will reply to your problem ASAP.
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Asbury Park Music in Film: Danny Clinch’s perfect shot
A festival that merges music and film?
Danny Clinch, the Grammy-nominated photographer and filmmaker from Toms River, is all in. It’s the second annual Asbury Park Music in Film Festival, running today through Sunday at various locations in the city.
“What’s exciting about this film festival is the musical component,” Clinch said recently inside the Grand Arcade in Asbury Park. “There’s a lot of film festivals all over the country — certainly the South by Southwest has a film festival that is heavily music-based — but this is its own little thing. It’s about music and film and music in film, so it’s specifically tailored toward the bands and musicians.”
Clinch, who was recently profiled on “60 Minutes,” will star, with Ben Jaffe from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, in “A New Orleans Afternoon” Sunday, April 10 at the Paramount Theatre. There will be a discussion of “Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker” and a screening of Clinch’s “Louisiana Fairytale,” about the teaming of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and My Morning Jacket.
Earlier on Sunday, Clinch will join Robert Santelli, also from the Jersey Shore, for a discussion and showing of films from the Bob Dylan archives at the House of Independents on Cookman Avenue. Then, on Sunday night, Clinch will play with his Tangiers Blues Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at The Stone Pony.
Clinch, who’s shot everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Kanye West, was a participant in the Music in Film Festival last year, and he’s a co-director of the fest this year along with Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics and Tom Donovan, president and publisher of the Asbury Park Press, APP.com and Gannett New Jersey.
Asbury Park is a short ride from Clinch’s Toms River home, and the trip is always worth it, he said.
“There’s a magical energy and there’s a musical energy (in Asbury Park),” Clinch said. “It’s incredible. Even when it was run-down, I loved coming here, and now that it’s all fixed up — there’s great restaurants, there’s great stores, coffee shops, pinball, music. The highlight of my summer last year was we had a gallery show and a pop-up store (inside the Grand Arcade), and my son worked here all summer selling my book and selling prints.
“We had a little jam with Stringbean and his band, and one of the guys from Thomas Wesley Stern came out, and Nicole Atkins came out to play, too — all on a Sunday afternoon in the Arcade with a couple of amps and a drum kit. Sweet Joey was playing drums.”
Atkins will be performing with Clinch and the guys on Sunday at the Pony. It’s part of a full weekend. The main-stage highlights include the New Jersey premiere of the Miles Davis drama “Miles Ahead,” followed by a Q&A with its star, Don Cheadle, and a jam with a world-class band led by Keyon Harrold tonight at the Paramount Theatre.
The Dylan event at Independents will be followed by a screening of “American Epic,” starring Jack White, T-Bone Burnett and Robert Redford, and a Q-and-A with Sony Music executive Adam Block and Bernard MacMahon, the director of the film.
The fest also will have a discussion of the upcoming Eric Eisner biopic of the Grateful Dead — the one being produced by Martin Scorsese — at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Theatre. The event will include a panel with Eisner, Justin Kreutzmann, a filmmaker and son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and others.
There also will be a screening of the 2001 Sony Classics film, “Grateful Dawg,” about the relationship between Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia and mandolin player David Grisman.
The festival is presented by the Asbury Park Press and APP.com; Monmouth Medical Center, a Barnabas Health facility; and the Asbury Park Music Foundation. Tickets are available now at APMFF.com.
Proceeds will benefit the foundation’s musical services for the kids of Asbury Park, including music classes at the Hope Academy Charter School of Asbury Park and hip-hop education classes at the Asbury Park branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth County.
Chris Jordan: email@example.com
A PEAK INTO THE BOB DYLAN ARCHIVES
WITH: Danny Clinch and
WHEN: 1 p.m. Sunday, April 10
WHERE: House of Independents, 572 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park
A NEW ORLEANS AFTERNOON WITH DANNY CLINCH, BEN JAFFE, MARK SPERLING AND FRIENDS
WITH: A screening of Clinch’s
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10
WHERE: Paramount Theatre,
1300 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND AND TANGIERS BLUES BAND WITH DANNY CLINCH
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, april 10
WHERE: Stone Pony,
913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park
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(CNN) - President Barack Obama marked another 100-day anniversary Wednesday - this time the anniversary of the enactment of his $787 billion economic stimulus package.
Addressing a crowd of military servicemen and women at Nevada's sprawling Nellis Air Force Base, Obama said that "we are already seeing results" from the federal government's economic boost.
Among other things, he said, the spending has saved or created roughly 150,000 jobs while providing sorely needed infrastructure repairs and fueling increased demand for businesses.
"But this is just the beginning," he said.
"There are still too many Americans out of work, and too many who worry that their job may be next. ... That is why we will continue to implement the (stimulus plan) as quickly and effectively as possible over the next two years. And that is why my administration will continue an unrelenting, day-by-day effort to fight for economic recovery on all fronts."
Obama made his remarks after touring the base's "photovoltaic array" - 72,000 solar panels that generate more than 30 million kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, according to the White House.
The panels supply roughly 25 percent of the power used at the base, which houses and employs 12,000 people.
The base's solar power system is an "example the kind of foundation we're trying to build all across America," Obama said.
The system, covering 140 acres, is the largest single solar energy installation of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, he noted.
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Robert Sudy is a seasoned researcher of pseudo legal theory, having been involved with the movement on social media in Australia for more than a decade. The mythology behind most pseudo legal concepts is extremely peculiar, and understanding the concepts requires journey into the conspiratorial and demon-haunted mystical shadow world of the online community.
Robert’s personal journey into “The Freeman Delusion” begins with himself being firmly convinced of the “commercial argument”, passing on the information to others online for several years, and applying the strategies in driving and several other matters.
After New South Wales Magistrate David Heilpern patiently took the time to comprehensively reject all the arguments contended in his final judgment, Robert’s search for a hint of legal merit in the theories gathered momentum.
Armed with a thorough understanding of the concepts theorised, he took the “devil’s advocate” approach through 9 years of online debates with some of the most prominent leaders in the movement, both in Australia and overseas. He concurrently researched how the individual arguments were rejected previously in the higher courts, and dividing legal fact from pseudo legal fiction, slowly debunked the fundamentals one by one.
The conclusions reached in his journey are compiled in this comprehensive analysis of hundreds of separate and yet connected pseudo legal theories, citing thousands of references, from cases in the federal and higher state courts in Australia and overseas, the associated domestic provisions in legislation, and other reputable legal sources around the world.
While concepts like the “strawman” have been referred to by the courts as “Litigation Poison”, this analysis is ultimately a call to reason for all involved in perpetuating these internet myths, that ultimately can only cause harm and loss to those gullible enough to act upon the information. If people attempt to apply these legally unintelligible OPCA concepts in serious matters before the courts, this damage can unfortunately include incarceration, broken families, severe financial hardship, psychiatric detention, and loss of homes.
When stripped bare of any alleged association or applicability to law, the OPCA doctrine stands naked as the *political movement* it really is. Although it contains anarchist elements, the ideals expressed are purely POLITICAL, not LEGAL, and ultimately, the law courts are not the venue for political change.
The encyclopedia Freeman Delusion: The Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Argument in Australia, is now only available as a database specifically for legal scholars and academics researching the pseudolaw phenomenon for the purposes of publishing further literature. If you are with a university and would like to access the content for these reasons, please send me an email at email@example.com to discuss.
Although it has assisted the general public over the last 5 years, I am concerned it has grown so considerably into an enormous body of work which may be difficult for the layman to understand and navigate, with over 600 individual articles, over 3000 judgements, publications and academic text in pdf format, as well as video and audio files, and therefore membership has been limited.
Click here to members only ENCYCLOPEDIA INDEX
Alternatively, I am publishing a range of various texts taking in subject matter individually, complete with links to documents available on the website data base.
(1) Australian Pseudolaw Argumentation
In January 2023 I released a free 10-page draft version of a new text, titled Australian Pseudolaw Argumentation, which is a brief overview, as opposed to explaining the nuances of the 100 most commonly used individual pseudolaw motifs. I have characterised and grouped these into a larger indicia or species of pseudo legal thought, consistent with the format of the six core concepts found in the pseudolaw memeplex, as observed by Dr Donald Netolitzky KC.
Feel free to download the following draft document:
I have nearly completed the final edition of this now extended text, which in effect, takes into explanatory footnotes all of the referenced material in each of the subject matter articles linked to in the 10-page draft edition, converting it into a 80-page stand-alone document, complete with around 1000 reference links. Just like the draft edition, embedded hyperlinks are not to webpages, but solely to permanent pdf files in the huge library of case law and academic literature compiled on the website.
(2) The Strawman Duality
I have nearly completed the final text of a 65-page document focusing solely on the pseudolaw concept of The Strawman Duality, the belief that a “legal person” is somehow distinct from a physical human being, created by the government through birth registration and then linked to the physical person as a kind of parasitic twin or doppelganger, providing the mechanism by which state actors exert their otherwise illegitimate legislated authority over the physical “man”. This document is complete with plentiful reference links and explanatory footnotes including pdf files compiled on the website. Meet Your Strawman – Capitalised Lettering – Natural Person v Corporation – Lost at Sea – Lose the Name – Penhallow and Cruden v Neale – No respecter of persons – Glossa – Strawman in the Courts.
(3) Pseudolaw Vexatious Litigants
This very thorough document contains a case by case analysis, along with pdf’s files of each decision, forming the complete litigation history of prominent pseudolaw-influenced vexatious litigants such as John Wilson, Wayne Glew, Brian Shaw, David Walter, Peter Gargan, Alan Skyring, Richard Gunter, Patrick Cusack, and Leonard Clampett.
More individuals documents will be added here.
Vaxatious Litigant and Australian Emergency Law
Public Notice regarding nomenclature in recent media articles
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Keeping a Journal
Journaling is a daily meeting with yourself — a chance to check in on what’s going on in your life, set intentions, track progress towards goals, and hear those inner voices of wisdom that often get shouted down by the urgency of day-to-day life.
Expat life can be chaotic. Checking in with yourself not only gives you awareness about what’s going on but also helps you shape the results you want.
Take the 7-day journal challenge, and let me know how it’s going on Facebook: facebook.com/girafecoaching.
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Pioneer Foods to buy leading UK granola brand Lizi’s
13th December 2017 - Pioneer Food Group Limited (Pioneer Foods) today announced that it has added the UK-based granola brand, Lizi’s to its stable of well-known breakfast cereals. Pioneer Foods is the market leading breakfast cereal manufacturer in South Africa with household brands such as Weet-Bix, ProNutro, and Bokomo corn flakes among others.
The transaction sees Pioneer Foods UK (a 100% owned subsidiary of Pioneer Foods) acquiring 100% of the issued share capital of The GoodCarb Food Company, (owner of the Lizi’s granola brand), for an undisclosed amount.
Pioneer Foods UK has been manufacturing Lizi’s products under contract for The GoodCarb Food Company, and has been instrumental in co-developing products for some time and as a result has gained significant product and market knowledge. The acquired company will continue to run the sales and marketing function separately to Pioneer Foods UK’s existing business, operating from its current site in Cardiff.
According to Pioneer Foods CEO, Tertius Carstens the acquisition is in keeping with the Group’s strategy: “Lizi’s granola is a very popular brand thanks to its healthy and wholesome product attributes and we’re thrilled to welcome it into the Pioneer Foods family”
"This purchase is in line with our strategic plans for acquisitions in geographies and categories where we have an existing presence,” says Carstens and adds “we are confident that this deal will benefit both the Lizi’s business as well as our own, given the synergies between the companies”.
Within the UK cereal sector, granola is one of the fastest growing categories and this creates a unique and beneficial opportunity for Pioneer Foods. “Lizi’s is the fastest growing brand in the UK’s fast accelerating granola category. The brand has shown exceptional growth over the last three years and is now the number 2 brand in its category.” says Carstens.
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EghtesadOnline: A center dedicated to promoting the marketing and export of Iranian products and services will be launched in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on July 15, Iran’s commercial attaché to Iraq said.
“The center, the first of its kind, is to be built in downtown Baghdad. It will be used as a platform to introduce 21 prioritized categories of Iranian commodities and services to the Iraqi market,” IRNA also quoted Nasser Behzad as saying.
The categories include infrastructural industrial products, electricity, knowledge-based services, oil and gas, construction, cattle and poultry feed, technical and engineering services, pharmaceuticals and laboratory supplies, plastic and petrochemical industries, medical and hospital equipment, dairy and beverages, machinery, water and sewage facilities, detergents, carpets, agricultural and food industries, cooling and heating systems, paints and resin, stone and ceramic tiles. Apart from introducing and displaying Iranian products, the center will be used to sell these commodities to the Iraqis. Behzad said easing goods clearance procedures, foregoing the registration of export companies active in the center, establishing an office without the need for permission from the Iraqi government, and the opportunity for traders and business owners to establish business-to-business communications with Iraqi state-owned companies are the main advantages of this center, according to Financial Tribune.
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The Fire and Rescue Department of Fairfax, County, Virginia provided a report full of fire safety tips for the holidays.
The report cites five key causes of fires during the holidays, including lights, candles, fire places and electric heaters can all be hazardous to a home, but cooking is the culprit of 69 percent of Thanksgiving Day fires.
Dan Schmitt, Fire and Rescue public affairs, says, “If you're going to deep fry a turkey, it can be potentially dangerous. A lot of folks do it in an unsafe way,” he commented. “We recommend you roast one, or purchase a store-bought one.”
Some safety tips for cooking provided by the report include staying in the kitchen during the process, keep flammable materials away from the stove top, wear close fitting clothes and be careful when placing the turkey into the oven.
The risk of death from a fierce blaze during Thanksgiving is always prevalent as the U.S. Fire Administration estimates five deaths and about 2,000 residential fires occur every year around this time. These risks validate the need for life insurance because people never know when they may find themselves in a life-threatening situation.
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Frankenstein Chapter 6 Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica--she looked so frank-hearted and happy. My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended. This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions I never heard one pass her lips, but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress. Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt. She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her. (6.5)
Justine’s beautiful countenance is representative of her happy, good nature.
Justine has just returned to us; and I assure you I love her tenderly. She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mein and her expression continually remind me of my dear aunt. (6.7)
Justine’s beauty makes her an object worth loving.
I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William. I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eyelashes, and curling hair. When he smiles, two little dimples appear on each cheek, which are rosy with health. He has already had one or two little WIVES, but Louisa Biron is his favourite, a pretty little girl of five years of age. (6.8)
Aw, William is a cute little boy. Too bad he's got such an ugly personality that he has to die.
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Salford Live on iFollow
11th February 2020
TONIGHT’S clash with Salford City in Sky Bet League Two will be broadcast live on iFollow.
If you can’t make it to the game tonight, watch the action on iFollow for just £10. For more information on iFollow, or to sign up, click here.
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Home » Judo news
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Invincible Sally Conway completes Grand Slam treble
23 Feb 2019 19:35
Scottish Olympic bronze medallist Sally Conway won Grand Slam gold for the third time in her career with a rousing display in the U70kg category. Conway defeated The Hague Grand Prix bronze medallist Miriam Butkereit (GER) after taking the contest to the ground and threatening with both osaekomi and the kansetsu-waza and the home judoka was unable to find a route away from the imminent danger.
A trademark juji-gatame from the Scottish judoka settled the final.
In the first semi-final Junior Pan American Championships gold medallist Ellen Santana (BRA) had to submit to a juji-gatame from Conway while in the second semi-final Butkereit beat world number 36 Hilde Jager (NED) on the ground as the Dutch judoka elected to tap out while trapped in a holdddown.
The first bronze medal was awarded to two-time world medallist Maria Bernabeu (ESP) who trapped Jager in osaekomi with a sankaku-gatame for ippon. Spain’s Bernabeu returned to an IJF podium for the first time since 2017 and was understandably elated as she jumped into the arms of her coach in celebration.
The second bronze medal was won by Santana, her first on the Grand Slam stage, as she overshadowed Asian Games silver medallist Kim Seongyeon (KOR). Brazilian youngster Santana earned her first IJF World Judo Tour medal by pinning down her vastly more experienced opponent for ippon.
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French Marie Eve Gahie was crowned the new world champion after the French ace banished her memories of losing the 2018 final. Gahie defeated the unfancied Tbilisi Grand Prix winner Barbara Timo (POR) in the final after the Portuguese judoka belied her ranking of 29th in the world. Read more
Spanish World champion Nikoloz Sherazadishvili lost his second match against Axel Clerget (FRA) by a waza-ari score. The Spaniard failed to sparke in Tokyo and exited early on as a host of big names were shocked in the morning session on day five. Read more
The Minsk 2019 European Games got underway on Friday night with a quirky, joyful Opening Ceremony celebrating with athletes in Minsk’s Dinamo Stadium. The gasps from the 22,246 fans armed with smartphones were never far away as a succession of animals and birds regularly appeared to take to the skies. Read more
France's medal challenge in the women's U70kg competition is headed by Marie-Eve Gahie. However the competition is severe in this weight class. What used to be a European weight class is now a struggle against Japanese dominance at both Olympic and World level. Read more
The Grand Slam of Ekaterinburg booked a record number of participants. With 358 athletes of 47 nations saw by far more athletes this year compared to 2018 and 2017. Only the Grand Slams in Moscow attracted more judoka in 2010 (488) and 2011 (458). We will have a look at the women in Russia after the draw. The women U70kg counts 33 athletes, that happened only 5 times more in the IJF Tour. Read more
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The Problem Lab presents the Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch. The competition invites teams of up to four students to choose an important industry problem and thoroughly research its history, scope, and impact. Students pitch their findings to a panel of judges on July 11th to compete for a share of up to $30,000 in funding.
Co-operative Education and The Problem Lab are pleased to offer students the opportunity to win one of two scholarship awards of up to $1,500!
This is a social event! Our goal is to take a break and connect with other grad students and faculty. We will have an ice breaker to help get everyone chatting.
Coffee/tea and treats will be provided.
Bring your own mug and join us for a needed (and well-earned) break.
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Miki Miette Cooper Whale Brown Pants (6M)
miki miettewas created in 2011 by Los Angeles based fashion designer & industry consultant Sawako Yamauchi. After 12 years in womenswear and menswear, the news of her soon-to-be son inspired her to pour her energy into a beautiful little brand that she could some day share with her little one. miki miette is a fun, comfy collection that is perfect from crib to cafe, capturing perfectly the California lifestyle.
They make 100% of their products with local sewing shops in Los Angeles. They are proud to produce in the USA!
*pairs with theRyder Lucky or Ryder Epic Long Sleeve Shirts
*this is a grey brown color
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(Natural News) A biological man whose grandmother tried to raise him as a “girl” when he was a young child, which eventually led to him undergoing gender “transition” surgery that he later regretted, has a message for the world: don’t believe the lies of the LGBT mafia, which is cruelly “grooming” young children into destroying their own lives by becoming “transgenders.”
In a recent editorial he penned for The Federalist, former transgender Walt Heyer, founder of SexChangeRegret.com and Walt Heyer Ministries, reveals how he was tricked into believing that he was a female stuck inside a male body – a form of “child abuse” that led him to alter his physical attribute in an attempt to make things “right.”
Heyer eventually realized that transitioning into the opposite sex isn’t actually possible – but that was after he had already made major modifications to his body. Heyer has since reverted back to being a man, and now dedicates much of his time to helping others avoid making the same mistake – and is currently trying to help a Texas father protect his son from the boy’s deranged mother, who’s trying to convert the male child into a “female.”
Six-year-old James Younger, as we earlier reported, is right now being targeted for a sex change by his biological mother, a pediatrician named Anne Georgulas who’s planning to chemically castrate James against he and his father’s will in order to turn him into a “girl” – in much the same way that Heyer was targeted and abused by his grandmother.
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“My grandmother dressed me as a girl when I was 4, 5, and 6 years old,” writes Heyer. “Like James, I was far too young to comprehend the long-term consequences of being encouraged to cross-dress at such a young age, much less fight back. In my child’s mind, it felt good to be the center of her attention. Now I call what grandma did to me ‘child abuse’ because her grooming of me as a female negatively affected my entire life.”
Be sure to read Heyer’s full editorial at TheFederalist.com.
You can also learn more about Walt Heyer Ministries, including Heyer’s personal labor of love in sharing his story of redemption at conferences, churches, and universities, as well as his efforts to individually help families like James,’ at WaltHeyer.com.
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After personally interacting with James, Heyer says the boy does NOT have “gender dysphoria”
Heyer recently got the chance to meet young James, as well as James’ father and twin brother – James’ mother presumably wanted a boy and a girl, rather than two boys, which is why she’s now trying to force James to become a “girl” – the details of his encounter fully laid out in his op-ed. What he observed was that James, when not under the toxic influence of his mother, is a normal boy who likes to wear boy clothes, talk about boy things, and all-around engage in pre-pubescent masculine activities.
“As we pulled up, the front door opened, and the two young boys came flying out,” Heyer recalls about the time he went to pick up James and his brother from their mother’s house, along with James’ father – having been invited to do so by James’ father as part of a larger effort to save James from his mother.
“James was dressed as a boy, like his brother. Into the backseat they went, saying hi to their dad and to me before they started talking about Ninja Turtles and other things they had done at school. Not one smidgeon of gender dysphoria or ‘girl talk’ appeared during the drive,” Heyer added about his observations.
After arriving at their destination, Heyer recalls, the four males played with plastic swords and shields, and engaged in other “rough-and-tumble” activities like boys typically do. And at no time during this course of events did Heyer observe any feminine behaviors in young James.
“I observed James’ mannerisms, voice inflections, and interactions, looking for evidence of gender dysphoria … (and) I can emphatically say that during the two hours of the visit I saw no sign of gender dysphoria,” Heyer says.
“James indicated no desire to be a girl, nor did he behave like a girl or talk like a girl during the entire time. Both James and his brother happily engaged with the four Scott children and the adults. Both were talkative, demonstrated strong vocabularies, and eagerly showed off their artwork created during a previous playdate.”
Help save James from being converted into a “female” by his deranged mother by contributing to SaveJames.com
While it would seem as though, despite his mother’s best efforts to get her way in changing her son into a “daughter,” James has nothing to worry about – but nothing could be further from the truth. Georgulas has already gotten the “approval” she needs to continue socializing young James as a “girl,” and is soon planning to administer puberty-blocking drugs that could forever damage his male hormones – and consequently, ruin his life.
And while James’ father, a Christian man who reached out to Walt Heyer who’s also a Christian, is doing everything possible to stop her, the unfortunate reality is that Georgulas has a whole lot more cash and influence than he does. Because of this, James’ father Jeff has set up the SaveJames.com website, where supporters can contribute to his legal effort to stop James’ mother from destroying James’ life.
Be sure to check out SaveJames.com to learn more about the situation and how you can help.
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Steeped in historic secrecy for almost two centuries, the Skull and Bones society is an undergraduate secret society based at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Under the corporation of the Russell Trust Association which owns the society’s real estate and oversees the organization and its “Bonesmen”, they also control an island 1.5 hours south of Ottawa.
Founded in 1832 after a dispute among Yale debating societies Linonia, Brothers in Unity, and the Calliopean Society over that season’s Phi Beta Kappa awards, the Skull and Bones society has since had their assets managed by the society’s alumni organization, the Russell Trust Association, which was incorporated in 1856 and named after the Bones co-founder, Russell Gilman.
The first description of the Skull and Bones secret society was published in 1871 and it became known that Skull and Bones selects new members among Yale students every spring as part of Yale University’s “Tap Day” which it has done since 1879.
This society cloaked in secrecy, owns and manages Deer Island, an island retreat on the St. Lawrence River about 1.5 hrs south of Ottawa, where Bonesmen continue to initiate themselves on this island as they have done so since it was purchased by the Russell Trust Co. This forty-acre retreat is meant to give Bonesmen an opportunity to “get together and rekindle old friendships”, and it once boasted tennis courts and softball fields, surrounded by rhubarb plants and gooseberry bushes. It even hosted elegant meals, and it is said that all new Skull and Bones members still visit Deer Island as part of their initiation into the society.
Part of the Thousand Islands, Deer Island is situated between mainland Canada and the United States, owned entirely by the Russell Trust Association.
It is rumoured that the remains of the Apache Chief Geronimo are housed on Skull Island who died of pneumonia 17 February 1909, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Allegedly, grave robbers that were members of this secret Yale University Fraternity at the time, including Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of two Presidents of the United States, stole the skull and bones of Geronimo.
The island of the Skull and Bones society has seemingly fallen into disrepair, most of its opulent buildings having been burned to the ground with its tennis courts lying abandoned and overgrown like something from the Great Gatsby.
Despite its decline, the island is still part of the Skull and Bones Society, and will continue to operate as a retreat for the Bonesmen, its mandate and operations shrouded in secrecy as they have been for over 150 years.
Andrew King, August 2017
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The Adventure and Rejuvenation retreat is the perfect opportunity for those looking to venture off the beaten path for a week to nourish the soul through adventure, self-care, yoga, and spa treatments. A wonderful and unique opportunity to discover the hidden treasures of Laos. Both well-seasoned travelers and those who are venturing into South East Asia for the first time will be delighted by the timeless beauty and soulful land.
During this retreat, you will be staying at Silver Naga Hotel with various choice of rooms.
A retreat with Kaity Rose and Iysha Nobes is not something you will easily forget. On this week-long retreat, you will have the option of customizing your holiday with many options. Enjoy rejuvenating your body with spa treatments, morning meditations, and therapeutic yoga classes, while at the same time feeding your adventurous soul with the option of hot air ballooning, mountain climbing, horseback riding, zip lining, and much more!
Below is a general guideline of a sample schedule for the retreat. Please know that this schedule and timeline is approximate and not set in stone. Whether you are interested in spending the day tanning by the pool after a meditative yoga class, floating over rice patties in a hot air balloon, or climbing up Vang Vieng's pristine mountains, this retreat has a taste of everything.
You customize your adventure. If you have any suggestions or anything you would like to see on the schedule, please do not hesitate to contact Yoga Therapy with Kaity & Iysha and they will do their best to accommodate your needs.
Discover your innate health and freedom through aligning your life and body with the rhythms of nature
Spark your creativity, manifest your dreams, and create a beautiful piece of art to take home with you
Partner connect, breathe and have fun with other retreat members through this unique experience of yoga! It is a great way to make new friends and challenge your body in a safe and friendly way.
Heal your body, nourish your soul, and quiet your mind. Yoga therapy is an integrative and holistic approach to healing through techniques such as guided meditation, breath work, Yoga Nidra, yoga postures, and somatic exercises.
A guided contemplative hike is included in the retreat price.
This retreat will be hosted in the unique town of Vang Vieng, Laos at the five-star Silver Naga Hotel. Vang Vieng is a small town north of Vientiane, on the Nam Song River in Laos. It is surrounded by striking limestone, gorgeous mountains, blue lagoons, and ancient caves. The Silver Naga is a luxurious. The hotel focuses on ethical tourism, environmental freedom, and supreme customer service.
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During this retreat, you will be served with daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Silver Naga restaurant serves a contemporary international menu featuring a range of Lao and Asian favorites as well as fresh juices, cocktails, and cold beer. It is open all day. Breakfast is available from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. In the evening, the kitchen closes at 9 p.m. and the bar at 10 p.m. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and raw options are available.
Three herbal steam baths and one Laos massage session for one hour are included in the price.
Please book your flight to arrive at Wattay International Airport (VTE).
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Chances are you’ve heard the words “virtual race” thrown around lately. Some of the most popular 5K events like the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run have decided to go virtual. What exactly does this mean?
With virtual races, there is no such thing as a starting line, parking, or those pre-race first-time jitters that may cause someone to feel self-conscious. Instead, runners have a lot more flexibility, choosing their own starting line or how they wish to go about racing. This means they can decide to venture outdoors if they wish or they can choose to remain indoors and complete the run distance on something like a treadmill, for instance. Once the run is complete, runners simply upload their results and they will receive the medal for having participated.
Though it may seem odd, the convenience of virtual runs is invaluable. Because it’s on a person’s own terms, scheduling conflicts practically become a non-issue and it also allows people to try out different training to figure out what works best for them. If you’re a business owner looking to promote wellness in the office, these virtual runs are a great way to encourage physical activity while keeping your employees safe.
This update is by FootWorks Miami. At Footworks, we are a family business dedicated to remaining Miami’s running headquarters since our 1976 debut. We sell footwear by many respected brands and we also offer regular health and fitness-minded activities, events, and training. For more information, please call 305-667-9322 or visit our store at 5724 Sunset Drive, South Miami, Florida 33143.
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In ChemEng365 we regularly feature ‘top tens’ such as ‘Ten future careers of chemical engineers’.
Today’s blog also starts with a list, but is significantly more sobering than previous stories.
Here’s five things about the inequality of health, which should make us all stop and think:
- Children from the poorest 20 per cent of households are nearly twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday as children in the richest 20 per cent.
- Around 95 per cent of TB deaths are in the developing world.
- About 80 per cent of noncommunicable diseases are in low- and middle-income countries.
- In low-income countries, the average life expectancy is 57, while in high-income countries, it is 80.
- Developing countries account for 99 per cent of annual maternal deaths in the world.
The knowledge that money, or the lack of it, is a major root cause of poor health and high mortality is well-known. But what do we do about it?
Economic growth is one answer, but that can take many generations. Another, more immediate answer, is to drive down the cost of healthcare, led by the work of chemical engineers.
Today’s blog features the work of chemical engineers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), who have developed a special membrane that cuts the cost and time required for dialysis by almost 50 per cent.
Dialysis is the process of artificially removing waste and excess water from the blood in people suffering from chronic kidney failure.
Unfortunately, India has a very high mortality rate for people suffering from kidney failure. However, this may change in the next few years. IIT-B’s chemical engineering department has developed a hollow-fiber membrane which is awaiting pre-clinical trials.
The membrane developed by IIT-B is a key component of the filter and removes impurities from the blood during hemodialysis.
The researchers have formulated a special material which improves performance in terms of separation and biocompatibility. It also permits faster treatment, lesser side reactions and could spur novel devices such like portable and wearable dialysers.
In some cases, the current filters can lead to unwanted effects such as compliment activation and inflammation to the patients. IIT researchers claim that the membrane developed by them shows superior biocompatibility.
“Our research could potentially lead to development of a bio-artificial organ that functions as a kidney or liver” says IIT-B chemical engineer Jayesh Bellaire.
According to the Asian Institute of Medical Science few kidney failure patients are able to afford dialysis because of lack of infrastructure and cost constraints.
Dialysis is a recurring cost with filters costing costing 600-1,000 Rupees (£6-10) in India.
To save costs, many patients reuse this filter five or six times, exposing themselves to infections such as Hepatitis B and C.
