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The CalgaryWalks Downtown Intro Walking Tour takes visitors through Calgary's downtown area, as they explore areas such as Stephan Avenue Mall, where cars aren't allowed between 6:00am and 6:00pm, and the Bow River Pathway, among other downtown locations. Every building in the downtown area tells a story, a tale of how a brash frontier town grew into a bustling urban center. Guests have the opportunity to follow a "ribbon of steel" through the heart of Calgary and stand with one foot in the present and one in the past. During the 2-hour guided tour, visitors find out where the locals dine and where some of the best shops are located in downtown Calgary.
The 7-hour Calgary City Tour, including the Heritage Park Bus Tour offered by CalgaryWalks, takes visitors on a relaxing journey through the city. The 2-hour bus tour explores modern Calgary, contrasting it with a bygone era. The guide during the tour provides background, stories, and insights as the bus journeys through Calgary's downtown area, highlighting locations related to the buildings and exhibits that guests will see during their 5-hour visit to Heritage Park Historical Village. Upon arrival at Heritage Park, visitors will experience an enjoyable ride on a streetcar.
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Shanty town notices being handed out recently. Photo: Terrel W. Carey/Tribune Staff
By KHRISNA RUSSELL
Deputy Chief Reporter
AS he defended the government's plan to fully eradicate shanty towns in the country, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said despite a new deadline for evictions in New Providence he is confident residents living in unregulated communities will experience a "seamless transition" to standard residential areas come August 10.
Earlier this month, former Progressive Liberal Party Immigration Minister Loftus Roker branded the government's previous July 31 Nassau deadline for evictions as "nonsense".
Mr Roker also said he had no faith the government will find any success in this deadline, telling The Tribune it was hard to think otherwise when it appeared the December 31, 2017 deadline for all illegal immigrants to leave the country was not honoured.
In response, Mr Foulkes, who is chairman of the Shanty Town Action Task Force, said the remarks were "unfounded" and insisted the government's plan was laid on the table from the outset of this undertaking.
This comes as the task force continued work on Saturday with tours of three shantytowns in southwestern New Providence.
The task force also hopes to complete surveying residents of shantytowns in Abaco by next week, Mr Foulkes said. The deadline for those living in unregulated communities on that island remains July 31, 2019.
"We have a very comprehensive programme," Mr Foulkes said yesterday. "We have thought about every possible scenario both with respect to the communities involved and the surrounding communities."
He said if critics were listening to the various things said, and looked at the various things done by the government, they would know the Minnis administration considered every possible scenario involving the residents of these communities.
Mr Foulkes continued: "At the very beginning of this exercise I met privately with Rights Bahamas along with other senior officers from my ministry, two in particular that represented their organisation, and laid out my complete plan in terms of what we planned to do over several months.
Additionally, one of the other officers attended another meeting that we held along with the Haitian leadership council that we have been working closely with.
"Yesterday (Saturday) I met with the Haitian Bahamian Pastors League, the United Bahamian Haitian Association and the Organisation to Assist and Teach Haitians along with representatives of the Haitian Embassy and we toured three communities and I must say that I am very pleased with the cooperation that the task force is getting from the leadership of the Bahamian Haitian community here in New Providence. It went extremely well and I am anticipating that come August the 10th we will have a seamless transition from persons residing in unregulated communities to residing in regulated communities."
Last week, Mr Foulkes confirmed the government delayed its July 31 deadline to protect the government from the possibility of the process being hindered by legal action.
"The first notice we had to give, which required a 14-day leave period," he said at the time.
"The attorney general gave us the advice on this, just in case it goes to court, we want to make sure that we cover all legal grounds and there is no possibility that what we are doing being stopped."
In late June, members of the Shanty Town Action Task Force travelled to the 11 shanty town communities in New Providence, serving notices to residents which required them to provide the government with legal documents for the land they now occupy.
They had two weeks to respond with proof. Last week officials said of the 14 properties which provided legitimate construction permits to authorities in recent weeks, none was ever granted an occupancy certificate.

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WASHINGTON– The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure Democrats are pushing through the House, their latest response of the campaign season to concerns that a conservative Supreme Court that has stripped federal rights to abortion can go further.
The House planned to vote on the legislation on Thursday and send it to the Senate, where its fate seemed uncertain. The push underscored that Democrats are clinging to their own version of the battles over culture to appeal to female, progressive and minority voters by portraying the court and Republicans as extremists bent on wiping out rights taken for granted for years.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said now that the “radical, Republican Supreme Court” overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, GOP lawmakers want to do more than ban abortion.
“Those of us who have been in Congress for a while can tell you that we have been against birth control, family planning, birth control all the time,” said Pelosi, D-Calif. “This is their moment. Clarence Thomas has made that clear. They are at the foundations of privacy that they want to erase.
In his overthrowing opinion Roe v. Wade last month, Judge Clarence Thomas wrote that the court should now consider other precedents. He cited rulings that affirmed the rights of same-sex marriage in 2015, intimate same-sex relationships in 2003, and the use of contraceptives by married couples in 1965.
Thomas did not elaborate on a 1972 ruling that also legalized the use of contraceptives by unmarried people, but Democrats say they see that as a risk as well.
Thomas and congressional Republicans “are on one thing, control,” said Rep. Kathy Manning, DN.C., lead sponsor of the birth control bill, which has about 150 co-sponsors, all Democrats.
“These extremists are trying to deprive women of their rights, to deprive us of our right to decide when to have children, to deprive us of our right to control our own lives and our own bodies. And we won’t let that happen,” she said.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is close to GOP leaders, said he doubts the legislation can win the Republican support it will need to survive in the Senate. Democrats introduced a contraception bill there similar to the House version.
“I think that’s pure hysteria” on the part of Democrats, Cornyn said of the contraceptive rights bill. “It’s not in danger” of being repealed, he said.
House Democrats have begun to force votes on these and other privacy-related issues, hoping for long-term victories or at least to energize sympathetic voters and donors and force Republicans from competitive districts in tough locations. The House voted last week to revive a national abortion right, with every Republican voting no, and voted largely along party lines to ban prosecution of women who travel to states where abortion remains legal.
The House voted on Tuesday to uphold the legality of same-sex marriage, with 47 Republicans joining all Democrats in supporting the measure. Although 157 Republicans voted no, that tally raised hopes that the bill could win the support of at least 10 GOP senators and get the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate 50-50, in the sending to President Joe Biden for his signature.
The Contraception Bill explicitly authorizes the use of contraceptives and gives the medical community the right to supply them, covering “any device or medicine used to prevent pregnancy”. Examples listed include oral contraceptives, injections, implants such as intrauterine devices, and emergency contraceptives, which prevent pregnancy for several days after unprotected sex.
The bill allows the federal and state governments, patients and health care providers to bring civil suits against states or state officials who violate its provisions.
Same-sex marriage may be so widely accepted by the public that a growing number of Republicans are willing to vote for it. But anti-abortion groups oppose birth control legislation, and it remains to be seen whether a significant number of GOP lawmakers are willing to take that break.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said the legislation “aims to bail out the abortion industry, trample on conscience rights, and demand unfettered access to unsafe abortion chemical drugs.” The National Right to Life Committee said it “goes well beyond the scope of contraception” and would cover abortion pills like RU486, which supporters have called incorrect.
Spokespersons for House GOP leaders did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the legislation.
The measure drew a mixed reaction from two of the most moderate Republicans in the Senate.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she was “very likely” to support the measure. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, opposed, saying she was working on bipartisan legislation that she said would codify the right to abortion and possibly for contraception.
There are few state restrictions on contraceptive use, said Elizabeth Nash, who studies state reproductive health policies for the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
Nash said she is concerned that there are efforts to limit emergency contraceptives and intrauterine devices and to help providers and institutions refuse to provide contraceptive services.

