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ENDICOTT, NY – A local jeweler has more space to craft his unique creations.
Frank Longo Originals held a ribbon cutting today to celebrate a recent expansion.
The jewelry store, located at 4410 Watson Boulevard in the Town of Union, now has an additional room for a small art gallery and work space for Longo and his son and apprentice Vito.
Frank Longo says he was inspired to pursue jewelry making by his Union-Endicott High School art teacher Orazio Salati.
After spending time working at Rinker’s and Van Cott, Longo went out on his own 12 years ago.
He enjoys working with gold and platinum and says his designs feature lots of curves and open spaces.
Longo says he prefers to make each piece custom for the customer.
“I work with young couples just getting engaged. And the whole process is so much fun. They come in and we start talking about how long they’ve been together and we start talking about what kind of gem they want. By the time they leave, we’re friends, we’re old friends. We take our time, we don’t rush anyone. That’s kind of a special part of my job. I love making heirlooms for people,” says Longo.
Longo’s small art gallery is an opportunity for him to also display some of his steel and clay sculptures as well as work by other local artists.
He says people are running out of time to order fully custom pieces in time for Christmas, however, he often speeds up the process by ordering pieces from catalogues that he then assembles into his own creations.
Longo’s normal hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 to 5 and Saturday 10 to 3, although during the holidays, he’s often there much more.
For more information, go to LongoJewerly.com


DISTURBED by the crisis within the All Progressives Congress APC in Ondo State over the choice of its candidate for the governorship election, the presidency has moved in to calm strayed nerves.
The Presidency has subsequently summoned all the 25 aspirants, state party leaders and all stakeholders to a meeting in Abuja today. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal is expected to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at the meeting. Also, the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, South-west leaders of the party and other NEC members are expected at the meeting. The primaries of the party had been shifted twice following the tension that greeted the endorsement of Dr Olusegun Abraham by the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Confirming the intervention, one of the aspirants, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu said all of the aspirants have been summoned to Abuja today to resolve the crisis that the endorsement has generated. Akeredolu, who said the summon by the presidency necessitated the shifting of the primaries earlier fixed for Wednesday, expressed optimism that the Presidency’s intervention would restore confidence in all the aspirants who may have lost hope in the primaries.
He said: “A meeting has been called now and if that meeting gives directive and asks people to cut off this monumental monetisation of the process, all we need is to assuage the feeling of the aspirants and drop the issue of endorsement and whosoever emerges among the aspirants, we will all support.” Akeredolu denied being backed by the Presidency insisting that he would win the primaries convincingly. Chairman dragged to Court This came as members of the State Executive Committee of the party approached the Federal High Court, Abuja to stop the embattled chairman of the party, Isaac Kekemeke from parading himself as the chairman of the party.
The suit was filed by the Publicity Secretary, the Youth Leader and party chairman of the party in Akoko South-West, Mr. Abayomi Adesanya, Olutayo Babalayo and Dawodu Bolakale respectively on behalf of the SEC. They alleged that the embattled chairman was still going about the state, claiming that he has not been suspended from from office. But Kekemeke in his reaction to the development, said he had not been served the court order, insisting that he remained the chairman of the party.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/gov-poll-presidency-wades-ondo-apc-crisis/


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In 1933, Richard Gray, a U.S. government weather forecaster, noted that Florida had been hit by at least 37 hurricanes over the 45 years ending in 1930. During this period, the longest stretch with no tropical storms was only two years.The figures at the top of this post show the data from 1900 to 2013 on landfalls (data from NOAA here) and the intensity of storms at landfall (data from NOAA updated from here, courtesy of C. Landsea, NHC). Since 1900 US hurricane seasons have seen more than 20% less landfalls and are more than 20% less intense. In my piece I defer to the IPCC on the emotive topic of hurricanes and climate change.
When the 2014 hurricane season officially began on June 1, the Sunshine State had gone more than eight years without being struck by a hurricane. It was back on Oct. 24, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma emerged from the Gulf of Mexico and caused billions of dollars in damage in South Florida. In fact, Wilma was the last Category 3 or stronger storm to hit the USA.
The 3,151 days and counting with no Florida hurricane and no major U.S. hurricane shatters the previous records for hurricane "droughts," at least back to the turn of the previous century. In fact, from 1900 through 2013, the United States experienced a decrease in hurricane landfalls of more than 20%, and the strength of each year's landfalling storms has also decreased by more than 20%.
The main point of the piece is that we shouldn't let the past 9 years of abnormally low hurricane activity lull us into a sense of complacency. It is only a matter of time before the long streak with no US Cat 3+ and Florida hurricanes is broken.
Read the whole thing here.
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GLOBAL YOUTH IN THE FOREFRONT OF CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENTS
UPSC MAINS SOCIOLOGY SYLLABUS
Paper 2 – Section C
(v) Social Movements in Modern India:
(a) Peasants and farmers movements.
(b) Women’s movement.
(c) Backward classes & Dalit movement.
(d) Environmental movements.
(e) Ethnicity and Identity movements.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation:
(a) Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.
(b) Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.
(c) Violence against women.
(d) Caste conflicts.
(e) Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
(f) Illiteracy and disparities in education.
Young people are increasingly at the forefront of climate change activism. Around 70% of people aged 16-25 are extremely worried or very worried about the climate, according to a study covering 10 countries and published in The Lancet. The world is home to 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 to 24 — the largest generation of youth in history. Young people are increasingly aware of the challenges and risks presented by the climate crisis and of the opportunity to achieve sustainable development brought by a solution to climate change. Young people’s unprecedented mobilization around the world shows the massive power they possess to hold decision-makers accountable.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EMERGENCY CRISIS
Our world today is already 1 °C warmer than it was in the pre-industrial era. If global warming continues at the same rate, that increase is likely to reach 1.5 °C between 2030 and 2052. Climate change is
putting the health and well-being of billions of people at increased risk. Extreme weather events, such as droughts and heatwaves, and their effects, such as rising sea levels and wildfires, directly affect health and can lead to physical injuries or heat-related deaths. Climate change also has indirect effects on health and well-being due to ecological changes, such as food and water insecurity and the spread of climate-sensitive infectious diseases, and by contributing to diseases spread by animals to humans, such as Ebola, avian influenza, Zika virus and now the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Other social and economic impacts of climate change include forced migration and civil conflict, loss of homes and livelihoods and reduced access to essential services, such as education and health care.
GLOBAL YOUTH TAKING A STAND
Time and again, youth have used multiple ways to express their political agency against social, economic, and environmental policies that contribute to climate change and environmental degradation. Notably, individual youth have been participating in international negotiations related to environmental and sustainable development issues since the Rio Summit in 1992.
However, there is a marked difference between the youth activism of the 21st century and that of previous generations. While youth mobilization for climate action began in Europe and USA, today we can notice a rapid emergence of youth climate activism amongst the developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. For instance, the rapid decentralization of international coalitions like the Youth Climate Movement and Extinction Rebellion to sub-national and local levels in developing countries has attracted youth ranging from school students (Fridays For Future) to university students.
Young people continue to take on a leading role in influencing, advocating, and demanding for responsible climate behaviour and stronger political will from governments and the private sector. During COP26, young leaders presented a Global Youth Position statement, representing the views of over 40,000 young leaders demanding that their rights be guaranteed in climate change agreements. School strikes for climate have been recorded in over 150 countries, gaining widespread attention from the public and media.
Young leaders have raised awareness in their communities, promoted lifestyle changes and concrete solutions, and advocated for the rights of vulnerable groups, including Indigenous people, who are often excluded from decision-making. Young people played an important role in the Climate Promise. While young people were largely ignored in earlier Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) now 75 percent of Climate Promise countries prioritize youth in developing their NDCs, primarily through consultations, raising awareness and advocacy campaigns.
HOW CAN WE ENHANCE THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS?
Engage and harness their skills
There is data to suggest that young people are taking the initiative to address climate change, from volunteering with organizations to donating to environmental initiatives. They must be encouraged to actively contribute to the current climate action framework and help build a green future.
Invest in youth-led solutions
Young people are developing products and services, and leading campaigns to build a green world. For example, Rafael Alonso is building Cultivo – a startup unlocking investments for nature restoration; Jennifer Uchendu leads SustyVibes, a social enterprise making sustainability actionable for young Africans. There are various innovative solutions that are credible and scalable, in need of support. Governments, businesses and investors must support youth-led solutions to climate change through grants, venture capital, debt financing, or in-kind support.
Give young people a seat at the table
For climate-related decision-making to be inclusive and all-encompassing, youth inclusion should not be an afterthought. As governments set and review NDCs and develop policies that have climate implications at the national and global levels, young people should be represented and involved in this process. Effective climate action must be inclusive, allowing everyone to contribute their quota.
Young people have been ignored in climate decisions for far too long and can no longer be seen as merely means to an end. It is their present and their future that’s at stake. Their concerns and their solutions must be at the heart of all decision-making. Empowering young people presents a historic, transformational, and collective opportunity to advance an inclusive green recovery, accelerate progress on the SDGs and to lay the foundation for a peaceful and sustainable future.

