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In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, digital health solutions have emerged as a beacon of hope, promising to enhance the efficiency, accessibility, and quality of care. With the advent of technology, these digital tools are reshaping the way healthcare is delivered and received. From telemedicine to wearable devices, and electronic health records to mobile health apps, digital health solutions are revolutionizing the healthcare industry, offering myriad benefits to both healthcare providers and patients alike.
Enhanced Access to Care
One of the most significant benefits of digital health solutions is their ability to provide greater access to healthcare services. Telemedicine, for example, allows patients to consult with healthcare providers remotely, making medical advice more accessible to those living in rural or underserved areas. This not only reduces the need for travel but also ensures that individuals can receive timely medical attention without the constraints of geographical boundaries.
Improved Patient Engagement and Empowerment
Digital health solutions empower patients by giving them more control over their health and well-being. Health apps and wearable devices enable individuals to monitor their health metrics, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and activity levels, in real-time. This constant monitoring encourages a proactive approach to health, fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility towards one's well-being. Moreover, these tools provide personalized feedback and recommendations, further motivating individuals to maintain healthy lifestyles.
Increased Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness
The integration of digital health solutions in the healthcare system has significantly improved the efficiency of healthcare delivery. Electronic health records (EHRs), for instance, streamline the process of storing and accessing patient information, reducing paperwork and administrative burdens. This not only saves time but also minimizes the risk of errors, enhancing the quality of care provided. Additionally, by reducing the need for physical consultations and leveraging digital platforms, healthcare providers can offer services at a lower cost, making healthcare more affordable for patients.
Better Health Outcomes
Digital health solutions have shown promise in improving health outcomes through early detection and timely intervention. With the ability to continuously monitor health indicators, these technologies can help in the early diagnosis of potential health issues, allowing for prompt and targeted treatment. Furthermore, digital tools can support chronic disease management by reminding patients to take their medication, follow their treatment plans, and schedule regular check-ups, contributing to better disease control and improved quality of life.
In conclusion, digital health solutions hold immense potential to transform the healthcare landscape, offering benefits that extend beyond the traditional boundaries of healthcare delivery. By enhancing access to care, improving patient engagement, increasing efficiency, improving health outcomes, and facilitating research and innovation, these technologies pave the way for a more accessible, effective, and patient-centered healthcare system.
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When was the last time that you took your kids in for an eye exam? Did you realize that your kids' school performance can be impacted by their ability to see clearly? Children are not great at communicating difficulties seeing the board or letting adults know when things begin to appear a little bit blurry. Did you know that there are eye problems that your child could have that can only be diagnosed through an exam at your optometrist's office? Learn all about pediatric eye care and what problems you could run into if you neglect to take your child in for regular eye exams.


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The Ministry of Education’s intimidation tactics continue. This has regrettably become the norm with the Ministry in its treatment of Union members.
Heads of School have WRONGLY advised UPE members that they cannot follow Union directives unless a personal directive is issued by the union itself. Heads of School claim that these instructions come directly from the Permanent Secretary.
Executive Head Graham Sansone, would like to advise UPE Union members to ignore the SMT’s requests for an individual directive as any directive issued by the Union specifies that it is to be followed by UPE members ONLY.
In the meantime the union is issuing further directives to counter the Ministry’s provocation, effective from Wednesday 24/11/2021:
1. Teachers and KGEs members of the UPE are not to do replacement lessons during curriculum time. (This directive is not applicable to KGE/Teacher relievers.)
- Members of the UPE are to refrain from submitting assessments related to LOFs.
- PSCD Teachers members of UPE working in Primary State Schools are not to give PSCD lessons if they are not provided with adequate classrooms, nurtured with all the necessary resources for PSCD.
- Members of UPE are directed not to replace colleagues who are on school premises.
- Members of the UPE who to date have not been provided with a school laptop are to refrain from using their own personal devices.
- Members of UPE who have not been given a school laptop are to refrain from inputting/handing in any marks and or resources or material involving the use of such devices.
- Members of the UPE are to refrain from answering emails sent by the school management or their superiors in relation to non-academic importance.
- Educators who are members of the UPE are not to engage in face-to-face communication with members of the SMT. All communication between educators who are members of the UPE and their SMT is to be held virtually.
- Members of the UPE are not to answer any calls or emails or any other means of communication sent by the SMT or Ministry after school hours, considering that educators already do work from home including lesson preparations.
- Supply teachers are not to accept visits from the SMT (Specifically from Assistant Heads and Heads of Schools).
Should any union member have any further queries on this issue or any other, please contact us on 99946582 or 21221252/6/8, or via email at firstname.lastname@example.org

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What a difference a month makes! Spring (and practically summer) has arrived, and with it, those glimpses of vibrant perfection that only the sun can bring.
The new warmth offers a reminder of a beloved quote from Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, in which she describes her love for New York with an evocative image of springtime in the city (and with the absolute deliciousness of a perfectly ripe peach):
“I remember walking across 62nd Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out of the West and reached the mirage.”
It’s this kind of imagery that guides this reading list for the month of May, including four different titles that feel juicy and sweet.
I came across The Power by Naomi Alderman while browsing one of my favorite indie bookstores. Intrigued by the cover and admittedly by the fact that it is one of Obama’s favorite reads, I couldn’t resist. Alderman’s story begins with a sudden awakening in which the power dynamic between men and women is flipped, quite literally, as women now hold a new electrical power that is physically contained within their chests and used at will. The result is chaotic, terrifying and, yes, powerful.
Alderman’s prose is electric itself, crackling off the page in bursts. Her words propel the story along at a fast pace, and her word choice generates its own energy. This symbiosis between style and narrative is a quality I’ve not often noticed, and when it happens, it’s transformative. Alderman’s skill here is mesmerizing. This is a perfect read for the nights when we’re not watching Season Two of The Handmaid’s Tale.
This winter had me dreaming of LA, thinking I should have turned West post-college rather than steer myself towards the inevitable East Coast. I hadn’t read any of Eve Babitz’s books before, and so with my lust for LA firmly in place by April, it seemed like the perfect time to get acquainted and find out if the City of Angels – or, at least, Babitz’s version of it – could be for me.
I picked up Black Swans first, published in the early 1990s and re-released with the perfect green and pink paperback cover just last month. With each turn of the page, I could practically smell the jacaranda blooms, her descriptions fresh and evocative. I loved most of the essays, and one in particular – “Expensive Regrets” struck me as brilliantly astute and seemed written for today. Her writing style is conversational and inviting, so I often felt like I was sitting in a bar sharing these stories with Babitz, rather than passively reading them. Yet, just like a good conversation can go a bit sideways, there were a few parts that made me cringe, particularly the start of her essay “Coco,” where the light and casual tone seemed to give way to out-of-touch insensitivity. Even so, I know there will be many days that I will crave the sun and fresh blooms, and I will return to Black Swans or L.A. Women (another book of hers, and an ideal beach read) and be happily transported to the Chateau Marmont poolside for an afternoon delightfully well spent.
Without doubt, Michael Pollan is a hero of mine. He has this gift of highlighting something we haven’t thought about (or have steered away from) in a way that immediately seems right and obvious, changing the way we think about everyday things in an instant (with an “oh, duh” attached). The clearest example of this is from his book In Defense of Food, in which he reminds us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Pure wisdom. So simple. How did we forget?
When I received the ARC for Pollan’s latest book, How to Change Your Mind, I was immediately intrigued by the shift away from Pollan’s usual subject matter. Instead of tackling food, this new release discusses LSD and other psychedelics. My interest was piqued, as I had read something within the last year that talked about LSD’s beginnings and the fact that the psychiatric communities of the 1950s and 1960s heralded it as a miracle drug with unlimited potential for use and healing. Until that point, I had only heard the dark stories.
Pollan dives into the history of psychedelics and the science behind them, and then shifts into memoir, detailing his own personal experience – occasions prompted by the research for this book. Pollan rightly calls this section a “travelogue,” as we join him on this revelatory journey. The whole of this book is a fascinating twist of science and memoir, personal journey and three-person discovery. This is one of the best books I’ve read on a subject that will surely become increasingly relevant as we look for new (or revisit old) modalities of healing.

