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A fan used to be a simple device – motor rotates blades, air moves, and if you were feeling fancy, maybe the whole thing oscillates. Now fans have thermostats, timers, and IR remotes. So why not increase the complexity by making a smart fan with an IoT interface?
[Casper]’s project looks more like a proof of concept or learning platform than a serious attempt at home automation. His build log mentions an early iteration based on a Raspberry Pi. But an ESP8266 was a better choice and made it into the final build, which uses an IR LED to mimic the signals from the remote so that all the stock modes of the fan are supported. The whole thing is battery powered and sits on a breadboard on top of the fan, but we’ll bet that a little surgery could implant the interface and steal power internally. As for interfaces, take your pick – an iOS app via the SmartThings home automation platform, through their SmartTiles web client, or using an Amazon Echo. [Casper] mentions looking into MQTT as well but having some confusion; we’d suggest he check out [Elliot Williams]’ new tutorial on MQTT to get up to speed.
Continue reading “When the Smart Hits the Fan”
We’re not 100% sure why this is being done, but we’re 110% happy that it is. Someone (under the name of [The X-Ray Playground]) is putting interesting devices under an X-ray camera and posting videos of them up on YouTube. And he or she seems to be adding a few new videos per day.
Want to see the inner workings of a pneumatic microswitch? Or is a running pair of servo motors more your speed? Now you know where to look. After watching the servo video, we couldn’t help but wish that a bunch of the previous videos were also taken while the devices were being activated. The ball bearing wouldn’t gain much from that treatment, but the miniature piston certainly would. [X-Ray Playground], if you’re out there, more working demos, please!
How long the pace of new videos can last is anyone’s guess, but we’re content to enjoy the ride. And it’s just cool to see stuff in X-ray. If we had a postal address, we know we’d ship some stuff over to be put under the lens.
We don’t have as many X-ray hacks as you’d expect, which is probably OK given the radioactivity and all. But we have seen [MikesElectricStuff] taking apart a baggage-scanner X-ray machine in exquisite detail, and a DIY fluoroscope (yikes!), so we’re not strangers. Who needs Superman? We all have X-ray vision these days.
Thanks [OiD] for the tip!
Hollywood would have you believe that tornadoes are prevalent in the Midwest. We’re much more likely to see hail in the springtime—balls of slushy ice that pelt our roofs and dimple our cars. [Dr. Ian Giammanco] and his wife and fellow scientist [Tanya Brown-Giammanco] have been studying hail at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety’s research lab since 2012. In 2013, their team created over 9,000 artificial hailstones and fired them at a mock-up of a house in the first indoor full-scale hailstorm.
As fun as it sounds to shoot balls of ice at different things, they did it to better understand the humble hailstone and the damage it can do to insurable goods. Those hailstones from a few years ago were created manually by injecting molds and freezing them. Recently, [the Giammancos] and have taken a more advanced approach to creating artificial hail so they can study the physical characteristics. They scan actual hailstones in order to create models of them. Then they make a 3D-printed mold and use it in a hail-making machine that uses diffused carbon dioxide to mimic the layering that occurs when natural hailstones are formed.
While it would be nice to be able to control hail, the next best thing is mitigating the damage it causes. The better that scientists understand hail, the better materials will become that can withstand its impact. Perhaps someone can perfect a shape-shifting building material and make it resistant to hail.
Did you know the muzzle velocity of a NERF dart out of a toy gun? Neither did [MJHanagan] until he did all sorts of measurement. And now we all know: between 35 and 40 miles per hour (around 60 km/h).
First, he prototyped a single beam-break detector (shown above) and then expanded his build to two in order to get velocity info. A Propeller microcontroller took care of measuring the timing. Then came the gratuitous statistics. He took six different darts and shot them each 21 times, recording the timings. Dart #3 was the winner, but they all had similar average speeds. You’re not going to win the office NERF war by cherry-picking darts.
Anyway, [MJ] and his son had a good time testing them out, and he thinks this might make a good kids’ intro to science and statistics. We think that’s a great idea. You won’t be surprised that we’ve covered NERF chronographs before, but this implementation is definitely the scienciest!
Thanks [drudrudru] for the tip!
Back in the 1980s I was a budding electronics geek working in a TV repair shop. I spent most of my time lugging TVs to and from customers, but I did get a little bench time in. By then new TVs were entirely solid-state and built on single PC boards, but every once in a while we’d get an old-timer in with a classic hand-wired tube chassis. I recall turning them over, seeing all the caps and resistors soldered between terminal strips bolted to the aluminum chassis and wondering how it could all possibly work. It all looked so chaotic and unkempt compared to the sleek traces and neat machine-inserted components on a spanking new 19″ Zenith with the System 3 chassis. In a word, the old chassis was just – ugly.
Looking back, I probably shouldn’t have been so judgmental. Despite the decades of progress in PCB design and the democratization of board production thanks to KiCad, OSH Park, and the like, it turns out there’s a lot to be said for ugly methods of circuit construction.
Continue reading “Getting Ugly, Dead Bugs, and Going to Manhattan”
In a race to produce the cheapest and most efficient full-color 3D object, we think Disney’s Research facility (ETH Zurich and the Interactive Geometry Lab) may have found the key. Combining hydrographic printing techniques with plastic thermoforming.
You might remember our article last year on creating photorealistic images on 3D objects using a technique called hydrographic printing, where essentially you print a flattened 3D image using a regular printer on special paper to transfer it to a 3D object in a bath of water. This is basically the same, but instead of using the hydrographic printing technique, they’ve combined the flattened image transfer with thermoforming — which seems like an obvious solution!
Continue reading “Creating Full Color Images on Thermoformed Parts”
It all began with a cheap Chinese rotary vane vacuum pump and a desire to learn the witchcraft of DIY vacuum tubes. It ended with a string of successes – a working vacuum chamber, light bulbs, glow tubes, diodes, and eventually this homebrew power triode and the audio amplifier built around it.
[Simplifier]’s workshop seems like a pretty cool place. It must have a bit of an early 20th-century vibe, like the shop that [John Fleming] used for his early work on vacuum tubes. Glass work, metal work, electronics – looks like [Simplifier] has a little bit of everything going on. True to his handle, once [Simplifier] had a cheap but effective vacuum rig he started with the easiest projects – incandescent and gas discharge lamps. Satisfied that he could make solid electrical and physical connections and evacuate the tubes, he moved on to diodes and eventually triodes. The quality of the tubes is pretty impressive – stray gasses are removed with a bake-out oven and induction-heated titanium getters. And the performance is pretty solid, as the video below reveals.
Very impressive overall, and it’s not just the fact that he’s building tubes from scratch – we’ve seen that before. What shines here is that specialized equipment is not needed to make working and reliable tubes – just a MAPP torch, simple hand tools, and a low-end vacuum rig. Anybody could – and probably should – give this a try.
Continue reading “Home Brew Vacuum Tubes Are Easier Than You Think”


CERT - Occupational Certificate
Successful completion of the required courses for this certificate signifies to potential or current employers that the student has completed the steps necessary in obtaining an entry level position as a general or specialized technician.
Graduates will demonstrate basic knowledge in automotive power trains that will prepare them to obtain an entry-level position within the field.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and be able to address automotive engine, transmission and electrical system issues with the use of advanced technological simulators and live vehicles.
- Demonstrate effective written communication.
- Analyze automotive applications and determine the needed materials and equipment necessary to perform tasks related to automotive engines, manual transmissions, and electrical systems.
- Perform entry-level diagnosis and repair of automobiles as it pertains to automotive engines, manuals transmissions and electrical systems.
- Maintain and present the required NATEF (National Automotive Technician Education Foundation) competency task list indicating completion of the required labs as it relates to automotive engines, manual transmissions, and electrical systems.
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We have talked about this many times, but reading this piece inspired me to respond. First of all, I don’t see it as middle class neglect as it is middle class destruction. When you sit and see the likes of Mitch McConnell willing to throw a huge number of people under the bus by denying or delaying unemployment, or willing to let the tax rate increase on all people and the austerity cuts that are waiting in the wings that will, in all likelihood, send us into another depression, just to not increase the rate on the top 2% of earners, that says something to me.
The Republican party, by in large have never been about or for the middle or lower classes. And lest we forget, there is an entire class of people under the middle and upper classes that fight and struggle to survive each and every day. Sure, we can say that about everyone at the present, but it rings more so with them than others. The ones it rarely affects, those at the top, are too busy looking at things as they were, as they used to be, and how to keep their wealth and grow it under the guise of being “job creators” by investing their excess wealth in the stock market or hiding it off shore in tax havens and shelters.
As an economist, you know that the way to grow any economy is to keep money circulating. A mass of people that have purchasing power are a better engine for the economy than a few at the top that buys high end cars, mansions, vacation homes, and expensive baubles to adorn themselves with. Demand for consumer goods generates manufacturing, improving wages, working conditions, and keeps that money circulating throughout the entire population.
When you have a few at the top that now have the accumulated wealth of over half of the rest of the population, that translates into power. The power to control trade regulation that is beneficial to themselves, the power to change labor and import laws to benefit themselves and their endeavors. And the ability to put out the propaganda to garner support for those over-riding goals to convince enough people that they should buy in this premise as well, giving Republicans the ability to accomplish what is best for them.


