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Mahmud Bin Kadı-İ Manyas'ın 'Acebü'l-Üccab Adlı Eserinin Transkripsiyon ve Dizini
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017)
Turkish language spoken in the lands of Anatolia and Rumelia from the second half of the 13th century to the second half of the 15th century is called Old Anatolian Turkish. In this period, works on various topics including ... | <urn:uuid:b3e22da3-c850-4dc2-9ac3-b98057308eff> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 370 |
||September 21, 2001
Canada's Mythical Mufferaw is a real part of Mattawa
Joe Montferrand (1802-1864) is one of Canada's most famous lumberjacks
and athletes, and as Joe Mufferaw, has recently become one of Canada's
He would marvel at the changes in the forest industry, as shown in the
Forestry Expo in Mattawa beginning today and extending through Saturday.
The Mattawa Chamber of Commerce and the Mattawa Forestry Committee for
Economic Development recognized his importance by commissioning a 16-foot
carved pine statue of him for their Explorer's Point. They are also arranging
to sell books and other items in Mattawa, celebrating his life. I will
have a booth at the Forestry Expo 2001 and will have some Mufferaw items
available. Drop by and say hello.
Joe was an outstanding athlete, shanty foreman, walking boss and timber
raft boss over several decades in the early square timber era.
Non-French speaking people had trouble with his name and pronounced
it phonetically, where it came out as Muffero, Muffera, and Mufferaw. The
latter name is the one used in his current new life as a folk hero.
Joe was a legitimate folk hero in his own time, and after a century
evolved into the mythical hero where writers began to tell exaggerated
tales about him. The stories were much like those children use is "lying
contests," where the wilder the tale the better.
Joe's true story was recorded in French in a biography by Benjamin Sulte
in 1975. Joan Finnegan, the well-known Ottawa Valley author, included a
chapter on him in her book Giants of the Ottawa Valley (1981) and mythologized
him in her book Look! The Land is Growing Giants (1983).
Several other people, including Donald MacKay in his book The Lumberjacks,
have written about Joe.
Joe was established permanently in Canadian folklore when Bernie Bedore
of Arnprior wrote three remarkable books on Joe Mufferaw's incredible adventures
as follows: Tall Tales of Joe Mufferaw (1979); : More Tall
Tales of Joe Mufferaw (1981); and Mythical Mufferaw (1994). (The last two
are avalibale online from the Past
Forward Company Store)
||The cover of the second Joe Mufferaw book by Bernie Bedore.
Stompin' Tom Connors added to Joe's fame with his song big Joe Mufferaw,
which appears on several of his CDs. Stompin' Tom's song-where he says,
"bug Joe Mufferaw paddled into Mattawa, all the way from Ottawa in just
one day, hey!"-was one of the things that prompted the organizations mentioned
above to commission the carving.
||Peter Cianfriani, the carver of the Joe Mufferaw statue,
with the model that is being reproduced as a 16-foot tall pine carving.
Peter Cianfriani, the sculptor, is currently completing the carving,
and it is expected to be mounted on its base in the near future. Some miniatures
of the carving are available.
The Bernie Bedore Mufferaw stories are remarkably creative and beautifully
I read some to my grandchildren recently and they enjoyed them immensely.
||The cover of the third Joe Mufferaw book by Bernie Bedore.
Bernie, who has written other books, poetry, and songs, has created
various Mufferaw characters who have become a part of Canadian folklore.
Bernie grew up around the old Central Hotel in Arnprior, which his parents
owned. It housed many old shantymen who were great storytellers, and many
of their stories improved in the telling.
Some of the Mufferaw narrators, such as Joe Beef and Johnny Coulogne,
are based on these old characters. They tell stories of Joe Mufferaw's
adventures with Broadaxe the Moose, Barrum the Frog, and Bucky the Beaver,
to name only a few of the characters in Mufferawland.
Congratulations to the people in Mattawa for making Joe come to life
there for the pleasure of local people and visitors to the area.
PS: The Joe Mufferand miniature carving by Peter Cianfarani, which was
the prize at my booth at the Mattawa Forestry Expo 2001, was won by Katy
Albrecht of Deep River, who is home schooled and turned nine the day she
got the prize. Congratulations Katy.
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We made a lot of progress on the weeding project this summer:
Round 3 withdrawals: We finalized the list of Round 3 withdrawal candidates (with call numbers beginning with H – N or Q – Z) that were not marked for retention by faculty or librarians, and have withdrawn almost all of the books. They are now on the weeded book shelves in Olin; faculty and students can take weeded books until the Friends Book Sale on Nov. 2.
‘Keep an edition’: In the first three rounds, there were many withdrawal candidates marked by faculty or librarians to ‘Keep an edition,’ meaning that the library should retain at least one edition of a work when we hold multiple editions. This summer we reviewed these and marked to retain all books for which we hold only one copy/edition. We then brought in a subject specialist to review the remaining books, the bulk of which were in the Ps (Languages & Literatures), to recommend which editions to retain.
Duplicate copies: Our selectors have been reviewing books for which we have more than one copy, to determine which duplicate copies to withdraw (if any). This review will continue through the end of this calendar year.
Adding shelves: We have added shelves to the ground floor stacks in Olin where government documents are located and shifted books onto these shelves, gaining about 1,200 shelves-worth of space with room for approximately 18,000 volumes. The books now on the high shelves are effectively in storage (a kind of ‘storage in place’); we will retrieve books on these shelves for patrons who cannot reach them.
Science Library: The Round 3 withdrawals in classes Q-T made it possible to do a major shift of Science Library books on the second floor to give oversize books adequate shelf space. The map cases, which used to be on the first floor of SciLi, were moved to the ground floor and reorganized for easier access. Some of the furniture that had been on the ground floor was moved to the first floor, creating a sunny, spacious seating/study area.
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A bridegroom (sometimes shortened to groom) is a man who will soon or has recently been married. A bridegroom is typically attended by a best man and groomsmen.
If marrying a woman, his partner is usually referred to as the bride. The gender-neutral word spouse can also be used for both heterosexual and same-sex partners.Contents
The style of the bridegroom''s clothing can be influenced by many factors, including the time of day, the location of the ceremony, the ethnic backgrounds of the bride and bridegroom, the type of ceremony, and whether the bridegroom is a member of the Armed Forces.National or ethnic traditions
In Anglo-American weddings, the bridegroom will often give a short speech after the reception, thanking the guests for attending, complimenting the bride, thanking members of the wedding party, and possibly sharing a "roast toast", in which he makes jokes at the expense of himself or a member of his party. His speech will normally be followed by one from the best man.Etymology
The term bridegroom dates to 1604, from the Old English brȳdguma, a compound of brȳd (bride) and guma (man, human being, hero). It is related to the Old Saxon brūdigomo, the Old High German brūtigomo, the German Bräutigam, and the Old Norse brúðgumi. | <urn:uuid:42ba4e3d-6aa5-49e7-bdc3-07f0fd4693c9> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,257 |
How to be a Gospel Singer
How to be a Gospel Singer: Are you looking for some inspiration to pursue gospel music as a career? If yes, then this guide is perfect for you.
Gospel music has always had a strong presence in the African American community. Many churches even have their own choir or praise band. In recent years, however, the genre has also become popular among non-black audiences.
There are many ways to get into gospel singing. This article will give you insight into the basics of becoming a gospel singer.
What is Gospel Music – Definition
Gospel music happens to be one of the oldest forms of Christian music. The genre has its roots in African American spirituals and hymns.
In the United States, gospel music is often associated with black churches. However, gospel music is now also enjoyed by people from other races and cultures.
Gospel music is a form of religious music that originated in the Southern United States. Its lyrics are usually written in English or in the vernacular languages of the region.
Definition of Gospel Music
Gospel music can be defined as a divine way of preaching a gospel or being a guide to people, either to believers or unbelievers through singing. It is also a style of Christian music that is drawed and inspired by popular music traditions. By definition, gospel music can come from any number of ethnic(traditional) and religious styles.
Many gospel songs are extracts from traditional church hymnals. Based on research, the gospel began to compete with secular songs and integrate elements of country music, blues, and ragtime, making music as enjoyable as it was respectful.
The History of Gospel Musics
African American Gospel Music
Gospel music has had a profound effect on popular American culture from its eighteenth century to the present day.
In Anglican, some of the most popular gospel songs of the day, including “Wonderful Grace” and “Rock of the Ages,” began as hymns in the eighteenth-century Anglican church. In Nineteenth The term “gospel music” first appeared in 1874, when Baptist composer and evangelist Philip Bliss published Gospel Songs
Native American gospel music eventually became a common style, from the 1870s to the 1920s, gospel music centered on white churches and the culture of country music. Well known gospel artists of the time include IRA D. Sankey, George F. Root, and the Carter Family.
Gospel Music in the Black American church
Hymns have long been a part of the black church, and popular recordings of black gospel music were recognized in the 1920s and 1930s. Early Black American gospel stars included Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (former ancestor of rock ‘n’ roll), and Arizona Dranes.
In the 1950’s and 1960’s, many gospel artists began to enter mainstream music. Soul and R&B artists such as Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, and Sam Cooke all learned their work in Baptist and Pentecostal gospel choirs, which laid the foundation for world R&B and rock music.
Nigeria History and Evolution of Gospel Music
Nigerian Gospel music emerged in the 1970s as a distinct genre when choir music groups moved from church to community. This change made them accustomed to Gospel music for entertainment and commercial purposes. The writings of the songs are based on the Christian Biblical and traditional ideas. but its function includes both western and traditional musical instruments. Although themes and speeches have been developed, traditional Gospel music has been used as a tool for social and political commentary, as a means of expressing the aspirations of millions of helpless Nigerians, and aimed at achieving social reform for Nigerians
Evolution of gospel music in nigeria
The development of Christian music in various Nigerian languages is linked to the Christian machine business in the country. Early Christian music was a major translation of European Christian hymns. A major weakness of the early Christian Yoruba hymns was that they did not consider a different tone of the Yoruba language. The missionaries translated English texts in the Yoruba language, but instead of providing the appropriate melodies for the vernacular, they retained the original Western vernacular songs.
African music as well outside the church because of their converts because they regarded everything in African culture as pagan or demonic and therefore not worthy of any good use. And it came to pass that the patriotic fervor and the cultural revival of the late nineteenth century brought awareness to Nigerian Christians about the importance of their traditional music. So, for example, African churches, separate from the Western mission churches since 1888, were quick to integrate traditional music into Christian services.
Lagos, the country’s commercial capital, has played a key role in the development of popular Nigerian music. By the early twentieth century, many works of music and traditional choir artists had sprung up in many churches in Lagos. These early Christian musicians were not paid artists but members of the e · ergy or church staff. However, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they combined the desire of Nigerians of traditional music.
Notable among the pioneers were Rev. Josiah Jesse Ransome Kuti, Dr. Thomas K Ekundayo Phillips, TA Bankole.
Christian music has entered the public domain through a slow process. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Christian songs were played on the radio, and in the mid-1970’s, choirs from churches were occasionally invited to perform on radio and television, usually for about 30 minutes.
ELWA (which came out on the air around 1992 when the radio was full of warring factions in the Liberian Civil War), the only Christian.
The West African channel broadcasting from Monrovia, Liberia, had a large audience in Nigeria, and many songs and hymns were broadcast by the choirs of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), a program that sponsors the station.
The son of the ECWA choir was so successful that some of the songs they sang on the radio soon ran out. Choirs from other denominations also imitated the new system, so much so that by the mid-1970’s, Christian music had become quite popular.
The first and most successful Gospel music group in Nigeria was the Good Women Choir of Christ Apostolic Church (a traditional Pentecostal church that broke away from the British Apostolic Church about 1937), Ibadan and the parish, led by Mrs. D.A. Fashoyin. It has appeared in public since the mid-1970’s, and all of its earlier records were highly esteemed. The Good Women Choir was originally a church choir, but it was able to reach out to the business community for a number of reasons. One of these was the emerging traditional recording studios, and etc.(Reference)
Four Distinct Type of Gospel Music
Can you name some types of Gospel Music?
Gospel music has been around since the early 1900s. The genre was originally developed as a way to spread Christian messages through song, but today it’s become much more than that.
There are four different genres of Gospel music, from contemporary to sequartet style, to traditional gospel, to modern gospel, and worship and worship.
Here are details of the genres named above.
Modern/Contemporary Gospel Music:
The modern gospel also known as Contemporary Gospel is a modern, popular form among young people. Although not limited to black gospel music, this translation of the Bible hymns into modern is clever and very effective in attracting young people into the congregation. Contemporary Gospel music includes singers who perform with electronic instruments or choir support. When we are talking about a modern gospel, it is so popular in North America.
Quartet Gospel Music
Women especially sing gospel music; however, quarter-style gospel music is sung by men. A quarter is a small number of male artists. The gospel style quartet is a very popular genre among all fans of gospel music, and while once unusual, it has now become a common feature in churches throughout the United States.
Traditional Gospel Music
The traditional gospel is just as relevant today as it was a century ago. As mentioned earlier, it was developed by black people who belong to a church in the southern states of the United States of America. It is a unique species, unlike any other species. Traditional gospel music is very popular throughout the United States now and is the basis of the African American community and something associated with it all over the world.
Praise and Worship
Praise and worship are a combination of traditional gospel and modern gospel. The singer of praise and worship, which when he just sang contemporary gospel music, then sang alone, in front of a small choir or quartet. Worship and worship are very popular inside and outside the churches and can be heard offline or online.
Therefore, The main difference between traditional and modern gospel styles is that although traditional gospel often includes the basic sound that should be sung by a choir, the modern gospel places great emphasis on individual artists. Many modern musicians do not usually sing with the choir. Praise and praise are a combination of both modern and traditional gospel styles, in that the praise leader has a small group of singers who help lead the church in singing gospel music.
Reason why Gospel Music in essential in the life of People and Society
Relax, Charge, and Refresh … With the Power of Gospel Music
For many people, listening to music, or any other form of music, is a daily activity. Gospel Song has a soothing and calming effect on the brain. Gospel music can boost your mood, and words have a way of developing your spirituality to the next level. When the limit of life touches you, gospel music can alleviate your problems and lower your stress levels. This is because gospel music acknowledges the frustrations of everyday life, and it provides an incentive to move forward.
Music softens the vicious beast – and nothing beats gospel music. Here are 5 reasons why you should consider extending your music restrictions to it.
1. Music that crosses the boundaries of Age and Generations
Gospel music is family-friendly, which means your children will not receive inappropriate messages or content. Composers of gospel music should create music that conforms to Christian standards and expectations. To protect your family and instill values in your children, listening to gospel music at home plays an important role in teaching important lessons about morality and respect – and the same truths we all share as human beings.
2. Enrichment For Both Ear, Soul, Heart, and Mind
Listening to gospel music can not only entertain people but also be a source of enrichment. Gospel music often inspires and nourishes your soul at its core. This strengthens your faith and your spirituality, which provides a good foundation for your spiritual growth.
3. Music to Find Balance
Gospel music provides a way for people to maintain balance in their lives. Music allows people to strike a balance between their work, faith, family and daily life. Gospel music allows people to live in an equal space; the right song can bring a complete message that can help if things seem to be going wrong. Gospel music can also put you in the middle, allowing you to focus and move forward even when things seem bleak and hopeless. Do you want to take the rating seriously? Using an essential oil diffuser creates the right atmosphere and music – creating a powerful feeling.
4 Just Walking Close to the Lord
With regard to Christian music and any worship hymns, the lyrics and the message included can greatly assist in strengthening one’s faith in God. Gospel music allows you to feel connected to a higher power and can help you feel closer to Him and more devoted.
5. Keeping Music Alert
Gospel music reminds Christians of the world in which they live, helping to remind them of the supernatural. Music also helps Christians to know and to be closely associated with their spirituality.
This point will not be fully applied – regardless of your faith, there is always something you can learn about the faith of OTHERS. There is always something you can take away from listening to gospel music and the stories of people who write, sing, and live their art.
Comprehensive Impact of Gospel Music In Nigeria Today – An Overview
NaijaTrackz gathered from The Guardians News interview with one of Nigerian Talented Gospel Artists and Songwriters. Leona – Daniels is a gospel singer and songwriter. In this interview with ADAMU ABUH, he shares gospel music’s impact in Nigeria.
The motion picture and music industry exceeded the 2020 gross income of $ 806 million, contributing approximately 730 billion naira ($ 1.8 billion) to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Success will not be limited to country music. Gospel music has also been instrumental in uplifting the world, creating jobs, entertaining people and spreading the message of truth and hope.
“Gospel music is an American Christian musical genre that originated in the early 20th century. It combines elements of gospel hymns, blues, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, rock, country, folk, pop, R&B, and hip hop. Gospel singers often sing about spiritual themes and uplifting messages.
Gospel songs are typically sung in a slow tempo, although some artists such as Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston have recorded faster versions. Gospel music is generally considered to have originated in the late 19th century among African Americans in the southern United States, though there are also many white gospel musicians.
Gospel music became popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and was especially influential during the Great Depression. Gospel music experienced a revival in the 1960s, and continues to influence contemporary popular music.”
“Gospel music began in the early 1900s as a form of black church music. It combined elements of gospel hymms, blues, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Gospel music is generally performed at a slower pace than most other genres of music. Gospel music is often used to express religious feelings and uplift the spirit. Gospel music has influenced other types of music, including rock and roll, soul, and rap.
Many famous gospel singers include Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, James Cleveland, Mahalia Jackson, Otis Redding, Shirley Caesar, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, Patti LaBelle, CeCe Winans, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, Brian McKnight, BeBe & Cece Winans, John Pizzarelli, Andrae Crouch, Michael McDonald, Israel Houghton, Donnie McClurkin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and many others.”
The article explains four different types of gospel music genres.
- Contemporary gospel music
- Quartet Gospel Music
- Traditional Gospel Music
- Praise & worship music
“Contemporary gospel is a form of contemporary Christian music that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The genre combines elements of traditional gospel music with rock, soul, funk, jazz, Latin, R&B, pop, hip hop, reggae, country, and folk music. Contemporary gospel artists often sing about social issues such as poverty, racism, and violence. Gospel music has also influenced many genres of popular music, including rap, urban contemporary gospel, alternative hip hop, and pop.”
Quartet Gospel music is a style of Christian music that originated in the Southern United States during the early 20th century. It is characterized by a slow tempo, simple harmonies, and lyrics about religious themes, such as salvation, redemption, peace, love, joy, and hope. Gospel songs are often sung by soloists accompanied by an instrumental ensemble, including piano, organ, guitar, bass, drums, strings, horns, and sometimes a trumpet or trombone.
Traditional gospel music is music written and performed by African Americans during the early 20th century. The term “gospel” comes from the name given to the songs sung by slaves in the southern United States. Gospel music is often characterized by its use of simple melodies, rhythmic choral singing, and strong vocal harmonies. The lyrics express themes such as hope, faith, love, joy, sorrow, and redemption. Traditional gospel artists include Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Albertina Walker, Clara Ward, and Thomas Dorsey.”
The term “praise & worship” refers to a style of Christian music that emphasizes praise, thanksgiving, confession, adoration, and supplication. Praise & Worship songs often start with an instrumental prelude, followed by vocal choruses, and then conclude with a crescendo of instruments and vocals. A key characteristic of praise & worship music is its use of a bass drum as a metronome.
On the essential of Gospel Music to the people, Gospel music is an important part of the gospel tradition. Through songs, hymns, and sermons, we celebrate God’s love and power. We also teach about Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.
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First, the title of the post is completely random. I couldn’t come up with a good enough title fast enough before I completely abandoned the idea to post something.
I have been away from here a while, chiefly because of this and partly because I may just be plain lazy. While I was away, a new year came upon us. Problem is, in my mind and to my eyes, it looks exactly like that last one. So far anyway. We’ve been played people!
Having said that, this should be a pretty interesting year for Kenya. We have a referendum coming up, if the politicians can agree on when and how to hold it. I am not holding my breath. Politicians are like procrastinators, only with deadlier consequences for their actions for the governed. Reminds me of something Mark Twain said: ‘Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.’
I am sufficiently impressed by the Nexus One but I think it may not necessarily shake the iPhone’s dominance and the mass hysteria it stirs in people around the world. Not that it doesn’t have other issues to deal with in the mean time. An unlocked Nexus One is selling for about Sh40,000 in the States on T-Mobile. Wonder how much it will cost when it gets to Kenya, considering the Orange began selling the iPhone 3G at a whopping Sh60,000.
I see this as the year Safaricon Safaricom’s mobile money transfer service M-PESA grows into an even bigger phenomenon. At over 7.3 million subscribers, you can already see why banks are worried. And one gets the feeling that Safaricom is only getting started. Some interesting perspective on the M-Pesa ownership from blogger Tovuti Sanifu. Chief competitor Zain’s ZAP should have only scratched the half a million users mark.
How much longer before Facebook is completely outshone by Twitter, if ever? I took slightly over a month away from Facebook and I returned this week to find it even more pointless than when I had left. Not to mention the ever-lingering privacy issues.
What exactly happened to the once promising Kenya Blogs Webring? It lost its mojo some time back, right about the same time the aggregator got a ‘new look’ that resembles a document done by a novice on Word. Then it got taken over by jobs advertisements and unending sports commentary. You may still find the odd good blogger in there somewhere [like Yours Truly :)] but what is that they say about needles and haystacks again? There are some efforts by KDN’s Butterfly to provide an alternative but even that needs some work.
Also towards the end of last year, while I was busy roasting the insides of a particularly tasty goat, one Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was busy ruining the picture perfect American Christmas. And now, the frenzied American media won’t have enough of what to do, or not to do with him. Why a priviledged 23-year-old Nigerian with the best education and exposure money can buy gets radicalized and is convinced suicide bombing a plane somehow helps his cause beats me.
I have become a bemused spectator to the never-ending ideological feud of the American TV people Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Bill O’Reilly and the rest.
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By: Luke Drase
The old adage “volleyball is a game of runs,” was proven true Monday night when Highland Park defeated Glenbrook North 25-19, 22-25, 25-16 in the opening match of the CSL North conference season.
Both teams started out the match rather sloppy, committing multiple errors on serve receive and on the attack, which led to a tightly contested first set.
Then, with the game tied at 19, Highland Park finally got the breakthrough that they were looking for.
Highland Park went on a 6-0 run to close out the set. Ella Weil led the way from the service line as she aced GBN three times during the Giants run.
The second set started eerily similar to the first, both teams were error prone in the early going, but once the passing improved, the attackers caught fire.
GBN and Highland Park both started putting the ball away with authority, especially Highland Park outside hitter Olivia Carter who within a span of five points, rattled off two kills, a stuff block and an ace.
Carter said: “It was mostly the energy from my team that brought us all together and I just had so much excitement from them that I just swung as hard as I could and the ball found the floor.”
This increased attacking presence led to more side out volleyball and another tied game late in the set. But the Spartans ultimately prevailed as they took seven of the final nine points to force the final set.
With two tight games already, it only seemed natural that both teams would be clawing for every point, however, that was not to be.
Highland Park broke the game wide open as they jumped out to a 14-1 lead thanks to impeccable serving, and dominant attacking from their two outside hitters Ireland Hieb and Carter.
With such a big advantage, the Giants put it in cruise control for the rest of the game to win the final frame by a score of 25-16.
“The last time we faced them we lost 24-26 in the third set, so we’re two pretty evenly matched teams,” said Highland Park coach Beth Peterson.
“But the difference this time is that we had eight service errors per set last time we played them so just keeping our serves in really helped.”
With the big win to get them off to a 1-0 start in conference, the ultimate goal of a conference title isn’t that farfetched for the young Highland Park team, especially in a wide open CSL North.
A tough early season schedule for the Giants where they played the likes of Niles West, OPRF and Warren, bodes well for a successful second half run.
Peterson said: “I think it makes a difference that we played tough competition so that the girls challenge themselves and know that they can play with the better teams.”
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Welcome back to another Weekly Roundup with some great suggestions for things to do around this great city over the coming seven days.
We’re changing the format a bit this time around, but we still have all the best events, gigs, festivals, markets and everything else covered, to ensure you maximise your free time! And be sure to check out our sister site, Dublin Gigs for your daily dose of What’s On around the capital.
The Body&Soul festival takes place over this weekend in the beautiful and mythical surroundings of Ballinlough Castle. The lineup includes many notable acts like Goldfrapp, Of Montreal, and Gary Numan, amongst many others. No better way to spend the Summer Solstice!
Bryan Ferry plays the second of his two concerts at the National Concert Hall tonight, Thursday, 19th June. The event is part of the ESB Live series in conjunction with the RTÉ Concert orchestra. Tickets from €55 available online from NCH.
Dublin’s very own Imelda May plays Vicar Street tonight, Thursday, 19th June, bringing her brand of rockabilly back to the capital, in support of her new album ‘Tribal‘. Tickets start at €35.
Smash Hits!, the 90s dance, pop and R‘n’B tribute band, play the Button Factory this Saturday, 21st June. Summer Solstice fun, a real throwback to a feel-goodtime of old skool nightclub DJs — not to be missed! Tickets €24.50 available online.
The summer series of concerts at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham gets underway next Tuesday, 24th June with none other than Paul Weller, supported by Tom Odell. Other acts performing throughout the week include Elbow, Jack White, The Coronas and Biffy Clyro.
Brian Friel’s revealing family drama, Aristocrats, directed by Peter Mason, is back at the Abbey Theatre, running until 2nd August, 2014. Previews take place until 23rd June, with performances at 7.30pm Monday to Saturday on the main Abbey stage. Matinee performances are at 2pm on Saturdays. Tickets are priced between €13 and €45 and may be purchased online.
One of Oscar Wilde’s most famous works, the classic comedic play An Ideal Husband, is coming to the end of its run at the Gate Theatre in Dublin this Saturday night, 21st June. Tickets cost €35 and may be reserved online.
The six show run of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny comes to an end this Sunday, 22nd June, at the Olympia Theatre. Director Lynne Parker has transformed the Olympia Theatre in this immersive production, to evoke a timeless, universal metropolis. Tickets cost from €20 and may be purchased online.
The hugely popular Moll also comes to the end of its extended run in the Gaiety this Saturday, 21st June. Starring Frank Kelly, Des Keogh, and Mary McEvoy, tickets for the final performances may still be reserved online.
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra present A Night on the Town: The Music of Gershwin and Bernstein at the National Concert Hall on Saturday, 21st June at 8pm. The soundtrack will be provided by the sensational Kim Criswell. Tickets cost from €11 and may be reserved online.
The Summer Lunchtime Series continues at the National Concert Hall next Tuesday, 24th June, with ‘Accordion Fantasies’. Featuring Dermot Dunne along with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the concert starts at 1:05pm and tickets cost €10, available for purchase online.
The phenomenon that is Rivierdance is back in the Gaiety from next Tuesday, 24th June, celebrating its 20th anniversary. Who could ever forget that memorable interval act in the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin way back in 1994? Tickets cost from €20. And the memories? Priceless!