“Most of these filters are imported and they remain a financial burden to the patients. A filter developed indigenously in India will help decrease the cost and more people will be able to afford it” said Dr Jitendra Kumar from the Asian Institute of Medical Science.
IIT-B hope to commercialise their product within three years, and they already have an indigenous, low-cost pilot plant for production of the membranes.
We wish them every success as they create a more sustainable and affordable healthcare solution for India.
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You’ve heard of “analysis paralysis”, right?
It’s the term we use when someone over-analyzes a question, situation or choice so long that he or she is “paralyzed” with the inability to decide what to do. As a coach, you’ve had moments of analysis paralysis, right?
So do your prospects.
Especially as the recruiting process enters the final stages. The fun of being pursued is over, and now it’s decision time. And making a final choice is tough for many prospects. Heck, it may happen way before the end of the process…some prospects freeze in the face of the decision of where to take a campus visit, or even which phone call to return. “Analysis paralysis” is at the root of a lot of the recruiting hurdles college coaches face when it comes to getting their recruits to get to the next step in the recruiting process.
If you want a more detailed, psychological study explaining the reasons behind the very real phenomenon that is analysis paralysis, click here. But if you’re ready to jump into a strategy that will provide you with a good opportunity to help your prospect (and their parents) overcome paralysis analysis, let’s get started.
First, understand that the fear of moving forward is going to be commonplace for most of your prospects. While you’ve been through the recruiting process multiple times, your prospect and his or her family are trying to maneuver through unfamiliar territory for the first time. And the easiest thing to do when they reach that fork in the road in the process (“what campus should I visit?”…”which coach do I like the best?”…”who is giving me the best offer?”) is do nothing. You should expect it, and plan for it.
Secondly, understand that you – and only you – can take control and help manage the process and lead your prospect out of the morass of inaction, and begin moving towards a decision.
Thirdly, regarding their decision: It could be “no”. And as I’ve talked about before, hearing that answer earlier rather than later in the recruiting process is always preferred. One of the things I often mention to coaches while getting the opportunity to train them during one of our On-Campus Workshops is that I take a “real world” approach to the recruiting process, and the philosophies that should guide it. That includes taking a realistic approach towards understanding exactly where you stand in the eyes of a recruit, and doing so as early as possible. Getting a “no” early and having months (rather than days) to pivot and adjust your recruiting strategy effectively, based on the scenarios I’ve seen play out recently in our work with our clients.
So, assuming you’re agreeing with my observations so far, let me offer you a few ways we’ve seen work well in moving your recruit out of “analysis paralysis” and back onto the road towards making a decision (hopefully one that is favorable to you and your program):
- Be direct. If you’ve been your normal sensitive, polite self to this point in the communication process, I’d want to see you change your approach and be more direct. By “direct”, I mean short and to the point. There needs to be a noticeable difference in your tone and approach in an effort to subconsciously let them know that they are entering a new phase of the recruiting process, one that will require a new sense of urgency.
- Present an assumption. In other words, in an effort to get them to say something (anything!), throw out a statement that they will need to either confirm or deny. This was a strategy we recommended to a D1 lacrosse coach who is our client: The coach had been waiting for a recruit’s answer on a scholarship offer for months, and together we wanted to find out where this recruit stood with regards to our client’s program. The question had our coach ask was “so, it looks like we’re #3 on your list at this point, right?” Of course, we were hoping the athlete would tell our coach, “Oh, no Coach…you’re my top choice.” However, the athlete finally confirmed what we had assumed: Our coach’s program was the #3 choice in the recruit’s mind, but didn’t want to hurt their feelings and tell them that they weren’t going to go there. Disappointing news? Absolutely. But it moved the process forward in a way where our client could then adjust their strategy with their next three recruits that they had waiting in the wings. None of it would have happened had the coach not presented an assumption, and then let the prospect react to it.
- Set a fair but firm deadline, and explain why you have to do that. It’s an interesting thing about this generation of recruits: If you are the one asking them for a decision, they tend to look at it as “pressure”. If you can find another outside reason (your admissions department, your head coach, the athletic administration) that you are being “forced” to move the process along at this point, their reaction is much more accommodating. All of a sudden, they’ll open up…they’ll reveal what they’re really thinking…and they’ll take the next step in the process. The key to this is setting a fair but firm deadline, and explaining why you are having to do that. The deadline should be a few weeks out so that it doesn’t seem like you are “pressuring” them, but once the deadline is in place, you need to keep it. No answer from your prospect translates into “we’ve got to move in a different direction” from you and your program. This recommendation is one of the most effective tactics to shake a recruit and their parents from analysis paralysis, especially later in the process.
The analysis paralysis phenomenon is real. It happens when we look at real estate, it happens when we consider buying a car (which is why the salesman tries so desperately to get you into that little room inside the dealership…if they don’t, they know you’ll stay “paralyzed” out in the parking lot) and it happens with your recruits and their parents during the recruiting process.
You have some power to change their thinking, Coach. Don’t waste it!
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Whenever we have a power outage (which is not an infrequent occurrence in Hull) I ponder the utility of a backup generator. Since I’m currently sitting in the dark, I decided to run some numbers.
For simplicity, I’ll assume a reasonably-sized whole-house generator kit with a transfer switch that uses natural gas or LP. A decent price on one of these units is about $5,500, and I’ll assume another $1,500 for installation (both electrical and plumbing). Yearly maintenance contracts, which include an annual inspection and repairs, run around $300/year. The useful life of the generator is estimated by various sources at around 20 years.
Adding this up, we get a total lifetime cost of $13,000 for the unit, not counting fuel costs (which are a very small component if you’re using natural gas since there is nothing to store). That comes out to a yearly amortized cost of approximately $650. On average we have two lengthy power outages a year. So essentially, excluding fuel and unanticipated maintenance costs, the price is around $325 per outage.
That’s pretty significant. Although it no doubt feels worth it on the day when it’s 5 degrees F and the boiler is shut off due to lack of electricity…
Update (29 Feb 2016): Discussion about this post on Facebook revealed a few friends and acquaintances who were able to get a functional generator setup for far less than the estimates here. This is not surprising, because I was describing a “set it and forget it” approach. For completeness (and cost practicality), I should mention how they achieved this. Their setups typically included a smaller, manual start gasoline generator hooked up to a manual transfer switch that protected only a few key circuits. With no service contract and the willingness to go out in the storm to setup, start, and refuel the generator when needed, backup electrical capacity could be achieved for closer to $2,000-3,000.
There are too many rants about too many companies — everywhere you look online, really. So I won’t belabor the details. In mid-2014 we purchased a new dishwasher from Sears along with an extended warranty. In November 2015, it stopped working in an odd way. Thus began a saga of service appointments — trying to schedule them, staying home for them, the technician not having the right part, the technician taking the part and saying we need a different one, the technician not believing the problem was real.
After three rounds of this, we got stuck on a part that was backordered for over a month. I went and found the part on eBay and installed it myself — sadly, the problem still was not fixed. All the while I was courteous and friendly while navigating a bureaucracy to rival the movie Brazil.
After the final go-around of four or five transfers between individuals, supervisors, and departments, I was ready to declare defeat. That’s when Meghan got on the phone and let loose with laser-eyed rage. Surprisingly (or perhaps not?) this resulted in us getting a dishwasher replacement.
But not until January.
Today the dishwasher finally arrived. The installers took it off the truck, then attempted to extort $160 in additional installation fees. We are about to have our kitchen gutted and rebuilt — the last thing we need is temporary plumbing work. When I refused, they put the machine back on the truck. While installation was included in the replacement, if I wanted delivery instead, it would be an additional $70. Keep in mind they were already at my house, had already taken the dishwasher off the truck, and all I wanted them to do was leave it at the curb and drive away.
After an hour of phone tree hell with Sears I had no solution and they packed up to go. Just as they were driving away I got in contact with a helpful sales rep from the store itself, so I chased them down the street, banged on the truck, and handed the driver the phone. Two minutes later, I have my dishwasher. As well as the old one, which they won’t haul away.
Over the course of this two month ordeal I have spoken to over a dozen customer service representatives and supervisors, multiple service technicians, national technical support, local dispatch, and now two intransigent installers. The only people in the entire ordeal who have been helpful were the salesperson at the store who helped me get the replacement, and the salesperson who helped me get it delivered.
We were without a dishwasher for over two months despite having paid several hundred dollars for service coverage. We only received a replacement when my wife got on the phone and spewed vitriol for half an hour. In the end we are stuck with one broken dishwasher and one that still needs to be hooked up. Sears and their various departments, subcontractors, and divisions are, in short, customer-hostile.
This perhaps explains in part why Sears is being driven into a brick wall, and certainly has taught me a valuable lesson — never, ever buy an appliance from Sears.
Around this time every year I re-evaluate my various tools and workflows and try to devote some time to productivity improvements. Last year, among other things, I spent a lot of time thinking about money management and banking. This year I’m mostly focused on knowledge management — document storage, note taking, task management, and the like.
For years I have scanned paper contracts, records, and receipts using a NeatReceipts scanner and the Neat filing software. The app is sub-par but after extensive searching I still haven’t found anything better. I briefly flirted with Evernote, but I am just not comfortable storing more of my sensitive medical and financial records unencrypted in another cloud provider.
The scanner (from 2007) is no longer supported and stopped working with the latest OS X release, so I replaced it with the well-reviewed Doxie. Now instead of scanning and processing right in Neat, I scan, then import into Doxie, then export to Neat, then process in Neat — everything takes four times as long. As much as it pains me, I’m going to return the Doxie and pay Neat for a new scanner that looks just like my old one. I still think that keeping documents offline (and backed up) is worth the trade-off of not having access from my other devices, at least for now.
I’ve been using Evernote for this, but inconsistently. I hate how bloated the app is, and it’s constant nagging to try new features and collaboration tools that I don’t need. In desperation I paid Evernote for their premium plan, but it didn’t make the problems go away. Instead I am switching to Ulysses, a Markdown note taking and writing app that is cleaner and simpler than Evernote but has all the features I want. Unfortunately the process for getting notes out of Evernote is not straightforward.
Bookmarks and reading
Instapaper is still my favorite app for offline reading. I send any interesting articles I see into Instapaper, where they are saved for later reading on all of my devices. I can also search the full text of articles I have saved in Instapaper, which is great for trying to find an article or fact months or years later.
This year I am adding Pinboard to the mix as well. I’m trying to bookmark and tag any interesting site or reference that I run across in Pinboard instead of relying on Google or my browser history to find it later. I’m also finally using IFTTT for the first time, to automate saving links to Instapapered articles as bookmarks in Pinboard. My goal is to have only one (or at least fewer) place to look when I want to find something, be it a code snippet, tutorial, recipe, or whatever else.
The biggest and so far best change has been abandoning Things, my task management app of several years, for 2Do. I’m finding 2Do more flexible, more pleasing to use, and just all around better than Things. The Things update cycle was very slow and new feature development almost non-existent. 2Do keeps getting better, and it really fits my workflow well. Task management is different for everyone — I use a methodology that is vaguely GTD but really just the system that works for me. 2Do is flexible and customizable but opinionated where it needs to be. It gives me all the features I need while maintaining an elegant and uncluttered user experience.
When it comes to productivity software — as in all things — I aim to be pragmatic. The tools and workflows I use all have trade-offs. I don’t like being tied too closely to any one cloud service or provider, and I like to maintain access to and backups of my own information. I choose to forego online access to more sensitive documents in favor of additional security and control, but I use Google, iCloud, and Dropbox for various aspects of my life due to their convenience and power. The choices and trade-offs are different for everyone. This is the system I am comfortable with for now, but it is likely to change dramatically as time goes on.
“To my mind, climate is our great story. No other narrative envelopes all of humanity in quite the same way, forcing answers about the ethics of food, of oil, of technology, of economic security, of democratic republics and command capitalism, of colonialism and indigenous peoples, of who in the world is rich and who in the world is poor.”
I acquire more “stuff” every year, especially now that I live in a house with a basement, attic, and garage. From time to time I go on a downsizing kick, lured by the appeal of minimalist living, tiny houses, and the search for quality goods. But it always feels like a losing battle against the forces of entropy and clutter.
About a year ago I identified wardrobe as an area ripe for attention and have achieved pleasing results. Step one was to move most of the clothes I rarely wear into boxes and store them in the basement. Step two was to revisit them six months later and either put items back into my rotation or donate them. Pretty much everything got donated. I’ve now gone through this exercise twice, and I have significantly fewer articles of clothing, all stuff I rarely or never wore anyway, including some expensive gifts that I had held on to for years.
A few weeks ago I decided to go even farther. I have dozens of “vanity” t-shirts, most of which are showing their age. I pulled out the few that I wear most frequently and discovered that they are all the same model. It turns out you can buy this t-shirt brand online in a wide variety of colors (for screen printing) at incredibly low prices. So I bought a dozen new t-shirts in several different colors colors, and have been wearing them exclusively for the past two weeks.
I’m really enjoying the change. I don’t have to spend any time thinking about what to wear in the morning. The shirts are sufficiently decent that they don’t look out-of-place in my workplace or around town. But I can also wear them for yard work or cooking and not worry, because if I ruin one I can always buy six more for the same price as I used to pay for one of my old tees.
I have also standardized on one type of khakis (I now own four pairs) and gotten rid of almost all my other pants. And I’m slowly working up the nerve to dump any jacket, pullover, or sweater that I don’t wear at least a few times a month.
Of course I will still keep some formal attire for the (very) rare occasions when I need to actually dress nicely, and I have various seasonal garments like swim trunks, hiking pants, and ski clothes that can’t get quite the same treatment. But I continue to be on the looking for opportunities to standardize and downsize wardrobe. It’s probably not the right choice for most people, but I find that I get no joy out of fashion whereas having a “uniform” is quite freeing. And — so far at least — my wife hasn’t complained. 😛
“I’ve been thinking about my parents, who are in their mid-60s. During my first 18 years, I spent some time with my parents during at least 90% of my days. But since heading off to college and then later moving out of Boston, I’ve probably seen them an average of only five times a year each, for an average of maybe two days each time. 10 days a year. About 3% of the days I spent with them each year of my childhood.
Being in their mid-60s, let’s continue to be super optimistic and say I’m one of the incredibly lucky people to have both parents alive into my 60s. That would give us about 30 more years of coexistence. If the ten days a year thing holds, that’s 300 days left to hang with mom and dad. Less time than I spent with them in any one of my 18 childhood years.”
Our dishwasher has been out of commission for a month now and Sears has visited four times. They won’t have the part that we (presumably) need to fix it for at least another month. Meghan called last night and gave ’em hell, and now we’re getting a new dishwasher gratis. Which is great and all, but I’m feeling pretty bad/conflicted about this otherwise perfectly good machine getting junked just because the service department can’t get their act together.
Great discussion of the challenges of minimalism and the trade-offs involved.
“Indeed, the Pew report suggests that polarization along religious lines may be increasing in the United States. While the percentage of Americans who say they don’t affiliate with any religious tradition is growing, those people who still identify with a religion are becoming even more devout.”
Disappointing but not surprising that at the same time more people are moving towards logic and enlightenment, those who remain devout are doubling down on ignorance.
None of my stories of misbehaving dogs at 2am impress colleagues. They just smile, shake their heads, and say wait until you have kids.
“A future without human drivers is a long, long way off. But we’ll get there. No matter what you think. No matter what you hope. No matter how you feel about it. Because the efficient, unemotional, necessary logic of cars that operate without human error and instability is unquestionable.”
Note: I wrote this entry in late 2012 after finishing the young adult novel Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow, a book that explores, among other things, the consequences of criminal penalties for civil acts like copyright infringement. I was thinking about civil liberties and internet freedoms and what I’ve chosen to do with my life. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the entry after writing it, so it sat for three years. Re-reading it now, the feelings and conflict I expressed still resonate.
I can get to feeling about Cory Doctorow the same way I often feel about Richard Stallman, the famous advocate for free and open-source computer software. Zealots. Troublemakers. Not everything is about The Man out to squash the little guy. Geez, I’m not evil just because I use Apple products! I respect your opinions on copyright and software, on free expression and privacy — but do you have to be so darn annoying about it?!
I suppose it is the same with anyone with a Cause. It makes the rest of us nervous, because we aren’t True Believers like they are. The long and short of it is that I have gotten older and supposedly wiser, and at some point I decided that the world is really complicated. Seeing lots of shades of gray makes it hard to get worked up about causes, which I suppose is why most people don’t.
I do care about this stuff. I care about it a great deal. I care about internet freedom, about privacy, about civil liberties, about remixing and free expression, about individual rights and blanket licenses, internet radio and everything else. I cared about it all through high school — I even took a summer course at UC Irvine in “Internet Law”, back when the whole field could be surveyed in 5 weeks! I followed mailing lists and message boards about the Napster and Kazaa court fights and the DMCA and the Communications Decency Act legislative battles.
When I had the opportunity in college to get an internship for my legal studies minor, I wrangled a placement at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the original epicenter for scholarship in the field of internet law. And when I got my first job out of college, it was at Berkman as well, working alongside some of my heroes.
I thought I would be a public interest lawyer. I thought I would live and breathe this stuff. And I met a lot of very smart people in this field, and I respect them a great deal. But the pace of it didn’t work for me, someone built for high pressure and quick wins. The law is slow and plodding, a years- and decades-long synthesis of law review articles, amicus briefs, books, conferences, and winding cases. It works for many people, and its very good work indeed, but it was not going to work for me.
Now I’m in the fast-paced world of technology, wrapped up in fancy new trends like “DevOps” and “continuous integration” and “infrastructure as code”. There is lots of energy and lots to do. I feel busy and driven, but not the way I felt about internet law. I don’t have the same purpose — I never feel like the work I am doing has the last possibility of fundamentally affecting our culture or reshaping our society. No one is going to jail for abusing deployment frameworks, and no one is passing legislation telling me how I can or cannot administer a web server. The stakes just aren’t very high.
I just finished Cory Doctorow’s latest novel for young adults, Pirate Cinema. The main character is a teenager in a near-future Britain whose (illegal?) video downloading and remixing gets his family “banned” from the internet. This leads to all sorts of serious consequences — his father loses his (online) job, his mother can’t apply (online) for her disability benefits, and his sister fails out of school due to being unable to research and do (online) homework. Embarrassed and ashamed, our young cyber-criminal runs away from home and ends up in London. There he builds a new life after taking up with a loose collection of anarchists, activists, and other down-on-their-luck free-thinkers. Eventually he spearheads a a campaign to overturn the draconian laws that got him in so much trouble in the first place.
It’s all a bit contrived, and some things fall in to place much too easily. Certainly the homeless life is glamorized to a degree I find unsettling. But the fundamental fear expressed in this pointed critique is sound. Yes, Big Content (also known as the entertainment industry) pushes for laws that protect their commercial interests at the expense of our culture. Yes, the penalties for victimless crimes of copyright infringement continue to become more and more harsh. And yes, this leads us down some pretty slippery slopes.
And frankly, it is a whole framework of thought that I have managed to relegate to the dustbin at the back of my brain, a big ball of stuff I believe deeply in but have carelessly shoved aside.
Cory Doctorow’s novel has given me a bit of fire back, and for that I thank him. It also gives me hope. Doctorow postulates a future in which the internet becomes so central to everything we do that the general public has no choice but to stand up and take a stand against the government and corporate control that is clamping down on us from all sides. Doctorow makes a persuasive argument as to why this sort of control is not only wrong, it is destructive to a free society. And he aims to persuade young people who are the most affected by these changes but not always cognizant of them. He is telling them they should care, and I hope his message takes root.
As a young kid I taught myself how to edit videos long before I taught myself how to program. I can only imagine that if I was born ten years later, in the age of high speed internet and much more powerful computers, I would have been a “remixer” myself. Heck, when I was young I saw the world as amazing and wonderful, the future as bright and thrilling and open for the taking. In short, I was just the sort of person liable to get caught in one of these copyright webs and have my life completely ruined.
I can blame my current cynicism on all sorts of things — endless war, recession, the general ennui that comes with growing older. I wish I could recapture some of that excitement, some of that optimism I had as a kid. What gets to me about Pirate Cinema is that by the end I was rooting for our young heroes to succeed, yet all the while convinced that he was writing to us from his eventual jail cell. I’m only slightly ashamed to admit that as I read the final pages tears welled up in my eyes. Not because its the best book or the best story in the world, but because it reminded me about what I care about, and that things are worth fighting for, and that the bad guys don’t always win in the end.
For all that, it is not at all clear that our “hero” lives happily ever after. Doctorow acknowledges that youth can’t last forever, and even the most idealistic of us do have to grow up and face, dare I say it, a more complex, more nuanced world. It is up to each of us, then, to temper our wisdom with a streak of idealism, and to not forget about the causes and morals we hold dear.
I’m in San Francisco for a work conference and was able to snag a last-minute ticket to see the touring production of Book of Mormon at the beautiful Orpheum Theatre. I was sandwiched between a group of 47 lovely residents of an Oakland retirement community. The abundant crude humor in the show made this seating arrangement only slightly awkward.
The show was uproariously funny throughout, but was also laced with sad and even tragic stories. South Park veterans Matt Stone and Trey Parker did an amazing job of using humor to present a thorough and multi-layered social commentary. As I watched the show I kept wondering how much of the audience was grasping the deeply cynical and biting undercurrent of this show. I expect that many were not — and perhaps that in itself is just another joke, this time at the audience’s expense.
Early (and ongoing) humor plays off of Mormon beliefs and practices that are surprising or seem silly to non-Mormon audiences. But time and again the humor is predicated on absurd comparisons to more “mainstream” beliefs. For example, one song by a main character proclaims that “I believe that the Lord God created the universe.” The audience remains silent. He continues, “I believe that He sent His only Son to die for my sins.” No reaction. Then, “and I believe that ancient Jews built boats and sailed to America!” Uproarious laughter.
It makes no sense. It’s absurd. Who would believe that? Never stopping to think that the two preceding lines, from a non-Christian, would sound just as absurd. The verse ends with, “a Mormon just believes,” but isn’t that also mocking all others who “just believe” their own deeply held but never critically analyzed religious convictions?
A whole other class of criticism takes the form of upbeat and absurd songs that portray the suffering of the native Ugandans. In chipper tones and catchy music they tell of their children raped by warlords, family members dying of AIDS, and friends felled by preventable diseases like dysentery. The audience laughs along, but at times it becomes sporadic as particular lyrics hit a little close to home.
A memorable song dreams of the magical land of “Salt Lake City” as a place where the “goat meat is plentiful,” the “warlords are friendly,” there is a “Red Cross on every corner,” and “the people are open-minded.” We laugh, then we realize what we are laughing at — the longings of a poor child who can dream of nothing more than a slightly nicer version of the desolate village that is the only life she has ever known.
Interwoven with the stories of the “Africans” are a number of pokes at white Westerners — missionaries and others — who feel entitled to lecture native peoples on how they should be living, push them to change their lives in highly disruptive ways, and then abandon them to deal with the unexpected long-term consequences of the half-baked “improvements” on their own.
The overall theme of the Book of Mormon seems to me to be that well-intentioned, dedicated, and focused individuals can make a positive impact on the world around them, but that the strictures of organized religion often serve to get in the way of or actively subvert that impact. In that way I see it as a message of hope — our society’s accelerating move away from organized religious institutions need not imply that we will become less dedicated to improving the lives of our fellow man. Far from it. Without outdated doctrine and absurd rules getting in the way, real and lasting impacts may finally be achievable.
Many will no doubt disagree with this interpretation. People often tell me that my relentless positivity about our ability to make the world a better place is absurd. But I continue to take to heart John Perry Barlow’s words that groundless hope is the only kind worth having.
This is a gobsmackingly incredible visual exploration of deaths related to World War II and other conflicts. You’ll start watching and it just keeps getting more insane, and you can’t stop until the end. Well worth the 18 minute run time. I thought I understood the scale of the conflict — to the extent anyone can — but I had no idea.
Malcolm Gladwell’s look into how automotive safety recalls work, and don’t. But hidden inside is a look at how we examine and evaluate risk and where we place priorities. And the sometimes insurmountable gulf between what engineers see and what normal, emotional people see. And the consequences in safety for how we prioritize and deal with public safety issues. A good read.
I got up at 3am to pre-order the Apple Watch and mine arrived on release day. My justification was simple — I have found the FitBit activity trackers to be useful but limited, and a more comprehensive device seemed like a great upgrade.
Unlike the many glowing reviews, I have found Apple’s much-hyped new gadget to be nothing but trouble. My litany of complaints is vast, so I will focus on a few major pain points that might dissuade others from purchasing this device until the next version is released.
Third-party app support
Third party app support is universally poor. I have not yet found a single third-party app that works well, they are all slow to load, quick to crash, and often fall out of sync with their phone apps. Apparently when the watch goes to sleep the watch app loses connection with the phone app, so things can’t just finish processing or loading in the background. You constantly have to stand there like a dope staring at your wrist waiting for something to happen.
The “glances” (cards) in the watch app for quick updates are also problematic for the same reason. Even Apple’s built-in glances, such as weather and stocks, do not update in the background, so I often find myself seeing yesterday’s weather or an out-of-date version of my todo list. Because I can’t trust the data to be accurate, I find myself not even bothering to use glances.
If you want a “digital” watch face with additional data (“complications”) rather than a pseudo-analog one, there is only one option. The level of customization is actually quite limited — you can’t put the time in the middle, for example, and while you can show your next calendar event or the phase of the moon, you can’t show your daily step count or any other third party app data. The calendar complication can only link out to Apple’s built in calendar app, the weather complication to Apple’s weather app, etc. There is no third-party integration possible, so if you like using Dark Skies to know when it is going to rain or Things for task management or basically any other of the thousands of third-party apps, there is no way to integrate them into your watch display.
It is very difficult to tell the difference between a phone notification that is not actionable, a watch notification that can be tapped to get into an app, and the app displays themselves. The whole interface is confusing in that way — am I in a notification, an app, a glance? Will swiping work, or not? Tapping? It is complete inconsistent. And it is very easy to get lost or frustrated, tapping the screen repeatedly only to find nothing happening. Why tap repeatedly? Because sometimes in apps you need to tap multiple times to hit the tiny touch targets. And sometimes you hit the wrong one, end up somewhere else, and have no obvious way to get back.
General bugginess and unreliability
The built-in health tracking is extremely buggy. Sometimes it tells me it is “time to stand” while I am standing. Sometimes it tells me to stand when I’m in the car driving at 60 miles per hour. Sometimes it tells me I achieved a fitness goal while I’m in the middle of a run, knocking me out of my running app, which then crashes and will not reconnect with my phone, so I’m frantically navigating through the tiny app launcher while trying to keep up my pace. The scroll wheel (err, “digital crown”) gets mucked up and won’t turn until I run it under water. The maps app takes forever to update with my current location. Sometimes I get buzzes for notifications but then none display. Sometimes I send a text message reply and the whole watch freezes for 30 seconds. A couple times I’ve had to hold down both buttons to restart the watch because it got completely stuck.
If I’m going to wear a device on my wrist, I want it to integrate into my day. I want it to be effortless. I want it to show me the information I need when I need it. I don’t want to fiddle. I want the apps I already use to easily integrate and work well. I want to be able to hide the many apps that I don’t care about, making it easier to find the ones I do. I don’t want spurious notifications. I don’t want a watch that crashes.
The Apple Watch, in my experience, is a failure at its basic purpose. Even the buttons — there are two, one of which is dedicated to sending your friends drawings, which I will never do. There is no way to assign that button to something I might actually want to use, like a dedicated way to get to a single app, or back to the watch face.
Luckily, almost all of the problems I have run into are software related, so I can only hope that Apple will remedy them in software updates in the future. But will that be anytime soon? And will the updates work with this watch, or will I have to buy a newer model? In the case of the Apple Watch, it does not pay to be an early adopter.
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If you could have only one book in your library what would it be?
If you had to settle on having just one book for the rest of your life, which one would it be and why? It can be any kind of book.
I would like to have the Quran. The final message from God and the best guide to life for any human. Disregard the dis-information you hear about Islam, Muslims and Quran, read it once and you will see why I selected this as my only book.
Today having access to the internet it would be Maps of the Mind by Charles-Hampden Turner. I can't find it in print again so far. Everything else seems to be available in form and format or available at the library.
(I stand corrected. I found it at Amazon just now . . . so I don't which book I would have
by KNOWLEDGESEEKER796 years ago
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by lovelyjubbly5 years ago
Christians, why are you not Muslim?I have already spoken to many Muslims about why they are not christian so now I wish to hear the other view. So far it seems Christians don't know much about Islam and when they learn...
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by sushant1434 months ago
being world one of the most populated & dominating religion, but still why so called Muslim fought war or jihad all across the world .
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Land plants produce diverse flavonoids for growth, survival, and reproduction. Chalcone synthase is the first committed enzyme of the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway and catalyzes the production of 2′,4,4′,6′-tetrahydroxychalcone (THC). However, it also produces other polyketides, including p-coumaroyltriacetic acid lactone (CTAL), because of the derailment of the chalcone-producing pathway. This promiscuity of CHS catalysis adversely affects the efficiency of flavonoid biosynthesis, although it is also believed to have led to the evolution of stilbene synthase and p-coumaroyltriacetic acid synthase. In this study, we establish that chalcone isomerase-like proteins (CHILs), which are encoded by genes that are ubiquitous in land plant genomes, bind to CHS to enhance THC production and decrease CTAL formation, thereby rectifying the promiscuous CHS catalysis. This CHIL function has been confirmed in diverse land plant species, and represents a conserved strategy facilitating the efficient influx of substrates from the phenylpropanoid pathway to the flavonoid pathway.
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Rise in soldiers needing medical care
More than 85,000 U.S. soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have sought medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs after getting back, that department told Congress Thursday. That is an increase of 52,000 GIs since last summer — last July the VA said 35,000 vets from Iraq and Afghanistan had sought medical treatment from the department.
“As of February 2005, the VA had data on 360,674 (veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan) who had separated from active duty,” John Brown, director of the Seamless Transition Office at the VA told a House panel. “Approximately 24 percent of these veterans, 85,857, have sought health care from the VA.”
Brown said about half of the vets getting treatment from the VA were career soldiers and the other half were reserve troops activated for war.
Some of those soldiers were presumably not wounded and wanted to see doctors for other problems after getting home, but the new data sheds more light on the somewhat shocking size and scope of the wars beyond just the statistic of 140,000 soldiers in Iraq that seems to be most common in U.S. newspapers.
Last month, Salon reported that well over 1 million GIs have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. And about one-third of those who have fought have done so more than one time. A retired general said the numbers are a sign that the United States is burning through its ground troops at a dangerous clip, threatening to grind down the Army to a level not seen since just after Vietnam.
