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After you have a good idea of the difference between “Deaf” and “deaf,” discuss how you feel about this distinction. How does this fit in with any assumptions you had about the Deaf community? Do you feel that these terms symbolize pride in the community or is it some type of prejudice and segregation?

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Mariah IS having more than one baby, Nick Cannon confirms (so is it twins... or triplets?)
Ever since Mariah Carey referred to her unborn child as 'they', the rumour that she was having twins has refused to go away.
And now Nick Cannon seems to have finally confirmed that his wife is having a multiple pregnancy.
The radio DJ refused to say how many babies his wife was expecting, but admitted that by saying 'they' she 'wasn't wrong'.
Father-to-be: Nick Cannon in Hollywood this week; he has revealed his wife Mariah Carey is having more than one child
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Baidu, the Chinese-language internet search provider, announced the successful test drive of its self-driving car—a modified BMW 3-Series.
According to the Chinese internet search provider, its self-driving car navigated through a complicated route in Beijing. The test drive was 18.6 miles including side streets and highways around the capital city of China.
The autonomous, modified BMW-3 Series started driving at the headquarters of Baidu and went through the g7 highways, Fifth Ring Road, the Olympic Park and returned to the starting point.
Baidu said the test drive was challenging
In a statement, Wang Jing, the senior vice president and general manager of the autonomous driving business unit at Baidu admitted that the test drive for the company’s self-driving car wasn’t easy.
According to him, “Fully autonomous driving under mixed road conditions is universally challenging, with complexity further heightened by Beijing’s road conditions and unpredictable driver behavior.”
Despite the challenge, Baidu’s self-driving car managed to finish the test drive without human control. It was able to turn left and right, reduce speed when approaching vehicles, change lanes, pass other cars, merge into traffic, accelerate to a top speed of 62 mph.
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Since 2013, Baidu has been testing technology for self-driving cars. Last year, the company partnered with BMW to work on self-driving cars. In June, Baidu and BMW announced their intention to start testing self-driving cars on public roads this year.
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According to Baidu, it is testing two modified BMW-3 Series equipped with radars, sensors, and camera. The company said its self-driving car is integrated with an in-house mapping data and deep-learning technology.
The company said its approach in developing its self-driving cars is “to advance incrementally through different environments, rather than through different levels pf driving autonomy.” Baidu wants to develop autonomous vehicles that are limited geographically to reduce challenges. An example is a bus driving on the same route regularly.


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Situated in Eisenach, Hotel Hennesburg is just 1 km from Wartburg Castle. The hotel offers free WiFi access, a free shuttle service and a terrace. Each of the rooms at the hotel comes equipped with a view of the city and a private bathroom with a hairdryer and free toiletries. A fresh breakfast buffet is available each morning at Hotel Hennesburg. A variety of restaurants and cafés can be found within a 10-minute walking distance of the accommodation. The Thüringer Museum is located 800 metres from the hotel, and Bach House can be reached in a 15-minute walk. The Town Palace is 1 km away. Free private parking is available at the hotel, and it is a 20-minute walk to Eisenach Train Station.
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After two days exploring the city of Dubai with its towering skyscrapers and golden sand beaches, I checked out of the Grand Hyatt Hotel and my friend Laila came to fetch me for the drive to Abu Dhabi. Depending on where you are going the distance is about 120 km and the road is straight and in excellent condition so the driving time at a reasonable speed is about an hour and a half. For long stretches of road, all you see is sand and scrub, and it is incredible to think how these cities have risen out of the desert.
Several people have commented after reading my earlier posts, that they had only a vague concept of where Dubai and Abu Dhabi are so I thought I would post a couple of maps to set the stage. Here are the outlines of the cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Cochin or Kochi, is a port city in the Arabian Sea, on the west coast of India in the state of Kerala. The name Kochi translates to "small lagoon" in Mayalam. Mayalam is the local language in Kerala, derived from Sanskrit and Tamil and is one of 22 official languages of India. It is one of the 85 related Dravidian languages, spoken by 215 million people. Amazing what one learns when going on a ballroom dance cruise!
Anyway I signed up for an excursion that featured two highlights - the Chinese Fishing Nets of Cochin, and an introductory demonstration of Kathakali (the classical dance drama of Kerala) and Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial art of Kerala. Check out the links below to my four YouTube videos of these highlights.
Between Hong Kong and Dubai, the QM2 docked at five ports. The first, Phu My in Vietnam, was the port for Ho Chi Minh city. Next was Laem Chabang, the port for Bangkok, and that was followed by a stop in Singapore where there was a major turnover of guests departing or boarding the ship. Between Singapore and Dubai there were only two stops on the 9 night segment; Phuket in Thailand and Cochin, India. On my previous South East Asia cruise, two of the ports of call were in Vietnam. While I really enjoyed the visit to Na Trang, a sleepy looking fishing village on the south centre region of Vietnam I was less enchanted with the visit to Ho Chi Min city (Saigon), the port of call on this current voyage, so on this cruise I decided to stay on board when in Phu My.