Two of the current exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art are coming to an end this Sunday. The Patrick Scott retrospective ‘Image, Space, Light‘ was made all th emore poignant, with the sad passing of the artist just two days before the exhibition opened. Open Eye Policy, a major retrospective of the work of renowned Indian artist Sheela Gowda, also comes to an end this weekend, after a very successful run.
The 184th RHA annual exhibition continues in Ely Place, bringing together the works of RHA members, invited artists and artists selected from open submission. A little something for everyone on offer, including painting, sculpture, print, photography, drawing and architectural models. Admission is free but donations are also gratefully accepted.
For fans of Burning Man, La Cocotte café in the Alliance Francaise hosts an exhibition of the photographs by the award winning Peter Gordon, entitled Life & Death – The Temple. Admission is free, closed Sundays.
The Merrion Square Lunchtime Market is back today, Thursday, 19th June, running from 11:30am until 2pm, with a wide-ranging selection of foods from around the world. Admission free. Also check out the other Irish Village Markets running throughout the week including Stillorgan on Tuesdays, East Point Business Park on Wednesdays, and Percy Place on Fridays.
The Temple Bar Night Market continues this evening, Thursday, 19th June, from 6pm. A market that features the best of local crafts people, artisans and artists, what better way to enjoy a summer’s evening that a stroll around a sun-drenched Temple Bar? And look out for the pop-up cinema in Copper Alley Laneway, featuring some great classics – admission €5.
The annual Dublin Pride festival continues throughout the coming week, with plenty of activies planned to keep everyone happy, like the Pride Run tomorrow evening, Friday, 20th June in the Phoenix Park.
The 2014 Dublin Biennial taking place at the CHQ Building in the Docklands, comes to an end this Sunday, 22nd June. This international contemporary art exhibition features the works of over 50 national and international artists. Admission €5.
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Charles W. Watson graduated from IUP in 1969 with an honors degree in accounting. Following graduation he served in the US Army including 13 months with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam where he attained the rank of seargent and received several awards . He graduated from the Dickinson School of Law in 1974. At Dickinson he was a member and the Business Manager of the Dickinson Law Review. He has practiced in Pennsylvania since 1974. For approximately 20 years he has limited his practice to estate planning, estate administration, and business related matters. He is the managing partner of an eight- lawyer firm. He is rated AV and a member ACTEC . He is a former president of his county bar association and a former member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Board Of Governors. He has served on numerous not for profit boards and is the immediate past president of the Uniontown Hospital Board of Directors. He and his wife, Ann, are the parents of two sons, David and Aaron.
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Jerry counsels a diverse group of ERISA, estate planning and closely held business clients. He has designed and implemented complex tax saving estate and asset protection plans for high net worth individuals; qualified pension and profit sharing plans (including 401(k), cash balance and ESOP) and executive compensation programs for Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, banks, law and medical firms, and closely-held businesses; and shareholder, partnership, and LLC agreements and executive employment contracts on behalf of closely held businesses. Jerry was the only Long Island attorney awarded Super Lawyer status in the New York Metro Region for 2010, 2011 and 2012 in the Employee Benefits/ERISA category, was awarded Super Lawyer status in the Corporate Counsel Edition for 2009, and is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Before founding The Wolf Law Group, P.C. in April of 1999, Jerry was a name Partner in the Mineola based law firm of Meltzer, Lippe et al. and prior to that he was a Partner in the Park Avenue law firm of Alexander & Green and an associate at Shearman & Sterling. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Pace University and Long Island University and as Faculty Chairman of the Practicing Law Institute Continuing Legal Education Program on Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans for 10 years. Jerry has lectured and written articles for the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Nassau and Suffolk Academies of Law, Practicing Law Institute, N.Y.U. Tax Institute, Trust and Estate Planning Council of Nassau County, the Nassau County Society of CLU, and numerous CPA Societies. Jerry is a graduate of Brooklyn College (BA), University of Wisconsin (MS) and Fordham Law School (JD). He and his wife, Toby, are the proud parents of daughters, Dana, Erica, Amanda, and Debra and grandparents of Abe and Sam. Jerry is a published composer of popular and jazz music. One of his songs, “Adam,” received national radio play and appears on the jazz album, “Arthur Street.” His own album, “The Soul of the Wolf,” has been played on Long Island jazz stations and at local jazz events.
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Since 1988, Gerard M. Wrynn has focused his practice in areas of wills, trusts and estates. With experience in all aspects of estate planning, trust and estate administration, including New York State Surrogate's Court Proceedings and proceedings in the Connecticut Probate Courts. Mr. Wrynn's expertise ranges from the simple to complex. His extensive experience dealign with the Internal Revenue Service, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services, on many varied matters, including the processing and audit of estate and gift tax returns, benefits clients at both the agent and appeals levels. Active in legal circles, Mr. Wrynn is a member of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association, The Real Property, The Trust and Estates and Elder Law Sections of the New York State Bar Association, the Greenwich, Connecticut, Westchester County (NY), and Queens County (NY) Bar Associations. Sharing his broad knowledge with the community, he has lectured before numerous groups, corporations and associations regarding estate planning; including the American Institue of Certified Public Accountants; St. John's University Alumni and New York State Bar Association Membership. Mr. Wrynn also donates a generous amount of his time to charitable causes. In recognition of his pro bono work in the Town of Greenwich, CT, Mr. Wrynn was the 2011 recipient of the Pro Bono Award presented by the Hon. David L. Hopper, Probate Judge for the Town of Greenwich. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Beacside Soccer Club of CT Inc. in Norwalk, Connecticut. Education: St. John's University School of Law, Jamaica, New York. Admissions: New York, 1989, Connecticut, 2001. Areas of Practice: Trusts and Estates Litigation; Planning and Administration (90%), Real Estate (10%).
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Like the other applications in Microsoft Office 2007, Excel 2007 boasts upgraded features and a brand-new look. In Excel 2007 Essential Training , instructor Lorna A. Daly introduces the new version in detail. The training begins with the essentials of using the program, including how and why to use a spreadsheet, how to set up and modify worksheets, and how to import and export data. Lorna then moves on to teach more advanced features, such as working with functions and macros. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
We're going to learn about relative and absolute referencing by using the StoreA worksheet. So you can open that now. Before we learn about referencing, I want to review the concept of a cell addresses. And what a cell address is, is the identifier that distinguishes this particular cell here, G2, then any other cell in the whole spreadsheet. The cell address denotes the column that it's in and the row that it's sitting in. So, it's G2 is this cell here. The name of that cell is over here in the name box. So that's that cell address that I'm looking at.
Now when you use cell addresses and formulas, it gives you a lot of power. If I use my arrow keys and move over to cell E2, you'll see that this particular formula was created using cell addresses. I'm seeing D2*C2. Now as a little review, you'll know that this is a formula because it starts with an equals sign and it's using a operator. In this case it's the multiplication operator that is the asterix. So this formula is telling Excel to take the value that's sitting in cell D2, which is 15, and multiply it by the value that's sitting in cells C2, which is 525.
So if I take 525, multiply it by 15, I get 78.75, which is the answer that you get when you do this calculation. Now, the reason I put in these cell addresses rather than the numbers to do the calculation, is because gives me the ability to use relative referencing. What relative referencing does, is it says, "When you copy this particular formula into other areas of your spreadsheet, use the same relative addresses." Which means the very first cell that you're going to get is one to the left, because that's where D2 is sitting in respect to where I'm putting the answer.
So move one cell to the left, and multiply it by the information that's in two cells to the left. And put the answer in the cell that you're working in. How does this look in real life? Well if I moved down the road to row 3, the relative referencing is one cell to the left, D3, times two cells to the left, D3. If I go down one more row, still keeps that same relative referencing. One row to the left times two cells to the left and so on and so on and so on down my column.
So that's what relative referencing does. If I copy this by selecting the cell E2, right-clicking and selecting Copy, go to cell F2, right-click and say Paste. You'll see that the relative answers are placed in here. So it's going once cell to the left times two cells to the left. Notice now I'm looking at a whole lot bigger numbers in this case because I'm multiplying my final costs times a larger inventory. But that that's how easy it is to take the information that's in that cell and copy it.
I'm going to delete that. Now the difference between relative referencing and absolute referencing, means that absolute referencing always goes back to the same cell. It kind of pins that cell in the calculation that you're going to do. You identify absolute referencing by the use of dollar signs. So let's use the same formula here, but use C2 has an absolute reference. So if I type in the formula D2*--an absolute reference is indicated by putting in a dollar sign-- c$2, and I click the Accept sign, it places that particular formula in cell F2. if I move down one cell, noticed now that this is different than the other type of referencing I had.
If I compare the formula in cell F3 to the formula that's in cell F2, you'll notice that the first section has moved and uses relative referencing. So I've gone to D3 in both cases, but in the second one I've still gone back using the value that if find in cell C2. And if you scroll down through the column, you'll notice that cell C2 stays as a absolute reference throughout every single row. Even though the first reference is using the relative referencing and it moves with each row. So it's always going back to the value that it finds in cell C2 to do the calculation.
This is the difference between a relative and absolute referencing. We'll be reviewing this concept again as we go to take a look at working with formulas in other movies.
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If you look at the expense of the “sleep labs”, this can make sense, plus you don’t need to sleep in a strange bed for a couple nights. The data is downloaded and analyzed. This device has been approved by the FDA since 2004. Sleep apnea causes an individual to stop breathing...
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The Austrian national selection where we will find out Wer Singt Für Österreich is taking place tonight in Vienna. Just before the show, we checked who do our readers want to see winning tonight, and who do our readers think should be representing Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm.
The winner of our poll is Zoe with her song “Loin d’ici” with amazing 46,49% of the votes, followed by Orry Jackson in second place with 17,54% and Lia Weller in third with 9,65% of the votes. Check out the full ranking here:
- Zoe – Loin d’ici – 46,49%
- Orry Jackson – Pieces In A Puzzle – 17,54%
- Lia Weller – Runaway – 9,65%
- Elly – I’ll Be Around (Bounce) – 8,77
- Vincent Bueno – All We Need Is That Love – 4,39%
- LiZZA – Psycho 3,51%
- AzRaH – The One – 3,51%
- Bella Wagner – Weapons Down – 2,63
- Sankil Jones – One More Sound – 2,63
- Céline Roschek & Farina Miss – Sky is the Limit – 0,88%
Our editors have also listened to the 10 participating songs in tonight’s final, and the top five of our selection was as follows:
- Zoe – Loin d’ici
- Orry Jackson – Pieces In A Puzzle
- Lia Weller – Runaway
- Elly – I’ll Be Around (Bounce)
- LiZZA – Psycho
Our editors have agreed with our readers, as the top four is exactly the same. Our editor Mikael thinks that ”Loin d’ici” is one of the most magical songs he’s ever heard. He doesn’t usually appreciate songs in French, but says that this one is simply ”incroyable”, and a masterpiece! Ervin thinks that there is something very mesmerizing about “Loin d’ici”, and that Zoe’s gentle yet powerful vocals suit the song perfectly. He also thinks that the melody of the song is very pleasant and nice, and that the arrangements of the song could not have been done better.
ESCBubble is in Vienna, and we will be bringing you news straight from inside the studio where “Wer Singt Für Österreich” will be taking place. Also, you can still vote in our poll, as it will be running until the end of tonight’s show. | <urn:uuid:043b5637-79bb-4b6f-a344-46bef207d79e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,972 |
Scientific name: Sterna sandvicensis
Found around our coasts during the breeding season, the large Sandwich Tern can be spotted diving into the sea for fish such as sandeels. It nests in colonies on sand and shingle beaches, and islands.
Average lifespan: 12 years
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My colleague and friend Joseph Kerski recently wrote about the ways in which spatial thinking may be increasingly recognized as valuable within higher education (and thanks for the call out, Joseph). He included Harvard’s recent job announcement as evidence of increased interest in the topic, and suggested that few dedicated jobs like these exist. I think there are actually more people filling that role on college campuses than is usually recognized, but these jobs are still uncommon. They typically exist where GIS is being used in interdisciplinary settings, and in locales where cross-campus activities naturally take place, like libraries and offices of instructional technology. There, anyone who tries to support GIS usage and does NOT effectively communicate about spatial thinking in the process has an especially difficult time doing their job.
GIS “Specialists” on college campuses are great people (some of my best friends!) and I’m lucky to have met many of them over the years, mostly those from smaller liberal arts schools including Smith, DePauw, Carleton, Dickinson, Allegheny, Amherst, Colby, Williams, St. Lawrence, Skidmore, and dozens of others. At Redlands, we’re lucky to have multiple people participating in these efforts. Dave Smith is our GIS Specialist, based in ITS. I modeled my own current Redlands position after Barbara Parmenter’s at Tufts, and work as a hybrid faculty/administrator. Yes, it’s uncommon and difficult at times to bridge those worlds, but it can work.
What all of these positions have in common is that spatial thinking, whether we explicitly describe it as that or not, is central. Yes, there’s software support. Yes, there’s data management. Yes, there’s some applied analysis. Yes, there’s map production. But if we weren’t successful at helping faculty and students gain confidence and competence at asking and answering spatial questions, it would all be for naught. Faculty + their creative ideas + a few scattered days with Esri’s virtual campus ≠ sustainable GIS-based spatial learning.
The Harvard announcement has indeed generated a bit of discussion around the water cooler. I’m particularly interested that they’re targeting their General Education courses, especially since I happened to write about their doing just that in a 2009 article in Journal of Geography in Higher Education (free pdf available here)! Faculty who are curious about GIS and are hesitatingly testing the waters are sometimes reluctant to admit that they don’t know much about the spatial characteristics of their data, or that they have never (knowingly) asked spatial questions about the data before, or that they know little about how to analyze their spatial data in (statistically) valid ways. Typically, faculty will have to be ready to try something new, and dedicate some time to it, and we all know how precious and rare our time can be. Support staff learn to appreciate that faculty perspective and work with and around it. How effective will a post-doc be in that role? Can a post-doc be conversant enough about the range of topics they are likely to encounter (from biology to history to sociology to geology to political science, and beyond), or at least intellectually curious enough to engage in the conversations necessary to tease out the best GIS-based approaches? Can someone make enough progress in two years to show a return in (learning) investment? YES. Especially if they’re geographers, the naturally interdisciplinary discipline!
Bottom line – there is a tremendous amount of spatially-based learning going on in many ways and in many places across campuses, it often involves GIS, schools from A to Z are doing it, and explicit attention to the value that spatial thinking brings to the activities will provide its greatest purchase in higher education. Institutional investments in human resources are essential to making it all work. | <urn:uuid:1511ffc0-5da1-4bc0-8ccb-9bc3042debfd> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,904 |
Canton’s Main Street Board has signed an agreement to lease the small empty lot on the corner of East Main and Elizabeth streets in hopes of making over the land and using it as a park for small concerts and movies, said Main Street Director Meghan Griffin.
Within the agreement, Griffin said the Main Street board will shell out $700 per year and will be filling the hole the building left with dirt, which it appears will be donated. The money will not come from the portion of Main Street’s budget that comes from Canton taxpayer dollars, she added.
Griffin said the agreement could be canceled at any time if for some reason Main Street wanted out, or if the property owners wanted to sell the land.
But no matter how long Main Street can use the land, Griffin said she hopes the plans will help to “beautify” downtown Canton.
“First off, with the work that’s being done downtown … we want to just create a more beautiful landscape down there,” Griffin said. “When the Canton Drug Company burned down in 2009, it left a hole — quite literally a hole. It’s really just to (help) downtown to make it attractive and make it available.”
John Fincher is one of the two property owners the Main Street board has struck the deal with, along with John Adkins.
Fincher said Thursday the loss of the building was a blow to downtown Canton, where it had stood since the 1920s, but that rebuilding it didn’t make economic sense.
“It was very distressing,” said Fincher, who ran an art gallery in the building before the fire. “The expense of rebuilding the building the way the economy was at the time, it wasn’t very advantageous.”
Fincher said he had no immediate plans to sell the land, and he wasn’t sure what would happen moving forward.
But he does like the Main Street Board’s ideas.
“I think it’d be fantastic,” he said.
Mayor Gene Hobgood also said he was pleased with the plans.
“I think it’s a good deal, I really do,” Hobgood said Thursday. “We appreciate the owners actually working with the Main Street (board). It’s not like (the owners) are going to get rich.”
Hobgood said the Main Street Board had been working on the plans for about a year, and originally, the property owners asked the city to forgive their property taxes in exchange for use of the land.
“We cannot waive property taxes,” the mayor said. “You can’t give any type of property tax relief without a referendum.”
But each of the owners will be getting $350 a year, and Hobgood said that price will likely help with their property taxes.
Hobgood said he thinks Main Street’s work on the property, which many have called an eyesore since the fire, will change the look a bit in downtown.
“It’s going to clean up that corner a little bit,” he said. “Hopefully, from now on that corner will be in somewhat of an improved state once Main Street gets through with it.” | <urn:uuid:4c80cd90-8a35-4b3e-ad19-55ca3a68ce8d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,838 |
Race and socioeconomic status can hinder and delay patient access to migraine treatment and result in poorer outcomes, according to a study published in the April issue of Headache. People of African descent and Latinx ethnicity tend to fare worse than other people of color and their White counterparts.
"It should be shocking to neurologists and other clinicians who care for migraine patients how few are able to successfully traverse the barriers to achieve an accurate diagnosis and proper, evidence-based, acute and preventative treatment," commented Peter McAllister, MD, medical director at the New England Institute for Neurology and Headache and chief medical officer for clinical research at Ki Clinical Research in Stamford, Conn. McAllister was not involved in this study.
Assessing Barriers to Care
Researchers designed the study with the primary objective of estimating the number of patients with migraines with unmet clinical needs and who were impacted by four preidentified barriers to care. To evaluate their objective, researchers conducted a longitudinal, Internet-based survey known as the Chronic Migraine Epidemiology and Outcomes (CaMEO) study. They collected data over 1 year examining a cohort of patients that mimicked the diverse demographics of the U.S. population. Researchers conducted longitudinal assessments every 3 months for 15 months, incorporating cross-sectional analyses that surveyed health care use, family burden, and comorbidities or endophenotypes.
Eligible enrollees were 18 years of age or older.
Researchers identified four barriers that hindered patient outcomes, and they served as the primary outcomes of the studies. They were:
Health care provider consultations. Investigators used study participants' responses to the following question during their interactions with their health care providers to help evaluate the quality of their consultation experience: "What type of doctor is currently managing your headaches?" Researchers included data from patients whose practitioners fit the description of those they deemed best suited to address ongoing headache challenges. These medical professionals included general practitioners, family physicians, internal medicine doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, neurologists, pain specialists, headache specialists, and obstetrician-gynecologists.
Diagnosis. Carefully evaluating patients' responses to a series of questions helped researchers gauge the accuracy of diagnosis. Questions included: "Have you ever been diagnosed by a doctor or other health professional with any of the following types of headaches?" Respondents were also given a list of options that provided additional context around their headaches and were encouraged to select all appropriate responses. The list included a fictional response option of "citrene headache" to determine incorrect responses. For this study, researchers deemed it necessary to recognize a chronic migraine diagnosis to ensure that patients received appropriate treatment.
Minimally appropriate pharmacologic treatment. Researchers used the following question to determine whether patients' chronic migraine and episodic migraine were being managed with the least amount of pharmacological treatment necessary. "Which of these medications (if any) are you currently using (or typically keep on hand) to treat your headaches when you have them?" Researchers defined "minimally appropriate acute pharmacologic treatment" as the use of any prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), triptan, ergotamine derivative, or isometheptene.
Avoidance of medication overuse. The study authors pointed out the sometimes nebulous process of characterizing the appropriate use of preventative medication in patients with episodic migraines as "not straightforward" for some patients because not all patients require preventive treatment. Study participants were required to report having received any form of preventative therapy, defined as pharmacological therapies approved by guidelines and supported by data. Such therapies included various antiseizure medication, antidepressants (for example, doxepin, venlafaxine, duloxetine, amitriptyline, imipramine, nortriptyline, and desvenlafaxine), antihypertensives, and toxin injections. Treatments such as behavioral and neuromodulatory therapies were excluded from the list.
According to lead author Dawn C. Buse, PhD, of the department of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, acute medication overuse provides an important modifiable target for intervention and recommends that clinicians use the opportunity to optimize migraine care by reducing the patients' reliance on acute therapies. Taking such initiatives to decrease medication overuse is especially important in communities of color, who are more likely to overuse medications for migraines.
Patients with higher income levels were more likely to overcome each barrier. People of African, African American, or multiracial descent were more prone to overuse of medications to manage their migraines.
Of the 489,537 respondents invited to participate in the CaMEO study, 16,879 qualified for inclusion. Slightly more than half of the respondents (n = 9,184 [54.7%]) had a migraine-related disability (MIDAS) score of 6 or greater – an indicator of disability that is least mild in nature. Most patients who had episodic migraines or chronic migraines (86.2%) had some form of health insurance coverage (n = 9.184; 84.1%; P = .048). Of those patients who were insured, 7,930 patients experienced episodic migraine (86.3%) and the remainder had chronic migraine (n = 1,254; 13.7%). Higher-income patients were more likely to traverse barriers to care. While patients of African descent had higher consultation rates, they also had higher rates of acute medication overuse.
Patients with chronic migraine were more likely to be older than patients with episodic migraine (41.0 vs. 39.6 years; P = .0001) and female (83.0% vs. 79.0%; P = .001), and White (84.5% vs. 79.1%; P < .001). Similarly, patients with chronic migraine were more likely to have a higher mean body mass index (29.8 kg/m2 vs. 28.9 kg/m2; P < .001) and lower rates of full- or part-time employment (56.8% vs. 67.1%; P < .001), and were less likely to have a 4-year degree (64.8 vs. 55.6; P < .001) and annual household incomes below $75,000 (72.6% vs. 64.6%; P < .001). Approximately three-quarters of the patients with episodic migraine (75.7%; 1655/2187) and one-third of patients with chronic migraine (32.8%; 168/512) received accurate diagnoses.
The data uncovered an association with acute medication overuse. Among current consulters who had received an accurate diagnosis and minimally adequate treatment, medication overuse rates were highest among those reporting two or more races (53%) and Blacks and African Americans (45%) and lowest among Whites (33%) and those categorized as "other" race (32%). Ethnic and cultural differences in headache literacy may contribute to differences in medication overuse.
Strategies to Improve Outcomes
Both Buse and McAllister see the value advocacy and education offer in helping to improve outcomes in marginalized communities and other groups negatively impacted by various barriers.
"Patient advocacy and outreach are key here, especially in those traditionally underrepresented in the migraine space, such as men, people of color, blue-collar workers, etc.," McAllister noted.
Buse emphasized the importance of education for patients and health care professionals alike. "A large percentage of people who meet criteria for migraine in the U.S. do not seek care or possibly even know that they have migraines," Buse said. "This finding underscores the importance of public health education about migraine as well as well as providing migraine support, education, and resources to health care professionals on the front lines."
Other strategies recommended by Buse to ease the impact of barriers include encouraging patient discussion, setting up time for follow-up appointments and education, referring patients for neurological and other specialty consults when warranted, reviewing essential lifestyle habits for migraine management, and creating personalized, mutually agreed-upon treatment plans.
Buse has received support and honoraria from AbbVie, Amgen, Avanir, Biohaven, Eli Lilly, and Promius.
This article originally appeared on MDedge.com, part of the Medscape Professional Network.
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Title VII provides symmetrical protection against discrimination in that both blacks and whites, and men and women may avail themselves of the law’s protections. In contrast, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act operates asymmetrically, shielding workers over the age of forty from discrimination yet offering no reciprocal protection for younger workers. Why do some antidiscrimination laws protect symmetrically while others do not? More importantly, why does this design choice matter? These are questions that scholars, courts, and legislators have generally ignored. This Article proceeds in two parts. First, it identifies symmetry as an important, yet frequently overlooked, way in which American antidiscrimination laws differ. Second, it proposes the “symmetry principle” as a major normative theory for analyzing and evaluating the design of antidiscrimination laws. Symmetrical laws have unique expressive, tactical, and substantive strengths. For example, symmetrical laws promote solidarity, are more politically palatable, can more effectively challenge stereotypes, and are capacious enough to respond to unanticipated forms of bias. This Article defends symmetry as a default rule to be applied when addressing traits such as sex, age, and genetic information. To comprehensively combat discrimination, however, the law cannot rely exclusively on symmetry; rather, asymmetrical laws can under certain circumstances be uniquely beneficial. Sometimes a trait is not universally held and is most intelligible as an asymmetric measure, such as in the case of disability. At other times, protecting symmetrically would mean giving advantaged groups a “reverse” cause of action that might further subordinate an already disadvantaged group, such as in the case of disability. Accordingly, this Article defends asymmetrical approaches to disability as well as several race-based policies and doctrines. Taken together, the symmetry principle is capable of imposing some degree of order on the wide-ranging policies and practices in antidiscrimination doctrine. In addition to addressing this previously neglected design choice, and considering how current laws might be modified to better prevent and rectify subordination, the symmetry principle and its analytical framework may also assist future legislative bodies in crafting new antidiscrimination measures that are directed toward formerly unprotected groups.
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The Ratification Process of the United States Constitution Section Two The Need for a new Constitution becomes clear: Shays’ Rebellion and the Constitutional Convention Author: Michelle Williams. Section Two Summary. By the end of this section, you will…
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The Ratification Process of the United States ConstitutionSection TwoThe Need for a new Constitution becomes clear:Shays’ Rebellion and the Constitutional ConventionAuthor: Michelle Williams
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While artificial conifers are easy to retrieve from the attic after Thanksgiving, there’s something about a real Christmas tree that many people still prefer.
Here are some options for those who want a live Christmas tree in their home this season.
Chop it down
The Maryland Christmas Tree Association maintains an online directory of farms organized by county that allow customers to choose and cut their own trees.
Some businesses require trees to be reserved earlier in the season before the cutting process, so farmers may recommend calling in advance to inquire about availability.
Buy it pre-cut
Marylanders might notice this year a shortage of pre-cut Christmas trees, which are often sold by nonprofits and religious organizations as fundraisers.
Groups or businesses typically purchase those trees from big-producing states like North Carolina and Oregon, which have suffered a shortage of late, said Gary Thomas, president of the Maryland Christmas Tree Association.
Christmas trees typically take eight to 10 years to grow, depending on their size. That means that growers who struggled to afford seeding new trees during the financial crisis in 2008 might be seeing the results of that now, he said.
“There’s enough trees out there, but you have to go to the farms,” Thomas said.
The association does not have a directory of places where pre-cut trees are sold. However, many farms offer pre-cut trees for sale on site.
Have it delivered
Christmas tree delivery services are seemingly scarce in Baltimore in 2018.
Pork ’N Pine, a quirky delivery service that offered Christmas tree delivery with a pulled pork sandwich, is going on hiatus this year, according to the business’ website. Another delivery service, Tree Me Baltimore, announced earlier this month that it had closed and would not be delivering this season.
However the Little Havana Restaurante y Cantina holds a Christmas tree sale next door in its old Globe lot. The business will deliver trees to Locust Point, Otterbein and Federal Hill, according to the business’ Facebook page.
Some Christmas tree farmers like Thomas might opt to offer a delivery of a Christmas tree if asked directly, he said.