Not all of those 85,000 GIs were wounded. The number includes those who have served in war and come back home to be released from military service but still need healthcare, soldiers seeing doctors for problems unrelated to war and wounded folks who are on active duty and being treated in military hospitals, like the Army’s Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
The Department of Veterans Affairs takes care of soldiers even after they leave the military. There are a number of reasons people are released from the Army (though fewer are being released since the Pentagon instituted a “stop-loss” policy), but one is to have been wounded or injured or have some other medical problem.
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Fifth Generation Cisco Unified Computing System
On July 11, 2017, Cisco announced its fifth generation of Unified Computing System (UCS) servers. The M5 portfolio gives you the benefits of the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors including faster CPUs, more cores, and a faster, larger memory capacity. Additionally, you can future proof your environment with support for nonvolatile memory express (NVMe), M.2 storage, and be Intel 3D XPoint™ ready. With the improved modularity of the M5 product line, more graphics processing units (GPUs) are supported than ever before.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Cisco UCS, it’s not a server, it’s a system
- Cisco UCS architecture.
- Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server
- Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server
- Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Server
Approximate duration: 60 minutes
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PRODUCT REVIEW: O&M Seven Day Miracle Moisture Masque
O&M Seven Day Miracle Moisture Masque ($29.95AUD) ★★★★★
About: intensely hydrating hair masque for weekly use packaged in O&M's signature plastic brand packaging with flip lid.
Review: If you are sitting here reading this, searching for a product to repair your dry, dull and lifeless locks then get thee to an O&M stockist - run, don't walk! Seven Day Miracle Moisture Masque is the best product I have found to soften and repair dry hair. Being free from nasty chemicals used in other brands, one would think it takes some time for hair to adjust to a more natural alternative but that is incorrect. I use Seven Day Miracle Moisture Masque once per week on my dry, tangled and tatty ends to nourish and soften them while avoiding my newfound greasy roots, and I can honestly tell you that I noticed a change in my hair from the first use! After the first wash, my hair felt soft and really smooth even while it was still wet and it stayed lovely for a few days afterward. Close your eyes and forget where you are - the coconut scent is unforgettable and makes me want to board the next flight to Vanuatu! Its signature O&M plastic packaging is great for carrying around and the pop lid is super easy to open sigle-handedly. Beware to avoid applying to the top of your hair because the product is so rich it may latch on and make roots look oily. An award winning formula for savvy and smart beauties who want only the best for their hair, I want to scream it from a swinging chandelier: I Love Seven Day Miracle Moisture Masque!
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While Meta has grand dreams of a metaverse future, where all of us will be interacting in wholly digital environments, and where we can be and do anything in entirely immersive worlds, there’s one significant impediment to that process at it stands right now.
Can you guess what it is?
Apparently, the metaverse renders legs obsolete. And while the current avatars are also functional, in a basic sense, if Meta really wants to get people engaging with digital items, like clothes and other customization elements, to make people more aligned with their virtual identity, it’ll need a better creation process, so that you can build the representation that you choose – down to the shoelaces in in your virtual sneakers.
Which is where this new development comes in.
As you can see in this new video, posted by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s currently developing new technology that would enable the creation of more customized digital recreations which simulate actual human movement.
That could go a long way towards building truly personalized and representative avatars, which Meta’s also developing via its Codec Avatar tech.
As you can see in this example, which Meta shared last year, the ultimate goal is to enable users to create fully realistic versions of themselves for use in virtual worlds, which would include legs and full gesture mapping.
If, of course, they choose. Via the same process, you would also be able to edit your look and change your digital self to suit your own expression. But the base concept is that you will have almost endless customization options available, which will enable you to conduct virtual activities with a fully-formed representation of yourself, customized as you choose, and eventually, fitted out in digital clothing, the same as you would purchase clothes in a physical store.
That’ll open up a range of new opportunities for eCommerce, in terms of both selling real items (as you’ll be able to see how they look on you before you buy) and digital items, which will be the expansion of the early NFT push.
While there’s a level of excitement about NFT profile pictures online, the true future of digital items is not in these cartoonish images, but more in virtual items, like digital clothes, that you can buy and sell, and take with you to other elements of the metaverse as you see fit.
Users buy the digital outfits, or ‘skins’, that they want to use to represent themselves in these game worlds – but at present, their usage is restricted to each individual property. The ultimate goal of the metaverse is to create a network of interoperable environments, where you’ll be able to take these customizations with you – so if you choose to dress up as a banana character in Fortnite, you could then hop into a work meeting in the same character design.
These advanced creation tools from Meta are another step in that direction, and it’s interesting to consider the scope of possibilities they could facilitate in this respect, and where such developments will get to over the next ten years.
Which is the timeframe that Meta’s outlining for its metaverse shift. While many are looking to get in early, and be pole position for the next tech development, the reality is that these systems will take time to formulate, and become more accessible for everyday users.
As a basic example – for an accurate avatar system to work, and create a fully customized depiction of you in 3D, you’ll need to scan yourself within a digital camera room, like the one in the Meta video above.
That, eventually, could be another element of Meta’s retail stores, the first of which was opened in California earlier this month.
Meta Store, our first brick and mortar retail and experience space, opening on May 9 at our Burlingame campus (322 Airport Blvd, Burlingame, CA). Check it out! ???? pic.twitter.com/6UpKVOWiN5
— Boz (@boztank) April 25, 2022
It’s not there yet, but as Meta looks to expand its physical store network, it could also, eventually, add in VR scanning booths where users will be able to capture their virtual self for these advanced avatars.
It’s still some way off, but you can see where these developments are headed, which could have big implications, in a range of ways.
Elon Musk’s Team Asks for More Data to Complete Assessment of Twitter Bots
Okay, let’s just check in on the latest with the Twitter/Elon Musk takeover saga, and where things are placed to close out the week.
According to the latest reports, Musk’s team recently asked Twitter for more tweet info, in order to help it make an accurate assessment of bot activity in the app. This comes after Musk questioned Twitter’s claim that bots and fake accounts make up only 5% of its active user base, and said that his Twitter takeover deal could not go ahead unless Twitter could produce more evidence to support this figure.
Which Twitter did, by providing Musk with access to its ‘full firehose’ of tweets over a given period, which it shared with Musk’s team back on June 8th. Musk’s group has now had that data for a couple of weeks, but this week, it said that this info is not enough to go on, and that it needs even more insight from Twitter to make its judgment.
And after initially resisting calls for more data access, Twitter has now reportedly relented and handed over more tweet data access to Musk’s team.
Which may or may not be a concern, depending on how you see it.
In its initial data dump, Twitter reportedly gave Musk’s team info on:
- Total user tweets (within a given time period)
- Data on which devices were used
As noted, Musk’s team says that this has not provided it with the insight that it needs to conduct an accurate analysis of potential bot activity, so Twitter has now provided Musk with more ‘real-time API data’.
It’s not clear whether that means that Twitter has provided everything that its API systems can provide, but that could mean that Musk’s team can now access:
- Real-time info on tweet text and visual elements/attachments
- Data on retweets, replies, and quote Tweets for each
- Data on tweet author, mentioned users, tagged locations, hashtag and cashtag symbols, etc
- Date, time, location, device info
That should satisfy any analytical needs to uncover potential bot trends, and get a better handle on Twitter’s bot problem, though it also means that Musk has all your tweet info – which, again, it’s worth noting, Twitter up till now had been hesitant to provide.
I’m sure it’s fine. Musk’s team is beholden to disclosure laws around such, so it’s not like they can do anything much with that info anyway, in a legal sense. But the idea that the sometimes erratic Elon Musk now has all the tweets could be a little concerning for some.
But Twitter likely had to provide what it can, and if Musk is going to become CEO of the app soon anyway, he’s going to have access to all of that data either way.
Should be fine. No problems – no need to go deleting all your DMs (which are likely not included in the data that Twitter has provided at this stage).
According to reports, Musk’s team says that it now has the info it needs to make its assessment of bot activity, which should see the deal move forward (or not) sometime soon.
Of course, no one knows what exactly is going to happen next, and whether Musk’s team will look to renegotiate, or even back out of the deal entirely as a result of its bot analysis. But it does seem like, one way or another, Musk will be forced to go ahead with the $44 billion transaction, with Twitter’s past bot reporting methodology already accepted by the SEC, giving it legal grounding to argue that it’s acted in good faith, regardless of what Musk’s team finds.
The next steps then, according to Musk, would be securing debt financing and gaining Twitter shareholder approval, clearing the last hurdles for Musk to change the app’s name to ‘Telsla Social’, and add a million references to ‘420’ into the platforms various terms and conditions.
Because of the memes, because weed jokes are still funny to the richest man in the world – because he vacillates between inspired genius and a massive nerd who now gets to play out some fantasy of being cool.
Or something. Who knows what goes on in Elon Musk’s head – which is also why most are hesitant to bet against him, as nobody knows if and how he might be able to fix Twitter, and whether this is a great investment or a massive disaster.
It seems like we may soon find out. Maybe. Who knows. Either way, the memes should be great.
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ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
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الصفحة 61 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
الصفحة 85 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
الصفحة 115 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
الصفحة 35 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
الصفحة 34 - ... beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the...
الصفحة 54 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
الصفحة 48 - States, except the section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative.
الصفحة 10 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States...
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AmCham President Brian Arnold
Outgoing Managing Director Andrew White
Incoming Managing Director Lin Neumann
AmCham Board of Governors
I am honored to speak today at the American Chamber of Commerce’s Annual General Meeting. This meeting falls at an opportune time. It marks my own one year anniversary, during what turned out to be a year of ups and downs during which I had a chance to work with most of you and to learn what an outstanding organization AmCham is.
It also marks Andrew White’s last AGM as AmCham’s Managing Director. I know I speak for everyone when I thank Andrew for his creative leadership in driving AmCham to new heights as the leading foreign Chamber, and for his friendship. Thank you Andrew.
I am also excited to welcome Lin Neumann, no stranger to Indonesia or AmCham, as the incoming Managing Director and look forward to working closely with him and all of you in the year ahead.
Today’s AGM also marks our first under President Jokowi. I wanted to share with you my initial impressions of the new Administration, the challenges that lay ahead, and some of my personal goals for 2015.
But first, I want to underscore how I, along with my whole Embassy team, value my relationship with AmCham and its members.
Let me be clear: other than providing for the security of official and non-official Americans, the first priority of any Ambassador anywhere, the business of our Embassy is business. I and my great team are here to help you grow your businesses, resolve problems and help publicize the important each ways each of your companies contributes to Indonesia’s prosperity.
Our ability to partner and work together as “Team USA” enables us to broaden our reach beyond what the U.S. government, the AmCham, or its members can do on its own.
Despite a challenging year in 2014 during which most government decision-making ground to a halt, we were able to achieve a lot together.
The successful November 12 U.S.-Indonesia Investment Summit represented a capstone event marking AmCham as a strong and respected voice promoting U.S. commercial interests and pursuing common sense trade and investment policies that bolster economic growth while leveling the playing field for all companies.
I was pleased we were able to launch and lead productive dialogues with Coordinating Minister Chairul Tanjung and others.
I was happy to lead missions for companies already to learn about new opportunities in Bandung, Balikpapan and Jogja.
But the most important development clearly was President Jokowi’s election, marking a further strengthening of Indonesia’s democracy, but also the promise of improved governance, improved infrastructure, streamlined and more centralized decision-making, and a more welcoming regime for foreign investment.
President Obama has also made clear that Indonesia’s success is in all of our interest. In his meeting with President Jokowi during APEC in Beijing, President Obama said the United States wants to be a strong partner with Indonesia to help it achieve its goals and ambitious reform agenda.
The new administration will certainly face challenges as it works to continue Indonesia’s robust economic growth.
But I am confident that the outlook is positive with President Jokowi and his Cabinet. I have met most of the members of the Cabinet who matter to us to develop my personal relations and trust with them.
I have been impressed by their focus, their determination to get things done, their improved coordination, and their mandate to reduce red tape, speed up the issuance of licenses and permits, cut down on overlapping ministerial regulations, and overcome central and provincial government bottlenecks.
The Ministers have responded positively to my requests for increased and early stakeholder engagement, and regular dialogues both to resolve problems and seize opportunities.
We should not underestimate the hurdles ahead. These are big tasks that will not be accomplished overnight. President Jokowi will need to tackle some serious challenges, including rule-of-law and corruption, both issues of central importance to the U.S. government and business communities alike.
Initial moves by President Jokowi, like his early efforts to clean up the oil and gas sector, his reduction of fuel subsidies and his appointment of business people—and many U.S. educated officials—, augur well.
Looking to 2015, I have a running list of my own priorities that I would like to share with you. They include:
- Securing a date for President Jokowi to visit Washington, D.C. next year;
- Developing a strong delegation of Indonesian business leaders to attend the SelectUSA Conference focused on inward investment into the United States in Washington, D.C., March 23-24;
- Scheduling and then holding regular policy dialogues with the key Ministers, including what I hope can be a twice yearly meeting with Coordinating Minister Djalil with the U.S. and other foreign Chambers;
Continuing to lead AmCham visits to other parts of Indonesia: Batam next, with Surabaya to follow. I welcome input on other locations that would be useful to all of you.
Encouraging the Jokowi Administration to intensify stakeholder engagement, like through an on-line portal for draft regulations, providing a forum for input.
Holding a Joint Commission meeting that is chaired by Secretary Kerry and Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi. We are revising the process to make it more focused on the key interests of the moment so we can achieve practical progress on the matters of greatest importance.
Establishing an internship program—a collaboration between AmCham and the Embassy— where future business leaders, engineers, and scientists who are pursuing Masters degrees in America through the Ministry of Finance’s prestigious LPDP scholarship program, spend their summer break back here in Indonesia as interns in your companies.
In closing, the partnership between the U.S. Embassy and AmCham Indonesia has never been stronger. We have a significant opportunity to work together to help shape the new Administration’s game plan.
I am confident that we can partner together, both to create jobs and other opportunities for the American people, but also to advance our partnership with Indonesia to help President Jokowi and his team succeed in their efforts to achieve higher and inclusive growth, improve infrastructure, ensure a welcoming climate for foreign investment, streamline decision-making, and improve education and skills development.
I look forward to working closely with you in 2015. Thank you.
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1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, Abraham!
Here I am, he replied.
2 Then God said, Take your son, your only son, whom you love Isaac and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you. (Genesis 22:1-2)
We are all familiar with God’s test of Abraham. God demands that Abraham sacrifice his son, Isaac, the future of the chosen people, as a burnt offering. Why would God do this? There are several secondary questions to be raised here. Two fundamental ones are:
First, God had already stated that the future of the chosen people would be through Isaac. God must have known that He would not allow Abraham to kill Isaac on the altar. So why put Him to the test?
Second, if God is all-knowing, didn’t He already know the heart of Abraham?
|“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” (Genesis 22:12)|
So, just what was being tested here and what does it mean to be tested?
One reason is that it is through trails of our faith that we grow, not only in our strength, but also in our ability to handle adversity. We see this in so many ways. Thomas Edison said that “Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” When success in life comes too easily to us, we take things for granted. Furthermore, we are not pressed to our limits in terms of our capacity to accomplish. So it is in our service to God. It is through adversity, testing, that we sift the chaff out of our lives, focusing on what is important. How often did Jesus do this with Peter, the Rock? Impetuous, loyal Peter. Peter had no more than declared his undying love for Jesus than Jesus said to him “Stand behind me Satan.” Peter cut off the ear of the Roman soldier and Jesus both healed the soldier and reprimanded Peter. Could Peter have stood on the steps of the Temple on Pentecost had he not denied Jesus? Peter was strengthened by his failures, his pride, his self-centeredness.
Another reason for testing is to see just where we stand in terms of our growth. As we progress in our education, we are continually tested. Remember all those math and spelling tests? They weren’t punishments or tests of strength. They were checkpoints on our progress. Where do we stand in terms of our knowledge and capabilities? Are we ready to move higher, or do we need to go back and build ourselves?
The obedience of Issac was also being tested in this story. Would he obey his father? The Bible does not say how Issac reacted. Did Abraham have to subdue him, or did he go to the altar willingly? We don’t know from Genesis 22:9. The Bible does not say that Isaac returned to Bathsheba with Abraham and the servants. Jewish legend says that he was brought to heaven by God for a period of three years. Evidently, whatever was being tested in Isaac, he passed the test.
In the Book of Job, satan is allowed to test the faith of Job. Job maintains his faith in God, although at high cost to him and to his family. Had satan gone to God’s council with the same sort of challenged he did regarding Abraham’s faith? Perhaps.
Many of the trials we face in life are not of God’s making, but our own or the work of satan. Recently I was talking with a man who has lung cancer. He was mad at God for giving it to him. Yes, he knew that years of heavy smoking were probably the cause, but he still blamed God. Was this a test of God’s making?
So, being tested is not necessarily a bad thing. Just like our tests in school, tests can strengthen us for what lies ahead and for even greater works. They can also be a check-up on just where we are in our journey with Christ Jesus.
Alive in The Word
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Ruger 10/22 Carbine .22LR Rimfire Rifle – Stainless/Synthetic
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|Mechanism||Semi Auto Rifle|
Ruger 10/22 Carbine .22LR Rimfire Rifle – Stainless/Synthetic for sale.
Used for indoor target shooting only, this Ruger 10/22 .22LR Rimfire rifle remains in very good condition.
Including a Hawke 4×32 scope, 10 shot rotary magazine and fitted with stock swivels this rifle would make for a great vemin control rifle.
Please telephone 01458 270024 for further details
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|Date de publication||27 mai 2003|
|Date de dépôt||1 sept. 2000|
|Date de priorité||1 sept. 2000|
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|Inventeurs||Daniel J. Zyck, Michael J. Greenberg, David G. Barkalow, Scott W. Marske, Philip G. Schnell, Philip Mazzone|
|Cessionnaire d'origine||Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company|
|Exporter la citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
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The present invention relates to methods for producing coated chewing gum products. More particularly, the invention relates to producing coated chewing gum products containing an antacid which is added to the chewing gum coating such that it will have a controlled fast release from chewing gum for maximum effectiveness.
Coated chewing gum products are well known. Many prior art patents disclose chewing gum products coated with sugar sweeteners or polyol sweeteners. U.S. Pat. No. 4,317,838, for example, discloses a method of applying a sugarless coating to chewing gum. The coating may include calcium carbonate as an anti-sticking agent. Synthetic sweeteners, including many different high-intensity sweeteners, are also suggested for use in the coating.
Another area of interest is the use of medicaments in chewing gum. In some instances, it is contemplated that an active medicament that is added to the chewing gum may be released readily. An active medicament may be added to the gum coating, which is a water soluble matrix, such that during the chewing period, the medicament may be released quickly, resulting in a fast release. This would allow a chewing gum coating to be a carrier for an active medicament, specifically an antacid with these fast release characteristics. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,867,989 discloses a chewing gum composition coated with an outer shell containing layers of a mineral compound and a coating syrup, but this patent states that the mineral compound must be added separately and not dispersed in the syrup used to make the coating.
Antacids are usually taken on an “as needed” basis to relieve gastrointestinal disturbances mostly due to dietary indiscretions. These antacids are generally insoluble inorganic salts such as calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, or aluminum hydroxide. Antacids readily neutralize acids in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and are commonly available in or as antacid tablets.
Previously, antacids have been added to chewing gum and in a chewing gum coating, but some products have not been totally consumer acceptable. The large amount of active antacid needed for effectiveness does not lend itself to giving a good tasting product. Also, the presence of sugar in the antacid chewing gum or coated on the chewing gum of some products is not consumer acceptable because sugar causes dental caries.
A sugarless coated chewing gum produced having an antacid in a sorbitol base coating is currently being sold under the trademark CHOOZ® . It has been found that by adding the antacid to a gum coating, the antacid is quickly released from the chewing gum into saliva and into the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Relief from GI disturbances is quickly obtained, but does not last long. It would be desirable to have not only fast relief, but relief of longer duration. Thus, there is a need for a way to make coated chewing gum products that have a prolonged effectiveness of the antacid, as well as being acceptable to the consumer from taste and other standpoints.
It has been found that an antacid having a median particle size of at least about 3 microns can be used to make a coating with a high level of antacid, and that this antacid gives a prolonged effectiveness. Also, it has surprisingly been found that the antacid, like calcium carbonate, can be added as a suspension to the coating syrup to thus be included in the gum coating.
In a first aspect, the invention is a method of making antacid coated chewing gum products comprising the steps of providing chewing gum cores; providing a coating syrup comprising a bulk sweetener and calcium carbonate having a median particle size of greater than about 3 microns and being suspended in the coating syrup; and applying the coating syrup to the cores and drying the syrup to produce a coating on the cores, the coating containing from about 25% to about 60% calcium carbonate.
In a second aspect, the invention is a method of delivering an antacid to an individual that provides relief in the gastrointestinal tract comprising the steps of providing chewing gum cores; providing a coating syrup comprising a bulk sweetener and calcium carbonate having a median particle size of greater than about 3 microns and being suspended in the coating syrup; applying the coating syrup to the cores and drying the syrup to produce a coating on the cores, the coating containing from about 25% to about 60% calcium carbonate; and chewing the antacid coated chewing gum product in the mouth and swallowing the coating, the coating dispersing and dissolving to provide calcium carbonate as an antacid in the gastrointestinal tract.
Preferred embodiments of the invention include the addition of histamine H2-receptor antagonists. These agents inhibit or block the secretion of gastric acid by binding to a specific histamine receptor on the parietal (acid secreting) cell membranes located in the stomach. These agents, which may be added to the chewing gum center or to the antacid coating containing calcium carbonate, are used for extended relief of gastrointestinal disturbances and extended relief from stomach acidity. Examples of histamine H2-receptor antagonists are cimetidine, ranitidine, nizatidine and famotidine, with famotidine being preferred.
It is believed that providing a larger particle size antacid in a chewing gum coating makes it more effective and longer lasting. Thus, an advantage of an embodiment of the present invention is administering an antacid to an individual that has a larger particle size than is typically administered orally, giving extended relief while still achieving the effect of fast relief.
As used herein, the term “chewing gum” includes bubble gum and all other types of chewing gum. Unless specified otherwise, all percentages are weight percentages.
As mentioned above, products made by the present invention will include an antacid, such as calcium carbonate. The antacid will preferably be included as part of the coating syrup used to prepare a coated chewing gum product. A typical syrup may contain a polyol, suspended calcium carbonate, a binding agent, a high intensity sweetener and a whitener.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the antacid is contained in the coating of chewing gum products, which allows a chewing gum coating to be a carrier for the antacid. Accordingly, as the chewing gum is chewed, the active antacid in the gum coating is released into the saliva and ingested to give relief from gastrointestinal disturbances in the GI tract.
The preferred antacids are generally carbonate or hydroxide salts of calcium, magnesium, aluminum, or bismuth, and are generally very water insoluble. Other antacids such as sodium bicarbonate, calcium bicarbonate, and other carbonates, silicates, and phosphates are included in this invention. When these materials are mixed with acids in the GI tract, the acids are readily neutralized to give relief from GI disturbances. Some typical consumer antacid products are: TUMS, which contains calcium carbonate; MILK of MAGNESIA, which contains magnesium hydroxide, and MAALOX PLUS, which contains a combination of aluminum hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide.
For antacid chewing gum products, calcium carbonate is the most preferred antacid material. This is mostly due to the fact that the most common inert filler in chewing gum base is calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate, along with talc, which is commonly used in bases for gum products that contain food acids to give tartness to flavors, have been used as fillers in gum base and gum products for many years.
Chewing gum bases that contain calcium carbonate do not readily release their calcium carbonate during chewing. Since calcium carbonate (or in other cases talc) is very water insoluble, it releases from gum either very slowly or over very long extended chewing. As a result, this calcium carbonate is not effective as an antacid. Generally, when calcium carbonate is added to a gum formulation separate from the gum base, calcium carbonate becomes intimately mixed with the base during chewing and also releases slowly. However, when calcium carbonate is used in the coating of the chewing gum, it does become quickly available in the oral cavity and is ingested to be an effective antacid.
Generally, suspension coatings with calcium carbonate for an antacid gum may be made with sugar. Sugar with its naturally sweet taste masks some of the off-taste due to the use of high levels of calcium carbonate. With the advent of new coating technologies using less sweet sugarless polyols instead of sugar, the sweet taste of the coating is significantly reduced. In some coatings where xylitol is used, it is sufficiently sweet as a coating, but other polyols such as maltitol, hydrogenated isomaltulose, sorbitol, or erythritol, are not. When the coating contains high levels of calcium carbonate, the polyols generally lack sufficient sweetness to give a good tasting product. As a result, high-intensity sweeteners are preferably added to the coating containing calcium carbonate to give a high-quality, consumer-acceptable product.
For coated antacid chewing gum type products, the high level of calcium carbonate or other antacid in the coating modifies the taste quality and gum texture. The addition of high-intensity sweeteners to the gum coating improves the taste of the finished product. This also occurs in sugar coated gums as well as polyol coated gums, so aspartame or other high-intensity sweeteners may also be added to sugar coated gums with calcium carbonate or other antacids. If the high-intensity sweeter is subject to degradation, it may preferably be added as part of a different coating syrup from the coating syrup containing the calcium carbonate, as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/591,256 filled Jun. 9, 2000, hereby incorporated by reference.
Since calcium carbonate is very water insoluble, as are many of the other neutralizing antacids, the reaction rate of the salts with aqueous acids is dependant on the surface area of the neutralizing agent. Neutralizing agents with a large surface area will react faster with acids than those with a small surface area. Many smaller size particles with a combined large surface area neutralize acids faster than fewer large particles with a combined small surface area. However, larger particle sizes of calcium carbonate give longer lasting relief from stomach acidity. When the calcium carbonate particles are suspended in a coating syrup and applied as a gum coating, the particle sizes of calcium carbonate remains essentially the same throughout the process.
Analysis of a precipitated calcium carbonate having a median particle size of about 5 microns was done before and after being applied as a coating. Before coating, the sample was analyzed and found to have a median particle size of 5.1 microns. After preparing the sample of calcium carbonate in a suspension and applying it to a gum pellet for an antacid gum product, the particle size of the calcium carbonate was 4.9 microns.
It has been determined in the tests shown below that a calcium carbonate having a median particle size of about 3 microns or greater is sufficient to give longer lasting relief of excess stomach activity.
In terms of water solubility, larger particles have a tendency to dissolve more slowly in water, and as calcium carbonate dissolves, it neutralizes stomach acidity. Smaller particles of calcium carbonate could react faster, and larger particles would react slower.
In addition to the particle size of calcium carbonate, different crystal structures have an effect on the rate of dissolution and the rate of neutralization. Natural forms of calcium carbonate such as Calcite, Aragonite, and Vaterite are highly crystalline forms of calcium carbonate and could dissolve more slowly to give longer lasting neutralizing effect. Marble, Dolomite, and even Mollusk shells are made of amorphous forms of calcium carbonate, and could dissolve faster and neutralize acidity faster than crystalline forms. Precipitated calcium carbonate, which is purified from natural sources, is a “micro” crystalline form and would dissolve quickly and neutralizes acidity quickly.
Preferred precipitated calcium carbonate materials may be purchased from Specialty Minerals Inc., 260 Columbia Street, Adams, Mass., 01220. Presently preferred are the CalEssence™ 300 PCC, CalEssence™ 450 PCC and MD-1503 (to be CalEssence™ 1500 PCC) grades of precipitated calcium carbonate. These three grades have a median particle size of 3.0, 4.5 and 15.0 microns, respectively; a surface area of 3.0, 2.2 and 2.0 meters2/gram respectively; and a tapped density of 0.85, 1.10 and 1.45 grams/cc respectively. CalEssence™ 300 PCC and CalEssence™ 450 PCC have a cubic shape, whereas MD-1503 has a semi-regular prismatic shape. CalEssence™ 300 has a particle size distribution from essential 1 to 10 microns, with roughly 50% by weight of the particles between 3 and 10 microns. CalEssence™ 450 has a particle size distribution from essentially 1 to 20 microns, with roughly 50% by weight of the particles between 4.5 and 20 microns. Preferred precipitated calcium carbonate materials will have a surface area of less than 3 meter2/gram, and a tapped density of greater than 0.7, and preferably greater than 0.8 grams/cc.
In general, a chewing gum composition typically comprises a water-soluble bulk portion, a water-insoluble chewable gum base portion and typically water-insoluble flavoring agents. The water-soluble portion dissipates with a portion of the flavoring agent over a period of time during chewing. The gum base portion is retained in the mouth throughout the chew.
The insoluble gum base generally comprises elastomers, resins, fats and oils, softeners and inorganic fillers. The gum base may or may not include wax. The insoluble gum base can constitute approximately 5% to about 95% by weight of the chewing gum, more commonly the gum base comprises 10% to about 50% of the gum, and in some preferred embodiments approximately 25% to about 35% by weight, of the chewing gum. In pellet gum center formulations, the level of insoluble gum base may be much higher.
In a preferred embodiment, the chewing gum base of the present invention contains about 20% to about 60% by weight synthetic elastomer, about 0% to about 30% by weight natural elastomer, about 5% to about 55% by weight elastomer plasticizer, about 4% to about 35% by weight filler, about 5% to about 35% by weight softener, and optional minor amounts (about 1% or less by weight) of miscellaneous ingredients such as colorants, antioxidants, etc.
Synthetic elastomers may include, but are not limited to, polyisobutylene with GPC weight average molecular weights of about 10,000 to about 95,000, isobutylene-isoprene copolymer (butyl elastomer), styrene-butadiene, copolymers having styrene-butadiene ratios of about 1:3 to about 3:1, polyvinyl acetate having GPC weight average molecular weights of about 2,000 to about 90,000, polyisoprene, polyethylene, vinyl acetate - vinyl laurate copolymers having vinyl laurate contents of about 5% to about 50% by weight of the copolymer, and combinations thereof.
Preferred ranges are: 50,000 to 80,000 GPC weight average molecular weight for polyisobutylene; 1:1 to 1:3 bound styrene-butadiene for styrene-budadiene; 10,000 to 65,000 GPC weight average molecular weight for polyvinyl acetate, with the higher molecular weight polyvinyl acetates typically used in bubble gum base; and a vinyl laurate content of 10-45% for vinyl acetate-vinyl laurate.
Natural elastomers may include natural rubber such as smoked or liquid latex and guayule, as well as natural gums such as jelutong, lechi caspi, perillo, sorva, massaranduba balata, massaranduba chocolate, nispero, rosindinha, chicle, gutta hang kang, and combinations thereof. The preferred synthetic elastomer and natural elastomer concentrations vary depending on whether the chewing gum in which the base is used is adhesive or conventional, bubble gum or regular gum, as discussed below. Preferred natural elastomers include jelutong, chicle, sorva and massaranduba balata.
