World Champions Italy struggled to a 1-1 draw against minnow opposition New Zealand in Nelspruit on Sunday, leaving their chances of reaching the last 16 hanging in the balance.
Once again the Azzurri were slow out of the traps and after just six minutes, New Zealand were in front. A free-kick was swung into the box and found its way to Smeltz at the far post, who duely converted the ball past the stand-in keeper Federico Marchetti; the goal standing despite the striker seemingly being a yard offside.
This however proved to be a wake up call for the Italians, who soon trapped New Zealand inside their own half, creating numerous chances but failing to take advantage. The most noteable chance fell to Ricardo Montolivo on 27 minutes, his long range drive striking the foot of the right-hand post. The New Zealand resistance was finally broken moments later when defender Tommy Smith brought down Daniele De Rossi inside the area; De Rossi’s dramatic reaction no doubt swaying the referee to award a much needed penalty for Italy. In form striker Vincenzo Iaquinta cooly dispatched the spot kick, sending the goalkeeper the wrong way to restore parity as well as relief going into the break.
A second goal looked on the cards for the favourites as they continued to huff and puff in the second half, but it was not to be, despite Lippi’s best attempt to grind out three points, throwing on both Di Natale and Camoranesi. Iaquinta’s late last ditch effort was heroicly blocked by the All-Whites’ Winston Reid and moments later their prayers for the sound of the final whistle were answered.
Although the game was dominated by Italy in the attacking third, a point seemed a fair reward for New Zealand’s determined defending. Italy need Pirlo back as soon as possible. “We hope he will be back for the Slovakia game, but we cannot be 100% certain,” manager Marcello Lippi said. “We have to win that game now, there is no other way around it, because we do not want to go home.” Italy’s third and final group games sees them travel to Ellis Park on Thursday in a crucial win or bust game against contenders Slovakia.
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what do you think could have been happening? Fighting could be fighting and killing could be killing. Enmity and bloodshed could be real. Adultery and idolatry could prosper. Illiteracy and ignorance could prevail. Poverty stealing and insecurity could endure. The community would be barren. Crops would never be harvested. Fruits would never be ripe. All sorts of bad things. Count them and name them.
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Do I need the foam in my kayak?
Styrofoam is in your kayak to offer extra buoyancy, allowing it to float better! This means that if you capsize, or “sink” the boat, it won’t go to the bottom, and instead stay at the surface. So don’t remove that styrofoam.
Can you add foam to a kayak?
Unless your yak fills with water and is in danger of sinking putting foam inside does absolutely nothing for you. Emergency use only….and then you have to have enough. Not sure it would add any extra buoyancy. Just if you started sinking.
What are the foam blocks in a kayak for?
These foam blocks let you carry your kayak on your roof rack crossbars or on your naked roof. They provide a safe surface between your vehicle and watercraft.
How do I keep my kayak from sinking?
And those paddle splash fights with your friends can really sink you quickly too. In either case, you should get a spray skirt, basically a tight nylon or neoprene cockpit cover that you wear around your waist and attach to the rim of the cockpit to keep water out — and keep you from sinking.
Does foam increase buoyancy?
On the other hand, filling air cavities with foam can reduce the risk of them filling with water and it also helps with buoyancy.
To put it simply, yes. A kayak can potentially sink. … With a sit-inside, however, the water can enter the cockpit and if you have no bulkheads to add buoyancy, your hull could fill with water causing your craft to sink.
How do kayaks float?
In flat water, a kayaker and his/her boat are being pulled downward via gravity, and a buoyant force is pushing upward. In simple terms the buoyant force is equal to the weight of the water the kayaker displaces. … You see, when they spin around a corner, they whip around the stern of the kayak.
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For many paddlers — especially new ones — stabilizing floats provide peace of mind. They help ease paddlers’ fears and boost their confidence, which means they’re more likely to want to go kayaking again in the future.

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Partnership to assure wireless services
NetTest has signed a definitive agreement to co-operate with Casabyte in a partnership to bring integrated network and service assurance solutions to wireless operators
NetTest has signed a definitive agreement to co-operate with Casabyte, a leading provider of end-to-end wireless service quality monitoring solutions in a partnership to bring integrated network and service assurance solutions to wireless operators. To enable wireless operators of 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks to attract and retain subscribers, Casabyte and NetTest are working together to bring integrated solutions for end-to-end service assurance and troubleshooting of services.
This partnership combines Casabyte's RCATS with NetTest's MasterQuest in an integrated solution for fully automated, centrally managed active testing, performance monitoring and trouble shooting.