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Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Social Dynamics of Mourning & Grief
Transitional and Restorative Justice
Law and Literature
Indigenous Legal Traditions
German and Austrian Literary Modernism
History and Culture of Psychoanalysis
Myth and Adaptation
Courses taught since 2001
INTS 322* Conflict and Culture: Literature, Law & Human Rights (2011)
GRMN 252* Conflict and Culture: From Nietzsche to 9/11 (2009-10)
GRMN 221* Early German Film: Inventing Nation on Screen (2005-7)
GRMN 431* Krise und Kunst: Imagining German Identities (2007)
GRMN 331* Modernity and the German Psyche: From fin-de-siecle Vienna to Weimar (2003)
GRMN 896* Sound Matters: Form, Sinn und Sonorität in der deutschsprachigen Lyrik der Moderne (2010)
GRMN 886* Law and Literature: (Quasi)Juridical Discourses from Nuremberg to Now (2009)
GRMN 884* From Baroque to Broken: Rethinking the Habsburg Legacy (2009)
GRMN 884* Vienna and the Orient: Women, Jews & Others around 1900 (2007)
GRMN 884* Between Mourning and Forgiveness: Responses in Twentieth-Century Literature (2006)
GRMN 896* Freud's Vienna: Literature, Culture, and the Psyche (2004)
GRMN 896* Freud and Beyond: Literature, Culture, Theory (2003)
Refrence: C. Susan Fostaty Young, Robert J. Wilson Assessment and Learning: The ICE Approach. Winnipeg: Portage & Main
Current Research Project
Narrating, Generating and Restoring Justice through Literary and Cultural Texts
This program of research emerges against the backdrop of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This pivotal moment in the history of Canada’s relations with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples presents a unique opportunity to harness the national imagination to tell new and different stories about ourselves and to reinvent our histories and our futures. While Storying Justice is informed by the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it is not principally about this or other truth commissions. Rather, my project reads these and other quasi-judicial processes as well as narrative and cultural responses to them in order to deepen our understanding of the ways in which advanced democracies can attend to colonial legacies and historical oppression and find new beginnings for repair of Indigenous-settler relations.
Storying Justice harnesses the passion of stories and storytelling to expand and complicate discourses on restorative justice. The central claims are three-fold:
1) narrative practices can function as restorative measures and generate new and as yet unimagined forms of justice;
2) literary and cultural texts can reveal important insights about restorative justice; and
3) employing literary critical methodology to analyse restorative processes can further enhance our understanding of restorative justice.
The corpus of Storying Justiceis diverse both in terms of media—including literary texts, testimony, judicial decisions, and commission reports, as well as material culture projects and practices—and in terms of the cultural and geographical contexts it examines—including Ancient Greece, post-war and post-unification Germany, and Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledge systems in Canada. I make the case for including Indigenous and non-Indigenous stories and cultures side by side, and suggest that thinking through these epistemological challenges can in itself constitute a poetic practice of repair (Mathur et al 2011). I also argue that responses to large-scale human rights abuses in advanced democracies—like Germany and Canada— require new models of restorative justice.
I understand research, and this project in particular, not as an end product but as opening up a dialogue that aims to benefit people and communities through active engagement, collaboration and knowledge sharing, through traditional scholarly forms and informal interactions. In addition to the publication of a monograph, an edited volume, and scholarly articles, I am committed to sharing the results with larger and more diverse audiences through a wide variety of means, including media work, workshops for professionals in the fields of criminal justice, law, and education, consulting with local non-profit mediation services, curricular innovations, course development, graduate training, and research partnerships (see KMb). My previous work at the intersections of forgiveness and reconciliation studies and literary studies in diverse cultural contexts, A Poetics of Forgiveness (2010), has equipped me with the knowledge and skills to carry out this program of research. I will continue to seek out scholars and engaged citizens with relevant expertise to assist me in sharpening my articulation of the larger questions that underpin this study.
While I am at the beginning stages of developing my methodological frameworks of narrative justice and generative justice, I strongly believe that these concepts can help us to understand justice in new ways, not as a means to get even or even to achieve equality, but rather as a never-ending collaborative practice of generating value from the stories of humanity.
Research on the Academic Profession:
Mobilizing Knowledge: Re-visioning Research Dissemination
OR "Don't yell at the TV: Be on TV!"
Research on Teaching and Learning:
From Twitter to MicroWriting
Enhancing Written Communication through On-line Peer-Learning
Queen's News Centre: "A 'Tweet' Experiment in Undergraduate Course"
A Poetics of Forgiveness: Creative Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
In the post-9/11 era, mourning seems to dominate our collective consciousness. But what of forgiveness? We hear about public rituals of mourning, monuments and memorials in the wake of September 11, but is there room in our current age of terror and revenge to engage with the work of forgiveness? The aim of this study is to analyse cultural responses to loss and wrongdoing in order to gain greater insight into the circularity of suffering in our present age and to investigate how and if forgiveness and reconciliation can offer opportunities to move beyond this stasis.
Despite recent interest in forgiveness and reconciliation, relatively little research has been conducted on forgiveness in literary studies. A Poetics of Forgiveness explores the profound links between creativity and forgiveness, and argues that creative production and interpretation can play a vital role in practices of forgiveness. Developing a model of “poetic forgiveness” through the work of Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Kelly Oliver, A Poetics of Forgiveness asks how forgiveness is expressed in literature and other art forms, and what creative works can bring to secular debates on forgiveness and conflict resolution. Jill Scott explores these questions in a wide variety of historical and cultural contexts, from Homer’s Iliad to 9/11 novels, from postwar Germany to post-Apartheid South Africa, in canonical texts and in diverse media, including film, photography, and testimony.
Praise for A Poetics of Forgiveness
"The appendices at the back of your book are amazing! The table mapping the similarities and differences between different theories of forgiveness was a wonderful gift to my students, and to me as well!"Pauline Wakeham, author of Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality(University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture
. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Almost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple behind and argues convincingly for the primacy of the countermyth of Agamemnon and his daughter. Through a lens of Freudian and feminist psychoanalysis, this book views renderings of the Electra myth in twentieth-century literature and culture.
Scott reads several pivotal texts featuring Electra to demonstrate what she calls “a narrative revolt” against the dominance of Oedipus as archetype. Situating the Electra myth within a framework of psychoanalysis, medicine, opera, and dance, Scott investigates the heroine’s role at the intersections of history and the feminine, eros and thanatos, hysteria and melancholia. Scott analyzes Electra adaptations by H.D., Hofmannsthal and Strauss, Musil, and Plath and highlights key moments in the telling and reception of the Electra myth in the modern imagination.