The funeral of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs will take place today.
Biggs, who gained notoriety for spending 36 years on the run after escaping prison, died last month at 84.
The world-renowned robber had been cared for at Carlton Court Care Home in East Barnet, north London, after suffering several strokes in recent years.
He was last seen in public last March at the funeral of fellow robber Bruce Reynolds.
Biggs' funeral will be held at Golders Green Crematorium, north London, this afternoon.
More top news
A bright and sunny day tomorrow, but feeling distinctly cool and chilly tonight.
An ITV News London investigation has discovered the inquest will now be held at Westminster Coroner's Court.
The family court finalised the adoption as the criminal proceedings were still under way. The couple have vowed to fight for their child.


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European Waterways announced the return of its popular Opera Cruise as part of the company’s enhanced itinerary for the La Bella Vita hotel barge.
This stylish vessel is the largest in its fleet with a capacity of up to 20 guests and the only one to visits three of Italy’s most iconic Renaissance cities. In addition to the offer of a free Gondola ride, the company is also giving 20% off charter prices on a wide selection of departure dates throughout the 2019 season, for savings of up to €12,500.
This year, the Opera Cruise begins on August 10 in Venice. Guests will be privately transferred to the Arena Museo Opera in Verona, where they can stroll amongst the history of this musical art form, before dining in the charming courtyard restaurant. They will then be driven to the ancient Roman amphitheater of Arena di Verona, where they will enjoy top-tiered seats for an alfresco performance of Puccini’s Tosca – the timeless tale of love and loss.
“Venice was the centre of power and wealth during the Italian Renaissance.” noted Derek Banks, managing director for European Waterways. “Cruises aboard La Bella Vita explore the magnificent architecture, art and music that sprung from this extraordinary period of human history.”
After behind the scenes tours of the museums and churches of Venice, guests depart to the fishing port of Chioggia for a fascinating snapshot of local life. The next day, passing through the Po Delta Regional Park, guests will be treated to sights of flamingos, heron, snipe and other wild birds that make this UNESCO World Heritage site their home. The cruise continues upriver to the town of Taglio di Po, where guests will dine ashore at the stately 17th century Villa of Ca’Zen, accompanied by the Countess herself.
Guests then visit Ferrara, a city rich in medieval architecture that also played a prominent role in the Renaissance, with many of its artists making their homes here. The medieval Estense Castle – complete with a moat and drawbridge as well as a Renaissance garden – is also on the agenda. Another highpoint of the cruise is the city of Mantua, home to some of the best examples of neo-classical and baroque architecture in the world.
Opera Cruises can also be booked in July and August, subject to availability, and a supplement applies.
For more information on these limited-time savings, call 1800 828 050 or visit europeanwaterways.com.
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The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso has a 40-year long history of service to the community in education, research, and patient care. The fourth university under the Texas Tech University system, TTUHSC El Paso is located in the second largest bi-national metropolitan area on the U.S.-Mexico border. A population of 2.7 million makes up the region. Due to its location, the university is positioned to lead the nation in border health initiatives making it an exciting place to learn, conduct research, and treat patients.
In education, our schools include the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing. In just a few years, upwards of 1000 students from different healthcare disciplines will study alongside each other, preparing to serve the most underserved areas in Texas – and share their knowledge throughout the world.
The training ground at the university is diverse for students and residents – from student-run clinics in the county’s poorest neighborhoods to a network of Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso outpatient offices located throughout the city. In addition, our teaching facilities include private and public hospitals as well as partnerships with community physicians – allowing students and residents to experience various clinical practice environments.
These health care facilities also provide our patient population with access to competent health care in a variety of settings. In fact, our base of primary care physicians has grown over the past 40 plus years to include a large number of specialists and sub-specialists treating unique conditions facing those living in our region including the service men and women living in our community. We are the largest multi-subspecialty practice in the area.
With a metro area population of more than 800,000 residents, and the nation’s second largest military installation, Fort Bliss – a vast range of specialists is a crucial component of healthcare in El Paso. The VA Healthcare Center and William Beaumont Army Medical Center are also two of our valuable clinical partners serving enlisted soldiers, veterans and their families.
In research, four Centers of Emphasis in Cancer, Infectious Diseases, Neurosciences and Diabetes and Metabolism investigate the illnesses that affect this community and millions of other Americans. The nation is now looking at these targeted programs as models in addressing the health needs of Latinos and border populations in general. Clinical research programs funded by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas and the National Institutes of Health are also equally as important to the needs of the local – and global community.
Meanwhile, a robust life sciences industry is developing around us. The $37 million Cardwell Collaborative – a biomedical science incubator – will stimulate the vision established by the Medical Center of the Americas to advance biomedical science research on the border.
Realizing the city’s potential for growth in the life sciences arena, city representatives allocated $60 million to the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation. These monies are being used to fund a 440-acre biomedical sciences hub and the new Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing.
In order to make way for new facilities, nearly $1 billion from city, county, state, federal and private resources, are being used to purchase and develop properties surrounding the university.
Through these projects and community support, there is no stopping the momentum building around Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. Going beyond borders with innovative curriculum, cutting edge care and creating collaborations in research sets the stage for great things to come.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso – We Go Beyond Borders.
“As an affiliate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033–4097 or call 404–679–4500 for questions about the accreditation of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The Commission should be contacted only if evidence supports that the institution is in significant non-compliance with a requirement or standard.”

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Cambridge Rugby are pleased to announce the signing of front row forward Huw Owen from former Championship side Jersey Reds.
Two weeks ago, Jersey Reds confirmed that they have withdrawn from the league structure, so will not play in the Championship this season, after the club entered administration in September.
Owen was pleased to be awarded the opportunity to return to the league despite the news from Jersey;
“I’m very excited to be joining Cambridge and being a part of their Championship journey.
After everything at Jersey, to be a handed a playing opportunity in the Championship with such a brilliant club has been a wonderful rugby lifeline.
Hopefully I can contribute positively to what Richie and the team are looking to achieve this year. I’m excited to getting stuck in!”
Head Coach Richie Williams is also excited by his new signing, who boasts experience from sides such as Cardiff and Pontypridd before joining Jersey Reds for the 2021/22 season.
“29-year-old Owen will be a welcome addition to the squad this season and brings with him a wealth of championship experience.
“Over the past few seasons, our scrum has become a real weapon and this signing ensures that we will continue to expand this important aspect of our game.”
Huw Owen joins fellow prop forwards, Harry Morley, Seb Brownhill, Jake Elwood, Billy Walker and Matty Collins in the 2023-24 squad.
Cambridge are back in action for round three heading to the capital to face Ealing Trailfinders on Saturday 4 November at 3pm.

