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Purple garlic from las Pedroñeras
This garlic belongs to the variety "Morado de Cuenca" and enjoys Protected Geographical Indication.
The Pedroñeras purple garlic has adapted perfectly to the climatic and soil conditions in the area where it is grown and that gives it that unique quality that recognizes it as one of the best garlic in the world. The physical environment where it is cultivated presents physiological and morphological differences in relation to the variety to which it belongs. It is a semi-late or late ripening variety and its development is medium or long being about 190 days under normal planting and cultivation conditions.
The purple garlic of the Pedroñeras presents a bulb or head of round or spherical shape of average size with external robes that stain it of white colour or little stained with striae. The inner tunics that give protection to the teeth have a deep violet or purple colour that characterize the variety and also have stretch marks. The teeth have a size between small and medium crescent shaped and a colour in their flesh yellowish white tone.
History and origin of garlic
For more than 5000 years it has been used as food, medicine, aphrodisiac or magic potions. Garlic protected from the devil's eye, hung at the doors of the inhabitants of the Middle Ages to protect them, gave strength and courage to Greek athletes and warriors, protected the maidens and pregnant women from evil nymphs and rubbed in The door frames to keep bloodthirsty vampires away. The garlic hanging from the neck protected from the sharp horns of a bull, away from the local witches and the black plague, also prevented us from getting ahead in horse races.
The garlic managed to spread in the culinary traditions of many civilizations of the world. Its journey began in Asia, being cultivated during the Neolithic era, spread to the Middle East and North Africa in 3000 BC. Which allowed him to reach Europe quickly.
Offering a unique nutritional value and a wide range of medicinal benefits this plant was quickly identified as a natural gift of nature and today there are a large number of selectively cultivated varieties around the world, being the purple garlic of the Pedroñeras a clear example.
The origin of the garlic is located in western and central Asia. This plant was identified by the Indians who tamed it about 6000 years ago. In 3000 a.C traders introduced the garlic to the Babylonian and Assyrian empires who worshiped this plant by extending it to neighbouring civilizations. The most important records of that time come from Egypt. Inside the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun the garlic was placed in various earthen vessels and several of them were shaped in the form of garlic bulbs.
The arrival of garlic in ancient Rome and Greece greatly increased its popularity. At that time it was used for almost everything from medicinal food to religious rituals and superstition. In Asia it was more appreciated as a medicinal ingredient than as an edible plant. This was how the Buddhists saw it between the first and the first century AD. Avoided their consumption. Nowadays garlic represents one of the most popular aromas of South Asia along with onion or ginger.
One of the most influential moments in the history of garlic happened during the expansion of Muslim rule through the Middle East and Eastern Europe. This allowed the spread of garlic in central and western Europe, where it was received as an excellent medical remedy. The medical books of the 1660s described him as an excellent cure for plague and smallpox. A famous chemist and microbiologist demonstrated in 1858 that garlic could kill germs, greatly reducing the possibility of wound infection. Due to these results, garlic was widely used as an antiseptic cure and dysentery during the two world wars.
Properties and benefits of the purple garlic from las Pedroñeras
It is undoubtedly one of the natural remedies with greater medicinal properties demonstrated, among these:
- It is a diuretic, stimulant and expectorant, it eliminates residues of the organism, its enzymes favour the synthesis of fatty acids and it helps to reduce the LDL cholesterol.
- Stimulates the gastrointestinal mucosa.
- It is disinfectant and decongestant as it increases bronchial secretions.
- Its consumption increases the diameter of small blood vessels, capillaries and arterioles so the blood flows more easily and blood pressure decreases.
- Its high content of phosphorus and suphur makes it a natural sedative for nervous people.
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Croydon: Hewitt, O'Donoghue (McAllister 58), Johnson, Weller, O'Rourke, McGeoghegan (C), Bombalenga (Fejzi 45), Wilson, Duah-Kessie, Armstrong, Brown (Davies 26)
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The road to making the live action Robotech movie has not been easy, with Sony officially taking over the rights from Warner Bros. last year. Now that director James Wan is set to shoot Aquaman on May 22nd of this year, it looks like the live action Robotech film could be one step closer to happening.
What about all that development that was done during the movie’s time at Warner Bros.? Various writers had been reported to be working on the film, including Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville). Even Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back) was attached to the project at one point. Is any of their work going to carry over?
President of Animation at Harmony Gold, Tommy Yune explains that when Sony picked up the rights to do Robotech they didn’t buy any of Warner Bros. development.
“It’s a page one rewrite. It’s a clean slate. It may share commonality in that it is based on the original series however the writers are taking a different approach to it.”
Vice President of Marketing at Harmony Gold, Kevin McKeever, adds, “All those previous drafts with the studio are far off the table.”
Speculation has floated around the internet that the deal between Harmony Gold and Sony Pictures hadn’t been signed but McKeever was quick to confirm that the deal had been signed before San Diego Comic-Con in 2016.
As mentioned in our previous update, the relationship between Harmony Gold and Sony Pictures is far better than that of Harmony Gold and Warner Bros. McKeever elaborates,
“They (Sony) want to learn about the franchise. There are a lot of people at Sony who have different knowledge levels of the franchise. Some people know it really well and go, ‘Oh my god, we’ve got Robotech!’ Others are like, ‘Okay, I kinda know Robotech but tell me more about it.’ Others are like, ‘We have this Robotech thing… What is it? Tell me more about it.’ It’s all very positive. Sony is very pro Robotech. They’re very engaged to the point where we’re really talking with them, which did not happen with the previous studio.”
Yune adds, “It’s just a high level of communication from day one. They respect Robotech, they want to capture the essence of it in the development. That adds to this vibe where you know these guys really care about it and they want to do right by it and are really excited by it.”
What about the possibility of merchandise based around the movie? McKeever simply answers, “There’s a tremendous amount of interest in merchandise for Robotech. For obvious reasons.”
Billy Davis, Executive Vice President of Harmony Gold, jumps in with, “We are in constant contact with every part of the major players of Sony Pictures. That is from A to Z. Anything you can think of, all those departments? We have an active relationship with. Which is the difference between Sony and the old movie studio. It is an active, dare I say, proactive relationship. Everything can be on the table. It’s a totally different vibe.”