Elastomer plasticizers may include, but are not limited to, natural rosin esters such as glycerol esters or partially hydrogenated rosin, glycerol esters of polymerized rosin, glycerol esters of partially dimerized rosin, glycerol esters of rosin, pentaerythritol esters of partially hydrogenated rosin, methyl and partially hydrogenated methyl esters of rosin, pentaerythritol esters of rosin; synthetics such as terpene resins derived from alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, and/or d-limonene; and any suitable combinations of the foregoing. The preferred elastomer plasticizers will also vary depending on the specific application, and on the type of elastomer which is used.
Fillers/texturizers may include magnesium and calcium carbonate, ground limestone, silicate types such as magnesium and aluminum silicate, clay, alumina, talc, titanium oxide, mono-, di- and tri-calcium phosphate, cellulose polymers, such as wood, and combinations thereof.
Softeners/emulsifiers may include tallow, hydrogenated tallow, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, cocoa butter, glycerol monostearate, glycerol triacetate, lecithin, mono-, di- and triglycerides, acetylated monoglycerides, fatty acids (e.g. stearic, palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids), and combinations thereof.
Colorants and whiteners may include FD&C-type dyes and lakes, fruit and vegetable extracts, titanium dioxide, and combinations thereof.
The base may or may not include wax. An example of a wax-free gum base is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,286,500, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
In addition to a water-insoluble gum base portion, a typical chewing gum composition includes a water-soluble bulk portion and one or more flavoring agents. The water-soluble portion can include bulk sweeteners, high-intensity sweeteners, flavoring agents, softeners, emulsifiers, colors, acidulants, fillers, antioxidants, and other components that provide desired attributes.
Softeners are added to the chewing gum in order to optimize the chewability and mouth feel of the gum. The softeners, which are also known as plasticizers and plasticizing agents, generally constitute between approximately 0.5% to about 15% by weight of the chewing gum. The softeners may include glycerin, lecithin, and combinations thereof. Aqueous sweetener solutions such as those containing sorbitol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates, corn syrup and combinations thereof, may also be used as softeners and binding agents in chewing gum.
Bulk sweeteners include both sugar and sugarless components. Bulk sweeteners typically constitute about 5% to about 95% by weight of the chewing gum, more typically, about 20% to about 80% by weight, and more commonly, about 30% to about 60% by weight of the gum. Sugar sweeteners generally include saccharide-containing components commonly known in the chewing gum art, including but not limited to, sucrose, dextrose, maltose, dextrin, dried invert sugar, fructose, galactose, corn syrup solids, and the like, alone or in combination. Sugarless sweeteners include, but are not limited to, sugar alcohols such as sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates, maltitol, and the like, alone or in combination.
High-intensity artificial sweeteners can also be used, alone or in combination, with the above. Preferred sweeteners include, but are not limited to, sucralose, aspartame, N-substituted APM derivatives such as neotame, salts of acesulfame, alitame, saccharin and its salts, cyclamic acid and its salts, glycyrrhizin, dihydrochalcones, thaumatin, monellin, and the like, alone or in combination. In order to provide longer lasting sweetness and flavor perception, it may be desirable to encapsulate or otherwise control the release of at least a portion of the artificial sweetener. Such techniques as wet granulation, wax granulation, spray drying, spray chilling, fluid bed coating, coacervation, and fiber extrusion may be used to achieve the desired release characteristics.
Combinations of sugar and/or sugarless sweeteners may be used in chewing gum. Additionally, the softener may also provide additional sweetness such as with aqueous sugar or alditol solutions.
If a low calorie gum is desired, a low caloric bulking agent can be used. Examples of low caloric bulking agents include: polydextrose; oligofructose (Raftilose); inulin (Raftilin); fructooligosaccharides (NutraFlora); palatinose oligosaccharide; guar gum hydrolysate (BeneFiber); or indigestible dextrin (Fibersol). However, other low calorie bulking agents can be used.
A variety of flavoring agents can also be used, if desired. The flavor can be used in amounts of about 0.1 to about 15 weight percent of the gum, and preferably, about 0.2% to about 5% by weight. Flavoring agents may include essential oils, synthetic flavors or mixtures thereof including, but not limited to, oils derived from plants and fruits such as citrus oils, fruit essences, peppermint oil, spearmint oil, other mint oils, clove oil, oil of wintergreen, anise and the like. Artificial flavoring agents and components may also be used. Natural and artificial flavoring agents may be combined in any sensorially acceptable fashion.
In general, chewing gum is manufactured by sequentially adding the various chewing gum ingredients to a commercially available mixer known in the art. After the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed, the gum mass is discharged from the mixer and shaped into the desired form such as rolling sheets and cutting into sticks, extruding into chunks or casting into pellets, which are then coated or panned.
Generally, the ingredients are mixed by first melting the gum base and adding it to the running mixer. The base may also be melted in the mixer itself Color or emulsifiers may also be added at this time. A softener such as glycerin may also be added at this time, along with syrup and a portion of the bulking agent. Further parts of the bulking agent are added to the mixer. Flavoring agents are typically added with the final portion of the bulking agent. Other optional ingredients are added to the batch in a typical fashion, well known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
The entire mixing procedure typically takes from five to fifteen minutes, but longer mixing times may sometimes be required. Those skilled in the art will recognize that many variations of the above described procedure may be followed.
After the ingredients are mixed, the gum mass is formed into pellets or balls. Pellet or ball gum is prepared as conventional chewing gum but formed into pellets that are pillow shaped, or into balls. The pellets/balls are used as cores for the coated product. The cores can be sugar or polyol coated or panned by conventional panning techniques to make a unique coated pellet gum. The weight of the coating may be about 20% to about 50% of the weight of the finished product, but may be as much as 75% of the total gum product.
Conventional panning procedures generally coat with sucrose, but recent advances in panning have allowed use of other carbohydrate materials to be used in place of sucrose. Some of these materials include, but are not limited to, sugars such as dextrose, maltose, isomaltulose, and tagatose or sugarless bulk sweeteners such as xylitol, sorbitol, lactitol, hydrogenated isomaltulose, erythritol, maltitol, and other new polyols (also referred to as alditols) or combinations thereof. The coating is preferably sugarless. These materials may be blended with panning modifiers including, but not limited to, gum arabic, gum talha, maltodextrins, corn syrup, gelatin, cellulose type materials like carboxymethyl cellulose or hydroxymethyl cellulose, starch and modified starches, vegetables gums like alginates, locust bean gum, guar gum, and gum tragacanth. Antitack agents may also be added as panning modifiers, which allow the use of a variety of carbohydrates and sugar alcohols. Flavors may also be added with the sugar or sugarless coating to yield unique product characteristics.
As noted above, the coating may contain ingredients such as flavoring agents, as well as dispersing agents, coloring agents, film formers and binding agents. Flavoring agents contemplated by the present invention include those commonly known in the art such as essential oils, synthetic flavors or mixtures thereof, including but not limited to oils derived from plants and fruits such as citrus oils, fruit essences, peppermint oil, spearmint oil, other mint oils, clove oil, oil of wintergreen, anise and the like. The flavoring agents may be used in an amount such that the coating will contain from about 0.2% to about 3% flavoring agent, and preferably from about 0.7% to about 2.0% flavoring agent.
High-intensity sweeteners contemplated for use in the coating include but are not limited to synthetic substances, saccharin, thaumatin, alitame, saccharin salts, aspartame, N-substituted APM derivatives such as neotame, sucralose and acesulfame-K. The high-intensity sweetener may be added to the coating syrup in an amount such that the coating will contain from about 0.01% to about 2.0%, and preferably from about 0.1% to about 1.0% high-intensity sweetener. Preferably the high-intensity sweetener is not encapsulated.
Dispersing agents are often added to syrup coatings for the purpose of whitening and tack reduction. Dispersing agents contemplated by the present invention to be employed in the coating syrup include titanium dioxide, talc, or any other antistick compound. Titanium dioxide is a presently preferred dispersing agent of the present invention. The dispersing agent may be added to the coating syrup in amounts such that the coating will contain from about 0.1% to about 1.0%, and preferably from about 0.3% to about 0.6% of the agent.
When high amounts of calcium carbonate or other antacid is used, the calcium carbonate is dispersed or suspended in the coating syrup that contains the sugar or polyol, thus making a syrup suspension. Generally, as the level of calcium carbonate is increased, the level of sugar or polyol is decreased. Levels of calcium carbonate used may be as low as 25% of the total solids or as high as 60% of the total solids in the syrup, and more preferably will comprise about 30% to about 40% of the total solids. In preferred embodiments, the calcium carbonate will comprise about 25% to about 60% of the gum coating, and more preferably about 30% to about 40% of the gum coating. The coating will preferably contain about 30% to about 75% maltitol.
Coloring agents are preferably added directly to the syrup suspension in the dye or lake form. Coloring agents contemplated by the present invention include food quality dyes. Film formers preferably added to the syrup include methyl cellulose, gelatins, hydroxypropyl cellulose, ethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose and the like and combinations thereof. Binding agents may be added either as an initial coating on the chewing gum center or may be added directly into the syrup. Binding agents contemplated by the present invention include gum arabic, gum talha, guar gum, karaya gum, locust bean gum, alginate gums, xanthan gum, arabinogalactan, various cellulose derivatives, vegetable gums, gelatin and mixtures thereof, with gum arabic being preferred. The binding agent is preferably used at a level of at least about 2% of the coating syrup.
The coating is initially present as a liquid syrup which contains from about 30% to about 80% of the coating ingredients previously described herein, and from about 20% to about 70% of a solvent such as water. In general, the coating process is carried out in a rotating pan. Sugar or sugarless gum center tablets to be coated are placed into the rotating pan to form a moving mass. The material or syrup suspension which will eventually form the coating is applied or distributed over the gum center tablets. Flavoring agents may be added before, during and after applying the syrup suspension to the gum centers. Once the coating has dried to form a hard surface, additional syrup additions can be made to produce a plurality of coatings or multiple layers of hard coating.
In a hard coating panning procedure, syrup is added to the gum center tablets at a temperature range of from about 100° F. (38° C.) to about 240° F. (116° C.). Preferably, the syrup temperature is from about 130° F. (54° C.) to about 200° F. (94° C.) throughout the process in order to prevent the polyol or sugar in the syrup suspension from crystallizing. The syrup suspension may be mixed with, sprayed upon, poured over, or added to the gum center tablets in any way known to those skilled in the art.
In general, a plurality of layers is obtained by applying single coats, allowing the layers to dry, and then repeating the process. The amount of solids added by each coating step depends chiefly on the concentration of the coating syrup suspension. Any number of coats may be applied to the gum center tablet. Preferably, no more than about 75-100 coats are applied to the gum center tablets. The present invention contemplates applying an amount of syrup sufficient to yield a coated comestible containing about 20% to about 75% coating.
Those skilled in the art will recognize that in order to obtain a plurality of coated layers, a plurality of premeasured aliquots of coating syrup suspension may be applied to the gum center tablets. It is contemplated, however, that the volume of aliquots of syrup suspension applied to the gum center tablets may vary throughout the coating procedure.
Once a coating is applied to the gum center tablets, the present invention contemplates drying the wet syrup suspension in an inert medium. A preferred drying medium comprises air. Preferably, forced drying air contacts the wet syrup coating in a temperature range of from about 70° F. (21 ° C.) to about 115° F. (46° C.). More preferably, the drying air is in the temperature range of from about 80° F. (27° C.) to about 100° F. (38° C.). The invention also contemplates that the drying air possess a relative humidity of less than about 15 percent. Preferably, the relative humidity of the drying air is less than about 8 percent.
The drying air may be passed over and admixed with the syrup coated gum centers in any way commonly known in the art. Preferably, the drying air is blown over and around or through the bed of the syrup coated gum centers at a flow rate, for large scale operations, of about 2800 cubic feet per minute. If lower quantities of material are being processed, or if smaller equipment is used, lower flow rates would be used.
The present invention also contemplates the application of powder material after applying an aliquot of coating syrup to help build up the coating.
For many years, flavors have been added to a sugar coating of pellet gum to enhance the overall flavor of gum. These flavors include spearmint flavor, peppermint flavor, wintergreen flavor, and fruit flavors. These flavors are generally preblended with the coating syrup just prior to applying it to the core or added together to the core in one or more coating applications in a revolving pan containing the cores. Generally, the coating syrup is very hot, about 130° F. (54° C.) to 200° F. (93° C.), and the flavor may volatilize if preblended with the coating syrup too early.
The coating syrup is preferably applied to the gum cores as a hot liquid, the sugar or polyol allowed to crystallize, and the coating then dried with warm, dry air. Aliquots of syrups are preferably applied in about 30 to 80 applications to obtain a hard shell coated product having an increased weight gain of about 20% to 75%. A flavor is applied with one, two, three or even four or more of these coating applications. Each time flavor is added, several non-flavored coatings are applied to cover the flavor before the next flavor coat is applied. This reduces volatilization of the flavor during the coating process.
For mint flavors such spearmint, peppermint and wintergreen, some of the flavor components are volatilized, but sufficient flavor remains to give a product having a strong, high impact flavor. Fruit flavors, that may contain esters, are more easily volatilized and may be flammable and/or explosive and therefore, generally these type of fruit flavors are not used in coatings.
The following examples of the invention are provided by way of explanation and illustration.
As noted earlier, the gum formulas can be prepared as sugar or sugarless type formulations and made in a pellet or pillow shape or a round ball or any other shape of product for coating/panning. However, gum formulas for pellet centers are generally adjusted to a higher level of gum base to give a more consumer acceptable size of gum bolus.
Keeping this in mind, if a coating of about 25% of the total product is added to a pellet core as sugar or polyols, the gum base in the pellet core should also be increased by 25%. Likewise, if a 33% coating is applied, the base levels should also be increased by 33%. As a result, gum centers are usually formulated with about 25% to about 50% gum base with a corresponding decrease in the other ingredients except flavor. Even higher levels of base may be used when calcium carbonate or another antacid is added to a pellet coating. Generally flavor levels in the gum increase with the level of gum base as the base tends to bind flavors into the gum and more flavor is needed to give a good flavorful product. However flavors can also be added to the coating to give increased flavor impact and more flavor perception.
Some typical sugarless gum center formulations are shown in Table 1 that can be used as centers that are coated with calcium carbonate to give an effective antacid.
a)Lycasin brand hydrogenated starch hydrolyzate used instead of sorbitol liquid
b)This material is base filler and may not release to give an antacid effect.
c)Water is added in place of sorbitol liquid
In the above center formulations, the high-intensity sweetener used is aspartame, acesulfame K, or a combination. However other high-intensity sweeteners such as alitame, salts of acesulfame, cyclamate and its salts, saccharin and its salts, neotame, sucralose, thaumatin, monellin, dihydrochalcone, stevioside, glycyrrhizin and combinations thereof may be used in any of the examples with the level adjusted for sweetness.
Lycasin and other polyols such as maltitol, xylitol, erythritol, lactitol and hydrogenated isomaltulose may also be used in the gum center formulations at various levels. The texture may be adjusted by varying glycerin or sorbitol liquid. Sweetness of the center formulation can also be adjusted by varying the level of high-intensity sweetener.
Calcium carbonate can be used in sugarless coatings with xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol, lactitol, hydrogenated isomaltulose and erythritol. Gum talha acts as a binding agent, film former and hardener of the coated pellet. Using a 1 gram center, the levels of calcium carbonate in the following tables will give 250-800 mg of calcium carbonate per 1 or 2 pieces in 1.5-3.0 gram chewing gum product pieces with 33% to 66% coating.
(DRY WEIGHT PERCENT)
*Calcium carbonate had a median particle size of 5.1 microns.
Maltitol powder is used to dry charge in the early stages of coating. Maltitol, gum talha, calcium carbonate, and whitener are blended into the coating syrup and applied to the gum pellets. The mixture is applied as a syrup suspension. After all coating is applied and dried, talc and wax are added to give a polish.
In a similar manner, coatings with sorbitol, lactitol and hydrogenated isomaltulose may be made in the coating formulas in Table 2 by replacing maltitol with any one of the other polyols and maltitol powder with the polyol powder. Like maltitol, the other polyols may become sticky during the coating and drying process, so the dry powder charge may be needed to give the proper drying. In the later stages of the coating process, less gum talha could be used and a more pure polyol syrup could be used to give a smooth surface. Also, the dry charge would only be used in the early stages of the coating process.
In addition to dry charging with the specific polyol, other ingredients may be added to the dry charge to help absorb moisture. These materials could be inert such as talc, magnesium carbonate, starches, gums like arabinogalactan, gum talha, gum arabic or other moisture absorbing materials. Also, powdered sweeteners or flavors could be added with the dry charge.
Polyols such as sorbitol, maltitol, lactitol and hydrogenated isomaltulose are not sufficiently sweet compared to sugar or xylitol, so high-intensity sweeteners are preferably added to the coating. Beside aspartame, other high-intensity sweeteners may also be used such as acesulfame K, salts of acesulfame, cyclamate and its salts, saccharin and its salts, alitame, sucralose, thaumatin, monellin, dihydrochalcone, glycyrrhizin, neotame, and combinations thereof. When adding calcium carbonate or other antacids, and a hot syrup is applied, heat and high pH may degrade some sweeteners, so only stable high-intensity sweeteners should be used if the high-intensity sweetener is added in the main coating syrup.
The gum center formulation of Example 7 of Table 1 was produced as a 1.0 gram pellet and coated according to Example 13 of Table 2 (using CalEssence™ 450 precipitated calcium carbonate) to a final piece size of 2.34 grams, giving an antacid gum with 450 mg of calcium carbonate in the coating.
A particle size vs. time study of the Example 13 product and a tablet of TUMS containing 500 mg of calcium carbonate were compared via microscopy. Each product was chewed for 15 sec, 30 sec, 60 sec, 2 min, 3 min, and 4 min. (A new sample was chewed for each respective time check.) At the given time, a small saliva sample was expectorated into an aluminum weighing pan and a small portion of this was placed on a microscope slide. The slide was visually examined via Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM) at a magnification of 400X.
An obvious visual difference was noted between the initial particle size of the two products. The calcium carbonate particle size distribution of the TUMS product was very narrow (<0.5 um-2.0 um) with a median particle size of approx. 0.5-1.0 um. For the Example 13 product, the calcium carbonate particle size distribution was wide (<0.5 um-20 um) and usually had a median particle size of about 4 microns.
The time checks showed that from 15 sec.-3 min. both calcium carbonate distributions were similar, other than the obvious particle size differences. It was noted that the TUMS product had completely dissolved after one minute. At the 4 min. time check, there were only trace amounts of calcium carbonate particles remaining for the Turns product. However, the Example 13 product showed a moderate amount of particles remaining.
The same test was made on a product called CHOOZ® distributed by Heritage Consumer Products of Brookfield, Conn. This is an antacid chewing gum coated with calcium carbonate and sorbitol. Analysis of the coating indicated that the calcium carbonate in the coating of CHOOZ® has a median particle size of about 1.0 micron.
The particle size vs. time study of a CHOOZ® product and the Example 13 product was conducted. Again, each product was chewed for 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, and 3 min. Results showed that besides the obvious particle size difference, after one minute of chewing, the amount of calcium carbonate remaining was visually much lower for the CHOOZ® product compared to the Example 13 product. This indicates that a product with a larger median particle size of about 3 microns or larger will dissolve more slowly in the mouth and digestive system and give longer lasting relief from stomach acidity.
The preferred embodiment of the invention is made with coating ingredients that produce a high viscosity in saliva when the gum is chewed. For example, 4.5 grams of the coating scraped from pellets of the Example 13 product dispersed in 30 ml of water has a Brookfield viscosity at 23° C. of greater than 1.6 centipoise. This aspect of the preferred embodiment of the invention is explained more fully in a patent application Ser. No. 09/653,669 entitled “Antacid Chewing Gum Products Coated With High Viscosity Materials,” filed on the same date as the present application, and hereby incorporated by reference.
It should be appreciated that the compositions and methods of the present invention are capable of being incorporated in the form of a variety of embodiments, only a few of which have been illustrated and described above. The invention may be embodied in other forms without departing from its spirit or essential characteristics. The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive, and the scope of the invention, therefore, indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description. All changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope.
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PureTech Turbine oil filtration machine is widely used in hydro power station, metallurgy and other industries to purify turbine oil of steam turbines, water turbines, fuel engines and steam turbine units. It can demulsify, dehydrate and purify heavy emulsified turbine oil and low viscosity lubricant mixed with water. It can also be used for other mechanical plants.
It is suitable for treatment of steam turbine oil (VG32, VG46, etc.), it adopts the latest technologies, which integrates gravity, sedimentation, reunion, vacuum separation, adsorption, separation and pressure filtration into one machine. With super strong demulsification (emulsion breaking), dehydration, deaeration, and impurity removal capabilities, it is an ideal equipment for processing steam turbine oil, low viscosity lubricating oil and hydraulic oil. It is especially suitable for used turbine oil with large water content and being seriously emulsified.
By removing contaminants (water, particles, impurities, etc.) from turbine oil, and avoiding sludge accumlation caused by oil oxidation during operation, which in return ensures the smooth and safe operation of steam turbine system.
PureTech Vacuum Turbine Oil Filtration Machine is one kind of supportive online oil purifying device that is equipped for hydro-turbines, turbines and other lubrication sets.
• Water content shall be decreased to less than 50 ppm.
• Total gas content shall be reduced down to less than 0.1%.
• Three stages of filters to ensure the filtering precision of 1 micron.
• Cleanliness of turbine oil after purification will reach or better than NAS 6 grade.
• Oil flow range from 1800 l/h up to 18000 l/h for selection according to the actual demands.
• Demulsifying filters are designed especially for emulsion breaking, it makes up for the technical defect that the centrifuge cannot handle emulsified oil.
• Electrical heater is equipped with thermostat, avoid overheating of turbine oil.
• Design of thermal vacuum (vacuum & heating) to promote the efficiency of turbine oil purification.
• Integrated three-stage filtering system ensures the high filtering precision.
• Mobile Type, Continuous working and available for online processing of turbine oil after connecting with the lubricating oil tank of steam turbine.
• Power supply can be customized according to your local power.
• Optional Parts provided for selection:
a) Fully automatic panel of the unit with PLC, controlled by easy user interface. Touch panel for easy operation placed on the electrical cabinet.
b) Digital oil flow indicator to display both the total flow and instantaneous flow.
c) Digital moisture content meter (hygrometer) to keep testing the ppm of electrical transformer oil.
d) Other specific requirements if you have, we accept tailored demands.
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* The machine size and weight will change slightly due to different configurations.
• 12 months of quality guarantee for non-human damage.
• Lifelong maintenance and spare parts supply.
• Free training on operation, maintenance and troubleshooting at PureTech factory.
• Puretech engineers go to customer site for commissioning and training (payable service).
• Design accept user's customization.
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A Book-Filled Loft in Toronto a little corner library off of the dining room with wraparound floating shelves
Today's relaxed and whimsical home tour comes to us all the way from Charleston, South Carolina. This Charleston beach house is positively teeming with beachy vibes and global, eclectic touches, making it the perfect seaside escape.
You need to see jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer's midcentury-modern-meets-bohemian home renovation courtesy of One Kings Lane—the result is a cozy and inviting space speckled with California style and feminine touches. This credenza and mirror combo make
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Yep, this is our 100th post. The big 1-0-0 ! When Charles and I started this blog in 2011, we didn't have any expectations. We were only 12 and 14 years old at the time and thought our blog would be just a summer writing project.
|Our first restaurant review at Clyde's in Columbia|
After two and half years, with the support of our family, the Howard County blogging community and our school teachers, we're still writing strong.
We've been working on a big surprise to celebrate our 100th post, but unfortunately it's not ready yet. It should be ready in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for it. We promise it will be big.
While the blog has given us the opportunity to meet new people and experience some amazing foods, we're most proud of the food philanthropy events we've done on the blog. It's a way for students like us to give back to the community - either by organizing food drives or having food sales to raise money for those in need.
This weekend we heard of a local group, Small Miracles Cat and Dog rescue, that was holding a water drive for the West Virginia animal shelters that were without water because of a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply for the entire community - not just the animals. Literally, some West Virginia counties had no water except what was shipped in.
So, we used our Christmas money and purchased a dozen gallons of water and brought it to Small Miracles. Their floor was lined with water donations. The very next day, Small Miracles volunteers filled an entire van (their 4th trip this week) with the water donations and drove it to West Virginia. Click here to see the story about the water drive on ABC news.
Small Miracles is still accepting water donations, supplies and cash at the shelter. Even if you don't live near the rescue, you can still help by making a donation online. Here's their website for more information, www.smallmiraclesrescue.org and their phone numbers (410) 274-3530
or (410) 461-0516.
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The rules of Dungeonslayers were kept short and simple, a character consists of just 9 core values and a combat roll decides if your enemy was hit and how much damage was dealt.
Races & Classes
The basic edition of Dungeonslayers uses the races of Elf, Men and Dwarf. This can of course be changed according to the setting used. Fighter, Scout and Spellcaster (which are divided into Black Mage, Healer and Wizard) are the available classes.
Attributes & abilities
Characters in Dungeonslayers consist of the three attributes Body, Agility and Mind. Two abilities are derived from each attribute.
In order to make a check you calculate the check value which is the sum of an attribute and an ability value. If you roll equal or less this check value on a twenty-sided die, your check was successful.
The dwarven fighter Gruffneck (Body 8, Strength 2) declares he wants to kick down the door behind which some goblins are hiding. The gamemaster decides that the check value is the sum of the Body attribute and the Strength ability. Gruffneck will be able to force the door open if his player succeeds to roll 10 (= BOD 8 + ST 2) or less on a d20.
Levels and experience
When a character reaches a higher level (up to a maximum of 20) he can improve his abilities or even learn a talent in order to specialize his skills.
You can get answers to all your rule-related questions in our forums.
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The device has a micro-controller and a fuel sensing unit, which detects the amount of fuel entering the fuel tank, and a display unit which shows the exact amount for the driver.
The seven-member team of researchers now plans to apply for a patent for their ‘smart fuel level indicator’, which they said would be useful in the light of recent rackets in fuel pilferage in the state.
Although similar devices exist in select locations abroad, the researchers claimed it was the first such system designed and made in the country.
The brain behind the invention, Ragib Khan (30), research associate and assistant professor at the college, said, “The idea of making the device came to me when the average fuel consumption of my bike started dipping although there was no problem with the vehicle.
I thought that probably the petrol pump owners were not filling the correct amount of fuel and duping customers. The idea came to me some four months ago and our team of researchers started work on it in March 2017. Recently when I saw that UP police had cracked down on a fuel pilferage racket which used electronic chips, I sped up the project.”
The device took three months to be completed and cost the researchers between Rs 8,000 and Rs 10,000. The team said once their patent is filed and approved by the government, and mass production done, it will cost Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 for customers.
“The micro controller unit and fuel sensing unit detects the amount of fuel in the tank and sends it further to the display unit, which shows on the small screen the quantity of the fuel. The machine can sense both petrol and diesel. The amount detected does not depend on the shape of the container. Also, there is no effect of temperature on the functioning of the device,” said Sandeep Verma, a research associate, while giving a live demonstration of the device in front of the media.
The seven-member team includes Ragib Khan, Sandeep Verma, Akshay Raj, Vaibhav Sharma, Sandeep Mishra, KP Singh and Rehan Ahmed – all research associates. The device can be fitted in any two-wheeler or four-wheeler and does not need any specific design for the smart fuel level indicator.
Ragib Khan, who heads the team, said, “We have also sent our paper on the project to International Journal of Applied Science and Technology (IJAST), which is published by Centre for Promoting Ideas (CPI) in the US. The next issue of the journal will be published by June.”
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I received some Napoleonic reinforcements recently and I now how wargamers like to live vicasiously, looking at others toys so here I the unpacking of the Baccus 6mm reinforcements – Dutch Belgians along with a few Brunswickers. Just what I needed, more figures in the lead pile. At this rate I will live forever.
The problem with being distracted from current wargaming projects into new projects is that it never stops at one. You get a new interest, start looking around at rules for that interest then get distracted again. Next thing you know you you have three or four more projects in mind.
I was looking at rules for the Greek project I mentioned in the last post here and next thing I knew I was looking at Dadi&Piombo’s Basic Impetus Expansion, Basic Battles.
Basic Battles is an expansion on the Basic Impetus system, moving that system from the Renaissance to the Colonial Wars periods. This includes Napoleonics and I just happen to have a couple of 6mm Napoleonic Armies waiting in the lead pile – only the 1814 Prussians have made it (briefly) to the painting queue.
Of course, Dadi&Piombo note in the introduction to the rules:
This is an experimental set to expand on Basic Impetus 2.0 rules for later periods, up to Colonial warfare, where one Unit roughly represents one brigade. This set also covers Napoleonics, though a more detailed and tactical ruleset is under development for this period. Basic Impetus 2 can be purchased through www.dadiepiombo.com or digitally through Wargame Vault: www.wargamevault.com/product/200518/Basic-Impetus-2 Available in English, French and Spanish.
Naturally I want to use them for Napoleonics. I figure that if I work to the basic system in Baccus’ General de division or Marechal d’Empire rules, use the armies (when painted) with either the Baccus rules or Basic Battles, when the Impetus Napoleonic Rules come along I’m looking sweet.
The armies I have available for this are:
- 1814 Prussians – Heroics and Ros figures
- Duchy or Warsaw – Adler Miniatures
- Confederation of the Rhine (also Adler I think)
If you think it is a small project, I checked on the size of the Prussians and have the following in that group to paint:
- 32 battalions of infantry
- 1 batt of schützen
- 2 regiments of uhlans
- 2 regts of dragoons
- 1 regt of horse jaegers
- 6 regts of cuirassiers
- 4 regts of landwehr cavalry
- 12 batteries (line and horse) of artillery
And of course, as a wargamer, you can never have too may projects 🙂
Last weekend I had the time to indulge myself in my fantasy – the painting queue for 2017. I had originally thought it was not that extensive as I had not purchased all that much in the way of new lead in 2016 and besides, I did not have too much left over for painting from 2014 and 2015.
The painting queue follows in not particular order!
|World War II Aerial Combat. The aircraft mix in these packets are from Raiden Miniatures and are in 1/285th scale. They are:
|The rules are Raiden Miniatures Fast Play Aerial Combat Rules. I have version 1.1.
Any of the World War II aerial combat rules could be used. The beauty with the Winter War is that a mix of aircraft seldom seen on the wargames table is possible with the Finns using equipment from Italy, the Netherlands and the USA, among others.
