Industrial Connectors: Enhancing Efficiency in the Era of Smart Manufacturing
The advent of smart manufacturing has revolutionized the industrial landscape, transforming traditional factories into interconnected and intelligent systems. One of the key technologies driving this transformation is industrial connectors. These smart connectors play a crucial role in enhancing efficiency, connectivity, and productivity in the manufacturing process. This article provides an in-depth understanding of industrial connectors and explores how they contribute to the success of smart manufacturing.
I. The Basics of Industrial Connectors
Industrial connectors are devices used to establish secure and reliable electrical connections in industrial environments. They are designed to withstand harsh conditions such as extreme temperatures, vibrations, and moisture. These connectors facilitate the transmission of power, data, and signals between different components of a manufacturing system. By ensuring reliable and robust connections, industrial connectors enable seamless communication and efficient operation of industrial machinery.
II. The Role of Industrial Connectors in Smart Manufacturing
1. Connectivity and Interoperability
In the era of smart manufacturing, it is crucial for machines, sensors, and control systems to communicate seamlessly with each other. Industrial connectors provide the necessary connectivity and interoperability in this complex ecosystem. They enable the integration of various sensors, controllers, and devices, allowing them to exchange critical information in real-time. This connectivity forms the foundation for data-driven decision-making, process optimization, and automated systems, leading to increased efficiency and productivity.
2. Modular and Scalable Systems
Industrial connectors facilitate the construction of modular and scalable manufacturing systems. By using standardized connectors, components such as sensors, actuators, and control units can be easily added, replaced, or upgraded without disrupting the entire production line. This modular approach simplifies maintenance, reduces downtime, and enhances flexibility in adapting to changing production requirements. Industrial connectors make it possible to expand or reconfigure manufacturing systems effortlessly, empowering factories to adapt to evolving market demands.
III. Types of Industrial Connectors
1. Rectangular Connectors
Rectangular connectors, also known as industrial multipole connectors, are widely used in manufacturing environments. These connectors offer a high number of contact points, ensuring reliable transmission of power and signals. They are available in various sizes and configurations, accommodating different voltage and current requirements. Rectangular connectors are commonly used in factory automation, robotics, and automotive applications.
2. Circular Connectors
Circular connectors are ideal for applications that require robust and waterproof connections. These connectors have a circular form factor, making them resistant to dust, moisture, and vibrations. They are commonly used in industries such as aerospace, defense, and marine, where the environment is challenging. Circular connectors enable reliable data transmission, power distribution, and signal integrity in demanding conditions.
3. Fiber Optic Connectors
Fiber optic connectors play a vital role in transmitting high-speed data over long distances. In smart manufacturing, where immense amounts of data are generated and processed, fiber optic connectors ensure fast and reliable communication. These connectors utilize optical fibers to transmit light signals, resulting in high bandwidth and low latency connections. Fiber optic connectors are crucial for applications such as real-time monitoring, machine vision, and industrial control networks.
4. Terminal Blocks
Terminal blocks, also known as connection terminals or terminal strips, are essential for connecting wires and cables in industrial systems. These connectors provide a secure and organized way to terminate and distribute electrical signals. Terminal blocks simplify the wiring process, making it easier to connect and disconnect components. They are commonly used in control cabinets, power distribution systems, and field devices.
5. M12 Connectors
M12 connectors, also called sensor connectors or micro connectors, are widely used in industrial automation and sensor applications. These connectors have a compact size, enabling them to be used in space-constrained environments. M12 connectors provide quick and reliable connections for sensors, actuators, and other industrial devices. They are designed to withstand harsh conditions and are available in various configurations, including data, power, and hybrid versions.
IV. Benefits of Industrial Connectors in Smart Manufacturing
1. Increased Efficiency
Industrial connectors ensure efficient data exchange and communication between different components of a manufacturing system. By facilitating real-time data transmission, these connectors enable timely decision-making, reducing response times and minimizing process inefficiencies. The seamless connectivity enabled by industrial connectors optimizes workflow and resource allocation, leading to increased production efficiency.
2. Enhanced Reliability
With robust designs and secure connections, industrial connectors offer high levels of reliability in industrial environments. These connectors are engineered to withstand extreme temperatures, mechanical stresses, and electromagnetic interference, ensuring stable and error-free operation. Enhanced reliability translates into reduced equipment downtime, improved system availability, and increased overall productivity.
3. Improved Safety
Industrial connectors adhere to strict safety standards, providing protection against electrical hazards. They offer features such as locking mechanisms, insulation, and IP (Ingress Protection) ratings to prevent accidental disconnections, short circuits, and shocks. Ensuring safe connections is critical in industrial environments where human operators and sensitive equipment coexist. Industrial connectors contribute to maintaining a safe and secure workplace.
4. Simplified Maintenance
The modular nature of industrial connectors simplifies system maintenance and troubleshooting. In case of component failure or upgrade, connectors allow for the quick replacement of faulty parts without disrupting the entire production line. The standardized design and easy-to-use features of industrial connectors minimize downtime and costs associated with maintenance activities. By reducing the complexity of repairs and replacements, these connectors enable faster recovery and improve system availability.
Industrial connectors are designed to support the evolving needs of smart manufacturing. As new technologies and communication protocols emerge, industrial connectors can be updated or replaced to accommodate these advancements. The ability to adapt to future requirements ensures that manufacturing systems remain compatible with the latest tools and applications. Industrial connectors provide the flexibility needed to integrate emerging technologies such as IoT, edge computing, and artificial intelligence.
Industrial connectors are a crucial part of the smart manufacturing ecosystem. They serve as the backbone for reliable, secure, and efficient communication between various devices and components. By enabling seamless connectivity, industrial connectors play a vital role in enhancing efficiency, scalability, and safety in the era of smart manufacturing. With a wide range of connector types and benefits, these essential components empower factories to embrace the transformative journey towards Industry 4.0 and beyond..


22.8.12 by Joanna Demarco email@example.com
This afternoon, the Green Party, Alternattiva Demokratika met up with the Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM) to discuss the new social and family policies which promote equality in all aspects, irrespective of an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
AD Chairman Michael Briguglio asserted that “liberalism is a priority to us”, and expressed his party’s attitude in favour of marriage regardless of sexual orientation.
“Equality can only materialise by having one institution for both different-sex and same-sex couples. Recognition of same-sex couples in marriage would lead to the strengthening of the concept of the family”, he said.
AD hold the same attitude towards the current IVF debate, believing that one should not be discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation. “Gender minorities such as transgender persons should be protected against every form of discrimination and the Constitution should be amended to prohibit any form of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression”, he added.
“The concept of family in Malta has changed – we believe that social policy and civil legislation should change to adapt to other families other than the ‘traditional family’” said Angele Deguara, the AD Spokesperson for Social Policy and Civil Rights.
She went on to say that “when people want to adopt, sexual orientation should not be an issue, and single parents should also be allowed to adopt”. Mr Briguglio added that “we cannot act as though there is only one type of family”.
Gabi Calleja, representative of MGRM, agreed that “people tend to speak about same sex couples excluding the fact that some might be parents or may be wanting to become parents”.
She also informed the press that “LGB would not specifically require IVF, artificial insemination would be enough”, however, “the law completely bans this – sperm donation is an offence at this moment”.
Ruth Baldacchino, also representing the MGRM thanked AD for being “accepting” and “[taking] into consideration the live of transgender people in Malta”.
She concluded the press conference by stating that “the enforcement of this act would improve the lives of transgender people immensely”.