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Shah Rukh Khan Recited Rabindranath Tagore’s Poem On Ted Talks India Nayi Baat!
Posted on 25 Nov, 2019
Star Plus’ Ted Talks India Nayi Baat has regaled audiences all over with its host of inspiring speakers that presented a whole new dimension of ideas. The uber talented Shah Rukh Khan hosted the entire season and his marvellous skills of presentation entertained viewers to the core. The penultimate episode of Ted Talks India Nayi Baat had an interesting theme of ‘Kamaal Ka Kal’ which talked about the future of the human race – robotics, machinery, space travel etc.
As the impressive speakers engaged with the audiences and shared knowledgeable insights from their area of expertise, Shah Rukh Khan had an interesting surprise for everyone. The legendary actor recited a beautiful poem composed by the great Rabindranath Tagore – Where The Mind Is Without Fear. The actor wished to recite the poetry to inspire people and share goodwill. In his own impeccable style, Shah Rukh Khan recited the entire poetry and enthralled the studio audience. It was his novel way of expressing gratitude to the millions of viewers who watched and supported this year's season of Ted Talks India Nayi Baat.
No one does it like Shah Rukh Khan!
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Yogita Bihani on her association with Kapil Sharma, ahead of her music video with Guru Randhawa
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A new type of supernatural creature plagued Britain's aircrews of World War II: the gremlin, an elusive imp that tampered with machinery and took the blame for any number of technical problems. Now the Gremlin is back, but we're not talking about an apparition (or an AMC).
DARPA adopted the name Gremlin for its new project to launch volleys of reusable drones meant to sow chaos among enemy air defences. The agency just awarded contracts to four teams exploring different approaches to the challenge of launching and recovering the drones from a mothership. The teams include aviation giant Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, makers of the Predator and Reaper drones, as well as Composite Engineering, the company that builds aerial target drones including the 650-pound BQM-167A Skeeter.
These Gremlins would be launched from a safe distance by a bomber, transport, or fighter aircraft. They would fly up to 500 miles to the target area and loiter there for up to three hours before returning to be picked up by a C-130 recovery aircraft, possibly using the 1950s spiralling "bucket drop" technique. DARPA expects each Gremlin to survive at least 20 missions.
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What will the Gremlins be doing in the target area? DARPA's jargon-heavy official statement doesn't add much, saying they "would be deployed with a mixture of mission payloads capable of generating a variety of effects in a distributed and coordinated manner." But it's possible to guess what they mean.
The most obvious mission is disrupting enemy air defense. As far back as the 1950's, B-52 bombers carried ADM-20 Quail decoy missiles. The Quail was a 1200-pound turbojet-powered drone that was as fast the bomber. Thanks to its flat sides, the Quail had a similar radar signature to the B-52, and thanks to a heat source, it looked to infrared sensors just like the bomber. The Quail was programmed to make turns during its 40-minute flight, making it to hard to distinguish from the launch aircraft, and it could drop chaff to further confuse radar operators.
Radar upgrades made the Quail obsolete in the 1960's, but more advanced decoys took over. The Air Force currently uses Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD), a sleek, 280-pound cruise missile that can mimic various aircraft with radar reflectors. Raytheon calls MALD as a "Swiss Army Knife." The MALD-J version has electronic jammers, and the combination of decoys and jammers can "deceive, distract and saturate" radar systems with false signals, the company says. Drone decoys can get close and operate within the "no escape range" of radar systems, something too dangerous for manned aircraft. This magnifies the effective power of the jammer.
Two factors could make the Gremlins far more effective than previous unmanned decoys and jammers. One is that they are designed to be cheap and reusable, with a target cost of $700,000 per drone. That means they can be deployed in larger numbers.
You can see a hint about the other piece of the puzzle in DARPA's comment that the Gremlins will act "in a co-ordinated and distributed manner." Imagine a swarm in which some Gremlins act as decoys, some as jammers, and some as radar detectors, passing on details of where enemy radar are so they can be attacked at a later time.
Or maybe the Gremlins will combine their powers. In a paper for the Naval Postgraduate School, Ibrahim Kocaman describes how a swarm of jammer drones can form a "dispersed wirelessly networked opportunistic array." By synchronizing their signals, they act as a single jamming unit with a gigantic virtual antenna. Kocaman says that even with a poor level of coordination, the swarm will have more jamming power and greater range than if the elements worked separately. Even if some of the drones are shot down, the jamming continues. The same jamming technique can be used to block communications or other signals (such as the GPS used by SatNavs), and again being able to get up close makes a difference. Even a powerful signal can be jammed if the jammer is much closer than the source.
Gremlins may not be limited to jamming, either. Raytheon has demonstrated a precision attack version of MALD, and the idea of arming decoys is not new. In the 1960s, the Air Force had a project for a successor to Quail called the "Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy." Developers realized it was big enough to carry its own nuclear warhead and it became the "Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy." Boeing developed this model until it eventually came into service as the AGM-86 Cruise Missile, a pure attack weapon with no decoy role.
It would take minimal hardware additions to use these Gremlins as missiles. Technology developed to detonate unused fuel in a cruise missile in a powerful thermobaric blast would allow such drones to attack targets without the need for a warhead. (After all, nobody wants to try and catch a drone carrying live explosives and bring it back to the mothership). This way, Gremlins could be deadly, but the unused ones still could be brought back to fly another day.
DARPA's current plan calls for a proof-of-concept Gremlin to prove out their air launch and air recovery operations. Meanwhile, the Air Force has its own program for air-launched drones for air dominance involving bigger drones with a range of 2,000 miles and weighing up to 2,700 pounds, which would return to a pick-up point after a 12-hour mission.
Perhaps the biggest risk is if all these drone swarms are too successful. While the $140 million F-35 struggles to get into service, a swarm of low-cost yet capable drones that could be launched from long range might look like a good bet to take over some of the troubled jet's planned missions. If that happens, those drones could get terminated.
David Hambling's book Swarm Troopers: How Small Drones Will Conquer the World, is out now.

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We’ve seen the battle royale genre explode recently as developers scramble to breed or riff for the startling success of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Although the side-effect of PUBG’s popularity—combined with Steam Direct, which now lets anyone with $100 list and then sell a game—is undoubtedly an increasing number of games trying to capitalize this is not on PUBG’s features doesn’t imply on its name.
Case in point: PlayerUnkn1wn: Friendly Fire, a top-down singleplayer and native multiplayer action game “in which you may play as you also in a circle of friends” and “survive so long as possible driving back the crowd of beetles utilizing the an enormous arsenal of weapons.” Three weapons are listed.
“If you’re ready to dive within the field of terrible creatures, collecting weapons along with other things from boxes then the game may be for you,” the game’s Steam store page adds.
I haven’t played it—it’s coming over to Early Access over a couple of days—and also for all I understand it’s just a highly original and compelling gaming experience. Or, it is just fiction. A clip starts off with what Bet on 12 months, so it’s probably simply a joke.
Either way, PlayerUnkn1wn: Friendly Fire (it compresses nicely to PUFF, we admit Simply put i choose to PUBG) is not the first game (nor, I expect, the last) to try and gain a few extra looks by copying PUBG’s title. In November, a game title called PlayerUn4wn: Zombie entered Early Access also (it’s currently sporting ‘Mostly Negative’ reviews). Meanwhile, a poorly-reviewed FPS called Gamers Unknown Survival appeared (also in Early Access) in September.