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Tension mounts when Chef Ramsay explains to the six remaining chefs that they will go through three extensive challenges to determine which five chefs receive a black jacket. Tune in to find out which chef will be sent home WATCH ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ season 18 ‘Rookies vs Veterans’ episode 12 BELOW!!
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Things get heated when the eliminated All Stars return to the werk room and rehash their beefs with the remaining queens. ALL STARS RULES are SUSPENDED as ALL THE LADIES must LIP SYNC to either stay or RETURN to the COMPETITION!
WATCH ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 4’ episode 6 BELOW!
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The artists rap classic children’s books to preschoolers, then dive into their own pasts to write stories of their own to record; an unprecedented battle has one mom taking shots at the rest of the house, while another flies off the handle. WATCH ‘The Rap Game’ season 5 episode 3 BELOW! Continue reading WATCH: #TheRapGame season 5 ep 3 ‘Rhyme or Treason’ [full ep]
Major changes hit the Dollhouse as Camryn steps down as captain, and Makya and Crystianna step up to lead. Coach D begins a new dance season, by breaking her biggest rule, shaking the Dollhouse to its core. The wild experiment led by Coach D’s new permanent assistant coach, Marquell, sends the team into complete chaos and puts a huge competition at risk. WATCH ‘Bring It!’ season 5 episode 14 BELOW!
Continue reading WATCH: #BringIt season 5 ep 14 ‘No Boys Allowed?’ [full ep]
Nev and co-host Slick Woods help 19-year-old Aubri search for her Snapchat love, Brian; Brian says he lives at Aubri’s college but makes several excuses not to meet; with little to go on, Nev and Slick hit the campus in search of answers.
WATCH ‘CATFISH’ season 7 episode 26 BELOW!
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The ALL NEW season of the Emmy Award winning competition show, RuPaul’s Drag Race is gearing up for season 11!!! Get a chance to MEET the 11 NEW QUEENS!!
Set a RU-minder and SAVE THE DATE! Get a TEASE after the JUMP!!
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The writing was on the WALLS….after the DAMN information that was REVISITED and SPOTLIGHTED on the recent ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ documentary, Sony has decided to DROP HIM from their ROSTER!
Sony Music has decided to dissolve its working relationship with R. Kelly, according to Variety.
Continue reading #RKelly DROPPED from #Sony Music! [details]
Delilah finds herself once again leaning on her friends to help her family; Maggie insists on running the Suicide Prevention 5K with the rest of the gang.
WATCH “A Million Little Things’ season 1 episode 11 BELOW!!!
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Ed finds himself behind enemy lines when he crash-lands on a mysterious planet; Kelly questions why Gordon wants to take the command test. WATCH ‘The Orville’ season 2 episode 4 BELOW!
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Delilah struggles with telling Sophie and Danny about her pregnancy; the gang comes together to help the Dixons embrace the Christmas spirit.
WATCH “A Million Little Things’ season 1 episode 10 BELOW!!!
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Mike Knowlton, creative technologist and co-founder of StoryCode (http://t.co/ph77YfrUUV) and Murmur (http://www.murmurco.com) will be joining us September 9th at WeWork DC (https://www.wework.com/locations/washington-d-c/wonder-bread-factory/). Mike will be presenting a couple of projects recently produced by Murmur including Immigrant Nation, an immersive cinema platform, and Theater of War, a mobile audience sentiment app.
As always, the event is free. RSVP and join us! storycodedcsept.eventbrite.com (http://storycodedcsept.eventbrite.com/).
Follow us on Twitter @StoryCodeDC (http://www.twitter.com/storycodedc) #DCarts (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DCarts?src=hash) #immersivemedia (https://twitter.com/hashtag/immersivemedia?src=hash)
Immigrant Nation (http://www.immigrant-nation.com)
Immersive Cinema Platform
Immigrant Nation is a new, interactive social enterprise. Its goal is to facilitate rich, cinematic storytelling among a diverse audience involved with American immigration - past, present, and future. In partnership with Murmur, Immigrant Nation is developing an interactive experience that helps users connect to their own story, and enable them to see the common threads between the stories of potential immigrants, new immigrants and longtime residents — making immigration personal, while putting immigration trends in historical context.
Theater of War (http://www.outsidethewirellc.com/projects/theater-of-war/overview)
Mobile Audience Sentiment App
The Theater of War: Soldiers & Citizens Tour presents readings of ancient Greek dramas to military and civilian communities as a catalyst for powerful discussions about the visible and invisible wounds of war. Outside The Wire, the producer of Theater of War: Soldiers & Citizens Tour, asked Murmur to develop a web-based app that could be used to capture audience "sentiment" in real-time during the performance, as well as feedback afterwards. Designed to be streamlined and accessible by practically any smartphone, audience members are able to simply tap whenever a moment resonates positively or negatively. The app is a tool to help generate compassion and understanding between diverse audiences.


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Smallgod Ft Lojay – Automatic
The Nigerian singer-songwriter and talented artist, Smallgod comes through with a brand new record, tagged ‘Automatic’.
Consequently, this new entry had vocal contributions from the Award-winning artist, Lojay who added a dope verse.
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In conclusion, the song “Automatic” was produced by talented music producers, Nana Appiasei and Alabi Kehinde.

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Charlton Athletic start the new League One season this weekend with a home clash against fellow London club Leyton Orient.
Charlton Athletic have had a busy summer so far and have brought in the likes of Alfie May, Panutche Camara, Lloyd Jones and Terry Taylor.
The Addicks will be aiming for the play-offs this term and they eye their return to the Championship. They are believed to be interested in a move for Australian midfielder Danny Douglas as a potential long-term addition.
According to reporter Alan Nixon on his Patreon will be looked at by Dean Holden’s side. The 19-year-old currently plays for A-League outfit Perth Glory and FTBL claim he had a trial at West Brom back in 2019.
Cardiff City attacker Isaak Davies has been linked with Charlton along with Oxford United and Portsmouth. However, in this latest update by the Sunday Mirror reporter Darren Witcoop, the Welshman is now in talks with Belgian side KV Kortrijk.
Cardiff forward Isaak Davies has held talks over a loan move to Belgian club KV Kortrijk. Structure of potential deal still being discussed. League One clubs Oxford, Portsmouth and Charlton had registered an interest in on signing the Welshman. #cardiffcity #cafc #oufc #pompey
— Darren Witcoop (@DarrenOWitcoop) August 2, 2023
According to a report by the South London Press, the Addicks have shown interest in signing Exeter City striker Sam Nombe in this window. The 24-year-old, who is from Croydon, has scored 27 goals in 79 games for his current club in all competitions to date, 17 of which came last term.
He started his career at MK Dons and went on to play 46 times for their first-team, as well as having loan spells away at Oxford City, Maidenhead United and Luton Town during his time there.
Elsewhere, former Charlton defender Deji Oshilaja has signed a new contract with fellow third tier side Burton Albion. His previous deal at the Pirelli Stadium expired at the end of June. He left The Valley in 2021 and has since made his home with the Brewers.