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Injured victims of cops opening fire on protesting villagers in Chikreng commune, Siem Reap province (Photo: Savyouth, RFA)
23 March 2009
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Click here to read the article in Khmer
Relatives of three men from Chikreng commune who were seriously injured following the shooting perpetrated by armed cops in Chikreng district stemming from a land dispute involving 90-hectare of rice field located in the Dike 78 Suong region, are looking for legal help to sue for compensation for their injured loved ones.
In the morning of Monday 23 March, Mrs. Cheng Hon said that Luon Vinh, her husband, was seriously injured by bullets (shot by the cops) and he is currently undergoing medical care at the Siem Reap province hospital. She said that she is currently suing the Chikreng district authority which is responsible for this case and she also said that each family of the victims demands $5,000 in damage compensation for their loved ones who were shot. The victims have contacted the Adhoc human rights group in Siem reap province to ask for its help to file the lawsuit against the shooting perpetrated by the cops: “My husband was shot twice, he was seriously injured and his knee cap was shattered. We ask $5,000 in compensation.”
The decision by the victim’s families to sue the cops was made one day after a joint civilian and military police forces opened fire on a group of villagers from Chikreng commune. The villagers came by the hundreds to hold a protest at the Dike 78 Suong because of a land dispute involving their rice fields. The shooting injured 4 villagers and 40 other villagers were arrested on the morning of 22 March.
Ty Sovinthal, the prosecutor for the Siem Reap court, denied involvement in the armed violence, he said that the shooting was not undertaken by his order. He said that he only traveled to the incident location based on the request made by the Chikreng district governor and the police inspector. He then went on to visit the incident location, but 3 kilometers away from his destination, he received the information that the cops were shooting at the villagers there.
Nevertheless, Ty Sovinthal added that he will order the cops to file a report so that the cops involved in the shooting will face the law. However, he also threatened to sue news reporters and RFA which published the information in which he allegedly led the cops during the shooting raid on the villagers.
Ty Sovinthal said: “If you can find that I arrived at the incident location, and I wrongfully ordered (the shooting), I agree to go to jail.”
Sou Phirin, the CPP Siem Reap provincial governor, said that in the case of the land dispute involving 90-hectare of rice field between villagers from Chikreng and Anlong Samnor communes, the provincial authority attempted to mediate this issue on several occasions already, he also regretted to see the shooting on the protesting villagers and the injuries inflicted on them. Therefore, the provincial authority will pay the medical bill for the villagers and it will continue to find a better solution to this land dispute: “The medical care cost will be paid by the provincial authority, these are poor [villagers].”
In the afternoon of 23 March, a group of provincial officials led by Sou Phirin himself, visited the incident location and they studied the land dispute in order to provide a new land subdivision.
On Monday evening, it was learnt that a number of villagers have disappeared following the shooting by the cops. Several hundred rounds of bullet were shot by the cops. As for the 40 villagers arrested by the cops, more than 30 of them were released and sent back home.

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While there was plenty of news about previously unannounced Star Wars projects — including a set of three new feature films — more details have been revealed including a new trailer and a first look at some new cast members for the upcoming Ahsoka Disney+ series.
What's Ahsoka about?
Ahsoka follows its titular character (played by Rosario Dawson in live-action) during the same timeframe as The Mandalorian. We last saw Ahsoka during Season 2 of The Mandalorian when assisted Mando and Grogu on their adventures. It's unknown if this takes place before or after The Mandalorian Season 2, but expect to see some characters from both The Mandalorian and Rebels to show up.
Who's in it?
Speaking of who will pop up, we know Dawson is back as Ahsoka.
Natasha Liu Bordizzo was announced as a young Mandalorian warrior named Sabine Wren. Eman Esfandi will play a live-action Ezra from Rebels (Taylor Gray voiced him in Rebels and Forces of Destiny while Adrian Petriw voiced him in Droid Tales. Genevieve O'Reilly returns as Mon Mothma. O'Reilly played the character in live-action form Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One, and Andor, and also voiced her in Rebels.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Birds of Prey fame will play Hera Syndulla — a former pilot of the rebellion with ties to Ezra. You can see the first look image of her below from Star Wars Celebration. Lars Mikkelsen will play a live-action Thrawn.
Lastly, Hayden Christensen is set to reprise the role of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. Christensen recently made his triumphant return to the role in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he's going to return to square off against his former padawan.
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) April 7, 2023
When is Ahsoka coming out?
The series is set to debut on Disney+ in August 2023. No specific date has been announced.
New Ahsoka trailer
A new trailer for Ahsoka was released during Star Wars Celebration. The trailer shows the first glimpses at a live-action Thrawn and lots of lightsaber action. It's also shown that the Rebels finale will be recreated in live-action form in Ahsoka. You can check out the trailer below.
Ahsoka will premiere on Disney+ in August 2023.

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This stunning 17 jewel pocket watch is a full-hunter style watch, meaning that both sides of the watch open. This watch face features a thistle pattern, and the watch itself measures at 2 inches in diameter. It comes with a chain that is approx. 13 inches in length. The watch is mechanically operated, which requires manual winding. Matte silver with gold toned inner workings.
A pocket watch is a great way to heighten the degree of your kilt ensemble. Traditionally worn in the dominant side pocket of a waistcoat with the chain pulled through the middle button hole. These watches can also be worn in trews or trouser pockets with the chain attached to the waist belt. These classic time pieces are great for any kilt outfit, and make excellent gifts for the special man in your life.