How to dispose of it
Baltimore residents can donate Christmas trees for mulching at the Northwest Citizens’ Convenience Center, at 2840 Sisson St. The center will accept trees Monday through Saturday, excluding city holidays, Jan. 5 through Jan. 26. The center is open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Yesterday we received a consignment of about 150 publications from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), Netherlands. These publications will be used as reference materials and support our ongoing blended learning course on Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness in the University Incubation Hub.
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Planes, engines, pilots: There’s a shortage of just about everything and it’s going to hold back the aviation industry.
Demand for air travel is back. By September, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), worldwide traffic levels had reached 97% of what they were in 2019, before the Covid crisis. A reason to celebrate?
Not really. The fact is, airline demand would be higher were it not for severe supply-side bottlenecks that leads to higher fares, fewer flight options, and yes, fewer people flying.
Entering 2024, there is still a major shortage of just about everything: planes, parts, engines, pilots, and infrastructure. And it’s likely to extend beyond 2024.
Consider this: As recently as 2018, according to Air Lease Corp. (ALC), Airbus and Boeing delivered more than 1,600 airplanes. Last year, they delivered just over 1,100.
Aircraft production was already depressed in 2019 due to the twin Boeing 737 Max fatalities that left the plane grounded. The pandemic then forced both big manufacturers to sharply curtail output. As travel demand recovered—more quickly than many airlines expected—Airbus and Boeing were slow to respond, limited by shortages of workers and materials. Inflation, the Russia-Ukraine war, and tight labor markets compounded the problem. Even when Airbus and Boeing themselves were fully staffed, their suppliers often weren’t.
Things did improve somewhat in 2023. But as Airbus said during its earnings call in October, “While the situation is progressively getting better, our needs for material and components keep increasing as we continue to ramp up. So, we expect the supply chain to remain challenging for a while.”
In the meantime, new orders came flooding in, from the likes of Air India, United, IndiGo, Saudia, Ryanair, Air France/KLM, Turkish Airlines, and many others. During its earnings call, Boeing described demand for commercial airplanes as “incredibly robust.” Both producers are largely sold out of leading models through the end of the decade.
Making matters worse, the Federal Aviation Administration, itself battling staff shortages and a lengthy vacancy in its leadership, has yet to certify Boeing’s Max 7, Max 10, and 777-X. The recent Alaska Airlines incident involving a Max 9 doesn’t help.
An even bigger problem: The availability of engines. Most problematic of all is Pratt & Whitney’s need to re-inspect its geared turbofan (GTF) engines, found on A320 Neos, A220s, and E2-Ejets.
Pratt’s parent company RTX estimates that over the coming three years, roughly 8% to 9% of all Neos will be grounded for inspection. For GTF operators like IndiGo, Wizz Air, JetBlue, Spirit Airlines, Cebu Pacific, and many others, the inspections are highly disruptive.
With aircraft supply so tight, one would expect airlines to be flying whatever planes they have as much as possible. Many however have struggled with a shortage of pilots. They have enough pilot recruits, but are missing a sufficient supply of pilot captains, which can’t be created overnight.
Many senior pilots — not to mention senior mechanics, flight attendants, managers, and so on — left the industry during the pandemic, in some cases accepting buyout packages from carriers eager to downsize. With so many airlines scrambling to train new pilots, a shortage of training facilities and simulators became a challenge. The same is true for maintenance facilities too, given all the engine inspection work required.
But that’s not all. A severe shortage of air-traffic controllers has forced some airlines to cut schedules significantly; the FAA this spring estimated the shortage to number about 3,000. Nowhere is this more relevant than in New York City, the world’s second largest airline market after London.
Florida’s air-traffic control facilities have also struggled to keep up with demand, leading carriers to fly fewer flights than they’d like. In Europe meanwhile, the Netherlands is making headlines for wanting to reduce the number of flights at Amsterdam’s airport (to cut noise and carbon emissions). Farther east, the Ukraine war closed off Russian airspace to many carriers, creating longer journeys to Asia. That means more aircraft time for the same journeys, further stressing capacity.
Is there any silver lining to this multi-year supply side crunch? For airlines, it does mean higher airfares as growing demand pushes up against constrained capacity. Many carriers reported strong profits last year in part thanks to rising average fares.
Another side effect of the aircraft and labor shortage is a dearth of new airline startups to challenge the incumbents. It’s simply not an easy time for a newcomer to find planes and people, at attractive prices anyway. On the other hand, incumbent airlines are paying more for their labor and their planes because of the shortages. At times during the past two years, they’ve even suffered from periodic shortages of oil refining capacity, further pressuring costs.
Inevitably, given the history of the business, airlines will at some point once again confront the problem of oversupply. For the foreseeable future however, barring another demand shock, it looks like undersupply is here to stay.
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Input Output Global has partnered with the University of Edinburgh to develop the blockchain industry’s first decentralization index. Its name will be the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI). Measuring the quality of decentralisation is more difficult than you might think....
Input Output Global has partnered with the University of Edinburgh to develop the blockchain industry’s first decentralization index. Its name will be the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI). Measuring the quality of decentralisation is more difficult than you might think. It is important for the whole sector to establish a fair measurement methodology and to continuously recalculate the results. The public, as well as authorities and regulators, will have an overview of the decentralization quality of the main blockchain networks.
- Metrics will be defined by the university and continuously measured. From the results, a decentralization score will be compiled for each blockchain.
- The EDI Index will make it possible to track long-term trends and changes in decentralization.
- The EDI Index will allow us to preserve the most important features of blockchain technology.
Edinburgh Decentralisation Index (EDI)
The University aims to develop a framework for measuring decentralisation based on scientific research. The measurement methodology will be transparent. Results will be collected continuously and will be publicly available. The measurement will be carried out by a team from the University.
One of the objectives of the project is to provide information on the quality of decentralisation and the risk factors associated with it. One of the first steps will be to define the metrics that will be tracked and how the collected results will be compiled into an index.
There is already a Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, which has become the most reliable and trusted indicator of Bitcoin mining energy consumption. Universities are independent and have no need to bias the results. In addition, they are able to make measurements of very high quality. The same can be expected from the EDI Index.
Why measuring decentralisation is important
There is currently no reliable source of information on the quality of the decentralisation of individual blockchains. Academic studies are emerging on the quality of security and decentralisation of the largest projects such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. They are produced irregularly and the public often does not even know about them.
EDI will make it possible to track long-term trends and changes in decentralization based on other factors such as market sentiment, changes in protocols, technological advances, and other external factors.
Tracking decentralisation will allow teams to compare different approaches that have been taken by other projects and gain important inspiration backed by data. If blockchain decentralization declines over time, teams can think about how to improve the situation. This is extremely important, as it will allow us to preserve the most important features of blockchain technology such as the distribution of consensual and decision-making power, censorship resistance, transparency and, last but not least, resistance to various attacks, whether external or internal.
The EDI Index may indicate tendencies towards the centralisation of power or the emergence of single points of failure. This can be observed at the level of geolocation, the concentration of resources used to distribute power, the production of hardware, etc.
Users will have reliable information on the quality of the decentralisation of individual networks. This is extremely important, as nothing but decentralization distinguishes blockchain from server-client solutions. This information will also be beneficial to third-party developers who will consider other parameters of blockchain networks such as scalability in addition to decentralization. As a rule of thumb today, when a blockchain is more scalable, it is less decentralized. But what if the team will be looking for the best blockchain for their solution that scales well while being as decentralized as possible? Teams do not have the capacity to investigate the quality of decentralization of individual blockchains, as it is a very time-consuming activity.
The EDI Index will also be useful for legislators, businesses, governments and regulators. When making laws, it can be useful to know where the boundaries of decentralisation are and where they end. From a certain level, a blockchain may be considered centralized and fall under a different category of regulation. If a company or government has clearly defined requirements for a decentralized network, they will have a pool of top candidates from which to choose what they need for their solution.
Why is it difficult to change decentralisation?
The quality of decentralisation is very difficult to measure and monitor in the long term. For PoW networks like Bitcoin, we have good information in terms of the number of block producers (pools), but it is difficult to get complete information about miners. We can easily find that the 3 largest Bitcoin pools have approximately 20% share of the block production. We know that the largest miners have a share of around 5% or even more. We know that roughly a year ago the top 50 miners controlled 50% of the hash rate. What we don't know, unfortunately, is how the situation has changed over the last year in the case of miners.
So far, we talked about data that can be obtained and analyzed. What is difficult is to objectively assess the quality of decentralisation based on the data. Some people believe that Bitcoin is not well decentralized because only 3 pools in the Bitcoin network have more than 50% share of the block production. Others counter that this is not a problem since miners can delegate the hash rate elsewhere at any time if pool operators behave inappropriately. And what role does the number of full nodes in the network play in decentralization?
The university team needs to assess all attack vectors. Attacks can be external, such as a well-known 51% attack, but also internal where individual actors collaborate in the attack. It is necessary to clearly define the relationship between pools, miners and full nodes in the context of different attacks, but also when deciding on a major protocol change (governance). To make matters worse, a good assessment of the power of the team and the presence of VC funds is necessary. Bitcoin is rumoured to have had no leader since Satoshi left the project. How much power does Blockstream hold with CEO Adam Back? EDI should answer that too.
In the case of PoS networks such as Cardano or Ethereum, data collection is a bit easier as it is available directly on the blockchain. We know that Cardano has over 3,200 registered pools (blocks are produced by about a third of the pools) and 1.2M stakers. It will be complicated (rather impossible) to find out who is the real owner of the coins at different addresses. For example, we know that there are 250 accounts holding over 20M ADA coins. What is impossible to know is if multiple accounts are owned by the same entity. Staking on centralized exchanges is another complex topic that the team will need to address.
EDI needs to give us a clear answer on which blockchain is the most decentralised and what its edge is over other projects. This can't be judged completely simply by comparing the numbers of block producers and delegators. It is important to examine the relationships between these groups in the context of potential attacks. Ethereum only supports validators (block producers) at the protocol level and has no built-in support for pools. However, pools do arise in the ecosystem.
The university team will have to become familiar with the details of each project, but at the same time will have to compare them with each other in a fair and objective way, i.e. according to clearly defined metrics. That's not going to be easy.
Debates on decentralisation across communities are accompanied by ideology and false beliefs instead of data and objective arguments. EDI can bring an academic approach and the power of an independent evaluator to this debate. The blockchain sector needs objective and reliable statistics. The winning project will set the bar for quality and other projects can strive to take the top spot. Decentralisation would benefit from this state of affairs.
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We present to you the top 10 best cheap sunglasses that you can purchase without having to break the bank. Although cheap, these sunglasses offer the best features you can ever look for in one. So, make sure you take note and see what sunglasses will fit your overall lifestyle.
Product review of the 10 Best Cheap Sunglasses of 2021
1. J+S Premium Military Style Sunglasses
This military-style classic aviator sunglasses come with a polarized lens that is designed to filter and block over 99-96% of glare. It also blocks intense horizontal reflections (glare) by having a vertically oriented filter layer embedded in the lens. The lenses also have UV400 rated which means it can block 99%-100% of both UVA and UVB radiation.
The high-quality metal frame is made with metallic alloy that is ultra-lightweight but is strong and durable. It also has spring-loaded hinged legs and adjustable silicon nose pads that allows maximum comfort and flexibility. This is the perfect choice for outdoor sports and activities such as driving, fishing, skiing, traveling, hiking, boating and suitable as a high fashion accessory.
Conclusion: The J+S sunglasses gives total sun protection that blocks 99% and 100% of UVA and UVB radiation that makes this the perfect companion for your outdoor activities. It can also be used anywhere you like, be it in the city, snow, sun, and water. Whatever you’re doing, the combination of technology and stylish design makes these glasses the perfect all-rounder.
2. SUNGAIT Vintage Round Sunglasses for Women
These sunglasses give UV400 protection that blocks 100% of UVB and UVA rays. This non-polarized lens comes in a unique design and the keyhole nose bridge adds a twist to the retro style design. It also has a lightweight durable frame that makes it very comfortable to wear.
The lens height is 49mm (1.93 inch) the width is 55mm (2.17 inch), nose bridge 19mm (0.75 inch), Temple Length 140mm (5.51 inch) and frame length 139mm (5.47 inch). It also has various colors that meet your personalized demand that is fashionable for women to wear despite the occasion.
Conclusion: This can be your go-to sunglasses when you are driving, shopping, vacation, and outdoor activities. You can use this as a fashion accessory or as daily wear all year round especially for the summer or winter seasons.
3. Merry’s Unisex Polarized Aluminum Sunglasses
These polarized sunglasses help in reducing glare reflected off of roads, bodies of water, snow and other horizontal surfaces. It restores true colors, eliminates reflected light and scatters light thus protecting your eyes perfectly. This also cuts the glare and haze so your eyes are more comfortable and you can see better.
The sunglasses come with new designs that are suitable for any face that allows you to show your unique and high-end taste. This is suitable for driving, running, fishing, racing, skiing and climbing, trekking and business. You can choose multiple colors are available for this style that can bring you a colorful mood in the hot summer.
Conclusion: The Merry’s Unisex Sunglasses are made for everyone and by wearing these because it good quality and cheap sunglasses, it helps in reducing heat radiation, enhancing contrast, diminishing damage from the strong sun rays. This is a good buy for sunglasses that are perfect for any outdoor activities and allows your eyes to balance the colors that our eyes naturally perceive.
4. DUCO Men’s Sports Polarized Cheap Sunglasses
These sunglasses virtually restores true color and eliminates reflected or scattered light. The TAC polarized triacetate lenses are impact and scratch-resistant, lightweight and durable. While the lightweight AL-MG alloy design is ideal for cycling, driving, running, fishing, racing, skiing, and all outdoor activities.
The package includes the glasses case with carabiner, gift box, microfiber pouch, microfiber cleaning cloth, and polarization test card. The sunglasses are also easy to adjust the nose pad and temples to fit your size.
Conclusion: These sunglasses are great for sports and other outdoor activities that gives excellent peripheral vision. The good thing is that the frames and nose pieces can be gently bent to tailor the fit exactly for your comfort.
5. SUNGAIT Ultra Lightweight Rectangular Polarized Cheap Sunglasses
These polarized sunglasses give 100% protection against harmful UVA/UVB and UVC rays while the fashionable metal frame is lightweight and strong that has a rectangular shape. The package includes 1 cleaning cloth, 1 sunglasses pouch, and 1 mini screwdriver.
The soft adjustable nose pads, spring hinges, and flexible arm make the sunglasses very comfortable to wear. While the stylish rectangular sunglasses can be worn as a high-end fashion accessory during shopping and vacation all year round. This is ideal for driving, golfing, running, fishing, climbing, trekking, and outdoor activities.
Conclusion: These sunglasses are lightweight yet strong allows for visually restoring true color, eliminates reflected or scattered light. The simple and smooth frame gives emphasis on angular temples and increases the overall appeal of men.
6. RIVBOS Polarized Sports Sunglasses
This High-Grade Switzerland TR90 Material Frame comes in a super lightweight, stylish and durable. The TAC polarized and mirror coating lens offers 100% UVA & UVB protection against the sunlight. It also restores true color, eliminates reflected light and scattered light and protect your eyes perfectly.
The sunglasses are packed in hard protection, and comes with portable case and color box, pouch, cleaning cloth. Whether you are running, skiing, cycling, hiking, tennis, fishing or motorcycle driving these sunglasses offer reliable eye protection against wind, insects, and dust.
Conclusion: These sunglasses are not only used for protection against weather conditions but also considered fashionable sunglasses and cheap sunglasses that offer sensational style that is suitable for casual wear for both men and women.
7. AEVOGUE Polarized Sunglasses Semi-Rimless Frame
The AEVOGUE Polarized Sunglasses reduces surface reflections and gives a durable and lightweight frame that is easy to clean. It also has a scratch-resistant lens that also gives UV protection. The flattering lines and aesthetically pleasing appearance.
These sunglasses are made to be fashionable and stylish design cool sunglasses for men and women. The lens width 48 mm and the lens height 42 mm.
Conclusion: These sunglasses bring you different emotions that match your personality and lifestyle. The good thing about these sunglasses is that they are not expensive. It can be used while golfing, cycling, running, fishing, driving, all outdoor sports activities and gives 100% UV protection.
8. LUENX Men Aviator Sunglasses Polarized
These polarized sunglasses are made with 100% UV400 eye protection effectively filter and block glares. It is designed for driving & outdoor activities. The high-definition lens gives you a natural & clear vision and is durable and shatterproof.
A unique feature of the LUENX Sunglasses has an antioxidant plating frame that is anti-allergy & skin-friendly tested to be harmless on the skin when worn. The lightweight and elastic arm give you a stress-free wearing experience. It was constructed with environmental and skin-friendly materials while the Elastic and weight-free features enable you a long-time wearing without fatigue.
Conclusion: LUENX sunglasses are a great choice if your skin is highly sensitive to wearing one. The antioxidant and anti-allergy features make sure everyone can wear this for a longer period of time.
9. U.I STATION Oversized Sunglasses for Women
The U.I. STATION Oversized Sunglasses have been specifically designed for American Face. It uses a professional technology that is designed for transmittance control, dazzle resistance, ergonomic design, and pc hard lens gives a comfortable visual sensation.
These sunglasses are made of high-quality metal material and spring hinges that are durable enough for long time using. This can be used by male and female under different climate and weather conditions. It can also block 100% of both UVA and UVB radiation.
Conclusion: A good reason why choosing these cheap sunglasses is that it protects your eyes against long term UV damage and keeps your eyes healthy whenever you go out. It keeps your eyes safe and still looks amazing at the same time.
10. Feirdio Rectangular Sport Polarized Sunglasses for Men
The sunglasses are both lightweight and durable for all-day comfort and protection. The Fierdio sunglasses are professional for sports designs. It has 100% UV400 protection coating, blocks 100% harmful UVA & UVB rays. It helps in reducing glares off reflected roads, bodies of water, snow and other horizontal surfaces.
It helps in restoring true color while protecting your eyes perfectly. These are the best men’s sunglasses for cycling, driving, running, fishing, racing, skiing, hiking and other outdoor activities suitable for leisure.
Conclusion: These are the perfect pair for any outdoor sports you can think of. It helps in making sure that colors are properly restored while giving an assurance that your eyes are protected properly.
Buying Guide for cheap sunglasses
Buying high-quality sunglasses don’t have to be expensive, here are some of the things that you need to consider before making that purchase.
– UV Protection
Sunglasses equipped with UV protection is an important feature for people who are always exposed to high levels of UV light during different activities. This is one of the features that people engaged in snowsports and watersports and even driving in bright weather.
– Frame Size
When you’re picking out new sunglasses one of the first things you need to consider is the size of your face. The frame of your sunglasses should closely mirror your face size.
– Frame Material
Good frame material is important in making you feel comfortable, safe and functional. Materials that are often used are metal, nylon, titanium, polycarbonate, acetate, and plastic.
– Lens Material
The different lens material that you can choose from is optical glasses, polycarbonate, NXT Polyurethane, and Acrylic lenses. They serve different purposes all you need to do is ask your ophthalmologist if you want your sunglasses to be either durable, scratch-resistant, virtually indestructible, impact resistance and optical clarity.
– Lens Tints and Colorings
When your sunglasses have different lens colors, it adds to the performance of the lens in different lighting conditions but doesn’t contribute to increased UV protection. The lens colors allow your eyes to react differently to varying light that makes certain colors more suitable for certain activities and conditions.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by: MCILVAINE
In this case the plaintiff filed a complaint on March 23, 1961, in which he seeks to recover the sum of $ 5,159.52, which is alleged to have been in the custody of defendant Schoyer. Plaintiff alleges that there has been assigned to him the claim to this sum of money held by Schoyer. Plaintiff seeks judgment against defendant McLaughlin and a judgment against defendant Schoyer for the sum of $ 5,159.52.
Motions to dismiss were filed on April 6, 1961, by defendant McLaughlin, alleging that the Court did not have jurisdiction over the subject matter, and that the amount in controversy was less than $ 10,000, and because there was lack of diversity of citizenship.
Thereafter, with notice to the plaintiff, counsel for the plaintiff petitioned the Court to withdraw its appearance. This motion was allowed. Defendants' motion to dismiss came on for hearing for agrument before this Court on May 15, 1961, at 10:00 a.m. Plaintiff was given notice of this hearing, but failed to appear. There was a request at 10:00 a.m. on plaintiff's behalf that the hearing be adjourned until 2:00 p.m. This was allowed, nevertheless, plaintiff still failed to appear to prosecute its action.
We feel that the plaintiff has failed to prosecute its action and has failed to comply with the rules and orders of this Court in that plaintiff failed to appear at the time set for argument to present his side of the case. Accordingly, under Rule 41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C. the action instituted by the plaintiff should be dismissed.
It also appears that even if this motion be considered on its merit, it is perfectly obvious that there has been no service of process upon defendant Francis X. McLaughlin, a citizen of Maryland. Hence, there is no jurisdiction in this Court to entertain the case because the defendant McLaughlin simply is not before the Court.
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WHY flutter testing?
It helps to ensure that the application performs correctly before publishing it into the market and add high value and quality to the application.
WHAT is flutter testing?
Flutter test is also the same as the general test method and flutter automated test is coming with three main categories.
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WHO is responsible for flutter testing?
When it considers almost all of the software teams have QA engineers in their team who are responsible for this. If it is not a dedicated QA engineer this job is also done by the software engineer.
WHEN/WHERE it needs to be done?
There are several approaches to conducting software projects. According to that it depends on the test requiring time. Once the software team completed the development process they can continue the unit test then widget test and finally the integration test. Or one the team chooses the Test Driven Development(TDD) process, first they have to write then it needs to fulfill the requirements of it. Basically it goes through the repeatable three steps. Those are writing a failing test, making the test pass, improving the code.
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Departing from conventional wisdom, behaviour is about acting in order to perceive the world as we want it, not about reacting to stimuli or predicting appropriate outputs. Traditional approaches to behaviour, Computational Artificial Intelligence, Behavior-based Robotics and Cognitive Psychology, have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of behaviour within living systems. Rather than behavioural output being defined, or computed, from cognitive models based upon perception, that output is varied in order to keep the perceptual input at desired values. In other words, behaviour is about controlling the way we perceive the world.
For example, catching a baseball is not about the computation of trajectories and intercept points, but merely about keeping the speed of the ball on the retina constant.
As it is not action but the consequences of action that are being controlled there is no need for complex internal models of the external world. This, along with the simplicity of the basic perceptual control process, means that the architecture required to build robotics systems avoids the usual complexities and is greatly simplified.
The paper below gives an overview of the perceptual control architecture for robotics systems along with an implementation on a robotic rover that exhibits emergent behaviours which are complex relative to the simplicity of the methodology.
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Christian Rodriguez’s 1-month-old son Aiden Rodriguez died from his injuries. He suffered fractures to his skull, an acute subdural hemorrhage, a scattered left acute subarachnoid hemorrhage, a midline shift of the brain and bruising to both sides of the head.
“I got angry and threw Aiden to the ground face first,” Christian Rodriguez, now 24, said, according to the criminal complaint. “I got frustrated and threw him to the ground.”
His 3-month-old daughter survived in 2015.
“I was holding the baby and I was getting frustrated and I dropped her,” he said at the time, according to court documents.
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Bamboo hybrids can bolster UK timber supplies
A relatively common material is not being embraced fully for building supplies.
Interest in bamboo is growing, through research and media campaigning about the material’s environmental benefits, properties and its ability to replace wood, steel and carbon-fibre. But bamboo is not commonly used in high-performance applications or permanent structures, and its potential in construction remains untapped.
Academic and industrial research carried out in the UK aimed to address the challenges associated with using bamboo in durable, safe and cost-efficient structures. Further combining the grass with UK-grown wood could maximise use of this material and make economic sense for the domestic forest sector.
High bamboo scaffoldings used when working on Hong Kong’s skyscrapers, and earthquake and typhoon-proof structures in Ecuador, Colombia and in the Philippines are a testament to the material’s mechanical properties. While regarding bamboo as a green steel and drawing a like-by-like replacement for steel is fundamentally wrong, as I said in the previous work Bamboo reinforced concrete: a critical review on the website Open Access, July 2018, the axial stiffness-to-weight ratio of bamboo is remarkably high and almost the same as that achieved for steel (25 x 106m2s2).
However, this only applies to the mechanical properties of bamboo in the direction of its fibres i.e. it is longitudinal only. In any other direction, radially or tangentially, bamboo is very weak and tends to split and crush, unlike steel, which is isotropic. This is not to say bamboo should be scrapped, but more carefully considered.
Bamboo has a higher CO2 absorption than other materials. Compared with a native British tree like Scots Pine, Guadua – a giant species
of a tropical ‘woody’ bamboo endemic to South America – is able to absorb about five times more CO2 in a given period.
The mean yield class for Scots Pine in the UK, as given by the Forestry Commission, is an increment of 10m3 per hectare per year, while for Guadua it is 45m3 per hectare per year. Scots Pine would reach maturity at around 40 years old, while Guadua would be ready to harvest aged between three-five years.
Bamboo could provide large quantities of feedstock material for construction products that retain the fixed CO2 for long periods of time, for example in buildings where an effective lifespan ranges between 50-100 years. A way to unlock bamboo’s potential is by combining it with complementary materials like wood, which can address its radial weakness and thin-walled section, while exploiting its high axial stiffness and maintaining its high carbon and environmental credentials.
Based on research carried out at the University of Bath, UK, Amphibia BASE is working to commercialise bamboo and demonstrate the business case for structural engineered bamboo products in the UK and worldwide. The key to making this a reality has been the use of thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) technologies, which rapidly and efficiently transform bamboo into flat planks with higher density and improved mechanical properties.
THM technologies involve temperature, moisture content and mechanical pressure controls to modify the material’s properties, for example its density and hardness, or to shape it into the desired form. Processing can be finished in 15 minutes, compared with three hours by conventional means. The company’s THM process reduces the void spaces within bamboo conductive tissues, bringing the naturally scattered bamboo fibres closer together without causing cell damage – effectively densifying bamboo and producing a more homogeneous cross-section. This is evident from microscopy analysis of the material before and after THM densification. These are desirable features in structural engineering when designing and predicting the behaviour of materials in high-performance applications.
As a result of the THM process, the density and Young’s modulus of bamboo are both increased almost two-fold from 540–890kg/cm3 and 16.88-30.72GPa – the force applied in kilonewton per square millimetre – respectively. This straightforward densification process, reduces waste by 50%, as well as the high energy and labour intensity of conventional manufacturing processes of engineered bamboo products (EBPs) for non-structural applications. When laminating the THM densified bamboo, glue use is reduced from 30–3% per overall weight of the final product in some commercially available EBPs. These features were demonstrated in cross-laminated bamboo products G-XLam, manufactured by Amphibia BASE in the UK, at lab-scale.
