Blow Up The Planet to “Defend Democracy”. Britain’s PM Liz Truss Is Committed to Nuclear War: “I’m Ready to Do That”
It’s official, Liz Truss will replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s Prime Minister.
On Tuesday September 6, she was confirmed after meeting with the H.M Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral, who asked her to “form a government”.
Nuclear War against both China and Russia is contemplated
“At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped”.
Russia is tagged as “Plausible” but “Not Expected”. That was back in 2002.
Today at the height of the Ukraine war, a Preemptive Nuclear attack against Russia is on the drawing of the Pentagon. It has also been endorsed by Britain’s Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party Liz Truss.
Nuclear War was part of Liz Truss’ campaign for the Conservative Party leadership. She spoke at a Conservative party event in Birmingham, The host of the event John Pienaar asked her if she would give the order “to unleash nuclear weapons” from Trident.
He added: “It would mean global annihilation… “How does that thought make you feel?”
“I think it’s an important duty of the prime minister and I’m ready to do it. I’m ready to do that.”
“Big Money” and “Big Ignorance”
Political opportunism in support of the Nuclear Weapons Aerospace Complex: There is “Big Money” and “Big Ignorance” behind Truss’ bold statement. Her Conservative Party audience applauded in chorus.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss hasn’t the foggiest idea regarding the nature of nuclear weapons and their devastating impacts.
Moreover, she does not know the geography of the Russian Federation, claiming that Rostov on the Don as well as Voronezh belong to Ukraine; it’s like saying that Manchester belongs to Scotland:
Truss, … told the BBC’s Sunday Morning show that “we are supplying and offering extra support into our Baltic allies across the Black Sea”.
Zakharova noted that the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania lie off the Baltic Sea, not the Black Sea, which is hundreds of miles to the south.
“The Baltic countries are called so because they are located precisely off the coast of this [Baltic] sea. Not the Black [Sea],” the Russian official wrote on Facebook.
“If anyone needs to be saved from anything, then it is the world from the stupidity and ignorance of Anglo-Saxon politicians.”
“Humanitarian Nuclear Bombs”
“the nuclear option should not at all be taken off the table. That has been my position consistently.” (ABC News, December 15, 2015)
“A Nuclear War is Winnable”? Humanitarian Bombs
We recall Reagan’s earlier historic statement: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used.”
Nonetheless, there are powerful voices and lobby groups within the US establishment and the Biden administration that are convinced that “a nuclear war is winnable”. Liz Truss is part of this dangerous consensus.
The focus of US military doctrine since the George W. Bush administration has been on the development of so-called “more usable nuclear weapons”.
George W. Bush’s 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, which was adopted by the US Senate in late 2002. envisaged the development of “a generation of more useable nuclear weapons.” namely tactical nuclear weapons (B61-11 mini-nukes) with an explosive capacity between one third and 6 times times a Hiroshima bomb.
The term “more usable” emanates from the debate surrounding the 2001 NPR, which justified the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the conventional war theater on the grounds that tactical nuclear weapons, namely bunker buster bombs with a nuclear warhead are, according to scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon “harmless to the surrounding population because the explosion is underground.”
The cost of America’s “peace-making” nuclear weapons program is of the order of 1.3 trillion dollars, extending to $2 trillion in 2030.
And there is Big Money behind Jo Biden’s $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program:
“But, what I don’t understand is this mad lunacy of killing and death, except it gives the corporations who make these weapons huge amounts of money. And it was Obama who agreed to spend 1.7 trillion dollars in the next 30 years replacing every single nuclear weapon, missile, ship, plane. And rebuild them all new ones, for what reason? No reason! It’s sheer nuclear madness. It’s nuclear lunacy!” (Helen Caldicott)
Of relevance to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, is the Biden Administration committed to the use of nuclear weapons as an instrument of peace?
Peace-making nuclear weapons have become a talking point among ignorant and corrupt politicians, who have been led believe that preemptive nuclear war is a humanitarian undertaking which protects democracy.
Flash Back. Another Liar and Ignoramus. It Started with Harry Truman
“We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark…. This weapon is to be used against Japan … [We] will use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new. … The target will be a purely military one… It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful.”
(President Harry S. Truman, Diary, July 25, 1945)
Remember Hiroshima: “A Military Base” according to Harry Truman
“The World will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians..” (President Harry S. Truman in a radio speech to the Nation, August 9, 1945).
[Note: the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; the Second on Nagasaki, on August 9, on the same day as Truman’s radio speech to the Nation]
The Unthinkable: Mistakes are a Driving Force behind World History
“Offensive” military actions using nuclear warheads are now described as acts of “self-defense”.
An accidental nuclear war attributable to ignorant, stupid and corrupt politicians cannot be excluded.
“The threat of an all-out nuclear war that can erupt very easily either due to deliberate actions of any nuclear weapons state or because of unintentional, human, technical or other mistake.
Do not vote for Ignoramus Liz who could lead Britain and the World into the unthinkable, a nuclear war which threatens the future of humanity.


EMF PROTECTION FOR WIRELESS EARBUDS & HEADPHONES
The EMF Harmonizer Audio is a set of small but powerful EMF protection stickers that fit on wireless earbuds and headphones to provide protection from the EMF radiation that they emit. They fit on any size device, from full-sized headphones to small earbuds like the Apple AirPods.
They are also appropriate for wireless Bluetooth headsets, ear pieces, hearing aids, and gamng controllers.
Your wireless earbuds and headphones are constantly emitting electromagnetic radiation, and since they are worn right next to your brain and often for extended periods of time, protecting yourself is important! Now you can enjoy the convenience of your wireless connected earbuds or headphones without the worries about the damaging health effects of their EMF radiation.
The EMF Harmonizer Audio is a set of 3 small stickers, one for each ear and one for the charging case. They measure 1/2" x 3/8”, so they are small enough to fit on most earbuds (including AirPods). And they are not just for wireless devices, even wired earbuds and headphones emit some EMF radiation.
- Small and discreet in a white color
- Flexible to fit the curved surface of a headphone or earbud
- Long lasting, they do not need to be replaced or recharged
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HotLink Launches Cloud Management Express for Integrated Management of Public and Private Cloud Workloads
HotLink Corporation, the market leader in transformation solutions for hybrid IT management, today announced HotLink® Cloud Management Express™, which extends VMware vCenter capabilities so companies can easily unify the administration and management of both public and private cloud resources in one streamlined, tightly integrated solution that works out of the box. HotLink Cloud Management Express provides public cloud support for Microsoft Azure, vCloud Air, OpenStack and Amazon EC2, and on-premises support for OpenStack, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Red Hat KVM.
Most enterprise roadmaps are now hybrid, with analyst firm IDC predicting that more than 65 percent of enterprise IT departments will commit to hybrid cloud before 2016. Key drivers are reduced cost, increased agility and faster time to market. To realize those benefits, corporate IT must architect for the management of diverse internal and external IT infrastructures without increasing operational complexity or IT staff. Moreover, enterprises are concerned about avoiding cloud vendor lock-in within a market that is changing rapidly. Their hybrid cloud management and operational platforms require the flexibility to plug-and-play with a spectrum of cloud alternatives together with existing on-premise virtual infrastructure.
“Hybrid cloud solutions are critical for enterprises to embrace IT-as-a-Service. But, hybrid management can introduce considerable operational complexity for corporate IT,” said Kenneth Owens, CTO of Cloud Infrastructure Services, Cisco Systems, Inc. “By utilizing best-of-breed technology from Cisco and HotLink, customers realize maximum business value from private and public clouds without adding integration or management complexity. We are partnering with HotLink so our mutual Intercloud customers can benefit from a streamlined hybrid IT solution in a hybrid cloud environment.”
Built on HotLink’s patented transformation technology, HotLink Cloud Management Express provides an intuitive, single point of administration, monitoring, management and automation, extending VMware vCenter Server to deliver the industry’s most streamlined hybrid cloud management platform. In addition, the new solution enables companies to leverage existing VMware vCenter-compatible tools and workflows, such as orchestration, self-service portals, PowerCLI scripts and automation across hybrid resources. IT teams can deploy HotLink Cloud Management Express in under two hours without requiring specialized skills or a protracted and costly system integration project.
“Like many IT shops, we have a mix of VMware on-premise and public cloud computing resources,” said Bernd Harzog, CEO of OpsDataStore. “We chose HotLink to unify management of our hybrid IT infrastructure because it gives us the ability to utilize the robustness of VMware vCenter and easily extend it to cloud-based platforms. We like that the HotLink solution is so tightly integrated into vCenter, simple to deploy and really intuitive to use.”
Additional capabilities of HotLink Cloud Management Express include:
- Auto-discovery of cloud-based resources spanning on- and off-premise — for easy and automated addition of hybrid resources to the VMware vCenter inventory tree;
- Fine-grained monitoring and performance data — provides unified and consistent management and analytics across disparate resource types;
- Support for power operations and VM console access — so users can easily manage a range of cloud-based workloads with a single point of administration;
- Ability to edit workload properties and provision from native templates — to eliminate the need for multiple administrative consoles across hybrid resources;
- Hybrid alarms, alerts and change management — for a single point of operational management across all cloud resources; and
- Unified permissions and security management — to provide consistent and traceable access controls across hybrid platforms.
Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of HotLink, said, “HotLink has been singularly focused on streamlining the management of hybrid environments since the company’s beginning, and our transformation technology is unique in enabling VMware vCenter to natively interoperate with other platforms. The launch of HotLink Cloud Management Express takes this to the next level, supporting the largest spectrum of on- and off-premise resources of any hybrid management solution. Customers can now select their cloud provider of choice without worrying about integration and management complexities.”
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HotLink is on a mission to dramatically simplify hybrid IT management complexity through the power of its patented transformation technology. The company’s 1,500-plus customers span technology, financial services, e-commerce, manufacturing, cloud service providers, education, telecommunications and more. Industry accolades include: 2014 Best of VMworld in Public and Hybrid Cloud Computing; CRN Virtualization 50 and Emerging Vendor for 2015 and 2014; 2013 Best of VMworld awards in Public and Hybrid Cloud Computing, as well as Storage and Backup; and 2012 VMworld Best of Show and Top Virtualization Management. HotLink is a privately held, venture capital-backed company based in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit www.hotlink.com or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.