With the recent announcement that Titan Comics has the license to do Robotech comics, could that mean a comic set in the movie’s universe could happen? Yune says that Sony hasn’t crossed that bridge with Titan yet.
“Titan is interested in them (Sony) when they’re ready. In terms of getting more fans into the classic universe of Robotech Sony has been really supportive of us.”
If Sony is allowing Titan to do original comics, does that then bode well for the future of Robotech in animation form? Davis can only answer that, “nothing is off the table at all. We are talking to them about everything.”
While it may not look like there’s any forward movement on the Robotech movie, behind the scenes that’s anything but the case.
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(WARNING: This blog post contains graphic images of war crimes. If you are upset by images of dead bodies then do not continue.)
A dictator stands in defiance of the will of his people. His security forces are shooting nonviolent demonstrators, and a full-fledged civil war has erupted between popular militias and regiments loyal to the incumbent regime. The civilian population is caught in the crosshairs, and the dictator’s paramilitary death squads and mercenaries have resorted to the indiscriminate slaughter of neighborhoods, cities and clans suspected of subversion. An entire nation sits precariously on the brink of genocide. Millions of civilian men, women and children have fled from the violence to become a long term caste of internally-displaced persons and war refugees, destabilizing every country in the region. The people can only pray for the international community to take a stand to protect them from annihilation.
I’m not talking about Libya, however, but another country whose fate might have even greater implications for the fate of African democracy: the Ivory Coast.
Any proponent of this democratic tide which has swept away dictatorships in North Africa should be equally if not more enthusiastic for the ouster of Laurent Gbagbo - the president/dictator of Côte d’Ivoire since 2000. When his term ended in 2005, Gbagbo simply declined to hold new elections and ensconced in the presidential palace for another five years as an unelected warlord. In Gbagbo we have not a long-standing monarch or military leader who is merely facing a sudden popular revolt, but a strongman who had stolen a position of authority by subverting his country’s inchoate democratic institutions.
Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo agreed to hold a presidential election in November 2010. According to all objective observers, former Prime Minister and IMF economist Alassane Ouattara won with an unambiguous plurality of 54 percent of the vote. Nevertheless, the Gbagbo-appointed Constitutional Council declared “widespread fraud” in the pro-Ouattara northern provinces and rejected all of those districts’ ballots - disenfranchising enough voters to certify Gbagbo the winner with an alleged 51 percent of the vote. Gbagbo’s nullification of the Ivorian presidential election was the world’s greatest bastardization of the franchise in recent memory; fittingly, the incumbent nonsensically claiming victory in defiance of all objectively verifiable truth had campaigned on the slogan “We win or we win”.
Moreover, as President of Côte d’Ivoire Gbagbo provoked the Ivorian population into civil war, pitted his Christian-majority South against the Muslims of the North, incited xenophobic violence against French expatriates and immigrant workers from Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali. Since the November election, ex-president Gbagbo widened the category of enemies of his quasi spiritual-nationalist-chauvinist regime and effectively declared war on the Ivorian civilian population which rejected him at the polls - a clear majority of the electorate. Ivorian soldiers and pro-Gbagbo youth gangs have terrorized tribes, clans, villages and neighborhoods as collective punishment for marking their ballots for Ouattara.
The moral cravenness of the Gbagbo regime was best exhibited this past March when the market women of the Abobo neighborhood in Abidjan demonstrated for an end to the fighting, carrying tree branches and chanting "We want peace".
Gbagbo’s forces mowed them down with machine guns, killing eight.
Despite the fact that they have declared allegiance to the rightful President Ouattara, lovers of liberty should hold little sympathy for Les Forces Nouvelles who are swiftly descending from their northern territories to conquer Gbagbo’s strongholds in the South. Les Forces Nouvelles are for the most part jackbooted thugs who likewise govern their territory through extortion, intimidation and outright theft.
Credible reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented an FN modus operandi of arbitrary detentions, torture, extrajudicial killings and sexual violence directed towards those tribes, clans and villages accused of loyalty towards the Gbagbo junta. Aid groups descending upon the western town of Duékué recently “liberated” by the FN have discovered mass graves and piles of bodies which may turn out to evince more than 1,000 individual war crimes.
The Ivorian civilian population needs protection from both factions in this gruesome war. The apathy of the international community in respect to the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire is disgraceful, especially considering the fact that the United Nations already has a peacekeeping force of 9,000 mostly French and Bangladeshi personnel in this country. UN peacekeepers have been stationed in Côte d’Ivoire since 2004, in fact. However, the UNOCI peacekeeping forces effectively only serve to stabilize the expatriate neighborhoods of Abidjan and the environs immediately surrounding Le Golf Hôtel where Ouattara’s government-in-internal-exile has stood under siege since November. Like the UN peacekeeping forces which could only stand their ground and watch as genocide unfolded in Rwanda and Sudan, the powers that be have apparently destined UNOCI to serve as a mere witness to the human slaughter in Côte d’Ivoire.
The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) is authorized by Resolution 1528, which was passed unanimously in the Security Council back in 2004 and reauthorized and augmented in a series of subsequent resolutions. UNSCR 1528 which begat UNOCI is actually remarkably similar to UNSCR 1973 which brought us the present Operation Odyssey Dawn; each was ostensibly crafted on the liberal humanitarian and politically neutral rationale of maintaining a cease-fire and protecting civilians.
One major difference is that UNSCR 1973 authorized member states to enforce a no-fly zone to protect the Libyan rebels and civilians from assault by the Libyan Air Force; though the Gbagbo has used the Ivorian Air Force to pummel FN positions and civilian targets, and in 2004 even attacked the French air base in Bouaké (killing nine French soldiers and an American aid worker), the mandate for UNOCI has never included the enforcement a no-fly zone. Understandably so; most of the war crimes conducted by both sides in the Ivorian Civil War have been implemented by foot soldiers.