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Putra International Piano Competition (PIPC) aims to connect young pianists from around the world and provide a unique international platform for them to perform and showcase their music virtuosity and artistry.
The PIPC offers both Piano Solo and Piano Concerto categories to four different age groups up to age 29.
|Piano Concerto & Piano Solo Categories
• Junior (10 & below)
• Intermediate (15 & below)
• Senior (18 & below)
• Young Artist (29 & below)
|Apply to PIPC:
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Information e-booklet: http://tinyurl.com/yxaffl2z
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DES MOINES -- A Sioux City woman faces felony fraud charges after she allegedly provided falsified information to her insurance company.
According to a press release from the Iowa Insurance Division, 27-year-old Ashley Ann Oakley of Sioux City was charged with fraudulent submissions (a class D felony) and theft in the 2nd degree (a class D felony), following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau that began in April.
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The investigation found that Oakley provided false information to her insurance carrier in support of an insurance claim.
On July 23, a warrant was issued her arrest, and on Aug. 27 Oakley was arrested by the Sioux City Police Department and booked into the Woodbury County Jail.
No additional information will be provided at this time.
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The Test System and Thermal Results
I would first like to thank HIS, GIGABYTE , InWin and AVADirect for supplying products for me to test with.
Testing for the CPU coolers is done with the use of RealTemp to ascertain temperatures, Intel Burn Test to deliver the load to the CPU and CPU-Z to verify the CPU speed and the voltage being used in Windows. All of the testing is done with an ambient temperature of 24.5-25°C and humidity is maintained to 35% sometimes less.
For the "stock" runs, it's more of a plug and play setup where the PWM of the motherboard is in control of the fans speeds for both the idle and load results. Speed Step is active and the processor idles at 1600 MHz and loads at 3500 MHz for the stock settings. I also set the memory to run at 1600 MHz for stock. As for the overclocked runs, I load the CPU at 4.5 GHz and idle results are obtained with 7.5V to the fans while the load run is set to deliver 12V to the fans. This allows me to gauge the lowest and highest fan ratings for my charts.
While not exactly the greatest start for a 130W TDP cooler with only a 95W CPU being used at stock levels, but even so 34 degrees is very acceptable for the design, size, and limited cooling that a 92mm by 15mm fan can produce.
As far as the load temperatures go, they aren't stellar on this list because of the competition I put it against. It is 11 degrees hotter than the NH-L12 at stock clocks, but this has only one fan and is less than half its size.
Again, put into the right perspective, the PH-TC90Ls is up to the challenge of most SFF builds. I did try to overclock to the 4.5GHz setting I used, but before the first round of the test could finish I was at levels I didn't like (as in rushed to shut down before I throttled the CPU), nor is the cooler really built for it, but I had to try and report my findings.
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What is E-Max Laminate Veneer?
The best smile makeover in 5-10 days will be given by Veneers Turkey. For the most reasonable prices, our clinic will supply you with the finest veneers.
A dental veneer is a topical substance frequently prescribed to enhance the quality of teeth by a dentist. For issues like missing or broken teeth, dental veneers may complement other treatments, such as crowns. To think exactly what dental veneers are, read on.
E-max Veneer is a new generation of aesthetic dental coating treatment. It is a treatment method especially applied for the aesthetic appearance of the front teeth. As it is a treatment with aesthetic anxiety, it is generally applied to the incisors in front.
If you have image impairment in your front teeth and have lack of self-confidence, E-max veneer is the most preferred tooth coating used in this sense. However, its application to the front teeth increases its durability. Long-term treatments such as implants and Zirconium are preferred for incisors and disintegrating teeth.
Turkey’s most common option among patients throughout the world is zirconium porcelain veneers. Any mistake in your own teeth could be concealed by zirconium, and zirconium veneers could offer a perfect straight white smile.
We absolutely suggest zirconium porcelain veneers, especially if the patient has crowded teeth or holes. If you want to look at Turkey veneers before and after images, please check our web-site for the transformations.
The procedure of getting E-max Veneers
Firstly, the patient’s teeth and facial profile will be examined.
Then a design for the veneers is selected, based on the results. This is accompanied by a ‘trial smile’ which demonstrates in wax the chosen style. Any necessary treatment plan will be agreed with the patient.
There will be a preparation of teeth after the necessary scans are sent to the lab.
A temporary veneer is then fitted.
Finally, fitting of the final E-max veneers begins after the veneers have been received from the lab.
Who can get E-max Veneers?
People who do not like their structure and aesthetic quality of their visible teeth.
People with misaligned, misshapen or crooked teeth.
People who have chipped teeth and teeth with inconsistent spacing and gaps.
What are the benefits of E-max Veneers in Turkey?
Not time consuming
Less likely to chip
No requirement of tooth etching or drilling
A stronger, more secure bond than dentin-bonding and
Higher aesthetic quality
Very affordable and high quality of products
How much time does getting E-max veneers take?
The whole procedure takes a week to 10 days, but this is the case if you are looking for full mouth e-max veneers in Turkey. Your treatment can be done in just one visit if you do not want full mouth veneers.
How long do E-max laminate veneers last?
It lasts 5 to 20 years if cared properly.
NOTE: If the patient has already crowns, we cannot use E-max Veneers.
Veneer Prices in Turkey
The cost of veneers depends on a variety of considerations, including the following:
The number of veneers that you get
The geographical area where you live, territory, state or town
The difficulty of the process
Cosmetic dental treatments are known as veneers. You’re also unlikely to have an insurance company to cover these expenses.
The cost of veneers is expensive in most situations. A single veneer attachment for porcelain could cost up to £ 1,000 in the UK per tooth. So, you cannot find any cheap porcelain veneers in UK compared to veneers in Turkey. You would have to pay tens of thousands on the process if you were to have several veneers. Veneers start from £ 100 to £ 250 in Turkey.
It’s just an alternative to fly to Turkey to reduce the cost of your operation. It’s critical that you first find a good oral surgeon like our experienced dentists in Turkey.
You may explore options that will cost you less if dental veneers are entirely out of the budget limit. Dentures or tooth whitening processes, for example, may also enhance the look of teeth.
If you’re a patient from a developing world, flying to Turkey to get veneers is incredibly pricey. To help tourists, the tourist-friendly nation has inexpensive lodging and low travelling costs. Veneers Turkey gives you the world’s most reasonable cost.
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President Benigno Aquino III will lead on Wednesday the celebration of the 115th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence at the Liwasang Bonifacio on P. Burgos St., Manila.
Upon arrival at the Liwasang Bonifacio, the Chief Executive will be accorded full military honors. The President and other government officials will walk towards the flagpole for the flag-raising ceremony.
After the flag-raising ceremony, President Aquino and Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Emmanuel T. Bautista will lead the wreath-laying ceremony.
The President will join the brief program which has for its theme "Kalayaan 2013: Ambagan Tungo sa Malawakang Kaunlaran" as guest of honor and speaker.
Joining the President during the event are Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim, National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Chairperson Maria Serena I. Diokno, NHCP Executive Director Ludovico Badoy, Philippine Postal Corporation Board Chairman Cesar Sarino, Postmaster and Chief Executive Officer Josefina M. dela Cruz, among others.
There will be simultaneous flag-raising and wreath laying ceremonies on the Independence Day (June 12) at the Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila; Rizal National Monument, Rizal Park, Manila with Vice President Jejomar C. Binay leading the ceremonies; General Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite with Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya;
Barasoain Church, Malolos City, Bulacan, with Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario; Mausoleo de los Veteranos de la Revolucion, Manila North Cemetery with Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin; Bonifacio National Monument, Caloocan City with Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr., and Pamintuan Mansion, Angeles City, Pampanga with Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes P.A. Sereno.
After the program at the Liwasang Bonifacio, the President will proceed to the Malacanang Palace for the Vin D’ Honneur with members of the Diplomatic Corps, Cabinet secretaries, government officials, Congressional representatives of various districts, Manila Mayor Lim and city officials, representatives of the local government units, non-government organizations and other sectors, veterans, teachers, students, among others.
The country celebrates the Independence Day each year to raise awareness among the Filipinos that freedom is the most precious right of every citizen.
The holiday commemorates the Declaration of Independence on June 12, 1898 by General Emilio Aguinaldo and the Filipino revolutionary forces from Spanish colonization. (PND)

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There's nothing like being in a car with a race car driver, pedal to the metal through the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains. This death defying experience can make even the most hardened travelers feel the effects of motion sickness. Nicholas Silva is a better driver that I could ever hope to be, and has a much better car than I could hope to have. This past week we got together with another friend, Chris Garcia (@christhecarguy), to practice rolling shots on his little speed demon of a Mini. Check out the results for yourself below.


AMD is continuing to expand. More models of the current graphics card generation have been announced with the Radeon RX 6950 XT, Radeon RX 6750 XT, and Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics cards.
In comparison to previous products, the new AMD Radeon graphics cards have faster game clock speeds, faster GDDR6 memory, and improved software and firmware.
The new models will not take long to arrive, on the contrary. Starting today, AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, Radeon RX 6750 XT, and Radeon RX 6650 XT should be available in stores and from AMD board partners around the world. The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT and Radeon RX 6750 XT graphics cards should be available on AMD.com starting today.
With 16 GB GDDR6 аnd а 2.1 GHz clock, the Rаdeon RX 6950 XT is designed for 4K gаming. The Rаdeon RX 6750 XT is optimized for 1440p gаming, while the Rаdeon RX 6650 XT is optimized for Full HD gаming with high frаme rаtes.
The prices аre аlreаdy known:
The most importаnt feаtures (mаnufаcturer informаtion) аt а glаnce:
In аddition, AMD hаs releаsed а preliminаry list of gаmes thаt will support FSR 2.0 in the future. On Mаy 12, 2022, DEATHLOOP is expected to releаse аn updаte thаt includes FSR 2.0 support. Fаrming Simulаtor 22, Forspoken, Microsoft Flight Simulаtor, аnd other gаmes will аdd support for the technology in the coming months. More informаtion will be releаsed аs it becomes аvаilаble.
AMD аlso аnnounced the AMD Rаdeon Rаise the Gаme Bundle, which will be аvаilаble soon. With the purchаse of eligible AMD Rаdeon RX 6000 series products, gаmers will receive free аccess to gаmes. Sаints Row аnd Sniper Elite 5 will be included in the new bundle, with more gаmes to be аnnounced before the promotion begins. Purchаsers of а quаlifying Rаdeon product from а pаrticipаting retаiler beginning Mаy 10, 2022 will receive а code to redeem аt the promotion’s lаunch lаter in the quаrter; full offer detаils will be аnnounced soon.


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Meet Dr. Meyer Kleiner
Following a family tradition, Dr. Kleiner entered dentistry out of a desire to restore & maintain the oral health of his patients. He strongly believes in good oral health being essential to one’s overall health & well-being.
Dr. Kleiner received his degree from the Touro College of Dental Medicine at New York Medical College. Since graduation, he has completed a General Practice Residency at Monmouth Medical Center, working in Pediatrics & with medically compromised patients. He continues to deepen his expertise with continuing education courses with the Advanced Dental Seminars Study Club.
Dr. Kleiner is married & has four children. He loves sports, & in his free time, plays ice hockey.


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The PATH Center for Malaria Elimination and Control is accelerating progress against malaria through innovative tools, approaches, and partnerships.
2018 was a landmark year in malaria.
During the first 15 years of the 21st century, deaths from malaria fell dramatically. But progress is not inevitable and has recently stalled. New tools, like vaccines, are needed to keep efforts on track.
Malaria is on the rise. This should concern us all.
Low-cost, simple, point-of-care blood tests for G6PD enzyme deficiency are a key part of Plasmodium vivax malaria treatment, and a step towards eliminating malaria overall
New rapid point of care diagnostic tests for malaria can identify patients who have few symptoms, but carry the malaria parasite nonetheless
The world has changed in remarkable—even unprecedented—ways since PATH got its start. Now we're accelerating our efforts to create greater health, equity, and opportunity everywhere.


