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A SAVAGE killer who inflicted an agonising death upon his victim, subjecting him to 164 separate injuries, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years.
Naeem Mustafa’s ‘barbaric’ attack upon Michael Brierley saw him issue fatal injuries with a range of weapons, kicks and punches – with a coroner commenting that the 46-year-old’s organs were found ‘relatively bloodless’ following the killer’s rampage.
Mr Brierley was pronounced dead in his Nelson bungalow on November 8 after his partner with whom he shared the house, Jeannie Wright, called the 999.
But by this stage Mustafa had fled – hurrying to his mother’s house to get changed before withdrawing cash to buy crack cocaine and visiting a Colne pub with friends.
However just hours later police tracked down Mustafa and arrested him on suspicion of murdering Mr Brierley and assaulting Ms Wright, with a jury finding him guilty on both counts at the end of a three-week long trial in May.
During the Preston Crown Court trial, jurors were told how Mustafa had exercised control over Mr Brierley and Ms Wright, using their home as a base for drug-taking, drinking with several different women.
Mustafa also ensured the payment of Mr Brierley’s benefits into his bank account – something which demonstrated the level of power he held over the vulnerable man.
Prosecutor Paul Reid QC outlined how during the early hours of the morning on the day of his death, Mustafa had repeatedly attacked Mr Brierley with a range of weapons – including part of a metal bed frame which he later tried to clean in a bid to get rid of the evidence.
Jailing him on Thursday morning (June 16) The Honourable Mr Justice Barry Cotter told Mustafa: “Michael Brierley suffered an agonising death at your hands, for no reason whatsoever. Your attack was as senseless as it was barbaric.”
He added: “As for mitigation, I take into account all that Mr Wright QC has said on your behalf, however I cannot see any mitigation.
“This was not a momentary loss of control, it
Speaking after the sentencing, Detective Chief Inspector Al Davies said: “Michael and his partner had been subjected to months of abuse at the hands of Naeem Mustafa.
“That abuse including intimidation, bullying, physical and financial abuse. In effect Mustafa had taken over the whole lives of Michael and his partner – this often referred to as cuckooing.
“The violence which was shown to Michael progressed over a significant number of months and culminated on the 8th of November with him being physical injuries and sustain 164 injuries. This was a brutal, savage and frenzied attack which resulted in unsurvivable injuries.”
He added: “What Michael went through I cannot even imagine. But today I feel and the family feel, that justice has been served.
“We feel the sentence today reflects the horrific nature of the offences and also the danger that Mustafa represents.”
Jodie Clough, who stood trial alongside Mustafa charged with assisting an offender, was acquitted.
Junior prosecution barrister in the case, Emma Kehoe said: “Naeem Mustafa is a violent bully who exercised control over Mr Brierley and his partner in their own home. He visited their home, often with strangers, taking it over as if it was his own. If they did not let him in he would threaten to break down the door. He took control of their money and had previously assaulted them both on a number of occasions.
“That fateful day last year his violence escalated to the point that he inflicted fatal injuries on Mr Brierley and when his partner tried to help, she was knocked to the floor resulting in a black eye and a bleed on the brain.
“In police interview, Mustafa claimed he was not a violent man, but we presented strong evidence to the jury, including CCTV, telephony and forensic evidence, and they agreed with the prosecution case and found Mustafa guilty of the offences he faced.
“Our thoughts are very much the family and friends of Mr Brierley who are mourning him. We hope that as Naeem Mustafa begins his prison sentence they will feel that justice has been served.”


