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Community led initiatives in water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) were on display at the CFAR stalls in the recently concluded two-day Kishori Mela at Shilpgram in Jaipur, Rajasthan. CFAR was among the 30 NGOs that participated in the Mela. More than 1500 adolescent girls from different schools of Jaipur were part of the crowds that came to the Mela which was a part of the One Billion Rising Campaign.
Held on 9-10 February, the Mela was aimed at creating and spreading awareness around menstrual hygiene, livelihood and educational opportunities and health issues among adolescent girls and boys. Although the Mela addressed serious issues, street plays, singing and dancing made for a festive mood at the venue. Lessons on self-defense and health camps formed part of the Mela.
Visitors to the two CFAR stalls were given information on its many community-led initiatives such as the twin-pit toilet technique, conversion of insanitary toilet to sanitary toilets, solid waste management and waste segregation at source. Samples of eco-friendly, reusable cloth sanitary napkins as well as compost from waste were on display. These were in much demand among the visitors.
The twin-pit toilet technology and making manure from waste impressed many. Ms Kavita Mahavar, a resident of Jawahar Nagar basti felt that many people would want to adopt the twin-pit toilet technology as it was economical and doable. This was echoed by Mr Pradeep Joshi who said the technique would prove to be very useful in slum areas of Rajasthan.
Social activist, Dr. Meeta Singh and Ms Ginny Srivastava were of the opinion that making manure as a part of sanitation project was a good initiative and required to be scaled up. Besides, it was an easy process and any woman could make it at her own house.
Mr. D. K. Bose, Trustee, CFAR found the Mela a good platform for showcasing the community initiatives of CFAR and the organisation could take part in it every year. He said it was encouraging to see the response to the products such as manure from household waste and cloth sanitary napkins. However, it was important to impress upon people the benefits of the cloth reusable sanitary pads against other menstrual absorbents available in the market.[/vc_column_text]

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The ultimate 60s line up featuring:
The Tremeloes (Silence Is Golden); Herman’s Hermits (There's a Kind of Hush); The Merseybeats (Sorrow); The Marmalade (Reflections of My Life) and Dave Berry (The Crying Game); Mamas and Papas (UK tribute band) will perform the wonderful hit songs Monday Monday, California Dreamin’, Dedicated to the One I love and many more.
Steve Ellis, the original lead vocalist and founder of Love Affair, (Rainnbow Valley) and the classic No.1 Everlasting Love. Gerry's Pacemakers will perform some of Gerry Marsden's massive hits - How Do You Do It, You'll Never Walk Alone, and Ferry Across the Mersey.
Seats in the Stalls for the evening performance.

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Singer Kim Jaejoong is making a comeback to terrestrial variety shows after a whopping 15 years.
The girl group TRI.BE, produced by Shinsadong Tiger, has canceled their comeback schedule.
Famous composer, the late Shin Sadong Tiger, has passed away.
Former professional golfer turned entrepreneur Lee Young-don, currently in the midst of a divorce with actress Hwang Jung Eum, indirectly revealed details about the divorce proceedings on her personal social media account.
Singer Daesung is making a comeback, and actors Kim Seon Ho and Moon Ga Young are showing their support by appearing in the music video.
Actor Song Joong Ki is set to make a special appearance in support of his close friend, actress Kim Ji Won, in the upcoming tvN weekend drama ‘Queen of Tears.’
Park Bo Young and Choi Woo Shik are set to grace the small screen in a new romantic melodrama, “Melomovie.”

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The stock market is rallying through bad news in typical bottoming fashion but these are off-the-chart times and one wonders if the market could be underestimating just how bad things can get. That thought comes to mind after reading a Jan. 7 news release from TrimTabs Investment Research (which uses income-tax withholdings from payrolls to estimate changes in U.S. employment — often in advance of government data). The release begins with:
TrimTabs Investment Research said today that it estimated the U.S. economy lost 683,000 jobs in December, the biggest monthly job loss in its records since 1970 .
The economy shed 2.3 million jobs in 2008, the biggest annual job loss since 1980, said Charles Biderman, CEO of TrimTabs. The economy could lose one to two million more jobs in the next several months because all the major indicators we track show the economy is deteriorating further.
TrimTabs said the recent decline in withholding taxes was due to layoffs, reduced holiday hiring, lower bonuses, wage furloughs, forced holidays, and temporary plant closings. Withholdings are plummeting, online job postings are in a free fall, and unemployment claims are steadily rising, said Mr. Biderman. Investors loading up on stocks in the belief that the economy will rebound quickly are going to wish they had kept their powder dry.
True, a massive policy response is on the way. But, typically, there are lags before policy measures have an impact. And this time around, as TrimTabsand other data sources suggest, a massive negative multiplier has been unleashed, the likes of which has rarely if ever — been seen since the 1930s. The dynamic of layoffs fueling layoffs — of contraction feeding on itself in general — has reached epic proportions; there would seem to be a risk that it may take longer than expected to reverse.


The ACC had a tough day on March 3rd with only one victory with Boston College edging Florida Gulf Coast. The rest of the conference struggled highlighted by Miami (FL) being shutout 3-0 by Rhode Island and Jacksonville knocking off Florida State 9-4. The rest of the games on March 3rd were canceled due to the large snowstorm which still is wrecking havoc with many college baseball fields in the southern part of this country.
Jacksonville 9 Florida State 4
Senior catcher Brad Simmons went 2-for-2 with a home run and three RBI while five Dolphin pitchers combined to strike out 12 batters to lead the JU baseball team to a 9-4 win over No. 6 Florida State, Tuesday evening in front of 2,097 fans at John Sessions Stadium.
JU (4-4), which has split the season series with FSU in each of the last two years, earned its largest margin of victory over the Seminoles since a 13-4 decision on Feb. 24, 2002 at John Sessions Stadium.
FSU (6-2) tallied only four hits in the contest and committed two errors, one of which helped fuel a five-run sixth inning for JU.
Rhode Island 3 Miami (FL) 0
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Junior pitcher Eric Smith (Milford, Conn.) threw eight shutout innings as the Rhode Island baseball team upset No. 8 Miami, 3-0, on Tuesday night at Alex Rodriguez park in Coral Gables, Fla. Smith struck out five batters and allowed just three hits in what arguably is the biggest victory in the program’s history.
“This is so wild right now,” Smith said following his dominant performance on the mound. “Its like I can’t even speak. The guys are all so pumped, its awesome. I’m still catching my breath.”
Senior Dan Rhault (Lincoln, R.I.) and sophomore Jeff Cammans (Jamestown, R.I.) both went 2-for-4 on the night to lead the Rams at the plate.
Furman 4 Clemson 2 (14 innings)
CLEMSON, S.C. — Brian Harrison’s two-out, two-run home run in the ninth inning forged a 2-2 tie, and Furman pushed across two runs in the 14th inning to beat 19th-ranked Clemson, 4-2, in college baseball action Tuesday afternoon at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
Harrison’s dramatic two-run blast over the left field fence capped a ninth inning comeback for Furman (4-2), which came within one strike of being no-hit. With Clemson (4-2) leading 2-0 and with two outs in the frame, Furman’s Connor Lind topped a two-ball, two-strike pitch high off the plate into the grass approximately six feet inside the third base line and easily beat the throw from Tiger third baseman Matt Sanders to break up the no-hitter. Harrison then deposited the first pitch he saw, a fastball from Clemson reliever Ryan Hinson, deep over the left field fence to tie the game at 2-2.
Boston College 7 Florida Gulf Coast 6
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Sophomore Garret Smith delivered a two-out, two-run double in the top of the eighth to give the Boston College baseball team a 4-3 lead and the Eagles held on for a 7-6 win at Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday night at Swanson Stadium.
Smith gave BC its first lead since the first inning with his double in the top of the eighth. The Eagles added three more runs in the ninth which they would need to hold on for the win.
The Eagles’ middle relief came up huge in the game. Junior Chris Kowalski was the first out of the pen when he came in with two on and nobody out in the bottom of the third and got out of the jam. He then went on to finish perfect on the evening, recording nine consecutive outs in his three innings of work.
Longwood @ North Carolina
Maryland @ Towson
Radford @ Virginia Tech
UNC-Wilmington @ Wake Forest
VMI @ Virginia


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Most hold low-skilled service, construction and production jobs, but those shares have fallen since 2007. In the states, the leading industry employers are hospitality, manufacturing and construction.
Our interactive graphic compares the generations today and in the years that each generation was young (ages 18 to 33) to demonstrate this sea change in the activities and experiences of young adults that has occurred over the past 50 years.
Americans’ top complaint about the tax system is not the amount they pay in taxes, but the feeling that some corporations and wealthy people do not pay their fair share.
People in emerging and developing nations say the increasing use of the internet has had a good influence on education, personal relationships and the economy, but less of a good influence on politics and morality.
Hispanic immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born Hispanics, whites and blacks to use public libraries. But Hispanic immigrants who have made their way to public libraries stand out as the most appreciative of what libraries have to offer.
Nearly two years after Snowden’s revelations, 87% of Americans say they have heard about U.S. surveillance programs. Among them, 25% say they have changed their own technological behaviors in some way.
While no one story dominated Americans’ news interest last week, news of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account and Netanyahu’s speech to Congress drew more interest from Republicans than Democrats.
Majorities say that post-recession policies have helped large banks, large corporations and the wealthy, but not small businesses, the middle class or the poor.
Four-in-ten (38%) have a favorable view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, compared with 27% who hold an unfavorable view. But 35% express no opinion, including many (23%) who have never heard of him.
Among the world’s 25 most populous countries, Burma (Myanmar), Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia stand out as having the highest levels restrictions on religion (as of the end of 2013).