With this cruise covering 16 days, and ten of them being sea days, Robert, our dance instructor, had scheduled a series of dance workshops covering the gamut from waltz to west coast swing. Each workshop was supposed to last an hour but several times they were going so well that we ran over time. Because none of our group are beginners and we are all pretty much at a similar level, each session has been really enjoyable and we have been able to pick up new skills in each individual dance, while continuing to focus attention on posture, frame and movement.
Amazingly everyone turned up punctually for the second workshop at 9:30 am, even my cabin mate Linda, who is not known for coming to the dance workshops on these cruises. We joked that after a week of rooming together I might actually “sleep in” to 7 am and take a nap in the afternoon, while she might actually get up in time to attend all the workshops.
I thought that on this dance cruise I would experiment with the structure of the Travelblogue with respect to the Sipping and Supping aspect of my posts. Instead of interspersing the food talk and pictures with my dance and travel experiences, I plan to keep a Culinary Sampling of the meals, mainly dinner, aboard the Queen Mary 2 on this trip.
Since my firm resolution on this trip was not to gain a pound, and to lose inches by virtue of all the hip and core work I would be doing during my Dance Boot Camp, my culinary choices obviously represent a somewhat slanted view of the range of dishes provided at each meal - my sample is appetizer rich and dessert poor. But here goes:
With 10 days out of 16 at sea, we will have plenty of dance workshops. The first dance workshop was scheduled for 9:30 in the G32 Disco just behind the Queens Room Ballroom.
All 8 of us were there for the workshop, and Robert had also invited Horst, (one of the QM2 dance hosts, who is also a frequent DAS host) to join us. So for the first time in any of these workshops I have ever been at, there was a dance partner for each of the women. No complicated rotations were needed. It was great.
I don't know whether the information on the poster is still current but according to that write up, the QM 2 measured along the water is the world's largest ship. That is probably why they can have that great ballroom, the Queen's Room. Walking along the corridor from one end to the other certainly feels like quite a hike. Luckily our cabin is situated aft, so all the REALLY important places like the Britannia Restaurant and the ballroom are right below us. No hiking needed.Any way, excited as I was about the prospect of dancing nightly on it I was too tired to think about it by the time I got on board. As anticipated I was quite jet-lagged after the flight. Although one leaves Toronto at 10 am EST and arrives in Hong Kong at 1:30 PM of the following day, theoretically having slept though the night, the reality is that the fifteen hour flight ends at 1 AM Eastern time. At least that is what the time is for your body’s internal clock. So I would have normally been asleep for only 2 hours. I had indulged in a glass of wine with my meal and felt drowsy for all of twenty minutes but though I tried to sleep – it was to no avail.
When I first heard about the Dancers at Sea (DAS) dance cruise from Hong Kong to Dubai, I thought 16 nights was longer than I wanted to be away for. I had also cruised from Hong Kong, to Thailand and Vietnam, when I did the Asia Cruise two years earlier, and had little desire to revisit the two ports on that part of the itinerary. So I decided to take the option of the 9 nights Singapore to Dubai leg. The dates fitted in nicely with my visit to Toronto to see Rhinoceros, the absurdist play my daughter was directing at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. So I was going to return to Vancouver for three days and then fly to Singapore to board the QM2.
When I learned at the last minute that the dance group for the Hong Kong to Singapore leg was unexpectedly very small – therefore there would be much more dance opportunities than usual - and I realized I could fly direct Toronto to Hong Kong instead of taking four additional flights, it took me about three seconds to decide to be spontaneous, blow my budget and my schedule and sign up for the whole 16 night segment.
This travelblogue will follow my journey on a 16 night cruise aboard the Queen Mary 2 from Hong Kong to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
As well as a culinary diary of the QM2 cuisine, and the dance, theatrical and other experiences, I will be hopefully keeping up with the blogging A to Z Challenge, a thirty day writing challenge in which the task is to write a daily blog dealing each day sequentially with a topic sequentially through the alphabet. In my Challenge Blog I will focus on the themes of cruising, dance, and food, but from an informational approach rather than narrative.
You can follow my attempt to meet this challenge while dancing, dining, writing my travelblogue and dancing some more, at AtJillsReviews. The Travelblogue is to be found at Dancing to Dubai.

