San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) endorsed former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergEngel scrambles to fend off primary challenge from left It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process Liberals embrace super PACs they once shunned MORE in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, saying he was the best positioned to beat President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE in the general election.
“He has the ability to beat Donald Trump this November, and that is of the most concern to me,” Breed told the San Francisco Chronicle.
“If there was someone else who could [beat Trump], I would be supporting them,” she continued but added she would support whoever wins the party’s nomination.
Breed also said Bloomberg’s “track record of what he’s done as New York City mayor and what he’s done afterward has been significant.”
The mayor said she would advise Bloomberg’s campaign on a number of issues including employment, climate change and housing.
Breed’s endorsement is the latest for Bloomberg, who scored his first congressional endorsements earlier this month from Reps. Stephanie MurphyStephanie MurphyThe Hill’s Coronavirus Report: Former Rep. Delaney says Trump is spewing venom when he should be leading; Protests roil the nation as fears of new virus outbreaks grow Expanding tax credit for businesses retaining workers gains bipartisan support Congress must fill the leadership void MORE (D-Fla.), Harley RoudaHarley Edwin RoudaGloves come off as Democrats fight for House seat in California Gun control group rolls out House endorsements Human Rights Campaign rolls out congressional endorsements on Equality Act anniversary MORE (D-Calif.), Max RoseMax RoseDe Blasio: Robert E Lee’s ‘name should be taken off everything in America, period’ The Hill’s Coronavirus Report: New America’s Anne-Marie Slaughter says countries around world are deciding not to trust US; All eyes on New York as city begins phased reopening Max Rose calls for National Guard to be deployed to NYC to enforce curfew MORE (D-N.Y.) and Bobby RushBobby Lee RushRep. Bobby Rush says Chicago officers lounged in his office as nearby stores were looted The Hill’s Morning Report – DC preps for massive Saturday protest; Murkowski breaks with Trump House coronavirus bill aims to prevent utility shutoffs MORE (D-Ill.).
While Bloomberg will not be on the ballot for the first four Democratic nominating contests, his campaign has poured resources into the Super Tuesday states scheduled to vote on March 3.
Bloomberg has hired more than 800 staffers, including 500 field organizers across 30 states, since entering the crowded primary in November.
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WSRP Producer Architecture
Producer and consumer are provided with a very modular architecture enabling an easy exchange of module implementations. All modules excel by interfaces based on the WSRP object model hiding the runtime environment's (portal's) object model and thus gaining independence of changes in the environment's implementation or design.
The WSRPEngine is the WSRP implementation endpoint. This class must be deployed in the app server (Tomcat) as a web service. The WSRPEngine implements the WSRP protocol specific ports (=interfaces) and does the corresponding protocol handling. There are four WSRP ports:
To be able to reuse Portal functionality regarding session and request handling when invoking a portlet the WSRPEngine must be able to access the HttpServletRequest.
This component manages and provides access to the registered Consumers.
This component is responsible for generating IDs / handles required for the WSRP protocol handling.
WSRP Object Model
The WSRP object model is being generated from the WSRP specification's WSDL types.
The Provider is the access point for the WSRPEngine to the Provider components which hide the provider (portal) implementation's components required to handle and invoke portlets. All Subcomponents wrap corresponding provider components and map the WSRP object model to the provider object model.
The PortletInvoker wraps the Provider's invocation mechanisms and provides the Provider with the required environment.
The DescriptionHandler manages and provides the description of the provider regarding configuration properties like registration or session handling policy, etc. It moreover provides the descriptions of the provided portlets depending on the registration.
The PortletPool manages the portlet instances and is responsible for the portlets' lifecycle management (clone, destroy).
Portlet State Manager
The PortletStateMananger enables a Producer to access a portlet's state as a blob that than can be delegate to the consumer to be stored on consumer side.
No additional session handling implementation for the Pluto provider is required as the session handling concept is completely HTTP (cookie) based and relies on consumer' cookie handling.
The URLComposer must be used for WSRP triggered portlet invocation to create WSRP URLs instead of the portal's URL handling implementation. Therefore the URLComposer is being used by WSRP's version of the DynamicInformationProvider which is being used by the Portlet API implementation to generate portlet URLs. There are two ways how URLs can be composed in a WSRP environment:

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Constant-Energy Synchronous Fluorescence Spectrometry for Simultaneous Determination of Anthracene and 9,10-Dimethylanthracene
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［中文文摘］建立了蒽和9,10二甲基蒽的同时恒能量同步荧光分析法。它们的恒能量同步荧光光谱和常规荧光光谱相比,分辨力明显提高。蒽和9,10二甲基蒽的线性范围分别为0～2μg·mL-1和0～5μg·mL-1,检出下限分别为22ng·mL-1和17ng·mL-1,相对标准偏差不大于2%。水样中蒽和9,10二甲基蒽的回收率为85%～103%。该方法简便快速,无需预分离。［英文文摘］ A new method of constant2energy synchronous fluorimetry to determine anthracene and 9 ,102dimethylanthracene simulta2 neously is suggested. The spectral resolution of the constant2energy synchronous fluorescence spectra of these two compounds was much higher than that of conventional spectra. The linear ranges for anthracene and 9 ,102dimethylanthracene were 022μg·mL - 1 and 025μg ·mL - 1 respectively. The detection limits of anthracene and 9 ,102dimethylanthracene were 212 ng·mL - 1 and 117 ng·mL - 1 respec2 tively , and the relative standard deviation was less than 2 %. When the new method was used for the determination of anthracene and 9 ,102dimethylanthracene in water samples , the recoveries were in the range of 85 % to 103 %. This method has proved to be simple and rapid.


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Ranitidine, a competitive antagonist of histamine-2 receptors, is used widely for the treatment of peptic ulcer disease and mild to moderate reflux esophagitis. Due to the changing lifestyle with increasing sedentary habits and poor dietary choices, there is an increasing prevalence of increased gastric acid secretion and hence the increased use of antacids including ranitidine.
Amid the safety concerns for the use of ranitidine, a recent study has found the antacid to be safe to use including in children, pregnant women, and the elderly. In the review published in the Journal of Indian Medical Association, the researchers described ranitidine to be well tolerated with rare adverse and serious adverse events related to its use.
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Feb 2015 | WSU News, by Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences
PULLMAN, Wash. – Wheat breeders at Washington State University are sizing up experimental crops from a new perspective: cameras that see far better than the human eye.
Scientists deploy tractor- and cart-mounted multi-spectral cameras to see how new wheat varieties handle challenges like drought, heat and disease. Results will help breeders and growers choose the best varieties.
“For thousands of years, people have been looking at plants in a field and saying, ‘that one grows well,’” said WSU spring wheat breeder Mike Pumphrey. But there’s a lot our eyes can’t see that a new generation of cameras can.

