Celebs who were banned in China
June 27, 2014
1/7Celebs who were banned in China
Brad Pitt- His partner and fiancé Angelina Jolie may have gone to China recently to promote her latest film Maleficent, but that is not the case with Brad Pitt. The Hollywood heartthrob known for his cinema and films that are true to his heart, has been banned from China. Reasons? For starring in the film Seven Years in Tibet. This French film based on the book by the same name, was not taken too kindly by the government of the People's Republic of China, who felt that the Chinese military officers were shown in a bad light and also did not seem to portray the Chinese's treatment of the Tibetan people too well. China and Tibet have had terse relationships and since this move seemed to voice pro Tibetan feelings, the Chinese government seemed to be irked and banned one of the world's greatest actors from entering their country!
2/7Celebs who were banned in China
Richard Gere- Handsome and Humanitarian are what describe this actor well but he's a devout Buddhist and a follower of the 14th Dalai Lama. Richard Gere, known for his famous movie Pretty Woman, was raised attending a Methodist Church but was largely influenced by Buddhism in his twenties and travelled to Nepal to meet several monks and visited monasteries. He officially is a Tibetan Buddhist who follows the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Not only that, he also visits the Dalai Lama, who lives in Dharamsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Gere is very passionate about the Tibetan Independence movement and is vocal about human rights in Tibet. He is the co-founder of the Tibet House, creator of The Gere Foundation, and he is Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Campaign for Tibet. Because of his involvement in the Free Tibet movement, the actor faces a lifetime ban from entering the People's Republic of China. He took the cause further because of which he was banned as an Academy Award presenter in 1993 after he denounced the Chinese government as a presenter. Not only that, in 2007, he called for the boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to put pressure on China to make Tibet independent. He starred in Free Tibet-themed Lancia commercial featuring the Lancia Delta.
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Björk- Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk found herself in trouble when she promoted the Tibetan Independence movement during a concert in Shanghai. Known for her charitable causes, Björk joined a host of celebrities who feel passionate about the Tibetan people's problems and plight with China. At the 2008 concert, she chanted 'Free Tibet, Free Tibet' and this was not perceived in good light by Chinese authorities. China's Culture Ministry denounced this act and announced through Chinese news agency Xinhua stating that the artist broke Chinese laws and hurt the sentiments of the country's people. Over the years, China has become more vigilant and is very cautious about the celebs who perform in the country!
4/7Celebs who were banned in China
Sharon Stone- Hollywood A-Lister and an avid supporter of charitable causes, actress Sharon Stone's movie has been banned in China due to some harsh comments the actress made against the country. On the red carpet of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2008, Sharon Stone commented on the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. She said in an interview to Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News, "I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else." "And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?" Not only that, she also said in an interview with the New York Times, "I'm not going to apologize. I'm certainly not going to apologize for something that isn't real and true – not for face creams." One of China's biggest cinema chains reacted to Stone's comments by declaring it would not show her films in its theatres. Stone joined the bandwagon of other bigwigs who protested for the people of Tibet.
5/7Celebs who were banned in China
Miley Cyrus- She's the queen of controversy who loves flirting with trouble, whether its her sensational twerking act or her racy concerts and penchant for skimpy costumes. The former Hannah Montana star seemed to offend Asians when she posted a picture with a group of friends and her former Boyfriend Justin Gaston where they were seen slanting their eyes. Many Chinese Americans took offense to this and demanded a public apology from the singer. While there was an Asian Pacific American individual in the photo, the public, especially Chinese Americans did not receive it well. She got defensive on her website and wrote through TMZ, “In NO way was I making fun of any ethnicity! I was simply making a goofy face. When did that become newsworthy? It seems someone is trying to make something out of nothing to me. If that would of been anyone else, it would of been overlooked! I definitely feel like the press is trying to make me out as the new 'BAD GIRL'!” And with this, her punishment was also harsh as The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China announced the immediate barring of Miley Cyrus from entering the country. The government also banned any broadcast of her TV show, films, and any sales of merchandise. Whatever the reason may6be behind this picture, Miley surely lost out on a lot of her fans!


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Journaling can serve as an excellent instrument to get a grip on anxiety. A simple write-up can settle the dust between you and your thoughts, leaving behind a clearer air to breathe.
Penning everything on a piece of paper can provide instant relief in a snap, but following these tips while maintaining the log can help you feel even lighter by building an easy route to track the mental health down.
Go Easy on Yourself
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Accepting the faults is one thing, while constantly insulting yourself is another. Write what you love about yourself, even if it’s a self-sacrificing attribute. Something distinctive will help in accepting and understanding oneself better, which will give a push to the self-esteem.
Note that it’s okay to be this way without being judgmental.
Spit Out the Thoughts
Don’t shy away from mentioning how you feel. Include each thought—negative, positive, neutral—everything!Keep writing what’s bothersome until your chest feels that everything has been said. Since a journal is something private, it’s essential to be completely honest.
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If you choose to derail negativity down, flip the page and try to jot down positive things too.
Later, trace the behavioral patterns. Respond to both parts by writing replies to them.If pessimism is on the higher side, think why that happened and how to change it?
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Depression can make a person feel scared. Sometimes, they may think there’s no reason behind it, but there always is one.
Inscribe your concern or fears, especially if it’s something recent. Next, list the consequences down and how they might affect you. Carry on contemplating how the outcomes will further change the way of living.
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After the one-week mark, make sure to go through the previous writing. Try to think differently and see what you can do to make something better. Identify the gloomy parts, be aware of your triggers, control them.
Here are some of the things you can do, but then again, these are your personal notes, so feel free to think and write whatever you want.

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New York Times Headline Twists Story of Teen’s Sentencing in Grisly Abortion Case
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A recent New York Times headline misrepresents the details of a case involving a Nebraska teen who burned and buried the fetal remains of her illegal chemical abortion.
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Our Company Journey
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First Ladies Are Just Like Us: Michelle Obama Binge-Watched ‘Scandal’ Over the Holidays
If you’ve ever wondered how Michelle Obama spends her Thursday nights, now you know that she’s probably perched in front of her television, watching Scandal, just like you. It turns out, the First Lady had never seen the show before but during the holidays she binge-watched the whole thing and loved it.
“You know what, I hadn’t watched it until this past vacation — and we went to Hawaii so I had a long flight — so I watched all the seasons,” she told Ryan Seacrest Thursday. “I love Kerry Washington. She is amazing, so it makes the show fun.”
MObama didn’t tell Seacrest whether she was #TeamFitz or #TeamJake, but I think we can all assume that she’d rather the President not leave his wife.

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Zuni Ricotta Gnocchi
- 1 pound fresh ricotta
- 2 large cold eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter, melted but not hot.
- 1/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (use the good stuff)
- A pinch of salt
- Flour for forming
- 2 sage leaves, some lemon zest, or nutmeg (all optional, but I used chopped sage for my version)
- Butter sauce:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon water
Ingredient Facts and Health Benefits
Discover fascinating facts and health benefits about some of the ingredients in the recipe, including other delicious recipes!