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Pete, this is my first "real" post. I have spent so much time reading so many great suggestions here...I thought I would try making my first two pizzas using your exact formula in post #1, right down to weighing all the ingredients, KASL, starting water temp at about 110F so it ended up at 82F after put in oiled bowl and refrigerated. I even ordered the two types of tomato sauces to make this blend: http://www.escalon.net/recipes/Pizza_Sauces/classic-pizza-sauce-1
which tastes glorious. Also ordered 5 lbs of Grande East Coast Mozzarella. As far as I knew, I was good to go.
After a day in the frig, I began the process, and was able to slap & sag the dough out to a 16" size...but I decided to put it on one of the $6 aluminum screens, and of course forgot to coat it with oil before putting in 550F oven with stone. So, although that one cooked well and tasted great, it was a mess trying to scrape it off the screen.
Attempt #2 last night I coated my working table with cornmeal, to stretch it with the back of my hands--again a pretty decent result. Having learned my lesson with the &%$#% screen, I decided this time to lay the dough on my 16" wide aluminum peel, because my wood peel is only 12 inches wide. I also liberally dusted it with cornmeal. Didn't check to see if it slid. Added sauce and cheese, again paying no attention to see if it slid on the peel. It looked glorious..now just slide this baby onto the oven stone...or so I thought.
That dough was practically glued onto that paddle. The only way I could get it loose was to scrape with a spatula, fold over, force it over onto the stone, and try to unfold it with the spatula. Sauce and cheese leaked and baked onto the 16" stone, and my wife and I tried to pretend it turned out somewhat OK. I was flying around trying to get this mess onto the stone like a monkey getting an alien butt probe! I was crushed at the result, not to mention numerous burns screwing around inside of the 550F oven which probably dropped to 300F by the time I shoveled what was left onto the stone.
I think I'm going to have to make my next attempt putting the dough on parchment (? oiled ?) and building toppings. I also ordered a 17" wide wood peel.
I love your dough recipe, but so far it has made a grown man cry. I don't want to give up though.
I wonder how much of the Grande cheese flavor is lost from my Foodsaver vacuum sealing in 1/2 gallon Ball widemouth jars & freezing--5 lbs is just to much to use up quickly enough kept in frig.

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Word around town is that lawmakers are developing legislation to limit the amount of information that’s publicly available on concealed carry permit holders.
Rep. Randy Stewart, a Democrat representing District 23, confirms he expects to introduce the bill on Wednesday. Stewart says it’s “simply a bill to prohibit the release of the identities or other information concerning concealed handgun licensees with an exception for law enforcement agencies.”
The news will warm the hearts of members of the Arkansas Concealed Carry Association, who’ve been calling for just such an action.
The move to protect the records follows last week’s controversy in which Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times published the full list of permit holders, to the alarm and consternation of many. (He’s since removed the list from his site.) You can listen to Max explain his reasoning on Bob Steel’s KARN show this morning.
(Has this been reported anywhere else yet? I haven’t seen it, but that doesn’t mean anything. Sometimes I zone out on legislative coverage, and I just find it impossible to believe that I, the laziest blogger in the entire state of Arkansas, might have something first. That doesn’t happen. If someone else had it first, blogger or real media, let me know and I’ll link to it.)


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TMJ treatments and solutions: International options and relief
Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorders represent a complex and often debilitating set of conditions affecting the jaw joint and the muscles responsible for jaw movement. Characterized by symptoms such as pain, difficulty in chewing, and audible clicking sounds, TMJ disorders can significantly impact an individual's quality of life. As the understanding of these conditions has evolved, so too have the treatments and solutions available. This article explores the vast array of international options for TMJ relief, focusing on innovative treatments, non-invasive therapies, and holistic approaches that are drawing patients from around the globe.
Understanding TMJ Disorders
TMJ disorders encompass a range of problems associated with the temporomandibular joint—a critical hinge that connects the jaw to the skull. These issues can arise from various causes, including arthritis, injury, genetic predisposition, or habits such as teeth grinding. Symptoms often include pain or tenderness around the jaw, aching facial pain, difficulty opening or closing the mouth, and a clicking or locking jaw.
International Treatment Options
Globally, there is a shift towards non-invasive treatments for managing TMJ disorders, with many patients seeking alternatives to surgery. Techniques such as physical therapy, including exercises to strengthen and stretch the jaw muscles, have shown promise in reducing pain and improving mobility. Additionally, treatments like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) use low-voltage electrical currents to relax the jaw joint and facial muscles, offering relief without the need for invasive procedures.
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Dental splints or mouthguards, designed to prevent teeth grinding and clenching, are among the most commonly recommended solutions for TMJ disorders. These devices, tailored to each patient's mouth, help to align the jaw properly and relieve pressure on the joint. The customization and quality of these splints have significantly improved, thanks to advancements in dental technology and the expertise of dental professionals worldwide.