However, when densified bamboo is laminated on its own, the resulting product is very stiff, heavy, over-engineered and costly. The bending modulus of G-XLam 3 – three layers – obtained through testing was 23.68GPa, twice the value for the same property in cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels with the same three layers 11.6GPa. CLT is becoming increasingly popular for use in buildings reaching heights once thought unviable with timber. For instance, an 85.4m-high, all-timber tower designed by Voll Arkitekter was recently finished in Brumunddal, Norway, and is currently the highest tall timber building in the world. Overall, G-XLam panels have one-fifth of the thickness of CLT panels and double the density. By contrast, when a lower density timber is used, the number of laminations and product density can be reduced to an acceptable and cost-efficient level while retaining the stiffness and stability of the laminated product. Therefore, THM-densified bamboo can be used to strengthen low-density and low-strength wood, adding value to the final product and reducing the overall section of the structural timber product. This can also be applied to other low-density cores forming the hybrid composite.
In the case of wood, statistics from 2018 by the Forestry Commission show about 70% of the sawn wood and 100% of the plywood and structural timber products used in construction in the UK were imported mainly from Europe. This is partly due to the low density, poor finishing and unsuitability of UK-grown wood, it being used mostly in low value-added applications, for example fencing. Timber experts may argue that in the UK, we need to loosen strength-grading standards for homegrown timber and establish a robust capacity to dry the wood for high value-added products such as CLT.
Around 50% of the forested areas of the UK is Sitka spruce. Due to the UK climate, Sitka grows very quickly, which does not allow for tissue consolidation and renders a low strength (C16) and lightweight timber that is commonly considered low-quality and value. However, when combining UK timber of lower strength class with THM-densified bamboo of higher stiffness, the resulting hybrid product can achieve properties equal to those achieved using timber from mainland Europe, for example in CLT panels. Although UK forests have recovered since the industrial revolution, there is limited land, thus the available timber.
Wood-bamboo hybrids could significantly reduce the amount of wood required for engineered products and tackle quality and strength issues in UK-grown supplies. Further benefits include the support of the local UK forest industry and rural economy, the reduction of the UK’s reliance on imported European timber and CLT elements, and the development of new markets locally and internationally. Also, exploitation of under-utilised and readily available bamboo resources in tropical countries using state-of-the-art technologies developed in the UK can offer a cost-effective and highly sustainable alternative to carbon and energy-intense conventional materials used in construction, such as steel and cement.
Technological challenges regarding adhesion and drying of home-grown wood to acceptable levels, which are key to the success of this commercial venture, are being addressed. Additionally, the use of the vast knowledge and expertise on timber for building applications helps tackle the current lack of internationally recognised standards for standalone structural bamboo products. Currently, funding and investment is being sought to develop a pilot facility that rolls out the technology and showcases the viability of producing wood-bamboo hybrids in the UK.
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Its mature vines are a little shorter, reaching a height of approximately 5–6 feet. Herb: Morning Glory Latin name: Ipomoea tricolor Synonyms: Ipomoea rubrocaerulea, Pharbitis rubrocaerulea, Pharbitis tricolor Family: Convolvulaceae (Morning-glory Family) Medicinal use of Morning Glory: The seed contains small quantities of the hallucinogen LSD. Or grow in containers; provide stakes or a wire cylinder for support, or let plant cascade. Even if you aren’t confident in your skills or you’re just getting started as a gardener, morning glories won’t disappoint. Watsons Bay, NSW. You can choose to start your seeds indoors 4-6 weeks prior to the last expected frost. The flowers are a rich purple-blue with red, star-like markings reaching out from their throats. Plants will perform their best in a neutral soil p.H of about 6.0, but they’re so resilient that they’ll do fine just about anywhere. It’s also sadly missing from the majority of western Thai restaurant and takeaway menus. This way, when the morning glory blooms are fading, the moon flowers will just be opening up. Morning glories are in season, blooming early in the day and in the evening. Native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world. A more common issue seems to be predation by rodents and herbivorous mammals. Zones: Annual, perennial in zones 9-11 or areas over 45 F Height/Spread: 6 to 10 feet tall, 3 to 6 feet wide Exposure: Full sun Bloom Time: June to October; year-round in tropics Color: Purple flower with white throat Trumpet-shaped purple flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon, which is what gives morning glories their common name. Ipomoea tricolor is not the only kind of morning glory with poisonous seeds known to have psychoactive properties. Ipomoea nil), producing many seeds, and some perennial species (e.g. Edible hugs. Rivea corymbosa and Impomoea violacea seeds are used by the Oaxaca indains as a hallucinogenic.... Tweet this Post! WARNING: Some species of Ipomoea have edible parts (including the commercialy grown sweet potato), but others are poisonous. They contain a … The seeds are hard enough to store away when you can no longer puncture them with a fingernail. It came to the attention of a Dutch seedsman who increased the stock and offered it under the name of 'Clarke's Early Heavenly Blue' in the early 1930s. Morning glory vines are usually thicker than bindweed’s vines, and typically have small hairs. You can also use the flower as part of a tea. The difference, of course, being that they don’t produce edible tubers. When it comes to light requirements, it’s very simple: sun, sun, and more sun. Purple Morning Glory: Ipomoea purpurea. However it happened, they became the first plants that I have clear memories of taking care of. Purple Morning Glory: Ipomoea purpurea. Morning glories are beautiful prolific vines that come in all kinds of colors and can really take over a space with their brilliance. Lea reports that she doesn’t water her morning glories, since rainfall is usually enough, but when times are dry, certainly, give morning glories a deep soaking. M.H. Morning glory, famous or infamous for its hallucinogenic seeds, is also considered a poisonous plant due to the toxic nature of those very same seeds; keep children away from it. Field bindweed is a perennial and is nearly impossible to eradicate. Where to learn more. The identification is beyond positive. Is morning glory leaves edible. Morning glory was first known in china for its medicinal uses due to the laxative properties of its seeds. Now that you know how easy morning glories are to care for, and have an idea of which variety you’d like to try, you should have no problem adding this beauty to your garden. Some moonflowers, which flower at night, are also in the morning glory family. Morning Glories are often the first flowering vines people become familiar with. Sources include: It is required to craft Abigail's Flower and Ghostly Elixirs as Wendy. They produce an edible "storage root" which is non-toxic and under proper "curing" conditions converts part of its The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs). This makes it a fabulous choice as a privacy wall, or for hiding less desirable sections of your garden. ... Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar is a professional chef, researcher and co-founder of the Edible Archives. 0 Maybe nasturtiums would be a good flower growing indoors say at a kitchen window? The long thin stems are topped with arrow-shaped leaves, and the stems are sliced and used in stir fry dishes. (8-13 cm), close in the afternoon, hence the common name. Because of their fast growth, twining habit, attractive flowers, and tolerance for poor, dry soils, some morning glories are excellent vines for creating summer shade on building walls when trellised, thus keeping the building cooler and reducing heating and cooling costs. In fact, those glorious blooms won’t open unless they’re actually touched by the sun’s rays. Yellow Leaves on a Morning Glory. In that case, you should keep an eye on the plants and increase watering as needed. Vines can reach as high as 12 feet. Pull roots out of containers to make room for next year’s growth. Morning glories will happily re-seed on their own, but you can also collect and store the seeds. They’re incredibly easy to grow, and as a result, they make an excellent addition to any gardener’s home. Nibbling at higher levels is less likely to affect the plant’s overall health. Ingredients. 10:43. The seeds of many species of morning glory contain ergoline alkaloids such as the psychedelic ergonovine and ergine (LSA). Purple morning glory is native to Mexico and Central America, but introduced and widespread in warm temperate regions of the world, including New Zealand and along the Pacific Coast of North America. The most common colours to be found are shades of blue, purple, pink, and white. The flowers will drop off once they’ve finished blooming, leaving small round pods attached to the stem. A home gardener found this early-flowering version of sky blue morning glory with heart-shaped leaves, and recognizing its importance, saved its seeds. » Growing Morning Glory Indoors,Backyard Gardening Blog , February 14th, 2018 . The attractive annual morning glory (Ipomoea spp.) Is Morning Glory Leaves Edible By . In fact, you should be careful not to include too much rich organic matter in your plants’ soil. Identifying it as a "morning glory" is not enough. Drinks Cocktail Whiskey. This is a Japanese variety that comes in either blue or red with white edges. Yellow Leaves on a Morning Glory. Currently unavailable. Harvesting. Large white Morning Glories flowers without ruby throats are worth investigating, too. Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species Ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls. It is a member of the Convolvulaceae, the morning glory family. Ipomoea aquatica is a semi-aquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots and it is not known where it originated. Germination may be improved by soaking in warm water. 0 There are very few diseases that affect the morning glory. Although similar, the effects of LSA are reportedly less intense and slightly different. Plants can be very slow to set flowers. In Asia, Ipomoea aquatica is popular as a green vegetable. Gather up the old vines after they are damaged by frost and compost them. If so, it is very likely field bindweed. It’s probably the most popular specie in existence and offers a variety of colourful blooms, varying in shade from purple to pink. The edible parts of the plant have a lower heavy metal concentration. Don’t forget to collect seeds and share the joy with friends and family. Can you guess what the chat guessed? A market exists, though, for the plant's powerful culinary potential. If you expect to be away, you can place mulch around the bases of the plants to help maintain soil moisture. Morning Glory flower seeds and other similar sources are very attractive starting places for teens who are curious about drugs yet wary of “street drugs.” However, as mentioned earlier, many children do not appreciate the dangers of such substances, so first-times are probably more likely to experiment with actual LSD instead of something they consider to be a cheap copy. Kamis, 12 Maret 2020 Add Comment Edit. Children are also attracted to the showy flowers. I’m fairly certain this is the variety I brought home with me. are morning glory leaves edible. Other than their love of sun, morning glories can flourish in a wide variety of environments. This really isn’t that bad, since a touch of colour in the autumn is always appreciated. Lea Joy from Smithville shares her tips for growing from, including Clark's Heavenly Blue, My first restaurant, Mermaid, was very much a continuation of my parents’ restaurant – predominantly local food for local people. BUT the seeds can be poisonous, especially in large quantities. Celeste is having a moment. Scar the seeds with sandpaper to open up that tough outer coating. Good morning, humans! Be careful to keep them away from children and pets, especially when you have seeds laid out for drying. The genus Ipomoea also contains the sweet potato (I. batatas). Try pairing morning glory and moon flowers together. I have been studying edible plants for about six months, and have learned a lot. Soaking the seeds overnight in warm water will also help to encourage germination. You need to know which species it is. Even a small piece of dormant root transplanted into moist soil can grow a new plant. If the seeds inside are black, then they’re ready for harvest. Break off one of these pods once it has hardened and turned brown. Vines can reach anywhere from 8-10 feet tall. Environmental problems with morning glories. Even a small piece of dormant root transplanted into moist soil can grow a new plant. Morning glory vines are fast climbers that will run up fences, poles, or taller plants such as sunflowers. Johans comment from Mon Mar 19 2007 is correct. Morning glory flowers (Ipomoea purpurea or Convolvulus purpureus) are a common sight in many landscapes and may be found in any number of species within the Calystegia, Convolvulus, Ipomoea, Merremia and Rivea genera.While some varieties are described as noxious weed in some areas, the fast-growing vining plants can also make lovely additions to the garden if kept in check. Common morning glory (I. purpurea), an annual vine that bears heart-shaped leaves and purple, pink, or white flowers about 7 cm (3 inches) across, has become a troublesome weed in parts of southeastern North America.It is cultivated in many places. A word of warning: There are several edible and several inedible Morning Glories and impostors. These plants are so easy to grow, and they multiply so well that in some places they are considered an invasive weed, while more stunning varieties are highly coveted plants. Ways to use morning glory. It’s because of this that they’ve earned the nickname “back-to-school vine”. She is an avid urban gardener, as well as a budding aerialist. Morning glory seed casings are very hard, so a bit of persuasion goes a long way in increasing your success rate with germination. There’s a staggering number of varieties in this plant’s family—over 1000 to be exact. , A fully open blue and purple morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea), Side view of a partially curled I. purpurea in early afternoon, The top of partially curled I. purpurea in early afternoon, Common name for more than 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, This article is about the plant. It came to the attention of a Dutch seedsman who increased the stock and offered it under the name of 'Clarke's Early Heavenly Blue' in the early 1930s. They are fast growing, annual vines.Morning glories are in the same botanical family as sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas), but they do not produce edible tubers.The brightly colored flowers have a slight fragrance and are popular with butterflies and hummingbirds. It is in flower from July to October. # 7 Morning glory is any of the 200 species of flowering plants belonging to the taxonomic genus Ipomoea.More generally, the name may refer to any plant in the family Convolvulaceae, which contains the following genera: Calystegia, Convolvulus, Ipomoea, Merremia, and Rivea.. Ipomoea, which is an annual vine, is known by many as a weed because of its ability to reseed itself. In this genus, ornamentals and edibles abound, from edible sweet potatoes (see Sweet Potato) to trellis-climbing morning glories and the sweet potato vines that fill out container plantings so well. Yellowstone Select ; ½ oz. It has long thin stems with arrow shaped leaves. One Response to “Growing Morning Glory Indoors” Shirley Says: March 25th, 2018 at 9:29 am. Sweet Potatoes & U.S. "Yams" Water Spinach; Yams; Morning Glories. Mercury in water spinach is composed mostly as methylmercury and has the highest potential of becoming a threat to human health. Morning glory was first known in China for its medicinal uses, due to the laxative properties of its seeds.. PsychedSubstance 597,999 views. By morning, your seeds should be nice and plump. As of 2005, the state of Texas has acknowledged that water spinach is a highly prized vegetable in many cultures, and has allowed it to be grown for personal consumption, in part because it is known to have been grown in Texas for more than 15 years and has not yet escaped cultivation. By crowding out, blanketing, and smothering other plants, morning glory has turned into a serious invasive weed problem.. Common morning glory Ipomoea purpurea. Water spinach is a morning glory relative that’s sold in Asian specialty stores as a tasty vegetable. The triangular seeds have been used as a psychedelic with effects similar to LSD. But the seeds can be poisonous especially in large quantities. Giving them a low nitrogen fertilizer every 4–5 weeks is more than enough. It would be fair to say that I have become fanatical about tea. Want create site? In the States, Ipomoea aquatica is classed as a noxious weed and a permit is needed to possess it, although it is successfully cultivated in Texas. You really can’t go wrong with this plant. There’s a staggering number of varieties in this plant’s family—over 1000 to be exact. I. indica) are propagated by cuttings. It quickly became the most planted morning glory, then and today. The rare night-flowering morning glory is found in coastal areas of the southeastern US. Though the chemical LSA is not legal in some countries, the seeds are found in many gardening stores; however, some claim the seeds from commercial sources can sometimes be coated in some kind of pesticide or methylmercury (although the latter is illegal in the UK and the US). Morning glory species belong to many genera, some of which are: Morning glory was first known in China for its medicinal uses, due to the laxative properties of its seeds. If you’d like your plants to climb a trellis, do make sure that it is already in place when starting the seeds. It is hardy to zone (UK) 9 and is frost tender. Pad Pak Boong Fai Daeng, or stir-fried morning glory, is one of the tastiest dishes you can eat in Thailand. Morning Glory with BcBudGal: Edibles, Giveaways And Tattoos Thursday, October 1, 2020 POT TV – Morning Glory with BcBudGal – LIVE. This has been used medicinally in the treatment of various mental disorders. Peach Tea ; About this recipe. For cut flowers, pick stems with buds in various stages of development and place in deep vase; buds open on consecutive days. Ipomoea noemana, a species of morning glory with an edible, purple tuber. Interestingly, morning glories belong to the same family as sweet potatoes. Heart shaped leaves, the vine is right, the flowers are only open in the morning. However, if you don’t have time to take care of an aggressively seeding plant, you might want to think twice about introducing them into your garden, as they can get out of hand in a hurry. Brand: Chia Tai. It should be noted, however, that moon flowers can be somewhat more difficult to grow than morning glories. 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This is an eye-catching reddish pink cultivar with bright white throats. This absolute beauty is one of the two seeds that started the Seed Savers Exchange. Now, with that said, are the leaves edible? Morning glory flowers are a classic choice for any garden. The vines grow by clinging with tendrils and will quickly cover nearby supports. Though the term "morning glory" is not usually extended to I. batatas, sometimes it may be referred to as a tuberous morning glory in a horticultural context. Needless to say, this was one of the first plants that inspired my life-long love of gardening. The showy white or light pink, funnel-shaped flowers of the wild morning glory are abundant along roadsides right now. Ipomoea Tricolor is a PERENNIAL CLIMBER growing to 5 m (16ft 5in) at a fast rate. Put in the morning glory stems and cook for a few minutes. Other color blossoms are more iffy. They prefer full solar exposure throughout the day, and mesic soils. Edible Medicinal Other; Ipomoea alba: Moonflower, Tropical white morning-glory: Perennial Climber: 10.0: 7-10 F: LM: N: M: 2: 1: 0: Ipomoea aquatica: Swamp Morning Glory: Annual/Perennial: 0.5: 7-12 F: LMH: N: MWeWa: 4: 2: 0: Ipomoea batatas You can use a knife as well, but since the seeds aren’t very large, sandpaper is a much safer option. The stems and bottom of the edible portion of the plant are higher in concentration and should be removed to minimize the heavy metal intake. They are unrelated to true potatoes which are Nightshades. A home gardener found this early-flowering version of sky blue morning glory with heart-shaped leaves, and recognizing its importance, saved its seeds. She holds a certificate in business communications and has past experience in the fields of HR and Event Planning. From cheerful flowers to edible plants how many morning glory. Field bindweed is a perennial and is nearly impossible to eradicate. 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When you’re faced with bringing a dish to share at a holiday party this summer, there are so many options that will both travel well and please the pickiest of palates. What BBQ recipes will you bring?
The sun is out, the family is gathering. It must be time for a holiday barbecue, right? Grab your lawn games and get ready for great fun — just add food.
Holiday recipes that travel well are a must for all celebrations. No one wants a casserole spilled all over their floorboards, right? The following easy recipes both travel well and are perfect for BBQ occasions. With something for every meal, these BBQ recipes will help your family eat well when you’re away from home.
Breakfast BBQ Recipes that Travel Well
Start your mornings off right with something hearty. Recipes like Pancakes with Campfire Grilled Peaches and Pecans from Fresh Off the Grid can be made easily while camping and don’t require refrigeration of the ingredients. What I love most about this recipe is that it’s not just campfire ready, but cooking on an open fire ready too.
Grilled Avocado and Eggs, a recipe by The Cozy Cook, is also an easy-to-transport option that you assemble and cook on the barbecue. Creamy avocado. Warm eggs. What’s not to love?
Of course, if cooking on the go isn’t for you, then this recipe for make-ahead Breakfast Burritos from Fabulously Frugal right be just right for your family. The hearty burritos are made ahead of time and stuffed with sausage, potatoes, eggs and cheese. Then they are rolled up, wrapped in foil and kept cool until it’s time to throw them on the campfire or grill. It’s easy and reheating is a breeze.
Of course, sometimes the easiest meal solution is the one you don’t have to fuss with before serving. Muffins, for instance, can be made ahead, don’t need refrigeration and are simple to serve. Why not whip up a batch of Blueberry Streusel Muffins or Rhubarb Muffins before your next gathering?
BBQ Appetizers to Go
Pick up some fresh clams, keep ‘’em cold and then whip up some Grilled Garlic Butter Clams for the guests. Seafood lovers will adore the bold flavors in these.
Planked Goat Cheese Stuffed Peppadews are easy to assemble (fill them with goat cheese ahead of time!) and then cook quickly on the barbecue.
Or how about this Grilled Brie? With a delightful peach and balsamic reduction, how fun would that be to serve?
Grilled Sriracha Hot Wings require some prep ahead of time such as seasoning the chicken wings and assembling the sauce, but cook up easily on a hot grill.
Main Course BBQ Recipes that Travel Well
Ok, but what about the main dish? There are so many recipes that travel well and can be cooked on a barbecue. You can barbecue ribs, for instance, on a charcoal grill or a gas grill. The pork ribs tutorial can also be used for baby back ribs. Hamburgers and hot dogs are also an American barbecue classic. They travel well and are a cinch to make.
But what about making some special burgers for your celebration like Blue Cheese Stuffed Burgers? Form the stuffed patties ahead of time, transport them chilled and cook when you’re ready.
If you like pork chops, they are prime for marinating in an airtight container, keeping chilled in a cooler and cooking on the barbecue. This sweet-tart, gingery recipe for Marinated Grilled Pork Chops that uses lime juice, apple juice and more in the marinade is a crowd-pleaser. Grilled Pork Tenderloin can be a wonderfully juicy main dish as well. Serve it with homemade barbecue sauce, such as a Kansas City-style BBQ Sauce.
A grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza can have a lot of components, but it’s easy to assemble and eat. Topped with red onions, corn, bell peppers and more, it’s pretty hearty too.
Skewers are easy to make and serve, plus are a cinch to transport. Grilled Lemon Basil Pesto Chicken Kabobs with Zucchini, for instance, use some of summer’s freshest flavors in an Italian-inspired dish. Or try Grilled Chicken, Ham and Pineapple Kabobs for a sweet and savory take on skewers. Not looking for a chicken recipe? Marinated Steak Skewers are another great option.
You can even make grilled lasagna in single-serve portions. And yes, they travel well!
Make-Ahead Recipes that Travel Well
Don’t want to fuss with grilling recipes while enjoying the party? Then make-ahead dishes are right for you. Break out the slow cooker for Sweet and Spicy Pulled Pork, which makes excellent pulled pork sandwiches with a homemade barbecue sauce. Smoky Slow Cooker Beef Brisket also makes great sandwiches.
Classic Potato Salad and Classic Coleslaw also travel well. Keep these salads chilled until you’re ready to dig in. For a barbecue-ready salad that’s a step outside the ordinary, try Asian Napa Cabbage Slaw with Peanut Sauce or Roasted Tomato, Basil and Chickpea Pasta Salad.
Side Dishes on the Barbecue
Foil packets are a great way to make side dishes on the barbecue. Foil Packet Carrots with Garlic and Basil, for instance, are a fresh, flavorful side dish for enjoying with whatever else you’re grilling. Another flavorful summer grilling side dish is Grilled Summer Squash with Tomatoes and Garlic. Cooked in a foil packet, the flavors come together with bits of caramelization for a delightful dish.
Corn with Chili Lime Butter is cooked in foil and then slathered with a flavorful compound butter — an elegant offering that travels well and tastes amazing.
Grilled Desserts for a Sweet End of Your BBQ Party
Even desserts can be made on the grill. Recipes like Grilled Raspberry Cheesecake Turnovers can be made in advance and kept in a cooler until it’s time to cook and serve.
Or go simple while turning up the wow factor with a Grilled Strawberry Shortcake — super easy to make, but special too.
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pv magazine: Did the ruling in the U.S. surprise you, and what does it mean for Solarworld?
Frank Asbeck: The judge’s decision in Michigan against our German affiliate SolarWorld Industries Sachsen was recently announced. I find it absurd, both the lawsuit itself and the amount. But for Solarworld, this initial judgment changes absolutely nothing.
pv magazine: You’ve announced that you’ll appeal. Is that still your position?
Asbeck: Of course, the whole thing will move to appellate court. I think that’s always been clear to everybody, to both to Hemlock and to the judge. It’ll be another year before we get a final ruling in the U.S. And even then it won’t be enforceable against us.
pv magazine: You’re sticking to your argument that the supply contract with Hemlock violates European antitrust legislation. Can you briefly explain what exactly about the supply contract was against EU anti-trust law?
Asbeck: The old take-or-pay contracts at issue were concluded at a time when silicon suppliers wouldn’t sell you anything unless you agreed to exorbitant prices, sometimes 20 times today’s price. You either agreed to multi-year purchasing commitments or you didn’t produce. It’s as if your telephone provider today wanted you to pay the same unit price for a phone as when they were the all-black rotary-dial models supplied by a single provider. But the decisive factor is that the Hemlock contracts contain several clauses that drastically violate antitrust legislation.
pv magazine: Why, in your opinion, did the U.S. judge disregard this argument in the initial trial?
Asbeck: Since European antitrust legislation is applicable in this case, the American judge indicated that the issue should be dealt with in the appeals court. That is exactly what will happen – at the latest in a German court – if Hemlock tries to enforce its claim for damages in Germany.
pv magazine: Do you think that during the appeal process the antitrust argument will get a closer look?
Asbeck: A U.S. ruling can only be recognized in Germany if it is consistent with the principles of the German law. Part of that is antitrust legislation. At that point, at the latest, this central argument will be recognized.
pv magazine: How long is a recognition procedure likely to take in Germany?
Asbeck: A potential recognition procedure, like the appeal process, would take about a year.
pv magazine: Why hasn’t Solarworld managed to reach an out-of-court settlement with Hemlock yet?
Asbeck: We are absolutely confident that we can reach a settlement with Hemlock, just as we have with all of our other silicon suppliers. We are not in a hurry.
pv magazine: Have the chances of an out-of -court settlement gotten worse since the verdict?
Asbeck: No, not at all. As I said, the verdict doesn’t change anything. Apart from that, I assume that both sides will want to put this issue behind them at some point.
When Hemlock filed suit against Deutsche Solar in March 2013, it wanted USD 83 million in damages. Now, some three years later we’re at USD 793 million because, among other things, Hemlock is demanding 12 percent interest on the damages. Are those realistic figures?
Of course not. Nothing in this calculation is realistic. The 100 million in payments we made years ago is more than enough to cover any potential loss at Hemlock.
The Solarworld 2015 annual report stated that the legal dispute was not expected to have any short-term effects, but that over the long term a potential unfavorable ruling may present a risk to the company’s continuation as a going concern. Now that the verdict has come out, do you still see it that way?
We assess the risk as low, both in the short term and the long term. But the risk assessment of a publicly traded company has to specify what could happen if things turned out completely differently than could be humanly expected. That goes for both technical risks and legal ones. In nearly every annual report, you’ll find so-called risks to the company as a going concern. What’s important is whether those risks are high or low. And in this case, according to the opinion of an external evaluator, the risk is clearly low.
pv magazine: Why hasn’t Solarworld set aside any provisions for this legal dispute up to now?
Asbeck: For a business risk in the “low” category, setting aside a multi-million-euro provision would be completely disproportionate.
pv magazine: If you work out a solution to the anti-dumping dispute with Hemlock and the U.S. Commerce Department, couldn’t that also solve this lawsuit, or at least reduce the damages? Why don’t you take that route?
Asbeck: The two issues are not legally connected. It is a fact, however, that after China put Hemlock under pressure, the company called on us to give up U.S. manufacturers’ protection against illegal dumping. If we had accepted, there would no longer be a solar manufacturing industry in the U.S.
pv magazine: The stated goal for this year is to get back up to around a billion in revenue again for the first time since 2011. Will SolarWorld do that?
Asbeck: We just released some very good figures and increased our global sales in the first half by 50 percent. We are also the market leader in several markets, everywhere where quality and sustainability count. We’ll reach the billion in revenue. The international price level concerns us, however. Now that China has put the brakes on installations, the markets are being flooded with Chinese overcapacity.
pv magazine: The U.S. market in particular is hugely important to Solarworld’s business right now. What developments do you expect there over the next few months?