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Another election, another raft of propositions for voters to wade through … and another Cheat Sheet to help you do it!
PROP 30: Increases taxes on earnings of more than $250,000 for seven years, and sales taxes by 1/4 cent for four years, to fund schools and guarantee public safety correctional realignment funding. Fiscal impact: About $6 billion annually in increased sales tax revenue through 2018-2019. Planned reductions to education programs would be cancelled.
Pro: Supporters charge that Prop 30 is the only initiative that prevents schools and colleges from an additional $6 billion in cuts this year. The also say it establishes a guarantee for public safety funding in our state’s constitution, where it can’t be touched without voter approval.
Con: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association claims Prop 30 is just another tax increase, adding to the state’s $15 billion budget deficit, $500 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, a tax and regulatory climate that drives businesses away, and a political system influenced by special interests.
PROP 31: Constitutional amendment establishes a two-year state budget. Fiscal impact: Decreased sales tax revenues of $200 million annually, corresponding increases to local governments.
Pro: Supporters say Prop 31 requires an actual balanced budget, and means that millions of dollars would be better spent on local schools, law enforcement and other community priorities. It generates savings by returning tax dollars to cities and counties, and could also improve government operations and efficiency.
Cons: Opponents say Prop 31’s performance-based budgeting has been tried unsuccessfully several times before. They cite the official fiscal analysis by the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office saying it will raise the costs of government by tens of millions of dollars per year for new budgeting practices, with no guarantee of improvement. It would, they say, expand the power of the governor to cut or eliminate virtually any existing program during a fiscal emergency.
PROP 32: Political contributions by payroll deductions “Paycheck Protection” Initiative would ban both corporate and union contributions to state and local candidates, ban contributions by government contractors to the politicians who control contracts awarded to them, ban automatic deductions by corporations, unions, and government of employees’ wages to be used for politics … no exemptions, no loopholes. Fiscal impact: $1 million annually to enforce measure’s requirements.
Pro: Supporters point out that special interests have spent tens of millions of dollars to prevent Prop 32 from cutting the money tie between them and politicians. Special interests, they say, shouldn’t be able to just take political deductions from employee paychecks, adding that every dollar given for politics should be strictly voluntary. California workers have the right to decide how to spend their money.
Con: Opponents insist that Super PACs and independent expenditure committees are exempt. And 99% of California corporations don’t use payroll deductions for political giving, but would still be allowed to use their profits to influence elections. Prop 32 has a giant loophole that allows for unlimited corporate spending on campaigns while furthering the agenda of silencing the voices of middle-class workers and their unions.
PROP 33: Changes current law to allow insurance companies to offer discounts to new customers who can prove they had continuous coverage by any licensed auto insurance company over the previous five years. Fiscal impact: Essentially none.
Pro: Those in favor say California law requires all drivers to buy automobile insurance. Approximately 85% of California drivers follow the law and buy insurance. Current law punishes drivers for trying to get a better deal by taking away your discount for being continuously insured, supporters add.
Con: Opponents charge that under Prop 33 the so-called continuous coverage discount will result in a surcharge for many California drivers. Mercury Insurance’s billionaire chairman George Joseph has spent $8 million to back Prop 33. Opponents ask, “When was the last time an insurance company billionaire spent a fortune to save you money?”
PROP 34: Eliminates California’s death penalty and replaces it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. Applies retroactively to persons already sentenced to death. Fiscal impact: Directs $100 million to law enforcement for investigating homicide and rape cases. Annual state and county criminal justice savings of $130 million. One-time state costs of $100 million for local law enforcement grants.
Pro: Supporters say life without parole protects public safety better than a death sentence. It’s a lot cheaper, they assert, and keeps dangerous men and women locked up forever istakes can be fixed, they say, adding that that innocent people have been convicted of murder in California. There is, they say, no evidence to support that the death penalty makes our streets safer.
Con: Opponents say the citizens of California voted for and approved the death penalty, and that Prop 34 is a “slap in the face to the victims and their families.” If the state wants to save money, opponents suggest carrying out the will of the voters and actually imposing existing law.
PROP 35: If approved, the “Californians Against Sexual Exploitation” (CASE) Act would increase prison terms for human traffickers, require convicted sex traffickers to register as sex offenders and disclose all internet accounts, require criminal fines from convicted human traffickers to pay for services to help victims and mandate law enforcement training on human trafficking. Fiscal impact: Undetermined, potentially a few millions dollars annually to state/local law enforcement for criminal justice activities related to the prosecution and incarceration, and additional training.
Pro: Supporters argue Prop 35 helps stop exploitation of children that starts online. They say Prop 35 will help protect children and prevent human trafficking.
Con: Opponents argue it lacks a clear funding source, and would be detrimental to the state budget. Anyone receiving financial support from normal, consensual prostitution among adults could be prosecuted as a human trafficker.
PROP 36: Would amend California’s Three-Strikes law to require that the third strike also be a serious or violent felony to qualify for the 25 years to life sentence. It might allow resentencing if a third-strike conviction was for a serious or violent crime. Fiscal impact: Ongoing state correctional savings of $70 million annually.
Pro: Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says it is time to end life sentences for offenses such as petty theft, forgery or drug possession.
Con: The California District Attorneys Association says such minor prosecutions are increasingly rare and that the existing law helps deter crime.
PROP 37: The Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food Initiative would require labeling on raw or processed food if it’s made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways, prohibit labeling or advertising such food as “natural,” except for foods certified as “organic” or unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material. Fiscal impact: Label regulation could run in the hundreds of thousands to perhaps $1 million annually.
Pro: Backers of the prop say we should have the right to know what’s in our food. They point out that more than 40 countries around the world require labels for genetically modified foods.
Con: Naysayers say Prop 37 will create frivolous lawsuits, and increase food costs by billions, lacking any health or safety benefits, but full of special interest exemptions and the potential for frivolous shakedown lawsuits.
PROP 38:Not to be confused with the provisions of Prop 30, the State Income Tax Increase to Support Public Education initiative is a separate tax that would increase state income tax rates for most Californians. The state income tax increase would end after 12 years, unless voters reauthorize it. Most of the new revenue would be earmarked for public school districts and early childhood development programs. Fiscal impact: Increased state revenues of about $10 billion annually.
Pro: Supporters, such as Pasadena attorney and Prop 38 backer Molly Munger, make the case that the initiative would generate “real money that really goes to schools, money that you can count, that you can trace and enforce, and that you can be sure will get to every school and every child.” Some, including Munger, are critical of Gov. Jerry Brown’s Prop 30, saying, “It does not invest in the main engine we have for social mobility and opportunity in our society, which is our K-12 schools.”
