When Bob Iger once again stepped into the role of Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company, the excitement was palpable. Bob Chapek had been incredibly unpopular throughout his less than three years as CEO, so many were happy to see him gone. Iger took over as CEO on the evening of November 20 and hasn’t had too much time to settle back in — especially with the Thanksgiving holiday happening just days after he came back.
But now that he is back, people are asking questions, and Iger was hoping to answer some of them at the Town Hall-style meeting he held on November 28.
One of the most controversial decisions made by Chapek in his short time as CEO was to institute a reservation system at the Parks. Before, Guests could purchase their tickets and go to whatever Park at Disneyland or Disney World they wanted. Then COVID hit and things had to change.
When the theme parks reopened, there were strict attendance caps, so the Park Pass reservation system was brought in. However, as COVID measures were dropped and crowds increased, the reservation system became increasingly unpopular. However, Chapek continuously defended it, claiming that it guaranteed that everyone who came to Disney had a magical experience (which is highly debatable).
When Iger returned, Disney fans immediately started thinking of all the positive changes the Disney CEO could make — including getting rid of the reservation system. However, when he was asked about it at the Town Hall, he gave an answer that may not thrill a lot of people. While he admitted that a lot of bad things had been written about the reservation system, he wasn’t going to just get rid of it.
I have not used the reservation system. I’ve heard about it. A lot has been said and written about it. Some good. I want to hear more from Josh D’Amaro about it and use it before I make any decisions.
Josh D’Amaro is the Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products — the person who has his finger on the pulse of Disney Parks, so he should know what Guests love and what Guests hate. This includes the and the restrictions. Currently, Guests can not , , , and EPCOT until 2 p.m. every day. At , between Disneyland and begins at 1 p.m. daily. Hop around
Chapek made a lot of unpopular decisions during his tenure, and Josh D’Amaro was right by his side. If Iger wants Guests to know that he is determined to move Disney in a positive direction, teaming up with D’Amaro to really listen to what Guests love, hate, want, and don’t want, will be key.
Rumors have been swirling that Chapek was planning on ending the reservation system this winter, but was fired before he had the chance to do so. Neither Iger nor Chapek addressed those rumors.


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France | Steven Clerima to be Head of Delegation for Choir of the Year
Steven Clerima, the current Head of Delegation for France in Eurovision and Junior Eurovision, has revealed to French television programme, Tele Loisirs, that he will be the Head of Delegation for Eurovision Choir of The Year. Steven confirmed, in his interview, his role in Eurovision Choir of The Year, but said that at present, he cannot reveal anything about France's participation in the contest.
At present, it is unknown how France will go about selecting their act for the contest, but it is rumoured that the television show "Le Grand Concours des Chorales", broadcast on France 3, could be used as their selection method.
The Eurovision Choir of The Year 2019 will take place in Scotland on August 3rd. A total of 10 countries have confirmed their participation in the contest. France, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland will all be making their debut alongside Belgium, Germany, Latvia, Slovenia and Wales.

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Qantas’ New Caledonia, Philippines slots renewed
The International Air Services Commission (IASC) has advised that Qantas has received renewal of its Australia-New Caledonia slots, and Australia-Philippines slots.
Late last week, the commission issued its determination, allocating 788 seats per week in each direction of passenger capacity for Qantas’ New Caledonia route.
Moreover, the commission likewise issued its determination for Qantas’ Philippines route, allocating 1,927 seats per week in each direction of passenger capacity.
Both slots are valid for five years from 9 May 2021.
Air Vanuatu CEO Derek Nice to depart
Air Vanuatu has revealed its current chief executive, Derek Nice, will not renew his contract when it expires on 25 June.
In a company statement, Nice said his decision to depart would allow “the new board of directors the freedom to implement the new directives mandated by the shareholders in the Vanuatu government to make the changes they believe are needed to ensure our recovery”.
Nice’s departure marks the return of former CEO Joseph Laloyer, who will take over as acting CEO while the board finalises the recruitment of a new chief executive officer.
Laloyer previously worked with the airline for more than 30 years, last serving as CEO in 2018.
Meanwhile, the national carrier has also commenced a third weekly Boeing 737 service between Port-Vila and Santo.
Air New Zealand provides FY20 earnings guidance
Air New Zealand has provided the New Zealand Exchange with an update on its earnings expectations for the 2020 financial year.
As the company nears the end of its financial year on 30 June 2020, it is expecting to report an underlying loss before other significant items and taxation of up to $120 million for the 2020 financial year.
Air New Zealand said this underlying earnings guidance excludes the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency rates for the month of June, as well as any fuel price changes for the remainder of the period, which are not expected to be material given the reduced level of flying.
In addition to the $120 million underlying loss, a number of other significant items will impact the 2020 financial results, which can be viewed here.
Sydney Airport passenger traffic down 97 per cent in May
Sydney Airport has revealed to the Australian Securities Exchange that passenger traffic in May 2020 was 92,000 passengers – down 97.4 per cent on the prior corresponding period.
Moreover, 29,000 international passengers passed through Sydney Airport in May, down 97.7 per cent on the prior corresponding period. Domestic passengers totalled 62,000 for the month – down 97.2 per cent on the prior corresponding period.
Sydney Airport advised it expects the downturn in passenger traffic to persist until government travel restrictions are eased, with the federal Minister for Tourism last week warning it was “likely” that Australia’s international borders will remain closed into 2021.
Federal government unveils ‘Domestic Passenger Journey Protocol’
The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications has provided details of a new set of protocols developed by and for the Australian aviation industry.
Targeting COVID-safe domestic flying, the Domestic Passenger Journey Protocol has been developed to provide “clear and consistent guidance regarding risk-minimisation principles and processes in domestic airports and on aircraft for domestic passenger travel”.
You can check what to expect in full here.
Avalon Airport upgrades domestic terminal security systems
Domestic travellers can move swiftly and safely in and out of Avalon Airport with minimal contact with other passengers, thanks to new security upgrades at the Victorian airport and the installation of state-of-the-art touchless technology.
The airport, which is 50 minutes from Melbourne CBD, claims to be one of the first in Australia to transition its security systems to 100 per cent Computed Tomography technology, with the installation of a new Rapiscan CT scanner, body scanner and checked baggage screening (CBS) machine for greater efficiency within the airport’s domestic terminal.
In just moments, the new zero-contact millimetre-wave security body scanners automatically detect potentially dangerous items carried on the body or in clothing, while the CBS machine and the CT scanner create three-dimensional images of a passenger’s baggage, providing security personnel with a clearer view of the contents.
For passengers, the relief will be in finally being able to leave their laptops in their bags.
Emirates lands first passenger flight in Perth since March
On 17 June, Emirates landed at Perth Airport, providing the airline’s the first passenger service into the city since the UAE federal government’s restrictions on passenger services in March.
Emirates flight EK420 departed Dubai at 3am, arriving in Perth at 5:50pm (local time). From 18 June, the outbound service EK421 will depart Perth at 10:20pm, arriving in Dubai at 5:20am the following day.
Travel restrictions remain in place in most countries and customers are reminded to check entry and exit requirements before their journeys.
In addition, Emirates has implemented a set of measures to ensure the safety of its customers and employees on the ground and in the air, including the distribution of complimentary hygiene kits containing masks, gloves, hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes.
Emirates has also had services flying into both Sydney and Melbourne since 21 May.
Fiji Airways announces it’s ‘Travel Ready’ as Fiji eyes Pacific travel bubble
Fiji Airways, Fiji’s national airline, has today outlined its plan to return to flying once border restrictions ease and the demand for travel returns.
The ‘Travel Ready’ program details the airline’s commitment to safeguarding the health and safety of its customers and staff.
This includes the creation of a new onboard role of medically qualified ‘Customer Wellness Champions’, which will manage and maintain wellbeing, customer medical safety and promote wellness through service interactions to passengers and crew onboard and on the ground for every flight on the Fiji Airways international network.
For more information, click here.
Etihad Airways to recommence flights to Athens
On Wednesday, Etihad Airways will recommence flights from Abu Dhabi to Athens, following the news that Greece has reopened to tourists.
The twice-weekly schedule will be operated on Wednesdays and Saturdays using a two-class Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, and will connect guests travelling to and from Athens with key destinations in Asia and Australia through Abu Dhabi.
Destinations connecting to Athens include Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Seoul, Karachi and Lahore.
The addition of Athens increases the total number of international flights being flown by Etihad throughout June to 25 destinations, with plans to significantly increase the number of scheduled flights around the world, as international travel restrictions are lifted.
In other news, Etihad has revealed it has partnered with Austrian-based healthcare technology company Medicus AI to launch a COVID-19 risk assessment tool that aims to empower guests to make informed decisions about travelling.
Powered by Medicus AI’s technology, the risk-assessment tool will guide Etihad’s guests in evaluating the probability of having contracted COVID-19 by responding to a set of 22 questions.
The self-administered assessment, which takes less than five minutes to complete, is based on World Health Organisation guidelines that are updated daily.
Singapore Airlines approved to operate two-way transit lanes between select countries
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has confirmed a limited number of two-way transit channels will begin operation from Tuesday, allowing SIA and SilkAir customers to book return journeys between approved destinations.
A total of 14 cities across six countries and territories are on the approved list, including the previously announced Australian cities of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, as well as New Zealand cities, Auckland and Christchurch.
Meanwhile, SIA added Wellcamp Airport in Toowoomba to its list of COVID-era cargo destinations as part of the federal government’s International Freight Assistance Mechanism (IFAM) program.
On 19 June, SIA operated the first, once weekly cargo-only passenger flight to the regional Queensland airport.
There will be a total of six once-weekly flights, which will provide local producers with more than 180 tonnes of cargo capacity to send their fresh produce to markets across the globe.
In addition to the six, once-weekly services to Wellcamp Airport, the IFAM program is also supporting twice-weekly services to Perth using SIA’s Boeing 787-10.
The IFAM-supported flights, which began on 26 May, will run through until 15 August carrying chilled pork to the Singapore market. The IFAM program will also continue to support a six-week extension to the once-weekly A350-900 medium-haul flight to Adelaide.
SIA’s IFAM-supported Adelaide-Singapore cargo-only passenger flights have carried more than 170 tonnes of meat, tuna, seafood, dairy products, wine, pharmaceuticals, fresh fruit and manufacturing equipment not only to Singapore, but also to destinations in Europe, North Asia, South East Asia, South Africa and the United States.
Qatar Airways expands flights to United States
Qatar Airways has resumed flights to New York, with services to Boston, Los Angeles and Washington from 1 July, with the national carrier’s air network set to rebuild to 39 weekly flights by mid-July 2020.
Existing services to Dallas-Forth Worth and Chicago currently enable passengers to book onward travel with American Airlines to almost 180 destinations on more than 350 domestic flights per day.
This will increase to more than 600 daily flights with the addition of services to Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Washington.
Qatar Airways’ New York flights and five-weekly Boston flights will also facilitate the resumption of the airline’s JetBlue codeshare. Passengers will immediately be able to book travel across the entire JetBlue network on 70 flights per day to 46 destinations.
Cathay Pacific releases cargo figures
April to May 2020 saw Cathay Pacific transport more than 417 tonnes of cargo from Auckland on cargo-only pax flights or repatriation flights, showing its support for the New Zealand economy.
Freight was shipped around the world including to the UK, Europe, North America and Asia.
During these months, the airline saw an increase in demand for Mānuka honey, with over 25 tonnes transported and JFK receiving 10 tonnes of the total amount. It is expected the demand is due to the many health benefits of Mānuka honey.
While as much as 135 tonnes of medical supplies were also shipped from the country.