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Is it democracy or populism? Decentralisation or a postcode lottery? That all depends on whether the person deploying the words likes or dislikes what they see and wants to evoke cheering or booing. The Countryman is one of many who thinks that Dave’s Big Society is actually more likely to translate into a Big Business Society, down on the cold hard ground:
“[A]nyone who has dealt with local politics and town councils, especially where planning and development is concerned, already knows that there can be wheels working within wheels. I’m not necessarily talking of anything illegal here, but about strings being pulled through an active ‘who you know’ network … ”
And just look at the poor old Tea Party foot soldiers over the Pond, so easily bamboozled, “mostly … passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, and who are unaware that they’ve been organised by the very interests they believe they are confronting” as George Monbiot put it, ever apt.
Here in inherently surreal England we might naturally associate the phrase “tea party” with Mad Hatters, but the Yanks have got their own fairy story about how they, The People, nobly stood up to an evil despot who wanted to tax without giving them a say.
Only that isn’t what actually happened. What actually happened was that a small group of wealthy Boston merchants had been taking advantage, smuggling tea into America and making a tidy profit for themselves. Then when the East India Company started shipping tea in at a lower price, even with a bit of added tax added on by the government, of course the Boston Brahmins saw their nice little earner under threat, but acted cunningly to hide their self interest under the guise of principle, by tricking ordinary people into seeing only The Tax and rendering invisible the benefit of cheaper tea.
And now in 2010 a small group of wealthy merchants is again laughing up its sleeve and playing on the prejudices of ordinary Americans to make believe that they would lose out from healthcare or banking reforms, when in fact it is the wealthy few who would lose and the poorer majority who would gain. In with generous lashings of (superficially) high-minded rhetoric, here from Edward Cline:
“It is time for Americans to understand that it is not merely a political fight they have on their hands, but a moral one. They must reject the moral code, altruism, that asks them to live for the sake of other men … Americans must proudly, loudly proclaim the selfish virtue of individual rights, which has been the source of all the wealth and prosperity that we enjoy but which Obama and Congress seek to destroy through socialist redistribution.”
But before we English get too smug that we would never fall for this line, back here in the UK we’re not so different. Many times I’ve spoken to people on quite low incomes or on benefits and raised the issue of the super-rich getting away with vast “remuneration” and very little tax, only to find that what really gets up their noses is not the super-rich, who might as well be in another universe, but the thought that some man or woman they know round the corner is getting a few quid more than them because of one dodge or another!
That sort of petty envy along with the fatalistic idea that “there’s nothing we can do anyway, it’s always been like this” are what make me suspect that the Coalition may well have a relatively easy ride from the mainstream British public.


text: Southwest Airlines and Chili’s parent Brinker International have joined a group of retailers who are trying to create a mobile payment system to compete with Google Wallet, Dallas-based AT&T and credit card companies. The Dallas-based companies have become members of Irving-based Merchant Customer Exchange, a mobile payment system formed last year by some of the largest U.S. retailers. More than 30 companies are part of MCX including Wal-Mart, Target, Gap, 7-Eleven, Best Buy, Dillard’s, CVS, Lowe’s and QuikTrip. MCX is building a system that will work with bar code scanners already in stores and on the broadest array of smartphones. It says it wants to create “a widely accepted, customer-focused and secure mobile-commerce solution.” A timeline still hasn’t been disclosed, a spokesman said. Southwest is the first airline to join the group.

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text: HomeGeneralDiancie Event Returns to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Alex Irish July 20, 2015 General For trainers who missed out last November, the Event Pokémon Diancie is returning this month for a limited time. From July 24th through July 27th, players of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (the Hoenn remakes) can download the Pokémon from online. This particular Diancie comes equipped with the moves Diamond Storm, Moonblast, Dazzling Gleam, and Protect. Whereas the Diancie event last year was given out via serial codes at GameStop, this event simply requires a copy of the game to download the critter from the Nintendo Network. This applies to players in North America and Europe, so be sure to nab it when the weekend rolls around. Share this post: No related posts. Read Genyo Takeda’s Full Eulogy for Satoru IwataNintendo of America Confirmed to Publish Devil’s Third for Wii UAbout The AuthorAlex IrishEditor-in-Chief (Former)A man with a plan. My favorite video game franchise is Pokemon, but his favorite video game is Resident Evil 4. I can also tell you trivial cartoon factoids.