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HES 5000 electric strike kit for cylindrical locksets
The HES 5000 is our most common electronic strike used for low profile openings where heavy duty hardware is necessary. It has a pin locking design with a field selectable fail safe/secure. It accommodates latchbolts up to 5/8" throw.
.24 Amps @ 12VDC/VAC
.12 Amps @ 24VDC/VAC
DC continuous duty/AC intermittent duty only
Static strength 1,500 lbs.
Dynamic strength 70 ft-lbs.
Endurance 500,000 cycles
Field selectable fail secure/ fail safe
Dual voltage 12 or 24 VDC/VAC
Internally mounted solenoid
Accommodates 1/2" - 5/8" latchbolt (5/8" with 1/8" door gap)
Strike body depth 1-1/16"
Trim enhancer included
Five year limited warranty
LBM - Latchbolt monitor
UL 1034, burglary-resistant listed
ANSI/BHMA A156.31, Grade 1
MEA New York City accepted
501 (4-7/8" x 1-1/4", square corners & flat faceplate) For use with cylindrical locksets in ANSI metal jambs.
502 (7-15/16" x 1-7/16", radius corners & flat faceplate) For use with cylindrical locksets. Includes universal mounting tabs. Aluminum frames.
504 (10" x 1-3/8", radius corners & flat faceplate) For use with cylindrical locksets. Four point mounting for wood installations.


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Quality food doesn’t have to cost you the earth – you only have to sample our delicious hog roast to understand our dedication to achieving the very best taste and texture possible. Here at Hog Roast Newtownards, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class catering service for each and every customer.
Due to having years of expertise in perfecting the cooking of hog roasts, our Hog Roast Newtownards team have designed our very own state-of-the-art machine that enables us to slow-cook the meat with that delicious juicy centre and textured skin which gives it ounces of flavour. Their expertise’ means that your hog roast is finely spiced giving the meat that extra kick to make it like no other.
With plenty of meat, vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options for your event, your guests are truly spoiled for choice. However, if you’re unsure which menu would be most suitable, we’ll be happy to work with you to create a menu that’s tailored for you and your guests – including the opportunity to swap ingredients or come up with your very own dish. Nothing is out of reach or too much trouble for our team, so if you have an enquiry, don’t be afraid to ask.
Try cooking your own hog roast with us!
We also hire out the machines we use to spit-roast the meat, so you can have the chance to impress your guests with your culinary skills. You won’t be alone though, as we provide easy-to-follow demo to show you how to make the most of the experience. If you would like us to source the meat for you too, this is no problem. You may be surprised how many guests one portion of meat can feed, so let us do the hard work for you.
Get in touch with the Hog Roast Newtownards team today to find out more.

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August 20, 2015 9:22 am
For years the fast-paced tech industry showed little respect for the plodding car industry. Google and Palo Alto-based Tesla, with its high-tech electric sedans, helped change that.
August 11, 2015 9:27 am
Although this has already been an option with major phone carriers, Verizon joins T-Mobile in dropping contracts and discounted phones entirely for new customers.
August 7, 2015 9:52 am
Effectively selling unified communications and capitalizing on the market opportunity requires that mobile operators not only overcome their own hesitations and barriers, but also...
July 27, 2015 10:54 am
As the FCC scrambles to clear up more spectrum for commercial use, carriers prepare their plans for deploying a viable service on those airwaves. In these graphics, CTIA shows just how long it takes to get new spectrum up and running.
July 22, 2015 10:13 am
For all those who hailed the iPhone as the "Jesus Phone" in 2007, the Apple Watch's arrival has hardly been the second coming.
July 20, 2015 5:06 pm
Wall Street analysts estimate Apple will report a hefty $10.3 billion in profit after selling $49 billion worth of iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and other products during the April-June quarter. That's an increase of more than 30 percent in both revenue...
July 16, 2015 9:36 am
Apple Music feels like an attempt to take on every competitive app from Pandora to Spotify to YouTube and advance the idea of online radio at the same time.
July 10, 2015 10:56 am
This article is not about how many billions of devices will be connected to the Internet, how these machines will be tweeting to or pinging each other, what underlying technical protocol(s) they will be using, or the enormous amount of data they will be generating.
July 10, 2015 11:03 am
Mobile apps are complementary rather than substitutes for the PC versions. They have limits, regardless of whether you use Windows, Android or Apple's iOS.
July 9, 2015 10:18 am
Wednesday's confounding confluence of computer outages at United Airlines, the New York Stock Exchange and The Wall Street Journal delivered a jolting reminder about our...
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It is the funkiest, most space-age bar in London. That it has insinuated itself into the ancient and delicately proportioned Regency splendor of the Home House, a private members club on Portman Square, quadruples the sense of shock when you first see it. (And to see it, you’ll need to wrangle an invitation from a member, or become one for $2,250-a-year.) Number 20 Portman Square was built as a private house for the Countess of Home by the 18th-century genius Robert Adam. When the club took over the equally august house next door, they commissioned Zaha Hadid to design the new bar and lounge (along with a reception desk). For an architect who often struggles to have her ambitious projects realized, this was a chance to complete a perfect miniature within an ideal space — a 250-year-old backdrop created in an era when the grammar of architectural form was just being written.
Hadid explains, via e-mail:
“We wanted to create an environment where the bar completely dominates the space. Using a dynamic vertical gesture of fluidity, we were able generate an exciting dichotomy with the Cartesian arrangement of the Georgian space. As with our architecture, where have created inhabited structure, members and guests occupy the bar at Home House instead of simply standing in front of it. They become part of the experience.”
Quite what that experience feels like after several single malts one can only imagine — the sensuously curved lines of the edge of the bar can make it hard to find a flat place to rest the glass. Nevertheless, this is a stunning piece of work from a architect who, as it turns out, doesn’t drink.
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July 14: Johnson to coach Palomar women
Legendary local high school basketball coach Ray Johnson is back home at El Camino High after an aborted run as coach of the Palomar College women’s team.
Johnson was named the Palomar coach in July, but now he’s going back to El Camino, where he won a San Diego Section record 661 games in 29 seasons as coach of the boys team.
With Johnson out, Palomar this week named Leigh Marshall as the new coach of the women’s team. Marshall previously coached at El Modena High in Orange.
“I just decided I’d rather be at El Camino High School, so I left to go back to El Camino.” Johnson said. “That’s the nicest way I can put it.”
At the time of his announced hiring in July, Johnson said he hoped he could coach the Palomar women and at least help continue to help coach the El Camino boys. It didn’t work out.
Johnson last year took a leave of absence from El Camino to join the men’s coaching staff of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Darkness into Light
Saturday, March 14 | 8:00pm
Ridgewood United Methodist Church
Sunday, March 15 | 5:00pm
St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church
Dusty Francis, conductor
Eric Brenner, countertenor
Joshua Groffman, Composer-in-Residence
"Darkness into Light" brings two major works and a stunning new piece by Joshua Groffman to Ars Musica audiences. While the Russian Army was besieging Nazi-occupied Budapest, Zoltán Kodály was forced to hide in the darkness of a cellar for safety, where his luminous Missa Brevis took shape. Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms both soothes and excites the spirit with its tranquil setting of the twenty-third psalm in clear, youthful tones set against complex choral rhythms as only Bernstein could so masterfully write.
Be sure to join us for a free Preconcert Talk with Joshua Groffman, Composer-in-Residence, one hour before the concert
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- 3 pounds or 4 large sweet potatoes
- 1/2 stick of butter (4 tablespoons)
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup of maple syrup
- 1 bag of large marshmallows
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Start by washing and peeling the sweet potatoes. Cut them into 1-inch chunks.
- In a large pot of cold water on the stove add the potatoes cook on medium for 9 minutes. Drain.
- While the potatoes are cooking in a smaller pot heat the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and maple syrup mix until dissolved for about 5 minutes.
- Spray a large casserole dish with spray oil and add the cooked potatoes.
- Poor on top of the potatoes the hot syrup mixture.
- Bake in a 350° F oven for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, remove from the oven and top with as many marshmallows that will cover the whole casserole.
- Return the casserole to the oven and bake for about 5 to 10 minutes just until the marshmallow top is golden brown. Watch not to burn the top.
- Serve right away. If the dish sits too long the marshmallows will lose their puffiness.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 25
- Category: side dish
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
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5 things to know about elevator maintenance. Maintaining your elevator, whether you are in an apartment building, office corporate building, commercial building, etc to extending the unit’s lifespan and to keep the passenger safe. Regular maintenance is a great part of the responsibility as the manager or property owner.
1. Inspections are Required atleast One Time in a Year
2. Make Sure the Elevator needs to be in Good Working Order
3. Elevator Units Should do Work in Great Working Order
4. Be Proactive and Regular with Maintenance
5. Know your Problem Spots