Raiden also make a US WW2 aircraft carrier flight deck, the USS Enterprise, for flight and combat operations. It is a kit in 51 parts and I am not sure if it is made or not currently. See http://www.raidenminiatures.co.uk/4.html for details.
|Starmada vessels from Brigade Models. In this case, the PacFed fleet. I have a PacFed Future War Commander Army tucked away up here and this is the off-planet version of those. The PacFed are loosely based around a “Pacific Federation” and contain a lot of vessels with Australian type names.|
|As an opponent to the PacFed I looked to ONESS – loosely based around German forces. Somewhere at mum’s I have the ground fleet to complement this. This also is from Brigade Models.|
|Baccus 6mm figures make up the rest of my Singapore DBA Project. Armies still to be painted are:
|Speaking of Brigade Models, I acquired a US Aeronef fleet. This was for part of the Peshawar project but with the purchase of Imperial Skies, the project has expanded somewhat (see below for how much). Of course what is illustrated and discussed here does not mention the British, French and Prussian Aeronefs that are already in the collection.
These then are the US Aeronef fleet. Quite a tidy force. I have been trying to think of an alternative paint scheme other that the Great White Fleet colours of, well, white!
|The perfect opponent for the Americans above – the forces of the Rising Sun. Both Fleets (the US and Japanese) are substantial and would be the two most powerful fleets in the collection.
As with the Americans I am trying to think of a colour scheme that is not the Japanese naval vessels at Tsushima!
|I wanted a bit of fun so I added a Scandinavian Union fleet. Dumpy vessels certainly but they have a certain attraction as well. These are also from Brigade Models and I am pondering colour schemes for them.
These were never envisaged for the Peshawar Project however they will make a good opponent for the BENELUX forces described below.
|For a little South American Aeronef action I picked up some Argentinians. These look sufficiently different to other ‘nefs to keep the interest up.
Rather than a standard grey or Victorian Livery for these I have been toying with the idea of basing a paint scheme around light blue and white – same colour as the shirts of the Pumas. Again, Brigade Models.
|And if the Argentinians are light blue and white then the Brazilians should be both hairless and based around green and gold colours. I have an idea for that with an antique style of gold colouring.|
|An opponent for the Scandinavian Union, and possibly the Italians. The Benelux Aeronef fleet consists of vessels from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.|
|The above-mentioned Italian Aeronefs.|
|The last of the Aeronefs in this years paint queue, the Russians. They are also one of the protagonists in the Peshawar campaign. For colours on these I am thinking, maybe, something like Port Arthur 1905.|
|A couple of years ago I picked up two armies for the Great Pacific War. Here are the Chilean/Peruvian Army and the Bolivian forces. I am planning on using these with the 1859, 1866 or 1870 rules. A project that has been on the back-burner for three years now.|
|I have had an interest in both the English Civil War and the 30 Years War for many years and picking up Baccus 6mm‘s English Civil War boxed set seemed like a good way of getting into it. The set gives me two armies, a couple of houses, Polemos rules and 60mm bases.
I am planning on using these with the Baroque Rules from Dadi and Piombo as well.
|Navwar 1/3000 scale World War I Austrian ships – battleships to destroyers/torpedo boats. I have their main opponent, the Italian fleet, painted and here already. It must be said that during the war, both the Italian Royal Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy kept their most modern capital ships inside their bases (Pola and Kotor for the Austrian Fleet, Brindisi and Taranto for the Italian fleet), leaving mostly submarines, destroyers, torpedo boats and scout cruisers to do any fighting.|
|Heroics and Ros figures have been used for my Cold War Poles – an opponent for my Cold War Danes.|
In addition to all that, there are a few other items on the list including:
- Anthony’s 20mm World War II British
- Finish off the 1/285 scale World War II Japanese
- 1/285 scale World War II Hungarians
- 1/300 scale Cold War Commander Danes to be completed
- 1/1200 scale Coastal Warfare Ships
- The 1/3000 scale Jutland Fleets
- Houston Ships Italians and Austrians from the Battle of Lissa
- Dystopian Wars fleets, and
- Peshawar, 2mm ground forces
So – a painting queue that for 2017 should keep me busy well into 2020!
23 April 2017 – Update: Nothing. Nada. Not done a thing! Maybe I need to motivate myself and buy some more figures.
“Sir Ian, there is a parcel for you”.
With those words from the Concierge at the condo, I was handed two cards from the PhilPost Central Makati Post Office telling me there were two parcels there. Now I was expecting a cover for my LG tablet, a couple of books and some wargame figures (English Civil War 6mm to be exact). I wondered which two parcels they would be. I had a meeting in Pasay in the morning then thought I would come back to the Post Office as it would be lunchtime. I prepared to travel back in time to 1954.
I dropped in and handed the cards over with my ID card. In record time the staff returned with two parcels for me – a small envelope and a huge box from Amazon.com. I had one of those moments looking at the box, paid the 224 pesos for the retrieval of the two parcels and returned home for lunch (and to open the parcels of course).
The small envelope certainly contained a cover for my tablet. I then opened the large Amazon box and found 7 books there, 5 more that I had recalled.
At least none of the books were repeats of books I had previously purchased and I recall now that I had purchased a few book as they were all in my sphere of interest.
Next time I think I will leave a note to myself on the fridge with details of each order. Then again, opening the parcel was like Christmas as I had not remembered what I ordered so each book was a pleasant surprise.
The loot is shown below! Oops, I did I order that many? I guess I did.
Friend Anthony from Singapore has been experimenting with 3D printing. After a couple of false starts he has learned the ILAR* principle. ILAR was necessary because 15mm, 6mm and 28mm are sizes, not scales. Buildings need scales.
Anthony has it right now and has released the 3D printing plans for La Haye Sainte via a Kickstarter. He notes that:
La Haye Sainte is a complete set of 3D printable .STL files that will allow you to print and assemble a model of the farm at the centre of battlefield at Waterloo.
Using contemporary sketches, watercolours and accounts as the basis, (rather than the current state of the farm), the files will include everything you need to print the complete farm buildings, as they were on Sunday 18th July, 1815, and simulate the fire damage to barn that occurred throughout the battle. Where conjecture and/or doubt remains the files will come in several configurations to allow a variety of solutions, and for each wargamer to decide how they want the farm represented.
The basic farm will look like this:
Each of the larger farm buildings (Barn, Stables and Main House) will be made with removable roof sections. Since 3D models are scalable, you can print the model to the limits of your printer, though the files will be delivered optimised for 15mm as shown below. Anthony is a wargamer and has worked hard to make the models both accurate and usable, so the final farm will be table and figure friendly, which means no broken bayonets if you put models “inside” the buildings. All pledge backers will receive a link to his research and the conclusions he made from that research when he created the 3D Models, icluding compromises he had to make to ensure the models remained usable and, perhaps more importantly, printable.
I have seen the model and it is indeed a fine piece that will look the business on the tabletop when printed and painted.
Head on over to Kickstarter – la Haye Sainte 3D Printable Terrain for Waterloo. I can thoroughly recommend this.
* ILAR – It Looks About Right – a naval principle from the 20th century.
Anthony has often teased me about my love of 6mm figures, with the usual remarks about too small to paint, too small to see and so on.
I thought then I should show him some of my 2mm figures. These are painted for Land Ironclads and Aeronefs. The figures are from Irregular Miniatures and form part of the French contingent for my Peshawar project, when I get around to doing some more on that.
The grid in the pictures is 10mm square. There is also a beer bottle top there for reference to size.
I noted back on 30 June 2014 that I was having the last battle at the Gun Bar for a while as I was taking up a new job and moving from Singapore. Well, as is the way of things in IT and Banking, that move was delayed a week, then another week, then another week and we are still sitting here.
So, it was off to the Gun Bar again, this time with plastic soldiers painted ready for Anthony to base (see previous posts here). To make the trek worthwhile, another Napoleonic game was organised with Général de Corps Anthony facing off against Major General Thomo the Lost again. This was also a special battle as again it was likely to be the last time I was going to be in the position to battle with Anthony, face to face, beer to beer, for some time to come as I up sticks and hopefully high-tail it out of Singapore.
The battlefield was laid out as I arrived, with the battle being taken from Stuart Asquith’s Programmed Wargame Scenarios. The scenario was the British were withdrawing in the Peninsula to the defence lines at Torres Vedras and a rearguard had been left to delay the French by holding a village and a bridge. Again, for depth, it was decided to play along the battlefield rather than across it.
Now, I have mentioned the dice feng shui before so this time I suggested I take the poorly rolling blue dice and Anthony used the high rolling red ones. We again diced to see who would be French and who would be British. Again, I ended up as the British commander.
The British had two battalions of green Portuguese Line and a Battalion of veteran Caçadores. Accompanying the Portuguese were two battalions of British line troops (one understrength) and a battalion of Highlanders (who also were veteran). There was the 5th battalion of the 60th foot, armed with rifles and already having taken casualties earlier in the retreat. In support was a regiment of Light Cavalry, a foot battery of artillery and a horse battery.
The French started the battle with two regiments of light cavalry already in the table with the rest of the French force arriving one unit at a time, one bound at a time.
I based my tactics around holding the village on the British right with the poor quality Portuguese. Meanwhile the British would hold the more open ground as well as defend the bridge. The Horse battery was deployed forward with the 5/60th to slow the French advance a little and the foot battery was deployed on the hill to the rear. The Caçadores were forward on the British right flank.
The Highlanders were held as a reserve in the centre of the line, able to turn either way as the situation required.
The French advanced and the British fired. The blue dice were indeed rolling low, at one stage I rolled 9 dice and scored nothing higher than a three. However the British tactics were sound and the French élan was such that they came forward rather piecemeal.
The Caçadores went into square on the right, holding up and preventing the French cavalry from attacking the British right. In the meantime the horse battery and the 5/60th fell backwards firing all the while. After 10 bounds, with the scenario due to end, the British still held both the village and the bridge. Victory in yet another of my last games at the Gun Bar. To be fair, 10 bounds was not really enough time for the French and I suggested for the depth of table we were using that a variable finish between 12 and 16 bounds would be more interesting and give the French a better chance.
The photos below are from Anthony’s phone as for some reason as yet unknown, my phone was talking really odd photos and they were not at all clear,
Interestingly, throughout the entire game I won the initiative roll only once, Anthony won that nine times. I inevitably rolled down, he rolled up. I think there is definitely dice feng shui here and the next time we play, the blue dice will be reserved for marker duty, replaced by the green set perhaps.
Dice feng shui exists – at least with those blue dice! After the game finished, I rolled the nine dice again and had seven numbers four or greater! Go figure. The only dice that rolled well was the 8-sided dice being used for morale checks. I should also note that Anthony’s rolls were generally positive – split about 50:50 around 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 on using the red dice so, dice feng shiui exists!
The last time Général de Corps Anthony faced Major General Thomo the Lost was the 5th of May. Nearly eight weeks later we faced each other across the field of battle one more time. This was a special battle as it was the last time I was going to be in the position to battle with Anthony, face to face, beer to beer, for some time to come as I up sticks and high-tail it out of Dodge … er … sorry … Singapore.
The battlefield was laid out as I arrived and it was decided to play along the battlefield rather than across it. Because of the wicked dice feng shui plaguing Anthony in the past, we decided to dice to see who took the French, with the winner to take them. Once again, I ended up as the British commander.
Forces were equal so we set about deploying. At about this moment, a very nice beer was offered by the commander of the French so toasts were drunk and we retired to the balcony for the Singapore version of a sausage sizzle and that marvel of Australian gastronomic delight – the sausage sanger! The sangers were despatched, as was the beer, so we returned to the table.
I had based my tactics around holding the village in the centre of the table with my forces able to run back into the forest should the going get a little tough. My artillery was massed on my left. The rifles were in the best position to take the town and they were ably supported by the Portuguese.
My right flank was protected by three battalions of English and Highland troops. Battle commenced, dice were rolled, the French were rolled, au revoir, c’est tout ce qu’elle a écrit.
Whilst I lost a light cavalry regiment carelessly, and a few troops from other battalions, the French lost heavily. Again, the dice smiled upon me and laughed at Anthony. I must remember to take my pilgrimage to the shrine of St Magnus (the patron saint of dice rollers – read the Orkneyinga Saga for verification)!
In any case, thanks Anthony for the hospitality, beer, sausages, the games and most importantly, for being a mate!
And then, what better way to complete the battle than …
Back in December 2013 we fought Napoleonic — Battle Two at the Gun Bar. About six weeks ago we started Battle Three. However, a period of high stress as well as hunting for a new job meant that whilst we started Battle Three, I had not had a chance to return to the Gun Bar to finish off the French.
Today I returned to the Gun Bar and finished off the French!
The British cavalry “got tore in” to the French horse and guns on the right, quite effectively, destroying the gun and forcing a retreat from the French. Further time was spent as the British and the French rested their horses before engaging further.
Meanwhile, in the centre, the French columns came forward. They managed to survive a light cavalry charge on them, pretty much destroying the light cavalry but then for some reason the French advance slowed and this allowed the British lines to engage in what they do best, shooting!
“Make Ready! Present! Fire!”
They shot! Devastating volleys delivered on the hapless French.
Game Three at the Gun Bar was over, the gallant French again victims of outrageous fortune (a number of dice rolls came up 1 at the time the French needed 4+).
And thanks Anthony for the brunch. Lovely!
It was a dark and stormy night … well OK, it was dark, all nights are generally dark in this neck of the woods, and it was raining, some of the time. Well, raining really for just the most inconvenient time.
I finished a late afternoon coffee meeting down-town then jumped into a number 700 bus (I almost missed the bus as I was sitting in the bus-stop reading Jack Campbell’s The Lost Stars – Perilous Shield, on my phone. The driver nicely waited for me making the last minute dash for the bus door with a smile on his face. I boarded and settled in to the one hour bus trip.
The view out the window obstructed by condensation, so it wasn’t raining. It started raining. I checked, it wasn’t raining at the Diary Farm so no problem (I did not have an umbrella with me). As we approached the bus-stop before Diary Farm Road the rain started again. I alighted and waited in the bus shelter the required 20 minutes for the rain shower to pass. It passed. I started walking. At exactly the half way point between the bus shelter and Anthony’s place, the rain started again. I got soaked. The start of this battle report then was written by the shirtless British commander in the wet trousers 1!
It was time again. The last game we had was back on 5 November 2013. My back hack from Dr Bloodaxe 2 as well as a business trip and some other family issues had conspired to keep the protagonists apart until last night. The British had been reinforced since the last battle with another battalion of Highlanders. The British were also handicapped with a wet general. We started.
As the British commander and having less cavalry than the French, I was out-scouted and deployed first. I had a plan. Anchor flanks on the river and the farm and let the French wash over me, destroying them as they came. To that end I deployed the Light Division around the river to keep the French honest there, the Portuguese Division on the Left where they could anchor on the farm, the British and Highland Divisions were in the centre with the Light and Heavy Cavalry Brigades held in reserve. Two British batteries were also deployed in the line.
There were a lot of French. They were in front of the British.
As with the last battle, the British plan was to let the French run onto the British bayonets and then riposte! I did not expect the French to also run onto the batteries but had hoped that the positioning of the two batteries would cause the French to funnel their attack through the centre where a wood would nicely break their formations up.
The French ran into one of the batteries! It was not pretty.
On the British right, the commander of the Light Division seems to have been out on the town with the lads the night before and deployed them where their only option of evading way from the French who got to close was to swim away. This was countered however by the rashness of the French Light Cavalry commander sending his forces into a Balaclava like charge at some British guns, supported by Portuguese battalions.
In the centre, the Old Guard advanced against some stiff volleys from the British Line, eventually closing with the line and forcing them back. The Highlanders were handled roughly by the French Grand(ish) Battery however managed to weather than storm and were ready to commence the push onto the left flank of the French centre, the Portuguese being ready to do the same on the French right.
The French commander, seeing that his infantry had somehow managed to get themselves caught en masse in the centre decided at this point to commence withdrawing his forces from their current positions whilst he still had an advantage over the British right and whilst the Portuguese had a long march to close with the French right.
This game was also played under the Rank and File rules. As with the last, there were a number of odd things that turned up that I will really get around to discussing in a separate post but overall, a quick game. I think we are thinking of trying FoG Napoleonics next in our question for a set of Wargame Rules that does, as Anthony described it, have “war” and “game” in the same font size or a font size that has “war” a lilttle larger than “game”. Rank and File seems to put the emphasis on the “game” part of “wargame”. Pizza, Beer, and a Wargame – could there be a better way to spend a rainy Thursday evening?
1. Perhaps the most interesting comments were when I sent a selfie to the lady ‘erself at the start of the game after she asked if I had got to the game OK and was I having fun? The selfie was all I replied with and her immediate reply to that was “Where r u?” 🙂
Then there was Anthony taking photographs and saying “I need to be careful not to get a topless Thomo in shot”. My comment back was “don’t worry about that, if anyone asks, just tell them we were playing strip wargames!”
2. “The back hack from doctor Bloodaxe” has a degree of assonance that I did not notice when I first wrote it however it has a definite musical quality to it … unlike Dr Bloodaxe’s skills with a sharp object and my back!
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Solico Group of Companies covers the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, specialising in Manufacturing, Trading, Contracting, Investments and Philanthropy offering our expertise to governments, corporations and individuals to achieve their objectives.
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I was sitting at my computer yesterday, editing photos.
My cat Grayced was lying just inside the picture window.
Suddenly Grayced levitated off his cushion and I stopped breathing when this red-tailed hawk appeared within 2 feet of the window.
This is actually the second pass of the hawk as he tried for a songbird at my feeder – I didn’t have camera in hand for the first pass.
The red-tailed hawk missed the songbird. About stopped my heart. Scared my cat silly.
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What We Call Victory
Last Known Status: Unknown
Latest What We Call Victory News
Below is our complete What We Call Victory news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Washington, DC metal band What We Call Victory has issued an update from the road, on their "She Needs It" tour, including a couple of videos (below). Here's what they had to say:
"We just want to let you know that the southern states have been treating us quite nicely. It sure will be hard to leave them behind in one week. Big shout out to the south!!! Please keep checking in for updates, videos, and pictures from our trip!"
As previously reported, What We Call Victory recently completed their latest album, "The Learning Curve," which should be released soon.
What We Call Victory has completed their latest album, "The Learning Curve" and posted a new single, entitled "Gabriel's Horn." The album was mastered by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me) and should be available online soon.
What We Call Victory is wrapping up the mixing of their new album and issued the following update:
"Our second and awesome experience in the studio (Tragic Recordings!) is coming to an end, as the final mixing and editing is finished in about two more sessions. Incase you have not yet heard, our music will be mastered by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me!) and will be available (at least in digital format) next month. Thank you to those that were good enough to help us out with things such as vocals, artwork, merch, and booking.
"For a music group that does things a bit differently and seemed to always get overlooked in the past.... we've had the best year and a half, while making some amazing friends."
The band has also posted the concepts and lyrics to the songs off this album in a MySpace blog here.
What We Call Victory has issued a short update on their new album and the chance join in on the gang vocals. Here are the importart parts:
"It looks like the new album will be ready a little after the start of the school season. You´ll soon by bumpin and jumpin to some of that stock & unoriginal metal you love dearly.
"If you'd like to participate in doing gang vocals on this recording in the months of Jan. and/or Feb.... Please get in touch with us!! We want our friends to be a part of it."
Maryland metal band What We Call Victory has posted an update and album teaser on their MySpace player. Here's what they had to say about it:
"We are now so close to completing this thing. I can taste it! Hope you enjoy the little preview! Thanks for being so patient!"
What We Call Victory has begun recording their new album and issued the following updates:
"We are having a blast recording the new upcoming album. Drums and bass are already tracked and good to go! Please be on the lookout for a few more short vids everynight. These short vids will be in our VIDEOS SECTION!!
"Not to worry though, a long-legnth video will be posted as we near the end of all tracking so that you can see all of it. Let just say that Ashley of Tragic Recordings (Recorded our first E.P.) is doing a swell job capturing us and helping us out with EVERYTHING."
The band has a number of shows lined up. Here are the latest:
Dec 4, 2009 @ 4:00P - Xtreme Xmas Xtravaganza III Mount Airy, Maryland
Dec 11, 2009 @ 7:00P - Boardz, Southampton, Pennsylvania
Dec 28, 2009 @ 3:30P - Mount Airy Firehall, Mount Airy, Maryland
Feb 26, 2010 @ 5:00P - New Market Grange, New Market, Maryland
Jun 26, 2010 @ 1:00P - House Show, Conowingo, Maryland
Here's the latest studio clip from MySpace:
WHAT WE CALL VICTORY has issue a statement via their Myspace blog, regarding the beginning of recording sessions for their new album. The band says that they will be recording for a minimum of 3 months, and plan to release their new album sometime thereafter. Although they have not set a solid release date for their new album, they encourage fans to look for it in the near future. After the release of the album, the band plans to tour in support of record sales.
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Ask a Law Question, Get an Answer ASAP!
Yes i was doing the trades.
The account had a balance of $286,000 but with a lot of hedged trades. The account manager was supposed to has been closing the hedged trades but no assistance was forthcoming.
To my knowledge the account manager has since been sacked by the senior broker.
I instructed the account manager to help. He assured me that his traders would be closing the trades. Most of the conversations between me and the account manager were via message on skype. I do have copies of my conversation history with all Algo capital contacts that I have.
You need to write and set out your losses and request a refund within 14 days or say you will go to Court within 14 days. You should make sure you send this signed delivery and keep a copy.
If they do not refund you then you can issue proceedings in the County Court. You can either do this online at: www.moneyclaim.gov.uk or by completing form N1 http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/courtfinder/forms/n001-eng.pdf and take it to your local County Court.
The Court will then issue a claim which a copy will be sent to the Defendant who will have a limited time to defend it, if not you can enter Judgment and enforce.
If the claim is for £10,000 or less it will be a small claim so you will not need legal representation. Over this value you would need representation for trial. Over £10,000 then you will need a Solicitor and Barrister to represent you as if this is a claim for $286,000 it will be formal Court with rules and procedures in place.
Can I clarify anything for you about this today please?
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Imagining his own Utopian summer, a sensual and indolent season of southbound cruises and explosions of color, Bruno Sialelli’s Lanvin spring / summer 2020 collection ‘Plein Soleil’ is an ode to idleness summer days.
Despite reminiscences of the 50s and 70s – of Marella Agnelli, Lee Radziwill and Bianca Jagger when the ocean was a second skin, the sun a living God, and incessant voyages were de rigour for jet set – the house of Lanvin sets sail on a new journey into the future.
The heart of Lanvin now beats to the tempo of an open era, where gender fluidity and diversity are part of the usual vocabulary as the mix of genres in forty-five menswear and fifteen womenswear silhouettes attest. Sailing between Taormina, Capri and the Greek islands, Sialelli diverts the codes of his “catamaran bourgeoisie” mischievously by opting for a form of naivety in masculinity.
Charming boys wear silk cardigans or oiled short coats with boy scout cotton shorts and gladiator shoes; cargo pants and cross jackets with oversized sailor collars; tunics and bags in XXL nautical pennants are playfully redesigned for the occasion where the emblems of the house – JL initials and daisies – make a discreet appearance in these Lanvin flags. Introduced in Bruno’s first collection for the house, the figure of Babar reappears as a reassuring and twisted fetish of childhood.
Lanvin blue is the main colour for summer. The historical shade of the house (Jeanne Lanvin worked with a palette of 18 different tones) is paired with the colours of the sun and sand – ochres, oranges, tobaccos and yellows. Sialelli looked to the archives for outerwear tailoring – blue wool gazar duffle coats inspired by Jeanne Lanvin couture opera coats – while suits come in striped seersucker or with all-over sequins, effortless chic without dressing up.
Accessories slip naturally into the collection. A sailor’s bag made of canvas, faded by the sea spray, and another in duvet down – as spectacular as they are ingenious – are essential companions to the bag of the season, the Hook Bag. Adorned with delicate leather marquetry and hand-painted hot air balloons, this season’s Hook Bags telescope between authenticity and refinement, between sensuality of the street and ultra-elegance.
Art deco pendants borrow from an art deco motif found in Jeanne Lanvin’s bathroom; malachite crocodile shaped cuffs shine brightly between travel inspired oversized charm necklaces with miniature suitcases and explorer tools.
Following in the steps of Jeanne Lanvin, a fashion pioneer who explored the world in her time – Venice, Toledo, Egypt and the Borromean Islands – Lanvin girls head out from Capri to Goa in long, silk, psychedelic printed dresses giving an Indian allure to the Lanvin women’s silhouettes. Like Lanvin men, they adopt a relaxed and luxurious approach, effortless and refined.
Thu, June 27 2019 » Fashion Blog
LANVIN “MYSTIC PILGRIMS”
The 13th century Musée de Cluny plays host to the first Women’s and Men’s collection designed by Bruno Sialelli for the house of Lanvin, sublimating the illustrious heritage of the Parisian maison in the midst of its own renaissance. As the first true purveyor of lifestyle, Lanvin encompasses a prismatic vision of fashion. Contemplating the life and times of our founder Jeanne Lanvin, a vital optimism permeates this respectful evolution – acknowledging the maison as a florilegium of creative energy.
Embodying a folkloric spirit, the Fall Winter 2019 collection roams from the Rue Saint-Honoré to Brest and far beyond, reminiscing upon cinematic and literary personas through history. Reviving Lanvin’s playful narrative in a symphony of romantic archetypes, Sialelli draws upon a multitude of moods: from nautical to bucolic, regal to childlike, the collection personifies lyrical conversations in cloth.
Pre-Raphaelite colours depart from Lanvin ‘quattrocento’ blue into powdery shades of avocado, absinthe, banana and bergamot warmed by mahogany, navy, tomato and a blaze of ultraviolet. Inciting pure comfort and a suite of leisurely pursuits, classic shapes are spliced with sensual fabrications, as Norwegian blankets, exotic Fair Isles, and giant clan tartans swaddle inherently French garments.
‘Whole garment’ knits create sinuous volumes shaped in cashmere and lurex, whilst the vareuse from Brittany, the heart-collar caban, zipped blousons and riding coats are rendered in cashmere, gabardine, intarsia shearling or wool gazar. Passing from myths to modern fairy-tales, graphics flit from Paul Iribe’s logo La femme et l’enfant (1924) on stamped muslin to mosaic monogram pyjama silks and delicate marguerite micro-florals.
Evoking the whimsy of Cécile and Jean de Brunhoff’s Babar the Elephant books, illustrated scenes float over crewneck twinsets and foulard riding boots, whilst tufted hares and foxes frolic across transparent tulle. Sensuous and in perfect symmetry, shaped necks and contoured sleeves impart blouses or dresses with a medieval line, as the scrolling imprint of illuminated manuscripts is writ large across
Faded Merovingian splendour is woven throughout, from gilded leather amulets and dipped thimble rings to St. George’s dragon resplendent on embroidered velvet. Voluminous kaftan gowns trail with linings inside and out, layered with bands of lace, pleated satin, and portrait print georgette.
Lanvin’s muse is embellished with abandon, adorned from head to toe with heraldic charm jewellery and porcelain chokers, fruit minaudières and salome wedges in Viennese metalwork. Grounding the season’s mystic vision, satchels, flat totes and asymmetric bucket bags are crafted in supple suede, canvas and calfskin to match fringed tennis shoes, studded clogs and moulded moccasin boots.
Fri, March 1 2019 » Fashion Blog
“For summer 2019, I wanted to go beyond streetwear, to find a new form of sophistication, to place value on design and craftsmanship. I wanted to rediscover a more intimate form of luxury,” Lucas Ossendrijver, the artistic director of menswear at Lanvin, explains.
Elements confront each other in every silhouette of this collection, which showcases a new attitude. “There are contrasts between daytime and evening, colour and black, structure and softness, flatness and volume”, Lucas continues. References and universes combined. Everywhere, the details put forth a look, a movement: on a parka, woven striped satin is applied onto a cotton veil.
A suit with an almost military appearance incorporates the feeling of a tuxedo. A simple strip of fabric sewn between the outside and inside of a bomber jacket inflates the garment and gives it volume: it’s a constant game between full and flat forms. As for the blazers, they disrupt the evening feel: on a model in grain de poudre, an offbeat satin yoke is placed on the shoulder. On another tailcoat, this time the satin appears on the sleeve.
On the same design, the satin hangs towards the front. Underneath a jacket the collar is gathered giving the appearance of a hood. The look is versatile, hybridization reigns: tops are constructed by taking the back of a shirt and the front of a T-shirt in cotton crepe. Due to the craftsmanship of the cut, they can be worn on both sides.
In turn, a mesh fisherman’s waistcoat or a quilted cotton vest lined with satin is placed on top, recalling protective clothing. Once worn, these pieces mix and lines become blurred. Even though an impression of softness is suggested, the silhouette is nevertheless controlled, sophisticated. Poetry contrasts graphic effects, where stripes subtly stand alongside floral prints and metal rose necklaces.
Both colour and material confront one other: wool and velvet; mint green, brown, and blue violet; lavender and bright red. This season, a tattoo artist has imagined prehistoric animal drawings, mystical symbols, where stars and insects form an imaginary encyclopaedia, printed on silk or viscose shirts.
Trainers with vulcanized soles, pieces in velvet or striped canvas, a tuxedo belt designed as a belt bag or hand-painted with flowers… The accessory collection is also complemented by these contrasts. Garments mingle with giant pieces, like huge moving bags draping asymmetrically.
More than ever, the jewellery is talisman-like: bracelets with hammered and varnished finish and necklaces which hide secrets and constellations within metal balls or on the back of reversible medallions.
Tue, July 3 2018 » Fashion Blog
Fri, March 2 2018 » Fashion Blog
“I focused on the most classic, almost passé item, drawn directly from the legacy and origin of the Lanvin man: the suit. What is a suit? Two pieces, a jacket and trousers, cut from the same fabric. I wanted to deconstruct this idea, using layering. For me, these combinations make a modern suit. I wanted to create a smokescreen. “
For Lucas Ossendrijver, Lanvin Menswear Creative Director, the season is all about where modernity and sartorial tradition meet. From the most classic English fabrics is born a brand new, hybrid and urban look. The shape of a suit is precise with no shoulder pads, a narrow waist, a broader back and ironed-in pleats. Here however everything has a different take: a finely striped coat has military jacket detailing.
The suit trousers worn with it, cut in the same fabric, are like combat pants: cotton inlay, gusseted pockets, velcro. A part-technical, part-suit parka jacket sports an asymmetric zip around the collar to reveal the detail of a shirt and jacket. Elements mix up in a new play on fabrics. Stripes and checks match and clash on the edge of abstraction. The shapes meld, only distinguishable thanks to a few contrasts. Urban details are many in this wardrobe that has been as meticulously produced as ever.