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Datuk Paul Low, President of Transparency International Malaysia, has recently come forward to state clearly and unequivocally that there was no pact or pledge between Christian and DAP leaders, or anyone else for that matter, on the evening of May 5 or at any other time during the Unashamedly Ethical Conference in Penang.
As an invited guest speaker, he was a witness to the entire night’s proceedings, and as an upstanding man of the community and president of the anti-graft body Transparency International Malaysia, he is as reliable a witness as any.
Therefore, this confirms that the seditious report carried by Utusan on its front-page entitled ‘Kristian Agama Rasmi’ that claimed a conspiracy between Christians and the DAP to replace Islam with Christianity as the official religion and to install a Christian Prime Minister is nothing more than an unsubstantiated and malicious lie.
In light of Datuk Paul Low’s statement, the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein must now take firm action against the UMNO-owned paper, which has so far been let off with a measly warning letter.
Such a light action does not befit the severity of the transgression, as the Utusan’s irresponsible reporting has caused much confusion and incited racial and religious misgivings amongst Malaysians. Most notably, it was the catalyst for Ibrahim Ali’s call for a crusade or holy war against Christians. I am sure that anyone would agree the repercussions have been extremely damaging to the fabric of Malaysian society.
Therefore, Datuk Seri Hishamuddin has no choice but to initiate stern and severe action on the newspaper, so as to send a clear signal that the BN Government upholds their supposedly 1Malaysian spirit of peace and harmony across all races and religions.
It is only by taking a firm stand and meting out appropriate punishment to the Utusan Malaysia, would Malaysians be able to close this sorry chapter and move forward together in peace and harmony.
PRESS STATEMENT BY DAP SECRETARY-GENERAL AND MP FOR BAGAN LIM GUAN ENG IN KUALA LUMPUR 19.05.2011
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BEAT NATION LIVE
Indigenous Remix Culture
Beat Nation Live is a cross platform digital arts and live music collective bringing together artists, writers and musicians in a new dynamic way.
The Beat Nation Live collective emerged from the grunt gallery beatnation.org project and debuted at CBC Studios in Vancouver and the Futur-en-Seine Festival in Paris in 2011.
Beat Nation Live features a rich musical landscape of original material performed by Kinnie Starr, Ostwelve and Cris Derksen.
Corey Bulpitt and Larissa Healey's digital light painting fuses traditional and contemporary street art iconography through the Tangible Interaction Digital Graffiti Wall, forming a vital part of an interactive performance environment.
Overlaying the look of Beat Nation Live is VJ and media artist Jackson 2Bears. J2B's live cinema/scratch video remixes, together with multi-camera stage loops, frame a rapidly changing dreamscape of immersive mash-up projections surrounding performers and performance space.
At any time the ensemble features an expanded cast of artists including JB The First Lady, Darwin Frost aka Impossible Nothing, Skeena Reece, Skookum Sound System, Christie Lee Charles and Archer Pechawis.
Beat Nation Live embraces new directions that bridge traditional and contemporary worlds through shape shifting layers of beats, electronica, digital graffiti, sampling and immersive video technology.
The collective seeks to instigate future projects, residencies, installations and performances in both traditional and unexpected locations.
As a movement, Beat Nation is naturally drawn to digital frontiers as hip-hop is one of the first art movements to organically make the jump from the analogue to digital age. The roots of hip-hop culture and music have been transformed by indigenous cultures and identities into new forms of visual culture and music that echo the realities of aboriginal people.
"Native graffiti art, indigenized ipods, indigenous-language hip-hop and video, Indian bling and urban wear: Beat nation is about music, it's about art and it's about the spirit of us as indigenous peoples and cultures."
Tania Willard: Curator, beatnation.org
Beat Nation Live is multi-faceted and looks to explore creativity, international collaborations and ongoing partnerships.
With the recent development of the Beat Nation project, from grunt gallery beginnings, the Paris debut of the Beat Nation Live collective and recent group exhibitions at Vancouver Art Gallery and in Montreal and Toronto, to the recent Berlin produced Beat Nation Remix album, the world's spotlight is very much beginning to turn on this exciting new chapter in contemporary indigenous arts.
We seek further global possibilities to build a interconnected network of indigenous urban artists, musicians and curators worldwide.
Beat Nation Live is a co-production of International Arts Initiatives and the grunt gallery whose creation was made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.


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The Township has received inquiries from several residents seeking clarification as to whether a new housing rule proposed by the Trump Administration will halt the construction of new affordable housing in our Township and other municipalities. The quick answer is “no.” Municipalities across New Jersey are still required to meet its affordable housing obligations pursuant to the Mount Laurel Doctrine that was handed down by the NJ Supreme Court in 1973 and reaffirmed in 2015. The change announced by the President and HUD Secretary does not change a municipalities’ constitutional requirement to provide affordable housing opportunities or be faced with a builder’s remedy lawsuit where a court can order high-density development and affordable housing.
The question then is what is the Trump Administration proposing and what does it mean? Here is a brief overview:
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Dr. Ben Carson announced in July 2020 that HUD has proposed a rule that will ultimately terminate the Obama Administration’s “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) regulation issued in 2015, which according to HUD proved to be complicated, costly and ineffective.
The AFFH rule was meant to fulfill requirements of the Fair Housing Act which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. The Fair Housing Act brought an end to the practice such as redlining and racial covenants in home deeds. But, the law was also supposed to require local governments to work to desegregate neighborhoods across the country.
Under the Obama AFFH, any locality that received block-grant funds from HUD (Hanover Township does not) was required to produce an assessment outlining its efforts toward assuring fair housing. The Trump Administration found this process to be unworkable and a waste of time for municipalities to comply. In the alternative, the Trump Administration has proposed a new rule called “Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice” (PCNC) which defines fair housing broadly to mean housing that, among other attributes, is affordable, safe, decent, free of unlawful discrimination, and accessible under the civil rights laws. It further defines “affirmatively furthering fair housing” to mean any action rationally related to promoting any of the above attributes of fair housing. If HUD receives a complaint that a municipality is not complying with the PCNC criteria, it can, after conducting an investigation terminate HUD grant funds. The rule is still pending approval.
For additional specific information concerning the proposed new HUD rule, please visit the HUD website.
To stay informed about affordable housing updates in Hanover Township please visit our COAH/Fair Share Housing Obligations page.