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Today, Pace International Law Review presents Professor Jason Kilborn as their guest blogger and a featured author in PILR’s Winter Commercial Edition. Jason Kilborn is a Professor of Law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago and is serving his second four-year term as the Van der Grinten Chair in International and Comparative Insolvency Law at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In Fall 2011, he was the Robert M. Zinman Scholar in Residence at the American Bankruptcy Institute. Professor Kilborn has concentrated over a decade of academic research on a comparison of bankruptcy and insolvency in the U.S. with similar systems in Europe and elsewhere in the world. He has written numerous articles and a book on comparative bankruptcy for individuals (including an analysis of Islamic law, shari’a). Professor Kilborn chaired the drafting group for the World Bank report described in this paper, and he has advised several national governments on their development of personal insolvency laws. His current article will be featured in the 3 issue of the 26 volume of Pace International Law Review:
In global law reform, indirect persuasion can be equally as effective—with far less criticism and pain—as direct intervention through “conditionalities” tied to aid. The IMF and World Bank have faced widespread criticism for what some have challenged as heavy handed requirements for direct financial assistance. They have commonly imposed on client developing countries austerity measures and “modernization” of legal and financial systems, creating a not surprising measure of resentment among both politicians and the public at large.
A recent law reform project led by the World Bank demonstrates a softer and more cooperative approach, with an impressive record of early success. The IMF and World Bank have long been concerned about structural impediments to financial development. The global financial crisis thrust into the spotlight one particular legal impediment: The lack of an effective legal regime for treating the many ills of excessive debt, not only among businesses, but among individuals, or “natural persons.” The absence or ineffectiveness of systems for treating the ills of personal insolvency (what we in the US would call “consumer bankruptcy”) produce a wide variety of negative effects for financial development. That became particularly clear as the aftershocks from the global recession disrupted the lives of the millions of individual people on whom national economic activity and growth depends.
In response, the World Bank initiated in January 2011 its first-ever examination of the policies and characteristics of effective insolvency systems for individuals (natural persons). It convened a large group of experts from around the world to produce a report reflecting the state of the art in world personal insolvency regimes. Focusing on the issues most salient in personal, as opposed to business, insolvency, the group set out to identify the range of approaches pursued by various countries to date and to suggest which approaches seemed to have produced the most positive, and the most negative, results. Avoiding guidelines and direct recommendations entirely, instead the final report of this expert group simply describes the many advantages of producing an effective personal insolvency system and the objectively most and least successful provisions and approaches of such laws.
Three major themes emerge from the Report that might be cast as soft recommendations and can be tracked in legislation adopted following its publication: (1) adopt a legal system for discharging the debts of hopelessly overindebted individuals (as many countries still have not), (2) encourage out-of-court debt settlements among debtors and their creditors, but provide institutional support for such negotiations, and (3) if a rehabilitation payment plan is to be imposed on debtors in exchange for the discharge relief, carefully moderate the demands imposed by such plans, as individual capacity for withstanding extreme austerity is limited, especially as the demands extend over long periods of time. In any event, do not rely on judicial discretion in crafting such payment plans; rather, make a legislative policy decision as to the appropriate demands of such plans that are transparent, predictable, and uniform
Three countries adopted personal insolvency systems shortly after the publication of the World Bank’s report, and so the three themes can be tracked in the legislative history and the resulting provisions of these three new laws. The new Colombian law offers direct evidence of the influence of the World Bank project, especially in the notion of offering a discharge of hopeless indebtedness. The new Italian law reflects the World Bank report’s emphasis on introducing a discharge of debt, as well. The idea of encouraging negotiated solutions is less clearly reflected here, however, especially in the rather poorly developed infrastructure for supporting such negotiations. The Italian law also expects debtors to earn their fresh start by completing a payment plan, but the demands of such plans are not formulated with the care and sensitivity that the World Bank report had favored. Finally, the new Irish law makes an existing theoretical discharge truly effective for the first time, and it leverages an impressive institutional structure for supporting debt settlement negotiations. As for payment plans, the Irish approach is a mixed bag. On the negative side, the Irish law adopts the unfavorable method of vesting the court with discretion to impose and formulate payment plans. On the positive side, the Irish law suggests guidelines for court-imposed plans, and these guidelines were developed in an extraordinarily impressive way.
Discharging legitimate debt is and will continue to be a divisive topic. The World Bank expressly accepted that world legislation in this area would likely continue to diverge. The Bank’s indirect approach of encouraging policymakers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of existing laws, however, seems to have already begun to produce significant convergence.
Please read the entirety of Professor Kilborn’s article in this year’s Pace International Law Review Winter Commercial Edition

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Enhancing Management Education Relevance: Joint Creation of Knowledge between Business Schools and Business
Xie, Chuanyin, Steiner, Susan D., Business Education & Accreditation
Management education has been criticized for its limited contribution to both students and business. Yet, the traditional education approach has not undergone fundamental changes in decades. A number of new educational models have been proposed, but challenges seem insurmountable when it comes to implementation. This article explores how an effective change in management education could be made through joint creation of management knowledge between business schools and the business community. We argue that this collaboration in knowledge creation complements the new management education models and is helpful to their implementation.
JEL: 120, 121, M10
KEYWORDS: Management Education; Business Relevance; Joint Creation of Management Knowledge
Management education has been criticized for its irrelevance to the real world practice and limited contribution to students' career success. The wave of criticism was triggered by business failures such as the loss of U.S. dominance in the world car market three decades ago. Hayes and Abernathy (1980) contended that American managers have led the way to economic decline because of their analytical detachment and focus on short-term cost reductions. These inferior managers were often educated by business schools, so Leonard (1984: 47) argued that "the disastrous American emphasis on short-term, bottom-line management owes less to science classes at Central High than to MBA classes at Harvard."
More recently, scholars and practitioners have intensified their criticisms. They complained that graduates can use very little of what they were taught in school (Derrick, 2002); business schools foster specialists, not managers (Mintzberg & Gosling, 2002); consulting firms can reproduce a two-year business school experience in three weeks (Preffer and Fong, 2002); and employers hire MBA students because they are "a prescreened pool," not because they believe that the education delivered in the classroom creates value (Leonhardt, 2000). Therefore, business schools appear to have been "on the wrong track" and lost their way (Bennis & O'Toole, 2005). They are less successful than the burgeoning number of MBA graduates might indicate (Preffer & Fong, 2002), and their "golden days" seem to be over (Bridgman, 2007).
Facing the widespread criticisms of management education, scholars have proposed a number of new educational approaches and models. Some of them are incremental, focusing on improvements in curricula and/or teaching methods, such as requiring a business ethics course in the undergraduate core curriculum (Rutherford et al., 2012), team teaching (Greiner et al., 2003), using executives as professors (Clinebell & Clinebell, 2008), learning-on-demand (Armstrong & Sadler-Smith, 2008), and design thinking (Dunne & Martin, 2006). Other educational proposals are more radical. According to Grey (2004), incremental solutions are not sufficient for addressing the problems business schools face. The problems in management education should be tackled with changes in pedagogy rather than changes in curricula (Campbell et al., 2006). A less-than-relevant curriculum may be a main culprit, but "the curriculum is the effect, not the cause, of what ails the modern business school (Bennis & O'Toole, 2005: 98). Thus, some more radical approaches are proposed, including the student-as-partner model (Ferris, 2002), the student-as-client model (Armstrong, 2003), the professional model treating management as a profession (Bennis & O'Toole, 2005; Khurana & Nohria, 2008) and critical management education (Bridgman, 2007; Dehler et al., 2001; Grey, 2004).
Despite all these responses from management educators, the traditional educational approach has not undergone any fundamental change (Welsh & Dehler, 2007). Countless calls for changes have been made, but the "pleas seem to fall on deaf ears" (Bell, 2009). According to Pfeffer and Fong (2002), a profound change in contemporary management education will be limited in the U. …