The collaboration, which was teased by Park’s record label H1GHR Music mere hours before the track dropped at midnight today (December 8), sees Park, JMIN, BIG Naughty, pH-1, TRADE L, Woodie Gochild, JAY B, and Park Hyeon-jin joining forces with the Johor Bahru crew on yet another remix of ‘Lotus’.
A music video accompanying the track was also released on H1GHR Music’s YouTube page, showing the Korean guest stars performing in what looks like an office awash with red light.
Park opens the remix by giving a shoutout to FORCEPARKBOIS and Southeast Asia in general: “Respect to FORCEPARKBOIS from Johor Bahru / H1GHR Music, hip-hop, we connected by the booth / I got love for my Southeast Asians / They hate, we fight back, fuck intimidation, we stationed / We flying high like a kite, we unite, Asian pride, roll it up, lotus lotus!”
Watch it here:
This is the fourth all-star remix of ‘Lotus’ so far, which has been embraced by rappers across the region.
The Malaysian remix released April featured Dinho, Ichu, Offgrid and SonaOne, among others, and was soon followed by a Singaporean remix featuring Fariz Jabba, Akeem Jahat, OmarKENOBI, YHB Sleepsalot, Khally and more.
Brunei’s rappers came together for a remix, too, with Swanz, Vandalisma, MZL, Nuuz0l, Supahmiyagi and more contributing verses. Malaysian rapper Zamaera would later get in on the action with her own solo remix of the track.


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Captiva and Sanibel Islands
The Captiva and Sanibel Islands are so strongly connected that many people think they’re the same island. They were, at one point, but a hurricane severed the connection. Now, if you want to cross the islands, you must take the Sanibel Causeway across Blind Pass, the place where the islands had been connected.
Peak tourist season is December to April with lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s. If you’d like to avoid peak season, aim for May, October, or November. It’s a bit warmer then but you don’t have too much to worry about when it comes to hurricane season. June is the rainiest month and July has hurricane concerns. From June through September, you’ll experience temperatures in the upper-80s and lows in the 70s. Hurricane season runs from June to November; however, they can happen anytime the conditions are right. Fortunately, you’ll have plenty of time to check for one before you head out to your island vacation in Florida. Hurricanes are also rare in this part of Florida, and occur about every 20-40 years.
Captiva and Sanibel have different personalities. Sanibel has protected natural areas, gorgeous beaches, and less touristy accommodations while Captiva has quirky restaurants, lovely beaches with sunset views, and the Marching Mullet Band Parade.
The Marching Mullet Band Parade is (dis)organized in the honor of the service and sacrifices made by veterans. Led by a “Coordinator of Craziness,”locals and visitors can arm themselves with instruments or something that carries a passing semblance to an instrument and march through the village. Allegedly, this is a monthly occurrence but it’s best to double check that the Mullets will be on parade during your visit.
Sanibel is home to the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, the only museum in the USA that focuses on shells and mollusks. Biologists and other volunteers teach the public about these important and complex creatures. The learning and exploration doesn’t stop at the sea.
The J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge awaits your visit. This park offers virtual tours via the Discover Ding App and iNature Trail to create interactive trails. You can go hiking, birding, fishing, boating, and visit the Visitor & Education Center.
Captiva & Sanibel Islands
Both islands offer beaches that are perfect for hunting sea shells and boat tours. You can take a tour for a few hours or head out for the whole day. Maybe you want to watch some dolphins or whales, or maybe you want to charter a fishing boat and reel in a feast.
Or maybe—just maybe—you want to sink your toes in the sand, feel the sea breeze on your face, and watch the sunset on the water from the east coast of the United States.
Regardless of how you want to relax, Captiva and Sanibel have something to offer everyone. Book your vacation today, and check out the Vacation Planning Resource Center for information to guide you on your next trip!
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Talk:Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire Genealogy
New Parish Table[edit source]
Winthorpe parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
|Winthorpe Online Parish Records|
|FS Catalog BTs|
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Nottinghamshire Archives.
Old Parish Table[edit source]
Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
|FMP = Nottinghamshire Parish Records (findmypast) - (£)|
|PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)|
|WINTHORPE PARISH Online Records|
Deposited records at Nottinghamshire Archives Winthorpe All Saints Baptisms 1687-1944 Marriages 1695-1900 Burials 1697-1992 Bishop's Transcripts 1610-1842
Nottinghamshire County Council
NG2 7QP telephone: 08449 808080 online
Link to the FamilySearch Catalogue showing the film numbers in their collection Winthorpe
Winthorpe. A transcription of Memorial Inscriptions dating from 1756, giving surname, given name, date of death and age. The original is held at Nottinhamshire Archives Ref DD/TS 19/36 and article in the Nottinghamshire Family History Magazine vol. 64, pages 34-35, Family History Library Ref. 942.52 D25n
- Searching Parish Records online (Nottinghamshire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- 'Nottinghamshire baptisms 1538-1980,' 'Nottinghamshire marriages 1528-1929,' 'Nottinghamshire burials 1539-1905,' findmypast, accessed 9 January 2015.
- Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.

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Located in a small village on the outskirts of Karkala, Attur is a popular destination mainly renowned for its St. Lawrence Church. It is said that the current church is 3rd church that was rebuilt after the damage of the previous two structures, the first one being destroyed by Tipu Sultan.
It is considered that the second church, located near Nakre of Karkala was quite old and thus it was decided to reconstruct it at other site. While searching for a place, the parishioners carried the statue of St. Lawrence and stopped at Attur to quench their thirst at Pushkarni Pond. The parishioners couldn't lift the statue until they decided to build the church at the site and hence the church was erected. Today, this admiring building, nearly 200 years old is a main attraction of the place as well as a religious center for many devotees regardless of their religion. January is a perfect time to visit the church.
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The storm also damaged some of the utility’s facilities in the New Orleans area, Entergy said Tuesday. As the winds of the storm increased, Entergy unplugged Waterford 3 Nuclear Power Plant in St. Charles Parish and found the facility remained in a safe and stable condition. The facility was listed on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission website as not producing electricity.
Aug. 31, 2021, 9:42 p.m. ET
Governor John Bel Edwards, who praised Entergy for building the J. Wayne Leonard Plant, expressed frustration Tuesday at the pace at which the company was restoring energy.
“I’m not happy with 30 days, the Entergy people aren’t happy with 30 days, no one who needs electricity out there is happy with it,” said Mr. Edwards, a Democrat. “But I am aware that we have just had the strongest hurricane – at least for the strongest – that the state has ever experienced.”
Entergy supplies electricity to three million customers in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. It also operates several nuclear power plants, most of them in the south.
The financial costs of storms accumulate for Entergy. In addition to repairs due to Ida, the company’s equipment was damaged by three hurricanes in 2020 and a winter storm this year. Entergy told Louisiana regulators that restoration costs in the state related to the previous storms would amount to $ 2.1 billion.
Storms seem to be taking a bigger toll. Regulators had Entergy’s companies reclaimed $ 732 million for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which hit in 2005, according to materials submitted to the Louisiana Public Service Commission by Phillip May, CEO of Entergy Louisiana, in April. Adjusted for inflation, the two hurricanes of 2005 cost the company $ 1 billion in 2021.
The company is seeking permission to charge customers higher electricity tariffs to cover repair costs. Regulators usually approve such requests, but fee payers can object to frequent fee increases.