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At SIIL, we explored the literature and interacted with scientists to develop a list of critical indicators, and then analyzed them for their precision and ease of measurement. We also carried out field visits with scientists and stakeholders (farmers and project partners) to obtain insights into engagement, data collection, indicator generation, and perceptions of participants.
Among others, visits and interactions with scientists and stakeholders included:
- Africa RISING meeting with steering committee members
- Africa RISING project in Mali and Millennium Villages Project in Mali
- Africa RISING project sites in Ethiopia
- Interaction with scientists at the annual meeting for the Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab (SIIL)
- CIALCA project in Rwanda
- An online survey of SI researchers – June 2016
- Africa RISING ESA Phase 1 Legacy meeting – Tanzania, July 2016
- Africa RISING ESA Phase 2 planning meeting – Malawi, October 2016
During this process, we also collected information on the data, methods, and protocols that scientists use to estimate indicators for their various projects. In some projects, we found data gaps, meaning that the projects are not collecting data from a sufficient number of indicators to evaluate sustainable intensification. We are proposing data collection methods to fill this gap. Where gaps were identified and new indicators proposed, we presented them to the teams and discussed their relevance and measurability. A similar approach has been used by earlier studies (Zurek et al., 2015; Taylor et al., 1993; Van der Werf and Zimmer, 1998) to refine indicators in situations where no other possibility of validation exists (i.e., a new indicator is proposed but with no data to estimate it).
An online survey in 2016 focused on scientists involved in agricultural research for development related to sustainable development. The 44 scientists who participated in the survey identified themselves as follows: 60%, biophysical agricultural scientists; 20%, social scientists; and 20%, interdisciplinary or "other" scientists. The scientists were asked to indicate the most frequently used indicators by domain. Table 1 provides the indicators most frequently used by the scientists by domain. The human condition and social domain indicators were not measured as frequently by the scientists.
The results support what a number of studies have indicated: that there are gaps in indicator selection and use across the domains. One takeaway is that scientists working in sustainable development should make special efforts to consider indicators across all domains in order to overcome potential disciplinary biases. Scientists were provided with a list of indicators and asked to determine on a Likert scale their level of agreement on the criticality of indicators to assessment of sustainable intensification. The results are presented below. On average, indicators in the social and human condition domain did not receive high of levels of criticality
Commonly measured indicators used by SI researchers who participated in an online survey.1
|Yield (75%)||Profitability (59%)||Soil Carbon (34%)||Production of nutritious foods (25%)||Gendered rating of innovation (43%)|
|Yield variability (50%)||Labor requirements (52%)||Crop water availability (30%)||Capacity to experiment (23%)||Gender equity impact (27%)|
|Crop residue production (45%)||Input use efficiency (48%)||Nutrient partial balance (27%)||Dietary diversity (18%)||Conflicts over resources (11%)|
|Cropping intensity (35%)||Market participation (34%)||Soil acidity (27%)||Nutrition awareness (16%)||Equity (youth, ethnic, etc.) (9%)|
|Animal production (16%)||Variability of profitability (27%)||Erosion (18%)||Food availability — production (14%)|
1 The number in parentheses indicates the percentage of the 44 respondents who measure that indicator.
Indicators of sustainable intensification, ranked by average level of agreement
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Eleven McDonald’s All-Americans will be in FedExForum on Sunday evening for the Elite Eight battle of blue bloods between Kentucky and North Carolina, the two teams with the showiest recruiting profiles of those left in this NCAA Tournament.
UNC has six McDonald’s All-Americans on its roster and UK has five. Only Duke, which couldn’t get out of the tournament’s first weekend with its seven McDonald’s alums, had more nationally this season.
UCLA — with three such players — was the only other NCAA Tournament team with more than two McDonald’s All-Americans on its roster, and Kentucky eliminated the Bruins from contention here Friday night.
Here’s a closer look at how UK and UNC match up from a recruiting standpoint (all numerical rankings are from the 247Sports composite):
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Kentucky’s active roster includes five McDonald’s All-Americans (sophomore Isaiah Briscoe and freshmen Bam Adebayo, De’Aaron Fox, Sacha Killeya-Jones and Malik Monk), plus two more top-50 recruits: freshman Wenyen Gabriel (No. 14 in 2016), sophomore Isaac Humphries (No. 50 in 2015), as well as five-star shooting guard Hamidou Diallo, who is sitting out as a midseason enrollee (though he is eligible to play).
North Carolina has six McDonald’s All-Americans (seniors Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks, juniors Joel Berry, Justin Jackson and Theo Pinson, and freshman Tony Bradley). The Tar Heels have another three players that were Top 100 recruits: sophomore Kenny Williams (No. 97 in 2015) and freshmen Seventh Woods (No. 49 in 2016) and Brandon Robinson (No. 61 in 2016).
The other two UNC players with 247Sports composite rankings as recruits are senior Nate Britt (No. 121 in 2013) and sophomore Luke Maye (No. 156 in 2015).
As the information above illustrates, UNC has built its success on getting highly touted high school players to stick around for multiple seasons. None of the six McDonald’s All-Americans on the Tar Heels’ current roster have put up eye-popping numbers as freshmen.
Justin Jackson is the only player in that group that has averaged double-digit scoring or played more than 20 minutes per game as a freshman, logging 10.7 points in 26.7 minutes per game in his first year at UNC. First-year stats for the others: Kennedy Meeks (7.6 points in 16.3 minutes), Isaiah Hicks (1.2 points in 7.3 minutes), Joel Berry (4.2 points in 13.2 minutes), Theo Pinson (2.8 points in 12.5 minutes) and Tony Bradley (7.3 points in 14.8 minutes).
Of those players, only Jackson is projected as an NBA Draft pick this year.
UNC has some interesting players among those who came to campus as walk-ons. Sophomore Luke Maye was actually a top-200 recruit nationally and had scholarship offers from Notre Dame, Gonzaga, Virginia, Tennessee, Clemson and several others, but Coach Roy Williams convinced him to commit to the in-state Tar Heels as a preferred walk-on with the promise that he would become a scholarship player after his freshman season.
Senior guard Kanler Coker was a quarterback with the football team before an injury forced him to give up that sport. He joined the basketball Heels as a walk-on, but he has since been put on scholarship.
Junior forward Aaron Rohlman won a walk-on spot at UNC in an open tryout before this season. The team’s other walk-on — freshman forward Shea Rush — was a high school basketball standout in Kansas, playing for one of Williams’ former players, Billy Thomas. According to his official UNC bio, Rush enjoys making hats (specifically fedoras) in his spare time. His father is former UCLA player JaRon Rush.
North Carolina will lose several key players after this season, but the Tar Heels don’t have a stellar recruiting class lined up to replace them.
According to the 247Sports composite rankings, UNC has the No. 30 class nationally for 2017 — a four-player group led by combo guard Jalek Felton (the No. 26 prospect in the class). None of the Heels’ other three commitments are in the top 200.
UNC is still in the mix for five-star small forward Kevin Knox, who is the No. 8 overall recruit in the 2017 class. Knox is also considering Kentucky, Duke and Florida State, and he is expected to announce a college decision next month.


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Obama has tried valiantly to keep discussion of cutting Medicare focused on the idea of cutting waste and waste alone, but the fact that the CBO (and Obama himself) concede that the bill on the table is not adequately funded in the first 10 years or beyond, has some folks worried.
Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey gave credence to seniors' worries with this comment at a Colorado town hall Wednesday:
"There's going to be some people who are going to have to give up some things, honestly, for all of this to work," Markey said at a Congress on Your Corner event at CSU. "But we have to do this because we're Americans."
While reminiscent of Joe Biden's famously politically astute "higher taxes are patriotic" line, I'm not sure how well this is going to go over with Obamacare skeptics, particularly of the senior variety.
It will make them wonder how much of the idea of cutting Medicare benefits is really a "myth," as the president says:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, another myth that we've been hearing about is this notion that somehow we're going to be cutting your Medicare benefits. We are not. AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare, okay? So I just want seniors to be clear about this, because if you look at the polling, it turns out seniors are the ones who are most worried about health care reform. And that's understandable, because they use a lot of care, they've got Medicare, and it's already hard for a lot of people even on Medicare because of the supplements and all the other costs out of pocket that they're still paying.
So I just want to assure we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits. We are talking about making Medicare more efficient, eliminating the insurance subsidies, working with hospitals so that they are changing some of the reimbursement practices.
Can Obama really blame seniors for being suspicious about whether cutting waste in Medicare (which I'm in favor of) means cutting benefits? After all, Democrats have been dedicated to the demagoguery of just that equation whenever cutting costs has come up in the past.
It has put Obama in the strange position of saying, Well, all cuts to social programs were evil and harmful until I came along, but now they're to serve a greater good, so get on board, oldsters!
In another ironic Medicare twist, Obama's quest to cut Medicare waste may undercut another selling point of the left's beloved "public" government-run insurance option. Obama has argued repeatedly that Medicare's low administrative costs are proof of government's efficiency, but the level of the administrative costs is due to a combination of fuzzy government accounting and the very lack of oversight Obama claims to want to eliminate to save money. By employing more people to oversee Medicare to cut waste and fraud, Obama will eliminate the administrative savings he's been touting to sell yet another government health program.
Even the New York Times conceded as much in a 1997 story about the fraud and waste that has long plagued Medicare:
The Federal agency that oversees Medicare points to the program's tiny overhead as proof it is well administered. But recent reports suggest that Medicare's administrative costs are shockingly low, below 2 percent of costs, because Medicare is shockingly unsupervised. The amount of fraud and waste is huge, and supervision of the quality of medical care provided recipients is largely nonexistent.
Just keep squeezing that balloon. Welcome to government efficiency and truth in accounting. But if you give into your skeptic side, you're just succumbing to "myths" and "fear-mongering."