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Triangle of Sadness pitches itself as a sophisticated comedy with “biting” satire about elitist attitudes during class wars. However, the jabs made by writer/director Ruben Östlund are nothing more than the filmmaker taking hackneyed swings at low-hanging fruit for a really, really long time.
Searching for Ingmar Bergman, a new documentary from renowned German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, is an intimate portrait of the famed Swedish filmmaker’s life and legacy, focusing both on his voluminous oeuvre (Bergman’s first film credit as a screenwriter in the early 1940s to his last film, Saraband, in 2004) and his family life.
By: Trevor Chartrand Striking and unconventional, The Square successfully combines comedy with intense drama to create an unforgettable satirical gem.
By: Addison Wylie Force Majeure has a thought-provoking concept that shocks the audience and the characters involved. Writer/director Ruben Östlund then proceeds to run his movie around in circles until its green in the face. It’s a process he continues to repeat until that once interesting premise transforms into an exhausting, ineffective tale. The concept: the ideal family vacations to a picturesque resort. It’s hinted the husband is business-oriented, so this time away from his job should be…


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This bright and modern space of 1800 SF has 30 Feet of window frontage showcase overlooking a classified courtyard. The gallery is located in the 3rd district of Paris, arty and alive district where one finds many museums and art galleries, high-end signs, as well as showrooms of fashion or design.
Surface: Area of 1900 SF, with 30 feet of window frontage giving in a classified courtyard, located between the rue des Archives and the rue du Temple.
Ideal for Photo shoots Trade shows cocktails Product launches Showroom Press days Ephemeral sales Pop-up stores
Paris, France's capital, is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Beyond such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower and the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral, the city is known for its cafe culture and designer boutiques along the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.


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By Maro Desjardins
Maro Desjardins from Maro’s Cooking is back this week with her latest installment of our summer recipe series.
Check out the rest of our summer series below. Be sure to tag your recipes with #30afoodandwine
When you are lucky enough to have fishermen in the family and access to their catch, this is an excellent and delicious way to enjoy the catch of the day. If you are looking to do some fishing here on 30a, the source of this snapper was gifted by some friends who chartered a boat with Grayton Girl Charters and caught their limit of fish, so I was the happy recipient of some gorgeous, fresh filets! The Captain filets the fish for you on site, so it is ready to eat that very evening. I really love Ceviche as it is such a healthy, pure and delicious way to enjoy fresh fish and lends itself to so many different flavors. To enjoy this fish, there is no need to heat up the stove or turn on your oven. The fish actually “cooks” as it marinates in the citrus. This Ceviche recipe steers away from its classic roots, as it has some asian inspired flavor. I especially love serving it as an appetizer, and it pairs beautifully with a cold glass of Sancerre.
Serves 6, as an appetizer
1 pound fresh, skinless snapper (other white fish works as well), cut into 1/2-inch dice
1 1/2 cups fresh lime and lemon juice combined
1 small red onion, chopped into fine dice
3 Persian cucumbers, diced into 1/4-inch pieces
1 1/2 cups diced watermelon, seeded, 1/2-inch pieces
1 jalapeño, stemmed, seeded and finely chopped
1 tablespoon finely chopped pickled ginger
1 loosely packed tablespoon finely chopped mint, plus a few leaves for garnish
kosher salt, to taste
1 large ripe, but firm avocado, peeled, pitted and diced 1/2-inch dice
2 teaspoons black sesame gomasio
tortilla chips or sturdy crackers, for serving
Directions: In a 1 1/2-quart glass or stainless steel bowl, combine the fish with the lime/lemon juice combination. You should have enough juice to cover the fish and allow it to be immersed in the liquid. This will insure that the fish cures evenly. Cover and refrigerate the fish for a minimum of 4 hours. When the fish no longer appears raw when broken open, it is ready. It will develop a whitish flesh. Drain the fish in a colander and discard the juices.
In a large, clean bowl, mix together the cucumber, watermelon, red onion, mint, pickled ginger and stir in the fish and season with about a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Ceviche can be refrigerated at this point. Just before you are ready to serve, gently stir in the diced avocado and sprinkle with black sesame gomasio.
Serve Ceviche with large tortilla chips or with crackers and enjoy!

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Astemir Gordyushenko leaves PFC CSKA for Torpedo
PFC CSKA alumni makes permanent move to another Moscow club.
Astemir Gordyushenko, who scored the first goal in the history of the VEB Arena, has signed a deal with Torpedo. The Moscow club holds the runner-up position in the First Division after 25 matchdays. By coincidence, Torpedo was the club which the Army Men hosted in the first test game at VEB Arena in 2016, when Gordyushenko scored a goal.
PFC CSKA thanks Astemir for the years spent in the club, for his contribution and dedication to the Red-Blue colors and wishes all the success in his future career.


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Smoking pot can be pretty much as unfortunate and addictive as smoking cigarettes. Once the choice is made to stop smoking weed, you may have no clue where to begin and how to do it. Understanding your habit and the required strides for stopping can help you make an arrangement and at last quit smoking weed.
Comprehend Your Addiction
1THC, the potent concoction in marijuana, influences the mind by compelling cannabinoid. This prompts the “high” that you get after smoking marijuana. Numerous individuals can’t recognize a mental and physical dependence on weed. As indicated by Marijuana-addict.com, if you have been smoking marijuana for some time and smoke each day, you are in all likelihood acclimated to being stoned and being in that outlook. You could have a mental conviction that you should be high keeping in mind the end goal to work efficiently. A physical compulsion can be substantially more genuine, and a specialist may be counseled for direction and observing. Knowing why you are dependent can help you make sense of the best approach to stop.
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By setting a particular date for halting, you are submitting yourself to an objective that you will probably respect.
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I would like to report that in Portainer 1.24.0 ‘Networks’ window does not display any networks. I have confirmed with ‘docker network ls’ that all networks are visibile in underlaying docker deployment.
My configuration is
- single node docker 17.09.1-ce in swarm mode
- portainer is connected to docker swarm via ‘/var/run/docker.sock’
- I have mix of networks in my environment i.e. bridge, host, none, few overlay networks and one macvlan network created from its config network (as this is only way run macvlan networks in swarm mode)