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Directional control valves are the most widely used . . . and the least understood . . . valves in fluid power circuits. Many people are confused by the schematic symbol representations, and have difficulty understanding the terms ways, positions, and operators. Learning to read schematic drawings is similar to learning a foreign language. To the trained eye, a symbol speaks volumes even when no words are present. This chapter attempts to take away some of the confusion and apparent magic of fluid power schematic drawings, and thus help make designing and maintaining fluid power systems easier.
Directional control valves can only perform three functions:
- stop or block fluid flow
- allow fluid flow, and
- change direction of fluid flow.
This seems to simplify a seemingly complex subject, but remember, many valves may combine these functions. This makes them a little more complicated, but still not rocket-science material.
At first glance, the valve type shown in Figure 10-1 does not appear to be a directional control valve. However, check valves do allow flow in one direction and block flow the opposite direction. Use a check valve in any line where back flow cannot be tolerated. Also pilot-operated check valves (discussed in the next section) can be shifted by an external source to allow reverse flow or stop free flow.
The cross-sectional views show the standard poppet design used in most check valves. As in most early designs, the symbol still pictures a ball on a seat. Ball check valves work well until they are disassembled for repair or when troubleshooting. As these valves operate, they wear a groove where the ball contacts the seat. If this wear groove is not reinstalled exactly where it was, the valve is no longer leak free. On the other hand, a guided poppet always goes back in the same relationship to the seat and seals easily after reassembly.
It is easy to understand the function of a check valve. Fluid entering opposite a spring pushes against the poppet and spring to move it out of the way. The inline valve has holes around the angled seat face above the body seat to allow flow to pass. The right-angle design pushes the poppet out of the way and fluid flows by with little restriction.
Check valves are almost trouble-free devices. Seldom is one the cause of a problem. Potential problems can be minimized further if the check valves are: right-angle types, screw-in cartridges, or subplate mounted. Note that an inline check valve’s plumbing must be disassembled before the valve can be checked.
Check valves also can control pressure. Almost all check valves use a spring to return the poppet. In most valves, this spring has very light force, because any spring force results in an energy loss and heat. The light springs from most suppliers require about 5 psi to move the poppet against them (some go as low as 1 psi). Some large check valves, when they are mounted vertically, may require no spring because the weight of the poppet causes it to fall onto its seat.
Strong springs give extra resistance to flow so a check valve could replace a relief valve when low-pressure bypass is required. Many manufacturers have check valves with springs that require as much as 125 psi to push their poppets back. These valves work for low-pressure circuits such as a bypass around a low-pressure filter or heat exchanger, or to maintain minimum pilot pressure for pilot-operated directional control valves. When the spring functions as a backpressure or relief valve, the symbol usually shows the spring as part of the symbol.
Another lesser-known use for check valves is as a fixed-orifice flow-control function. Figure 10-2 shows an inline check valve with an orifice drilled through the poppet. The orifice allows free flow in one direction and measured flow the opposite way. The orifice is non-adjustable, so this component is tamper proof. The only way to change actuator speed is to physically change the orifice size. This orificed check valve could protect an actuator that might run away if a line broke or a valve malfunctioned. It will not affect speed in the opposite direction. For this application it should be flange fitted or hard piped directly to the actuator port.


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Foot odour, otherwise known as bromhidrosis, is an unpleasant and embarrassing condition for many patients. Developing foot odour often starts with excessive sweating of feet, with this sweat accumulating and affecting the skin (as opposed to being drawn away by good absorbent socks). Given that the feet contain over 250,000 sweat glands, and use these glands to effectively remove excess heat from our bodies, sweating around the feet is a completely natural occurrence.
While regular sweating isn’t unusually overly pungent, when sweat mixes with bacteria that break down the skin, unpleasant foot odour is produced. It may not just be bacteria contributing to the smell, but also yeast and fungus. Given the location of the feet and the dirty grounds that we often walk on, the presence of these organisms is not surprising or unexpected. Aside from the unpleasant odour, you may also develop rashes and skin reactions.
Anything that causes increased sweating in the feet can increase foot odour if the right conditions are met. This may be:
Initially, the goal is to eliminate any existing infections that are making your feet particularly odorous. After this, you want to control the excess sweating – or the sweat that is allowed to accumulate and linger around the feet. Ways to do this include:
If the smell is an ongoing problem and managing the sweat does not produce the results you want, you may need to get a medicated cream from your GP to treat the infection. This will often have antibacterial and antifungal components.
Can certain types of footwear or socks worsen foot odour and sweating?
Yes, certain footwear and socks can contribute to foot odour and sweating. Shoes made from non-breathable materials, such as synthetic materials or tight-fitting shoes, can trap moisture and heat, creating an ideal environment for bacteria to thrive. Similarly, wearing socks made from non-absorbent materials can exacerbate foot sweating and odour.
Can antiperspirants or powders help with excessive foot sweating?
Yes, antiperspirants or powders specifically formulated for the feet can be effective in reducing excessive foot sweating. These products typically contain ingredients that help control moisture and inhibit sweat production in the feet.
Are there any specific types of socks or footwear that can reduce foot odour and sweating?
Opting for moisture-wicking socks made from breathable materials, such as cotton or bamboo blends, can help reduce foot odour and sweating. Additionally, choosing footwear made from breathable materials, such as leather or mesh, can promote air circulation and minimise moisture build-up.
How long does it typically take to see improvement with treatment for foot odour and sweating?
The time to see improvement can vary depending on the severity of the condition and the chosen treatment methods. With consistent and appropriate treatment, noticeable improvement in foot odour and sweating can often be seen within a few weeks. However, it may take longer to achieve significant and long-lasting results.
Are there any complications or potential infections associated with foot odour and sweating?
Excessive foot sweating can create a damp environment that increases the risk of fungal or bacterial infections, such as athlete’s foot or toenail fungus. Additionally, persistent foot odour may lead to social discomfort or embarrassment. Prompt treatment and preventive measures can help minimise these complications.
What can I do to prevent the recurrence of foot odour in the future?
To prevent the recurrence of foot odour, consider the following:

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What is Liver Cirrhosis?
Cirrhosis is an advanced stage of scarring and damage of the liver. Find out about symptoms and treatment of this life-threatening liver condition. Cirrhosis is where the solid tissue of the liver is supplanted by scar tissues. This makes it hard for the liver to work appropriately. The scar tissue hinders the handling of regular poisons, medications, hormones and supplements. This happens because of the blockage of the progression of blood through the liver. It can likewise hinder the assembling of proteins made by the liver. It can even reason passing if not treated on schedule.
What causes liver Cirrhosis?
Liver Cirrhosis is most regularly caused because of liquor misuse, greasy liver and hepatitis C. Different reasons for Cirrhosis in the liver include:
The greasy liver which is related to diabetes and stoutness.
Intense viral contaminations of the liver, for example, hepatitis D, B and C. This is to some degree uncommon.
Blockage of the bile which moves bile to the digestion tracts. Bile is commonly shaped in the liver and it helps in processing sustenance. Blockage of the bile conduit can likewise be caused due to biliary atresia. In this condition, the bile channels are harmed or missing which makes the bile remain in the liver. This condition more often than not influences babies.
Constant episodes of heart disappointment making liquid develop in the liver.
Infections, for example, cystic fibrosis, glycogen stockpiling ailment (powerlessness of the body to process glycogen into sugar), alpha 1 antitrypsin inadequacy (nonattendance of a specific catalyst in the liver).
Infections and scatters which are brought about by hemochromatosis (exorbitant iron substance is kept in the liver and other crucial organs), Wilson’s malady (uncommon capacity of copper inside the liver) and unusual liver working.
Uncommon components like parasitic diseases, presentation to natural poisons and response to certain physician endorsed medications can likewise add to Cirrhosis.
How is Cirrhosis analyzed?
- Physical test:- The specialist, as a rule, plays out a physical test to perceive how huge your liver is and sees how your liver feels. A liver influenced by Cirrhosis may feel sporadic and rough rather than smooth.
- ultrasound:-Tests like ultrasound, electronic tomography (CT output) and radioisotope output are performed to dissect Cirrhosis.
- Biopsy:-During a biopsy, tissue from the liver is taken and tried for diagnosing Cirrhosis of the liver.
- Medical procedure:- This is generally performed in extreme cases, a laparoscope is embedded through a cut inside the mid-region. After the specialist gets a whole perspective on the liver he plays out the medical procedure.
🏥 Treatable by a medicinal expert
🧪 Require restorative determination
⏱ Present moment: settle inside days to weeks
Side effects/Symptoms of Liver Cirrhosis:-
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Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
For Topical Use in Dogs Only
Clinical and experimental data have demonstrated that corticosteroids administered orally or parenterally to animals may induce the first stage of parturition when administered during the last trimester of pregnancy and may precipitate premature parturition followed by dystocia, fetal death, retained placenta, and metritis.
Additionally, corticosteroids administered to dogs, rabbits and rodents during pregnancy have produced cleft palate. Other congenital anomalies including deformed forelegs, phocomelia, and anasarca have been reported in offspring of dogs which received corticosteroids during pregnancy.
If hypersensitivity to any of the components occurs, treatment with this product should be discontinued and appropriate therapy instituted.
Antibiotic susceptibility of the pathogenic organism(s) should be determined prior to the use of this preparation. Use of topical antibiotics may permit overgrowth of non-susceptible bacteria, fungi, or yeasts. If this occurs, treatment should be instituted with other appropriate agents as indicated. Administration of recommended dose beyond 7 days may result in delayed wound healing. Animals treated longer than 7 days should be monitored closely.
Avoid ingestion. Oral or parenteral use of corticosteroids, depending on dose, duration, and specific steroid may result in inhibition of endogenous steroid production following drug withdrawal. In patients presently receiving or recently withdrawn from systemic corticosteroid treatments, therapy with a rapidly acting corticosteroid should be considered in especially stressful situations.
If ingestion should occur, patients should be closely observed for the usual signs of adrenocorticoid overdosage which include sodium retention, potassium loss, fluid retention, weight gains, polydipsia, and/or polyuria. Prolonged use or overdosage may produce adverse immunosuppressive effects.


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Microsporidia in exotic birds: Intermittent spore excretion of Encephalitozoon spp. in naturally infected budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)
0342874 - BC-A 2011 RIV NL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Sak, Bohumil - Kašičková, D. - Kváč, Martin - Květoňová, D. - Ditrich, Oleg
Microsporidia in exotic birds: Intermittent spore excretion of Encephalitozoon spp. in naturally infected budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus).
Veterinary Parasitology. Roč. 168, 3/4 (2010), s. 196-200 ISSN 0304-4017
Grant CEP: GA AV ČR KJB500960701; GA ČR GP523/07/P117
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z60220518
Klíčová slova: budgerigars * Melopsittacus undulatus * Encephalitozoon spp. * PCR
Kód oboru RIV: GJ - Choroby a škůdci zvířat, veterinární medicína
Impakt faktor: 2.331, rok: 2010
Nine naturally infected asymptomatic budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) were screened daily for microsporidia spore excretion during a 30-day period and the localization of infection was evaluated. While the microscopic examination revealed 2.4% positivity out of all fecal samples, using PCR the positivity was 10x higher (24.6%). All nine budgerigars excreted microsporidial spores intermittently in irregular intervals with 1-11-day long interruptions. Most of the birds were infected simultaneously with Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Encephalitozoon hellem. While histological and TEM examination failed to confirm the presence of microsporidial spores in tissues, the PCR detected microsporidial DNA mostly in the small intestine, liver and lungs of four selected budgerigars dissected. Despite the chronic infection proved using molecular methods, no clinical signs of disease were observed during monitoring and no pathological findings were found during dissection.
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Young Researchers and Elite Club, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashan, Iran, E-mail addresses: firstname.lastname@example.org Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Kashan, Iran
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Kashan, Iran
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Co3O4 / NiO @ GQDs @ SO3H nanocatalyst has been used as an effective catalyst for the preparation of 2,4-diamino-6-arylpyrimidine-5-carbonitrile derivatives through a three-component reaction of malononitrile, aromatic aldehydes and guanidine hydrochloride under reflux conditions in ethanol. The catalyst has been characterized by FT-IR, XRD, SEM, EDS, BET, TGA, XPS and VSM. Atom economy, reusable catalyst, low catalyst loading, applicability to a wide range of substrates and high yields of products are some of the notable features of this protocol.The best results were gained in EtOH and we found that the reaction gave convincing results in the presence of Co3O4/NiO@GQDs@SO3H nanocomposite (4 mg) under reflux conditions. This green nanocatalyst could be used for other significant organic reactions and transformations. Further explorations of similar protocols are underway in our laboratory. This recoverable catalyst will provide a regular platform for heterogeneous catalysis, green chemistry, and environmentally benign protocols in the near future.

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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A local program helping to equip new parents is receiving national attention tonight.
Wichita Public Schools’ Parents as Teachers program has been named a Blue Ribbon Affiliate, designating it as one of the top-performing programs in the country.
“The goal is for us to empower parents because we know they are truly their child’s first teacher,” said Shannon Benoit, Exec. Director Parents as Teachers. “So, giving them skills to help their child’s become successful life long learners is the first goal that we do as parents as teachers.”
Parents as Teachers is voluntary and free of charge to families living in the Wichita Public Schools district.
For more information on the program, click here to go to Wichita Parents as Teachers on the USD 259 website.
- Police: Murder of 3-year-old in Alabama disguised as hot car death
- FDA temporarily relaxes food-labeling guidelines to help food industry, parents worry about kids with allergies
- If you haven’t received your $500-per-child stimulus check, the IRS has good news
- Over $470k donated after North Carolina boy fatally shot at point-blank range while playing
- Business owner hoping to reduce speed limit to expand seating closer to the street, join Open Air ICT


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The two wars are not even remotely comparable.
In Vietnam we overturned a democracy in favor of dictatorship. In Afghanistan we overturned a dictatorship in favor of democracy.
In Vietnam we were alone. In Afghanistan we have all of NATO behind us.
In Vietnam millions were killed. In Afghanistan tens of thousands (I think?) have been killed.
I could go on.

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When you eat less than 50 grams of carbs a day, your body eventually runs out of fuel (blood sugar) it can use quickly. This typically takes 3 to 4 days. Then you’ll start to break down protein and fat for energy, which can make you lose weight. This is called ketosis. It's important to note that the ketogenic diet is a short term diet that's focussed on weight loss rather than the pursuit of health benefits.
A short-lived increase in seizure frequency may occur during illness or if ketone levels fluctuate. The diet may be modified if seizure frequency remains high, or the child is losing weight. Loss of seizure-control may come from unexpected sources. Even "sugar-free" food can contain carbohydrates such as maltodextrin, sorbitol, starch, and fructose. The sorbitol content of suntan lotion and other skincare products may be high enough for some to be absorbed through the skin and thus negate ketosis.
Experts warn that the diet is extremely restrictive and not sustainable, and that it can lead to nutritional deficiencies, high cholesterol, or a serious condition called ketoacidosis. But even before long-term problems set in, many people who try the diet report other unpleasant side effects. These side effects even have a name in the weight-loss world: keto flu.
These affect your brain and spine, as well as the nerves that link them together. Epilepsy is one, but others may be helped by a ketogenic diet as well, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and sleep disorders. Scientists aren’t sure why, but it may be that the ketones your body makes when it breaks down fat for energy help protect your brain cells from damage.
Wilder's colleague, paediatrician Mynie Gustav Peterman, later formulated the classic diet, with a ratio of one gram of protein per kilogram of body weight in children, 10–15 g of carbohydrate per day, and the remainder of calories from fat. Peterman's work in the 1920s established the techniques for induction and maintenance of the diet. Peterman documented positive effects (improved alertness, behaviour, and sleep) and adverse effects (nausea and vomiting due to excess ketosis). The diet proved to be very successful in children: Peterman reported in 1925 that 95% of 37 young patients had improved seizure control on the diet and 60% became seizure-free. By 1930, the diet had also been studied in 100 teenagers and adults. Clifford Joseph Barborka, Sr., also from the Mayo Clinic, reported that 56% of those older patients improved on the diet and 12% became seizure-free. Although the adult results are similar to modern studies of children, they did not compare as well to contemporary studies. Barborka concluded that adults were least likely to benefit from the diet, and the use of the ketogenic diet in adults was not studied again until 1999.
Ketosis is pretty different from what your body is used to, and this onslaught of symptoms is its way of dealing with carb withdrawal—and adapting, explains Kristen Mancinelli, RD, author of The Ketogenic Diet. “It takes a while, usually a week or two, for the metabolic machinery to shift to fat-burning mode. And you’ll feel pretty crummy while the transition is happening,” she says.
The keto diet emphasizes weight loss through fat-burning. The goal is to quickly lose weight and ultimately feel fuller with fewer cravings, while boosting your mood, mental focus and energy. According to keto proponents, by slashing the carbs you consume and instead filling up on fats, you safely enter a state of ketosis. That’s when the body breaks down both dietary and stored body fat into substances called ketones. Your fat-burning system now relies mainly on fat – instead of sugar – for energy. While similar in some ways to familiar low-carb diets, the keto diet’s extreme carb restrictions – about 20 net carbs a day or less, depending on the version – and the deliberate shift into ketosis are what set this increasingly popular diet apart. In fact, other eating plans are pulling in keto elements, so you can find versions like eco-keto and at least one commercial diet that incorporates keto-friendly products.
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Maintain a moderate protein intake. A keto diet is not meant to be a very high protein diet. We recommend 1.2 to 1.7 grams per kg of reference body weight per day. This means about 100 grams of protein per day if your lean body mass weight is around 70 kilos (155 pounds). Check out our target protein ranges to find out how much protein you should be aiming for each day.