Con: Steve Glazer, an adviser to Gov. Brown, said he thinks when there are competing tax measures on the ballot, voters make a choice. Likely result: all including the children you claim to be protecting lose. Other opponents say if you earn $17,346 or more per year in taxable income, Prop 38 could raise California personal income tax rates as much as 21%, on top of that paid to the federal government.
PROP 39: An income tax increase for out-of-state businesses, it wouldn’t affect California-based companies or California residents. Fiscal impact: $1 billion annually for five years, half dedicated to clean or other efficient energy projects, the rest likely spent on schools.
Pro: Supporters say current state law allows out-of-state corporations to manipulate our tax system, and avoid paying their “fair share.” The cost of this loophole: $1 billion per year in lost revenues for California.
Con: Opponents call Prop 39 a classic case of “fox guarding the henhouse.” Money that should go to schools, health and welfare, environmental protection or public safety is instead diverted to a new government commission with fat salaries and little accountability.
PROP 40: This would use the state’s veto referendum process to nullify the state Senate’s redistricting plan approved by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. Note: A “yes” vote on this veto referendum is a vote to maintain intact the work of the Commission, while a “no” vote is a vote to overturn the commission’s lines. Fiscal impact: a “no” vote would cost about $1 million to the state and counties.
Pro: “Yes” vote supporters simply state that in 2008, California voters approved Proposition 11, which created the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw the district maps for the State Senate and State Assembly. Before Prop 11, the legislators drew their own uncompetitive districts, virtually guaranteeing themselves re-election.
Con: According to the California Official Voter Guide, opponents withdrew from all campaign efforts to obtain a “no” vote on Proposition 40 in mid-July.

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A public hearing to talk about tolling I-70 in Missouri is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 17, and Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 1 p.m. in House Hearing Room 3 of the state capitol in Jefferson City. The state House of Representatives Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight is scheduled to meet in January to discuss I-70 funding.
State transportation officials have proposed long-term plans to pay for reconstructing I-70, which they say needs major repairs. Options include privatizing the 250 miles of I-70 from Kansas City to St. Louis and charging tolls, temporarily increasing the state sales tax and earmarking funds to highways, or raising the state fuel tax, which is 17 cents a gallon.
Missouri Department of Transportation estimates the cost to rebuild I-70 from $2 billion to $4 billion.


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Panel discussion at the CAGI's Pastorale Conference Hall from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: committed cities working together
Palmyra Arch - Place des Nations
In March 2018, through an initiative by the city of Geneva, local cities and governments and the High Commissioner of the United Nations signed the Geneva Declaration: 'Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: Committed Cities Working Together'.
Drafted by a panel of international experts from the diverse sectors involved, this Declaration is the result of a movement of solidarity expressed by local entities in the face of the destruction of heritage sites around the world, in times of peace as well as war. It aims to explain the importance of the protection of human rights related to heritage and to propose actions to be implemented at the local level.
What is the originality and the pertinence of this Declaration amidst the plethora of texts and programmes in the domain of heritage protection? What is the added value of a human rights centred approached and, particularly, on cultural rights, in debates relating to heritage? What perspectives can new technologies bring to the field? These are some of the questions that will be tackled by the roundtable.
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M. Rémy Pagani, Administrative Councillor of the City of Geneva. Geneva's committment to cultural heritage: why now? Why with a Declaration?
Dr. Patrice Meyer-Bisch, President of the Observatory of Diversity and Cultural Rights, Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair of the University of Fribourg: An approach based on cultural rights and the relevance of the role of cities regarding heritage rights
Dre Christiane Johannot-Gradis, Lawyer, former ICRC delegate and co-director of the NGO "Traditions for Tomorrow" whose work focuses on the protection of living cultural heritage in Latin America, notably in conflict and post-conflict situations. Cities subject to war from the angle of the Geneva Declaration
Dre Alexy Karenowska, Director of Technology at The Institute for Digital Archaeology and magnetician with a research group based in University of Oxford’s Department of Physics. Conserving heritage: bringing together means and meanings
Dr Peter Bille Larsen, Lecturer at the University of Geneva, specialist on questions of environmental governance, social equity and sustainable development. The importance of heritage for the social fabric
Chairman: Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights

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Organic Apple & Ginger Juice 750ml
Pressed organic English Cox, Gala and Bramleys with the addition of organic ginger juice giving this drink a clean, crisp, naturally sweet apple flavour and a kick of ginger to the finish!
Naturally good for you with no added sugar.
Shake before use and serve lightly chilled.
English apple juice (90%), ginger juice (10%), preservative(ascorbic acid*).*Non-organic.
(per 100ml) energy 169kJ/40kcal, fat 0.1g, of which saturates 0g, carbohydrate 9.4g, of which sugars 8.8g, fibre 0.2g, protein 0.3g, salt 0.01g.
Store in a cool dry place. Once opened keep refrigerated and consume within 7 days.


The U.S. has close to 14,750 wastewater treatment plans, and they process the wastewater of residential and business wastewater that comes in from sewer lines, but approximately 20% of homes and businesses in the U.S. have septic systems that treat some wastewater within the system and the leach field. Every few years or even sooner, trucks pump out the septic tanks and haul the septage to a wastewater treatment facility.
The EPA estimates that wastewater treatment facilities process around 34 billion gallons of wastewater every day. This is an expensive endeavor when it comes to the cost of repairs, upgrades, and most importantly energy consumption. An estimated $2 billion a year is spent on electricity alone, with as much as 40% of a wastewater treatment plant’s operation budget covering that facility’s electricity bills.
Across the nation, wastewater treatment facilities are setting goals to reduce their energy consumption while ensuring water meets the rigid standards required before the wastewater goes to oceans, ponds, rivers, streams, or water treatment plants for reuse. What are the best methods of reducing energy consumption?
Conduct an Energy Audit
An energy audit is the best step to take to identify areas where you can improve your plant’s efficiency. The EPA Office of Wastewater Management has a self-assessment tool to help you get started. The goals of an assessment are to reduce your energy consumption, reduce your operating costs, reduce water loss, reduce your facility’s carbon footprint, and improve the water infrastructure.
ENERGY STAR also offers energy-saving tips and guidance through the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. If your plant has room for improvement, you’ll get information on what efficiency improvements are going to help and learn more about how to prioritize the improvements. If your plant is efficient enough, you can save as much as 30% in a short time. Many facilities see improvements in just a few months.
Area electricity companies also frequently offer energy audits. You can ask your power company if they have any free energy audits available right now or coming up in the future.
Upgrade Older, Less Efficient Equipment
As you go through an energy audit, you learn what equipment is wasting the most energy. You can work with an expert in water treatment equipment to determine what equipment can help you save money and improve your water treatment process. What equipment should you consider?
A good rule of thumb is to look at the age of all of your equipment. Older pumps and motors are going to use more energy. Once you’ve come up with a chart of this information, consider which machines are down for repairs the most. You need to prioritize those. Here are the items that you should consider first.