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A Moment of Grace Student's Name Affiliate Institution Course Unit Date Due Introduction This literature piece is now a classic that shows provocativeness and originality of the writer. The grandmother is the protagonist while the antagonist is the Misfit. This paper seeks to discuss the role of the grandmother as well as discussing if she can find a moment of grace. The grandmother is presented as a manipulator. She who lacks admiration. Her character does little to answer the question on grace. According to the author grace is abrupt and miraculous. The grandmother shows goodness after leaving behind her superficial ideas. This suggests the grandmother's moment of grace. This is hugely debatable because it is impossible to know if she intends to manipulate The Misfit. Reference O'Connor F. (2015). A good man is hard to find. New Canadian Library. [...]
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" does the grandmother experience the moment of grace AS a moment of grace? Why or why not? How does the story change if it isn't?

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Bastion Cycles introduces integrated titanium 3D printed bicycle cockpit
Since 2016, Bastion Cycles has been a pioneer in applying 3D printing to custom bicycle production (with internal Renishaw metal systems). The Australian company just unveiled the latest development at the Handmade Bicycle Show Australia (HBSA) in Melbourne: a fully integrated 3D printed bicycle cockpit system incorporating an internally routed fork and one-piece bar-stem made entirely in-house at their facility in Fairfield, Australia.
For several years the company has been planning to create such a system, citing the ability to tune the fork offset for further optimized handling for each rider and further improved front-end ride quality through controlled flex and damping characteristics as the main motivation for the development. However, hiding the hoses and wiring for an appearance benefit has been something which has increasingly been requested of them by their client base in recent months.
Ben Schultz, Managing Director, Bastion explained further: “When we are designing a custom bike for someone, fork offset and head tube angle are two of the most important variables in getting the bike to handle the way we would like and the customer expects. Especially on smaller frames the limits on the fork offset can inhibit achieving this optimized handling condition while maintaining toe clearance. Now we can use whatever fork offset we need between 40 and 55mm depending on the design. To date, we have made use of aftermarket carbon fiber forks and bar-stems and we have felt there is a small, but noticeable disconnect in the ride quality between the front and rear of the bike. The new cockpit and the addition of our breakthrough technology to the fork and bar-stem extends the same beautifully refined and smooth ride quality to the front of the bike, matching the rear. The icing on the cake so to speak has been the ability to hide all the hoses and wiring which is something customers are increasingly asking for as it creates a much cleaner aesthetic and also delivers a small aerodynamic advantage.”
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Unlike many similar products on the market, their system utilizes a more traditional 11/8” upper headset bearing resulting in a more svelte and refined aesthetic and enabling them to maintain the existing styling of their bikes. James Woolcock, Engineering Director at Bastion provided additional details: “Even though most systems on the market use a larger 1.25” upper headset bearing we felt this was too much of a compromise on the visual weight at the top of the bike and not something we wanted to accept. Although extremely challenging from a technical perspective we are glad we persisted and the evidence is in the beauty of the end product.”
To facilitate the internal routing a D-shaped fork steerer tube has been used, but unlike other D-shaped steerer systems, the matching bore in the stem is also D-shaped. This assists routing of the hoses and wiring, but also means any loss of steering control in the event of a loose stem bolt is virtually impossible. Throughout the system a combination of 3D printed titanium alloy and carbon fiber is employed. However, unlike the tubing in their frames which is filament wound, Bastion has created a new process using hard tooling and pre-impregnated carbon fiber to manufacture the legs and steerer of the fork, and the crossbar of the bar-stem.
James Woolcock, Engineering Director, Bastion said: “When we looked at the more complex loading compared to the frame and in the fork in particular, we identified the need to use non-uniform and non-symmetrical lay-ups which is just not possible with filament winding. So we developed our own novel molding process and after months of trials are now producing what we believe are some of the highest quality carbon fiber components in the industry.”
NDTesting a 3D printed bicycle cockpit
The goal was always to obtain a high-quality end-product. The Bastion team worked closely throughout the development with Raoul Luescher from Luescher Teknik, a world renowned expert in Quality Control and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Inspection of carbon fiber components with a background in the aerospace industry. In an industry first, the products will undergo Statistical Quality Control (SQC) involving Ultrasonic testing of 100% of the parts initially before reducing the number of parts scanned depending on the statistical variation found in the testing.
Raoul Luescher, Owner of Luescher Teknik, added: “This has been something that I have been vocal about for many years having witnessed fork failures that have resulted in serious injury and death. Non Destructive Inspection and Quality Assurance methods such as ultrasound have been utilized in the aerospace industry on critical carbon composite parts for over 40 years. A bicycle fork is a failure critical item that deserves the same attention to detail and quality assurance processes not only in the design phase but in ongoing production. I am proud to work with the Bastion team on this fork and believe it is a significant step forward in bicycle industry quality.”
In light of recent high profile failures of integrated cockpit and fork systems, it is worthy of note that the Bastion system uses a bonded in titanium compression plug which significantly reduces the possibility of damaging the steerer through over-tightening and also removes any risk of galvanic corrosion. Likewise, with the bars, the drops sections are titanium and have been tested to double the recommended torque on the shifter clamp bolts with no signs of damage to the bars. Whilst not touting any specific numbers the company has identified there is a definite aerodynamic advantage through the NACA foil shapes of the legs of the fork and the crossbar of the bar-stem. As well as the increased aerodynamic efficiency from having the hoses and wires out of the free stream.
“We really tried to balance adding some aerodynamic benefits with the overall aesthetics and are extremely happy with where it has ended up”; continued Woolcock. “We definitely feel it achieves that optimal condition of satisfying both form and function.” Weight reduction was not a target for the development, but the products are competitive with other similar systems, the company stating 490g for the fork and 440g for the bar-stem.
Bastion Cycles, has been producing some of the finest and most desirable road bicycles in the world since 2016. The company pioneered the use of 3D printing in bicycle manufacture and are the only bicycle company in the world to have Titanium 3D printing capability in-house. Integrated Cockpit System Components Description Fork – 3D printed Titanium Crown and Dropouts. Carbon fibre legs and steerer tube. Dshaped steerer with internal routing. Bar-stem – 3D printed Titanium stem and drops. Single piece carbon fibre crossbar. Compression Plug – 3D printed Titanium. Bonded into steerer.
Tailored for the rider
The use of 3D printing means the components can be tailored to the customer. This results in an optimized position for comfort, aerodynamics and power output. With the ability to tune stem length and angle, bar width, and most importantly fork offset Bastion are able to create custom geometry like no other bicycle manufacturer in the world. Aerodynamics Improved through the removal of hoses and wires from the free stream and also through NACA foil shapes in the legs and crossbar.
3D printed in Grade 5 Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V) the components utilize topology and structures that would be otherwise un-manufacturable by conventional subtractive methods such as CNC Machining. Bastion Cycles are leaders in 3D printing end-use production parts with quality such that the components are finished naked without paint and are instantly recognizable by their metallic appearance.
Bastion’s use of a blend of carbon fiber and titanium in their products delivers a refined and smooth ride quality not found in other products. Developed in collaboration with and endorsed by Luescher Teknik. Raoul Luescher has been a vocal critic of quality control in the bicycle industry. His business Luescher Teknik repairs carbon fiber bicycles and regularly finds failures that are the direct result of manufacturing defects. Raoul has brought his knowledge of aerospace quality control and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to the development and ongoing Quality Control of the products.
The integrated cockpit system is available exclusively on Bastion framesets and has already been pre-sold to existing customers and is available for new customers to order now.


