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Astro City Through Open Doors HC (Kurt Busiek's Astro City) Hardcover – 24 Apr 2014
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There are quite a bit of storylines that seems to be mysteriously intertwined in this story arch, and true to form for this series, we get to see from the viewpoint of the everyday inhabitants with a few peaks from superheroes both old and new. The covers from Alex Ross remain as beautiful as ever, and while Brent Anderson's art is not the flashiest nor the most modern, his clean storytelling is perfect for this series and I got quite a kick of his takes on modifying his art style to fit several flashback sequences set in various eras.
As usual, it is not required to have prior knowledge of Astro City to enjoy this new series, but older fans will get a kick over seeing some of our favorite superheroes, plus some everyday characters from the past.
I am happy to say that despite the dubious quality of DC's hardcovers, both from the quality of the materials and inclusion of extras, we have the standard Astro City hardcover with its logo watermark, plus the usual sketches & designs for new characters (but where is the foreword and the ribbon?) and the new illustration for the dust jacket is pretty nice too.
All in all there is something for everyone here; older fans of the series, comic books fans in general and anybody just interested in good quality entertainment, and with the recent pace with the release schedule of the comic book we should be seeing some more volumes relatively soon....can you say Confessor?
We kick off with a mysterious being called the Broken Man talking right to the reader, worried about some threat coming that can be anywhere and now we're his agents. Busiek actually pokes fun at complaints over "The Dark Age" with new heroine American Chiba and the Broken Man saying "you spend years talking about stuff that happened 30 years ago, you miss a lot." A massive door opens unveiling an alien who, in a priceless moment, booms out in a loud voice but then adjusts the volume of his communicator before politely introducing himself. In another brilliant touch, Busiek brings back the father and daughters from all the way back in the first issue of "Family Album" for a nice update that sets things into motion.
A two-parter focuses on a young woman who goes to work for the special hotline that gets information for super-team the Honor Guard. Besides giving us looks at new heroes like Wolfspider, we see the woman shaken when a simple call turns into a huge crisis, her guilt over it questioning what being a hero means. A great one-off issues looks at "Sideliners," people with super-powers who prefer to stick to normal lives, not hero or villain, such as an elderly telekinetic who does special effects work. It's great with humor as they're kidnapped by a would-be conquerer who badly underestimates how this isn't the first time it's happened to them. Another issue has Broken Man sharing odd tales of the past from a monster hunter to a female steampunk style adventurer with promises of them tying into the plot later. Then, a look at a small-time mob guy who sees an opportunity for power but wonders if it's worth risking a happy life.
The genius of the book is amazing as they can introduce a new character and in only moments, make them feel as long-lived as Superman or Spider-Man. Alex Ross' covers are still brilliant and Brent Anderson's pencils are as sharp as ever, selling the grandeur of these heroes but also the reactions of the common folk around too. These characters feel so amazingly real from the telekinetic who treats kidnapping as just a minor annoyance to the struggle of the woman on the hotline stricken with guilt, you feel for them and want to know more of their struggles and lives. It's wonderful how this book is classic super-heroes at their best and yet still feels exciting and new, an amazing gift for any creator. As ever, the collected editions include sketch work on the characters with notes by Busiek who hints this is just the beginning of a new age for the title. Whether it's your first trip or a returning visit, "Astro City" is always the place to be for any comic book lover and this volume is a clear example why.
“Through Open Doors” is the eighth installment in Busiek’s Astro City series, which has the packaging of a standard superhero comic but involves something very different – and spectacular – underneath. The series treats the superheroic as backdrop for the quotidian and the human. Stories center not on the grandness of the superheroes and their accompanying villains, but on far more relatable dramas of ordinary life. And so it is that in telling these tales, Busiek reverses the formula: he has written an ambitious series of interconnected graphic novels cloaked as mere genre fiction.
In this volume, for example, we witness the hopes and anxieties of an ordinary woman working in a response center that receives calls and analyzes data to alert superheroes to super-emergencies, and we observe the domestic life of a man who is certainly villainous, but also devoted to his family. Not that Busiek entirely ignores the pleasures of genre fiction, however: we are also introduced to a sinister and immersive plot involving an entity called the Oubor – you will have to read the story yourself to find out more, but know that the arc isn’t resolved by the end of the volume.
The Astro City series hasn’t disappointed yet. If you aren’t familiar with it, start from the beginning and don’t stop until the end. And if you are up to date, then you already know what a treat this volume will be.
In one we meet a woman working for a superhero team's call center under the enormous pressure of screening calls from around the world and trying to figure out if this is a crazy person, or a vital clue. In another we hear from a local mob boss who gets a chance at the big time. Busiek even pokes fun at his own overused structures by having a narrator interupt stories halfway through. All of the stories are marked by innovative ideas, strong character design by Alex Ross and memorable characters who feel real. We even meet the veteran of a story from a few years ago and see how he's doing.
I can see this outsider view of superheroes getting a bit stale, but so far Busiek has kept it fresh and I'll definitely be back for more.

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Karla Kelling Sclater is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Washington. Her dissertation examines the lives of the female working poor in nineteenth-century Philadelphia. She has published “Rise of the Free Soil Party,” and “Formation of Factory Girls’ Association in Lowell, Massachusetts” in Alice Kessler-Harris, ed., The Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide (Chicago: Gale Group, 2003); “The Labor and Radical Press 1820-the present,” The Labor Press Project, and a vignette, “Nettie J. Asberry: African American Club Woman in the Pacific Northwest” in Quintard Taylor and Shirley Moore, eds.’ African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). Her areas of study include African American, Labor, and Women’s History.
Grafton Tyler Brown was a cartographer, lithographer, and painter, widely considered the first professional African American artist in California. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1841, Brown learned lithography in Philadelphia and then became part of a cohort of African Americans who sought better economic and … Read MoreGrafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)

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Demolishing the myths surrounding Mary Seacole.
Helen Rappaport’s In Search of Mary Seacole is a major new study of its Jamaican-born subject, voted top of the list in a 2004 poll of ‘100 Great Black Britons’ and previously the subject of various hagiographies. Rappaport’s work is thoroughly documented. She has discovered a significant amount of new material, such as the record of Seacole’s Catholic baptism as an adult in Jamaica in 1848, plus frequent references to her in contemporary newspapers, confirming the extent of Seacole’s celebrity in Britain in the years after the Crimean War.
Various myths are demolished. The short-lived Mr Seacole could not have been, as some have speculated, an illegitimate child of Horatio Nelson. Rappaport also offers a perceptive discussion of the much-debated question as to whether Seacole can, or should, be described as a nurse. Nursing was not a trained or organised profession at the time and academic medicine was far from achieving modern standards of efficacy. Seacole’s use of traditional remedies she had learnt in Jamaica, combined with an emphasis on good food, caring attention and occasionally leaving nature to take its course probably did more good and less harm in Panama and the Crimea than the efforts of professionally trained doctors. Perhaps most importantly, Rappaport stresses that describing Seacole as the ‘Black Florence Nightingale’ or pitting the two against each other as rivals in a zero-sum game does both a disservice.
Rappaport’s discoveries include two particular surprises. After the Crimean War and her return to England, Seacole went back to Jamaica and Central America. She was in Jamaica in 1865 at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion, a popular protest against widespread poverty which was brutally suppressed by the colonial governor, Edward Eyre, attracting considerable attention in Britain. Newspaper reports show that she publicly supported Eyre after her return to England at the end of 1865 and denounced as a ‘hypocrite’ and a ‘villain’ George William Gordon, the Jamaican politician who had allegedly encouraged the rebellion and who was hanged on Eyre’s orders. Gordon is now officially a National Hero in Jamaica, Eyre an example of the worst excesses of colonialism.
Startling though this may be, it ties in with the vexed question of how Seacole viewed her own identity. Would she have considered herself to be either ‘Black’ or ‘British’? Her memoir, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857) shows she was a strong supporter of the British Empire, but when she writes about ‘my country’ it is clear that she means Jamaica. She calls herself a ‘Creole’ and a ‘yellow woman’, emphasises her ‘good Scotch blood’, and makes disparaging remarks about people darker than herself and various ethnic groups. Yet Seacole denounced the racism of white Americans, claiming she had no desire to be ‘bleached white’, even if such a thing were possible.
Rappaport draws attention to recently discovered manuscript letters by Seacole, as well as her letters to the press, which demonstrate a high standard of literacy, and argues convincingly that the still unidentified editor was not a ghostwriter. In Search of Mary Seacole presents its subject as a woman and writer who overcame much and who resists the too easy categorisations of both her own time and ours.
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
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John T. Gilmore is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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Earth Day 2020 was celebrated differently this year, but Earth Day is a mindset, and we hope that you continue to celebrate Earth Day every day!
With the historical 50th anniversary of Earth Day of this year, Heritage Conservancy and Herald Publishing embarked on Protecting Our Local Waterways: A Collective Civic Initiative, which brought together dozens of environmental and local non-profits from around Bucks and Montgomery counties in PA as well as Hunterdon and Mercer counties in NJ.
The Bucks County Herald promoted events for free in a publication on April 16th, and then Heritage Conservancy’s intent was to gather the events’ metrics afterward to show the positive impact that we can make together as a community for our local waterways!
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Discussion in 'Strings [BG]' started by Grant22, Dec 28, 2005.
Any Ideas, it is used mostly in church.
What's playing in church got to do with anything? I see these church posts and wonder why. (sorry, small rant)
I've played all of my basses in church at one time or another. None of them have the same brand. Regular round wounds should do fine. Carvins rounds are a great value but I've had a set of Elixirs (more expensive but last longer) on for a couple years and still sounded great on my lb70p.
FWIW, on any given song that we play regularly, a different bass and groove add life to old songs.