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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador Monday and froze “all new business” with Ottawa over its criticism of the ultraconservative kingdom’s arrest of women’s rights activists — yet another warning to the West reflecting Riyadh’s newly assertive foreign policy.
Prince Has Close Ties to President Trump
Analysts say the dispute between Riyadh and Ottawa shows Saudi Arabia won’t accept any outside criticism and will continue flexing its muscles abroad, especially as the kingdom enjoys a closer relationship with President Donald Trump.
“This message is obviously not just being sent to Ottawa,” said Giorgio Cafiero, the CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington-based risk consultancy. “It’s a message to countries across Europe and across the rest of the world that criticism of Saudi Arabia . has consequences.”
The Saudi Foreign Ministry made the announcement early Monday, giving Ambassador Dennis Horak 24 hours to leave the kingdom. It wasn’t immediately clear if he was in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia said it would recall its ambassador to Canada as well.
“Any further step from the Canadian side in that direction will be considered as acknowledgment of our right to interfere in Canadian domestic affairs,” the Foreign Ministry said. “Canada and all other nations need to know that they can’t claim to be more concerned than the kingdom over its own citizens.”
Saudis Plan to Move Students Out of Canada
Saudi state television later reported that the Education Ministry was coming up with an “urgent plan” to move thousands of Saudi scholarship students out of Canadian schools to take classes in other countries. The Saudi state airline, Saudia, said in a statement on its official Twitter account that it would suspend all flights to Toronto starting next Monday, Aug. 13.
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have publicly backed Saudi Arabia in the dispute.
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement that Canada was “deeply concerned that Saudi Arabia has expelled Canada’s ambassador in response to Canadian statements in defence of human rights activists detained in the kingdom.”
Freeland also addressed the dispute in Vancouver.
“We stand by what we have said. We’re always going to speak up for woman’s rights and that’s not going to change,” she said, adding that it wasn’t the first time Canada has spoken out about human rights in Saudi Arabia.
Freeland said it would be a shame if Saudi students are deprived of their right to study in Canada and said they continue to be welcome.
Canadian Ambassador Is Safe, Official Says
She said the Canadian Embassy in Riyadh was continuing regular operations. She declined to say where the ambassador was, but said he was safe.
“Our diplomats have asked procedural questions today and we’re waiting for answers for how Saudi Arabia intends to go forward with the relationship,” she said.
The dispute appeared centered around tweets by Canadian diplomats calling on the kingdom to “immediately release” detained women’s rights activists.
Among the arrested activists is Samar Badawi, whose writer brother Raif Badawi was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and later sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for insulting Islam while blogging.
His case long has been raised by international human rights groups and Western diplomats, including Canadians, who have called on Saudi Arabia to free him. His wife, Ensaf Haidar, lives in Canada and received Canadian citizenship in July at a Canada Day ceremony with their three children.
Freeland tweeted about the arrests on Thursday.
“Very alarmed to learn that Samar Badawi, Raif Badawi’s sister, has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia,” she wrote. “Canada stands together with the Badawi family in this difficult time, and we continue to strongly call for the release of both Raif and Samar Badawi.”
Saudi Arabia in June lifted its ban on women from driving cars — a ban Samar Badawi and other women’s rights activists have long campaigned against.
However, supporters of women’s rights were arrested just weeks before the ban was lifted, signaling that only King Salman and his powerful son, Crown Prince Mohammed, will decide the pace of change.
Saudi Women Need Permission to Marry
Saudi women still need permission from male guardians to travel abroad or marry.
It isn’t clear what new business would be affected by Saudi Arabia’s expulsion of Ottawa’s envoy. Canada receives 10 percent of its imported crude oil from Saudi Arabia, while bilateral trade between the two nations is $3 billion a year.
Armored tanks and personnel carriers have been Canada’s biggest recent export to the kingdom. A London, Ontario-based firm called General Dynamics Land Systems signed a $15 billion deal with Saudi Arabia in 2014 to export its light-armored vehicles to the kingdom, the largest-ever arms deal for Canada.
Freeland said they are awaiting a response for what it means for that deal.
The dispute with Canada is part of a larger pushback against external criticism, analysts say. Germany similarly has found itself targeted by the kingdom in recent months over comments by its officials on the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Recalled Ambassador to Sweden in 2015
It’s also not the first time Saudi Arabia has lashed out diplomatically over the Badawi case. In 2015, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador to Sweden and stopped issuing work visas for Swedes after the Scandinavian country’s foreign minister described the Badawi court decision as “medieval” and the kingdom’s ruling Al Saud family as presiding over a “dictatorship.”
Saudi Arabia also expelled Iran’s ambassador over attacks on its diplomatic posts following its 2016 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.
Ayham Kamel, the head of the Eurasia Group’s Mideast practice, said Canada should have expected repercussions for championing the Badawis, given Crown Prince Mohammed’s assertiveness.
“The win (for the Saudis) is that everyone will get the message,” Kamel said. “This is not just to Canada’s mailbox. It is about sending a message to the entire West that you don’t get to lecture us.”