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What is the proper growth rate of a 5 months old puppy considering height and weight?
Hi every1 my neo mastiff turned 5 months. I fed him a complete veg diet as summer is on. I feed him small quantity of spinach, carrot, beet root, french beans, chic peas, lentils(moong dal) with rice 2ce a day. also curd rice. In breakfast I feed him roasted samo seeds(rava) with 200ml milk, 1 banana n 1 boiled egg. he wieghs 27kgs. But 4m a month he has not put on weight but has grown taller. Kindly suggest.
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The head of Ofsted has said that Sunday schools will be affected by plans to regulate non-school settings, which directly contradicts recent Government statements.
During an LBC radio phone-in, a listener asked Sir Michael Wilshaw if he was happy that Ofsted would be turned into “thought police”.
Sir Michael responded that the Government is concerned about the radicalisation of children in unregistered schools, and therefore it wants Sunday schools, madrassas and after-school clubs to be registered.
“That won’t take a lot of time and we will not be inspecting every one of them but we will know that they exist. And if there are concerns, if whistle-blowers do tell us there’s an issue, then we will go in and inspect”, he said.
When challenged by presenter Nick Ferrari on why Sunday schools need to be “lumped into one potential problem area”, Sir Michael said: “We’ve got to deal with this in an even-handed way”.
… if church groups or religious groups want to run out-of-school classes then they need to registerSir Michael Wilshaw
He added, “all we’re saying is that if church groups or religious groups want to run out-of-school classes then they need to register so that the country and the Department of Education know they exist and that they’re being run properly”.
But the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan contradicted Sir Michael’s comments in a letter received by The Christian Institute.
Mrs Morgan’s letter said: “We are not proposing to regulate institutions teaching children for a short period every week, such as Sunday schools or the Scouts.
“Nor will the proposed system apply to one off residential activities, such as a week long Summer camp.”
In the House of Lords, Education Minister Lord Nash echoed Mrs Morgan’s position when responding to a question on whether Sunday schools or communion classes would be caught by the plans.
“We do not propose to regulate institutions such as Sunday schools and one-off residential settings which teach children for a short period every week.
“We are looking specifically at places where children receive intensive education, which we think will be defined as more than six to eight hours a week”, he said.
The Government’s consultation on the plans closed on Monday.
The proposals involve introducing a nationwide registration scheme for any out-of-school setting providing instruction to under 19-year-olds for more than six hours in any week.
Four Conservative MPs criticised the plans in a letter to The Daily Telegraph this week.
Sir Gerald Howarth, Fiona Bruce, David Burrowes and Gary Streeter said the plans could have a “seriously detrimental effect” on the freedom of religious organisations.


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The son of a Black Panther will be penning the debut of Marvel’s Black Panther when New York Times bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates helms the launch of the new comic book series in the spring of 2016. Black Panther is the first black character in mainstream American comics, and Marvel, as well as comic book fans alike are excited about next year’s launch, magnified by the addition of Coates.
Referred to as “one of the most thought-provoking and perceptive writers today” by Marvel, Coates is excited to tell the story of T’Challa from Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther. “Wakanda is really the light of the world, in the Marvel Universe. And yet it’s a system of governance that has not advanced beyond the idea of blood-rule,” says Coates. “It’s always seemed to me that T’Challa was aware of this discrepancy. Among the monarchs of Marvel –Namor and Doctor Doom for instance– T’Challa has always been distinguished to me by his discomfort on the throne, and with the problems of one-man rule. I am very much looking forward to exploring that tension.”
Will Moss, editor of the new Black Panther series, shared his excitement with the addition of Coates: “Ta-Nehisi writes brilliantly about everything from race to politics to fatherhood to modern culture, but he’s also a longtime Marvel reader. And combining his writing skills with his passion for and understanding of Marvel’s characters, paired with the captivating and engaging artwork of modern master Brian Stelfreeze, has led to a truly amazing story that we can’t wait for the world to read.”
Coates grew up listening to hip-hop and reading Marvel Comics, so this is a dream come true for him. The merging of his love of hip-hop and comics is expressed not only in the hip-hip variant for Black Panther #1, an homage to Jay-Z’s Black Album, but also in his words. “It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary,” he told the New York Times in a recent interview. Fitting that this lover of hip-hop and comics and son of a Black Panther will be penning Marvel Comics’ Black Panther.


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The BBC is planning to cut 2,000 jobs and radically change programming in order to cut 20 per cent from its budget over the next five years.
All new daytime programming will shift to BBC One, with BBC Two broadcasting news and repeats of peak-time shows.
BBC acting head of press and media Julian Payne explained that the numbers expected to be cut from the 185-strong comms team had not yet been agreed, but added that it would lead to ‘a smaller number of shows being promoted’.
The comms team expects to meet later this month with a decision on how many comms staff are to lose their jobs.
PRWeek revealed in July that there were plans to make around 30 comms staff redundant, as it struggles to deal with the frozen licence fee settlement. Those planned comms cuts will feed into the overall cuts announced today.
‘The difference is that we’ve got ourselves ahead of the game,’ said Payne. ‘The overall cuts that everyone is facing – we’ve already started ours.’
Payne added that he did not expect the BBC’s comms structure to change.
Taylor Herring co-founder James Herring said: 'The BBC publicity runs a very tight ship on not a lot of resources. It will be a struggle to pare the resources down even further.'
Herring said that the BBC's 'big entertainment pieces' such as Strictly Come Dancing and The Voice 'can't be done by one publicist alone'.
Herring added that commercial competitors of the BBC will see this as an opportunity: 'The commercial sector will be looking to up their game and put as much firepower behind their shows as possible.'
This could lead to the bolstering of in-house teams and PR agency support, said Herring.
Last month, the BBC sacked the three agencies working on flagship TV dramas Doctor Who, Holby City and Casualty.
Agencies affected are Premier PR for Doctor Who, Ian Johnson Publicity for Holby City and Just Williams PR for Casualty.


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Tracer, or Trae as her foster mom calls her, is such a lover and would like nothing more than to have a family to call her own. She would love to have a quite home where she can relax and bond with her new family. She loves to have her beautiful coat brushed while laying next to her foster mom watching TV. She will quickly settle in beside you to relax. Although her favorite spot is laying in the window! She doesn't seem to care for the other cats in her foster home but would do okay with some time to adjust with a kitty who doesn't get in her personal space to much.
When Tracer's elderly care giver was moved to a care facility her son started to care for her. She moved with him into a Homeless Veteran's Shelter. He's no longer in a position to care for Tracer and when he moved out of the shelter she stayed behind for a few months before moving into her Last Hope foster home. She may be 9 years old but she acts much younger, she was very social with the veteran's caring for her.
If you're interested in meeting this beautiful girl please fill out an application on our website at www.adopthope.org.
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You'll receive a copy, too, at to help you keep track of which pets you've inquired about, and which shelters and rescues you've emailed.
NOTE: Some shelters have physical locations you can visit; some of these shelters may only have pets for a limited time, so please do not wait for a reply—just go visit the shelter! Other organizations are rescue groups run by busy volunteers who may take a while to reply. You can find information about the shelter or rescue group caring for this pet, and their adoption procedures, on the pet's details page on Adopt-a-Pet.com.


