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Detectives searching for suspects who allegedly stole trailer
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC, (WWAY) — The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office is searching for the people who stole a trailer Tuesday morning.
Detectives say three men stole a yellow Kraftsman dual tandem trailer from Back to Normal Construction in Ocean Isle Beach.
The men may have been driving an orange or red Ford truck with a black flatbed with diamond plate toolboxes.
Anyone with information should contact the Detective Ronald Clarke with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office at 910-386-7080.
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MTV drama series ‘MTV Shuga: Down South’ will hold auditions to find a new cast of actors, for their new season which set to hit our small screens later this year.
Who can audition for MTV Shuga?
The #MTVShugaAudition is open to all South African residents between the ages of 18-25 years.
When and where are auditions taking place?
For the first time ever, MTV Shuga Auditions will be taking place in TWO South African cities: Johannesburg and Durban.
25 August 2018
Johannesburg (@ Zone 6 Venue)
The Joburg leg of the auditions will be held at Zone 6 the Venue in Soweto on Saturday the 25th of August.
26 August 2018
Durban (@ Olive Convention Center)
One day later, we’ll be flying to Dubane for the second leg of the public auditions to be held at the Olive Convention Center in North Beach.

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- Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor
For other uses, see Opal (disambiguation).
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OPAL (Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor) is a 20 megawatt (MW) pool-type nuclear research reactor that was officially opened on 20 April 2007 at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, located in South Sydney, Australia.
The main reactor uses are:
- Irradiation of target materials to produce radioisotopes for medical and industrial applications
- Research in the field of material science using neutron beams and its sophisticated suite of experimental equipment
- Analysis of minerals and samples using the neutron activation technique and the delay neutron activation technique
- Irradiation of Silicon ingots in order to dope them with phosphorus and produce the basic material used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices
The reactor runs on an operation cycle of 28 days nonstop at fullpower, followed by a stop of 2 days to reshuffle the fuel.
During year 2010 OPAL ran a total of 286 days at power which represents a worldwide leading availability.
The Argentine company INVAP was fully responsible through a turn key contract for the delivery of the reactor, performing the design, construction and commissioning. The facility is currently in operation.
OPAL was opened on 20 April 2007 by then Australian Prime Minister John Howard and is the replacement for the HIFAR reactor. ANSTO received an operating license from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) in July 2006, allowing commencement of hot commissioning, where fuel is first loaded into the reactor core. OPAL went critical for the first time on 12 August 2006 and reached full power on 3 November 2006.
The reactor core consists of 16 low-enriched plate-type fuel assemblies and is located under 10 metres of water in an open pool. Light water (normal H2O) is used as the coolant and moderator while heavy water (D2O) is used as the neutron reflector.
OPAL is the centrepiece of the facilities at ANSTO, providing efficient and rapid radiopharmaceutical and radioisotope production, irradiation services (including neutron transmutation doping of silicon), neutron activation analysis and neutron beam research. OPAL is able to produce four times as many radioisotopes for nuclear medicine treatments, and a wider array of radioisotopes for the treatment of disease than the old HIFAR reactor. The modern design includes a cold neutron source (CNS).
The OPAL reactor already has received seven awards in Australia.
Neutron scattering at OPAL
The Bragg Institute at ANSTO hosts OPAL's neutron scattering facility. It is now running as a user facility serving the scientific community in Australia and around the world. New fundings have been received in 2009 in order to install further competitive instruments and beamlines. The actual facility comprises the following instruments:
ECHIDNA is the name of the high-resolution neutron powder diffractometer. The instrument serves to determine the crystalline structures of materials using neutron radiation analogical to X-ray techniques. It is named after the Australian monotreme echidna, as the spiny peaks of the instrument looks like an echidna.
It operates with thermal neutrons. One of the main features is the array of 128 collimators and position sensitive detectors for rapid data acquisition. ECHIDNA allows for structure determinations, texture measurements and reciprocal space mapping of single crystals in most different sample environments serving the physics, chemistry, materials, minerals and earth-science communities. ECHIDNA is part of the Bragg Institute's park of neutron scattering instruments.
- Neutron guide
- The instrument is located on the TG1 thermal neutron guide of the OPAL reactor. The distance from the reactor is 58 m. The position is the second on the guide after the WOMBAT instrument. The size of the guide is 300 mm height X 50 mm width and it is plated with supermirror coatings.
- Primary collimator
- There are Söller collimators prior to the monochromator in order to reduce the divergence of the beam and to increase the angular resolution of the instrument. Since this is an intensity compromise, two items of 5' and 10', respectively, can be interchanged or fully removed by an automated mechanism. The collimators cover the full size of the beam delivered by the neutron guide.
- The monochromator is made by slabs of  oriented Germanium crystals which are inclined towards each other in order to focus down the Bragg reflected beam. The device has been acquired from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the USA after the shutdown of their neutron facility.
- Secondary collimator
- Optionally a secondary collimator with 10' angular acceptance and 200 mm X 20 mm can be placed in the monochromatic beam between the monochromator and the sample, which again influences the resolution function of the instrument.
- Slit system
- Two automated sets of horizontal and vertical pairs of absorbing plates allow to cut down the size of the monochromatic beam prior to the secondary collimator and sample size. They remove unwanted neutrons and reduce the background near the detector. In addition, they allow to select the sample position to be studied.
- Beam monitor
- Sample stage
- The sample is supported by a heavy load goniometer consisting of a 360° vertical omega rotation axis, x-y translation tables and a chi - phi cross tilt stage of ±20° range. It can hold a few hundred kilograms in order to support heavier sample environment, such as cryostats, furnaces, magnets, load frames, reaction chambers and others. A typical powder sample is filled into vanadium cans which give little, unstructured background. The mentioned sample environment allows to measure changes of the sample as a function of external parameters, like temperature, presser, magnetic field, etc. The goniometer stage is redundant for most powder diffraction measurements, but will be important for single crystal and texture measurements, where the orientation of the sample plays a role.
- Detector collimators
A set of 128 detectors each equipped which a 5' collimator in front are arranged in a 160° sector focusing to the sample. The collimators select the scattered radiation into the well defined ranges of 128 angular positions. All the collimator and detector setup is mounted on a common table which is scanned in finer steps around the sample, to be combinded further to a continuous diffraction pattern.
- Detector tubes
- The 128 linear position sensitive 3He gas detector tubes cover the full opening height of 300 mm behind the collimators. They determine the position of the neutron event by charge division over the resistive anode towards each end of the detector. Overall and local count rates lie in the several 10000 Hz range.
PLATYPUS is a time-of-flight reflectometer built on the cold neutron. The instrument serves to determine the structure of interfaces using highly collimated neutron beams. These beams are shone on to the surface at low angles (typically less than 2 degrees) and the intensity of the reflected radiation is measured as a function of angle of incidence.
It operates using cold neutrons, with a wavelength band of 0.2–2.0 nm. Although up to three different angles of incidence are required for each reflectivity curve, the time-of-flight nature means that timescales of kinetic processes are accessible. By analysing the reflected signal one builds a picture of the chemical structure of the interface. This instrument can be used for examining biomembranes, lipid bilayers, magnetism, adsorbed surfactant layers, etc.
WOMBAT is a high-intensity neutron powder diffractometer. The instrument serves to determine the crystalline structures of materials using neutron radiation analogical to X-ray techniques. It is named after the wombat, a marsupial indigenous to Australia.
