Sockets are tools used to tighten mechanical fasteners. They fit over the head of the fastener to provide torque. Typically, sockets have a hexagonal hole at one end that’s designed to fit over a hex head bolt or screw. On the other end of the socket is a square hole that fits over the square drive of a socket wrench.
What is socket used for?
Sockets allow you to exchange information between processes on the same machine or across a network, distribute work to the most efficient machine, and they easily allow access to centralized data. Socket application program interfaces (APIs) are the network standard for TCP/IP.
What are the 3 types of sockets?
Three types of sockets are supported:
- Stream sockets allow processes to communicate using TCP. A stream socket provides bidirectional, reliable, sequenced, and unduplicated flow of data with no record boundaries. …
- Datagram sockets allow processes to use UDP to communicate. …
- Raw sockets provide access to ICMP.
What are sockets called?
Driver sockets: Also called bit sockets, these work to tighten and loosen screws using your ratchet handle. Driver sockets are available for almost all screw types like Phillips, flat head and hex. Pass-through sockets: These allow the bolt you’re working on to pass through the socket and ratchet.
What are the two types of sockets?
There are two types of Sockets: the datagram socket and the stream socket.
- Datagram Socket : This is a type of network which has connection less point for sending and receiving packets. …
- Stream Socket.
What is socket and its types?
Types of sockets supported by TCP/IP
|SOCK_STREAM||Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)|
|SOCK_DGRAM||User Datagram Protocol (UDP)|
|SOCK_RAW||IP, ICMP, RAW|
What tool is used for sockets?
The most prevalent form is the ratcheting socket wrench, often informally called a ratchet. A ratchet incorporates a reversible ratcheting mechanism which allows the user to pivot the tool back and forth to turn its socket instead of removing and repositioning a wrench to do so.
What is the socket size?
There are four common socket sizes: 1/4 inch (0.6 centimeters), 3/8 inch (0.9 centimeters), 1/2 inch (1.3 centimeters) and 3/4 inch (1.9 centimeters). In-between sizes are available too, starting with 1/4 inch (0.6 centimeters) and increasing every sixteenth of an inch (0.16 centimeters).
What is the best type of socket?
Sockets are commonly made in both 6-point and 12-point styles. For the best fit, choose a 6-point socket for a 6-point fastener and a 12-point socket for a 12-point fastener.
How many types of socket do we have?
There are four types of sockets available to the users. The first two are most commonly used and the last two are rarely used. Processes are presumed to communicate only between sockets of the same type but there is no restriction that prevents communication between sockets of different types.
How is a socket measured?
Socket head sizes are measured with one of two systems: metric (millimetres) or imperial (inches). The drive socket size is always given in imperial measurements, regardless of whether it is an imperial or metric socket. This is because it is an international standard.
What is the difference between sockets?
A socket is a combination of port and IP address.
Difference between Socket and Port?
|It is used to identify both a machine and a service within the machine.||The same port number can be used in different computer running on same software.|
How are sockets made?
Quote from video: They start with this coil of thick steel. It travels through a die which straightens it to a knife that slices it into short billets. A machine then drives a series of forming tools into the Bellas.
What is socket in motherboard?
A CPU socket is a single connector between a microprocessor and motherboard. A CPU socket is a distinct mount used only for the CPU on the motherboard to ensure correct circuit chip insertion. It facilitates CPU access and prevents damage when a unit is inserted or removed.
What is a TCP socket?
A socket programming interface provides the routines required for interprocess communication between applications, either on the local system or spread in a distributed, TCP/IP based network environment. Once a peer-to-peer connection is established, a socket descriptor is used to uniquely identify the connection.
How do CPU sockets work?
A CPU socket for an industrial computer is the physical connection between a computer processor and an industrial grade motherboard. A CPU socket uses hundreds, or even thousands of metal pins as contact points to allow power and data to be passed between the CPU and the motherboard.
What is socket and how it works?
Definition: A socket is one endpoint of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network. A socket is bound to a port number so that the TCP layer can identify the application that data is destined to be sent to.
What is a socket and port?
A socket uniquely identifies the endpoint of a communication link between two application ports. A port represents an application process on a TCP/IP host, but the port number itself does not indicate the protocol being used: TCP, UDP, or IP.
What is socket () bind () listen () accept () and connect ()?
Bind the socket to an address using the bind() function; Listen for connections with the listen() function; Accept a connection with the accept() function system call. This call typically blocks until a client connects with the server. Send and receive data by means of send() and receive().
Is socket programming still used?
Most current network programming is done either using sockets directly, or using various other layers on top of sockets.
How do you create a socket?
The steps involved in establishing a socket on the server side are as follows:
- Create a socket with the socket() system call.
- Bind the socket to an address using the bind() system call. …
- Listen for connections with the listen() system call.
- Accept a connection with the accept() system call. …
- Send and receive data.
Which language is best for socket programming?
The socket module provides all the required functionalities to quickly write TCP and UDP clients and servers. Python also offers other tools for the manipulation of network packets — like Scapy, [which] is a module written in Python to manipulate packets with support for multiple network protocols.


Study on New Parameters for Tonal Noise Evaluation in Small Fan Noise
In the fields of sound quality evaluation in information technology (IT) equipment, parameters for tonal components such as TNR (Tone to Noise Ratio) and PR (Prominence Ratio) are standardized in ISO 7779, ECMA-74 and so on. TNR and PR are mainly focused to detect abnormal tonal noise in products for quality control. On the other hand, psychoacoustic parameter so called as Tonality was established by Terhardt and Aures. Tonality expresses a kind of tonal feeling for sound, however, it doesn't focus specific peak component.
The present study is an attempt to establish new parameters for tonal noise evaluation in small fan noise and other IT noise. The TTNR (Total Tone to Noise Ratio) and TPR (Total Prominence Ratio) are presented and calculation tool were developed. In the paper, relationships between subjective tonal feeling and these parameters calculated by various methodologies to pick up tonal components were examined. Sensory test was done by using a paired comparison method and method of limits.


Asus Taiwanese electronic giant has unveiled its M70AD desktop PC which is said to be first device featuring NFC in Personal computing device. Any of the Android-based smartphones or tablets can be paired with the M70AD which enables the user to log into account automatically.
An Asus app allows the Android device to be used as a touch-screen launcher for Windows 8, and also automatically backs up photos and data on the device to the PC.
Asus latest product is powered by a 4th generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors with integrated Intel graphics or discrete Nvidia GeForce graphics cards. The desktop has a 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a slim DVD-RW drive, and a 16-in-1 card reader and the M70AD tower case is designed with aggressive angles and a polished metal finish.
Other features in Asus desktop such as a built-in UPS that allows the PC to shut down safely in the event of a power failure, after all data and documents are saved. Theres also a Qi wireless inductive plate and fast USB charging that will allow devices to charge even when the PC is shut down.
A hot-swappable Universal Storage Module (USM) drive bay makes it easy to use high-capacity external SATA hard drives. The industry-standard USM interface is around twice as fast as USB 3.0 and all USM drives can also use a simple USB adapter for easy portability.
The M70AD is also powered by two sound enhancements for more powerful audio including Sonic Master and Maxx Audio from Waves which, has received a Technical Grammy award.
On the software front the M70AD desktop runs on Windows 8 with 64bit and comes with multiple Asus application including Asus Launcher, Asus WebStorage (32GB for 3 years), Power Director, Photo Director, and Music Maker Silver, office and antivirus suites.
There is no information or the company didnt mention of a monitor or multiple variant of integrated integrated and discrete graphics, however the price is Rs. 62,000 (all inclusive).
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The former winger is currently Director of Football at Ajax.
And he's thought to be on the Gunners' shortlist for a key backroom role at the Emirates.
“It might be an option in the future.”Marc Overmars opens up
Overmars was last night asked about the possibility of making an Arsenal comeback.
And he revealed he may link up with his old team once again.
Overmars said: "I know the club pretty well and I have always kept in touch with Arsenal.
"As a player I had the ambition to play in Europe [outside the Netherlands].
"It might be an option in the future. I think there is a list with names, and I’m on it.
"It’s not strange since I’ve had a good time at Arsenal. But I’ve just signed a new contract at Ajax."


