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While the federal deficit captures the news headlines, there is a deep and pervasive fiscal crisis in state finance. This crisis is largely a result of the Great Recession, which has caused the steepest decline in state tax receipts on record. It is also a structural issue, resulting from unfunded retirement plans that are beginning to come due. With state spending accounting for one eighth of US GDP, this crisis has serious implications for economic recovery, for jobs and for the credit markets, where states and municipalities have borrowed nearly $3 trillion. This paper reviews the origins and the scale of the state fiscal crisis. It considers its impact on economic growth and fiscal stability. And it lays out some recommended policy actions that are needed in order to address these issues and help put state finances on a sounder, more sustainable footing.
Bilmes, Linda J. "The Fiscal Crisis in State Government – And What Should be Done About It." Next Social Contract Policy Paper, New America Foundation, June 2010.


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Fans of The West Wing have been speculating, dream-casting, and wishing for a series revival or reboot for what seems like an eternity.
Although there is nothing official in the works, show creator Aaron Sorkin recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he could envision a reboot with This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown as POTUS.
While he’s still stuck on how he would include the rest of the original cast, Sorkin’s idea focuses on former President Bartlet coming out of retirement to consult with the current president.
…Sterling K. Brown as the president, and there’s some kind of jam, an emergency, a very delicate situation involving the threat of war or something, and [President] Bartlet [played by Martin Sheen], long since retired, is consulted in the way that Bill Clinton used to consult with Nixon.
For what it’s worth, Sterling K. Brown is ready to serve at the pleasure of the screenwriter.
Seriously, though — can this please be a thing?!
Honestly, I’d watch the hell out of that.

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Hypertension Home > Minoxidil Oral Dosage
Your blood pressure and other medications you are taking are some of the factors that will help your healthcare provider determine the best dosage of minoxidil oral for your situation. In most cases, the standard initial dosage for treating high blood pressure is 5 mg of minoxidil oral once daily. If necessary, this amount can be gradually increased.
An Introduction to Your Dosage of Minoxidil OralThe dosage of minoxidil oral (Loniten®) your healthcare provider recommends will vary, depending on a number of factors, including:
- Your blood pressure
- How you respond to the medication
- Your age
- Your weight (in children)
- Other medications you are taking
- Other medical conditions you may have.
As is always the case, do not adjust your dose unless your healthcare provider specifically tells you to do so.
Minoxidil Oral Dosing for HypertensionThe initial dose of minoxidil oral for treating hypertension (high blood pressure) in people older than 12 years of age is 5 mg once daily. The amount can then be increased, no more often than every three days, until blood pressure is controlled. Dosages are typically increased first to 10 mg a day, then 20 mg a day, and then 40 mg a day, if needed. The maximum recommended amount is 100 mg a day.
Minoxidil oral dosing guidelines in children younger than 12 years of age are based on body weight. In this age group, the initial dosage for treating hypertension is 0.2 mg per kg of body weight (0.09 mg per pound) once daily. The amount can then be increased by 50 to 100 percent, no more often than every three days, until blood pressure is controlled.
The typical effective dosage of minoxidil oral for children younger than 12 years of age is between 0.25 mg and 1 mg per kg of body weight a day (0.11 mg and 0.45 mg per pound). The maximum recommended minoxidil oral dose in children younger than 12 years old is 50 mg a day.
Minoxidil oral is usually given once or twice a day, depending on how much your blood pressure needs to be lowered. Higher blood pressure reductions will usually require twice-daily dosing.
Although it is generally recommended that dose increases be separated by at least three days to allow the full effects of the new dose to occur, in some cases, a more rapid reduction in blood pressure is needed. In these cases, dosages may be increased every six hours, with very careful monitoring.


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Catering for novices and expert users at stc17
This week I’m attending STC Summit 2017, the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication. These are my notes from one of the sessions at the conference. All credit goes to the presenter, and any mistakes are mine.
Laurian Vega presented a session titled “Novices AND Experts, Not Novices OR Expert Users”. I’m very interested in this topic, as it’s a problem that most creators of documentation face: the people coming to your docs may be new to the topic, or seasoned users looking for help with one specific task/concept. How do you optimise the docs UX (user experience) for both types of audience? Laurian’s talk focused on user interfaces. I figure a doc set has its own user interface, and as tech writers we’re responsible for the information architecture of the doc set too.
Laurian is a UX engineer. Her team writes all the words for the user interface (UI) and documentation for around 30 products.
Experts and novice users
Should we have two difference pieces of software to support the two types of users? No, says Lauren.
She showed us Adobe Photoshop as an example of a tool made for experts: graphic designers. But a number of people who are not graphic designers need to use it, and it’s flabbergasting.
People move from being novices to experts. They do this for various reasons, including necessity and initial simplicity of the task. There’s a spectrum of people, from novice to expert. By designing for the extremes, we also cater for the people in the middle.
Novices do well if the UI is simple, and there’s a single, clear call to action. They benefit from tutorials.
Experts know the task they want to complete, and they know how to do it. (Remember, we’re talking about UI here, not the docs.)
Laurian showed the Google search page as a good example of a design that caters for both novices and experts. Note the large expanse of white space, which focuses the user on the main task. The search box is right in the middle, so the eye is drawn to it. There are only two buttons, and you don’t even need to use them. For the expert users, there are extra controls at top and bottom, which you can find if you’re looking for them.
Expert users tend to have extensive domain knowledge. They may not necessarily have knowledge of modern UI design, because they’ve been doing the same task for so long. Expert users tend to take less time to complete a task, and often perform multiple tasks.
If a user doesn’t like your UI, they’re less likely to do well with it. They also don’t tend to spend much time attempting to learn it.
How to design for both experts and novices
Create separate personas to represent novices and experts, and use those personas to step through each task. Aim for 5-7 personas. Laurian walked through some sample personas for novice and expert, using the example of a UI for an online shoe shop. The novice in this case had high domain knowledge, but was a new visitor to the site. The expert had low domain knowledge, but had browsed the shoe shore’s site often.
Make sure you have a persona for the people who hate your UI!
Take a look at usability.gov for useful resources.
Do’s and don’ts in design:
- Don’t make separate user interfaces. Design the right tool from the beginning.
- Don’t ask your users if they’re experts. You won’t get a useful answer. Look at your analytics instead.
- Don’t use different tones for the two types of users.
- Don’t test with only one segment of your users.
- Do provide default options, as they help novices as well as experts, particularly for complex features.
- Provide both a quick and an advanced search.
- Provide help text and clear feedback. Avoid big blaring red text. Be helpful without being angry.
- Allow users to skip or dismiss the help features.
- If you have a lot of jargon in the UI, which assumes domain knowledge, link to a place where that jargon is explained.
- Provide advanced options as part of the interaction flow. Use progressive disclosure.
- Add labels to indicate advanced features. Consider hiding the advanced features until the user has gained enough experience to handle them, but make sure users can see those features if they want to.
- Take care with custom icons. Icons can offer a quick way for users to find what they need, but remember that novices don’t know the icons. Provide tooltips.
Thanks Laurian for your useful insights into designing for a variety of user experience levels and behaviours.
Posted on 10 May 2017, in STC, technical writing and tagged STC, STC Summit 2017, stc17, technical communication, technical documentation, technical writing, UX design. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

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Colin Donnell says fans can expect a "bittersweet" farewell for Dr. Connor Rhodes on Chicago Med. News broke back in April that the star of the NBC medical drama and co-star Norma Kuhling would be exiting the show at the end of Season 4, with their story being left on an upsetting cliffhanger in the finale.
Set to return for his final episode in the Season 5 premiere, Donnell opened up about the "emotional" experience of saying goodbye to the beloved character.
In a new interview with TVLine, Donnell said filming the premiere was a "long, emotional couple of days."
"But it was great. I'm glad that we got the chance to wrap up his storyline," he added. "I think it's going to be really cool for the fans."
While it has not been revealed if Kuhling will also appear in the Season 5 premiere, Donnell told the outlet the episode will bring clarity to Ava Bekker's involvement in his father's death.
Chicago Med delivered Connor a heavy blow ahead of the Season 4 finale when his father died unexpectedly after experiencing heart failure. The coroner's report then revealed his cause of death came from being given the wrong medication, leading him to believe that Ava, his ex-girlfriend whom his father had accused of sleeping with him to secure the funding for Connor's hybrid O.R. had killed him in revenge for the end of the relationship.
Connor hinted at his suspicions to Ava in the final moments of the finale, but she simply told him go to hell before walking away heartbroken.
Donnell first confirmed news of his exit with a heartfelt post on Instagram, sharing his gratitude to the cast and crew of the beloved drama series.
"These people have made my heart full for the last four seasons. I love and appreciate every gift they’ve given to me," Donnell wrote. "Not pictured are the countless crew members who’ve made every day brighter and filled my heart with joy and accepted [Donnell's wife Patti Murin] and I into their big wonderful family. A massive thank you is due to [Dick Wolf] and [NBC] for bringing me into the family fold."
Donnell concluded, "Lastly thank you to all the fans who've made Connor what he is on [Chicago Med]. The show doesn’t exist without you and I know that there are exciting things in store for you all in the seasons to come!"