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San Mateo, California, USA
I’m very sorry that we have been MIA for a few weeks BUT you will be relieved to know that we have been (merely) holed up in my native hood.
My mom was admitted to the hospital on the 19th of January with a staph infection. I don’t know a lot about staph but I do know that it’s a potentially dangerous bacteria that a lot of people carry around with them; sometimes it gets out of control when your immune system is weak. In my mom’s case, she had come down with the flu the day after Christmas and couldn’t hold down her rheumatoid arthritis meds. A few days later, she started to feel better but then her left ankle became extremely swollen and painful. Her doctor upped her med dosages in an attempt to ease the swelling; an X-ray revealed that she had multiple hairline fractures throughout her foot. (She doesn’t know exactly how she got these fractures but has recently remembered that while she was sick with the flu she had turned her ankle a few times in her new, fluffy slippers. Her ankle has so much damage in it from the rheumatoid arthritis that it was easy for the bones the break.) Her podiatrist ordered a “boot” for her to wear on her injured foot; it gave support so that she could get around and go back to work. Well, she returned to work and the next day woke up with excruciating pain in her back. (My mom thinks that the boot may have been too heavy for her to move easily and also made her walk unevenly, and that this is what caused her back problem.) She could barely move and her G.P. ordered a synthetic-morphine patch (as well as bed rest). A few days later, my sister Michele came to visit my parents and found my mom almost delirious with a 105 F degree temperature. Mam couldn’t remember simple facts (like, where she keeps her medications) and Michele decided to call the doctor. He told her to get Mam to the hospital as soon as possible and, because my mom could barely move, Michele called the ambulance.
After many hours and a full day of tests the doctors figured out that Mam had a staph infection (as well as a bulging disk in her back). She was immediately put on strong antibiotics and had them administered every six hours through an IV. She had an infectious disease specialist (Dr. Lindquist) as well as a neurosurgeon (Dr. Base) as well as her regular doctor (Dr. Steyer). (I will leave out her rheumatologist and podiatrist…).
Meanwhile, halfway across the world, I was freaking out and worrying about what was happening with my mom. After much discussion, Casey and I decided to use my dad’s travel companion passes and catch a plane from Singapore to San Francisco. My mom was admitted to the hospital early Sunday morning and Casey and I flew out a two days later. At this point we were unsure as to how far the infection had spread; the danger was that it had entered her heart. If it had, she would need four to six weeks of antiobiotics. If not, and it was just in her blood stream, a two week course would clear it up.
The first time I saw my mom, she was so pale and weak and barely there. What I mean is, the antibiotics had taken away her spark and her personality; the only bit that remained was the soft, helpless side. She was doped up and wiped out.
After sixteen days of hospital care, my mom was a free woman. I won’t go into details of those days…anyone who has had a parent in the hospital knows what it is like. The dynamics of the relationship change and the person who used to be the caregiver becomes the taker (and, if they are like my mom, they are not happy about it). But, for me, it was a chance to show my love for my beautiful mother and to give back to her some of the care and patience she has shown me throughout my life.
Now Mam is home. She is using a walker until her back gets stronger and her body recuperates from the infection. She is making good progress (she can sit up longer–an hour at a time–before the pain becomes too intense) but sometimes she wants to do more than she should. I keep reminding her that she needs to take it slowly or else her body will react and she’ll be back where she started. She is taking lots of pain medication as well as the usual meds for her diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis; I had to write them all down so that I could help her to keep track of them.
Casey and I will stay in the Bay Area until the end of February; we are due to meet our friends Gary, John and Ooi in Thailand around that time. Hopefully Mam will be a lot better by then and my dad will be able to help her with the things that she needs. Right now she needs help getting dressed and washed and help when she goes to bed (or even gets up to use the bathroom or eat at the table). But, today she put on her pants by herself and yesterday she walked outside (with the help of the walker) for about five minutes. Each step is small but significant. She has been through a lot in her life and I already knew that she’s a strong woman who’s not afraid of pain. When I think of all the physical discomfort she has had to put up with in the past few weeks (an echogram procedure in which they put a tube down your throat and run it to your heart; a picc line inserted; and, when Michele and I couldn’t be there to do it, a stranger washing your body and taking care of humiliating, personal matters) as well as the intense pain that she still deals with today, I feel even prouder of my mom than I have ever felt before.

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Commissioned by the Williamsburg Symphonia: World Premiere, January 2011
From the title page of the old book of rounds: “Catch that Catch Can – A choice collection of Catches, Rounds, and Canons for three or four voices” was collected and published by John Hilton. It was printed in London for John Benson and John Playford and was to be sold in St. Dunstan’s Churchyard, and in the Inner Temple near the Church door, 1652”
Catch that Catch Can for chamber orchestra is based on a number of the rounds found in this collection. Over the course of many months, I chose and studied my favorite melodies to feature in the work. Throughout the 10-minutes long piece, these “catchy” tunes intertwine throughout the orchestra creating varying effects of stretto, canon, and echo.
Catch that Catch Can is scored for flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons; 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 1 percussion, strings