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A soup-y, stew-y superfood made with spices, fiber-rich mung beans and basmati rice. Includes mung bean, basmati rice, and a blend of 7 spices.
Paro is South Asian-inspired pantry staples and meal starters. Founded by Umaimah Sharwani and named after her mom, Paro launches with three products featuring her family’s beloved Pakistani recipes for Masoor Daal, Kitchari, and Tarka. The nourishing and nostalgic foods are quick and easy to prepare (all coming together in thirty minutes), and only require water and light cooking.

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‘The Voice’: Are Blake Shelton and Adam Levine Quitting the Show?
Blake Shelton and Adam Levine have been on The Voice since it first started in 2011. Over the years, Shelton and Levine have become closer, leading fans to love their friendship. They also have taken home huge paychecks for being fan favorites.
But television shows don’t last forever, even when they’re huge hits. Will the duo stay on the show until it ends? Or are they already planning their big exit? Well, it’s possible that they will bow out before the show is over. Here are nine things we know about Blake Shelton and Adam Levine possibly quitting the show, including probably the biggest reason why they’ve stayed so long (No. 9).
1. Levine says it’s ‘inevitable’ that he’ll be done coaching
The Voice veteran has won three times on the show with Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin, and Jordan Smith. He has given some great advice to aspiring and working artists, and has also given his fellow coaches a tough time.
Although it seems like he’s still enjoying himself, he knows it’s inevitable that he’ll be done coaching eventually. “Inevitably, when that day [when I quit] comes — unless I’m on the show until it’s done, who knows? — I would entrust my position with very few people,” he told Yahoo.
It’s great that the singer is protective over his position, but that doesn’t mean he won’t walk away. Levine has also expressed who he would like to replace him if that time comes, while sources behind the scenes claim that the singer has been unhappy lately.
Next: When exactly did he become so happy?
2. He reportedly started being unhappy on The Voice in Season 11
Things weren’t exactly smooth sailing in Season 11 of the show. Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys were just starting out as coaches and the switch up reportedly really bothered Levine. “Adam really cannot stand Miley because he thinks that she is the most obnoxious person ever,” a source told Radar Online.
Next: A source reveals the truth about Cyrus.
3. Miley Cyrus apparently isn’t Levine’s favorite
Cyrus then came back for Season 13. This news reportedly made Levine think about calling it quits. “Adam does not really want to return if they bring Miley back,” explained a source to Radar Online. “He is that over it.” But he stuck around for Season 14 anyway, and Cyrus left.
Next: Is Shelton also ready to move on for good?
4. An insider claims both Levine and Shelton are ready to move on
Shelton might not have had a problem with Cyrus, but he reportedly is also ready to quit the show. “Both Adam and Blake feel that they have run their course as judges and are highly considering both exiting at the same time, along with Gwen,” a source told Radar Online.
Next: Levine says these two celebrities would be his ideal replacements.
5. Levine would pick Bruno Mars or Justin Timberlake as his replacement
The show has had many impressive celebrities come and go over the years. But none of them replaced Levine or Shelton. It would probably be a tough task to get replacements for these two coaches.
Adam knows this, so he already named what stars he would want to fill his spot. “Maybe I’d let Bruno Mars in the door,” he said according to Yahoo. “We’ll see how many kids Justin Timberlake has, if he can handle another job. Maybe Justin can do it. And yeah, that’s pretty much it.”
Next: Blake misses his sweetheart on the show.
6. Shelton was reportedly unhappy that Stefani wasn’t on the show
The couple met and fell in love while working on the show, so it only makes sense that Shelton would have missed Stefani while she was away in Season 11. Things got so bad that it reportedly affected his performance.
“Blake was not the same this season without Gwen there and it showed,” a source revealed, according to the Inquisitr. “When Gwen was a judge last season he was a ball of light and this season that light went out.”
Now that she’s been out again since Season 12, will he reconsider his future on the show?
Next: Shelton might want to do this instead.
7. Shelton might want to focus more on his music
Even though the country singer managed to get his girlfriend back on the show, it may not be enough to keep him on The Voice. He has put out new music over the years, but he reportedly wants to focus more on it than he has in the past.
“He is saying that he loves The Voice because it brought him to Gwen, but that he ultimately wants to focus more on his career and give other artists the opportunity that he has had,” an insider explained to Radar Online.
Next: Shelton wants this legend to replace him.
8. Shelton wants David Lee Roth to replace him
Levine isn’t the only one who has come up with options for his own replacement. However, Shelton might have harder shoes to fill given he has been a solid go-to for artists who want to break into country music. He made the surprising decision to pick a rock icon as his replacement.
“We need somebody that’s going to come in swinging,” explained Blake to Yahoo. “So I’m gonna say, David Lee Roth! I want to see that! Come on! Let’s get Dave in here!”
Next: The biggest reason why Shelton and Levine have stuck around for so long?
9. Money is probably a big reason why the two have stayed around
Shelton and Levine might have gotten what they wanted at least temporarily, with Cyrus gone and Stefani back. But another reason why they’ve probably stayed is the money.
Shelton and Stefani reportedly got an extra bonus in order to be more open about their relationship in Season 12. Levine has also consistently been one of the highest paid coaches on the show.
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Red Deerians had their say on what the city should do with its urban forest.
About 10 people attended a public consultation session Wednesday where a draft of the city’s Urban Forest Management Plan was presented.
“It was a very positive meeting,” said parks planning and technical supervisor Dave Matthews. “The people that came were obviously very passionate about our trees and urban forest.”
The draft of the 20-year plan plan guides the monitoring, maintenance, protection and enhancement of the urban forest in Red Deer. At the meeting the vision, principles, objectives and action items from the plan were discussed.
Overall the group liked the plan, Matthews said, and mostly made suggestions to change the wording for certain parts of the plan.
“They had a lot of great input,” Matthews said. “They had comments right away on the vision statement, because they wanted it to be stronger, have more life and be more dynamic, which is great.”
Though the plan is not the final draft, the meeting gave attendees an idea of what the plan is all about and what the intentions of the plan are.
A main focus of the meeting was to discuss the city’s plan for its planted trees, as those is more difficult to manage than natural areas, Matthews said.
Also discussed was being able to keep the health of the urban forest up. Some of the problems that may be seen include disease, drought, development challenges and dealing with weather issues, like the recent wind storm in Red Deer.
“There’s all kinds of thing affecting the health of our urban forest we need to look at. We feel we do a good job, but you can always do better,” Matthews said.
Matthews said he was happy seeing 10 people come out to the meeting, adding there are a few more who reached out to him directly who couldn’t make it on Wednesday. He sent those individuals information on what was presented and a survey to get their input.
Development on the plan began in January between the city and Urban Forest Innovations, an urban forest and arboricultural consultancy based in Mississauga, Ont.
Following consultation with the public, a final draft of the plan will be internally finished. The plan is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.


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A terrifying moment was captured on camera when a snake catcher tried to rescue Lovekesh Kumar after a cobra entered his pants.
Kumar from Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur was sleeping when a venomous snake slithered into his pants. Struck by horror, the man stood straight for four hours holding a pillar, reported the Hindi daily Hindustan.
A local snake catcher was alerted and arrived in the morning, freeing both the snake and Kumar, by cutting open his trousers.
This is not the first time a snake has slithered into a man's pants. In February 2020, a snake emerged from the pants of a man who had been knocked unconscious after falling into a well in Uttar Pradesh.