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Modiin's Gabriella partners refuse to fund drilling
Adira Energy and Brownstone Energy accuse Modiin Energy of being in breach of the partnership agreement for the license.
Modiin Energy said that Adira notified it that it will not deposit its share of the letters of credit, and Brownstone notified it that it does not have to do so, because Modiin Energy is in violation of the partnership agreement in the license.
Modiin Energy said that it rejects Adira and Brownstone's claims that it is in breach of the agreement. The company says that Adira and Brownstone are in breach of the partnership agreement by not depositing their shares of the letters of credit ($5 million each).
Yesterday, Modiin Energy announced that Noble Corporation gave it 48 hours to deposit the $21.1 million balance of the letters of credit, or it would suspend drilling the well in the license.
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The big picture: 2018's stormiest clouds for the GOP
A source close to Republican leadership emails about the biggest political clouds hovering over the rest of the year:
"Only thing that matters now is a) how bad they get crushed on ACA premium increases; b) the final Mueller verdict; and c) how crazy Trump gets with the CR."
Between the lines: Republicans are worried about the potential for health insurance premiums to skyrocket in September, shortly before the midterms. Democrats are seizing on health care as their number one issue.
- Senior Democratic sources say their polling shows voters are now blaming their dissatisfaction with health care on the party that controls the House, Senate and White House rather than the party that implemented the Affordable Care Act.
- The final Mueller verdict speaks for itself: it would take a new revelation of the most explosive kind to persuade any Republican senators to vote to impeach Trump.
- And the CR — or continuing resolution — refers to the government spending bill that's due to expire at the end of September. The unanswerable question is whether Trump decides to shut down the federal government if Congress doesn't give him enough money to build his wall (spoiler: it won't).
- Sources close to Trump tell me they think he knows it'd be political suicide to shut down the government so close to an election, but given it's Trump, nobody is confident enough to rule it out.


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“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
And now the end is here
And so I face that final curtain
My friend I’ll make it clear
I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain
I’ve lived a life that’s full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way
— Frank Sinatra, My Way
At a holiday party not very far from Times Square, New York, a few of us found ourselves in conversation with a large man with a large ego. He was rattling off his successes in life, his conquests in love, his options for the future. He would be the one singing My Way and believing it all applied to him. And maybe it does.
I happen to love Sinatra’s song, My Way. We used to put it on the juke box at the Worthen in Lowell, Massachusetts late in the night (back when they had a juke box) and serenade each other in youthful optimism. We believed we were already living life our way and were poised to launch ourselves into life to do big My Way things. Life teaches you compromise and concession and sometimes knocks you down a peg or two. When things inevitably go awry, does this mean we aren’t living a full life?
To live a life that’s full means to steer purposefully towards the dreams that stir our soul while adjusting our course and the set of our sails as life reminds us that we don’t live in a controlled environment. Highs and lows and the occasional nasty storm are going to have their way with us, stall our progress, pull us well off course now and then, and generally take that My Way bravado and throw it out the window. But still we may persist.
The question to ask ourselves every day on our journey to live a life that’s full is, full of what? To be meaningful, our lives must be filled with purpose and progression, contribution and growth. We grow into a full life, not by traveling a straight line from here to there, but by navigating the hazards of living. Sometimes we choose wisely, and sometimes we find ourselves on the rocks. It is nothing to die, but surely it’s frightful not to live. The only viable choice is to patch ourselves up as best we can and keep going.
But going where? That which seemed so very important in one stage of life seems less so later. Conversely, things we once never considered seem more important now. Life is change and adaptation. If status and a list of conquests are especially important to one person, for another it might be achieving mastery of playing an instrument or in writing. It may simply mean being there for others from now until the end.
Sometimes, we have some say in the matter. Mostly, our lives are ours alone to live, yet we aren’t living solely for ourselves. Nobody said it would be easy, friend. But with reflection and purpose we might just find we live our days well enough that we can say with relative confidence and more than a little irony that we did indeed, despite it all, do it our way. That shouldn’t be frightening but, just maybe, a little thrilling.