This will enable immediate and seamless network tracing and troubleshooting of any failed test, as well as automatic launch of test suites if network and service KPIs indicate potential degradation of the end-user service level.
Whereas MasterQuest provides in-depth understanding of the performance of the network and services seen from a network centric view, RCATS validates the offered services from an end-user perspective through its active test environment.
By combining the network centric view with the end-user view, operators can get a complete view of their operation and quality of service.
The agreement also means that NetTest will become a distributor of Casabyte's Service Assurance solutions for active test and roaming test solutions in EMEA and APAC.
"Our co-operation with NetTest will significantly increase our market presence in the EMEA and APAC regions, where NetTest's qualified sales and support organisation will enable us to reach a global audience with our Wireless Service quality assurance solutions", said John Read, CEO of Casabyte.
"Our co-operation with NetTest has its offset in the Service Management Alliance, and we see this as yet another example of how the alliance breeds enthusiasm among its members to create new and integrated solutions that will benefit wireless operators".
"Both RCATS and RoamerNet offer very immediate and tangible benefits to mobile operators which implies that there is a great worldwide potential for this partnership".
"In addition to this, Casabyte's wireless Service Assurance solutions are the ideal complement to our present OSS portfolio, which consolidates our position as a full OSS solution provider".
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Product design students at Central St Martins College of Arts and Design are set to rise to the challenge of coming up with a new charity collection box in a competition that we hope will help us generate the funds we need to protect the nation’s canals and waterways, writes Ruth Ruderham, head of fundraising at the Canal & River Trust.
Unfortunately, we’ve found that collection tins have fallen out of fashion, with many people favouring online donations. So we came up with the idea of reinvigorating the concept by launching the competition with the help of Central St Martins, which has just relocated to the banks of the Regent’s Canal. We’d like something that is fit for the 21st century yet captures more than 200 years of canal history – and which makes such an impression that people stop and decide to support their local waterway. The students can choose between designing a counter-top box or a portable tin.
In June, a selection panel that includes a judge from the Institute of Fundraising and Central St Martins will help us select the three best designs. After that, we’ll put the winning designs into the trust’s museums and attractions over the summer to see how well they do. The trust will buy the design that is most successful at raising money and put it into use by our fundraisers across the UK. I can’t wait to see what the students come up with.
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Civilian casualties and damage inflicted upon civilian infrastructure as a result of Armenia’s act of aggression against Azerbaijan
Since September 27, 2020 the armed forces of Armeniahave been targeting the civilian population, private houses and civilian infrastructure in Azerbaijan in a deliberate, widespread and systematic manner. By doing so, Armenia grossly violates its obligations under international humanitarian law, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols as well asdisregards the humanitarian ceasefire declared on October 10, 18 and 25.
On October 27, Armenia further escalated tensions and launched attacks in various directions, especially across the international border with Azerbaijan. Aghband village of Azerbaijan’s Zangilan region became a target of such cross-border attacks.
On October 27 late afternoon, armed forces of Armenia launched300 mm “Smerch” cluster munition rocket at the residential areas of Barda region. As a result of this attack, per preliminary information, four civiliansdied, including a toddler and thirteencivilians were injured.
Armed forces of Armenia also continued to shell the Tartar city and its villages by heavy artillery throughout a day. As a result, Tartar branch of the Azerkhalcha Open Joint-Stock Company was damaged. On October 26 evening time, the Tartar region were also subjected to 300 mm “Smerch” MLRS attack.
Moreover, Armenia forces attacked “Euronews” crew and their clearly distinguishable vehicle with the Kornetanti-tank missile while they were carrying out their professional duties as journalists in Talish and Sugovushan villages of the Tartar region. Fortunately, the missile veered off the target, the crew escaped the attack with a slight damage to their vehicle.
As of October 26, in total 69 civilians, including children, women and elderly were killed, 310 civilians have been hospitalized with serious injuries.Around 2300 private houses, 90 apartment buildings and more than 400 civilian infrastructures were damaged and became unserviceable as a result of Armenia’s deliberate, widespread and systematic attacks.
Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) reported that as part of special operational emergency field visitsto areas affected by Armenia’s attacks to residential areas, the Agency found five 9N235 bomblets in Goranboy region’s Topgaragoyunlu and Meshali villages on October 26. Bomblets fired by 300mm “Smerch” multi-launch rocket systems are a cluster munition banned under the international law
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Bike Touring Highlight
The town of Seligenstadt am Main is very popular with cyclists not only because of the well-known local ice cream parlors. There is also much to discover. For example, the Einhard basilica with the beautiful monastery garden invite you to linger. In addition to the monastery complex there are still many buildings to admire with half-timbered and also the town hall, the city fortifications, the water tower or one of the five museums are tourist attractions.