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Three new species of Taraxacum sect. Palustria (Compositae, Cichorieae) are described from Bulgaria, viz. T. abruptilobum, T. basilicum and T. rumelicum. The new species, on the basis of detailed, standardized descriptions and illustrations, are compared with similar species of this section. All the seventeen species of T. sect. Palustria in Bulgaria are agamospermous. An identification key to the members of T. sect. Palustria in Bulgaria is given.
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Soap opera and television actor who is predominantly recognized for his work on Made in Cartagena and Ser Bonita No Basta. This exposure led to him garnering over 420,000 followers on his personal Instagram account.
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One might note that the President and his administration employ this tactic just about every time they want to convince the public that America is for what they are doing. They line up a bunch of pawns on the stage offering up that visual effect that the effort has a lot of push behind it. In case you are thinking this is a new and unique method, it is not. This is right out of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” which advises those following Alinsky’s methods to always put up a front which appears larger than you really are in truth. For all that Obama worships about Alinsky, this method must be one of his favorites as he employs it so often.
As the skin of the onion peels back on Obamacare, the nation is finding that much of what this President promised them is totally untrue with regard to this legislation. One can easily conclude that either the President had no idea what was in the legislation or he just outright lied to gain public acceptance. Now, millions are finding out that their current health insurance coverage is being cancelled by the provider and replacing that coverage is 50% to 100% more expensive. Consumers are finding out what the reality of covering the cost of giving away healthcare coverage and covering pre-existing conditions at normal rates really will be. This outcome is the equivalent of opening your wallet and paying for insurance for a man down the street that you do not even know. Predictably, the program is really one of government control and wealth redistribution.
As can be surmised from past experiences, this President is not going to stand and fight the good fight on Obamacare because he knows as well as anyone that he will lose in that battle…the facts are not on his side. Instead, he will employ the age-old tool of distraction as he has time and again on various scandals and disasters of his administration. In this case, it will be the issue of immigration reform and the demand that something be done…here and now to move this issue to a solution. The friction and smoke coming off of that issue will more than cover the faltering of Obamacare and allow the program to limp into 2014 and cut into the financial well-being of many millions of Americans who were perfectly happy with what they had in terms of healthcare.
Don’t get me wrong here, immigration reform is not just a smoke-screen but it will be used as one in this instance. Obama would love nothing more than to have the same outcome with immigration reform which he just had with the continuing resolution and the debt-ceiling battle. Let me make a suggestion, Mr. President. Why don’t you go ahead and threaten to voluntarily default on the debt service of this nation if Congress does not give you what you want in terms immigration amnesty? Oh no…not this time, too many people would notice that he was hi-jacking the Constitution with such a move…it is time for something new out of the Alinsky Playbook.
It is extremely important to Obama to make a huge issue of immigration reform. You see, at the moment, Obama’s number one mission is to so deface the Republican Party as to make America a one-party system. He wants a big confrontation on immigration prior to the 2014 mid-term election with the hopes that it will cost the Republicans the control of the House and potentially broaden the liberal base in the Senate. Then, by 2016, if he has immigration reform on his terms just as he did the recent budget issue, his hope is to have “diluted” the voter base to the point that “conservatism” is a forgotten word in the public domain.
You can bet that as this issue hits the bricks, Obama will be up on the podium with a bunch of Hispanic people mixed in with some other no-names pushing hard to send that message that these folks are “all-in” and you should be too! He will face off with the Republicans on the issue once again demanding everything he wants to be laid on the table and making it clear that resistance can only bring one end…”the playing of the race-card”. Ultimately, Obama wants resistance…and lots of it. He must build that drama in order to show how determined he is to not give one inch in terms of handing amnesty to those who are here in the USA illegally and by all rights…should be deported. Once he is able to put on that exhibition, he will win the hearts and souls of these “potential future voters” over to the Democratic Party further souring the soup for the Republicans.
Now, some in the Media refer to Obama’s efforts as nothing more than “political hardball”. Using whatever means is at hand including defying the Constitution, he will attempt to get whatever absurd demand that he makes in terms of “amnesty” for the illegals. The Republicans will fight him on the issues of citizenship and voting. He will concede on the voting and settle for citizenship in order to appear that some compromise is at hand. Then, when the ink is dried on the deal, he will turn his dogs like Chuck Schumer out on the media to cry and cry about how pathetic it is for these people to be “citizens” but not be able to vote. He will go for the public leverage jugular vein and even consider executive order to gain voting rights for these declared citizens. Once successful, the voting pool will be diluted and compromised giving the Democrats a voter base which will carry them into the next century and beyond possibly. The Media, wrongly focused on the methods rather than the outcome, cannot seem to see the similarities of these efforts well down the road of the socialist path.
From a conservative viewpoint, this is certainly not the time to give up and throw in the towel. This face-off is not just about the disagreement between two party platforms as it might have been many decades ago. It is far more serious and the future of the nation is on the line. Long ago, the socialist/progressive element shanghaied the Democrat Party holding on to the name and its symbolism but taking the party politics far beyond the fringe of liberal thinking. Obama is the culmination of that effort and will be for a while. The key is to keep the party in control for as long as possible and change as many things as possible to being contrary to the history and heritage of the nation as it was founded. In doing so, there are no areas which are “off-limits” nor is there a document which is considered holy and untouchable. To the contrary, the key here is trample on anything which has been held precious to the conservatives of America testing whether the public as a whole will rebel in that effort. Each time that little or no resistance is encountered, the effort can be turned up a notch moving to the next level.
We are about to see the same effort which went to creating Obamacare go into immigration reform. We are about to see a President who will knowingly use lies and deception to gain what he wants in that process. We are about to see the issues surrounding Obamacare get swept under the table as this administration goes to work employing the same mistruth analogies to gain public support for an outcome which can only do one thing…diminish or erase your vote at the polls. If you love your country; if you love what it stands for and the heritage on which it was built, you have no choice but to stand up at this point and be counted. Remember those first layers of Obamacare which you are now seeing and know that the same people who made promises to you there are the same ones making promises on immigration reform. Luckily you still have a choice in America…you can believe those lies or you can choose to stand against them. One day, that freedom of choice may be gone if you continue to buy the Obama stage-play.
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Game Seventy-One: Cubs (47-23) vs. Marlins (38-34)
- Game Time – 6:10pm CDT
- Coverage – TV: Comcast SportsNet, MLB Network – Radio: WSCR 670 The Score, Cubs Radio Network, XM Radio Channels 185, 844
- Location – Marlins Park, Miami
Jon Lester, LHP (9-3, 2.06/0.99/2.97) vs. Wei-Yin Chen, LHP (4-2, 5.22/1.33/4.73)
It’s a new day and the Cubs begin an 11-game road trip tonight with the first of four against the Marlins. The Cubs turn to Jon Lester to end the losing skid and keep the team from dropping four in a row for the first time this season. The Cubs want to remain the only team in the National League that hasn’t lost four straight games this year.
The Cubs enter play tonight at Marlins Park with a significant lead (9 ½ games) over the Cardinals, who begin a three-game series with the Mariners on Friday night.
The Cubs split the six games with the Marlins last season (1-2 at Marlins Park) and have not played well at Marlins Park since it opened in 2012 (6-7). The Cubs face a Marlins team that has outplayed external expectations. Don Mattingly is calling the shots for the Fish these days and Barry Bonds is the team’s hitting coach. The Marlins are in third place in the NL East, 4 ½ games behind the Nationals and a game back of the second place New York Metropolitans.
After tonight’s matchup of southpaws Jon Lester and Wei-Yin Chen, Kyle Hendricks is scheduled to take on right-hander Tom Koehler on Friday night (6:10pm CDT). Saturday afternoon (3:10pm CDT) has John Lackey on the schedule against right-hander Paul Clemens. And the Cubs have Jason Hammel lined up with Jose Fernandez for Sunday’s finale (12:10pm CDT).
Tonight will be an emotional game for Albert Almora Jr., who is expected to be in the starting lineup with the lefty on the hill for the Fish. Almora Jr. returns home and his father is supposed to attend tonight’s game and see his son play in a Major League game for the first time.
Joe Maddon’s starting lineup should lean to the right side. If Anthony Rizzo is unable to play, Jason Heyward might be the only lefty in the lineup. Right-handers have a .831 OPS against Wei-Yin Chen this season with a .274/.322/.510 slash line. Left-handers have a .727 OPS against Chen with a .294/.315/.412 line. Righties have hit 32 extra basehits (16 doubles, two triples, 14 home runs) against Chen this season.
Maddon prefers Javier Baez at third base when Lester starts which should push Kris Bryant to left field or to first base if Rizzo is not available. David Ross will be behind the plate.
Tonight all starts with Jon Lester …
Jon Lester did not have his good stuff last time out. Lester struggled against the Pirates with just missing his spots for a majority of his outing. Lester limited the Pirates to three runs on seven hits with three walks. Lester struck out seven and put his team in position to win the game. The Cubs picked up the 4-3 victory after David Ross launched a solo home run.
Lester is 4-0 in his last four starts with a 1.20 ERA and 0.77 WHIP. And on the road this season, Lester is 5-1 in six starts with a 1.69 ERA and 1.02 WHIP.
Jon Lester has never beaten the Marlins. In three career starts against the Fish, Lester is 0-2 with a 6.00 ERA and 1.87 WHIP. Last season, the Marlins torched Lester for six runs on nine hits with a walk in five innings. The Cubs lost the game at Marlins Park by a 7-3 final score.
Marlins Career Numbers against Jon Lester
- Ichiro Suzuki: 19-for-56 with two home runs and two walks
- Jeff Mathis: 4-for-12 with one double
- Martin Prado: 6-for-10 with three doubles
- Chris Johnson: 1-for-8 with one home run
- Adeiny Hechavarria: 2-for-5 with one home run
- Marcell Ozuna: 2-for-2 with one double and one walk
- J.T. Realmuto: 1-for-3
- Giancarlo Stanton: 1-for-3 with one home run
The Cubs get their first look at lefty Wei-Yin Chen. The former Orioles hurler has really struggled of late after a solid start to the season, his first with the Marlins.
The Rockies knocked Chen out of the game in the third inning in his last start. Chen allowed six runs on seven hits without a single home run in 2 1/3 innings.
Over his last four starts, Chen is 1-0 with a 7.78 ERA and 1.53 WHIP. Chen has given up 17 runs on 24 hits with six walks and 15 strikeouts in 19 2/3 innings. Chen has struggled in his home park to the tune of a 1-1 record in eight starts with a 5.98 ERA and 1.53 WHIP.
Wei-Yin Chen makes his first start against the Cubs tonight and only three players on Joe Maddon’s active roster have faced Chen in a regular season ballgame. Ben Zobrist (15-for-40 with three doubles, one home run and four walks), David Ross (4-for-15 with one double) and Jason Heyward (1-for-3) should all be in Maddon’s lineup for the opener.
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Qype is nothing if not a survivor. Since its founding in Germany in 2005 as a local reviews site, it’s managed to fend off intense competition in the UK (including the arrival of American pioneer Yelp), the rise of mobile-location services such as Foursquare and the stomping success of GroupOn, the local deals service.
Now it’s raising €6.5m – including €3.5m from Vodafone, with the remainder from existing investors Advent Venture Partners, Partech International and Wellington Partners – to redouble its efforts on mobile. Read more
In the Arab Gulf, it’s not just harassed businessmen who depend on BlackBerrys. Young people see the smartphones, and their social networking potential, as a way round conservative strictures. And the phone revolution doesn’t stop there: between 2007 and 2009, telecoms usage grew more in the Middle East (31.8-per-cent growth) than it did in Asia Pacific (23.6 per cent), according to independent research for the Middle East’s largest handset distributor, Axiom Telecom.
Axiom is hoping that all this can power its own initial public offering next month – the first new listing in the United Arab Emirates for two years. The company can point to a lucrative deal with BlackBerry-maker RIM. But even in the BlackBerry-loving Gulf, the margins are very tight. Read more