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This item is currently listed for sale on Gun Broker (only). Listing number 940750878. The opening bid was $250 with no reserve, but is currently $430. The auction ends this week (Friday 8/5 morning I believe). Not taking offers here, except, I do have an identical kit that I may part with based...
Zastava M92 Kit (purchased circa 2005) including 100% complete NoDak Spud receiver (DC Industries, St Paul, MN) and original factory barrel. This kit is in immaculate condition and has never been assembled. It includes all original parts (pins, springs, rivets, etc). The kit is considered “in...
I'm trying to find the drop of a 122gr 7.62x39 out of a 10" barrel and where it starts to drop significantly (2-3" lower than POA) i found some calculations from a thread in 2009 but the guy who posted it hasn't been active since 2016. I'd like to be able to zero my pso at the distance that the...
Payment made via Paypal, Money Order, and/or have 2, NOS bakelite 74 mags to trade.
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Original Yugo M92 7.62x39 Krinkov Parts Kit and Nodak NDS-92 Serial-Matching Receiver
-This Yugo M92 parts kit was purchased brand new in 2005 from Rapid Fire.
2003 dated kit with the original pre-ban Yugo essentially new barrel. These guns
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I am selling my M92 PAP Zastava Pistol. The pistol is in very good condition with a low round count. I sighted it in at 50 yards and have kept it as a home defense tool. I the pistol is very accurate and makes for a great CQB weapon. The finish has minimal wear.
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My PAP M92PV pistol has the KAK 'super tube', ACE folding mech, and SB15 brace on it.. comes to just around 30".
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Anyone who has bought and installed the Manticore Renegade with integrated T1/Primary Arms base have pictures?
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So I zero'd my Zastava PAPM92PV pistol today with irons (set at 200 setting) at 100m and got decent groups..
Then I used the Primary Arms MD06 on the Stormwerkz rail setup..
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US made, beech wood Hungarian copy grips.
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Hello. I am looking to sell my M92. It has maybe 100 rounds through it. I have over 1000 rounds to go with the gun. Also 10 mags, 4 are metal, 6 are tapcos.
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I have a unused Yugo M70 B1 rear trunnion made by I believe turbothis. $40.
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On Sunday night, Kiwi singer Lorde performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, rocking the stage with songs from her upcoming album Melodrama, a performance that makes it pretty clear: the acclaimed singer is officially back.
According to Billboard, the set opened with “Green Light”, the lead single off the album. She later performed “Liability”, released on March 10 as Melodrama’s first promotional single, and debuted a new song called “Homemade Dynamite”. She also performed the new song “Sober”, which she introduced during a surprise gig she gave on Friday night, followed by what seemed to be an interlude and the title song.
The singer exposed her new sound at Coachella
Lorde’s new album, Melodrama, is due June 16, but we cannot wait any longer, especially after the preview the singer has given us with her new songs. For the album, which she has described as “the ups and downs of being a twentysomething”, she seems to have been inspired by many different sources, including Kanye West. During her Coachella performance, just before performing “Liability”, she gave a mind-blowing introduction to the song, sharing how its chord progression reminded her of West’s “Runaway”, and then she briefly sang the chorus.
Lorde’s short cover of Kanye West’s “Runaway” at Coachella pic.twitter.com/N9zcxMvXxT
— Lorde Daily (@LordeDaily) April 17, 2017
“Homemade Dynamite” appears to be one of her most deep-sound performances, with a pretty heavy beat, and clear intentions of “blowing sh*t up”. Apparently, she wrote the song about a year ago, since she asked fans to give the new song “the biggest f*cking birthday”.
On the other side, “Sober” is an upbeat song with some electronic features that may remind you of her classic Pure Heroin sound, with a chilling interlude that works perfectly as an introduction to what seemed to be “Melodrama”, the song that gives the title to the album, a violin-lead, slower tempo song.
During her performance, she also played iconic songs such as “Tennis Court”, “Buzzcut Season”, teenage hymn “Royals”, and a cover of her collaboration with electronic duo Disclosure, “Magnets”.
Coachella Weekend marks the return of the singer to the stage after three years of absence
Just two days before her headline performance at Coachella Festival, Lorde announced a surprise concert. During Friday evening, the singer shared on her Twitter account that she would be performing in southern California at Pappy & Harriet’s, a legendary venue in Pioneertown, CA, which offers capacity for less than 300 people.
The tickets were priced at $20 to celebrate her being 20 years old –yes, 20, what were you doing back then? The show was sold out immediately. The set included the “Sober” debut and the speculated “Melodrama”, among other songs of Melodrama such as “Green Light” and “Liability”.