For Lucas Ossendrijver, a suit is also a form of camouflage. He toys with prints: animal outlines, plant, tree and flower patterns mix together, from the most natural colours to the most nocturnal, almost toxic. Inspired by outdoor wear, fleece jackets and coats are designed like big covers. Asymmetric knits are draped and worn with wide sleeve-shaped scarves.
Combat pants are combined with a soft, quilted leather bomber jacket. An entirely hand-painted shearling sweatshirt is worn over a suit. On a reflective leather parka jacket, the shearling-lined collar turns into a hood. Stripes, threads and studs, traditional and technical fabrics, military and urban details: everything is layered together without ever clashing…as if it was always meant to be.
The same research was carried out for the accessories. The soles of the shoes were developed in 3D whilst the sneakers have heat-sealed relief inlay. ID badges, worn across the chest, are in transparent lizard skin whilst the bags evoke map cases and lunch boxes. Jewellery is layered like lucky charms, in raffia or burnt straw.
Tue, February 13 2018 » Fashion Blog
For summer 2017, Bouchra Jarrar, creative director of Lanvin, presents her vision of woman. This first catwalk show unveils her vocabulary with allure and style: « This first season at Lanvin is an opening.»
« I’ve been exploring the paths of sensuality and intimacy, building clothes around the body, unveiling and veiling the silhouette. I’m searching for essential and harmony. I love to dress women, to reveal them to themselves, to sublime them, to cross borders between feminity and masculinity. Hence a wardrobe which shall evolve and echo itself from one season to the other »
Silk chiffon ; silk georgette ; satin and mirror satin ; crepe de chine ; asymmetrical lace ; organza.
Tweed ; mirror jersey ; albene.
Dipped lambskin ; cracked python.
Cristals embroderies ; silvergilt chains ; chain mail ; embroidered flowers.
Lavallière dress ; Modesty dress ; tied waist dress
Sleeveless coat ; trench coat ; shawl collar coat ; double lapple jacket ; perfecto jacket.
Plastron shirt ; spencer jacket ; tuxedo.
Jewelled shoes ; jewelled bags in water snake leather
Wed, October 5 2016 » Fashion Blog
Sat, October 17 2015 » Fashion Blog
« The homage to Jeanne Lanvin at the Museum Galliera museum made me feel the need to go back to my own roots, to Morocco, where I was born ». Alber Elbaz
Opulent and strict. Dry and warm. Raw and precious. Black and white. Collarless and buttonless. Graphic and unexpected. Opaque and transparent. Lean and oversized. Masculine and feminine. Berber stripes and floral motifs.
Panne velvet and boiled alpaca, washed silks, real matte python and faux python in glossy lambskin. A patchwork of textures, honey colored sensations and sweet nectars.
Colors of etchings and soil: red pomegranate, blue ink, cinnamon and deep burgundy, brown, grey and black baked in the sun.
From the city to the desert, an easterly wind blows over the metropolis: a wind that makes you want to wrap up in a long sharp-edged blanket coat, a vest in oversized Tibetan goat or in a pair of lamé saffron and gold pyjamas.
Calling on all desires, from the most opulent to the most graphic – the gloss and the matte skim each other – superimposed in an endless game of contrasts… a Lanvin signature.
Under striped woollen capes, we find brocade chiffon dresses with passementerie belts, silk braiding, plaited tassels, toggle fastenings and gold cords.
The Lanvin Winter 2015 collection is an invitation to urban travel.
The LANVIN NOMAD handbag follows this wind in grained lambskin, black ostrich, ink-colored nubuck calfskin and caramel python. True luxury is a look, a hand, a needle and a thread.
Tue, June 23 2015 » Fashion Blog
Wed, February 18 2015 » Fashion Blog
Sun, September 28 2014 » Fashion Blog
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Every year, for one week, Rick and I are blessed to have two of our five grandchildren stay with us and attend Vacation Bible Study. This year, we borrowed another grandchild to stay as well. We would have borrowed two, but the other was already scheduled to go to Mt. Gilead (camp) for the week. So we only had her for the first day and the last night and day.
The children are now at the age when they entertain themselves. Our task is to make sure “entertainment” doesn’t include dangerous feats of adventure. We’ve been regaled with stories from our grown children of what they did when we weren’t watching closely, and it has given us cold chills – much to their delight. I strive for “controlled chaos”.
Vacation Bible School took up the morning. Afternoons were the challenge. My plan: take the grandchildren where Granny wants to go.
The first day, I bought deli sandwiches, fruit and water for a picnic. As soon as the children finished their morning camp, we (including my daughter, Shannon) headed for Bodega Bay and Doran Beach. I figured a couple of hours of running around, digging, wading and making sand castles, and then we’d head for Pinnacle Gulch and a hike down to some tide pools. I’d never been there before and wanted to go. However, a kindly ranger warned us of a half-mile, steep downhill trek through heavy brush and a tide coming in that would cover the pools long before we made it. Drat! Tide pools are now on next year’s list of things to do, and it’ll be Shell Beach and not the Gulch that could swallow up children (and an old lady).
Second afternoon, we had hamburgers and Butterfinger milk shakes and headed for the carnivorous plant nursery. Third afternoon, we dined at IHOP and swam at Finley Park Aquatic Center. Thursday was the afternoon BBQ in Ives Park. Friday afternoon we headed for Spring Lake and netted minnows. The children swam in the “lagoon” along with a visiting flock of Canadian geese. The water was so dirty, we couldn’t see the bottom where crawdads dwell. From car to hot showers and lots of shampoo!
Whenever we were at home, the boys headed out to the big flower box I’d “seeded” with “gems”. They dug for hours and found purple, red, yellow and green jewels to put in their treasure boxes. Girls like dress up, Barbies, puzzles, art projects, cooking.
Evenings went fast. Hands washed, prayers said, dinners of Caspar hot dogs, pulled BBQ chicken, BBQ hamburgers, orange chicken and rice were consumed and followed by fruit deserts. After dinner and showers, we popped corn, popped diet/caffeine free sodas and settled down to a movie. We watched two versions of “Journey to the Center of the Earth” because that’s the book I read to them before lights out at 9.
Sunday, we all went to church. The boys came home with “Papa” so the younger one could finish packing for his week at Mt. Gilead. I took the girls to Hallberg’s Butterfly Garden where we strolled along the winding path and spotted dozens of caterpillars, but only a few butterflies.
Now that the grandchildren have all gone home, the house seems so depressing. No shrieking laughter, squabbling, endless questions, jokes or dress-up shows. Sarge, our German Shepherd, keeps looking for them (as though they’re playing hide-and-seek again). There’s evidence children spent time here: mounds in the big flower box “mine”, a bucket of shredded leaves and a few flowers soaking into “perfume”, a plastic terrarium that held (a now liberated) pill bug, a tumble of NASA space suits turned inside out in the play room. A pile of movies to be returned or put back into our collection.
I miss the little munchkins.
And I’m already making plans for next year. Shell Beach (tide pools), Armstrong Woods (maybe take some “life savers” and play Star Wars), Spring Lake (they’ll be old enough for the paddle boats)…
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Just something to think about - Go out tomorrow and tighten each of the
acorn bolts on your ground rods. You'll probably find that you can snug
each of them at least a bit (i.e., noticeably.) These things come loose
with temperature cycling over time.
When we (I and my colleagues at the local power company) designed
ground systems for our power substations, we ALWAYS spec'd thermowelded
connections to the grounding electrodes (NEC-speak for ground rods.) We
wanted an extremely reliable connection at this critical point in the
If you wish to change out the acorns for a thermowelded connection, I'd
recommend One-Shots by Cadweld. They're pretty cheap (about $7 each around
the D.C. area) and you never have to reinspect them or maintain them if
they're installed properly.
Gene Smar AD3F
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Power ground
> Hello Group,
> Here in my local area our power company recommends a ground electrode
system as (3) 8' ground rods in a triangle pattern 18 feet on each side with
bare copper wire of suitable size connecting them all together and to the
service neutral connection point. That is all. I put in #2 bare copper wire
with no joints and compression type acorn clamps at each rod.
> May be over kill but it worked for my inspector.
> Collin, N4TUA
> See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless
Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any
questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
> TowerTalk mailing list
See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather
Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions
and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.
TowerTalk mailing list
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Another surprise episode? We must be really bored around here!
- Dave’s Kickstarter is almost over (as of posting this)! He crossed the $100K mark and will likely be shipping over 1500 units. Awesome!
- Dave also finally wrote a blog post about his experience with the uRulers.
- The EEVblog forum was kicking this morning talking about whether to allow deleted comments.
- This is a similar argument to the need for lab notebooks (and the rigor associated with keeping them). It’s a matter of historical record vs being an information source.
- This is happening in 2014:
- Dave has been building uCurrents for the early batches:
- Revision tracking, especially with in-situ engineering changes can be very difficult (different reels, bodge wires, etc).
- Chris has been using GitHub commit numbers and could theoretically continue to track changes in the CAD program and then putting a sticker with the new commit number.
- Dave is getting his own Digikey part number. We think it should end in -NERD instead of -ND.
- The Kickstarter campaign doesn’t account for currency issues (which usually fluctuate +/- 5%). This can impact any overseas project.
- Can you get sued if you are willfully ignorant of a patent? What about if you mistakenly step on a patent claim?
- We have a new site design! (duh) It should be easier to comment on stuff and see when there are new comments. Use it!
- The new site prominently displays our logo by Rachel Rivera of Radcastle.
- You can now buy t-shirts of The Amp Hour logo as well! Not as cheap as the teespring campaign because they’re being printed “on demand”.
- Ruckingenur II is a game about reverse engineering hardware. It’s quite fun!
- The Mooshimeter is a high voltage DMM/datalogger that will isolate you because it’s a headless unit (using a smartphone or similar).
- There is also a kickstarter project for a 10 Ghz Sampling scope. Note the differences between that and a real time scope. The nature of the design allows for a PIC micro to be used for the ADC.
- Alan Wolke has a new video about circuit construction techniques
- IEEE Spectrum has an article about the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Kits. Dave says the RPi and Arduino are not kits because it’s cheaper/easier to just build assembled boards (whereas it wasn’t always that way for small run products).
- Dave has lots of planned additions for the lab including some dedicated benches and new toys.
Thank you to all of you who listened in 2013…we’re looking forward to 2014! Not much will change around here and we’ll have lots of new interesting guests on the show to give greater perspective of the world of electronics. If you still enjoy what we’re doing around here, please tell your friends!
Thanks to the San Bernadino County Schools for the picture of the Yarn Yak!
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A New Vision of Career Technical Education
The sharpened national focus on career and college readiness has prompted many questions about what both of those terms mean. Despite some protestations to the contrary, there is still something less than, ahem, total agreement on what constitutes sound preparation for college or for good jobs (there are so many types of colleges, and so many careers!).
While those folks yak about overlapping sets of skills and such, you might be interested to peruse a document that tries to capture what America's "vision" of career technical education should be as we
drag ourselves move boldly into the 21st century.
Issued yesterday by the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, the vision statement describes the evolution of CTE from its vocational-education roots. It emphasizes that today's CTE is not just repackaged voc-ed, but a whole new beast that reflects the needs of a changed workplace.
Career technical education must be a challenging blend of job-related skills and academic skills that serves as an effective springboard for students, whether they choose to go straight from high school into careers, or obtain higher education before doing so, the paper says. It advocates that schools and districts develop sound career technical education programs around 16 "clusters" (areas of career study) aligned to a set of essential career knowledge and skills.
If education is going to prepare students properly for whatever lies ahead, the paper argues, the "dichotomous silos of academics versus CTE must be eliminated" and replaced with top-notch programs that blend the technical and academic work students need. It acknowledges that many CTE programs are not up to snuff in this way, and calls upon schools and districts to step up and improve them.
This wades into potentially touchy stuff, since it challenges the dynamics still commonly at play in schools, in which a blend of low expectations and inadequate capacity too often funnel some kids into cosmetology and others into AP Literature. That distinction would be less painful if career prep more closely resembled the rigorous course of study that the NASDCTEc envisions. But from what I've seen in my time roaming school hallways, we have an awful long way to go to reach that point.
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Thank you so much for such a lovely and touching review. It fills my heart with joy when I know that my books have touched someone so deeply and that they love these characters as much as I do. I truly appreciate your time and the attention you have given to my stories.
Happy Thursday everyone and welcome to my stop on the virtual blog tour for both Fireflies and Hope From the Ocean written by P.S. Bartlett! This is a pretty special post since it covers two books in one which I have been really excited about! I’m happy to introduce you to the beautiful covers and descriptions of these books below!
Author: PS Bartlett
Release Day: April 3th, 2013
Genre: Historical Fiction/Paranormal/Historical Irish Fiction
However peculiar Ennis Whelan has been for the first six years of his life, not until the day he found the bird, did the degree of his strangeness become so tangible.
Dr. Owen Whelan and his wife Sarah, both Irish immigrants, have been living the American dream, as well as raising seven bright and expressive children. Their youngest Ennis, however, has since birth, been a bit of a mystery.
Ennis was always small, meek and…
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Thank you for reblogging my post and for letting me a part of your tour! Can’t wait to read more of your work in the future! 🙂
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Prices are tax included
Warm and comfortable mens jacket for winter activities is essential.
Warm and comfortable mens jacket for winter activities is essential. Incredibly soft Gents Reinfann Jacket is in this respect a perfect candidate for your wardrobe.
A hoodie that you will want to take with you everywhere! Simple, comfortable and good looking.
Soft, lightweight and comfortable hybrid jacket made from a combination of two Pontetorto Technostretch fabrics. This makes Paras insulating, wicking, and quick-drying.
Men's soft and comfortable sweatshirt with hood suitable for sport or leisure wear.
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December: By Brent Walton, Circle of Blue:
To coordinate its response to floods, droughts and disease and other water challenges whose political and economic challenges leap borders the Trump Administration submitted the Federal government’s first global water strategy.
Ordered by Congress, the strategy lays out four goals; to increases access to safe drinking water and sanitation, improve water management, protect watersheds from pollution, and prevent conflicts over river, lakes, aquifers that cross political boundaries.
“Safe water and sanitization are fundamental to solving challenges to human health, economic development and peace and security,” the 70 page report states.
Here is the link to the report…
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Theme and What is It?
The modern gaming revolution which is the first person shooter (FPS) that started on full PC’s, spread to consoles, has now become a table top game.
As a previous console player, this just sounds crazy to me. How could you ever hope to capture the frenetic whiplash feeling that is the FPS?
Delving into Adrenaline, we will explain how designer Neduk has attempted to do this, and whether we feel he was successful.
Adrenaline has four main parts, the player board (heads up display), the weapons cache, ammo drops, and play area.
Each of these has been thought out to best mimic the feel of an FPS, with minis instead of controllers.
- The player board is a remake of the heads up display on an FPS, it shows the weapons you have, the hit points still available, and how much ammo you have.
- The weapons cache is a place where you can pick up weapons, located at the three board spawn points.
- The ammo drops are throughout the play area, and are dropped at random, including single use upgrades for weapons.
- The play area has two sides, which allows you to play two different “maps”.
When initially looking at the game, it just looks like a dungeon crawler. After playing it, the gameplay mechanics do feel very much like a FPS. On any given turn you can do two actions, pick up, shoot, or move. Then you pass the baton, and the next player plays. This goes on until the game says the round is over, based on how many deaths have happened based on the skull counter, 5-8.
I like the mini’s, they are reminiscent of old style arcade games.
The board, was just not particularly exciting. It is functional, but does not scream at you. The counter for points seemed a bit overdone with 1’s and 2’s and 4’s. I think a piece of paper would have been easier. Though my guess is, they were supposed to emote the scoring style of games like Borderlands, where each shot you see a HP value loss on the other players.
Quality of Components and Insert
For me, Adrenaline is about the mini’s which are excellent. They are one of the few mini’s in a board game I would consider painting.
I know that is a slippery slope however, and just don’t want to start on that side of the hobby. But, they do deserve a good paint job IMHO.
The board is thick and functional, which is what it needs to be, so kudos there.
The cover art and minis fit my idea of a FPS game. The board is a bit boring, but functional, and quite frankly, the necessary part of the game, is the minis and the player board.
The teardrops for taking off hit points is fantastic, which I really like. It just feels like my character is crying. Props to the tears.
I like FPS games on consoles, and have ever since Borderlands first came out. It made FPS fun and approachable. The rest of the games of those days were overly serious. That was not the case with Borderlands.
Adrenaline seems to have taken the formula that was so successful before, a silly FPS, and transplanted it into a board game.
I really enjoyed playing it, and it will likely make it to our table regularly. We are in strong like with the fun factor of Adrenaline. There is not another game out there that fills this niche so well.
Difficulty and Age Range Suggestion
The age range suggested is 12+.
I tend to agree for one main reason, I would not allow my younger child to play FPS on a console. Therefore, I should not encourage that on a board game.
I like Adrenaline. The rule book is an irreverent mess. However, it is supposed to be. You’ll see what I mean when you see it.
The feeling of FPS has been captured, and more succinctly, has been done well. To my knowledge no other game fills that console FPS itch as well as Adrenaline, besides perhaps, a console FPS.
I give this game a BUY rating. It is not a game that will fill my top shelf, but I have a feeling it will likely float on the second shelf down, for a long time to come.
Originally posted 2017-11-13 19:10:03.
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Support the news
In the recent brutal murder case that rocked a small New Hampshire town, four teenage suspects were identified from online social networking sites hours before authorities even announced arrests had been made. Some of the online material may make its way into the legal case against the teens.
“I think the Internet and social networking sites provide some sort of anonymity for kids,” Dr. Tristan Gorrindo, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, told WBUR's Bob Oakes.
Advice On Safe Social Networking
For teens: When thinking about updating your Facebook page, be sure to WAIT:
- W: Would I want what I'm writing to appear on the front page of my school newspaper?
- A: Am I in a good emotional state right now? Am I angry, upset, sad?
- I: Is there a way in which others might misinterpret what I'm saying?
- T: Today, tomorrow or the next day — be thinking of future consequences
For parents and teachers: Always encourage dialogue and supervise what kids do online. What they post has the potential to be viewed by hundreds of their peers.
Gorrindo said a sense of anonymity may lead children to think they’re immune from the public’s perception about them.
“If you think about posting something online and having 800 people reading it instantaneously, the analogy I like to use with kids is to say, ‘would you do that same action in a school assembly in front of 800 other kids?’,” Gorrindo said.
There’s also a role for parents to play. Gorrindo said parents should be more net savvy and learn more about social networking sites.
He said they should be more aware of their child’s activity online, and recommended Web sites like netsmartz.org and getnetwise.org to teach parents about social networking sites, how to use privacy settings and how to be good consumers of social networking.
Gorrindo said that, although it’s reasonable to want to give their teenagers privacy and space, parents need to be involved and curious when it comes to social networking.
“Parents can get on Facebook themselves, and actually ‘friend’ their children, so they can see what is being posted on their child’s Facebook page,” Gorrindo said.
Gorrindo said we’re better off teaching kids how to think through their actions by having the parents become more net savvy and have a dialogue with their kids.
“Though it’s perfectly natural for kids to want some level of privacy, Facebook is not the place for parents to remain uninvolved,” Gorrindo said.
WBUR's Sarah Bush compiled this report. Click the "Listen Now" button above to hear Oakes's full interview with Dr. Tristan Gorrindo.
This program aired on October 21, 2009.
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How this Chair can pay for itself? This high back gaming chair may look all plain and black. But it’s equipped with features that can either make your gaming experience more comfortable or you can get the worth of your purchase.
It’s a very affordable gaming chair. But not all affordable chairs pay for themselves after several months or years of use. We’re going to review one of the best gaming chairs of Furmax. And let’s take a look if the chair will be able to pay for itself.
Made from high-density PU leather with a thicker foam padding and an all-black exterior, this gaming chair exudes an aura of sophistication. For those who are looking for a more subtle looking gaming chair, this fits the bill. It even looks more pricey than what it’s worth.
Thick padded seat and backrest
The backrest and the seat are sufficiently padded. It’s even quieter than some more expensive gaming chairs. The level of comfort of the seat and the backrest, however, is quite subjective. The thick padded seat features firm support. But some users find it too firm for their liking. As for us, we favor a firm cushion over a very plush one since the former can give more support without you sinking into the chair.
However, the lumbar support in the form of a lumbar pillow is quite aggressive. The pillow is strapped to the chair and locked at the back. So you also have an option to adjust it. But even with a few adjustments, we find it too firm for our liking. It feels okay after a few hours. But it becomes too pushy for us after a while.
Tilt, rock, and recline
This gaming chair offers three motions that will relieve the soreness from your back and body if you have been sitting for longer hours. One, you can rock the chair back and forth. So it can release the pressure from your back. This motion is effective in relaxing and relieving back pain.
Two, you can tilt the chair so you can sit back in a more comfortable position. And three, the chair can be reclined from 90 to 180 degrees. This position allows you to take a break momentarily from continuous gaming without the need to get off the chair.
Durability and stability
As for the durability, this chair feels rock solid. And for its price tag, it may seem like you paid for more. It felt steady and solid for a user who weighs 250 lbs, so we reckon that the advertised weight capacity of the chair is indeed true. You can feel that the chair can afford to bear more weight. Thus, even when reclined, it won’t collapse. We did not hear any creeks and there wasn’t any sign that the chair is overtaxed with the hefty weight.
The not so good stuff
- The headrest tends to sag after a while. Though at the first few uses, this is one of the features that we really loved. It provided a nice cradle and support for the neck. Hence, preventing neck strains. But sadly, it was wonderful while it lasted. And it only lasted for a few months.
- As mentioned earlier, we find the lumbar support too rigid and aggressive. If you’re not used to a very firm back support, this can cause your back strain.
- The armrests are bolted to the seat. So it’s not adjustable. You also have an option to assemble the chair without the arms. But if you are playing for several the whole day, armrests are essential. Also, the arms are made from plastic and are not padded. We’d love to have padded arms as this makes gamers more comfortable, especially during an intense game.
And since you can not adjust the arms, some users find it challenging to play with a keyboard and mouse. You have to fit into the chair to truly appreciate the arms. We have heard of users placing a pillow on the arms to make it softer and to increase the height a bit.
- The width of the seat was falsely advertised. The brand claims that it has a wide seat. However, the seat only measures 15 inches, which is 3-4 inches from the advertised measurements. So if you have hips wider than 15 inches, you’ll find this cramped. And although it has an extended cushion at the edge of the seat, it doesn’t have any give. So your big butt and big hips will be caged in a 15-inch seat and can rub off against the metal part of the chair.
- This is one of the gaming chairs of Furmax that really felt solid and durable. The steel tubular legs are very supportive, the exterior material and padding are sufficient. And the padding does not flatten out easily. Also, the PU leather material does not peel easily compared to other gaming chairs of the brand.
- Shipping is satisfactory. The chair arrived without scratches or damage. All the parts are packaged properly. Though some were not labeled, the small parts came in their own packing, so they were grouped for easier installation. And you have to refer to the instruction manual with the drawings of the parts since they aren’t labeled.
- This chair is nice and tall. Thus, taller users will benefit more from this gaming chair. And they are also more likely to fit into the stationary armrest. Since this chair seems like it was made for taller individuals, the height of the arms will be comfortable for this group of people.
- So, if you’re petite, this is where you’ll encounter problems. The arms will be too high for you. Though you can adjust the seat and it can go low for shorter users, the armrest won’t.
- Is it comfortable? If you favor very firm support, by all means, it will be comfortable for you. Otherwise, you’ll be able to find the chair decent for just 3-4 hours of use. Like us, we felt the back support was coming on too strong, and it’s like we were being pushed forward. So we did not find it comfortable for a whole day’s use.
- It offers three different motions that can relieve or ease back pain. The rocking back and forth, the tilt, and it can be reclined all the way down.
- In terms of durability, we have no complaints about this chair. It’s solid as a rock and has a higher weight capacity. Thus, you will not worry if you are reclined or tilted back. It still feels stable and even with sufficient weight, it doesn’t feel like you’re going to fall off the chair or it’s going to collapse. This chair can hold its pose.
- Though the chair can accommodate one who weighs over 250 pounds. The seat will be too narrow for those who have really wide hips and big butt.
- Assembly is fairly easy. It was easier to set up than the Furmax gaming chair with the pull-out footrest. Though you have to be able to understand graphics instructions as the manual comes with all drawings. It’s a bit similar to how you would set up an IKEA furniture, desk, or chair.
- The caster wheels roll out smoothly. There wasn’t any noise and it did not scratch or ruin our hardwood floors.
- The 30-degree fill swivel worked as advertised.
- Customer support is okay, though it’s not too impressive. The good bit is that if you encounter problems with the setup, the brand has several tips indicated in the manual. The not so good bits are that some users reported a not so satisfactory encounter with their customer service.
- The overall look of the chair is sophisticated. Sleek and simple. It can blend in any office space, meeting room, and home office. It does not have those colorful edgings but you’ll feel the difference once you sit on it. It does feel like a leather car seat. It also looks more expensive than what it really costs.
Where did we base our choice
For its price range, we feel that you will be getting more value from this chair. That’s provided that you are comfortable with firm support and you are on the taller side. And albeit the stationary arms, we still chose this gaming chair as the best pick out of the other gaming chair of the brand. Because it’s rock-solid, looks and feels well made, and can last longer compared to other Furmax gaming chairs.
This gaming chair from Furmax is one of the more affordable gaming chair options in the market. Though there are some negative bits, we can still say that will can be getting value from it as long as you fit into it.
With the super affordable price, you really will not be able to complain even if not everyone will find this a great fit. It may be not for all, but yes, this gaming chair can pay for itself.
Not enough? Click to Read more another Review of Furmax Office Gaming chair
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Thames Vision Public Meeting Dates Confirmed
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has confirmed the dates and venues for the first round of public meetings as part of its project to develop a Vision for the future of the tidal Thames – the 95 miles of river that runs from Teddington Lock through London to the North Sea.
The dates and venues for the public meetings are:
- 14 May 2015 – London Rowing Club, Putney
- 21 May 2015 – Orsett Hall, Princes Charles Ave, Orsett, Essex, RM16 3HS
- 2 June 2015 – St Paul’s Roof Pavilion, Southbank Centre
The meetings will start at 6.30 pm and finish by around 8.00 pm, with refreshments available from 6.00 pm. Following closely on from the end of the initial phase of public consultation on the project on Wednesday 6 May, the meetings provide further opportunity for people to help shape the future of the Thames.
“The response to the initial public consultation has been great, with almost 100 responses so far,” explained Robin Mortimer. “These public meetings will enable us to get deeper into how people want to see use of the river evolve. We’re planning for the sessions to be interactive, so people coming along can look forward to a lively debate.”
To register to attend one of the public meetings, please email firstname.lastname@example.org or call 01474-562364.
The PLA launched its Vision project on 25 March 2015. It is due to produce the final Thames Vision by next Spring. To kick off the project and prompt people’s thinking, the PLA launched a short film in which seventeen people explain what the river means to them. It can be found at: https://youtu.be/rLDZRZLuuRQ
“It’s still not too late to contribute to the initial public consultation. So please take five minutes to visit our website and ‘Have Your Say’ on the future development of the Thames, then come to discuss it with us at the meetings,” concluded Robin Mortimer.
Update: Have your Say is now closed, results are currently being published.
- The PLA is a self-financing organisation, set-up by an Act of Parliament in 1909 to run the tidal River Thames in trust for future generations. Its 350-strong workforce oversees safe navigation, protects the marine environment and promotes the use of the river. The PLA has no shareholders and any financial surpluses are reinvested in stewardship of the river and improving the efficiency of PLA operations.
- More information on the Thames Vision project can be found at: www.pla.co.uk/ThamesVision
Alistair Gale, Port of London Authority, Mob: 07711-440736
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214 F.3d 1204 (10th Cir. 2000)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee,
MEL LAMBERT VELARDE, Defendant - Appellant.
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, TENTH CIRCUIT
June 2, 2000
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO (D.C. NO. CR-98-391-JC)Peter Schoenburg, Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Cron & Schoenburg, LLP, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for appellant.
David B. Williams (Robert J. Gorence, United States Attorney, and Kathleen Bliss, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Albuquerque, New Mexico, for appellee.
Before BRORBY, ANDERSON, and HENRY, Circuit Judges.
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
Mel Lambert Velarde appeals his conviction by a jury on one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2241(c), an offense committed within Indian country under 18 U.S.C. 1153. He was sentenced to 135 months imprisonment. Because we conclude that the district court erred in permitting certain expert testimony, and that error was not harmless, we reverse and remand for a new trial.
Mr. Velarde, a member of the Jicarilla Apache Indian tribe, ran his family's large ranch near Dulce, New Mexico. In July 1997, he entered into a relationship with another Jicarilla tribe member, Angelita Veneno. Ms. Veneno lived with her three children, Jordan, Shane and L., in a trailer home in Dulce, which is within the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation.1 On some weekends, Mr. Velarde stayed overnight at the trailer home. L., then 8 years old, was accustomed to sleeping with her mother in her mother's bed. When Mr. Velarde spent the night, she had to share her brothers' bedroom. There was testimony that she would get upset when Mr. Velarde visited, because she could not sleep with her mother. In fact, L. testified it made her "mad" when she could not sleep with her mother. R. Vol. III at 53.
Ms. Veneno testified that, until L. was five years old, L.'s father, Levi Vigil, who is also Shane's and Jordan's father, lived in the trailer home with them. He was physically and verbally abusive towards Ms. Veneno, and L. witnessed at least one instance of physical abuse and saw bruises on her mother on a number of occasions. After he moved out of the trailer home, Mr. Vigil had little interaction with his children and apparently refused to acknowledge them. Ms. Veneno's father also intermittently lived at the trailer home. There was testimony that he had a serious alcohol abuse problem.
Mr. Velarde stayed at Ms. Veneno's trailer on the night of February 1, 1998. Mr. Velarde testified that, when he awoke in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, he noticed that the dome light was on in Ms. Veneno's car parked outside. As he usually did when he stayed at Ms. Veneno's trailer, he used Shane and Jordan's bathroom down the hall. Ms. Veneno testified that she was awake when Mr. Velarde left to use the bathroom and awoke when he returned. Id. at 80. Mr. Velarde testified that nothing unusual happened--he simply used the bathroom, noticed the car light on, and returned to bed. He testified he was gone from the bedroom "[c]lose to five minutes." R. Vol. IV at 43.