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“Providing a safe environment for children, youth, and vulnerable adults.”
About Safeguard the Children
Safeguard the Children is a comprehensive program designed to promote a safe environment for children, youth and vulnerable adults and prevent child sexual abuse. Our goal is to empower children, teens and vulnerable adults. The program was initiated in all dioceses in the United States at the direction of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). There is a Safeguard the Children (STC) Committee in each parish which helps to implement the objectives of the USCCB “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People”. The Los Angeles Archdiocese has produced an informative brochure entitled that provides resources on how to prevent abuse and provides information on reporting child abuse.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”
Safe Environment The Archdiocese and our parish community stand resolute in our commitment to report allegations of sexual misconduct to law enforcement, support victim-survivors and protect children and the vulnerable.
Through the Safeguard the Children Program Holy Family works to maximize the efforts of the Archdiocesan by educating and making adults more aware of healthy ways children and adults interact with each other.
Through Empowering God’s Children Program we educate children and young people to know they have the power to protect themselves from harmful or threatening situations and to always aim to keep themselves safe and the healthy .
Los Angeles Archdiocese Safeguard the Children Program

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I got this book as a Christmas gift from my brother in law and it was one of the best gifts I got this year! It is a treasure trove of interesting foodie information and beautiful design. And one of the ramifications of growing up as the daughter of a writer and all-around creative is that any book I would even consider picking up must be beautiful in both content and aesthetics.
This book is just that.
Written by Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy & published by Boxtree in 2010, I couldn’t help but wonder where has this book been for the past six years?? The Geometry of Pasta has the visually aesthetic appearance of a monochromatic cover that evokes a great expectancy of beautiful and simple content… and it does not disappoint!
The book hits all the basics that you’d expect in a food book – recipes for pasta dough, sauce recipes, and how much salt to add to boiling water. Hildebrand and Kenedy then proceed to take the reader on an exploration of various pasta forms, where they originated from, how to make the pasta, and accompanying sauces that not only dress the pasta suitably, but make the dish exceptional. The information is punctuated beautifully with simple, yet beautiful black and white graphic illustrations with just the right amount of detail and simplification of form.
The Geometry of Pasta is the perfect fusion of functionality and the art of both food and design.
All that is left to do is make some pasta…!
**I have not been asked to review this book. All opinions are my own.

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I am in the process of building a section of informational articles on the Boot Bomb.
Currently I have the following informational articles up:
I had my first hike in Switzerland as a boy. Many years ago, I returned and it was still as great as it always had been in my imagination. I dragged my girlfriend along. At first she was all like… “Switzerland?”. But I persisted and we ended up having such a great time there. I have put together a big info section on this beautiful country.
There are many different hiking trails. We’ve got some really great ones right here in the USA, the most famous probably being the Appalachian Trail. It’s a really good one. I’ve revisited it many times over the years. One day, I hope to get my Yo-Yo on and become a thru hiker.
This page was authored by Brian Bradshaw, who represents the Boot Bomb. Brian is backed up by an expert team, made up of experienced family and friends, all of which are knowledgeable in the ways of footwear and/or hiking. His ancestors used to own a shoe store for almost a century. He has lived and breathed footwear for as long as he can remember.
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POLITICS: THE MONEY
Like Other Television Shows, Convention Had Sponsors
Published: September 1, 1996
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But Mr. Notebaert maintains that his company would have been just as active in promoting itself regardless of which political party was in town. The city just wanted to play host to a convention and, in fact, had solicited both parties. ''This had nothing to do with politics,'' Mr. Notebaert said. ''We would have done the same had it been the Republicans.''
Ameritech was one of the biggest donors to the Chicago '96 committee, giving it $1.2 million in cash and services, far more than most local corporations. Mr. Notebaert said that the city of Chicago and other local governments are its biggest customers. It has not donated to the Democratic Party or to the Clinton campaign, but does make smaller gifts to local candidates.
Leslie Fox, executive director of Chicago '96, said that Chicago businesses were told that their donations would not give them any special access. ''We didn't tie any donations to any events,'' Ms. Fox said. ''We just said to do this for the city.''
She said that some, but not all, companies, accepted ''thank you'' invitations from Chicago '96 to events like a dinner with President Clinton, an Aretha Franklin concert and a private cruise with Mayor Daley, as well as to the convention itself.
John H. Bryan, chief executive of Sara Lee, said his company gave $100,000 to the committee because ''this convention was the most marvelous way to showcase the city.''
''1968 had been hiding in the back of everyone's mind,'' said Mr. Bryan, who is also a major Clinton donor. ''The image of the city was one of police and billy clubs. If this doesn't excise that, nothing will.''
Already, there are signs that the effort is paying off. Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the telecommunications subcommittee that oversees Ameritech and other telephone companies, praised the efforts. Standing outside a private skybox on the night of President Clinton's speech, Mr. Markey said: ''In the same way that the city of Chicago sees itself as having been enormously benefited by having the convention here, so, too, has Ameritech gained a tremendous marketing boost.
''It's an opportunity for both to show off what they can do. You have assembled a fairly sizable percentage of opinion leaders here: You've got members of Congress, heads of many major corporations and the most important reporters. They can spread the word when something impresses them favorably. This is a chance for Chicago and for Ameritech, which is going into a new competition-driven technological era, to affect how they are viewed.''
List: ''DOLLARS AND CENTS: Helping To Fill a Convention's Coffers'' gives a list of some of the contributors who gave $100,000 or more to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Democratic National Committee)


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Central Michigan Trip Planner
Welcome to Central Michigan!
Home to Lansing, the state capital, Central Michigan's appeal lies in its rich history. The Michigan State Capitol Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has served as the seat of government in the state since the building was completed in 1879. Michigan State University is also found in Lansing, however there are 14 degree-granting colleges and a private law school in the state associated with the University, ensuring academics are available for all Michigan residents. Mount Pleasant is located north of Lansing and features the Ziibiwing Center, a museum dedicated to American Indian heritage in the state. The outdoors figure highly in Central Michigan as well, with ample opportunity for visitors to enjoy the forests, lakes and streams that dot the area. Sleepy Hollow State Park, located just northeast of Lansing, affords a number of recreational activities, including horseback riding, hiking, fishing and hunting.
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Looking for something to do in Central Michigan? Check out these current and upcoming events. If you know of an event that is not listed in the travel guide, please feel free to add an event listing (it's free).

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Friday and the end of another week
The hare was on the menu for supper with some mashed potatoes and broccoli and I was very pleased with the results. I suppose it could easily be mistaken for venison in both flavour and texture. The pate I made with the liver has been cooling over night and we may have a taste of that for supper tonight as we are out with friends for lunch today.
Currently it is raining and the forecast is for further rain and now I wish I had picked the borlotti beans last night. They are ready as the plants have died back leaving just the lovely red pods. If it eases up a bit I may get the chance to get them in this morning. It is my intention to cook and freeze them rather than dry them but we will have to see exactly how many I have. The tomatoes are almost finished and it will not be long before I move the hens into the green house for the winter. In fact I would like to get them in there before we go on holiday so that it is easier for my next door neighbour to look after them as they do not need locking up at night. It is just a case of making sure they have food and water and collecting the eggs so every other day is quite enough.
With all this rain the lawn has made a remarkable recovery but there are a few bald patches which I think may well need re-seeding but I will give it the winter to see if it is necessary, I can always seed in the spring.
As yet the onions and garlic haven't arrived and it is a bit early to plant the broad beans. The celery and lettuce I planted some time ago seem to be doing nothing, but I do have aubergines on the oriental plants and they are almost ready to pick. The mizuna has gone made and I have stacks of that for salad at the moment.
Well that's about it for this morning time I got on with a bit of ironing - where does it all come from?

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Decisions made decades ago can significantly impact the everyday lives of people today. Join Dr. Tomas A. Madrigal, Equity and Social Justice Consultant and Rad Cunningham, Manager of the Climate Change and Health section at Washington State Department of Health. They will take a look back at policy decisions around transportation and housing in minority communities and how they continue to impact Washingtonians’ health. They will also look into the future to explore if the health impacts on minority communities can be rectified through more thoughtful infrastructure planning around autonomous vehicles.
“Washington Stay Home Society” programs are generously supported by Columbia Bank.