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Now is prime apple harvesting season here in North Carolina and the largest apple-producing county in the state is Henderson County, which is just a stone’s throw away from the Lark Crafts office. The most widely grown apples in NC are Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Rome Beauty, and Galas. Of those, Rome Beauty and Golden Delicious are both excellent apple varieties to cook with, as are Fuji, Empire, Stayman, Granny Smith, and Jonagold to name a few others.
Some dishes, because they’re so simple, so delicious, and so satisfying, have caught the fancy of generations—their popularity never fades. Bread pudding is one of those dishes. And so in my salute to apple season, I give you the recipe for Apple Bread Pudding. As if that’s not yummy enough, take it up a notch with a good quality vanilla bean ice cream dusted with cinnamon.
Recipe after the jump
Apple Bread Pudding
7 Tbl butter, softened
8 slices firm, white bread
1/4 cup (50 g) granulated sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup (237 ml) heavy cream
3/4 cup (177 ml) Apple Cider Reduction (see recipe below)
1/2 cup (152 g) quince or apple jelly
4 cooking apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
2 Tbl confectioner’s sugar
1 Preheat the oven to 325° (163° C).
2 Coat a 6-cup (1.4 l) baking dish with 2 tablespoons of butter. Spread the remaining butter over one side of the bread slices. Cut each slice into quarters and layer the pieces inside the baking dish.
3 Whisk together the eggs, sugar, and cinnamon until well blended. Set aside. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the cream, apple cider reduction, and jelly, and bring to a simmer. Then wisk together the egg and cream mixtures, and pour over the bread.
4 Place the baking dish in a roasting pan and pour in enough hot water to reach halfway up the sides of the dish. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until the custard has set. While the pudding is baking, saute the apple slices in the remaining butter until golden, and set aside.
5 Remove the custard from the oven, dust with confectioner’s sugar, and place under a preheated broiler until the sugar is caramelized. Top with the browned apples. Serve with ice cream if desired.
Apple Cider Reduction
Note: reduction is the simple act of concentrating the flavor and increasing the body of a liquid by reducing the water in it.
4 1/2 cups (1.06 l) apple cider or fermented cider
1 Pour the apple cider into a saucepan that is large enough to be no more than half filled. Place the pan over high heat, and bring the liquid to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium—just high enough to maintain a very slow boil—and boil until the amount remaining is about 3/4 cup (177 ml). If you’re using fresh, unfiltered cider, use a small ladle to skim off the foam during this slow-boil stage. The final reduction should be as thick as maple syrup.
2 Remove the pan from the heat and allow the contents to cool. The reduction will keep for months, if it’s stored in a sterile, sealed jar. Refrigerate the jar after opening.
*Tip: for a spiced reduction, add a cinnamon stick and 2 whole cloves to the apple cider before starting the reduction process.
This recipe was excerpted from In Praise of Apples: A Harvest of History, Horticulture & Recipes, by Mark Rosenstein.

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A trailer and a release date has been released by Telltale Games for the next installment of The Wolf Among Us. Take a look at the trailer below, but be warned it contains spoilers if you haven’t completed the first two episodes (trailer courtesy of TelltaleGames).
The Wolf Among Us Episode 3- A Crooked Mile hits the PC and Macintosh worldwide on April 8, along with the PS3 in North America. PS3 in Europe gets it the following day, April 9, along with the Xbox 360 worldwide. The installment also releases for iOS next week, though no specific date was given for that. The series has been terrific so far. Stay tuned for our review after the release.
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This little gun is well made! Has a nice little pop, better than the continuous fire pistols. The hammer and trigger are hard for weak hands to operate but that's probably why it pops so nice. My four year old has learned to use it and wants one of his own. I like to use two caps at once to have even a louder pop. Amazing how many adults want to shoot it!


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While standard economic theory doesn’t predict that a higher minimum wage will necessarily reduce the number of hours of paid work by low-skilled workers – employers, for example, might adjust to the higher minimum wage exclusively by working all of their low-skilled workers harder – reduced employment for low-skilled workers remains among the most plausible consequences of the adjustments that employers inevitably will make to a rise in the minimum wage.
W.S. Siebert, an economist at the University of Birmingham, has a very nice article in the Summer 2013 issue of Economic Affairs reviewing much recent research on the employment effects of minimum-wage legislation. This research, in toto, pretty convincingly shows that higher minimum wages promote higher unemployment among low-skilled workers. Here’s a recent blog post that Prof. Siebert wrote to summarize his article’s findings . A slice:
In sum, while the UK evidence is thinner due to statistical problems, the research overall points to the minimum wage reducing employment as conventional economic theory predicts. In other words, the minimum wage undermines employment for the least productive whilst raising wages for others. The research also suggests that the workers who benefit are the better-off: where there is high unemployment there is heightened competition for jobs, with the better connected workers rather than the poor finding them. Thus, Ahn et al.’s (2011 ) research shows that, as the minimum wage increases, there is a shift in employment towards teenagers in families with highly educated heads and away from poorer groups.
My 16-year-old son, Thomas, understands that he is unlikely ever to suffer any direct, negative consequences of minimum-wage legislation. He correctly understands, in fact, that he’s likely to benefit from such legislation. The reason is that he’s a well-educated, well-spoken, intelligent, and mentally and physically healthy kid from an upper-middle-class, suburban, highly educated white family. He will be among the last low-skilled workers to lose, or not to get, a job because of the minimum wage. Indeed, his starting wage (the legislated minimum) likely will be slightly higher than it would be without the minimum wage.
Thomas’s mother and I – along with Thomas – should actually thank Congress for such legislation, for it makes Thomas (and our households) wealthier than otherwise. And because we don’t know or see the inner-city teenagers who, because of the minimum wage, do not get jobs, why should we care about them? They’re faceless. Strangers. Congress (with help from the D.C. government) artificially keeps those strangers out of the workforce, thus artificially increasing the demand for the labor services of my son.
Of course, I in fact believe – as do Thomas and his mom – that the benefit he gets because of minimum-wage legislation is utterly unwarranted. It’s a crime that he (and people like him) benefit at the expense of young people much more in need now than he is of good employment prospects.
How ironic that we relatively wealthy opponents of minimum-wage legislation are routinely accused of being selfish and blind.