- Heat Pumps
Heat pumps recover the heat generated during the wastewater treatment cycle and use that heat to preheat water sent to boilers where it requires less energy to heat enough for a heating system or hot water usage. Heat pumps can also help cool your building in hot weather.
- Variable Speed Drives
Variable speed drives are available on a lot of wastewater treatment equipment. If you have equipment that is just on or off with no change of speed throughout the day, it’s time to change that.
Your district’s wastewater flow rates increase when people come home from work, have dinner, and do the dishes. They’ve been out of the house all day, so it’s been relatively quiet. But, now that they’re using water for meals and cleaning up, doing the laundry, and taking baths or showers before bed, water usage increases, and that means water is coming into your plant faster.
Variable speed drives adjust for these increases. If water isn’t flowing in very quickly from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., drives could turn off until they’re needed for higher flow rates in the morning rush to get ready for work or school. They turn off again in the late mornings and afternoons when people are not home. That saves energy and wear and tear on your pumps and other motors.
You’ll also find variable speed drives on a screw pump. These pump liquid from one area to another without easily clogging. Open screw pumps can be up to 75% more efficient while operating and also require less maintenance, which also helps slash your bills. Type C enclosed screw pumps are up to 10% more efficient than open screw pumps.
- Submersible Mixers
A submersible mixer stirs up the wastewater in an anaerobic tank while reducing energy consumption. A stainless-steel propeller delivers high flow rates without needing extra electricity to run the motor.
- LED Lighting
If your plant has older fluorescent lighting, that type of lighting uses far more energy than efficient LED lighting. Switch to LED, which can be up to 90% more efficient, and see savings on your next bill. The switch to LED won’t cost a lot of money, and some power companies offer rebates and other incentives to help you make the switch.
In addition to LED lighting, consider adding motion sensors that detect when someone has left a room. This way, if a worker forgets to turn off the lights, it won’t matter. The lights will turn off automatically when there’s no movement in the room.
Tap Into Renewable Energy
If your plant isn’t using solar and wind power to help generate electricity, it’s time to consider making a change. There are many programs out there to help you embrace solar, wind, and even geothermal energy for less money.
For outdoor security lights, install solar lights. They have a separate panel that powers the lights by day and runs them all night. They’re helpful as you can install them anywhere and don’t need outlets or a power source nearby.
As your renewable energy system works, you’ll find your savings end up recouping the amount you spent on the system. From there, you gain pure savings that you can reinvest in additional upgrades or use to lower rates for the members in your district.
Talk to an Expert in Water Treatment
You’ll find there are many ways to improve your wastewater treatment plant’s energy efficiency, but it takes research and careful planning to make the best choices for your municipality. Work with experts in water treatment.
Lakeside Equipment has close to 100 years in the water treatment industry. Our dedicated team of sales professionals, engineers, and technicians are here to meet your needs and complete all aspects of your plant’s upgrades from planning to on-site installation. We can even get the parts you need and ship them immediately.
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Of course, I do not believe we need another person to be strong, but I do believe that we need authentic and honest relationships to keep us stable and grounded. I learned that men were leaping to porn to escape from their world and get some pleasure ejaculation. The problem is that it became excessive and denatured their potency with cumming.
They really are craving for love but have so many blockages in the way; many are ideologies about how love can exist in their life…it has to fit a certain way or not at all. This limitation represents an insecurity they cannot accomplish or satisfy the goal. But they can…
When men do not heal their insecurities, they can throw them onto their woman in a relationship. For example, telling her indirectly or directly to change her outfit, stay home, be less seen, less mobile, more obedient. He needs to control something to get his sense of security and control together.
A lot of men are dying for love but their limiting beliefs block them from receiving a woman’s love. Men are afraid of being taken advantage of or sullied by a woman so they will be extra protective and more likely to argue and be in charge of what is “right” and “wrong” in the relationship. This is how men block their ability to love, by over-compensating for an insecurity that they are not loveable, or worthy.
Unfortunately, men will continue to end their relationships from going deeper, and growing together out of fear of actually receiving the love they need to be self-actualized in their role as a man. For example, actually supporting a woman’s self-actualized needs empowers his self-actualized needs…that book, that video, that class you want to accomplish is more attainable when you care for your Goddess needs.
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What we know and don’t know about trade with Africa
A new report could shed light on whether efforts to develop African economies are doing any good.
On September 30, United States Trade Representative Michael Froman wrote a letter to Irving Williamson, chairman of the International Trade Commission, regarding the African Growth and Opportunity Act. In the letter, Froman requested that the International Trade Commission conduct four investigations and provide four reports related to AGOA and our [United States’] trade relationship with Africa.
The results will likely bring sanity to our approach to trade with Africa, and it may very well force changes in how we develop future trade agreements and policy with the second largest land mass on our planet, not to mention with more than a quarter of the world’s countries.
To understand the significance of the letter, one has to understand AGOA, legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000 that was designed to allow African economies far greater access to the United States market, seemingly duty-free. At the time, some likened AGOA to the North American Free Trade Agreement passed during the Clinton administration. It wasn’t close to NAFTA in its terms, but since it was the first major legislation ever adopted by the U.S. Congress on behalf of its relations with the African continent, there was understandable euphoria about its passage and hyperbole about its likelihood to significantly affect the economic and political development of Africa.
To the African lobby in Washington, AGOA became a point of pride and accomplishment. Very quickly, it became politically incorrect to question the benefits of AGOA without being attacked as anti-Africa or worse. Later, under President Bush, AGOA legislation was further strengthened, with the intent to increase exports from Africa to the United States. Objective critique became even more difficult given clear bipartisan support. Groupthink became the rule in Washington.
Now, 13 years later, there are few if any who would say that AGOA has been an unqualified success. The apparel industry in Africa has been a primary beneficiary of AGOA, as has South Africa, which has exported car parts and textiles to the United States duty-free. Some might argue that China has also been a major beneficiary of AGOA, since it owns many of the textile and apparel plants in Africa that are shipping duty-free products to the United States.
However, beyond that there has been little benefit for most countries who are qualified as AGOA-certified. The reason for that is less the legislation but the fact that most African countries do not have the infrastructure or the capacity, including trained workforces, to use AGOA effectively. Furthermore, many African nations have been slow to reform their economic sectors, inhibiting more private sector development and limiting the possibility for investment.
This is hardly a secret, and is discussed openly everywhere but in the halls of Congress. In fact, a recent British study noted that AGOA has largely not affected African development, and stated unequivocally that except for the apparel industry, very few economic sectors in Africa benefited from AGOA.
Yet, here we are again, advocating for the extension of AGOA for another 10 years or longer, arguing that Africa only needs time to develop in order to use it effectively. This argument has a certain logic to it. Eventually Africa will develop and it will be able to use AGOA.
There are also those that argue for the extension of AGOA because, well, we really have nothing better to replace it with, and to have a new overreaching agreement that might work better will probably not be feasible in such a contentious Washington political environment. To abandon AGOA is to be seen as abandoning Africa.