Approximately a week later, L. told her mother a very different account of the night of February 1. She told her mother that, on that night, she was sleeping in Jordan's bed, on the top bunk of her brothers' bunk bed, as Shane slept below. She testified that she woke up to discover Mr. Velarde pulling her off the bunk bed. She further testified that he took her out into the hall, pulled her pajama shorts down, placed his hand over her mouth, and "put his private part in [her] private part." R. Vol. III at 40. She testified that it hurt a little. She also stated that she kicked at him. L. further stated that after Mr. Velarde got off her, he told her not to tell anyone. She testified that she saw the light on in her mother's car parked outside the trailer home.
At Mr. Velarde's trial, Ms. Veneno testified that L.'s behavior changed after February 1:
[F]or one week she just stayed in her room, she was just quiet, she didn't come out until it was time to go to bed. And then after she told me, she started acting up, like always, crying. She was wetting the bed. She was getting nightmares. She was she found a bottle that she started nursing again, and that's about how how she was.
Id. at 81.
Upon hearing L.'s accusation of sexual abuse, Ms. Veneno called the police, who came to the trailer home and took L.'s statement. The next day, February 9, Ms. Veneno took L. to the San Juan General Hospital in Farmington, New Mexico. Naida Ayers, a nurse, testified that she examined L., took her medical history and asked L. what had happened. She testified that L. told her that Mr. Velarde came into the bedroom, pulled her out into the hall, and "touched her private parts" or "put his private part into her." Id. at 114. Ms. Ayers testified that her physical examination of L. revealed no bruising or tears or other evidence of physical injury. Ms. Ayers testified that L. was cooperative and not frightened during the examination. Dr. Allen Hurt similarly examined L., also found no physical evidence of any injury, and also testified that L. was cooperative and acted normal during the examination. Dr. Hurt testified that the examination neither proved nor disproved that sexual abuse had occurred.
On February 20, L. was examined by Dr. Renee Ornelas, a pediatrician at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ornelas took a patient history, recorded any unusual symptoms, determined what further tests were needed, and conducted a physical examination. Dr. Ornelas testified she used a colposcope, which enabled her to magnify L.'s genital area. After examining L., Dr. Ornelas agreed with Dr. Hurt that the results of the physical examination were normal. She testified that L. had a "normal" hymen. R. Vol. V at 160.
Dr. Charlene McGiver, a clinical psychologist, interviewed L. and her mother, separately and together, on October 12 and November 2. Dr. McGiver testified that her interviews revealed that L. began having nightmares, experienced episodes of bed-wetting, feared men, and had angry outbursts after the alleged sexual abuse occurred.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Mr. Velarde. He pled not guilty. Prior to trial, Mr. Velarde, represented by an appointed public defender, filed a motion to exclude the proposed testimony of Dr. Ornelas that "a child's statement as part of her medical history is consistent with child abuse," and asserted that the government had violated Fed. R. Crim. P. 16 by failing to disclose the bases and reasons for her opinion. R. Vol. I, Tab 13 at 2. The court denied the motion.
Then, represented by new retained counsel, Mr. Velarde filed another motion in limine seeking to preclude or limit Dr. Ornelas's testimony, challenging her proposed testimony that L.'s statements and behavior are consistent with her having been sexually abused. He argued that such testimony was not admissible expert testimony under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993),2 and that such testimony would amount to impermissible vouching for the child's veracity. He requested a hearing under Daubert. He also challenged Dr. Ornelas's proffered testimony about the behavioral characteristics of child abuse victims as grounded in psychology and therefore outside of her area of expertise, and asserted that some of her proffered testimony was irrelevant. The district court denied this second motion.
Mr. Velarde then filed a motion to preclude Dr. McGiver's testimony and sought a Daubert hearing to determine the reliability of the proposed testimony. The court denied the motion and determined that an evidentiary hearing was unnecessary.
Approximately a month before trial, the government gave notice that it intended to present testimony from Trudy Harrison, Mr. Velarde's niece, who was prepared to testify that, twenty years before, when she was eight or nine years old, Mr. Velarde had sexually assaulted her. Mr. Velarde filed a motion in limine to preclude the presentation of this evidence, or to continue the case, asserting that the late disclosure of this witness prejudiced him. He also argued that the trial court must conduct a Fed. R. Evid. 403 balancing test to determine if the probative value of the evidence outweighs any prejudicial effect. Without explicitly conducting any Rule 403 balancing, the court held that the government had given adequate notice of its intent to call Ms. Harrison, and ruled that the government could call Ms. Harrison as part of its case-in-chief. Mr. Velarde made numerous additional pre-trial motions relating to the government's proposed expert witnesses, all of which were denied. The court also denied his motions for an independent evaluation of L. and for disclosure of her psychological treatment records.
The case proceeded to trial. On the first day of trial, March 23, 1999, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 (1999), holding that trial courts must conduct some kind of gatekeeping reliability determination under Daubert with respect to all expert testimony, not just to testimony based upon a particular scientific methodology. Mr. Velarde renewed his request for a Daubert hearing with respect to the proposed testimony of Dr. Ornelas and Dr. McGiver, and referred the court to Kumho. See R. Vol. V at 267. The court subsequently denied his renewed request, stating, "Well, I'm not going to hold a Daubert hearing. I've had this testimony before in trials, and it's not new and novel . . . ." Id. at 342. Accordingly, both Dr. Ornelas and Dr. McGiver testified as government experts. Ms. Harrison also testified that Mr. Velarde had sexually abused her twenty years before, when she was eight or nine years old. Mr. Velarde took the stand and unequivocally denied ever sexually abusing or touching either L. or Ms. Harrison. The jury found Mr. Velarde guilty.
He appeals his conviction, arguing: (1) the court erred in admitting the testimony of governmental experts Drs. Ornelas and McGiver and in failing to first determine the reliability and relevancy of that testimony; (2) the court erred in admitting Ms. Harrison's testimony under Rule 414; (3) the admission of that Rule 414 evidence violated Mr. Velarde's right to due process, equal protection and a fair trial; and (4) the court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of abusive sexual contact. Because we find that the district court erred in failing to conduct, on the record, any kind of reliability determination with respect to the government's expert witnesses, we reverse and remand.
I. Expert Testimony
The trial court's admission of expert testimony, over a timely objection, is reviewed for an abuse of discretion. Kumho Tire Co., 526 U.S. at 152; United States v. Charley, 189 F.3d 1251, 1261 (10th Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 842 (2000). Fed. R. Evid. 702, which governs the admission of expert testimony, provides as follows:
If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.
Rule 702 "imposes a special gatekeeping obligation on the trial judge to ensure that an opinion offered by an expert is reliable." Charley, 189 F.3d at 1266. As the Supreme Court made clear in Kumho, "where [expert] testimony's factual basis, data, principles, methods, or their application are called sufficiently into question . . . the trial judge must determine whether the testimony has 'a reliable basis in the knowledge and experience of [the relevant] discipline.'" Kumho, 526 U.S. at 149 (quoting Daubert, 509 U.S. at 592). The trial judge has broad discretion "to determine reliability in light of the particular facts and circumstances of the particular case." Id. at 158; see also Charley, 189 F.3d at 1266. The trial judge enjoys equally broad discretion in both deciding how to assess an expert's reliability, including what procedures to utilize in making that assessment, as well as in making the ultimate determination of reliability. Kumho, 516 U.S. at 152; see also Hynes v. Energy West, Inc., 211 F.3d 1193, 1203-05 (10th Cir.2000). We review either exercise of discretion for abuse.
Mr. Velarde argues the trial court abandoned its gatekeeping function, as required by Kumho and Daubert, when it refused to inquire into the reliability of the proposed expert testimony of Dr. Ornelas and Dr. McGiver. He also argues that the testimony of both experts was, for a variety of reasons, unreliable.
A. Dr. Ornelas
Dr. Ornelas began her testimony by recounting her usual procedures in examining a child where sexual abuse has been alleged. When asked what information she typically needed to obtain about an alleged perpetrator of sexual abuse, she responded in part, "We have to make sure that the child is safe. So just who they are and is the child away from that person." R. Vol. V at 147. Dr. Ornelas then testified that L. had a "normal" physical exam, which was, she opined, "consistent with what [L.] said happened." Id. at 155. Dr. Ornelas testified that a normal exam is "the most common physical findings for a child who has been sexually abused." Id. at 149. This is so, Dr. Ornelas opined, because "the type of contact that most commonly occurs between adults and children that's sexual is oral kinds of contact, touching, and what's called labial coitus." Id.
Dr. Ornelas also testified that L.'s behavior of withdrawing from her family, staying inside of her room, not being communicative, not being her regular bubbly, running-around kind of self, and . . . waking up at night and touching her mother to make sure that her mother was there in bed with her, . . . having sleep disturbances and some behavioral changes," id. at 156, was "consistent with child sexual abuse," id. at 155. Finally, she testified as follows:
Q. Doctor, if you had those symptoms or some of those symptoms and a report by a child of sexual abuse, are you comfortable forming a diagnosis of child sexual abuse in such a case?
A. I would base that diagnosis on the child's statements about what had happened to them.
Id. at 187.
Mr. Velarde argues the trial court erred in making no reliability findings at all about Dr. Ornelas's testimony, and he argues that, for numerous reasons, the testimony was in fact unreliable.3
While we recognize that the trial court is accorded great latitude in determining how to make Daubert reliability findings before admitting expert testimony, Kumho and Daubert make it clear that the court must, on the record, make some kind of reliability determination. "[T]rial-court discretion in choosing the manner of testing expert reliability is not discretion to abandon the gatekeeping function." Kumho, 526 U.S. at 158-59 (Scalia, J., concurring).
The record in this case reveals no such reliability determination. Even when Kumho was specifically called to the court's attention, thereby removing any question that the expert testimony to be offered by Dr. Ornelas was subject to Daubert/Kumho reliability standards, the court made no reliability findings. Rather, the court seemed to assume that Dr. Ornelas's proffered testimony fell within the category of testimony in "ordinary" cases where courts may "avoid unnecessary 'reliability' proceedings . . . where the reliability of an expert's methods is properly taken for granted." Kumho, 526 U.S. at 152. However, the court gave no indication why this case could be viewed as such an "ordinary" case, or why Dr. Ornelas's methods could be "properly taken for granted," id., except for the court's remark that "I've had this testimony before in trials, and it's not new and novel," R. Vol. IV at 75.
In several prior cases, we have reviewed testimony given by Dr. Ornelas. See United States v. Koruh, No. 99-2138, 2000 WL 342252, at *2-3 (10th Cir., April 3, 2000); Charley, 189 F.3d at 1265-68; United States v. McHorse, 179 F.3d 889, 895 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 358 (1999); United States v. Pacheco, 154 F.3d 1236, 1238 (10th Cir. 1998), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 1112 (1999). In Charley, a case also involving allegations of sexual abuse of young girls, Dr. Ornelas gave testimony, similar to that given in this case, that the victims had normal physical examinations, and exhibited behaviors consistent with sexual abuse.4 Moreover, as in this case, she expressed her belief that sexual abuse had in fact occurred because the victim alleged that such abuse had occurred. We stated as follows in Charley:
Regardless of whether Dr. Ornelas based her conclusion on the girls' allegation of sexual abuse, or on the girls' history of atypical medical symptoms, her testimony is problematic. If the conclusion was based on the girls' medical symptoms, questions surrounding the reliability of such a conclusion arise. On the other hand, if the conclusion was based on the girls' allegations, Dr. Ornelas was merely vouching for the credibility of the child complainants.
Charley, 189 F.3d at 1266.
We held in Charley that the court erred in making no reliability determination "with respect to Dr. Ornelas's unconditional opinion that [the alleged victims] were sexually abused." Id. at 1266-67. We did not specify that any particular type of reliability determination must be made. However, some such reliability determination must be apparent from the record: the trial court's "evidentiary decisions do not warrant reversal if it determined, in some apparent manner, that the expert testimony admitted was reliable." Id. at 1261 n.11 (emphasis added).5
Here, even with Kumho squarely before it, the district court made no reliability determination with respect to Dr. Ornelas's proposed testimony. We conclude that, having failed to do so, the court abused its discretion when it admitted that testimony. We need not reach the question of whether, assuming a proper reliability determination preceded Dr. Ornelas's testimony, we would nonetheless find it error to admit particular portions of her testimony.6
B. Dr. McGiver
Mr. Velarde challenges three parts of Dr. McGiver's testimony as unreliable and inadmissible: (1) Dr. McGiver's testimony that certain of L.'s behaviors (having nightmares, bed-wetting and angry outbursts) were "consistent with" having been sexually abused; (2) Dr. McGiver's testimony that she recommended L. receive therapy; and (3) Dr. McGiver's testimony that she found no evidence that L. "was subject to either lying or overexaggerated fantasizing in her life." R. Vol. V at 202. Mr. Velarde sought and was denied a Daubert reliability hearing on Dr. McGiver's proposed testimony. The record reveals no reliability determination with respect to that testimony. As with Dr. Ornelas, we conclude that the district court abused its discretion in admitting Dr. McGiver's testimony after failing to make any kind of reliability determination with respect thereto. We need not address whether, had a proper reliability determination been made, any particular parts of Dr. McGiver's testimony would have been impermissible for any reason. We note, however, that, as we stated in Charley, testimony which essentially simply vouches for the truthfulness of another witness is impermissible. See Charley, 189 F.3d at 1267.
C. Harmless Error
Since we have concluded that the district court erred in permitting the testimony of Dr. Ornelas and Dr. McGiver without the requisite reliability determinations, we must decide whether that error was harmless. "A non-constitutional error, such as a decision whether to admit or exclude evidence, is considered harmless 'unless a substantial right of [a] party is affected.'" Charley, 189 F.3d at 1270 (quoting Fed. R. Evid. 103(a)). We have defined an error affecting a substantial right of a party as "an error which had a '"substantial influence" on the outcome or [which] leaves one in "grave doubt" as to whether it had such an effect.'" Id. at 1270 (quoting United States v. Rivera, 900 F.2d 1462, 1469 (10th Cir. 1990) (en banc) (quoting Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 765 (1946))). We review the record as a whole. The government bears the burden of proving that an error is harmless. Id.
After reviewing the entire record in this case, we conclude that the error in the admission of Dr. Ornelas's and Dr. McGiver's testimony was not harmless. In asserting harmlessness, the government relies upon Charley, where we found the error in the admission of certain expert testimony was harmless. This case is significantly different from Charley, both in the quality and quantity of the admissible evidence presented, and, more generally, in the entire presentation of the case.
In Charley, two girls, both older than L., testified as to numerous instances of sexual abuse over an extended period of time; detailed expert testimony from the girls' treating physician was properly admitted, as was the lengthy medical history of one of the girls; at the time of the abuse, the defendant was on supervised release following a conviction for sexual abuse of a child; defendant's testimony was "flatly contradicted" in three respects by other witnesses. By contrast, in this case, a young girl testified to a single instance of alleged sexual abuse; there was relatively little other evidence, besides the testimony of Drs. Ornelas and McGiver, suggesting that the abuse had occurred; Mr. Velarde's credibility was not obviously suspect; aside from Ms. Harrison's accusation of abuse occurring twenty years earlier, Mr. Velarde has no prior history of sexual abuse. In sum, we conclude that the error in admitting the testimony of Dr. Ornelas and Dr. McGiver did indeed substantially affect the trial's outcome. It was not harmless. We therefore reverse and remand for a new trial.
II. Rule 414 Evidence
As indicated, Mr. Velarde's niece, Ms. Harrison, testified that Mr. Velarde had sexually abused her twenty years earlier, when she was eight or nine years old. The court permitted this testimony under Fed. R. Evid. 414, which provides in pertinent part:
(a) In a criminal case in which the defendant is accused of an offense of child molestation, evidence of the defendant's commission of another offense or offenses of child molestation is admissible, and may be considered for its bearing on any matter to which it is relevant.
Fed. R. Evid. 414(a).
Mr. Velarde challenges the admission of Ms. Harrison's testimony on two grounds: (1) the court failed to balance the relevance of that testimony against its potentially prejudicial effect, as required by Fed. R. Evid. 403; and (2) the admission of that testimony under Rule 414 violated his constitutional rights to due process, equal protection and a fair trial.
Mr. Velarde acknowledges that a panel of this court has recently upheld the constitutionality of Rule 414 and the admission of evidence of prior offenses of child molestation pursuant thereto. See United States v. Castillo, 140 F.3d 874, 883-84 (10th Cir. 1998); see also Charley, 189 F.3d at 1259-60. He further acknowledges that one panel of this court cannot overrule another. See United States v. Foster, 104 F.3d 1228, 1229 (10th Cir. 1997). This disposes of Mr. Velarde's arguments about the constitutionality of Rule 414.
We observed in Castillo that Fed. R. Evid. 403 "applies to Rule 414 evidence." Castillo, 140 F.3d at 884; see also United States v. Meacham, 115 F.3d 1488, 1492 (10th Cir. 1997). Rule 403 permits the court to exclude evidence "if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence." Fed. R. Evid. 403. We have noted the importance of the Rule 403 balancing: "[B]ecause of the unique nature of character evidence, it is important that the trial court 'make a reasoned, recorded' statement of its 403 decision when it admits evidence under Rules 413-415." Castillo, 140 F.3d at 884 (quoting United States v. Guardia, 135 F.3d 1326, 1332 (10th Cir. 1998)); see also United States v. Mann, 193 F.3d 1172, 1173 (10th Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 1284 (2000) ("'Courts are to "liberally" admit evidence of prior uncharged sex offenses,' but cannot ignore the balancing requirement of Rule 403.") (quoting Meacham, 115 F.3d at 1492)).
The government agrees with Mr. Velarde that the record reveals no Rule 403 balancing of the Rule 414 evidence admitted in this case, and concedes that a remand to the district court is necessary. We have already determined to reverse and remand this case for a new trial. On retrial, should the government seek again to present Ms. Harrison's testimony, the court must, on the record, conduct the necessary Rule 403 balancing.
III. Lesser Included Offense Instruction
Finally, Mr. Velarde argues the district court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of abusive sexual contact. "Determining whether a defendant was entitled to a lesser included offense instruction is a question of law that we review de novo." Castillo, 140 F.3d at 886.
Mr. Velarde was charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of twelve, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2241(c). He argues the evidence supports at most a charge of abusive sexual contact, in violation of 18 U. S.C. 2244. Mr. Velarde concedes that we have recently held that "[b]ecause section 2244 contains a specific intent element that sections 2242 and 2243 do not have, the crime of abusive sexual contact is not a lesser included offense of the crime of sexual abuse." Castillo, 140 F.3d at 886. This reasoning equally applies to section 2241, which also lacks the specific intent element. Mr. Velarde acknowledges that we are bound by Castillo. See Foster, 104 F.3d at 1229.
Mr. Velarde argues, however, that the better reasoned approach is that of the Eighth Circuit in United States v. Demarrias, 876 F.2d 674, 676 (8th Cir. 1989), which concluded that one could be guilty of a "sexual act" under section 2243, or 2241 or 2242, without having the specific intent required under section 2244. Castillo specifically considered and rejected the Eighth Circuit's reasoning in Demarrias. That rejection controls our resolution of this issue.
For the foregoing reasons, we REVERSE and REMAND this case for a new trial.
The name of the alleged victim in this case is fully disclosed in the briefs and in the record. However, Mr. Velarde's briefs and the record have all been sealed. To the extent it may assist in preserving her privacy, we refer to the alleged victim by her initial.
Daubert set forth the trial judge's general gatekeeping obligation to ensure the reliability of expert scientific testimony presented pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 702.
Mr. Velarde does not challenge Dr. Ornelas's credentials, expertise, or qualifications to testify as an expert.
In Charley, we held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed an expert to "'summarize the medical evidence and express an opinion that the evidence is consistent or inconsistent with the victim's allegations of sexual abuse,'" and to "'inform the jury of characteristics in sexually abused children and describe the characteristics the alleged victim exhibits.'" Charley, 189 F.3d at 1264 (quoting United States v. Whitted, 11 F.3d 782, 785 (8th Cir. 1993)). Dr. Ornelas made similar "consistent with" statements in this case.
Our determination in Charley that the court did not abuse its discretion in permitting such statements in no way implies that such expert testimony is not subject to Daubert/Kumho reliability determinations. We were satisfied in that case that, given the state of the law at the time, the court made sufficient reliability determinations. Charley was a unique case in several respects. Kumho had not yet been decided when the case was tried, and in our circuit, Compton v. Subaru of America, Inc., 82 F.3d 1513 (10th Cir. 1996), dictated that trial courts must conduct a gatekeeper inquiry only where evidence is based upon "a particular methodology or technique," and not where it is "based solely upon experience or training." Id. at 1518-19. Thus, the trial court in Charley was denied the benefit of Kumho's explicit guidance and its abrogation of Compton. Additionally, defense counsel in Charley failed to object at trial to expert testimony that particular behaviors were "consistent with" sexual abuse.
In this case, by contrast, the court was specifically directed to Kumho, decided on the second day of trial. Defense counsel made repeated objections to Dr. Ornelas's testimony and sought a Daubert hearing on its reliability, a request he renewed following Kumho. Finally, the court made no reliability findings anywhere in the record in this case, evidently believing that the expert testimony presented was ordinary expert testimony whose reliability could be presumed.
As we also observed in Charley, on appeal "we do not make independent findings of reliability; rather, we examine the record evidence presented to the district court, and decide whether the district court's decision, in the face of that record evidence, to allow the testimony to be admitted was an abuse of discretion." Charley, 189 F.3d at 1261 n.10.
We note, however, that Dr. Ornelas's statement that she would base her diagnosis of child sexual abuse "on the child's statements about what had happened to them," R. Vol. V at 187, appears to be impermissible vouching for L.'s credibility. See Charley, 189 F.3d at 1267.
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Due to the positive aspects of the transformation in the Real Estate Sector, we could be able to see the following expected growths:
- FDI incomings in Real Estate: As it has become a lot easy due to the government policies to invest in Indian Real Estate, we are able to see a huge investment from foreigners. This is expected to rise more in the coming years. As per World Investment Report 2016-17 by the United Nations Conference for trade and development, India has been ranked fourth in terms of FDI inflows, which shows strong interest by the foreign buyers and investors in the Indian markets. Improvements in India’s overall credibility with a transformation of the regulatory framework has built up an attractive destination for both global and Indian investors. Thanks to the improvement in transparency, NRIs and foreign investors find the country’s real estate market more reliable than ever before. FDI flow and demand from actual buyers may increase at the beginning of the coming decade.
- REITs: REITs is the abbreviated form of Real Estate Investment Trusts. REITs are investment vehicles that own, operate and manage a portfolio of income-generating properties for regular returns. These are usually commercial properties (offices, shopping centres, hotels etc.) that generate rental income. An REIT works very much like a mutual fund. SEBI (Securities and Investment Board of India) requires Indian REITs to be listed on exchanges and to make an initial public offer to raise money. The Indian real estate sector has been facing a liquidity crunch on account of unsold inventory and low demand. REITs can help cash-strapped developers to monetise their existing property. Indian investors don’t have too many regular income options. SEBI requires REITs to distribute a minimum 90 per cent of their income earned to investors on a half-yearly basis. Similarly, 90 per cent of sale proceeds too are to be paid out to unitholders unless the amount is reinvested in another property. Thus, you get to receive regular income and also get to benefit from price appreciation, thereby boosting your returns. In real estate sector, both rent and capital appreciation from property depend on the location, infrastructure and industrial development around that area. REITs juggle these risks through a diversified portfolio of properties. REITs helps you to diversify your investment. Along with diversification it provides you with good returns, stable income, tax efficiency and they are democratic in nature.
- RERA: For long, home buyers have complained that real estate transactions were lopsided and heavily in favour of the developers. RERA and the government’s model code, aim to create a more equitable and fair transaction between the seller and the buyer of properties, especially in the primary market. RERA stands for Real Estate (Regulations and Development) Act, 2016. RERA seeks to bring clarity and fair practices that would protect the interests of buyers and also impose penalties on errant builders. The absence of a proper regulator (like the Securities Exchange Board of India for the capital markets) in the real estate sector, was long felt. The Act establishes Real Estate Regulatory Authority in each state and union territory. According to the central act, every real estate project must be registered with its respective state’s RERA. Existing projects where the completion certificate (CC) or occupancy certificate (OC) has not been issued, are also required to comply with the registration requirements under the Act. RERA seeks to address issues like delays, price, quality of construction, title and other changes. RERA have helped to reduce the initial backlog of real estate, it has also increased the cost of the projects. It has increased governance and transparency within the real estate. Developers are encouraged to use common and best practices for construction. It has also seen that advent of RERA has increased in organized funding of the projects. The buyer is assured with transparency and protection regarding the project. The buyer is provided with quality assurance and timely delivery of the projects under the RERA act.
- GST: GST (Goods and Services Tax) seeks to transform India with its “One Nation, One Market, One Tax” principle.In the past, the real estate industry was embroiled in disputes due to ambiguity in provisions as well as multiple taxation. GST is expected to simplify taxation compliance and have a positive impact on the industry as a whole.The real estate sector is expected to become more transparent, since the introduction and implementation of GST. GST will absorb many of the indirect taxes developers had to pay under the previous regime. Logistics will also improve under GST and the availability of input credits will reduce project costs. These reductions for the developers will positively impact buyers, as costs will decrease. While there is still some confusion about the GST charges for under construction flats, the GST council is working towards resolving these confusions and ensuring that input credits are being passed to the end customer through the anti-profiteering clause in GST law.
- Never ending increase in housing demand: Indian government realised it late that it is the government’s responsibility to provide housing facility to their residing individuals. Now there are reforms taking place to achieve this mission. The government has levied Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna under which a person is liable for having a house at affordable rates. In this way the houses are to be built more to meet the demands as such the government’s policy. There is a constant rise in the residential sector as the population is ever increasing, there is more demand for luxury affordable housing. Moreover, there is a rise in nuclear families and more people moving to urban sectors adds up to the housing demands. The residential sector can become more about space than size going forward.
- Developers will revamp their business models: The lack of strong regulations of the Indian property sector, developers used to launch many projects at the same time and there was no guarantee of completion of projects on time. There are numerous instances where the investor’s hard earned money went down the drain, simply because the developer is highly over-leveraged and could not complete the project. Now, with the enactment of RERA Act (Real Estate Regulation and Development Act, 2016), a deadline has been fixed for the projects. Also, other legislative reforms such as The Goods and Service Tax (GST) Act 2017 as well as The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2016, will have a major impact on the business models and work ethics of developers. This will develop more trust from the investors in long run.
- Industry Consolidation: There is an increase in developers and projects but lack of customers which has led to the merger of different developers. There will be more joint ventures in the sector this year. It will attract new investors as the price earnings ratio will improve.
Let’s put a light on the reasons of growth of the Real Estate market.
Regulatory reforms, steady demand generated through rapid urbanization, rising household income and the emergence of affordable and nuclear housing are some of the key drivers of growth for the sector.
It has also seen a considerable increase in the demand of residential real estate. The expected reasons is the increase in employment opportunities, there is a constant growth in population, infrastructure is developing rapidly, migration towards metropolitan cities, easy availability of finance and growing income levels.
If we take a look at the infrastructural level, roads need to be developed, reasons as the ever-worsening problem of population in Mumbai, the city also desperately needs smart roads capable of carrying the maximum number of people within the short time.
Implementing minor changes to our existing road network, such as ensuring the concrete is used instead of bitumen, getting rid of potholes, and removing illegal hawkers encroaching on the space, can make a big difference.
Rebuilding and developing the city’s civic amenities, for instance, the construction of additional railway overbridges, creating dedicated lanes for public transport and emergency vehicles, such as ambulances and fire brigades, can help streamline traffic during peak hours and avoid unnecessary congestions.
One thing is for sure to happen in 2019 apart from all these, buyers have become very choosy and Real Estate Companies will have to change their approach to attract them. 2019 have huge possibilities of becoming a comeback year for the Real Estate market in India.
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Human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to two contiguous epitopes in the V3 loop of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope have shown different effects on three distinct strains of the virus: neutralization, enhancement, or resistance to both processes. Only one amino acid in the mAb epitopes proximal to the crown of the V3 loop was different among these three strains. Substitution of this amino acid in the neutralizable strain with the amino acid of the neutralization-resistant strain or the enhanceable strain resulted in loss of both activities. The conversion of this single amino acid in the neutralization-resistant strain to that of the amino acid found in the neutralization-sensitive strain did not confer the ability for the virus to be neutralized. However, additional changes in neighboring amino acids in the V3 loop succeeded in conferring the neutralization capability. These observations indicate that one antibody species can exert three different effects on various HIV-1 strains. They could explain the emergence of neutralization 'escape' variants in the presence of the neutralizing antibodies. Moreover, the results suggest caution in immunization of individuals with the envelope region from one strain since the antibodies induced may show a neutralizing effect against the homologous strain but enhancing effects against other unrelated strains.
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The last day of the month, so I knocked out 4.2 miles and no pain in any joints:):) yes yes yes yes….I run like a little old man but I can run again….:)
Plus I listened about how money is not a motivator and creating bonus structures based on money can be detrimental to achieving goals as the creative side of the brain disengages and sometimes the creative side is what is needed.
Curious day…lunch with Sunny who is doing decentralisation of politics….always a fascinating chat. I will follow up some of his introductions and explore more…..the rabbit hole continues. Upgrading myself to a stronger better me he described my past few weeks….. I like that makes me feel good:) Thanks matey….
More chats with people asking if they should invest in Bitcoin…. I then open up the rabbit hole to them…then they get bored and switch off….. I know they just want to know if they can make easy money…… by the end of the chats they are more confused…..coins will come and go…most will be shit…some will be transformational ….many people will sell snake oil. I am very very bullish on decentralised systems and believe when the dust all settles the world will look very very different….but coins no idea.
Tonight dinner out with 15 of the staff…they still love me enough to invite me:) Thanks guys and girls I still love you all. If you wanted vegetables then the place we went to was the wrong place.
Tomorrow I may write one last post looking back and seeing how I feel and if I learnt anything during this process.
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Unlocking Online Opportunities: The Positive Impact Of A Denver Digital Marketing Agency
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A residents group has praised developers for listening to neighbours’ concerns and reducing the height of a new apartment block.
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Cathnor Park Area Action Group praised the developers for changing original plans for a seven, five and four-storey block to five and four storeys set between Askew Road and Greenside Road.
Annabel Clarke, chairwoman of the residents group, said: “I’m personally delighted. I know that very few residents at the top of the road were concerned about overlooking.
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“We think it will be an excellent development and that Collado Collins are very good architects.
“It’s almost unheard of getting a building to come down in height by that much. We’ve managed to change so much and the developer should be applauded for the consultation.”