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Who doesn’t love Indian food? And, among Indian food lovers, Chicken Tika Masala must be one of the absolute favorites.
I was sure it would work well in the crockpot, but it took me several tries to get a result that had the flavor I liked. In the end, I actually found the answer in a cookbook I already owned, Neela Paniz’ The New Indian Slow Cooker. The secret is to use the crockpot to make the sauce separately from the chicken. Then you can cook the chicken, add sauce to it like a simmering sauce, and you’ll also have left-over sauce to make other things.
Chicken Tika Masala
Adapted from "Tomato-Butter Sauce: Makhni" in The New Indian Slow Cooker by Neela Paniz.
Cut the butter in pieces, and put in the crock pot, set on high. Let the butter melt.
Measure the cream and half and half, and add the safron to begin soaking.
While waiting for the butter to melt, skin and bone the chicken thighs, and cut up into bite-sized pieces. 14 thighs should be about right to use all of the sauce, but you can freeze what sauce you don't need (without the chicken!), so only prepare as much chicken as you intend to eat. Return the chicken to the refrigerator.
Add the cream mixture to the crock pot, and mix well. Add the tomato sauce, then use the water to rinse the jars (rinse the firs jar, then pour from one jar to the next to get all the sauce), and add it as well.
Stir in the ginger, serrano peppers, garam masala, cumin, cayenne, salt, sugar, and fenugreek.
Cover, turn the heat to low, and let cook for the day.
When dinner time comes, brown the chicken in a little bit of olive oil. Add sauce to half-cover, and simmer until the chicken is cooked through.
Serve with rice and naan, garnished with a bit of chopped cilantro.
A ginger-peeling trick I just learned: don't use a vegetable peeler or a paring knife! Use the edge of a spoon. It will peel the ginger easily, and waste less, too.
Only prepare as much chicken as you intend to eat. The sauce that you don't eat can be put in jars and frozen, so it's ready to use the next time you want to have chicken tika masala. Or, you could use it on other things. I once made patty pan squash tika masala, and it was outstanding!
Instead of simply sauteing the chicken, you could also marinate it in yogurt, then grill it. That would taste even better! In that case, grill it whole, then cut into pieces after cooking it.


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We all have the memories and cherished stories of the first time the banjo came into our mind, and we were inspired to play. For some it was Pete Seeger, for others it was Earl Scruggs, or perhaps Bela Fleck. More recently it could have been Steve Martin or The Avett Brothers. For the 13 year old Greg Deering in 1963 it was The Kingston Trio. More specifically, their live Album Stereo Concert.
George Grove, 37-year veteran of The Kingston Trio (as of 2013), has been playing Deering banjos exclusively for over 25 years, both on-stage and in the recording studio. His custom Deering banjo known as "The Banjosaurus" was used for The Kingston Trio's CD Live At The Crazy Horse (released 1994). The "Tom Dooley Banjo" was used for the Trio's Christmas album, Glad Tidings (released December, 2009). And his "Vega Kingston Trio 'George Grove'" was used for their CD Born At The Right Time (released February, 2012). George says that his only problem with his Deering banjos is "which one shall I use? Each banjo has a distinctive voice and personality -- I wish I could tour with all three banjos!"


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This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to identify, apply and follow chain of responsibility legislation, regulations and workplace procedures in relation to heavy vehicles as they apply to an individual's own job role. It includes explaining the chain of responsibility features, applying the requirements, and identifying and reporting breaches in the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and regulations or applicable state/territory law and regulations.
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PIONEER FRIENDS OF DAVY CROCKETT BOARD MEETING
April 7, 2011
Attendees: Heather Youngblood, Pam Etheredge, Bob Etheredge, Neal Boger, Doug Ledbetter, Dale
Trombley, Geri Ann Lockman, Ed Ruch, Joan Ruch, Mark Halback
March minutes read and approved
Treasurer’s report read and approved
Old Business: The park needs a utility trailer. Quotes were presented at the March board meeting. It
was proposed that the Friends group spend $850 for a 5’ x 8’ trailer.
Motion: made by Dale Trombley to purchase the trailer
Seconded: by Pam Etheredge
Park Ranger Dawn Coleman asked during the March meeting for 4 grills for the park.
It was discussed and tabled until next year.
Park Manager Mark Halback discussed the need for volunteers to help with park chores
such as picking up trash, cleaning the pool, etc.
Crockett Days committee will meet again in May. The meeting date to be determined at
the May board meeting.
There was concern over the low number of vendor applications for the Craft Fair on
April 30-May 1. Doug Ledbetter will contact vendors if we cancel the craft fair.
Motion: Cancel the craft fair if we have not received at least 15 applications by April 20.
The next meeting will be held at 6:00pm, May 5, 2011 at Shelter #3 at the cabin.
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NEWNAN, Ga. -- A Newnan dad is charged with killing his infant son after requesting to spend the night with him unsupervised for the first time.
The incident happened over Father's Day weekend when police said 30-year-old Christoper Halver-Gene Hansen asked all for all of his children to spend the night with him. This would be the first time 4-month-old Saxton Livingston would sleep over at his house.
Early morning on Monday, June 17, Hansen would call 911 and say his son had choked on milk and was unresponsive. Hansen described him to the 911 operator as being "limp" and making "gurgling noises."
Saxton was taken to Piedmont Newnan Hospital but the staff didn't find milk in his throat or mouth. He was then airlifted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite where he stayed until he died on July 25.
Now, Hansen is charged with his son's murder. The alleged details above came from his arrest warrant outlining why he is charged with murder and cruelty to child in the first degree and second degrees.
Doctors told police the 4-month-old suffered "abusive head trauma which resulted in a massive brain injury."
During the month he spent in the hospital, Saxton reportedly suffered from "large subdural hematomas, subdural hemorrhage, pulmonary hemorrhage, bilateral multilayer diffuse retinal hemorrhages, shock and hypoxic ischemic brain injury caused by "abusive head trauma." During this time he had "minimal brain activity," according to doctors.
Saxton also tested positive for marijuana. Newnan Police said they also reported smelling "smoked marijuana" inside of Hansen's home at the time of the initial incident.
In his autopsy, the coroner found blood in his brain, a non-accidental brain injury and described his brain as being "grossly very small."
Hansen is being held without bond in the Coweta County Jail.


