Senior health executives of my vintage would tell you “this is not my first rodeo”! We have seen major outbreaks of highly infectious diseases for as long as I have been alive which is 75 years! Polio was alive and not well when I was a kid with iron lungs as the way to save lives of thousands of people. Then Jonas Salk invented a vaccine which we, as school kids, took without any choice. Our family knew only one thing: with the vaccine the likelihood of tragic illness was all but eliminated; avoiding it left us with a great chance of getting a dreaded disease. So Rotary Club and Bill Gates Foundation have now made strides in the near elimination of polio worldwide.
Then measles, chicken pox, and influenza. Now, at our age and for good reason, we are doing the Shingles Vaccine because it is such an awful disease; vaccine is not a guarantee but lowers the risk enough to make it worth the $400 we pay!
Hats off to New Brunswick and its leadership. During this dreadful time of pandemic, with the cooperation of most of the population, but not all, the numbers seem to be favorable relative to the rest of North America. Thankfully, while frail elders and residents of long term care are prime targets, there have not yet been serious issues. The thanks for that can be given not only to provincial leadership but also to the rapid response of Nursing Homes and Special Care Homes. And the fact that 4 political parties are pulling together is a model for North America!
Have there been problems of execution of procedures? Yes indeed. Have employees and administrators responded with determination? You bet they have. Listening to operators share their experiences thus far shows the determination, dedication to residents, focus on safety that families would want to see and hear.
Well over a month into the journey ....
Prominent Wesleyan Pastor John Symonds and his wife, Willo Ann, created a song that is making the rounds on Facebook expressing the spirit of the proper response of the public to this pandemic: “Cough if you want to, sneeze if you will but I came here to stay…………it’s a battlefield, brother, not a recreation room, it’s a fight and not a game…..cough if you want to, sneeze if you will but I came here to stay”, sung by the piano in their living room! This folksy little song expresses the spirit of what officials are trying to get us to understand as the key method of preventing the spread of this disease. Just stay home!
But it is not entirely that simple for sick people need to be cared for, essential services provided, policing to be done, groceries to be on the shelves and secured, electricity needs to be generated and distributed, elders in homes and care facilities need to be cared for, fed, clothed, bathed and entertained.
Premier Blaine Higgs and Dr. Jennifer Russell have been the calm, factual, steady face of the battle against this awful virus in New Brunswick and thankfully it has not gotten to the level that it could have at this stage were it not for rapid response.
The world continues to adjust to new and different times, many in shock, many experiencing the distress that always comes with such a crisis, many inflamed by what they hear or read either on social media or television or wherever is their source of information.
That the disease is dreadfully serious is well beyond question. It is taxing the energy of the wonderful health care professionals who provide care to those stricken with the virus. That health care facilities are distressed is beyond question, many having been at a point of crisis long before Covid-19!
Covid, and each of the viruses and infectious diseases that have preceded it, follows a familiar cycle: discovery in the country of origin, early management in that country, notification to the World Health Organization, alerts to other countries, and the international war on the disease commences. The war is always complicated because in the early days, little is known about the virus, how it behaves, how it is transmitted, what drugs and treatments are effective, if any, what the incubation periods are and much, much more that engaged thousands of brilliant people around the globe in research laboratories and regulatory centres.
Ken McGeorge, BS,DHA,CHE is a career health care executive based in Fredericton, NB, Canada.


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A few weeks ago we installed Datadog in our staging and production environments.
All in all, it was a smooth ride, with a few small hiccups that we resolved along the way. If you’re about to install Datadog and your environment is similar to ours (with Kubernetes, Python and these other goodies) you should find this post handy.
As a brief introduction, Rookout’s SaaS solution offers Dev/Ops teams some sleek and handy tools for rapid production debugging, including the ability to collect ad-hoc custom metrics and send them to Datadog.
When customer adoption started soaring and we were getting millions of messages per day from our clients, we figured that it's high time to take our SaaS performance and availability monitoring to the next level by adding Datadog to our own setup.
Datadog’s monitoring solution is renowned for its ease of use and friendly pricing. That makes it a perfect match for our needs as an early-stage startup. They offer 3 levels of monitoring capabilities:
All three levels are relevant to our business. Each requires a different degree of effort and tweaking to integrate with our existing orchestration tools.
Rookout’s web-facing production environment is based on the following components:
Helm provides useful functionality on top of Kubernetes:
At Rookout, our application is defined as a Helm chart and deployed multiple times to the same cluster (production, staging, etc.). We also use Helm to deploy infrastructure services such as Fluentd.
Datadog integration with GCP is pretty straightforward and is accomplished by adding a service account with the necessary permissions to your GCP account. Easy-to-follow instructions can be found here. In order to monitor additional elements of GCP (in our case GKE) simply install integrations from the Datadog integration page.
A quick explanation of the command:
Note! This super-convenient installation does not create a Datadog agent service on our Kubernetes cluster. Instead, it relies on exposing the host’s port.
This one takes a few steps, so be patient.
Start by adding the PyPi packages for the Datadog APM add Datadog SDK to your requirements.txt file. While the Datadog SDK is not strictly needed, we’ll put it to good use.
Load the Datadog APM and connect it to the Datadog agent. Connecting the Datadog APM to agent’s exposed port can be a bit tricky for our use case since we do not know the agent’s IP address or hostname.
Fortunately, Datadog solves this problem nicely in their more mature Datadog SDK with a simple, container-oriented configuration. While we can’t use the same configuration for the Datadog APM, we can reuse the same code:
The Datadog APM behaves inconsistently with environment variables. Some affect the APM only if they’re executed from command line. Quite often, they aren’t properly documented.
The DATADOG_ENV variable is one such is environment variable, so if we want it to take effect, we must set it manually (copied from here):
To add web framework support, update the patch_all command to the following:
Flying colors? Not quite yet. After setting this configuration (which works perfectly!) we encountered an underlying Tornado bug.
The tornado.web.FallbackHandler is the recommended way to use WSGI containers in Tornado applications. However, it did not properly call RequestHandler.on_finish, which the Datadog APM uses for tracing. As a quick workaround, we subclassed FallbackHandler:
And used it to call the WSGIContainer:
As a DevOps expert, you’ve probably had the sometimes dubious pleasure of installing products. So you know that it can get tricky at times -- in fact, so tricky that you might be tempted to stop the installation and just do without it.
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Pepper Soup - West African chicken pepper soup
Updated: Jan 30, 2021
An easy-to-make comfort food very popular in Western Africa, especially in Nigeria. This hot and spicy meat broth recipe is made with a special blend of aromatic African spices which can be obtained from African stores within your vicinity.
The soup that is usually eaten when the weather is chilly and is very effective home remedy for cold. It can be made with your choice type of meat, including all cuts of beef, chicken, lamb, fish, etc. Other ingredients for this spicy broth include nutmeg, cloves, negro pepper, habanero, chilli peppers, garlic, onions, bullion cubes; and garnished with basil or mint leaves.
It can be served warm and eaten as a full meal with some carbohydrates such as freshly baked bread or rice. If spicy isn't your thing, you can prepare the pepper soup with little or no chilli peppers.
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
3- 3 1/2 pound 1.3-1.5 kg chicken cut in pieces
1 medium onion sliced
4-5 garlic clove
2 tablespoon chopped ginger
1 Tablespoon paprika
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon Maggi or bouillon granules
2 green onion chopped whites and green parts
3-5 tablespoon parsley / basil
1-3 Scotch bonnet or habanera pepper
Salt and white pepper to taste
Place all the spices in the blender or food processor. Pulse until everything is puree
Add to the pot of chicken, add water about 7-8 cups of water.