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What type of walking do you like?
Whatever your of experience, from complete beginner to adventure trekker, here at HF Holidays we have the right holiday for you.
Our most popular holiday choice, giving you the opportunity to discover wonderful destinations in the UK, Europe and Worldwide. Choose from 18 UK Country Houses or holidays in over 90 locations across the world.
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|Enjoy full-day walks taking in the area’s best routes and hidden gems. These holidays offer a choice of walks each day, carefully planned by our local experts and led by experienced leaders.||Visit fascinating sites in destinations that cover six continents. Truly discover the heart of each country and immerse yourself in its culture with our knowledgeable and friendly local leaders.|
A selection of our guided UK and European holidays have something special for you to enjoy:
Enjoy the perfect mix of guided walks plus sightseeing visits, introducing you to the landscape and history of Britain’s most scenic areas
Enjoy the satisfaction of completing a famous long distance route in Britain or Europe. Walk as a group and stay at our UK Country Houses or carefully selected hotels along the way. Don’t worry about your luggage – leave the transfers to us!
Challenge yourself on longer walks and routes or scrambles in Britain – ideal for fit hill walkers
These holidays in Britain are for 30176 only and have been created by our team and experienced walks leaders.
Based at our Country Houses, discover more about our amazing planet – its geology, wildlife and night sky.
Discover the countryside in Britain or Europe with a small group. Travel by mini-coach, stopping at museums and historic buildings.
|On these walks you’ll walk at a relaxed pace, often spending time at places of interest en route. Walking experience isn’t necessary as distances are quite short and gradients generally easy.|
|Walks follow good paths and tracks but are generally longer. Walking experience isn’t necessary but some walks, particularly in mountain areas, may have sections over rough or steeper terrain.|
|Walks follow well-defined paths, though often in hilly or upland areas, or along rugged coastal footpaths. These may be rough or steep in sections, and will require a reasonable level of fitness.|
|In moorland areas you may cover long distances in remote countryside and the terrain will often be rough underfoot. In mountainous areas you will encounter some sustained ascents and descents and occasional sections of scree and some steep ground.|
|A good level of fitness and stamina is required for these walks. They are likely to be in mountainous areas where you should expect rocky terrain and sustained ascents and descents. Walks visit high summits and ridges, where you’ll need a good head for heights, and may include some easy scrambling.|
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Capitol hill real estate, like Seattle real estate, continued to be strong in 2016. Capitol Hill home market in 2016 seemed uninterrupted from 2015. Prices were up in total ($983,591 average vs $981,161) and cost per square feet ($460 average vs $439), days on marketed decreased (25 vs 32), and the number of sales increased (221 vs 204).
Capitol Hill condos still attracted Seattle buyers in 2016 like they did in 2015. While the number of condos sold reduced (349 vs 365) nearly all other numbers improved. Median sales price ($399,000 vs $355,000) and average price per square foot ($552 vs $492) went up. The numbers of days on market tightened with condos staying on for only 18 days in 2016 versus 23 days in 2015.
Maybe the most astonish number for the previous two years is both the Capitol Hill homes and Capitol Hill condos on average sells for over list price. In 2016, the average Seattle home on Capitol Hill sold for 103.1% of list price in 2016 and 103.6% in 2015 and the average Seattle condo on Capitol Hill sold for 104.2% of list price in 2016 and in 2015 it was 102.7%.
The Capitol Hill real estate market is similar to Seattle and the surrounding counties. The overall real estate market in the region (area covered by Northwest Multiple Listing Service which serves 23 Washington State counties) saw an 8.1 increase of sales in 2016 when compared to 2015 with inventory at a record low for most of the year. For the 23 counties, the median sales price increased 8.9 percent from $310,000 in 2015 to $337,500 in 2016. Condos, which make up a smaller share of the market, were actually up 12.6% while single-family homes increased 8.7%.
Inventory was tight throughout the year, there was an average of 1.86 months of inventory in 2016, compared to 2.4 months in 2015. King County was the tightest with only 1.1 months of supply. A balanced market is generally considered to be between 4 and 6 months of inventory.
2017 seems to be taking over where 2016 left off. Low inventory remains and prices remain strong. As always, to maneuver the market, reach out to your local real estate agent to navigating the Seattle real estate market.
These statistics were gathered from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, but were not compiled or published by that organization.
Pictured: Capitol Hill Home sold in August 2015 for $2,550,000.


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From the Wall Street Journal best seller No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization. Find out where your organization is today and take the uncertainty out of tomorrow as you make the journey towards Predictable Success.
©2014 Les McKeown (P)2020 Greenleaf Book Group
Scaling up is something most founders aspire to, especially once the tricky start-up phase has been navigated. It can increase your reach and futureproof your business. But how do you 'scale'? And how does it differ from 'flipping' for a quick profit or slower organic growth? Les McKeown advises industry leaders on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth. In Do Scale, he draws from his decades of experience to provide a clear understanding of what's involved, and the strategies needed to take your business (or not-for-profit) to the next level. You'll find out: What if means to scale - and if now is the right time Why founders need to 'get out of their own way' How to develop winning teams Your secret weapon for decision making With practical advice and clear guidance, Do Scale is an essential manual for anyone looking to grow a successful and sustainable organisation - and turn it into something truly remarkable.
©2019 Les McKeown (P)2019 The Do Book Co.
Real-world leadership is very different from all that the media would have us believe. Forget the dashing swashbuckler - effective leadership is typically understated. It's the myriad small things that make the big things possible. In Do Lead, Les McKeown demolishes the myths that have paralysed leadership in our modern era, then provides new, relevant tools for the job. You'll discover that we can all lead. And what's more, we should. Because effective leadership is goal-oriented, not people-oriented. It's about the person with the right skills putting themselves forward. Find out: The mind-set required The basic leadership toolkit Techniques for dealing with the (inevitable) failures How to get started. Whether you are new to the game or reigniting a dormant passion, start leading from where you are, right now, and make a difference. You can lead. Yes, you.
©2014 Les McKeown (P)2017 Do Books Audio