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A note from our Principal:
Under the direction of Mr. Greg wells our instrumental music program has continued the long and rich tradition of excellence enjoyed by the Northview Band Program.
Prolonged success does not happen by accident. I would like to recognize and thank the members of the band program for their countless hours of practice and performances. They are outstanding ambassadors for our school district. Tremendous support in may forms is also provided by our parents and patrons. All of these stakeholders play a role in contributing to an amazing music program.
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Just weeks after a similar bill in Virginia was altered in the face of a national outcry, the Illinois House of Representatives is now considering a bill that would coerce women into undergoing an invasive and medically unnecessary procedure known as a transvaginal ultrasound as a part of "informed consent" before having an abortion.1 At their own expense.
We're asking all of our members in Illinois — whether their representative is pro-choice or anti-choice — to send this message to their legislator.
Anti-choice legislators who support this bill need to know that their constituents will hold them accountable for their vote. And pro-choice legislators are under tremendous pressure from the right wing — they need to be able to say constituents are overwhelmingly supportive of their decision to vote against this bill.
Representative Senger needs to needs to hear from as many constituents as possible that any legislation that attempts to coerce women into having an invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound before having an abortion should be defeated.
If this legislation — offensively named the "Ultrasound Opportunity Act" — passes, any woman who refuses to take the state up on this invasive ultrasound "opportunity" has to do so in writing, on a state-provided form that would then be collected and stored by the state. And the state would require clinics and physicians to track and report the number of women who refuse to be violated by the state before having an abortion.2
This anti-woman bill has already passed the Illinois House Agriculture Committee. Yes, you read that right — the Agriculture committee, because apparently the supporters of this legislation are so regressive in their thinking that they believe they should treat women like cattle. The House is back in session today, and a vote could happen any day now. We only have a short window of time to flood the House with the message that HB 4085 must be defeated.
This bill is nothing more than another attempt by anti-woman extremists in the states to make it harder for women to access abortion services. If this bill successfully passes the Illinois legislature, other states will be encouraged to begin to introduce equally reactionary bills. We can't let this legislation pass and set off a chain reaction around the U.S.

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24 Apr Staff Note – Alistair Reese: To Endure Hardship
In a perhaps apocryphal story, the Times of London once sought opinions from eminent writers and thinkers of the day. The query they posed was: “What is wrong with the world?” It is reported that the nineteenth century English social commentator G.K. Chesterton pithily replied: “Dear Sirs, I am”!
This week, in a variation of Chesterton’s comment, New Zealand Herald opinion writer Simon Wilson opined about the COVID-19 lockdown: “The biggest problem—the hardest thing to manage and therefore the thing that is most likely to undo all the best-laid plans—is not the illness itself. It is us.”
Chesterton and Wilson both understand the major cosmic challenge iterated in the question, “what is wrong with the world.” This is clear by their responses: “me/us”. Some Christians might extrapolate further and suggest that the solution to the “me/us” problem is the gospel. However, this is simplistic and inadequate if we do not understand that even as Christians, “me/us” can continue to remain a part of the dilemma.
In the era of lockdown in COVID-19, there is an opportunity to perceive how we might remain part of the cosmic problem. This enforced sabbath is a time for personal reflection—a sometimes uncomfortable meditation that often reinforces the “me/us” conclusion. However, the gospel does not leave us there. The writer of Hebrews declares: “Endure hardship as discipline…. no discipline is pleasant at the time but produces a two-fold harvest of holiness and peace.”
In a wider theological sense, this passage in Hebrews 11 acknowledges the mystery of God’s sovereignty, his tino rangatiratanga, his Lordship over all things. He is the One who, according to Romans, “is able to work all things for good for those who love Christ Jesus”. God utilises the fallen nature of the creative order, even COVID-19, to achieve his purposes. He is able to redeem this hardship, in part, by using it as a training programme for our soul. This wānanga with the Holy Spirit provides us with an opportunity to move from being part of the cosmic problem to being part of the cosmic solution.

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DUBLIN remains the top destination to visit in the Republic of Ireland, with a 60 per cent increase in summer holiday bookings, new data has revealed.
Travel agency Expedia, who compiled the results, took sample data from their search bar engine – it shows a general increase in tourism for the entire country.
Andy Washington, Managing Director for Expedia.ie said: ‘It’s really positive to see that bookings to Ireland for the start of summer are rising, not only in the last month, but also year on year.’
Galway takes second place with a 55 per cent increase on the same period last year while Killarney takes third at 49 per cent.
Figures pulled from 7 April to 22 May reveal that this year’s City of Culture, Limerick, factors in fourth position at 46 per cent – in joint place with Cork.
American tourists and the British are our top visitors, with travellers from Canada and Germany taking fourth and fifth position, respectively, after domestic bookings in third.
The rise in visitors are consistent with increases for St.Patrick’s Day and Valentines Day this year, which means the country is experiencing a boost in tourism.
In a different study, the capital ranks third among 35 cities for busking. Dublin shares the position with Milan and Prague while Mexico City is deemed the ‘least encouraging’ for street performers, as busking is illegal and can lead to imprisonment.
The report was commissioned by Tullamore DEW Irish Whiskey and written by The Busking Project.
Project founder, Nick Broad said: ‘Busking is often overlooked as an industry tool, and yet it’s the most common way that artists can further their careers, practice their art and do what they love.
‘Busking has the potential to improve a city’s reputation as being a culturally vibrant place in which to live, work and visit.’
The rankings were based on a country’s efforts to suppress street performances – Dublin ranked high for its ‘relaxed managerial approach’.


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THE tranquility of the Yorkshire Dales may paint a very different picture - but the towns and villages across our region are not immune from the societal pressures that affect other parts of the country and drug and alcohol misuse is just as relevant an issue here as in urban areas.
Hayley Peacock with a needle exchange bin
One local authority has now taken the first step towards a new service to offer drug and alcohol support and advice in the Hambleton area of the Northern Yorkshire Dales.
Building on a successful scheme operating in Northallerton, a substance misuse worker has been appointed to look after Thirsk and the surrounding rural villages.
Hayley Peacock will work alongside the already well established Northallerton service provided by the Hambleton and Richmondshire Community Addiction Service (HARCAS) to provide help for users and their families.
Funded by the Hambleton Community Safety Partnership Haley's new role will see her establish a 'support network' for the Thirsk area - providing information, advice and support.
Hayley takes up her new role having already gained experience of this type of work through jobs within the magistrates courts, prison service and a community based project.
"This is a very exciting new role for the partnership - at the moment there is no dedicated alcohol and drug service in Thirsk," she said.
This is a very exciting new role for the partnership - at the moment there is no dedicated alcohol and drug service in Thirsk
Hayley Peacock - Drugs worker
"I am working to identify the needs of the area and liaising with other agencies to establish some joint working arrangements. My past work experiences have given me a good insight into addictions of all types - how they affect the individuals, people close to them and the community as a whole."
Hayley is aiming to see alcohol and drug assessments set up to identify individual needs; one to one support and information groups established; and a needle exchange service created.
She then hopes a drop in facility and a number of support groups can be set up around the town.

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Rising junior, Cody Hendrych-Bondra has earned two awards from the Bethel Park German Club for his achievements in German during the 2020-2021 school year. For the second consecutive year, Cody received the Dietrich Award of Academic Excellence, which is presented annually to the top student in the BPHS German program. Cody also received a certificate of merit as the year's most outstanding member of the BPHS chapter of the Delta Epsilon Phi German National Honor Society.
In addition to the BPHS awards, Cody was also awarded a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship for the second consecutive year. He was to have lived and studied in Germany during the 2020-2021 school year, but the COVID-19 pandemic prevented him from traveling abroad. As of this August, however, Cody will live with a German host family for a year and study at a German "Gymnasium," which is a secondary school for college-bound students. Next year, Cody will study in Rheindahlen, a town in the western borough of the city of Mönchengladbach, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Cody, who was a student in Honors German III this year, is the first student in the history of the BPHS German program to be awarded this prestigious scholarship in two consecutive years.