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Tuberculosis is still a rampant problem in the developing world. Doctors are looking for even more advanced ways to test for TB beyond the GeneXpert tests.Read More
Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.Read More
Slow test results make it difficult to stop the spread of tuberculosis. Using faster diagnostic technology and driving vans to rural areas in Tanzania, GeneXpert is making progress in treating this curable disease.Read More
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related mortality. Naxolone, a drug used to revive overdose victims, is only available by prescription. However, private organizations have distributed Naxolone kits nationally, showing that the drug can save lives when it is more readily accessible.Read More
Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.Read More
Although patients go to hospitals to receive medical care, many Americans will acquire infections that did not already have them. The United States as a whole has made modest progress at reducing the rates of hospital-acquired infections. Spearheading the efforts, the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers have devised anti-MRSA strategies to keep patients safe.Read More
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|Publication number||US4084027 A|
|Application number||US 05/794,594|
|Publication date||Apr 11, 1978|
|Filing date||May 6, 1977|
|Priority date||May 6, 1977|
|Publication number||05794594, 794594, US 4084027 A, US 4084027A, US-A-4084027, US4084027 A, US4084027A|
|Inventors||Ralph J. Berni, Marilyn M. Smith, Ruth R. Benerito|
|Original Assignee||The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of Agriculture|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (8), Classifications (14)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the art of treating cellulosicpolyester blended materials. More particularly, it relates to improving the flame resistance of cotton-polyester blended textiles.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The processes of the prior art utilize the same fire retardant reagents employed in this invention; however, these are applied separately in aqueous and nonaqueous treatments for cotton and polyester textiles, respectively. The processes of the prior art are limited by the lack of solubility of all the reagents in either water or chlorinated organic solvents, which are used to penetrate and swell cotton or polyester fibers, respectively. The water-soluble phosphorus derivative, in combination with water soluble methylol melamine, and urea, has been successfully used to produce durable flame retardancy to all cotton textiles. The water-insoluble tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate has been used to impart durable flame retardancy to all cotton textiles. The water-insoluble tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate has been used to produce durable flame retardant polyester fabrics (ref. Textile Chemist & Colorist 4, pp 71-76, 1972).
The use of tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate in a commercially available "Self-emulsifiable" form in combination with water-soluble reagents is common knowledge, but such a combination only has a shelf life of less than one week.
Durable flame retardancy is imparted simultaneously to cotton and polyester fibers in cotton-polyester blended textiles by application of an improved chlorinated hydrocarbon in water emulsion containing water soluble reagents usually applied to flame retard cotton and water insoluble reagents usually applied to flame retard polyester fiber. The emulsion formulation must contain critical proportions of selected emulsifiers; the aqueous phase must contain an emulsifier of HLB number of at least 14 and the chlorinated hydrocarbon phase must contain an emulsifier of HLB number of 9 or less; and the two phases must be carefully blended to result in an HLB number about from 9.6 to 15.1. The ratio of weight of waterphase to weight of chlorinated hydrocarbon must be from about 3:1 to 2:1.
The main object of the present invention is to provide a process for simultaneously applying water soluble flame retardants based on phosphorus and nitrogen to hydrophilic cotton and water insoluble flame retardants based on halogens to hydrophobic polyester by use of a system that allows for this simultaneous, homogeneous distribution of water soluble and chlorinated hydrocarbon soluble flame retardant reagents throughout the cotton and polyester fibers, respectively.
The selection of emulsifiers was based on what is commonly called a "Hydrophilic-Lypophilic Balance" (HLB value) [Ref. "The Atlas HLB System," Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc., Wilmington, Del. (1963)] such that a solute soluble in one phase only can be dispersed homogeneously in a second solvent phase.
In the preferred practice of the present invention, the emulsions include the following ingredients: an emulsifying reagent of HLB number about from 14.0 to 15.6 in the aqueous phase and an emulsifying reagent of HLB number about from 6.7 to 9.0 in the perchloroethylene (oil) phase such that the final emulsion when carefully blended has an HLB number about from 9.6 to 15.1; however, trichloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane or any of a number of chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents may be employed in the oil phase. The ratio of weight of water phase to weight of chlorinated hydrocarbon must be about from 3:1 to 2:1.
Further, the invention can best be described as an improved emulsion system containing on a weight basis about from 17% to 21% of a water soluble phosphorus-nitrogen derivative, about from 3.0 to 9.0% of a water soluble methylolated melamine, and about from 0.64 to 1.88 of a hydrophilic emulsifying reagent of HLB number about from 14.0 to 15.6, and about from 40 to 45% water as components of the water phase that is vigorously blended with an oil phase that contains about from 10% to 21% of a halogenated phosphate, about from 0.12 to 1.36 of a hydrophobic emulsifying reagent of HLB number from 6.7 to 9.0, and about 16% to 25% of a chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent. The use of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic type emulsifying reagents of HLB values ranging from 14-15.6 and 6.7 to 9.0, respectively, is critical to the stability of the final emulsion of HLB number about from 9.6 to 15.1. As can be seen, the combined high and low HLB number emulsifying agent concentration does not exceed 2% of the total formulation by weight. The ratio of high HLB number to low HLB number is about from 2.1:1 to 15.6:1, respectively.
The phosphorus derivatives applicable to the formulations of this invention are tetrakis (hydroxymethyl)phosphonium chloride (THPC) and its neutralization adducts such as tetrakis (hydroxymethyl)phosphonium hydroxide, -oxylate, -citrate, -phosphate, and the like, that impart flame retardancy to cotton. Urea and N-methylolated ureas are used to react with THPC reagent so that some nitrogen becomes part of the polymer finish, while N-methylolated melamines are used to make the polymer and an unreacted tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate in the cotton-polyester blended textile more durable to laundering. Any of a number of methylolated melamines can be used; more particularly, trimethylolated melamine (TMM) is preferred. Sodium hydroxide is added to help neutralize the THPC, but any strong base could be used, including potassium or calcium hydroxide or tetramethyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, or butyl-ammonium hydroxides. The water insoluble halogenated reagent can be any of a number of hydrocarbon phosphate type compounds, including tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate and phosphates containing mixtures of brominated and chlorinated species known to impart flame retardancy to polyester fibers and/or fabrics.
Chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents which may be used in the process of the present invention include any of the commercially available chlorinated hydrocarbons sufficiently volatile to be easily removed from the fabric and recycled for further use. Particularly suitable solvents include perchloroethylene; trichloroethylene, trichloroethane, and 1,1,1-trichloroethane.
Suitable emulsifying reagents in the present process include the hydrophilic polyoxyethylene sorbitan lauric-, palmitic-, stearic-, oleic-acid esters and the like used in conjunction with the lipophilic (hydrophobic) sorbitan lauric-, palmitic-, stearic-, and oleic-acid esters. Any of a number of commercially available hydrophilic and hydrophobic emulsifying agents can be used, but must be used in pairs such that the HLB numbers range from 14 to 15.6 and 6.7 to 9.0, respectively, so that the final emulsion HLB number ranges from 9.6 to 15.1 in order to ensure emulsion stability.
The versatility of the system is demonstrated by the fact that substantially any textile auxiliary such as softeners, dyes, defoamants, etc. which are soluble in water or chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents and which are usually employed in small concentrations can be added to give further desirable textile properties without destroying the stability of the emulsion. In fact, auxiliary reagents for both cotton and polyester fibers can be incorporated simultaneously into a stable emulsion. The system allows for the finishing of textiles via equipment common to most textile plants.
The following examples are provided to illustrate the invention in its preferred embodiments and should not be construed as limiting the invention.
A cotton-polyester 50--50 blended flannelette sample weighing 19 g was padded twice to 95% wet pickup with 250 g of an emulsion of the following compositions:
______________________________________(1) The Water Phase: Percent by WeightComponent of Final Emulsion______________________________________THPC 19.0Urea 5.2TMM* 3.5NaOH 3.2H2 O 42.9Tween 40** 1.0______________________________________(b) The Oil Phase:Tris(2,3 dibromopropyl)Phosphate 18.4Perchloroethylene 6.1Span 40** 0.7______________________________________ *TMM refers to trimethylolated melamine. **Tween and Span 40 are commercially available emulsifiers and are principally polyethylene sorbitol palmitic acid ester and sorbitol palmitic acid ester, respectively.
The two phases were prepared separately and then stirred in a Waring Blendor for 2 minutes at high speed setting.
The impregnated fabric was cured at 180° C for 2 minutes, rinsed in hot tap water for 15 minutes, soaked in 3% hydrogen peroxide solution for 30 minutes, rinsed in cold tap water for 5 minutes, and then dried in a forced draft oven at 60° C for 7 minutes. Each sample was allowed to equilibrate overnight before being weighed, tested, and analyzed. The treated fabric had a weight gain of 39.3%, and nitrogen, phosphorus, and bromine contents, respectively of 3.4%, 3.0%, and 6.8%. The char length before laundering was 0.9 inch, as compared to 10 inches for an untreated control fabric; the oxygen index (OI) value before laundering was 32.4% compared to a control value of 21.3%. The breaking strength retained was 107% of the original value or 30.9 pounds, compared to a untreated fabric of 28.9 pounds. After 20 AATCC home launderings the char length was 2.3 inches while the OI value was 28.0%. After 50 home launderings the char length was 3.2 inches and the OI value was 26.7%. The char length evaluation was done by the Department of Commerce FF 3-71 procedure. The 3.2 inches figure is acceptable in evaluating a durable flame retardant treatment for sleepwear. The breaking strength after 50 home launderings was still 96.5% of the original control value.
Durable flame retardancy is defined as the ability of a treated fabric to pass the Department of Commerce DOC FF 3-71 test after 50 home launderings without bleach.
A char length of less than 7 inches after 50 launderings will pass the DOC FF 3-71 Test. Oxygen Index values of greater than 26% are acceptable for cotton-polyester blended fabrics.
The emulsions prepared by the formulations of this invention were allowed to stand for 2 weeks and found to be without separation of layers. This is a suitable shelf life for these emulsions.
In comparison to the emulsions of the present invention, the use of self-emulsifiable, commercially available tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate formulation resulted in separation after a few days.
Another blended fabric sample was treated as in Example 1 with the exception that the fabric was 65% cotton and 35% polyester and the cure time was 3 min. with the following results:
______________________________________ % % % % Char % % Ret. Add-on N P Br. Len. OI Brk.Str.______________________________________Unlaundered 36.9 3.8 3.2 6.7 1.3 33.5 75.120 Home Laun- 36.8 3.8 2.7 1.2 3.9 28.3 --derings50 Home Laun- 38.5 3.9 3.1 0.9 3.8 27.9 70.0derings______________________________________
Another blended fabric sample was treated as in Example 1 with the exception that tris(halogenated propyl)phosphate was used instead of tris(2,3 dibromopropyl)phosphate. The following results were obtained: Add-on, 31.0; %N, 3.3; %P, 2.7; %Br, 3.2; %Cl, 1.6; char length in inches, 2.2; and % Oxygen Index, 30.1, indicating excellent flame retardant properties.
A series of five cotton-polyester blend fabric samples were treated as in Example 1 with the exception that the ratio of emulsifying reagents (Tween 40/Span 40) were varied, in order to vary the final HLB Number of the emulsions and cure time was 3 minutes in every instance. All ratios within this range gave stable emulsions and fabrics treated with these emulsions exhibited durable flame retardancy as shown by their char lengths of less than 7 inches after 50 launderings. Results are shown in the following table.
______________________________________ % % CharSample Tween Span HLB % % % % Len. %No. 40 40 No. Gain N P Br (in.) OI______________________________________A 32 68 9.55 39.0 3.6 3.2 7.0 1.3 32.0B 52 48 11.32 37.9 3.5 3.0 5.8 1.9 31.4C 72 28 13.08 36.8 3.4 2.9 6.6 1.5 31.7D 87 13 14.47 37.1 3.4 2.9 6.0 1.3 31.6E 94 6 15.10 36.1 3.5 3.0 5.6 1.4 31.6______________________________________
Emulsions A, B, and C were prepared as in Example 4 and pertinent data was tabulated thusly:
______________________________________Emulsion (% Tween 40) (% Span 40) HLB No.______________________________________A 0 100 6.7B 13 87 7.9C 100 0 15.6______________________________________
Emulsions A and B resulted in an intractable mass which could not be used in fabric preparation. Emulsion C padded onto a fabric gave acceptable results, as follows:
______________________________________ %Emulsion Wt. Gain %N %P %Br Char %OI______________________________________C 25.4 2.0 2.5 4.0 3.2 28.9______________________________________
However, emulsion C showed decreased stability upon standing and lower add-ons, as compared to the preferred emulsions of Example 4.
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|US3746572 *||Feb 23, 1971||Jul 17, 1973||Stauffer Chemical Co||Process for flame retarding fabrics|
|US3975560 *||Aug 22, 1974||Aug 17, 1976||The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of Agriculture||Phosphorus and nitrogen containing resins for flameproofing organic textiles|
|US4026711 *||Nov 11, 1971||May 31, 1977||American Cyanamid Company||Flame retardant finish for textiles|
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|US6946412||Jun 26, 2003||Sep 20, 2005||Glen Raven, Inc.||Flame-resistant, high visibility, anti-static fabric and apparel formed therefrom|
|US7419922||Sep 19, 2005||Sep 2, 2008||Gibson Richard M||Flame-resistant, high visibility, anti-static fabric and apparel formed therefrom|
|US8580348 *||Nov 2, 2009||Nov 12, 2013||Rhodia Operations||Treatment of textile materials|
|US20030203688 *||Apr 30, 2002||Oct 30, 2003||Campbell Willis D.||Flame-resistant and high visibility fabric and apparel formed therefrom|
|US20040077241 *||Jun 26, 2003||Apr 22, 2004||Campbell Willis D.||Flame-resistant, high visibility, anti-static fabric and apparel formed therefrom|
|US20060068664 *||Sep 19, 2005||Mar 30, 2006||Gibson Richard M||Flame-resistant, high visibility, anti-static fabric and apparel formed therefrom|
|U.S. Classification||427/393.3, 442/144, 252/608, 428/921, 442/142|
|International Classification||D06M15/433, C09D5/18|
|Cooperative Classification||Y10T442/268, Y10T442/2697, D06M15/433, C09D5/18, Y10S428/921|
|European Classification||C09D5/18, D06M15/433|