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Yay! I won the bike on eBay!
It's a 531 Mixte style Raleigh. Looks to be running 27" wheels but I'm mainly interested in the frame and forks, so if they aren't straight or in good condition it's not a problem. Everything else is chrome on it so these bits and bobs won't look out of place. Cheers for the suggestions!
Plan is to keep it nice and vintage looking but to be able to go like stink
No pics until after Christmas though. It's a secret Christmas present and I'm building it incognito at a secret location
I'm so excited

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Battersea Bridge (Old Chelsea Bridge). Watercolour. Demolished 1881. The top-hatted figure walking across the bridge represents Whistler. 'Boats to let' sign on the waterfront and a depiction of Charles Greaves' workshop, the artist's father.
1861 AD - 1900 AD
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A nanofluidic device that allows the fabrication of nanoscale gas-liquid interfaces. Credit: Yan Xu, Osaka Prefecture University
A unique zone is formed when liquid meets gas. Molecules can change from one state of the gas to another in nature. They can combine in different ways to achieve desired or unfavorable ends. Gas-liquid interfaces are everywhere in engineering and nature. They can be used to escape heat from coffee or increase molecular concentrations within chemical solutions. However, there are not many tools that can precisely control these gas-liquid interfaces. This limits their potential applications.
Researchers at Osaka Prefecture University developed the first nanoscale gas-liquid interface. Their design and experimental results were published in Nano Letters on October 14.
Yan Xu, an associate professor of chemical engineering at Osaka Prefecture University's Graduate School of Engineering, stated that gas-liquid interfaces are important in many chemical and biological processes, regardless of whether they were engineered or natural. Although nanoscale gas-liquid interfaces can be randomly generated in porous membranes or carbon nanotubes, it is difficult to fabricate controllable nanoscale versions. Nanofluidic channels are too small for conventional surface control methods.
Xu stated that fluidic devices allow researchers to capture target molecules and study specific properties. They also enable force interactions through nanoscale channels with precisely controlled geometry.
The microfluidic devices have channels that are about 1,000 times larger than the ones in nanofluidics devices. However, the channel's surface can be modified to attract or reject certain molecules.
Credit: Osaka Prefecture University
Xu stated that although such surface modification is used frequently for microfluidic channel, its application for nanofluidic channels has almost never been explored.
Although microfluidic devices are made from many materials, they require a glass substrate. Xu says that glass's properties such as optical transparency and thermal stability, and mechanical robustness make it a good material for nanofluidics.
Glass can be made hydrophobic. This is a surface modification that stops molecules from bonding with the glass. Glass nanochannels were also created by the researchers. These are approximately the same width as 1/1,000 sheets of paper and contain hydrophilic gold nanopatterns that attract liquid molecules to the nanochannels. Researchers developed a technique called Nano-in-Nano integration that allows for the precise patterning and placement of smaller functional nanopatterns in tiny nanofluidic channels.
The nanofluidic device that was fabricated is slightly larger than a postal stamp, and not much thicker. In the middle, the nanochannels of different sizes, which are invisible to the eye, are sandwiched between two liquid introduction systems shaped like horseshoes.
The researchers tested the hydrophobic treatment by pushing water into the larger, one-dimensional (1D), nanochannels. The water that is not treated channels will move along the nanochannels with the same force as plants to distribute water from their roots to their leaves.
Credit: Osaka Prefecture University
"We observed that water flow stopped at entry of the 2D nanofluidic channel up to an external pressure 400kPa," Xu stated. This is roughly the force equivalent to the average water pressure at a home faucet. The researchers discovered that water could breach the nanofluidic channels at higher pressures.
After the test confirmed the channel's hydrophobic engineering, the researchers filled the channels with ethanol aqueous solution at elevated pressure. Next, they used air to extract liquid from the left channel. This created a gas-liquid interface. The interface was able to travel at zero pressure to the 2D nanochannel entries and stopped at the hydrophilic, gold nanopatterns. This held for more than an hour. The interface can be moved along the nanofluidic channels with external pressure.
Researchers confirmed the stability of the nanoscale liquid-gas interface. They also tested the ability of concentration molecules of interest within the nanoscale interface.
Researchers plan to develop more chip-based diagnostic and analytical devices that can detect, concentrate, and separate biological matter from very small samples.
"Nanoscale gas and liquid interfaces fabricated using hydrophilic and nanopatterned nanofluidic channel offers the possibility to precisely enrich target molecules at a well defined nanoscale space, revolutionarily affecting a variety of chemical and physical processes and applications in future," Xu stated.
More information: Hiroto Kawagishi et al, Fabrication of Nanoscale GasLiquid Interfaces in Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Nanopatterned Nanofluidic Channels, Nano Letters (2021). Journal information: Nano Letters Hiroto Kawagishi et al, Fabrication of Nanoscale GasLiquid Interfaces in Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Nanopatterned Nanofluidic Channels,(2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02871
Osaka Prefecture University provides this information