Another major difference – arguably more subtle but a more consequential difference nonetheless – is that UNSCR 1973 authorized member states to enforce the transport of arms in and out of Libya, and a significant portion of participants in Operation Odyssey Dawn have actively deployed their respective navies to hold up the blockade and starve Qaddafi of arms. UNSCR 1528 and its follow-up resolutions similarly exhorted member states to enforce an arms embargo on Côte d’Ivoire as well, but no one has seemed to notice. Even since the post-electoral revival of hostilities, UN investigators have been pursuing reports that guns, ammunition, perhaps even attack helicopters and aircraft may have been imported from Zimbabwe, Angola, even landlocked Belarus. Though some of the individual accusations may turn out to have be groundless – apparently the Belarussian helicopter sale had indeed been planned but never actually executed – the fact that Ivorian seaports and airports have been open to commercial traffic at all is testament to the fact that no relevant powers of the international community are earnestly committed to enforcing the arms embargo which is crucial to minimizing the extent of the Ivorian bloodbath.
Conversely, the UN-authorized operations in Libya are extremely dissimilar from UNOCI in that whereas Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron and every other power player has repeatedly insisted that Odyssey Dawn will not entail the deployment of ground troops, the multilateral campaign is being conducted exclusively by air and sea, the peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire consists almost exclusively of ground troops. UNOCI now consists of 9,024 uniformed personnel on the ground, including 7,578 troops, 176 military observers and 1,270 police – disproportionately Bangladeshi infantry and French gendarmes. Boots on the ground do not necessarily make the UN mission in Côte d’Ivoire any more effective; they have been by and large limited in their conduct to securing President Ouattara and his coterie at Le Golf Hôtel and only the most modest of civilian protection operations in Abidjan.
The crippling reserve exercised by UNOCI is likewise based on the exponentially greater risk of protecting civilians via ground troops; to date, 54 UN personnel have been killed in the line of duty in Côte d’Ivoire – more than the total death toll of US personnel in Bosnia, Kosovo, Colombia and Haiti combined. As the Obama administration is preoccupied with extricating our land forces from the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are reasonably squeamish about committing to any sort of civilian protection operations that cannot be executed by B-2 stealth bombers or guided-missile destroyers.
It seems that the logistics of peacekeeping in Côte d’Ivoire might be daunting, even more so than our “kinetic military action” in Libya. Yet it seems that the moral logic of intervention is in both countries is indistinguishable. President Obama intones that action was necessitated by the specter of full-out massacre in Benghazi – an action which “would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world”. Indeed it would have. But are our consciences not stained by the massacres in Abobo and Duékué?
Obama argues that the United States has a strategic interest in preventing a massacre which “would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya’s borders, putting enormous trains on the peaceful – yet fragile – transitions in Egypt and Tunisia.” At last count, the UN High Commissioner of Refugees stated that at least 116,000 Ivorian refugees had already fled to neighboring Liberia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea – with more than 100,000 in Liberia alone. All of these countries are already suffering from some degree of political instability, anemic economies and intolerably high levels of unemployment; hence the situation we have now with multiple millions of internally displaced Ivorians who might very well pour over the borders bodes terribly ill for West Africa’s fragile democracies.
Obama contends that if the U.S. did not intervene in Libya, “The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power.” Though as Laurent Gbagbo defied the will of his people and nullified the election in which he lost, we demonstrated to the young democracies of Africa that we would respond to their power grabs with sharply-worded proclamations and economic sanctions that we would not bother to enforce. This year alone presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and seven other countries on the continent; is the lesson of Ggbagbo to be learned by African incumbents that they should do well to stay in power by not holding elections at all?
Moreover, Obama maintained that intervention in Libya was necessary to uphold the credibility of the UN itself, that had we not acted “The writ of the United Nations Security Council would have been shown to be little more than empty words, crippling that institution’s future credibility to uphold global peace and security.” How does United Nations make itself credible when the Security Council calls for a cease-fire and does not enforce it? Or when the Security Council enacts an arms embargo on a war criminal regime – but not a single member state is willing to interdict cargo ships and planes bound for it? How can any institution be trusted to keep the peace in the African heartland when its peacekeeping mission cowers on the beaches of Abidjan?
In all fairness, the newly-christened Obama Doctrine is more nuanced than a mere postulate of normative ethics; the rubric for intervention laid out in the President’s “Responsibility to Act” speech is a complex calculus of moral imperatives and cold cost-benefit analysis. And he did state quite clearly: “It’s true that America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs”; i.e. sometimes despots will crush their people and the United States will do nothing because – however righteous intervention might be – we cannot afford to intervene, or we can but the fate of the country in question is not in our core national interests.
And likewise, it looks quite manifest that the international community is not going to take any substantive action to protect the Ivorian civilian population, that this civil war is probably going to end within a matter of hours as the Les Forces Nouvelles seize hold of the last military bases and police stations in Abidjan, the television station and the presidential palace, the last Gbagbo loyalists either defect, surrender or are summarily executed by the victors. Laurent Gbagbo himself will most likely come to an end with a bullet to the temple. And one can only imagine what sort of “revolutionary justice” the FN Jacobins might mete out to the neighborhoods, villages, and clans which voted for Gbagbo. This sort of African solution to an African problem will not put the lives of any U.S. troops on the line and it won’t cost taxpayers a dime; from our narrow self-interest, it might even be an efficient policy of isolationism. Though for the Ivorian people, on the other hand, it might mean tens of thousands of civilian deaths which could have been completely prevented had the international community made a serious stab at intervention.
As we bask in the self-righteousness of pre-empting humanitarian calamity in Libya, how do we sit content with the knowledge that civilians are being massacred at this very moment, that the United States could very well lead a multilateral coalition to protect the Ivorian civilian population – but we politely declined? How might our academies’ mightiest metaphysicists and international human rights lawyers conclude a moral “responsibility to protect” civilians in Libya – but not civilians in Côte d’Ivoire? What makes a real, actual massacre in Duékué any less atrocious than a hypothetical massacre in Benghazi? Is it the fact that Libyans are Caucasoid enough that they almost resemble Europeans – but Ivorians are much darker-skinned Others? Or is it that the Western economies cannot handle even a mild oil shortage – but we can cope with civil war in countries whose greatest export is the cocoa bean?