Bring to a boil and simmer until chicken is tender.
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Ride the DevOps wave!
DevOps has been around for a while and it is undoubtedly the direction the IT industry will evolve.
After transition to DevOps, Developers and Operations Engineers utilize the same ideology, practices, tools and frameworks, and, most importantly, they think in the same way. Unfortunately, most of enterprise businesses still follow the “if it works, do not change it” paradigm and lag to adapt to the rapidly changing business landscape. Here is why every business should ride the DevOps wave, lest being washed over by it.
Software-defined networking (SDN) is the part of the theoretical background to DevOps, stating that all software and resources should be developed in a way that ensures integrity of the network, so network operations are no longer separate from data processing and warehousing. According to the Infoholic Research report, the data network market will have CAGR 37% till 2022 and will produce $12 billion net profit in the U.S. alone, with nearly a half of it being delivered by software and services. The Internet of Things (IoT) will generate huge volumes of data legacy on-prem infrastructure was never expected to deal with.
This means timely adoption of the software-centered approach to development and maintenance is essential for staying on par with the other market players or gaining a competitive edge. Cloud migration is an essential part of digital transformation, which is undoubtedly the most important requirement in the dawn of the IoT age. Moving the enterprise infrastructure to the cloud and adopting multi-cloud strategy helps DevOps build IoT-ready flexible and resilient infrastructure with multi-zone backuping, self-healing mechanisms and rapid provisioning of new features or bugfixes.
DevOps is the future of IoT and Big Data
The Internet of Things, where many devices will be interconnected, will generate overwhelming volumes of unstructured data. Depending on where IoT apps are leveraged, this data might actually be disposable at some moment. For example, the data of some consumer goods package movement is essential for logistics and is of no commercial use to the manufacturer once the goods are successfully delivered to a local grocery. The same goes for distributed sensors in the Industry 4.0 factories – when all the sensors sense the same data, they can all considered being a single data entrance point. It is the abnormalities and transiting signals that are important in this case.
This brings us to the need of deploying machine learning (ML) algorithms to benefit the business. ML helps detect such abnormalities and react to them, to either deal with the problem quickly or take advantage of the possibilities the emerging pattern provides. Harnessing the ML power can help with many tasks — from Amazon’s famous recommendation engine (“the users that bought this have also searched for”) to personalize the purchases and all the way to using data mining and ML for fraud detection.
The point is quite simple, after all. Following the old ways is not enough, as the business has to evolve and adapt in order to survive, just like any live being. Adopting the DevOps ideology can help overcome multiple challenges and ensure your company is ready to embrace the risks and possibilities of the Big Data and Internet of Things era.
Ride the DevOps wave or risk being washed over by it!
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Concerns have been rising in Zimbabwe about the predominance of the military in running the affairs of the country. Naturally, there is nothing wrong with former military officers taking the stage in politics or commerce, if they have the substance to do so, but there is clearly a move to saturate both the civil service and strategic, government-owned corporations with these strongmen. One would be forgiven for asking, ‘for what purpose?’ They would seem rather naive if they did. What we are seeing in Zimbabwe is the smart coup d’état, a gradual non-violent, but extremely intimidating infiltration of the military into power.
Coup d’état are not uniquely African, nor are they new. The earliest know coup d’état was in 509 BC when members of the Tarquin dynasty led by Lucius Brutus overthrew the King of Rome to establish the Roman Republic. It has been going on ever since. Africa has a recorded 114 coup d’état, the first being in Ethiopia in 1910 when Empress Taytu, regent of the incapacitated Emperor Menelik II was overthrown. Egypt will be remembered for one of the earlier coup d’état in Africa where, in 1952, Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Nasser overthrew King Farouk, later resulting in the Suez Crisis.
The predominance of coup d’état in Africa have mostly followed the colonial withdrawal with the winds of change that swept through most of Africa in the 1960s. Prolific in suffering putsches are Ethiopia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, each of which suffered six military or violent takeovers. This is nothing like Haiti, with its 26 coup d’état, which, reflecting on the current state and health of Haiti, should surely be a signal to those attempting to impose military power elsewhere. There are disturbing correlations between military rule and oppression, freedom denial, human rights abuse and poverty.
Some might suggest that Zimbabwe’s situation is a little more unique in accepting some form of military rule. Zimbabwe’s birth was through the barrel of a gun, following a vigorous liberation struggle. Guerrillas who served the revolution during the liberation era, over thirty years ago, were de facto party faithful, political soldiers or militia, and so it seems the current crop of generals remain. Did anyone expect a different outcome after a Maoist styled insurgency? The concept of the apolitical soldier, and in Zimbabwe’s case apolitical policeman, thus has just never been muted, so long as their loyal support was in favour of the single incumbent liberation party or regime.
Zimbabwe has moved on and things have changed, conceivably for the better, as its people strive for greater democracy and freedom, away from the autocracy and pseudo-democracy offered by the liberation party. A couple of opposition parties have evolved in the last thirty years, providing the prospect for democratic, party political choice by the people. The hegemony of power, theoretically, should not be retained by a narrow mind set hanging onto its liberation bona fides. This brooks no choice.
The liberation party, and supposed architect of Zimbabwean freedom, is the benefactor of the generals’ unwavering loyalty and support, albeit given the patronage which has swayed that process in the last ten years. These same generals will deny Zimbabweans any legitimate choice, by suggesting, openly as they have, that only a party with liberation credentials can rule Zimbabwe. They have intimated, shamelessly, that if they do not get their political way, they will take over, pfuti dzinorira (we will go to war). With whom?
This is crass political folly. The problem with this thinking is that there is only one surviving party with liberation credentials, the other party with such qualification having been crushed and forced into a unity arrangement during the mid 1980s. Eventually those who took part in the liberation war will die out, besides such liberators do not have a God given right to rule eternally. So where does this leave the people’s democratic rights and choice and is this not, potentially, a malicious denial of their freedom and a perversion of the liberation struggle? Zimbabweans should take heed and forthrightly reject these sinister overtones, before allowing their nation to descend into a reign of deep subjugation.
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The OME team is pleased to announce the release of Bio-Formats 5.5.2
Today we are releasing Bio-Formats 5.5.2 which includes the following changes:
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- Harvey Norman shareholders today delivered a first strike against the retail group.
- At the AGM in Sydney, they voted 50.63% against the company’s remuneration report.
- The Australian Shareholders Association had recommended the vote against the remuneration report.
Retail billionaire Gerry Harvey has suffered a first strike by shareholders against his Harvey Norman group.
At the AGM, shareholders voted 50.63% against the company’s remuneration report.
This means a first strike, a vote of more than 25% against. A second strike next year would mean an automatic spill of all board directors, including the chairman, Jerry Harvey.
The Australian Shareholders Association recommended the vote against the remuneration report on the lack of independent directors and investments including a dairy farm which collapsed earlier this year.
“This is a board stacked with members of the Harvey family, HVN executives and large HVN shareholders,” says the Australian Shareholders Association.
Earlier today Harvey Norman announced that Australian franchisee sales fell 1.3% between July 1 and November 23, a 0.2% drop on a comparable basis.
Wholly-owned company-operated stores, in Australia and overseas, reported sales of $2.88 billion, a 2.7% rise. Comparable store sales were up 3%.
Harvey Norman now joins several other major companies to be hit with a first strike this year.