Moto E (2nd Gen) is the new smartphone launched by the Motorola company. This smartphone is available in black and white colors at a price of Rs. 6999. Now check out the other features and specifications of the Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen).
Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) Features
The Motorola Moto E smartphone is comming with a 4.5 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with a screen resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. The operating system in this phone is Android 5.0 Lollipop. The internal storage memory of the Motorola Moto E is 8 GB. This storage memory is expandable up to 32 GB with any memory card.
Motorola Moto E has a 5 megapixel camera at the back. It also has a VGA camera at the front. The processor used in this device is 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. The phone runs on the battery of 2390mAh and it also has a RAM of 1 GB.
Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) Specifications
Operating System = Android 5.0 Lollipop
Chipset = Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 – 3G model & Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 – LTE model
Display = 4.5 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Picture resolution = 540 x 960 pixels
Processor = 1.2 GHz quad-core
Battery = 2390mAh Li-Ion battery
RAM = 1 GB
Dimensions = 129.9 x 66.8 x 12.3 mm
Weight = 145 g (5.11 oz)
SIM = Micro-SIM
Sensors = Accelerometer, proximity
Colour options = Black and White
Internal Storage memory = 8 GB
Secondary Storage = The Storage Memory of the Phone is expandable up to 32 GB with microSD memory card
Primary Camera (Rear) = 5MP (Megapixels)
Secondary Camera (Front) = VGA
Price = INR 6999


Her own voice is incredibly skilled, that is known as the "Susan Boyle America" is always there!.
If Britain has Susan Boyle, Taiwanese Lin Yu Chun is now, America has found a new musical phenomenon called Jackie Evancho through talent competition America's Got Talent. And a special thing is this girl only 10 years old.
Talented 10 year old Jackie Evancho opera audience contest was "America's Got Talent" have shocked their voice
But only a grade 1 student but she possessed a Jackie Evancho opera singer reached the "ripe" and amazingly skilled performers with style extremely confident. Right from the first singing, she has made the hall with all the judges are amazed with his great voice because they can not believe it a little so she could own voice "framework" to it. Many people even skeptical whether it's real voice or her Jackie is lip syncing.
Jackie Evancho - "O Mio Babbino Caro" ("America's Got Talent")
Jackie showed Babbino song O Mio Caro, a singing song incredibly difficult even with a mature singer but when she sings, it does not seem to find it a bit forced or hard difficulty. With a clear voice and her soaring, 10-year-old musical talent made the audience remember when Charlotte Church was at its peak. Also many people commented that Jackie made them think of the Susan Boyle and they were favorably placed for her nickname "Susan Boyle America."
"Susan Boyle America" easily won the ticket to contest the semi-finals
Judges Sharon Osbourne said in shock: "I can not believe that a little girl like you could own voice to such growth." While judges Piers Morgan does not hesitate to express: "This is one of the amazing performances I've ever seen in" America's Got Talent "."
With the feedback can not satisfactorily than that, Jackie has exhibited a ticket into the semi-final win. She spoke of feeling: "I feel great, especially when you've been the next round and pursue their dreams."
Jackie Evancho ever released debut album "Prelude To A Dream"
Jackie Evancho from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Mother Jackie discovered her singing talent from her daughter once overheard her singing a few songs in the movie Phantom Of The Opera in 8 years. Since then, her parents Jackie decided to find a vocal coach to help her develop her voice endowed. Jackie has also released an album titled Prelude To A Dream.


Nick combs | director of operations
Background: Member of the United States Air Force, extensive building automation design, installation and troubleshooting
Experience: 38+ years of experience in Building Controls, Commissioning, Project Management, Energy Optimization
Nick has 38+ years’ experience in operations and maintenance of HVAC and building systems. He began his career in the United States Air Force as a ground radio repair specialist. After leaving the Air Force he moved into the building automation controls industry for several years before becoming involved in facilities operations at UNO and later UNMC. He stayed at UNMC for over 30 years and was involved in every area of facility operations during that time. One of his greatest accomplishments during his tenure there was creating an entirely new building automation system tailored to the campus which was utilized for many years at UNMC. He has extensive experience with commissioning and the operations of educational, research and healthcare facilities, as well as large central utility operations. His primary expertise is in HVAC controls and building automation systems, during his career he has witnessed the introduction of many new technologies and methods in the HVAC industry. His extensive facilities management experience gives him a unique perspective on these applications. Nick works as a primary resource of expertise on control systems of all types. In his free time Nick enjoys spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.
Background and Community Involvement
Volunteered for local SID board
Volunteered as youth bowling coach for 17 years
Serves as a mentor and resource for the entire company


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Participants in PMP 38160 are:
|Horizon Oil International Limited
|OMV New Zealand Limited
|Cue Taranaki Pty Ltd
* See market announcement of the transaction dated 6 November 2017 regarding acquisition of a further 16% interest in Maari/Manaia fields
Gross production from the Maari and Manaia fields over the year was 3,043,037 bbls. Horizon Oil’s net working interest share was 304,304 barrels, with 2017 sales of 319,147 bbls at an average realised price of US$50.63/bbl (excluding hedging), resulting in revenue of US$16.2 million.
Cumulative gross production from the Maari and Manaia fields from first oil to 30 June 2017 is 34.6 million barrels.
Production at Maari/Manaia was temporarily suspended from late November 2016 until early January 2017 to complete scheduled repairs and maintenance of the water injection riser and also implement integrity measures to further protect the field flowlines. Concurrent with these scheduled operations, temporary repairs were undertaken to the wellhead platform structure and subsequently permanent repairs were completed.
Reconfiguration works of certain wellhead pipework in preparation for the installation of production enhancing multiphase pumps were carried out in the first half of financial year 2018.
The installation of the multiphase pumps and a workover of the Manaia MN-1 well are forecast to materially increase the field production rate.

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MSI (Micro-Star International) will release the unique GeForce RTX 3070 SUPRIM SE x GODZILLA graphics card. The Taiwanese vendor has always had a weakness for dragons (there is a dragon on the MSI logo), so the design in the style of Japanese kaiju Godzilla has been asking for itself for many years.
The SUPRIM x GODZILLA design has something similar to the relatively old MSI models of the NVIDIA GTX 1000 line of graphics cards. The card is made in black and amaranth style, the backplate is perforated in places and is made of aluminum. A massive heatsink with three MSI proprietary fans is responsible for cooling the adapter.
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 SUPRIM SE x GODZILLA is based on the latest revision of the RTX 3070 GPU with Lite Hash Rate technology activated (reduced mining performance for some cryptocurrencies).
The GPU of the graphics card operates at a frequency of up to 1785 MHz in Extreme Performance mode, which can be applied using the Dragon Center software. But the default clock frequency of the chip is 1770 MHz.
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 SUPRIM SE x GODZILLA Graphics Adapter is based on a completely custom design. The card is powered by two 8-pin power connectors and has a TDP of 240W.
At the moment, we do not have an exact release date for the novelty, however, there is clear information that the SUPRIM x GODZILLA series will visit only the Japanese market and will not be sold in the CIS. Nevertheless, as we have already mentioned somewhere, in such situations (product exclusivity for countries/stores), good old Aliexpress comes to the rescue. With a high degree of probability, sometime after its release, the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 SUPRIM SE x GODZILLA video card will appear on the most popular Chinese trading platform and you can order it without any problems.