It will operate with thermal neutrons. It has been designed for highest flux and data acquisition speed in order to deliver time resolved diffraction patterns in a fraction of a second. WOMBAT will concentrate on in-situ studies and time critical investigations, such as structure determinations, texture measurements and reciprocal space mapping of single crystals in most different sample environments serving the physics, chemistry, materials, minerals and earth-science communities.
KOWARI is a neutron residual stress diffractometer. Strain scanning using thermal neutrons is a powder diffraction technique in a polycrystalline block of material probing the change of atomic spacing due to internal or external stress. It is named after the kowari, an Australian marsupial.
It provides a diagnostic non-destructive tool to optimize e.g. post-weld heat treatment (PWHT, similar to tempering) of welded structures. Tensile stresses for example drive crack growth in engineering components and compressive stresses inhibit crack growth (for example cold-expanded holes subject to fatigue cycling). Life extension strategies have high economic impact and strain scanning provides the stresses needed to calculate remaining life as well as the means to monitor the condition of components since it is non-destructive. One of the main features is the sample table that will allow to examine large engineering components while orienting and positioning them very accurately.
- TAIPAN - Thermal 3-Axis Spectrometer
- KOALA - Quasi Laue Diffractometer.
- QUOKKA - Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
- PELICAN - Time of Flight Polarisation Analysis Spectrometer
- SIKA - Cold Neutron 3-Axis Spectrometer
July 2007 shutdown
Following the discovery of loose fuel plates during a routine inspection, ANSTO announced on 27 July 2007 that the reactor would be shut down for 8 weeks to fix the fuel plates and a minor fault causing light water to seep into the reactor's heavy water. In the end, the shutdown lasted 10 months. The supply of radiopharmaceuticals was rationed, causing the postponement of some treatments for patients. OPAL returned to full operational power on 23 May 2008, following approval by the nuclear regulator, ARPANSA to use a modified fuel design.
- ^ "PM Opens Australia’s New Nuclear Reactor" (Press release). ANSTO. 20 April 2007. http://www.ansto.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/9662/OPAL_opening_release.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
- ^ "Sydney Opal reactor at full power" (Press release). INVAP. 10 November 2006. http://www.invap.net/news/novedades-e.php?id=20061110183244. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
- ^ "The OPAL reactor already has received seven awards in Australia" (Press release). INVAP. 14 November 2006. http://www.invap.net/news/novedades-e.php?id=20061114194744. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
- ^ Liss, L.; Hunter, B.; Hagen, M.; Noakes, T.; Kennergy, S. (2006). "Echidna—the new high-resolution powder diffractometer being built at OPAL". Physica B 385-386: 1010. Bibcode 2006PhyB..385.1010L. doi:10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.322. http://liss.freeshell.org/KDL/papers/LissEchidnaICNS2005.pdf.
- ^ "Sydney nuclear reactor to shut down". ABC News. 27 July 2007. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/27/1990090.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
- ^ "Reactor to shut down for about eight weeks" (Press release). ANSTO. 27 July 2007. http://www.ansto.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/16201/Reactor_shutdown.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-25.
- ^ Richard Macey (22 February 2008). "Idle reactor keeps sick waiting for treatment". Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/idle-reactor-keeps-sick-waiting-for-treatment/2008/02/22/1203467388895.html. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
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- Announcement of the new reactor's name
- Nuclear reactor to reopen after six-month shutdown
- Govt expects nuclear reactor to restart this month
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WALTON COUNTY, Ga. - The Georgia State Patrol continues to search for two of four drivers believed to have struck a Walton County teen Tuesday morning.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Little died at the scene after investigators said he went into traffic to try and grab his skateboard.
Wednesday night, hundreds of friends and family gathered at the accident site just north of Monroe on North Broad St. to remember the teenager and call for action.
"We need a crossing here, it needs to be here," said Jacob's father Randy Little.
Little said too many students at Monroe Area High School have to walk across the busy highway every morning to get to school.
Jacob was on his way to the school when he was struck. The Little family wants a crosswalk installed and the speed limit lowered.
"We want it to be Jacob's crossing," said Jacob's brother, Jeremy.
Dozens of people signed boards to urge local and state authorities to make the changes. The family said Walton County leaders have told them they will make a push for the change.
The gathering came as the Georgia State Patrol continues to search for two unidentified drivers who witnesses said struck the teen and kept going. The vehicles are believed to be a dark-colored Chevy SUV or truck and a silver Honda.
Authorities towed a silver Honda abandoned along a Gwinnett County road Wednesday, but the Walton County sheriff now says that car's involvement has been ruled out.
One driver who struck the teen stopped at the scene, a second turned himself in after seeing news reports about the accident on television Tuesday night.
The sheriff said that man said he thought he had hit a deer at the time and didn't realize it was a person.
At the Wednesday vigil, classmates of Little’s shed tears and lit candles. Some spoke about the pain of losing a friend and their eagerness to find out the identities of the hit and run drivers.
"That's the only thing that is keeping us not at peace," said friend Kristin Green.


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MADRID, November 21 (Portaltic/EP) –
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According to LG, this new sound technology, which will be commercialized in the first half of 2023, ushers in “a new era of in-vehicle infotainment.” In addition, as an innovation, its technology uses the vibration of various materials of the car body to allow a “immersive 3D” sound experience to the user.
Unlike conventional loudspeakers, ‘Thin Actuator Sound Solution’ avoids components such as the voice coil, cone or magnet, reducing size and weight. In fact, it has a size similar to a passport (150mm x 90mm) with a 2.5 thickness mm (equivalent to two coins stacked together) and a 40g light weightwhich makes it just the 30 percent of the weight and 10 percent of the thickness of a normal car speaker.
As the company has explained on its news page, its compact size allows it to be installed in places like the dashboard, headlining or even headrests. Furthermore, this speaker technology not only makes it possible to eliminate the use of speaker grills, but also improve space efficiency in the vehicle by being freer by not having to include the usual speakers.
Also I know remove components that are usually used in common speakers such as neodymium (Nd), which increases the ecological factor of the ‘Thin Actuator Sound Solution’.
“We’ve transformed the conventionally heavy and bulky loudspeaker into a high-quality ‘invisible’ sound solution by using our cutting-edge technology to elevate space, design and ecological factors and deliver a next-level sound experience like never before. before,” Yeo Chun-ho, vice president and head of LG Display’s Business Development Division, said in this regard.


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A local lawyer says he will give the Hamilton Conservation Authority $20,000 each year for five years if the authority turns down a proposal to create a Montessori school out of an old hall in the Dundas Valley and removes the building instead.
Mark Tamminga, who works at Gowlings in downtown Hamilton, made the offer in a letter that was discussed this week at a conservation authority board meeting. His thinking is the money would compensate for lost revenue and help with the costs of tearing down the facility.
He says the Dundas Valley should stick to its role as a nature preserve, and that the school proposal would undermine that. Tamminga lives near the Dundas Valley Conservation Area and says he regularly uses the area for running with his wife, Joany.
"The proponents of the school are good people, earnestly trying to do their best for their constituents, but the proposal is, in our view, at cross purposes with the core conservation mission of the authority," Tamminga says.
The authority is studying what to do with the building on Artaban Road. A year ago, staff recommended demolishing the 95-year-old hall but then decided to explore renting out the facility and using it as a revenue source.
Then Tony Evans, who operates the Dundas Montessori school, approached the authority in August with the idea of running his school there.