Laser therapy is another innovative treatment gaining popularity for its effectiveness in reducing TMJ pain and inflammation. This non-invasive technique involves using low-level lasers to enhance tissue repair and reduce pain directly within the affected area. The precision and minimal side effects of laser therapy make it an attractive option for those seeking alternatives to more traditional treatments.
Acupuncture, a cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine, has found its place in the international arena as a viable treatment for TMJ disorders. By inserting fine needles into specific points on the body, acupuncture aims to rebalance the body's energy and reduce pain. Its effectiveness in managing TMJ symptoms has been supported by numerous studies, making it a sought-after treatment for patients looking for holistic relief.
Arthroscopy and Minimally Invasive Surgery
When non-invasive treatments are insufficient, minimally invasive surgical options like arthroscopy have become a preferred choice. This procedure involves inserting a small camera and instruments through tiny incisions near the joint, allowing for detailed examination and treatment with minimal recovery time. International centers specializing in TMJ disorders offer these advanced surgical options, emphasizing less invasive techniques and faster recovery.
The Role of Medical Tourism in TMJ Treatment
The search for effective TMJ treatment has led many patients to explore medical tourism, traveling beyond their home countries to access care. This global movement is driven by the availability of advanced treatments, affordability, and the expertise of specialists in various countries. Patients benefit from the integration of the latest research, innovative techniques, and a holistic approach to TMJ disorder management.
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Selecting the appropriate treatment and destination for TMJ relief involves thorough research and consideration. Patients are encouraged to explore the qualifications and experience of healthcare providers, the technology and treatments available, and the overall reputation of the centers they consider. Moreover, understanding the cultural, linguistic, and logistical aspects of seeking treatment abroad can significantly impact the overall experience and outcome.
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Thanks for the graphs. The granular data does confirm that the altitude gain, speed, track were perfectly steady up to the very last data point. Not even the slightest leveling off.
So that would seem to indicate that it was an instantaneously catastrophic event that immediately cut off ADS-B transmission. Not a normal engine fire or damage that would reduce thrust first before causing massive damage.
That's how most uncontained engine failures look like. Everything going smooth until, suddenly, *bang*, there's a few more holes in your jet than you'd really like.
Usually the uncontained high energy failure doesn’t simultaneously cause loss of all electrical power, as indicated by the instantaneous loss of ADS-B. In fact, I can’t think of one. Think QF 32 or WN1380-a 737NG no less. I’d love to know how they determined it was an overheated engine and said engine caused an explosion.
They didn't. It's propaganda. It's the same news outlet that said the rockets killed dozens of American soldiers and destroyed lots of our tanks. (Which I'm happy they're doing, because it means they did a fireworks show, told lies to their people to tamp down unrest, and can now go back to "normal" for now.)
But absent any call from the plane, which they have admitted, they can't say it was "a technical fault" (or "a mechanical problem" as we say in the US) with any semblance of credibility.
I don't remember an uncontained engine failure that put as much shrapnel into the tail as it did into the wings and fuselage. For me, that's a big concern that will need to be explained.
So far, the media sources aren't articulating a specific suspected cause that makes rational sense. In order to "know" it was a mechanical issue right away, you would likely have to know what that issue was. That's possible, like if the guys who worked on it at Teheran had an "oh crap" moment as the plane was going down the runway, like finding some part they forgot to reinstall. But that would be seriously-unlikely, and would then lead to a more-specific explanation than "the engine overheated". That's not an explanation that makes sense to anybody that knows anything about aviation, and depends upon a certain amount of ignorance in the listener.
I am a firm believer that coincidence in time doesn't prove causation, so we have to analyze the crash independently of the context in which it happened. However, given that transport-category-aircraft hull-losses are so incredibly-rare, that one would happen on the same night in the capital of the same country that was conducting military action in a heightened state of military alert, the relationship between the two absolutely has to be explored.
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The Nintendo Switch was officially announced back in late October after being known as the NX for awhile, with the full reveal set for January 12. In the meantime, we’ve seen plenty of rumors coming out and the latest definitely has us excited.
The Virtual Console was one of the best aspects of the Wii and Wii U, though the slow drip of releases has always been really frustrating. It was also very disappointing that the Wii U never offered GameCube games on the Virtual Console, especially with the release of the Wii U GameCube Adapter for Super Smash Bros., but it sounds like that will be changing with the Switch.
According to Eurogamer’s Tom Phillips, he is hearing from multiple sources that the Nintendo Switch’s Virtual Console will indeed include GameCube games, with supposed support for at least Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Smash Bros. Melee, with them also testing Animal Crossing. He’s also hearing that they are exploring possibly using the Wii U GameCube adapter for this as well, but that hasn’t been decided.