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Boer Power Holdings Ltd based in Wuxi, Jiangsu province has developed an electric power control system, successfully realizing intelligent operations and maintenance of power equipment.
With over 30 years of experience, Boer is a leading company in China's electric distribution equipment and solutions market.
Applying internet of things (IoT) technologies, the system works by installing sensors and monitoring software in the company's key energy nodes, so as to quickly gather key data, provide immediate alerts for equipment failures and accurately resolve problems.
With this system, operations and maintenance staff can know the operating conditions of the power system through digital inspection, greatly reducing manpower costs.
In addition, the system can generate energy consumption analysis, helping companies save energy.
Boer's intelligent electric power control system was named one of Wuxi's top 10 IoT applications in 2016 by the local government.
The system has been used in more than 3,000 companies, and the figure is expected to exceed 100,000 in the future, according to Wang Zhengshan, technical director of the company.
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mayor bill de blasio on thursday committed to reform stop-and-frisk police tactics, agreed to the appointment of a monitor and seeks to end a 14-year court fight culminating in a judge's ruling the new york city police department discriminated in carrying out the controversial program.
"we believe these steps will make everyone safer," de blasio told a brooklyn news conference shortly after city lawyers asked the second u.s. circuit court of appeals to return the case to the lower court "for the purpose of exploring a full resolution." he also said, "this will be one city where everyone rises together, where everyone's rights are protected."
de blasio said the city agreed to the appointment of a monitor for three years to oversee the creation of reforms aimed at ending discrimination. the monitor will oversee a process in which those communities most affected by the stop-and-frisk tactics, will provide input on the reforms.
"i can't wait to get started," said vincent warren, executive director of the center for constitutional rights, which has represented plaintiffs in the lawsuits. but he cautioned the announcement won't immediately end discrimination. warren said, "nobody standing here today is pretending this mission is accomplished. the problem hasn't been solved. we will have a collaborative reform process. we'll have a court monitor to ensure these reforms move forward."
police commissioner william bratton said the policy, as it had been carried out for years, left too many people who were frisked wondering, "why,why me?" while police officers, being pressed to make more arrests - even as crime rates fell dramatically - were wondering, "why more?' he said the practice tore the fabric between the police and the population. he said, "we need to repair it."
a judge ruled last year the nypd discriminated against blacks and latinos when stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people on the street. the judge ordered major reforms to the nypd's implementation of the policy. former mayor michael Bloomberg vehemently appealed the decision. but de blasio, who took office last month, prioritized this issue in his campaign, and wants results.
during bloomberg's 12-year tenure, stops had soared to more than five million in the past decade, primarily black and latino men. about 10% of the stops resulted in arrests or summons; weapons were found 2% of the time. four men sued the nypd in 2008, saying they were unfairly targeted because of their race.
u.s. district court judge shira scheindlin presided over a 10-week bench trial. she heard testimony from a dozen new yorkers who said they were wrongly stopped. she agreed, imposing a court-appointed monitor to oversee reforms. but her ruling has been on hold pending the appeal.
the federal appeals court took the unusual step of removing scheindlin from the case, saying she misapplied a related ruling allowing her to accept it to begin with, and had inappropriately spoken publicly about the case. plaintiffs' attorney jonathan moore said the city's decision to drop the appeal "vindicates the findings by judge scheindlin and provides the opportunity for the nypd to reform policies and practices that the district court found unconstitutional."
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If you were keeping score on New Year’s Day – and really why wouldn’t you – our prediction of Team USA’s Olympic roster was put to the test. By the time the final spot was announced, we were correct on 15 of the 23 roster decisions – though we probably deserve a mulligan on the Andy Greene selection. How were we supposed to know he was ineligible because he was left off the original list of Olympians last summer? So we’ll say 15 of 22.
Anyways, back to the issue at hand. With the roster revealed, we now have a definitive roster to break down for you. The mainstream media has been quick to point to how inexperienced the Americans are and Brian Burke has been quick to tell anyone how big of underdogs they are. What they’re not telling you is how sneaky stacked this team is.
The Americans boast one of the top 3 goalies in the NHL (Miller). They have three players (Kane, Stastny, and Parise) in the top 25 of leading scorers. They have one bonified sniper (Kessel) and one guy who is on pace for 40 goals (Malone). The 2006 team they are not.
And really, we shouldn’t be that shocked about any of this. Since USA Hockey’s inception of the National Team Developmental Program went into effect in the 1997-98 season, the skill of American hockey players has grown by leaps and bounds. If you want to see how much the USA has improved, look no further than the World Junior Championships.
Since the tournament’s inception in 1974 and prior to the NTDP being launched, the Americans won one medal: a bronze in 1992. In the past ten years, they’ve won one gold medal in 2004, a bronze in 2007, and will be battling Canada for this year’s gold medal on Tuesday.
From this year’s Olympic team, there are seven players who paved their way through the NTDP (Kane, Kessel, Komisarek, Jack and Erik Johnson, Suter, Kesler). Two of those players (Erik Johnson and Kane) were also the number one overall pick in the NHL draft.
No longer should the Americans be happy with any Olympic success and brush off the disappointments just because they gave it the old college try. Don’t let Brian Burke or the rest of the mainstream media fool you; it will be a colossal disappointment if the Americans don’t make it out of the quarterfinals. They may not be Russia or Canada, but they’re not Slovokia or Latvia either.
Let’s break down Team USA by position:
Not a whole lot to say here. Ryan Miller will be given every chance to get hot and carry Team USA through the six game tournament. While everyone drools over the depth Team Canada has at this position, people forget you can only play one goalie at a time. Miller is one of the best goalies in the NHL this year. If he gets hot for a two-week stretch at the end of February, it won’t take much else for the Americans to gain a medal. Tim Thomas and Jonathan Quick will be nothing more than towel jockeys until America is eliminated.
As we said in our predictions, after Erick Johnson, Brian Rafalski, Paul Martin and Ryan Suter, it was a bit of a crap shoot. Burke picked Brooks Orpik, Jack Johnson and Mike Komisarek, one of his high priced free agent acquisitions from seven months prior, passing on the likes of Ryan Whitney, Rob Scuderi and Matt Carle, among others, for the final three spots.
The travesty may well be Andy Greene, who, as mentioned above, was left off a drug testing list, making him ineligible for selection. Greene, the little known New Jersey defenseman, paces his back-end teammates in goals, points and +/. He’s added five power play goals in the process.
News also broke shortly after the roster’s announcement that Paul Martin may not ready by tournament time. That would be a huge blow, as Martin is viewed as a top-four defenseman and is one of only two returning Olympians on the back end.
Looking back on our list, we should have included Komisarek. All things considered, what were the odds Burke would pass up the man he gave $22.5 million to in July? Slim.
All in all, it’s not a bad list. The bad news: not one player would have been selected to play for Team Canada.
USA’s top 6 forwards were pretty much what everyone expected. Patrick Kane, Zach Parise, Paul Stastny, Joe Pavelski, Bobby Ryan, and Phil Kessel were all slam dunks. A third line of Dustin Brown, Ryan Kesler, and Ryan Malone gives the US team the beef that Burke so desperately craves and could all play as top 6 forwards if the situation calls for it.
Things got a little goofy for Brian Burke and his staff when they filled out the fourth line. Ryan Callahan and David Backes aren’t bad ideas. It’s not like they’re going to hold America back from medaling. They’re depth guys and there probably isn’t much of a difference between them and R.J. Umberger, Kyle Okposo, or Dustin Byfuglien.
The same can’t be said for the inclusion of Chris Drury.
Chris Drury, he of the 14 points and -8 in 36 games, all while averaging well over 17 minutes of ice time per night. He has absolutely no business being on this roster. There is nothing Drury can do that roughly ten other guys left off the team can’t do better. The only explanations given as to why Drury was included on the team aren’t all that rational to begin with.
- His Olympic experience. Here is Drury’s precious Olympic experience: The ’02 Games and the ’06 Games where in 12 games he racked up a whopping 3 assists. The rest of the American forwards may be green to the whole Olympic experience but by the time they play the Canadians (their first real opponent) in their third game of the tournament, they’ll all be seasoned veterans to the Games. What could he possibly say to them once they’re deep into the tournament, “Hey guys, when we beat Russia in ’02, Phil Housley said we should all tuck each other in the night before our game. Ya know, for good luck.”
- He’s good in the room. These players will be spending two weeks together. This isn’t Lake Placid circa 1980 where the players spent the better part of two years together. No, these are professional athletes. The idea that having a cohesive locker room makes much of a difference in a 6 game tournament is silly. Unless you bring in Leatherface, the difference between two guys’ attitudes is negligible and the better player should always be taken. Or in other words, not Chris Drury.
And perhaps the most disturbing thing about Drury making the team is his Rangers’ coach, John Tortorella, is an assistant coach for Team USA. How in the name of all things holy could Tortorella say that putting Drury on this team was a good idea? In other news, the Rangers are barely above .500 this year.
With Jamie Langenbrunner still lurking, it’s hard to see where the American brain-trust feels Drury fits in. He’s clearly not a top-6 guy; he’s not defensively responsible enough to be a checking winger; and he doesn’t play the type of game expected from a fourth liner. Otherwise, he’s great.
As long as Drury doesn’t steal minutes from better players, then the Americans should have more firepower than people are expecting. A top line of Kane, Stastny, and Parise would be an awful lot of fun to watch. Then again, so would watching Kane and Kessel team up on a line.
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Police in Blantyre have arrested 12 people suspected to have committed various offences during Sunday’s World Cup qualifier between Malawi national football team and Tanzania at Kamuzu Stadium.
Southern Region Police deputy spokesperson, Widson Nhlane, said they arrested four suspects for being found in possession of Chamba, six suspects for illegal vending and three for conduct likely to cause breach of peace.
Nhlane emphasized that selling beer is not prohibited, but rather the place where it is sold. He said people are influenced by, among others, chamba and beer to misbehave at the stadium.
“I am warning the public that anyone found selling beer and cannabis sativa (Chamba) around or within stadium premises will be arrested. These can influence someone to be involved in violence,” Nhlane said.
On illegal vending, police arrested Erick Kukacha, Chancy Gumulani, Wyson Makala, Cosmas Matemba, Aubrey Chasweka and Felix Kachingwe.
On an account of being found in possession of Chamba, the police arrested Kamwendo Matiki, Chikondi Nyeza, Aubrey Chasweka and Joana Simango.
Daudi Tambula and Chipiliro Makala were nabbed for conduct likely to cause breach of peace
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31 May 2001
Intelligent robot watchdog looks for leaks
by Kozo Edanami, Toshiyuki Kuwahara, Ryoji Ohba, Yoshihito Tamanoi
Acoustic and vibration technology works in oil refinery.
There is considerable demand for automated and reduced-manpower operation of plants in modern Japanese industries. Japan sees this as a trend of youthful new industrial employees not wanting to be plant operators.
An automated abnormal-signal segregation and extraction technique based on inverse filtered acoustic/vibration signals has proved effective for monitoring abnormal conditions in rotary machines, compressors, piping, and high-pressure vessels. Using pattern recognition techniques, an intelligent sensor system detects possible leakage of high-pressure gases in oil refineries. Leakage produces continuous sonic and ultrasonic tones.
In real plants, many sources other than leakage generate tones in the identical frequency band. The principle of this present method is to first reduce the sonic components from normal plant operation and then see what is left.
An inverse filter whitens any stationary signal. Whiten means characteristic peaks cancel from the spectrum of a signal by inverse filtering.
An abnormal condition's signal, which is not included in the ambient noise signal used to design the filter, does not flatten through the inverse filter and gives some amount of colored signal.
This robot watchdog monitors leakage of high-pressure gas in an oil refinery. We recently completed and tested a prototype.
Principle of leak detection
Besides generating tones in the identical frequency band, different sources also cause intermittent tones in the same band. Of the continuous tones, there is not only abnormal leakage but also normal leakage, as from a hydraulic pressure apparatus.
Intermittent sources such as a steam trap are akin to normal leakage in a plant. It is crucial for a real, workable leak detector to distinguish tones of possible abnormal leakage from those of normal leakage.
The principle of this method is to detect tones in the ultrasonic band, after reducing sonic components from the normal operation of plants using the inverse filter. That is, the ambient noise signals collect during normal process operating conditions, and an inverse filter evolves using that signal.
Any signal that has the same statistical properties of the ambient noise under normal operations of the plants whitens as it passes through the inverse filter. If any abnormal signal, whose properties are different from the ambient noise signal, passes through the inverse filter, it leaves a residue. This residue is a colored signal.
Steam trap intermittent
Intermittent signals, like those generated during a steam trap action, also give such nonwhitened residual signals after inverse filtering and should be distinguished from real abnormal ones.
To classify such normal signals from abnormal ones, we have designed a pattern-recognizing sensor system, applying a statistical testing method using plural data sets sampled over a constant time interval. That is, the power spectrum of the residual signal is rather flat over the frequency band from 50 kilohertz (kHz) to 100 kHz when neither abnormal leakage signals nor intermittent signals exist.
But it varies significantly when either of the two signals is present. If one calculates a set of power spectra from residual signals, the set corresponding to the intermittent signals varies more than the abnormal signals do.
Gimbals mounted watchdog
The pilot model watchdog robot detects a gas leakage from a hole with a diameter as small as 1.5 millimeters (mm) and pressure as low as 0.3 megapascal (44 pounds per square inch) from a distance of 50 meters (m). Its width, height, and depth are 690, 914, and 400 mm, respectively, and it weighs about 80 kilograms.
The main body of the robot is a scanning quarter-inch condenser microphone whose head is at the focal point of a 36.5-centimeters-long, sound-collecting hood. The hood mounts on two-axis gimbals.
A computer controls the gimbals motion via a hydraulic pressure system. Each of the two rotation axes of the gimbals is equipped with a rotary encoder, which can determine the direction of the hood.
The gimbals system has a combination of a mechanical stopper and a limit switch for each axis, which prevents the robot from overrunning the predefined area. The hood aims itself by referring to the difference between the given direction and the rotational angles around the two axes.
The computer positioned in an instrumentation station 100 m distant collects the data sets and carries out data processing as well as the gimbals control.
Hood collects sound
The robot sits on one of the middle decks of a continuous catalyst regeneration platform 27 m high. All of the signals between the robot and the computer are electronic and delivered via burstproof piping.
Control signals to the robot transform into hydraulic signals in a transition terminal box near the robot, which also adopts the burstproof structure. The sound-collecting hood can point in any direction using the rotational angles of respective gimbals' axes.
The robot-mounted hood scans 56 points of a hexagonal lattice every 8 minutes. The robot monitors about 3,700 m2 from a height of 5 m.
The signal from the condenser microphone in the hood feeds to the computer after sampling, is stored in memory, and is then used in the succeeding data processing. Ten data sets of 1,024 samples collect and profile each single direction. There is a half-second time interval between the successive data sets.
The robot has two operational control modes: the learning mode and the monitoring mode. In the learning mode, the robot makes an inverse filter and creates a set of reference data used in the monitoring mode for each point.
At each point, it collects the 10 data sets, the first of which helps in designing the inverse filter. All 10 data sets comprise the reference data for the statistical testing used in the monitoring mode. The results of this data processing are stored in computer memory.
In the monitoring mode, the robot also scans the 56 points. At each point it collects the same number of data sets as in the learning mode, and the inverse filter processes each of the data sets designed during the learning mode.
The statistical F- and t-tests use the results of all 10 data sets to judge possible leakage. If the testing indicates possible leakage, the same testing is carried out twice more by taking 10 new data sets for each point. If both tests indicate leakage, an alarm signal occurs. IT
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Kozo Edanami is director, Yoshihito Tamanoi is an engineer, and Toshiyuki Kuwahara is a marketing manager at Yamatake Industrial Systems in Yokohama, Japan.
Ryoji Ohba is a professor of applied physics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.