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The old town is really nice, if you are looking for peace but the weekend should be avoided.
With the Glaabsbrauerei and Klein's Brauhaus there are two beautiful beer gardens, the ice cream from Seligenstadt is famous regionally, people can eat there well and take a break from everyday life.
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Don’t let a good crisis go to waste,” a phrase coined by Rahm Emmanuel while he was White House chief of staff, has become a point of discussion among crisis communications experts and enthusiasts. Is there such thing as a “good crisis?”
To the average government and business leader, a better way to look at the issue of crisis management is to approach the topic from the point of not letting a good crisis waste you. Emmanuel’s point that a crisis can prove useful in some ways is valid, if it is handled properly.
No incident brings to mind the importance of critiquing leaders in their moments on the hot seat than that of the Carnival cruise ship Splendor fire of 2010. Most people agree that Carnival Cruise Line CEO Gerry Cahill and his team did an outstanding job by setting up a command post not in the plushness of a corporate atrium, but on the dock of the very port the ship sailed from. His timely news conferences, with the world’s press hearing updates straight from the mouth of the company’s top man, was a perfect example of sending a clear message in a time of trial.
As images of passengers eating Spam out of cans were broadcast to the world, I was glued to my TV telling him, “Gerry, get on a boat or helicopter and jump aboard that ship and ride this out with the passengers.” I don’t know if it was logistically possible, but think of the images of a corporate CEO enduring what his customers were going through. I’m sure that he would have gotten an earful from disgruntled passengers, but hopefully you understand the point of making it a habit to always be on the lookout for your leadership moment.
Having a crisis communications plan that is established, documented and trained-on is critical for today’s leader. The elements of the plan should come from the five assumptions General Electric CEO Jack Welch wrote about in his book, “Winning.”
Assumption No. 1 — The problem is worse than it appears. This allows the leader to outrun the totality of the predicament and formulate worst-case scenarios that spur creative thought towards ending the crisis sooner.
Assumption No. 2 — There are no secrets. Everyone will eventually find out everything. What a painfully true statement. Heed his advice and get everything out in the open from the beginning.
Assumption No. 3 — You and your organization’s handling of the crisis will be portrayed in the worst possible light. The immediate media and public opinion onslaught can and will sway emotions toward your organization that won’t be favorable. Don’t dig your hole deeper than it has to be.
Assumption No. 4 — There will be changes in processes and people. Almost no crisis ends without blood on the floor. How true is that? But take heart. Those changes have been the salvation for some companies and their long-term growth strategies.
Assumption No. 5 — The organization will survive, ultimately stronger for what happened. The maturity and experience gained from the ordeal of a crisis can be very valuable for future planning and response to other incidents. Try to focus on what the experience is going to give you instead of what it is going to take away.
When trying to differentiate between crisis management, leadership and communications, it is amazing to discover how they are one and the same when the crisis occurs. In my opinion, the leadership and management provided in a crisis is solidified through the communications process. When most people, families or organizations experience a potentially damaging crisis, they are immediately focused on correcting the problem and preventing further damage to themselves. However, there are others in the picture with a presumed vested interest — namely victims, lawyers and the media.
How we deal with each can make or break an organization. Having a crisis response plan and team to implement it is very important, but choosing to abandon a well-conceived plan and winging it in the heat of battle will cost you every time.
On his blog, Mr. Media Training, Brad Phillips gives “Seven Rules to Remember When a Crisis Strikes.”
1) You will suffer in the short term. Like Welch’s account of the immediate effect the crisis will have on you or your organization, Phillips believes that a well-handled crisis can enhance an organization’s reputation, increase its stakeholder loyalty and add to its bottom line.
2) Communicate immediately. It’s important to get out in front and do your own talking. Inform interested parties that, if nothing else, you are aware of the situation and will share information when it’s available.
3) If you don’t talk, others will. Reporters need information based on broadcast deadlines, and they’ll take the information from whomever is talking.
4) Saying “no comment” is the same as saying “we’re guilty.” Many leaders have the tendency to withhold comment until they have more information. The public can perceive “no comment” as a sign that the company is out of touch with the situation or as a proxy admission of guilt.
5) Your response needs to be about the victims. When BP CEO Tony Hayward told reporters, “I’d like my life back,” the media and dissenters had a field day painting the oil spill incident as a class warfare fiasco. Crisis leaders should always focus their public comments on the victims and not give the media a stick with which to beat them.
6) Facts are not enough. Facts can get obscured by perceptions. The crisis leader should, above delivering accurate and timely truths about the incident, strive to make sure that the stakeholders have their concerns addressed in a broader range than just that of facts and figures.