This author for one sympathizes greatly with the doctrine of a “responsibility to protect” which is evolving out of the legal framework of Odyssey Dawn, but a legal doctrine which aims to uphold the values of universal human rights either necessitates intervention to protect both peoples or neither. If the power elite espouse a “responsibility to protect” the people of Libya, but find no such obligation to intervene on behalf of the Ivorians, their reasoning must be predicated on some combination of apathy, hypocrisy, or the kind of cold-blooded economics in which human costs merit no consideration.
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4 pounds gone and I haven't even started the "30 day Shred" workout yet!
Unfortunately, I couldn't start the 30 day shred yet because I'll be going out of town for a little while. BUT I am DEFINITELY starting it when I get home. In the mean time I will be putting my treadmill to use and trying some other workout DVDs to get my exercise in.
Needless to say, I am super excited! This diet plan or whatever you want to call it is definitely working. I only eat lean meats/ fish and I try to eat AT LEAST one nice-sized portion of fruit and/or vegetables with every meal. I try not to snack and I don't eat late. Usually, I make sure not to eat after 8pm. However, I do let myself have one day to eat the foods that I miss. If I didn't I know this diet would fail and I would sabotage everything by giving up and eating too much while exercising too little.
I decided to track my weight using a ticker I made on www.tickerfactory.com
I'm going to post this ticker tracking my weight loss with all of my weight-loss related posts. I am so excited to watch it get closer and closer to my goal weight! Hopefully I can reach my goal of 135 pounds by the end of the year... So here goes nothing! Wish me luck! Thankfully, I am off to an amazing start! :)

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Rita S. Wilson was Staunton’s first Black councilwoman.
She served the city for 17 years, starting in 1991. The city’s council chambers were named in her honor in 2020.
The Wheels for Wilson Bike-A-Thon fundraiser returns to Gypsy Hill Park for a second year on Saturday, August 19, 2023. Proceeds benefit the Rita S. Wilson Memorial Scholarship, which is administered by the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge.
The scholarship supports Staunton and Augusta County residents who seek to continue their education. The scholarship is open to high school seniors and adults in the workforce who, like Wilson, chose to pursue higher levels of education and new skills.
Bike riding held a special place in Wilson’s heart.
“Our family had a bicycle club called Tour De Gap,” Tony Davenport, Wilson’s grandson and bike-a-thon event chairperson, said. “That went on for 25 years. One of the things we did as a family was we rode bicycles in different cities every other weekend. My grandmother was a huge lover of this bicycle club. This was a way for me to not just raise funds, but also to pay homage to that bike club and my grandmother’s love for it.”
The Office on Youth will provide the use of bicycles for any child or adult who would like to participate but does not have a bicycle. The main loop around Gypsy Hill Park will be closed off to vehicles early Saturday morning for the bike-a-thon.
“The purpose of it is to raise funds for the scholarship by people riding around the park that morning, without any vehicles,” Davenport said. “It’s a safe environment where we can enjoy each other and the pleasure of riding a bike in an environment where it’s safe and conducive for doing so.”
And it supports a great cause.
“During an orientation, I observed my child talking to his English teacher about the upcoming school year,” Davenport said. “The teacher was Makeba Robinson. She was the first-ever recipient of the Rita S. Wilson Memorial Scholarship. She would eventually teach all three of my kids English.”
That stoked a fire in Davenport.
“Seeing this real-world tangible impact on not only my children but the whole school system gave me the drive do what I could do to help others achieve their dream of being an educator,” he said. “And what better for that than my grandmother’s memorial scholarship.”
Pre-registration is $10 per bicyclist, and is available online. On-site registration begins at 7 a.m. on Saturday and is $12 per bicyclist. The ride begins at 7:30 a.m. and ends at 8:30 a.m. in Gypsy Hill Park.


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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Suzuki Alto to Make Paris Show Debut – First Official Image
At the International Paris Motor Show that runs from October 2 to 19, Suzuki will present the all-new 2009 Alto city car based on the A-Star Concept -see here- that premiered at the New Delhi Auto Show in India earlier this year. Compared to the prototype, the production version of the A-Star features a much less dramatic design which is quite a let down as we liked the concept’s original styling.
According to CarScoop’s sources, the Alto will be offered with a newly developed 1.0-liter engine with low CO2 emissions of just 109g/km. The Alto will be built at Suzuki’s Indian plant in Manesar with European sales set to start in December 2008. Since Suzuki only released one image of the Alto we decided to fool around with photoshop painting the Japanese city car in various colours. Follow the jump to check out our gallery.

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Ordinary Sunscreen Is Not Kind to the Environment
When we think of protecting the precious coral reefs in our oceans, who would think that one of the dangerous pollutants is sunscreen. Sunscreen is adding to the global crisis of the dying and bleaching of one of the earth’s most productive and biodiverse ecosystems. Coral reefs provide homes for approximately 25 percent of marine species.
Various studies have shown that if the current destruction rate is left unchecked and is permitted to continue with the addition of destructive fishing practices and climate change, it is anticipated by various scientists that coral reefs throughout the world could disappear over just the next 30 years.
The below list of only a few of the usual sunscreen ingredients that are toxic to coral populations gives you their names and explains what harm they do. They are examples of how what sounds like harmless ingredients are working instead to destroy something as important to nature as our coral reefs.
Harmful Sunscreen Ingredients
Oxybenzone, used widely in sunscreen and cosmetics, damages DNA, causes deformities, inhibits the coral’s ability to reproduce, and is an endocrine disrupter that causes the death of juvenile coral.
Benzophenone has been a common ingredient in personal care products since the 1960s as it protects against UV. BP-2 causes coral to “bleach,” and it can induce mutations by damaging their DNA.
Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide are minerals that block UV rays rather than absorbing them. They interact with UV light and seawater and produce Hydrogen Peroxide, which inhibits phytoplankton, a vital nutrient for reef inhabitants and many species of coral.
Parabens have been used widely in about 85 percent of personal care products, many sunscreens, and cosmetics since the 1950s. They stimulate usually-dormant viruses in the coral, and that awakening causes rapid reproduction that spills into the surrounding water and spreads the problem to nearby coral.