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Depends on what you like: Silenced (based on real life story very sad but a really good movie bc it makes you open your eyes to real life issues)
Whatcha wearing (depends on age) a little rated R in my opinion but it was with my two favorite actor/actress.
Lee Jun Kai ( really liked this one bc it was very moving in the end).
Spellbound (scary but exciting at the same time)
Alice: boy from wonderland (scary, strange, kind of too crazy but I loved it)
Love forecast: (cute, romantic and I love the ending!)
Because I love you (I love the actor and much more the young great actress: The story was so unique I watched this about 4 times already)
Runway Cop its so funny! Another great kind of weird actor: Laughing till you burst'
Fist of Glory; Funny about Martial Arts a combo .of comedy and seriousness.
February 29 scary as hell: if you don't like scary stuff don't watch.
The boys who cried wolf. (in my opinion has nothing to do with the title but I liked this one too)
Ghost house hilariously funny and scary
Close my eyes Great great one!
DONGJU: the portrait of a poet; a classic in black and white; prepare the box of tissues. Great movie.
I feel here at viki they offer very little quality movies. The rest I wonder why they even bother having them here. Terrible, bad quality videos and many lack subtitles or have no subtitles. I feel they should eliminate at least half of them and add new ones like Train to Busan/ Tunnel (guy trapped in highway tunnel) Inferno (High rise hotel fire on a christmas day/awesome movie. Tsunami (with Ha Ji Won) Waves (forgot what country is from but based on real life story).

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Priyanka Dasgupta is special correspondent-cum-deputy features editor of Calcutta Times. She has 10 years’ experience covering entertainment and culture, and describes herself as sensitive but hard-hitting, objective yet passionate. Her hobbies include reading, watching European movies and listening to classical music.
Feb 19, 2021At a time when cinemas are struggling to draw audiences back, the iconic Metro at Esplanade is set to start its shows again this Saturday. Shut in 2011, one of the oldest theatres in the city will rise from the ashes in a new multiplex avatar.
Feb 16, 2021From books, pens and musical instruments to mobile phones and laptops, the change has taken less than a year. After11 months of online classes and performances, Goddess Saraswati will see, placed at her feet on Tuesday,


Production process and service efficiency of steel pipe
As the requirements of production or processing, steel pipe manufacturers are paying more attention on some equipment parts. In order to improve the efficiency of these parts, steel pipe manufacturers should better the function of the components and after improving, components will play their maximum value. This is also the reason why production technology is to be more and more rigorous. In the welding industry, galvanizing process is very necessary so that steel pipe boasts the performance of corrosion resistance. Do you know what is galvanizing process? Actually, it can be classified into two kinds, hot dipped and cold dipped. First of all , we can get a knowledge of hot dipped galvanized steel pipe.
As a matter of fact, it is a kind of alloy which is produced by the fusion of metal and iron. This alloy will be combined with zinc layer so that it can become very solid. How to conduct galvanizing process? At first, the surface of the steel pipe should be cleaning in advance by strong acid solution. This step is to get surface’s removal for ferric chloride. Then interior impurities will be dissolved in ammonium chloride or the water solution containing zinc. Zinc layer of Steel pipe such as welded steel pipe is quite uniform after hot dipped galvanizing. Their service life is quite long compared with other steel pipes without plating. A series of chemical reactions of solution can make zinc more powerful attached on the surface. These steps is to form alloy layer which can protect raw steel pipe.
After understanding the production process, we may be concerned about the steel pipe price. In the steel pipe market, the price is based on the different materials and specifications. Some price is determined by production or processing procedures which can reduce the cost of products, thus the market price will be lower. Some steel pipe manufacturers will be in the pursuit of quality, so the cost is relatively high. Therefore, competitive advantage for these enterprises is not very obvious in the steel pipe market. if you invest much money on the improvement of product quality, the price will be set high. However, the investment is very necessary for a long-term progress for the company. Of course, you may assure that the steel pipe price will not always fluctuate at any time. Governments will control the price in a reasonable scope for the benefits of customers.
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Ontario Creating More Rental Housing in Toronto
Province Stimulating Rental Construction and Creating Vibrant Communities
Ontario is investing in Toronto's rental housing market to encourage the creation of more affordable rental housing.
Peter Milczyn, Minister of Housing, was in Toronto today to announce funding for municipalities to provide development charge rebates to developers who want to build high-rise, mid-rise and townhouse rental housing. The City of Toronto will receive $60 million to encourage the construction of complete communities that are accessible, livable, walkable, and close to transit and other services.
The Minister also announced the successful developers that have been selected to transform surplus provincial land in Toronto into vibrant, mixed-income communities for approximately 2,150 families:
- Dream, Tricon and Kilmer Group will turn two vacant lots in the West Don Lands into mixed income rental homes for nearly 1,450 individuals and families, including retail space and a community hub.
- Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust (CREIT) and Greenwin Inc. will transform a site between Grenville and Grosvenor streets into a family-friendly mixed income community, with approximately 700 rental units, retail space and a daycare.
Each site is close to transit and employment, and will have 30 per cent of the units dedicated to affordable housing.
Providing more affordable and rental housing is part of Ontario's plan to support care, create opportunity and make life more affordable during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes free prescription drugs for everyone under 25, and 65 or over, through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, and free preschool child care from 2 ½ to kindergarten.
- The funding is part of a five-year program to rebate up to $125 million in development charges.
- Some municipalities collect development charges to help pay for infrastructure – like transit, water mains and roads – to meet the increased demand created by new development.
- Research suggests that, of all the housing built over the last two decades, only six per cent was market rental housing.
- Last year, Ontario announced that it will partner with the City of Toronto to create new mixed-use housing on surplus provincial land in the Thistletown area, West Don Lands, and near Yonge and College streets.
- The Fair Housing Plan is a comprehensive package of 16 measures to help more people find an affordable place to call home, while bringing stability to the real estate market and protecting the investment of homeowners
“It is important that people in Ontario have an affordable place to call home, regardless of their housing needs or where they live in Toronto. More rental housing means more options when looking for a home, all while creating vibrant communities.”
“To keep Toronto affordable for people of all ages and income levels, we need all governments working together to take real action on affordable housing. By answering our call to make surplus provincial lands available for the development of new affordable housing, the Province is demonstrating its commitment to cooperation and helping the City of Toronto address our residents' housing needs.”
“These two projects show that when different levels of government work together, we can deliver much needed new affordable and rental housing on public land near employment opportunities and public transit.”