He says the move would be a positive step in "connecting children to nature at a time when that is more important than ever."
But others were strongly opposed to the idea, including most notably, Thomas Beckett, the first chair of authority. Beckett, a retired judge who served as chair of the Hamilton Region Conservation Authority from 1966-1971, was involved in buying the 8-hectare parcel of land in 1968 that includes Maplewood Hall.
Tony Horvat, director of land management for the authority, said staff will be studying the issue over the next month or two before returning to the authority's board with recommendations.
The letter from Tamminga was tabled by the board, pending a decision on the fate of the building.


Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has claimed that its members were forced to storm out of the National Assembly special sitting on Thursday after learning that some Members of Parliament from Jubilee were armed with guns.
Addressing the press at the Media Centre, National Assembly Chip Whip and Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo accused Speaker Justin Muturi of allowing Jubilee MPs to contravene standing orders saying their actions signified the collapse of democracy.
“A friend of mine had informed me earlier that they were under instructions to use any force to pass the amendments. We also learned that some Jubilee MPs had guns in the chambers that were aimed at us to stop us from opposing the amendments to the Elections Law,” said Jakoyo Midiwo.
Jubilee MPs are pushing for the amendment of the Election Law and allow for manual voter identification and transmission of elections, in cases where electronic systems fail.
CORD is however opposed to the amendments, claiming it is a plot by Jubilee to rig the elections.
The Election Law is a product of negotiations between legislators from both Jubilee and CORD.
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Food / 27 November, 2018 / My Baba
The restaurant: Salaam Namaste, 68 Millman St, London WC1N 3EF
Salaam Namaste is a contemporary Indian restaurant a short walk from Russell Square station. It’s headed by chef and patron Sabbir Karim, who also owns sister restaurant Namaaste Kitchen in Camden. It’s met with mixed reviews online, but a sterling Guardian review from Matthew Norman ten years ago is still sending customers to sample Salaam Namaste. We arrived feeling ambivalent. It was a Wednesday evening and the place was half full. There’s outdoor seating on the terrace and inside the decor is warming — mustard coloured with dim lighting.
The restaurant specialises in Indian and Pakistani cuisine and, according to the website, offers “traditional favourites with the new wave of exciting flavours and innovative ideas”. Manglorean soft shell crab, peri peri king prawns with spiced pineapple chutney, and Pudina lamb chops demonstrate a good variety in starter choices. We picked scallops three ways (coriander & lime, coastal coconut and tomato & lime leaf) that were served up brilliantly in three ramekins, dressed with their respective red, green and orange sauces. Sadly they were overcooked and, for us, the sauces fell a little flat. Pan seared venison kofta was meaty and flavoursome, especially when complemented by the asparagus, though also could have been pan seared for a shorter time. Poppadoms and chutneys arrived mid-way through our starter, which felt odd, as we’ve become accustomed to having them prior. Nonetheless, the onion chutney was delicious.
Goan style sea-bass with curry leaf, mustard seed, onions, tomato & coconut was a generous serving of mildly spiced fish. It’s pleasantly heavy on the coconut and very flavoursome. Seafood moilee, a coconut prawn, scallop and sea-bass curry, and crab balchao, a spicy tomato-based dish, also stand out on the menu. Salaam Namaste know a thing or two about seafood. The usual suspects, or traditional curries, have their own page in the menu. Chicken tikka bhuna, murgh jalfrezi, chicken tikka masala and a range of biryani are there for you to safely fall back on or comfortably indulge in. Gajar ka halwa, a carrot-based dessert, followed at the insistence of our server that we try it. It’s warm and sweet, and simply made from carrots, water, milk and sugar. The coconut ice cream on the side cools it down and rounds it off with a smooth texture — a perfect after-dinner sweetener.
Salaam Namaste is a friendly, casual place to enjoy Indian and Pakistani cuisine in the central London. The fish dishes are imaginative and flavoursome, but if you fancy a classic, order a classic.
To book, visit Salaam-Namaste.co.uk or call 020 7405 3697
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Apple has issued a warning about closing the MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro when a camera cover is installed, as this may damage the computer screen.
Camera covers are growing in popularity due to growing concerns from hackers who are taking over integrated webcams from computers. However, on a support page discovered by MacRumors, Apple said that closing the MacBook with a camera cover can damage the display because the distance between the screen and keyboard is "designed to tolerate very tight tolerances."
In addition to the potential damage, Apple said that using a camera cover will affect MacBook features like auto brightness and True Tone, as this will interfere with the ambient light sensor.
Instead of attaching a camera cover, Apple MacBook owners recommend looking for the indicator light that glows green when the camera is in use. Apple ensures that the camera is not activated without the indicator lamp also lighting up. MacBook owners also have control over which apps access the camera through the computer's system settings.
For work environments in which a camera cover is required, the camera cover, according to Apple, should not be thicker than 0.1 mm printer paper and should not leave any adhesive residue.
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Eating in Halong Bay
In an atmosphere of elegant luxury, you can enjoy sumptuous buffets and tasty menus served by a crew in traditional Vietnamese costumes – fine dining harmoniously combined with the aromas of the sea
Halong Bay Cuisine & Foods is famous because of many kinds of seafood like not only lobster, squid, oysters but also snails. A range of culinary creations from both international and local cuisines.
HA LONG BAY CUISINE & FOODS
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One of the memorable experiences is enjoy the local food, Halong Bay is famous for variety cuisines with seafood that tourist not to be missed when travelling here. You can find plenty of fresh seafood caught in the morning and served in your dinner at very affordable price. The culinary scene in Ha Long Bay is often overshadowed by the highly popular splendid island, and it deserves more than that, simply because the food is really excellent. You’ll find it hard to resist the plump shrimp, the delicate blush of an octopus tentacle, the meatiness of the rich crab meat served in a really light delicate broth made of clam nectar and garlic, and garnished with tiny slices of juicy limes.
Our restaurant and bar are places of discovery and sharing with others. They combine tradition and freshness of rich oriental cuisine with the latest culinary trends from around the world. Our menus are the result of a creative European and Vietnamese fusion that crosses traditional gastronomy boundaries. In an atmosphere of elegant luxury, you can enjoy sumptuous buffets and tasty menus served by a crew in traditional Vietnamese costumes – fine dining harmoniously combined with the aromas of the sea. A wide selection of the best vintages from around the world will complement fine fusion cuisine and creative Asian-inspired flavours.
Halong Bay is truly a paradise for active visitors, offers travelers variety of activities, including boat trips, swimming, fishing, snorkeling & sea kayaking, rock climbing, cycling and trekking, wellness exercises. Like other coastal areas of North Vietnam, Halong has a wide variety of seafood specialties. The most popular are:
- Squid sausages: Firstly, we cannot fail to mention Squid Sausages. This famous specialty is processed with fresh squid. What made special flavor to fried squid is the hands pounding technique, instead of grinding as many other places. After tasting spices, the patties are fried on a pan with boiling oil. It makes the squid sausage more crunchy and charming.
- Snail: Another famous seafood dish in Halong bay is snail. Halong has a variety of snail so that if you hear about it, you have to ask to repeat or need a pen and paper to record because it is hard for you to remember: hương snail (Flavor), đĩa snail (plate), vặn snail (twisted), Gai snail (prickle), ... Served with snail is the special sauces to make that dish more tasty.