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Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market Size To Grow USD 10.1 Billion by 2030 | CAGR of 6.86%Category: Healthcare
Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market to Grow $10.1 billion by 2032
According to a research report published by Spherical Insights & Consulting, Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market Size is to grow from USD 5.2 billion in 2022 to USD 10.1 billion by 2032, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.86% during the forecast period.
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Spondylarthritis (SpA), a class of chronic inflammatory autoimmune illnesses, shares several clinical and genetic traits. Spondylarthritis is a form of arthritis that often affects the arms and legs but can also impact the joints in the spine. These include the presence of enthesitis and dactylitis, frequent extraarticular manifestation, and involvement of the axial skeleton (sacroiliac joints and spine). A particular type of peripheral joint involvement (typically asymmetric monoarthritis or Oligoarthritis primarily affecting the joints of the lower extremities) is also present. The initial course of treatment for AxSpA is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Biological products such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, interleukin inhibitors, and Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors may be used more aggressively in patients who do not react to NSAIDs.
Patients and healthcare professionals are becoming more aware of AxSpA, which allowed for earlier diagnosis and treatment. This is anticipated to boost demand for efficient treatments and propel market expansion. The development of diagnostic tools like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has increased the reliability of the AxSpA diagnosis, allowing earlier treatment and better results. AxSpA patients now have access to a wider range of treatments because of the development of novel, efficient medicines including biologics and biosimilars, which is also anticipated to improve patient access to care and propel market expansion. Also, favorable Reimbursement Policies are expected to increase patient access to treatment and drive market growth. Furthermore, although it is anticipated that the expiration of some biologics patents will enhance competition and lower prices, it is also possible that the businesses that hold these patents will see a decline in revenue.
COVID 19 Impact
With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing worldwide, healthcare facilities concentrated all of their resources on treating people with the condition. Although the fact that COVID-19 has a serious impact on the respiratory system, it has raised numerous questions about rheumatic diseases and the treatments available as well as the vulnerability or severity of the viral illness. Patients who suffer from inflammatory conditions, such as spondyloarthritis (SpA), have found the COVID-19 pandemic to be particularly difficult. The effects of a COVID-19 infection on individuals with rheumatic disorders have been the subject of numerous investigations, however, the results drawn from these reports have not always been consistent. The COVID-19 pandemic created numerous uncertainties regarding rheumatic diseases or their treatment concerning the susceptibility or severity of the viral disease, according to a study that was published in The Journal of Rheumatology in 2022 and polled responses from 4723 people with SpA and 450 of their household contacts.
The ankylosing spondylitis is driving the market with the largest market share over the forecast period.
Based on the types, global axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is classified into ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA). Among these, the ankylosing spondylitis segment is driving the market share during the forecast period due to Inflammation and bone development characterized by ankylosing spondylitis, a subtype of AxSpA that affects the spine and sacroiliac joints and can cause stiffness and persistent discomfort. Ankylosing spondylitis is thought to be the diagnosis in 90% of AxSpA cases.
The anti-inflammatory drugs segment is dominating the market over the forecast period.
Based on the drug class, global axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is segmented into non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), Glucocorticoids, anti-rheumatic drugs, & others. Among these, the segment non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) is dominating the market during the forecast period due to Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are particularly efficient at treating the main axSpA symptoms and signs (pain and stiffness), and they may also be able to halt the degradation of the structural spine. The treatments that doctors favor for axial spondyloarthritis include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including naproxen (Naprosyn) and indomethacin (Indocin and Tivorbex).
North America is dominating the market with the largest market share during the forecast period
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North America is projected to account for a sizeable portion of the global market for axial spondyloarthritis, due to the rising prevalence, more awareness, and improved diagnosis in this area. Moreover, the development of the AxSpA market has also been boosted by the beneficial reimbursement practices in the US and Canada. Also, demand for these therapies has increased as a result of patients being able to afford the costly biologic medications thanks to the availability of insurance coverage.
Asia Pacific is anticipated to have significant growth over the forecast period due to the large rise in the older population in countries like China and India. The growth in the region's revenue is mostly attributable to the localization of producers of generic medications and the growth of medical facilities.
Major vendors in the Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market include Johnson & Johnson, UCB, Amgen, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Kyowa Kirin, AbbVie, Acelyrin, Pfizer, Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, & Others.
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- In July 2022, The European Commission approved RINVOQ (upadacitinib) as an oral medication for people with active, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.
- In October 2021, to increase awareness of Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) early diagnosis and treatment, Novartis expanded its relationship with the Axial Spondyloarthritis Association of the Philippines (ASAPh) and Philippine Rheumatology Association (PRA).
This study forecasts revenue at global, regional, and country levels from 2019 to 2030. Spherical Insights has segmented the Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market based on the below mentioned segments:
Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market, By Type
- Ankylosing spondylitis (AS)
- Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA)
Global Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market, By Drug Class
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID)
- Anti-rheumatic drugs
Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) Market, By Regional Analysis
- North America
- Rest of Europe
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By Andrey Doichev|thebestvpn.com
1. WindScribe.com: 10GB/mo Data Cap, 11 Locations
What is WindScribe?
Windscribe is a Canadian VPN provider founded in 2015.
They’re new, but highly respected in different VPN communities like reddit (/vpn/).
Windscribe offers you a very generous 10GB (month) bandwidth for you to test them out. If you tweet them out, you’ll receive another 5GB.
It’s a lot, as many free VPNs don’t give out that much bandwidth and the ones with no data cap tend to be VERY slow. Let’s see how WindScribe handles my 100 Mbps connection: Continue reading
By Bryan Lufkin| BBC.com
We are failing to look at inequality in the right way, according to researchers who study people’s attitudes to wealth disparity.
Haves and have-nots. The 99%. The income gap. The chasm between rich and poor has never mattered more. It’s estimated that the top 1% of the world’s richest people owns 50% of the planet’s wealth.
Solving this level of inequality is often held up as a ‘grand challenge’ for the world. But is that the right way to look at it? Continue reading
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Activist Liu Xiaobo has died after spending eight years in prison.
“There is nothing criminal in anything I have done but I have no complaints.”
So stated Liu Xiaobo in court in 2009, and in the eight long prison years between then and now, he refused to recant his commitment to democracy. No wonder China’s leaders are as afraid of him in death as they were in life. Continue reading
By Linda Geddes|BBCNEWS
The inhabitants of Rjukan in southern Norway have a complex relationship with the Sun. “More than other places I’ve lived, they like to talk about the Sun: when it’s coming back, if it’s a long time since they’ve seen the Sun,” says artist Martin Andersen. “They’re a little obsessed with it.” Possibly, he speculates, it’s because for approximately half the year, you can see the sunlight shining high up on the north wall of the valley: “It is very close, but you can’t touch it,” he says. As autumn wears on, the light moves higher up the wall each day, like a calendar marking off the dates to the winter solstice. And then as January, February and March progress, the sunlight slowly starts to inch its way back down again. Continue reading
欧盟之外的海外留学生，要掏数倍于英国孩子的钱上同样的大学，学同样的专业。要来英国读大学的中国孩子们和他们的父母，更要仔细斟酌。 Continue reading
By Alina Dizik|BBC.com
In January last year, Rebecca Self found her salary had dropped by almost 30% pretty much overnight.
It wasn’t from a demotion, cost-cutting or a corporate restructure – Self’s pay packet was slashed by a shift in currency markets, an issue that affects many expats working around the world.
Self is a leadership consultant based in Zurich, Switzerland. An American expat, she gets paid from different countries in different currencies – she’s paid in dollars through a firm in Qatar in the Middle East, and also in euro through a firm she works for in Sweden. She then converts her earnings into Swiss francs. Continue reading