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What are the "machines' that one should find in a brain fitness gym? Computers? Sudoku? NYT Crossword puzzle?
Or Will we use free weights? Nautilus machines? Treadmills? Elipitical trainers?
Surprisingly enough, we will find plenty of the latter types of machines, and at the training table, we will find chocolate and chillies, and well, sex is good for the brain too, but that happens in a different gym.
And why do we need weights and treadmills? Well it turns out that when we exercise, we produce internal pain relievers that are called endorphins and those endorphins have an impact on aging and brain health.
Take a look at this, from www.quietsafe.org
(1). Endorphins enhance our immune system: When endorphins are secreted, they activate natural killer cells (NK cells) and thereby increase our immune system. Under stress, your immunocompetence is reduced remarkably. NK cells are likely to lose their effect under stress. NK cells, which take responsibility for the immune system by killing defective cells, also have the ability to kill cancer cells.
(2). Endorphins block the lesion of blood vessel: As the endorphins are secreted more and more, the shrunken blood vessels return to a normal state allowing blood to flow in a normal manner. Most adult disease start from clogged blood vessels. Endorphins help to improve the circulation of blood.
(3). Endorphins have anti-aging effects by removing Superoxide: The oxygen coming into the body from breathing can change into a Superoxide. This is one of the biggest enemies for humans, causing diseases and aging. Endorphins can remove this harmful Superoxide by facilitating the production of 'SOD' (Superoxide Dismutase). This is possible because the endorphins can keep the brain cells young and healthy. SOD is the enzyme which neutralizes the toxicity of the harmful Superoxide. Therefore endorphins have anti-aging effects.
(4). Endorphins are anti-stress hormones: The ability to cope with the stress is in proportion to the endorphins levels we have in our body. We will encounter great difficulties in removing our stress unless sufficient amounts of endorphins are released.
(5). Endorphins have a pain-relieving effect: Our nervous system secretes neuro-transmitters when it receives the signal of pain. Once the endorphins are released at that moment of pain, endorphins combine with endorphin receptors on the neuron, which hinders the first neuro-transmitters from being secreted.
(6). Endorphins help improve your memory: You can improve your memory by the help of endorphins because they can keep the brain cells young and healthy. They will help you to maintain a harmonious relationship with your colleagues. You will also be able to think creatively and have more endurance.
So Now what? I think I'll go work out now.
Then I'll have dinner with chilies.
Followed by chocolates.
...(Endorphins, natural opiates that are released by the brain in increased amounts when eating chocolate, thereby elevating one's mood and reducing pain)
Accompanied by nice music--maybe something written by Mozart.
Then it's off to bed.
But not alone.
May the Endorphins be with you.
So how do I get endorphins into my blood stream regularly? Regular exercise helps, and it doesn't have
So how do I get endorphins into my blood stream regularly? Regular exercise helps, and it doesn't have to be of the world class variety. In fact, after three hours of exercise per week, walking, for three months, brain volume increased to the point that brains in this study looked to be three years younger.
There are four pillars to a successful brain fitness gym.
1. Stress Management
2. Physical Exercise
3. Challenging Learning
Physical execise might involve something expensive and complicated or it could be as simple as going to mow the lawn. Since we have a big lawn, I will be pushing the lawn mower and walking for an hour or two, depending on how much I want to do.
I also like the elliptical trainer, the treadmill, and the stair master at my local YMCA. And I use the free weights for about 40 minutes per week, to make sure my 60 year old muscles get flexed.
So a brain fitness gym does not have to be complicated, as long as it has chocolate. (for the endorphins).
Oh, and for the stress reduction, you should look closely at breathing techniques for low tech or HeartMath for high tech stress reduction. It is biofeedback, and once I have learned it, I can cue the physiology of heart rate variability coherence whenever I want.
I like to read, and I have a computer on all day, so when I find myself drifting in my concentration, I will do some Lumosity Tools. I choose them because of the option to subscribe on a monthly basis, and I suspect that with all the research going on, that they will be able to update their program more effectively than the folks whose program I buy and have sent to my house. Just a personal preference, but I would rather do this than puzzles or suduko. I do love to read and challenge myself that way.
Believe it or not, the cheapest and perhaps the best way to reduce stress is to regulate your breathing. If I can remember to keep my breathing deep and regular, a number of stress markers fall into line. However, I have learned over the years to breathe shallowly and that actually helps along the stress chemistry in my body. But if I want a tool to practice with, for my brain gym, then there is not better tool than this. I have been using this with my domestic violence and anger management clients for years with good success, and I love to practice it also. Once you have learned the tool, and moved through the various challenge levels, you will be able to cue the physiology with a thought, so you can practice every five minutes for two heart beats, or three heart beats, for example? Just like repetitions at the gym.
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Country profile: Ecuador
Country profile: Ecuador
Mary Haro in her shop in San Luis. The town is growing quickly because of a hydroelectric project – supported with money from China – near it. © Ivan Kashinsky/Panos Pictures
After the terrible earthquake in Ecuador on 16 April, the lines at the supermarket checkouts were very long. All Ecuadorians came together to buy food, drinking water and other basic things they needed. It was Ecuador’s worst natural disaster in 70 years. 1,000 people died, more than 10,000 lost their homes, and there was more than $3 billion of damage.
When the earthquake came, Ecuador was entering a recession. The price of oil in the world is low and the government has already had to cut public spending, especially in investment projects. The economy does not look good, but President Rafael Correa is still the country’s most popular politician.
He is very popular, especially with poor people because, since he became president in 2006, the poverty rate is about half what it was before (from 45 to 25 per cent), and there is a lot less inequality. Rich people now pay more tax there is more help with housing, money for the poor and twice as much money for investment in public education. There are many new roads, and better universities and public transport.
A TV crew shows the effects of the earthquake in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil Locowiki under a CC Licence
Correa has also brought some political stability. Between 1996 and 2007 Ecuador had eight presidents and two very bad political and economic crises. When Correa's presidency ends in 2017, he will have been president for 10 years, longer than any president since Eloy Alfaro, who left office in 1911.
Recently, the government has had problems relating to social movements. Some indigenous groups, some smaller leftist parties, environmental groups, and some of the union movement have criticized the President because he didn’t do what he promised and is too authoritarian. They say he needs to stop depending on oil and must include social movements in the development of his policies. The most important of these groups is the indigenous movement. This represents about10 per cent of the population.
The country is very dependent on oil. About half of Ecuador’s money from exports comes from oil. If the price of oil is good, this can be a quarter of the country’s budget. Even through the 2008 global economic crisis, Ecuador had an average annual GDP growth of more than four per cent between 2000 and 2012. But, because Ecuador started using the US dollar after the economic recession of 2000, there are economic problems.
Ecuador welcomes foreigners but some people say it is conservative and closed. Abortion, for example, is almost always illegal. And there are class problems. But the indigenous idea of buen vivir (good living) in the 2008 constitution has been important in the international discussion about how to reach a non-consumerist, ecological society.
Ecuador has very interesting, varied landscape: the Amazon, beautiful beaches, mountain forests, the Galapagos Islands and amazing volcanoes, and many different population groups.
Country profile: Ecuador Fact File
Leader President Rafael Correa Delgado.
Economy GNI per person $6,090 (Peru $6,360, United States $55,230). Ecuador refused to pay its sovereign debt in 2008 and has ended some investment agreements eg. one with the US. Correa is now doing business with China: in December 2013 he agreed a deal with Beijing of $9.9 billion for oil and supporting the economy. Ecuador is too dependent on oil, especially now that international oil prices are so low.
Main exports Petroleum, bananas, cut flowers, shrimps, cacao, coffee, wood, fish.
Money US dollar (since 2000).
People 15.9 million. 1.5% growth per year. People per square kilometre 64 (UK 267).
Health Infant mortality 18 per 1,000 (Peru 13, US 6). Lifetime risk of maternal death 1 in 440 (US 1 in 1,800). HIV 0.3%.
Environment Ecuador has more biodiversity in one square kilometre than any other country in the world. It is also the only country where the constitution gives rights to nature. In 2007 the Correa government protected an important part of the Amazon from oil development with the Yasuní- ITT project. But the project was not a success, and oil exploration began in the Yasuní national park in 2016.
Language Spanish is the official language, and Quechua is the indigenous language with most speakers. Quechua, and Shuar, are ‘official languages of intercultural relations’.
Religion Catholic 74.0%, Evangelical Protestant 10.4%, Jehovah’s Witness 1.2%, other or atheist 14.4%.
Human development index 0.711, 98th of 188 countries (Peru 0.737, US 0.914).
Country profile: Ecuador in detail
Income distribution Inequality and poverty have gone down a lot in the past 10 years. But the country still needs to improve.
Freedom Everyone is allowed freedom of expression, and freedom to meet. But, if you criticize government officials, you can be charged, like in many other countries around the world.
Position of women The position of women has been improving since the 1990s. But abortion is still illegal. Literacy 94.5%, Literacy is high (94%), but it is a lot lower in the indigenous population.
Life expectancy 76 years (Peru 75, US 79).
Sexual minorities In 2016 Ecuador gave legal status to civil unions for samesex couples. It is illegal to discriminate against people of different sexual orientation. The LGBT movement is active and organizes Gay Pride marches around the country every year.
NI Assessment (Politics) The election of Correa in 2006 was an important turning point for Ecuador. The politics is far more stable, corruption and crime are far lower, state institutions are more efficient, and there is a lot of political participation. He is very important in the regional Latin American opposition to neoliberalism – the HQ of the Union of South American Nations is in Quito. But the President often criticizes people who criticize him, from the left and from the right.
NOW READ THE ORIGINAL: https://newint.org/columns/country/2016/06/01/ecuador-country-profile/ (This article has been simplified so the words, text structure and quotes may have changed).