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Cars, Energy, Nuclear Diplomacy and the Law : A Reflective Memoir of Three Generations Hardback
This multigenerational memoir sketches the lives of three generations of the author's family that were involved with some of the most profound issues of the twentieth century. With a paternal grandfather present at the creation of General Motors Corporation, a maternal grandfather who was a natural gas pipeline pioneer, and a father who worked to constrain the nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia and to curtail proliferation of nuclear weapons.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 260 pages, 22 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 15/10/2012
- Category: Biography: general
- ISBN: 9781442220119

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Charles J. Brown is editor and publisher of Undiplomatic, a blog dedicated to covering the intersection of diplomacy, global issues, U.S. politics, and pop culture. In the past, Charlie served as President and CEO of Citizens for Global Solutions; Deputy Executive Director for Action at Amnesty International USA; Chief of Staff and Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and External Affairs in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the U.S. Department of State; and in a variety of roles at Freedom House. In 2004, Charlie served as co-director of the human rights, democracy, and development policy team for the Kerry-Edwards campaign and is currently an unpaid policy advisor on these issues to the Obama campaign. He is co-author of The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba (1991), and co-editor of Judges and Journalists in Transitional Democracies (1997).


The new season is well underway as Clubs and players strive to achieve whatever targets they set down at the outset. But what about the Senior Women’s National Team Programme?
The high of clinching second place in the Small Countries Qualification tournament in Malta back in June has long gone. The players enjoyed their summer break and the spectacle that was the London 2012 Olympic Games. Then, as soon as September began, it was back down to business with successive practice sessions on 2 and 9 September at The PEAK in Stirling. This excellent venue will continue to be our base throughout the 2012-2013 season and we are extremely grateful for the continued support of Active Stirling.
19 players, excluding those with contracts in Europe, were on the squad list for the start of the new campaign that will culminate in the Small Countries Final in Malta in June 2013. With the momentum generated by the success of qualification all was looking good as we faced up to the challenge of reaching the next level on the journey towards our 20:21 Vision. Or, at least we thought it did.
What was achieved by the Programme last season cannot be underestimated. The bar was raised considerably and, as a result, the expectations placed on the players were ramped up. We knew it would take time for things to be embedded and for the players to understand the way they would be required to function both on and off the court. At the 2012 Novotel Cup in Luxembourg we performed extremely poorly but it was a timely lesson that everyone, players and coaching staff alike, took on board. That was why we were successful in Malta!
The bar has most certainly been raised but the reality is that by achieving our goal in Malta we raised it even higher. The summer gave players time to reflect on what they had contributed to that success and what they would be required to give in the season ahead. The further up the ladder you climb the more work you need to do and the more attention you need to pay to the fine detail. That comes at a cost. The reality is that National Team players don’t live normal lives. They have to balance so many aspects that others won’t think twice about. Family, friends, partners, full-time and part-time work, University, club volleyball, social life and holidays, to name but a few, may have to take a back seat for a National Team player to achieve what they want to achieve. For some that is a really big ask.
So, at the start of September, a number of players made the difficult choice to withdraw from the Programme or decline the offer to join the squad. While this was disappointing it was understandable. It is much better that players are honest, especially with themselves, rather than to pretend they are fully committed. But the Programme has to move on.
While attendance at the initial sessions in September was very low the quality of work done was extremely high. It did take a few sessions before the players switched back fully into the SWNTP mindset but they are most definitely there now! One of the key areas of focus this year is to look at our physical preparation. Our third session of the season, held at the University of Stirling, was led by Neil Donald, Strength and Conditioning Coach with the sportscotland Institute of Sport. Neil set out the physical preparation programme which will be developed over the course of the season using on-line technology to monitor the players. In addition, we welcomed Susan Fotheringham back to the Programme as Physiotherapist and she and Neil will work closely together to ensure that the individual physical needs of each athlete are addressed.
October saw a short weekend Camp held at The PEAK where the focus moved away from individual work to re-establishing the systems of play that we will be working to develop further for the competitions that lie ahead. First up will be the 2013 Novotel Cup in Luxembourg from 4-6 January. Final selections for this event will be made after our next practice session on 18 November. Future plans include a possible Easter Camp in Paris playing against some local club teams and playing host to a Canadian University side in June as part of our build up to the SCD Final in Malta from 28-20 June.
There are some significant challenges ahead but in reality we have already had to deal with one that was completely unexpected. The players and coaching staff have pulled together and been successful in overcoming the reduction in numbers. Some new players have been invited along in order to gauge their potential as future National Team players. This is something that we will continue to do throughout this season and beyond as we look to build the squad that will push the bar even higher and take us closer to our 20:21 Vision.
As Head Coach I am always looking to make things better. But sometimes you need to reflect back on where you came from. The reality is that if we consider where we were at this time 12 months ago and look at where we are now then there is no comparison. Fact!
Details of Practice and Competition dates can be found in the National Team tab on the home page under SWNTP Programme. As always, there is an open invitation to all coaches to come along and observe any session.
Look out for future SWNTP updates in the weeks ahead!
Senior Women’s National Team Programme
8 November 2012