In addition, Phillips revealed that Nintendo European Research and Development (NERD) is in charge of developing the Virtual Console for the Switch, who recently developed the NES Classic Edition. There were many complaints about the quality of many of the games on the Wii U VC, so having NERD in charge this time is great news.
It also sounds like the Switch will have a similar upgrade system to that of the Wii U where gamers will be able to download games they already own for a fee. There were no details on how much it would cost or if this upgrade program, but it would be assumed to be similar to how it was on Wii U. If it’s more than the few dollars it was on there, Nintendo is really making a bad decision in my eyes.

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Field Service Engineer
Responsible for a complete range of Field Service Engineering activities for our specialized x-ray inspection systems to include installations, preventative maintenance, customer training, trouble shooting, repairs, upgrades as well as remote technical support and service.
--- Install, troubleshoot, and maintain x-ray systems and components on customer sites.
--- Provide on-site and remote customer support as required.
--- Train customers in the operation and maintenance of x-ray systems and components.
--- Identify and analyze source of problem; recommend proper corrective action and repair or replace parts as needed.
--- Interact with a cross-disciplinary engineering team (mechanical, electrical, software, imaging) to help resolve customer problems and provide world class customer service.
--- Conduct preventative maintenance tasks on systems and components in the field.
--- Perform tasks in accordance and compliance with US and European standards, defined quality standards, all related Company design and safety standards.
--- Maintain thorough and accurate documentation and trip reports.
--- Work with Production, Design & Installation teams to revise drawings and ensure accuracy of final built package.
--- Test, troubleshoot and debug electrical, components and systems in-house and at customer locations.
--- Install, wire, and configure electrical, imaging and x-ray components into new and existing systems.
--- Ensure all work is completed in compliance with all applicable local, state, federal Electrical standards.
--- Wiring of custom systems to include electrical panel building, machine wiring, pulling wire, terminating, bending conduit, wiring motors and system startup and testing.
--- Assist with the preparation and debugging of PLC or PC based control programs.
--- Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned including clean-up, department organization, material movement, and forklift operation.
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--- Associate degree in either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering discipline.
--- Minimum 3 years of comparable field service experience with direct customer interface.
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Polysphericons are solids which can be obtained from polygons with a revolution, cutting in half and gluing back together. One commonly refers to polysphericons as sphericons, we will stick to the correct names for clarity. Only the simple (4,1)-polysphericon (see below) also has the trivial name sphericon.
Depending on the polygon, different polysphericons can be generated. The common (4,1)-polysphericon (or just “sphericon”) can be obtained from the square. Depending on the chosen polygon different sphericons can be generated., e.g. the best-known sphericon is generated from a square:
The square is swept around the axis which passes through two corners and the center of mass, such that on obtains a bicone. This body of revolution is cut in half along the surface which passes the corners and center of the bicone. Lastly, the upper part is turned by 90 degrees along the vertical axis.
This sphericon appears similar to the oloid, but it is different in nature. You can find further information on the article about the oloid.
There are however many more sphericons to be generated in a similar manner: A polygon is revoluted to a body of revolution which is cut in half. These halves are then turned along the vertical axis. One of the more common sphericons is the hexasphericon made with the method above out of the hexagon.
Depending on the basic polygon (even /uneven number of corners) and the position of the rotational axis (corner-corner / corner-edge / edge-edge) on can assign to each solid a class of polysphericons:
With the number n of corners and the number k of distinct turns of the two halves one can read out the number of surfaces and edges of the polysphericon:
|Dual Polysphericon||Even Polysphericon||Uneven Polysphericon|
|number of surfaces||gcd(n/2,k) +1||gcd(n/2,k)||(gcd(n,k) +1) /2|
|number of edges||gcd(n/2,k)||gcd(n/2,k) +1||(gcd(n,k) +1) /2|
The abbreviation gcd stands for greatest common divisor.
Not all polysphericons can roll. Only those polysphericons with gcd(n/2,k)=1, whose polygon has an even number of vertices and whose axis of revolution passes two corners can. These polysphericons are called “prime” polysphericons. Sphericon and hexasphericon are examples of rolling polysphericons.
However, looking at the (3,1)-polysphericon below on the left, one can easily understand that the rolling comes to an immediate stop when the polysphericon lies on one flat side. The same holds for dual polysphericons. They either possess several surfaces, such that stop abruptly or they roll in a circle like a spin top with too little energy.
Prime polysphericons have the property of a constant height of the center of mass. They thus roll relatively smoothly. The higher the order n of the solid, the less smoothly it rolls however. This is due to the fact, that the polysphericon needs to change the rolling direction more frequently, the more numerous the stripes of the surface are.