- Arca (ngan): lives under mud and has two shells, it is as big as a cup and it can be steamed, grilled or made into soup. "Ruou ngan" (arca wine) is a specialty of Halong, which is highly nutritious and simple to process. You also should to try ¨Ngán¨. You will be surprised with its name that means ¨boring¨ in Vietnamese. However it is considered as the most delicious dish in Halong.
- Tu Hai: It is a pity when you travel to Halong without enjoying Tu Hai. If you have once enjoyed, surely that you will not forget the typical taste of this seafood. Tu Hai can be steamed, make salad, cooked soup, grilled….. The appetizer with steamed Tu Hai has cool and sweet taste and it can be said that this is the most delicious, nutritious dish.
- Sopuncuchlac (sa sung): are varieties of sea worm that live in the sand and are about 4 cm in long, with tiny veins running lengthwise, It lives deeply in the sand and only in Quan Lan island (Quang Ninh Province). This species is peculiar to Halong. After processing the fresh sopuncuchlac it should be stir-fried with celery and leeks or grilled. It goes well with beer drinking, especially as a noodle consommé.
- Holothuriodiac: is referred to as sea ginseng. There are two kinds, black and white. It looks like a cucumber with a soft body. It is prepared with pork, chicken, and bamboo shoots and dried pigskin as a dinner dish.
- Sepia esculenta: is a kind of large cuttlefish weighing up to 2kg., which can be prepared with leeks, garlic leaves or boiled. The fresh Sepia esculenta can be dried, grilled or fried with sweet and sour source. It goes well with beer and it makes a good present for friends after a trip.
- "Blood" shellfish: has been a famous seafood specialty in Indochina for some years. It can be steamed with beer, fried or boiled and eaten with pepper-salt.
- Teredo: lives in the aegiceras and mangroves, mostly at the foot of the mountains. Opening two hard and sharp shells reveals the teredo's meat. It is prepared with egg and flour or used for soup and is a popular dish.
Besides these sea products, there are the usual seafood specialties such as: shrimp, crab, garruppa fish, pomfret fish, threadfin fish etc. Savoured at the sundeck with a glass of wine or cold cocktail, watching the beautiful silhouettes of limestone formations as the sun sets across the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Role of vagal activation in postprandial glucose metabolism after gastric bypass in individuals with and without hypoglycaemia.
Patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GB) have enhanced postprandial hyperinsulinaemia and a greater incretin effect is apparent. In the present study, we sought to determine the effect of vagal activation, a neural component of the enteroinsular axis, on postprandial glucose metabolism in patients with and without hypoglycaemia after GB. Seven patients with documented post-GB hypoglycaemia, seven asymptomatic patients without hypoglycaemia post-GB, and 10 weight-matched non-surgical controls with normal glucose tolerance were recruited. Blood glucose, and islet hormone and incretin secretion were compared during mixed meal tolerance tests (MMTs) with and without prior sham-feeding on two separate days. Sham feeding preceding the MMT caused a more rapid increase in prandial blood glucose levels but lowered overall glycaemia in all three groups (P < 0.05). Sham feeding had a similar effect to increase early (P < 0.05), but not overall, meal-induced insulin secretion in the three groups. Prandial glucagon concentrations were significantly greater in the GB groups, and sham feeding accentuated this response (P < 0.05). The effect of vagal activation on prandial glucose and islet-cell function is preserved in patients who have undergone GB, in those both with and without hypoglycaemia.
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I am struggling to work out how to use the squiggoths' I intend getting.
They can carry a big gun which as monsterous creatures they can move and fire?
They can carry 10 troops which can fire if the squiggoth doesn't exceed 6" in it's movement
phase, but then it's a monsterous creature not a vehicle so it can't exceed 6" so that would be all the time I'm guessing (deffinitly a place to put shootas rather than sluggas).
So they are not really transport / assault mosters at all, they're unprotected gun-platforms?
Now if someone kills the suiggoth it dies, it doesn't blow up like a vehicle, so I assume any transported boyz get off and 'walk away' unaffected by the beasts demise? They could even charge into combat?
If the transported troops get off can the sqiggoth fire its weapon (does it have a crew that is independant of the troops)?
In the shooting phase of a continued melee can the squiggoth target its opponents with a its own frag rounds betting on the 1 in 6 chance it won't damage itself?


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A Virginia man has spent more than two years walking around the country to raise money and awareness for homeless veterans in America.
Leroy Bailey, 54, started walking in Virginia Beach on June 30, 2014. So far he has traveled 10,000 miles around the perimeter of the United States.
“This is what God said, if I wanted to build hope centers around America I had to walk around America,” he said. “I want to build places where people feel like they have space, they have their identity, like they’re a human being.”
On Tuesday, he passed through Boston where FOX25’s Erica Ricci caught up to him to learn what the journey has meant to him.
“It’s ridiculous in this country that we care more about animals than we do people and it’s really ridiculous that we are more willing to take in refugees from other countries and house them but we don’t take care of people that serve this country it’s the saddest thing in the nation,” he said.
The journey hasn’t been easy for Bailey though.
“I’ve sprained my ankle, I’ve had stress fractures in both my feet, lost my backpack in San Francisco somebody stole it, I lost my wallet in Seattle had to wait there 10 days for my wife to mail me my new ID, broke my glasses,” he said.
Bailey said he’s gone through several pairs of sneakers so far on the journey, and has strict orders by his wife to be home by next month.
His goal is to get one-million people to donate $10 each month so a new hope center can be built every month.
You can visit Servants of God Ministries online to learn more about Bailey’s journey and make a donation.


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If you haven’t caught up with the Netflix original series, Luke Cage, yet, then you might want to. It ties up a few loose ends from both Daredevil and Jessica Jones. There’s also hints that the combined Defenders series is coming up really soon. The Defenders are, basically, the Avengers, but way more grounded and
I don’t know if I’ve posted a Pulse Pause post about Wolverine (or Hugh Jackman) before, but even if I have, I figure he’s worth a repeat. The release of Wolverine, which is the “Japan story” that the comic book fans have been drooling over for years, prompted us to trek through all the X-Men
Like we do with most TV series, we delayed getting hooked on The Good Wife until it was in its fourth season. Even then, we nearly abandoned it after a few episodes as it failed to grab us straight away. This would have to be one of the most “sleeper” series I’ve ever ran across.


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Tokyo, Japan, the apartment of Kenji Uedo, the fifth new mutant activation since M-Day. Kenji sits crouched in a dark room full of monstrous art objects, drawings wildly strewn about. I am becoming art, he mutters. Art is ideas. Ideas aren’t real, therefore… he keeps repeating this.
A middle-aged, overweight man carefully enters. He holds a handkerchief to his nose, clearly bothered by the stench. Politely he addresses Kenj and apologizes for having disturbed him. He is equally sorry-- Is he stepping into his latest masterwork? He walks closer to Kenji. “Black Noxious Goo” certainly is a new direction, he remarks. Everyone is going to be thrilled. What is it actually? Don’t tell him! He doesn’t need to know what taboo the enfant terrible of the Tokyo art scene is violating. But he does need to know when it’ll be ready. “The future is a four-letter word” has been booked for months. Kenj promised new work. Major work…
Almost done, Kenji mutters without turning to face the man. Almost finished. Everything finished… Becoming art. Art, ideas, ideas not real. Becoming art. Ideas aren’t real. Therefore are you real? Is anything real?
Is he all right? the man asks. He is becoming art! Kenji announces and faces him with a wild grin. Want… a preview? Flesh tentacles emit from his body and impale the man.