AUSTIN, TEXAS, APRIL 9, 2021 – Bearhawk Aircraft announced today the successful operations of a Bearhawk 4-Place aircraft on wheels, floats and skis. The Bearhawk is a rugged design built originally for heavy hauling and bulky loads. As a “triphibious” airplane, the Bearhawk 4-Place performs equally well on wheels, floats and skis apropos of the season.
Owner/operator/builder of the kit-built Bearhawk, Robert Taylor is based in Kenai, Alaska, a coastal city southwest of Anchorage on the mouth of the Kenai River. Having access to shorelines, waterways and often-frozen tundra, Taylor accentuates his flying preferences with the turf, water and snow options of his triphibious Bearhawk aircraft. “My son and I built the aircraft together. The idea from the start was to put it on floats. I fly year-round here in Alaska. I am on skis now, but it’s time to swap to wheels. In June, the airplane will go to a nearby lake and be on floats again,” Taylor commented.
Taylor’s triphibious Bearhawk is powered by a carbureted Lycoming O-540-E4B5, 6-cylinder engine. (For comparison, this is the same big-bore block typically found on Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six and Britten Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft.) Taylor is an A&P mechanic and former inspector. Since completing his Bearhawk in August of 2017, he’s accumulated over 400 hours flight time in it.
On wheels, the aircraft is powerful and responsive, according to Taylor, with the 260-hp Lycoming O-540 up front. He indicated, “The flight controls are very responsive and can be flown with two fingers. Stalls are very predictable with no tendency to drop one wing. The 6-cylinder Lycoming has all the power you could ever need, which makes it a safe airplane to fly.” Taylor affirms having seen speeds of up to 160 mph IAS in the aircraft and claims landing speeds of 52 mph, both while on wheels. “The ability to fly fast and also fly slow makes the aircraft very versatile. At a power setting of 22 x 22 [2,200 rpm x 22 inches MP], the Bearhawk economically cruises at around 130 mph burning 11–12 gph.”
Building the Bearhawk as floatplane for operation on the Kenai Peninsula equates to placing it in its natural habitat. Landing locations are abundant. “It has proven to be a very nice, straight forward floatplane,” Taylor stated. The installation of Edo 2870 floats (now serviced and supported by Kenmore Air of Kenmore, Washington) required minimal modification. The model 2870 was originally certified for use on Cessna 180/185 Skywagons. Adding floats slows down the aircraft by 15 mph in cruise, due to increased drag, according to Taylor. A ventral fin (a single strake / tail fin beneath the empennage) was also installed. This enhances directional stability when flying at higher angles of attack. Taylor claims takeoff time from idle to separation is approximately six seconds at sea level. An allowed gross weight of 2,700 lb on floats makes the aircraft “truly useful,” he contends. Water operations thrive on agility, and that’s where a Bearhawk floatplane excels. Taylor added, “The double cargo doors really shine when loading or unloading cargo on floats. Forward visibility is exceptional on the float-equipped Bearhawk.”
On skis, Taylor notes, the cruise speed of the Bearhawk 4-Place is slightly faster than on wheels due to reduced drag. “The extra power comes in very useful on skis in deep powder snow, and especially on floats.” As winter conditions dictate, Taylor’s Bearhawk gets fitted with M3000 main skis (all metal wheel replacements from Aero Ski of Brooten, Minnesota) and a T3000 tail ski (an all-aluminum wheel-penetration ski for the Scott 3200 tailwheel). When flying frozen tundra, “This combination gives a very useful ski plane. Handling characteristics are similar to flying on wheels,” he added.
“As a pilot, I find the Bearhawk meets all my needs. As a licensed aircraft mechanic, I have had experience with just about all the classic general aviation light aircraft. With this in mind, I find the quality of materials and workmanship of the 4-Place Bearhawk compare favorably with any certified category aircraft I have worked on,” Taylor asserted.
New Zealand STOL Winner Trifecta for Bearhawk
For the third year in a row, Bearhawk pilot Jonathan Battson wins the annual Healthy Bastards Bush Pilot Champs STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) competition. The event is held in Blenheim, New Zealand, home to the Omaka Aviation Heritage Center—a “living” museum commemorating the two World Wars (www.omaka.org.nz). The main objective in the STOL component of the competition is to get airborne in the shortest distance, and then touch down safely bringing the aircraft to a stop also in the shortest distance. Battson took top spot in the Heavy Touring Category (>2,550 lb) in his Bearhawk 4-Place aircraft. As has become customary for Battson in the Bearhawk, his winning score was by a wide margin. Battson completed the trifecta of wins in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Whether flying for sport and recreation, to make the best use of one’s time, or out of basic necessity, there is no equal to the Bearhawk. A triphibious Bearhawk with its array of landing options, carrying capacity and superior strength is prepared, all around, to ensure each challenge is met with reliability and strength. The combination of wheel, ski and float options on the Bearhawk, along with three successive competition victories, exemplify trifectas of achievement—that involving three successful outcomes.
Bearhawk aircraft are available in kit or plan form. Models range from 2-, 4- and 6-Place configurations. All Bearhawk aircraft excel at accessing remote airstrips and are renown for their rugged construction and carrying capacity. Avipro / Bearhawk Aircraft manufactures high quality Quick Build kits for the Bearhawk 4-Place Model B, Bearhawk Patrol, Bearhawk Companion, and Bearhawk LSA, and Bearhawk Model 5.
For more information on Bearhawk Aircraft, visit www.bearhawkaircraft.com, or contact Bearhawk at firstname.lastname@example.org or 1-877-528-4776.
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Maintaining Range and Herd Health
How wild horses and burros are managed differs from how most other species are managed on public lands. Wildlife species, such as deer, are usually controlled through a combination of hunting and natural predators. Livestock use on public lands is intricately managed and controlled through grazing permits. Because wild horses and burros are protected from hunting, and because of a lack of natural predators, if left unmanaged herds can double in size in just four to five years and quickly outgrow the ability of the land to support them. Maintaining herd size at the appropriate management level is the best way to ensure healthy horses and burros on healthy rangelands.
What is Appropriate Management Level?
To protect the health of the land and to support healthy horses and burros, the BLM works to achieve in each HMA what is known as the Appropriate Management Level (AML) – the point at which wild horse and burro populations are consistent with the land’s capacity to support them and other mandated uses of those lands, including protecting ecological processes and habitat for wildlife and livestock.
The AML for each HMA ranges from a minimum population level to a maximum population level in order to allow for population growth over a four- to five-year period. The BLM establishes an AML through the evaluation and analysis of rangeland resource and population data spanning several years, including data relating to vegetation and soil types, weather and water quality. The AML for each HMA is set in an open, public process through field office planning efforts.


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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.— Sigmund Freud
Courageous Mentally Ill quotations
These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls.
Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings.
Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill.
Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
You know the bad thing about being a survivor.
.. You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever.
There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis.
Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet.
.. and hoped that they would go away.
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible.
I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.
I don't meet many people that are evil.
I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.
A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

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The leading Chinese blockchain platform, NEO, will start trading on the Korean exchange CoinNest, allowing for direct investment of Korean Won.
The world of cryptocurrencies acts fast and adapts to regulation- as the Chinese government cracked down on exchanges, a liquidity injection is coming from Korea. The Chinese platform NEO will be listed on the Korean exchange CoinNest. There were rumors over the weekend that new coins and tokens would be arriving for Korean buyers, but this time the company itself confirmed the news.
Even the rumors managed to lift the price of NEO over the weekend. The coin added more than 10% to its price in the past 24 hours, reaching $21.73. NEO is still far from its August peak near $50, but the arrival of new investors may turn the tides.
The Korean wallets opened today at 10:00 Korean time and trading will begin on Thursday.
Korean buying has a great effect on market prices. In August, the announcement that Monero would be listed on Bithumb led to a spike in price, as XMR doubled in value over 24 hours.