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Art and history are the best ways to enjoy a trip to Stresa. It’s precisely here that these elements merge seamlessly in the most striking of natural frames, as if they were a balcony leaning out towards Stresa and the islands. The church has a truly unique structure, the fusion of three chapels, originally built separately in three different eras, and is adorned with frescos dating from between the 14th and the 19th centuries. The bell tower, dating back to the 14th century, can also be reached by a new elevator built into the rock: 51 metres high, connected to a horizontal exit tunnel that comes out onto a panoramic view of Lago Maggiore. This is definitely a unique and comfortable way to admire the Hermitage and the countryside!
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The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is the regional transportation planning agency in North Carolina’s western Triangle. The MPO is responsible for planning and programming all modes of transportation including highways, public transit, freight, bicycles, and pedestrians. Our work is regionally based, but community focused. We formulate and implement plans that will improve life locally and ensure that these plans reflect our member communities’ collective vision.
The MPO’s office, based in Durham NC, currently operates under a flexible, hybrid work policy. Effective July 1, 2023, the MPO will migrate from the City of Durham to the Triangle J Council of Governments. This position, while housed at TJCOG, will report to the DCHC MPO Executive Director.
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The MPO Transportation Planning Manager is responsible for transportation planning operations; supervising staff; assisting with developing agency policies and procedures; facilitating process improvement operations; ensuring compliance with applicable performance and quality standards, regulations, policies, and procedures; conducting technical analyses and making related recommendations; coordinating project operations; preparing and maintaining reports and records; and coordinating with staff to oversee planning-related operations in the assigned area of function. Supervises professional, technical, and support staff including performance evaluations, mentoring, and onboarding-offboarding processes.
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Positions reporting to the MPO Transportation Planning Manager may be responsible for:
Education and Experience
· A Master’s Degree and eight (8) years professional experience in a relevant field, including urban or regional planning, transportation planning, civil or transportation engineering, or public policy;
· American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Certification is preferred.
· The ability to engage in inclusive dialogue with a variety of audiences, including the MPO board, elected officials, technical staff, diverse stakeholders, and the public, in both written and oral formats.
· Demonstrated ability to manage scope development, tasks or projects. Instruct, mentor and lead others participating in those tasks and projects.
· A professional commitment to working towards the MPO’s goals for the region, including goals for transportation equity, clean air and sustainable communities, safety, system preservation and modernization, capacity management and mobility, and economic vitality.
· Ability to work both collaboratively and independently with strong personal initiative and work on multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to deadlines.
· Quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including proficiency working with and maintaining spreadsheets and databases.
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Emerging market debt has been the best-selling asset class among European investors year-to-date, according to Morningstar fund flows. And anecdotal evidence gathered by Expert Investor backs up Morningstar’s data. Not all investors in Europe have gone big in emerging market debt, but the vast majority seem to be overweight.
“We are close to our maximum allocation to emerging market debt at the moment,” Robert Schuckink-Kool, CIO at the private bank Wijs & Van Oostveen in Amsterdam, told Expert Investor.
“At the start of the year, we had the conviction that emerging market debt provided better value for money than high-yield bonds, so we sold some of the latter and bought the former,” he said.
At a media briefing last week, Ashmore’s head of research Jan Dehn argued emerging market debt flows had only just started to pick up, referring to the inflows his own company, a specialist emerging market manager, had seen.
“In March, we had our first net inflows in 17 quarters,” he said, arguing that Morningstar mainly captures flows from the wholesale sector. “The big institutional flows haven’t yet started. I’m looking at a five-year recovery story for EM, which has only just begun,” he added.
But JP Morgan AM’s head of emerging market debt, Pierre-Yves Bareau, says institutional investors have been adding to their allocations this year, alongside retail investors.
“After the Taper Tantrum in 2013, retail investors stopped buying and switched to equities, but institutional investors have used the dips in the asset class to buy more. Pension funds still need bonds because of their liability requirements.”
A year ago, the retail side started engaging with emerging market debt again, said Bareau. “After Brexit, investment accelerated. We have had one of the best years of inflows ever, quite evenly split between institutional and retail.”
According to Morningstar data (see chart above), investors have been adding more than net €40bn to their emerging market debt holdings since June 2016, and this excludes the flows into mandates that Dehn mentioned.
But what are the odds that inflows will continue at this pace?