In the meantime, the X-Men’s Blackbird is approaching Tokyo to rendezvous with Cyclops’ team and find the Fifth Light. Aboard are the pilot Rogue, Hope Summers, the mutant messiah, and the four “Lights” Hope and the X-Men have rescued so far.
One of them, Idie, is awed and confused. She’s never been away more than twenty miles from her village. She’s never seen a city outside of a picture or a screen and now she is going to Tokyo. She is ashamed both of her ignorance and what she considers her monstrosity. She creates fire with her one hand and cold with the other.
Hope addresses her, warning Idie she’ll set off the alarms. Idie extinguishes her powers, addressing Hope as “Ma’am.” Hope asks her not to do that, but Idie is too much in awe of her, who brought a monster hope. Hope that perhaps she is not a monster. She brought all of them hope. Before she touched them they were crazed, frenzied, dangerous. Afterwards: peace.
She looks at the others. Gabriel: two days ago he was just a couple of years older than she. Now he looks older than her savior. She fears for him in every way.
Teon crouches at Hope’s feet like an animal Laurie, covered by blue crystal, reads and looks uncomfortable in her blue new skin. Idie feels jealous. She wishes she could look like her. Look like she feels. Make her sin obvious!
Excited, Hope tells Idie to look outside. All of them look to see the Tokyo skyline by night. And for the first time since Hope touched her Idie sees a future.
The moment is interrupted when Laurie shouts that Teon just urinated on her feet and swears. Rogue is talking to Cyclops and shouts back to calm down. Or they’ll end up in detention with Emma Frost, and none of them wants that! Quiet, everyone! Hope laughs, and instantly all of the kids obey.
Rogue gets back to talking with Scott, asking about the probe. Unsure she is told. He orders her to keep the Lights safe. But get there, they may need support. They have a possible situation, he ends, which they are investigating now.
With Cyclops in the streets of Tokyo is Wolverine. They look up at the building where Kenji lives. There’s blood up there, Logan warns him. Blood and a whole lot of something else. Doesn’t smell like anything he recognizes. This is looking all kinds of bad, Slim.
As they walk over to the building, Kenji peeks out from behind bare windows. The next moment, a mass of flesh – mixed with metal and cable – tentacles emits from the building and goes for the two X-Men. Wolverine slices one tentacle while Cyclops shoots another Udate on that, he tells Rogue. Definite situation!
Aboard the plane, Laurie muses on her state as a light. People always said she was bright. But she was never sure if she was bright because she was bright or because she burned so hard. She wrote a sociology paper on this. Extra credit on her extra credit. “The effect of post human conflict on the teenager’s world view”.
The jet nears the battle and Rogue orders everyone back to their seat (of course nobody obeys).
The idea of Laurie’s paper was that constant exposure to the marvelous left the kids desensitized from all wonder.
Rogue tells them she is going to put the bird away from the zone. Their new best friend is… riled. They’ll have to be careful. And they say they aren’t monsters, Idie mutters.
Laurie’s skin is shifting crystal. She was saved from committing suicide by a girl from the future. Now she’s hanging with the X-Men and three other equally freaky mutant kids. So, theoretically, she should be inured to what’s happening down there. She got an A+ on that paper. But it’s safe to say its premise is flawed.
Kenji looks up and one of the tentacles reaches out to attack the X-jet. Things turn hazy and, the next moment, Laurie finds they are all standing on the roof of the jet which is drawn down into the tentacled mass. He is oh-so-very-quick, their savior Gabriel announces satisfied. Rogue admits she is impressed and tells them to help each other. She touches Laurie’s skin and absorbs her powers.
Does that make her an X-Man? Laurie wonders. Her parents will be disappointed. If she was going to be a superhero they’d want her to be an Avenger. Second choice would be Alpha Flight (At least she could commute from home). Do they have superhero exams? She doesn’t know, but she needs to pass.
Ignoring Hope’s order, Teon jumps down to attack the tentacle mass. For him life fits into simple categories: Fight, flight or mate. He sees a captured Japanese schoolgirl and is tempted but fighting takes precedence, so he tears and claws at the tentacled mass, managing to free the girl who runs away.
In the meantime, the others have gotten to the ground. Rogue suggests Hope whistle for Teon which seems to work as he shortly rejoins them. Rogue tells the kids to keep it low and get out of here. What does she mean? Hope asks disgusted. Retreat? They have things to do! Yeah, Gabriel agrees. No way he’s going. He’s in Tokyo! Let’s go shopping! Not the time! Hope snarls at his attempt to keep things light.
Rogue insists this is a war zone and too risky. This is kindergarten compared to where she grew up, Hope scoffs. And she trained every day with the best soldier on Earth. He trained her for everything and she knows exactly what to do. The mission: stabilize the mutant. She’ll touch him and he’ll be normal!
Rogue tries to hold her back. She can do that after Cyclops has put a lid on this. She can handle herself, sure, but they can’t. This is a risk she doesn’t need to take.
Hope orders Teon to stop Rogue. The feral mutant immediately obeys. Hope steps toward Kenji’s building and orders Gabriel to cover her until she touches tumor boy.
Gabriel thinks to himself that while he is sixteen and looked it two days ago now he looks eighteen, he is burning so bright. There was a saying about that, wasn’t there? Something about flames, brightness and relative length of… burnitude? Yeah, he knows, he thinks sarcastically. He is in denial, he highly recommends it. He’s an X-Man now; he doesn’t have to worry about anything like, say, how the people in that building have been torn apart. Because if he starts thinking about things like that now, it doesn’t stay light. Because they could be torn apart too. She could be.
He and Hope have reached the outer limit of the body mass. Hope reaches out but the flesh withdraws back into the building. Avoids her, Hope realizes.
Cyclops strictly orders Hope to get out of the zone of hostilities. Shopping? Gabriel suggests hopefully to her, to be ignored, just like Cyclops. She needs time to reach Kenji, she tells Gabriel. Slow them down. Wolverine suggests Gabriel get out of the zone of hostilities, instead he runs into the building, possibly to run interference.
Weapon drawn, Hope gingerly walks up the steps until she reaches the apartment where a cloaked figure cowers on a chair.
He is a light, Kenji thinks. Illumination. Truth, revealed to him. What does the light reveal? Himself, light spilled across him. He warps like a mind changing. Ideas, he is da Vinci in his workshop, his workshop is flesh. Meat is too slow. The flesh is too weak. Can they be nothing else? How can anything sustain what is eternal? He is not a master of the medium. The medium is his master. He is made of light, he is made if ideas!
Hope assures him it is going to be ok. They are here to help him. She introduces herself as Hope. Kenji scoffs. His throat slid out of his head and danced like an eel before him. He gulped like a fish left on dry land until he swallowed it back in. That was how it started, and now she tells him it’s going to be okay? It’s not going to be okay. He takes of his hood and faces her.
A mass of flesh and metal tentacles shoots out from his arm toward Hope. Let him show her. Hope fires at them. She thinks there’s light? he asks. She thinks there’s hope? There is only one light. One light which make all else darkness. The final light. Let him show her. He is the final light. Tentacles attach themselves to her face.
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LG V50 ThinQ Review
Usually, we would not expect to see a new V-series smartphone until much later this year, but LG V50 ThinQ was announced next to LG G8 ThinQ at the MWC 2019, as rumors suggest. It is the first 5G smartphone of the company and even a double screen accessory, making it just next to a foldable phone from LG.