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Local author Julie Clark will be at Booklegger to sign copies of her new book, Falk: Company Lumber Town of the American West. Meet the author, who in addition to writing the book on Falk, is currently the Ranger at Headwaters Forest Reserve, where the Falk townsite is located. Once a thriving community of 400 people, Falk was eventually abandoned, and became a ghost town. Traces of the town remain at Headwaters.

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Turley Richards (born Richard Turley, June 12, 1941) is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His charting songs include the Bob Dylan-penned "Love Minus Zero - No Limit."
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The Tuareg (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym Imuhagh) are a Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle. They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa. Most Tuareg live in the Saharan parts of Niger, Mali, Algeria, Lybia and Morocco. Being nomadic, they move constantly across national borders with their herds of camels and goats, so small groups of Tuareg are also found in other African countries. Tuaregs are widely known by their matriarchal traditions.
That was no accident, that the most famous Tuareg leader of all times was a woman. Legendary Tin Hinan (left) was a heroine, spiritual leader and the founder of one of the biggest Tuareg tribes. According to a legend, Tin Hinan came from the Tafilalt oasis in the Atlas Mountains in the area of modern Morocco accompanied by a maidservant named Takamat. Tin Hinan became the ancestor of the Tuareg of the Ahaggar (a highland region in southern Algeria). It was said that numerous suitors came to Tin Hinan seeking her hand in marriage. But after having sex with them, she killed everyone. According to another legend, noble people were descended from Tin Hinan, whereas their vassals - from Takamat. The 14th century historian Ibn Khaldun recorded a legend about queen named Tiski who was ancestral mother of the Ahaggar tribes, which is somewhat closer to the archaeological record.
Although the most of the Tuareg profess Sunni form of Islam, those tribes which are not influenced by the fundamentalists yet, maintain elements of the traditional matriarchate. Women keep household keys, show off their "strength" by impromptu wrestling matches, go unveiled - while the men modestly cover their noses and mouths with the end of their “tagelmusts” (several meters of gauze, wrapped around the head in a turban), and have equal - if not greater rights to choose/take as many lovers as they wish before marriage: it only increases their value, skill and desirability. The Tuaregs celebrated a woman's divorce with a party, and rape was extremely rare among them. Wrestling matches between girls were a part of traditional Tuareg culture. Girls wrestle whenever they want and for many reasons: to improve her position in the female society, to win a lover or just for fun. Girl wrestling is also an element of rituals of initiation into the adult life of a mature woman.
However, recently, Islam fundamentalists grab more and more power in Sahara, which affects traditional women’s freedoms.
"Where all the Women are Strong (Women of the Tuareg tribe)" by Barbara A. Worley. "Natural History". November 1992. V101 N11 p. 54.


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London - Global oil prices dived to one-month lows on Tuesday, as inconclusive Italian national elections sparked concern about economic growth and energy demand in the eurozone region, dealers said.
Brent North Sea crude for delivery in April sank to $113.26 a barrel - which was the lowest point since January 29.
It stood at $113.37, down $1.07 from Monday's closing level, in later London deals.
New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) or light sweet crude for April, slid to $91.92 a barrel - a trough last witnessed on January 4.
The contract later pulled back to $92.30, down 81 cents from Monday.
European equities and the euro also slumped on Tuesday as markets assessed the fallout of Italy's political impasse after elections in the indebted eurozone country.
A stronger greenback also makes dollar-priced crude more expensive for buyers using cheaper currencies, denting demand.
“There's a sea of red across trading screens... as the lack of a clear winner in the Italian elections is causing panic amongst investors,” said boss Angus Campbell at trading group Capital Spreads.
“The result is a mass sell off of equities, in particular Italian and other banking stocks, the euro and pretty much any other risk asset you can think of.”
A political deadlock loomed in Italy as it appeared Sunday's elections failed to produce a clear winner.
Polls show that while the leftists won the lower house, the party run by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had more seats in the upper house.
A majority in both chambers of parliament is required to form a government, leaving Italy in a state of limbo.
“Investors will focus their gaze on Italy's election results, which could see the eurozone's third largest economy face political deadlock in the coming months, casting doubt on further progress of economic reforms and rekindling eurozone fears,” said analysts at Vienna-based oil consultancy JBC Energy.
“Meanwhile, the West and Iran will get another chance to lift the current stalemate, as talks begin in Almaty on Tehran's nuclear programme.
“While the talks are unlikely to yield concrete results, any positive news from the meeting may exert downwards pressure on oil prices,” they added in a note to clients.
In Almaty, world powers and key crude producer Iran have exchanged offers in crunch talks aimed at breaking a decade of deadlock over Tehran's nuclear drive.
The two-day meeting comes as sanctions bite against the Islamic republic and Israel still refuses to rule out air strikes to knock out Iran's suspected nuclear weapons push.
The first round of closed-door talks started at around 10:30 SA time after an initial bilateral meeting between the Chinese and Iranian delegations.