Ben Johnson, senior planning manager at Linden Homes, said: “We spent a lot of time talking to residents and developing our proposals in response to feedback, to the point that we felt that the submitted scheme truly reflected the aspirations of the local community.
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It comes after two developers failed to redevelop the Goldhawk Road site. Bexwell Properties lost an appeal to build a 10-storey block in 2006 and Networking Housing’s plans for a six-storey building of 46 flats was withdrawn in 2008.
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Better TRIN Oscillator update today. I will finish my article on the Better Volume indicator but thought it more relevant to show today’s Better TRIN Oscillator chart.
Better TRIN Oscillator & Systems
The Better TRIN Oscillator turned down today and that was also the signal to exit long positions entered over a week ago. My other oscillators (smart money and put-call ratio) are also over-bought with readings above +100, but yet to turn down. In addition, we’re approaching a cyclical turning point down on the daily chart of the Emini and all the other indices (Dow, NASDAQ and Russell).
As for the systems, there are 5 Better TRIN Oscillator systems (A to E) that I run concurrently, as shown on the chart above. They generated multiple long signals around the bottom of the last down move with an average entry price of 1,423. I also use a simple money management trick of doubling up after a losing trade and in this case a total of 10 contracts were bought (2 for each of the 5 signals). With today’s exit at 1,476 the average profit per contract was 53 points – very nice.
The 5 systems all use the Better TRIN Oscillator and are very simple, each with one line of code for a long signal and the reverse for a short signal. They all share the same exit signal, again just one line of code for exit long and one line for exit short. The systems are included in the Better TRIN Indicator package as examples of what can be done with the Oscillator. I’m sure system writers better than me could improve upon them.
Better TRIN Systems – Equity Curve
Since release the combined equity curve for the Better TRIN Systems has continued to make new highs. The systems appear to be robust since the code is very simple and does not include any optimized or back-tested input values.
Better TRIN Systems – Performance Summary
And here’s the performance summary of the combined systems. The long and short profit factors are evenly matched and both above 3, etc. etc.
Check out the Better TRIN Oscillator and Systems here. The price goes up next week, so if you’re interested, act soon.
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HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!!! #SG50 And to many more great years to come! 😀
Had lunch with the family a while back on a Sunday afternoon at the Department of Caffeine, a cafe located at Duxton Road. We drove down, and there were quite a lot of parking lots available even on a weekend. If you’re not driving down, the nearest bus stop is the one opposite Fairfield Methodist Church, where buses 80 and 145 stop.
The row of shophouses that D.o.C is housed in. They’re right at the end of this row, and occupy quite a small shop space.
As you can see, the cafe isn’t very spacious, nor is it able to accommodate large groups of people. Thus, it is very important to make a reservation a few days before, so that you won’t have to queue/wait too long to be seated! 🙂
The lighting within the cafe is not very bright either, but it does make it feel cosy! Although that means that its a bit more challenging to instagram nice photos . 😉
They have a single-page menu, and some items differ on the weekend. An example would be the lobster club (served on weekends) vs the lobster roll (served on weekdays).
They have a dessert section at the counter, but we didn’t order any cakes/brownies on our visit that day.
Once you’re ready to order, head over to the counter, where you place your order and pay. They do not levy a service charge, although GST is added on to the final bill.
The iced chocolate (S$7+) comes with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, which made the drink taste much better. In my opinion, it was ok, and not really worth the price paid. Togather cafe’s iced choc is much better!
The french vanilla caffe latte (S$5.50+) is basically a caffe latte with a shot of french vanilla. It’s ok, and I felt that the sweet vanilla flavor helped balance the acidic taste of the coffee beans used.
The caffe mocha (S$5.50+) wasn’t really good though IMO. The chocolate taste was rather weak, and seemed to be overwhelmed by the bitter coffee base. It failed to find the perfect balance between chocolate and coffee for me.
The lemongrass & jasmine tea (S$7+) was ok, and had a very light flavor to it. It was a bit too light for my liking though, and I thought it was a tad expensive for the quality.
The roast wagyu beef sandwich (S$19.50) was average IMO. The wagyu beef was not really tender and it is true that you really pay for quality. This was a far cry from the wagyu I had in Japan..
The piggy & eggs (S$19.50+) was ok too, and wasn’t particularly rave-worthy. The sausage was nice, but then again it isn’t very difficult to buy gourmet sausages from the supermarket and cook them. :p The pulled pork was not of the best quality though sadly.
The D.O.C breakfast (S$19+) was a standard breakfast set you could probably find anywhere, and it was solid, if unspectacular. Nothing particularly great, but nothing bad either.
The lobster club (S$21.50+) was rather disappointing for its price. Anyway the above pic doesn’t show the fries that come with it, which outshined the lobster itself lol. The egg and bacon were good, but the lobster (the supposed highlight) was a low.. The lobster meat wasn’t fresh at all, and very few pieces were given. I think only 5-6 small pieces of lobster meat were given. I would gladly pay 2x of the price for London’s Burger and Lobster (£20), and get more than double the amount of lobster meat (which would be fresh too btw).
We ended off with the chocolate waffles with rum (S$22+), which was pretty expensive now that I think about it. The waffles were pretty good though I’ve gotta admit, although yeah it is overpriced. Overall it was pretty tasty, although I would go for Montana Brew Bar’s waffles over this (you could get two for the price of this one, and they would taste equally good, if not better).
Thankfully this place doesn’t charge service charge, cos it is already rather overpriced for the quality of food being served. I do think that this cafe is kinda over-hyped. It definitely isn’t the best value-for-money cafe around, and I’m not just saying that because it is expensive. Just look at Five & Dime, which is expensive as well, but I’d say that I find it more satisfying to spend money there than here. Good to try once I guess, but I won’t be going back anytime soon.
Department of Caffeine
15 Duxton Road, Singapore 089481 (Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar)
10.30am-7pm (Mon – Fri, *closed on Wed) and 9.30am-7pm (Sat & Sun)
Check out their website here.
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Today I am thrilled to showcase these wonderful works of art. My three cousins from home crafted homemade cards and sent them to me for my birthday. Each card was uniquely made and I’m sure was a labor of love. The distance from the middle of Texas to the middle of California is, according to Google, 1,405.4 miles. Their love stretched all that way and made its way to the center of my heart. What a sweet reminder their cards were of how love can be expressed, felt, nurtured, and shared across seemingly impossible distances.
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11-14-2012 08:08 PM
Newbie here and first post -
Basically Bank of America cancelled my card (unbeknownst to me and it still shows up in my online BofA account - separate issue). Last february, I missed a payment because I rarely used the card and had signed up for online payment and forgot. Then they hit me with an interest charge on a late fee (even though I paid off the 200 dollar bill as soon as I realize what happend). Fast forward to know when I check my credit score which has crashed - I called Bank of America who said they could re-open the account if I wanted to - assume my income checks out, etc. Meanwhile i've had a bank of america mortgage for several years that I've never been late on.
I'm trying to understand whether re-opening the card is something I should do or not. I'd had the card since 1998 and it had a 14,700 credit limit on it. I have other high limit cards (amex and discover) and haven't been late on those and I pay them off but as I've learned the payment date and the reporting date don't seem to line up properly.
Should I GW BofA (has anyone had luck with gw and BofA?) / apply to re-open the card? They said it would be retroactive (date wise) but I'm concerned they lower the limit (not that I care spending wise, just worried about how that looks on the report) How long will it take to stop impacting my score? I'm really freaked out about this- my score a few years ago was great but this mess from last february has really, really stressed me out.
Thanks for any and all advice.
11-14-2012 08:11 PM
Welcome to the forums Zig!
I've never heard of any lender offering to re-open a card honestly; usually it's a new card so you may not get the old history back on the account. I think if you want the card, it's worthwhile reopening it; as for the goodwill letters, those may be able to work for you and it certainly doesn't hurt to try. There's a ton of good information over in the Rebuilding Your Credit forum on them, and it's worth checking out.
11-14-2012 08:18 PM
Thanks! Yes - I read a whole bunch of them and have drafted a GW letter to BofA that I think I will send to the CEO.
Frankly, I'm a little overwhelmed and I feel so inadequate w/r/t my knowledge of how credit scores work. Quickly trying to get up to speed though - and these forums are so helpful. Must get numbers back up!!
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Personal feelings aside, no hip hop fan in their right mind would consider Nas anything but one of the legitimate legends of the genre. While some might reasonably argue that his career peaked towards its beginning, there are maybe two MC’s (Jay-Z and Eminem) that have achieved the prolonged success, relevance, or commercial impact that Nas has had on the industry. His current track record of 8 consecutive platinum solo albums is proof of that fact.
It’s impossible to guess whether or not Nas will continue that platinum selling streak with the modern commercial hip hop climate the way it is. But, if Life is Good fails to move units like his past projects did, it’s safe to say that it won’t be due to the quality of its music. Sure, there will always be the critics who will try and compare any Nas project to Illmatic, and come out disappointed. That’s nothing new, and will probably happen here again. Sadly for them, if they’re looking at this one through that lens, those people are going to be missing out.
In fact, Life is Good as a whole feels like the obvious and natural progression for an artist like Nas. From day one, his music has been intelligent, honest, yet at the same time, accessible. His lyrical substance has always centered around his own life’s experiences, in a seemingly transparent way. Today, some argue that his aesthetic has changed, and that’s true, it has…
Born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, Nas was brought up with a noticeable advanced understanding of socioeconomic issues and history, he used to rhyme about living in poverty from an educated perspective (despite dropping out of high school). Combined with his undeniable technical rapping ability, it provided the ingredients for something truly special. His style was authentic, introspective, but at the same time in line with what was popular, which was probably the main reason for Illmatic’s wild commercial and critical success, and eventual label as a “classic”.
That isn’t who Nas is anymore. He isn’t a young, hungry, up and comer living though tough times. Now, he’s a wealthy, almost 40-year-old rapper, going through a very public and nasty divorce, and struggling with balancing his career and responsibilities as a father. In many ways, we still get the same Nas, though just at a different point in his life. With that in mind, this album is exactly what any fan should be expecting (and probably wanting) from him.
From start to finish, Life is Good, is full of the unpretentiously insightful and impressive lyricism that showcases the skill and vision that made him one of the most influential artists in hip hop’s history. But, the subject matter has changed dramatically. It’s a lot more focused on the personal issues that Nas has been facing, and they aren’t as tied to many of the subjects that are common in some types of popular hip hop. That isn’t a “bad” or “good” thing, but for fans looking for “street” rap, this isn’t going to be their favorite Nas project.
We get a handful of songs that take a look at love and relationships with a more mature and refined perspective than 95% of modern hip hop, probably due to Nas’s before mentioned split with former R&B star, Kelis. In fact, three of the 18 songs on the deluxe version of the album are about that specific relationship (“Stay”, ”Roses”, and “Bye Baby”). All of these tracks are definitely an interesting look at love gone wrong, however they can come off as a bit creepily voyeuristic at times. You can tell Nas has been doing a lot of reflection, and it shows in his writing.
These songs are a rare unimpeded glimpse into someone’s thoughts of a bad relationship. It’s not “pleasant” and it’s understandable if its not the type of music people would want to listen to, but they are quality. But, it’s hard to imagine them being long lasting fixtures in a lot of hip hop fans’ rotations.
In the same spirit, we also get a few undeniable highlights that come from a personal place. All the relationship issues Nas has been dealing with have obviously had him thinking about women a lot. “Cherry Wine (feat. Amy Winehouse)” is probably going to be one of the biggest crossover alternative/hip hop hits in some time, as Nas complements an excellent performance from the late singer with a vulnerable look at what he wants in his next significant other. “Daughters” is also another very transparent and highly respectable lyrical performance, which focuses on raising a young lady in today’s society.
We do get a handful of “throwback” songs where Nas goes in with a rougher aesthetic on some traditional East Coast beats, like “Nasty”, “Accident Murders (which features one of Rick Ross’s few “lyrical” verses)”, and “Loco-motive”. We even get a few high-energy radio-slanted tracks like “Summer on Smash” and the Jamaican dance hall inspired “The Don”. It gives a great deal of lyrical variety to the project, and provides the album a whole lot of depth. But as a whole, this album is much more personal and subdued than a lot of Nas’s earlier work. It’s still a highly enjoyable experience that stays to the spirit of hip hop though.
Production wise, and nostalgia aside, Life Is Good could very well be Nas’s best project to date. The whole album’s production was handled by A-list names, mostly Salaam Remmi (most famous for producing many of Nas’s own hits), and No I.D. I.D.’s ability to produce a wide range of tracks, while retaining a soulful aesthetic, goes perfectly with the overall approach taken on the album. Swizz Beats provides the sure to be international club hit “Summer on Smash”, which comes a bit more “radio-friendly” than usual for Nas. However, each and every producer lives up the their name here, and with the list of who worked on this one, that’s a lofty complement.
Overall, Life is Good, is an intimate and intelligent look at the life of an aging MC. It’s not Illmatic, but it might be Nas’s “best” album of the 2000’s. It takes on some subjects that are rarely touched in hip hop, and the result is a breath of fresh air. There’s going to be an awful lot of comparative competition coming out this last month or so of Summer, but this one’s a great album that should be embraced by any hip hop fan that isn’t stuck in the nineties. It might not be an “album of the year” contender, or Nas’s best work, but it’s a highly enjoyable, and intelligent, listen.
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Yung-Fong "Frank" Tang <email@example.com> wrote:
> Steven R. Loomis wrote:
>> In RFC1766 usage, "zh-tw" is often used to mean traditional chinese,
>> and "zh-cn" is used for simplified This occurs in places such as HTTP
>> headers and xml:lang tags.
> No. "zh-tw" only mean Chinese used in Taiwan and "zh-cn" only mean
> Chinese used in China. It happen the people in Taiwan use Traditional
> Chinese and people in China use simplified Chinese. The code "zh-tw"
> itself does not imply traditional Chinese or simplified Chinese.
No, but Steven is right: in RFC 1766 *usage*, those codes are often
*used* to mean those things. He never said the usage was officially
sanctioned in RFC 1766 or anywhere else.
> Also, I think RFC1766
> itself does not define what "zh-tw" nor "zh-cn" mean. It only define
> how to use ISO 3166 and ISO 639 to define language. Actually, if you
> seach the RFC1766, you won't even find the string "zh-tw" in the RFC.
The relevant quote from RFC 1766 is:
"In the first subtag... [a]ll 2-letter codes are interpreted as ISO
3166 alpha-2 country codes denoting the area in which the language is
The original intent seems to have been to distinguish language variants
as used in different countries. Two classic examples are en-GB vs.
en-US and fr-FR vs. fr-CA. What has happened in the Chinese case is
that, instead of identifying language variants, the country code in the
first subtag is being used to identify script variants (traditional vs.
simplified Chinese), and -TW and -CN respectively are being used as the
canonical codes for these script variants. Obviously the hack breaks
down if, as Frank hypothesized, both Chinas ever decided to use the
> If you use zh_HK_TW, then some people could interpreted it as "The
> language used by the Hong Kong people who live in the region governed
> by Taiwan" (which never exist).
Steven knows this already. His question was, if the -CN/-TW approach
is flawed, then what is better?
I would like to be able to point to draft ISO standard 15924, "Code for
the representation of names of scripts," together with the proposed
successor to RFC 1766, which would allow the use of 15924 script tags
in language tag identifiers. Unfortunately, I see only one tag for Han
ideographs in the 15924 draft (2000-05-18 revision), which means that
15924 does not address this particular distinction, and Steven and
others will have to continue using -TW and -CN as script codes.
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After the forced resignation of South African president Thabo Mbeki in September, and the subsequent departure of several cabinet members, Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa's interim president. It is widely expected that Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress, and former deputy president, will fill the top post after elections in April. Please join us for the 2008 Darryl G. Behrman Lecture on Africa Policy, featuring Jacob Zuma. Mr. Zuma will discuss the state of South African politics, South Africa's role in addressing regional challenges, and his thoughts about South Africa's future.
Inaugurated in 2005, the Darryl G. Behrman Lectureship on Africa Policy was funded by members of the Behrman family in memory of Darryl G. Behrman, who came to the United States from South Africa. He had an abiding passion for the continent of his birth and for international peace and cooperation, and was in the process of expanding his work in Africa when he died in 2002. The lectureship is designed to bring Africa to greater attention in the United States.
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Off-late, it has become almost unavoidable when we can completely avoid the discussions happening around partially or completely autonomous cars. These cars are usually driven via AI technology using the data collected from the ecosystem. The automotive critics and experts have similar thoughts on the benefits, shortcomings, and future of significant innovations that’ll disrupt the automotive industry.
As reported by Statista-
- The European passenger car market is estimated that the unit sales volumes will reach 15,531.63K vehicles in 2027.
- The passenger car market’s revenue would reach $413.50 bn in 2023; by 2027, it would generate revenue amounting to US$ 452.20 bn. During the forecasted period, the growth CAGR remains at 2.26%.
With all these stats complemented by the advancement of technology, it is clear that automotive companies are likely to benefit from the transformations and disruptions that AI and Big Data will bring to the table for next-gen cars. Despite all this growth, to get into the reality of the technological expectations, it would need at least a quarter of the automotive manufacturing and supplier staff to become AI-savvy in the coming decades. This continues to be a challenge for the automotive industry, which is indeed a challenge for the industry related to the upskilling of their employees.
Going Back in History – Remembering Major Auto Recalls
Vehicle recalls time and again made the headlines, causing car manufacturers to suffer losses worth millions of dollars and a dent in their well-established reputations. This is because the automotive industry is amongst the ones where the manufacturing processes are quite strict regarding quality checks, timely maintenance, and monitoring.
- In the year 2014, over 64 million units of cars were forced to be taken off the market, marking one of the worst years for the automotive industry in terms of the number of vehicles recalled.
- 3 years later, in 2017, though this number witnessed a major drop, recording 10 million recalls, there was no prominent reason for the automobile manufacturers to celebrate.
- In March 2018, Tesla recalled a major portion of its Model S fleet of 120K Cars because of faulty steering components. This recall caused a sharp fall of over 4% in Tesla’s share prices after announcing the vehicle recall.
As technology is transforming vehicles with the help of digital platforms and solutions, backed with security, efficiency, and increased computing power performance, the time has arrived when the manufacturers need to be smart while deploying the right technologies across all stages of the production and post-purchase lifecycle. This is where technologies like AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Predictive Analysis provide the manufacturers with complete visibility and control of the manufacturing process.
Changing Scenarios – From Mechanical Cars to Digital Cars
Although vehicles have always been perceived as completely mechanical, they’re certainly not immune from digital transformation, as we’re witnessing it through the growth of new technologies. The results are visible in AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data Analytics fields that have transformed the automotive industry.
For OEMs, digital enhancements have become an indispensable solution as they continuously invest in improving the quality of key parts like engines and chassis, emphasizing safety and productivity. Using digital technologies like AI and Big Data, OEMs are working towards improving the driving experience to address customer expectations, making them towards the designing and creation of Digital and Connected cars.
Role of AI & Automotive Industry
Automation has been an indispensable component of the automotive industry for years now, though it’s important to understand the differences between a standard automation tool and an AI application. Deploying automation at the automotive workplace is all about the involvement of technology with a predetermined route. For instance, machines can be programmed to undertake repetitive and mundane tasks over the assembly line. AI can be used to analyze data that continually adapts for higher efficiency and also predict future events.
With AI now being used to make accurate predictions and respond according to the changing scenario, the true capabilities of AI lie beyond what was previously achievable with only automation and applications for manufacturing, maintenance, and overall driving experience.
Big Data’s Significance in the Automotive Industry
In recent times, the term Big Data has emerged as a buzzword for different reasons, and its benefits reflect why. The term is used for denoting various data sets with variety and arrival at greater velocity and volumes compared to the past. These data sets are usually too big and complex to be used with traditional data processing techniques; they need advanced analytical systems and complicated algorithms for drawing inferences.
Talking about the role of Big Data in the automotive industry encompasses everything, from gathering data on consumer behavior and preferences to data on driving patterns, vehicle and riders’ locations, along with data from other cars on the road. Most AI-based applications heavily rely on Big Data, suggesting the indispensable need for automotive engineers to understand the importance of Data Analytics.
Automotive manufacturers can now safeguard themselves from serious issues by rapidly discovering mechanical and design problems after the manufacturers have developed the right procedures for collecting and using data. The data acquired by OEMs can be highly important and should be addressed. Collected data includes specifications and details on the parts’ conditions when vehicles are serviced and after an accident.
Manufacturers also use this data-driven design approach to increase the customers’ trust. Online research proves that a large volume of recalls does not hamper OEM sales but also the vehicles manufactured by their competitors in the same region. By highlighting the pain areas and rectifying them before mass recalls happen, OEMs can prove that their quality control is good enough to catch and resolve problems before they loom too much. It also increases brand trust among the target customers in the used and new car markets.
How AI & Big Data Helps in Reducing Recalls?
Present-day technologies like AI in the future will assist manufacturers in building improved and safer vehicles, thereby reducing the possibility of addressing recalls. By analyzing data gathered from various sources of the vehicle’s ecosystem and using Machine Learning, OEMs access this real-world data about how vehicles perform under specific driving circumstances, considering external factors like- weather’s impact, conditions of the road, drivers’ habits, wear and tear of parts, and all those components that impact the vehicle’s performance. Despite several challenges, OEMs need to take additional steps below to incorporate data into designing and developing vehicles.
The first step involves tapping into and using the Big Data collected by the sensors in the vehicles, especially with the rise of connected, autonomous, and semi-autonomous vehicles. This, together with the data collected by repair facilities concerning particularly physical and operational issues, weather, traffic, and the condition of the roads, thereby provides key insights into a vehicle’s performance. This would allow the manufacturers to understand better how to avoid issues that yield a recall, and they could use real-world data to help them design improved parts or upgrade the vehicle software. Eventually, automated production systems act on this data immediately to change the manufacturing process to improve products on the assembly line.
Most modern cars have advanced sensors to analyze the data collected in the car’s ecosystem. Intelligent AI systems are important in performing preventative analysis for several areas. The core benefit of using advanced analysis is that they can engage in machine learning, enhancing the knowledge of what makes the vehicle work and what prevents it from working to create a model that OEMs need to use to eliminate major problems.
Car manufacturers are now leveraging the Autolytic capabilities of the automotive technology solution provider companies like AutoFacets to ensure they can accurately predict the vehicle’s health and alert the drivers beforehand.
The benefits of AI and Big Data technologies are evident; hence, automotive manufacturers must gather and analyze the high-volume data sets and use the observations to boost AI-based applications to remain competitive. The present-day’s automotive engineers need to privately use Big Data and AI across all aspects of their operational areas or be at risk of becoming a laggard.
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2023-09-24T16:15:11Z
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... you can learn from:
Newscaster: In a blaze of blood, bones, and body parts, the vivacious young girl was instantly reduced to a tossed human salad... a salad that police are still trying to gather up... a salad that was once named... Elizabeth.
Jesus that is one of my favorite passages of dialogue from any movie ever. And yes it is true, besides Total Recall director Frank Henenlotter's trash-terpiece Frankenhooker is also turning 25 years old today - can you imagine? Some lucky dude or dudette went to the movies on June 1st 1990 and had a double-feature of Frankenhooker and Total Recall. They then promptly died, because of Too Much Awesomeness. RIP Dude or Dudette, you lived the dream. For an idea of Frankenhooker's awesomeness GO WATCH IT, or maybe look at this post I did on it awhile back.
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2017-10-21T19:42:41Z
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The PHPNW 2017 Conference was run over the weekend of the 30th September to 1st October at the Manchester Conference Centre and I went along to participate. PHPNW has now been going for 10 years and it looks like this will be the last (more on that later) but this year was just as good as ever.
Doing the opening keynote this year was Rasmus Lerdorf (@rasmus) (the original creator of PHP). He took us through the history of his computing experience from his first computer in the 1980s to modern day PHP 7 and some of the new features that were in (or coming soon) to PHP. Interestingly, when PHP was starting out the big web scripting language at the time was perl, which was run using cgi-pm, but which was fraught with security problems. It took the perl community a good 8 months to create an apache module (mod_perl) at which point everyone had moved onto other systems like PHP. He stated that this slow adoption to use Apache (and one or two major security flaws in the module when it was released) was the final blow in the usage of perl and was the start of it's downfall. His look at PHP7 and future work in that area showed how much more performant PHP7 is than the older PHP5.x versions.
Rasmus worked out that there are 2 billion sites in the world, consisting of about 10 million machines, 50% of which are running PHP. As there is a 5% adoption rate from PHP5.x to PHP7.x this means that the world is using 750KWH less energy than it was previously, which equates to about 375 million tones of CO2. With 100% adoption of PHP7 this increases to 7.5 billion tonnes of CO2. This factoid got some chuckles, but it's an important message. With more performant languages using less system resources we can spend less energy running sites as an industry.
Finally, Rasmus showed us some things that are coming in PHP 7.2, which included some amazing things like dead code elimination (DCE) where code that is not used is removed from the compiled binaries. He also showed us Phan, which is the PHP static analysis tool that he has built that will allow people to catch dumb mistakes and helps to refactor the code to be PHP7.x friendly.
Straight after we had Rowan Merewood (@rowan_m) and Connecting to people - creating a cross-device user experience. This was a look at a few different ways in which users sign into services and the growing expectation of a unified approach to using them. The problems addressed were ultimately solved by using a Google Credential Management API to cross pollinate user credentials from one platform (a module app) to another (a website). Aside from the reliance on Google products from a Goole employee this was an interesting look at user credentials in the post password age and how to solve some of those problems. The main message was that the right place to connect to users is where they are right now.
After a quick coffee break I went to see Chris Riley (@giveupalready) and his talk Nuclear powered software security. After a short introduction into running a nuclear power plant Chris then went into using a system that allows you to analyse all the attack vectors of your application and attempt to solve them. This was a really interesting talk and I will be taking a few of the things I learned in this session into my workplace.
Lunch was the usual fantastic array of amazing food. Year on year the conference has some of the best food I have tasted at conferences, and it's down to the skills of the staff at the Manchester Conference Centre.
Stepping in for a speaker who wasn't able to make their session was Stefan Koopmanschap (@skoop) who did a session about Projects from hell. He went through some projects that he had worked on over the years and told how they went wrong in some way. This was a really interesting look into some projects and the main thing that stood out from all of these examples was a lack of good documentation. Sometimes it wasn't technical enough and caused problems in getting systems to work together, other times it wasn't agreed on before hand and as such scope creep could happen. Some other take home lessons were to ensure that there is some lead-in time for developers to get a hang of the project and to be prepared to work with people you don't get on with. Stefan did say that a successful project doesn't have to get delivered on time.
Next up was Debugging Your Set-Up with Derick Rethans (@derickr). This was a look at how to get a picture about what is going on within a (Linux) system so that problems can be solved. This was a look at strace, lsof, gdb, valgrind and ulimt. All of these tools showed system interaction in some way and it was great to expand my tool repertoire a little.
The last session of the day was Smart Scalable Content Distribution with Georgiana Gligor. In this session Georgina looked at how content could be distributed between platforms. This meant treating content more like code than as content and building the application with new content. I found this approach a little confusing, but I'll be looking into it a little more to see if it has wheels.
After some prize draws and numerous thanks it was time for the evening social where I chatted with lots of people until I needed to catch the train home. The PHPNW community is really friendly and welcoming and even after going for 10 years I still meet new people every year. The Lancashire Hotpots also played a gig during the night.
The first slot on Sunday morning (the hangover slot) was with Amo Chohan and his talk 12 Tried And Tested Top Tips For Better Testing. Despite the early start Amo was full of energy and gave a really good talk. There was lots of little tips and tricks about writing the best tests and using PHPStorm to auto create many of the tests. This was things as simple as having a dedicated test tool or using data providers. One concept of interest was the difference between Detriot testing (where real objects are tested) and London testing (where mocks are used).
Next up was another talk from Chris Riley, who talk about Microservices vs The Distributed Monolith. Here, Chris looked at the concept of what a microservice is (as compared to a monolith service) and what are good and bad approaches to creating services in this way. This is quite a nuanced subject and Chris made a good attempt at showing sone good approaches to building microservices as showed some good examples of where things have gone wrong in the past.
The penultimate session of the day was MySQL Worst Practises: Bring Your System To Its Knees with Andrew Moore (@mysqlboy) (who very nearly didn't turn up). Andrew works with Digital Ocean and showed a good depth of knowledge and experience in MySQL and how people can get things wrong in terms of setting things up, which causes problems down the line. This can be very simple things like not setting the correct sql_mode variable to more complex stuff like testing and checking a replication setup. He also showed that selecting the correct tool for the job was important and that MySQL isn't good at being a message queue and that tools specifically designed to do that job are much better. This is an important consideration in my day-to-day professional life and I always try to take a step back and analyse what we are trying to do and if the selected system is the correct tool for that job. It was good to see MySQL being treated as a tool and not some cool thing that can do everything.
Finally, the closing keynote was given by John Cleary (@TheRealBifter) and was called
So finally I need to address something I mentioned earlier. Jeremy and Rick finished the event with lots of thanks and then said that PHPNW would be on hiatus for the time being. I have to say that I'm not completely surprised about this news. At the time of the conference I was busy trying to setup the NW Drupal User Group Unconference, and there is a massive amount to do and prepare for, even for a smaller event like that. PHPNW is a far bigger conference with a lot more to do, as well as money to raise. I had heard that it was difficult for the PHPNW team to find sponsors this year, and we had had the same problem with the unfoncerence. On top of that there are several people who put their lives on hold for a few months in the run up to the event so having a break to re-evaluate things is probably for the best, if only in respect to the mental health of the PHPNW organisers. That said, it is a massive shame that there will be no PHPNW next year and I really, really hope that it will come back in future years.
Once this news was announced John Cleary got up on stage and handed a picture to Jeremy and Rick that had 10 years of PHPNW conference logos and signatures from many of the organisers and speakers. After this was handed over Jeremy and Rick received a good minute or so of standing ovation. I've said this on other reviews of PHPNW before, but there is a lot of love in the room for PHPNW, Jeremy, Rick and the rest of the organisers. I would like to thank the whole PHPNW conference team for their efforts over the years, you have really made a positive impact on my personal and professional life.
Overall, a really fantastic event and I'm really proud to have been a part of 10 years of PHPNW conference. I learn lots every year and I really hope to see PHPNW come back in the future.
On a side note, if you have any stories of PHPNW conferences then Jeremy has setup a PHPNW Penflip to capture some of these stories from the community. This can be as small as something that you learned to help your job to getting a new job through the conference itself. A really good idea and lots of people have contributed already.
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2021-10-28T03:59:38Z
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