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For many reasons including spectacular wildlife concentration, Tanzania has long been at the forefront of African tourism. In fact, it has always been a popular and sought-after classic African destination for backpackers and couples alike. Tanzania is one of the best destinations for an ultimate safari experience every family will surely love!
We get it. When you think of Tanzania safari, you immediately picture yourself in the middle of a vast golden savannah habituated with different kinds of wild animals. As a traveler, you start to feel your feet itch for that extraordinary adventure. As a parent, you instinctively start to ask, “Is this a great idea for my kids?”
The answer’s a resounding YES! Why do you think the famous Beckham family chose this country for a vacation last year (2017)?
Here are the major reasons why Tanzania safari is perfect for your family:
It is remarkable, exciting and absolutely an ultimate safari to enjoy together.
Tanzania boasts of a wildly diverse and highly concentrated wildlife. Hence, its reputation as the prime game viewing country. It features a plethora of game reserves, marine parks, conservation areas and 17 national parks. These hold about 20% of the entire large mammal population in the whole of Africa, habituating approximately 38% of the country’s territory.
These large animals include cheetahs, giraffes, tree-climbing lions, and the world-famous Big Five: lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and Cape buffalo.
With all these and more, you are sure that in just a span of a few days in the country, you’ll never go zero when it comes to seeing wildlife. Getting close encounters with some of them and even encountering thrilling animal activity! And wouldn’t that be a perfect ingredient to an unforgettable family vacation? The kids will love it, you will love it, and you all can share these stories for the rest if your lives!
Plus, Tanzania is home to a number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. What’s more perfect than ticking them off your travel bucket list with your whole crew?
You can watch “the greatest spectacle on earth” together.
When we talk about Tanzania safari, it is totally unsound to miss the Great Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti. This is just one of the main reasons why this place is perfect for anyone who looks for the ultimate safari experience.
You see, over 2 million wildebeests, zebras, antelopes and gazelles thunder across the East African plains each year. They move in a clockwise pattern from the southern region of the Serengeti including the northern part of Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the Seronera to Grumeti and Mara Rivers to the Mara and then back to southern Serengeti. During their journey, predators are always at large — hyenas, lions, cheetahs, leopards and even Nile crocodiles and hippos!
This hair-raising event is often called the “World Cup of Wildlife” and is even named as the greatest show on earth. While it is a spectacle every living human needs to witness, it would be an even more special one if you get to see this historical phenomenon together.
It’s in perfect timing for the school holidays.
The best time to visit Tanzania and do a wildlife safari is between July and October. It totally coincides with the school holidays! During this time, the Great Wildebeest Migration is “at its peak” with the most iconic safari event – the Mara River crossing – ensuing anytime between those months. Also, it’s cooler during these months, mosquitoes are fewer and road travel is so much better.
In spring half term in February, Tanzania is also calling out to those who are lusting over an ultimate safari experience. This is the perfect time to visit Southern Serengeti to witness the wildebeest calving season (plenty of babies, lots of protective mothers, numerous opportunistic predators!) and also Tarangire National Park for spectacular elephant viewing.
If you’re eyeing to go on a vacation during Easter, you should also consider traveling to Eastern Serengeti for the massive migration herds and the fantastic views. You see, Tanzania is a year-round safari destination. It’ll ALWAYS have something for everyone.
Seriously. It’s like the universe is telling us to go!
There are plenty of activities for all ages.
Seeing a herd of elephants walking past you, a couple of giraffes scanning the trees or some antelopes grazing on the grasses a few meters away could make any child excited whether he’s a teenager or a toddler. While a safari is typically the primary reason we visit Tanzania, the country is actually more than that. Activities that can be enjoyable for all walks of life include canoeing, cycling through banana plantations, hiking around Ngorongoro crater rims, archery lessons with the Maasai, snorkeling and building sandcastles at the beach!
Accommodation also ranges from beach bungalows, treetop rooms, safari tents, budget camps, lodges, and traditional hotels. Most of these accommodations have wifi and swimming pools, so children can always enjoy swimming after a day under the tropical heat.
If you want to unleash creativity, you can also take your family to one of the painting cooperatives and have them paint their own masterpiece. This activity, along with other things like storytelling bird watching, bug collecting and short bush walks, is also available in most safari camps and lodges where tour operators assign a guide to entertain younger kids. Still not convinced that Tanzania offers only nothing but the ultimate safari experience?
Now here’s a common question: Is there a minimum age/age restriction for a safari?
Is there an age restriction for a safari?
Generally, no. Most camps and lodges welcome visitors of all ages. However, there are some who restrict children aged 4 years and below, sometimes 6 and below or even under 12. If your kids are around that age or younger, let your tour operator know so they can arrange something that’ll work best for your family. Also, if you’re going to join a group during your game drives, know that not all tourists are fond of having small kids around. If you want, you can arrange for your own vehicle, driver and guide. Although this may come with a price, this also allows you more control over your time and itinerary. Plus, you don’t have to silent your kids all the time.
It offers spectacular family photo ops.
This is probably a given. With sensational views and sceneries that you can certainly not capture anywhere else, Tanzania would make an astonishing backdrop for a family photo that you can treasure. An ultimate safari experience will never be complete without getting a really good photograph with Tanzania’s naturally stunning background. Whether it’s in Africa’s Garden of Eden, Ngorongoro Crater; or the snow-capped Roof of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro; anyone who’d look at your photos will absolutely drool! And guess what, you’ll need no filter or photoshop!
Tanzania in itself is a child-friendly country.
A reason why it can provide every family the ultimate safari experience ever. Don’t let connecting flights, extra precaution and a few vaccines hold you back. Yes, traveling to Tanzania may require a bit more precaution than traveling to, say, UK but it doesn’t mean general safety is abig issue. In fact, Tanzania holds stable political, economic and tourism situations. Also, most people in Tanzania speak and understand English.
If you’re worried about doing some emergency shopping just in case, you can also find processed baby food, disposable diapers, powdered milk, baby wipes and other baby items in major towns.
It has a rich cultural immersion.
Immersing into other people’s culture broadens a child’s knowledge and view of the world. The great thing about Tanzania is, cultural tribes are very vibrant and active. Some of the tribes you can find in the country are Maasai, Hadzabe, Swahili and Sukuma. You and your kids can dance with them in their native tunes, eat their local food. Also, learn a thing or two about their culture! Opportunities to learn archery and making fire using sticks are also plenty.
Given the reasons as to why Tanzania offers the most exciting family activity and the ultimate safari experience, it wouldn’t be a surprise that more and more families are visiting each year. Just always remember that the animals are wild, the country may be significantly different than yours. Moreover, parks are unfenced and animals saunter around the plains freely. So ALWAYS exercise vigilance, follow your guide’s instructions and the best advice? SAVOR THE MOMENT. It’s not everyday that you get to experience this kind of wild adventure with your family. 🖤
Top family ultimate safari you should try:
- 12 Days Bush then Beach Safari: You know how they say “Happiness comes in waves”? Well, you’d understand it better when you head to the beach! In this tour, you get to explore 2 marvelous sides of Tanzania: the bush and the beach. After an exciting wildlife safari, you get to cap off your trip with a relaxing getaway at Tanzania’s tropical paradise, Zanzibar.
- 8 Days Bushman Culture Safari: You don’t only get to explore the most iconic attractions in Tanzania, you also get to meet some of its most vibrant local tribes! Go learn archery and fire-making (using sticks) with the Bushmen. Jump high and dance with the Maasai and go biking around the Ngorongoro forest with the whole crew!
- 4 Days Tanzania Safari: Perfect short vacation for those looking into sharing an authentic Tanzanian adventure with the family. Visit the world-renowned Ngorongoro Crater, have a family picnic amidst its wildlife-ridden grasslands. Also, discover the beauty of the picturesque Lake Manyara National Park.
More family ultimate safari to try:
- 12 Days The Great Migration Package: When you hear about the Serengeti, it is almost like a reflex that you also think about the annual Great Wildebeest Migration. Grab the front seats to this spectacular event and witness it with your family! This vacation will certainly be a good candidate for your family’s top vacations of all time!
- 5 Days 6 Nights Trek – Marangu Route: If you’re an active family of good fitness standing and your kids is over 10, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is possible for you! If you have kids under 10, Kilimanjaro National Park may give exceptions but that will depend on their recommendation. Mount Kilimanjaro is famous for its year-round snow-capped feature. It is Africa’s highest peak and the world’s tallest free-standing mountain. With this route (Marangu), you will be assured of a hut accommodation all throughout your trek. This route is known to be the most viable route for family treks up the mountain, but you can also take the 5 Nights 6 Days Trek – Rongai Route which is a very easy one with no slopes and with a highly scenic view at Mawenzi tarn camp.
These are just little reminders why you must definitely consider Tanzania. So you can have the ultimate safari experience your family will surely enjoy and remember your whole life.