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Have a Gimmick or a Hook. The phrases “gimmick” and “hook” would possibly sound a bit crude, however they do illustrate my level. A set of poems is not going to draw most readers, however in case you have one thing particular to hook readers, you are extra prone to get consideration.
Quite a few attainable ways will be taken to make your poems attention-grabbing so they may attraction to individuals who might not in any other case usually learn poetry.
Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology” had a hook. Every poem was advised within the voice of a lifeless particular person from Spoon River. Whereas every poem stood by itself, usually the speaker in a single poem would seek advice from individuals in one other poem. For instance, in a single poem, a spouse complains about how the minister satisfied her to stick with her husband. Later, the minister speaks about how his biggest triumph was convincing that couple to remain married. The irony, humor, and the connections between the townspeople made the guide well-liked and memorable sufficient that it’s nonetheless learn almost a century after its publication.
Illustrations or pictures are a hook in themselves. In case you’re writing an autobiographical poetry assortment, why not insert pictures of your self and the individuals and locations talked about within the poems? In case you’re writing about Nature, insert pictures of the locations you point out. You would possibly even go all out and switch the guide right into a espresso desk guide with giant pictures alternating along with your poetry. Individuals might not purchase a poetry guide, however they may purchase a espresso desk guide for its gorgeous pictures, solely to be pleasantly stunned by how a lot additionally they benefit from the poems. Staff up with a superb illustrator or photographer and also you would possibly nook two several types of readers: poetry lovers and lovers of visible artwork.
Form or Visible Poems, extra generally referred to as Image Poetry or Graphic Poetry immediately, are one other attention-grabbing gimmick. The problem is to have the phrases in your poem tackle the form of an object that the poem is about. The format of the poem then turns into an image. Seventeenth century poet George Herbert was an early designer of such poems, together with his poem “Easter Wings.” Your poem is perhaps formed like a butterfly, a citadel, a vase, no matter you’ll be able to think about.
Earlier than you deliver out that poetry guide, perform a little analysis on the varieties of poetry books offered in shops. Whereas there’s nonetheless a small market of guide gross sales for traditional poets like Wordsworth and Tennyson, my guess is extra individuals immediately know the poetry of Shel Silverstein as a result of it is humorous, well-illustrated, and simple to learn. I am not saying there aren’t nice poets on the market immediately; I am saying most individuals have not heard of them. Let’s face it; when most individuals hear the phrase “poet,” the poets who come to thoughts are individuals like Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-poets most individuals learn at school and who’re all lengthy lifeless.
Positive, there are nice poets alive immediately, however few of these poets have succeeded in making their books marketable. Sadly, most poets do not perceive or will not settle for that it’s as a lot the poet’s job to search out an viewers for his or her phrases as it’s to jot down these phrases.
Discover your gimmick; make your guide visually gorgeous; give you a theme that can entice your readers’ curiosity and creativeness; get a hook to attract in readers who do not often purchase poetry books. When you construct up a reader following, then you’ll be able to write your meditative poetry guide that’s solely textual content since you’ll have a fan-base who will learn any guide you produce. Till then, do no matter you’ll be able to to get your poems observed by readers. It is a worthwhile endeavor. The world might not understand it, however it’s ready for the subsequent Maya Angelou, Allen Ginsberg, or Seamus Heaney to remind it that poetry has a magic that prose can not provide.