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Beauty in the modern sense more and more acquires natural outlines: tenderness and nude tones, soft forms and muffled. It is well seen in the trends of the manicure of 2021-2022, namely the trend of the amazing design for short nails.
Trendy new short nails or short manicure 2021-2022 is almost a mandatory component of the top looks. The trend of naturalness is also increasing with fashionable trends in clothes and accessories, with which fashionable short nails look stunning. The spectacular design of short nails to pick up the amazing beauty of a festive manicure, casual, office and business design of small and short nails 2021-2022.
Foil, glitter and mica, Yuki flakes, pixie crystals, camoufs, drawings of flowers, hearts, and animals will make a highlight in the design for short nails and make the design for a short manicure special. Trendy nail art and painting will decorate any manicure for short nails 2021-2022.
Seasonal Manicure for Short Nails: Ideas of Nail Art
Modern nail design in each season has its own innovations and trends, which are also inherent in the design for short nails. What are the top new ideas waiting for you this fall, winter, spring and summer in manicure for short nails — see below …
Trendy Short Nails for Autumn
A warm range of shades, deep tones, warming motifs — all this unites the top design for short nails 2021-2022 for autumn. Beautiful autumn manicure for short nails should be performed with shades of khaki and gold, yellow tones and thematic prints on short nails, which are typical for this time of the year. Use nude shades, foil, glitter, “negative space” and by all means matte effect for velvet short nails for autumn 2021-2022.
Fashionable Manicure for Short Nails for Winter
Winter is a period of cold colors in the design of manicure for short nails. Blue tones with white, blue, black, turquoise, red shades in winter design for a short manicure will look especially impressive. Sparkles glitter, rhinestones, foil in the form of “broken glass”, as well as chic solemn short nails in Manicure design for the New Year and Christmas with snowflakes and Christmas trees will be the trend of nail art for short nails 2021-2022.
New Manicure for Short Nails for Spring
When everything comes to life and becomes so flourishing, short nails should also be decorated with pretty flowers in a pastel range of shades. Charming spring manicure for short nails 2021-2022 can be performed with a pleasant ombre, leaves and pebbles, portraits of girls in the style of eye see you, as well as in the style of minimalism, which turns out to be trends in fashionable nail art design on short nails in spring.
Nail Design Short Nails for Summer
In the summer, the brightness of the manicure design on short nails rolls over. The neat technique with a gradient in the new views of the season 2021-2022 gives laconism to a bright short manicure for the summer. “Negative space”, nail glitter, matte coating on short nails in an intense neon shade, as well as minimalism will also add brevity to a short nail design for the summer.
Top 10 trends: Techniques and Styles of Short Nail Design 2021-2022
Cute short nails with trendy nail art do not leave the leading position among the fashionable ideas of manicure for more than one season. Trendy short nail designs this season can be found on the square, round, oval shape of the nail plate. But what will be the best design for short nails — we will describe further …
The unusual and always interesting design for short nails offers us the trend reception of nail design — foil. The foil prints on the nails in any of the shades give a special chic, non-triviality and dissimilarity to any other nail design 2021-2022. At the same time, trendy short nails with foil can be both everyday and solemn.
Beauty in simplicity … Minimalism as the direction of the current nail design is best realized in the short length of the plate. Trendy short nails in the design of minimalism look incredibly harmonious — geometry and graphics, flowers and simple pictures will become a trend for short nails.
Transparency in manicure always gives ease and simplifies any nail design, especially the manicure on short nails, where there is not enough space for nail-drawing. Abstraction, geometry, floral motifs, a bright gradient with «islands», as well as other top techniques in the design on short nails can be supplemented with «negative space» for conciseness.
«Eye See You»
Quite often you met beautiful and unusual patterns with faces, eyes and eyelashes on your nails — all of this has its own name, namely, the “eye see you” manicure. Interesting short nails in this style will be unsurpassed. Charming girls, bright faces with sponges and eyes look new in the design for short nails, which became the trend of manicure 2021-2022.
Delicate pearl or a spectacular mirror shine for your little nails will give rubbing for nails. Short nails with rubbing on a couple of fingers will fascinate everyone. In addition to the design of short nails with rubbing in, you can add glitter and foil, as well as cute and funny nail art.
The new trend of nail art on short nails will be all sorts of inscriptions — slogans, declarations of love, names, as well as words and letters, which make any manicure design, including on short nails, trendy. To do this, simply complete the desired inscription on the thumb with a monochrome manicure, and a unique short manicure with inscriptions is ready.
Foil looks original, as in the form of prints, and in the form of pieces of foil of different shapes. This allows you to embody a beautiful design of short nails using the “broken glass” technique with elegant tints. You can vary the short manicure with foil graphic prints and geometry, simple lines and stripes.
Tired of the graphics and the flowers on the nails are also pretty fed up? Then the masters decided to offer an alternative — a trend manicure for short nails with twigs. Manicure looks stylish on short nails with twigs, executed in a pastel range of shades. It is possible to cover the branches with pebbles and rhinestones, to be made in different shades to decorate small nail points.
Showiness and originality make short matte nail designs incredibly popular in the season 2021-2022. Whatever you are going to make a matte manicure for short nails — neon, dark, delicate — any design of short nails with a velvet coating will undoubtedly be beautiful.
Ombre nail design is familiar to us for a long time, but the masters are all modernizing it, offering unusual solutions for short nails manicure with a gradient of color. Incredibly exciting ombre manicure in the design on short nails with lines, “negative space”, velvet powder looks irresistible.


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One of my most anticipated films of the latter half of 2010 was easily Sylvain Chomet’s latest animated film, The Illusionist. It’s the director’s first feature length film since The Triplets of Belleville (a film I initially disliked, but have come to enjoy immensely) was nominated for two Oscars in 2004, including Best Animated Feature. The Illusionist is brought to life in the same hand-drawn animated style he used for Belleville and the script is an adaptation of an unproduced screenplay written by the iconic French comedian and filmmaker Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle). Essentially, what reason would you have to not be interested in this project?
Tati’s original screenplay is described as a love letter from a father to a daughter. As innocent as that may sound it becomes a bit more tragic once you learn that while Tati’s daughter Sophie was the one to give the screenplay to Chomet, the family of Tati’s illegitimate and estranged daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel, claims she is the real inspiration for the story. While the general public will never know for sure the truth of this matter, The Illusionist is certainly filled with more than enough sadness to give the controversy some weight and will likely change how you view this film.
Set in 1959, we are first introduced to the titular magician, Tatischeff, as he performs small magic shows starting in Paris and eventually taking him to a small pub in Scotland. Drawn to look, move and act just as Tati did in such classics as M. Hulot’s Holiday and Mon Oncle (the latter of which is actually seen in the film), Tatischeff is and only could be portrayed by Tati, which means animation was the only solution. The film reflects such classic Tati features in all manner of execution, that is except for tone. While there are moments of comedy, The Illusionist is predominantly a sad tale of a dying breed and the passing of time.
Moving from place to place, Tatischeff struggles to find an audience interested in his tricks as the day of stage entertainers is ready to give way to flamboyant rock stars. However, during his visit to Scotland a young bar maid by the name of Alice believes his magic to be real. She follows him to Edinburgh and the two strike up a peculiar relationship.
Neither speak the same language and for that matter the film itself never resorts to one language and doesn’t provide subtitles. Brief moments of English can be heard as well as French and Gaelic, but for the most part hand gestures are how Tatischeff and Alice communicate and the audience has to do their best to stay attuned to this aspect. Nevertheless, it isn’t something you’ll have to worry about too much as, in traditional Tati fashion, there isn’t much dialogue anyway.
The lack of dialogue adds to the reflective nature of the film. The audience is forced to absorb and pay attention to every aspect of the frame and every twitch of the characters. The film, from this perspective is gorgeous. And while this film mimics the animated style Chomet used for Belleville, The Illusionist doesn’t find kinship with that film in any other way.
While the animation may be gorgeous this is not the upbeat film Belleville was. This is a sorrowful story as Alice continues to believe the gifts she receives from Tatischeff are conjured by magic, driving the starving magician deeper into debt. The brief moments of comedy exude chuckles, but they are often overshadowed by the dour nature of the story on a whole.
I can’t say I loved this movie, but I certainly respect it. Chomet and his team of animators have produced a piece of art to be marveled, but the story is too gloomy for my liking. As sheets of animated rain fall throughout the film I was at the same moment awed by the art and drowning beneath it.


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5pcs Small Kodama / Sylvains Figurines
Also called "Small Beings of Wood" or "Spirits Of The Forest" -
from Princess Mononoke Anime of Studos Ghilbi created by the Great Miyazaki
- Made of resin
- Some are fluorescent
NOTE: photos are published as an example: the variety of characters in one lot may vary depending on the arrivals. Thank you for accepting it.
- Dimensions: about 3cm depending on character - see picture (+/- 10%)
- Because of thier small size: Not suitable for children under 10 years