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How long does it take a country to build a dairy industry? One year, Qatar would answer.
North Carolina legislators have made it clear: “If a drink doesn’t come from an animal with hooves, you can’t call it milk”.
Fonterra farmer suppliers in New Zealand are pretty happy with the $7/kgMS opening price for the new season.
The most worrying aspect of the coalition Government’s torpedoing of the oil and gas industry is the disregard for process.
Last year a survey was done on soil stability and disturbance in Waikato using aerial photographs taken in 2012. Here's what was found.
Much criticism has been voiced in recent weeks about the way the Government and Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) have handled the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak.
At last we hear the long-awaited news: the EU has agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand.
AgResearch scientists say they have discovered how to knock out a major milk allergen by editing a cow’s genome.
Irish farmers are in a lather about a dairy farmer in County Limerick being fined $350 this month for the dung a judge ruled was left by his cows on a road, causing a motorcycle crash.
A North-Canterbury company lauded for its ethical and environmentally friendly dairying has gone into liquidation.
Not everyone's enthusing about a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union.
With Mycoplasma bovis confirmed as having arrived in Waikato’s dairy heartland, the time has come for the region’s farmers to look hard at how it might affect their businesses.
Dairy farmers are spooked and they have every right to be.
The US dairy industry is now facing a challenging, unpredictable future under Trump.
Vegan oat milk is so popular in the US that coffee shops are running out of stock.
The Great British Beef Week, organised by UK Ladies in Beef, emphasises the nation’s locally produced food. Here are some meaty facts from the group:
Seven more cows are joining their cousins on the streets of Morrinsville.
The latest Environment Court decision that brutally cut Federated Farmers’ bid to stop regional councils banning GMOs hopefully puts an end to farmers getting their knickers in a twist about this issue.
Tough questions are confronting everybody involved in food creation in New Zealand.
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Initial estimates of the damage are "in excess" of $25,000, with the home's kitchen suffering the most damage.
Fire officials believe the blaze may have started due to a "heating element" in the dishwasher, though it remains under investigation by the Elgin Fire Department.


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Lemon Juice Remedies for Acne
Lemon juice is one of the most effective treatments of acne and its use is gaining popularity among the people. It helps in protecting the skin from the primary cause of acne. It is a naturally-occurring acidic peel that will help bring replenished skin cells to the surface. In helping dispose of dead skin, lemon juice helps protect against a primary cause of acne. Using lemon juice will dry the excess oils on the skin and help slough the dead skin cells off the skin's surface. Applied in a thin layer over the skin, the citric acid in the lemon juice would act as an acid peel though it may cause some skin redness and dryness.
Curing acne lesions is only part of the battle. Acne can leave discolored areas on the skin, which can be just as irritating to deal with as acne itself. These can be fortunately treated with lemon juice. Lemon juice has been used by skin care professionals for decades to create a lightening effect on the skin. The exfoliating effect it provides, as well as its skin tightening properties, helps make acne scars less noticeable. Drinking lemon juice or applying it topically or both, helps in reducing the scars and the blemishes. However, drinking lemon juice alone does not help in clearing acne. It only helps in cleansing the body system from within.
For the topical application, squeeze out the lemon juice in a bowl and soak it with some cotton. If it burns, then dilute it with some water and dab it on the infected area. Leave it overnight and rinse your face in the morning. If it burns too much then rinse it off after about 10 minutes. Lemon juice with rose water is the best for topical application. Dilute 50% of lemon juice into 50% of rose water and apply it on the infected area. For cleansing the body from within, dilute lemon juice into water and drink it. You can also squeeze the lemon into warm water and drink it. However, do not eat or drink for about half an hour, in order to let the lemon juice cleanse your system properly.
The use of lemon juice is accompanied by some side effects, though these side effects are not major. It can leave the skin very dry which may in turn make the skin more acne prone. After the application, some people might experience a slight sting, redness and irritation. It is recommended to discontinue the treatment, if you experience persistent irritation and redness every time you apply it.

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Former President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning TikTok, a video-sharing medium owned by a Chinese conglomerate, in August of 2020.
The federal courts halted the order, and President Joe Biden revoked it after taking office last year.
However, Biden has found himself on the wrong side of a new bipartisan consensus.
Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer discussed TikTok’s links to PRC at a press conference in 2020. “I have urged that TikTok be closed down in America,” Schumer said.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., took it even further. “I think Donald Trump was right,” Warner admitted on Fox News Sunday.
Warner, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, spoke about TikTok’s twofold threat: its threat to user privacy and its threat to national security.
“TikTok is an enormous threat. It’s a threat on two levels, one, it is a massive collector of information, oftentimes of our children,” Warner said on Fox News Sunday.
“They can visualize even down to your keystrokes. So, if you are a parent and have a kid on TikTok, I would be very, very, concerned, all of that data that your child is inputting and receiving is being stored somewhere in Beijing.”
Warner went on to discuss TikTok’s potential threats to our national security. He tied it to the disinformation wars, a key issue for the Democrats.
“The second problem is that TikTok in a sense is a broadcasting network in a sense and if the Chinese communist party and TikTok at the end of the day has to be reliant on the Communist Party, the China law states that,” Warner said.
“If they want to dial up the fact we’re going to decrease content that criticizes Chinese leadership but increase the content kids may be seeing saying, Taiwan really is part of China, that is a distribution model that would make RT or Sputnik or some of the Russian propaganda models pale in comparison.”
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Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream put it succinctly. “There’s bipartisan agreement on that,” Bream told Warner.
Schumer has said, according to the Wall Street Journal, “There are 110 million Americans who have information with TikTok, and the Chinese government could be grabbing every one of them.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has made the same point as Warner. “TikTok is currently a major security risk, both to our data security and to our national security,” Hawley said, according to the Journal.
TikTok can track its users’ keystrokes in its in-app browser, according to one investigation. In other words, the app can likely access its users’ passwords and credit card numbers.
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The storms are likely to come together fast enough to bring a heavy snowfall for much of central and northwestern New England and northeastern NY state on Christmas Day. A developing low pressure center will track out of Texas towards the Great Lakes, bringing abundant Gulf moisture and a slug of milder air. This is all ahead of the next system, which will bring plenty of rain to the mountains. But significant uncertainty still exists in the forecast, and there are a couple of scenarios for how this storm might play out. What we do know? In the evening, there will be a 20 percent chance of rain after midnight. Most of CNY could pick up a dusting to an inch or two before the rain changes to snow. We'll have more on that tomorrow. Travel problems are likely.
We'll see clearing into Tuesday as the storm exits and arctic cold pushes into the region.
Yorkers might wake up to snow on Christmas after a light snowfall the night before.
Confidence is still low whether this will happen or not.
Overnight Sunday into Christmas morning, our next storm moves through, dropping snow for many, though a rain/snow line may set up in southeast MA.
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Gas Usage and Cost Management
in Photovoltaics and High-Brightness LEDs
BY DR. ANISH TOLIA
A view of the gases critical to PV and HB-LED
manufacturing, and how they determine the
cost-effectiveness of these devices.
Energy is one of the mega-trends driving the world economy today. Clean energy, particularly photovol- taics (PV), is an area of major investment and growth
as a source of green energy production. Industrial gases
play a very significant role in the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells and a critical part in reducing cost of PV in
the march to grid parity.
Lighting applications account for around one third of
global electricity usage, so energy efficient lighting can
significantly reduce growth in electricity demand. High-brightness LED (HB-LED) lighting is seen as the ultimate
low-power, long-life lighting technology. The HB-LED
industry is also growing rapidly at over 30% per year. Once
again, industrial gases play a significant part in the technology used to manufacture LED chips.
This article aims to highlight the role of gases in these
two important green technologies with emphasis on
efficiency, cost management and scaling for large scale
By the end of 2010, approximately 40G W of solar modules were installed worldwide. 16.6GW of modules were
added—this is solar module installations rather than manufacturing capacity. While the EU demand accounted for
Technology Relative gas intensity
Crystalline silicon cells 1.0 (excluding polysilicon and wafer)
CIGS / Cd Tel thin film
Silicon thin film
0.9 – 1.2
10-20 depending on equipment
Table 1. Relative gas intensity vs. PV technology
80% of the PV capacity, manufacturing is shifting to Asia.
For instance, China produces around half of the world‘s
crystalline silicon cells and modules.
The market for gases used in PV manufacturing is large,
but varies significantly depending on which technology is
employed to manufacture the PV cells (see Table 1).
Gas requirements for copper indium gallium diselenide
(CIGS) and cadmium telluride (Cd Tel) technologies are
largely bulk atmospheric gases such as nitrogen or argon,
while crystalline or thin film silicon requires a much wider
range of atmospheric and special gases.
Gases in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell
While manufacturing processes will vary between
different equipment platforms, the gas component of
a crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell is typically between 2 and
3%. However, with around 60% of the overall cell costs
contributed by the silicon wafer itself, cost management
has largely focused on optimizing wafer production and
reducing silicon losses in the ingot sawing process. Table
2 lists the typical gases used in c-Si processes.
In the primary gas using process, silane and ammonia
are used in combination via plasma deposition to grow
a silicon nitride anti-reflective coating, while carbon tetrafluoromethane is used to plasma etch certain parts of
Currently, many other process steps such as etching
and cleaning are carried out using wet chemicals. However, as cost reduction drives wafers to ever smaller thicknesses (sub - 120µm) some wet processes will become
challenging—not only because of the physical impact on
the wafers, but also due to the very large scale of chemical