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It’s official: grey hair has well and truly shaken off the stigma long attached to it. Now a statement of confidence and intent, women of all ages are embracing a hair colour that for so many years was branded as a sign of “letting yourself go”, from the silver strands seen on celebs on the red carpet, to the ashy tones infiltrating the big screen and now Instagram.
That’s right. Championing the grey hair revolution like no other is Instagram account @grombre.
Described as a “global movement of women who are embracing natural, undyed hair,” the hero account is the brainchild of Martha Truslow Smith, a 27-year-old graphic designer who found her first grey hair at 14, and promptly got herself into hair dye.
At 24 years old, she realised that the stress of "falsifying an appearance" and covering her roots was chipping away at her self-esteem. She says it created "a miserable pattern [she] could see [herself] locking into, like so many women, for years to come."
And so, she created @grombre: both to give her encouragement on the hard days when she was growing out her hair, and to create a platform to celebrate the beauty of grey hair.
Not only have women across the globe taken to sharing their own silver locks, but within each caption, they’ve described their own journeys and experiences with embracing their grey hair in the real world.
One woman shared her silver story of finding her first grey hair at age 11 and dying her hair for nearly a decade. “I was lacking the confidence to expose my true colours until I turned 30 – just over a year ago and I wish I had ditched my dye earlier,” she said. “I feel liberated for not having to hide my silver waves (plus tons of money and time saved) which I adore and make me look unique.”
“What started off as a small Instagram community has turned into a lifestyle for women— Grombre is about so much more than hair,” Smith says. “We believe there are more important things in life than the beauty standards that women are so often told define our value, and we’re finding liberation and empowerment to live fully and celebrate the complexities that make us beautiful in each season of our lives.” Hear, hear!
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Many studies show that carsharing reduces transportation costs for a large segment of the population. Carsharing also reduces the number of private vehicles on the road because carshare members do not purchase their own cars. However, the traditional carsharing business model is difficult to scale geographically to neighborhoods with lower population densities because the operator must bear the upfront fixed cost of purchasing or leasing the vehicles in the fleet. In contrast to traditional carsharing, peer-to-peer (P2P) carsharing allows car owners to convert their personal vehicles into shared cars that can be rented to other drivers on a short-term basis. This model helps to improve the situation in which most privately owned vehicles sit idle more than 90% of the day. P2P carsharing alleviates upfront costs and thus is more economically consistent with lower-density neighborhoods than is traditional carsharing. As a result, P2P carsharing provides greater potential for car accessibility than traditional carsharing does. Several new service companies are dedicated to P2P carsharing. A methodology was developed to assess the market feasibility of P2P carsharing. The methodology was applied to develop a case study of P2P carsharing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The market for P2P carsharing was found to be economically viable. However, uncertain and fragmented public policy and car insurance regimes threatened the growth and investment in P2P carsharing.
The paper explores the feasibility of a scalable form of carsharing, called peer-to-peer (P2P) carsharing. P2P carsharing allows car owners to convert their personal vehicles into share cars that can be rented to other drivers on a short-term basis. As of 2007, more than 237 million private vehicles were owned and operated in the United States. This business model helps to alleviate the situation in which most privately owned vehicles sit idle over 90% of the day. The utilization requirements are greatly reduced, and much of the risk of geographic expansion is removed with P2P carsharing.
Given the increasing costs of private car ownership and the increasing worldwide focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions attributable to transportation, development of both supply-side and demand-side innovations are required. One such demand-side innovation is mainstream adoption of carsharing. An established stream of literature has documented the many benefits of carsharing to individuals and the planet. However, current business models of traditional carsharing providers hinder their scalability to areas with less dense populations.
P2P carsharing aims to provide a scalable form of carsharing, with the potential to address both the high costs of private vehicle ownership and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The paper develops a methodology to assess the feasibility of P2P carsharing in a given area and the economic incentives to market participants.
Please note: this article represents a summary of the paper written by Robert C. Hampshire and Craig Gaites, and published on Transportation Research Record. Read the full paper at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281590386_Peer-to-peer_carsharing_Market_analysis_and_potential_growth