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Facebook, Instagram appear to partly reconnect after nearly six-hour outage
Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform.
Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time, in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had ever seen, with 10.6 million problem reports globally.
Around 5:45 pm ET, some Facebook users began to regain partial access to the social media app. WhatsApp continued to have connection problems for at least some people.
The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.
Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, opened lower after the whistleblower report and slipped further to trade down 5.3% in afternoon trading on Monday. They were on track for their worst day in nearly a year, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks.
Security experts said the disruption could be the result of an internal mistake, though sabotage by an insider would be theoretically possible.
“Facebook basically locked its keys in its car,” tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
(Reporting by Eva Mathews and Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Tiyashi Datta, Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru, Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Uttaresh.V, Shailesh Kuber, Anil D’Silva and Sonya Hepinstall)

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Bauer: Supreme Court's 'Judicial Terrorism' on Gay Marriage Puts America on 'The Verge of Criminalizing the Book of Genesis'
Gary Bauer yesterday marked the anniversary of the shooting at the Washington D.C. office of the Family Research Council, the group he used to lead, by asking members of his Campaign for Working Families to work against marriage equality.
He compared the attempted shooting by Floyd Lee Corkins, who was convicted of committing an act of terrorism, with the “judicial terrorism” of the Supreme Court in the two recent marriage equality cases: “while Corkins thankfully failed in his attack on FRC, five liberal justices on our Supreme Court committed an act of judicial terrorism that struck at the very foundation of our constitutional republic.”
Bauer said that the court dismissed the “consent of the governed” and “rejected thousands of years of Judeo-Christian understanding” in their rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8. “It seems as though America is on the verge of criminalizing the Book of Genesis,” Bauer continued, warning that along with the health care reform law the “danger to religious liberty cannot be overstated.”
But while Corkins thankfully failed in his attack on FRC, five liberal justices on our Supreme Court committed an act of judicial terrorism that struck at the very foundation of our constitutional republic. The court's liberal majority accepted a radical redefinition of marriage and imposed its morality on the rest of society.
In doing so, five unelected judges rejected thousands of years of Judeo-Christian understanding, as well as congressional statutes, and set the stage for invalidating the will of the people in more than two-dozen states that have voted to maintain the traditional definition of marriage. Does the consent of the governed matter at all anymore?
It seems as though America is on the verge of criminalizing the Book of Genesis. And with Obamacare's assault on conscience, the danger to religious liberty cannot be overstated.
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Intruders have never been revealed before their arrival in the mansion – which has fans wondering if Ryan will have more relevance than the Network is letting on.
Interestingly, he is the only contestant that Bachelorette Angie Kent is following on Instagram.
The two share a kiss in the trailer for the show, which was released on Sunday night.
Angie rose to fame on Gogglebox alongside her best friend Yvie Jones.
She has also appeared on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, but appearing on The Bachelorette will show her in a completely different light.
Her younger brother, Brad, will also be masquerading as a contestant on the show to keep an eye out for his sister.
According to Who, this year's mansion is located at Nelly's Farm and is said to be a stunning Hampton’s inspired accommodation in Oxford Falls, (on Sydney’s Northern Beaches).
The $2.3 million property is a Bachelorette's haven, featuring six manicured gardens, the classic fairy lights and a swimming pool.
Osher Günsberg will return as the host of The Bachelorette (last year, he presented as Ali Oetjen choose Taite Radley).
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Gelatin’s short peptides - glyprolines – consist of amino acids of glycine and proline. It is them that protect the stomach mucous tunic from injuries. The highest antiulcer activity was discovered by the researchers with the PGP-sequence peptide: proline, glycine, proline. Glyprolines are easily absorbed in the stomach and remain in the blood for a long time without breaking up. They act not only on the stomach cells but also on the central nervous system overcoming the blood-brain barrier, therefore they cure even the ulcers caused by stress.
Glyprolines are natural peptides. They are generated in the organism in the course of collagen synthesis or decomposition. During the experiments carried out by the Moscow biologists, gelatin (partly hydrolyzed collagen) added to rats’ feed partly protected the rats from ulcer. Further experiments were carried out by the researchers with gelatin hydrolysate. Processing gelatin by hydrochloric acid imitates the process taking place in the stomach. After gelatin hydrolysis was performed, the researchers educed and refined about 30 short peptides, also including glyprolines.
It has turned out that gelatin peptides reinforce resistance of the stomach mucous tunic to ethanol and stress action, decreasing the ulcer area by twice. If peptides are introduced to the animals with already developed ulcer, it will also close quicker. Therapeutic effect was revealed by peptides not only in case of intraperitoneal introduction but also in case of intragastric introduction, this method being even more effective.
The researchers point out that gelatin hydrolysate produces protective and medicinal effect comparable to the action of pure PGP peptide, which is currently known as the most active glyproline. In the researchers’ opinion, not only the above-mentioned glyprolines but also short peptides unknown so far participate in the antiulcer action of gelatin peptides. Therefore, to produce the most promising protective and medicinal antiulcer drugs, the researchers are planning to investigate the action of all substances that make part of gelatin hydrolysate.
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The first unambiguous observation of a radioactive molecule, 26AlF, was made in the ancient nova-like object CK Vul (or Nova Vul 1670), which - most likely - is a stellar-merger remnant. The eruption of the object was observed between 1670-1672 in Europe. The interest in this object has been recently rejuvenated by the discovery of molecular gas of a very peculiar isotopic composition in the remnant.
The finding was announced by an international research team led by Tomasz Kamiński (CfA), including Karl Menten (MPIfR Bonn).
The variable star CK Vulpeculae (CK Vul) is known as the location of a stellar outbreak, a nova, which was observed by European astronomers in the 17th century...
Scientists from NUST MISIS and colleagues from the University of Bayreuth, the University of Münster (Germany), the University of Chicago (U.S.), and Linköping University (Sweden) have created nitrides, a material previously considered impossible to obtain. More amazing, they have shown that the material can be obtained using a very simple method of direct synthesis. Articles about the revolutionary research results have been published in Nature Communications and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
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For the first-time, researchers at IMBA- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences – develop organoids, that mimic the onset of brain cancer. This method not only sheds light on the complex biology of human brain tumors but could also pave the way for new medical applications.
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Riyadh - KSA: Chedid Re Europe, a member of Chedid Capital Holding, announced that it has chosen the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as headquarters for its regional operations, through establishing Chedid Europe Regional Limited, keeping pace with its strategy to expand its business and operations in the Middle Eastern Reinsurance Market.
Elie Abi Rached, Chief Executive Officer of Chedid Re Global Operations, stressed on this strategic step: “We are proud to further reinforce our presence in the Saudi market, a market that deserves the best in terms of technical expertise and know-how, and we believe we have an important role to play in assisting a professional, vibrant and pioneering insurance industry.”
Farid Chedid, Chairman and Group CEO of Chedid Capital commented: "The entire group supports this move because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is at the heart of our strategy, and we are working hard to make this step a success and to achieve the Kingdom's Vision 2030.”
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text: Since H63D syndrome was first described, the authors of this paper systematically investigated for the first time to what extent the adrenal glands, as an integral part of the HPA and SAM axes, are also affected by damage caused by non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI), a hallmark of H63D syndrome. Due to the rarity of the H63D syndrome, the representatives of a number of institutions that regularly deal with the topic in the context of their clinical and research activities have come together for this purpose. Thus, a small but significant amount of patient data could be collected worldwide, analyzed and evaluated, with surprisingly clear pathological results. A secondary aspect is that after reviewing the currently available literature, the team of authors came to the conclusion that the issue of HPA and SAM axes dysfunctions and adrenal synthesis activity seems to be also more frequent in other iron metabolic disorders than it is addressed to in everyday’s clinical practice. The result of this work is a warning call to closely monitor the catecholamine balance, the synthesis and control of all "stress hormones", the condition of the adrenal glands as well as other axis structures very early in the course of the H63D syndrome, in order to make unnecessary organ damages at least a little less likely, if not to prevent it to a large extent if detected early.


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Alert Number: FDIC SA-178-2006
DATE: June 29, 2006
TO: Chief Executive Officer (also of interest to Security Officer)
SUBJECT: Counterfeit Cashier's Checks
Counterfeit cashier's checks bearing the name City Bank, Everett, Washington, are reportedly in circulation.
City Bank, Lubbock, Texas, has contacted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to report that counterfeit cashier's checks bearing the institution's name are in circulation.
The counterfeit items bear the routing number 111301737, which is assigned to City Bank, but are dissimilar to authentic checks. The counterfeit items are green and display the bank's name and an "Everett, WA" address in the top-center portion of the item directly above a telephone number, which is not associated with the bank. A description of security features is embedded in the top border of the counterfeit items.
Authentic checks display the bank's name in cursive font, a logo and the words "MEMBER FDIC" in the top-center portion of the check. Authentic checks are blue and include a description of security features vertically along the right margin.
Any information you have concerning this matter should be brought to the attention of:
Vice President, Risk Management
City Bank Texas
5219 City Bank Parkway
Lubbock, Texas 79407
Telephone: (800) 687-2265
Fax: (806) 771-3343

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MADISON, Ala. (WAFF) - Madison City Schools Superintendent Robby Parker is retiring.
Parker made the announcement at Thursday’s school board meeting. He will leave at the end of February.
The board requested BOE attorney Woody Sanderson to assist them in the search for a new superintendent.
“I am so thankful for the 31 years I have spent in the schools of Madison, Alabama. It has been a joy and I will miss my kids tremendously,” Parker said. “The Lord placed me here 31 years ago, and he is leading me somewhere different today. Madison City Schools is truly one of America’s best school systems because of our kids and staff and it will continue to get better. I will always be the #1 cheerleader and advocate for Madison City Schools.”
Parker said he does not know what his next step will be.
Parker’s departure will end more than three decades at Madison City Schools in which he ascended from teacher to teacher-coach, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent. His school leadership assignments included Discovery and Liberty Middle, and Bob Jones High School where he spent 10 years as principal.
He became superintendent in February 2017.
“The Board of Education extends its gratitude to Mr. Parker for his service, dedication and loyalty to Madison City Schools. He is one of the most popular administrators we have ever had, and he will be missed. We wish him the best in his future endeavors, and will focus on finding the best person to continue to lead Madison City Schools,” said Board President Ranae Bartlett.