“We have come here with a revised offer and we have come to engage with Iran in a meaningful way,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who negotiates with Iran on behalf of the world powers, said in a statement.
She said the ambition was that “we see progress by the end of the meeting.”
The world powers are offering Iran permission to resume its gold and precious metals trade as well as some international banking activity which are currently under sanctions, Western officials told AFP.
But in exchange, Iran will have to limit sensitive uranium enrichment operations that the world powers fear could be used to make a nuclear bomb, the sources added. - Sapa-AFP


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Unlike the payment and ID solutions, our access control cards utilize batteries and offer the world’s most portable two-factor biometric access control credential. Compatible with the vast majority of access systems, our product allows you to upgrade to biometrics without having to change a single reader. All of our solutions make the need for biometric databases redundant, since the biometric data is securely stored on the card itself for each individual user. Only the rightful owner of the card can use it, and the fingerprint data cannot be extracted from the card. Unparalleled technical performance and peace of mind for both the organization and the end-user.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes about Christian virtues in his poem “The Singers.” He explains that God sent his singers with messages that will touch the hearts of men.
Using a lyre as his instrument, the first singer is young and full of energy, wandering freely with youthful exuberance. His charming music speaks of living the life of your dreams.
The second singer is middle-aged as indicated by his “bearded face.” He sings in a more settled place, the marketplace. In his second stage of life, this singer brings strength.
Finally, the third singer is a wise, older man whose job it is to teach. The poem tells us that he is in a cathedral where the organ plays.
When people squabble over which singer is the most relevant, God speaks and tells them that each singer has a purpose. The youth is sent to “charm.” The middle-aged singer’s job is to “strengthen” and the third is sent to “teach.”
But the great Master said, "I see
No best in kind, but in degree;
I gave a various gift to each,
To charm, to strengthen, and to teach."
The poem alludes to singers creating perfect harmony with their voices and musical accompaniment. In the final stanza, Longfellow has God explain the importance of all three messages to create “perfect harmony.”


By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples’ Struggle
March 4, 2014
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, expose and condemn the Nuclear Security Summits as a hypocritical and malicious propaganda platform initiated by US imperialism. This kind of summit pretends to prevent nuclear terrorism but in fact aims to promote and strengthen the oligopoly of nuclear weapons by the imperialist powers headed by the US. These are the real megaterrorists who deceptively accuse of nuclear terrorism those states and other entities outside of their orbit.
US President Obama initiated the Nuclear Security Summit in Prague in 2009 when he called on all imperialist powers to agree on global arrangements to improve the security of nuclear material. The first summit was held in Washington in 2010 and laid down the measures in the so-called Washington Work Plan to secure hazardous nuclear material (highly enriched uranium and plutonium). The second summit was held in Seoul in 2012, in a dramatic show to sanctify the nuclear weapons positioned by the US in South Korea against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and to add to the summit agenda the radioactive sources for “dirty bombs”.
The third summit is slated for 24 and 25 March in The Hague this year, to be attended by 53 countries and four international organizations. The avowed aims of the summit are to reduce the quantity of nuclear material in the world, to better secure existing material, and to improve international cooperation in this regard. The plan of the summit is to issue a final joint declaration: The Hague Nuclear Security Summit Communiqué.
This kind of summit is an excrescence of the nonproliferation treaties that have failed to reduce nuclear stockpiles. It is obviously a scheme to perpetuate and enlarge the nuclear terrorism of the US and its allies, including Israel, and certain tolerated US partners like India and Pakistan. The imperialist powers are exaggerating the threats of mini-terrorist groups like the Al Qaida and others that they themselves have created. They also unjustly condemn as “terrorists” such countries as the DPRK which engage in nuclear research and development for peaceful purposes and self-defense.
What is utterly hypocritical and malicious about the Nuclear Security Summits is that the biggest nuclear powers, especially the initiator US, use these to further license the growing stockpiles of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, depleted uranium-tipped and other radioactive weapons, and the expanding acts of US and NATO military intervention and aggression (as in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Central Asia, and elsewhere), in violation of the national sovereignty and independence of peoples and countries.
The US is culpable for the very first use of nuclear weapons to wipe out entire civilian populations in the hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It used its nuclear monopoly to terrorize the peoples of the world and force them to accept its hegemony until the Soviet Union broke this monopoly in 1949. By breaking the US nuclear monopoly, the Soviet Union was a major factor in preventing US unilateral use of nuclear weapons and in maintaining world peace despite the Cold War. By the time the US launched a war of aggression against Korea, it could no longer use nuclear weapons with impunity against the DPRK and China.