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They traded with the Indians until the Turkey Town Treaty.
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They have dogs which they load to carry their tents, poles, and belongings. Bankhead National Forest and shares the treasures and remaining vestiges of the great Indian hunting grounds. They do not cultivate the land, but eat raw meat and drink the blood of the cattle they kill.
They dress in the skins of the cattle, with which all the people in this land clothe themselves, and they have very well-constructed tents, made with tanned and greased Muskogee dating, in which they live and which they take along as they follow the cattle.
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Measles cases rose 79 percent globally last year: WHO
WHO warns of challenging year, with over half of countries at high measles risk, 142M children susceptible.
Measles cases rose 79 percent globally last year: WHO. Picture: iStock
The World Health Organization voiced alarm Tuesday at the rapid spread of measles, with more than 306,000 cases reported worldwide last year — a 79-percent increase from 2022.
“We in the measles world are extremely concerned,” said Natasha Crowcroft, a WHO technical adviser on measles and rubella.
She stressed though that measles cases are typically dramatically under-reported, and that the real number was surely far higher.
To get more accurate figures, the UN health agency models the numbers each year, with its latest estimate indicating that there were 9.2 million cases and 136,216 measles deaths in 2022.
Such modelling has not yet been done for last year, but Crowcroft pointed out that 2022 had already seen a 43-percent jump in deaths from the year before.
ALSO READ: Rise in vaccination distrust
Given the ballooning case numbers, “we would anticipate an increase in deaths in 2023 as well”, she told journalists in Geneva, via video-link from Cairo.
“This year is going to be very challenging.”
She warned that more than half of all countries globally are currently believed to be at high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year.
And some 142 million children are estimated to be susceptible to falling ill.
Measles is a highly-contagious disease caused by a virus that attacks mainly children. The most serious complications include blindness, brain swelling, diarrhoea, and severe respiratory infections.
A major cause of the swelling numbers is the “backsliding immunisation coverage”, Crowcroft said.
At least 95 percent of children need to be fully vaccinated against the disease in a locality to prevent outbreaks, but global vaccination rates have slipped to 83 percent.
There is a great deal of inequity in the distribution of cases, and even more so when it comes to deaths.
Crowcroft pointed out that 92 percent of all children who die from measles live among less than a quarter of the global population, mainly in very low-income countries.
– By: © Agence France-Presse

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The evidence of your existence –
they sometimes sound like trapped bubbles in ice,
a song no one wants to remembers,
a song that wants to burn itself down
on the steps of justice gone wrong,
wanting to stain the white marble of temples
that do not deserve worship.
They sound like dying ambition amidst flying hopes,
a revolution coming apart,
a future with limping walk and kind careful words,
a future fleshed out with beautiful breaking and selfish hands.
You told me “selfish” is a beautiful word,
told me that in the opening sentence to the goodbye,
that I am supposed to shout after your vanishing back,
to make the word “selfish” the first word,
to speak of that word with a smile.
And let the world wonder why you wanted to burn the world
for what you have never known, what you couldn’t have;
to never explain your heart, to never let their magnifying glass
and their dear sun around your tearful smile.
i am so fed up of this love
that only exists in my head.
my heart is a glacier, my skin a floodplain
i speak of home and family
as if i am filled with warmth till my brim.
what do i know of love?
what do i know of love, to hold you back?
we have held hands long enough,
it is okay to let go now.
how long are you going to nod along?
your phone has been ringing for an eternity,
it is okay to say the goodbye
that you have been swallowing for my sake.
don’t start loving me
for putting your freedom back on your plate.
i just don’t want to see you
die like this because of me.
i am fed up people giving up on themselves
to love someone like me.
so, please leave.
My heart feels like a sheet of ice.
With restless birds of pain
Making the world look dark.
Imitating my cries.
But as you pass by me,
your shadow on my heart
feels beautiful and painful.
looks like a barren tree,
where my pain can sit and chirp.
Though the ice doesn’t melt.
Though the pain remains.
But you also exist.
My rest, my sanity-
possible only by your existence.

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Congrats to our students who presented their work at the Fall Celebration of Student Achievement!
We’re so proud of our WLC students who presented their work at the Celebration of Student Achievement last Wednesday. Congrats on all of your hard work!
Telling Unheard Stories of Immigrants in Trenton
By Samantha Godoy, Emma Allen, Nicole Ciullo, Alexandra Mullane, Zachary Dzierzgowski
Faculty Advisor: Ann Warner-Ault
Female Body and Feminist Identity in Modern Chinese Literature
By Erin Grosskurth
Faculty Advisor: Jiayan Mi
Oral Histories: Immigration Stories of Hispanics
By Audrey Ardanaz, Luis Arroyo, Priscilla Blanco-Jiménez, Alexandra Castillo, Katherine Loor, Corina Ramos
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Kentengian
Presentations on Don Quixote
By Adrienne Stewart, Samantha Dodson, Hannah Gallagher, Natasha Roig
Faculty Advisor: Deborah Compte

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Last week we went to a Christina Aguilera concert. Jeroen has given this to Robin as a gift for his 29th birthday.
It was her first European tour in long time and last Monday she came to Amsterdam for a performance. It was amazing! She sang songs from her new album and luckily all the big hits of the past 20 years.
We enjoyed it and after this evening we are a bit of a fan 😉


06 Mar 2017
6 MAR 2017
All new buildings must be emissions-neutral by 2030 and all existing buildings by 2050 if Australia is to meet its climate change targets, says the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).
Chief Executive Officer Romilly Madew says the GBCA is developing a new ‘Carbon Positive Roadmap’ in close consultation with industry to drive carbon positive buildings and communities.
The GBCA has launched a discussion paper, A carbon positive roadmap for the built environment, at the Green Cities 2017 conference in Sydney today.
The discussion paper outlines how the built environment can help Australia meet its greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets, in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change, and asks for industry feedback.
“More than 170 nations – including Australia – have agreed to limit global temperature rises to less than 2˚C, and to strive towards global temperature rises of no more than 1.5˚C,” Ms Madew says.
“As the built environment is responsible for 23 per cent of Australia’s greenhouse emissions, the property and construction industry has a central role to play in meeting these targets.
“We are working with the 1.5˚C target, and this means that all new buildings must be net zero emissions by 2030, and all existing buildings must be net zero emissions by 2050.
“The discussion paper asks industry what this means for Green Star buildings – and especially for world-leadership Green Star buildings.”
Ms Madew says the GBCA has identified four key priorities: promoting energy efficiency through passive design and efficient systems; driving investment in resilient, renewable energy infrastructure; increasing markets for net zero carbon products, materials and services; and promoting offsets for remaining emissions.
“We believe this approach will be a cost-effective pathway for buildings and portfolios, and will also achieve other positive outcomes for Australia – such as efficient, comfortable and healthy buildings, energy security and a thriving renewable energy industry, jobs growth in emerging sectors, and enhanced biodiversity.”
“Our industry has a strong-track record delivering sustainable buildings and precincts, and now has the world’s most sustainable market according to the Global Real Estate Sustainable Benchmark. We have demonstrated how carbon reduction strategies can reduce costs, boost health and wellbeing of building occupants and enhance the value of assets. This Carbon Positive Roadmap is a natural next step, providing clear pathways to carbon neutrality and creating new value for building owners, occupants and the broader community,” says Davina Rooney, Stockland’s General Manager of Sustainability.
“The GBCA has strong networks with industry and government, respected rating tools and a history of delivering positive outcomes for the built environment, and is in a position to gain consensus on industry action. A Carbon Positive Roadmap will help industry to take action, address current barriers and drive a carbon positive future,” says Paolo Bevilacqua, General Manager Sustainability at Frasers Property Australia.
Geoff Dutaillis, Group Head of Sustainability at Lendlease, says: “Large-scale ‘climate positive’ developments like Barangaroo South in Sydney and Elephant & Castle in London are using innovation, technology and collaboration to demonstrate that the built environment can play a leading role in delivering real action on climate change and the transition to a carbon-neutral future. The GBCA provides a united voice for our industry in addressing material issues such as this, through providing practical tools such as the draft Carbon Positive Roadmap to enable us to unlock the value of buildings.”
“While this discussion paper puts forward our ideas, feedback from industry is mission critical. It is only by working together that we will achieve a carbon positive future,” Ms Madew concludes.
Download the discussion paper, A carbon positive roadmap for the built environment.
Feedback is being sought until Friday 28 April.