A Safe Alternative
Sunscreen Labs has discovered an ideal eco friendly sunscreen formula that helps to protect the important coral reefs. Coral Isles Sunscreen is a reef-friendly lotion because it does not use ingredients shown to be harmful to the reefs. That includes the lab finding ways not to utilize oxybenzone, titanium dioxide nano (very small) blockers, zinc, fragrances, or other toxic substances. This broad spectrum sunscreen still does the expected job to protect us from the sun and is water resistant for 80 minutes.

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The equation of medical equipment supply is not the same as accessories in other industries. The accessories and kit in other sectors mostly play an auxiliary or a supportive role. In case of the medical sector, however, they play a fundamental role. Furthermore, the demand for medical equipment does not diminish. The nature of medical equipment is such that it is perishable, and/or rendered non re-usable as per the guidelines of FDA, HIPAA and other regulatory bodies. For instance, surgical gloves need to be disposed of after every minor or major surgery/procedure, thus the supply needs to be continuous.
This constant demand aspect of medical equipment has prompted the distributors and manufacturers charge exorbitant rates and prices. The medical institutions lose out in this status quo as they have to incur losses in the ROI. Otherwise, the medical expenses for patients shoot up. Both the scenarios are undesirable and as such, have been a major driving force in the creation of some of the top providers of online medical equipment in New York.
These sites provide an ideal platform for distributors, retailers and manufacturers to mingle with the buyers, place quotes, establish a deal which works well for both the parties and complete a procurement process effectively. No one feels that they have received the short end of the stick and it may act as the point of germination for long and fruitful client-provided relationships.
The objective for both the parties is big and massively impactful. It concerns the health and lives of millions, so every effort should be made to streamline the process. The online medical equipment providers have eased the burden of the medical institutions significantly, and may well be an important cog in the wheel for better times to come with respect to healthcare services.

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Duke signee Luke Kennard is the pride of Franklin
Franklin guard Luke Kennard is a McDonald's All American, Ohio Mr. Basketball and Duke signee. But, he represents so much more to the Franklin community.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski believes Luke Kennard may one day be an American favorite.
But, before Kennard fully experiences the Cameron Crazies, he is the Franklin favorite first and foremost.
The most recognized person in this Warren County city halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton is a high school basketball player born in 1996. Kennard's impact transcends all ages in this community.
"You see him out and he waves at you," says Franklin City Manager Sonny Lewis, a 1970 Franklin High School graduate.
"He's personable. He's not a fictional character. He's a real person – his family is real. It's meant so much to us just to have him. His impact will linger way past when he graduates this spring."
Franklin (population 11,770) has multiple reminders of Kennard, a senior shooting guard who averages 39.1 points.
Signs proudly noting his Ohio Mr. Basketball award last season as a junior can be clearly seen upon driving into the area.
Those signs will likely need updated this spring as Kennard has a great opportunity to become only the sixth player to win Ohio Mr. Basketball at least twice since the Associated Press award started in 1988. (The award will be announced in March).
"He's quite the hero in town," says Steve Caskey, President of Triple 'C' Glass Shop on Main Street.
At 6-foot-6, Kennard, a Duke signee, is difficult to miss on or off the court. Watching him play gives you the sense he could likely score at will if he wanted each time down the court.
Kennard excelled at high school football as a standout quarterback before he turned his full focus to hoops this fall. He had several scholarship offers in both sports.
The multi-talented athlete likes playing pickup games in other sports. He's an incredible cornhole player. He taught himself how to juggle a few years ago.
A 4.3 grade-point average student, Kennard's basketball statistics and national recognition paired with team success would be enough to earn the rave reviews of Franklin residents. But, what's striking is that his affable personality and maturity raises his stature to another level.
"He's always going to be our kid," Lewis explained. "He's always going to be us. No matter what he does at Duke. If he doesn't get hurt – whatever he does in the NBA – it's like he's going to be our Jerry Lucas from Middletown."
An hour before a game last week which saw him pass LeBron James on the state high school scoring list and earn accolades on ESPN's SportsCenter Feb. 6, Kennard wears his pinstripe Michael Jordan jersey and is sitting on the stage watching the junior varsity compete.
The entire gymnasium (1,200 capacity) is packed by the start of the undercard in anticipation of Kennard's milestone that night. A few minutes later he gets up and mingles with the student section several rows up.
"'Hey Luke,'" a student in the front row yells back to him. The small whiteboard is a sign in marker saying "39 Luke to pass LeBron." Kennard smiles.
Kennard enjoys the attention around his hoops career and says his parents, Mark and Jennifer, take a lot of pressure off of him.
"They let me just be me as a kid," Kennard said.
Kennard, a McDonald's All American, understands what he's experienced is unique to most high school athletes. But even on Twitter, he offers perspective.
"I just want to focus on God, ball and school, nothing else," Kennard tweeted a few hours after the video of James discussing him to the media was published.
Even though he has 17,300 Twitter followers and fans are quick to praise his accomplishments, Kennard looks to his tight circle which includes his parents and Franklin coach Brian Bales for guidance.
"Having some of that spotlight you got to enjoy while you can," Kennard said. "I've experienced a lot of things that a lot of kids haven't so far. I am enjoying a lot of it. At the same time I am staying completely grounded. I am staying as humble as I possibly can."
Kennard had other opportunities earlier in his career to consider other places to take his game. He attended an open house at Moeller. But, Franklin is where he wants to be.
Kennard looks forward to returning to Franklin during college breaks and he wants to help the community; he's cherished every moment this winter.
"Oh man, I love this place," Kennard. "…Franklin is such a family built place. That's what is special about it."
That humility includes crediting his teammates every chance he gets.
Kennard sits with teammates in the locker room; he greets those in attendance at a packed A&G Pizza the night he is selected to the McDonald's Game. He packs his lunch and often sits with underclassmen in the lunch room at school.
Franklin's season has some already thinking a trip to Columbus in March, but the Wildcats aren't dwelling on that.
Bales – who is also the school athletic director – said there was some talk about possibly moving the games this season but the seniors voted prior to the season to keep them at home.
The athletic department would've likely benefitted financially from a different venue, but you can't put a price on the memories the Wildcats have in their intimate home gymnasium.