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Fulminant colitis is the most severe and rarest form of ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. It is characterized by an inflamed digestive tract and symptoms include abdominal pain and diarrhea. Fulminant colitis is life threatening. It impacts the entire colon and causes severe pain, diarrhea, dehydration, and even shock. This disease can result in dangerous complications, such as a ruptured colon and toxic megacolon, which results when the colon becomes severely distended (abnormally swelled or stretched from internal pressure).
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As part of the Writing and Rewriting the Transitional Body: The Changing Narratives of the Ancient Dead session at the 39th Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, I presented a paper entitled ‘Writing and Rewriting with the Cathedral Dead’. Here’s the title and abstract:
Writing and rewriting with the Cathedral Dead
Synergising recent debates in the history of archaeology and mortuary archaeology regarding social memory mediated by antiquarianism surveys, excavations and tomb restorations, this paper considers the mnemonics of excavating, displaying and memorialising in cathedrals through the human body. Through the investigation, translation, re-burial and memorialization of bodies, we see the cathedral retain and consolidate, extend and revitalize, invent and rejuvenate their identities and histories. This paper explores how this has taken place utilizing not only human remains but also effigies and portraits (bodies materialized), bodies implied through texts (the memorial citation of bodies) and present corporeal absences (material cultures that imply the absent dead body, including stone coffins and lost brasses).
Note: I adapted and focused my paper from the given title and abstract. Rather than attempting to explore the roles of human remains, memorials and monuments in the cumulative and complex genealogy of commemorative practice in English and Welsh cathedrals, I focused on the monumentalised absence of human remains through the display of empty stone coffins. Often these are displayed upright, or horizontally, in liminal spaces – against walls or boundaries, often not fully conceptualised as funerary monuments, and very rarely do they get heritage interpretation.
They are ‘skeletons’ of lost graves: ruins of the dead. I shifted my focus in order to complement and extend the session debate regarding the corporeal power of the dead. Set against discussions of the power of the dead through their corporeal presences, here I focused on the power of absence.
Hence, I focused on stone coffins when displayed without their contents and contexts. In doing so, I set the paper up as an extension of my response to the news story of damage to a medieval stone coffin on display at Prittlewell Priory Museum.
I presented on the mnemonic and affective nature of empty, often fragmented and de-contextualised medieval coffins in a range of sacred and heritage sites including cathedrals. My key case studies included Dorchester Abbey (Dorchester on Thames, Oxon), Norton Priory (Cheshire), Heysham (Lancs.) and Chester cathedral (Cheshire). The final example shows the power of even a single sarcophagus for facilitating engagement with corporeal absence and the fascination with the past. The other examples go to show how the stone coffins operated as an assemblage.
This presentation is part of my research into death and memory in English and Welsh cathedrals, deriving from the Speaking with the Dead Leverhulme project and the Past in its Place ERC funded project.
I’m especially grateful to Lucy Talbot and Judith Jesch for facilitating my use of images for the penultimate slide.

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Katana. Photo by Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Last week, I watched my first Kurosawa movie: Kagemusha, or Shadow Warrior. One of Kurosawa’s final productions, Kagemusha takes place in sixteenth-century Japan and tells the story of a thief who looks uncannily like Shingen, the leader of the Takeda clan, and who is employed to impersonate him in the event of his death to keep the clan together and protect it from its enemies. Shingen dies: enter the shadow warrior. This three-hour insight into feudal Japan, its structures of power, and the paradigm shift enacted by the introduction of guns onto the battlefield in the Sengoku period is mesmerizingly beautiful. Almost every shot could be a painting—cavalry battle scenes; the many councils of leaders draped with patterned kimonos; the delicate, expressive face of Tatsuya Nakadai, who plays both Shingen and his shadow. My favorite scene was the dream sequence: the kagemusha dreams of Shingen emerging dressed for battle, like an armored bird hatching from a shell, from the urn in which his corpse was deposited. The shadow flees, terrified, against a hallucinogenically colorful sky. The river water that splashes around his bare feet is dark like paint. I am ready to watch Seven Samurai.
—Isabella Hammad, author of “Gertrude”
I am in a book club that has only two rules. The first rule: any novel we read must have at least one murder. Nada, by the French writer Jean-Patrick Manchette, has, by my count, at least eight murders—and flashy ones at that. Originally published in 1973 and set in the hangover after the uprisings of 1968, the novel follows a group of leftist revolutionaries who kidnap the U.S. ambassador to France as a political statement. I’m not spoiling anything by saying that the revolutionaries and their scheme are doomed. The race to the bloody end fuses discussions on the legitimacy of using violence to further political aims with action scenes so gloriously paced that the book feels like a single exhale from start to finish. The characters include a jaded professional who hops from one leftist uprising to the next and a high school philosophy teacher who punches a colleague in the throat, shouting “fuck your face!” There’s also a mostly silent man who “wanted to shoot himself or just go to work—it was hard to say which,” and a rich girl who supplies the country house where the group stashes the ambassador. Her self-description is iconic: “My cool and chic exterior hides the wild flames of a burning hatred for a techno-bureaucratic capitalism whose cunt looks like a funeral urn and whose mug looks like a prick.”
It’s rare that a crime novel takes as an epigraph a quote from Hegel (“The heart that beats for the welfare of mankind passes therefore into the rage of frantic self-conceit …”), but Manchette is hardly an ordinary writer. His terse, propulsive sentences recall, a little, John le Carré, if le Carré had a passion for philosophy and a loathing of capitalism. Lucy Sante’s insightful introduction to Donald Nicholson-Smith’s translation points out Nada’s “theoretical shortcomings,” which Manchette himself acknowledged: the book fails to connect the Nada group with larger social movements and to depict the state interference, COINTELPRO-style, that would almost certainly occur. The likely Manchette mouthpiece backs out of the kidnapping because “terrorism is only justified when revolutionaries have no other means of expressing themselves and when the masses support them.” Still, when an ex-comrade condemns him “to eat shit and say thank you and cast blank ballots” for the rest of his life, it’s hard to disagree that something’s lacking in his pacific leftism, too. If Nada proves anything, it’s that “political” novels can be as unsettled as the politics we live with.
The second rule of my “Murder & Mayhem” book club: any book we read must have a movie adaptation. The 1974 adaptation of Nada, directed by Claude Chabrol, stars the Italian actor Fabio Testi, who is so handsome I googled him immediately, as you do with a fresh crush. The internet revealed that the man embodying the sexy terrorist was, later in his actual life, a conservative politician. The mismatch of image and reality, the disappointment of lust, the failure of people to live up to what we imagine of them, the ludicrous fantasies we construct for ourselves—all could be taken from Manchette.
As a poet, I spend most of my time experimenting with varying degrees of emphasis on conscious and unconscious ways of choosing language in order to find out what the results will be. The delight in this for me is getting to uncover whether a certain admixture of what is intended and what is received (dreamed, overheard, intuited) will bring about poems that affirm what I know or feel, reveal something unexpected, or something in between. I feel a kind of comfort and bewilderment as, with each poem, I’m reminded anew that, regardless of whatever knobs I think I’m turning or trying not to turn, writing allows the inexplicable, the wonderful, and the beyond me to occur. I am drawn to artists with similar interests, especially musicians. Two recent recordings, Mat Ball’s 2022 album Amplified Guitar and a new track from Kali Malone, “Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3” (one of nine versions of a composition that makes up her eponymously titled new album), are musical layerings of intentional, experimental, and spontaneous sound. A first layer of experience is created by playing specific notes; a second, by playing the same note at varying lengths, or by performing the same piece in different contexts over time. The interplay of these elements invites the listener to appreciate the variety of meanings or values that can be produced by this repetition. Both Mat Ball and Kali Malone also engage with an additional layer, something not entirely in their control: they allow their compositions to interact with amplifier feedback or acoustics, resulting in strange and gorgeous sounds. I’ve been listening and relistening to these pieces lately because they permit me to live in what I love about making poems: an embodied sense of agency and limitation, of logic and illogic, of variousness, and the opportunity to witness the collision of what I think I know with the unknowable nature of making.
—Peter Mishler, author of “My Blockchain”
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PSR Statement to Supporters and the Public March 25, 2020
Slow the Spread. Stay at Home.
We wanted to share with you this important statement issued today by the Board of Directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility:
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) strongly supports the call made yesterday in The New York Times by J. Larry Jameson, the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, writing for himself and on behalf of six other leaders of large academic health systems in some of the locations hardest hit by COVID-19, urging our national leadership to keep in place the social restrictions needed to subdue this outbreak.
We urge our members, colleagues, and allied organizations to continue to support the social distancing measures recommended by public health authorities, and we urge local, state, and national leaders to do the same. Many PSR members and supporters are on the frontlines of health care and public health. They are seeing the daily toll. While we recognize the economic ramifications and significant challenges that social distancing poses for many people in our society, it is the only way to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. If we let that happen, many more lives will be lost as a consequence.
Alan S. Greenglass, MD, President
Jeff Carter, Executive Director
We encourage PSR members and chapters to share this statement widely and to urge your state and local leaders to resist pressure to lift social restrictions until we have substantially contained the virus—through your local media, online, or by contacting your elected officials.
For more information on PSR’s response to COVID-19: www.psr.org/covid


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The holiday is about combining the beauty of Vis Island with our love of being active. We aim to make the most out of each day, exploring by kayak, bike, hike and morning yoga. We have no set daily schedule. We understand that every guest and every day are potentially different. The benefit of having a small group is that we can adapt, discuss and personalise each day. The one thing that we don't have any control over is the weather. As well as guests desires, the weather will also dictate to us what activities we can do each day. During breakfast we will take a look at the forecast, the sea conditions and then give you our days adventure suggestions.
An average WearActive day may look like this: Yoga by the sea before breakfast: Kayak from our bay in Rukavac to the Green Cave on the island of Ravnik: Back to the house for a hearty lunch: After lunch, maybe a siesta and then explore Srebrena beach with a mask and snorkel. On return to the house, Craig will try to encourage you to walk the Slackline with him. Back at the house there will always be a homemade cake, with have a great selection of different organic teas.
In the evening we may take you into Vis Town where you can taste one of the Islands specialities at one of the recommended Vis restaurants and sample a glass of Island produced wine.