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He’s cheated death; broken American publishing records; penned some of your favorite TV shows, and brought a top movie studio to its knees. But to me, he’s just my Uncle Chuck.
NO ONE has been a bigger role model for me than Charles Sailor—today’s Beautiful Writers Podcast guest. A Hollywood screenwriter and New York Times bestselling novelist of The Second Son, his book sold six million copies in the late 70s and has been optioned by the biggest names in Hollywood.
Uncle, as I’ve always called him, was my late father’s best friend, and my image for what a writer’s life looked like. While he was in L.A. scripting TV shows like “Kojak,” “Rockford Files,”“Chips,” “Get Christie Love!” and “Charlie’s Angels,” we were living in Northern California; but when he’d visit, the glamor and thrill of his world infused our home like the finest cologne. My 85-lb. German Shepherd, Leo, wasn’t so impressed and peed on his $400 pants once. But I was Chuck’s biggest fan—still am—hanging on his every word and following him from room to room, including into his limo on book tour, determined to learn everything a teenager could about the magic of his world. The world of telling stories through books.
Here he is on the left, with my pops (who looks oddly, uncharacteristically uncomfortable here–sorry, Dad!) at a concert in the Redwoods.
I’m OVERJOYED to share Chuck and his tales of manifesting your heart’s desire (and bullying studio heads, too–should you so desire).
Wrestling with fears or lack of faith in your abilities? Not if Charles Sailor has anything to say about it. The sky’s the limit with this guy. So if you’re pining for whopping doses of possibility thinking and stellar real-world writing tips, it’s game on.
Lord how I treasure having these conversations; I feel so blessed to be at the center of this book-loving circle. THANK YOU for continuing to show up for what has become one of the most downloaded of all writing podcasts–and recently on the top page of ALL iTunes podcasts. Who could have seen this coming?! I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. In the meantime, I’ll keep showing up and having fun.
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Over the next few years, though, Miller was able to build up a steady business that included retirees, students from the Colorado School of Mines and anyone who loved good coffee. She invited local artists to display their work on the walls, and the bulletin board became a place to announce garage sales or bingo games. Higher Grounds also became an important gathering place for activists when, in 1998, locals fought a proposal by Nike to build its world headquarters on top of South Table Mountain, the beloved mesa that is part of Golden's identity. In fact, Miller's coffee shop became such a fixture that it helped her win election to the Golden city council last year.
Over the past decade, downtown Golden has made a remarkable comeback -- several historic buildings have been renovated, and new office and residential projects have been built -- and a few coffee entrepreneurs have followed Miller's success. The town where you couldn't get a good latte is now known for its coffeehouses, of which there are five.
Soon there will be one more: Starbucks Coffee has signed a lease to move into a prominent location at the corner of Washington and 13th Street, right across from the landmark Foss General Store. Scheduled to open in late July, the Starbucks will be within a block of three locally owned coffeehouses, including Higher Grounds.
"Every cup of coffee they sell will take from one of us," says Marg Edgell, who owns the Thirteenth Street Bake Shop, just up the street from where Starbucks will be.
Edgell opened her establishment a little over two years ago. She wanted a place to sell the cinnamon rolls that she makes from her grandmother's recipe, and she took a space in the historic Armory building. Like Higher Grounds, her store features large rooms with overstuffed chairs and wooden tables where community groups are encouraged to meet. But Edgell also caters to tourists, especially those who come to tour the nearby Coors brewery, and she is worried that most of them will make a beeline for Starbucks. "They'll take all the tourists because of the name recognition," she says.
Starbucks is moving into the long-vacant space that was formerly home to Steve's Corner, a Western-wear store. The owner of the building received $350,000 from the Golden Urban Renewal Authority to renovate it; that money will be paid off with revenue from the new tenants, including Starbucks. Although the city didn't have anything to do with leasing the building, some people are angry that public funds will be used to benefit Starbucks.
"The City of Golden needs to stand behind its local merchants instead of corporate America," Edgell says.
The dismay in Golden over Starbucks isn't unusual. The gigantic Seattle-based company has always targeted neighborhoods and towns where there is an established "coffee culture," seeing them as fertile ground for expansion.
"We look for locations where our customers want us to be," says Bridget Barrett, regional marketing manager for Starbucks. "Downtown Golden is vibrant and growing, and we're excited to be there. We want to provide another choice."
Starbucks now has 62 stores in metro Denver and is rapidly expanding. Last month the chain opened a store in Old Town in Fort Collins, another area that has a half-dozen locally owned coffeehouses within a few blocks. That opening prompted a protest from a group that calls itself Fairbucks Fort Collins; the organization distributed leaflets accusing Starbucks of buying coffee grown under exploitative conditions and union busting at some stores. The group also included a map of coffeehouses near Old Town so that coffee lovers could find the locally owned stores.
"Fort Collins is growing like mad, and Old Town is where this community comes together," says Fairbucks activist Paul Bame. "They're tearing the fabric of the community if they cause locally owned stores to go out of business."
Barrett counters that Starbucks has helped to enlarge the number of espresso drinkers in the United States, and she says the chain -- which now has more than 3,000 stores in North America -- is still in the minority. "There are 13,000 coffeehouses in the U.S., and we have a very small percentage of that market," she insists.
That's not much comfort to Miller. "All the little coffee shops took a chance on Golden when it wasn't cool," she says. "It feels like we're being shoved out. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared.
"Starbucks is sitting on $220 million in cash, and I feel good if I can pay all my bills and have a little left over," she adds. "I'm not going to get rich at this, but my life is rich in other ways."