In October, 62% of Telstra of shareholders voted against executive pay at the annual general meeting.
AMP’s remuneration report was rejected by 61.4% of shareholders in May this year, following revelations in the financial services royal commission.
Insurer QBE, which posted a full-year loss of $US1.25 billion ($1.6 billion), received a 45.57% vote against its remuneration report.
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That was a moment in your life, now gone forever.
Think of life as a road trip.
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How often have we focused on the end of the day or end of the week or maybe next year and let time slip away unnoticed? Sometimes we wish our lives away. Those are precious moments of your life that will never be again.
You must live in this moment, it's the only time you have to control. The past is fixed and the future uncertain – you have only the now to act in.
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Navan is our source of truth for booking Company trips. All teammate travel (i.e. flights, hotel, rental cars, trains) must be booked through this platform to be considered within your travel budgets. Any travel booked outside of Navan unfortunately will not be reimbursed.
All Company travel costs incurred in Navan will be added to a Sourcegraph invoice, and no credit card is needed. While it is possible to find a cheaper flight outside of Navan, we get overall better rates in the aggregate with the buying power of the whole company.
The Navan platform facilitates tracking budgets both for teammates on an individual level, and for managers on a team level. The platform also provides the locations of teammate Company travel throughout the world so we can monitor teammate safety and the changing conditions of Covid-19 through their tool Sherpa.
Below are steps to help you get set up with your Navan account.
- Follow the link in your onboarding email to create your Navan account and set a secure password.
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- Traveler Info (i.e. KTN, Seat/Other Preferences, Passport information)
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- Personal credit card (for personal bookings)
- Airline Credits
- Loyalty Program IDs (i.e. Hotel, Airline)
- Carbon Footprint of travels-to-date
- Calendar, Slack & Email sync
- Once you login, the Navan dashboard provides the option to start a booking directly. The possibilities are to book flights, hotels, trains, or rental cars.
- Input information for the flight you want to book. You can pick return as a combination or each leg of your flight separately.
- Select “continue to checkout” and fill out the reasons for booking.
- Once confirming all details are correct, you can select “complete booking.” If your trip is out of policy, you will have the ability to continue booking the trip and a “soft” approval email will be sent to your direct manager.
- You can add a hotel or car by clicking the boxes between the flight details and “complete booking” and go through the same steps.
We set up our bookings policy within Navan as a benchmark based on the market prices for selected destinations and travel dates. For any accomodation search, TripAction looks at all reasonable results and then calculates a Median Price, or fair price, for the search called the “Price to Beat.” For bookings under the “Price to Beat,” the Company provides rewards points (i.e. Amazon gift card) as shown within Navan.
If you receive an out-of-policy notification upon booking, an email will be sent to your direct manager for approval. We understand that there may be a time when there is no way around booking a flight or hotel that is out of our policy. Additionally, we understand that for some travel types, such as team travel, teammates may spend above the Navan platform policy, such as for a hotel room, as long as they are within the specified total budget (i.e. $4k per teammate). Please provide the out-of-policy detail to make approval easier and faster. After 24 hours without any manual action (approved/denied), the booking will automatically be accepted. All out-of-policy related questions can be sent to email@example.com and #expense-inquiries in Slack.
If you are planning a trip and would like to include a new teammate who has not yet been onboarded but will be onboarded by the trip date, we can support their inclusion through guest bookings. Keep in mind that teammates can only join trips after their start date.
We have designated Navan delegates for each department and onboarding, and as such, these teammates can assist with sending guest invitations. You will need to provide location and dates when requesting a guest invitation. Please reachout to firstname.lastname@example.org to ask for a guest invite in cases where the start date coincides with a trip or teammates won’t have enough time between start date and trip date to book everything with the following information:
- Teammate’s name
- Teammate’s start date
- Trip dates
- Trip destination
- Hotel (if you’ve already chosen one)
- Type of company sponsored travel
Managers will be the point of contact in these cases. Managers, please take some time to talk to the future new teammate about guidelines and what to expect. Indicate if this is an optional trip or not and be sure to point them towards these two handbook pages: Company sponsored travel and Navan.
Within Navan, teammates global 24/7 access to live travel agents (via chat, phone and email) that proactively monitor each step of the journey and can assist with any travel issues that arise.
In Navan, you can book personal travel. This benefit allows for teammates to have streamlined travel arrangements with business-preferred rates and 24/7 travel agent service. Note that when selecting this option, a personal credit card will be required at the time of booking. Personal trips cannot be added to the Sourcegraph invoice.
Navan provides easy access to up-to-date information critical to booking international business travel. Through a partnership with Sherpa, they have eliminated the guesswork that can surround international travel, particularly when booking amidst COVID-19.
Prior to booking, all travelers have the ability to review:
- International travel restrictions, such as temporary entry bans
- COVID-19 related quarantine and mask requirements, required health documents, and mandatory health screenings
- Visa requirements, with the option to apply for and purchase a Visa directly within Navan
Accessing this information:
- Go to the booking search homepage
- Click Check it out in the blue bar
- Note: This feature is currently only available on the web platform and not on mobile.

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Calories, fat, protein, and carbohydrate values for Pretzel Bun.
There are 158 calories in Pretzel Bun.
Total Fat 3.1 grams
Saturated Fat 1.6 grams
Cholesterol 22 milligrams
Sodium 4202 milligrams
Potassium 82 milligrams
Total Carbohydrates 27 grams
Dietary Fiber 1 grams
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What is a pretzel bun made of?
To make soft pretzel rolls, we use the exact same dough that we use to make soft pretzels. This simple dough comes together with incredibly basic ingredients like water, yeast, butter, brown sugar, salt, and flour.
What makes pretzel bread different?
Soft pretzels are just a yeast bread that is formed into a pretzel shape. The one big difference in pretzel making, as opposed to a regular bread, is that pretzels are boiled and then baked. It is the boiling that gives the outside of the pretzel its beautiful golden brown color and uniquely crisp and chewy texture.
What does a pretzel bun taste like?
These pretzel rolls taste are just like the real German pretzel deal—shiny, salty, perfectly burnished, and densely bread-y. They’re reminiscent of a soft pretzel but in a more versatile shape so you can smother with butter, stuff with your favorite sandwich fixings, or inhale straight off the baking sheet.
Are pretzel buns healthy?
Relatively rich in vitamins and minerals (2%/cal) – a good source of Iron. Contains a moderate amount of risky components that may include sodium and sugars (0.01%/oz). Good source of proteins (15% of DV/100g).
Are bagels and pretzels the same?
Real bagels are boiled in water and maybe a little bit of malt syrup, which penetrates the dough to give it a slight sweetness and color. Pretzels, in contrast, are boiled in an alkaline solution, which gives them their distinctive, slightly soapy flavor and deep brown hue.
How do you eat pretzel buns?
To serve, warm the pretzel buns in the oven. Split and spread one side with mustard.
Are pretzel buns better?
Your basic bun is hardly more flavorful than white bread and adds little or nothing to the flavor profile of the dish. A pretzel roll, however, adds a toasty, malty, earthy flavor that complements the savoriness of the meat.
What flavor is pretzel?
The typical pretzel has a pleasant cracker-like flavor, a crisp, brittle texture and a brown glossy surface color. Salt crystals are often sprinkled on its surface to make them taste more appealing.


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Music gadgets are musical instruments, electronic devices, or mechanical devices that are integrated with technology to produce sound, record it, amplify it, or manipulate it. They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and can be a great gift for those who love music.