Asbeck: The U.S. market will continue to grow. With our made-in-the-USA products and high-performance bifacial modules, we’re a top supplier for customers who value quality, performance and durability, and we want to broaden our market position.
pv magazine: If a court orders Solarworld to pay damages in the U.S., would that have an impact on the Solarworld Americas subsidiary and the production facility in Oregon?
Asbeck: No, not at all. Solarworld Americas has nothing to do with the case. The lawsuit is against our German subsidiary, SolarWorld Industries Saxony, the former Deutsche Solar. It has no assets in the United States. There is no legal venue that can reach from the U.S., through Germany, and back to the U.S. And apart from that, we just don’t see the court handing down any enforceable damage claim.
The interview was conducted by Sandra Enkhardt.
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On tap at Rock Bottom Colorado Springs poured a clear yellow hue w/ large frothy white slowly diminishing head and excellent lacing. Moderate aromas of dough and honey. Flavors of bread, hay, grass, and lemon. Light bodied, dry texture and soft carbonation. Very drinkable pleasant ale.
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(draft 10/18/10). Clear gold color. Medium white head. Light sweet malt aroma. Moderate biscuit/bread flavor, with light bitterness. Avg duration. Light dry finish. Thin texture. Moderate carbonation. Fair lacing.
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Bottle at ACBF. Pours a light cloudy yellow. Smooth sweet taste with a very interestingly sharp and flavorful finish.
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On tap at Rock Bottom Colorado Springs poured a clear gold with a lasting white head. Aromas of bread dough, light graininess and a hint of fruittines. Palate was light to medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of bread dough and light spice with a smooth bready finish.
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Chronic pain is not good for the heart, lungs, endocrine system, musculoskeletal system and it can also cause depression and emotional problems. Responsible use of opioids is crucial to managing the pain of millions of Americans. Hospice programs and “comfort care” options are of a key part of any health care system. Individual human beings need to know that when they get very sick and are dying that their pain will be controlled. We are going to make it harder for these individuals to get adequate pain control. There are many elderly people who aren’t actively dying but have chronic pain who need to be able to sleep comfortably at night. We need to let them have access to opioids. We can’t deny pain relief to suffering people because we’re worried about drug abuse! I don’t know if the ‘War on Drugs’ is working or if it’s a failure but I do know that chronic and acute pain cause an awful lot of pain in our society, not only for those who suffer directly from the pain but it also affects their loved ones and family. Pain is not natural and it needs to be controlled. Let’s not confused adequate pain control with the ‘War on Drugs. | <urn:uuid:480d7f9d-e44b-4731-af0a-ec9a0e5f25ee> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,146 |
DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2005-12
Re: panic: kthread_create called too soon
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
Yes, error reporting via the internet should be made easier.
Automatic error reporting for blue screen of death is also available in
Windows 2003, though not sure about Vista. The difference between
Windows and DragonFly when it comes to such an error reporting facility
is that it would be hard to support in our case.
Windows users are not given the option and power to re-build the whole
system from source code as we do. In my view, all they would require
is full backtrace information and some parts of the crash dump while the
rest stays the same.
What we need is an ability to chop off free memory and unused pages from
the final dump and then zip it using bzip/gzip. Some common information
like buffer page lists, process lists, etc could be provided as textual
info and rip it out from the dump. Remember, most of former can be done
using a GDB command file, while ripping the actual free pages etc would
need to be done by savecore or a post-processor.
In other words, it is not impractical, but we would have to constantly
work at it to get it right; by that I mean over time we see what info
is commonly required and we can keep including all that stuff in our user
Something along those lines, anyway.
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A bit of advance planning goes a long way. Before you begin divorce proceedings, take steps to prepare for what lies ahead. When you divide property and income, each of you will have only half of what you had before, or perhaps less. If you don’t have your own regular income, you will need money to live on until you can get an award of alimony or until the divorce is finalized and you have access to your share of the marital assets. As a result, you will need to gather information and time your actions strategically.
By familiarizing yourself with the 12 financial pitfalls of divorce, you can save yourself a lot of hassle and heartbreak in the future. Here’s a quiz to help you get started:
12 Financial Pitfalls of Divorce – The Quiz
|1.||What’s the most important thing to have in a divorce?|
|a.||A big glass of wine every night.|
|b.||A pile of money in the bank.|
|c.||A good friend to call.|
In divorce, everything always costs more and takes longer than you expect. Expenses begin to mushroom as soon as the divorce process starts. If you feel a split is imminent, start stashing the funds you’ll need for attorney’s fees and living expenses. The more money you can set aside before the divorce proceedings begin, the less anxiety you’ll face when the big day comes.
|2.||When is it important to start preparing for divorce?|
|a.||Before your husband walks out.|
|b.||As the process server walks up to the door.|
|c.||As soon as possible.|
Divorce is a long, complicated process that requires careful preparation. Don’t just pack your bags, load up the kids, and drive away in a car that needs four new tires. Instead, prepare by using joint funds to undertake any needed car repairs, to pay for necessary dental work for the children, and to buy any career clothes you will need. Think about the timing of the separation: Is your husband due any bonuses or other windfalls in the near future? Don’t separate until after they arrive, so you can get your share. Of course, if you’re the one scheduled to get the bonus, well, there’s no time like the present.
|3.||What records will you need during the divorce process?
|a.||Anything you can get your hands on.|
|b.||Records? Who needs records?|
|c.||Whatever is in the pile on the kitchen table.|
The three most important words during divorce are: document, document, document. When you divorce, you must identify the assets you and your husband have accumulated and establish their value. Even if your husband was in charge of the finances while you were married, it’s now up to you to find those records. You are entitled to your share of any marital property you find, and any additional income you discover may increase the amount of earnings that are used to calculate alimony and child support.
|4.||What should you do to find hidden assets?|
|a.||Spin around in a circle until you’re dizzy and then stop and point at something.|
|b.||Do a careful inventory of everything you jointly own.|
|c.||Run off to the Cayman Islands.|
Don’t overlook any assets-half of everything is yours! Small assets, such as frequent flyer points and vacation pay, can add up. Even if you don’t want an asset, it can be used to trade for something you can use. Don’t overlook hobbies or side businesses that might use expensive equipment or generate income. If you have a PHT degree (Putting Honey Through), you might be entitled to compensation for the expenses you paid to get your spouse through school.
|5.||Tax consequences are:|
|a.||Something you don’t need to worry about.|
|b.||Very important in determining the structure of your divorce agreement.|
|c.||For the IRS to handle.|
Although divorce is not a taxable event you have to report on your tax return, it can still have tax consequences. Assets that might have hidden tax traps are houses, retirement plans, securities that are worth much more than they cost, stock options, annuities, cash value of life insurance policies, and vacation homes. Your attorney, though well versed in marital law, may not know all the ins and outs of current tax law. Your situation may require the help of an accountant knowledgeable about taxes to determine if you are really getting a good deal.
|6.||While you are going through a divorce, you should:|
|a.||Be an active participant.|
|b.||Sit back and let the lawyers handle it.|
|c.||Let your ex decide everything.|
During divorce, being uninformed can be very, very expensive. Learning as much as you can and negotiating directly with your husband, if possible, will help you recover more quickly from the divorce. That is because you will have a healthy sense of control over the process, be focused on practical things, and be working with your ex to get things done. Taking an active role in the negotiations will help you reach a better settlement than letting the attorneys handle it. You will have less conflict and litigation after the divorce, better compliance from your ex, and better sharing of information about the children.
|7.||Mixing money and emotion is:|
|a.||A great idea-just do what you feel like doing every day.|
|b.||Something to indulge in now and then.|
|c.||A dangerous combination.|
During this trying time, it’s easy to confuse your feelings with the facts. Try to be as dispassionate and businesslike as possible. View your attorney as a paid professional rather than a friend or confidante. When your grief is overwhelming, go home or to a friend’s house, not to your attorney, who is billing you at an hourly rate. Make property division decisions based on your own long-term best interests, not out of revenge. It won’t make you happy to declare war on your ex. Make an effort to bring the divorce to a successful conclusion with as little rancor as possible.
|8.||Fighting for what’s yours is:|
|a.||A risky idea.|
|b.||Part of making sure that you get everything you deserve.|
|c.||Something nice girls don’t do.|
Women tend to be supportive and sensitive to the needs of others, to build bridges, and to “make nice.” These tendencies often get in our way during divorce. Divorce is about survival, not making friends. You have to insist on getting what you need and deserve. Even if you hope that you will eventually be able to reconcile with your ex, don’t bend over backwards to make it happen. Stand up for yourself and get your share. If you reconcile, that’s fine. If you don’t, you’ll still be able to take care of yourself financially.
|9.||Taking control is:|
|c.||c. Very, very important.|
Unfortunately, you can’t call your attorney and say, “I want a divorce. Please call me when it’s over.” The only way out is through, and you are in charge of getting there. Going through a divorce can sometimes make you feel like the captain of a leaky boat on stormy seas-there seems to be a new crisis at every turn. Use this time of upheaval to start taking control of your life. Vow never to worry in the dark. If you can’t sleep, turn on the light, pick up a pencil and paper, and write down your worries. Then, you can go back to sleep and deal with them first thing in the morning. Listen to your attorney, but make your own decisions. This is your divorce, so take control of the process!
|10.||In divorce, you should:|
|a.||Plan for the best, but prepare for the worst.|
|b.||Close your eyes and jump.|
|c.||Just think happy thoughts and everything will be okay.|
During divorce, prepare yourself mentally for the worst that can happen. How will you cope if you have to move in with your parents? If the divorce proceedings last for years and you lose all of your money? If your ex remarries within two weeks, moves to Tahiti, and refuses to pay any support? Face the worst so what actually happens will seem easy by comparison. Don’t panic and let your fears rule your life. Face them, and take control.
|11.||A career is:|
|a.||Unnecessary if you are receiving alimony.|
|b.||For the peasant class.|
|c.||Extremely important to successfully surviving divorce.|
Many women put their careers aside to concentrate on their families. After divorce, you will probably need to figure out a way to support yourself and your children. Divorce is an excellent time to get some career counseling at the local job center, university, or community college. There’s nothing like new knowledge and a fulfilling career to bolster your self-esteem.
|12.||Good professional advice is:|
|a.||Very important to make sure that your decisions will work for the long haul.|
|b.||Something to spend a few bucks on, now and then.|
|c.||A bad, bad thing.|
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"The embryos will come from patients who have given their informed consent to the donation of embryos which are surplus to their [in vitro fertilization] treatment," the Crick Institute said in a statement.
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Quick Chiropractic and General Health Back-to-School Tips
The school season is here once again; it is both an exciting and busy time for parents. Sending the kids off to their first day of school is a proud moment for all parents.
But it is not easy work. Preparing the kids for school means you have to ensure their good health and safety at all times.
According to Dr. Lauren’s Love and Chiropractic, chiropractic care has been shown to boost your child’s immune system by ensuring your child’s nervous system is functioning at 100%.
Follow this chiropractic back to school tips that will help protect your kid’s growing spine.
Tip #1: Choose the right backpack.
Picking a new school bag is one of the exciting moments kids always look forward to comes the beginning of a new school season.
As a responsible parent, you have to make sure your kids don’t just get the backpack they want and need.
Wearing improper backpacks can cause headaches, shoulder pain, and lower back discomfort in children.
The American Chiropractic Association recommends these backpack safety tips for school-aged children:
Your kid’s backpack must weigh no more than 5 to 10 percent of his or her body weight and should never hang more than four inches below the waistline.
Make sure that pointy or bulky objects are packed in safety compartments and away from the area that will rest on your child’s back.
Kids should wear both shoulder straps to avoid the disproportionate shift of weight to one side.
Choose backpacks with wide, padded straps that can be adjusted to fit your child’s body.
Tip #2: Pack healthy lunch meals and snacks.
If you are used to letting your kids buy their lunches at school, it’s high time you start taking control of what goes into your kid’s meals to protect their health.
Don’t forget to take a few minutes out of your busy daily schedule to prepare healthy lunch meals and school snacks.
The team of Chiropractors at First Choice Chiropractic suggests replacing the sugary treats in your kid’s snack box with food that contains energy-boosting nutrients.
These include butter, homemade fruits, and vegetable chips, plain popcorn, hummus, granola bars, frozen fruit, overnight oats, and cracker sandwiches.
Tip #3: Keep your kids hydrated.
Proper hydration is essential, especially for kids. Ensure your kids drink an adequate amount of water to rehydrate every day, whether at school or home.
As a general rule, children should drink the number of 8-ounce cups of water equal to their age, with a maximum of 64 ounces of water for children over the age of 8—CHOC Children’s.
These amounts do not include other beverages that your child may consume in a day, such as milk and juice.
Getting your child to drink an adequate amount of water every day can be a challenge.
Research shows that adding flavor to water can increase the amount of fluid consumed voluntarily.
Get your kids to drink more water by adding a slice of lemon or lime or frozen fruit cubes into their drink.
Tip #4: Teach your kids the correct standing and sitting posture.
Correct posture and chiropractic health go hand in hand. Back problems are common in adults who neglect the practice of good posture during their younger days.
It is important to teach your kids the proper way to have good posture as early as possible. When sitting at a desk, feet should stay flat on the floor, shoulders back, and the head over the top of the neck and shoulders.
If your kids use a tablet or computer as learning material, remember to place the electronics in a stand that tilts towards them. That way, the head isn’t leaning over the shoulders.
To assist with good spine development, equip your kid’s home study with ergonomic desks and chairs.
Tip #5: Prioritize a healthy sleeping routine.
It is important to note that a good night’s sleep will help your kids go through every school day with a great mood and energy.
Getting enough sleep heals and repairs the body from stress, common in kids during the back-to-school season.
Arranging a healthy sleeping routine with your child and sticking to it every night can help your child get a good night’s sleep, preferably lasting more than 8 hours a day.
Getting the right sleeping bed is a huge factor in achieving quality sleep. Check if your child’s bed mattress and covering provide comfort and correct body and spine support.
Tip #6: Let your kids join physical activities.
Kids are naturally active and act as if they have no limitations. While engaging in physical activities like sports can help with their body development, kids should be taught how to care for their bodies properly.
The Joint Chiropractic suggests that kids should take time to warm up and cool-down stretches, keep workouts reasonable for their physical fitness, and perform different activities to avoid repetitive injuries.
Tip #7: Schedule a regular visit to a trusted professional.
To keep track of your child’s spine health, don’t forget to take your child to a regular visit with a trusted pediatric chiropractor.
A healthy spine promotes the nervous system’s proper functioning, which is highly essential for your child’s proper growth and development.
Bringing your school-aged children to a licensed pediatric chiropractor will help correct back problems before they get worse.
Other notable benefits of pediatric chiropractic care to children are improved sleep, better behavior, and a stronger immune system.
Your child’s health and safety must always remain your top priority. Regardless of how busy you may get at home or the office, remember to always check on your children’s needs or have problems at school.
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The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet grew a 4th straight week to $2,328 trillion, up $31 billion in a week. In May the balance sheet was $2,333 trillion.
Holdings of government securities totaled $901.24 billion, and rose $27.62 billion. Mortgage holdings were unchanged and Agency holdings fell slightly.
It might interest you to know that over the past seven years federal debt has doubled to almost $14 trillion. That is more than $100,000 for every American household.
It should be noted that combined expenditures on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are projected to account for 45% of primary federal spending. That is a rise equal to 62% of GDP to 185% in 2035. 70% of US Treasuries are held by private investors and once they start to realize the US is really broke the game is over.
On a European note, Germany cannot keep paying for bailouts without going bankrupt itself. Germany is drowning in the debt of other countries.
Assets under management in commodities hit a record high of $340 billion in October.
A very important event is that China and Russia are going to quit using the US dollar. This is big news. In spite of the current USDX dollar rally it will reduce demand for dollars and expedite the dollar’s demise. Once the dollar rally, induced by European problems is over, the dollar should take out 74 on the USDX. Current US insolvency is being ignored as the five-euro zone PIGGS get gored.
In addition, we wonder whether even the strongest country, Germany, can survive the onslaught of the 5 PIGGS and their financial problems. The Germany people are very upset that they have to bail out these Club Med countries. The US has the same problem with large liberal states with vast amounts of illegal aliens that are broke and will have to depend on the federal government for perpetual funding. Accompanying that funding will come further Federal control.
This presents two similar sets of circumstances. A breakup of the euro zone, which we have felt was inevitable since 1997, and a breakup of the unnatural alliance known as the European Union. In the US a similar set of circumstances could bring to the forefront the state sovereign movement. It will be interesting to see how both develop. It could well end up as everyman for themselves. Worldwide banks, individuals and corporations are insolvent in very large numbers. The banks, Wall Street and the City of London have been the root cause of these problems and by the countries bailing them out and transferring the debt to the taxpayer; they have in turn destroyed the value of their currencies versus gold. The problem is not currency versus fiat currency, but all currencies versus gold. The real exodus from currencies hasn’t even as yet begun because 95% of the world hasn’t discovered the problem as yet. Once the debt markets discover this the stampede will begin and not everyone will be able to get out the door at the same time – virtual chaos will ensue. The gold and silver markets are already telling you that. Those who act now can save their wealth, the rest, as we have seen in the past, will loose most everything. Next year worldwide more and more will join the flight to quality as prices soar. Confidence in all currencies will lessen as currencies head for a massive crackup. A compounding factor is that exchanges such as the LBMA in London and the Comex in NYC have sold scores more contracts in gold and silver than they can deliver. That will create a delivery crisis, not only for them, but also in the derivatives market as well. That could well destroy the Exchange Traded Funds GLD and SLV in a scenario when everyone loses their investments. The manipulation that has gone on in the gold and silver pits has been ongoing since August 1988, but now they make no effort to cover up what they are doing. It’s in your face and arrogant. There have not been free markets for many years, thanks to our government, the CFTC and the SEC as regulators for government and in behalf of government and those who control government. This is an absolute disgrace in a democracy. Obviously we no longer have a democracy or a republic, but in its place corporatist fascism.
Desperate people do desperate things and that goes for governments as well. Many governments are broke. We know about governments in Europe, known as the 5 PIGGS, then there are many in Eastern Europe, England and the US. They all are in desperate shape and that is why the US and the UK in particular are suppressing gold and silver. If they go up in value more and more people will realize something is terribly wrong. The lynchpin of the entire world financial system, the US, is broke and the US dollar is not worth the paper it is written on. The last time we looked at the forex holdings of all nations 59-1/2% was held in US dollars, which means when the dollar falls lower all nations are going to suffer. Those nations, individuals and corporations that figure out the truth through the smoke and mirrors can save what they have by dumping dollar for gold and silver. Once the panic begins it will be too late.
There have been statements as of late in reference to a gold standard from what we consider official sources. We believe the elitists realize that they cannot begin to consider a worldwide trading unit no matter what its form without gold backing. Countries are not going to allow themselves to get hung out to dry again, as they have been with a fiat dollar. We know most economists want the present system to continue, so they do not have to learn real economics. Even so-called conservative economists and analysts believe in the current system, which has been an abysmal failure. That has been borne out by two depressions and a population growth is no excuse for not using gold backing for currencies. It has little to do with central banks and governments creating money and credit. Gold production is falling not rising and adds only 1.5% to existing supply, making it rare and to be valued. The presence of gold backing helps demand for expansion. Keynesians always like to forget wars and the distortations they create, such as fiscal debt and expansion of the fractional banking system. Today we still have wars amidst a new declining world population; a sort of double whammy restricting the excuse for more money and credit.
The real problem is gold caps what central banks and banks can do. That limits leverage that is why the wealth accumulating elitists hate gold and besides gold’s upward movement tells us something is wrong within the system. Over and over again every time the system gets in trouble more money and credit is issued. That might for a time keep the system afloat but it also is debt creation, which in turn depreciates the dollar. It is impossible to separate debt and the affect it has on currency, as German Chancellor Ms. Merkel tried to do this past week. All she did was make a fool out of herself. One has to follow another. Each day credibility is strained and each day gold has another reason to rise. This is why gold-based accounts are starting to appear in Europe, mainly Austria, and under the circumstances that trend will grow as the flight to quality rises. Such responses are understandable as governments compete at destroying their currencies. Every time they want to depreciate the value of their currency, to create more of it, buy dollars thereby cheapening their currency, and use the result to purchase US dollar bonds in a US dollar that is also depreciating versus other currencies and in particular gold. Remember, all currencies have fallen versus gold for the past ten years. Thus, the rat race continues in the currency road to oblivion.
In the final analysis in a form of natural progression exporters may demand to be paid in gold, or a gold backed currency, or simply dump other currencies for their own currency, gold, commodities or something else physical. This is where all this is headed. We could also see, gold, silver and commodity bonds backed by physicals or the shares of producing companies. There will be gold and silver backed accounts, which have begun being offered in Austria. As long as fiat currencies continue to depreciate there will be a growing demand for such accounts, which at worst will maintain gold at some permanent level. The value of gold and silver will remain strong. Even gold backed debit cards could come into everyday use. It is absolutely essential that monetary policy include gold if confidence is to ever be restored in the minds of people worldwide. What one has to consider is that gold suppression doesn’t work and can’t work over long periods of time. There are those who believe that the re-adoption of gold will be a major addition. We believe it means major change. What economists and analysts fail to really understand is the history of money. It is not only gold backing for confidence, but the time, places and social and political implications. Keynesianism will soon be dead and with it a fiat world. Gold and its place in monetary and fiscal policy will reassert itself as it is again recognized as a reliable storage for value. Ascending gold will bring about problems for governments because for a world reserve currency like the dollar it would restrict seigniorage profits and the proliferation of money and credit. We have seen the re-ascendancy of gold over the past two years, and that is only the beginning for gold or gold backing to become universal.
What is worse for nations is to ignore gold’s clarion call. If they do not readopt gold into their currency reserves private systems will develop whether they like it or not. Deleveraging has begun and there will be no turning it back for banks. Banks and governments will be in serious trouble and many will go bankrupt. Beware, major changes and dislocations are on the way. If you don’t own gold and silver you are going to be in lots of trouble.
It seems that a number of prominent nations are having second thoughts about implementing a world government at this juncture. That distaste is reflected in their seeming opposition to the implementation of “quantitative easing two,” another injection of money and credit into the world financial system. They are calling for austerity and they know this will bring about deflationary depression.
The relative weakness of the US dollar, the euro and other currencies as well, has brought about great consternation and in the search for solutions gold is again being considered as a reserve for the dollar again, or for backing for a new international trading unit. We saw the trial balloon by World Bank President, Robert Zoellick, who told us in the pages of the Financial Times that, a new unit should be considered consisting of six major currencies backed by gold. Mr. Zoellick, is an ultimate insider, so what he has to say should be listened to very carefully. This is well put, a crimp in their control of the world financial system, but they can still control the system albeit in a more conservative way. Other commentators believe this sort of monetary arrangement is many years away; we believe it is closer than that. The US dollar has serious problems, as do most other currencies. In this regard the euro is a good example, as currency that could be on the verge of a breakup due to the financial state of 5 of its 16 members, which is front-page news around the clock. The present situation vis-à-vis the dollar and the euro was probably the last thing the insiders ever expected. It has pointed up the fact that a group of nations using one currency doesn’t work any better than one fiat currency. The gold backing on the euro was 15%, but over the past 10 years gold reserves have fallen precipitously as the ECB, the European Central Bank, joined the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve in their transparent attempt to suppress gold prices. That has left the ECB perhaps with a paltry 5% gold backing reflecting a stewardship of political and internationalist necessity. Like it or not the battle between the dollar and gold has been won by gold over the past two years, and at the highest elitist circles this is self-evident. The point is there are several major nations accumulating gold, which we pointed out in a previous issue, not only to dump depreciating dollars but also to put the only real money behind their currencies.
John Maynard Keynes, in order to justify his version of corporatist socialism, called gold a barbarous relic, which has led to the problems that we have today. In spite of the Keynesian economic approach we have had a second major depression in 80 years, not to mention the score of recessions in the interim.
A full body scanner operator was caught masturbating during a scanning session by airport staff late Tuesday.
Airport officials at Denver International airport were on high alert yesterday when a full body scanner operator was caught masturbating in his booth as a team of High School netball players went through the scanner.
"The young ladies were going through the scanner one by one, and every time one went through, this guys face was getting redder and redder. His hand was moving and then he started sweating. He was then seen doing his 'O' face. That's when the security dragged him out of his booth and cuffed him. He had his pants round his ankles and everybody was really disgusted," Jeb Rather, a passenger on a flight to New York told CBS news.
The controversial scanners display every minute detail of a person's body and have been called intrusive by privacy campaigners. Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual porn shoot. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing highly detailed pictures of genitals, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.
"What do you want to do, get blown up by a goddamn Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts? It's up to you, the ball's in your park," head of the TSA's scanning department, Rodney Schroeder, told CNN.
492: The number of days since the average borrower in foreclosure last made a mortgage payment.
Banks can’t foreclose fast enough to keep up with all the people defaulting on their mortgage loans. That’s a problem, because it could make stiffing the bank even more attractive to struggling borrowers.
In recent months, the number of borrowers entering severe delinquency meaning they missed their third monthly mortgage payment has been on the decline, falling to about 700,000 in October, according to mortgage-data provider LPS Applied Analytics. But it’s still more than double the number of foreclosure processes started.
As a result, banks are taking progressively longer to foreclose. The average borrower in the foreclosure process hadn’t made a payment in 492 days as of the end of October, according to LPS. That compares to 382 days a year ago and a low of 244 days in August 2007.
In other words, people who default on their mortgages can reasonably expect, on average, to stay in their homes rent-free more than 16 months. In some states such as New York and Florida, the number is closer to 20 months.
That’s a meaningful incentive, and it’s likely to grow unless banks manage to boost their throughput. Speeding up the process won’t be easy, as demonstrated by the banks’ continuing legal troubles related to robo-signers, bank employees who signed foreclosure affidavits without properly checking the required loan documentation.
Millions of Americans still are paying their mortgages even though they owe more than their homes are worth. The more banks’ backlog grows, the more likely they are to join it, adding to the already giant pile of foreclosures weighing on the housing market.
Barb Capa was at Saks Inc.’s flagship store in New York feeling flush and ready to buy.
“I just feel like spending more because of an increase in my salary,” the 22-year-old nurse from New York said yesterday. In 2009 Capa spent $1,000 during the holiday season. This year she is ready to “splurge” and drop five times as much on designer bags, clothes and shoes.
She’s not the only one. The average shopper spent 6.4 percent more than last year over the holiday weekend, the National Retail Federation said yesterday. Customers bought more non-essentials like jewelry and toys, signaling that the U.S. economy, propelled by consumer spending, is regaining strength.
“Consumers are more comfortable spending again, and that trend has held up,” Maggie Taylor, a vice president at Moody’s Investors Service in New York, said yesterday. “I don’t think people are as worried about losing their jobs anymore.”
U.S. retail sales during Thanksgiving weekend totaled $45 billion, the Washington-based NRF said in a statement, citing a survey conducted by BIGresearch. More people are scouring for deals earlier, with the number of customers shopping on Thanksgiving Day more than doubling over the past five years, the group said.