Kennard entered Tuesday's game at Carlisle just 29 points from passing Geno Ford for the No. 3 spot on the Ohio High School Athletic Association career points list. He scored 38 to up his career point total to 2,690. He moved into third place on the state scoring list with a free throw.
James, the Cleveland Cavaliers' superstar, is now No. 5 on the list with 2,646 points.
A line formed at 4 p.m. to get into the school prior to the Feb. 6 game. By 5:30 p.m., the game was sold out and some fans had to be turned away. There were reports of tickets scalped. The morning after the game, one of the coveted tickets was on Ebay.
Those in attendance said the gym had a different vibe hours before tipoff. Kennard said he felt his eardrums were about to burst when he made the 3-pointer to pass James late in the third quarter.
As he and his teammates sat in the locker room a few minutes before the game, a couple of the seniors took turns to speak on what they knew could be a special night. Bales reminded them of the line that formed some three-plus hours earlier.
Senior Evan Crowe spoke up first – saying it was crazy to think of just a few regular-season games left. Kennard said the team has come too far to jeopardize its success.
Maybe that's why Bales gets choked up at the thought of the final home game on Senior Night Friday when the Wildcats host Eaton.
Franklin (19-1) is ranked No. 26 nationally by USA Today and No. 2 in the Associated Press Division II state poll. Bales doesn't want Friday to arrive.
"Besides getting married, having my three children – this journey here being the coach at Franklin, the coach of Luke Kennard and these seniors – has been one of the highlights of my life," Bales said Feb. 5. "That's as genuine as I can be."
Just minutes before tipoff Feb. 6, Bales gathered the players into the middle of the locker room before the team ran onto the court to loud cheers. An assistant coach just explained how much of a hunger he has to suit up for the community.
Take of advantage of the special moment, he said. Nothing else professionally can compare to playing for family, friends and the community. Kennard looked on intently.
"'Everybody get in here," Bales said. 'We are going to say what we have said for four years now in the huddle. One, two, three…family,'" the players said in unison.


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- Kenneth Kaushansky, M.D., and David J. Kuter, M.D., D.Phil., to present 2013 Ernest Beutler Lecture
( American Society of Hematology ) The American Society of Hematology will honor Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, of Stony Brook University and David J. Kuter, MD, DPhil, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center with the 2013 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize for their significant advances in the discovery of thrombopoietin, the platelet growth factor that regulates platelet production.
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WION New Delhi, India
Dec 10, 2016, 07.52 AM
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the opposition Congress of looting the common man for 70 years and vowed to continue fighting for the poor.
"You have looted the common man for 70 years and made it harsh for them to survive. I have come to fight for the poor and give power in their hands," said Modi while inaugurating dairy plants in Deesa city of western Gujarat state.
The 66-year-old politician slammed the opposition for not letting him speak in the parliament even after they demanded his presence.
"Government has always said we are ready to debate. I am not being allowed to speak in the Lok Sabha (lower house). So I am speaking in the Jan (common) Sabha," he said.
Emphasising the fact that demonetisation has been introduced with the intention of curbing black money and eradicating corruption, Prime Minister Modi said corruption has always pained the common man, making their lives miserable.
"Who is unhappy with corruption? Not those perpetrating corruption...it is the poor, the common citizens who are unhappy," he said. He added that the "evils" of black money and corruption were slowing India's progress and adversely affecting the poor.

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Nigerian music star, Wizkid real name Ayodeji Balogun has caused a massive stir online after he posted adorable pictures of him, third baby mama, Jada Pollock and his son, Zion Balogun.
Wizkid who’s currently chilling in Accra, Ghana stormed Instagram on Friday, January 1 to wish his fans a Happy New Year as he dropped new photos.
“Happy New Year🖤❤🦅”
This is coming few hours after, a video circulated online which capture Wizkid and Jada at a club. In the video, Jada who doubles as Wizkid’s manager was captured holding him tightly.
This new post has generated sparks online as many of Wizkid fans have gushed on their bond and family.
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Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley ‘Can’t Believe’ They're Having a Girl! Watch the Reveal (Exclusive)
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Only ET was inside Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley’s big reveal party on Sunday, where the former Real Housewives of Orange County stars learned their “miracle baby” is a girl. The pair couldn’t contain their excitement while chatting with ET just moments after learning the exciting news.
“We’re so excited!” Gretchen exclaims. “I can’t believe it.”
“We’ve been channeling girl, so we’re very, very excited that it was a girl,” Slade adds.
The couple, who just celebrated 10 years together, had been struggling to get pregnant for years, going through round after round of IVF in hopes of having a child together. Slade has two sons from a previous relationship and underwent a vasectomy before he and Gretchen started dating, complicating the process.
“This is my first [girl], and it’s such a magical moment,” Slade reflects. “It’s really something we were hoping for. I can’t believe it. I literally cannot believe it.”
“I have for many years been wanting a baby, as many people know, and I secretly always wanted a girl,” Gretchen shares. “I really wanted a girl so badly … But then, the best part, is, like, I always wanted to see Slade with a little girl, so it’s extra special because he just treats me like such a queen, and she’s gonna be his little princess and I’m just so excited about it.”
Gretchen, who is a little more than four months along, says now that she knows what she’s having, it’s time to get everything in order… though building the nursery might be a bit of an issue, seeing as the room they’re planning on using is currently acting as Gretchen’s mega-closet!
“Pretty much all our spare rooms are my closets right now,” she admits. “So, we’re gonna have to get rid of some of those clothes to make room for the baby.”
“Yes, now that we know the gender, we’re gonna start decorating,” she adds. “I have so many ideas. I’ve saved so many pictures, for boy or girl, but now that I know it’s a girl, I have to go delete all the boy stuff and do the girl stuff. No, maybe we’ll have a boy one day, too!”
“Gretchen is the only one who walks into a labor and delivery with her interior designer,” Slade quips.
Gretchen and Slade learned the happy news in front of family and friends, who gathered at a private estate in Laguna Hills, California, to watch the couple pop open confetti cannons, from Poof There It Is! Reveal Company, that shot pink across the sky. The backyard was lavishly decorated with pink and blue decor from designer Samira Nosrati, The Balloon Box and celebrity florist George Ortega, while guests dined on baby-themed confections provided by Simply Sweets LA, My Sugar Sweets, Regal Delights, Jason’s Catered Events and Sub Zero Ice Cream.