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Ink Anatomy Study
I'm an Illustrator and designer based in Spain. I love doing studies on human body anatomy and show different feelings. After completing my second year of the Bachelor of Arts at Salamanca University, I received a scholarship from the European Institute of Design (IED, Madrid, 2010) to become a graphic designer. Since then, I've been working in different design studios but my passion for art has led me to become an artist.
This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks. Each art print is listed by sheet size and features a minimum one-inch border.


•2+ years working with one of the following static languages: Go, Java or C#, or one of the following scripting languages: Python, Lua or Node.js.
•Experience working with DevOps tools, such as Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI or GitLab-CI, and container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
•Experience working with AWS services, such as EC2, ELB, Lambda, SQS, SNS and CloudWatch.
•Fast-learner and having passions for solving tough problems, and abilities to solve them.
•Moderate verbal and reading skills in English.


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Hawai‘i Community Lending was founded to increase access to credit and capital for underserved communities in Hawai‘i with a particular focus on Native Hawaiians.
Hawai‘i Community Lending was created by Hawaiian Community Assets’ co-founders and long-time Maui housing advocates, Blossom Feiteira and Kehaulani Filimoeatu. Together, Hawai‘i Community Lending and Hawaiian Community Assets implement a unique, holistic approach to helping families achieve and sustain permanent housing. It's named Kahua Waiwai, meaning "Foundation for Wealth".
Kahua Waiwai espouses the basic philosophy of "A Sense of Place." The home is viewed as a foundation (Kahua). Upon this foundation is built the family's spiritual values and teachings (Waiwai). It is the spiritual value of the home and its surroundings that provides stability and the opportunity for families to build a secure future. Opportunities that help stabilize family life help to create a more stable community. A strong foundation, if built properly, will serve generations to come.


Manual unit glass-covered dial, 114 mm diameter, reads from 0 to 400 in 0.1 mm divisions and has zero adjustment and reset
- Platform is 152 mm diameter, scribed to aid in centering of sample
- Cast-iron base has spirit level and leveling feet
- Release is simple leaf-spring type
- Overall height 508 mm. Includes one each of 47.5, 50 and one 100 gram weights.
Direct-reading instrument for precision penetration measurements of bituminous materials, cement, petrolatum and waxes, as well as food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Unit has 5" diameter indicator dial, graduated in 400 divisions of 0.1mm, corresponding to 40mm penetration. Zero preset to eliminate errors. Includes 47.5g plunger with 3.2mm hole, and two loading weights (50g and 100g).
Penetration tests are performed on petroleum products to determine consistency and shear stability (lubricating greases) for design, quality control and identification purposes. A standard cone or needle is released from a penetrometer and allowed to drop freely into the sample for 5 seconds (or a different specified interval) at constant temperature. The depth of penetration of the cone or needle into the sample is measured in tenths of a millimeter by the penetrometer.
Features and Benefits:
• Conforms to ASTM and related specifications for penetrometers
• Suitable for laboratory or field use
It is used for finding out rate of hardening of mortars sieved from concrete mixtures. The instrument consists of a barrel housing a calibrated spring and a stem graduated from 0-70 kg X 1 kg. six interchangeable penetration needles of areas 645,323,65,32 and 16mm sq. are provided. The penetration resistance is measured by the force exerted to penetrate the mortar by 25mm and is indicated by a sliding ring on the stem, which is graduated . Needle shanks are marked at every 12.5mm. compete in a wooden carrying case.


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Geoscientists probe geochemistry, microbial diversity of Peruvian hot springs
South America's Andes Mountains, the world's longest mountain range and home to some of the planet's highest peaks, feature hundreds of hot springs. Driven by plate tectonics and fueled by hot rock and fluids, their thermal discharges vary widely in geochemistry and microbial diversity.
"These results tell us tectonics matter when it comes microbial community make-up, but little research has been conducted around the world to demonstrate this"
Utah State University geoscientists and their colleagues examined hot spring systems in the southern Andes in Peru and discovered that microbial community composition is distinctly different in two tectonic settings. Dennis Newell and Heather Upin report the findings in Nature Communications: Earth & Environment. The research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
"We know tectonic processes control hot spring temperature and geochemistry, yet how this, in turn, shapes microbial community composition is poorly understood," says Newell.
The scientists collected geochemical and 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing data from hot springs in regions with contrasting styles of subduction — flat-slab and back-arc — and noted similarities in pH but found differences in geochemistry and microbiology.
"Flat-slab hot springs were chemically heterogeneous, had modest surface temperatures and were dominated by members of the metabolically diverse phylum Proteobacteria," Newell says.
In contrast, the back-arc hot springs were more geochemically homogenous, had hotter water, exhibited high concentrations of dissolved metals and gases, and were home to heat-loving archaeal and bacterial organisms.
"These results tell us tectonics matter when it comes microbial community make-up, but little research has been conducted around the world to demonstrate this," Newell says.
Further investigation, he says, with efficient genomic research, at sites around the globe could reveal how microbes have evolved in tectonically diverse environments.
"This research reinforces the idea that 'geology matters' when it comes to the microbial diversity of hot springs," says Stephen Harlan, a program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences. "It reveals that the large-scale tectonic processes operating at plate boundaries not only influence the geochemistry and temperatures of thermal fluids but also control how microbial life adapts to these environments."


R. Patrick Alcedo (Dance) is the author of the chapter, “How Black Is Black?: The Indigenous Atis Compete at the Ati-atihan Festival”, which was recently published as a part of Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives: Identity, Embodiment, and Culture, edited by Linda E. Dankworth and Ann R. David (Palgrave Macmillan, February 2014).
The edited book presenters the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes studies of the dance and movement systems of varied global communities.
Alcedo’s article examines the Ati-atihan Festival, which is popularly considered as the Philippines’ equivalent to the famed Mardi Gras of New Orleans and the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro. For some of the Festival participants, their dance is not simply for fun, but is an offering to Santo Niño, the Holy Child Jesus, whose image was first brought by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. For others, their dance is also in remembrance of the indigenous Negritos, who are called Atis in the Aklanon language, the vernacular in this central region of the country.
Information about the publication can be found here: http://us.macmillan.com/danceethnographyandglobalperspectives/LindaEDankworth.