After being stalemated by the Soviet Union with regard to strategic nuclear weapons, the US proceeded to develop tactical nuclear weapons and other radioactive weapons. In the wake of the full restoration of capitalism in former socialist countries and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US has become far more arrogant than ever before, and has found more leeway than ever before in using radioactive weapons on a wide scale, such as depleted uranium-tipped projectiles in Yugoslavia and Iraq.
What has become ever more dangerous and more threatening to humankind and the earth is the fact that all major possessors of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons are capitalist powers. Since the full restoration of capitalism in all major socialist countries, the world has become ever more cramped and ever more crisis-stricken. Thus, the imperialist powers are more than ever driven to struggle for a redivision of the global economic territory. As shown previously in the world wars of the 20th century, the imperialist powers use all available weapons of mass destruction to gain an advantage and do not care about how many people are killed in order to establish their hegemony.
During the Cold War, there was the US-Soviet balance of “mutually assured destruction”. The Soviet Union then referred to the higher principles of socialism over capitalism, upheld the interest of the proletariat and the people, vowed to use the nuclear bomb only as a deterrent, and preempted itself explicitly from first use of the nuclear bomb. It continued to express its stand against war and the first use of nuclear weapons, even after it became monopoly bureaucrat capitalist and social-imperialist. Now, we see the US and NATO trying again to push their way into the the Ukraine in an attempt to threaten and debilitate Russia. Contending imperialist powers are more likely to miscalculate in the absence of a real socialist bulwark in the calculus.
We, the people of the world, must demand the end of the oligopoly of nuclear weapons by the imperialist powers that have long terrorized them and have used their nuclear stockpiles to impose their hegemony. We must denounce and stop the charade of imperialist powers pretending to work for nonproliferation and nuclear security but are in fact expanding and upgrading their nuclear arsenals. It is morally just for us to call for complete and immediate nuclear disarmament and demand that the imperialist powers take the lead and provide the example for destroying their stockpiles of nuclear bombs and other radioactive weapons. If the imperialists refuse as expected, the people must find ways and means of rendering such weapons impotent.
What remains in the hands of the people against the threat of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism by the imperialist powers is the potential to turn imperialist war into revolutionary civil war, to encircle and take control of the nuclear weapons in their respective countries, and to establish or reestablish socialist societies. In the very countries where they are kept, nuclear weapons can be rendered impotent by the successful revolutionary movement of the people.##


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UK insurers are set to transform their investment strategies as the drive towards greater sustainability continues.
Ratings firm Fitch said the country’s life insurers will potentially allocate up to £170 billion to illiquid investments over the next decade, with a substantial portion of this allocation focusing on the creation of new environmentally sustainable assets,
“We believe that annuity writers’ investments into sustainable assets will continue to grow on the back of strong demand from corporates seeking to offload risks related to legacy pension schemes,” said Fitch. “Annuity writers invest in illiquid fixed-income assets with reliable long-term cash flows to match illiquid long-duration annuity liabilities.”
In a new commentary on the sector the firm explained the transition to a more sustainable economy is necessitating UK life insurers to demonstrate the long-term resilience of their investment strategies.
“To date, insurers have risen to the challenge, with some positioning themselves as sustainability leaders. However, difficulties in transitioning away from out-of-favour assets and risks related to stranded illiquid legacy assets remain. Given possible rating impact beyond our typical two-year rating horizon we therefore see limited implications on current ratings or Outlook.”
It added: “We believe that climate-related risks and opportunities mainly impact UK life insurers’ investment strategies, rather than through a material change on their overall business model.
“The long-term nature of life insurers’ investment portfolios exposes them to future financial risks from climate change, including changes in government policies and public attitude towards non-sustainable industries and companies. We believe that this early implicit adoption of sustainability considerations will help to mitigate future financial risks from climate change.”


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All communication with the Nocturnal Moonbase has been lost, and the rescue party sent to investigate has not returned.
A second party is collected and includes Professor Abbacus, Alice and Andre. They travel to the Moonbase to find it airless but not abandoned. A nasty surprise within leads them down into a grim realm not even the genius Abbacus realised existed.
But from this dark place the party travels to a world the Professor knows all too well. It is a world within a world of strange, prehistoric creatures, beastmen, ancient temples and shining cities inhabited by godlike beings.
It is also a world of dark secrets, abandoned friends and old enemies. One being in particular has been waiting over a century for Professor Abbacus to return so he can have his final revenge upon him.
About the Author
Ethan Somerville is a prolific Australian author with over 20 books published, and many more to come. These novels cover many different genres, including romance, historical, children's and young adult fiction. However Ethan's favourite genres have always been science fiction and fantasy. Ethan has also collaborated with other Australian authors and artists, including Max Kenny, Emma Daniels, Anthony Newton, Colin Forest, Tanya Nicholls and Carter Rydyr.

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