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WALKING IN NEWNESS OF LIFE
The fact that we are justified by faith without the deeds of the law raises the question of how we should live. Because the natural mindset is works oriented, many believers find it hard to conceive of freedom from the law in any terms other than freedom to sin. Without an ironclad set of rules they struggle to understand where the line should be drawn. On one hand the Bible warns them not to seek righteousness by the law, on the other it condemns them if they sin. The Apostle Paul tells them that they are free from the law, yet called for the excommunication of one who was unrepentant. Paul deals with this question in the sixth chapter of his epistle to the Romans.
The message that Paul is trying to get across in this chapter is that it is possible for us to be good citizens, good neighbors, and honest and upstanding members of the community without trying to make ourselves righteous by living according to a list of dos and doníts (Romans 9:30-32). That is why he never presents his instructions as a new law or a way to become righteous. And, that is what those who are works-minded find frustrating. Verse four talks about walking in newness of life, verse ten about living unto God, verse twelve about not letting sin reign, and verse nineteen about yielding to righteousness. Yet there is a good reason why those terms are never distilled down into a set of rules.
WALKING BY FAITH
1 ∂ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Absolutely not. How shall we, who are dead to sin, continue living in it?
3 Donít you know, that all who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him through baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should also walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also continue together in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he who is dead has been freed from sin.
[Comment: In these verses Paul explains to those at Rome, that when they came to faith in Christ, their baptism outwardly portrayed the fact that their faith made them partakers of Christís death, burial, and resurrection. He then uses that fact to introduce and illustrate the concept of walking in "newness of life." In other words, we are to conduct ourselves as we will after the resurrection, once the corruption of sin has been removed from our nature (1Corinthians 15:52-54, Jeremiah 17:9). I might also point out, that Paul does not command us to walk in "newness of life" as if we were under a new law, but instead admonishes us by the gospel. However, it is hard to describe that conduct, without someone twisting what is said into a set of rules. If I described it as "walking in a clean conscience," there would be some that would think they were free to do any evil thing as long as they felt no guilt over it. At the same time, there would be others who would become enslaved to their conscience, as if obeying their conscience was what made them righteous.]
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that since Christ was raised from the dead he cannot die again; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died to sin once for all: but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way regard yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[Comment: These verses tell us that as Christ (having died unto sin) now lives to God, we should also live to God as if we were dead to sin. In other words we should do what is right and pure and good, not because we are trying to make ourselves holy, but because it is the right thing to do.]
12 Therefore do not allow sin to reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts.
13 And do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and yield your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: because you are not under the law, but under grace.
[Comment: In these verses Paul contrasts yielding our body to God as an instrument of righteousness, with allowing sin (Satan) to have dominion over us. Here, again, he is not talking about following rules or trying to make ourselves righteous, but about doing the right thing while trusting in Christ to make us righteous.
In verse fourteen he says that sin has no dominion over us because we are free from (not under) the law. In contrast, those who are under the law are under the power of Satan. That statement makes me wonder if those in hell will be forced to keep the law. At any rate, we know that they will be condemned by it.]
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Absolutely not.
16 Donít you know, that when you yield yourselves to someone to obey him as servants, you are the servants of the one you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God, you who were the slaves of sin, have obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine that was delivered you.
18 And having been freed from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
[Comment: Since those who seek righteousness by the law are continually trying to excuse their sin, Verse 15 tells us that God is not going to allow Christís suffering and death be used as an excuse to sin (Hebrews 10:29, James 4:4). Verse 16 then warns those who would sin willfully (as did David in the matter of Uriah) that they are opening themselves up to satanic influence, the end of which is death. Nevertheless, the obedience called for, is not the obedience of the Pharisee but the obedience of the Publican Ė namely the godly sorrow that leads us to admit our sin and look to Christ for mercy (Luke 18:13, 2 Corinthians 7:10).]
19 I am being frank with you because of the weakness of the flesh: for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness and to iniquity leading to more iniquity; even so now yield your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
20 For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 Yet what benefit did you get out of those things that you are now ashamed of? for those things result in death.
22 But now having been freed from sin, and become servants of God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the result is everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[Comment: In these verses Paul contrasts the fruits of evil behavior with the fruits of good behavior. In verse twenty-one he points out that evil behavior brings shame and death. Yet instead of saying that good behavior brings life, he points out that "being made free from sin" (i.e. saved), we "have" eternal life, and right behavior is the fruit (or by product) of our salvation. Then, in order to make it clear that salvation is a gift, not something we earn, he sums up what he has said with the words, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."]
SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS
As I pointed out before, it is very hard to describe how a saved person should behave, without saying something that will be twisted and distorted by those who lack understanding. In chapter eight, Paul contrasts being led by the Spirit with being carnally minded, and his letter to the Galatians makes it clear that to be led by the Spirit is to have the fruits of the Spirit (compare Romans 8:1-10 with Galatians 5:18-25). Nevertheless, those who lack understanding have turned the "leading of the Spirit" into a new law that will bring dire consequences if not obeyed.
If Paul simply wanted to give us a set of rules, he could have told us to keep the commandments. However, he wants us to trust in Christ for righteousness, not works. Therefore, while he portrays deference to the commandments as love, he makes it clear that obedience to those commandments is not what makes us righteous (Romans 3:10-28 and 13:8-10). At the same time, he tells us that sexual immorality is not to be tolerated. 1John 3:6 tells us that, "Whoever abides in him does not continue in sin: whoever continues to do what is sinful has not seen him, or known him." However, the reason those guilty of willful sin are to be excommunicated does not lie in the sin itself, but in the fact that they are not sorry for their sin (1Corinthians 5:1-5, 2Corinthians 2:6-7). It is hardness of the heart (unrepentance) that destroys faith, and separates us from God (Psalm 51:17).
While the Pharisees put the emphasis on outward appearance, and on trying to impress men with their piety, we need to put the emphasis on the heart (1Samuel 16:7, Isaiah 66:2). Those who come to faith need understand what it means to rationalize sin and why we should not do it (Proverbs 28:13, 1John 1:9). They need to know how to recognize their sin and see themselves as God sees them, so that they are not blinded to their own sin by the deceitfulness of their own heart (Isaiah 64:6, Jeremiah 17:9). And, they need to understand the importance of having a humble heart and tender conscience before God (Psalm 51:17, Psalm 25:14).
As long as someone thinks that the law will make them righteous, they will see freedom from the law as the freedom to sin. For that reason, it is only as we come to see ourselves as God sees us Ė and know that even our righteousness is as filthy rags Ė that we can see freedom from the law as the freedom to be righteous (Romans 7:18, Isaiah 64:6). Like Abraham, we should believe that righteousness is ours through faith in God's promise, and, trusting in that righteousness, walk in a clean conscience before God.
Gary Ray Branscome

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Mr Rasamee was among six passengers in the silver Toyota Commuter van registered in Bangkok to the office of the Chularatchamontri, the spiritual leader of the country's Muslims. They were heading from his home province of Pathum Thani to Songkhla.
The accident happened on the southbound lane of Asian Highway 41 in Moo 3 of Tha Rong Chang sub-district in Phunphin district at 6.40am.
Van driver Somwang Jaemsai was found dead on his seat. Mr Rasamee succumbed to his injuries in a local hospital.
Other severely injured passengers were identified as Udom Maengthong, 47; Pannarai Sriprasert, 41; Dollorma Muleemusee, 60; Pannee Damchawai, 55 who is Mr Rasamee's wife; and Alima Muleemusee, 52. They are natives of Khlong Luang district in Pathum Thani and Nong Chok district of Bangkok.