In a positive development to resolve years of uncertainty over where federal jurisdiction begins and ends, the Environmental Protection Agency today rescinded the Obama-era “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule.
“NAHB commends the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for repealing the 2015 WOTUS rule that vastly expanded federal overreach over water and land use by regulating man-made ditches and isolated ponds on private property,” said NAHB Chairman Greg Ugalde.
“By repealing the 2015 rule, the EPA and Corps have finally provided consistency among all 50 states, which will make the federal permitting process more predictable and affordable," he added. "Now, the agencies need to finalize a new definition that restores common sense to the regulatory process by respecting states' rights and balancing economic and environmental concerns.”
The 2015 WOTUS rule has been subject to several legal challenges that halted its implementation nationwide. Last month, the U.S. District Court for Georgia issued a decision finding that the substance of the rule violates the Clean Water Act. The court remanded the rule back to the agencies to fix it.
Prior to EPA's repeal announcement, the Obama-era rule was in effect in 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the previous regulations issued in 1986 were in effect in the remaining 28 states. The EPA decision means the 1986 rule will now be in effect in nationwide until a final replacement rule is issued.
The Trump administration has proposed a new WOTUS rule that NAHB generally supports. The proposed rule would clarify the extent of federal oversight and correct the vast overreach of prior rules.
Once finalized, builders and developers will be better able to determine for themselves whether they will need federal permits for construction activities. And, because the proposed rule narrows the extent of federal jurisdiction by excluding isolated water bodies, "ephemeral" waters that only form in response to rain, and most ditches, builders should require fewer Clean Water Act permits for isolated or temporary wetlands or water bodies.


How Can I Shampoo my Carpet Without a Machine?
Whether you want to clean carpet without shampoo or with shampoo, the first thing coming in your mind must be a carpet cleaning machine. You might find it impossible to clean the carpet without using a carpet cleaning machine. Thus, the carpet is not cleaned for long in some houses. Carpet Cleaning is important. Not only to make it look spotless and good, but also to keep yourself and family healthy. This article shares a carpet cleaning method to clean and sanitise it without any machine.
Things Require To Clean And Sanitise:
- Shampoo if you want to clean with shampoo. To clean the carpet without shampoo, you can choose any other carpet cleaning solution of your preference.
- Warm water
- Clean water
- Bristle brush
- 2 buckets and
- Clean cloth or towels
How To Create Carpet Cleaning Solution:
- In a bucket, mix warm water and shampoo to perform carpet shampoo cleaning. To perform carpet cleaning without shampoo, use the solution you have chosen. Mix them well
Make sure, you do not take a lot of shampoo or solution as excessiveness of it will make rinsing tougher.
5 Simple Carpet Cleaning Process:
- Pick up things, if there are any, from the carpet to make the cleaning process faster and hassle free
- If your carpet is dusty, you need to use a vacuum cleaner to vacuum dust away from it. I know, we were not supposed to use a machine, but it is obligatory in case of a dusty carpet.
- Take the bristle brush, dip it in the prepared carpet cleaning solution and scrub it on the carpet. The areas with stains and spots need to be cleaned with a little more water and crisp scrubbing. Start from one corner of the carpet and move towards the next. Make sure that you do not soak the carpet with too much wetness.
- Take another bucket full of clean water. Soak the towel or cloth in it and squeeze it to take away unnecessary water from it. Rub the carpet with this towel from the one corner of the carpet to the last one; the area which was scrubbed with the carpet cleaning solution. Go over this process until you eliminate cleaning shampoo or solution from the carpet completely.
- Take a dry towel to soak excess water from the towel by wiping the carpet with it. Rub and press the towel on the areas with much wetness. You can also switch on all fans to reduce drying time. Make sure the carpet gets dry completely to prevent mold and bacteria.
When the carpet is in the cleaning process or not dried out completely, you need to make sure nobody walks on it.This is a simplified way to clean carpet without shampoo or with shampoo, but without using any machines at home.


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- The PDP in Rivers state has raised alarm over an alleged plot to remove Governor Nyesom Wike of the state
- The party's chairman in the state, Felix Obuah, alleged that the APC in the state has perfected plot to remove the governor
- In reaction, the APC says there is no such plot, saying Obuah might have seen it in a trance
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has been accused by the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Felix Obuah, of plotting to remove Governor Nyesom Wike at all cost.
The Sun reports that Obuah said he noted the inciting and unguarded utterances of the APC leader in the state which constitute a threat to the 2019 elections in Rivers.
Legit.ng gathers that Obuah made the allegation in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, August 29.
He urged the international community and security agencies to prevent the plot against the governor so as to avert crisis in the state.
According to Obuah, it was the violent activities of APC that led to the suspension of Saturday, August 18, Port Harcourt City constituency 3 by-election, conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to fill a vacant seat at the state House of Assembly.
The APC chairman said: “Ranting through a series of comments on his facebook wall, he insisted that whatever that is needed to be done to remove Governor Nyesom Wike from office would be done, not minding the means and cost.
“This is coming less than 24 hours after the visiting ambassadors of Ireland to Nigeria and his European Union counterpart to Rivers state.
The allegation has, however, been denied by the Rivers state APC spokesman, Chris Finebone, saying that it might have been seen in a trance.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the All Progressives Congress in Rivers state, in a statement by the state chairman, Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, accused the state governor, Nyesom Wike, of inducing APC lawmakers with N2.3 billion to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Flag-Amachree, in a statement on Sunday, July 29, said the alleged N3.2 billion bribe given to the federal lawmakers who defected to the party was a proof of the alleged reckless spending by the state administration.
PDP's Magnificent 7 For 2019 Election | on Legit.ng TV

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I am not quite sure just how far Google thought that their foray into the world of mobile operating systems with Android would go, but apparently, they have ended up pretty well – despite the initial rants about Android fragmentation and all that, Android has continued to grow from strength to strength, so much so that it was said that by the time 2017 is over, out of 1.5 billion smartphones shipped then, a billion of those will run on the Android operating system. Now that we have gotten all the positive, feel good vibes out, here is what Google’s Larry Page shared over his Google Plus account – that a whopping 1.5 million Android devices are activated every day.
Considering how Larry Page earlier this March that 750 million Android devices were activated, and when Andy Rubin took his bow as Android head in May with 900 million Android devices activated then, 1.5 million daily activations does sound to be rather conservative, but it is par for the course when it comes to meeting the 1 billionth Android activation before we greet 2014. Are you part of the Android brigade? [Larry Page+]


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There is more: by registering you can create your personal page, publish photos, receive comments and you can use all the features of JuzaPhoto. With more than 213000 members, there is space for everyone, from the beginner to the professional.
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Of the three versions proposed many beautiful of this tram are this I find sublime for the moment cultured, colors and composition. A greeting, Alexander Delle tre versioni proposte molte belle di questo tramono questa la trovo sublime per momento colto, cromie e composizione. Un saluto, Alessandro

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In 2002, the Alpine countries have agreed to create a connection through the Alps, the Via Alpina from Trieste to Monaco. The stages from Liechtenstein to Montreux belong to the Grünen Weg.
In 2002, the Alpine countries have agreed to create a connection through the Alps, the Via Alpina from Trieste to Monaco. The stages from Liechtenstein to Montreux belong to the Grünen Weg. The trail crosses 14 of the most beautiful Alpine passes. Across 6 cantons of Switzerland and the Liechtenstein, it encounters a variety of culture, geology and topography. The tour is lined with one of the world's most versatile flora and fauna. Silence relaxation phases alternate with the tourist centres. Different alpine huts are close to the path where the pigs, goats and cows watch the farmer. Movements, thrusts, reduction and rock fall are the evidence of an interesting geological structure. Breath taking panoramas interchange with wonderful things on the wayside and the gastronomy prepares delicious food.
Stage Lenk - Gstaad Once again its starts with a climb. Shortly after it cross the cable car by Wallegg and walk along it. Slightly above the Undere Lochberg walk through a flat, marshy bog that will leave just with the ascent to Obere Lochberg. Up to the Trüttlisbergpass the hikers get again solid ground under our feet. Now the path leads through the long-drawn valley of Turbach and to Turbach and Gstaad.