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Food researchers work on carving out nutritious niche
By DAVE WILKINS
Last summer at the Western Idaho Fair near Boise some weary customers were invited to cool off with one of McDonald's newest creations -- fruit smoothies.
The product featured flavors such as wild berry and strawberry banana blended with ice cream and creamy yogurt. Best of all for fairgoers, the treats were free, thanks to the Idaho Dairy Products Commission.
The commission has worked with McDonald's franchises in Southern Idaho for the past 18 months on new dairy product introductions, including the new smoothies, specialty coffee drinks and cheeseburgers.
The commission pays for the products, which has allowed McDonald's customers to sample the new products for free.
"We've worked with McDonald's and have paid for the product to be sampled in their stores," said Cheri Chase, communications director for the Idaho Dairy Products Commission.
"McDonald's has really stepped out there and said, 'We are going to do this,' and that has been great for the dairy industry," she said.
Sales at McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. increased by 4 percent in April compared with a year ago, the company reported in early May. The increase was fueled in part by the McCafe beverage lineup, which includes specialty coffee drinks and fruit smoothies, company officials said.
The McCafe line has been a big hit with customers and contributed significantly to profits, said Bill Kyle, franchise owner of several McDonald's restaurants in south-central Idaho.
"It's been very well received by our customers from the get-go," Kyle said. "It's certainly helped quite dramatically. The McCafe line has done very well throughout the nation and in Southern Idaho."
Customers can expect additional offerings in the McCafe lineup in the future, he said.
"We are continuing to evolve that line as time goes on," he said. "We're always looking for new ways to enhance our product offerings."
The national dairy checkoff program is directly involved in helping companies like McDonald's, Domino's Pizza and Yoplait develop and introduce new menu items, Chase said. The industry now has two food scientists who work on site at the McDonald's menu development center.
Yoplait recently introduced a new retail product that allows people to make their own smoothies at home.
"It's gone crazy," she said.
In fact, smoothies are one of the hottest snack categories out there, she said. Smoothie sales at fast food restaurants soared 21.5 percent last year, according to industry data.
New dairy product introductions increased milk usage at fast food restaurants by 500 million pounds last year, Chase said.
The dairy industry is intent on getting its share of the growing U.S. snack food industry, which rakes in about $90 billion a year.
Dairy products account for just 13 percent of all between-meal snack choices for people 2 years and older, so there's plenty of room for growth, according to the industry.
Keeping pace in the increasingly competitive beverage sector isn't easy. The sector includes a plethora of new energy drinks, some loaded with caffeine, sweeteners and other ingredients.
"The beverage category has grown tremendously," Chase said. "We have to come out with new products to make dairy available to consumers."
If dairy has an edge, it's the nutritional aspect, she said.
"There are lots of nutritional claims out there, but dairy is by far and away one of the most nutritious foods you can consume," she said.

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Prosecutor says several preachers have been arrested and sent to prison over hate speech under National Action Plan.
An Anti-Terrorism Court has jailed an imam for five years over inciting hate against a rival sect, officials said Wednesday.
Maulana Abubakar, a prayer leader in Kasur, was arrested in February for making a speech against the minority Shia sect, a prosecutor told AFP. “The judge of an anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced the imam to serve five years in prison for [giving a] hate speech,” the prosecutor said on condition of anonymity. “The imam was found guilty of inciting hatred against Shia [people] and raised slogans during his sermon that Shias were infidels,” he said.
The official said that under Pakistan’s National Action Plan against terrorism, authorities have arrested many prayer leaders and courts have sent them to prison over hate speech charges. The official said he could not give the number of convictions as data was still being compiled about the cases.
Shaikh Saeed Ahmed, a Lahore district prosecutor, confirmed the conviction and sentence awarded to the Imam.
Sectarian violence—in particular by Sunni hardliners against Shias, who make up roughly 20 percent of Pakistan’s 200 million people—has claimed thousands of lives in the country over the past decade. Last week, 44 Shia Muslims were massacred in Karachi in the first attack claimed by the Islamic State group in Pakistan.
The National Action Plan against terrorism, which involved the outlawing of militant groups, registration of seminaries and crackdown on hate speech, was announced in the wake of a Taliban massacre that killed 154 people, mostly schoolchildren, in December. Pakistan also lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty and announced the establishment of military courts in the case of terrorist offences.