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Corey Smith and Ryan Dimick of Price race in a CLMA event in Rock Springs, Wyo. Smith, number 21, won first place in his heat and fourth in the main event, while Dimick, number 22, took fifth in his heat and 13th in the main event. Twenty competitors from all over the west competed in the event on Saturday, June 18. They couldn't have placed as good as they did without the support given to them by Elvin Anderson, Jerry Long and Corinna Anderson, who supported them while competing in Rock Springs.


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Because Seminole Ridge reached the regional finals twice in the last three seasons and won three district titles in a row, the open head coaching job was of high interest. Among the 60 candidates: a name as large in local football as Glades Day coach Pete Walker, a three-time state champion.
Ridge now sees its future in Steven Humphrey. At 29, the first-year coach will take over for Matt Dickmann, who was the Hawks’ first coach and spent eight years before departing for Harrison (Ga.) High in December. Continue reading “New coach Steven Humphrey ready to ‘call Seminole Ridge home’”


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Dispersive solid-phase extraction followed by triethylsilyl derivatization and gas chromatography mass spectrometry for perfluorocarboxylic acids determination in water samples
- Stróżyńska, Monika, Schuhen, Katrin
- Journal of chromatography 2019 v.1597 pp. 1-8
- carboxylic acids, derivatization, effluents, esterification, esters, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, ion exchange, perfluorocarbons, perfluorooctanoic acid, solid phase extraction, water analysis, water treatment, Germany
- A new, simple derivatization method for the determination of perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs, C3-C12) in water is presented. The method is based on an acid-catalyzed esterification of perfluorinated carboxylic acids with triethylsilanol. During the reaction, a triethylsilyl ester is formed which can be easily analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The classic ion exchange solid phase extraction used for PFCAs (DIN 38407-42) has been significantly modified and adopted for the newly developed derivatization method. The new method offers a linear range from 8 to 10,000 ng l−1 for PFOA, with a limit of quantification ranging from 4 to 48 ng l-1 depending on the actual PFCA. Due to sample preparation simplicity, the presented method can be applied to form PFCAs esters prior to GC–MS analysis of water samples. The method was successfully applied in the analysis of effluents from two water treatment plants in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Additionally, to confirm the laboratory evaluation, the standard solutions and samples were also measured by an external laboratory using LC–MS2.


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WEST HAM have announced the return of Jack Collison to the club.
After playing seven seasons for the Hammers the 28-year-old will make a comeback in a new role as the U16's manager.
The academy graduate will get the chance to share his own experience with the young players after he signed at 17 years old.
The midfielder captained the reserve team before making his senior debut on New Year's Day in 2008.
Collison spent seven seasons at West Ham making a total of 121 appearances with 14 goals.
However his short career was hampered by a persistent knee problem.
An injury he obtained in 2009 eventually ended his career last year at 27 years old.
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Collison built up his resume for life of the pitch while he was still a player.
During a stint at Peterborough he coached the U21 team and attained a UEFA B licence while battling injury.
The Welsh international also launched his own soccer school during his playing career.
Collison won 15 caps for Wales from 2008 until 2014.