Here you will find all we know about the new LG V50 ThinQ, including all features, specifications, release date and price. It’s been quite a while since we have been keeping an eye on MWC, so we have rounded up LG V50 ThinQ rumors, suggestions and leaks to share.
LG V50 ThinQ Release Date
We don't know yet, annoyingly, when the LG V50 ThinQ comes out. There is no data at all about LG V50 ThinQ release date in Australia, for now, and in even worse news, LG didn’t confirm that it'll arrive in Australia at all. Although it will certainly be released in the U.S. no release date window was suggested yet again.
In the first half of the year, LG tends to release G series and V Series in the second half, but recently it - but has become less predictable. We normally expect the V50 to reach October 2019, one year after the V40, but it will be on sale as early as March now that it has been shown off in February.
LG V50 ThinQ Price
Again, very much like its release date, no pricing information is available for LG V50 ThinQ. But that cannot stop us making some educated guesses. The LG V40 costs $900 in the US, which at the time of writing comes to around AU$1258. This put it at around the price of Samsung Galaxy Note 9 in Australia which is higher than Apple iPhone XR.
With 5G capabilities, LG V50 ThinQ Price in Australia is expected to be around AU$1398 as the technology inside is worth it. But like the V40, it will be hard to sell next to popular desirable phones on shelves.
There is a matter of Dual Screen Accessory. It’s an optional extra and expected to be quite pricey – but according to LG, the V50 ThinQ’s actual price and the dual screen together will be less as compared to Samsung’s or Huawei’s foldable devices which are closer to AU$2400-2500.
LG V50 ThinQ Design and Build
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- Weight: 183 grams
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It comes with many well-known V-series features like waterproofing IP68 and drops protection MIL-STD - to be expected. So, both the robust design and the overall appearance are safe. LG doesn't wildly change the top notch of the display with colors and isn't much changed.
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- Phone Screen Size: 6.4-inches OLED QHD+
- Dual Screen Accessory Size: 6.2-inches OLED FHD+
LG also appeared publicly and said it is not a folding phone - although it is based on the strength of its OLED display business in LG's technical capabilities. However, like every other smartphone on the planet LG won't just limit you to use one bored display. No, the excitement comes from Dual Screen.
Dual screen is an OLED 6.2-inch accessory display that can be used to extend your phone. It comes in a folio case, so you have two displays to open up your phone. Both can work independently - on either side, open apps or work together under certain conditions.
For instance, you can open Google Maps on the dual screen, and you can send messages to the home screen on your phone, and share a full grab from the map so that your friends can see where you are going.
Additional options extend to a camera - it'll let you flip the case over so that a person you're capturing a photo of can see themselves and check that it's an image they want or you can use it to line-up a camera at numerous angles - very much like a vari-angle display on a camera. It can also be used to preview all the different views of the three rear cameras simultaneously - very sophisticated.
Finally, you can use it to play the game, and this is where it gets a bit more exciting. The goal of LG is to allow this to work with all the games by just replicating the controls you can get from the Bluetooth controller. The goal is to have this work as you could from the Bluetooth controller.
It's an interesting idea – the handset just drops into the case, delivers power via the back pins and connects the display by the use of a new wireless protocol. It's certainly an antidote to criticism that there's no folding phone. Without the impracticalities, you have certain advantages of a bigger display. The normal display is a 6.4-inch OLED display, and it's good for the first printing, but it takes more time to measure overall quality with this phone.
LG V50 ThinQ Triple Cameras
- Rear Cameras: 12MP + 16MP + 12MP (f/1.5 + f/1.9 + f/2.4)
- Front Camera: 8MP + 5MP (f/1.9 + f/2.2)
Further LG V50 ThinQ Rumors include a large number of rear cameras - regular wide angle and a zoom-in. The camera is 107 degrees wide-angle, and the zoom runs to 2 optics, before being switched to digital. To switch between cameras, you can tap the icons and slide the shutter button in order to move from one to the other in a smooth and silky action.
The quality of these cameras cannot be evaluated, for now, but LG has shown quite well in recent years. The main photograph is 12-megapixel with 1.4 μm pixels, with portrait mode capturing information about the depth of Bokeh effects from the other cameras. The Bokeh also includes video, so you can also add some depth to the scenes.
Video not only allows you to capture 4K, but it also allows HDR and the camera application has a YouTube Live button, interestingly. The width has always been preserved by LG –but Samsung, Huawei, and others are now challengers, who take the wide angle and make it their own. The V50 ThinQ Features two cameras on the front, which once again give you 80 and 90 Degree portrait modes so that you can fit a bit more into the selfie scene.
What you do not get is the fancy skills of the LG G8 ThinQ that use the aircraft's flight time to allow a range of different new interactions, gesture controls, and hand unlocking. In that sense, there is a disparity between these devices - LG V50 ThinQ hits 5G whereas G8 ThinQ adds the newness.
LG V50 ThinQ Other Components
- Massive 4000mAh Battery
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Chipset
- 6GB of RAM
- 128GB of ROM + microSD
The most important thing may be what happened inside the handset. Since LG changes the hardware into something powerful, 5G, cooling is more necessary. The LG V50 has no heat piping more, but a vapor chamber is about 40% quicker to distribute heat.
A 4000mAh battery is still available which sounds quite powerful to last a heavy user all day long. It’s supported by a Quick Charge 3.0 that makes sure you can recharge it fast. According to the most recent report from LG, 5G will increase some battery demands - but they shouldn’t be limited.
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 will be working as a brain of the device. The newest hardware in the arsenal of Qualcomm and combined with the X50 modem, opening the door to a 5G connectivity. This will be a common combination in 2019 and we hope to provide this hardware to a number of devices.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is likely to be partnered with 6GB of RAM for smooth and silky performance and 128GB of onboard memory will allow users to store loads and loads of data with ease.
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WESLACO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Christmas is about one week away, one mother is sharing the importance of giving the gift of life this holiday season.
“Her now, she’s my hero, she’s my hero,” said Rosie Valdez, the mother of Regina Valdez who died when she was 32 years old. “She got sick with the flu, and then she got better and the kids got sick, she got sick, she had a seizure at work and she had a heart attack.”
Regina was a school teacher who always wanted to give back. Her mother tells us they had to make a painful decision when doctors declared Regina brain dead.
“We made a decision just to let her go, and we decided to become an organ donor family but she beat us to it because she had already registered herself,” said Valdez.
As an organ donor, Regina was able to give her kidneys and her corneas. Valley Baptist Medical Center and the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance explain the process.
“If that person is a candidate, for donation our staff will be able to check into the donate life Texas registry like Regina was registered, so we will be able to have that information to share with the family and let them know about their loved one’s decision,” said Edwina Garza, Senior Communications Coordinator from the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance.
Through organ donation, they hope more people can help save lives. Valdez shares one message for the families Regina was able to help.
“I would love to meet the recipients that she helped give them another 2, 3, 4 years of life that’s a blessing,” she said.
Anyone wanting more information on how you can become an organ donor can go to the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance website.


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19 JULY 2021
By Emmanuel Ntirenganya
The producers of the world’s most important beverage crop – coffee – are not getting enough income to lead decent lives and prosper, a concern that threatens their future and that of the crop, experts have warned.
This a pressing issue that was discussed by the 3rd World Coffee Producers’ Forum (WCPF) – held virtually – hosted by Rwanda on Thursday, July 15, 2021.