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Networking giant Cisco and unified IT monitoring and service analytics developer Zenoss are teaming up to provide an integrated NFV (network functions virtualization) solution aimed at accelerating software-defined networking (SDN) deployments in communication service provider environments.
Zenoss, based in Austin, Texas, and a strategic partner of Cisco, said the integration enables rapid modernization of infrastructures in what it calls a highly competitive communication service provider space.
The jointly developed solution will be available through Cisco’s direct and indirect sales channels, according to Steve Sigler, senior director of business development for Zenoss.
The Cisco-Zenoss solution will enable service providers to accelerate NFV and software-defined networking deployments; automate monitoring and provisioning of systems and applications in highly <<dynamic>> NFV environments; improve performance and capacity planning to most efficiently use all computing resources at all times; identify software and hardware components throughout the stack that could affect service reliability for tenants and NFV instances; ensure service health and reliability at massive scale; and simplify relationship modeling and accelerate issue root-cause analysis, according to Zenoss.
In an interview with CRN, Sigler said the solution would benefit telecommunications and networking specialists that use cable, satellite and landline to provide general internet and networking capabilities.
The deployment components include a combination of Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems (UCS) and Nexus systems; the Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM), which sits atop the RedHat OpenStack; and Zenoss Service Dynamics (ZSD) for NFVI, according to a statement from Zenoss.
The biggest benefits of the solution, Sigler noted, are in ease of installation and time to revenue, since the solution takes a process that that once typically took weeks to complete and shortens it dramatically to less than a day.
That weeks-long process used to involve multiple tool sets, “now it’s all pre-integrated for you by the folks at Cisco,” Sigler said.
“We can drop ship one of these things to a service provider. They can put it in their data center, spend about a day configuring it, and they’re up and running,” Sigler said.
“In this space, these things are clearly needed,” said Matt Duncan, director of GDT Labs, a Cisco partner based in Dallas. Service providers like GDT need such advanced technology to make networking deployments simpler, and “these products help bring us down that path.”
“Service providers are always looking to upsell customers to new or enhanced services, and the faster they can roll those out through automated provisioning, the faster they’ll churn new revenue from that customer,” said Jim Duffy, senior networking channel analyst at Boston-based 451 Research, in an email response to a question from CRN. “This is also the typical customer profile that could benefit from this integration – a service provider generating revenue from a Cisco NFVI infrastructure.”
The global NFV market is growing, according to analyst firm ReportsnReports, which recently forecast a combined annual growth rate of nearly 33 percent between 2016 and 2020.
The combination will also enable service providers to save money on software licensing, Sigler added.With Cisco’s OpenStack combined with Zenoss’s unified computing systems technology, service providers can also save money on software licensing, Sigler added.
Because Zenoss and Cisco are long-time strategic partners, product integration and marketing activities are deeper, Duffy added, “so, from an implementation standpoint, Zenoss’s service assurance and orchestration software should support Cisco NFVI systems … very tightly, almost natively. It’d be a surprise if they didn’t. “
Duffy said the solution would especially appeal to Cisco shops; others could benefit “only if during the upgrade cycle will they replace vendors for a system that performs better, cost less, reduces opex,” and offers other financial advantages such as improved total cost of ownership and ROI.


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17. Hotel Royal Victoria, Lake Como, Italy
Hotel Royal Victoria is a charming and luxurious retreat nestled on the picturesque shores of Lake Como in Italy. This historic hotel exudes timeless elegance and offers guests an unforgettable experience surrounded by the natural beauty and cultural richness of the region.
The hotel’s prime location in the heart of Varenna, one of Lake Como’s most enchanting towns, ensures breathtaking panoramic views of the azure waters and the majestic mountains that frame the lake. From the moment you step into the lobby, you’ll be captivated by the hotel’s refined ambiance, which seamlessly blends classic Italian charm with modern comforts.
Accommodation at Hotel Royal Victoria is a celebration of style and sophistication. The well-appointed rooms and suites are tastefully decorated, combining classic furnishings with contemporary amenities. Many of the rooms offer stunning vistas of Lake Como, allowing you to wake up to the sight of the sun-dappled waters each morning.
The hotel’s dining options are equally exceptional. Guests can savor delectable Italian cuisine at the on-site restaurant, where fresh, locally sourced ingredients are crafted into mouthwatering dishes. The terrace overlooking the lake is the perfect setting for a romantic dinner as you bask in the warm Italian breeze.


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At Abadía Retuerta we offer you the possibility of becoming a true mushroom “hunter”. In a farm with 700 hectares, you will be able to discover the great variety of mushrooms in the area, their main characteristics and how to prepare multiple recipes.
Introduction to the world of mycology: explanation about the different varieties of mushrooms.
Walk through the countryside: walk around the estate with an explanation of the mushrooms found during the walk and mushroom-collecting supervised by the mycology expert.
Aperitif in the hotel.
Lunch at Vinoteca including dishes paired with seasonal mushrooms.
- Activity available from October 22nd to November 22nd 2020.
- Activity available to guests staying at LeDomaine.
- Advanced booking and subject to availability.
- Estimated duration: 3 hours. (lunch at Vinoteca is not included).
- Cancellation policy: 48 hours.
- Languages: Spanish and English.
- Activity subject to weather conditions.
- Price and conditions upon request for groups from 8 people.
Please remember to wear comfortable clothing for this activity.
Safety and hygiene measures will be adapted to guarantee our clients’ safety.
Get information about the experience you desire to enjoy


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The Circuit of Ireland International Rally will hopefully be the third round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship in 2022. We are confident that it will also be a round of the British and European Trophy Rally Championships. In 2021 the event was to be a round of both Championships but unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Planning is well under way to celebrate the 90th anniversary of this iconic event and on Friday 15th of April 2022 the event will start from the Pits on the famous Ulster Grand Prix Circuit at Dundrod and finish on Saturday 16th in the beautiful gardens at Antrim Castle.
The centralised service area for both days will be situated in the pits area of Dundrod Motorsport Centre.
The uniqueness of this stage rally will see two separate events combining to give a spectacle for competitors and spectators alike. The first nine competitive stages on Friday are located close to the service area and the action starts around 10:00 a.m. and finishes in Dundrod around 5:30 p.m. We are in negotiations with the Chimney Corner Hotel to be our Rally Headquarters again, which is centrally located for the nine stages on Saturday staring at 8:00 a.m. finishing around 5:00 p.m. These 18 classic stages are on fast flowing tarmac roads which will present challenges for all competitors and provide superb opportunities for spectators to enjoy closed road rallying.
On Saturday morning starting from Dundrod; additional competitors will join those who participated on Friday to contest a further nine classic rally stages focussing around Antrim finishing in Dundrod in the early evening.
The Ulster Automobile Club, organisers of the Wastewater Solutions Circuit of Ireland International Rally are working closely with our title sponsor as well as reconnecting with Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council and Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council to extend the successful partnerships established in 2019.
We would ask everyone to remain patient, stay safe and look forward to the ‘sleeping Giant’ awakening for a spectacular closed road rally over the Easter weekend in 2022!!