With advances in technology, music gadgets can be portable through using a battery pack, enabling you to play or listen to your favorite song or piece of music from anywhere.
A music accessory is an attachment or a standalone device/item that enhances and compliments the use of a musical instrument or another device. For example, a portable speaker is an accessory for your computer or acoustic guitar, ensuring you can continue making or listening to music no matter where you are. Mobile apps connected to one of your instruments can also be considered to be music accessories.
An amp is a device used to increase signal power, current, or voltage. Once connected to your musical instrument, it will extend the audio signal throughout the room. Adjust the amp controls to uncover the best sound and check the reverb. You can connect it to your speakers and subwoofers to enhance their performance.
A synthesizer is a music gadget that generates a wide variety of sounds and changes audio signals. It’s primarily connected to a digital piano, but it can also connect to a Musical Instrument Digital Interface controller (MIDI controller). The MIDI device sends MIDI data to a computer software for analysis and use in projects like electronic music.
Audio production is primarily done at professional studios, but you can find a simple, affordable, integrated audio production studio solution for your home. An audio production studio enables producers to analyze, arrange, record, edit, mix, and master music. Some of the gadgets you might use include microphones, mixers, speakers, headphones, and related accessories, making it straightforward to set up a home studio for yourself at a low price.
A speaker is an output device that converts audio signals from an input device like a computer or radio into sound. Two-way speakers produce stereo sound using a tweeter and mid-range speaker, whereas three-way speakers include a subwoofer speaker to produce low-pitch or bass sound. Home surround systems use multiple speakers and a subwoofer to improve sound quality in the room.
Tech advances have produced better speakers, which can be great gifts for music lovers—from cable-based speakers, wireless speakers to portable Bluetooth-powered speakers. Smart speakers may come integrated with mobile apps, enabling you to manage your speaker remotely and adjust the volume or equalizer.
Smart guitars are guitars integrated with tech features, such as a touchscreen to select apps like tuners, recorders, loopers, and tempo settings. For those who want to learn how to play a guitar, smart guitars provide stored tutorials.
Smartphone music apps like those on your iOS device enable you to manage different music gadgets or check your recorded instrument-playing history.
Music-themed gifts are perfect for the music lover in your life. You’ll come across as thoughtful for buying them a gadget which compliments or enhances their music interests. If you feel unsure about which gadget is the right one for your giftee, you can give them gift cards so that they can purchase their preferred gadget.
While there are many music gadget options available for a guitarist or singer, simple choices like a Bluetooth speaker with excellent sound quality would be a fantastic gift idea. Noise-canceling wireless headphones with a long battery life would also be welcomed, so they can play and hear their guitar or write lyrics while listening to a tune without disturbing anyone.
Music gadgets are great gifts for children, as they enable them to express their creativity and emotions while developing their technological knowledge. A child who loves music will enhance their hand-eye coordination, improve their motor skills (when pressing the sensitive keys on a piano, for example), and boost their brain development.
Most of all, children will learn patience, goal setting, daily improvement, and perseverance through practicing their chosen instrument, all while having fun.


Short-term measurement of suspended particulate matter has been recently made possible since the release of laser-operating portable instruments. Data of a pilot study of field evaluation of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) with a portable instrument are reported. We analysed the concentrations of total suspended particle (TSP) and of the fine particles PM10, PM7, PM2.5 and PM1 released indoor from a single cigarette, and their levels inside smoking- and non-smoking-areas of a restaurant. The results indicate that ETS creates high level indoor particulate pollution, with concentrations of PM10 exceeding air quality standards. This kind of field evaluation could allow a more careful assessing of short-term exposure to ETS and its relevance to public health.
|Translated title of the contribution||Real-time measurement of indoor particulate matter originating from environmental tobacco smoke: a pilot study|
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|Journal||Epidemiologia e prevenzione|
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Occupy Wall Street Maui, GMO-Free Maui and the March On Maui group joined together Thursday to gather in front of Monsanto’s facility and GMO corn fields in protest of Monsanto Corporation using their islands as their own personal experimental laboratory.
According to the group’s Facebook call to action; “Monsanto is one of the most insidious examples of the 1%, the ruling global elite. They have polluted our soil and groundwater with Roundup and other pesticides, polluted our air with open field testing of their GMO corn crops, and polluted our government and education system with massive campaign contributions and funding of our schools and universities.”
The group stated, “We the people demand clean food, clean water, clean air, and a government untainted by corporate lobbyists and influence. We demand immediate labeling of all GMO products and a moratorium on open-air testing across all the islands!”
This protest is particularly important because according to Monsanto’s “Did You Know…” newsletter, Monsanto investment continues in their Maui farms. In April, a purchase and sale agreement was signed by Monsanto with A&B for existing Mokulele farms plus an additional 90 acres.
The purchase of Mokulele is the second land purchase on Maui (the Piilani farm was purchased in 2010). Once the purchase of the Mokulele farm is complete, irrigation infrastructure, fencing and windbreaks will be installed over the next couple of years to bring it into production. In addition to the Mokulele purchase, a $3.5 million capital project will be executed on the Piilani farm to bring the top portion of the farm into production.
The development will also include new irrigation infrastructure, upgrading existing fields by removing rock and improving the soil structure. A conservation plan is also to be installed to improve water flow and decrease erosion on the property.
This is not the first protest this year against Monsanto by activist on Maui and the groups vowed it will not be the last. Other activist on Oahu and the Big Island expressed solidarity on Face Book and vowed to organize protest against Monsanto on their islands.
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If ONE Crash or Accident can be avoided by just Turning OFF Bluetooth Devices at RC Events, then this is a Good Idea, and should be Enforced.
Why the 2.4 GHz band has Bluetooth, RC, portable phones, and broad band security cameras, I will never know. This seems to be a BIG MESS, and the RC people get the choice to live with it or go back to 72 MHz. I use a 16 channel Bluetooth Transmitter in the house a stereo receiver + BT Ear Bud + 2 wireless mice + a phone and a X10 4 camera security monitor, all on 2.4 Ghz. Thank God I do NOT Fly Planes in the House !!!!!!!! The house has a RF shield of screen mesh in the walls, old stucco backing 1″x1/2″ diamond, and aluminum siding on the back. Not much RF gets out or in ! TV and radio signals are poor in the house too. I have had problems with binding and control of 2.4 GHz RC equipment in the house, but never at the Flying Fields. My cell phone can transmit to a Bluetooth Ear Bud that transmits back to the phone on 2.402 GHz to 2.480 GHz up to 10 meters. I make sure this is turned off when I am at a RC field or RC event. The cell phone its self should not cause problems with any RC equipment, if the Bluetooth is off. My Frequency Scanner seems to show this to be true as well, in North America. Not all Countries have the same areas for channels on the Spektrum.


In 2003 I was honoured to be asked to shoot and create the first-ever officially commissioned 3D/holographic portrait of Her Majesty The Queen, and so became the first ever royal holographer.
The project was commissioned to commemorate the Island of Jersey’s 800-year allegiance to the English throne and conducted as a creative collaboration between myself and designer-artist Chris Levine. In order to shoot the parallax image sequences needed, I designed and built my own high-speed, high-resolution, translating camera system – the VIP (Video Images with Parallax) – especially for the shoot.
As the name suggests, the system utilised a video camera which, in 2003, was one of the highest resolution video cameras available. By today’s standards its resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 pixels seems poor. The portrait has subsequently become well known in 2D and 3D forms.