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The National Elections Commission (CNE), without explanation, changed the Marromeu results to give Frelimo a narrow 46 vote victory. This means a Frelimo mayor but an assembly in which the opposition has a majority.
Without comment, this morning the CNE presented its official results for Marromeu following the rerun of voting in 8 polling stations on 22 November.
The CNE first threw out the notorious polling station 07127-03 which had 800 registered voters of whom 811 voted. And it made other changes to the Marromeu District Elections Commission (CDE) results, but did not explain them. The CNE reduced the number of voters reported by the CDE by only 649 and reduced the Frelimo vote by 748, leaving Frelimo with victory by just 0.25% of the valid vote. (The full table is in the attached pdf). The results mean 8 municipal assembly seats each for Frelimo and Renamo and 1 for MDM,
The CNE meeting in Maputo took two days on Monday and Tuesday and in the end the results were only approved and then presented by CNE members named by Frelimo or Frelimo-linked civil society groups. Renamo in its objection said that CNE President Abdul Carimo proposed a recount of the votes at the 8 polling station, but the Frelimo-aligned majority refused the recount. Renamo and MDM nominated and aligned members then walked out of the meeting.
Observers present in the 8 polling stations said the turnout was 47% and gave Renamo 75% of the vote. The CDE said the turnout was an incredible 87% and that Frelimo had 75% of the vote. Observers and Renamo say they CDE results were clearly false. Although it did not release details, it appears that for the 8 polling stations the CNE result cut the turnout to 76% and the Frelimo share of the valid vote to 68% (both still much higher than the observer count).
The CNE said the election was "free, fair and transparent" even though its understanding of transparency included its refusal to explain how it changed the CDE results and its refusal to do a recount. "The CNE welcomes the positive form of the voting process", it said.
Fernando Mazanga, a Renamo member of the CNE, this morning presented the opposition position rejecting the CNE decision. The three CNE documents and the Renamo objection (all in Portuguese) are posted on http://bit.ly/Marr-CNE-R
Full tables showing observer, STAE and CDE results, with huge differences, are in our previous bulletin on bit.ly/LocEl80
Opposition denounces forged results
The 7 CNE members nominated by MDM, Renamo and opposition-aligned civil society in a statement distributed this morning denounced the CNE approval of "falsified data" from Marromeu. They also protested the CNE's failure to order a recount - which they said was essential because of "irreconcilable differences" between the results at the polling stations and the results approved by CNE.
The seven CNE members also said that the very high turnout reported was above the number of ballot papers actually used on polling day. There was no proper count in the polling stations, which should have been done by the polling station staff.
In 2013 when the Constitutional Council forced a similar rerun in Gurue, CNE and national STAE officials took charge. But the opposition CNE members note that "strangely, neither the CNE nor the Sofala provincial elections commission supervised the electoral process in Marromeu."
Marromeu shows 'contempt' for Constitutional Council says Catholic Justice & Peace Commission
The conduct of the Marromeu rerun "showed clear contempt for the decision of the Constitutional Council to return elections to a fair and transparent shape," according to a statement from the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, written by Pemba Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa.
"Contrary to our expectations, the repetition of the voting in Marromeu on 22 November did not restore credibility to the electoral process, but instead had worse arbitrariness including the failure to produce results sheets in the polling stations and the forging of results sheets without the presence of Renamo and MDM," the Bishop continued.
The statement cites information from this Bulletin.
Observers say Marromeu vote 'not free, fair or transparent'
"The elections in Marromeu were not free or transparent, and definitely not fair, because of innumerable irregularities" concluded observers from the Nampula-based Solidariedade Mocambique and other observer groups. Police played a negative role and the electoral administration had a party bias, they concluded.
Observation was disrupted at various times during polling day. Initially observers were not allowed inside polling stations. This was resolved, but later in the day police removed two observers from a polling station a Samora Machel primary school. At 25 June primary school, an STV cameraman was attacked by the police in an attempt to stop him filming an interview. In the afternoon the STAE district director attempted to take smartphones away from observers and journalists, saying they were not permitted. Solidariedade complained that the director threatened to arrest observers.
Organised obstruction in Marromeu count
By law, the count starts immediate after voting ends at 18h00. But at 25 June primary school polling station staff said they had been told to go out to dinner. Others said they could not start the count because they did not have chalk to write results on the blackboard. The count finally started three hours late.
The CNE in its declaration of results (signed only by Frelimo members) issued this morning said that counting began "immediately after the end of voting", which is manifestly false. AIM, the government news agency, today called the statement a "grotesque falsehood". It notes that "anyone who watched the television coverage on the night of 22 November knew this was not true. The cameras showed that the polling stations were deserted at 20.00." The count only began after 20.30, after journalists had phoned the Maputo headquarters of STAE (Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat) to ask what was going on.
Five of the 8 polling stations did not post results sheets as required by law, apparently "on higher orders", reported the Beira-based Pressao Nacional Dos Direitos Humanos (PNDH, National Pressure for Human Rights)
In several polling stations the head of the polling station began to write the results sheets before the count was complete. Opposition members of the polling station and party delegates were not allowed to see or sign the results sheet. PNDH comments: "the intervention of the police was not to maintain order, but to protect the heads of the polling stations from the fury of the party delegates." Observers reported that in several polling stations the police and STAE officials took away the polling station head, ballot papers, and results sheets without any results being announced. But the count had been completed and observers recorded the final numbers.
District court confirms impossible for Renamo to protest
The Marromeu district count rejected Renamo's complaint against the Marromeu results, again confirming the impossibility of protest. Renamo was complaining that the count was not completed in polling stations and that no results sheets were issued. The district count rejected the claim on the grounds that no results sheets were included with the protect - even though the complaint was that no results sheets were issued. The court also said that the complaint was not made at the polling stations - even though the complaint was that the heads of the polling stations left with the ballot papers before the tally was finished and thus were unavailable to complain to.
New mayors take office in February
Parliament has responded to Constitutional Council (CC) criticism of contradictory electoral laws by deciding that the new municipal administrations will take office in February. The CC pointed out that one law says the newly elected assembly and mayor take office 15 days after validation of the elections (by 29 November) and the other says they only take office at the end of the previous incumbents' terms (after 6 February 2019).
Parliament on 27 November opted for the second, and changed both laws to say that the new mayor and assembly take office within 7 days of the end of the previous term (in this case, 7 days after 6 February).
But parliament said nothing about the CC's call for a new election code, to pull all laws into a single package eliminating contradictory ad hoc changes and confusion. The CC first called for a single electoral code after the 2009 elections to avoid problems like the contradictory dates. But donors withheld aid for three months to successfully force the government to ignore the CC and continue with multiple and confusing electoral laws.

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QUESTION: Bought a 2003 Ford Explorer with a Code Alarm system in it. The car battery died, put a new battery in, and still, the car won't start. Just makes 1 click noise but no crank no nothing...?
ANSWER: If it's clicked at the starter motor then it's not the Code Alarm module causing the problem. The system can only completely stop all power from reaching the starter motor, you wouldn't even hear a click at the starter if it was the Code Alarms built-in kill-switch. Sounds like you may have additional problems like a bad or corroded ground wire or a bad starter motor. But, always press the unlock/disarm button on the Code Alarm remote before you try to start the vehicle.