The Climate Crisis: How we got here. Where we are. Where we've got to go.
Global heating is the single greatest threat humanity faces. Human activity has caused it and only human choices can change it.
Oil companies knew about Climate Change over 50 years ago. Just like Tobacco companies lied about risks of cancer, they spread disinformation, misled the public and manipulated governments.
This is the real story of climate change
We are in a state of Climate Crisis.
As global temperatures rise, so do sea levels and the frequency of extreme weather events: hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts. The Earth is more than one degree Celsius hotter than it was before the Industrial Revolution. (1)
Global heating is caused by the pumping of Carbon Dioxide (along with Carbon Monoxide, Methane and other ‘greenhouse gases’) into the atmosphere.
The extent of global heating that we are witnessing has one clear cause - human activity. Our dependence on fossil fuels and our reluctance to let them go, our exploitation of natural resources and our reluctance to seek alternatives, and most of all our reluctance to face the facts have caused this crisis.
This is good news.
Since human activity is directly responsible for the crisis that we face, a change in human actions is the only thing that can solve it. These are the facts, and 97% of climate scientists agree. (2)
Over 50 years ago we knew almost just as much as we do about global warming as we do today.
The people who knew chose not to act.
The people who knew chose not to care.
Politicians take sides on climate change, debate the facts and negotiate the solutions, climate change is not a political issue.
Climate Change is a human issue with political players.
We are not all equally responsible for causing Global Heating. Nor will we all suffer equally. Although the Climate Crisis was caused predominantly by countries in the Global North, it is those in the Global South that are already facing the impacts of Climate Change.
Climate justice is social justice.
In fact, the denial of climate change or of human responsibility isn’t a scientific standpoint at all, it’s a commercial and political one.
Although the strong majority of us want to live in harmony with the world around us and avert the destruction of our Earth as we know it, there are a few who actually profit from wreaking this damage: the fossil fuel corporations who make billions in profit every year from burning carbon-emitting fuels. These corporations fund governments, spread misinformation and profit from destruction.
Climate Change is a fact, not a belief.
To understand where we are, we must understand where we’ve come from.
This crisis dates back to the industrial revolution in the 19th Century. Britain, Europe and America started burning fossil fuels to power factories and move into the modern age. They released a huge amount of Carbon into the atmosphere as a result, sending the natural Greenhouse Effect (vital for keeping Earth at the right temperature) into overdrive. And as far back as 1896 they knew this too as scientist Svante Arrhenius concluded just that.
We now know that the Carbon in the atmosphere is the biggest cause of the Climate Crisis.
70 years ago we knew that too.
By the 1950s, scientists were drawing a link between human industrial activity and the warming of the earth in the public sphere.
New York Times. Oct 28 1956.
Washington Post. May 4 1953.
Long story short; the Earth was starting to heat up, and scientists had started to figure out why.
Credit: NASA Scientific Visualisation Studio
The findings of these scientists were starting to catch the attention of governments and fossil fuel companies who wanted to see if they had merit. Having reviewed the evidence, the Scientific Advisory Committee produced a report for US President Johnson concluding that Climate Change was a matter of real concern.
The Stanford Research Institute (SRI) also presented a report to the American Petroleum Institute which ‘warned [that] the release of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels could carry an array of harmful consequences for the planet’. (3) The authors of this report noted the irony that governments, regulatory bodies, and environmentalists were concerned with local incidents of air pollution but not with the mass emission of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.
They found that :
They concluded that :
Climate Change was no longer just a scientific discussion. It now involved big businesses and governments and it had to be discussed on the international stage.
The UN held their first environment conference in Stockholm 1972, but spent hardly any time discussing Climate Change.
Meanwhile key players in the fossil fuel industry were beginning to realise the implications that reducing Carbon emissions would have on their businesses. Initially, Exxon, BP, Shell (among others) were actually at the forefront of research into Climate Change. Having heard a lot about Carbon emissions in the press, they decided to conduct internal research to assess how far 'Global Warming' was propelled by the use of fossil fuels.
Just like all the others, they concluded that the burning of fossil fuels was heating the Earth with disastrous consequences.
The Senior Scientist at Exxon, James F Black, circulated an internal report on 'The Greenhouse Effect'. Exxon had done the research, run the numbers and concluded :
Exxon internal report 'The Greenhouse Effect', 1978
Exxon also concluded that from the time of writing the global community had around 5-10 years to drastically reduce Carbon emissions in order to avoid the predicted effects of Climate change.
The report stated that:
'There is general scientific agreement that the most likely manner in which mankind is influencing the global climate is through carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels.’
‘Present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical.’
Exxon had said it themselves. That was in 1978.
In 1978 Exxon knew that the irresponsible burning of fossil fuels would cause a global catastrophe.
A decision between addressing Climate Change and protecting profit had to be made.
They chose profit.
The following year the Charney Report was published by the Ad Hoc Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate. This was the first comprehensive assessment of global Climate Change due to Carbon Dioxide, and formalised the consensus on Climate Change.
They predicted the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause a global heating of several degrees.
40 years ago they accurately predicted how global Climate Change would play out.(4)
In fact, 40 years ago, they knew almost everything we do about Climate Change today.


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The Florida Panthers took Friday off but that did not mean the team was not busy.
The Panthers made a number of roster moves, most notably sending backup goalie Spencer Knight to their AHL team in Charlotte.
The move is not looked at a demotion — just a product of the Panthers’ current roster space and need to activate some players.
With No. 3 goalie Jonas Johansson cleared of Covid protocols, and both goalies ineligible for the taxi squad, one had to move.
Knight, being in his second year of his entry-level contract, is not subject to waivers to go to Charlotte; that is not the case for Johansson.
Florida also sent defenseman Matt Kiersted and forward Aleksi Heponiemi down to Charlotte.
Those moves were made in anticipation of Florida pulling both Patric Hornqvist and Olli Juolevi off IR.
For Knight, this will be his second trip to Charlotte after Florida claimed Johansson off waivers from Colorado in December.
Knight only made one start for the Checkers, giving up five goals off 32 shots faced in a 5-1 loss to the Bridgeport Islanders on Dec. 18.
Knight was quickly brought back to Florida and played well since.
His first start back was a 9-3 win over the Lightning in Sunrise as he has won three of four starts since returning.
On Thursday night, he made 24 saves in Florida’s 4-1 win over visiting Vegas — giving him back-to-back starts in which he gave up a single goal.
With Knight playing Thursday, he is not expected to start for the Checkers tonight in Utica against Kevin Dineen’s Comets, but he could go tomorrow in Syracuse against the Crunch.
Florida only has three games remaining until the team takes two weeks off for the All-Star break and what was supposed to be the Olympic pause.
After playing the Rangers in New York on Tuesday — a game in which Johansson could make his Florida debut if Knight isn’t called back by then — Florida does not play again until visiting Carolina on Feb. 16.
Aside from the two games this weekend, the Checkers play six more times before the Panthers face the Hurricanes potentially giving Knight a handful of starts.
Sergei Bobrovsky, who will start Saturday against San Jose, is expected to be back in net Monday in Columbus and could — if he doesn’t face too many shots that night — go again in New York.
But, since Johansson has yet to play for the Panthers, expect him to start against the Rangers unless Bobrovsky is given the night off in Columbus. Which is not expected.
Since leaving Columbus for the Panthers, Bobrovsky has won seven of his nine starts against the Blue Jackets — including his past six.