Tramp transport drone project
Light "Orlan-10" - the most massive UAV of the Russian army, used for reconnaissance
In the interests of the armed forces and the national economy, a number of unmanned aircraft projects are currently being developed in our country. aviation heavy class complexes. Aircraft and helicopter-type UAVs are designed to solve various problems, incl. for the transport of goods. This category also includes the project of the “transport aviation multifunctional platform” TRAMP, the existence of which became known the other day.
The TRAMP platform project was first openly mentioned by the RIA agency News February 8th. Citing an unnamed source in the military-industrial complex, it reports the existence of such a project and reveals some features of the future UAV. However, other information remains unknown. So, it is not specified which organization is involved in this project, what the finished platform will look like, etc.
A RIA Novosti source said that the TraAMP project provides for the creation of an aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicle with a traditional layout. It will be a transport drone, the main task of which will be the transportation of certain goods over long distances. Such a UAV will have to work in different conditions, incl. in a complex environment with the presence of certain threats.
The TRAMP product receives a volumetric cargo compartment with lower flaps. It can host different payload types. So, for military use, the drone will be able to carry reconnaissance or other equipment or weapons. The use of UAVs in the civilian sphere is also envisaged. In this case, his reconnaissance equipment will be used to monitor the situation. Also, the platform will be able to carry devices for spraying chemicals.
When developing the project, solutions aimed at simplifying the operation of equipment are used. The UAV will be able to take off from short areas with insufficient preparation, and in case of an accident it will receive means of saving the load. Modular design simplifies repairs and returns drone to work.
Complex "Inohodets" - a representative of the heavy class
The timing of the development of a new air platform has not yet been named. Also, no interest from potential customers or their support is reported. Perhaps information of this kind will appear later, as the new project develops.
No graphic materials on the TRAMP project have yet been published, and even the general view of the future UAV remains unknown. However, a RIA Novosti source revealed some technical details that allow you to get a rough picture and even determine the possible advantages of a drone.
As reported, the TraAMP platform is being created in the form of an unmanned aircraft of the traditional design. This means that the aircraft will have a pronounced fuselage, and a large volume, wing and tail unit. For the UAV, low flight performance is declared, which can be provided by a straight wing.
A modular design architecture is proposed. Depending on the current tasks, it will be possible to replace the power plant, wing or landing gear. At the same time, the fuselage and general aircraft systems will remain the same. This will allow you to change specific characteristics with minimal effort.
According to the source, the most important feature of the design is a large and capacious cargo compartment with a volume of 2650 liters. It is easy to calculate that such a compartment, depending on the diameter, can be up to several meters long. In addition, one can imagine the overall dimensions of an unmanned aircraft with such a compartment. The payload of the UAV will reach 600 kg. Accordingly, the maximum takeoff weight will be several times greater.
Heavy multi-purpose "Hunter" with percussion functions
Access to the cargo volume will be provided by deployable doors in the bottom of the fuselage. In the case of reconnaissance equipment, such a "bomb bay" will allow surveillance in the lower hemisphere, and the combat version of the UAV will drop missiles and bombs through it.
The type of power plant is not named. At the same time, the given characteristics suggest the use of an internal combustion engine or a turboprop engine with a propeller. In this case, TRAMP will be able to show the declared flight characteristics. Estimated speed is said to reach 195 km / h, the ceiling - 3 km, flight range - up to 600 km.
A RIA Novosti source spoke about the development of means of rescue, both for cargo and for the drone as a whole. Probably, we are talking about some kind of parachute systems that can safely lower the entire UAV or its most valuable elements to the ground - first of all, reconnaissance equipment or other payload. Obviously, the combat load is not subject to such salvation.
Any information about control systems, modes of operation, etc. missing. It is likely that the TraAMP platform will receive remote control with a two-way radio communication channel. At the same time, it needs advanced means of communication capable of providing flight at a declared range of hundreds of kilometers. In addition, the UAV will have to operate at airfields, which imposes additional requirements on avionics and its functions.
In a new class
The news about the development of a "transport aviation multifunctional platform" is of great interest. It shows not only the presence of a new promising project. It follows from it that the Russian industry has taken up the development of a new class of unmanned aerial systems.
To date, Russian enterprises have developed and brought to mass production unmanned aircraft of many types. First of all, these are light and medium class products intended for use in the armed forces. Also, the medium and heavy category of UAVs with reconnaissance and / or strike capabilities are gradually being mastered. However, there are not too many such projects yet, and the number of serial products is also limited.
The concept of the UAV "Thunder". Such a device will receive an internal compartment for various loads.
The TRAMP project is being developed with an eye to another niche. This UAV should carry various cargoes and be used, first of all, as a transport. Other applications associated with specialized payloads are not excluded. However, these are just ways to use the main cargo function.
As reported, a promising drone will be able to carry loads up to several meters in size with a total volume of 2,6 cubic meters and weighing up to 600 kg. Such characteristics are quite sufficient for the transportation of various ammunition, incl. artillery shells, various equipment, medicines, etc. It is impossible to exclude the appearance of even an ambulance version of the UAV, which will be able to transport the wounded with an escort.
The new drone will complement the existing military transport aviation and expand its capabilities. With its help, it will be possible to deliver small and relatively light cargoes, the transportation of which by planes and helicopters is too expensive or even impractical. The TRAMP platform will allow solving such problems at minimal cost.
Unmanned aircraft have a number of obvious advantages over manned ones, and they should be used in the TraAMP project. So, the new platform will be able to transport goods in adverse weather conditions or through hazardous areas. At the same time, limited size and weight can become an advantage - they will reduce visibility for the enemy and contribute to the breakthrough of air defense. In addition, the loss of a small UAV, even with a load, is not as sensitive as the crash of a transport aircraft with a heavy load and crew.
A forward-looking concept
In general, the concept of a heavy UAV with a transport function looks interesting and may attract the attention of the military or other potential customers. It also cannot be ruled out that the new TRAMP project is being created by order of the Ministry of Defense or with its support. In this case, the platform gets every chance to go through the design and testing stage, and then get into production and service.
One way or another, the latest news shows that the Russian industry continues to work in the field of unmanned aircraft. She creates new projects, as well as develops and implements promising concepts. The next result of such work in the future may be the multi-purpose transport platform TraMP. How soon it will appear is unknown, but the result of this project promises to be useful for the army and other structures.
- Ryabov Kirill
- Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Group "Kronstadt"
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President Trump had an impromptu presser today before heading off on a trip to Texas to visit the southern border.
During the exchange, Trump was asked several questions about the situation there, and Trump, in his usual way, continued to spread falsehoods about what is actually happening there.
For example, when talking about drugs being imported to the US, Trump insisted that most of the drugs were coming through in between ports of entry on the southern border. Trump’s own DEA disputes that reporting that the majority of imported drugs come via commercial vehicles, not individuals, and through the designated ports. Furthermore, many of them come via sea or air — something a “wall” would have zero effect on.
Then Trump was asked by Kristen Welker about the suffering of hundreds of thousands of federal employees that were either working without pay or furloughed and not receiving pay. Trump refused to even address those people.
Trump instead went off on a tirade about anecdotal crimes and claimed the people victimized by them were the only ones he cared about. He also failed to recognize that in addition to the 800,000 federal workers affected, that many more who were contractors probably will never receive any back pay after the shutdown is over.
So, essentially, the POTUS refused to even speak to the Federal workforce that he is in charge of. The only exception being a mention that they will probably be paid “eventually.” Welker gave him a perfect opportunity to speak to them and give them some reassurance that he “had their backs” but chose to go in the opposite direction.
As for the federal workers — being “eventually paid” might be too little, too late as they all still are responsible for things like mortgages, rent, car payments, utility payments, credit card payments, and other payments that could severely affect their living situation and credit rating — something that will affect them for years after the shutdown.
After the presser, Trump set off to go to the southern border — a trip he himself said would “do no good” just last week after the trip was scheduled for him.
Check out the clip of the presser below:


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Project: The Art of Suncor - Custom Portfolios
Client: SUNCOR Energy Inc.
In 2007 I presented a portfolio concept to Suncor Energy Inc. I showed 4 images from a project I completed for Canadian Hunter Exploration during the mid-1990's which focused on industrial imagery from their Elmworth Gas plant. I used these images to pitch the idea of photographing Suncor's Fort McMurray operations from an artistic perspective. The project was agreed to and I spent 4 days in February of 2008 photographing Suncor's operations in -30 degree weather. Ten images from the shoot were selected to be included in a custom made, limited edition portfolio titled: The Art of Suncor. Click the thumbnails below from which the final selections were made.
Suncor also used the images from the portfolio to create a photographic display at the main reception of their corporate offices in Calgary.