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Vulcan Manufacturing Limited (VML) is a Canadian-based multinational plastics firm, with subsidiaries in several foreign countries and
VML is attracted to developing countries by their growing demand for its products. In recognition of trade barriers designed to encourage domestic production in those countries, and in order to service local demand, VML incorporated a foreign subsidiary in a South American country on September 1, Year 4. The subsidiary, South American Plastics Inc. (SAPI), manufactures patented sheet plastic and sells virtually all of its output locally. Also, almost all labor and raw materials are provided locally. SAPI finances its day-to-day activities from its own operations and local borrowing.
During Year 4 and Year 5, the South American country suffered an inflation rate of more than 100%, accompanied by substantial devaluation of the local currency and a drastic increase in interest rates. The government is expected to impose wage and price controls in Year 6. The inflation rate is expected to stabilize at more moderate levels sometime in Year 6 or Year 7.
The CFO of VML has recently received SAPI's draft balance sheet as at August 31, Year 5 ( Exhibit I ), together with some comments prepared by SAPI's controller ( Exhibit II ). He is somewhat surprised by the return on investment of nearly 12%. This figure is well above the target rate agreed upon for bonus purposes, which was set at 3% in recognition of start-up costs associated with the first year of operations. The apparently favorable performance will result in large bonuses for SAPI's management.
Increases in SAPI's domestic selling price have kept pace with the general rate of inflation and increases in input prices and borrowing costs in the South American country. The CFO is satisfied that the inflation and devaluation the country has experienced has not seriously affected SAPI's cash flows from operations.
In the annual report to Canadian shareholders for the year ended August 31, Year 5, the CFO wants to communicate to shareholders the economic impact that inflation and devaluation in the South American country have had on VML's investment in SAPI. He is concerned that gains or losses arising from translation of the statements in accordance with IAS 21 will mislead shareholders.
SOUTH AMERICAN PLASTICS INC.
Extracts from Draft Balance Sheet as at August 31, Year 5 (in Thousands)
Cash ..................... FC* 10,020
Held-to-maturity investments ............. 3,120
Accounts receivable ................ 93,000
Inventory (at cost) ................ 67,200
Prepaid expenses .................. 8,040
Plant assets ................... 143,111
Less accumulated depreciation ........... 14,311
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity
Current monetary liabilities ............ FC 65,140
Long-term debt .................. 157,200
Common shares ................. 51,000
Retained earnings ................ 36,840
SOUTH AMERICAN PLASTICS INC.
Controller's Comments on Financial Statements
1. Opening Balances:
SAPI's balance sheet on September 1, Year 4, consisted of cash of FC 208,200,000; long-term debt of FC 157,200,000; and common shares of FC51,000,000.
2. Held-to-maturity Investments:
The held-to-maturity investments were purchased when 1FC = $0.31. The aggregate market value for the investments at August 31, Year 5, was FC 3,000,000 due to an increase in interest rates in the market.
Inventories were purchased when 1FC = $0.30. VML values inventory at the lower of cost and net realizable value. The aggregate net realizable value of the inventory was FC 100,000,000 at August 31, Year 5.
4. Prepaid Expenses:
The amounts, representing prepaid rent and property taxes, were paid when 1FC = $0.26.
5. Plant Assets:
Plant assets were purchased shortly after the date of SAPI's formation at a time when 1FC = $0.40. The recoverable amount of the fixed assets (in their current condition) was FC 200,000,000 at August 31, Year 5.
6. Current Liabilities:
All current liabilities were incurred at a time when 1FC = $0.25.
7. Long-Term Debt:
The debt represents a floating interest rate loan, which will be repaid in foreign currency units on August 31, Year 8.
8. Retained Earnings:
No dividends were paid during the Year 5 fiscal year.
9. Exchange Rates:
Sep. 1, Year 4 ......... 1 FCU = $0.40
Aug. 31, Year 5 ....... 1 FCU = $0.20
Average rate for year ..... 1 FCU = $0.30
The CFO believes that the exchange gains and losses will obscure the true impact of foreign inflation and devaluation on SAPI's economic value in Canadian-dollar terms. He has called the audit partner and you, the Senior, into his office. The following conversation ensues:
CFO: We have to issue our financial statements soon, and we have to apply IAS 21 to our South American subsidiary. I must confess that I don't know IAS 21 as well as you two do. My staff tells me that we must use a special method this year, due to the local hyper-inflation, although I confess that I don't see why. Apparently we will have a choice between the temporal method and the current rate method once the inflation rate stabilizes, which I expect to happen in Year 6 or Year 7. I am very reluctant to use a special method on this year's statements. It forces me to include fictitious gains and losses in our consolidated income statement.
Partner: Your staff is correct in stating that IAS 21 requires the use of a special method for the year just ended. However, shareholders should not be misled by exchange gains or losses in comprehensive income provided that they are fully disclosed as such.
CFO: I guess I just do not understand IAS 21. For example, how might the adoption of the current rate method in Year 6 or Year 7 improve matters? It seems to me that an overall exchange loss will arise if the rate keeps on going down. What does the loss mean? As long as our subsidiary's cash flows keep pace with local inflation, it will be able to maintain its expected rate of profitability and therefore its ability to pay dividends to us. Yet shareholders will see an exchange loss!
Partner: I will have Senior prepare a report that explains to you how the exchange gains or losses under either translation method tie in with the notion of risk underlying IAS 21. We will also explain how this notion alleviates your concern about communicating the true economic risk to shareholders. Senior will recommend ways to tell the whole story to shareholders.
CFO: Sounds great. I would also like Senior to provide advice on any other important issues related to SAPI. For starters, I have some concerns about the way our bonus plan for SAPI's management is working. One possibility I am considering is to evaluate SAPI's performance in Canadian-dollar terms.
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There are numerous people that wish that they had the solid body of the models which are shown in several magazines. It really is possible to accomplish getting that body should you apply yourself to a strict weight training exercise routine. Stick to the advice in the article below to assist you get a routine that will prove successful.
Aim for a higher quantity of reps with medium-intensity weight if you train. For each individual exercise you are doing, try to do a set of ten to fifteen reps, resting less than one minute somewhere between each set. This causes lactic acid to develop within your muscles, that makes you "experience the burn" while stimulating growth.
In case you are working toward "bulking up" your muscles high frequency training for strength, do not do cardio in excess of 90 minutes per workout. Excessive cardio could cause the entire body to create "lean muscle mass" rather than bulk that you want. Cardio is extremely important, but put a restriction upon it for the best results.
Lifting heavy weights is productive for several areas of the body, nevertheless, you should avoid lifting extreme amounts of weight when you are working out by performing neck work, dips and split squats. When the exercise puts you in the joint position which is unfavorable, keep your weight limit to some reasonable level.
Patience is key. You are not going to develop rock solid muscular mass overnight. You might ought to work long and hard to get the results that you a solution to. Do not allow yourself to become discouraged should you be not seeing the outcome you wished for. Make your goals reasonable and safe.
Calculate your intake of protein daily. You need to consume about one gram of protein for every pound of bodyweight every day. Consuming the right amount of protein will raise the muscle growth you receive in the weight training you are doing. Varying the consumption with a little occasionally will not be will make a good deal of difference, nevertheless, you should strive for the same amount daily.
Have the "big three" an integral part of your daily exercise program. These three exercises include: the deadlift, squat and bench press. These types of exercises are recognized to improve bulk, strength and condition your muscle mass each and every time these are done and must be a part of your routine for optimum body building success.
Do not overwork your whole body. In order to build muscle tissue, your system needs an opportunity to recuperate. When getting started, work your upper on a single day, then work your lower body the next day. Take a day off every week in which you do no workouts by any means. This may cause the workout less of a job.
You need to be dedicated to what you really are striving to accomplish while looking to create your own muscles. Will not train for endurance and concentrate on cardio when trying to construct muscle tissue. Cardio and weight lifting are an excellent combination, but they will contradict the other in case you have excess cardio in your high frequency training routines.
Keep in mind that muscles don't grow while you're working out they grow in the resting period when they feel sore. That is why, it's best to alternate workout days to give your muscle mass time and energy to rest and grow. Working out heavily everyday will just wear your muscle mass down.
Carrying out a workout on your own is normally not advised. There are numerous benefits to developing a workout buddy including having a spotter, staying motivated, and the majority of important avoiding boredom. This may be a prior friend, or it could be someone that you have meet in the club itself!
Muscle development is definitely a interesting activity, yet it is the one that requires preparation and data to prevent injury. Don't just run to a health club thinking that you could learn along the way. Either go combined with a highly skilled friend or do some research beforehand to understand what to anticipate.
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Body building can be done with commitment, however, you also require the right kind of information and training. Let the tips on this page become the perfect guide apply those to your muscles development regiment and see for results. Stay patient and you will definitely soon be among those bodies you employed to envy.