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As a general rule, you must commence court action for compensation for personal injury within three (3) years from the date of the incident or when the symptoms of the injury become known.
In a recent New South Wales court decision, Leigh Anne Mullens injured her back whilst working as a nurse repositioning a patient in bed.
As a result of her injury, she had difficulty completing her day-to-day chores, and she could no longer work.
In 2007 Ms Mullens’ doctor recommended that she have surgery in an attempt to ease her pain. However, in the 12 month period following the surgery, Ms Mullens’ condition worsened and she began to realise the true nature and extent of her injury.
In 2009 Ms Mullens sought legal advice in relation to securing the costs of the surgery from worker’s compensation. Her solicitor advised her that, unbeknownst to Ms Mullens, she also had a right to bring a common law claim for damages against her former employer and the hospital in which she worked at, as a result of her injury.
In early 2010 Ms Mullens commenced legal proceedings seeking compensation from the hospital in relation to her injury. The hospital, in opposing Ms Mullens claim argued that she had missed her window of opportunity to claim compensation and her claim should be dismissed.
The court found that Ms Mullens did not realise that her injury was sufficiently serious to justify seeking legal action until after her surgery in 2007. As a result, her three year window commenced in 2007 and was still open to her to pursue her claim.
If you have suffered a personal injury whilst at work or otherwise, you may be entitled to compensation. For further information contact:
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Yesterday, Libyan rebels entered the capital Tripoli (follow live updates here). With the fall of Col. Moammar Qadhafi seeming nearly complete, many are wondering what comes next for Libya and for the Arab world. Something I’m going to be thinking about (and writing more about) in the coming weeks is the impact of Qadhafi’s fall on the Sahel. Some Sahelian leaders, such as Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade and Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, have been siding with the rebels and anticipating Qadhafi’s ouster for some time. Others, such as Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure, have endeavored to remain neutral. All of them, now, face a new political reality in the region. What will the absence of a once-powerful figure, who sometimes brokered peace and sometimes stoked conflict, mean for the countries that lie to Libya’s south?
In thinking about these questions, I’ve found two pieces particularly helpful. One is the Globe and Mail‘s map of Qadhafi’s influence in Africa, which highlights the breadth of his influence but also shows that some of his most significant interventions were in the Sahel, in places like Mali, Chad, and Sudan. The other is Howard French’s reflections on Qadhafi’s political legacy and the impact of his maneuvers to support revolutions and rebels in the Sahel and further south in Africa.
As I said, I plan to write in greater depth about Qadhafi and the Sahel in the weeks to come. In the meantime, I’d like to hear your thoughts. How will events in Libya affect Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Darfur, and other places in the Sahel? Let us know in the comments.
That depends. With Qaddafi’s money and influence gone and leaving a vacuum perhaps it will become more peaceful.That he brokered peace in Tuareg rebellions can be countered with that he also funded them. Will there be people like Charles Taylor among the mercenaries returning to their home countries? Perhaps, but they will not have the colonel’s oil money backing them up.
Mugabe, Chavez, Ortega and other petrofunded leaders will loose a powerful friend. The world can only become better with Qaddafi gone, especially in West Africa. Or?
Interesting that you mention the Tuareg, there’s a brief article about them in the September edition of National Geographic.
I thought that was a fascinating article, especially the Taureg’s paradoxical relationship with the Niger military.
Doesn’t sound like the Taureg will fight for Gaddafi on a large scale, even for a grand a day. Western and African states should enlist them to fight AQIM instead.
He was a hypocrite who denounced the west for interfering in African affairs, while he himself did exactly that.
No more millions of warlords in Somalia. No future Charles Taylors and Sankohs.
Um, he’s African no? How does an African dealing with African affairs turn him into a hypocrite? Now, if you’re saying that he was bats*** crazy, well, there’s something we can agree on.
Mr Thurston, excellent article. I hadn’t read the Howard French article until you gave the link. There were many good points but my eyes sort of glazed over when he started talking about Sankara. Thomas Sankara and Jerry Rawlings were Qadhafi’s main guys in West Africa. All I can say is that while Charles Taylor did indeed train in Libya, he was loosed on Sankara first by Campaore with Ivorian encouragement and it had everything to do with his nationalization of Burkina’s mineral wealth and refusal to keep servicing odious debt. French interests were pissed and Houphet wanted Doe dealt with for killing Tolbert whose Ivorian wife was family. Sankara hated Doe (and he was truly one of the most offensive people ever), but came to have reservations about Taylor. So, Taylor did the dirty work and then was free to use Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso to launch his war in Liberia.
What happens now? Well, AU funding is going to be seriously lowered.I think the peacekeeping missions in Somalia etc will be funded but the grandiose plans for an African Monetary Fund and an African Central Bank etc. are probably kaput unless Algeria decides to look south and takes a bugger role (they’ve got about five times as much money as Libya to throw around don’t they?)
I meant million FOR warlords 🙂
I have to admit that I am not optimistic about Libya’s future. The anti-Qaddafi groups (and presumed new government) lack a united military command and have no established political party to center control around. It isn’t clear whether the military commanders in the west (especially former generals under Qaddafi) will accept the political leadership in the east. There aren’t many competent technocrats because Qaddafi essentially boiled governance down to his family and friends, which means that services and law enforcement will be lacking at best. There are a large number of armed young men across the nation with uncertain controls. Since no other nation has soldiers on the ground only the Libyan groups can really control the outcome. Lastly with large amounts of oil wealth it will be easy to tempt leaders into corruption.
I wasn’t against trying to remove Qaddafi, but let’s not kid ourselves. We aren’t going to be seeing vibrant democracy and instant vitalization. At best we’re going to see unsteady growth and political uncertainty for decades.
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Harper’s Weekly, with the subtitle »A Journal of Civilization«, was a political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. Among other things, it carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War.
If the magazine has anything to do with the Swedish band Harper’s Weekly remains unclear. Probably nothing at all.
Listening to their debut album »Morning Comes«, it's obvious that this is a band with deep roots in American music, what we today call Americana. The ambitious music archeologist would probably be able to trace the roots all the way back to the days of the Civil War. But let's not go that far. Harper’s Weekly makes music inspired by and maybe even related to the music of Townes van Zandt, Cowboy Junkies, Ryan Adams and Phosphorescent. And they do it with confidence, love and joy. And a twist of their own.
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Suburgatory alumna Jane Levy is set to co-star opposite André Holland in Hulu’s upcoming psychological-horror drama series Castle Rock from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King. Also boarding the show in a key role is an actress closely associated with King’s cinematic world, Carrie star Sissy Spacek.
Levy has signed a one-year deal for Castle Rock, and she also has been tapped to co-star opposite Glenn Close in the Amazon supernatural comedy pilot Sea Oak, written by George Saunders based on his short story.
Set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock, from from Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television, is named after the fictional town in King’s native Maine that is featured prominently in a number of his novels, novellas and short stories. Per the producers, it combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
Holland will play Henry, a death row attorney with a unique and complicated history in Castle Rock.
Oscar winner alum Spacek will play Ruth Deaver, the estranged adoptive mother of Henry (Holland). She’s a retired professor whose fading memories might hold a key to Castle Rock’s unsettling past. Levy plays Jackie, the death-obsessed self-appointed historian of Castle Rock.
The project reunites Levy with Warner Bros. TV, which cast her in her breakout role as the lead in the ABC comedy series Suburgatory. Levy is repped by Gersh and Sloane Offer.
Spacek is coming off a three-season run on the Netflix drama series Bloodline.
Sam Shaw & Dustin Thomason developed Castle Rock for television and serve as executive producers along with J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson and Liz Glotzer.
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Steve Harvey discussed Dave Chappelle‘s thoughts on his attacker and the difficulties of being a comedian. Dave Chappelle was the opening act for legendary comedians Kevin Hart and Chris Rock on Saturday night in Madison Square Garden. Chappelle talked about cancel culture and his recent attack. He said he did not want his attacker to die, but he hoped his attacker would catch monkeypox and his butt footage for about four to six weeks, said Shirley Strawberry.
The morning show laughed at Chappelle’s comments. Strawberry said Kevin Hart gave Chris Rock a goat, and Chris noted that he was not taking care of it. Chris Rock then talked about cancel culture and addressed his Oscar slap, saying anyone that says words hurt have never been punched in the face.
Chappelle thanked Kevin Hart and Chris Rock and said comedians have a special bond.
The morning show wondered what the goat’s name was and concluded that it was Will Smith. The radio host said Kevin Hart named the goat Will Smith. The morning show said the comedians showed camaraderie.
“I love it, man. I mean, it is what it is. Them dudes, them three bad boys right there, ” said Harvey. “Currently working right now ain’t nobody better.”
Steve Harvey was asked if it’s true that comedians share a special bond. He replied that it is true they share a special relationship because all comedians know what it takes to walk out on stage.
“To walk out there is a different beast, man,” said Harvey. “It’s a lot of guys that are not good at it that are walking out there. But the greats that walk out there that say something compelling and funny or just right, you know, in a way, man, where you remember some bits. It’s hard to stand there, man, especially when you do an hour.”
Harvey said it is difficult for comedians to stand in one place with just a microphone, a stand, a spotlight, a bar stool, and a glass of water. Strawberry said Harvey must make being a comedian look easy because many people think they can go out on stage and perform.
“You make it look easy because that’s what you do,” said Harvey.