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Zephyr: A CGA Jam Post Mortem
So, after two long weeks, CGA Jam has come to a close, and while the end product was certainly...less than I had hoped, I feel like I had learned a harsh and well needed lesson about deadlines that shorter jams like Ludum Dare just don't teach.
At the beginning of these two weeks, I had been initially very excited, both because the theme of the jam inspired me (I found working with the CGA Palettes to be a ton of fun!), and because of the length of time of the jam. I had thought to myself "Wow, if I can make a prototype in 2 days for Ludum Dare, imagine what I could make in 2 weeks!" Sadly, my over-enthusiasm ended up leading to rampant feature creep, and I ended up with a buggy and unfinished mess of a game, with a ton of content developed not even ending up in the final product.
I do hope to make this game a side project after a lot of fixing up, and my first attempt at continuing a jam game (not counting the short lived attempts to revive Bytt Strikes Back) should be hopefully be interesting for you to watch as I post my updates. Apologies for the current state of the game, but I promise it'll get better...I hope.
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is always a danger in auto racing
. You are strapped in a car so tightly your body cannot easily move. In fact, if you can turn your chest even a bit, you aren't in tightly enough. Your helmet
is bulky and restricting in closed roof cars. If the car has doors, you will have door bars
and a top loop from the roll cage
impeding your exit. Usually the steering wheel
must be removed before the driver
can exit the car. When I first started racing, one test my crew made me do is to time my exit from the car when I was fully strapped in, helmet on. It took me twenty-five seconds. That's good, but twenty-five seconds is a long time in a burning car.
Race cars burn. First of all they carry lots of fuel, which is usually gasoline. Champ cars burn alcohol which produces an invisible flame. Oil can burn. Long races require refueling, and any time gas is not in a container their is a risk of fire and explosion.
Fuel is usually in or near the cockpit. In formula car the tank is usually integrated into the tub which means it is just below the driver's seat. That location isn't an accident. As fuel is burned that changes the weight balance of the car, which affects its handling. Putting the tank near the center minimizes the effects of the weight change, making the car more neutral in its balance. In modified automobiles the fuel lines usually run through the passenger compartment, usually under where the passenger seat used to be. The General Competition Rules of the Sports Car Club of America requres they be made of armored cable, usually aeroquip, for safety. Fuel lines still can leak or become damaged. I personally witnessed catastrophic clutch explosion during qualifying at the Runoffs in 2001. The bellhousing of a GT-3 Mazda RX-7 was reduced to tiny metal fragments and the driver bailed out, his car aflame from cut lines.
In the old days fire used to kill drivers right and left. Fuel cell technology was only developed in the 1970's. That meant race cars used a conventional fuel tank which was easily penetrated during a crash. The first driver's suits were made of cotton with maybe a leather helmet. In 1970 I got to see Swede Savage drive in a Trans Am race at Mid Ohio. He gave a great drive, and led for a time against an all-star field. In 1973 he crashed while leading the Indianapolis 500. His fuel tank burst, and Savage recieved 3rd degree burns over 60% of his body. The national media carried a picture of him as he was loaded onto the ambulance fully conscious and in utter angony as he stared at his charred skin. Three days later he died. It used to be that every major race series would lose one driver every year, and fire was a major cause. The year Savage died, three people were killed at Indy, including one of Savage's crew, Armondo Teiran. Burns take a long time to heal, and burned people take their time dying.
The first real fire suits appeared in the 1970's and they were made of Nomex. Top fuel drivers often coated their suits with a metallic layer in order to protect themselves from oil spray, as drag racing engines at that level are basically bombs waiting for an excuse to go off. The protective layers would keep flame from the body, and provide a protection from heat that was disproportionate to weight. Most importantly, they won't burn, whereas previous suits would add fuel to the fire.
The SCCA requires that all drivers wear at least two layers of nomex, to provide a minimum SFI rating of 4.5. That means the driver is protected for four point five seconds. A 6.5 rating is possible with a three layer suit and underwear. That's not long in a fire, but all cars also carry a fire extinguisher and in the faster classes all that is required to discharge it is to punch a button. Fuel cell technology has all but eliminated the massive fuel dumps that used to accompany accidents. When a car goes off and it looks like trouble, a corner worker will run to the car from the nearest corner station. He or she always carries a fire bottle, which they are trained to use. I practice fighting car fires every year, and we discharge live bottles on burning cars in training. Corner workers can signal for a fire truck at the drop of a hat, and even request that a race be cut off.. The combination of suit, extinguishers, and your friendly neighborhood F&C worker gives drivers a fighting chance. Today burns are relatively rare, and usually minor.
A good firesuit and helmet combo costs about a thousand US dollars. It should be custom fitted if possible, it costs a bit more, but makes you much more comfortable in the car, while preserving mobility. It consists of a crash helmet with a Snell 95 rating or later, suit, gloves, neck support and shoes. Open-wheeled and open top racers must use a full face helmet. For stock bodied cars, the closed helmet is optional, but I chose to use one anyway.
Two layers of nomex are required. I use a single layer suit, with full underwear ( which resembles long johns) including socks. Bearded drivers must wear a nomex balaclava. Gloves and shoes are also required, and must be carefully fitted. The driver must also wear either a neck brace or HANS device. I learned to believe in mine when I backed into a tree at 80 MPH.
With two and three layer suits available, the driver has many protection combinations available. Each layer insulates, and that means that more layers means a hotter driver under normal conditions. Race cars can get very hot inside, particularly during a summer endurance race.
Racing is not a safe sport. Even the great Ayrton Senna was killed racing. But it is not the great crapshoot it was during the fifties and sixties, when death was to be expected. Today most drivers survive to retire. Fire suits are a big reason why.
Today all racing wheels are designed to be detachable, by pulling a little ring inward at the hub. In the past this is not always so. There is a story of the great Graham Hill being trapped upside down in his Lotus unable to get out because he could not remove the wheel. After that day, every lotus went out with a small wrench taped to the steering wheel, so the driver could unbolt it. Imagine how long that would have taken during a fire. And the suits were cotton back then. When Dan Gurney won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa his Eagle race car had no seat belts, in the hopes that he woud be thrown from the car. That says something.