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Property ID : G8072
For Sale €415,000 - Plot
The assets consist of two adjacent fields in Kalavasos. They are located 500m from Nicosia – Limassol highway and 4km from Zygi coastline. The fields have a total area of 12,376sqm. The asset offers close proximity to all amenities and easy access to the highway.


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Borough staff moves out, workers move in
Petersburg Borough staff is moved out of the municipal building and construction workers from MCG Constructors/DCI are ready to move in as the $6.8 million project to remodel the old building gets underway.
Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht said there’s a few items left in the old building such as broken chairs, old computer equipment and police vehicle seats.
“The move is pretty much done,” Giesbrecht said. “We’ve got odds and ends from the old building that will probably get trashed. It’s just stuff that no one has any interest in and we don’t see a use for down the road.”...


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Investment in new plant set to meet growing demand for quality concrete in the South East
HANSON have opened a new ready-mixed concrete plant in Rochester, Kent, to supply growing demand for quality-assured concrete for construction projects in the South East.
The new facility replaces the company’s former concrete plant in the town, which closed almost a decade ago, and provides increased capacity, improved productivity plus sustainability benefits from lower power consumption and minimal ongoing maintenance.
‘This is a significant investment and demonstrates our long-term commitment to the area,’ said Brian Charleton, managing director of Hanson’s concrete business. ‘Demand for high-quality concrete is high in the region and this new plant will provide back-up to our sites in Maidstone, Sittingbourne and Tunbridge Wells.’


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Thursday, July 16, 2009
This tutorial was written on July 16, 2009 by Shani aka Wicked Princess. The concept of the tag is mine and mine alone. Any resemblance to any other tag/tut is pure coincidence. This was written for those with working knowledge of PSP.
++Paint Shop Pro ( I used 10 but any version should work)
++Scrap kit by Katie at Crazed Creations called Garden Pals can be purchased HERE
++Template 57 by Ali at Designs by Ali can be found HERE
++Tube of choice or the one I used. I used the artwork of Suzanne Wolcott. You can purchase her work HERE
++Font and Mask of choice
-Add Drop shadow of choice as you go
-You can merger layers as you want to make things easier for yourself.
Open the template in PSP, using your shortcut keys on your keyboard (SHIFT+D) duplicate the template as a new image. Close the original.
Open several papers of choice, resizing as needed. For example, when I look at the blue bar where it tells me what I’ve opened (say like paper 2) it tells me what percentage I’m viewing it at. For me it’s usually 16%, so I resize to 16% bringing it to 100%. ( I hope that made sense!) Once you’ve done this, minimize for later use.
Next go to the bottom template layer and go to selections, select all, then float, selections defloat. Don’t forget to go to selections, none then delete the template layer. Repeat this process for the rest of the template.
Add a new raster layer and flood fill with your choice of paper. Add your mask layer and merge the group. **Note I chose to duplicate the layer, mirror then flip. I also added a guassin blur, this is optional.
Open the fence clip art. Resize then copy and paste as a new layer. Move it below the frame layer.
Next open the folded ribbon of choice, and resize. Copy and paste as a new layer at the bottom of the frame. Add a bow you like to the center of it after resizing.
Open two flowers with stems you like, resize them. Copy and paste the first one and place to the left side of the frame towards the bottom of it. Duplicate it and go to image, Mirror. Add the next flower, but a layer below that one, and duplicate it. Go to image mirror. Repeat it once more for the next set.
Add your basket and water can clip art, angled slightly to the corners of the frames.
Open several of the bug pals and resize them. Place them where you like on the tag. I put them mostly on the flowers since bugs like flowers!
Next open your tube of choice. Resize as needed, copy and paste as a new layer. Move this below the frame layer. Duplicate it and move this one to the top of the layers palette. With this one activated, use your eraser brush and erase the parts you want gone and to look like they are sitting in front of the tube, or the tube is “Popping” out of the frame.
Open two butterflies of choice, resize then copy and paste each as a new layer. Duplicate several times and move them around as you like around the tag.
Add your text, license info, copyrights and tagger markings
Save and your done! Thank you for trying my tutorial!