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DescriptionThe evil wizard Sabaron summoned a horde of demons to invade Arabia. One brave magician tried to fight Sabaron, but was trapped in the holes of time. This magician is you. Traveling through different time periods, you'll have to stop Sabaron's evil plans and to rescue the beautiful princess Scheherazade he kidnapped.
Magic of Scheherazade is a mixture of action- and turn-based combat RPG styles. Wandering through Arabia, you'll encounter enemies whom you'll fight in real time, using various weapons. You'll also be attacked by enemies with whom you'll engage in strategic, party-vs.-party combat. You can choose from three character classes: Fighter, Saint, and Magician. Each class has its own special abilities that you'll use in battles as well as during your exploration of the game world.
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- "Arabian Dream Scheherazade" -- Japanese title
- "アラビアン・ドリーム シェラザード" -- Japanese spelling
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Canceled sequelA sequel for the game was planned to be released on the NES than later got pushed back to a release on the SNES with the title Golden Empire: The Legend of Scheherazade in the US or Scheherazade Densetsu - The Prelude in Japan. The game was seemingly canceled.
Title"Scheherazade" is pronounced as "Sha-hair-uh-zod". It is originally the name of the princess and narrator in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights.
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - This week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a federal judge to order the Biden administration to immediately resume building the wall along the southern border.
Paxton says the Biden administration must start building the wall again because Congress appropriated the money for it.
US Representative Beth Van Duyne, R-24th Congressional District, said Wednesday that she agrees with Paxton's request. "The borders are over-run. We're seeing the results of their deadly policies in our communities every single day. And yet, all we're seeing is delay tactics by the by the administration. They stopped what was working."
Federal records show between January 1 and November 30 this year, there were nearly one point nine million migrants either apprehended, turned away, or expelled at the southern border.
Texas Representative Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie and Chair of the House Democratic Caucus rejected Paxton's request. "The bottom line is the border wall, the Trump border wall that he said Mexico would pay for, which, of course, was ridiculous, was an obscene waste of money. It was simply political theater and Ken Paxton is just trying to carry on that theater with this latest court stunt."
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation calling for an immediate pause in the building of the border wall.
SMU Constitutional Law Professor Dale Carpenter said in court papers, the administration has said it's not violating the law. "What the President is saying here is that I'm not violating Congress's will. I'm spending the money that's supposed to be spent. There's no timeline on spending that money. There's no date by which the wall actually has to be built. Give me the time, and I'm doing my job. I think the Attorney General is pointing out that although the Biden administration says it is spending money for this purpose, it's not actually going to end up building the wall that it is supposed to build. The President himself has said so."
As a result of the Biden administration halting construction of the border wall, the State of Texas started building its own.
On Saturday, Governor Greg Abbott debuted the first 900 feet of wall.
The State Legislature approved about $3 billion for border security this year.
Representative Turner said, "We've seen a new polarization of the issue from the likes of Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott."
In November, Congresswoman Van Duyne sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security asking him to give Texas $100 million in unused steel panels and border wall materials to the state of Texas for its wall.
Van Duyne said Wednesday that she didn't receive a response. "If they're going to have to do the work, at least give them the materials that have already been paid for by taxpayer money."
Carpenter points to the U.S. Constitution which says immigration is a federal issue. "There could be a huge impact on the states. It is the case that Congress and the President have the primary authority to control immigration policy, to set immigration policy, even if the states don't like that policy."
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USF St. Petersburg Brings Live Theater To Students
Across the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus, both students and the public are finding a smattering of free live performances to enjoy. The inaugural Short and Sweet Theatre Week kicked off Monday, bringing the arts to the university.
Ann Wykell, USF St. Petersburg’s Places, Spaces and Art coordinator, plans an event each year that highlights different sections of the arts. This year, she wanted to bring live performances to campus, but she had to get creative.
“How do you do theater on a campus that doesn’t have a theater?” she said, pointing out that the campus lacks a proper performance space.
Wykell wasn’t deterred. The students didn’t need four walls and a traditional stage to be able to enjoy live performances, she said.
In place of a traditional theater, Wykell decided to put the entire USF St. Petersburg campus to use. Performances are being held outside, in the student recreation center, on outdoor patios, and in building common areas.
"The arts are part of a complete education for students of all ages,” she said. “We wanted to have some theatrical experiences for our students and this seemed to be a good way to try it out."
A series of short, simple performances are taking place during the weeklong festival, featuring a variety of options for students to choose from: improv, monologues, two-person plays, and hybrid-style performances are on the schedule.
Local professional artists are also excited to bring their work to USF St. Pete. Dancer and performer Helen Hansen French, who performed on Monday night, was happy to share her talents with the university community.
"I'm always inspired when I can see art intertwine itself in any other aspect of my community or my culture and so I think sometimes on academic campuses, we forget that art and culture are what make what we're studying come to life."
Another professional performer, Mimi Rice, said that Wykell's vision of performances all over campus rather than in one building is how theater should be experienced.
"It can be done in a classroom, it can be interdisciplinary, it can be outdoors, it can be two people improvising. It doesn't need a theater.”
Short and Sweet Theatre Week runs through Thursday with two performances each evening.
Death and Other Errors in Judgement. Ten short, surreal plays written by Matt Cowley. Directed by Vicki Daignault.
Tuesday, April 9 at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Lynn Pippinger Hall Collaboration Lounge.
Tales Thrice Told. Three original plays written and performed by Fanni Green, Bob Devic Jones and Maureen McDole. Co-presented with Studio@
Tuesday, April 9 at 5:15 and 6:30 p.m. at Lynn Pippinger Hall Auditorium.
She Speaks. Staged readings performed by Eugenie Bondurant, Stephanie Roberts, Mimi Rice and Vanesa Rendon. Directed by Vicki Daignault.
Wednesday, April 10 at 5:15 p.m. at the Edge.
Hello. Immersive performance by Chris Crawford and Anthony R. Smith.
Wednesday, April 10 and Thursday, April 11 at 6:15 p.m. at the Grind.
Cabaret. Performed by students from USF Tampa School of Theatre and Dance.
Thursday, April 11 at 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. at the Edge.


Introduction to the IPTA Concept
The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) is a consortium of consortia , comprised of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA), the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA). The principal goal of the IPTA is to detect gravitational waves using an array of approximately 30 pulsars. This goal is shared by each of the participating consortia individually, but they have all recognized that their goal will be achieved more quickly in collaboration, and by combining their respective resources. Sharing resources will also help to reach other IPTA goals, for example, establishing a pulsar-based reference timescale.
The basic experiment exploits the predictability the pulses from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and uses them as a system of Galactic clocks. Disturbances in the clocks will be measurable at Earth. A disturbance from a passing gravitational wave will have a particular signature across the ensemble of pulsars, and will be thus detected.
Participating Pulsar Timing Arrays
The experiment is analogous to ground-based interferometric detectors such as LIGO and VIRGO, where the time-of-flight of a laser beam is measured along a particular path and compared to the time-of-flight along an orthogonally oriented path. Instead of the time-of-flight of a laser beam the IPTA is measuring the time- of-flight of an electromagnetic pulse from the pulse. Instead of 4 km arms (as in the case of LIGO) the ‘arms’ of the IPTA are thousands of light-years (the distance between the pulsars and the earth.) Each of the PTAs times approximately 20 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) each month. With significant overlap between the collaborations the total number of MSPs timed by the IPTA (and thus the number of ‘arms’ in the detector) is approximately 30.
These differences between the IPTA and the ground-based interferometers allow them to probe a completely different range in gravitational-wave frequency and thus a different category of sources. Whereas ground-based detectors are sensitive to 10’s-1000’s of Hz, the IPTA is sensitive to 10’s-100’s of microHertz. Their primary source of gravitational waves is supermassive black-hole binaries (billions of solar masses), presumed to exist in plenty in the universe at the centers of galaxies, resulting from previous mergers of those galaxies.
Pulsar timing was tied for top ranking in the “medium size” category for priorities from the Particle Astrophysics and Gravitational Panel of the Astro2010 Decadal Review sponsored by the National Academy. The table is in Table B.1 of the report.


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INDIA: Indian government to grant wine separate industry status
The Indian government is likely to grant the wine segment industry status in the next few months, according to local press reports. The decision, when it materialises, comes after persistent pressure from the wine business to grant it separate industry status. A senior government official was quoted in the Financial Express as saying: "There has been an ongoing demand from the wine manufactures to grant their sector an industry status. Now with the opening up of Quantitive Restrictions (QRs) and the proposed import of wines into the country, the government is planning to grant the wine sector industry status."
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Proud of your heritage? Then milk it
Don’t cry over spilt milk, English Heritage advises wisely. Use it to clean the tiled floors. But only if it’s skimmed.
The milk technique is one of several Victorian cleaning methods that guardians of Britain’s historic estates suggest are more effective than modern approaches.
English Heritage has been delving into household archives to find 19th century household tips. One old sage recommends using bread to clean wallpaper and hard surfaces.
Staff at Brodsworth Hall, a Victorian country house near Doncaster, have been consulting old housekeeping manuals for a range of old solutions to modern problems. They adapted one piece of advice to come up with a new way to clean their floors.
Amber Xavier-Rowe, the conservation head at English Heritage, said: “We tried different varieties