Indeed, it would be difficult to say we weren’t abandoning Africa if we scotched the only significant trade agreement we ever had with the continent. The symbolism and reality of that would be very difficult to bear for the African lobby in Washington. The argument to extend AGOA is an emotional one as much as it is a rational one.
Enter the Froman letter. The first investigation that Froman asks ITC to complete within six months is a report that includes a review of all literature on the AGOA preference program, particularly “in terms of expanding and diversifying the exports of AGOA beneficiary countries to the United States, compared to preference programs offered by third parties such as the EU.” He also asks ITC to give an accurate report on the sectors that have increased the most in exports to the U.S., excluding petroleum sectors. He asks ITC to explain why these increases are so, as well as to identify factors that affect competiveness in AGOA-beneficiary countries.
The reason that petroleum products are excluded in the analysis is that USTR and others count petroleum products in the AGOA total, and petroleum makes up 93 percent of this total. However, some believe that petroleum should not be counted, as it was nearly tariff free before AGOA, and has been effected very little by being placed under AGOA. The purpose of AGOA was to increase and broaden economic benefits beyond petroleum. Froman’s request to ITC takes out a misleading figure and focuses on the real intent of AGOA: the development of other economic sectors throughout Africa.
Froman also asks that in the first investigation, ITC identify the effects AGOA has had on the business climates in AGOA-beneficiary countries (not all African countries qualify under AGOA but that is another issue), and finally, he asks for a comparison of trade agreements to AGOA between sub-Saharan African countries and other countries, including areas that are likely to affect U.S. trade with Africa. Noteworthy is that Froman asks that this report will be available to the public in its entirety. There will be one hymnal from which all can sing.
The report should go a long way in giving an objective analysis of AGOA, both its benefits and shortcomings, and it should then allow Congress, the USTR and others to develop a more effective trade policy towards sub-Saharan Africa, filled with more substance and objectivity and far less emotion and bias. Any new trade policy on Africa, whether it be called AGOA or any other name, should address the causes that prevent greater trade and economic investment in development.
Stephen Hayes is president and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa.


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Where is the closest Airsoft store from Vernon?
I live in Vernon, located at the junction of Highway 97 and Highway 6 in the Okanagan Valley, 29 miles (46 km) north of Kelowna and 73 miles (117 km) southeast of Kamloops. I cant seem to find a store that sells anything worth while in actual Airsoft guns (I play with the cheap, clear guns that you can pick up at Walmart and Canadian Tire). Although there is Surplus Herby's here in town and a surplus place in Kelowna; both having great gear and como, but lacking in good, powerful airsoft guns. So I just want to know if anyone out there knows of any "Airsoft" stores close to where i live. and if there are, where are they... :?
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement Wednesday amidst escalating violence in Rakhine, Burma:
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“While the acts of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army are likewise indefensible, the humanitarian and human rights situation in Rahkine state is extremely tenuous—with thousands of innocent men, women and children displaced with virtually no access to humanitarian assistance. I urge the government of Burma, and its de facto leader Aung San Su Kyi, to ensure immediate and unfettered humanitarian access to these communities. Furthermore, I call upon Aung San Su Kyi and the Burmese government to allow the United Nations access to affected areas, to return to its commitment to protecting the human rights of all those who live in Burma, and to hold accountable those in the Burmese military who are responsible for these heinous atrocities.”


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A successful bid to host the World Expo would be a game changer for the UAE, with as many as 25 million people expected to visit the world fair.
What will be the UAE's Eiffel Tower?
DUBAI // The Eiffel Tower, Ferris wheels and ice-cream cones are just some of the innovations to come from world expos.
Every five years for six months, a country welcomes the world to an exhibition of cultural heritage, architectural legacy and technological innovation.
The first expo was in 1851 at the Crystal Palace in London. The event was such a success the organisers were able to use the proceeds from the 6 million visitors to build the famed Victoria and Albert Museum.
A successful bid would be a game changer for the UAE, with as many as 25 million people expected to visit the world fair.
“Hosting the Expo 2020 would be life-changing for Dubai and not just during the lifespan of the event, but for years to follow,” said Hamad Buamim, the director general of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
“It would be a major step for the Mena region as a World Expo has never been held in this part of the world before.
“Expo 2020 is a great advertisement for Dubai and the wider UAE, and one that will help attract more visitors and businesses.”
Despite such obvious advantages, the World Expo began as and remains a non-commercial event.
The objectives are to educate the public and foster cooperation.
According to the convention drawn up by the Bureau International des Exhibitions, the body governing the event, expos should “demonstrate progress achieved” and “show prospects for the future”.
Such prospects at previous expos include the commercial typewriter, first shown in Philadelphia in 1876, the ice-cream cone in 1904 in St Louis, and the world’s first mobile phones in Japan in 1970.
Next year’s event, to be hosted in Milan, Italy, will focus on sustainability with the theme, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.


During a recent interview to promote his movie, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Lee Daniels revealed that Patti LaBelle helped him get sober.
Speaking to The Guardian, he said:
“Part of the reason I wanted to tell Billie’s story is, I understand addiction and the artist. I also understand the feeling of a lack of self-worth, thinking that you aren’t talented. When your father tells you things like that at a young age, no matter how old you get, that voice is in your head.”
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Mostly Lower Overnight, US$ Rallies...
Feb 16, 2012
· Grains mixed overnight with soybean lower across the board, corn and wheat mixed; Corn closing below key support at 6.28 yesterday, making a new 3-week low; Some estimate that over 100k new longs came into the market during this timeframe, all of which are now “underwater” on their positions
· Recent soybean strength a precursor to Chinese purchase yesterday; China inked deal to buy 8.6mmt of US beans and are expected to purchase even more in the following days (spread traders, not action in X12-N13 spread as of late)
· Deal with Argentina will allow China to purchase corn from them for the first time ever, providing some competition for the US
· Rainfall deficits since the end of Jan are between 3.75” and 5.5” across much of Brazil and Paraguay according to our lead forecaster; More heat and little rainfall to continue through Monday
· 6.12-6.15 area next major support for March corn; Many technicians turning negative after yesterday’s weak close; N-Z corn spreading working on downside breakout this morning, trading near +71 after sitting in a range from +75-85 for a couple of weeks
· Wheat follows corn, no further analysis needed (we believe that wheat will gain significantly on corn at some point in the not-so-near future, timing will be key)
· S. Korea buys 3 cargoes of US corn totaling 210,000mt for May/June
New crop soybean vs. corn spreads have moved drastically higher over the past couple of weeks, leaving many wondering what type of impact the ratio change may have on acreage. Traders seem intent on buying some acreage back for beans, although most still believe farmers plant 94+ million corn acres. The reality of the situation is that spring weather patterns may have just as much to do with acreage allocation as the recent move in price ratios. A dry spring and early planting would certainly result in more corn acreage while a slow, wet planting season would result in more beans, which can be planted later. There is definitely more than one piece to this puzzle. Seasonal trend follow look for some weakness during this timeframe ahead of the standard seasonal spring rally in March/April. Bulls beware today as the US$ rallies and outside commodities show weakness.