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As the British Empire reached its peak in the 19th century, artists and designers were increasingly influenced by eastern cultures such as India, China, Japan and the Islamic world. The century also saw a revival in Classical and Renaissance motifs.
Style Guide: Influence of Islam
The arts of the Islamic world became increasingly influential from the 1840s. The complex religious and historical factors influencing the appearance of objects from Iran, Turkey, north Africa and southern Spain were seldom understood, but such works were deeply admired for their technical and aesthetic brilliance.
Style Guide: Influence of China
The expansion of British diplomatic, trade and religious activity in China in the 1850s and 1860s brought previously unknown examples of Chinese art and design to the attention of British collectors and designers. Chinese ceramics, in particular, had a great influence on British potters.
Style Guide: Influence of Japan
The arts of Japan had a profound influence on British culture in the second half of the 19th century. Japanese art was very different from anything being produced in Britain. It provided a major source of inspiration for many artists and designers in the period from 1850 to 1900.
Arts & Crafts
The Arts and Crafts Movement began in Britain around 1880 and quickly spread to America, Europe and Japan. Inspired by the ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris, it advocated a revival of traditional handicrafts, a return to a simpler way of life and an improvement in the design of ordinary domestic objects. In 2005, the V&A hosted the exhibition 'International Arts and Crafts'.
Art Nouveau was a movement in the visual arts popular from the early 1890s up to the First World War. It is viewed by some as the first self-conscious attempt to create a modern style. Its influence can be found in painting, sculpture, jewellery, metalwork, glass and ceramics.The drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, the architecture of Victor Horta and Paul Hankar and the poster designs of Alphonse Mucha are some of the most familiar examples of the Art Nouveau style.
The 19th century was a period of huge growth in Britain, which had a profound effect on art and design. The Industrial Revolution saw Britain become a major manufacturing power, as displayed in the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Victorian period saw the British Empire reach its peak, and designers increasingly looked to the East for inspiration.


The Caribbean air and cloud direction was changing yesterday and is now coming down from the NNE with significant cloud and patches of rain, mainly out at sea. There is a slight increase in high level cloud from the SSW. The cold front over the Gulf is sort of stagnant, but causing a little effect on our weather, the air is now significantly cooler than it was a few days ago.
Looks like today will be largely sunny, but with significant white clouds, a small chance of some rain.
Temperatures in Belmopan :
( Coast usually cooler, hills even cooler )
Fri, max. 29°C 84°F Last night min. 23°C 73°F


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There have been a number of significant websites that have covered the debate lately. MakeUseOf and Gizmodo most recently, but there have also been sightings in recent years on CNN. And that's not counting articles online that link to assorted Youtube videos, like this one from HuffPo.
Meanwhile, there have also been more of those Trek vs. Wars infographics floating around. Here is one from 2013 that may well have text lifted direct from StarDestroyer.Net. A more recent example, which at least uses an antique version of a page of mine for only the section on territory size but otherwise is a Star Wars tech inflationist mess, is here. Vince just found another one the other day, which, though not a Vs. thing specifically, also certainly lifted happily from the Star Wars tech inflationist side of the aisle. Then there is this fairly useless one that they didn't bother finishing, but which is all EU nonsense or just made up completely, I can't tell.
For some reason the pattern is:
- Infographic = Star Wars tech inflationist claptrap lifted wholesale from Saxton, Wong, et cetera
- Written Article = Somewhat more considered article with independent thought and research (often favoring my particular brand of claptrap, but still)
Is it visual-artsy people versus writers? Right-brained smelly art hippies versus left-brained smelly fanboy logicians? Emotion-evokers versus idea-communicators?
Inquiring minds want to know.
But actually, there is some semblance of an answer. Note that most of the infographics are basically just advertisements. One is for an online engineering degree site (which I find funny ... observing Wong's debating, wherein he would always happily tell you he was a mechanical engineer (and don't you forget it), had me believing those came free in every box of Cracker Jacks). The other is for some coupon website. And the useless one seems to just be a resume example.
In short, then, the ones being made for advertisement click-bait (or more accurately Facebook share-bait) are just poorly researched ... enough to get the job of making the graphic done but the time focus was spent on the art and the look.
By that logic, the written articles are where the mental action is. Seems like I've said that before, recently ...

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Trade in your Santa hats and not-so-fashionable Christmas sweaters for some boots and tights—it's time to talk some wrestling.
Though the news in WWE world has been pretty slow because of the holidays, I thought I'd still update you all on some of the biggest news of the last few days.
By now, we all know that Kaval has been released, so I'll offer my thoughts on that.
We'll also take a look at some reported plans for The Miz that will drive half of the IWC crazy while putting a big smile on any Mizfits out there.
Finally, will Triple H return to the ring full-time?
We'll discuss all this, plus the top WWE news on this fine Monday morning.
So sit back, relax and enjoy.


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The first tip to get back to losing weight is to boost the amount of calories you are consuming. Say you're eating 1200 calories per day. Overtime, your body down-regulates so it just needs about 1000 calories per day to maintain basal function. Therefore, the amount of calories that used to help you lose weight is now only helping you maintain your current weight. So, by boosting your calories, you are actually boosting your metabolism and you may even notice some weight loss in the days after your caloric increase.
You're transitioning. Your body is equipped to process a high intake of carbs and a lower intake of fat. Your body needs to create enzymes to be able to do this. In the transitional period, the brain may run low on energy which can lead to grogginess, nausea, and headaches. If you're having a large problem with this, you can choose to reduce carb intake gradually.
3) Now that you have the information you need about your body's present condition and info on ketosis, head over to this Keto Calculator Tutorial, and figure out how many grams of Carbohydrates, Fat, and Protein you need each day to lose weight. These numbers are critical so don't forget to write them down. I keep a piece of paper pinned to my wall so I can easily see them when planning meals.
I have been on keto for about 3 weeks now thanks for all the info what I have lost probably fluid but my main thing is my stomach going doen slowly..I have some medical pre diabetic. BP and 2 strokes.must lose at least 70 pounds but I sincerely fo not understand the macros how do you count them I am rating only 2 meals now though loving that staying full not hungry walk about 3 days a week..more during summer¦the grocery list I have down but can't quite undetstand the macros..very happy to have people to talk to thanks glad you are available
Ideally, your keto carb limit should be kept to under 50 grams a day, or 4 to 10 percent of your daily calories. This will help you transition to burning fat for fuel. However, this number may change depending on various factors. For example, if you have Type 2 diabetes, you will have to restrict your carb intake to as little as 20 grams per day. All in all, you will have to rely on your body's feedback to help you identify the ceiling amount for your carb intake.
The ketogenic diet ” a high-fat and very low-carb eating plan ” can be tough to start. After all, it's likely a radical departure from the way you're eating now (a typical standard American diet is high in carbohydrates and processed foods). But many people are trying the keto diet, which puts your body in a state of ketosis. That's what happens when your body's carb-burning switch flips to a fat-burning one, a change that can cause weight loss and has even been credited with controlling diabetes. (1)
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