Last summer, while isolating at my home in France, I found myself looking through my archive of digital images from the 2003 and 2004 sittings, and unearthed a video sequence only one second long.
The video had remained unnoticed on my hard drive for more than 18 years, unseen by anybody. I recalled that I had shot it as a test to check the usual creative variables of focus, exposure, lighting and composition, as The Queen readied herself just prior to commencing the actual shoot.
At that precise moment, Angela Kelly LVO, The Queen’s personal assistant, senior dresser and close friend, had said something to The Queen which had amused her. The Queen smiled and I captured this special moment. Upon examining the 30 frames one by one, I discovered a single, magical frame which depicted this moment.
The portrait showed a wonderful and natural moment of joyfulness. For me, the twinkle in The Queen’s eye and her somewhat whimsical expression demonstrated the close bond of trust between Her Majesty and her long-term friend and dresser which continues to this day. It is an uplifting portrait, full of life and vitality, and a befitting tribute to The Queen and her friend on the occasion of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. The portrait was unveiled on 4 May at The Dorchester Collection, London.


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Coroner probes police chases
The deaths of four men in separate police pursuits are being investigated by the State Coroner after records showed the police officers involved broke pursuit speed guidelines.
State Coroner Alastair Hope is scrutinising the conduct of the officers involved in the chases, which resulted in the deaths of Darryl James Jones, 29, Matthew James Miller, 25, Jarrod Scott Higgins, 29, and Troy Matthew Herbert, 32, across the metropolitan area from October 2007 to December 2009.
Counsel assisting the Coroner Scott Schaudin said the inquest would examine a possible "old school practice" within WA Police of officers calling into their superiors at the command centre during a chase and reporting slower speeds than what they were reaching.
Mr Schaudin told the inquest under a police policy, officers could not exceed 140km/h in a pursuit unless they got special approval.
He said in Mr Herbert's case, the police tracking system showed officers reached speeds of up to 198km/h. The maximum speeds reached in the pursuits of Mr Higgins, Mr Jones and Mr Miller were 193km/h, 185km/h and 161km/h respectively.
Mr Schaudin said no permission was sought or given to exceed 140km/h in each of the four pursuits. The inquest was told none of the officers involved in the chases confessed to reaching speeds of more than 140km/h.
Det-Sgt Troy Douglas, who conducted internal affairs investigations into three of the pursuits, said yesterday evidence from the officers involved in the pursuits of Mr Miller and Mr Higgins was contradicted by the tracking data. He admitted he did not use the tracking information for Mr Jones' investigation, which fully exonerated the officers, though it was available. He said if he had used the information, it was possible disciplinary action would have been taken.
Mr Hope said he was concerned WA Police was sending mixed messages about road safety when it publicly chastised people for driving at "outrageous speeds" when speeds reached in the pursuits were probably faster.
Det-Sgt Douglas said he had not heard of officers "under calling" their speeds to the command centre during pursuits. He said officers were bound by the same road rules as the public unless under a priority direction.
Mr Jones led police on a pursuit in a stolen Holden Commodore through several suburbs, crashing just moments after officers reportedly aborted the pursuit in Forrestdale.
Mr Miller ran a red light to avoid a police traffic stop and crashed his Harley Davidson motorcycle in Hamilton Hill.
He died in hospital.
Outside court, Mr Jones' mother Noelene Jones said she blamed the police for her son's crash. "They are there to uphold the law, they're not above the law, I believe they should be treated the same way any other person would," she said.
The inquest continues.
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This guide will disassemble the fan to clean the fan blades.
Use a Philips #2 screwdriver to unscrew the four 6mm Phillips #0 back screws.
Pull the front and back cover apart.
Remove the Phillips (5-mm head) 6-mm screw that holds the circuit board to the outer shell of the fan.
Remove the top cover containing the circuit board and the wires by pulling it away from the body of the fan.
Remove the circuit board from the top cover. Do not touch the other side of the circuit board as you may damage circuit elements.
Follow steps 1-4 to remove the front, back, and top covers of the fan to reach the fan blades.
Use a cloth to clean off dust clogged in between the fan blades.


The Nigerian Army, yesterday, released the postings and appointments of some affected senior officers in a major shake-up that has swept through critical divisions and commands across the country.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa, in Abuja, yesterday.
The statement reads, “The posting, which was approved by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, was explained to be a routine/normal exercise intended to reinvigorate the system for greater professional effectiveness and efficiency.
“The major highlight of the posting included – the posting and appointment of Maj-Gen A.C.C. Agundu from Special Task Force (STF) Operation Safe Haven, Jos to Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), Abuja as Senior Research Fellow; Major General H.I. Bature from Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Defence Liaison Office, National Assembly, Abuja to Army Headquarters Department of Civil Military Affairs and appointed Chief of Civil-Military Affairs; Maj-Gen U.M. Mohammed from Nigerian Army Property Limited (NAPL) to the Office of the Chief of Army Staff and appointed Special Adviser, Nigerian Army University, Biu/Deputy Chairman Board of Trustees NAPL; while the erstwhile Special Adviser, Nigerian Army University, Biu, Maj-Gen C.C. Okonkwo is now redeployed to STF Operation Safe Haven, Jos and appointed Commander; Maj-Gen F. Yahaya from Headquarters 1 Division, Kaduna to Headquarters Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), Maiduguri and appointed Commander; while Maj-Gen O.G. Adeniyi is redeployed from Headquarters Theatre Command OPLD, Maiduguri to NARC as Senior Research Fellow; Maj-Gen S. Idris from Sector 2 OPLD Damaturu, Yobe State redeployed to DHQ Abuja and appointed Director, Liaison.
“Others affected include – Maj-Gen A.A. Adesope from Office of the Chief of Army Staff Directorate of Audit and Financial Management to NAPL and appointed Group Managing Director; Maj-Gen M.G. Ali from Headquarters Theatre Command OPLD Maiduguri to Headquarters 4 Special Forces Command, Doma, Nasarawa State as Commander; while the erstwhile Chief of Civil-Military Affairs AHQ, Abuja, Maj-Gen U.S. Mohammed has been redeployed to 1 Division, Kaduna, and appointed General Officer Commanding.
“Similarly, Brig-Gen H.I. Daniel from the defunct Army Special Forces Command, Maiduguri to Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, and appointed Director, Army Training Support; Brig-Gen B.E. Onyeuko is to remain in DHQ, Abuja as Acting Director, Defence Media Operation; Brig-Gen N.M. Jega from Training and Doctrine Command, Minna to Infantry Corps Centre, Jaji and appointed Chief of Staff; Brig-Gen L.A. Araba from Nigerian Army Welfare Limited by Guaranty, Abuja, now redeployed to Sector 2 OPLD, Damaturu, Yobe State as Ag Commander; Brig-Gen V.O. Ita from DHQ, Abuja to Headquarters 402 Special Forces Brigade, Azare and appointed Commander; while Brig-Gen J.A.L. Jimoh from Sector 3 Artillery Brigade OPLD, Monguno to Headquarters 31 Brigade Minna and appointed Commander; and Brig-Gen G.T.O. Ajetunmobi has been redeployed from 31 Brigade, Minna to Nigeria Army Welfare Limited by Guaranty, Abuja as Executive Director, Operation.