“We just had our big anatomy ultrasound, where they check everything, and the baby was perfect,” Slade shares. “Right on time, size, growth, due date. Right on the money.”
“Yeah, they said everything looked great and the doctor was like, ‘Do you want to know?’ And we’re like, no!” Gretchen adds. “‘We have a big gender reveal party! You can’t tell us!’ But he was like, ‘Everything looks so perfect with the baby.’”
The duo says they have names picked out for their daughter, who is due in June, but they’re not quite ready to share that news.
“Even though we’ve talked about names, and thought about what we want, I think when you see the child for the first time, it’s gonna come to you,” Slade says.
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One of the Crawfordsville District Public Library’s most popular features is its summer reading program for children.
This year’s outing, “America: Reading Coast to Coast,” will begin with sign-ups May 31. The program will run through July 12.
The premise of the program is that during that seven-week span, children read as much as they can to earn prizes.
“They keep track on a map we have, and then bring them in for prizes,” said Janella Nunan, who works in the children’s department at the library. “They can read whatever they want as long as it’s at their grade level.”
All reading points must be turned in at the library by 6 p.m. July 12.
Drop-in craft sessions to go along with the summer reading program theme will be offered each Monday from June 5 to July 5. Crafts will include a Bald Eagle, patriotic bug magnet, patriotic wand, Uncle Sam hat, patriotic streamers and patriotic foil frames.
Drop-in story times will be offered at 10 a.m. every Thursday throughout the summer.
Keeping children’s activities new and fresh at the library is the responsibility of Karen Record, who is in charge of children’s programming. Regular weekly activities are held, as are intermittent special activities such as Saturday’s seventh annual Blossoms and Brunch event.
“It’s kind of like a tea for girls, and they can bring a special woman in their lives,” Record said.
Blossoms and Brunch is hosted by library staff member Linda Brady. The event features projects and snacks, and participants dress up in tea party attire.
Seating for the popular event, which is open to girls 6 and older, is limited to 18 girls and their guests. As of Wednesday, only one spot remained.
“The girls like to dress up, and they like being pampered for the day,” Record said. “It makes them feel special, and I think the adults that come with them enjoy it just as much.”
The Blossoms and Brunch program is the only one at the library that is gender-specific.
“We have the block parties where the children build things with Legos, and we thought that one would be something more for boys,” Record said. “But as it turned out, just as many girls come as boys.”
The same thing happened with a duct tape workshop, Record said.
More than 600 children participated in last year’s summer reading program.
“This past year, there were more boys than girls in the reading program,” Record said.
Other special library programs planned for the summer include Dr. Insecta’s Bug Lab at 6:45 p.m. June 16, Block Parties at 9:30 a.m. June 4 and July 2, Donuts with Dad at 10 a.m. June 18, a juggling demonstration and workshop at 6:45 p.m. July 12
Record finds developing children’s programs at the library fulfilling.
“It’s fun to be with the kids and see how excited they get about things,” she said.

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December 16, 2012 By Anthony Capkun
IBEW 258 represents about 2000 workers in electrical and related utility trades at BC Hydro. IBEW’s collective agreement with BC Hydro expired at the end of March. The union will now put the new tentative agreement to its membership for a vote. Both parties are recommending ratification.
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Did you know you could work on an island all summer where no cars are allowed? Guest service positions at resorts and restaurants on Mackinac Island. Also summer jobs at Isle Royale National Park, summer camp jobs and resort/ranch jobs in other parts of the state.
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Summer Jobs on Isle Royale - one of America's most unique National Parks!
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I installed Civ5 on Windows 7 and was able to run it fine on maximum settings on my laptop's Geforce 740M.
However, after running fine for two or three times, the game now hangs after the intro video, and will only actually start if I run it with the integrated Intel GPU, which can play the game reasonably albeit with lower quality.
I've tried disabling the intro video, reinstalled the nvidia GPU's drivers and the game itself, and also resetted all nvidia configurations to default, without success.
Edit: I'm also unable to run a DX10 performance benchmark using the nvidia GPU, but it runs with the Intel GPU. I've reinstalled two different older Nvidia drivers (353.30 and 359.06) and also reinstalled DirectX (KB2670838), the game still freezes on a black screen after the intro video, but runs fine on the Intel integrated GPU
Any hints of what can be causing this? Thanks!

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On this page you can find the meaning of the fault code you may be seeing coming from your Dacia.
Either choose your model from below or scroll down even further to search and see popular fault codes across all Dacias.
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Dacia is a Romania budget brand of automaker that is owned and operated by Renault.
You will find many of the same common error codes appearing between these 2 brands as the platforms are shared but with differing levels of features.
Common fault codes for Dacia models include the P1453 which signals that the sensor that measures the temperature of the exhaust gases is faulty. This could also represent faulty wiring or even broken connections. This P1453 code means different things across different manufacturers.
If you experience the P1310 fault code then your Dacia is probably trying to tell you that there is a problem in the 3rd igniter circuit. This system is responsible for igniting the fuel in the cylinders of the engine and is most probably actually an issue with either spark plugs or the circuits that connect them to the ECM (engine control module). As it is the 3rd circuit you know that the problem is centralized to just one cylinder, the third.
Finally, the P1095 error code in a Dacia is your engine trying to tell you that the sensor that measures the air/fuel mix is detecting a rapid switch between lean and rich. This could be as simple as a faulty sensor or even wiring but could be as serious as a component before that stage failing such as a pump or valve.
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ORIENTEERING FUN (a fun daytime enrichment class- 3 hours duration) Participants dress for the weather & bring: completed health history form, a compass (if you have one), & pencil or pen. Supports Related Badges: Daisy Trail Adventurer, Brownie Hiker, Brownie Cabin Camper, Brownie Trail Adventure, Brownie Letter Boxer, Junior Camper, Junior Geocacher, Junior Trail Adventure, Cadette Trailblazing, Cadette Trail Adventure, Cadette Primitive Camper, Senior Adventure Camper, Senior Trail Adventure, Senior Snow or Climbing Adventure, Ambassador Survival Camper, Ambassador Outdoor Art Master, Ambassador Ultimate Recreation Challenge. Ambassador Trail Adventure.