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After a certain point, most manga hit a kind of a plateau. They’ve set up the basic situation, and for the next however many volumes they’re going to run through variations on it like John Coltrane riffing for a solid hour on “My Favorite Things”. The good manga spiral out from their original inspiration and find new and wonderful places to go, like Coltrane did; the mediocre ones just repeat themselves, or run aground.
With volume 4, Nightmare Inspector feels like it’s hit a plateau—but not in the sense that it’s becoming redundant. It’s found a groove that works and is exploring it, and it’s also taking the occasional detour back into the roots of its premises—the former life of Hiruko, the baku, among other things, which provides plenty of meat for future twists. So maybe it hasn’t plateaued at all, and it certainly hasn’t peaked. Even if the plotting runs aground in this series, I’ll probably still snap it up for the artwork, the decadent 1920s Tokyo atmosphere that drips off every page—and the grim little twist ending that caps off every chapter, like a razor between the ribs.
The opening segment serves a good encapsulation of everything this series is about. The childhood friend of the rich and spoiled Hirofumi comes to Hiruko for help about a dream involving a streetcar. The real meaning of the streetcar—and its passengers—is withheld until the last minute, when we realize the meaning of everything we’ve seen has elaborate psychological symbolism. What makes it all more than just the manipulation of symbols, though, is a concluding observation that throws all we’ve seen into sharp relief.
The next few chapters—which make up almost half the book—deal once again with Hiruko’s tangled past. He both is and is not the brother of Mizuki, the proprietor of the Silver Star Teahouse where he holds court, something that has already caused the two of them a fair number of complications. One day a customer shows up, someone who remembers Hiruko from his previous incarnation, and the past is quite literally unlocked for us. The shock causes Hiruko to revert, in a sense, to being Mizuki’s brother Chitose, and Mizuki has to perform her own dream-diving to put the broken pieces back together. The resulting melodrama’s worthy of one of Edogawa Rampo’s more overheated works, like Beast in the Shadows, but it does fit with the overall mood of the series—and, just as importantly, leaves the door open for possible future conflicts in the same vein.
The chapter name “Clockwork” takes another common trope—what if someone could show you your future?—and sets it on its ear, when the future Hiruko reveals for someone turns out to be that person’s past. “Shadows” uses something of the same trick, where we are given just enough information about a boy’s nightmare to draw all the wrong conclusions about it. Part of the fun is knowing that a twist is on the way and trying to figure out where it will reveal itself—whether as a mechanical turnabout, or as a slight shift in perception.
Art: I’ve spent a good deal of my time in reviews of previous installments talking about how great this manga looks, but permit me to repeat myself: this is one of the best-looking comics I’ve come across lately. So much so, in fact, that I’m a little disappointed Viz didn’t print this in a larger format. Every page practically glistens with detail, and Shin Mashiba’s character and costume designs both pay homage to the Taishō period and extend on it. Mashiba also doesn’t neglect the more macabre side of what he’s depicting: there’s blood and some mildly disturbing imagery (although it doesn’t push too far against the envelope of the T rating for the book). It’s nice to be able to recommend a book this gorgeous without somehow feeling guilty about it. My only gripe, such as it is, is that many of the characters tend to have the same consistently androgynous look.
Translation: The text of the translation itself I have no objections with: it’s readable and free of any obvious problems. However, there’s a few things about the retouch job that bugged me—for one, effects and some signage have been reworked in English, but part of the beauty of the book is in the way such things are presented. I couldn’t help but feel that those things would have been best left as-is and annotated in the margins. They did preserve the right-to-left formatting of the original, though, which is something of a must for a book like this. Bonuses this time around include a four-page gag comic (the cast head for the beach), a two-page gag add-on from Mashiba’s art assistant, and a note from the author.
The Bottom Line: There’s something to be said for a series that delivers competently and consistently in each volume, especially when it’s wrapped up in as great-looking a package as this one.
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Robbery of Chase Bank Branch in Homestead
|FBI Miami May 15, 2012|
The FBI is releasing photographs from a bank robbery that took place yesterday (May 14, 2012) at approximately 11:30 a.m. at the Chase Bank branch located at 13701 SW 288 St. in Homestead, Florida.
The robber entered the bank, handed a note that threatened a bomb to a bank employee, and demanded money. Customers were in the bank at the time of the robbery. No one was injured. Money was taken, but the amount will not be released at this time.
It is believed that the robber departed the robbery location in a white Dodge 1500 pickup truck driven by an accomplice.
If anyone has information as to the identity of this bank robber, they are urged to call the FBI at (305) 944-9101 or Crimestoppers.
Photos of the suspect are below.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
When my kids live out my words...
Today I heard them. Early. Too early.
So I stumble down the stairs, push my glasses up my nose so it's stumbling I do instead of tripping, and shove my wild mane out of my face as I navigate stairs, corners, hallway. Hopefully in that order.
Into their room I go.
"Girls," I whisper, "It's too early to get up. You need to close your eyes and go back to sleep for a little while."
This is not met with agreement from Rye. She is not happy. As in not at all. I sigh. And in my head, I think to myself, Really? It's 6 am. Go. Back. To. Sleep. And it isn't said in my head in a nice way either.
K moans and says, "Mama, my eyes are still tired."
I love her.
I say, "Well, sweet girl, go back to sleep."
Rye is still not happy with my decree. So I give her a kiss. And she pouts.
I love her, too.
And then K sort of sits up and gestures, quite grandly for being half asleep, toward the window with her palm face up and her fingers squeezed tightly together and says oh so matter of factly, "Wyleigh, just because the sky is awake doesn't mean we get to be awake."
How can one argue with that logic?
I, in fact, completely concur.
That's the best news I've heard in the 15 minutes I've been out of bed.
And Rye looks at her, nods her head, raises her arms up for a hug and squishes her lips together for a kiss and closes her eyes.
I close the door behind me, stumble back up the stairs to get ready for work and think how grand it is that sometimes your kids do the mama-job for you. These are the best mama moments when the little people listen to each other, teach each other, exhibit that 'Golden Rule' we mamas like to instill in our little people. And when the words I have said for eons have sunk down into somewhere deep and true, and I hear them repeated, I admit, my heart does a happy dance.
(Unless of course those words are the not-so-nice-words with that not-so-nice attitude that I hate to admit they heard from me, learned from me, because those moments where those words are flung furiously at me are not proud mama moments and they do not make my heart skip a beat in glee. And my heart sighs sad for all the words that sometimes spill forth from the brokenness of my own life onto the sweetness of theirs.)
But on those momentous and triumphant occasions when my children live out, act out, speak out the good that they've seen or heard from my own heart, I admit there is a moment of pride that swells up from some deep heart nook or cranny when my children help each other do the thing they are supposed to do, without me.
You know, like I have arrived at this unknown mommy-marker of accomplishment-dom.
Because isn't that our goal as mamas? To teach our little people in such a way that the truth sinks into a true and honest place so that they can live that out one day without us? Isn't that the measure of all teachers--when our students can complete the task without our input, without our guidance? And we can clap and cheer because what better reason for celebration could there ever be than watching your child, into whom you have spent years planting the seeds of love and honesty and forgiveness and faith, live. that. out.
These rare and precious moments puff my mama heart up a little and I marvel, briefly, at the lessons I've learned, and the layers I've grown, in my own life, in my own heart. Because the fruit of all those lessons and that learning are embodied, magnified, reflected in three little souls entrusted to me.
Sure, this particular moment didn't change the course of history, or even alter the course of our family. In fact, this particular moment could have easily been lost in a multitude of other seemingly insignificant moments, but there was something special and eternal about this transaction between two sisters.
And this transaction, albeit small, reminded me that it's the small stuff, the small victories, that lead to the mightier celebrations and the deeper lessons. Rome wasn't built in a day, and the ocean is full of millions of tiny drops and this is one of those tiny drops. This drop matters. This drop is important. Because without it, the ocean would be less. I have hope.
Still, in those darker moments where I've floundered and failed again, I need to remind myself that the dark moments are not the sum of all the mama love I've poured endless over my little hearts. That those dark, fragile, sometimes ugly moments lead me back, over and over again, to the feet of Jesus. Because He redeems those moments and makes beauty from those ashes which become the swelling crescendos in a symphony that ebbs and flows, just like any ocean, just like any life, just like any heart. And to Him it's all beauty.
And His mercies are new every morning.
Even if it starts at six a.m.
Grace Always Rises,