Apple Iphone XI price, specifications, release date, rumors, leaks
Apple iPhone XI runs iOS and features a 5.8 inches Super Retina HD Display 1125 x 2436 pixels display and Apple iphone XI contains Hexa core Apple A11 processor paired with and 64GB native storage capacity.
The Apple iPhone XI boasts of a 12MP main snapper at its rear and an 8MP front-facing selfie shooter. Apple iphone XI contains Non-removable Li-Ion battery powering the phone with support for USB Yes .
Iphone 11 specifications
- Operating system: Apple iOS 11
- Device type: Phablet
- SIM: Single Sim (Nano)
- Status: Rumored Specs
- Global release date: 2018, Rumored
- Indian release date: 2018, Rumored
- Screen size: 5.8 inches
- Form factor: touchscreen
- Screen resolution: 1125 x 2436 pixels
- Touchscreen: Capacitive Touchscreen
- Technology display type: Super Retina HD Display
- Chipset: Apple A11
- CPU: Hexa core
- Internal storage: 64 GB storage
- RAM: 3 GB RAM
- Phonebook: unlimited
- Messaging: iMessage, SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email
- Call records: unlimited
- Primary camera: 12 MP + 12 MP Dual Camera
- Video recording: [email protected]
- Camera features: Quad-LED True Tone Flash, 4K Video recording, dual OIS,Continuous Shooting, Portrait mode
- Audio player: AAC, HE-AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, AAX, and AAX+, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
- Video player: H.264, AAC-LC, M4V, .MP4, MPEG-4
- Games: Yes
- Speakers: stereo speakers
- Battery type: Non-removable Li-Ion battery
- GPRS: Yes
- EDGE: Yes
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot
- Bluetooth: v5.0
- USB: Yes
- GPS facility: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
- Browser: HTML5
- 3G speed: HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat6 300/50 Mbps, EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps
- 3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 MHz
- 2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
- 4G: VoLTE
- Sensors: Face ID, Fingerprint Sensor, Wireless Charging, Water Proof, Dust Proof, AR, Quick Charging
Iphone 11 price
- The expected price of apple iphone XI is Rs. 1,15,000.Apple claims the iPhone X was its top-selling smartphone during the 2017 holiday quarter and again in the first quarter of 2018. But its sales were affected due to its ridiculously high price tag. Ming-Chi Kuo, who now works at TF International Securities, said in a research note earlier this month that Apple’s pricing strategy for the new iPhones will be “more aggressive” to boost shipments. One of the reasons Apple will keep the prices competitive this year is the “concern over the negative impact of a higher price” for the flagship models.
- The iPhone X was priced at $999 for the 64GB model and $1,149 for the 256GB variant. The iPhone X successor will be priced between $800 and $900. The larger 6.5-inch model will cost $900-$1,000. The 6.1-inch LCD iPhone is going to set you back by $600-$700. Kuo believes the LCD version will be the most popular iPhone this year as it will offer iPhone X-like design and Face ID at an affordable price.
Iphone 11 leaks, rumors
- Apple is rumoured to have invested $3 billion into LG Display back in 2017 to help it expand its screen-making infrastructure, so it can reduce its reliance on rival Samsung – but it’s now looking like the project isn’t going quite according to plan.
- The Wall Street Journal notes that, while it’s unclear what the problem is, LG’s production of edge-to-edge OLED screens has hit a snag and may not recover in time to meet the enormous demand for the impending release of the iPhone X2.
- To make matters worse, Apple is tipped to release two variants of the iPhone X in 2018 – one with a 5.8-inch display and one with a 6.5-inch screen – and it could be left with no choice but to source both OLED panels from market rival Samsung.
- That said, it’s not usual for big tech companies to source components from their competitors, as these firms are often conglomerates where one arm of the business has a different agenda to the other – Apple has been sourcing bits and bobs from Asia and South Korea in particular for some time now.
- The reason Apple is so keen to find another partner to manufacture the OLED screens for the high-end iPhone X successor(s) is that Samsung is the main OLED manufacturer, so it has complete control of the going price of the panels.
- Apple knows that Samsung has it over a barrel; if it wanted it could hike the cost per unit, forcing Apple to cut costs in other divisions or drive up the price of the next iPhone – both of which would give Sammy a competitive edge.
- Consumers were in for a big shock when Apple ditched the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. A lot of people who use iPhone 6S or older models haven’t upgraded their phones precisely because the newer models lack the 3.5mm audio jack.Bloomberg reported last week that Apple was seriously considering to ditch the Lightning connector as well with the iPhone 11. In fact, Apple plans to “remove most of the external ports and buttons on the iPhone.”
- More recent report suggests that the tech giant will merely replace the Lighting port with a USB Type-C port, which would be much better. The USB-C could make life easier for users because you’ll find USB-C ports on the Mac, PCs, Android smartphones, tablets, and a plethora of other devices.
- KB Securities analyst Kim Dong-won predicts that at least one model of Apple’s 2018 iPhones will have a triple camera system on the back. We have come across reports of a triple camera on the iPhones in the past, but those reports claimed the feature would arrive in 2019. Dong-won says Apple could introduce the feature sooner than expected to take on Huawei’s P20 Pro, which sports a triple camera. DxOMark has described the Huawei P20 Pro as the world’s best smartphone camera available in the market.
- The iPhone 11 will have to catch up with, if not exceed, the Huawei P20 Pro in terms of photography. Asian publication economic daily news has also learned from supply chain sources that the flagship iPhone 11 could include a third rear camera to enhance zoom capacity and improve the low-light photography. It could also help enhance the augmented reality experience.
Iphone 11 release date
- Apple hasn’t really bucked the trend of announcing its major iPhones at its September event. The iPhone 11 release will be no different either. This means, come September 2018, we’ll be looking at a brand-new iPhone 11 – or iPhone XI.
- Seeing as the iPhone X launch is actually in November, instead of September, it’s unclear if Apple will stick to a September launch like the iphone 8 and iphone 8 plus, or opt for a November release like the iPhone X. It’s unlikely we’ll see an October release as that’s when many other manufacturers offer up their handsets to market. Click here to know more
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Library science remains very good career: UNESCO exprt
UNESCO expert for Library Services L J Haravu today called upon the librarians to be proud of their profession as libraries will for long time to cater to ardent readers for ages to come.
Speaking after inaugurating a one-day Workshop in Soft Skills for Librarians, organised jointly by CPDPS and MyLISA at Mansagangothri, today, he said.
"One should not demand status, he should demand it by his virtues," he said.
The sole focus of librarians should be to improve the quality and offerings at the libraries, he said.
"If human is a chain, soft skill should be the polish. The polish always makes the chain glitter," Mr Haravu said.
He also called upon librarians to take every day as a challenge and try to experiment with new things they could do to improve the library.
Dr Niranjana Vanalli, Director, CPDPS presided over the function. 60 librarians from various colleges from across the state participated the workshop.
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Final 12 — NH native Josh Logan saved on ‘The Voice’By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent November 10. 2013 8:57PM
LONDONDERRY — Local musician Josh Logan will continue to shine on the small screen this week despite a near-miss on NBC’s “The Voice” Thursday night.
Logan advanced as one of the top dozen finalists on the program. Although he was voted at the bottom three of the five singers remaining on celebrity coach Christina Aguilera’s team.
Aguilera had other plans and opted for a “coach save” for Logan after the team performance of Maroon 5’s “Love Somebody.” Team members Stephanie Anne Johnson and Olivia Henken weren’t so lucky and were sent packing last week.
Shortly after learning of his most recent victory, Logan, his head freshly shaved under his trademark black fedora, expressed gratitude to his coach and fans, with his mother and teenage son seated in the audience.
“I’m capable of a lot more that America and people haven’t seen yet,” he said.
Aguilera said she had to go “where her heart is invested right now,” before announcing her final selection. “And my heart has to go with Josh.”
Logan removed his hat for an upbeat performance of Gnarls Barkly’s “Crazy” on his acoustic guitar, causing Aguilera to dance in her seat.
He will perform again tonight, with results to be revealed on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old singer, who has performed at various venues around southern New Hampshire over the year, has certainly come a long way since withdrawing from Londonderry High School to support his newborn son.
After earning his GED, Logan supported his family by working in construction until entering the local music scene. His soulful voice and gritty style resonated with audiences, and Logan got an initial shot at stardom in 2006 when he was chosen to compete for the hit CBS television show, “Rockstar: Supernova.”
Though his appearance on the program made him a household name as one of the show’s top 15 contenders, Logan didn’t make the final cut and returned to the Manchester area where he’s been performing before crowded local venues ever since.
On Sunday, a notice was posted on Logan’s website notifying guests that the singer wouldn’t be booking any upcoming appearances at this time as he is “busy with ‘The Voice’ for the foreseeable future.”
Logan said soul legends Stevie Wonder and Otis Redding are among his major influences, and one of his favorite live performances was a Nikka Costa (a former backup singer for Prince) show he’d seen at a concert in Boston last year.


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Oil prices are jumping on President Trump’s news that the Saudis and Russians are ending their feud and will cut oil production by 10 million barrels. Oil rallied over 30% after Saudi Arabia issued a statement calling for an urgent OPEC+ meeting and that they want to restore balance to the oil market.
Oil pulled back from the highs after Kremlin spokesperson Peskov said that President Putin has not spoken to the Crown Prince.
All the fine details seem to still be up in the air so President Trump’s tweet might have been premature. Oil is a tangible asset and with global storage tanks nearing capacity, production cuts were going to happen regardless of an agreement being reached by the the top three energy oil producers. It should also be expected that the US will contribute to production, even though no details were mentioned.
An oil production cut agreement is likely to be reached quickly, but that might only provide a limited rally as demand devastation will not see any signs of relief for at least a couple more months. WTI crude will likely see sellers defend the $30 a barrel.
The Canadian dollar, Norwegian krone and Russian ruble are all rallying strongly following the sharp rise in oil prices. These oil-export driven economies will breathe a sigh of relief that a key bottom has been made for oil prices.


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The Turkish State Railways (TCDD) said that the high-speed railway line (HSRL) between Halkali and Kapikule will be built by the end of 2023.
TEHRAN UIC RAME: The high-speed railway line (HSRL) to be built between Halkali and Kapikule in Turkey has an estimated cost amounting TRY 3.20bn (EUR 452.32mn USD 521.72mn), with works expected to last 1,260 days in total. The entire project is set to end in 2023 and will be concluded in two stages. Train stations are planned to be developed at Catalca, Luleburgaz, Edime, Babaesk, Kapikule, Havsa, Cerkezkoy, Buyukkaristiran. The line will be 229 long.