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With billions in outstanding debt, Toys ‘R’ Us has filed for bankruptcy, an announcement that also caused the stock price of toymakers Hasbro and Mattel to fall. What do you think?
“Really? They seemed to be doing so well when I was last there 20 years ago.”
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“Today’s five-year-olds just don’t have the same purchasing power they used to.”
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The central bank decided to lower the benchmark interest rates for deposits and loans of financial institutions in RMB starting from July 6. The benchmark one-year deposit interest rate of financial institutions was reduced by 0.25 percentage point, and the benchmark one-year loan interest rate was reduced by 0.31 percentage point.
I remember that when we first stepped into July, the central bank sent out a policy signal of prudent monetary policy to support the real economy. The asymmetric adjustment of deposit and loan interest rates that had been clamoring before was finally promulgated today.
The pressure of the half-year bank deposit-loan ratio test has passed. This interest rate adjustment has attracted deposits from depositors and boosted the confidence of enterprises in loan development. Yang Delong, chief strategist of the South China Fund, an economist, believes that this interest rate cut is a "timely rain" for the market to curb the rapid decline in economic growth.
The author believes that the central bank cut interest rates for two consecutive months, and the cumulative effect is gradually manifesting; in the second half of this year, steel, as a capital-intensive industry, will gradually eliminate the long-lasting decline in the industry and usher in the spring of development.
Monetary policy supports the real economy
The pressure of the bank’s half-year deposit-loan ratio test has passed. The continuous interest rate adjustment policy will clearly indicate that the country has entered an interest rate cut cycle. The public is more sensitive to the rumors that the CPI will break 3% in June, because the current one-year deposit interest rate is still 3%, which is still very Attractive. In addition, the 6% one-year loan interest rate dropped by 0.31% at once, which is 0.06% more than the previous symmetrical reduction of 0.25%. This reduces operating costs for development companies that rely heavily on capital. Also intensified efforts to reduce the burden.
The downstream of the steel industry, such as terminal manufacturing, is a typical real economy, and they need to purchase steel as raw materials. This reflects that it is a capital-intensive enterprise.
The Pearl River Delta region is an area where home appliances are intensively manufactured. Some time ago, companies have ushered in the policy support of "home appliances to the countryside". The coming of this interest rate cut cycle will undoubtedly create a double benefit for it.
In terms of automobile manufacturing, due to the rapid development of urbanization, taking into account the pressure of traffic and the pressure of environmental air pollution, Guangzhou issued a household restriction order for small and medium passenger cars earlier this month, which cast a shadow over the development of the automobile industry. The arrival of this intensive interest rate cut cycle will reduce the burden of capital occupation costs for companies with greater inventory pressure.
In addition, the steel trade industry is in the midstream of steel production, and inventory pressure is also obvious. The interest rate cut this time has benefited itself and the downstream industries. It can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Policy effects are difficult to reverse in the short-term
Due to the obvious decline in economic development at home and abroad, the prices of domestic commodities have continued to fall recently, and the prices of coal, petroleum, and steel have all shown a weakening trend.
The apparent decline in crude oil prices in Brent and New York once made people imagine that domestic refined oil prices might fall again in July. Among them, New York crude oil prices fell below $80/barrel in late June, but then due to the escalation of tensions in Iran, international oil prices rebounded rapidly.
Due to the sharp drop in coal prices, the profit growth of the coal industry has plunged. From January to May, the profit of Shanxi's coal industry was 40.08 billion yuan, an increase of 3.2% year-on-year, and a decrease of 33.6 percentage points from the same period last year. The five major coal groups in Shanxi rarely experienced negative earnings growth. The current coal market is very sad, and the major coal provinces are very lost.
In the steel industry, steel prices have been in a downward trend since they began to slowly decline in mid-April. The 1500 hot-rolled plain carbon steel coil in the Shanghai area has dropped from 4360 yuan/ton to the current 4,080 yuan/ton; the 1.0-2.0mm cold-rolled plain carbon steel coil in the Lecong area of ??Foshan has been reduced from 5010 yuan/ton to the current 4620 yuan/ton; The 25mm three-level thread in Guangzhou area dropped from 4440 yuan/ton to 4130 yuan/ton.


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“As long as I can remember, I wanted to make a record with my dad,” Billy Strings says. The dream to make a proper studio album is finally realized. Me/and/Dad is a collection of 14 classics that Billy and his dad, Terry Barber, know like the back of their hands. It's the music that made Billy the musician and human he is today. The album represents a lifelong goal finally achieved and a way for the GRAMMY-winning musician to honor the man who taught him how to play guitar. 180-gram LP.
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Elliniki Glossa: Parelthon, Paron, Mellon, by G. Babiniotis, In Greek
George Babiniotis is considered an authority on Greek Language. This book presents a collection of his articles written between 1977 and 1993 discussing the evolution of Greek Language and personal views of its future. To review excerpts from this book please click on the "More Pictures" icon.
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NEW YORK'S POLICE ALLOW CORRUPTION, MOLLEN PANEL SAYS
By SELWYN RAAB
Published: December 29, 1993
In a harshly critical report, a special mayoral panel asserted yesterday that the New York City Police Department had failed at every level to uproot corruption and had instead tolerated a culture that fostered misconduct and concealed lawlessness by police officers.
The panel, called the Mollen Commission, agreed with police officials who contend that corruption was not systemic, but rather isolated to small groups of rogue officers. But the commission warned that if corruption itself was not systemwide, the department's failure to address it was.
"We find as shocking the incompetence and the inadequacies of the department to police itself," Milton Mollen, the commission chairman, said yesterday as the panel released an interim report on its principal findings. Will They Be Followed?
After an 18-month inquiry, the commission recommended a dual approach to reforming the 30,000-member department, the nation's largest municipal force. It called for the creation of an independent oversight agency, patterned after itself, to scrutinize the department's anti-corruption investigations and for a vast overhaul of the department's internal programs for preventing and detecting misconduct.
It was unclear yesterday whether the Mollen Commission's recommendations would ever be put into place. Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani said he still favored a special prosecutor to detect corruption and called the independent monitor "a halfway step."
But regardless of whether its recommendations are enacted, the commission's findings -- that there was a "reluctance to uncover and effectively investigate corruption" and that "no one seemed to care" -- are likely to be used to bolster whatever tack the new Mayor takes to solve the problem of police misconduct. Final Report in Spring
Mr. Giuliani praised the panel yesterday for uncovering and identifying problems and said the group could have as much time as needed to complete its work. Mr. Mollen, a former State Supreme Court justice and a deputy mayor under Mayor David N. Dinkins, said the commission, which was appointed in July 1992 by Mr. Dinkins, will issue a final report in April or May.
The report made no mention of any mayoral responsibility to monitor police corruption.
In its 20-page report, the commission said it found "a deep-rooted institutional reluctance to uncover corruption in the department." It said the department had "abandoned its responsibility to insure integrity" and had failed to instill in supervisors, from the highest commanders to sergeants in the field, the message "that fighting corruption must be one of the department's highest priorities."
Asked at a news conference if any of the last three Police Commissioners, Benjamin Ward, Lee P. Brown and the current police head, Raymond W. Kelly, should be held accountable for the breakdown in corruption controls, Mr. Mollen said, "It is very difficult to hold any individual responsible."
Mr. Mollen said the first signs of widespread problems, including allegations that police officers were stealing drugs and offering protection to narcotics traffickers, occurred in the mid-1980's during Mr. Ward's tenure. But, he continued, "this thing developed over the course of many years and during more than one administration." Kelly Faults Findings
Mr. Kelly was cited in the report for "number of laudable reforms in the department's anti-corruption apparatus." But the panel said in the last year he focused "largely on strengthening and centralizing investigative efforts, rather than on prevention, root causes and conditions." And the commission noted that Mr. Kelly acted only after it began its work.
Mr. Kelly, who will step down as Police Commissioner on Jan. 9, disputed the commission's criticism of the department, saying, "It besmirches the reputation of the department with a rather broad brush that I don't think is appropriate or warranted."
Mr. Kelly, who often exchanged testy words with the commission over the extent of abuses in the department and who was responsible for it, said he accepted the panel's recommendation of an outside agency to oversee the department's anti-corruption programs.
"It is not a bad idea to have some entity outside the department putting its feet to the fire," Mr. Kelly said.
The Police Commissioner, who was selected by Mayor David N. Dinkins in October 1992 to head the department, will be replaced by William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of Boston and the former chief of the New York City Transit Authority's police force. Mr. Bratton said through an aide yesterday that he probably would withhold comment on the report until he takes over as the city's Police Commissioner. P.B.A. Sees Politics
The commission also had scathing words for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. The report said that a "variety of sources, including police officers and prosecutors" reported that police unions interfered with efforts to uncover corruption. The report claimed that delegates of the Patrolmen's Association "have attempted to thwart law-enforcement efforts into police corruption and that "the P.B.A. often acts as a shelter for officers who commit acts of misconduct."