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Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed
Flipper fights 'form drag'
Dolphin skin will be key in future designs of marine vessels, thanks to Japanese research.
Fortunately, this does not spell the end for the sea-going mammals: physicists at the Kyoto Institute of Technology have discovered how the surface of a dolphin's skin reduces drag as it swims, and the findings will help scientists to design more energy-efficient boats and submarines.
The research team wanted to find out what role the dolphin's skin played in reducing 'form drag' - the pressure of water against the skin. Dolphins have extremely soft, flaky skin which they shed every two hours. By modelling how the water flows over the flakes, and how they are eventually shed, the research team was able to conclude that the softness of the skin does reduce friction.
Professor Yoshimichi Hagiwara and colleagues also discovered that as the skin flakes off, it also helps the dolphin through the water: the flakes break up swirling vortices next to the skin that would otherwise slow the animal down.
Professor Hagiwara explains that travelling quickly through water is much more complex than travelling quickly through air. He and his team are now building simulation dolphins to replicate the 'flaking' that allows them to move so fast through water. "This research could help us build boats, ocean liners and submarines using technology based on these natural solutions," he said.
The original paper was published in the Institute of Physics journal, Journal of Turbulence. ®

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Oh, I’m such a sucker for lemon meringue pie! Yes, it would be right up there with my all-time favourite desserts – Chocolate Mousse, Tiramisu and Baked Alaska. There’s something just so undeniably delectable about the combination of mouth-puckering lemon and sweet meringue.
Why add another lemon meringue pie to the blog, when I’ve already made what I consider to be best Lemon Meringue Pie ever? Because this version is the ‘cheat’s version. It’s the one you make when friends arrive on your doorstep unexpectedly and you’ve only got a handful of hours to make something half-way decent. Imagine their surprise when you put this on the dinner table!
So, what makes this a cheat? Well, the real thing has a baked pastry crust, a baked filling and, commonly, a baked meringue. This version has an uncooked biscuit (cookie) base, uncooked filling and unbaked meringue. It may not be for those of you who don’t trust eating raw eggs (though the whites in this Swiss meringue are cooked), but the eggs here in New Zealand are exceptional and I always use organic eggs.
That being said, you can absolutely bake each layer if you want to, and have the time. You can bake the crust at 190C (375F) for 8-12 minutes; and bake the meringue at 160C (320F) for 10-15 minutes.
I used Mary Berry’s recipe though switched her French meringue for Swiss meringue simply because I love its dense, marshmallow-like texture. And, as Swiss meringue doesn’t require baking, I simply gave it a light toasting with a kitchen torch rather than baking it as she does.
You’d think this quick and easy pie is a pale imitation of the ‘real thing’ but, trust me, it’s still spectacular. The family gave it an enthusiastic ‘thumbs up’ and I’m pretty confident that I’ll be making it again very shortly. Enjoy!
- 75g (2.6 oz) butter
- 25g (.88 oz) demerara sugar
- 175g (6.1 oz) digestive (or graham cracker) biscuits
- 1 x 394g (13.8 oz) tin of full-fat, sweetened condensed milk
- 3 egg yolks
- Finely grated rind and juice of 2 large lemons (I used 3 small ones)
- 3 egg whites
- 175g (6oz) caster (superfine) sugar
- Lightly spray with oil a 23cm (9in) round, straight-sided or fluted ceramic tart dish, about 4cm (1½ in) deep.
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan and take off heat.
- Put the biscuits into a food processor and pulse till you get a fine crumb. Add the melted butter to the biscuits, pulsing until the mixture starts clumping together.
- Dump the crumbs into the dish and press evenly into the base and sides. Put into the fridge to chill for at least 20 minutes.
- Pour the condensed milk into a bowl of an electric mixer (or simply use a hand-held beater).
- Beat in the egg yolks, lemon rind and strained juice and pour the mixture over the chilled biscuit base.
- Add the egg whites into a medium mixing bowl. Add the sugar and whisk them together.
- Bring a small amount of water to a gentle simmer in a saucepan that is large enough to accommodate your mixing bowl.
- Place the bowl on top of the pan and make sure it doesn’t touch the water. Whisk the mixture constantly for 2-3 minutes until the mixture starts to get hot (it should be hot enough that you can only comfortably poke your finger into the mixture for a moment).
- Remove the bowl and beat the meringue in an electric mixer using a balloon whisk (or use a hand-beater) until the meringue is glossy and holds firm peaks.
- Either spoon the meringue over the surface of the filling and spread it in swirls, or pipe it over in separate blobs (I used a medium sized round tip to create the 'kisses').
- At this point you can either bake the meringue for 15-20 minutes until golden, or you can blow torch the meringue lightly as I did (the Swiss meringue method has already cooked the egg whites so cooking it is not necessary).
- If baking, set the dessert aside for about 30 minutes to allow the filling to firm up. If not baking, you can serve straight away or store in the fridge until ready. It's best eaten on the same day.
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Colton Underwood has been spotted.
The former Bachelor star has emerged, nearly two weeks since his ex-girlfriend Cassie Randolph filed a restraining order against him. Underwood was photographed by paparazzi on Sept. 23 in Los Angeles. At the time, he was seen out and about in athleisure with a face mask pulled down to his chin.
The former pro athlete has kept a low profile in recent weeks, having last posted to his social media accounts in August. He and Randolph announced their split in May, nearly two years after their season of The Bachelor aired. Then, on Sept. 11, news broke of Randolph's restraining order filing against him. A judge granted her a temporary restraining order and Underwood was ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from his ex, her home and workplace. Per the temporary restraining order, which expires on Oct. 6, he is also prohibited from contacting her and must not harass, threaten or attack her.
In her filing, obtained by E! News, Randolph accused him of stalking and harassing her, sending her "unsettling" text messages, repeatedly calling her and allegedly placing a tracking device on her car.
He has not publicly commented on the allegations. A rep for him has also declined to comment, citing it as a "legal matter."
Just days ago, on Sept. 21, Randolph posted to her Instagram account for the first time since filing for the restraining order.
The upload—a photo of herself smiling underneath the visible moon—featured the cryptic caption, "Be like the moon and inspire people even when you're far from full."
As for any future for her and Underwood, there won't be one as far as Randolph sees it. "Cassie hopes Colton heals and gets the closure he needs. She wants them to both be able to move on indefinitely," a source previously told E! News. "There's no space for them to have a relationship in the future and she hopes he understands that. Cassie only wishes the best for him."


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The HW 30 remained frozen amid a surprising surge in jobless claims reported by the U.S. Department of Labor.
"Adjusting for the holidays can make for wild swings in jobless claims, apparent in data for the December 7 week that show a huge 68,000 jump in initial claims to 368,000. Claims are now back at their highest point since the government shutdown in early October," analysts with Econoday said.
The 4-week moving average posted a less drastic rise and increased by 6,000 filings to 328,750, which is still nearly 20,000 below the month-ago trend.
"It's nearly impossible to get much of a read on the jobs market when initial claims jump back and forth so violently, a trend that is likely to extend through the holidays and into early next year," Econoday noted. "Looking at the bigger picture, though, claims are probably improving and hinting at improvement in the jobs market."
But despite the fluctuating jobs market, the HW 30 concluded the day unchanged from the prior day.
Individual stocks created a mixed bag of results.
Other top indices also completed the day in the red, with the Nasdaq falling 0.14% and the Dow 0.66%.