“Others are – Brig-Gen L.G. Lepdung from Headquarters Infantry Corps Centre, Jaji to DHQ, Abuja and appointed Deputy Director, Procurement (Logistics); Brig-Gen M.O. Ihanuwaze to remain in Office of the Chief of Army Staff Directorate of Audit and Financial Management as Acting Director; Brig-Gen E.C. Obi – Osang from the defunct Headquarters 707 Special Forces’ Brigade, Makurdi to Headquarters 401 Special Forces’ Brigade, Makurdi as Commander; while Brig-Gen G.M. Mutkut is redeployed from the defunct Nigerian Army Amphibious Command OPLD, Baga to Headquarters 403 Amphibious Brigade, Baga and appointed Commander; and Brig-Gen J.R. Lar from Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Kachia to Sector 3 Artillery Brigade OPLD, Monguno as Commander.
“Also, Colonel D.J. Abdullahi from the defunct Headquarters Nigerian Army Special Forces’ Command, Maiduguri to Headquarters 4 Special Forces’ Command, Doma, Nasarawa State and appointed Acting Chief of Staff; Colonel E.C. Emere from Nigerian Army Archives to Nigerian Military School, Zaria as Deputy Commandant; and Col M.O. Agi is to remain in Headquarters Nigerian Army Armour Corps, Bauchi as Acting Chief of Staff, among others.
“All the postings and appointments take effect from the 1st of April, 2020.
“While wishing all the officers well in their respective appointments, the Chief of Army Staff enjoined them to take their new responsibilities/appointments seriously and discharge all duties professionally with utmost loyalty to the nation and the service”, the statement added.
Reacting to the changes, yesterday, a former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, alleged ethnic motivation and victimisation in the shake-up.
Fani-Kayode, alleged that Maj-Gen Olusegun Adeniyi was redeployed for complaining about the condition of troops in the North-East.
It would be recalled that a video had a few days ago emerged of Adeniyi complaining about the welfare of troops fighting Boko Haram in the North-East.
But, Fani-Kayode alleged that the Major General was relieved of his duty after he made the video.
He wondered why Nigeria always rewarded her brightest and best with ingratitude, evil and humiliation.
The former minister described Adeniyi as a true and quintessential patriot, who was worthy of commendation.
Fani-Kayode wrote: “Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, the gallant and courageous commander who led our troops in Operation Lafiya Dole and who won the hearts and minds of millions of Nigerians when he appeared in a video that went viral two days ago complaining about the conditions that his troops were facing on the war front with Boko Haram and asking for better arms, equipment and welfare for them, was relieved of his appointment, yesterday.
“The GOC of the 1st Mechanised Division was directed to take over his position.
“What a pity and what a waste! Why does Nigeria always have to reward her brightest and best with ingratitude, evil and humiliation?
“I wish Major General Adeniyi well for the rest of his career in the military and I want him to know that we are proud of him, his commitment to the war against Boko Haram and the obvious care, love and compassion that he has for his troops. The man is a true and quintessential patriot.”
When contacted on the allegations by Fani-Kayode, the spokesperson of Nigerian Army, Sagir Musa, dismissed the claim as a figment of the imagination of its purveyor, saying that the action was a routine/normal exercise in compliance with global best practices in the military.
FG Needs To Restrategise On War Against Insecurity, Osinbajo Admits
The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, admitted that the nation needs to review its “conventional means” of dealing with security challenges.
He said the government needed to do more on “local intelligence” and community policing.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said Osinbajo spoke while answering questions from reporters on his arrival at Lafia, Nasarawa State, for a one-day official visit.
Akande made the transcript of the interview available in the statement titled, “Terrorist attack on farming community in Borno: We will do all it takes to secure Nigeria, Osinbajo says.”
Reacting specifically to the recent killing of more than 43 rice farmers in Borno State, Osinbajo said such an attack could not be prepared for through conventional means.
Akande quoted Osinbajo as saying that, “As the President said, this group of people acted insanely in such a dastardly manner, killing innocent people, people who had gone to their farms to work.
“I spoke to the Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum and the former governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, to express my condolence, but more importantly, to try and think through ways of dealing with this kind of random attacks.
“It’s important to understand also that we will probably need to keep reviewing the conventional means of dealing with some of these issues, these security challenges, especially the randomness.
“This is why the President has said that he is taking a serious look at how to deal with the issues, especially the randomness: some insane person go into a place and shoot people, that is not the sort of thing that you are prepared for conventionally.
“We have to do a lot more local intelligence and some of the community policing efforts we are planning on, so that information is supplied faster, especially at the local level and then a reaction will then be possible.
“It is a major tragedy; it’s a very unfortunate thing and our hearts are with the family of those who were killed in such a terrible manner.
“We are very confident and the Federal Government will continue to do what it needs to do especially in terms of trying to ensure security in the North-East and all over Nigeria.
“You’ve heard the President and what he has to say, especially some of the new ideas around security and the security architecture which we are trying to put in place. We will get there.”
Borno Killings: Fire Service Chiefs Now, Senate Tells Buhari …Reps Summon President
The Senate, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to sack service chiefs as a result of their failure to secure Nigerians.
The Senate decision, which is the third it would pass this year, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by the Boko Haram insurgents.
The Senate asked Buhari to replace the security chiefs with new ones “immediately”.
The red chamber also asked Buhari to restructure and remodel the nation’s security architecture.
Apart from that, the chamber demanded a probe into the allegations of corruption and financial leakage levelled against some top hierarchy of the military.
The Senate asked Buhari to aggressively negotiate with the nation’s neighbouring countries for multinational cooperation in order to strengthen the war against insurgency.
It directed the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, NEMA and NEDC to provide succour and psychological support for the families of the victims.
It also sought proper welfare for soldiers at the war front and proper resettlement and support for the families of the fallen soldiers.
It urged the federal and state governments to address issues fuelling insecurity.
It similarly called for massive recruitment into the military and the police force.
Similarly, the House of Representatives, yesterday, resolved to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to address members in plenary over the security crises across the country.
Before the decision, plenary at the House of Representatives had turned rowdy, as members were sharply divided over a motion seeking to invite Buhari to appear before the lawmakers to explain the rising spate of insecurity in the country.
The House was considering a motion moved by members from Borno State on the recent massacre of more than 43 rice farmers in the state by Boko Haram insurgents.
Part of the prayers was to invite Buhari to appear on the floor of the House and address the lawmakers in plenary.
Efforts by the Speaker, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila; Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; and Chairman, House Committee on Air Force, Shehu Koko, among others, to have the prayer dropped proved abortive.
Gbajabiamila’s plea that a state of emergency be adopted instead was also rebuffed.
The speaker was forced to ask that the lawmakers have an executive (closed-door) session.
Emerging from the closed-door session, Gbajabiamila asked one of the sponsors of the motion, Ahmad Jaha, to make an amendment to the motion.
Jaha prayed the House to invite the president as proposed in the original motion.
By: Nneka Amaechi-Nnadi, Abuja
5m Jostle For Recruitment Into NIS, Civil Defence
The Federal Government has announced that aptitude tests for recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) would be conducted on December 7 and 8, respectively.
Over two million Nigerians applied for vacancies in the two agencies under the Ministry of Interior.
In a statement issued yesterday by the Director of Press in the ministry, Alhaji Mohammed Manga, the exercise would be conducted in collaboration with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Manga said the conduct of the forthcoming Computer-Based Aptitude Test for recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) was aimed at ensuring transparency, equity and justice in the
He said the partnership would provide all eligible and qualified Nigerians who applied for various posts in the services equal opportunity to be employed in line with the present administration’s policy thrust of ensuring transparency in the conduct of government business.