On Black Friday itself, so named because that’s when many retailers become profitable, traffic rose 2.2 percent, ShopperTrak said on Nov. 27. Retailers lured people into stores with promotions like Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s $5 Barbie and J.C. Penney Co.’s $10 diamond-accented earrings. The Chicago-based consulting firm said sales rose 0.3 percent to $10.7 billion.
Mutual funds’ ties to so-called expert networks that have been probed as part of an insider trading investigation may undermine efforts by the industry to stem three years of client withdrawals from stock funds.
Janus Capital Group Inc. and Wellington Management Co. were among firms that received requests for information last week as part of an insider trading investigation involving hedge funds as well as mutual funds. None of the companies have been accused of wrongdoing.
The probe hits firms as they try to reverse $90 billion in withdrawals from U.S. stock funds since the beginning of 2009. Damage from the industry’s last run-in with regulators, a series of trading scandals in 2003 and 2004, took years to repair and led to more than $3 billion in fines against more than two dozen firms, including Bank of America Corp., Putnam Investments, Janus and MFS.
“There was reputational damage from that scandal that took a long time to heal,” said Burton Greenwald, a fund-company consultant based in Philadelphia. “In an industry that handles people’s money and savings, reputation is enormously important.”
Both MFS and Wellington were clients of Broadband Research LLC, a Portland, Oregon-based company that provides research to money managers and whose founder, John Kinnucan, was visited by federal officials as part of the probe. Affiliated Managers Group Inc.’s Friess Associates, and the Columbia Management unit now owned by Ameriprise Inc., have also been clients of the researcher, Kinnucan said in an interview. None of them have been accused of wrongdoing.
Shoppers crowded stores on Black Friday but spent just a little more than last year on the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, according to data released Saturday by a research firm.
Retail spending rose a slight 0.3 percent, to $10.69 billion, compared with $10.66 billion on the day after Thanksgiving last year, according to ShopperTrak.
Two factors behind the slim increase, a disappointment following bullish reports from stores Friday, were heavy discounts earlier in November and online shopping, which saw a big increase.
Chicago research firm Shoppertrak, which tallies sales in more than 70,000 retail outlets across the country, said the total was still a record for the day. It stood behind its prediction for spending to rise 3.2 percent for the season.
"It's hard to say Black Friday wasn't a success, it's just not the success we saw in the mid-2000s, when the day really became a phenomenon," ShopperTrak founder Bill Martin said. he slim sales increase came despite a 2.2 percent boost in store traffic, which Martin said suggests that consumers were in the stores searching for deals. "This means the American shopper has adapted to the economic climate over the last couple of years and is possibly spending more wisely as the holiday season begins," Martin said. ShopperTrak said spending for first two weeks of the month rose 6.1 percent over last year, as retailers promoted the sort of doorbuster deals that normally didn't appear until after the turkey dinner was finished. Traffic in stores the two weeks ended Nov. 13 jumped 6.2 percent. "Retailers were very conscious of driving traffic early in November and in doing so, some might have thinned Black Friday spending a bit," Martin said. "The reality is we have a deal-driven consumer in 2010 and that consumer responded to some of the earliest deep discounts we've even seen for the holidays."
Many retailers also offered those discounts and promotions on their websites. Online merchants saw a 16 percent revenue spike, according to research company Coremetrics. That increase came partly from shoppers who spent more per online purchase, the Web research company said. The average order rose to $190.80. That's a 12 percent increase over $170.19 on the same day last year.
The solid increase followed a 33 percent online spending spike on Thanksgiving Day.
"The season's off to a great start," said John Squire, Coremetrics vice president of strategy. "It really shows really strong consumer sentiment for buying and for going online." Meanwhile, PayPal reported an increase of about 27 percent in payment volume on Black Friday compared with last year. The eBay Inc. unit did not release a dollar amount for the sales it processed.
Lots of shoppers made it an all-nighter online. "Even at 1 a.m. Pacific, there was still very strong buying across the U.S.," Squire said.
Shopping on smart phones remained a small, though growing, piece of the pie. Coremetrics said about 5.6 percent of people logged onto a retailer's website using a mobile device. That compares with less than 1 percent on last year's Black Friday, Squire said. More dollars have shifted to online shopping over the years, but it's still a relatively small share of holiday spending, between 8 and 10 percent.
But many shoppers have become converted to the comfort and convenience of browsing the Web for gifts. Kelly Hager, 30, of Baltimore, Md., is shopping exclusively online for the fourth year in a row.
"It's nice to not have to fight for a parking spot and deal with 3 billion people who are all trying to get the same thing I'm trying to get," she said. Hager used to work at a mall, so she's seen Black Friday from both sides.
Retailers and analysts also were encouraged that people seemed to be buying more items for themselves, a sign they're feeling confident enough to spend more money overall. Thanksgiving weekend is prime time for retailers. In recent years, Black Friday called that because the surge of shoppers could take retailers into profitability, or "the black," for the year has been the busiest shopping day of the year, according to data from ShopperTrak.
Black Friday is generally not as big for online retailers as Monday after Thanksgiving, known as "Cyber Monday," which Coremetrics predicts will be the busiest online shopping day of the year, driven by heavy online promotions.
The Black Friday blitz doesn't make or break the holiday season. In fact, shoppers seem to be procrastinating more every year, giving retailers some tense moments the last few days before Christmas.
"I wait for the last minute," said Linda Majkowski of Queens, N.Y., who visited a Costco in Melville, N.Y. on Saturday, but said she hadn't started her holiday shopping yet. "I just found out what everybody wants on Thanksgiving."
AP Business Writers Mae Anderson and Michael Lee in New York and Jessica Mintz in Bellevue, Wash., contributed to this report.
Investors took almost $2.27 billion out of municipal-bond mutual funds in the week ended Nov. 24, according to Lipper FMI, a research company.
It was the second-straight outflow and followed a week in which investors withdrew more than $3.1 billion, the most since January 1992, according to Tom Roseen, senior analyst at Lipper in Denver. The most-recent data covers Nov. 18 through Nov. 24.
The latest withdrawals occurred as yields on longer- maturity tax-exempt securities headed for the biggest weekly drop since August, according to Bloomberg Valuation indexes. Yields on tax-exempt 30-year bonds fell almost 22 basis points to 4.32 percent on Nov. 24 from Nov. 18, the index shows. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point. Issuers who were rushing to sell taxable Build America Bonds, known as BABs, before the program is set to end next month spurred municipal supply to a record this month. Thirty- year tax-exempts sold off from Oct. 25 through Nov. 18, gaining about 77 basis points in yield, according to the Bloomberg Valuation index. Bond yields rise as prices fall.
A sweeping insider-trading investigation is raising questions about how hedge funds and other big investors dole out a common, and controversial, currency that flows freely across Wall Street. The currency is known as soft dollars.
Stock brokerages award soft dollars to investors much like an airline doles out frequent-flier miles, giving the most clout to the biggest traders. The clients then use the soft dollars in a variety of ways, but largely spend them on investment research.
Investigators now want to know whether brokerages and their clients may be abusing those otherwise legitimate soft-dollar funds, directing payments to so-called expert networks and other middlemen in search of inside information.
SAC Capital Advisors, a $12 billion hedge-fund firm run by Steven Cohen, told clients this past week that federal authorities appear focused on soft-dollar payments. SAC said it was basing that impression on a subpoena the firm received Monday afternoon, which it called "extraordinarily broad."
Federal criminal charges filed Wednesday against Don Ching Trang Chu, who worked for a California expert-network firm called Primary Global Research LLC, highlighted soft-dollar payments his firm earned for hooking up alleged tipsters with hedge-fund clients. On Wall Street, "soft dollar" can often be used as a verb. In one instance cited in the complaint, a hedge-fund manager who was cooperating with prosecutors said he wasn't able to "soft-dollar" a consultation session by sending trades to the firm's broker. When he offered to pay out of his pocket, the company told him not to worry about it.
A criminal complaint against Mr. Chu alleges that Primary Global clients paid for the firm's research in part by sending trading and the soft dollars that came along with it to Primary Global's broker-dealer arm.
To prove insider trading when information was passed from one person to another, prosecutors must show the tipper received a direct benefit, such as payment, or an intangible benefit for the nonpublic material. Tracking how those soft dollars were used would thus be an important element to a case, said Steve D. Feldman of law firm Herrick Feinstein LLP.
Mr. Feldman said that in certain cases, the use of soft dollars could show criminal intent if investment firms purposely obscured payments by routing them through their brokers rather than paying directly.
"It would be the kind of thing that's indicative of trying to hide the ball," Mr. Feldman said.
In 1998, the SEC estimated that more than $1 billion worth of third-party research was paid for each year by soft dollars. The boom in hedge funds and proprietary-trading operations since then fueled greater demand for research as more investors surfaced who were willing to pay big money for an information edge. Total soft-dollar funds are now estimated in the billions.
Gaining such an "edge" is the very basis of centuries of Wall Street behavior. This past week, as news of the insider-trading investigation intensified, many were left grappling with which of those practices might be attacked by prosecutors.
By focusing on insiders at big financial firms and corporations, and also little-known consultants who link them together, investigators are piecing together a web of relationships in an attempt to expose how suspicious trading frequently has gone undetected, the people say.
The probe has set off a wide-ranging debate about just what type of stock research might cross a line. For instance, one question is whether assembling disparate pieces of information in themselves not material gives some traders a potentially illegal advantage. The U.S. crackdown gathered steam quickly during the past week, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided offices of hedge funds controlling billions of dollars, and demanded trading records and other information from some of the biggest investment firms in the country.
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office has sent subpoenas to big hedge funds SAC Capital Advisors and Citadel LLC as well as mutual-fund firm Janus Capital Group Inc. and Wellington Management Co., one of the biggest U.S. institutional-investment companies. Investigators are seeking communications, trading records and other data as the probe widens, say people familiar with the matter. The firms either said they were cooperating or declined to comment. None of the companies is accused of wrongdoing.
Prosecutors also won a legal victory on Wednesday against a founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, Raj Rajaratnam, gaining permission to use wiretaps against Wall Street investors in attempts to prosecute insider-trading.
In the month ahead, the government is expected to make new arrests, said people close to the case. While Mr. Chu is the only person who has been publicly charged, these people say, in recent weeks several hedge-fund traders and expert-network firm employees have been contacted by investigators and begun hiring criminal defense lawyers.
The investigation is building a picture of a vast "closed market in insider information," said Tamar Frankel, a Boston University law professor and expert in financial regulation. "It's a market of give-and-take: Today you gave, and tomorrow I give back.
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Wake for cancer victim at Camden Town nightclub descended into mass brawl
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A nightclub has had the hours of its licence reduced and its Designated Premises Supervisor removed after a wake honouring a cancer victim descended into a mass brawl in which one man was stabbed and two police officers injured.
Described by officers as “one of the most serious incidents to have occurred in Camden Town in recent times”, police responding to a disturbance at Silk Nightclub in Pratt Street, Camden Town, say they were confronted by a crowd of around 100 “aggressive and intoxicated” individuals on the evening of April 4.
An argument said to be gang related descended into a brawl involving about 20 people and resulted in a man being stabbed in the stomach and police officers being elbowed and bitten.
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Struggling one deceptive fight can result in biggest concerns on an individual’s finances and mentality. Sadly, it generally does not usually stop at one. If fraudsters gain access to a target’s details, they can possibly start several payday advances.
Yet again, that fast character of being able to access resources through payday advances is generally a scammers most significant investment. Tough nonetheless, it may be the target’s worst nightmare. The fact things are taken care of on the web also takes on to the attacker’s palms.
The relatively tiny character of those financial loans simply leaves lenders with decreased factor to inquire the game also. Once again, they may be just the right solution for a genuine short-term financial saviour. But as soon as details come into a bad possession, it would possibly make a really horrific condition for the prey.
The inconspicuous character of payday loan fraudulence implies that you might not spot activity for weeks and/or period. Sadly, this might render facts a whole lot harder for all the target discover an instant solution.
Usually, subjects merely become aware of the situation once large charges have developed. Some lenders are extremely unreasonable and reveal little empathy towards circumstance. It really is only reasonable that loan providers want their money, but that’s little or no benefits for victims. (more…)
There can be some mystery surrounding an adjustable-rate mortgage, or ARM. This type of mortgage typically begins with an interest rate that is fixed for a period of time—usually three to 10 years—and then adjusts based on an index, a benchmark interest rate to which the ARM is tied, plus a fixed margin set by the lender. This unpredictability makes ARMs a riskier choice than fixed-rate mortgages, which charge the same interest rate for the duration of a loan.
The definition is in the name: The interest rate on a fixed-rate mortgage remains unchanged during the loan term. Fixed-rate loans are best “for homebuyers who plan to be in their home for a long period of time or indefinitely,” says Matthew Posey, certified mortgage planning specialist with Axia Home Loans in Austin, Texas. (more…) | <urn:uuid:acb5ccfa-c25d-4c0e-af04-dd9fe855fcdc> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,189 |
Words “Game of Legends” actually means “The Book of True Love Lovers.” It is a video game played online. Unlike other games in which an individual might hang around playing, a game in this particular classification might be completed in lower than a handful of hours. Folks who possess a great working expertise of pcs and personal computer apps may really conform.
While conforming, you professional gaming are going to undergo various video games and challenges. A lot of individuals may certainly not recognize that they must await a particular time frame before they are actually allowed to smooth up. After they begin playing the game, they obtain exhausted of it as well as stop the game within moments.
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Organization of Legends has come to be the absolute most well-known game by far worldwide. A lot of our team players feel that this possesses a great deal to do with the simple fact that it is actually totally free to participate in as well as has no in-game ads or even in-game acquisitions.
Numerous players are actually really upset concerning these problems yet still remain to purchase products in the game through holding back their mouse on the player’s hands. Through this they may continue to acquire the products although there is no actual loan entailed. It seems like a wild-goose chase for several players that must always keep investing funds on products for no real main reason.
Within this digital world of a personal computer, our team believe that our actions must be consistent to proceed with our lives. Our experts need to do what our team can easily certainly not merely to earn money but likewise to live. In some cases individuals carry out things out of spite, rancor or high stupidity.
Due to the fact that it is actually enjoyable and offers you the opportunity to create some extra money without devoting a dollar, Free to play is a wonderful way to play. There are a lot of paid out services and activities that are actually on call available and also it is up to you to choose the best one that ideal satisfies your gaming requires.
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Unlike various other games in which an individual might devote opportunity having fun, a video game in this group might be actually finished in less than a few hrs. While participating in the game, you will certainly be subjected to different activities and also difficulties. After they start participating in the video game, they obtain exhausted of it and give up the game within mins.
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Clare Mackintosh: Horsing around
PUBLISHED: 11:16 09 May 2017
‘Our nearest riding stables are almost an hour away, and aimed firmly at the bounce-in-the-saddle-with-a-borrowed-hat holiday brigade’
Where does North Wales hide its horses? In six months here I haven’t once encountered a horse and rider on the roads, and our daily dog walks yield nothing but sheep, sheep, and more sheep.
Coming from the Cotswolds, where you’d be wise to anticipate equines around every blind bend, this is quite an adjustment. Nine-year-old Evie is distraught. A year of riding lessons in Hook Norton saw her taking to the saddle like the proverbial duck to water, with a natural seat and an affinity with her steed that I’m not sure I ever had. When the big move to Wales was mooted I confess I didn’t give a thought to the proximity of stables, assuming that - as in the Cotswolds - we’d be spoiled for choice. It is the countryside after all, and for me the countryside means horses. Alas, not so in Snowdonia, where our nearest riding stables are almost an hour away, and aimed firmly at the bounce-in-the-saddle-with-a-borrowed-hat holiday brigade.
Evie’s blossoming hobby has thus ground to a halt as abruptly as a refusal at Becher’s Brook; her jodhpurs and silk lying dormant in a drawer. Long promised gymnastics has provided a useful distraction, but neither of us is quite ready to give up on riding altogether. I thought perhaps the answer was to be self-sufficient. A pony of our own. Something small, at first; and then an upgrade to something big enough that Evie and I could share the exercising load. I thought back to the halcyon days of my Pony Club childhood, and imagined how wonderful it would be to look out of the kitchen window and see a horse in the field beyond the garden. A glance at the Horse & Hound message board, however, prompted a refusal at the first.
As children we kept our horses in a farmer’s field, paying peppercorn rent in exchange for accepting the more¬wire¬than¬post fencing, the lack of proper stables, and a muck¬heap that was less banked and more dumped. We rode tubby, hardy ponies who turned their noses up at shoes, ate nothing but grass and the occasional slice of winter hay, and bounded happily over a motley collection of straw bales and broom handles. There was, of course, a cost (not least to my mother, who valiantly drove to the field each morning in the winter before school, to break the ice on the water trough) but it was manageable. Now? Now it seems impossible to keep a horse without shelling out as much each month as one’s mortgage payment. Ongoing field management, six weekly farrier visits, insurance, dental checks, innoculations, tack, rugs, feed, vet fees, bedding, worming...I could put one of the children through private school for the same money, without the need to check for ragwort. “I’m sorry,” I tell Evie, on our way to gymnastics, “we just can’t afford it.”
I don’t add that - even if we did have the money - the additional knowledge gleaned from my Horse & Hound research means that the prospect of keeping horses now fills me with horror. Moving from accidental pony ownership to well-informed horse-husbandry weighs heavy not only on the pocket, but on one’s paranoia. There’s so much to go wrong it seems a miracle that my childhood ponies survived to complete as many clear rounds as they did, given our family’s reliance on common sense, an ancient copy of Keeping a Pony at Grass, and a trusted friend who knew slightly more about horses than we did.
At my declaration Evie’s bottom lip quivers. She reminds me how our relocation happened just as she’d been about to start jumping; I head off the tears and chivvy her out of the car towards the gymnastics hall.
“Anyway,” I say brightly, pointing at the equipment laid out in the hall. “You’ve got a horse here.” Evie gives me a withering look worthy of a woman twice her age.
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There have a peek here are actually several sorts of computer game, each with its very own type and also principle. Coming from panel video games and memory card games to sports activities and also part having fun activities, there are actually a variety of different sorts of games that can easily be used a computer system.
A computer game, likewise called a video game, is an involved video game that demands interaction along with a gamer using a controller or input gadget, like a joystick, mouse, keyboard, mouse pad, or light sensing unit. The gamer utilizes their human brain to manage their character in the video game. To accomplish the greatest results, it is actually essential for the player to know how to participate in the video game.
When it comes to participating in video clip games, a lot of people believe concerning playing them on their computer system. There are actually many various other ways to participate in video clip activities on a computer.
If you are brand-new to participating in computer game, it is actually a really good tip to take a while to discover exactly how to play the activities prior to beginning. Along with knowing how to conform, there are actually additionally several forms of operators you can easily make use of for your video game of option. Some individuals choose using video game pads, while others like to utilize buttons. Some gamers are going to even make use of accessories to assist improve their activity take in.
In add-on to discovering the various sorts of games, it’s likewise crucial to discover concerning the different functions of the activities you want playing. For instance, some games might permit you to spare any kind of game that you have certainly not finished, while others might certainly not. The functions that are available vary by each game, however it is actually a good idea to inform on your own with the options accessible to you.
Aside from having the capacity to spare your video games, it’s likewise feasible for you to change the settings that regulate the game. If you yearn for, this permits you to transform your commands. The ability to decrease the setups enables the player to make use of different functions, which can easily be actually helpful for raising the fulfillment of the activity.
At times, players might play an activity various times. The volume of your time you conform will rely on exactly how much opportunity you possess on call. It may be valuable to participate in various activities for different quantities of time, or even to play all at the moment.
Several folks enjoy playing video recording games online because it gives all of them with an opportunity to attach with others that are actually additionally curious about participating in. There are also numerous on-line neighborhoods where consumers will definitely find face to face to play these types of games. Some individuals enjoy the social element of a chatroom or online community to chat with various other people that share the very same rate of interests.
If you possess a family members and you enjoy playing computer game all together, playing online can easily supply a great possibility for you to receive with each other with your kids as well as connect over playing computer game. You may enjoy with your children one-on-one, while participating in video games that pertain for kids. It can also be an excellent means to communicate along with various other members of your family.
You can additionally locate various other types of enjoyment besides participating in video activities. You can easily locate hundreds of free of cost games online, which you may participate in for enjoyable and also exercise your mind while you hang around for more complex games to fill on your device. Most of these video games are accessible free of charge, while others set you back a little cost.
If you would like to get involved in computer game faster, you can easily find games that are a lot more innovative. and also difficult. These much more intricate games feature points like card video games and also word video games.
Free ready grownups are actually likewise accessible for you to check out, although they might certainly not deliver as much obstacle as ready children. There are actually likewise a lot of complimentary games you may download and install, also, that you can easily participate in online.
Most individuals recognize along with computer game. Much of our company have actually played all of them at some time in our lives, either with friends and family, at computer gaming centers, on tv, or in the motion pictures. A video game console is a video game device that entails input or interaction along with a computer-generated consumer interface, consisting of a keyboard, computer mouse, joystick, touch display, or even various other motion-sensing tools to develop graphic responses to a gamer to connect along with online worlds or do activities.
The initial readily accessible computer game bodies were launched through Nintendo Corporation and also were actually made use of through pupils to improve their skill-sets on algebraic and spatial skill-sets. Over times, many models of this kind of video game have actually been actually built. Today, the majority of personal computer video recording activities are intended to become multi-player online activities that need the gamer to connect with other players online.
There are actually a lot of forms of video activities today, both free and paid for. Some of these are actually accessible for download from the world wide web, while others may be bought from specialized outlets as well as video game gaming consoles. For the objective of this particular article, the term computer game will include all those games that require a video clip display system, like CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and also VCR strip. Video clip game gaming consoles are commonly referred to as residence computer game consoles, or online video activity devices. These are the absolute most popular sort of computer game gaming consoles offered to purchase.
These different computer game bodies come in a wide range of dimensions, which can vary from really little as well as sleek to large and hefty. The majority of computer game use the very same form of hardware. The absolute most typical kinds of online video activity hardware made use of for computer game consist of electronic game cartridges (also referred to as CD-ROM), weak disk drive, as well as disk drive. The majority of computer game make use of graphics, sound, pc code, and also interface that make use of graphics programs like XNA or even Video Game Creator. Various other sorts of components utilized in video recording games are actually cordless social network tools like wireless adapters and video game operators. | <urn:uuid:6d010155-bae8-456e-99ee-e94627120188> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,829 |
Are Males More Susceptible to Worms?
There is conflicting data as to whether males are more susceptible to gastrointestinal nematodes than females. It has been suggested that testosterone may have an immunosuppressive effect and that females may have a better immune response due to the role of prolactin. Another theory is that the more aggressive grazing behavior of males may result in increased levels of infection. However, most lambs are castrated at an early age and the differences between castrated males and females are not clear.
Over a three year period (2001-2003), Scottish researchers used three generations of Scottish Blackface lambs (n=758; equal numbers of castrated male and female lambs) to evaluate the role of lamb gender on susceptibility to natural nematode infection. After weaning at four months of age. the lambs were treated with an anthelmintic. Fecal samples were collected from the lambs at 4, 5, and 6 months of age from August through September.
The majority of the lambs had relatively low egg counts. Egg counts varied by time and gender. Egg counts in the male lambs were consistently higher than the females lambs, but differences were only significant in October, at 6 months of age. Since the male lambs were castrated, male hormones cannot explain the observed differences. An alternative hypothesis is that males are growing more quickly and they allocate greater resources to growth. | <urn:uuid:106b03b9-2266-48c1-8756-d42ec975112a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,426 |
The primary sites of normal cells affected by chemotherapy
The goal of chemotherapy is to kill and slow the growth of cancer cells while inducing minimal negative effects on normal cells. Although that is the goal, there are certain areas of the body where normal cells are more affected by chemotherapy than others.
Bone marrow is where the blood cells are produced. Chemotherapy can temporarily decrease the number of white blood cells, which help fight infection, and platelets, which are responsible for forming blood clots to stop bleeding. For many chemotherapy medications these effects usually occur three to seven days after treatment. Although this is usually temporary, the body still needs time to produce sufficient cells to be back to a normal level. Bone marrow suppression can be more severe when Carboplatin, Doxorubicin (Adriamycin), or Lomustine (CCNU) are administered.
The most common side effects are nausea, decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea and lethargy. If any of these side effects occur, it will usually happen two to five days after treatment. Fortunately, we have reliable medications that can help to minimize and control these side effects. These side effects are more common in patients receiving Carboplatin or Doxorubicin (Adriamycin). When these chemotherapy drugs are used, patients are sent home with preventative medications to help minimize the symptoms.
Hair loss (alopecia) after chemotherapy is most common in non-shedding breeds of dogs such as Poodles, Bichon Frise, Shih Tzu, Old English Sheepdogs and most terriers. Depending on which drugs are used and the longevity of the protocol, the alopecia can range from thinning to complete loss, which is unusual. The hair does grow back, but it may change color and/or texture. Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) is the drug that generally causes the most pronounced alopecia. | <urn:uuid:4aa5232a-f7a7-41ae-b172-334a300726ec> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,862 |
Hurricane Igor Repairs Addressed in Tender Calls
Final repairs will be made this summer to roads, culverts and bridge structures damaged by Hurricane Igor in the Trinity North, Bonavista South and Terra Nova regions as the Department of Transportation and Works calls two tenders for multiple projects.
“Now that the road construction season is upon us, we can begin the work of making permanent repairs in areas damaged by Hurricane Igor,” said the Honourable Tom Hedderson, Minister of Transportation and Works. “This work will span multiple communities and make substantial improvements to approximately 40 highways and roadways in these areas.”
Work will be divided into two tenders, with one focused on road repairs in approximately 130 areas around the region and one on reinforcement projects for six large culvert structures in Charlottetown, Lockston, Port Rexton, Hodderville and Amherst Cove.
“Since Hurricane Igor swept through our communities in the fall, our government has been working to complete needed repairs,” said the Honourable Ross Wiseman, Minister of Environment and Conservation and MHA for Trinity North. “This roadwork will strengthen our roads and highways for the benefit of area residents and businesses as well as for those who visit our region.”
Roadwork to be completed as part of the first tender will cover a wide range of projects including but not limited to asphalt removal, patching and repaving, shoulder repair, ditching, guiderail repair and replacement, slope stabilization, and culvert removal and replacement. The tender also includes three parcels of paving and upgrading work on Routes 204, 205 and 231, which are not related to Hurricane Igor repairs. All work is scheduled to be completed by the fall.
Projects in the tender call for the reinforcement of large culverts include work such as construction of concrete headwalls and welded wire retaining walls, and placement of rock fill and stabilization materials.
“After Hurricane Igor blew through our province, we knew that we would have to wait until the next construction season for permanent repairs,” said the Honourable Roger Fitzgerald, MHA for Bonavista South. “That wait will soon be over and our roads and highways will be strengthened with the projects included in these tenders.”
“Permanent fixes on Hurricane Igor repairs in our communities will be welcomed by everyone,” said Sandy Collins, MHA for Terra Nova. “In rural areas of this province, our highways are the main link to our services and a major factor in our economy. We look forward to these repairs, which will return our roads and highways to their pre-hurricane condition.”