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Continuing through February 13, 2022
Peter Halley, the neo-conceptualist artist-critic, presents eighteen paintings, executed over the last six years, in a new exhibition aptly titled “Cell Grids.” Halley first came to prominence in the early eighties with brightly colored geometric paintings that brought early 20th century abstraction into a dialog with postmodernism.
Specifically, Halley addressed in aesthetic terms the post-structuralism of Michel Foucault and his examination of historical discourses, from which he retrieved social and political notions related to the present day, that being the era of late capitalism, that described metaphorical conditions of confinement, restriction and surveillance. At the time Halley’s iconography included geometric cell forms from which a series of conduits in varying colors passed through the cells, sometimes connecting to others, or exiting the picture frame altogether. These cells read as prisons of confinement and, when applied to urban planning, served as an expanded critique of a totalizing system of domination.
In the new vein of work presented here, Halley has dispensed with the conduits and pathways that made the earlier work conform to figure/ground distinctions. He has decided to concentrate strictly on the cells themselves by painting single panels one color and then joining them together as single pieces composed of multiple parts, usually squares and rectangles in different sizes, that in turn come together to form large-scale versions of their component parts.
These grid-based abstractions are characterized by Halley’s usual materials, specifically Roll-a-Tex, a stand in for cheap stucco paint that formally adds texture. More importantly, the material is directly related to Halley’s critique of urban sprawl. Acrylic, either fluorescent or metallic, and in a range of colors, adds the final touch to these sometimes eye-popping paintings.
In this show the exhibition design is almost as important as the paintings themselves, serving as a key to interpret its entirety. In the large rectangular main gallery, eight paintings are arranged along its four walls. The rest are strategically mounted on five large cubes set inside the gallery space, at equidistant intervals around the room.
Upon entering, the color scheme in the first section is day-glo. Here we find bright and colorful paintings titled “Saw I”, “Saw II,” “Saw III,” “Saw IV,” and “Regression.” These are most likely references to colors deployed in his early work.
As we enter into a middle passage, Halley’s homage to the realm of monochromatic painting from the late fifties and sixties finds expression in blue, black, and red with “Bright,” “Correspondence III,” and “Correlation III.”
An exploration of an array of colors from color wheel theory comes into view as the maze-like passages continue. First, a preponderance of arrangements that include red, yellow, and blue reference the Neoplasticism of De Stijl practitioners Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, both of whom were early and consistent inspirations for Halley.
As the exhibition continues to the final paintings, a mixture of primary colors with varying shades of day-glo conflates all the colors that seem to be available to Halley in “Wrong Turn,” “Spell,” and “The Other Path.” In a way these titles refer to Halley’s intention for us to meander through the pathways, prescribed as they are by the walls of the gallery and the five large cubes arranged to create multiple and circuitous routes.
Taken together they reveal that the exhibition is really an installation intended to simulate one of Halley’s cell and conduit paintings in real space. Paintings mounted on the cubes become decoration for the cells, while all of the surrounding spaces traversed by visitors act as circuits in Halley’s continued elaboration of a quite personal version of neo-conceptualism. Here, the presence of human bodies is essential. They assure that conceptualism’s dictum remains intact: their interaction with the space completes the work of art itself.

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07 Oct Adaptability
Adaptability is the ability and motivation of a person to handle ambiguity, deal with uncertainty, and change to better fit to the changing environment [26,17]. Adaptability enables to take up multiple roles to perform in different tasks simultaneously (Dove & Willis, 1996). Such employees learn multiple competencies and they are flexible for multi-tasking in various teams.
- Sherehiy, W. Karwowski, J.K. Layer, A review of enterprise agility: Concepts, frameworks, and attributes, International journal of industrial ergonomics 37 (5) (2007) 445–460.

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AceShowbiz - David Beckham is reportedly planning to sell his own range of organic honey after taking up beekeeping during lockdown.
The former sportsman has updated fans on his hobby via his social media pages over the past months, sharing snaps of himself collecting honey from a hive in his garden and even getting his kids involved.
According to insiders, the dad-of-four is now hoping to turn his hobby into a business by launching honey under potential names "D Bee, Seven Honey and Goldenbees."
They told U.K. tabloid The Sun, "Beekeeping started as a fun hobby early in lockdown, but now David has become a bit obsessed. He finds it a total antidote to his mad London and Miami life."
"He can see the logic behind adding to his already impressive business portfolio with authentic, clean and natural brands, which is what people are after."
In photos shared online, David can be seen proudly holding up a hive frame alongside a caption reading, "progress," suggesting this wasn't the first time he had tended to the bees.
Another snap with friend Helen revealed they were on the lookout for the hive's queen bee while he also shared that he has built his own hives at the family's country pile.
"David decided to start building bee hives. Is that your new project darling," wife Victoria asked in a clip on her own page as her beau responded, "It is. You'll be very happy when we've got our own honey."


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Baby born on the side of motorway at 2am this morning 'doing fine'
A massive congrats to all involved.
A baby born on the side of the motorway in the early hours of this morning is said to be "doing fine."
North West Motorway Police in the UK discovered a car pulled over on the hard shoulder of the M60 at approximately 2am this morning.
On closer inspection, police realised that a woman was in the car and she had just given birth to a healthy baby boy.
An ambulance arrived soon afterwards, and the newborn is said to be "doing fine."
GMP patrol just come across a vehicle on hard shoulder on M60, upon closer inspection was greeted with a female just given birth, Ambulance now on scene, first reports are Mum and baby doing fine, #newbabyjoy pic.twitter.com/lcxvk9Ej8L
— North West Motorway Police (@NWmwaypolice) June 17, 2019
Motorway Police announced the newborn's arrival on Twitter early this morning.
"GMP patrol just come across a vehicle on hard shoulder on M60," they wrote.
"Upon closer inspection was greeted with a female just given birth, Ambulance now on scene, first reports are Mum and baby doing fine."
They later confirmed that the baby boy had been named Luke. "May the force be with them," they said.
This comes after a woman gave birth unexpectedly to a baby girl on an Irish Rail train travelling from Galway to Dublin.
A GP and two nurses who were travelling on the train delivered the surprise passenger at 5pm when the train stopped in Kildare.
Dr Alan Devine helped to bring the baby girl into the world with just a pair of plastic gloves from the train's catering trolley.
Irish Rail have said the girl will receive free travel on their services until she is 18 years old.


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With the Prologue ready for testing, I jumped in and did the first run through to see where the theoretical failed and the real game began.
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Infinity ITS 13 season ended this past weekend and with it, the Frozen Roads campaign came to a close. Over the last month or so, I’ve gotten in quite a few games to end out the season before the new season ITS 14 begins. I’ll run through the ups and downs I had at the end of all this with running Dahshat Company for a full season.
For our Relicblade in Colorado, we decided to just throw down a quick 75 point game instead of continuing with the campaign we can set up earlier through Tabletop Simulator. This meant I’d get to bring the magic of Grey Rock to bear on Sean’s Deep. We rolled for a random mission and got Temple Defense.
After my brutal defeat from the Dark Seas campaign, session 1, the Gnomes of Greyrock are back. Wounds have been properly licked and the meager influence D’Chro was able to wield was banked for future use. Teklin actually went down last session and broke his Quicksilver Bangle so I picked up another one for him. Keltin picked up the trait Decisive Attack and Grenben picked up the trait Forceful Blow. We were ready to begin.
Relicblade is coming up strong right now as we close out July. After a few games in person and on virtual, both Friend Mark and Friend Sean and I have decided to do a campaign (separately, I’ll be doing a campaign with each of them). Due to my limited models and lack of creativity, I’m starting both campaigns with the same load out.
Having repelled the Deep from their incursion on Greyrock, my gnomish band ventured out into worlds unknown. The Relicblade bug infected my Colorado comrades, causing Friends Sean and Colton to pick up bands of hapless adventurers as well. As they get their models up to snuff for their own engagements, I did an intro game for Sean virtually through the magic of Tabletop Simulator.
With my band all painted, local Friend Mark and I decided to throw down. I met Mark through all my Infinity league play. When I casually mentioned Relicblade, he said he had been eyeing that game as well and we both bought.
We are in block 3 of the escalation league for Infinity and we’ve graduated to the full game. All units are available without restriction. All rules and equipment options are available and all mission rules and objectives are in game. The only difference in games at this point are the points are capped at 250 to help people still build and paint up to this level.
A while back, friend Colton embarked on a new frontier: Blood & Plunder by Firelock Games. This mostly historical miniatures skirmish game was talked about a lot but being the only owner in the group, there was not a lot of initiative to get it together and push it on his fellow gamers. Flash forward to now and his minis are painted, his terrain is set, and friend Colton is spoiling for a fight.