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McCain’s Dan Quayle?
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Democrats have been relishing every minute since Sen. John McCain announced that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be his vice presidential running mate. The attacks have been fast and furious. Palin lacks experience; she has ties to the far right; she has scandals lurking in her personal background. Palin, Democrats say, is McCain’s Dan Quayle.
This is among the most stinging comparisons in contemporary politics — bringing back memories of the running mate of Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988. One Republican at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last week, surprised by the pick, predicted, “Democrats will have a field day typecasting her as Quayle in a pantsuit.”
The comparison has some merit. It is easy to look back at the media coverage of Quayle in August of 1988 and to find language that closely resembles today’s talk about Palin.
But the Democrats are forgetting the important point: Quayle was on the winning ticket. The candidate with the far more seasoned running mate, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis with Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, was trounced that year.
When Bush picked Quayle, he wanted to shake up the race by bringing a charismatic conservative and younger face onto the ticket. Bush chose Quayle over more established finalists like Sens. Robert Dole, Pete Domenici, Alan Simpson or Rep. Jack Kemp and former Transportation Sec. Elizabeth Dole. Bush knew that conservative activists did not trust him, perceiving him to be part of the “white shoe” Northeastern Republican establishment, far more comfortable with compromise and bipartisanship than the younger renegades of the Reagan Revolution.
Quayle seemed the perfect antidote. He was part of the up-and-coming cohort of congressional Republicans who maintained close ties to the conservative movement. Quayle made a name for himself in 1988 by attacking President Ronald Reagan for holding arms negotiations with the Soviet Union and betraying the conservative cause.
“Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism,” Quayle said, talking about the reforms then underway in the Soviet Union. Conservatives were initially excited about the choice. The right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly said that Quayle brought “youth, attractiveness, conservative image . . . all the elements of a great and winning ticket.”
But things quickly started to go wrong. One problem was the sharp contrast of the team’s age and appearance. Bush made Quayle look too young for the job. Democrats played on this, attacking Quayle’s inexperience. Dukakis, after all, had selected Bentsen, an experienced elder statesman.
There were also revelations about Quayle’s connections to Paula Parkinson, a stunning female lobbyist at the center of a 1980 scandal, who had revealed that she had used heavy-handed techniques to sway legislators. Parkinson, who later posed nude in Playboy, was the focus of a Justice Dept. investigation into whether politicians had traded favors for sex.
The investigation did not turn up evidence of wrongdoing. But it was discovered that Quayle was one of the representatives who attended a golf trip with Parkinson in Florida. Quayle insisted that he had done nothing wrong and had gone to “play golf.”
The senator looked ever more like a deer in the headlights as he faced questions about how he got a spot in the National Guard as a result of his privileged upbringing.
Republicans were frustrated at their convention, just days after the announcement, when all the media attention in New Orleans was on Quayle rather than the Republican message. GOP strategist Ed Rollins lamented that the carefully planned out convention “got stomped on” by the Quayle selection.
Quayle also made mistakes after the convention. The most infamous occurred at a photo-op at a school in Trenton, N.J., where Quayle mistakenly corrected a student who had spelled potato correctly. He said the young boy had left an “e” off the end.
During the vice presidential debate, Quayle compared himself to John F. Kennedy, responding to a question about whether his lack of experience mattered. Obviously prepared for this, Bentsen jumped on the comparison, and said “I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator you’re no Jack Kennedy.” Bentsen was widely regarded as the winner that night.
Democrats did not stop. One of their favorite sayings was “Quayle: Just a heartbeat away.”
But the Bush team came back. Even as Democrats attacked Quayle and his candidacy deteriorated, the GOP strategist Lee Atwater and his team kept their guns focused on Dukakis. They painted him as weak on defense, in favor of high taxes and out of touch with mainstream values as a “card-carrying member of the ACLU.”
In the end, this was what mattered most to voters. The strategy worked. The Republicans trounced the Democrats. Bush won 53.4 percent of the popular vote and a whopping 426 electoral votes—all with Quayle on the ticket.
There have been other races where controversial picks did not sidetrack a presidential candidacy. During the 1952 presidential campaign, for example, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s pick, Sen. Richard M. Nixon, came under fire from press revelations that he maintained a secret slush fund filled by California supporters. The story broke just days after Eisenhower had announced his selection.
Eisenhower was prepared to drop Nixon, but the senator went on television. Nixon made a speech, arguing that he and his wife, Pat, were common Americans without wealth, and he mocked the accusations against him. He said, most notably, that he would not return a cocker spaniel, Checkers, that a supporter had given his two little daughters. He spoke of his wife’s “respectable Republican cloth coat” and asked supporters to write directly to the Republican National Committee to show their backing. The polls were in Nixon’s favor — and the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket sailed to victory.
In the past few days, Democrats have been focusing on one aspect of the 1988 campaign — Quayle’s many problems — while forgetting the overall story: Bush and Quayle won.
Democrats could certainly point to the weaknesses and dangers in the Palin selection, but they should be cautious. If they allow Palin to distract them from their main target — McCain and his support for the unpopular economic and military policies of President George W. Bush — they might just find themselves like Dukakis and Bentsen in 1988, on the losing end.
Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. He is the co-editor of “Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s” (Harvard University Press) and is completing a book on the history of national security politics since World War II.
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Yesterday was a big day for Bethenny Frankel as her new talk show, ‘bethenny’, debuted in several markets across the country (but not ours!).
We scoured the web yesterday trying to find the full episode – with no luck. We DID find several clips from the show and they’re pretty hilarious and totally Bethenny. She’s not dialing it back or changing her personality and you have to respect her for that!
We also stumbled on some pictures of Bethenny from a meet and greet event in Philadelphia yesterday. Those are below, along with the video clips from her debut episode of ‘bethenny’.
Did any of you have a chance to see the show in full yesterday? What’d you think? I thought it was great that Jason Hoppy is hanging out in the audience and the “Sex Q&A” clip is hysterical!
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Nice Reduction in Tequesta Inventory Levels
Happy New Year. January 1st has finally arrived and with it the anticipation of another year and what to expect in the south Florida real estate market. Looking back there is no doubt that we made great strides during 2011 in returning to somewhat normal conditions. In about a week we will be putting together our year end review and I think everyone will be happy to see how strong our foundation is compared to a year ago.
One metric that we closely watch and bring to you on a monthly basis is the changes to the inventory of homes available for sale in the various markets of north Palm Beach and southern Martin County. If anyone was watching in 2005 they would have seen how inventory continued to increase throughout the year and it was when the market could no longer absorb that inventory that the cracks started to appear.