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genetic disorders that in the past could have led to years of unnecessary
testing and treatment due to misdiagnoses could now be discovered shortly
following a child’s birth.
75 Parents may also learn if their child is at an increased risk for certain childhood diseases and implement necessary prevention programs at an early age.
WGS on newborns could impact the individual and population’s health
in terms of disease treatment. One significant public health concern – pediatric adverse drug events (ADEs) – would be greatly impacted by a WGS
76 Children are three times more likely to suffer from an ADE
than adults, and over half a million children seek outpatient care for ADEs
77 The field of pharmacogenomics offers the potential to reduce
ADEs and to enhance the efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs by identifying
gene variants that could affect a person’s response to a drug.
78 With a whole
genome in hand at a child’s birth, such information may potentially reduce
the number of dangerous pediatric ADEs by providing a personalized
roadmap to how a child may respond to a medication prior to the medication’s administration. This is especially important for pediatric cancer patients. Twenty-two percent of all hospital admissions for pediatric cancer
patients are due to an ADE.
79 The consequences of an ADE in a pediatric
cancer patient can be life-threatening or leave the patient with long-lasting
disease or disabilities.
80 Gene variant identification can improve treatment
outcomes for pediatric cancer patients by identifying which patients are at
an increased risk for adverse reactions and manipulating the treatment plan
PHARMACOGENOMICS 345 (2005). Public health genomics is an emerging field that seeks to
utilize genetic variation and gene-environment interaction data to design and implement
mechanisms to prevent disease and improve overall health status. M.J. Khoury et al.,
A Decade of Public Health Genomics in the United States: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1997–2007, 12 PUB. HEALTH GENOMICS 20, 21 (2009).
75. See PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS, supra note 1, at
14; see also B. D. Solomon et al., Applying Genomic Analysis to Newborn Screening,
59, 66 (2012). While positive movement in research and surveillance may
occur, it is also important to note that negative repercussions may result from the WGS of
newborns. PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS, supra note 1, at
70. For example, there is
potential for immense stress and anxiety from false positives or from positive tests for conditions that may never manifest. See id.
76. See Dennis J. O’Kane et al., Pharmacogenomics and reducing the frequency of adverse drug events, 4 PHARMACOGENOMICS 1, 3 (2003).
77. Florence T. Bourgeois et al., Pediatric Adverse Drug Events in the Outpatient Setting: An 11-Year National Analysis, 124 PEDIATRICS e744, e747-48 (2009); Donna Woods et
al., Adverse Events and Preventable Adverse Events in Children, 115 PEDIATRICS 155, 158
78. See Colin J. D. Ross et al., Pharmacogenomics of Serious Adverse Drug Reactions
in Pediatric Oncology, 18 J. POPULATION THERAPEUTICS & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY e134,
e144 (2011); Dennis J. O’Kane et al., Pharmacogenomics and Reducing the Frequency of
Adverse Drug Events, 4 PHARMACOGENOMICS 1, 1 (2003).
79. Ross et al., supra note 78, at e134.

domain: health


I read Tim Ferris’ weekly blog “5-Bullet Friday”. He’s a Gen-Xer, and so I like to hear what he’s been up to and how he thinks. So recently, when he linked to the Pornhub Insights “2021 Year in Review”, I just had to click and check it out. What were these “insights” Tim was so excited about?
WHO KNEW? I WAS BLOWN AWAY!
I must admit that I had to look up several terms that were foreign to me. But the amount of data they collect was mind boggling. Here’s just one of the graphs showing how much time various people spend on their site. These guys measure everything!
This “insights” report points to how well this site (business) is monitored. Part of a $100 Billion global industry, they measure everything, including how the site performed during the Superbowl and type of devise used!
Dentistry in the US alone is more than a $130 Billion industry. How much of it YOU get might depend on your understanding the numbers.
The “insights” data is even broken down by State! I bet, if they wanted, they could break it down by zip code. I bet Disney knows such numbers too. How they invest in their various assets is a decision best not left to chance or ‘feelings’ but rather to market/audience analysis.
Recently, not knowing specific data and the trends caused me to err. When a client asked about putting an animated, cartoon-like video on their practice’s website, I said ‘no’ but the better answer, based on data I learned from the aforementioned website, should be that it depends on their marketing AVATAR.
If the patient avatars were only boomers, I would have been correct in saying that a live person would be better. But, if the avatar was Gen X, a cartoon or animated video might capture their attention.
Younger generations see things differently, and if marketing is aimed at those generations, then it behooves me (and you) to understand their preferred language. By the way, the data shows that Gen Xers (35-54) searched for “Cartoon” 58% more than others.
The point I’m making is that communication styles change. What might have facilitated communication and been effectively persuasive in the past might no longer work and visa versa. As communicators, and that’s what marketers are, we must stay on top of such trends.
Watch the trends as they change. What does the change mean for your marketing?
Do YOU measure the performance of your marketing and other systems?
I’ve long surrendered to the misconception that I understand how younger people think. I feel like my parents must have felt when I was a teen rebelling against the Vietnam War and listening to Led Zeppelin. I’m the ancient one now. But I learned the lesson that things change and if you want to stay relevant, you adapt.
In order to make the correct decisions, you need access to the NUMBERS that matter.
During our upcoming FREE WEBINAR, we will explore the Metrics that Matter and discuss how they can be used to help you navigate 2022 and make it your best year ever.
To successful adaptation and outcomes,


Jay focuses his practice on all areas involving patents, including the preparation and prosecution of utility and design patent applications in the United States and internationally, reissue applications, and applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. He also focuses on America Invents Act (AIA) post-grant proceedings, validity and infringement opinions, client counseling, due diligence, and litigation support.
He has helped U.S., European, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese corporations grow and manage international patent portfolios, often assisting corporate counsel in obtaining and enforcing global patent rights.
He also has experience with patent appeal proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB), as well as accelerated examination and first-action interview practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Jay’s patent experience covers a wide variety of electrical, computer, electro-mechanical, mechanical, and biomedical technologies, including wireless communication systems, semiconductor devices and fabrication, printing systems and devices, electronic displays and driving circuitry, medical and biomedical devices, medical imaging systems, automotive control systems, magnetoresistive devices, global navigation satellite systems, multimedia set-top boxes, analog and digital circuitry, computer software and networks, and optical networks.
Prior to joining Schiff Hardin, Jay was an associate with intellectual property law firms in Virginia and Washington, D.C., where he focused his practice on various areas involving patents, with a particular emphasis on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and abroad.


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Erin Diebboll made landfall in Busan on May 28th. She will now spend the next two weeks at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean on her way to the Panama Canal. Below are…
Tyler Coburn is traveling down the East Coast of the US! He has stopped in Norfolk, Virginia, and Savannah, Georgia. Next stop: Valencia, Spain.
Erin Diebboll departed from the port of Shanghai on May 25th en route to Busan, South Korea. Below are photos she took while departing.
Container Artist Residency ranks among some of the most unusual artist residencies.
Tyler Coburn boarded a ship at the Port of New Jersey on May 23rd for his residency-at-sea. Over the next three weeks, Tyler will travel down the East Coast of the US,…
Below are a series of photos Page took during his journey from Piraeus, Greece to New York.
Christopher Page turned some of his paintings into crates that will accompany him on his journey from Piraeus, Greece to New York. The works made their way from Page’s studio in Athens to…
As part of her residency-at-sea, Mari Bastashevski constructed a container that traveled with her and recorded its own experience onboard. Below are a series of photos Mari took of the box throughout…
Below are a group of photos Gróf took during a night shift onboard the container ship he was traveling on.
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen departed from the port of Hong Kong on April 9, 2016, after being delayed for a day due to smog in the Hong Kong Harbor.
Verso (2016) reveals not the fronts of world famous paintings, but their backs.
Twelve Miles to the Horizon (2012), exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art
The Arts of Logistics conference brings together scholars, activists, and artists from across the humanities and social sciences to interrogate how social movements and the arts respond to a world remade by logistics.