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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions."
- Hamlet (Act IV Scene V) by William Shakespeare.
2016 was an excellent year for Red Admiral butterflies, which were up 70 per cent compared with 2015, but alas, they seemed to be one of the few species on this planet (including our own) that weren't depleted, diseased, or depressed. What a dreadful year. Where does one begin? So much has happened, but there's been so little time to come to terms with it. I decided to write this post just to get my head around some of the madness.
One of the hallmarks of 2016 was how fast-paced it was. The world was shocked on the 10th January when David Bowie died. Four days later, another great Alan Rickman followed suit and from there a steady procession of world famous figures and national treasures left us. Terry Wogan, Prince, Tony Warren, Victoria Wood, Caroline Aherne, Richard Adams, Leonard Cohen, A. A. Gill, George Michael, Jean Alexander, Pete Burns, Gene Wilder, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Daniels, Frank Kelly, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and more besides, these big names that were important to so many people.
Throughout all of this the numerous political shocks. Some small and inconsequential, I don't remember them now really; silly things - the battle of the Thames, for example, bizarre and random, or the rather surprising but yet not world changing Michael Heseltine incident (who can forget that BBC Headline "Heseltine: I did not kill my mother's Alsatian"). But then on 16th June the Labour MP Jo Cox was brutally murdered on the streets in her own constituency, her killer shouting far right slogans as he shot and stabbed her to death. That was one of the first and one of the most profound shocks of 2016. Following it a week later was of course the EU referendum result, itself very surprising, but the ensuing events perhaps more so. David Cameron, named in some polls as one of the worst post-war Prime Ministers, resigned and sparked a leadership contest for the Conservatives. George Osborne, a leading figure in Cameron's Britian, now sits on the backbenches as Theresa May takes on the role of Prime Minister. And that horrible moment when Britain waited for some clarity hearing Faisal Islam, political editor of Sky News, tell us that there was in fact "no plan". As this played out, the Leave campaign finally admitted it was lying when it claimed (on the side of a bus no less) that the NHS may not after all be getting the extra £350m a week. Nigel Farage, who had already resigned, unresigned, and resigned again was replaced by Diane James after one of her rivals Mike Hookem hospitalised Steven Woolfe, himself a contender in the second leadership contest after Dianne James resigned 18 days after being elected. Paul Nuttall, a climate change denier seeking to bring back the death penalty is now the leader. Mercifully the Green Party were more peaceful, electing Caroline Lucas (for a second term) and Jonathan Bartley as joint leaders. Jeremy Corbyn, whose leadership was also challenged, remains leader of the Labour Party though however much as I may like him, I doubt he will bring Labour back into power, potentially leaving us with at least another eight years of Tory rule.
Politics in the United Kingdom had reached a peak of divisive hatred. Certain Leave campaigners encouraged distrust and elements the campaign had some of the hallmarks of fascism with it's anti-intellectual immigrant blaming. Some agreed with that angle, joyously rejecting "experts" as they went, whereas some people voted Leave for fear of an imminent collapse of the European Union, an objection to the perceived disproportionate distribution of power, concern with globalisation, or the EU's apparent unwillingness to allow the UK to do certain things it wanted to do. Others, misguidedly I think (but at the same time understandably), voted as a protest against Cameron's government, austerity, and the London-centric politics that hurt the poor and ignored the North. Here a conversation could have been had, but it wasn't, we didn't talk, we shouted, but we cannot now say that all those who voted for Leave are racist bigots.
All of this was a farce, but I think it was well and truly put in perspective by the US Election. Donald Trump as we know won it, partly thanks (it is alleged) to a little help from Russia, if true well and truly undermines the image of the US as a democracy. I don't need go over the hateful things Trump has said this past year, his twitter rants, bizarre feuds (I'm thinking of the Vanity Fair feud but I'm sure Americans can think of better examples), the disgusting things he's said about women, non-whites, mocking disabled people... It is potentially catastrophic for both individuals and for nations, but we all know that, and it's all fresh in our minds, no need to go over it.
And here we are now. Regarding the media, the hard and extreme right are positively jubilant, their bigotry now legitimised, and some of the left, centre, and moderate right newspapers (I'm thinking particularly in the UK) have an air of really wishing to punish those who voted Leave or for Trump. After a very long period of articles warning how voting Remain or for Clinton would essentially signal the end of the world, the left and centre papers certainly have taken over with terrifying articles such as "Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it", "The 13 impossible crises that humanity now faces" and the Indy100's unhelpful "This map tells you how likely you are to die in World War Three", despite their criticisms of the right wing press' scare-mongering contributing to actions such as the murder of Jo Cox. Wading one's way through media bias has never been fun, let's face it, but another one of 2016's less welcome features was fake news. Just yesterday it was reported that Queen Elizabeth II had died and there was a 24 hour blackout. Being informed just became even more challenging than ever.
All of that and more. At no point was there a moment to stand back, catch one's breath, just a tiny gap to take a moment before feeling ready to deal with whatever was next. It was just hurled at us; as ever, it doesn't matter if we're ready or not, it just comes. Whatever the case, this is where we are and it's not enough to acknowledge that and do nothing more. They say this is the time for action, but that does not necessarily mean demonstrating outside the House of Commons or the House of Lords, or marching on Washington, joining sit-ins, or what have you. Those who go out and demonstrate, face the freezing cold or pouring rain, being kettled, being arrested, looking ahead and a line of galloping horses in order to promote the greater good are to be praised very highly indeed, but let us not forget who we dismiss as the "armchair activist". By signing a petition one can contribute to making a discussion in parliament actually happen. By sharing articles, one raises awareness. By donating money, or even just retweeting the donation page, one can make a small contribution. Those who can donate will if they know about it. Those who are able to join in in a demonstration in London will if they know about it.
Other action can be apparently smaller but also of great value. As they say, no act of kindness is ever wasted. It's not easy in a world so divided and so against each other; it sounds as though it is full of people whose ignorance and hate is, as I've said, legitimised by the likes of Trump and Farage, those such as the folk who proudly tweet with the hashtag #AllLivesMatter (who simultaneously get and miss the point of #BlackLivesMatter) or mistake the terminally offended with political correctness (which is, essentially, a way of saying people should be treated with respect) and throw the baby out with the bathwater. But kindness, awareness, finding common ground, discussing matters without shouting or meeting aggression with aggression could go a long way with some, but sadly I have to admit not all. Learning how to argue, debate, and put one's case will be exceptionally valuable in 2017, I think.
Solutions are what is needed now. Solutions make people feel less helpless and afraid, and less inclined to hide away shouting "I'm alright, Jack!". Solutions, in short, make it easier to carry on and be helpful to others, and identify some of our strengths and actually have a practical vision of how they may help those who may need it. Fake news, I've mentioned, is rampant, for example, so what do we do? As I've talked about it, here's a solution from the BBC in an article published just yesterday:
What you can do
So whether you read, repeat or repost news in 2017, here are things to ask yourself:
- Have I heard of the publisher before?
- Is this the source I think it is, or does it sound a bit like them?
- Can I point to where this happened on a map?
- Has this been reported anywhere else?
- Is there more than one piece of evidence for this claim?
- Could this be something else?
There's a similar article in the Indy100: The answer to the question everyone's wondering about Facebook. And other things: articles such as those telling of how bumblebees are down some 85% from 2015. It's not enough to know that, there are potential solutions: bee-friendly plants (that help butterflies too), making the bees little shelters (a fun project too, especially I dare say for those with children), feeding them when they're visibly ill (yes, that can be done), and above all else not flattening them out of fear that they will sting. Hedgehogs are also in dramatic decline but there are ways in which they can be helped. On a global scale, the refugee crisis is one of the worst human crises of our time, but there are ways to help: 5 practical ways you can help refugees trying to find safety in Europe from The Independent, Refugee crisis: what can you do to help? from The Guardian, and websites such as HelpRefugees.org.
The lessons learned, hopefully, from 2016 is on the importance of knowledge and awareness as well as the art of rhetoric (hence one of the reasons I'm looking forward to Aristotle). Another important lesson that is, at least, in the process of being learned is on how to not be overwhelmed by events. Finally, one of the best lessons of all in politics: no matter what the outcome of an election, one is still allowed to continue to make the argument, something Ian Hislop spoke on very eloquently:
Yes, 2016 has had some hard lessons. Who would have thought that Kylie 'the sibyl' Jenner would be the one to make an astute prediction at the start of the year? When words such as "post-truth", "alt-right", and "project fear" are in vogue we know things have gotten a little dark. What 2017 will bring I don't know, but I hope all of us can find a quiet space to deal with some of these absolute shockers we've suffered socially and even privately, and be able to move forward and up safely and with kindness, understanding, and empathy. What I hope to see on a grander scale is moderation in politics. Whether that will happen remains to be seen, but I don't ever want to lose hope. I nearly did in 2016, but not quite.
And so, again, I wish you all a happy new year - a happy, safe, calm, and kind new year.
And so, again, I wish you all a happy new year - a happy, safe, calm, and kind new year.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
a repaint of my first post on blogger.
this was the first sketch i've done
and now i've decided to do a repaint!
experimented with colors and texture
cos i've never really done something with a green tone before.
a blind samurai guy who has stolen mr akuma's beads!