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Outstanding Lake Minneola track and field athlete Kai Evans has earned a host of prestigious nicknames this calendar year.
Name him FHSAA Class 3A State Champion in the 400m Hurdles.
Call him national champion in the same competition.
Call him the record holder of Central Florida.
Call him the fastest tenth grader in Florida history.
Yes that’s right. Evans is just a sophomore and the 400 hurdles isn’t even his favorite event. He placed fourth in the Class 3A State 110 Hurdles and also ran the 100m and 200m in the FHSAA Finals, placing ninth in both sprints.
“The 200th is my favorite, but it’s my best time-based event,” Evans said after winning the hurdles.
With two more years of speed improvement ahead of him, you can also name Evans the 2023 Today News Boys Athlete of the Year.
About a month after winning the state 400 hurdles title, Evans won the same event at Philadelphia’s Franklin Field in the New Balance Nationals. His winning time of 51.44 broke the Central Florida record previously held by Johnny Love of Oak Ridge, who ran 52.17 at the 1995 Nationals.
Bowlers Apopka and Kai Evans of Lake Minneola claim national championships
Evans also set a new Florida record for sophomores by beating 51.89 Miami Northwest athlete Artie Burns, who went on to play pro football in the NFL.
Now the question is how fast Evans can run as he gains more experience in the 400 hurdles, which was not a state competition until this season.
“I didn’t really train for this,” Evans said after setting the FHSAA competition record with his 52.35 win. “I only practiced once a week because I have other activities. I lost my way and continued to overcome obstacles. I can definitely get better.”
In addition to the Girls’ and Boys’ Athletes of the Year, the Sentinel’s Varsity Awards 2022-23 includes the Boys’ and Girls’ Athletes of the Year, Team of the Year, Coaches of the Year and Rising Stars. These awards will also be posted on SentinelVarsity.com.
University Content Editor Buddy Collings can be contacted at [email protected].
Junior Two-Sport Winner Wins Today News Rising Star Award


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Women account for roughly half of the population in Maine and the U.S. as a whole, yet their representation in Congress and in the state Legislature continues to be far less than half. The fact that women are so underrepresented in their government isn’t just a matter of equality but also of improving how government works.
Research shows that when women are elected to public office, they are more likely to advocate for so-called women’s issues, such as expanded health care for children, family leave and care policies and increased funding for cancer research. But “women’s issues” is a misnomer. These aren’t issues that solely affect women; they affect all Americans and our economy.
“It matters tremendously that women be present” in state and federal decision-making, says Eliza Townsend, executive director of the Maine Women’s Policy Center and a former state legislator.
That’s why it is concerning that women hold less than 20 percent of the 535 seats in Congress and less than a third in the Maine Legislature. In a recent analysis, the news website Vox notes that in 1997 the U.S. ranked 57th in the world for women’s representation in government. It has since fallen to 97th.
Why does this matter? “If we care about taking advantage of all the skills and diversity of perspectives in our population, then we should care about seeing both parties nominate and elect more women,” Christina Wolbrecht, a political scientist at Notre Dame University, told Vox.
In addition to sponsoring more legislation related to family issues, the involvement of women in their government has an impact on how it works. Women tend to be more collaborative. Think Sen. Susan Collins working to end government shutdowns and Senate breakdowns over judicial nominations. They also inspire other women and young girls to seek elective office and other jobs traditionally considered to be in the men’s realm.
Yet, there are fewer women in the Maine Legislature today than there were in 1991, when Maine ranked second in the country for the percentage of women serving in the State House.
During the 115th Legislature, which spanned 1991 and 1992, there were 61 female lawmakers, or nearly one-third of the total and the most ever in Maine. Since then, the number has dropped to a low of 43 in the 122th Legislature, which was elected in 2004. The crop of current legislators includes 54 women, or 29 percent. There are consistently more female Democrats in office than Republicans.
It is worth noting that two of the state’s three current constitutional officers and the state auditor are women — Attorney General Janet Mills, Treasurer Terry Hayes and Auditor Pola Buckley. For several years, three-quarters of Maine’s congressional delegation was female — Collins, former Sen. Olympia Snowe and Rep. Chellie Pingree.
But the lack of growth in the number of women in the Maine Legislature is a cause for concern. It’s been blamed on many factors, including term limits, which drove out veteran female lawmakers in the mid-1990s, and more reluctance among women than men to seek elective office.
Serving in the Maine Legislature is a significant time commitment, which is especially challenging to women, who typically bear most of the responsibility for caring for children and aging parents, says Townsend, who served in the Maine House from 1992 to 2000. Legislative leaders can ease this burden. For example, Townsend notes, when Beth Edmonds, a Freeport Democrat, was Senate president she worked to set schedules that were more accommodating to lawmakers with multiple responsibilities and who traveled a great distance to get to Augusta.
What to do, then?
Evidence cited by Vox shows that women need more persuasion than men to run for office, yet they are asked less often than men to consider it. They are more likely to believe they are unqualified and that they don’t have much to contribute to the legislative debate.
Elective office at the local level is often the path to the State House, so recruiting more candidates for town councils and school boards is part of the solution. Bangor currently has only one female city councilor; Portland has only two.
We all benefit when government reflects our diversity, so we should all be concerned that women too often are on the political sidelines.


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The kitties are nearly a year old. For several months three of them have been enjoying the freedom of climbing the tree, walking the wall, and heading over to the other side. We had to perform a few tree rescues at first, but they got the hang of it. Not Mokito, however. He just played in the patio and would sit for hours longingly staring at the “path to freedom”.
A couple of weeks ago he did it! He made it to the other side! The wide open spaces of the abandoned meat packing building next door. Large creatures live there! There is so much adventure and so much to learn. But then he tried to come home. And he freaked out on the top of the wall.
The others tried to help. Sak Boox climbed up and down to show him how. Lorenza went up and licked his head, but then set off on her own adventure. (Moka doesn’t go there! So the Sargeant in charge was helpless and upset!) Busmo went up, licked Mokito’s head to calm him down, and slowly walked in front of him. He looked back and Mokito was still frozen in position. Busmo turned around, went back to Mokito, and got behind him. He nudged him gently a few times. He really gave it a good try. No go.
We called the neighbors, who were kind enough to lend us a tall ladder, and Pablo rescued him. He was humiliated of course, but happy to see food and water again. The next day he did the same thing. Pablo said, “No, let him learn to come down. He has to learn.” I agreed. But Pablo left the house and I was just watching him pant, and listening to him cry, and couldn’t handle it. I gave in and borrowed a ladder from Pedal Loco next door. I brought him down.
The third day he went up again. In the evening he was crying out, and we thought, NO, this has to stop. But we gave in and Pablo climbed up and tried to rescue him. He stepped back. I told Pablo to leave him; that I thought maybe he was ready to do it on his own. It was difficult but we walked away and left him there.
Fifteen minutes later we were sitting talking and we heard “MEOW! MEOW! MEOW!...” approaching us. Mokito ran in, jumped over us, and kept on running, sliding into his water dish, meowing all the way. He finally figured it out. He was so proud of himself. He finally joined the big league.

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