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New SBEM 2010 is launched
A new enhanced version of the software tool SBEM has just been unveiled by BRE. The tool which calculates the energy usage and carbon emissions for all non-domestic buildings will enable designers, developers and suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the revised Part L of the Building Regulations which takes effect this October across England and Wales.
Now in its fourth version, the revised SBEM implements a number of technical enhancements to the calculation procedures, but also generates the target emission rate according to the new 2010 methodology.
The new tool and associated documentation, which is produced by BRE on behalf of Communities and Local Government (CLG), is available to download now from: www.2010ncm.bre.co.uk.


This two-day hands-on training course provides advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating VMware vRealize® Operations™ 8.X. This course explains the design and creation of advanced dashboards, capacity concepts, and the REST API with real-world use cases.
vRealize Operations 8.6
This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.


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Ergonomic design, comfortable to wear, not easy to fall off.
The product has a weight of 6g and uses lightweight aluminum alloy + environmentally friendly ABS material.
Bluetooth 4.1, support for voice calls and music playback.
High-quality microphone design can effectively reduce environmental noise.
Duration: 2 hours, Standby: About 80 hours, Charging: About 2 hours.
– Bluetooth version: V4.1
– Tranmission distance: 10m
– Output sensitivity: 100dB
– Microphone sensitivity: 44dB
– Battery capacity: about 55mAh
– Playing time: 2Hours
– Standby time: about 80Hours
– Charging time: about 2Hours
– Product net weight: 6g
– Color: Black, Red, Green, Grey, Blue
– 1 PIECES ONLY (NOT A PAIR)
1 x Remax RB-T17 Wireless Bluetooth Earphone
1 x User Manual
1 x Charging Cable

domain: design


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THURSDAY MAY 14
10 PM - $36
Solomiia Melnyk : voix, violoncelle, claviers, batterie
Ruslana Khazipova : voix, batterie, contrebasse
Tetiana Havrylyuk : voix, claviers, contrebasse, batterie, flûte
Nataliya Charpe : voix, violon
Ganna Nikitina : voix, guitare acoustique
Mariia Volkova : éclairage, vidéo
Svyatoslav Rybak : sonorisation
With time, FIMAV developed a special talent for finding provocative artists who cross over geographical and musical barriers, yet whose music remains accessible to all.
The all-female group DAKH DAUGHTERS was formed in 2012 by actresses working for the Dakh Theatre in Kyiv, Ukraine. These singers-musicians-stage performers, all lavishly costumed and face-painted, present a colourful show that they fittingly describe as a “freak cabaret.” Their music combines several genres, from traditional Ukrainian music to jazz and “Belle Époque” French chanson, in an approach that can only be described as Musique Actuelle. Their lyrics often come from poets, and are sung in Ukrainian, English and French, among other languages.
The group has released two critically acclaimed albums (If in 2016, Air in the spring of 2019) and performed around the world in all kinds of events related to theatre, world music, and experimental music.
If what you want is a concert that blends stage performance, beauty, boldness, originality and perfection, look no further!