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Shoulder pain is a common complaint among baseball pitchers. Frequently, the nature of shoulder pathology can be traced to lack of flexibility and muscular imbalance. This paper describes: the normal biomechanics of a properly functioning shoulder during a baseball pitch, pathomechanics of shoulder problems, flexibility requirements of the throwing shoulder, and the muscular balance necessary for an effective throwing shoulder. Appropriate examination procedures are described along with remedial exercises which ensure normal glenohumeral motion and integrated muscle action.
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Carla Dennis, Arjun Kanungo and Shehnaz Gill pose for a photograph.
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Punjabi sensational singer and Bigg Boss 13 contestant Shehnaaz Gill has collaborated with pop star Arjun Kanungo to come up with an unplugged cover version of the hit song, 'Dil diyan gallan.'
The song was originally sung by Atif Aslam for the Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif-starrer "Tiger Zinda Hai."
The romantic track was one of the biggest hits of 2017, and now Shehnaaz has attempted a cover with Arjun, who is best known for his peppy number "Baaki baatein peene baad."
Sharing the link of the track's video, Shehnaaz wrote on Instagram Story: "Wait is over. Full video out." In the musical clip, we see Shenaaz and Arjun singing the song, and fans are amused by Shehnaaz's singing skills.
"Beautifully sung," a user commented.
"Salman Khan will be so happy to hear this angelic voice," another user wrote.
A day ago, Shehnaaz uploaded a photograph of herself posing along with Arjun and his girlfriend Carla Dennis.
Shehnaaz Kaur Gill has been trending for the past three days on social media with the hashtag #ILoveShehnaazBcoz.
After her much-loved journey by fans, in the Big Boss house, Shehnaaz started actively interacting with everyone on social media.
During the coronavirus lockdown she started to lose weight and gained more popularity for the same.
After losing around 12 kgs in around 6 months she became the talk of the town.
Sidnaaz ki barbad fan said, “When Queen @ishehnaaz_gill herself is here to protect her king @sidharth_shuklaI don't think anything else is needed.”
"We don't need anyone's assurance about our love and faith on them.
"Sidharth shehnaz sath thee isiliye #SidNaaz Bana... I Stan King and Queen”
Another Shehnaaz lover Manasa (Shehnaz ki one sided behen) said, “Watched the Live for the 200th time! @ishehnaaz_gill.
"This bub looked absolutely stunning and her words of wisdom, the way she spoke and the way she conducted herself was just out of this world! She is a precious little bean. I am such a proud Stan! I love you bubba! #ShehnaazGiIl.”
She has also started sharing gifts sent by her fans and followers on social media, which has thousands of likes for her appreciation.
Sources at the hospital said she was brought at around 1.30 am on Monday, adding that she had developed pneumonia and left ventricular failure.
In the sad passing away of the Indian singer, Lata Mangeshkar, India has lost one of its most talented daughters. Lata Mangeshkar sang over 30,000 songs in around 1,000 films, in 36 languages. She became the voice of India. Her melodious voice made lyrics
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said in his tribute: "Saddened to learn about the untimely demise of noted #Bollywood singer #KrishnakumarKunnath popularly known as #KK.
Akanksha's mother Madhu said that her daughter was very courageous and that she could not have committed suicide.
The girls had also drawn a curly moustache and a goatee around his lips, and gave him a unibrow with black eyeliner.
In videos shared on social media, the singer can be heard saying: “Playing to 4,000 people for 34 nights is not enough, and I know that.


The Sun Odyssey 52.2 is still a very popular boat. Now, in order to respond to the needs of our customers, we introduce 2 new interior layouts : 3 cabin owner's version : The forward head now has a separate shower compartment to starboard. On the port side, there's a new storage area as well as a huge hanging locker for easy and practical access. Thanks to the new layout, a skippers cabin will be available as well. 4 cabin version : This layout can be converted to a 3 cabin by a system of folding bulkheads in the forward cabin.
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Length overall 15.39 m / 50'6"
Hull length 14.94 m / 49'
Standard keel draught 2 m / 6'7"
Weight 5050 kg / 11133 Lbs
Max people 8 personnes
Fuel capacity 400 l / 106 US gal
Water capacity 860 l / 227 US gal
Cabins 3 à 5 cabines
Available Engines 75-100 hp
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With the clocks going back in Europe this weekend, most of us will probably be looking forward to that extra hour in bed. But that joy of catching up on sleep is always short-lived, when throughout the winter we have to cope with longer, darker evenings.
In some countries, there have been intense debates on whether there should instead be permanent daylight saving, with the clocks shifted forward by an additional hour year round. A proposal known as “Single/Double Summer Time” could see the UK enjoying later sunsets, as it adopts the same time as mainland Europe, essentially GMT+1 hour in the winter and GMT+2 hours in the summer.
Supporters of the proposals say that the changes could lead to fewer road accidents, more leisure time, improved energy efficiency and boosts to the economy, while some early risers including laborers and farmers oppose the changes as they would have to face darker mornings. But now an additional argument has been brought to the table which may help win further support for the change.
New research published in International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity has shown that having later sunsets may also lead to important public health benefits, through an increase in children’s physical activity.
The researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Bristol looked at data from over 23,000 children in nine countries (England, Australia, USA, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Switzerland, Brazil and Madeira, Portugal) and studied the associations between the time of sunset and their physical activity levels, measured via waist-worn accelerometers.
They found that children’s total daily activity levels were up to 20% higher on summer days with sunset after 9pm, compared to winter days with sunset before 5pm. This was particularly the case in the European and Australian populations, and was observed even after the researchers adjusted for weather conditions and temperature. The authors say that this provides the strongest evidence to date that evening daylight plays a causal role in increasing physical activity in the late afternoon and early evening, which are the ‘critical hours’ for children’s outdoor play.
This new evidence could be important in contributing to ongoing political discussions around the introduction of additional daylight saving. A bill was debated in British Parliament between 2010 and 2012, with proposals which would have seen the UK population having an estimated 200 extra waking daylight hours per year. And several Australian states have also held repeated referenda on the topic, with the issue spawning the creation of the single-issue political party ‘Daylight Saving for South East Queensland’ in 2008. But so far no changes have occurred in either country.
The researchers estimate that additional daylight savings would lead to an average of two extra minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per child per day. While this difference might appear modest and may not compare to targeted initiatives that get children exercising and tackle obesity, the incredible potential of these proposals comes from how prevalent and widespread they could be throughout entire populations.
Not only were the effects on activity levels found to be broadly equitable, among girls and boys, obese children and normal weight children, and children from different socio-economic backgrounds, but introducing additional daylight savings measures would be a change that affects each and every child in the country, every day of the year. This means that it could have a far greater reach than most other potential policy initiatives to improve public health.