Spammer"s latest tool: Splogs
Last week while browsing the Internet, a strange computer term came to my attention — splogs. This term is so new that my information technology students don't even know what it means.
What is a splog? It is a fake or spam Web log. Junk e-mail artists create these fake blogs to increase the search engine ranking of the Web sites that are used to sell their products.
Splogs can be created using automated tools that generate self-publishing blogs. With the wide use of spamming filters to monitor e-mail messages, spammers are now turning to blogs as a new way to hawk their wares. These messages are often sent during the weekend and they advertise generic pharmaceuticals and porn sites. Democrat & Chronicle: Susan Barnes
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The answer to the question of what is the yoke of sewing is that it’s the component of a dress that may be used for decorative or structural purposes. To better comprehend what a yoke is, you can find more about its types and functions below.
In addition, we’ll provide instructions for making and attaching a yoke to any sewing task. When we talk about sewing clothing, why not learn the best way to make patches with the help of a sewing machine.
It’s always useful to learn not just how to create clothes, but also how to fix them.
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What Does Yoke Mean In Sewing?
The yoke is an element of clothing that can be used for functional purposes or ornamental to ensure its structure garment is highlighted. You will see it around the neck, shoulders, or waist as well as around different regions that are usually loose.
Different types of Yokes
- Basic yoke
As the name suggests, the yoke that is basic is a basic or plain yoke that is made by cutting and joining in accordance with the structure of the garment as well as its intended usage or even to the individual wearing the garment. It can also be joined and cut using the seam, which is usually seen on the back and front of a t-shirt for men.
- The Decorative Yoke
The yoke with a decorative design adds an aesthetic appeal to the dress. Other than having a fabric with a contrasting color to make the yoke look more interesting, you may also include piping along the edges to add a touch of style.
Front vs Back yoke
The front yoke is the one you wear around your neck, while the back yoke covers the shoulders and is behind the shirt. Both will ensure that the shirt drapes perfectly, and you are able to separate them.
What Is The Purpose Of The Yoke?
- Most often, it is used on shirts, dresses, coats, and trousers to shape or increase volume
- for adding more details and attraction to a dull piece of clothing.
- to support loose parts of the garment
- V-shaped yokes can add curves to the design of the jeans you are sitting on. upside-down yokes provide a more spacious seat as the middle that is elevated above the seams to the outside.
- Wide yokes give an untidy look to pants and straight yokes ensure that the pants sit straight and straight.
- The yokes that extend upwards give shape to the clothing to highlight the rear of women’s clothes
How Do You Make A Yoke Pattern?
These steps can be used to create a yoke design for both the back and front of the shirt.
- Draw a line over the bust area for the front yoke. Also, draw a line above the shoulder blades of the back yoke.
- Combine the back and front pieces in the shoulder seam to eliminate the shoulder seam. The back yoke will extend 1/8 inch towards the front
- Create a uniform line from the back of your center towards the center of your armhole on the back yoke, to establish your back yoke’s line
- Create a line that is parallel to the shoulder line about an inch from the front yoke.
- Make sure that the front yoke is aligned with the back yoke by using the shoulder line
- Make sure that the seam allowance is centered along the edge of the pieces.
Because the back yoke is generally affixed to a gathering space, you should consider learning the steps to collect fabric using the sewing machine.
How Do You Cut A Yoke?
The following guidelines are to cut a yoke in the waistline of the skirt:
- Draw an arc starting from the seams on the sides up to where the front is, below those darts on the skirt
- Cut according to the line you traced and you will have the upper and lower parts of the skirt
- Make sure you close the waist darts in order to create a gap between the pieces you created
What Is A Yoke In Sewing A Skirt?
A yoke added to the skirt makes sure that the waistline appears sleek since it will be moving your dart toward the seam of the yoke. Drawing a skirt using a yoke at the waist, particularly skirts with darts, makes the skirt appear more smooth and better.
The darts, or folds, give the shape of the bust as it enhances the simplicity of the design. But, it looks more attractive if you attach a yoke around the waist.
How Do You Put Yoke On A Blouse?
- The yoke’s external side should be aligned with the bodice’s back right side to
- The left side of the internal bodice with the opposite side of the bodice’s back.
- Make sure the center back and notches are in line and then sew the layers together using the appropriate seam allowance
- Remove the excess seams and press the seams towards the yoke.
- Sew the bodice pieces of the front on the right side, joining the yoke on the outside at the shoulder seams.
- Place the bodice on its side with the bodice’s front pieces in front of you and the inside back bodice and yoke under.
- Turn the back and front bodice to the shoulder seams. This will ensure that the internal yoke is obvious
- Make sure you pull the yoke on top of the bodice that you have rolled and stitch the shoulder seams onto the area you’ve stitched
- Trim and sew as required
- Take the bodice and pull it into the hole in the neck and turn the blouse upside down.
- Press and seal the seams
That’s all there is to it! We’ve just learned what’s a yoke used in sewing. It improves the form and support of different pieces of clothing.
It is available in various styles and designs ranging from basic and ornamental and straight to pointed and curving. If you’re a novice it can be difficult to sew and cut the yoke. Therefore, it’s ideal to practice with a variety of designs until you get the hang of it.
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A big thank you to all who contributed their interpretations, theories and musings on the last Practice Reading – The Eight of Cups and The Ace of Wands Reversed. It was very interesting to see the various individual approaches one can make when connecting and linking Cards in a Reading. Every interpretation was potentially valid and could be applied to a relationship, career or general Reading with only a slight change of wording and emphasis. Each interpretation was loaded with a strong story line that could very easily be expanded upon. I loved the way some of you used the symbolic aspects of the combined imagery of the Two Cards to work your interpretation from. I can’t speak for the rest of you, but I certainly learned a few more novel ways of looking at the Cards.
After Reading all your interpretations, it left me wanting to know more about the story-lines, where they were coming from and where they would move on to next. It was like only getting to see the movie trailer and not the full thing. I wanted more, not just from the last Reading but also from the previous one with The Eight of Pentacles Reversed and the Ten of Swords. We had not allocated positions for the Cards so we used a freestyle version of interpretation, allowing our imaginations and natural investigative skills to deduce what was going on, and when. We had to try to fill in the gaps ourselves as we only had the Two Cards to go on. But, see how much story we did get out of just Two Cards. Quite impressive Indeed.
If we can get so much out of so little, then we should have no problem when we add more Cards, should we? The thing is, the more Cards we add, the more complicated the storyline becomes. If we just have two characters in a movie, then it is much easier to follow the plot than when there are several, and all doing different things, or even conflicting and contradicting each other. What you have proved is that you can begin to start pulling a story together out of your knowledge of keywords, various interpretations and methods of application. Not just any old story, but a story that sounds reasonable and very possible. A story that sounds archetypal, not just a one fit all version, but a personalised one that makes perfect sense and is very plausible.
If we add Two more Cards to each of the above mentioned previous Readings, randomly drawn, and again with no allocated positions, just freestyle, can we expand on our stories, can we see more and will it become clearer to us what is going on? You will have to decide yourself which Card might be referring to the past, present or future, or perhaps it is just a general overview. So we are going to put it to the test and see what comes up. Giving pre-determined allocated positions may stunt our creative imaginative flow and allow our conscious mind to start rationalising, as it is prone to do. This may block the impressions coming through from our subconscious, so for the moment, just let your mind go where it will. Run with your particular story and be confident about it, strengthen it and build on it. Don’t think for one moment that what you might be saying is silly or wild. Remember, you do not have any client or Querant in front of you waiting and staring. Think of it as creative writing and not just trying to read the Tarot. This is a brilliant exercise for waking up the imagination and loosening the tongue or fingers on the keyboard. Just let it spill forth and don’t stop to think too much. Be as dramatic as you wish.
So here we go, The Five of Swords and The Moon have been randomly drawn to add to the previous Reading of The Eight of Cups and The Ace of Wands Reversed.
The Three of Cups Reversed and The Nine of Pentacles Reversed have been randomly drawn to go with the previous Reading of The Reversed Eight of Pentacles and The Ten of Swords.
Take your time with both these Readings. Mull over them for a few days even and start pulling your story together. I am looking forward to hearing all your versions.
And for those who would prefer to stay with The Two Card Version for the moment, or do both, here are the latest Cards Drawn – The Four of Swords Reversed and The Nine of Cups
And now I must get on with my own work. The Four Knights are awaiting my attention at present so I must be off. Best of luck.
Vivien (your tarot teacher)
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4 -Swords.. Time for a peace and quite..withdrawing from the environment for a while..retreating ,your mind your body your soul just like Hermit unplug telephone not going out every night .possible stay in hospital for beauty treatment maybe overweight problem from lazyness ..you need to take it easy to strenght your health mind and body… … 9-Cups… your wish will happen you will be contented with the outcome…physicaly and healthy again…with in nine weeks treatment well – balanced…