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Twelve Important Books
Ideas for our Time
“I teach college English in prison. A student asked for a list of twelve books he ought to read over winter break that I thought were important. What would your respective answers be?”
This question was posed to Bret and me on the DarkHorse Q&A livestream on December 4. I came back to our audience the following week (livestream #108) with a list I had compiled, which is repeated below. There are many caveats, of course.
The first is that I recommend our book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, because I do think it is both important and timely, but it’s not on the list.
The second is that I recommend many many many books that aren’t on the list. You can find some other book lists at my Patreon. History and Politics, Memory and Resistance, which I posted in November 2020, is perhaps the most apropos, and is available to everyone without subscribing. This is some overlap between that one and the present one.
The third is that this list contains no fiction, although I am nearly always reading fiction, and indeed, read more fiction than non-fiction. Now that I think of it, I’ll add one novel to the bottom of this list, something I did not share on DarkHorse.
The final caveat is: What is meant by “important?” All of the books I have chosen seem important right now in some regard, relative to the situation we are all collectively in. I believe that they all provide some understanding or tools by which we might emerge whole.
I made this list by scanning first the bookshelves in my office, and then in the hallway in our home that we have lined with books. One of the first to jump out at me—Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem—was important to me when I first read it in the late 1980s. It helped me understand the strange power and draw of Hollywood, and of LA more broadly, the city and culture in which I had come of age. But I haven’t reread Didion’s book in a while, nor do I think that it is specifically important right now. So it, like so many others, does not show up on this list.
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, by Matthew Crawford (2015).
“Extending themes of his acclaimed Shop Class as Soulcraft, Crawford shows how the short-order cook, the welder, the carpenter, the pipe-organ builder all achieve a free individuality by submitting to the authority of mentors who discipline their minds for full engagement with the complexities of the external environment. Those who never mature into this valid individuality, Crawford warns, disappear into a distracted crowd of mindless consumers unable to recognize the distinctions that sustain a vibrant democracy. Worse, such stunted psyches are easy prey for the corporate strategists who hide their predations behind the faux freedoms of the shopping center—and the casino. A cultural inquiry of rare substance and insight.” –Booklist (starred review)
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, by Oliver Sacks (1995)
“Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks has written, are travelers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travelers– including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette’s Syndrome except when he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who has great difficulty deciphering the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.” – from the book website.
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto (2010)
“Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence.” -from the publisher’s website
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (1999)
“In her nuanced, stunningly original interpretation of the relationships between mothers and fathers, mothers and babies, and mothers and their social groups, Hrdy offers not only a revolutionary new meaning to motherhood but an important new understanding of human evolution.” - from goodreads
The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession, by Chandler Burr (2004)
Excerpt from this incredible book about science, smell, and scent, featuring scientific maverick Luca Turin:
“Quraysh has a synthetic oudh at eleven grams for eight hundred rupees, or seventeen dollars, so it’s one-eighteenth the price of Abdul Aklur’s, but it’s also one-eighteenth the smell. No comparison. Quraysh says he can’t figure out what they’re putting in this thing. He studied three years of chemistry in Bombay, ‘but it’s not enough for this,’ he says, regretful.
“’A lot of perfumers know no chemistry at all,’ says Turin, supportively.
“’ I make my perfumes by trial and error,’ admits Quraysh somewhat forlornly.
“’That’s how they all do it,’ Turin yells. The Indian looks at him sharply, wonderingly. Turin raises both eyebrows, grins, nods. ‘Those guys in their big gleaming expensive labs in Switzerland and France, they gas-chromatograph everything, and then in the end they just try sticking everything with everything else and smell it all. And that’s it.’”
The Tyranny of Metrics, by Jerry Z. Muller (2018)
“This book is the best available general introduction to the effects of numerical indicators on the central institutions of modern societies….[Muller] has synthesized an unusually varied range of existing scholarship into a genuinely interesting and thoughtful narrative that moves easily through compact examples of the difference metrics have made for universities, schools, corporations, the military, philanthropy, policing and medicine. In each case, he gives the topic more drama and suspense than one would normally expect.
“The title suggests that metrics oppress judgement more than they illuminate it….” – from review published in The British Journal of Sociology (Newfield 2019)
Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix it, by Ben Goldacre (2012)
The author’s words from a blog post after publication: “I wrote this book because we need to fix a set of problems that have been allowed to persist in my own profession (medicine) for far too long. Trial results can be withheld from doctors and patients, quite legally; trials are often poorly designed, or biased towards the sponsor’s product; doctors are misled about which treatments work best; and so on. These problems have a real impact on patient care, because we don’t have the information we need to choose the most effective treatments for patients. Often, we tolerate actively misleading information.
“I’ve spent a long time, as a doctor, wondering why these problems have been able to persist for so long, especially since they’re all routinely documented in the academic literature, and they’re all perfectly fixable. Drug companies could easily turn a profit, without misleading doctors, or hiding unflattering data….
“Once you get into the detail, it’s easy to see how the problems described in Bad Pharma have persisted, because they exploit the small incentives in peoples’ everyday lives….
“But more than that, these problems have persisted because there haven’t been enough people from outside medicine, peering in and asking us the embarrassing questions. Time and again, at public events and over email, people have asked me: why are people allowed to withhold trial results, and why didn’t I know about this before?”
“Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues to soar. Every day, 850 adults and 250 children with a mental illness are added to the government disability rolls. What is going on?
“The astonishing increase in the disability numbers during the past fifty years raises an obvious question: Could the widespread use of psychiatric medications–for one reason or another–be fueling this epidemic? Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates that question, and it does so by focusing on the long-term outcome studies in the research literature. Do the studies tell of a paradigm of care that helps people get well and stay well over the long term? Or do they tell of a paradigm of care that increases the likelihood that people diagnosed with mental disorders will become chronically ill?” - from the book website
Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, by Rod Dreher (2020)
The title of Dreher’s book is taken from Solzhenitsyn’s essay of the same name. Per this review in The Federalist, Dreher’s book argues that “those who don’t fall in line with the cultural and political elite’s prescription for acceptable thought are deemed backward-thinking, unenlightened barbarians, opposed to the politically correct god of science. Live Not By Lies is Dreher’s prescription for how Christian, and even non-Christian, dissenters should respond in a world that is increasingly antagonistic and oppressive toward them.
“It’s important to note that such antagonism and oppression come not merely, or even primarily, from the state but from what Dreher calls ‘intellectual, cultural, academic, and corporate elites … under the sway of a left-wing political cult built around social justice.’ Add to that what former Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff has termed ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and Dreher says that many Western liberal democracies are swiftly sliding down a slippery slope into a ‘soft totalitarianism’ by which ‘data harvesting and manipulation can and will be used by woke capitalists and social justice ideologues in institutional authority to impose control.’ – from a book review by Cheryll Magness in The Federalist (10/30/20).
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer (1951)
From the book: “This book deals with some peculiarities common to all mass movements, be they religious movements, social revolutions or nationalist movements. It does not maintain that all movements are identical, but that they share certain essential characteristics which give them a family likeness.”
Later in the book: “A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness, and meaninglessness of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring on them an absolute truth or remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves—and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.” – excerpts and very good overview at Reason and Meaning
The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe (1979)
A now classic and inspiring tale of courage, competition and prowess. From a NYT review: “…unlike the airbrushed portraits in the Life magazine articles and in the astronauts' own self-serving autobiographies, Wolfe's depiction of these intensely competitive men—who worried more about making a pilot error than that their rockets might explode, and who were more concerned about the respect of their peers than the adulation of the public—makes the Mercury seven more human, while in no way diminishing our admiration for their courage. Furthermore, Wolfe's voice, his mélange of technical jargon, test pilot shop-talk and whiz-bang hyperbole, is the perfect foil for the cool, laconic West Virginia drawl of those True Brothers in the cockpit.”
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger (2016)
“Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that-for many veterans as well as civilians-war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or tropical vacations. Tribe explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today's divided world.” - from the book website.
Bonus Book: Daemon, by Daniel Suarez (2006)
Bret’s and my friend Jordan Hall gave us this novel many years ago, and I only just now read it. I know, I know—for all of you who have been long familiar with this book, and its sequel, I’m late to the game. Still: It quite literally gave me nightmares.
Here’s a review on amazon that I resonate with: “Five stars are really not enough for a book like this. The plot and character development are not outstanding, but the story idea is so original that it alone is worthy of a Hugo or Nebula award. There are plenty of science fiction scenarios about a computer taking over the world; this story explores the more realistic and plausible scenario of not an actual computer, not an actual artificial intelligence, but simply a cleverly written program that can infect the world's computers and take them over. It's also a story that makes you stop and think about how every aspect of our lives is now impacted by computerized technology, and how easy it is for rogue actors to control that technology and thus control us. If that happens, will we resist, or will we submit to the Daemon? Before you answer, consider the technology that controls your bank account, your medical and employment records, your very identity. You might be surprised at how quickly you surrender to the Beast.”
Let this book not be prescient, or more prescient than it already clearly is.
Read it and do not weep.
Read all the books on this list, and do not weep. Read them and figure out how to act.
Google “sci-hub,” land on a page with a crow with a red key in its beak, plug in the DOI (Digital Object Identifier, listed near the top of all published research) for this (or most other) research article(s), and have delivered to you the paper for free. No paywall. Your tax dollars paid for most of the work behind publishers’ paywalls; sci-hub does an end-run around the paywall. Support them if you can.


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- Posted Jun 27th 2011 at 10:20 AM by Kiki Von Glinow
It's a boy for music industry bigwig, Tommy Mottola and Mexican singer and actress, Thalia. The pair welcomed son, Matthew, on Saturday in New York City, according to Page Six. Matthew is the second child for the couple, but their first son. The baby boy, born at seven pounds, 14 ounces, will be playing little brother to big sis, three-year-old Sabrina. "All are well and couldn't be ...
- Posted Mar 3rd 2011 at 03:00 PM by Sarah Crow
Music mogul Tommy Mottola and his wife, singer Thalia, have welcomed a baby, the New York Post reports. Mottola, the former chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, and Thalia have one daughter together, Sabrina Sakae, born in 2007, in addition to Mottola's two children, Sarah and Michael, from a previous marriage. Thalia, 39, and Mottola, 61, tied the knot in 2000, just two years after ...
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Previously, we saw Android running on an iPhone 2G and we also posted a complete step by step guide on how you can dual boot your jailbroken iPhone 2G to run Android OS side by side with iPhone OS. After seeing Android run on an iPhone 2G, 3G (iPhone) users got curious on when they will get to try Android on their handset. After weeks of hard work, it’s finally done! iPhone 3G now runs Android.
Well yes, you read that right ! Hackers have finally managed to run a “debug” version of Android OS on the iPhone. Almost everything is said to be working, as can also be seen in the video attached below.