On the converse side of this equation, much as we saw in 2005 how a rise in inventory signaled trouble ahead we need to keep a close eye while we see inventory contracting as it too will give us the signal of prices getting ready to head higher. Lower inventory and stronger sales is a winning combination. Supply and demand will always tell us where the market is moving.
This report shows our home inventory “power rankings” for the month ending January 1st. We are going to switch things up in the way we rank inventory and as of this month’s report will go along with the overall market and our top rated municipality will be the one who shows the highest reduction in inventory levels. Since it is these reductions, when coupled with stronger sales, which will move prices higher we want to rank those accordingly. So here are the inventory power rankings are the rankings for the month of December;
#1 Tequesta – DOWN 2%
#2 Jupiter – DOWN 1.6%
#3 Palm Beach Gardens – DOWN 1%
#4 Hobe Sound – UP 3.7%
#5 Juno Beach – UP 4%
Overall inventory levels around the area went slightly lower with a median decrease in inventory of 1% over the past thirty days which is a bullish sign for the market and a great way to start off the year. We next move in this months report with our 1st place finisher of Tequesta who showed a decrease in inventory of 2% over the past 30 days. As of January 1st we have 262 active listings compared to 267 on December 1st and we are now about 17% below our 12 month high back on March 1st. We are also well below the 315 units we had in inventory one year ago.
You will find it very easy to reach me at 561 308-0175 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org if there is anything that I can do to assist you with real estate questions that you may have. We are committed to bringing only the highest level of service to you, your family, friends and colleagues so if we can be of service in any way please do not hesitate to contact us at your convenience.
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Products are created and designed around each dog, sewn one-by-one with focus on small details. I search for well-made, high-quality worn jeans and environment-friendly materials. Discontinued fabric swatches, textile waste and offcuts are sourced for patchwork. Hemp and other environment-friendly material is also used. I carefully stitch then sew for all breeds with the goal of making unique and locally-focused pieces for dogs to wear. Products are made in and shipped from Franklin, Tennessee.
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The looks on their faces may be all business, but on the inside, St. Petersburg police officers are cheering the start of another baseball season and rooting for a new stadium in St. Pete.
Dozens of them work extra hours "off duty" every game. A spokesman for their union said through the course of the season, an officer can add $10,000 to their regular pay, which averages around $40,000 per year.
"They rely heavily on that as supplemental income," Michael Krohn told FOX 13 News. "Especially in this day and age where officers aren't getting raises right now."
Krohn quickly adds the extra cash is a bump, not a bonus.
"The officer has to work a lot more too," he said. "They work a 10-hour shift and then have to go work a four or six hour event, so it's a really long day."
Frequently, only a few hours separates the off-duty work and the next regular shift. Combined with other obligations, some officers are able to work the Trop more than others.
Efficiencies have also eroded the opportunities.
"You learn a lot of tricks from 1998 forward," Mayor Bill Foster said. "You learn traffic patterns and fan habits, so yeah, you're able to better deploy your assets."
For example, years ago there were separate contingents of officers working on Trop property and off property, such as on traffic detail. Now, some of the officers working traffic as the crowds arrive move inside for most of the game, then back to their traffic posts late in the game to handle the exodus.
There are other off-duty jobs, such as concerts, night clubs and large house parties. But Krohn said nothing comes close to offering so many hours to so many officers as baseball.
And many are also Rays fans, so if the franchise chooses to leave St. Petersburg, they will have even more reasons to be unhappy.
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Official FTV Coin Deluxe Party Adds Touch of Glamor to NEXT BLOCK Conference Ukraine.
NEXT BLOCK invites all conference participants to a fabulous Official FTV Coin Deluxe Party, co-organized and sponsored by FashionTV.
NEXT BLOCK conference will be followed up with the FTV party, held at Coin Restaurant in Kiev (Ukraine) on May 18, promising to be the most exquisite and stylish affair of 2018, across Eastern Europe. This party will serve as the junction where innovation, technology, and progress meet the world of fashion, sensation, and allure.
You have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rub shoulders with renowned experts, ICO leaders, and cryptocurrency industry influencers in an exclusive atmosphere dripping with chic and luxury courtesy of FashionTV and Krypton Capital, an early stage venture firm founded by veteran investor Ilan Tzorya.
“We are excited to have partnered up with FashionTV, a pioneering company, and their upcoming FTV coin, which can truly change the way the fashion industry operates, and provide much-needed protection to models from fraudulent or exploitative agencies,” said Ilan Tzorya.
The FTV Coin Deluxe Party will feature fabulous spectacles, including a bartender show and a ballet performance. Guests will get to enjoy musical delights served by the finalist of Ukraine’s “Voice of the Country” project and admire the creativity of one of the country’s best DJs.
Michel Adam, the founder and president of FashionTV, will personally visit the event to network and chat with investors and blockchain startup founders. He will announce the pre-sale of FTV coin – the medium of exchange on the blockchain-based platform for models, fashion, and luxury lifestyle.
The FashionTV platform will enable customers and business partners to interact with FTV directly along with providing access to a host of B2B services to make the fashion industry more secure, fair, and transparent. FashionTV’s mission is to help models get maximum value from their work while safeguarding their interests and protecting them from fraudulent agencies through smart contracts and blockchain technologies.
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Someone to Cherish: Harry's Story (The Westcott Series #8)
Is love worth the loss of one's freedom and independence? This is what Mrs. Tavernor must decide in the new novel in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.
When Harry Westcott lost the title Earl of Riverdale after the discovery of his father's bigamy, he shipped off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, where he was near-fatally wounded. After a harrowing recovery, the once cheery, light-hearted boy has become a reclusive, somber man. Though Harry insists he enjoys the solitude, he does wonder sometimes if he is lonely.
Lydia Tavernor, recently widowed, dreams of taking a lover. Her marriage to Reverend Isaiah Tavernor was one of service and obedience, and she has secretly enjoyed her freedom since his death. She doesn't want to shackle herself to another man in marriage, but sometimes, she wonders if she is lonely.
Both are unwilling to face the truth until they find themselves alone together one night, and Lydia surprises even herself with a simple question: "Are you ever lonely?" Harry's answer leads them down a path neither could ever have imagined...
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“One of the best!”--Julia Quinn
"Balogh is today’s superstar heir to the marvelous legacy of Georgette Heyer, (except a lot steamier!)”—Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Plasto and Roadtech with unique patent
A new plug enables the deployment of plowshares at speed and with significantly better attachment.
Plasto is developing a solid plug for plow sticks that will be screwed to the roadside at speed. The plug that is screwed into the ground, and on which the plow stick is mounted, has been developed with us. It is the North Sea company Roadtech, a company co-owned by Plasto, which delivers the complete system with plow sticks and assembly machine.
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– RoadTech’s recyclable screwdriver is an extra reinforced stick that is screwed into the ground. Tests carried out with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration show that it is four times as good as today’s plowshares. This reduces wastage and the need for resetting by up to 20%, says Project Manager at Plasto, Runar Stenerud.