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CHICAGO (TheStreet) -- Since the Supreme Court refused to narrow patents on software and business methods two years ago, there has been a patent market boom.
Just last month,
spent $1 billion on
patents. This followed
$12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, allegedly for its patents, and the $4.5 billion purchase of
patents by a consortium of big tech outfits.
Analysts are now treating patents the way they do cows or acreage, offering per-patent estimates on bulk lots and looking forward to future sales of patent portfolios by the likes of
If the gold rush ends, however, credit
Posner, an esteemed conservative theorist is now a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, and is currently sitting in as a trial judge.
But this is no ordinary patent trial. It's
v. Motorola. The unit of Motorola being sued is the one Google is buying.
Reporters are covering this one like it's a sports story. Among all the Android patent trials now going on around the world, this one may indeed be the Super Bowl. Apple alone has 30 lawyers on the case, charging Motorola with violating six key patents, while Motorola charges Apple with violating three of its own.
So far Posner has been going through motions. Most reporters will ignore the story until the trial, which is not expected to start until June. That would be a mistake, because the decisions a patent judge makes before trial, concerning what the trial will actually cover, can tell a lot about what the final result may be.
Posner has made many rulings already, but some trends now seem clear to me:
- He takes no nonsense. Posner has ruled Apple's claim constructions "superior," those of Motorola "ridiculous."
- You take risks when you bring broad patents to court. Posner has ruled one of Apple's patents invalid due to a lack of specificity.
- Discovery is going to be expensive. Posner has told Google to hand Apple data covering its development of Android.
- Only patents that are on point are going to be covered. Posner has identified one patent on "touchscreen heuristics" (Steve Jobs is listed as one of the inventors) as the centerpiece of the case.
The touch screen heuristics patent is Apple's ace. It would be very difficult for Android to invent its way around a basic patent on how one interacts with a touch screen.
Other courts may be taking note. A patent company called
has had its broad patent claims concerning the Web
in a Texas court. The case is Eolas Technologies Inc., v. Adobe Systems Inc. That same court, usually seen as especially friendly to patent holders, has also let Apple intervene in a case against another
, filed against its developers.
My own view is that what Posner has done so far to narrow the terms of debate, raise the cost of litigation, and demand clarity from litigants is drawing attention across the patent bar. This is without doubt a good thing.
Gradually, under Posner's leadership, the patent gold rush could now play out, with only the shiniest nuggets being judged valid and all parties being told that negotiating is a better way to handle commercial disputes than the warfare of trial. It won't end the patent debate, but it should encourage the biggest tech players to see that they'll make more profit doing business than fighting one another in court.
It may prove Posner's greatest contribution to the law yet.
At the time of publication, Dana Blankenhorn owned shares of both Apple and Google.


A new Volkswagen model will be arriving in Canada: the sporty and incredibly beautiful 2019 Volkswagen Arteon. First unveiled in Geneva last year and later at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto, the 2019 Volkswagen Arteon is expected to hit the market this year. As a replacement of the Volkswagen CC, the Arteon is set to combine design and luxury in a way that only Volkswagen knows how.
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The 2019 Volkswagen Arteon will feature a wide range of features and amenities, starting with heated front and rear leather seats, 18-inch wheels, a three-zone climate control system, and an 8-inch touchscreen. Moreover, your front seats can be cooled, and 19-inch wheels will be available.
Under the hood, the 2019 Volkswagen Arteon features a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with 268 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. This engine will be paired with an 8-speed automatic and 4Motion all-wheel drive.
Expect a spacious interior despite the Arteon’s coupe-like design, as well as the latest in safety technology. The 2019 Volkswagen Arteon will be built on VW’s modular MQB platform. Contact us today at Martin Grove Volkswagen to learn more.


Through a Strategic Implementation Plan, the University of Utah is revamping the Research Park into a new innovation district integrating both residential and commercial uses. Site upgrades include rerouting of several major roadway corridors, implementing a gridded street network, creek daylighting and restoration, and opportunities for TRAX expansion into the district. BKF supported the planning efforts with utility stakeholder outreach and civil engineering technical support.
BKF initially prepared background studies that assessed the condition of the existing infrastructure to serve the district. After the initial planning, BKF helped develop strategies for the roadway and utility corridor realignments and analyzed the utility improvements needed to serve the buildout of the Research Park. These included district-scaled water and wastewater reuse assessments, stormwater management, and phasing of the improvements. Rough order of magnitude cost estimates supported the phasing and implementation strategies.
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Chichester athletes enjoy fine day of cross-country at Stanmer
A squad of more than 40 Chichester athletes returned to Stanmer Park, Brighton, where conditions could not have been more different from the previous Sussex Cross Country League fixture at the beginning of the month.
Instead of driving wind and rain, runners were greeted by a crisp, dry day with underfoot conditions perfect for racing.
The day was mixed for Chichester with the juniors continuing to make the steady progress they have shown all season while the two senior teams had wildly different results.
Senior men and women
Both the club’s senior teams are in the top division at present but after Saturday, it looks as though, barring miracles, the women are certain to slide into division two for next season.
The senior men’s race was strengthened by athletes who had competed in the UK trials for the forthcoming European Championships.
It was therefore credit to the last fixture’s winner, Chichester’s under-20 Ned Potter, that he took the initiative and led the pack on the first of the three laps. Last time’s third-placer James Baker had a more cautious start but at two-thirds distance he had jumped up into the top ten and was hot on the heels of Potter in fifth.
These two held on to their places until the finish and were just half a minute adrift of the winner after 8k of gruelling running. Behind the club’s leading pair was consistent Will Boutwood in 19th while John Peters got the better of Conrad Meagher, the pair 39th and 47th.
Another of the club’s under-20s, Brodie Keates, was the sixth scorer for the A team in 86th enabling them to claim fifth place, still giving them an outside chance of a team medal at the final fixture in Bexhill in February.
The B team was led home by veteran Jon Edgar in 114th, 48th veteran, with the remaining three places occupied by another three under-20s, Harry Sage in 125th, Fred Austin 127th and David Bisatt 136th.
It was a matter of veteran dominance for the C team with Tim Brown in 140th, Paul Stallard 146th, Mike Moorcroft 151st and Peter Dunne 173rd. Tom Blaylock was 174th, Peter Anderson 187th and Peter Shaw was the second over-70 to finish.
Chichester’s women, in contrast, were severely depleted with none of their A team available. But brave runs from two under-17s and three veterans at least cave the club a team score in all three categories, under-17, veteran and senior.
While the under-17s still have an outside chance of team medals in the final fixture, the writing is on the wall for the seniors and their eight-year stay in the top division with a 150-point gap to safety almost impossible to bridge with just one match left.
Veteran Aleksandra Vargin led the way in 60th followed by two under-17s, Amelia Bromell in 76th and Rose Potter 94th, 15th and 17th in their age group.
Sue Baker completed the scoring in 101st with reserve Wendy Whelan 115th, the pair occupying the top two places in the over-65 age group.
Both the club’s under-13 teams had solid team performances with the boys achieving a well-deserved second place.
Josh Dunne put the disappointment of a severe stitch in the previous fixture behind him with a well-controlled performance. He opted for a steady start and allowed the leaders to open up a gap on the first lap and gradually closed on their advantage to finish third, just five seconds behind the winner.
With Alessandro Schmitt in 13th and Will Bailey 17th, their team total of 33 points brought them closer to the medal positions.
There was incredibly close packing from the B team with Josh Eaton 42nd, Sam Cato 45th and Digby Fulford 46th and just nine seconds separating the three.
The under-13 girls packed well to finish fourth with Carrie Anelay in 16th just a few strides ahead of Anya Barrett in 17th and Florence Ingram 21st, with reserve Millie Isitt in 32nd.
Shortly to move up to the under-13s is Grace Howarth, who was a good 14th in the under-11 race.
Matching their younger team-mates, Chichester’s under-15 showed great team packing and nowhere was this more evident than in the girls’ race, with the Chichester quartet occupying four consecutive places for the first time ever.
With the fight to be first home for the club changing hands throughout, Issy Isitt led the club home on 20th place, followed by Amelie McGurk 21st, Tamsin Anelay 22nd and Gemma Appleton 23rd, separated by just ten seconds after four kilometres of running.
For the boys Joe McLarnon kept pace with the leading group of ten for the first lap but just lost a bit of ground at the end but still was under a minute behind the winner at the finish.
Hal Edgar and Gabe White battled all the way for next club spot and finished in 30th and 31st respectively.
New member James Davies did himself justice in his first race for the club to finish a creditable 42nd, well in touch with the main pack.
* Chichester’s cross-country squad are next in action will be in the Sussex county championships in Bexhill on Saturday, January 4, when team and individual medals will be up for grabs as well as places in the Sussex teams for the national inter-county championships in March.