Arkansas counties send notices to update voter information
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — County officials across Arkansas have sent out notices to remind state residents who did not vote in the past election to update their ballot information.
The decision complies with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which permits people to register to vote while acquiring driver’s licenses.
Terri Hollingsworth, the Circuit and County Clerk of Pulaski County, said her office mailed over 55,000 cards Friday, which was the most of any county, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
The county clerk’s office sent cards informing residents that if they do not reply to the notice, their registrations will be voided, Hollingsworth said.
Hollingsworth, the first black woman voted into a county-wide role in Pulaski, noted that only 10% of people responded to notices in the past.
“This is not junk mail; please do not throw it away,” Hollingsworth said at a news conference.
She said she hopes amplifying awareness will ultimately increase the number of voters.
Mariah Hatta, a Pulaski County spokeswoman, said that 135,549 people, which were around 55% of those registered, voted in the 2018 election.
As of last week’s numbers, the clerk’s office had received 2,182 replies to the warnings, Hatta said.
She noted their office is considering other avenues to reach qualified voters, which include electronically and through social media.
Mireya Reich, executive director of the Arkansas United Community Coalition, a group that prioritizes increasing voter literacy for immigrants, said it’s particularly vital to educate residents who are new to the state and the nation about voting.
Reich said that county clerks can do a better job of intentionally reaching out to immigrants, especially Asians and Hispanics.
“What we’re finding throughout the state of Arkansas is a lack of proactiveness,” Reich said
Hollingsworth noted that her team has gone to community events to inform people about voting. Her outreach efforts include working with residents who have been convicted of felonies on potentially erasing their records, Hollingsworth said.


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Business Process Manager Salary (India)
A Business Process Manager earns an average salary of Rs 736,547 per year. Experience strongly influences income for this job. Skills that are associated with high pay for this job are Business Process Engineering and Six Sigma Black Belt. People in this job generally don't have more than 20 years' experience.

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Reclusive millionaire Howard Hughes put his engineering skills to work in 1941 when he cast Jane Russell as the lead in his film The Outlaw. He designed a special half-cup, underwire, and cantilevered brassiere to highlight her…talent.
The Flintstones was sponsored by a cigarette company during the show's first two seasons. The show was intended for adults, not kids, so few complained about the commercials that depicted the stone-age characters puffing away on Winstons.
DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes.
He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)


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Globalization which use to be a myth, especially to the developing countries is now gradually becoming our dignified reality. Businesses have to trust each other not minding borders and entrepreneurs are embracing the work from home culture which has changed the business culture. It then begs the question, doesn’t the fraud system of a country affect its entrepreneurs?
Globalization is no longer a farce as business transactions are no longer limited by borders. Businesses are evolving and technology is helping to change the modus operandi of our businesses.
Entrepreneurs have been playing the “start local, think global” card for years. Now, globalization and technology have availed us the opportunity to put this ideology to use. However, most entrepreneurs may not reap its fruits as the undignified reality of the fraud system in their countries may hinder them.
Effects Of The Fraud System On Entrepreneurs
Some entrepreneurs are sitting on a ticking time-bomb. It’s just a matter of time before some entrepreneurs start reaping the dividends of their country’s unchecked insanity. The insanity of a system that idolizes fraud.
Trust is the oil that keeps the engine of trade and commerce going, especially on a global scale. It is a non-negotiable business ethic, that shouldn’t in any way be compromised.
Anytime you compromise the non-negotiable of a business transaction, you put other entrepreneurs at risk of future success with the global economy.
For any country’s entrepreneur’s blood to flow through the veins of the global economy; they have to rethink their ideologies. Countries need to stop glorifying fraud, especially internet fraudsters.
More so, ill-gotten wealth has to be questioned. They also have to clampdown on money laundering, and change the image of their country on the global stage. Measures have to be put in place to address the ills of the “live fast die young” generation who continue to kill the reputation of the country’s focused entrepreneurs who truly want to run their businesses on a global stage.
Furthermore, these bedeviling ills, if not checked will continue to plaque their eco-system as a people. The sky is the limit for most forward-thinking entrepreneurs, but the realities of fraudulent systems will always make the country’s boarders become the limit to playing on the global stage of commerce and trade.
Lack Of Trust Stifles Globalization
The trust currency is the most valuable exchange. Nobody does business with who they do not trust. Trust has to be on the table of trade and commerce, especially on the global stage.
Enshrined in the business ethics of international brands is trust and integrity which are major factors in the psychology of selling, and must not be breached.
Lack Of Trust In Business Further Begs The Questions:
- How, then do the country’s entrepreneurs scale up?
- How do they create more jobs for their population?
- What direct impact will entrepreneurs have on their foreign exchange earnings?
- How do they get more fundings from Venture Capitalists?
These are questions entrepreneurs should be asking. Questions, whose answers are deeply rooted in the fabric of the country’s eco-system.
The impact of fraud and financial related crimes on any economy is enormous. Fraudulent practices and financial related crimes will always portray such a country in a bad light and as such foreign investors will be skeptical in doing business with them.
Also, this will directly or indirectly hamper the flow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs). In addition, fraud and related financial crime will have significant effect on their Gross Domestic Product, thereby affecting the country’s economy.
Recommendation On How To Curb Fraud
Auditors and accountants in organizations and financial institutions should be trained on how to carry out forensic investigation since the fraudsters are now sophisticated in their act.
Against the backdrop of glorifying ill gotten wealth, stiffer measures should be put in place for perpetrators of such crimes.
Also internal control systems should be strengthened to block opportunities that attract fraud perpetrators.
Benefits Of Globalization For Entrepreneurs
1.) Globalization has boosted output in the western economy and increased its foreign exchange earnings. It cannot be overemphasized how much of an impact it will have on any country’s economy.
2.) Globalization will enable firms to specialize and increase the intensity of R&D, innovation, and capital in their output.
3.) It will break the trade restriction barriers and increase access to fundings and foreign investors for startups.
4.) Globalization will break the gene of monopoly in many industries and sectors and make it easier for new companies to start competing with old incumbents.
6.) Globalization will give consumers more ‘bang for their buck’ by reducing the high inflation rates in the economy.
7.) Globalization will increase real wages by lowering the cost of consumption.
8.) It will also improve the quality of management in firms and the working conditions of their people.
Entrepreneurship is already a challenging journey, so countries have to do their best to make the journey less stressful.

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What if you could be alerted before the only natural disaster that offers no warning actually hits? Even if the alert came just seconds sooner? In light of the massive earthquake in Japan last month, West Coast seismologists are urging for a speedier warning system to be developed.
The discussion happened at a closed-door summit at UC Berkeley involving leading quake experts and industry representatives who have come to the consensus that early warning technology is mature enough for quake-prone states on the West Coast -- California, Oregon and Washington.
“A robust early warning system could be operating within five years in California, at a potential cost of $80 million over five years,” said organizer Richard Allen, associate director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and associate professor of earth and planetary sciences. A simpler system could be put into operation even sooner, he added.
During the recent disaster in Japan, an earthquake warning was sent out to millions of people across the country a full ten seconds before the initial jolt. It was the biggest test yet of the country's $1 billion earthquake early-warning system, and seismologists whoa re working to copy the system in the U.S. say it worked.
“Japan’s earthquake early warning system undoubtedly saved thousands of lives, and will reduce the long-term impact of the earthquake on the economy,” said Allen, who has been working for nearly a decade to develop and test an earthquake early warning system in the United States. “A similar system in California could provide as much as a minute warning – and in Washington, as much as two-to-three minutes’ warning – so that some actions, many of them automated, can be taken before the destructive waves (of shaking) arrive.”
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