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Minnesota Power honors volunteerismMinnesota Power Foundation presented the first Don Shippar Community Leadership Award at ALLETE’s Annual Meeting today at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth.
Minnesota Power Foundation presented the first Don Shippar Community Leadership Award at ALLETE’s Annual Meeting today at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth. The award recognizes company employees whose leadership in volunteering and service has made an impact on their local communities.
The award, which will be issued annually, was established this year in honor of former ALLETE Chief Executive Officer Don Shippar who retired April 30, 2010.
Shippar’s 33-year career was marked by a strong commitment to giving back to the communities Minnesota Power serves. Among his many professional and philanthropic contributions, Shippar also established the Minnesota Power Foundation in 2006. The Foundation reinforces a long-standing tradition of corporate giving through supporting charitable organizations that help create and sustain healthy communities. The foundation’s mission focuses on education, arts, culture, and preserving our natural resources.
This year, Tom Lohman, a Sr. Engineer at Minnesota Power’s Rowe Energy Control Center is the honored recipient of the Don Shippar Community Leadership Award.
Lohman demonstrates a compassionate and generous commitment to going the extra mile. Through his dedicated volunteerism, he has affected the lives of many. Through CHUM, he has helped provide hot meals and shelter for those who are out on the streets. His donations to the St. Luke’s Foundation have helped those dealing with cancer by improving the facility where they receive care that is so critical to their battle. And, he shows his devotion to the community as he gives his time to help fix homes through Community Action’s Circles of Support.
Two employees also received honorable mentions for their volunteer work. Pat Connell, Public Affairs Administrative Supervisor and Brian Schmidt, Rapids Energy Center Operator.
Connell is a long time United Way volunteer. She has served as a United Way Campaign Executive for 8 years; has served on the fund distribution panel, and has helped with numerous United Way fundraisers over the years.
Schmidt volunteers to promote community awareness of the programs offered through the Shriners hospital. Brian has devoted hours to raising awareness and visibility for the services provided by the hospital. He provides information to families of children with childhood illnesses. He is captain of the local cycle patrol participating in parades and special events throughout the year.
ALLETE Chairman of the Board Don Shippar presented the three recipients with a crystal award and ALLETE president and chief executive officer Al Hodnik presented a donation to each for the nonprofit organization of their choice.
“I am truly impressed by the extraordinary efforts and generous spirit exhibited by Tom, Pat and Brian,” said ALLETE president & chief executive officer Al Hodnik. “They are a shining example of how one volunteer has the power to change a community. Congratulations to all three, for setting a wonderful example for others and for carrying on the legacy of Don Shippar.”


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Cinestill800T in-camera film simulation on the Fujifilm X100F.
Yesterday I published a blog post in which I explained what film simulations I currently use in the X100F (link in bio).
The CineStill800T simulation as developed by @fujixweekly is definitely one of my favorites: it renders beautiful colors under incandescent light. Just remember that it produces a blue haze in daylight 😉. In the blog I explain not only what simulations I use (with examples), I also share my thoughts on the X100F built-in Advanced Filters, how to use presets, what I learned from using presets, and how I will use them going forward.
Let me know in the comments if you have any questions.

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I would have thought it was impossible for the vote fraud fraud to get any more cynical, and yet here we have the Romney campaign asserting that the Obama administration wants to stop members of the military from voting, when in fact what they want it for early voting privileges to be extended to other voters.
Incidentally, this double standard was also central to an actual example of election theft, Florida 2000. Since it’s essentially impossible to defend Bush v. Gore on its own terms, the most common Republican defense of the Supreme Court was that they engaged in a form of rough justice designed to keep a rogue Florida court from stealing the election. The obvious problem with this argument is that the Florida Supreme Court was completely consistent about applying its “intent of the voter” standard both to counting ballots cast in Flordia and to considering whether overseas military ballots should be disqualified because they failed to meet technical standards, with the result that Bush actually prevailed in the 3 of the 5 decisions handed down. Republicans, conversely, switched from a dismissal of “legal technicalities” that might disqualify overseas military ballots to a hyperformalistic interpretation of election law in any circumstance that could possibly benefit Gore. The fact that the people running this con managed to get lawless partisanship of the United States Supreme Court justified as a necessary intervention against an allegedly partisan Florida Court that ruled against its alleged partisan interests in a majority of cases its a truly remarkable propaganda achievement.
I conclude by citing Ambrose Bierce’s prescient description of the Romney campaign:
In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.

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WINDHOEK, 19 APR (NAMPA) - The Trade Union Congress of Namibia (Tucna) has called on the Labour Minister to reverse the appointment of her deputy as the chairperson of the 12th Labour Advisory Council (LAC).
In a media statement issued on Thursday, Tucna president Paulus Hango accused the Minister of Labour Doreen Sioka of double standards for appointing Deputy Minister of Labour Alpheus Muheua as the LAC chairperson.
To our dismay, the government has now adopted an approach in terms of which they employ exclusive control of the tripartite consultation process by undermining the intentions of the Labour Act. This will more or less amount to the minister advising herself, and this what we are totally against, he bemoaned.
Sioka inaugurated the LAC on 07 April 2014.
The LAC is a statutory tripartite body established in terms of the Labour Act of 2007 to advise the minister on a wide range of issues in the areas of labour and employment.
The responsibilities of the LAC include advising the minister on various matters which include employment creation; supporting the informal economy; addressing the extreme income inequality; and improving health and safety at the workplace.
The aim of the LAC is to promote greater awareness and adherence to the labour and employment laws by employers and employees.
The 13-member council is made up of officials from the private sector, trade unions and the public service sector.
They include Muheua (chairperson), Patty Olivier (Namibia Employers Federation (NEF), Tim Parkhouse (NEF), Victoria Konjore (NEF), Mahongora Kavihuhua (Tucna), Basilius Djakugha (Ministry of Justice), Johannes Ashipala (National Planning Commission (NPC), John Kwedhi (National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), Nanna Pollman (NUNW), Loide Shaanika (NUNW), Andrew Kanime (NEF), Petrina Nakale (Ministry of Trade and Industry), Nokokure Kariko (Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare).


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Hellam Township supervisors' letter 'misleading' (column)
I read, with concern, the missive submitted by four Hellam Township supervisors ("Supervisors share new vision of Hellam Township," Nov. 23) in the YDR. This same article was also published in the taxpayer-funded Hellam Township newsletter, and I encourage every township resident to read it carefully. It was long on platitudes, short on facts, full of misleading information and all paid for by Hellam Township residents. Some examples:
1. “Local businesses contribute $1.7 million to our school district in the form of property taxes (18 percent of the property tax revenue sent)." This is false and represents an inability to do simple math. The total revenue from local property taxes to Eastern York School District is $23,280,413; divided into $1.7 million is 7 percent not 18 percent.
2. “These initial steps were incorporated into the first zoning ordinance of this administration and have been revised and polished by the Hellam Township and York County planning commissions to reform regulations... .” Very misleading. The York County Planning Commission recommended NOT to adopt any of the changes submitted by the Hellam Township supervisors, and these supervisors have stated publicly that they do not intend to resubmit their “revised and polished” amendments back to the York County Planning Commission for their review. Furthermore, the amendments created by supervisors Galen Weibley and Phil Smith were so poorly written initially, they required five major revisions at a cost of thousands of dollars in solicitor and engineering fees to the residents of Hellam Township.
3. “Residents of Laurel Estates created 58 lots on a 315-acre property...” Another false statement. The residents didn't subdivide anything. Laurel Estates was created by developers back in 1978 and was built on the side of a hill, not on prime agricultural soil. By pointing a finger at a 40-year-old development, the Hellam Township supervisors fail to show any understanding of how the true impact of residential development has changed dramatically over the last 38 years. The cost to educate a child in 1978 was about $6,000 nationally in adjusted dollars. Today, that same child costs about $14,000 to educate in Pennsylvania schools. The Hellam Township supervisors were asked specifically if they would consider doing a “cost of community services” study like the one done in Shrewsbury Township so that the true impact of costs and possible school tax consequences to Eastern York School District residents would be known if their zoning changes are implemented. The answer: No.
4. The supervisors also misled readers regarding the need for proposed changes to the agricultural/rural zone. The truth is that, for many years now, farmers have used the current sliding scale to subdivide a lot for their children or pay for a new tractor. Likewise, residents with 50 acres or less could subdivide through a variance. What was conveniently neglected in the article is the massive expansion of the sliding scale proposed by the supervisors. Under the proposed changes, up to 558 houses can be built on Hellam Township farmland. That amounts to as much as 1,300 acres of school tax revenue producing farmland that can be converted into residential lots that will lead to higher school taxes if implemented. How farming around new houses and the potential loss of all that farmland benefits the farmer remains a mystery.
The changes to Hellam Township zoning ordinances will be open for comment during the public hearing scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Dec. 15 in the Hellam Township public works building. I would highly encourage all Hellam Township residents to attend to voice your opinion about the numerous changes our supervisors have planned to open Hellam Township for development.
Jerry Otterbein is a resident of Hellam Township.