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For the fourth year running, fast food restaurants have seen business growing during the morning rush. Even as Americans cut back on dining out for lunch and dinner, new research found that restaurant visits for breakfast are on the rise. According to The NPD Group, a research company, there were more than 12.5 billion breakfast visits to U.S. restaurants in 2013, up three percent from the year before. Visits to "quick service" restaurants fast food were up even more, at four percent.
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Pin with the Spanish coat of arms owned by an International Brigade member
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The collection consists of a lapel pin, a cufflink, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg, a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Pin belonging to Hans Landesberg, who was a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Consists of material related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg. Includes passports, photographs of family members and of Dr. Landesberg in the Sidi-el-Ayashi concentration camp in Morocco, correspondence, official papers, and a brief memoir describing his experiences, both in German and in English.

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August 16, 2021
The NADO/BSE Victory Ranked Series - Couples Remote League Event!
Virtual Couples League The registration period will start on August 16, 2021 and end on September 12, 2021. NO LATE ENTRIES.
-The league will start on September 27, 2021. It is a league in virtual format so the winner of each match will be determined by the average VRS MPR of each player / team at the end of the highest matchday.
- Each Match will have a duration of one week, thus giving the possibility for players to play their minimum number of games on the days and hours that suit them best.
This is a league in virtual format so the winner of each match will be determined by the average VRS MPR of each player / team at the end of the highest matchday.
Each Match will have a duration of one week, thus giving the possibility for players to play their minimum number of games on the days and hours that suit them best.
Players may compete at any participating location. Contact us at Midstate Amusements to talk about getting your bar signed up.
*A hot button is required - we sell them at our office in Fdl if you don't have one yet*
Locations are signed up through their NADO Franchisee (Midstate Amusement Games). Franchisees should contact NADO with a list of locations where they would like the VRS Tournament downloaded. We will then include your locations into the NADO/BSE VRS Program. NADO has exclusive rights to Bullshooter Europe events in the U.S. and Canada.
VRS (Virtual Ranked Series) is a series of promotions that allow a competition to take place regardless of the traditional or online leagues.
It is a system that can be played by anyone, at any time.
It is based on an average system in which the program takes the best games played, creates an average and then classifies the player according to their MPR / PPD.
VRS allows players to play when they want, and does not oppose a schedule, local customs, holidays or other leagues.
VRS promotions are designed so that players of any level can participate and are able to win prize.
- Starts on October 1, 2021 and end on December 31, 2021.
- It consists of 3 qualifiers similar to the Elites promotion. In this case, each qualifier will last a month.
- 3 or 4 levels of play.
- At the end of the promotion, 16 players who have obtained the most points of each level, will play in an online face-to-face chart in which the 3 finalist players will obtain a cash prize.
- It will start on November 1, 2021 and end on November 30, 2021.
- Same as the "Summer Shirt" promotion, being a top 200 chart.
- It will start on December 1, 2021 and end on December 31, 2021.
- Same as the "Elites 2" promotion.
How to participate in VRS:
1- Access the championship mode on your G3 machine
2- Enter the Victory Ranked Series (VRS) menu
3- Select the competition you wish to play
4- Mark the option to start playing
5- Enter your HotButton in the slot of your G3
6- Once the system has been recognized just press on "Start game"
*All games are reviewed and refereed. Those players who have been detected cheating will be completely disqualified from the competition.
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Tomato Chutney is a type of condiment that can eaten along with an Indian meal. It uses fresh tomatoes that are cooked along with curry leaves and different Indian spices till it becomes thick and almost “jammy.” It is sweet, spicy, seasoned with different masalas and loads of fresh tomato flavor!
It is a perfect addition to any Indian meal, or can be eaten alone with some hot puri, paratha, or roti bread as a heavier breakfast item! One of the most simplest, yet tastiest way to eat this chutney is with hot, fresh french fries. Instead of your traditional ketchup, you can use this tomato chutney to give your simple side items a bit more life and flavor!
- 5 ripe medium size roma tomatoes (cored and coarsely chopped)
- 1 Tbsp. fresh garlic (grated/minced/paste) – 3 cloves
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup of oil
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 1 Tbsp. Madras curry powder
- ½ tsp. turmeric
- 2 tsp. red chili powder
- ½ tsp. fenugreek seeds (yellow)
- Pinch of hing (asafoetida)
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamom
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- Add all ingredients into a medium saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring consistently.
- Reduce heat to simmer and allow to cook for about 1hr, till it becomes thick and jammy. Make sure to keep stirring.
- Serve at room temperature or place in an air-tight mason jar or bottle to refrigerate.
In order to get a better understanding of what spices are needed in this recipe, OR simply, what they look like so you can purchase at the store, I would like to recommend you take a look at my INDIAN SPICE page for more information: https://spiceculturecooking.com/indian-spices/
Pretty simple right? Sometimes the best recipes, are the easiest! This tomato chutney will really give you a better idea of how delicious Indian foods can be, whether they are a main item or side!

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