Trail walking in your futures? If so, you need to understand the basics of being prepare and what to do if lost and teach these principles to the girls. Then you should consider the two most important tools used as you begin this exploration: a compass and a map. In this class, you will learn: how to hold a compass; take a bearing and follow that bearing; read a map and understand its features; practice determining distance and learn how to determine your pace. Then, you will use a compass with a map and even explore topographical maps and their usefulness. Maybe letterboxing, geocaching or orienteering is in your future as well.


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How to Pass the Information Quiz
Google and other search engines make it easy for us to look things up, but not necessarily to find what we’re looking for – because that takes additional skills. MITRE’s Information Services staff not only understand how to use high-value resources, they provide the meaning, context, and connections necessary to turn random luck into precision encounters with the right stuff. – Editor
Author: Stephanie Godley
My son recently started middle school and went through a library orientation. At the end of the orientation, the students had to take a quiz to prove that they could find their way around the library. My son failed the quiz.
Me: What do I do for a living?
Him: You work at MITRE.
Me: True, but what’s my job?
Him: To help people find things.
Me: Right, and what’s that called?
Him: A librarian.
Me: Correct. And how did you do on that LIBRARY quiz?
What I realized by reviewing the quiz with him is that he was so familiar with our town library, he had learned how to use a library by muscle memory. At age 4 he could walk straight to the shelf with the garbage truck books on it and then make his way to the fiction section and pick out his all-time favorite “Rabbit Ears.” Given the library’s classification system, they were always in the same place. Now, at age 11, he knows where the WWII books are in the non-fiction section, how to find a biography, and how to locate the baseball fiction books by the sports author he loves. But what happens when confronted with a new set of resources in an unfamiliar space? Unfortunately, it all falls apart without a solid understanding of how the space is organized.
So if you, too, are used to finding materials by muscle memory, what are you to do? Today, the information seeker usually goes straight to Google. Throw in a few search terms and see what sticks. As my son did with his “search” for garbage truck books, he’d approach the shelf and scan. Sometimes this led to some great finds. The old standbys in the 620s, (trains, cars and trucks), and sometimes crossing into the 630s (farming) to find the tractor books. But what was he missing? The firetrucks in the 360s? True, scanning the shelf can sometimes lead to new discoveries, as can scanning an index or table of contents. But this method does not necessarily reveal all that is available nor does it help you analyze or draw out connections among different resources.
Search engines such as Google are literal. Enter your search terms, and your results will contain those terms. The search engine itself does little to help you determine which results are the best match for you, or how to pick up on threads that run between your search results. C. David Seuss, in his article about meaning extraction (Seuss, 2011), writes that “Current generation search engines have the flaw of giving the user what was asked for, not what the user should have asked for had the user already understood the topic.” The search engine can’t draw out the meaning, provide the analysis, or write the summary for you. Welcome your information professional/research analyst/librarian. We can do all of the above!
Here at MITRE, we have shied away from using the terms librarian/library. In fact, MITRE completely let go of its physical book collection in 1999. Our research services consist of a frontline of Information Analysts who respond to a wide variety of questions, providing research assistance and help to all researchers within MITRE. In general, our work consists of research that takes less than 90 minutes to complete. Our next tier of service consists of our Custom Research Analysts, who similarly work on a variety of requests throughout MITRE, but at a more involved level. And herein lies the value, because not only can these analysts use a search engine, they can be the search engine. Understanding the purpose of the search through conversations with the requestor, they begin to draw conclusions, see patterns, and recognize those points that can be connected.
A first step to re-orienting MITRE library users is to make sure their muscle memory is taking them to the Discover Digital Libraries (DDL) tool. Our DDL offers a single search box that taps into the wide range of Digital Library research materials – journal and newspaper articles, databases, and much more. DDL can even provide access to sources outside the MITRE Digital Library. The DDL can be accessed through a gadget on the MITRE internal homepage, and detailed information can also be found on our Information Services homepage. By starting here, users are beginning with a vetted set of sources that can help them develop a better understanding of their topic. They can narrow results using filters, find related topics and disciplines, and conduct advanced searches. The DDL is just one of a robust set of resources. Using our Full Text Books and Journals Finder, for example, users can search or browse the Digital Libraries holdings by Title of the e-journal or e-book or browse the e-titles by Subject area. These tools, just two examples out of many, illustrate how we are providing both search and browse/scan capabilities online allowing our staff to navigate the “shelf.”
Whether you call us librarians or information analysts, the most important resources in our library are the people. Able to help re-train our customer’s muscle memory to use high-value resources, the staff are also the ones who can provide the meaning, context, and dot connection. Contacted in-person through our two physical locations or via email or phone, our information analysts help to get to that information layer underneath the search results. Not a mere hit-list, but a meaningful summary and analysis.
So if you head to the shelf and don’t find what you are looking for, or conduct that Google search and don’t find what you need, remember that resources are available to you to both scan the shelves and connect the dots. At MITRE, our Information Services Department helps our staff pass the quiz right here. If you work elsewhere, take advantage of the reference librarians and researchers at your companies or local libraries. People like us will help you wherever you work!


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Mayor Sara Duterte has defended her choice of Sr. Supt. Alexander Tagum as her choice for city director for the Davao City Police Office.
“He is my choice,” she said, adding that there were around three names considered for the post.
In an interview at the DCPO, Mayor Duterte however said that those who want to protest her choice may freely do so, adding that the city implements a strict maximum tolerance policy for protests.
She said that Tagum’s experience as chief of police for North Cotabato during the Kidapawan incident last year was an added learning for the police official.
Tagum, meanwhile, thanked Mayor Duterte for her support.
He said he would guarantee freedom of expression for protesters in the city.
“We will even protect them, marshall vehicle traffic for them, give them refreshments,” Tagum said. “After all, they are still our constituents.”
Tagum took over the reins of the DCPO at Tuesday’s turnover ceremonies. (Yas D. Ocampo)


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