After changes of cast, threatened strikes, exorbitant economic demands from chorus and dancers, and a cancelled first night, Sasha Waltz's ballet Roméo et Juliette finally opened yesterday in Milan.
Let's start at the beginning. A couple of months ago the Teatro alla Scala website announced:
Roberto Bolle decided that the rehearsal periods foreseen would not have been sufficient to allow him to immerse himself totally in a new style.
So Aurélie Dupont found that she had her familiar partner back as Hervé Moreau was signed up. The couple first danced the work, created on them for the Paris Opera Ballet, back in 2007. Bolle's fans (i Bollerini) were reportedly trying to offload their tickets online immediately.
Then the chorus asked for a little extra in their wage packet as they were expected to wear a costume and memorize parts of the music, a bonus that would have cost the theatre 350,000 euros. La Scala's management agreed to give a little extra to the sixteen chorus members who were required to do a few (hardly noticeable) movements, but this wasn't enough. As the dancers also jumped on the bandwagon thinking that maybe they ought to have a little more cash for dancing on a platform with a steep rake, the theatre decided to cancel the opening on December 19 (which was, bizarrely, nine days before the scheduled second performance). Needless to say, in times where a third of Italians are living near the poverty line, and a half of youngsters are out of work, their protest got no sympathy whatsoever in the press.
However this Roméo et Juliette is so flimsy and lacking in emotion, with an extremely limited and confused choreographic vocabulary, that it may have been wiser to cancel all the performances and leave it at that. Waltz made no use of the classical training these dancers have, and some of the company obviously have no feeling at all for dance theatre. These dancers were selected to dance the classical repertory, and not all are suited such a vastly different dance style. Mick Zeni's Friar Laurence, though, was impressive, and he obviously has a natural instinct for modern dance which has been witnessed many times on this stage in the past.
Aurélie Dupont was confident as Juliet, though not very communicative. Hervé Moreau gave the outstanding contribution to the evening when he desperately tries to scrabble up an inclined wall and continually falls to its base. It is a solo without music and was powerful and real, in contrast with the superficiality of much of the rest.
The music helped save the evening with Hector Berlioz's Dramatic Symphony stirringly conducted by American James Conlon, Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera. The singers, who also had choreographic elements to perform, were very fine: mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk, tenor Leonardo Cortellazzi, and the bass Nicolas Cavallier.
The applause was warm for the soloists (dancers and singers), but there were various boos and cries of “No!” when Sasha Waltz came on stage for her curtain call. The real tragedy here was not Shakespeare's story, but how much money – ballet company, chorus, guest artists, singers – was wasted on something that will be presented only eight times. This production will surely fade away quickly from the company's repertoire, much as the applause fizzled out rapidly after a couple of curtain calls.
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.


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The development of a minimum dataset for MRI reporting of anorectal fistula: a multi-disciplinary, expert consensus process.
There are a range of sphincter-preserving procedures available to treat anorectal fistula, some of which can be precluded, or rendered more optimal by specific features of fistula anatomy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard modality for assessing anorectal fistula. To maximise clinical utility, the MRI report should accurately describe these clinically relevant features. We aimed to develop a minimum dataset for reporting MRI of anorectal fistula, in order to improve the assessment and management of these patients. A longlist of 70 potential items for the minimum dataset was generated through systematic review of the literature. This longlist was presented to radiologists, surgeons and gastroenterologists in an online survey to understand the features that shape current clinical practice. The longlist and survey results were then presented to an expert consensus panel to generate the final minimum dataset through discussion and anonymous voting. The final minimum dataset details the general characteristics, features of the internal and external openings, path of the fistula through the sphincters and any associated extensions and collections that should be described in all MRI reports for anal fistula. Additional surgical and perianal Crohn's disease subsets were developed to indicate the features that aid decision-making for these patients, in addition to a minimum dataset for the clinical request. This study represents a multi-disciplinary approach to developing a minimum dataset for MRI reporting of anal fistula, highlighting the most important features to report that can assist in clinical decision-making. KEY POINTS: • This paper recommends the minimum features that should be included in all MRI reports for the assessment of anal fistula, including Parks classification, number of tracts, features of the internal and external opening, path of the tract through the sphincters, the presence and features of extensions and collections. • Additional features that aid decision-making for surgery or in the presence of Crohn's disease have been identified. • The items that should be included when requesting an MRI are specified.

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The United States declared yet another unconstitutional war in the Middle East today when it launched a bevy of deadly Tomahawk cruise missiles at the sovereign state of Libya.
Corporate media begins inevitable propaganda spin to rationalize murder.
Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution reads: “Congress shall have power to … declare War.” Congress did not declare war on Libya. The globalist sock puppet Obama did.
Speaking from Brasilia, Obama said that he had authorized “limited military action in Libya.”
He does not have the authority to call for military action against other countries. The executive branch of the United States government, however, has engaged in this sort of unlawful and flagrant violation of the Constitution since the end of the Second World War.
Congress recognizes no claimed power of the president to wage war outside of the War Powers Resolution. Congress passed the the War Powers Resolution in 1973 after Nixon illegally invaded Cambodia.
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Inductees A four-year letterman in football, basketball, and track at Richwoods High School, Telander went on to earn all-Big Ten Conference academic honors as a football player at Northwestern University before launching a successful writing career.
Telander joined the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1974, and eight years later became a senior writer for the weekly magazine. He also had three books published to date: "Joe Namath and the Other Guys,î" "The Hundred-Yard Lie," and "Heaven is a Playground," the latter adapted into a moving picture.
A regular panelist for ì"The Sportswriters on TV," (Sports Channel America cable), Telander was drafted in 1971 in the eighth round by the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. "That didn't last too long, which was pretty much OK with me," said the veteran starter at cornerback for the Northwestern Wildcats.
In 1970, Telander helped Northwestern come within one-half of an unbeaten conference record, only to have Ohio State rally for the victory and the trip to the Rose Bowl.
As a junior at Richwoods, Telander played end in football and was a starting safety-quarterback as a senior. He also played against the 1967 Pekin state basketball championship team that tonight enters the Hall of Fame.
A four-year letterman in football, basketball, and track at Richwoods High School, Telander went on to earn all-Big Ten Conference academic honors as a football player at Northwestern University before launching a successful writing career.
Ennio Arboit was one of the nation's most effective high school coaches until his death after a series of successful seasons in Peoria and California. His Peoria Spalding football teams compiled a record which established a tradition for excellence at that school.

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I have AMD Athlon XP 1.2 Ghz, 1 GB DDR RAM. I don't know if I can install all drivers.
The Athlon XP CPU does not have support for 64-bit instruction thus you cannot use the Ubuntu 64-bit installation.
The Athlon XP is a K7 architecture CPU with support for 32-bit instructions only.
The 32bit architecture will do just fine for your PC setup.
Drivers are less of an issue, you would need some rather exotic hardware to not to be supported by either architecture.
As example: my workstation is an i7 2.3Ghz CPU with 8GiB RAM, but got by accident an 32bit installation of Ubuntu 11.10. And it runs fairly well - with the 8GiB used at max.