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Nigerian singer, Davido, got the internet buzzing after beckoning on one of his aides to call his lover, Chioma, during a performance.
The act got internet buzzing as many were delighted seeing the couple serving couple goals at Isreal DMW’s wedding.
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I have to start out by saying I will have to do a lot of praying over this problem.
It started two weeks ago when my lawn mower started purging oil thru the crankcase breather. I thought I overfilled the mower with oil and drained a quart out. After doing this I figured the problem was fixed. While I was taking the oil out I noticed it was quite thin but thought it was just due to the oil being a full synthetic. Next few days I was mowing a customers lawn and it started spitting oil again. I quickly finished up the yard (less than a .25 of a acre) and loaded it up. While I was checking the oil this time I noticed the gas smell in the oil. I ran to the store and bought 2 quarts of Royal Purple with a Wix filter. While changing the oil I noticed I took out over 2 qts of oil and I had only added put 1 1/2 qts in it last time I changed it. My thought was because it was hard to start and not firing that the fuel pump was pumping gas into the carb. When the gas went into the carb it was being injected into the cylinders so it was leaking past the rings and getting into the crankcase. While doing this I have cleaned the carb numerous times. Well today I put 2 gallons of gas into the zero turn and started mowing the yard. It run great for about 5 minutes and cut off. Obviously any person that works on engines first thought is the float is sticking. I took the carb apart and cleaned everything out and put the carb back on. I started the mower and made it about 100 ft before it cut off again. I got the mower to restart again and it took 2 or 3 restarts before making it back to the building. This time I thought I had missed a little piece of trash into the carb so I took it apart again and cleaned it tip cleaners and reinstalled. This time I made it to the end of my ramp of my building before it shut off again. Being fed up with it by then I went in the house and ate supper. While sitting and eating supper I had a epiphany. What if the fuel wasn't making it to the carb and instead leaking down inside of the valves... Well in the middle of my bowl of spaghetti I ran outside and sure enough... There was a tear in my diaphragm of my fuel pump. The reason it kept cutting off was because the carb wasn't getting enough gas to be able to run on. This problem has haunted me for a good 3 weeks and I am so thankful I am on the other side of the problem now.
I am hoping by typing this I can help someone not go thru all of the problems I went thru. This has cost me 100 bucks so far (oil changes and the persons yard I have to mow for free now because I left a big oil spot on his driveway).
Tomorrow I am hoping to be able to find one in stock somewhere but I won't hold my breath.
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The partners have jointly developed an integrated solution that provides compliant identity access and governance from IGEL OS for workspaces powered by Microsoft Azure.
Waltham, Massachusetts When San Francisco, October 13, 2022 /PR Newswire/ — Improvisationa digital identity company for mission- and life-critical industries, and igel, the provider of managed endpoint operating systems that enable secure access to any digital workspace, today announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft Ignite. IGEL OS PC environment. Together, the two companies have integrated the Imprivata OneSign® digital identity platform into IGEL OS, enabling seamless and secure access to workspaces powered by Microsoft Azure.
This expanded partnership between Imprivata and IGEL builds on the longstanding relationship between the two companies that has enabled thousands of healthcare users to securely, quickly and easily access clinical applications using endpoints powered by IGEL OS. Expanded. With IGEL’s active participation in the Imprivata developer program, the two companies will jointly integrate Imprivata OneSign with IGEL OS to enable Microsoft AVD and Windows 365 Cloud PC users to use Imprivata single sign-on and authentication management technology. to provide seamless No Click Access® to desktops and applications. This gives healthcare organizations looking to move their digital workspaces to the cloud a new and secure option to use Microsoft’s AVD or Windows 365 Cloud PC solutions in clinical environments.
“IGEL and Imprivata have worked together for over a decade to provide a secure and seamless single sign-on experience to the access our mutual customers require to workstations, applications and virtual desktops. Matthias Haas, Chief Technology Officer, IGEL. “We are excited to expand this secure digital identity capability for our customers looking to benefit from extending their workspace to the cloud with Microsoft AVD and Windows 365 Cloud PC. The combined solution provides the strong data security and simplified compliance that healthcare organizations need as they transition to Microsoft Azure-powered workspaces.”
“The joint development work of integrating Imprivata OneSign with the simple, smart and secure IGEL OS has resulted in an integrated solution for compliant and secure access to digital workspaces, data and apps in the Azure cloud.” Wes Wright, Chief Technology Officer of Imprivata. Organizations looking to Microsoft AVD or Windows 365 Cloud PC today can be confident they’ll have a secure, frictionless digital identity and an agile, easy-to-manage operating system from a single, proven solution. . “
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Hullportside is at the top of the bluff on the western side of Strawberry Hill overlooking Boston Bay, which is formed by the Hull peninsula. I appreciate that a group of Hull and Hingham residents interviewed solar installation companies and chose the best in terms of price and reputation. At the time, Solar Renewable Energy Credits were available paid over a ten year time, After other incentives for lower income people, SRECs are paying off the loan I took out for the solar panels. Information on current federal and state rebates and incentives is available online. I also replaced my 20 year old roof shingles with a metal roof installed by East Coast Metal Roofing. Its excellent workmanship solved roof leaks. East Coast roofs come with a life time warranty.,
My partner of 31 years passed on the summer after the panels were installed. He had cared for the electric bikes and low-speed electric vehicles, which we used instead of cars. Now I am working on bringing Solar Personal Rapid Transit to Hull, the South Shore, Boston and the world. Watch the Solar Mobility Song YouTube online for a fun, quick introduction. It is fast, safe, affordable–and fun. It also makes it safe to walk and bike along streets. It can make money, so investors are interested in it. The state legislation we are working on will require that 5 percent of its gross revenues will go to the owners of the rights-of-way. I am aware of two companies with slightly different designs. See www.jpods.com and www.transitx. com. There is interest in JPods in Texas. It will save lives and help us be healthy from the short walk to a nearby station, It will be adopted quickly and cut most of the world’s 25 percent of carbon emissions that come from transportation emissions (43% from transportation in Massachusetts!).


text: Adebayo AdeniranFollowSep 5, 2021·1 min readLawmakers in the south know what they’re doing. They’ve passed shadow laws that don’t ban abortion outright. They’ve made it practically impossible. They do the same thing with any federal law they don’t like. They work around it. They undermine it.We’re Tired of Being The Only Hope and The Last Resort6.9K69Jessica WildfireNo different from laws which make it difficult for Black and Brown people to vote.