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FDIC lifts troubled-bank order against Longview’s Twin City Bank
Regulators have lifted a cease-and-desist order against Twin City Bank in Longview after the bank cut costs and raised $450,000 in a stock offering.
The small 12-year-old bank had been under a 2009 order from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to increase its capital levels and take steps to increase it s profitability.
“We are very pleased with the progress of the bank and very pleased to see the regulators recognize that progress,” bank CEO Neil Zick said Friday.
Zick said the bank raised $450,000 in a stock offering in 2010 and 2011 from current shareholders and directors.
In addition, the bank has been able to retain earnings as the bank has returned to a profitable level, Zick said.
In 2009, Twin City Bank also cut staff and closed its Woodland branch, which Zick said had been a drag on the bank’s earnings.
Twin City joins other Washington banks that have had cease-and-desist orders lifted recently, including Lacey-based Anchor Bancorp, Seattle’s HomeStreet Bank and Everett-based Mountain Pacific Bank. It’s a sign that -- even though some banks continue to struggle with bad loans and quarterly losses -- federal regulators are seeing the banks’ capital return to healthier levels and are seeing banks make progress on working down their bad loans.
Twin City Bank had assets of $41.3 million as of June 30, according to FDIC data. The bank is considered well capitalized, with a capital-to-assets ratio of 13 percent, above the FDIC’s ratio target of 10 percent.
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Agrochemicals affect sperms
due to the rampant use of herbicides, men in rural areas have lower sperm counts than their urban peers. This is the finding of a recent follow-up study conducted by a researcher from the University of Missouri-Columbia, usa. Shanna Swan, a professor of family and community medicine, had announced in November 2002 that fertile men in rural areas of the us have lower sperm counts and less vigorous semen than men in urban areas.
Through her recent study, Swan has linked the problem with three chemicals -- alachlor, diazinon and atrazine -- that are commonly used in the us. Swan studied two groups: men residing in mid-Missouri (a rural area) and those living in Minneapolis (an urban centre).
The researcher tested urine samples of both the groups for 15 currently used pesticides. Samples of mid-Missouri men, who had poor semen quality, contained significantly higher concentrations of the herbicides than samples of males with better sperm count. Swan found no correlation between semen quality and pesticides such as deet, which are primarily used for domestic purposes across the country.
"This is the first research that shows a link between elevated levels of these pesticides in the human body and potential reproductive problems," Swan claims. "Since the subjects included a cross-section of men in mid-Missouri, rather than mostly farmers, the findings reflect the effects of the chemicals on the entire population."
"It is likely that men are ingesting these chemicals through their drinking water," Swan asserts. As per the findings of a survey conducted by the us Geological Survey in 1995, the herbicides were found in groundwater supplies of rural areas at concentrations exceeding federal reporting levels. In addition, the agency admitted that conventional water treatment method is ineffective to filter out alachlor and atrazine from drinking water.
Swan asserts that researchers should examine the water sources and seek better methods to remove the pesticides. They should also promote safe alternatives to the herbicides on a large scale. Studies examining the impact of the chemicals on the health of women and children should also be conducted.
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I love summer, it’s my favorite season. If you are like me and you love summer too, today I’m sharing an easy decor DIY which will look awesome wherever you place it.
I used some table legs I had from another project that involved scrap wood, but you can also buy it if you don’t have at home. I envisioned a gradient beach related sign with words on it, so I prepared everything I was going to use.
Here’s what you need to make your own Sea Sand Sisal Sign
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I started by chopping some legs into smaller pieces and sanding the borders to get a nice finish.
I also removed the protective pads and gave all the wood a coat of DIY chalk paint. You can also use any commercial chalk paint if you have some at hand.
Then I mixed some blue and green paint to get an aqua color, and added some white to make it lighter and get the gradient look.
I also designed a stencil with the words Sea, Sand and Sisal with my Silhouette Cameo. I used a tab divider because is what I had on hand and it’s cheap.
I measured and centered the word, and used a brush with white paint to stencil it. I repeated the process in all the pieces.
I had my coastal Sea, Sand and Sisal sign in about an hour, and I love how it looks!!
Those colors are perfect for summer or for a beach house.
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Atmospheric, emotive and full of vibrant energy – their music really sucks you in. At once grandiose and down-to-earth, Mutesite exudes effortless charisma on stage that takes shoegazing postrock and turns it on its toes.
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Dance On Your Grave’s music is raw, hard-edged and driving, yet still manages to remain fist-pumpingly anthemic – and they’re definitely an act you have to watch live to get the full experience.
Watch Singaporean folk artist, Leslie Low, perform his tracks on Singgah Sekejap.
Watch Indonesian power pop band, The Adams, perform their tracks live on Singgah Sekejap
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Pastelpower (Cherie Ko) performed her tracks, ‘Melon Collie’ and ‘Disco Ball’ during Cassette Store Day last September 2014
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Implementing a Pictorial Tool to Improve Heart Failure Knowledge in Hispanic Patients
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
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AbstractPurpose: The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project was to implement an educational intervention to improve heart failure knowledge and self-care behaviors in Hispanic heart failure patients. Background: Heart failure is a chronic health condition associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. Heart failure affects more than eight million Americans leading to high healthcare costs. It is estimated that by 2050, the United States (US) population will be one-third Hispanic. Hispanics will show an increased prevalence of heart failure due to cardiometabolic risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, and coronary artery disease. Social factors include limited education, income disparities, and health literacy that may worsen health outcomes. Methods: The American Heart Association’s Rise Above Heart Failure Self-Check pictorial tool was used as the education intervention. The Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale measured heart failure knowledge. The Self-Care of Heart Failure Index Scale v7.2, measured self-care behaviors including self-care maintenance, symptom perception, and management. Both scales were administered pre- and post-educational intervention; scores were compared to determine the difference. Demographic information was obtained pre-intervention and a survey post-intervention to determine satisfaction with the intervention. Results: Twelve Hispanic heart failure patients from a cardiology practice in rural Southwestern Arizona participated in this project. Most participants were female, older than 65, and had a high school education. Heart failure knowledge improved from baseline of 7.42 to 14.42 post-intervention (p = < .001). Self-care maintenance scores improved from baseline of 50.58 to 93.33 post-intervention (p= <.001), and self-care management scores improved from baseline from 34.33 to 90.00 post intervention (p= <.001). Conclusion: Heart failure management is complex, and care should be individualized and grounded on an evidence-based heart failure educational program. This project demonstrated that health education that is language and literacy appropriate can have a significant impact on improving heart failure knowledge and self-care behaviors among Hispanic heart failure participants.
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WATSONVILLE (BCN) — Police in Watsonville Saturday morning are investigating a shooting incident that occurred Friday.
Officers with the Watsonville Police Department responded Friday at 9:55 p.m. to a report of shots fire in the area of Roosevelt Street and Cullumber Court.
Witnesses told police gunfire had occurred in the area, and a gray vehicle, possibly a pickup truck, was seen fleeing the area after the shooting.
Investigators discovered several bullet holes in a vehicle parked nearby and in the chimney of a house.
There were no reported injuries in the shooting incident.
Police said the residence has been victimized by shootings in the past, and this incident is believed to be gang-related.


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|Dried pea beans||1 Pound (Use Great Northern)|
|Finely chopped onion||2 Cup (32 tbs)|
|Finely chopped celery||1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)|
|Finely chopped garlic||2 Teaspoon|
|Condensed chicken broth||30 Ounce (Three 10 Ounce Cans)|
|Water||5 Cup (80 tbs)|
|Ham shanks/2 hocks||1|
|Canned tomatoes||16 Ounce, peeled and chopped (4 To 6 Medium Sized Firm Ripe Tomatoes)|
|Freshly ground black pepper||1⁄4 Teaspoon|
|Shredded cheddar cheese||2 Cup (32 tbs)|
1. Bring water to boiling in a 6-quart saucepot. Add beans gradually to water so that boiling continues. Boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside 1 hour.
2. Drain beans, reserving liquid. Re.turn beans to saucepot along with 4 cups of cooking liquid.
3. Melt butter in a large skillet. Add onion, celery, and garlic; cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn contents of skillet into saucepot.
4. Combine chicken broth with enough water to make 6 cups. Pour into saucepot.
5. Peel skin from ham shank and cut off excess fat. Add shank and skin to saucepot along with tomatoes, cloves, bay leaf, and pepper. Bring to boiling, reduce heat, and simmer 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or until ham is tender.
6. Remove ham shank and skin; cool. Transfer soup to a large bowl; remove bay leaf and cloves. Cut meat into pieces and return to soup. Refrigerate, then skim off fat.
7. Transfer soup to saucepot and bring to simmer. Add cheese and stir until melted.
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2902 Calories from Fat 1506
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 168 g258.6%
Saturated Fat 91.7 g458.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 609.6 mg203.2%
Sodium 8933.4 mg372.2%
Total Carbohydrates 185 g61.7%
Dietary Fiber 26.7 g106.6%
Sugars 34 g
Protein 167 g334.8%
Vitamin A 157.3% Vitamin C 119.3%
Calcium 193.8% Iron 75.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet

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A commanding officer of the guided missile submarine USS Florida was fired last summer for failing to launch a formal investigation into rumors of a “rape list” of female crew members aboard the boat.
Capt. Gregory Kercher lost his job for a loss of confidence in his ability to lead after he was told about two lists about female sailors serving on the boat, according to a report in Military.com.
“Rumors of a ‘rape list’ were promulgated throughout the crew, significant numbers of females became concerned for their safety, and male members who learned of the list were equally repulsed,” Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon, then-commander of Submarine Group 10, wrote to his superior days before Kercher’s relief. “Very few knew what limited action was being taken by the (command).”
Kercher was commanding officer of the Florida’s Gold crew, one of two that alternate so the boat can stay at sea as much as possible. The Florida is home ported at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.
One list identified female crew members using a star system and another list contained sexually explicit comments next to each name.
Kercher directed a search of the submarine’s network, but failed to open a formal investigation or notify his command two months after the incident was first reported.
“Although he took some action in response to the list, there is no question that those minimal actions fell far short of expected standards and norms for an event of this magnitude,” Jablon wrote in his statement.
At least two sailors administrative discharges from the military and an undisclosed number of others faced administrative punishment for their roles in the list.
The incident is considered isolated and not reflective of the behavior of submarine forces Navywide, officials said.
The Gold crew has 173 sailors, including 32 women: five officers, two chief petty officers and 25 sailors with the rank of petty officer 1st class and below.
In 2014, a dozen Kings Bay sailors were implicated in secretly videotaping female officers undressing and showering on the USS Wyoming.