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AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife will provide fishers with an opportunity to catch fish in their local area by adding thousands of rainbow trout to more than 180 locations across Texas, according to a release from the organization.
The stocking program will run from November through early March, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Inland Fisheries Division and participating cities and agencies providing 352,000 Rainbow Trout to 11 community fishing lakes in the Amarillo and Lubbock areas, according to Texas Wildlife.
The stocking will begin on Nov. 24, with 553 trout delivered to Medical Park South Lake in Amarillo, which will be stocked every two weeks through March 4, 2022. The release added that other Panhandle area lakes will be stocked including the following:
- Thompson Park Lake in Amarillo
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- Caudle Lake in Hale Center
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- Pampa City Park Lake
- Lake Theo at Caprock Canyon State Park
- Rita Blanca Kids Fishing Pond in Dalhart
- 9th Street Park Lake in Lamesa
- Lake Fryer near Perryton
According to the release, rainbow trout offers fishers a great opportunity to fish in the winter and can be caught in early morning and late evening periods. The Texas Parks and Wildlife suggest using bait such as whole kernel corn, cheese, and salmon eggs on a long-shank hook to catch Rainbow trout.
Many community fishing lakes have special regulation for rainbow trout including a daily bag limit of five trout per person, and fishers. 17-year of age or older, must have a valid Texas freshwater fishing license, the release said.


text: Among the structure independent approaches of process integration, pinch technology has been shown for continuous processes to be extremely powerful to develop energy efficient processes and enhance synergic effects within and between processes. The earlier focus of the method has mainly been concerned with a minimization of the heat transfer exergy losses based on a given economic criterion. However, there is a need to increasingly consider environmental and other life cycle aspects as early as possible in the design phase. This trend has stimulated the need to extend the method including its handy graphical representations to also include the other major exergy losses (dissipation and equipment fabrication losses). A new approach proposed by Staine et al. (1995, 1996, 1999) provides a coherent framework for representing the overall exergy balance as well as the simultaneous representation of both heat and electricity balances of the process or plant being analyzed. Examples of application of this so-called extended pinch analysis method to a few continuous industrial processes will be shown. The second part of this presentation will deal with another challenging goal, which is the energy integration of batch processes. Batch processing is the preferred mode of operation whenever flexibility is a key issue. Although this mode of operation is mainly used for low volume, high value products, noticeable exceptions do exist, such as brewing which is an energy intensive, large volume process. Methodologically the analysis and design of the heat integration of batch processes is complex due to the time dimension and the large number of degrees of freedom or alternatives to be addressed (e.g. assignment of equipment to tasks, scheduling, modes of heat recovery, possible re-use of heat exchanger units). So-called "non-flowing streams" (e.g. in-vessel heating or cooling) add to the complexity, and many fine chemical processes feature time-temperature profiles making data extraction a difficult task. Particularities and practical constraints have to be taken into account in order for the solutions to make sense; fortunately, these constraints often rule out a number of alternatives, considerably restricting the solution space. Strategies based on mathematical programming have also been proposed; several of them provide with the advantage of simultaneously addressing the scheduling issue, but with the drawback of a restricted scope of application. These methods will however not be specifically addressed here. Batch processes often include in-vessel heat transfer tasks characterized by small heat transfer areas with large temperature degradations across the reactor wall (resulting from both a low heat transfer coefficient and the request for maximum heat rates to save valuable time & production capacity). Therefore one of the very first analysis step is to consider the feasibility of external pre-heating and cooling during loading/transfer between vessels.


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ATTORNEY GENERAL WARNING: Searches at ferries carry legal risks
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* The State Patrol has no clear authority to randomly search vehicles at terminals, the Attorney General says.
Washington State Patrol troopers still are randomly searching vehicles waiting in line for ferries despite a new warning that the state could be sued for doing so.
The warning came in a June 7 memorandum from Assistant Attorney General Kasey Myhra to the State Patrol and Washington State Ferries. A copy was obtained by The Sun on Friday.
"Random searches of vehicles in this manner with no individualized suspicion and conducted to prevent possible terrorist activity are unprecedented in Washington state, therefore there is no clear authority authorizing the practice," the memo said.
"Additionally, you should be aware that if searches are challenged in court, (Washington State Patrol and Washington State Ferries) will be exposed to tort and civil rights actions for damages."
Gary Larson, spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office, said the report did not take a stand on whether the random searches are constitutional.
He said the purpose of the memo was to inform the State Patrol of the legal issues it may face if it continues to search vehicles without actual terrorist threats. So far, the Coast Guard has not reported any specific threat to the ferry system.
"We don't know all of the factors that the State Patrol considered to go ahead and search," Larson said. "We just ask that they continually evaluate the situation to make sure that the searches are warranted. That's our job as lawyers for the State Patrol."
Washington State Patrol Capt. Glenn Cramer said the warning was considered but the patrol felt that securing the ferries from possible terrorist attacks was more important.
"These are extraordinary times and our ferry system is one of the busiest in the nation," Cramer said. "With the continued threat of terrorist activities in the country and in the world, this is one of the measures that we implemented in the interest of public safety."
A $1.8 million supplemental budget increase was approved by state legislators last session. It gave the State Patrol the authority to implement enhanced security.
On June 6, troopers were at the Winslow terminal on Bainbridge Island, checking every 15th vehicle.
Prior to that, the focus was at the Southworth ferry terminal. Other searches may have taken place, and the State Patrol does not announce when or where it will conduct future searches.
Those who refused to be searched June 6 were asked to turn around and leave state ferry system property.
The Attorney General's memo said masters of ferry vessels have the authority to turn people away if they refuse to be searched. But it also said that there must be a clear threat to ferry passengers.
"It remains to be determined whether the existing high-alert terrorism warnings and non-specific Coast Guard intelligence information will be sufficient to satisfy a court that such a burden has been satisfied," the Attorney General's memo said.
The state ferry system is simply following the Coast Guard and State Patrol's lead, said Patricia Patterson, public affairs director for the ferry system.
"They've fashioned the (searches) as a security program. We want a program that will keep our passengers safe," she said. "If for some reason it's not the right program, we would obviously change it until the Coast Guard and the State Patrol tell us otherwise."
Gerard Sheehan, legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, said he has received plenty of phone calls from concerned people.
"It's been a very fast and strong response as these things go," he said. "We're still in the mode of wishing to hear from more people."
State Patrol officials said on June 6 that the Attorney General's Office had issued an opinion saying the searches are legal.
That same day, Sheehan filed a formal request for a copy of the opinion from the State Patrol under the state Public Records Act. On Monday, Sheehan requested more public records from the state ferry system and State Patrol.
On Thursday morning, the State Patrol denied Sheehan's request for a copy of the Attorney General Office's opinion.
Then, later that same day, the State Patrol faxed a copy of the Attorney General Office's memo dated June 7 - one day after Sheehan's initial request.
Sheehan is still waiting for a copy of the minutes from the ferry system's Security Committee discussing plans for searching ferry passengers and of removing passengers from ferry vessels, he said.
"We certainly believe that the State Patrol could be doing more to heighten security," Sheehan said. "Just being seen and walking around observing would be a significant difference without the constitutional problems ...
"(Random searches) are a diversion from being effective and efficient. We are trying to emphasize we are all on this together."
Reach reporter Christine Morente at (360) 792-9210 or at email@example.com.