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When you see a cheetah stalking its prey on an African plain you will notice how the body of this animal is built for speed.
The long and slender body of a cheetah consists of small and light frame.
The spine is very flexible - much like a whip.
Cheetahs are equipped for explosive acceleration to a full-speed of up to 90 kilometers per hour over a short distance.
In February 1999 a South African cheetah called Nyana was officially timed running 100 meters in a record of 6,08 seconds.
It accelerated from 0 to 80 kilometers per hour in 3,6 seconds.
Cheetahs prefer open grassland and savanna woodland as their favorite habitat.
Image credit: Connif and Johns
They typically avoid forest and woodland with thick undergrowthas habitat.
They can operate independent from water.
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Chordata
Class - Mammalia
Order - Carnivora
Family - Felidae
Genus - Acinonyx
Adult females are usually solitary, but their cubs stay with them for up to 18 months.
The males often live in small, stable groups called coalitions.
Cheetah coalitions consist of brothers born in the same litter.
Cheetah facts indicate that on their own, the males have little hope of establishing a territory but in coalitions they have a good chance of securing turf.
This small group will live and hunt together for life.
They will claim a large area, which may overlap several female territories.
Some males hold territories for up to four to six years.
Coalitions are more successful at establishing and holding territories than are single males.
Cheetah territories are scent-marked with sprayed urine.
If the marks are more than a day or two old intruders ignore them and so some areas are used on a 'time-share' basis.
Trespassers who get caught are savagely attacked and sometimes killed.
Large rocks and trees provide traditional marking sites.
They use high-pitched, bird-like chirrups as short-range greeting and contact calls.
They give a loud purr when content.
When threatened they give a loud, barking growl and snarl, often slapping the ground with their forepaws at the same time.
Males track down a female in heat from the smell of her urine. Their first approaches are aggressively rebuffed.
During this period the males spray-mark heavily and fight among themselves for mating rights.
They also scratch up small mounds of loose soil and urinate or defecate on top of them.
After one to two weeks of such courtship the female becomes receptive and she invites copulation by crouching in front of a male.
He mounts her from behind with a neck bite. Mating is not as frequent as in other cats.
These African animals are rare wherever they occur.
There are currently only about:
They are one of ecotourism’s big seven.
In the Serengeti lions kill about 70% of the cubs and only 5% live to independence.
Cubs are born blind and helpless and are carefully hidden by their mother in dense cover.
cubs are very vulnerable to predation and are frequently moved to avoid
They also fall prey to spotted hyenas and leopards.
Want to know more about the very specialized hunting techniques of a cheetah hunting its prey.
The cubs get their first solid food at about six weeks and are weaned at three months.
At four to five months their mother brings them live prey to practice their hunting skills on.
At between six or seven months they begin to make their own kills.
For their first three months cubs have a mantle of long, grey hair.
It is thought that this makes them look enough like the ill-tempered honey badger (ratel) to dissuade other predators from risking an attack.

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I.M.I. Mini Uzi 9mm Parabellum Transferable Submachine Gun
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This Chester County Armory listing is for an Israel Military Industries (I.M.I.) Mini Uzi 9mm Parabellum transferable registered bolt submachine gun.
First introduced in 1980, the IMI Mini Uzi was the first attempt to shrink the size of the venerable Uzi SMG platform into a smaller, faster, lighter, and, in turn, more clandestine version. IMI didn’t reinvent the wheel here, but basically improved on Uzi Galil’s already fabulous platform by simply shortening the barrel length, and shrinking the overall length of the weapon. The shortened upper, of course, necessitated the use of shortened, lighter bolt. This change then increased the cyclic firing rate of the Mini Uzi up to about 950rds per minute from the 600rd threshold of the full-size model.
This iconic Uzi model consists of a transferable B&G Machine Uzi SMG full-auto bolt setup in an original Action Arms of Philadelphia imported IMI Mini Uzi 9x19mm rifle. The lower features “A, F, and S” marked fire controls, for full-automatic, semi-automatic, and safe selections, respectively. The registered Uzi SMG bolt completely retains its feet and the trunnion of the host rifle has been relieved appropriately for function. This model retains the barrel restrictor ring but has had an original IMI ported Mini Uzi barrel installed by having the breech of the barrel properly turned down to fit the restrictor ring.
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29 May Rollin’ and The Ciao Wagon at Columbia Gardens
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Rollin’ Fresh Ice Cream and The Ciao Wagon have joined the Port of Kennewick’s Food Truck Plaza on east Columbia Drive. These vendors join the previously announced Frost Me Sweet Mobile Desserts and Swampy’s BBQ in serving food at the waterfront plaza located within the Columbia Garden Wine and Artisan Village.
Rollin’ makes Thai style, custom-made rolled ice cream. With a motto of supporting and supplying local, Rollin’s ever-changing and diverse menu offers local dairy and seasonal fruit fresh. When Rollin’ is not at the Columbia Gardens Food Truck Plaza, owner Jackie Prather plans to set up at the Lighthouse Plaza on Clover Island. Prather said she is thrilled to have a location in east Kennewick and looks forward to becoming an active part of Kennewick’s vibrant waterfront.
The Ciao Wagon mobile bistro combines simple but impactful Mediterranean and Italian flavors that keep foodies coming back for more. Chef Jessie Ayala has a passion for creating great food using simple, quality ingredients. He honed his skills during culinary school, at a variety of Seattle-area restaurants, a “wine country” bed and breakfast and restaurant. The Ciao Wagon offers a mix of feature dishes and standard fare including items such as lemon pasta, gyro sandwich, chicken smash sandwich, brie and black pepper nachos, and more.
Food truck hours and location may vary, please contact vendors directly for their current menus, days, hours and location of operation.
The Food Truck Plaza at the Village is located on Columbia Gardens Way – a waterfront loop road located between Date Street and Cedar Street just north of and parallel to Columbia Drive, near the Cable Bridge in east Kennewick, Washington. The Columbia Gardens Wine & Artisan Village is a community revitalization endeavor undertaken by Port of Kennewick in partnership with City of Kennewick, Benton County, Hanford Area Economic Investment Fund Committee, and the private sector.

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"My work may be garbage but it's good garbage." Mickey Spillane
Philbin has shown up again at Shocklines. With Philcon approaching in November, Philbin is attempting to cozy up to people in an attempt to persuade them to nominate him for a Philip K. Dick Award. Previously in Dagstine’s forum, now vanished, at Horrorworld, Dagstine and Philbin were both going on and on about both the Hugo Awards and the Philip K. Dick Awards. Both awards are among the most prestigious in speculative fiction. Daggy wanted a fan Hugo and Philbin wanted a Philip K. Dick Award. At that time, Daggy mentioned that he intended to try and make it to Philcon.
How Philbin, notorious for writing noxious fiction filled with disgusting imagery, can believe that his work is as good as that of the previous winners and nominees is a study in infantile shit-fetishistic behavior patterns of the entitlement generation.
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Why dream wallet?
Surely such an attribute as a wallet, people dream not just. It would seem, of course, the wallet dreams of money. But is it always like this? Does this symbol of well-being always foreshadow profits? It all depends on the specific situation in the dream. Why dream wallet?
- Most often, a wallet in a dream really symbolizes well-being. However, only if it looks complete;
- If the wallet is empty, it means that in real life it will be empty in your pocket;
- Keep the wallet in hand - in any case, to good health;
- To find a trifle in your wallet - to petty troubles;
- If there is a lot of money in your wallet - to profit;
- To lose a purse in a dream - to sudden losses;
- If in a dream a girl found a wallet, it means that in the near future she will be in love;
- Leaky wallet foretells only poverty;
- A purse full of precious stones is a change in attitude towards you;
- Buy a wallet - start a profitable business;
- Throw out a wallet - a high probability to throw money in real life "to the wind."

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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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