John D. McCalpin, Ph.D., informally known as “Dr. Bandwidth” for his invention of STREAM memory bandwidth benchmark, posted STREAM results for Intel Xeon Phi and two Xeon-based servers made by Dell (see the end of his blog entry). All three devices are used in the “Stampede” computer at TACC.
Intel Xeon Phi achieved memory bandwidth of roughly 161829 MBytes/second — not bad, to say the least! It is this product that I called “monstrous” 6 months ago. I decided to turn the numbers into a graphical form. Also present on the graphs are results of the aforementioned 2xCPU and 4xCPU Intel Xeon-based servers used as compute nodes in “Stampede”. First, total memory bandwidth per device: per Xeon Phi board, or per Xeon-based server:
In this test, the number of OpenMP threads used by STREAM was equal to the number of cores on the computing device. As can be seen, Intel Xeon Phi board supplies a lot of bandwidth to its cores. The hi-end dual-socket and quad-socket servers are lagging behind in total bandwidth, and the quad-socket server is only marginally better than its dual-socket peer.
Now, let us divide the total bandwidth by the number of threads running on the computing device, in order to understand how much bandwidth one thread can receive:
This graph features two bars for Intel Xeon Phi. The reason is that to fully utilize Xeon Phi’s floating-point capabilities, you often need to spawn 4 threads per each of its cores (but see also Update 1 at the end of the post). Here’s the quote from a paper by James Reinders of Intel:
The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor offers four hardware threads per core with sufficient memory capabilities and floating-point capabilities to make it generally impossible for a single thread per core to approach either limit. Highly tuned kernels of code may reach saturation with two threads, but generally applications need a minimum of three or four active threads per core to access all that the coprocessor can offer.
That’s why the realistic usage scenario for floating-point-limited applications would involve 61*4=244 threads. But STREAM run with 244 threads shows 12% less total bandwidth than with 61 threads:
6. The best results with the compiler flags above were obtained with one thread per core. Using 2, 3, or 4 threads per core decreased the Triad bandwidth by approximately 4%, 8%, and 12%, respectively.
Therefore the second bar for Intel Xeon Phi is so much lower. The dual-socket server now is the best of all with regard to bandwidth per thread.
It should be noted, however, that STREAM was designed to measure one specific thing — memory bandwidth, and therefore it “emulates” only one sort of applications: those that read immense amounts of memory, word by word, do a few floating-point operations on them, and write the results back. There are other types of memory access patterns: for example, when the working set of a program fits in cache memory, and there are many iterative floating-point operations over the same data, then memory bandwidth is less important. Therefore the outlooks are not so bleak for Intel Xeon Phi!
This second graph, although providing more insight than the first one, still doesn’t complete the picture. That’s because we didn’t take into account floating-point capabilities of the devices. Intel Xeon Phi has a lower clock frequency, but can do more floating-point operations per each clock cycle.
Let us calculate peak floating-point rates for the devices. For Intel Xeon Phi, there is the following quote on the product page:
2. Claim based on calculated theoretical peak double precision performance capability for a single coprocessor. 16 DP FLOPS/clock/core * 60 cores * 1.053GHz = 1.0108 TeraFlop/s.
How did they arrive to 16 FLOPS/cycle? The SIMD unit within the core is 512 bits wide, so it can hold 8 double-precision (64 bit) floating-point numbers. Xeon Phi supports fused multiply-add (FMA) instructions, where one single instruction performs one multiply and one add operations, totalling two floating-point operations, such as d ← d * a + b (take contents of register d, multiply it by a, add b, and save the result back to d). See, for example, instruction VFMADD132PD (or similar ones) from this instruction set architecture reference manual (page 201 of 725). This presentation by George Chrysos of Intel affirms this. So, each cycle 2 floating-point operations are performed on 8 numbers, which results in 2*8=16 FLOPS/cycle.
Therefore, if your code does one multiplication and one addition (and not two additions, or two multiplications, or anything else) with long floating-point vectors, then you have a chance to approach that peak performance.
Now, we need to calculate the peak floating-point rate for dual-socket and quad-socket Dell servers, which are based on Intel Xeon E5-2680 and Xeon E5-4650 processors, respectively (both are 8-core, 2.7 GHz). Both CPUs support advanced vector extensions (AVX). The vector units are 256 bits wide, so they can hold 4 double-precision floating-point numbers. Using the same reporting methodology with FMA instructions as above, in one cycle you can achieve 4 additions and 4 multiplications, for a total of 8 FLOPS/cycle. We then need to multiply this by the clock frequency of 2,7 GHz, by 8 cores, and by the number of sockets. This gives 345,6 GFLOPS for the dual-socket server, and 691,2 GFLOPS for the quad-socket one.
Finally, we know the total memory bandwidth per device, and the peak floating-point rate per device. There is a metric called machine balance. It tries to convolve all intricate parameters of parallel computers, many of which have non-linear relation to performance, into one single number. Of course, it cannot be precise. But it allows for rough comparisons between architectures. To calculate machine balance, you need to divide the peak floating-point rate, in GFLOPS, by the total memory bandwidth, in GWords/sec.
The result is measured in FLOPs/Word and, most simply put, it indicates how many floating-point operations your computer can perform with each word that arrived from memory before the next word comes in for processing. Yes, it is a big simplification. High numbers (for example, 30 FLOPs/Word) are a bad sign, they indicate unbalanced machines: that is, for every word that arrives, the machine can perform 30 floating-point operations before the next word arrives. And what happens if your code just doesn’t need to perform 30 floating-point operations on the single word that came in from memory? Then the CPU has to stay idle, doing no useful work, until the next word comes in, because memory is too slow for this CPU, and therefore the machine is called “unbalanced”. (Again, it’s a very rough approximation of how computers work, because it’s not a single word that is fetched from memory at a time, but a whole cache line, etc., etc.)
Many of today’s machines are unbalanced in this respect, compared to vector supercomputers of the good old days. Cache memories in modern machines try to alleviate this problem. So, let us calculate machine balance for the three computing devices. There will be three bars on the graph for Intel Xeon Phi — for 61 threads (1 thread per core), for 122 threads (2 threads per core), and for 244 threads (4 threads per core).
Note that “a thread can only issue a vector instruction every other cycle”, therefore you need at least two threads to reach the maximum instruction issue rate. Additionally, “using 3-4 threads does not increase maximum issue rate, but often helps tolerate latency” (ibid, slide 15 of 26).
Therefore, to fully exploit the floating-point capability of Intel Xeon Phi, you are likely to use 2 or 4 threads per core, resulting in 122 or 244 threads per device, but to allow for more memory bandwidth for bandwidth-limited applications, you can try 1 thread per core. (See also Update 1 at the end of the post).
Intel Xeon Phi.
244 threads: total bandwidth with 244 threads: 142410 MB/sec (161829 minus 12%), or 17,8 GWords/sec. Peak floating-point rate with 61 cores: 16 DP FLOPS/cycle/core * 61 cores * 1,053 GHz = 1027,7 GFLOPS. Machine balance: 57,7 FLOPS/Word.
122 threads: total bandwidth with 122 threads: 155356 MB/sec (161829 minus 4%), or 19,4 GWords/sec. Peak floating-point rate: same. Machine balance: 53 FLOPS/Word.
61 threads: total bandwidth with 61 threads: 161829 MB/sec, or 20,2 GWords/sec. Peak floating-point rate: half of the above peak, that is, 513,9 GFLOPS, because, as noted above, “a thread can only issue a vector instruction every other cycle”. Machine balance: 25,4 FLOPS/Word.
Dual-socket Intel Xeon-based server. Total bandwidth: 77010 MB/sec, or 9,6 GWords/sec. Peak floating-point rate: 345,6 GFLOPS (see above). Machine balance: 36 FLOPS/Word.
Quad-socket Intel Xeon-based server. Total bandwidth: 83381 MB/sec, or 10,4 GWords/sec. Peak floating-point performance: 691,2 GFLOPS (see above). Machine balance: 66,5 FLOPS/Word.
Here is the corresponding graph (remember: lower is better!):
Don’t forget that these balance figures were calculated from STREAM Triad results which, as you remember, emulate only one memory access pattern. If your code is cache-friendly, you will benefit from cache memory bandwidth, which for Intel Xeon Phi is 7 and 15 times higher than main memory bandwidth, for L2 and L1 caches, respectively (see Figure 14 in this presentation).
Note also this blog post by Dr. McCalpin, where he, among other things, compares machine balance of Intel Xeon Phi to that of NVIDIA’a GPU accelerators.
Thanks for reading this far! To download source data for the graphs for plotting with Gnuplot, click here.
Update 1. Dr. McCalpin wrote me by e-mail that there are, in fact, applications that run faster when they use 1, 2 or 3 threads per Xeon Phi core, instead of the maximum number of 4 threads per core.