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An exhibition of contemporary drawing from international artists.
Each artist has sent a diptych or pair of drawings, in response to the ‘Call and Response’ theme. These include artists from India, Australia, the US, Europe, and the UK, working in a wide variety of styles, from abstract to figurative.
The call for drawings referenced the old Scots poetic tradition of ‘flyting’ and the idea of a ‘call and response’. Curators Pearl Kinnear and Anoushka Havinden wanted to investigate the spaces between, the process of making, and the to-and-fro of work both between artists, audience and other artists, and within individuals’ work.
This exhibition has called for playful and thoughtful work from international artists and an exploratory response in curation from Pearl and Anoushka. Subjects featured in the disparate body of work include abstractions, flute music, somersaults and bird-shaped humans.
The Drawing Box was established by Irish artist Di Henshaw and during the pandemic used as a way to keep connections between artists. Members share ideas, work, opportunities and discussions, and organise exhibitions that have toured the world. As an international group of independent artists, communicating largely via the internet and self organising, the Drawing Box centres on the discipline of drawing and self organised artist community.

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Kodie Bedford would write her own scripts for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and dream of being a television showrunner while growing up in Geraldton, 400km north of Perth.
“I am adamant that art saves lives, because art saved my life,” says Bedford, who eventually became a writer for the Bunya Productions ABC-TV series Mystery Road, filmed partly in the West Australian Kimberley, to which she has strong ties as a Djaru woman.
“Being an Aboriginal teenager in the 90s in Geraldton, I never thought I could make it anywhere else, and I didn’t feel I fitted in there.
“I shouldn’t have survived those years, and yet here I am. Writing stories is how I survived.”
Now living in the Blue Mountains, Bedford is about to see her first play, Cursed!, produced at Belvoir Street Theatre. Chenoa Deemal plays Bernadette, a character modelled on Bedford’s own life, as a “black woman growing up in a conservative place”.
Bedford got her writing break – in journalism – through a chance encounter with an SBS video reporter working at Halls Creek in the East Kimberley, who mentioned a cadetship was going at the multicultural broadcaster.
“For someone like me, who was in public housing in the mid-west and Aboriginal, that was pure f---ing luck I ran into that woman, and that changed the course of my life.”
Bedford wants to tap both sides of her family in her storytelling, never having suffered any identity issues.
“One half of me is from Geraldton, which if you go back is Irish, English, and then the other half is Aboriginal from the East Kimberley, and I can trace them both back.”
In Cursed! the character Bernadette rushes from Sydney back to Geraldton to say goodbye to her dying nan, played by Valerie Bader and based on Bedford’s own late maternal grandmother, Valda Osborn, whose love of Tolkien and Dickens inspired Bedford to write.
The play’s title alludes to what Valda, who had a strong Catholic faith, called the “family curse”.
“My nan called it ‘nerves’,” says Bedford. “I was most like her, I was very sensitive. I had depression like her. Yet we used humour as a way of coping with that.”
The story is centred around grief but much of the play is comic, even as it deals with inter-generational mental health issues.
“Bernadette realises how hard it is to not only deal with her crazy family, but also to get into the ‘West Australian’ lifestyle,” says Bedford. “When I go back to WA, everything slows down. It takes me a few days to adjust to that.”
Earlier this year, Bedford took issue with her former employer SBS, writing in a Twitter thread that during her journalism cadetship in 2008 she was sometimes introduced as “the Indigenous cadet” and was subjected to “micro-aggressions, forms of paternalism and racism”.
Bedford said the response to her criticism was “overwhelming” but supportive.
“I am such a supporter of SBS,” she says. “I never wanted to bring them down. They really took [my complaint] seriously, and all credit to the managing director, he took it really seriously, and he started to listen to his staff past and present, about what changes were needed. He looked me in the eye and said things would change, and he did it.”
Cursed! opens at Belvoir on Thursday


TV maps can be found here.
- Ravens at Eagles: 1:00, CBS, Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf
- Buccaneers at Giants: 1:00, FOX, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
- Cowboys at Seahawks: 4:00, FOX, Kenny, Moose and Goose
- Redskins at Rams: 4:00, FOX, Chris Myers and Tim Ryan
Look out, Redskins fans. If you look at the TV maps, your game will be seen by a very small portion of the country. That means that if the NFL and the referees don’t resolve their dispute by Sunday, you guys are going to get the worst of the replacement officials.
Despite getting the top FOX announcing team, Giants-Bucs won’t be seen by much of the country either, which is odd.
The game getting the most attention this week in the NFCE will be Ravens-Eagles.


Lions rip Chiefs, battle Archers for title
San Beda overcame a listless start to rout Arellano, 87-68, yesterday and nail the last title berth in the Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) at Ynares Sports Arena.
Art dela Cruz posted a double-double of 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Baser Amer poured in all of his 16 points in the last two quarters as the Red Lions arranged a championship showdown with La Salle.
San Beda finished tied at 3-1 with University of San Carlos at the end of the Elite Eight round, but the Lions clinched the last title slot due to a better quotient.
“Good thing we came back in the second half,” said acting San Beda coach Adonis Tierra. “The adjustment was more on the mental side.”
Game 1 of the best-of-three series starts at 4 p.m. Thursday at Ynares Sports Arena, where the Archers will vie for back-to-back crowns after a 4-0 sweep of the Elite Eight.
The USC Warriors gun for third place against University of the Visayas Monday.
UV wound up tied at 2-2 with Far Eastern U, which wrapped up its campaign with a 60-58 win over National University in the other game.
Carl Bryan Cruz drilled eight of his 10 points in the second half, while Mac Belo added eight for FEU.
Amer, who also had six assists, shot 3-of-3 from three-point range to help the Lions extend the gap to 20 points, 80-60, after trailing for most of the first half.
SAN BEDA 87—Dela Cruz 20, Amer 16, Adeogun 11, Mendoza 10, Soberano 9, Tankoua 5, Presbitero 5, Koga 4, Sorela 4, Sara 3, Tongco 0.
ARELLANO 68—Jalalon 23, Holts 12, Gumaru 10, Tano 6, Nicholls 6, Meca 4, Salcedo 3, Cadavis 2, Salado 2, Ortega 0, Enriquez 0, Bangga 0, De Guzman 0.
Quarters: 18-22, 34-35, 62-54, 87-68
FEU 60—Cruz 10, Belo 8, Trinidad 6, Delfinado 6, Tolomia 6, Tamsi 5, Orizu 4, Pogoy 4, Denila 3, Ebona 3, Escoto 2, Iñigo 2, Jose 1, Lee Yu 0.
NU 58—Alejandro 11, Aroga 9, Betayene 8, Tansingco 7, Celda 5, Neypes 4, Yu 3, Rosario 3, Alolino 3, Diputado 2, Salim 2, Khobuntin 1, Cauilan 0, Perez 0, Javelona 0, Atangan 0.
Quarters: 12-18, 28-30, 47-46, 60-58
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There won’t be all-electric supercars for several years as it will take time to develop the right technology to make batteries lighter, according to McLaren Automotive Ltd.’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Leiters.
(Bloomberg) — There won’t be all-electric supercars for several years as it will take time to develop the right technology to make batteries lighter, according to McLaren Automotive Ltd.’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Leiters.
“Weight is super important, you need also the right range,” Leiters said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday. “I don’t expect this technology to be ready for real supercars before the end of the decade.”
Speaking from McLaren’s new showroom in Dubai, Leiters said the automaker couldn’t have a heavy car as they aren’t nimble and make the driver feel disconnected. “Weight is at the core of our brand,” he said.
Read More: Geneva Auto Show Resurrects Itself in the 40C Heat of Qatar
“We don’t want to do an electric car which weighs two tons and then has 2,000 horsepower,” Leiters said, adding that the weight would need to come down to the level of today’s models, in the 1,500-kilogram (3,300-pound) range.
Still, carmakers around the world are rapidly shifting toward electric, zero-emission vehicles, and marquee sportscar brands are starting to follow suit.
Leiters said he was open to the idea of a sport utility vehicle and that McLaren is focused on hybrids, as internal combustion engines become more niche.
McLaren’s global sales in the first half of 2023 grew 52% from the same period last year to 1,292 units. Demand was strongest in North America, Europe and Asia. The Middle East accounts for about 2% of the company’s worldwide sales volume, but the area has big potential and a huge customer base, Leiters said.
More stories like this are available on bloomberg.com
©2023 Bloomberg L.P.