It would be recalled that the Minister of Interior and Chairman, Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, recently assured Nigerians that the ministry would ensure transparency in the recruitment processes in to the services, Manga stated.
To this end, the ministry has concluded arrangements with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to conduct the aptitude test for eligible candidates into the Nigeria Immigration Service on the 7th of December, 2020, while that of the NSCDC is expected to hold 8th December, 2020, in the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, he added.
Manga said, “the ministry has also worked out modalities to enable qualified candidates access the notification for the aptitude tests for CBAT from 6pm on 1st December, 2020, through their e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
“Accordingly, all candidates who applied for NIS are expected to visit the website of the service at https://immigrationrecruitment.org.ng while those who applied for NSCDC and subsequently updated their educational records are to visit https://cdfipb.careers to print individual letters of invitation.”
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In works such as Glaeser (2011) and Porter (1995), prominent economists have suggested that metropolitan areas are the key to economic growth. In this article, we examine the economic development strategies and performance of the largest metropolitan areas in the five states of the Seventh Federal Reserve District—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The cities, from smallest to largest by metro population, are: Des Moines, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Chicago. Theory suggests that cities that promote industry agglomeration (clusters) should be best positioned for growth. Industry agglomeration promotes synergies, whereby firms can be more productive by sharing resources (specialized labor and inputs) and benefiting from knowledge spillovers. Economic development professionals frequently use the concept of industry clusters to measure the type of firm agglomeration that exists within a city or metropolitan area.
We examine industry structure and agglomeration along several dimensions. We begin by reporting the industry and employment concentrations of each city in 2012 and how they compare to the nation as a whole. This will give us a sense of the levels of industry specialization in each economy. Then, we describe each city’s “traded cluster” structure, which comprises its exporting industries, and the economic performance of these clusters over a period of 11 years ending in 2009 (the period for which Porter’s cluster data are available). Based on long-standing economic theory, the traded cluster is likely to be a city’s most important engine for economic success (Porter, 1998). These traded clusters often have smaller employment shares than nontraded, locally consumed business clusters, but they have a disproportionate impact on wealth generation for the metropolitan area.


Many custom motorcycles are built to be practical, usable everyday machines, built to feed people’s first for something different, something cool. But after a while all these bikes run the risk of looking the same, separated only by a paint scheme, indicator and tyre choice. The Triumph Twin is a good example of a motorcycle which, when being customised, follows a blueprint, a blueprint which has, and will be followed by countless bike builders the world over – a blueprint which even Triumph themselves clearly have a copy of, though, I would suggest some areas of their copy had coffee stains blotting out a few key details.
I think this virtual blueprint, certainly in it’s current form, needs a much needed update – but just how much can be changed, and will it still be the guide to building a practical Triumph Twin I just don’t know. I imagine it comes down to what really is ‘practical’ – but are dual-sport, vintage or fat tyres really practical for modern roads? – are mini turn signals, small head and tail-lights really practical at night? – ever ridden in the wet, or off-road with shorty mudguards?… practical?… really!. Maybe practical is the wrong word, maybe the words are ‘popular’… ‘trendy’…’hip!’This website wasn’t founded to just showcase practical and useable Triumph Twins, it was also created to inspire and showcase imaginative, exciting and crazy builds – builds which I hope will inspire others, builds which one day, just might be the next popular, trendy and hipthing, and perhaps the next blueprint.It was when I saw the Triumph Forty by Rustomthat I knew I was looking at something inspiring. Perhaps not to everyones taste – like fairings were not to everyones ‘taste‘, but for me this build is something to get excited about, as perhaps, its a build which could become the foundation to a new blueprint….Mattia and Roberto are the names behind Triumph Forty and Rustom, a custom motorcycle workshopbased in Lodi, 30 or so miles outside of Milan Italy. Mattia is no strangers to Triumph Twin’s, having been an official Triumph mechanic for ten years, before founding Rustom with friend Roberto, a carpenter with a long history of building custom motorcycles.It was after working on the Neverland, a custom Triumph Twin built with Lodi Triumph as parts of the official Triumph contest ‘So Special‘ that Mattia and Roberto got together over a beer, and decided to ‘follow their dream’ and open their own workshop.
“Now Rustom is a solid reality. Born in the middle of nature, in the city of Lodi, it’s a simple and small reality, vintage looking and friendly, like a family. Sometimes customers are coming to our workshop just for a beer or a coffee, reading a magazine and listening to some good rockabilly music while we are working. We are organising motorcycle trips and some small events, everything is made for passion, not for money. Of course it’s our job, but we don’t want to become rich with our workshop, we just appreciate that everyday we are living our dream, and with some small necessary money this is enough to reach happiness in human life.”
The Triumph Forty (named to celebrate the clients 40th Birthday) started life as a stock 2002 carb model, 790cc Triumph Bonneville, (bloody good place to start a Triumph Twin build). The frame went under some serious modifications, having any unwanted bracketry removed, including the rear peg, side cover and shock mounts. The frame was then cut & looped and fitted with a Rustom mono-shock swingarm setup, fitted with a YSS custom made shock absorber.Not that you could tell at first glance but this build uses the stock forks, which have been lowered 40mm with progressive spring with preload adjustment and fitted with custom made telescopic fork covers giving the bike a cool streamline finish.The Tank,which along with the seat cowl was made in house and feature Art Deco style detailing, which has been mirrored on the frame and fork covers, also houses the bikes LED instrument and warning lights, as well as a very practical touch screen navigation system and fingerprints recognition ignition. The seat cowl with integrated LED tail light, which follows the contours of the new frame was covered by Alessandro Starace of AS Design, who also made the matching handlebar grips.Grips which in-turn have fitted to a Rustom made board-tracker handlebar, attached to the bikes using LSL handlebar clamps. The bars also sport a set of Kustomtech brake and clutch controls, as well as a set of Motogadget switches, tied into a Motogadget M-unit and on to a Lithium battery which has been hidden under the seat cowl. At the front of the bike resides a Rustom made LED headlight and LED turn signals.Fitting the wrong wheels and tyres can make or ruin a bike, I mean, whats a scrambler on sports tyres! – not making that mistake ‘Forty‘ has been fitted with a set of 18″ custom built rims on stock hubs laced together with Inox spokes, the finished wheels have then been fitted with Cocker Diamond Tyres 4.00X18 and 4,50X18 with a tubless conversion from Bartubless, finishing the bike off a treat.Unlike many custom Triumph Twins, the Forty has received a whole lot of love in the engine & power department, including a drive belt kit from Freespirits “Bigger intake and exhaust engine ducts, Lower engine head, and a Higher compression ratio”… along with a Thruxton Cup engine tune. The engine has then been finished off with a set of Keihin FCR39 carburettor paired with a Rustom built exhaust with Biltwell micro silencers. Finishing the engine off are a set of Speed Merchant ribbed side covers, matching nicely with the tank, frame and fork detailing. With that added power comes the need for added braking, so at the front the stock blocks of wood have been replaced with a Brembro 340mm Big brake kit and custom brake lines.


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Long-standing Socialist Party member Mark Baker declared it to be "excellent", while Nick from the soon-to-be-formed Torbay branch left "feeling very fired up and fighting the good fight with so many solid people". Aaron from Plymouth summed up the mood best of all: "It may have pissed down all day, but it never dampened our spirits. Really inspired by the Socialist Party. Despite all the chaos in the world, I feel at home here and the future may well belong to us."