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DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, FL – JPMorgan Chase Bank purchased 2970 S. Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach Shores, FL for $1,250,000.
The existing building will be razed to make way for a new Chase Bank branch across the street from the ocean and next to the Daytona Beach Shores City Hall.
Carl W. Lentz, CCIM with SVN Alliance Commercial Real Estate Advisors represented both the buyer and the seller in this transaction.
Chase is rapidly expanding its footprint in East Volusia with new branches at:
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1808 W International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach at the Shoppes at One Daytona-Ground Lease. The Grand Opening is scheduled for December 2019


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Aiden From the second I saw her, I knew she'd be my ruin. Sitting all alone at the bar, she looked like an angel. Eurydice in human form; her beauty eclipsed by demons. Now, I'm one of them. The ghost she's tried for years to escape. Thinking I wouldn't be able to find her. But I never stopped trying, and now that I have, her past sins should be the least of her worries. Riley From the moment he saw me, I knew I'd ruin his life. Alone at the bar, I dared the monster to come and play. Orpheus in the flesh, with his sad songs and strange obsessions. I became one of them. The siren who calls to the darkest parts of him. Only, I disappeared before he could act on it. But now he's here, and he wants me to repent for my sins. *** *Vipers and Virtuosos is a full-length, standalone dark rockstar romance inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. It is NOT fantasy, historical, or a retelling. If you are not a dark romance reader, this book may not be suitable for you. Reader discretion is advised.
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Multivitamin and multimineral supplements are so common that you’d be hard-pressed not to be able to find one in any health store, supermarket or convenience store. But despite their universal use and availability, there is still some debate about whether multis are worth taking. I for one prescribe multis as a matter of course for many of my clients, for the simple reason that we may not always get all that we require from diet alone.
Do we get all that we need from our diets?
United States Department of Agriculture data shows that some fresh produce may only provide around half the amounts of some vitamins and minerals that they did in the 1950s.1 So, while we have been eating more over time, and taking in more than enough calories and ‘fuel’, we aren’t necessarily getting enough of the ‘little guys’, the vitamins, minerals and secondary nutrients essential to health and performance. Estimates from the New Zealand Ministry of Health ‘NZ Adult Nutrition Survey’ of 2008/2009 suggest that many New Zealanders are not getting the recommended amounts of many of the vitamins and minerals from their diets.2
Some of the key findings included:
- Around 20% of people fail to get sufficient vitamins A (one of our major anti-oxidant vitamins, vital for gene expression, eye health, and cell division), B1 and B6 (both essential for energy creation)
- 8% of people fail to get sufficient B12. B12 is required for the proper functioning of nerve cells and without adequate B12 people can suffer from a form of anemia and ultimately lack of B12 can permanently damage neurons.
- Nearly 10% of women don’t get enough iron. Iron deficiency results in anemia, lethargy, and loss of muscle strength and endurance.
- Around 25% of people don’t consume enough zinc. Zinc is extremely important for immune function and for the creation of testosterone. Interestingly nearly 40% of males may not get adequate zinc from their diet, which could increase the risk of colds, flu and reduce the ability to build muscle.
- 45% of people don’t get enough Selenium, a mineral lacking in New Zealand soils that is vital to thyroid function and metabolic rate.
Other reasons we may be nutritionally deprived
In the modern world, we are beset with stressors, and unlike when we were roaming the savannah 1000s of years ago, we are not always able to simply respond to the stress and then relax. In other words, we are surrounded nowadays by paper tigers that we can’t run away from!
This results in higher levels of residual stress, and this drives a ‘fight or flight’ response within the body that can be very exhausting. We require increased levels of nutrients such as B vitamins, magnesium, and zinc to effectively recover from these stressors.
Through intensive farming and the use of simple NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) fertilisers that may not fully replenish the micronutrients in the soil, our foods are much lower in nutrients than even several decades ago. As a result, we need to ensure a higher nutrient intake.
Many vitamins and fatty acids will begin to break down when exposed to heat, light, and air. This effect increases over time, and with farms now further away from markets there is a greater degradation of food nutrient content. We also consume far too many of the ‘ultra-refined’ foods that are denser in energy and yet far sparser in essential and secondary nutrients than natural, unprocessed foods.
Lack of variety
Many of us don’t always eat that great a variety of foods—especially with respect to vegetables, herbs, and berries. Often, we routinely eat only three or four types of vegetables, many of which have very similar nutrient profiles. Decades ago it was much more common to eat a greater variety of foods due to seasonality, home, and local gardening, and by necessity (if you don’t have a lot of money you eat what’s in the garden!)
I remember that my grandparents would include foods like nasturtium, coltsfoot, hawksbill, and dandelion from out of the garden. Basically, if it was edible, we’d eat it! These foods were and are not only readily available but are extremely nutritious. Packed with B vitamins, potassium, and other nutrients as well as being gently medicinal and cleansing, we now miss out on the benefits of many of these traditional foods.
How could a multi help me?
While a multi is never a substitute for good eating and food always comes first, a multi- can help to provide some of the things that we may habitually, or occasionally lack for optimal health and performance.
Multinutrient formulas appear to improve mortality outcomes for cancer and stroke and provide an overall protective benefit for cancer and heart disease, along with improvements in all-cause mortality.3, 4 They can also reduce perceived stress,5 improve sleep,6 improve memory and cognition.7 Overall, multis are a safe and effective way to ensure a healthy intake of essential and beneficial nutrients.8
BUT not all multis are created equal
To some degree, it’s true that you get what you pay for. To ensure that you are taking a product that will help and not hinder your health and performance make sure that your multi ticks the following boxes:
- Contains all the essential micronutrients—except for iron because up to 20% or more of people may experience sub-clinical iron overload
- Based on whole-food ingredients and extracts that provide additional ‘secondary’ nutrients
- Uses the safest and most effective forms of ingredients
- Doesn’t contain ingredients simply because they are ‘trending’ or popular if they don’t have evidence to support safety and efficacy
1. Davis DR, Epp MD, Riordan HD. Changes in USDA Food Composition Data for 43 Garden Crops, 1950 to 1999. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2004;23(6):669-82.
2. University of Otago and Ministry of Health. A Focus on Nutrition: Key findings of the 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey. Wellington; 2011.
3. Huang H-Y, Caballero B, Chang S, Alberg AJ, Semba RD, Schneyer CR, et al. The Efficacy and Safety of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement Use To Prevent Cancer and Chronic Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review for a National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2006;145(5):372-85.
4. Alexander DD, Weed DL, Chang ET, Miller PE, Mohamed MA, Elkayam L. A Systematic Review of Multivitamin–Multimineral Use and Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer Incidence and Total Mortality. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2013;32(5):339-54.
5. Macpherson H, Rowsell R, Cox KHM, Scholey A, Pipingas A. Acute mood but not cognitive improvements following administration of a single multivitamin and mineral supplement in healthy women aged 50 and above: a randomised controlled trial. AGE. 2015;37(3):1-10.
6. Sarris J, Cox KHM, Camfield DA, Scholey A, Stough C, Fogg E, et al. Participant experiences from chronic administration of a multivitamin versus placebo on subjective health and wellbeing: a double-blind qualitative analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Nutrition Journal. 2012;11(1):1-10.
7. Harris E, Macpherson H, Vitetta L, Kirk J, Sali A, Pipingas A. Effects of a multivitamin, mineral and herbal supplement on cognition and blood biomarkers in older men: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental. 2012;27(4):370-7.
8. Biesalski HK, Tinz J. Multivitamin/mineral supplements:
rationale and safety – A systematic review. Nutrition.


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England’s former football manager Graham Taylor denied the claims that the Football Association tried to limit the black players of the national team.
Emy Onuora, author of the newly released book “Pitch Black”, claimed that two members of the Football Association called Taylor and said he should limit the number of the black players in the national team.
Taylor denied the claims of the author saying his records showed that he cannot be accused of “blocking the way for any black player.”
“Certainly never during my time at the Football Association I had no FA people coming up to me and telling me which team to pick and to pick less black players. I would have remembered that” he said.
“I never had any problems regarding team selection concerning black players from the Football Association...I’m going to have to take some form of legal advice here. To have my name linked into this kind of thing is totally wrong.”
The author said that his main concern to mention Taylor in the book is to strike attention to the FA’s obsession of predominantly white image of the England team.
“There is no question of Taylor having acted on those instructions, but the episode raises some important questions as to how many other England managers were given the same instructions and therefore felt pressurised to limit the numbers of black players selected to play for the national side” he said.
English press agencies notified the Football Association about the the claims of the book, but they did not comment on the subject.
English football teams employed black players for 30 years. Onuora’s allegations raised questions about FA’s attitude toward the black players, whether they applied pressure to other football managers on this subject, or not.
Graham Taylor is the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993. He was a football manager from 1974 to 2003 in different football teams.