Ships collide in Baltic Sea
Two cargo ships registered in Denmark and Britain have collided on Monday in the Baltic Sea, the Danish and Swedish authorities have reported. Two people are missing after the incident.
The collision happened in Danish waters in an area between Denmark’s island of Bornholm and Sweden’s southern Skane County, according to the Joint Operations Center of the Danish Armed Forces. The two ships were sailing in the same direction when they came into contact sometime around 3:30am local time.
The Danish ship was identified as the Karin Hoej by the Swedish Maritime Administration. She had capsized and was upside down after the collision, both sides said. Aboard the ship were two crew members whose status was not known, according to the Danish report.
The British ship, the Scot Carrier, was reported as functional and its crew safe.
A representative of the shipping company Rederiet Hoj, which owns the Karin Hoej, said their vessel was not loaded and sailed from Sodertalje in Sweden to Nykobing Falster in southern Denmark.
Rescue services of the two nations have launched boats and a helicopter to search for the missing sailors. The Danish Meteorological Institute said there was thick fog in the area at the time of the incident.
Rescue officials said the capsized ship started leaking fuel. The plan is to tow it closer to the Swedish coast before starting a salvage operation.
The Karin Hoej is a 55m long self-propelled hopper barge, which was built in 1977. The Scot Carrier is a 90m general cargo vessel built in 2018. The British-flagged ship has a deadweight of 4,700 tons – almost 10 times greater than the barge it collided with.


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THE WESTSIDE TRAIL EXTENSION IS NOT YET OPEN. In August 2018, the City of Atlanta and Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. purchased 1.8 miles of former railroad corridor on the westside informally known as “the Kudzu Line.” This stretch will extend the existing Westside Trail and connect to the Westside BeltLine Connector, which was developed by the PATH Foundation and opened in March 2021.
The Westside Trail Extension will be a 1.3-mile multi-use trail between Washington Park to the south and PATH Foundation’s Westside BeltLine Connector trail north of Hollowell Parkway. It will provide access to the Bankhead MARTA station, Maddox Park, the future Westside Park, and the Proctor Creek Greenway.
The 14-foot wide trail will include landscaping, a fiber duct bank, retaining walls, vertical connections to adjoining streets, stainless steel handrails/guardrails, storm management, soil remediation, lighting, and security cameras.
It will connect the neighborhoods of Bankhead, English Avenue, Grove Park, Knight Park, and Howell Station.
Design & Construction Update
In September 2020, ABI announced the selection of Alta Planning + Design to design the segment between the current end of the Westside Trail at Washington Park (at Lena Street) and Marietta Boulevard. You can download the presentation from the public meeting on October 26, 2020, and view the recording of the meeting.
ABI is evaluating next steps regarding converting the corridor to an unpaved trail. The corridor is closed to the public until ABI announces that it is safe to use.
Below is the general, anticipated project timeline:
- Concept Phase: November 2020 completion
- Construction Documents: November 2021 completion
- Construction: TBD, pending funding
Check in to www.beltline.org/meetings for upcoming meetings and past documents.


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Vintage Industrial CARD CATALOG, Rare Walnut Wood, New Wheels!
Gorgeous vintage industrial card catalog in walnut and chrome! This beautiful circa 1970s piece is a beautiful example of industrial furniture which can be repurposed in the modern home; use it for storing jewelry, ties, craft supplies, virtually anything! Refinished (but still with plenty of patina remaining!) and exhibiting striking grain patterns and rich wood tones, which are set off by the chrome pulls and new caster wheels. Finished on the back, this catalog can be "floated" in a room and looks great from all sides. Each drawer front is a solid block of walnut, attached to a hard plastic drawer, which have all withstood the test of time and are freshly cleaned. A nice bonus on this piece are the two pulls out platforms, perfect for sorting items as you find them in the drawers! An unusual and fabulous piece, with lots of character and functionality! 34.5"W x 18.75"D x 35.75"H, $1295


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In Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden has his Build Back Better agenda. In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has a simpler plan: build, build, build.
The mayor set an ambitious goal Thursday: building 500,000 new homes over the next decade in New York City. Adams said he was responding to a crisis that has resulted in increased housing prices, more homeless New Yorkers and longer commutes, as people have to live further out to find affordable housing. That would more than double the approximately 200,000 units built over the past 10 years – a necessary goal, according to the mayor, as the city’s population has increased by about 300,000 people since 2010.
“We need more housing, and we need it as fast as we can build it,” Adams said in a speech at City Hall. “If we do not deal with this housing crisis, New York will no longer be a city for working people, for families, for immigrants or for elders. We cannot let this happen. We must take action now.”
Adams’ initial housing plan, which he released in June, was criticized by some housing experts for being short on metrics and for not setting a goal for the number of units built. At the time, he said the focus should be on the people getting into housing, rather than the number of homes in the pipeline. Thursday’s speech built on that announcement, and Adams’ larger “City of Yes” framework. The “Get Stuff Built” report – playing on Adams’ “Get Stuff Done” mantra – provided 111 recommendations that could streamline residential development.
Those included removing regulations, including a major change that would exempt smaller projects from conducting an often costly and time-intensive environmental review. Other fixes were more obvious, like filling job vacancies at the Department of City Planning. The city’s vacant positions have caused headaches across various agencies.
“We’re trying to go from a system that’s based on paperwork and based on process to one that’s based on progress,” said Deputy Mayor for Economic and Workforce Development Maria Torres-Springer, who helped lead the Building and Land Use Approval Streamlining Task Force that issued the report.
Most of the changes could be made internally, within the alphabet soup of city agencies ranging from the Department of City Planning and the Department of Transportation to the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination. But Adams emphasized that the initiative’s lofty goals could only be accomplished through a “full government approach,” with support from the federal government, state Legislature and City Council.
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams seems likely to be an eager partner on the goal, as she too has made increasing residential development a top priority. “We have too few homes for New Yorkers,” she said at a November press conference, teasing that she’ll have more to say in coming weeks, “and that is felt the most for those who need affordable housing at the deepest levels.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul, too, promised to release a “bold and audacious” housing agenda in January. She stopped short of providing details, promising instead to unveil more during her State of the State speech, but she did strike a similar tone to the mayor, saying the state has failed to allow new housing developments.
But even as the need to build more housing has become a hot topic for leading politicians, expected blowback from constituents looms over the discussion.
One common concern has been that new buildings will drive up costs in the surrounding neighborhood, eventually displacing long-term residents and gentrifying communities. One prominent report from UCLA showed that new development does not increase the cost of rent in nearby buildings.
Adams said the initiative will create housing that is affordable to both middle- and low-income residents. “Development does not have to be displacement,” Adams said. “We must ensure that there are safeguards in place to make sure people are not displaced and that there’s roads for the district attorneys to take for those who try to illegally evict.”
As for neighborhoods that have historically resisted new buildings or blocked affordable housing projects, Adams said they will no longer be allowed to do that.
“We can no longer have the thought process not on my block, not in my neighborhood, not in my community,” he said. “We have to say we must house all our neighbors.”
It has yet to be seen how the plan will be met by City Council members. While there can be an incentive to see construction projects completed in a timely manner, the current Uniform Land Use Review Procedure used when developers look to build outside of what the current zoning allows, gives members significant input and influence over what gets built. Any changes to that – even relatively modest ones like Adams is presenting, that don’t abolish the procedure – could be seen as reducing their power, and their constituents’ input.
In his speech, Adams also pointed to planned development that would get the city toward that 500,000-unit goal. Thousands of new homes are already planned for two parts of the city identified as emerging job hubs, including the East Bronx and Central Brooklyn. Under one of the plans, Parkchester, Van Nest and Morris Park would get 6,000 new homes by 2027 near long-planned Metro-North Railroad stations.