These were just a selection of texts and messages sent to me after our brilliantly successful Socialist Party South West conference on 6 February, where 70 party members from 20 different villages, towns and cities across the region met in Bristol to discuss global and British events under the title of World in Crisis. Seventeen others were forced to send apologies, many of them young members trapped in retail zero-hour jobs who dared not risk missing a shift for fear of being thrown on the stones.
General secretary Peter Taaffe provided the incisive introduction which drew appreciation measured not only by the stormy applause that followed but also by a magnificent collection which produced £1, 972 for the party's Fighting Fund. This was later made up to a nicely rounded two grand.
Workshops followed, on: selling the Socialist; work in trade unions; building more support among women; and developing our key youth and student interventions; and the day was rounded off with a session on 'Building the Party' which I introduced.
A new branch in Cornwall which the day before had defied Atlantic storms to stage our first sale of the Socialist in Falmouth since 1974 (selling nine copies and gaining five new potential members); big successes in Torbay around anti-cuts work; the beginning of new work in Wiltshire and Bournemouth; and the likelihood of a second branch in Gloucestershire during this year; were all causes for further celebration.
A party's success is not measured only by fine words spoken in a congress, but by the successful overcoming of political and organisational challenges thrown up in the class struggle. Nevertheless we heard many fine words and it is clear that the South West Socialist Party branches have proven their mettle in a period that has not always been the most favourable.
Moving ever westwards, who's going to bet against us building next on the Isles of Scilly!
This version of this article was first posted on the Socialist Party website on 8 February 2016 and may vary slightly from the version subsequently printed in The Socialist.


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The story in the book We The Animals is about a family, which is not traditionally wealthy, however, it has its good and bad days. The story is mostly told through the eyes and perceptions of the youngest son. Most of the problems of alienation are touched upon, including the national to the sexual orientational ones. The father and brothers of one of the sons named Jonah differ from him in terms of behavior and personal characteristics. He does not find a reflection of himself in them and does not understand what is right and what is not. Therefore, the book vividly traces the story of growing up of one of the brothers, Jonah, who is trying to understand the sexuality and the variety of masculinity he possesses.
The story is about boys who grow up in poor families. The mother of the family is white, while the father is Puerto Rican. Brothers in the family spit in each other’s faces in a fight; however, they care a lot about the youngest of them. Young characters have to face poverty, domestic violence and latent homosexuality. At the same time, in their childhood, there are many touching, tender moments, as well as scenes of parental love and affection.
When the three brothers were young, parental relationships were an unattainable ideal for them to strive for. Suddenly, the boys began to notice that their mother periodically disappeared. When the woman reappears, she is covered with bruises. Such strange disappearances will subsequently be explained. The father considers it appropriate to use physical force against the mother as an argument in a discussion during a quarrel. Parents have unhealthy relationships, which affects the life and perception of themselves and the world around them in children.
While his brothers have different characteristics, Jonah does develop homosexual tendencies. The development of denial of standard masculinity begins with Jonah watching boys with interest for a long time. Jonah hides his interests from others, as they are erotic in nature. In this way, the secret desires show how non-standard masculine characteristics begin to develop in the adolescence of one of the brothers at that time.
Throughout the story, Jonah’s desires have only continued to evolve. He had an experience of intimacy with the bus driver, which distinguishes him from gross masculinity (Torres 163). This shows the reader that Jonah is not interested in the underlying inclinations toward the opposite sex. At the same time, he is attracted by the muscularity of the opposite sex. Therefore, Jonah goes through a long and difficult journey of exploring himself and the world around him. Perhaps the rejection of such a concept in the family and the lack of support leads Jonah to a tendency towards an older man.
In the future, he has to hide it from his family. However, the mother shows a negative reaction upon learning of his inclinations. He assumes that his family is different and they will not accept similar interests with understanding, including his father, mother and brothers. At the same time, Jonah has his own story with his mother, which can be traced throughout the book. It is most likely that the only reason for her negative reaction is her shattered personal assumptions that her son is not hiding anything from her and they have a special bond.
For the mother of the family, Jonah is truly the only male person who is close to her understanding of the world. In this regard, she reacts to the news regarding the secret with a bright surge of emotion. With a high probability, she does not condemn his homosexual inclinations. As such, Jonah would not receive the initial support or advice he needed from his mother. She herself lacks knowledge and sexual education, although she tries to convey at least the most basic aspects to her sons.
Additionally, Jonah is forced to constantly compare himself to his brothers. They show more of the standard masculine qualities and their interests are different. This puts pressure on Jonah, as it seems to him that his life path is different from his brothers. Without receiving support and guidance from their parents, it is difficult for them to understand what is right. Further, Jonah begins to realize and accept the idea that he is different, and while the sexual preferences of his brothers are toward females, he is drawn to the representatives of the same sex.
Therefore, in many ways, the book talks about accepting oneself and exploring own desires, which are sometimes not the most usual. For Jonah, his desires were at odds with the standard inclinations of his family. What he knew and saw in the actions of his father and his brothers did not at all coincide with his personal preferences, which led to difficulties in understanding what this means and what desires actually awakened in him. Later, he still came to the realization that masculinity in men attracts him. This led to a kiss with a boy who was a neighbor, as the beginning of the development of Jahan’s sexual path.
For most people, the characteristics of male sexuality are associated with a preference for spending leisure time with a sexual connotation and building a family with representatives of the opposite sex. The differing characteristics stand out sharply and are noticeable among the total majority. It is not customary in society to talk about non-traditional orientations, and only in modern days, many years later, this topic begins to be more actively discussed and is not completely prohibited or unacceptable.
Men and women resolve conflict situations that arise in the family and home circle in different ways. Women in the family tend to show more tolerance and a desire for a compromise and reconciliation of interests. Men in this situation are more often more critical, conflicted and severe. Jahan follows his brothers on many adventures, but at the same time, there is a noticeable difference in his character and behavioral principles (Torres 46). With all other things being equal, the woman in their family is inferior or tends to concede to a man’s primacy and domination.
Jonah does not fully accept his masculinity, which affects his behavior and sexual orientation. At the same time, while he does not find some masculine features in himself, he is attracted to them in other men. This shows that Jonah lacks a direct denial of masculinity in the form of a dislike for certain characteristics. Instead, he simply does not find these qualities in himself since his inclinations and preferences differ from the average male. Despite the early realization of his homosexuality, the family’s rejection and lack of knowledge about it led to the fact that he is attracted to an adult. Apparently, it is difficult for him to enter into homosexual relationships.
Another conflict with masculinity occurs in the father of the family. The standard concept of the male sex is that the person is protective of his wife and other members of his family. At the same time, among such characteristics, there is also a dominance of men in comparison with women. However, in the case of the father of the family, this dominance is expressed in another form of the ability to physically offend his wife. Perhaps this pushed Jonah to denial since he subconsciously did not want to be like his father, realizing what was happening between his parents as a teenager. Because of this, Jonah grows up to be the most vulnerable, susceptible and denying certain masculine qualities among his brothers.
In conclusion, in the book, Jonah explores his homosexuality and rejects standard masculinity himself. It all starts with harmless thoughts and ends with the understanding that not everyone can understand his path and that homosexuality is not a general characteristic but an individual trait. Accordingly, he is only one of the few who possesses it and it is not easy for him to be like the majority. In this regard, in the beginning, Jonah completely hides his inclinations, and they are revealed only by chance later in the book. This shows that he was not ready to personally share this information at that stage of his acceptance, and the feeling of acceptance from the side of society, as his environment, while possessing homosexual inclinations.
Torres, Justin. We The Animals. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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