Budget 2011 Standing Strong: For Prosperity. For Our Future. For Newfoundland and Labrador provides funding of $216.4 million for road and bridge improvements, supplemented by an additional $35.2 million in Federal Government funding, for a total road and bridge investment in 2011-12 of $251.6 million.
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Athens DWI Lawyer
Facing charges of DWI can be pretty overwhelming. In Texas, a conviction of driving under the influence has serious consequences — consequences which will have long-lasting effects on your future. An experienced Athens DWI lawyer can inform you of your legal options and rights.
At John Eastland, Attorney at Law, we deal only with DWI defense legal matters. This focus on DWI has given us an in-depth understanding of DWI law in Texas. Furthermore, we work hard to develop defense strategies that are tailored to your individual case and are devoted to giving you the highest possible chance of success.
A Defense Strategy Tailored to Your Unique Case
Your case is just as important to us as it is to you. We care about your story and your goals, as well as the facts and circumstances of your arrest.
Athens DWI lawyer John Eastland doesn’t want your arrest to interfere with your goals. He will examine your case and develop a defense strategy in order to help you avoid the consequences of arrest and conviction. The Texas criminal justice system can be intimidating. Don’t let it ruin your future.
What Are Penalties for a DWI in Texas?
If this is your first offense, you may be facing the following penalties:
- jail time, and
- loss of driving privileges.
However, there may be other consequences as well. DWI convictions can have a detrimental effect on your personal and professional life. Your Athens DWI lawyer will investigate your case to see if the charges against you can be dropped or at least reduced, thereby protecting your future.
Challenging the Accuracy of Breathalyzer Tests and Alcohol Blood Tests
If you underwent a breathalyzer test or blood test and results showed a BAC of .08 or higher, your attorney may be able to challenge the results’ accuracy. Law enforcement may have administered the tests improperly, or the breathalyzer may not have been calibrated according to procedure.
Athens DWI Attorney John Eastland stays on the cutting edge of the “science” behind chemical tests. Moreover, he is well aware that factors such as pre-existing medical conditions may also have an impact on the accuracy of such tests. This knowledge helps him in his goal of trying to reduce or overturn the charges you are facing.
Challenging Field Sobriety Tests
John Eastland is a certified standardized field sobriety test (SFST) practitioner, and has received training with the following tests:
- Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus
- One Leg Stand
- Walk and Turn
Because of this, he knows that SFSTs often yield results that are unreliable, and he can use that knowledge to challenge your DWI charges.
Speak to an Athens DWI Lawyer as Soon as Possible
If you were arrested for DWI, make sure that you hire an experienced Athens DWI lawyer right away so that you can start building your defense.
Call the law office of John Eastland, Attorney at Law, P.C., today at 903-596-9696. You can also contact us through email. We represent people accused of DWI in Smith County and throughout Texas. | <urn:uuid:339bc986-f443-4601-b9dd-491dd8e90d5e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,016 |
Water resources are essential to all life on Earth, and the sharing of water data is essential if we are to make the best use of available resources and get better at understanding and preparing for floods and droughts. While the developed countries have made the most progress in this direction, the importance of building and nurturing Earth observation and analysis skills and tools among developing countries cannot be overstated; this is a major “digital divide” and barrier to international cooperation on environmental sustainability issues. Formed in 2002, the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) has been working to overcome the institutional and interdisciplinary challenges to publishing, finding and accessing environmental data across many subject domains.
In mid-January 2014, results of phase 6 of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) were presented at the 10th Summit of the Group on Earth Observation in Geneva. For more on GEO and GEOSS, see http://earthobservations.org and http://geoportal.org. The GEO X Summit included a Ministerial Summit on the last day, attended by representatives from the administrations of the 90+ member countries, who voted unanimously to continue the GEOSS initiative for another 10 years.
My part in this was to manage a yearlong project within AIP-6, to advance the Water Societal Benefit Area (SBA) of GEOSS. Other teams in AIP-6 worked on Energy, Agriculture, Biodiversity, and Disaster Management SBA projects. All of this is to improve the accessibility and application of Earth observation data and models globally, with particular attention to “capacity building” among developing nations. See http://www.ogcnetwork.net/aip6responses for the complete set of work proposals accepted for AIP-6; http://www.ogcnetwork.net/system/files/AIP6_GEOSS_Water_Services_Proposal_final.pdf for our team’s proposal.
Our goals for the AIP-6 Water SBA were: (1) to improve discovery and access to water resources data around the world; (2) to improve integration of gridded and time series data; and (3) to improve the tools and processes for federating the regional and national picture to a global system (GEOSS), while demonstrating the benefits of an already operational federated regional water data within a country. We did all this, and I think we’re onto something.
Part of what made this work was an incredible team. The science lead was Professor David Maidment from the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Associate Director of the Center for Integrated Earth System Science (CIESS). He was able to call together colleagues around the world and say, “let’s do this.” I work with Dr. Maidment at UT CIESS, kept the objectives in front of us, and coordinated the team efforts and final reports. We also had Jim Nelson and Dan Ames from Civil and Environmental Engineering at Brigham Young University (BYU). Jim was networking with water management agencies in Latin American countries. Dan’s a key developer for the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) HydroServer and HydroDesktop software tools. We had Alva Couch, director of the CUAHSI Water Data Center, recently moved from UC San Diego to Tufts University in Medford Massachusetts. From the Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, we had Branko Zdravkovic pulling together Environment Canada’s precipitation monitoring network of 829 gauge stations.
For the national and regional water agencies, we had Martina Bussettini from the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), and Silvano Pecora from the Regional Environmental Protection Agency (ARPA-ER) of Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy, one of Italy’s 21 water regions. We had Jochen Schmidt from New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). And we had two technical staff, Sean Hodges and Brent Watson from the Horizons Regional Council, one of New Zealand’s 16 regional water-reporting agencies.
Representing the Community on Earth Observation Satellites and adapting the CEOS Water Portal for this project were Satoko Miura and Yoshiyuki Kudo from JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency). The European Commission JRC (Joint Research Centre in Italy) and ECMWF (European Centre for Midrange Weather Forecasting in UK) together worked on producing WaterML data services for flood forecast products with GloFAS (Global Flood Awareness System). Representing the software industry, we had folks from Esri based in the US, Kisters AG from Germany, and PYXIS Innovation from Canada. And finally, we had critical and responsive engagement with designers and developers of the GEOSS architecture, particularly at the Italian Research Council Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA) and at George Mason University in the US.
Water Data and Maps
The GEOSS Portal provides metadata and access for millions of datasets, but it is not necessarily the best portal for interacting with the datasets you find, as it is intended mainly for identification and download of whole datasets and links to other relevant portals. What we wanted to do with this project was to provide a means for users to discover and browse maps of water data, with the ability to see and download time series of streamflow and precipitation, site by site. For this we used the Esri ArcGIS Online web map viewer, the CUAHSI HydroDesktop map client, and PYXIS WorldView. We served maps of locations and basic time series descriptions of stream gauges and precipitation monitors, using these products' OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) compliant interfaces. Also, we provided links in certain data fields about each gauge to supply three main types of data: (1) a graph of current or historical streamflow and precipitation time-series values; (2) a data file in XML format using the OGC WaterML 2 (or similar) schema corresponding to the same data as in the graph; and (3) a comma-separated-value (CSV) file with the same data values, that could be read by Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet program. Figure 1 shows the map of worldwide streamflow gauges, and Figures 2 & 3 show data content for a stream gauge in northern Italy.
Figure 1. Map of global streamflow gauges
Figure 2. Stream gauge data in Italy
Figure 3. Stream flow graph for Po a Boretto, Italy
A very similar procedure brings up precipitation gauges around the world, and shows data for specific gauges, see Figures 4, 5, 6. Working with Canada’s GIWS, we have mapped 829 precipitation monitors operated by Environment Canada (red dots in Figures 4 & 5).
Figure 4. Precipitation monitor stations map
Figure 5. Loon Lake monitor in Saskatchewan
If you look closely at the Loon Lake monitor description panel in Figure 5, you’ll see that the data field labeled “EndDate” is blank (empty). This is a convention we adopted to mean that the gauge is collecting current, real-time data (i.e., no end date), to distinguish such gauges from the many gauge sources that just report data collected over a fixed historical period.
Figure 6. Precipitation values for Loon Lake gauge
With completion of this project, there are now several countries using WaterML for time series data, and web mapping for gauge locations. So this is how we’ve addressed the first objective I mentioned near the beginning of this article.
Integration of Gridded and Time Series Water Data
The second objective was to improve integration of gridded and time series water data. The water variable we chose for this was soil moisture, specifically the top one-meter of soil moisture, which is a model output from NASA’s Global Land Data Assimilation Program (GLDAS), based on satellite data. This program generates grids of soil moisture and other water data over all the world’s landmasses, at one-quarter-degree spacing, with 3-hour intervals, from 1979 to the present (and ongoing). Working with Esri and Kisters, we have spurred development of a soil moisture map that can be tied to the time series at any grid point, see Figure 7.
Figure 7. Soil moisture map with time series from Tunisia
This is a web application that allows the user to pick any point on a landmass, and it will reveal the time series of values at the nearest grid point in the lower frame. The overall map can be animated to step through a sequence of global soil moisture maps for a given time range. The user can interact with the graph and the time line at bottom, to pick the global soil moisture time step to be displayed. In addition to mapping and graphing soil moisture through time, this application allows comparison of multiple locations, and multiple time ranges at a single location, by automatically overlaying and scaling multiple graphs, see Figure 8.
Given that the NASA LDAS model outputs are not equally accurate over the entire globe, this capability will help in comparing the model outputs with in situ ground-based observation stations. This will also help us better understand soil moisture where it has not been measured.
Figure 8. Soil moisture map comparing time series at two locations
Federation of Regional and National Water Data
The third objective of this project was to improve the tools and processes for federating regional and national water data. We started this project hoping to stimulate federation of national sources into a global picture, and we have an enthusiastic start on that with the countries represented. We found that many countries have several regional Hydrological Services, such as in Italy (21 regions) and New Zealand (16 regions). The national water agencies in these countries depend on all their regions to submit accurate, timely, and consistent reports of water resources information in order to develop a national picture of their overall situation. In practice, this has been quite difficult and time consuming, with the result that such a national picture is never available “on demand” but only at predetermined reporting intervals.
As a result of this project, and thanks to the motivated efforts of participating regional water managers in Italy and New Zealand, these countries are now much closer to being able to generate on-demand national water status reports. In Italy, the example set by the ARPA-ER regional manager has led to publishing a consistent set of water maps for all 21 regions. In New Zealand, so far two regions and two national institutes have implemented the data mapping services developed there during the last year. This was a very successful start and provides a model for other New Zealand agencies to follow. To support the wider adoption of water data services in New Zealand, several agencies are currently working on a New Zealand environmental time series exchange standard based on OGC services. In Latin America, outreach from Brigham Young University in Utah has brought the water agencies of Mexico and Dominican Republic to publish selected water data. Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala are now starting to get up to speed on the technology, mainly held back by political and national security concerns. We hope to see further progress with these and other Latin American countries in future projects.
What’s next for AIP-7
The next cycle of GEOSS implementation in 2014 will start soon. We plan to focus on bringing additional authoritative (WMO) sources of water data into web maps from the Global Precipitation and Climatology Center (GPCC) and the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), both in Germany. We’d also like to develop maps for water quality data, which is under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A recent proposal to OGC for representing water quality data in WaterML as a community Best Practice could be very timely for this effort. We also hope to add more countries to the list of those supporting WaterML data services, and are expanding our outreach to developing countries in Latin America through access to CUAHSI resources in “The Cloud”. It should be another good year. | <urn:uuid:dd3055f9-93af-4adf-900a-a2ccc37e7db0> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 12,099 |
Bastmati rice -2 cup
Rajma/Kidney bean, groundnut – 1 cup each
Tomato Chopped – 1
Onion Chopped- 1
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
Bay leaf – 1
Ghee – 1 table spoon
Pudina and coriander leaves – little
cardamom – 1
clove – 1
Salt – to taste
Water – as required
1. Soak the rajma for over night and pressure cook it.
2. Take a pan, add ghee, bay leaf, cinamom, cardamom, clove and fry for few mins.
3. Now add tomato, onion, ginger garlic paste and cook until raw flavour fades.
4. Add groundnut, rajma, rice, salt, pudina and coriander leaves and add 4 cups water.
5. Mix well and pressure cook it by keeping it sim after one whistle for 10 mins.
6. Open the lid only after pressure subsides.
Protein rich biriyani is ready to be served with onion raita. | <urn:uuid:76bff393-4c43-4499-b133-d1b6fc6a1b58> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 750 |
How to Get A Foreign National UK Mortgage
International investors buying a desirable home in London, or a high-yield rental property in regional UK, face a few more challenges than buyers who are British nationals.
An acceptable source currency for your mortgage payments, evidence of the source of your finance, and an established credit record can prove stumbling blocks for the uninitiated.
But for qualified purchasers, advised by an experienced mortgage broker, just about anything is possible.
Some of the key factors which will help you to get a mortgage in the UK include:
- If you have been a resident in the UK for more than 2 years
- If you have a permanent job in the UK
- If you have permanent residence rights in the UK
- If you have a UK work permit
- If you have a UK bank account
Here's our walk-through of the key issues for non-UK citizens looking for UK finance on a property purchase in Britain.
What is your main country of residence?
Most mainstream lenders in the UK will see a foreign address on a mortgage application and instantly mark it as a "no". They just don't have the resources or the experience to work with international buyers.
A well-connected finance advisor can introduce you to the private banks who may have the lending options to suit your particular circumstances.
The rules are (currently) different depending on if you are an EU citizen or not. If you are an EU citizen, it will be easier to trace the credit history, so this is a point in your favour. Ideally, you will have a UK bank account as this will make lenders more likely to allow you to borrow.
We still need to find out how much of an impact Brexit negotiation will have on residency permits for non-UK, but our brokers will work to ensure you get a bespoke loan to suit your situation.
If you are not an EU citizen, you may not have a traceable credit history. This might restrict the kind of lenders who you can borrow from, but does not disqualify you from borrowing for a mortgage. Our team know the right lenders to approach in this situation.
Some lenders are reluctant to lend to nationals who come from countries which do not meet the highest standards of compliance on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list.
The UK’s international finance reputation rests on it’s compliance with FATF, which promotes and implements legal measures in relation to money laundering and financing of terrorism.
Some lenders are reluctant to lend to those from countries which are not amongst the highest compliance. Examples of countries like this are Cuba, Thailand or Afghanistan.
This does not disqualify you from getting a UK mortgage, as our brokers will know the right lenders to approach who are willing to allow you to borrow.
What do you want the property finance for?
Whether you are pursuing a buy-to-let mortgage or a residential mortgage for yourself will be one of the biggest impacts on how you get a mortgage.
I’m buying for myself…
If you are buying for yourself, it is likely you are a super-prime buyer looking to buy in the highly-desired central location of inner-city London.
You’ll have established the necessary VISA paperwork, and lenders are more comfortable with giving mortgages to those who are planning to move and put down roots in the UK. This will be to your advantage.
I’m buying a rental property...
But if you are looking for buy-to-let finance you will be most likely looking for the location which will give you the highest rate of return on your property – such as renter hotspot Manchester. It is sometimes more challenging to secure a buy-to-let mortgage rather than a residential mortgage for foreign nationals, but it’s not impossible. Our brokers know which lenders to approach to find you a bespoke buy-to-let mortgage.
How much can I borrow?
The LTV you will be able to achieve will vary depending on many different factors, but in general if you are a non-resident you will be expected to have a bigger deposit. You’ll also face higher interest rates.
As with any mortgage finance, the bigger the deposit the more comfortable the lenders feel.
If you are a foreign national buyer looking in the prime or super prime central areas such as London, there are attractive discounts available to you in the current market.
Such borrowers are often viewed by lenders as being high-risk due to the large amount of finance they are injecting into that purchase. Some lenders may employ "ceilings" above which you will not be able to borrow - but rest assured we will find and secure a loan which will su
In order to get a mortgage at all, you will need a traceable credit history in order to get the smoothest path to your desired mortgage. But, if you do not have a clear credit history this doesn’t disqualify you, so it’s important to speak to our advisors to see what they can do for you.
How does the currency I’m paid in affect how much I can borrow in the UK?
If you are living outside the UK, it is most likely that you are not being paid in pounds sterling. This means that in order to get a loan, there are specific calculations which you need to be aware of.
Because fluctuations in currency can impact how expensive your mortgage can become, you need to be aware that many lenders will factor this into their decision to accept your mortgage request. They might, in their calculations, take off 20% from your wage.
This is to account for any potential fluctuations in the currency, so that even if the currency you are paid in becomes weak against the pound, you should still be able to keep up with your mortgage payments.
Some lenders may also enact penalties for UAE dirham can sometimes be the result of currency fluctuations, so if you are from the United Arab Emirates this is something to bear in mind.
What documents do I need to apply for a UK mortgage?
The key documents which you will need in order to apply for a mortgage are:
- Proof of identity
- Proof of assets
- Proof of Income
- Proof of Residency
You don’t need a UK passport or VISA - but these will really help, especially if you are looking to buy a residential property.
What can we do for you?
Our specialist international advisors have established relationships with bespoke lenders who are happy to lend to non-UK residents. We can source finance over £250K for residential, commercial and buy to let properties and transactions in the UK. Call us at any time that suits you, to talk through your circumstances:
Our other blogs for international buyers:
- How To Get a Mortgage on a UK Property If You Are An Expat or Foreign National
- Non-residents In the UK Could be Hit With a 1% Increase in Stamp Duty
- Why Now is the Time to Buy for Expats or Foreign Nationals, and 3 Essential Ways We Can Help
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Name: Jean-Paul Belmar
Topic: Evolution vs. Creation
Throughout the centuries man has questioned his existence, “who am I?”, “why am I here?” but most importantly “how did I come to be?” There have been countless heated debates and arguments as to which is the truth, Evolution or creation. Many scientists believe that evolution is the key to human ancestry. Evolution can be described as the process in which an organism changes and becomes more sophisticated over generations and adapts to its environment. Evolutionists believe that life came about by chance and all organisms evolved from inorganic material. The ancestry of man has caused many to believe in evolution, but what did we evolve from? The answer to that question would support the theory of evolution such as that claimed by Charles Darwin. It is suggested that apes are the closest to human behaviour than any other creature in the animal kingdom and therefore we evolved from them, however this was just a theory until proof in the form of fossils were found in the 1800’s. The fossils suggested evolution may have been the birth of mankind and therefore it had solid evidence over those who believed in creation. There are however many scientists who believe in creation rather than evolution. Creation is the belief that there is a higher supreme being that has created life as we know it and everything in the universe. The theory of creation is a universally recognised truth; however we can understand why evolution would cause a problem as it too shows another form of the birth of the human race. Creation was not based on religion but on observation, the apparent design in biology would indicate a supreme designer, for example the many functions of the human body is too complicated therefore it could not jus come to be by nature but by a creator. My personal belief is that they both exist and coincided to create the human race. I believe that there is a supreme creator who...
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Written by Heidi McLaughlin
Looking at the trouble all around me makes me weary. But an intersection of choice is always in front of me: I can sigh and complain: “It’s going to be another awful hard day. Covid is rampant, I’ve no place to go, there’s not enough money in the bank, I can’t see my family across the border and restaurants are closed again.” OR, I can focus on: “I’m finally going to get a chance to read my favourite book, go for a long walk, call my friend, prepare positive social media posts, make some soup and Facetime my daughter.”
What we focus on determines how we feel.
Nehemiah was a Godly man with a determined purpose of rebuilding the broken walls around Jerusalem. Nehemiah demonstrated excellent leadership by recognizing a problem, praying about it and focusing on putting the expected results in God’s hands. He gathered the Jewish leaders, priests, nobles and officials and he told them about the gracious hand of God to help them rebuild the walls. With fervour and anticipation, they all replied: “Yes, let’s rebuild the wall!”
The enthusiasm was great until the wall was half finished and the focus shifted. Enemies opposed the rebuilding and the workers were surrounded with mocking and jeering.
That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!” “What does this bunch of poor feeble Jews think they’re doing?” Those words shifted the focus and people began to complain, “…there is so much rubble to be moved. We will never be able to build the wall by ourselves.”
The focus on the rubble brought trouble and the workers wanted to quit.
That’s what happens to us, isn’t it? When rubble is all we see, and we focus on the negativity, it drains our energy. We want to quit. That’s when we need to overcome our trouble by refocusing on the words we’re listening to. We all need a Nehemiah in our life who gathered the people and reminded them:
… the Lord, who is great and glorious … our God will fight for us!” (Nehemiah 4: 15, 20).
Do you have a Nehemiah?
When the news is bad and rubble is all we can see, we need a Godly leader to help us focus on God’s promises. We need someone to help us re-focus and remind us that our trouble is temporary and we will get through this. We need a Nehemiah for ourselves, but we also need to be a Nehemiah for others. Especially in the middle of Covid whilst rubble is all around us. We need encouragement and words of hope for better days. Looking at the rubble perpetuates trouble. So, I implore all of us to be a Nehemiah and to have your own Nehemiah. Who will that be for you? | <urn:uuid:393c5792-a45d-4686-bf07-72dbdd5c36ac> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,578 |
Can Nokia please create an application for video chat like how you did for Nokia N9 with the GTalk video chat?
Seriously, my Nokia N8 can only establish phone video calling using telco 3G video calling to local users. I can't make any video calls to my friends and family from overseas at all.
Thank you very much.
Quick answer is, no.
Slick (Lonelycat Games): No
IM Chat (Nokia): No
Octrotalk: Says it does and the menus contain 'Video' options, but it doesn't work. It looks like they tried, failed and left it half finished. For example, the main options menu allows you to switch between Front and Rear Camera and the chat session has a Video option, but tapping that option pops up an empty menu that is supposed to contain 'Call'.
Btw, my testing above was on the 808, OctroTalk is not available for the N8 on Nokia Store.
So, being the helpful person that I am I went to Octro website and found an N8 version v2.06(0). I installed it, registered my google account, the contact list started to load and a message appeared saying "Your trial period for OctroTalk has expired". I do remember trying this app in the past so that would explain my trial expiration.
Anyway, give OctroTalk a try, it looks like it should work on the N8.
Here's the link to the Octro download page: http://video.octro.com/download_symbian.php
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PEM Fuel Cells: Theory and Practice
Fuel cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices that convert hydrogen and oxygen into water, producing electricity and heat in the process and providing fuel efficiency and reductions in pollutants. Demand for this technology is growing rapidly. Fuel cells are being commercialized for stationary and portable electricity generation, and as a replacement for internal combustion engines in automobiles. Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells in particular are experiencing an upsurge. They have high power density and can vary their output quickly to meet shifts in power demand.
Until now, there has been little written about this important technology. This book lays the groundwork for fuel cell engineers, technicians and students. It covers the fundamental aspects of fuel cell design, electrochemistry of the technology, heat and mass transport, system design and applications to bring this technology to professionals at all levels.
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Football News: The Barcelona skipper is deranged after his side met a shocking loss against the Serie A side Roma despite having a three-goal advantage.
Barca: Andre Iniesta may have played his final game for the Catalan giants.
Last night at Rome, Barcelona played their Champions League quarterfinal second leg encounter against Roma, and they suffered a 3-0 loss against the home side and shockingly got eliminated from the tournament, Roma advanced to the semifinals in 4-4 aggregate after losing the first leg in Camp Nou by 4-1 goals.
In the 81st minute Iniesta was substituted by Valverde and after that, he only watches from the bench Manolas’s dramatic late goal o send them through.
Now Iniesta’s future with the Catalan giants is still not clear, as the club has given him April 30 deadline.
The Spanish midfielder voiced: "It's not the time to make any proclamations, we're all hurting,"
"Was it my last game in the Champions League? It's possible."
If the Spanish midfielder’s Champions league career is indeed over then also he lifted Europe’s prestigious competition four times. | <urn:uuid:2e20ebb3-24b6-4b0e-bcfb-57c94a223911> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,093 |
A book that helped me (Cathy) process my observations more astutely is Ethnographic Eyes : A Teachers Guide to Classroom Observation, by Carolyn Frank. This book describes how a teacher educator trains her student teachers to see the classrooms they visit through an ethnographic perspective. To accomplish this, the teacher educator used the tool described below:
I used an activity called Notetaking/Notemaing to help student teachers understand the differences between their own personal perspectives and an insider, classroom perspective. Notetaking/notemaking was presented to the student teachers as an ethnographic tool to help them observe in classrooms. The student teachers were asked to keep an observation notebook and to divide their observations into two sections: Notetaking (or descriptive fieldnotes) on one side and notemaking (interpretations of what is being observed) on the other side. We then showed them either a photograph or a video of a classroom. In this way, it was hoped that the student teachers would begin to reflect on how their own personal biases interfered with an objective account or differed from the classroom members’ perspective. (p. 9)
This tool was used by this teacher educator throughout the year. She also showed her student teachers how to use it as a means of data collection towards effective assessment. At the close of the year, one of the student teachers stated, “[e]thnography has prepared me to think in a new way: a way that makes me think critically about everything that happens in my classroom.”
Try watching part of a classroom literacy event or a video of a class just to observe, then watch using notetaking/ notemaking. You may be surprised by what comes up. | <urn:uuid:90701d75-f1ac-44e0-9321-0f6856ba446b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,723 |
Shakhtar Donetsk have beaten Chelsea to the signing of Metalist Kharkiv's Taison. The 24-year-old midfielder has long been linked with a move to west London and was reportedly on the brink of moving to Stamford Bridge earlier in January.
After an initial €11m (£9m) bid was rejected, the Ukrainian champions paid the €20m release clause to sign the Brazilian.
"I am happy to play for such a great club," Taison told the club's official website. "I played a lot against Shakhtar and I have a lot of information about them. I know Shakhtar's Brazilians. I really want to help the club win new titles.
"I'll train and work, respecting everyone who plays for the club. In the first place I have respect for all. Of course, I will try to play as best I can."
Asked if it was the right choice, Taison, who penned a five-year deal at the Donbass Arena, added: "Yes, it was the right choice, despite the fact that I was happy at Metalist, with whom I achieved a lot.
"And I want to again thank the entire team, coaches, staff of the Kharkiv club. But having joined Shakhtar, I understand what this club is all about."
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THE Victorian Fury have won its second-straight Australian Netball League title on Sunday afternoon.
The Fury survived a spirited second-half fight-back from the Queensland Fury to be crowned champions for the second year in a row.
Victoria won 51 to 49.
Former North Central netballer Caitlyn Strachan was a part of the premiership winning team.
Strachan, who was vice-captain of the Fury, has had a successful year, she was a part of the Melbourne Vixens team who claimed the ANZ Championship.
Strachan has now signed on to play with the Queensland Firebirds for the 2015 ANZ season.
The Fury finished the season without losing a game, it was their 23rd consecutive victory.
Victoria headed for a comfortable win before the Fusion staging an impressive come back in front of a packed crowd at the Waverley Centre in Melbourne.