The plow stick has been developed to be able to be mounted at the roadside at speed, which makes the work of laying out smoother and safer. The machine for fully automatic stitching and recording is also supplied by Roadtech.
Circular utilization of the product
A significant factor in the development of the plug and the plow stick has been to make it recyclable.
– We can recycle discarded plugs into new plugs with the same high quality. From the very beginning, we have had a plan from production to the end of life of the product, and this enables a circular utilization of the product. This also applies to other parts of the plow stick, says Runar Stenerud.
– The work with the plug for RoadTech has been very exciting. Together with the other owners, this will contribute to safer roads and a more environmentally friendly alternative, says Lars Stenerud, CEO Plasto.
The plugs will be produced this spring and are ready for use in the autumn of 2021.


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Also known as 'the art of making things up,' creative writing is a vital part of modern society this lesson will explore what makes writing. Masterclass offers online classes created for students of all skill levels our instructors are the best in the world. A creative writing class is generally a small class with fellow aspiring writers often the class focuses on either poetry or fiction an introductory. A beginner's guide to creative writing read it to know about the intro, how to get started, fiction writing, poetry writing, creative nonfiction, and more. The novelist and professor hanif kureishi has voiced criticism of creative writing courses – and having been on one, i find it hard to disagree share.
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Did you know that pomegranate juice has many health benefits? You’ve probably heard about its anti-inflammatory properties and its ability to fight free radicals that cause cell damage. But did you know that it can help your skin look younger and even ward off chronic diseases? If you’re wondering how pomegranate juice can help you, here are the top reasons to include it in your diet Read More Sleep Doctor
The pomegranate contains a variety of polyphenols, alkaloids, and manatee, all of which are believed to have antioxidant activity. They are also thought to improve metabolism. However, the precise antioxidant content of pomegranate fruit varies from one cultivar to another. To learn more about pomegranate fruit’s antioxidant benefits, read on.
Research has shown that the rind of the pomegranate has anti-viral properties. This fruit contains polyphenols that are potent inhibitors of various types of viruses. These compounds can help prevent and treat various types of illnesses. According to Dr. Rufeng Wang, Ph.D., pomegranate rind has many benefits to human health. It is also beneficial to the immune system. Vidalista helps you out with erectile dysfunction.
Researchers have discovered that pomegranate fruit and extract have powerful anti-tumor properties, limiting the growth and development of cancer cells. They found that pomegranate extract inhibits the growth of cancer cells through its effect on multiple genes and the inflammatory molecule NF-kB. This means that pomegranate is a potent anti-tumor agent, and may even have a role in treating cancer.
A simple water decoction of the mesocarp of the pomegranate fruit ensures the extraction of ellagitannins and polysaccharides. A study showed that the extract of pomegranate fruit counteracted the early, intermediate, and late stages of colon carcinogenesis in rats. This suggests that the fruit may be use for the primary prevention of colon cancer. However, further studies are need to clarify the biological mechanisms of pomegranate fruit biosynthesis.
A study aimed to investigate the genetic diversity of pomegranate genotypes using biochemical markers in fruit, leaf, and shoot bark. The findings indicate that higher levels of vitamin C are associated with higher resistance to biotic stress conditions. However, these findings have a catchy name: “pomegranate disease.”
In previous studies, pomegranate has shown potential benefits in lowering glucose levels and preventing insulin resistance. These benefits have been documented in animal models and observational studies, but interventional trials in humans have produced mixed results. The current study sought to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining the effect of pomegranate supplements on glucose levels and insulin resistance. Vidalista 10 as well as, Vidalista 20 is the best medicine for improving erectile dysfunction.
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Audi has quietly announced an upgrade to the loudest car it makes. Today, friends, we welcome a brand-new R8 into the fold.
Yes, a new R8—remember them? With all the noise surrounding Audi’s fully-electric e-tron range, it’s easy to forget the German brand still makes a naturally aspirated, fire-spitting mid-engined V10 supercar...that itself makes a really, really good noise.
So, this new R8 is a rear-wheel-drive R8, and is unsurprisingly called the Audi R8 V10 Performance RWD. Long name, short story: It replaces the entry-level car, bringing more power and inspiration from the wild LMS GT4 racer with it. Indeed, all R8s are now ‘performance’ R8s, available with rear- or four-wheel drive (something called ‘Quattro,’ apparently).
All clear? Good. The 5.2-liter nat-asp V10 is present and correct, here producing 562hp—versus the old car’s 533hp—and 550Nm of torque (again, an increase on the old entry-level car). We’re not told exactly how this additional power and torque was created, but we’re imagining Audi just turned its Spinal Tap knob to 11.
It’s matched as before to a seven-speed S tronic gearbox and a mechanical limited-slip differential, Audi claiming a 0-100kph time of 3.7sec for the Coupe and 3.8sec for the Spyder. Top speed sits at 328kph (or 327kph if you’re in the drop-top). Plenty fast enough. We’re told this performance RWD car will allow for “controlled drifts,” and gets a bespoke suspension tune as well as dynamic steering available for the first time. It’s built in the same factory as the LMS GT4 R8, and Audi tells us that 60% of the parts on that racer were carried over from the road car.
Rather more obvious nods to this symbiosis include the radiator grille, the large air intakes, the front splitter, the rear air outlet, and the tailpipes. The hood ‘slit’ is said to evoke the old Audi Sport Quattro, and you can choose from 10 different paint options. Inside, it’s business as normal, which is to say a really good, well-finished layout. Audi’s virtual cockpit featuring a 12.3-inch screen is the standout feature, as are bucket seats and the all-important ‘RWD’ badge.
You can still option it up to the hilt if you so wish—20-inch wheels, better leather, a better sound system, better brakes, and so on—but prices start at £126,885 (P8.74 million) for the—deep breath—R8 V10 Performance RWD Coupe, and £135,575 (P9.34 million) for the Performance RWD Spyder.
“The Audi R8 V10 RWD really struck a chord with customers right from the start,” explains Audi Sport managing director Sebastian Grams. “Now it has 30hp and 10Nm more, taking the driving experience to a whole new level.”
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The Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Criminology degree is designed to prepare graduate students to conduct research and actively participate in the development of knowledge in the areas of criminological theory and criminal justice issues.
Students who are planning careers in law enforcement, corrections or rehabilitation, or who wish a deeper understanding of crime and the criminal justice system should confer with the Graduate Program Advisor to develop a combination of elective courses that will support their particular career interests. Students seeking this degree are frequently candidates to pursue the Ph.D. in Criminal Justice.
Students who apply the MA program are automatically considered for scholarships and assistantships.
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Applications for the Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Criminology degree program are due on the following date.
- Fall: Feb 1
Please note that application deadlines will occasionally change. Please contact your academic advisor (listed in the contact section) for confirmation on application deadlines.