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The Westbury-based bank saw interest income from mortgages and other loans decline from $428.9 million a year ago to $414.3 million for the quarter, while fee income slipped from $13.1 million to $9.2 million.
CEO Joseph R. Ficalora said despite “the volatility of market interest rates and the high level of unemployment,” the bank originated more than $5 billion in loans.
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“As the decline in market interest rates triggered an increase in multifamily loan production, prepayment penalty income more than doubled to $28.9 million,” he said.
NYCB reported $678,000 in after-tax net securities gains in the fourth quarter, down from $13.5 million a year ago. Excluding after-tax securities gains, the bank generated $117.0 in operating earnings for the quarter.
NYCB finished the year with $42 billion in assets, up $833.6 million from a year ago, while total loans increased to $30.2 billion, up $1.1 billion from a year ago.
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The latest IPCC report confirmed once again that we are about to approach the point of no return in the climate crisis. The political silence that followed its release is a reminder of our cowardice in the fight for the planet's survival.
There are some things that are so apocalyptic that our minds have trouble processing them properly. I experienced this when I first read Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa's anguished plea to the world to save the people of the Pacific from climate devastation.
While we in the West are watching billionaires ball their eyes out because some have the audacity to ask them to maybe ditch their fleet of private jets, other parts of the world are quite literally already fighting for their sheer survival.
In her appeal to the global community, Mata'afa said that "there are already examples in the Pacific of communities, whole communities, that have relocated to different countries. They're really having to address issues of sovereignty through loss of land."
Issues of sovereignty through loss of land. I don't know about you, but I can't just move on from statements like this. I don't think many of us fully realise this part of the climate crisis: It's not "just" devastation of large parts of the global ecosystem and mass extinction of countless animal species, but entire countries are at risk of being wiped off the face of the Earth.
Deafening silence and absurd policy u-turns
Mata'afa made her statements on the eve of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was released on Monday 20 March. This particular report was highly anticipated because by the time the next one is released in the 2030s, we may have already exceeded the 1.5°C limit.
As expected, the report was indeed a "final warning" from the scientific community, with the IPCC urging that only immediate and drastic action can prevent irreversible damage to the Earth.
-> Iris Dudek: This Earth Day, let's honour the planet with our actions
Now, you'd think that a warning like this would elicit a true emergency response (let's ignore the fact that this should have been our reaction from the very first signs of global warming). But aside from those who have been sounding the alarm for years, the collective silence that followed the release of this report has been utterly bleak.
Some of you may ask, "well, Tom, what did you expect to happen?" Gee, I don't know, but *something* would have been nice. Properly declaring a climate emergency, committing to a degrowth economy, ending our reliance on fossil fuels, perhaps by finally eliminating subsidies for them once and for all… There's so much to choose from. Instead, Germany managed to water down one of the few tangible decision the EU could agree on by forcing an entirely useless synthetic fuel exception through. And to add insult to injury, there are politicians who have the gall to try and sell this to us as a cause for celebration.
Detailing exactly how preposterous this amendment is would be beyond the scope of this piece. But suffice it to say that the idea that cars running on e-fuels will play *any* role after 2035 is completely detached from the reality we live in.
A recent analysis published by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows that the small quantities of e-fuels produced worldwide by 2035 will be needed primarily for other modes of transport, such as ships and aircraft, which cannot be easily electrified due to their size and the distances they travel. In fact, Luxembourg's Minister for Mobility François Bausch declared in an interview with RTL Radio last July that "not a drop of e-fuels will be left for cars after 2035."
The only thing this political charade might accomplish is trick people into believing that the combustion engine has any future whatsoever and keep us trapped in this car-centred hellscape of a mobility concept that we've been forcing on ourselves for decades.
'But think about the children!'
Let me show you a graph that I can't get out of my head ever since I first saw it:
At the time of writing this op-ed, I'm 26 years old. This chart is based on the mean emissions scenario of the 2021 report of the IPCC and predicts a high chance for me to experience a temperature increase of more than 2°C.
If I want to get a glimpse of the joyful future that awaits my generation, I can look at a briefing entitled "Comparing climate impacts at 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C and 4°C" put together by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which is based on IPCC scenarios. Here are some highlights from the 2°C scenario:
- So-called "3-sigma heat events," i.e., heat extremes that deviate strongly from what is normal in a given region, will be experienced in a fifth of summer months in Western Europe
- Winter rainfall in central and northern Europe could increase by as much as 20%, while summer rainfall is likely to decrease by 20% in central and southern Europe
- Virtually all of the world's tropical coral reefs would likely disappear
- Arctic sea ice is likely to melt completely
We can debate about the methods used by climate activists, and some of them are certainly more effective than others, but if a certain form of protest has "put you off" fighting climate change, may I recommend, as gently as I can, that you seriously consider taking some time off to get some perspective.
We need to care about climate change. And please, don't take this as me wagging my finger at you for occasionally not recycling properly. Last year, I wrote an op-ed outlining why we need to understand the climate crisis as a social crisis instead of individualising the issue.
-> Tom Weber: The profits for the few or the planet for the many: Why do we still struggle to choose?
In the same vein, don't let yourself be gaslit into believing that overpopulation is the "real" problem. In fact, a recent report commissioned by the Club of Rome and produced by the Earth4All collective projects that the world population is likely to decline rapidly after the middle of the century. But perhaps even more importantly, the authors of the report stress that "the primary issue is not overpopulation in comparison with available resources, but rather the current (too) high consumption levels among the world's richest quarter. Or, put even more concisely: humanity's main problem is distribution rather than population."
It's not too late yet
I said it in my last op-ed and I'll say it again: Climate change is not some great mystery of the universe. We know why it is happening and we know what has to be done: substantial, far-reaching, and systemic changes to the way our economy operates.
While doing research for this piece, I came across a Guardian article about a curious trend on the Marshall Islands: More and more parents are naming their children after landmarks, such as coral reefs or atolls.
There are a few reasons for this, one being the wish to remind their children of their birthplace, as an increasing number of Marshallese leave the islands in search of better economic prospects elsewhere.
However, another is related to climate change. Speaking to the Guardian, the Marshall Island's famous poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner explained that her decision to name her daughter Peinam, after a parcel of land belonging to her mother's family, represents the choice of the Marshallese people "to be rooted to this reef forever," and to preserve its legacy – even if the land itself sinks.
Time is running out very fast. But, crucially, there is still time. Let's not waste a single second of it.
Other related opinions:
- Iris Dudek: It's time to stop complaining about high gas prices
- Maura Lehmann: The elitism behind ‘green living’
- Tom Weber: The way we talk about weather is outdated


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BEST CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
This category is all about the people factor: a place brand is all about its people and requires the support and endorsement of the citizens. Our Jury are keen to hear how place brand teams are proactively engaging with their citizens through research and communication to understand the essence of their place brand, and to ensure buy-in for the vision for place-making, tourism development, and economic development. Or alternatively, perhaps you have implemented a stellar strategy to promote civic pride and community spirit to build positive momentum around your place brand strategy and create a strong sense of identity. Places which are able to demonstrate that their citizens are actively supporting and collaborating with the place branding approach will do well in this category!
BEST COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
There will be three separate Awards for Best Communication Strategy:
- Best Communication Strategy: Tourism for campaigns with the strategic aim of attracting visitors and growing your tourism economy
- Best Communication Strategy: Economic Development for campaigns with the strategic aim of attracting investment, or attracting talent
- Best Communication Strategy: Place Brand for holistic campaigns with the strategic aim of promoting place attractiveness across all audiences – citizens, visitors, business, talent, and investors
These categories celebrate great place brand story telling – our jury will be looking for communication campaigns which are rooted in the place DNA and which put your place on the map. The jury will also be interested to hear how you have tailored your messaging to your audience, and about creative and effective use of owned, social, and paid media channels – or indeed the creation of completely new ways of communicating your place values and place attractiveness!
BEST USE OF DATA
This category is all about the strategic use of data and how a place has refined and shaped place brand and/or marketing strategy through insights. You may be using data to understand your stakeholders’ challenges; perhaps you traced the tourist footprint or investment decision process to understand their journey and develop an improved offering. You may have improved your measurement of the tangible impact of place branding initiatives and place marketing campaigns on international and residents' perceptions. Our jury will be looking for detailed, thorough and innovative new approaches in how you have gathered information and then translated that into actions – for data gathering as well as data management and analysis.
BEST USE OF DESIGN
Our Jury will be looking for evidence that the development of design around brand identity is rooted in the process of research and planning for place brand strategy and for a creative approach that works for the long term and across key audiences. We will want to see examples of the brand identity in use and to understand how it is contributing to the strategic approach to engage citizens, attract talent, attract investment and/or tourism.
BEST PLACEMAKING INITIATIVE
Best Placemaking Initiative
Developing your place attractiveness proposition is a key element of a successful place brand initiative and more destination marketing organisations and economic development teams are focusing on investment in product development and placemaking. This category is designed to celebrate the best projects implemented to create and enhance public spaces, foster community interaction and build the attractiveness of a district, town, or city – involving urban design or landscaping, and/or cultural programming. Our jury will be looking for evidence that the placemaking project has an integral part of an overall vision for the place brand and contributes to the place brand narrative. Judges will be looking for effective collaboration between place stakeholders – including government, citizens, private sector, tourism and/or economic development and for evidence that the project has made a measurable difference to the quality of life and attractiveness of the place.
PLACE BRAND OF THE YEAR
This category is intended to recognise the achievement of place branding teams who bring everything together effectively – who are able to demonstrate a committed approach to building team structures to support a long-term strategic approach to managing and promoting the place brand, who have established a clear framework and both short and long term objectives and who, over the past year (April 2023 - July 2024) have implemented a project, or strategic endeavour, or capitalised on an event, or achieved a particular goal – or perhaps even demonstrated how a strong place brand can provide resilience in a crisis. Our Jury will also be looking for evidence that the place is factoring in considerations for the sustainability of the place brand strategy: for a destination or place management strategy that is working to balance the needs of the place environment, of citizens, of business, and of visitors.
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