The Futy led by as much as 11 goals in the first half but the Fusion responded in the second half, getting to within six-goals by three quarter time.
Fusion continued to chip away at the lead in the final quarter, forcing the gap to just one goal with two minutes remaining in the game.
Fury shooter Stephanie Puopolo remained cool under pressure to score a goal, ensuring the premiership trophy remained in Victoria for another year.
Victorian coach Kristy Keppich-Birrell told Netball Australia she had the confidence her players would keep their composure to win the game.
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Had a ringside view to the best and worst of nature and humanity the last 5 days. Coordinated the efforts of multiple agencies in emergency rescue and evacuation across 5 districts of Kerala. As of 3 pm today, close to 97% people in the worst hit areas have been evacuated to camps and we closed our helpline number. The district administrations will continue to provide all necessary assistance should any evacuation need arises using the services of Government agencies. Thank you all for giving us the privilege to be of assistance to you and for making us human again. For all our sake, I hope this never happens again.
Did not have a chance to see the social media wars till now for obvious reasons. My brother Ram Shankar called in the afternoon and asked me some questions based on what he saw in social media. That disturbed me and I felt that I should take the time to write before this I sleep, hence this:
Is this a Disaster or Calamity?
They are synonyms and mean the same. This is probably better termed a disaster because of the “sudden” nature of the event. You can call it whatever you want, doesn’t matter.
What is the process to handle such an event?
Rescue, Relief and Rehabilitate. Rescue and Relief start more or less together though all attention will be on rescue to minimize loss of lives to begin with and then relief takes over. Food, water, clothing, medicine and temporary accommodation is provided as relief. Rehabilitation efforts may take years depending on severity of disaster.
Who are the agencies/stakeholders?
State Government, Central Government, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), uniformed forces of the State Government like police, fire force etc., , National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Defense forces of India, Paramilitary forces of India, volunteer agencies and citizen volunteers. The chain of command is also in the same order as I have written it. There is a clear chain of command in every district from the Collector to the Village officer playing a clear and defined role in terms of duties and responsibilities. In short, they know what they are doing.
Should the defense forces have been given full charge as some have suggested?
I seriously doubt the SDRF or the NDRF would have suggested to the State Government to do that. Knowledge of local conditions and terrain is critical in situations like floods to affect rescues. Who better than the local postman to pinpoint locations of houses and to provide critical information like how many people in a house. Also, the defense forces themselves would NOT have agreed to something like that as they understand the enormous advantage that the local administration brings to situations like this.
Should this be notified as a national disaster/calamity?
I was associated in rescue and evacuation efforts during the Chennai floods as well. The same question was posed and I clarified with NDRF and then Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu. There is no such thing as declaring anything as a “National Disaster” or a “National Calamity”. It is just political nonsense. There is nothing in any rule book of State or Central Governments that enable them to declare something as a National or State disaster/calamity. Why are people harping on this? Primarily ignorance and disinformation by vested interests that such a declaration enables larger assistance packages esp. monetary.
That this disaster was man made and Kerala deserved it:
Ignorance of basic facts among people in social media is not news, so I will not rant about that. Some basic facts:
Rivers – 44
Backwaters – 900 sqkms
Reservoirs – 42
Tanks/Pools/Smaller water bodies and catchment areas including check dams – Too many to count
Yes, we are water rich and proud of it. For those of you who don’t have it, being jealous is not going to help your case.
But seriously, why did it happen? IMD website has the answer, 30% excess rainfall! 2086mm of it. 832.2 mm is what it rained in Karnataka during the same time and Coorg and 7 other districts have been declared flood hit.
Yes, we have done enormous damage to the western ghats as is evident from the number of landslides and we should do something about it for sure. I am sure even Mr. Gadgil and Mr. Kasturirangan will agree that this particular deluge was because of excess rain
How can people help?
Rescue should be done only by trained professionals. Amateurs can help to an extent. Jeepers associations, Swimmers, Adventure Clubs, NCC, NSS, School and College Police Clubs are some examples of where these rescuers could potentially come from. Cometh the time, cometh the hero they say! This time it was the Fisherfolk!! That they can play a huge role is something they just proved with this disaster! Taking nothing away also from the agencies who sent trained volunteers like the RSS, MES, Lions, Rotary, Jaycees, CMI Youth Congregation, SNDP, DYFI, AIYF and Seva Dal.
Relief: All individuals and organizations can and should participate. Please coordinate your efforts with the local administration. They are the people with the necessary expertise and experience in relief operations. They will guide you. Relief efforts invariably fail when there are issues with coordination. The best way to contribute to the relief efforts is through the CM Relief Fund https://donation.cmdrf.kerala.gov.in/.
Rehabilitation: This takes time and depends on the extent of damage and loss of life. Assessments made by the State Government and Central Government and a joint plan will be executed through various agencies.
Who did not help?
Leaders who become overwhelmed; Chengannur MLA is an example of a leader who despite leading from the front made life difficult for everybody by saying unnecessary things
Leaders who have no idea of what they are saying and don’t know ground reality. Trivandrum MP decided that a specific day was the last that people would be rescued alive and tweets about it
Idiots who blame Gods
Arm chair disasters – I mean the disaster experts, generals, specialist and everyone who thinks their opinions should matter though they don’t know jack shit.
Hate mongers and political trolls – What can I say?
Social media mavens – Go get a life. There is life beyond the virtual
Social media users – Well intentioned and noble idiots who think they are saving lives by hitting like and forwarding every piece of junk that somebody sends them without verifying
Who did help?
Vishal Venugopal who lost his life after saving 18 others and probably many more like him. He was part of a team that we coordinated with so we know. We don’t know the others who have lost their lives
Countless volunteers who sat through night and day collecting data, verifying and coordinating rescue efforts
The ones that actually put their life at risk by dong the rescues
Random strangers whose kindness to a fellow human being made difference between life and death
The “Bhaiyyas” from West Bengal, Odisha, Nepal and North Eastern states who came to support and help us in our time of need
The entire state and people of Kerala everywhere else in the world who came together to do what was needed without asking questions
Nameless thousands who worked shoulder to shoulder to ensure that lives were not lost
The entire central and state government machinery for proving that it can deliver when needed
Why should we be proud of this?
Hurricane Katrina, USA 2005 – 1425 people
Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan 2011 – 15823 people
Uttrakhand Flash Flood, India 2013 – 5210 people
Total Population of Kerala – 3.48 crores
Total lives lost due to deluge – 324
Districts affected – 14
You do the math…….
And Finally; Every 70 or so years, destiny sends us something to remind us that despite all our differences and issues with each other, we are human and that we have something very intrinsic called humanity and compassion. This time destiny could not have asked for a better messenger than this deluge. She did her job with such precision, destiny had to imprison her in the matted locks of Shiva because of the fear that anymore free hand and she may drown destiny itself ala Ganga!
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Ecology is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology and Earth science. Ecology includes the study of interactions organisms have with each other, other organisms and with abiotic components of their environment.
Which of the following gives the best definition of ecology?
Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical environment. The distribution and abundance of organisms on Earth is shaped by both biotic, living-organism-related, and abiotic, nonliving or physical, factors.
What is the meaning of ecology in biology?
Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, the interaction among organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their abiotic environment.
What is an ecologist simple definition?
An ecologist is a scientist who studies how animals and plants interact with their environment. … Ecology is a word that comes from the Greek oikos, meaning “house.” Basically, ecologists study the environment like it’s a big house, and all the living creatures in it are roommates.
Who termed ecology?
The word ecology was coined by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, who applied the term oekologie to the “relation of the animal both to its organic as well as its inorganic environment.” The word comes from the Greek oikos, meaning “household,” “home,” or “place to live.” Thus, ecology deals with the organism and its …
What is example of ecology?
For instance, the study of humans and their relationship with the environment gives us human ecology. Alternatively, studying a food chain in a wetland area gives wetland ecology while the study of how termites or other small organisms interact with their habitat brings about niche construction ecology.
What is environmental ecology?
Environmental Ecology is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment. Objects of study include interactions of organisms with each other and with abiotic components of their environment.
What is meant by ecology and ecosystem?
Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework. This science examines how ecosystems work and relates this to their components such as chemicals, bedrock, soil, plants, and animals.
What is the role of an ecologist?
Ecologists study the relationship between plants, animals and the environment. They look at how animals and plants inhabit a particular environment, and report on the likely impact of any proposed construction works. | <urn:uuid:f4318103-a7b3-45d6-ae79-377cb40ed6c1> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,704 |
Lost in Thyme
A man’s dying wish unearths a tumultuous past and brings together two lost souls searching for the missing pieces that will make them whole again…each other.
Sami Amara has been plagued by visions of a mysterious red-haired girl that he just can’t place. When his father suddenly dies, he is confronted with a past that he never knew existed: a mysterious girl, now a woman, and promises unfulfilled.
Single mother Petra Haddad has grown accustomed to a life of routine, predictability and…loneliness. When a lawyer calls her up to discuss the last will and testament of a man she never even knew, her world is turned upside down.
Thrust together by fate, Sami and Petra begin a whirlwind journey that explores their families’ mysterious past, from America all the way to the precarious outskirts of Palestine. As their lives and histories entangle and intertwine, will they be able to forge a shared future together, or will fate once again intervene?
“So it is good to eat bitter almonds because they make the sweet ones taste even better?”
Heartbreaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about displacement and exile, family duty and honor, and the universal feelings of love and loss. This is a book to break your heart, but it is also a book of hope and admiration at the resilience of the human spirit.
Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope. Nadia is carefree and tries to be oblivious to the tough realities of her world in Damascus. But she is confronted with a cruel load thrust upon her by selfish and cowardly brother. Will she break out of her traditional social mould to create her own destiny?
Shadows Of Damascus
Bullet wounds, torture and oppression aren’t the only things that keep a man—or a woman—from being whole.
Debt. Honor. Pain. Solitude. These are things wounded war veteran Adam Wegener knows all about. Love—now, that he is not good at. Not when love equals a closed fist, burns, and suicide attempts. But Adam is one who keeps his word. He owes the man who saved his life in Iraq. And he doesn’t question the measure of the debt, even when it is in the form of an emotionally distant, beautiful woman.
Yasmeen agreed to become the wife of an American veteran so she could flee persecution in war-torn Syria. She counted on being in the United States for a short stay until she could return home. There was one thing she did not count on: wanting more.
Is it too late for Adam and Yasmeen? | <urn:uuid:675a641e-1099-465a-ae4d-faddee85c131> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,620 |
In his new role, Elder oversees all aspects of Tubular Services’ business development initiatives throughout the Middle East and Russia from the group’s base in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
He is responsible for implementation and monitoring of all sales and marketing strategies. Elder works with a dedicated sales and marketing team that is tasked with cultivating relationships with new prospects, and maintaining positive relations with existing customers. As head of the Tubular Services sales force in the region, Elder serves as a team mentor and is directly responsible for its ongoing development.
With 23 years experience gained while working offshore and onshore, Elder brings a broad knowledge of the oil and gas industry, with particular emphasis on casing and tubing running. Before joining BJ Services in l989, Elder worked as a technician for a tubular services company in Aberdeen. Since then, he has worked offshore in the UK and various overseas locations. Prior to this promotion, Elder worked in sales and operations for Tubular Services in Aberdeen.
Originally from Aberdeen, Elder is based in Dubai and reports to Gary Young, area manager – Middle East and Russia for Tubular Services. | <urn:uuid:f3eb01d5-cd36-42e6-9ec3-511c12d81197> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,208 |
Cosmology and astrophysics nowadays is dominated by the need for the inclusion of Dark Matter at every scale, from galaxy size, to cluster size, to super-cluster size, to the size of the whole Universe. It is needed at every scale size to get the physics to agree with the observational data. After 50 years of looking in local laboratory experiments there has not been a single trace of it found anywhere. And it would not be overstating the case to say Dark Matter is in serious crisis!
This situation reminds me of a current political trend in America, that is, “Black Lives Matter”, which has turned into a major movement. The proponents of it, describe it as a response to virulent anti-Black racism that they claim permeates the US society.
With that in mind, and in response to a discussion on Dark Matter, a friend sent me this graphic (see Fig. 1), quite obviously as a joke. It is funny but on another level it highlights a problem in the cosmology/ astrophysics society that is not so funny. The problem is that the majority are saying “Dark Matter Lives”. And they are saying that despite the actual experimental evidence to the contrary. In their minds it only “lives” because without it the standard paradigm is “dead”.
Big bang cosmology and the dynamics of galaxies and clusters of galaxies require that “Dark Matter Lives”. Those who voice the obvious fact that Dark Matter is not real, or, should I say, is “dead”, are sidelined or ridiculed. The secular physics community hold that those who express such opinions are expressing a sort of anti-science bias because it ultimately involves a rejection of the big bang paradigm.
Recently the Dark Matter crisis has deepened even more. The admission by a group of theoretical physicists that the physics theory called supersymmetry (SUSY) has been all but disproven by 10 years of experimental searching with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has made matter worse.1 That meant one of the last hopes of a dark matter particle was the expected lowest mass supersymmetric particle, which has not been detected. Other searches for dark matter particles among neutrinos have also not been successful. After 50 years of searching no Dark Matter has ever been found. It existence is purely a matter of faith.
Thus the reason the proponents hold such personal opinions and why emotions run so high is because ultimately this is not about science but about beliefs. By challenging the belief that “Dark Matter Lives”, by saying that “Dark Matter is Dead”, ultimately one is challenging the validity of the big bang origin of the Universe. No big bang means one is faced with a stark choice. No big bang and the atheist must choose an eternal universe, but without a Creator.2 And that belief has bigger problems than the big bang has now. And no big bang means one less excuse because the big bang is put forward as the first cause of the Universe without a Creator.3 Finally there are those believing theists who use the big bang as evidence of the true First Cause, the eternally self-existent Creator. Where is their argument then when the secular community finally abandons the big bang origin? The Dark Matter crisis has only deepened these problems.
So whether Dark Matter Lives or Dies, matters!
- J.G. Hartnett, SUSY is not the solution to the Dark Matter crisis, August 30, 2016.
- J.G. Hartnett, An eternal big bang universe, February 26, 2015.
- J.G. Hartnett, The Big Bang theory vs the big God theory, January 26, 2014.
- Why is dark matter everywhere in the cosmos?
- Is ‘Dark Matter’ the ‘Unknown God’?
- SUSY is not the solution to the dark matter crisis
- Cosmology’s Achilles Heel
- Cosmic Mythology: Exposing the big bang as philosophy not science
- Cosmology is not science!
- Big bang fudge factors
- ‘Dark photons’: Another cosmic fudge factor | <urn:uuid:b455a785-d94e-4348-98b2-a07984860740> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,820 |
The World of Import Gaming
Steve Diabo (Kaneda)
Almost ever since Japan clawed its
way to the front of the video gaming pecking order in the mid-80's,
there has been a rule -- a certain fact of life -- that the
Japanese market sees more video games than the North American
market. There can be many reasons for Japan's advantage. Just
take a look at this list.
Sega Master System (Sega Mark III), or SMS
1985: The Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom),
1989: The Sega Genesis (Sega Mega Drive)
1991: The Nintendo Super NES (Super Famicom),
1994: The Sony PlayStation, or PSX
1995: The Sega Saturn
1996: The Nintendo 64, or N64
1999: The Sega Dreamcast
2000: The Sony PlayStation 2, or PS2 (upcoming
in North America)
All these video game
systems originate from Japan, and Japan is were most Japanese
system-licensed video games originate from. On top of that, Japan
has a broader array of market groups. However, games like the Front
Mission series, Final Fantasy II and III, Earthbound
(Zero) and many other titles would have become very successful in
North America, but were never officially released to the North
American public. Also, Many Japan-exclusive games are based on an
Anime counterpart. There are Ranma RPGs and Dragon
Ball Z fighting games.
If you fancy yourself an RPG fan
or know anything about Squaresoft, you must know about
the fiasco regarding the Final Fantasy series, and how
North America didn't get to see all of the Final Fantasy
games. If you don't already know, you might be asking yourself
why the Final Fantasy series "jumped" from Final
Fantasy III (SNES) to Final Fantasy VII (PSX). The
reason for that is because the Final Fantasy III we saw
was actually number VI (6) in the series. Final Fantasy
I was indeed Final Fantasy I, but Final Fantasy
II was actually Final Fantasy VI (4). Squaresoft
(or Square, as it was known at the time) never released
the real Final Fantasy II or III in North America, and
for the sake of continuity, in North America they renamed IV as
II. Then they renamed VI as III. Quite a mess, huh? However, last
year Squaresoft re-released Final Fantasy V and
VI (5 and 6, originally SNES games) emulated onto a compilation
PSX 2-CD set, naming it Final Fantasy Anthology. On top
of featuring the two games virtually unaltered from their
original counterparts, the set features all-new CG FMV intros and
a bonus soundtrack CD, featuring many beautiful Final Fantasy
tunes by the legendary Nobuo Oematsu.
Anyway, looking aside from Final
Fantasy and onto other titles North America may REALLY never
see on store shelves, what's a guy to do when he wants to play a
game released exclusively in Japan? Import, baby!
Many mail-order stores
offer a range of imported video games, for all systems and tastes.
You can find anything from Kitty the Cool (the Hello
Kitty PSX game released only in Japan) to Neon Genesis
Evangelion: Kotetsu No Girlfriend (Girlfriend of Steel
-- for PC and PSX). Speaking from a personal standpoint, I have
actually seen the Kitty the Cool game in a Japanese
computer shop in downtown Montreal, but I did not buy the game.
So, if you're really hell-bent on
partaking in some import gaming goodness, feel free to call
around, check the web, and keep your eyes peeled for your sought-after
game in gaming magazines. Be careful, though, as an imported game
will not play on most North American video game systems "right
out of the box." If you expect a Japanese game to play on
your North American system, you may have to modify your console.
Depending on what system you wish
to modify, modification can be very easy or very difficult. All
you need to do with a North American SNES is break off two little
plastic tabs inside the cartridge slot with a pair of pliers.
Even the N64 has two different kind of tabs that are only a
little harder to remove. The PSX, however, needs a real special
kind of modification. The PSX requires a certain kind of chip
installed on the system's motherboard to accept a Japanese game
CD. These "modchips" can be obtained for a few bucks
from mail-order places and online stores, but be careful --
installing these requires the skill of someone who can work with
a soldering iron, and installing a modchip voids your PSX's
warranty AT THE VERY LEAST -- worst case scenario, you will end
up destroying your PSX forever. As well, There are also newer
games like Final Fantasy VIII that, regardless of where the game
came from, can detect a modchip and refuse to play. So
modchipping can be a very risky business.
However, there is a new solution
to the mess of modifying your PSX. For a surprisingly small cost,
you can buy a "game enhancer" that, while allowing you
to use cheat codes with your PSX games and allowing you to
connect your PSX to your computer, can also permit the use of
import game CDs. These Game Enhancers, which plug into the
parallel I/O port of your PSX, are widely available online. One
such company offering the Game Enhancer, among other things, is LINUX-PSX
(http://www.linux-psx.com/), located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I had the
pleasure of speaking to the manager of LINUX-PSX, Mr.
Mr. Biris, I'm very happy you agreed to do this interview
with us today.
I'm happy to make my first interview, too.
First of all, tell us about your business. What kind of
things are available through your business?
Well, we started with console-gaming accesories, but we are
moving into digital cameras and mp3 players.
Cool. What kind of gaming accessories do you offer?
Our biggest seller is the PSX Game Enhancer, a device
which, when plugged into the PSX's parallel port, allows you to
play imported and copied games. We also offer memory cards for
the Sega Dreamcast.
The most exciting device, and undoubtedly the most sought-after,
is the PSX Game Enhancer. Exactly how big the the demand for
We are the biggest retailers for this device; we take at
least 1000 orders a week.
Does it work with all PSX models?
Unfortunately, the latest PSX model, the 9001, does not
have a parallel port, so there is no way to plug in the Enhancer.
For this particular model, you must use an internal mod chip.
Aha. And does using the Game Enhancer void your PSX's
No, it does not.
Excellent. Aside from that, what other benefits does the
external device have against internal mod-chips?
Soldering a mod chip is very difficult, and if one mistake
is made you might fry your PSX. Also the Game Enhancer is a full
blown Gameshark, meaning that you can add cheat codes (compatible
with Gameshark, Action Replay and Explorer)
Sounds very intriguing! Now, off the topic of PSX, what do
you know about the Sega Dreamcast's copy protection scheme? Is
there any way to circumvent the protection as of yet?
No, not yet. There are already mod chips on the market (we
will carry them in 5-7 days) that can only play imports. The
Dreamcast game discs' GD-ROM format is not yet copyable (although
we think it will in the near future).
Yeah, it's an inevitability. Okay, so let's say I want to
become a PSX code-hacker and have a little extra fun with my PSX.
How would I go about it, what are the tools necessary?
You will need a PC Comm Link, a card which connects your PC
to a PSX. Then, using some software you can research cheat codes
by yourself. Also, the Comm Link can upgrade your Game Enahncer
with the latest BIOS upgrades and act as a DexDrive.
And this PC Comm Link card is available through your
Yes it is, and we are the cheapest supplier on the market.
Cool! And now, for the final question -- Being a
distributor of all these cool devices, do you play with them
heheh... A LOT. But I do prefer computer games.
^_^ Great. To tell you the truth, I do too -- mind you,
consoles are a lot of fun too... Anyway, thanks a lot for
allowing us the interview.
It was fun.
So, anyway, just what is the big
fuss about systems like the Dreamcast and PSX, and why are they
trying so hard to prevent the North American market from playing
imported games? Simply put, companies like Sony of America and
Sega of America earn money by licensing games for use on North
America. These American-based companies earn nothing from games
that they didn't license, including Japan-licensed games. The
battle between the American video game system companies and the
people who want to play import games continually rages on, with
new ways to prevent import gameplay -- and new ways to circumvent
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Researchers at a South African biotechnology company say they have nearly created a copy of Moderna’s messenger-RNA-based vaccine against COVID-19, without Moderna’s involvement.
The company, Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, in Cape Town, has made only microlitres of the vaccine, based on data that Moderna used to make its shot. But the achievement is a milestone for a major initiative launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) — a technology transfer hub meant to build capacity for vaccine manufacturing in low- and middle-income countries.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the developers of mRNA vaccines — Moderna and Pfizer, based in the United States, and Germany’s BioNTech — have sent more than 70% of their doses to wealthy nations, according to vaccine-tracking analyses. Meanwhile, millions of vaccine orders purchased by or promised to countries in the global south for these vaccines have been delayed . “Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccines are mainly still going to just the richest countries,” says Martin Friede, the WHO official coordinating the hub. “Our objective is to empower other countries to make their own.”
Many steps remain before Afrigen’s mRNA vaccine mimic could be distributed to people in Africa and beyond, and it definitely won’t help curb the pandemic this year. But the WHO hopes that the process of creating it will lay the foundation for a more globally distributed mRNA vaccine industry in the future.
Gerhardt Boukes, chief scientist at Afrigen — the firm at the core of the WHO’s hub — is proud to have helped complete this first step of the plan. Afrigen and its collaborators completed the process, beginning with mRNA encoding a modified portion of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and finishing by encapsulating it in a lipid nanoparticle that delivers the vaccine to cells. “We didn’t have help from the major COVID vaccine producers,” he says, “so we did it ourselves to show the world that it can be done, and be done here, on the African continent.”
Going it alone
When the WHO launched its mRNA tech transfer hub in South Africa last June, it asked Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech to help teach researchers in the global south how to make their COVID-19 vaccines. But the companies did not respond, and the WHO decided to go ahead without their help. Friede says the WHO chose to replicate Moderna’s shot because more information on its development is available publically, compared with Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, and because Moderna has vowed not to enforce its patents during the pandemic. Moderna did not respond to requests from Nature to comment on the WHO’s decision to copy its vaccine.
With funds from countries including France, Germany and Belgium, South African researchers began chipping away at the project in late September. A team at the University of Witwaterstrand, in Johannesburg, took the lead on executing the first step: making a DNA molecule that would serve as a template to synthesize the mRNA needed in the vaccine. Although this sequence has been controversially patented by Moderna, researchers from Stanford University in California had deposited it into the online database Virological.org in March last year.
Patrick Arbuthnot, director of gene therapy research at the University of Witwatersrand says, “We were not intimidated, because mRNA synthesis is a fairly generic procedure.” Despite delays in the shipment of raw materials, the team completed this process in ten weeks and sent vials of mRNA to Afrigen in early December.
During this period, having heard about plans to mimic Moderna’s shot, scientists from around the world sent Afrigen researchers e-mails offering assistance. Some of them were researchers at the US National Institutes of Health who had conducted foundational work on mRNA vaccines. “It was extraordinary,” says Petro Terblanche, Afrigen’s managing director. “I think a lot of scientists were disillusioned with what had happened with vaccine distribution, and they wanted to help get the world out of this dilemma.”
On 5 January, Afrigen’s researchers accomplished another tricky part of the process: They encapsulated the mRNA in a fatty nanoparticle made of a mixture of lipids. Boukes says they haven’t yet used Moderna’s specific lipid mixture, but rather another one that was immediately available from the manufacturer of the machine that the laboratory uses to create lipid nanoparticles. They plan to use Moderna’s lipid mixture in the coming days, as soon as one last analytical instrument arrives. After that, the team will analyse the formulation to ensure that it is truly a near copy of Moderna’s vaccine.
An empowerment process
After Afrigen confirms that it has made a reliable copy, the next set of challenges will be to make a lot more of it. Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin whose work was foundational to the development of several COVID-19 vaccines, says he is not surprised that South African researchers appear to have copied Moderna’s vaccine, but he adds that scaling up production of that original shot required a lot of additional innovation by manufacturers.
For the next phase of the project, several companies in the global south will learn from Afrigen and attempt to create batches of vaccines themselves, in preparation for testing the shots in rodents. By the end of November, the WHO expects a Moderna mimic to be ready for phase I safety trials in people.
What happens next year remains uncertain. Charles Gore, the director of the Medicines Patent Pool, an international organization working with the hub that is devoted to expanding drug and vaccine access around the world, says that the initiative has no intention of infringing on Moderna’s patents. Laboratory research is generally not subject to patent rules, Gore explains.
And once the vaccine is ready for use, he hopes that Moderna might then license its patents, or that by then, there will be alternatives that these companies could produce without fear of a lawsuit. Scientists at several universities are currently developing next-generation mRNA vaccines that might be cheaper to make or that don’t require ultracold temperatures for storage, as do Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech’s.
Although the pace of this effort will not solve the urgent need for vaccines across Africa, many researchers from the continent are enthusiastic because a reliance on vaccines from Western countries and companies has proven dangerous during the pandemic — only about 10% of people in Africa have been fully vaccinated — and this initiative was created with a goal of helping nations protect themselves. “Global health’s dysfunction derives from power imbalances,” explains Olusoji Adeyi, president of the non-profit organization Resilient Health Systems, in Washington DC. “Addressing that will come from countries in the global south developing their own capabilities and taking responsibility for their own health.” | <urn:uuid:ebf872a4-f9b7-4bc9-a116-14ae7892f560> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 6,955 |
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