It served as the base to develop guidelines, to be approved in the in-person gathering in Kigali, Rwanda in July 2022, for the creation of National Coffee Sustainability Plans that will help producing countries design and implement comprehensive coffee policies to secure the future of a coffee sector where coffee producers are prosperous and coffee production is sustainable.
The virtual conference held on Thursday, gathered more than 2,000 participants from 70 countries including coffee producers, industry representatives, government officials, multilateral agencies, coffee business dealers from across the world to help understand and seek solutions for many issues threatening farmers’ livelihoods and coffee production.
At the conference, discussions centred on the theme “Coffee Farmers’ Prosperity; supporting coffee growers to further their social and economic development, and support sustainable inter-generational growth, success, and opportunity in the coffee sector.
Indeed, according to Coffee Barometer 2018, while coffee is increasingly lucrative with a retail value of $200 billion in 2015, less than 10 percent of the aggregate wealth stays in the producing countries.
This biennial report published by the Coffee Barometer Collective and includes Hivos, Oxfam Belgium, Solidaridad and Conservation International noted that the figure comprises the income of farmers, exporters and government agencies involved in growing the beans and exporting them internationally.
Such imbalance, it noted, illustrates the pressing need for transparency of transactions in order to achieve re-distribution, pointing out that a sustainable coffee sector more equally distributes proceeds to farmers.
Whereas coffee companies are busy conquering markets, cutting costs and driving efficiency, coffee farmers are struggling to get their fair share of the total value added in the coffee industry, the report indicated.
Verediyana Uwamariya, a coffee farmer in Nyaruguru District, is one of the farmers struggling to achieve economic prosperity as the income she gets from this crop is inadequate.
The farmer told The New Times that production per coffee tree is about 2.5 kilogrammes of cherries while a farmer gets about Rwf250 a kilogramme, adding that; overall, farm productivity is low compared to the cost of production.
“I invest much of my income in nurturing coffee trees so that they give yield. The proceeds I get are small that I cannot improve my livelihoods,” she said, citing expenses on grass mulching for her small coffee plantation on which she harvests around 200 kilogrammes of cherries per season.
Speaking during the above-mentioned forum, Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources said that coffee production has been at the core of farm families’ livelihoods for so many generations, adding that it is also the source of cash income for over 350,000 households that are operating on 42,000 hectares of land in Rwanda.
Last year, Mukeshimana said, coffee as a commodity was the fourth contributor to Rwanda’s foreign exchange earnings, which means it plays a tremendous role in improving the country’s trade balance, but also its economic performance.
However, she said, the processing segment of the coffee sector, and inter-generational and sustainable coffee industry requires that those at the base, especially coffee producers have a shared prosperity, Mukeshimana observed.
“As they currently struggle to keep up with the increased production costs and climate change, export, processing, wholesale, and retailing companies need to include the producers as full and equal partners,” she said.
“The proportion for value-added needs to equally trickle down to the coffee producers as it does for the downstream players so that the coffee producers and the next generations can have incentives to continue investing in coffee production and maintain the value chains,” she said.
Hailemariam Desalegn, Board Chair of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) said that more than 25 million families grow coffee all over the world, most of them smallholder producers, but expressed concern that they are grappling with small income.Close
“Although coffee farmers are so beloved around the world [because they produce the sought after coffee], they still struggle to make a decent living. In many countries they can’t even cover their cost of production, and face every day deeper and deeper challenges,” he said, calling for an approach that ensures increased income and improved welfare for coffee farmers.
In his presentation on the prosperity of coffee producers, Prof Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University in the US, said that all over the world, there is ‘the continuing poverty of coffee growers’.
“Because while coffee is the world’s most important beverage, and the world’s most healthy beverage, … it is not by itself providing the kind of decent livelihoods and prosperity for the millions of millions of farmers engaged in growing coffee,” Sachs said.
He said that that the challenge is to help set a new global course of policy of companies, governments of the United Nations that can address the issue and ensure the prosperity of coffee farmers.


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Value one another’s views, stand together
Make America Great Again is a campaign slogan that is being twisted into a slur against Republicans or any person who thinks that the USA is a great nation. The twist is associating and grouping all people who have pride in our country into one camp of extremists, nationalists and fascists.
President Biden, as incoherent as he may be, has, on numerous occasions, used the term MAGA Republicans as a way to insult and slander those who voted for Trump. I am not trying to defend Trump, but for Biden to target people for their political views, when he said he was going to unite this country, sure smacks of hypocrisy.
After reading and listening to the news, hearing commentary from different viewpoints, and even the personal written opinions of individuals, it’s apparent we are falling into ideological tribalism. The visceral hatred that jumps off the pages of our very own editorials from local people is astounding to me. On one hand, people talk about saving our democracy — and in the very next line, they’re encouraging and promoting the loathing of those who think differently than they do. How is that democracy? Is suppression of opposition supporting democracy? Isn’t that more of an authoritarian dictatorship? Should we all be subjugated to one ideology? Is that democracy or is democracy a free exchange of ideas?
This past week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testified before Congress, and the results were stunning. Our Treasury Department is labeling and flagging those who purchase Bibles, religious books, MAGA and Trump items as ‘extremist’ under the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. If this doesn’t scare you — that our own country is now weaponizing financial institutions against its citizens, because of their beliefs — then, congratulations, you have been successfully socially engineered. Suppression of free speech on social media platforms is now common. Censorship and large-scale propaganda are at play throughout media platforms.
Social engineering uses a hierarchical structure for planning society in an attempt to manage changes and regulate future development to include the behavior of society’s people. In case you’re wondering, dividing us into ideological camps ‘tribalism,’ promoting division, causing chaos and confusion is social engineering. The political class and elites are keeping citizens so busy just thinking about day-to-day survival that there is little time to think for themselves and to question what is being sold to them by the media outlets. Convincing people of untruths and absurdities in an attempt to alter their morality and place them in direct opposition to one another is the objective.
Divided we fall… Or, value one another’s viewpoint and stand united. It’s our choice. Always seek the truth and pray for our country.


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Emerging songwriter-producer Daniel Ross has signed an exclusive songwriting agreement with Big Machine Music and Tree Vibez Music.
The historic joint music publishing venture combines the heavyweight reputation of Big Machine Music and the inspirational focus of Tree Vibez Music, which was founded by Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard.
“Daniel’s music is current, commercial and shows an immense respect for the craft of songwriting,” says Mike Molinar, BMM General Manager. “I am incredibly honored to have him join our team of uniquely talented songwriters and equally excited to collaborate with our friends at Tree Vibez Music on this partnership.”
Both members of Florida Georgia Line take a hands-on approach with the songwriter signed to Tree Vibez Music. Ross will soon start to collaborate with some of the biggest artists in the genre.
FGL’s Tyler Hubbard notes, “BK and I knew from our first writing session that Tree Vibez Music would sign Daniel one day. There was energy and flow to his songwriting that we knew was fresh. And, to team up with Big Machine from the publishing side is different and really exciting for us!”
Newly appointed TVM General Manager, Leslie DiPiero adds, “We are thrilled to welcome Daniel into the family – and to further extend our family to this new partnership with the Big Machine Music team. This is going to be an incredible journey!”
Ross moved to Nashville following his graduation from Western Carolina University in 2015. He immersed himself in prominent songwriting circles before signing the new publishing deal.
“This is a dream crew to work with and I’m blown away that this is a reality for me,” says Ross. “I’ve never been more excited about creating music.”