Communications Committee Meeting January 24, 2015
Clinton’s 30th anniversary is this year
- organize a party?
- try to get official greenway day proclamation from Mayor? (he did it for the Decemberists)
Prudent Media Proposal
- decided it’s a worthy endeavor
- prices ok
- designs are great
- Emily can help Will with press release
- need to transition to another web hosting platform
- Chris will talk to Daniel Gebhart and Soren about moving the site
General visual identity
- did we ever come up with a final mission statement?
- BikeLoudPDX is:
- BikeLoudPDX isn’t:
- top-down bureaucracy
- traditional advocacy
Emily to send this is/isn’t list out to list serve for feedback
- Events need to be posted more regularly around the web
- Comm. Committee to divide this up
- Emily to post to AROW list, Shift list, ORbike list
- Alex keep on doing a great job on Twitter?
- Chris Shaffer to update website
- Gerald will remind people to repost their event on BikeLoud list if needed
- Post events on list 10 days out, then post a 3 day reminder on list
- Directory of members for email/phone chain? Gerald will present at next general meeting
- How to do them?
- What outlets to contact regularly?
- Which person will be in charge- the five new media contacts?
Organize more fun rides/events
- Bike Party is on Jan 30
- Bike to Brunch


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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has always been a supporter of Communists around the world, can chortle now that her decades-old campaign to thaw relations with Cuba has become a reality.
Lee has visited the island 21 times, starting in 1977, when she joined the National Conference of Black Lawyers to query natives about the judicial system and race relations. By the time she visited Fidel Castro in 2009, he wrote a memo, which Lee gave to the San Francisco Chronicle, extolling her “political courage.” Castro lauded her in the memo for “the sole vote against Bush’s genocidal war in Iraq” in the House. “It was unbeatable proof of political courage,” he continued. “For that, she deserves every honor.”
There were other reasons Castro admired Lee, of course, including her aid in forcing 6-year-old Elian Gonzales back to Cuba after he and his mother attempted to flee to Florida. His mother died in the attempt; Gonzales, found in an innertube off the Florida coast, was returned to his father in Cuba.
Between 2009 and 2014, Lee saw Alan Gross, an American who had been imprisoned, five times. Gross was released as part of Barack Obama’s deal to open relations with Cuba. Lee boasted, “I took it as a mission to get him out. It was important to move all the obstacles to normalize — and this was an obstacle. I knew what I had to do. And we never lost hope.”
The Chronicle reports that despite the Cuban regime’s record of suppression of human rights, Lee defended her push for opening relations by asserting, “I’ve met with the leaders of the human rights movement there. I’m not carrying the Cuban flag.”
As Discover the Networks has charted, Lee’s record of defending extremists and aiding communist regimes goes back 40 years. In 1973, Lee worked for Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale’s campaign for mayor of Oakland and as an aide to Panther “minister of defense,” Huey Newton.
In 1980, Lee alerted the Communist leader of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, that there was a possible anti-communist spy among them. In 1982, she worked with Congressman Ronald Dellums, who was supposed to inform the U.S. government whether a Grenadan airport built by advisors from the Soviet bloc that featured extra-long runways for possible use by Soviet military planes could threaten the U.S. Lee helped spirit Dellums’ report to Bishop, so he could alter it before President Reagan or Congress could take a look at it.
Lee followed that by joining Angela Davis to facilitate a trio to the United States by Grenada’s deputy United Nations ambassador Ian Jacobs, to “counter attack President Reagan’s verbal attack on Grenada.”
Lee served as an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which was dominated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She later joined Davis to help run the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a splinter group from the CPUSA.
In June,2002, Lee and thirty other radicals in Congress sued to prevent President George W. Bush from withdrawing the U.S. from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. She heavily supported Van Jones to be the Obama administration’s “green jobs czar” in 2009.
In early 2010, Lee was part of a group that asked Barack Obama to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which had been instituted to prevent the flow of arms to Hamas. In 2012, Lee helped host an event titled, “Leading with Love,” which celebrated the five-year anniversary of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a Marxist-inspired group. In November 2013, she was supposed to meet with Abdul Rahman Naimi, president and founder of the NGO Al Karama, but he had visa trouble. In December, 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department designated him as a global terrorist who helped finance al Qaeda.


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While everyone is getting fired up with the frenzy that is Super Bowl 50, aka the single biggest sporting event of the year, we’re playing the moneyline in the ultimate face-off of customer engagement: keeping call centres in-house versus call centre outsourcing.
As we all know, to survive and thrive in today’s competitive market, it is just as important to retain customers as it is to acquire new ones. This is where the call centre comes in. It acts as a business enabler, where every interaction affects overall customer experience and brand perception. An insightful study by customer intelligence consulting firm, Walker, reveals that by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. Customer service should, therefore, always stay top of mind.
Embracing all things Super Bowl on kick-off day, here’s a play-by-play of how call centre outsourcing scores more touchdowns:
Outsourcing, essentially, turns fixed costs, such as infrastructure, rent and utilities, into variable costs. In some cases, this could mean up to 50% cost reduction of what in-house operations would cost. This is because the service provider takes care of these expenses at a fraction of the price. With significant cost savings, businesses are then better equipped to offer services at competitive rates.
An outsourcing partner can take over routine responsibilities, such as recruitment, training, induction and management of call centre agents. Doing so allows movers and shakers to concentrate more on what they do best—running and growing the business.
Outsourcing call centre operations to an offshore provider gives companies access to a follow-the-sun workforce and a 24/7 global presence. That way, customers’ needs are met and seamless care is delivered throughout the world. On the other hand, 100% uptime done in-house would cost double the amount, thus, reducing the bottom line.
Relief from call overflow
Every call is an opportunity, and missing calls from customers could send them straight to the competition. An external location with an abundance of staff can accommodate call overflow during peak periods and sudden spikes, and achieve better first call resolutions. According to SQM Group, a 1% improvement in first call response could mean $276,000 in annual operational savings for the average call centre.
As the frontline of the customer’s experience, and oftentimes the only interaction with the company, many enterprises invest heavily on call centres. Currently, Everest Group pegs call centre operations spend at $300-350 billion. But when it comes to the decision of having it in-house or outsourced, there is no question that an experienced outsourcing vendor can provide you with everything you are looking for as regards customer service, and much more. Also, through outsourcing, you can get your products to the market faster than the competition.
Stay ahead of the curve and advance the bottom line through excellent customer service. Clearly, call centre outsourcing promises a win. Learn more about Acquire BPO’s results-driven call centre solutions: https://acquirebpo.com/contact-centre-outsourcing/

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

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Founded in 2016, Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) is an all in one drone solutions provider that simplifies dangerous and demanding tasks across a range of industries through innovative and cost efficient applications of autonomous drone technology. Based in Malaysia and Thailand, Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) offerings cut across 5 verticals namely ; Agriculture, Industrial, Services, Academy and Retail.
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This is a remastered version of Ubuntu Linux. As of version 13, there are 32-bit and 64-bit versions available, as well as an image for the PengPod 1000.
This version contains a lot of amateur radio software including Fldigi, NBEMS, Gpredict, earthtrack, xcwcp and qrq, XLog and cqrlog, flrig and grig, xnec2c, fl_moxgen, aa-analyzer, owx, VOACAP, glfer, Xastir, gqrx, gEDA, and more!
Version 14 adds GNU Radio Companion, quisk, direwolf, linamc, FreeDV, wsjt-x, and Micro-Fox 15 Config (GPL), and many updates.
This software collection uses the icewm window manager with menus customized for Amateur Radio use. It is designed to be light weight to run on older computers, while still having modern functionality.
Recommending 1GHz CPU and 512MB memory at an absolute bare minimum (gqrx will require more - about twice as much).
- Live DVD which can be installed to the hard drive or USB thumb drive
- icewm window manager
- Contains a large number of amateur radio programs
- Amateur Radio menu customized for ease of use
- Nothing proprietary (as far as I know)
- Almost everything came directly from the Ubuntu repositories
- Software defined radio receiver with RTL2832 USB dongle (originally intended for DVB-TV)
- PengPod 1000 image is to be written directly to your microSD card
- Micro-Fox Config GPL
- GNU Radio Companion
Version 14 is excellent! Burned to a DVD, loaded on my Samsung NB30 Netbook, minor tweak to get sound working, & lots of Ham apps! Andy was extremely helpful when I had difficulty downloading the iso. I've had a kn0ck HF/VHF/UHF SDR-RTL USB device which I could not access via Linux - until now. I'm looking forward to exploring the many other included apps. Thanks! Andy! 73, David KD4E
Andy, Could you please post the md5sum for the distro? Thanks! Chas WA1JFD