The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has informed the Callaway Energy Center of its annual assessment, noting the plant will receive additional oversight.
The plant was moved last quarter to the second-highest performance column of the NRC Reactor Oversight Process Action Matrix, which results in additional oversight.
As of March 11, only two other reactors in the U.S. - Clinton and Surry 2 - were in the second column, known as the "Regulatory Response Column."
The rest of the country's nuclear reactors are in the highest performance column, with the exception of Grand Gulf 1, which is in the third, "degraded performance" column.
The annual assessment letter, dated March 3, notes the NRC plans to conduct supplemental inspections in addition to the baseline inspection because the Callaway plant has experienced a high number of unplanned shutdowns, also known as "scrams," recently.
The plant's third scram in less than a year occurred in December. The plant has not been operating since as it addresses a generator-related maintenance issue.
The supplemental inspection will ensure the causes of any performance issues are understood and corrective action is taken.
Despite the recent shutdowns, the annual assessment indicates overall performance at the Callaway plant "preserved public health and safety."
More information on the scrams and recent activity at the plant can be found in the March 5 Fulton Sun article, "Callaway Energy Center still at zero power."
When operating, Ameren Missouri's Callaway Energy Center produces enough electricity to power 800,000 households each year.


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Not many election candidates go into an election proposing the growing of narcotics as the new industry to revive an economy.
But Peter Mailler is up-front about it: “Medicinal cannabis is one of our key platforms. It's potentially a multi-billion dollar industry for Australia.
“There are two million people who would potentially benefit from medicinal cannabis products. Demand massively outstrips supply. The opportunity for rural and regional people to benefit from it is going to be limited until we get the supply issue sorted.”
He says the government policy is to import cannabis for legal medical use but relying on foreign growers misses an opportunity: “We have a very strong view that Australia and regional Australia should be at the forefront of developing a domestic industry to take control and take the lead in the opportunity and benefit for the area.”
He doesn’t think farmers in a conservative area might balk at switching from sheep or grapes or tomatoes to a harvesting a drug because it wouldn’t be existing farmers who would do it – the cannabis growing industry would be in addition to current agriculture.
“Medicinal cannabis is not going to be grown in the field”, he said. He envisages a much more controlled, industrial process with opportunities for university research and other ancillary businesses.
The cannabis project is only part of his pitch to voters, the core of which is his strong belief that rural issues have been neglected by MPs – and in particular, he argues, by Barnaby Joyce – who get power too easily.
“We're here to create an environment that means that major political parties can't take the result of an election for granted. They can't take a vote for granted. If we can make these seats marginal in the eyes of the majors, we'll get much better political service.”
So is the aim to win or just to get a sizable vote?
“You’ve got an incumbent – or a former member – who isn't even bothering to campaign. The first and foremost way to fix most of the problems we have is to motivate the local member to want to fight for you because he'll lose his seat if he doesn't”, said Mr Mailler.

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Essay, Pages 5 (1234 words)
As man’s dependence on plastic and plastic products increases, the disposal of plastic waste has become an environmental nightmare. This cheap, widely available resource has been mass produced since its creation for commercial use in 1907. Enormous effort has gone into researching the various uses of plastic but hardly any effort has gone into the elimination of it after use. Plastic is not biodegradable and is only broken down over hundreds of years. Thus, it has now accumulated to such an extent that it is destroying ecosystems and the creatures living in them.
and has allowed the mass production of many other products over the years as well. Plastic waste its the major contributor for most of the world’s land pollution.
The recent spillage of tons of nurdles at Durban last year is just one of countless occurrences which devastate the world. However, in this situation it is not plastic products that has been dumped into the ocean, it’s the nurdles, so is this currently a threat to the local environment? In this research project this topic will be discussed fully as it is relevant to the KwaZulu Natal coastal communities.
A quadrant method will be done to estimate the nurdle population in a small area. This will give a small picture of how much nurdles are currently affecting our coast and aid in determining its threat in the future.
To determine weather nurdles are currently a threat to the local coastal environment of Kwa Zulu Natal.
Review of literature
What are nurdles?
Nurdles are small 4mm by 2mm plastic pellets made of synesthetic material which have a high mouldability (Konig, 2019).
As seen in (McMahon, 2019) nurdles are melted and moulded into their specific plastic products. Millions of nurdles are produced yearly to make plastic products. They are transported via shipping containers and tanker trucks.
If we look at the composition of nurdles we can see that it is made up of long carbon chains. These contain long complex thermosetting polymers, which means that they are chains of carbon, oxygen and nitrogen molecules that are held together be strong dipole-dipole forces. This gives plastic its strength, flexibility and durability.
Due to their size these methods of transportation are the easiest however their size also means that while transporting, nurdles are always spilt
- As seen in (User, 2019).
- Nurdles being spilled on the road transportation (Indianapolis and Indianapolis University, 2019)
- Nurdles being spilt in the ocean transportation (Indianapolis and Indianapolis University, 2019)
The nurdles then float out to sea or land up in beaches all over the world. This is also the reason for nurdles being one of the largest attributors to marine debris.
KZN’s previous struggle with plastic.
In the past, before the nurdle incident, KZN already had a huge plastic pollution problem. As per (source G), the SST (Sustainable Seas Trust) said that if the situation is not fixed soon the country’s pollution levels would be as bad as South East Asia, which is considered be the most polluted on the planet. The also estimated around 150 million tons of plastic to be in the ocean and that number grows as freak accidents like the nurdle incident occur more frequently
As seen in (source D), 1.144 million tons of plastic was discarded and of that 41.8% was recycled. This means that over 660 thousand tons of plastic waste re-entered the waste stream. Despite this being a 5,9% increase from previous years, these stats from 2016 were the most predominant since. This shows us that we are not looking after our environment currently and that our recycling system in south Africa is very poor. The sad thing is recycling, if managed properly can be an income for the country, create jobs and boost the economy however not enough effort is being put into it. The nurdle incident, tragic as it was, opened the eyes of many to how polluted south Africa, especially its waters, actually are.
How the nurdles got into the KZN coastline
On October 10th 2017 the MSC SUSANNA lost two containers holding approximately 49 tons of nurdles to the waters of Kwa Zulu Natal (KZN). This was due to a huge thunderstorm which washed the synthetic, “raw”, pre-moulded plastic pellets from as far north as Richards bay to as far south as the eastern cape (As seen in source A) (Nqayi, 2019) which is taken from the Department of Environmental Affairs, which is a credible source)
What effects do nurdles have on the environment and animals?
Danger to animals
o At first nurdles are not toxic or chemically harmful in any way (as seen in source C) its only after time passes on do nurdles become toxic. This is because they attract “concentrate background pollutants” like pesticides, sewerage, fertilizers or industrial chemicals. If toxic nurdles are consumed by and fish, bird or aquatic species then these animals will most likely become sick, die, return the toxic nurdles into the food chain.
o Due to their small size nurdles affect many different animas negatively. Filter feeders like many fish become choked by the nurdles as it blocks their gills. Due to their size and appearance many animals eat large amounts of nurdles and die either because they resemble fish eggs. (As seen in source B), HCl the acid found in stomachs, can’t break down the nurdles so the nurdles accumulate in the animal’s stomachs. They then starve because the nurdles bock the animals alimentary canals ( as seen in source C). This crates a cycle as the deceased animal will be eaten by scavengers or larger animals thus staying in the food chain as seen in (source B.)
o Nurdles never go away as seen in (source C). over time due to sunlight and oxygen the nurdles break down into smaller fragments but this only occurs after long periods of time. This causes huge problems for filter feeders. As previously discussed, nurdles absorb harmful chemicals in the water making them toxic. Thus, as they become smaller, they become more toxic and increase their surface area. Filter feeders are at an extremely high risk of consuming the toxic, broken down nurdles which would kill them.
Danger to environment
o KZN has a tropical climate. This means that many chemicals enter waterways due to the spraying of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers on crops (source F). These chemicals them flow down the rivers and streams to the mouth where it reaches the ocean. (As seen in source B) nurdles attract chemicals and absorb them, making them toxic. Therefore because of the large concentration of chemicals in the water the nurdles attract and absorb the chemicals which allow the ideal conditions for algal blooms.
o Algal blooms are when algae rapidly reproduce due to favourable conditions and overpopulate the area. The reasons for algal blooms are increased nutrients, temperature and light the nurdles increase the nutrients in the water because they attract the chemicals from the fertilisers and pesticides.
o This is dangerous as algal blooms lower the oxygen levels in the water which means that many living creatures leave the area or die due. This is due to the lack of oxygen which is needed for cellular respiration which is needed for all living creatures to live. The lack of oxygen also means that the nurdles are broken down slower. This is because oxygen is a key component for nurdles to break down.