Photo caption: (L-R): Back Row – Tree Vibez Music’s Emily Peacock, Adam Romaine, Leslie DiPiero and Tyler Hubbard; BMM’s Mike Molinar, Michelle Attardi, Jillian Whitefield and Alex Heddle; Front Row – Daniel Ross


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An interesting study is being conducted that could cure cocaine addiction with one shot.
Currently, two vaccines are being developed that could block the drug before it reaches the brain.
Ronald Crystal, a researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, has led up the teams developing both vaccines. These could be a new breed of ‘anti addiction’ treatments used to battle addictions to powerful drugs like cocaine.
Crystal realizes how big of a problem cocaine addiction is in today’s world, and how hard it is for people to quit using once they are addicted.
“It causes changes to behavior, it’s expensive and it’s illegal,” said Crystal. “If we could successfully develop a cocaine vaccine, it would really be a very positive social advance.”
Although the vaccines have already been successfully tested in monkey and mice injected with cocaine, they are not quite ready for humans. Crystal says that could be as soon as a few years though.
The two vaccines being developed are known as “active immunity” and “gene therapy”. Both systems create antibodies that seek out cocaine when it enters a person’s system, and prevents it from reaching the brain, which is where all addictive properties and physiological effects occur.
According to Crystal, if a person with the vaccine where to ingest cocaine, it would be blocked before reaching the brain and the person would never even feel the effects of the cocaine. Some worry that this may lead to harder addicts trying to “out-compete” the antibodies created by the vaccine by doing heavier amounts, and it is unclear if this would in fact out-compete the vaccine.
Toxicity of the injections are still being tested in animals, and Crystal says that they are hoping to begin vaccine trails in humans within a year.
Thomas Kosten, a researcher from Baylor College of Medicine mentioned a previous vaccine in the works for nicotine addiction faced some issues during the testing phase. “The human studies were disappointing,” said Kosten. “I hope Crystal has more success as they move to human studies.” Kosten is actually involved in a separate cocaine vaccine project. His method involves using a protein complex to activate the immune system. His method would require several injections to work, where Crystal’s method uses only a single injection.
If successful, these new developments could lead to similar vaccines for other addictive drugs, such as heroin, nicotine, and other substances. Crystal commented, “We’ve shown that it works for cocaine, and we think that it could work for a whole variety of drugs.”
If you know someone struggling with cocaine abuse, please contact us.
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I pray that you enjoyed a Merry Christmas, even in these difficult and strange times, and were blessed by a lot of sacred music.
I came across a story about the 1659 Christmas Day service at the Nikolaikirche (Church of St. Nicholas) in Berlin, Germany that I thought I would share. One of the pastors at the church at that time was Paul Gerhardt (1607-76), one of the great hymn writers of the Lutheran church music tradition.
The story comes from Brian Wren’s book Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000). The first chapter is entitled “‘Through All the Changing Scenes of Life’: Glimpses of Congregational Song.” In it Wren provides engaging descriptions of congregational singing in nineteen different worship services from 1970 back to the year 1200 BC. In these nineteen vignettes he provides glimpses of what it would have been like to worship in various times and places throughout the history of Christendom and with the Children of Israel. One of these descriptions is the story found below about the 1659 Christmas Day service at the Nikolaikirche in Berlin. Wren’s story is based on Paul Gerhardt’s own account translated in Andrew Willson-Dickson, The Story of Christian Music (Colorado Springs, CO: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1993), p. 89.
Much can be gleaned from this story. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.
BERLIN, GERMANY: 1659 C.E.
It is a cold Christmas morning in the Church of St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche). Church and city have survived more than half a lifetime of civil war, invasion, battle, looting, and destruction, ending only a decade ago. Only the youngest in today’s congregation are untouched by the war. Cities, towns, villages and farms are still in ruins; hundreds were killed and wounded; thousands fled to other parts of Europe, or to America. The economy will take a century to recover.
Though science and art are elsewhere in decline, Lutheran churches preserve a rich musical tradition. One of the Nikolaikirche’s deacons, Paul Gerhardt, is a noted hymn writer, working closely with the cantor, composer Johann Crüger. Today is Christmas Day. Worship will appeal to eye and ear, proclaim the gospel, and chase away the miseries of life’s daily struggle.
The Nikolaikirche is a fitting “stage” for the festival: Gothic, with a soaring roof, and four hundred years of history. There are no competing events. Today the church will be full.
Many are already here, to worship or to lead the worship. Beneath the pulpit are a group of tradesman and craftsman, the Collegium Musicum, with violins and woodwind instruments, grouped around a moveable pipe organ. Nearby are a male quartet and a military band with trumpets, snare drums, and kettledrums. In the gallery are a schoolboy choir on one side and a mixed-voice choir on the other.
Candles are lit. From the high organ, a soaring prelude fills the church. All are hushed and expectant. The organ signals the first chorale; people open their books, their lips, and their hearts; the church fills with song. In Lutheran theology, music is one of God’s greatest gifts. Instrumental music is treasured in public worship, and new hymns are written, because the Bible calls us to sing a new song. In words and music, congregational hymns proclaim the gospel. Martin Luther set the tone, a century earlier, with bold, confident, joyful hymns. Others have followed in his footsteps.
The service proceeds, led by three robed clergy standing at the altar. In this part of Germany the liturgy is still sung in Latin, by the choirs and the schoolchildren. It is time for the first scripture reading. All eyes turn to the pulpit, where a college student stands, dressed as an angel with large, white wings. He sings an Old Testament prophecy, accompanied by the Collegium Musicum.
The main doors open. A teacher leads a procession of girls, dressed as angels. As they walk in procession to the high altar, one of the ministers chants a “Gloria,” answered by the military band with trumpet fanfares and drumrolls.
The girls reach the altar and face the congregation. Their teacher – in the role of an angel – sings the first stanza of Martin Luther’s Christmas hymn, written originally for a children’s pageant.
“From heaven high I come to earth…”
The girls sing the second stanza, in two-part counterpoint, while the third stanza is sung as a five-part motet by the gallery choir, accompanied by the organ.
The sermon is followed by a lively Te Deum, led by the instrumentalists, then a Latin anthem by the schoolboys. From the organ loft a nativity scene is presented, and the boys imitate the sounds of farm animals in the stable at Bethlehem. In response, choir and congregation sing a hymn. As they sing, a Christmas star revolves high above, on the front of the organ. The three Wise Men are represented by wooden puppets; they bow before the Christ-child in the cradle. A boy soprano sings “In dulci jubilo,” and Father Christmas walks down the center aisle, with a sackful of gifts for the children. Finally, all sing “Puer natus in Bethlehem” (“A boy is born in Bethlehem”). Christmas has finally come.Brian Wren, Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), pp. 31-32.
The Church of St. Nicholas, Berlin, GermanyChristmas Music by Jubal’s Lyre Music Publishers on www.sheetmusicplus.com.


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Butterfield shares tumble 11.2%
Butterfield Bank shares dropped $3.74, or 11.2 per cent, to $29.75, after 700 traded on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index.
In New York, the bank’s shares were down 38 cents, or 1.26 per cent, at $29.84.
On the local exchange, shares of Argus Group Holdings Ltd shares were down one cent, or 0.4 per cent at $2.56 after 20,000 changed hands.
The Royal Gazette/BSX Index was down 168.41 points, or 7.66 per cent, at 2,032.33, while the BSX Insurance Index was down 0.04 of a point at 1,780.52.
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