7) Get it all out. Members of the media are experts on digging deeper into a story and finding sources to fill in the blanks of the information presented to them. When suspicions start to arise that all the information is not being presented, people will start to fill in the void with rumors, gossip and unverified information.
Leadership is tough enough when times are going good. When, not if, crises occur, the leader’s response can determine many long- and short-term outcomes and can shape the future of the company, church or even the family. You can better prepare by observing the mistakes and accomplishments of others who have found themselves in the arena of a scandal or disaster. Your leadership moment could come in the wake of a crisis, and your preparation and the ability to calmly manage the situation can determine that your moment be cast in a positive light.
Chief Jones is a 25-year veteran of crisis situations. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Mercer University and master’s degree in public administration from Columbus State University.


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The evolution of plants from water onto land involved the development of systems for projecting their photosynthetic and reproductive organs up into the atmosphere. Xylem tissue is just such a system for it transports the water up to the leaves and its strength provides essential physical support. Sap is conducted through xylem tracheary elements (TEs) – hollow tubes whose collapse is prevented by patterned thickenings of secondary cell wall.
The aim of my work is to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the differentiation processes and more specifically the secondary cell wall formation of xylem vessels of both Arabidopsis (the genetic plant model) and Populus (the genetic tree model). The identification of key regulatory genes modulating xylem vessels cell wall formation will allow transgenic modification of the process to better understand how xylem/wood formation is controlled.
Key publicationsPesquet E, Korolev AV, Calder G, Lloyd CW The microtubule-associated protein AtMAP70-5 regulates secondary wall patterning in Arabidopsis wood cells. Current Biology: 2010 20:744-749
Endo S, Pesquet E, Tashiro G, Udagawa-Motose M, Kubo M, Fukuda H, Demura T Identifying new components participating in the secondary cell wall formation of vessel elements in Zinnia and Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell: 2009 21:1155-1165
Endo S, Pesquet E, Tashiro G, Kuriyama H, Goffner D, Fukuda H, Demura T Transient transformation and RNA silencing in Zinnia tracheary element differentiating cell cultures. The Plant Journal: 2008 53:864-875
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One thing I will guarantee to you guys is that I will never go back to HO. IMHO, it too has gotten very, very expensive. Even though I still have 20/20 vision the trains are just too darn small. When I had HO they constantly came off the track. I was using Atlas sectional track so in theory it should have been in gauge but knowing what I know now maybe some of the cars wheels weren't. I never thought of that back then. I have to say that O scale tracks very well. When I had the test layout I don't think I had derailments that weren't caused by me.
I was reading an interesting article in one of the old NASG magazines and the guy was saying how he can sometimes use HO buildings for S scale. That's awesome because HO buildings are always much cheaper than O scale buildings. Another cost savings for S. There are enough track systems in S so there's no problem there, scenery, electronics, and benchwork are the same for all scales. There is a decent amount of rolling stock available from various places so that isn't a problem. So it would seem to me that S scale has everything one would need except for the locomotives (specifically steam) themselves. I don't mind learning to scratchbuild structures or looking for HO or O scale structures to work in S scale but I can't scratchbuild a locomotive. First of all I don't know how and even if I did I don't have the tools needed. Whether I get into S or not I sincerely hope that this changes in the future.


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Purpose: There has been little research into the effects of therapies for alcohol dependence in Japanese patients with depression and drinking problems. The aim of this study was to: 1) assess the prevalence of problem drinking in patients with depression and 2) evaluate the association between depression severity and problem drinking.
Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in Japanese patients aged ≥ 20 years old with depression. Survey 1 identified those who engaged in habitual drinking and these individuals completed survey 2, which assessed alcohol consumption, depression severity and alcohol dependence or abuse.
Results: Overall, 2354 patients completed survey 1 and 425 patients completed survey 2. Of the patients who completed survey 2, 112 (26.4%; 95% confidence interval 22.2, 30.8) had alcohol dependence. Survey 2 showed that the severity of depression was significantly associated with the prevalence of alcohol dependence (p < 0.0001), suspected alcohol dependence (p = 0.0001) and high or very high drinking risk level (DRL; p < 0.0001). Univariate logistic regression analysis showed that alcohol dependence (p < 0.0001), suspected alcohol dependence (p = 0.0112), high DRL (p = 0.0027) and very high DRL (p = 0.0004) were significantly associated with severity of depression.
Conclusions: Among patients with depression who engaged in habitual drinking, the prevalence of alcohol dependence and suspected alcohol dependence were substantially higher than in the general population. Depression severity was significantly associated with alcohol dependence, suspected alcohol dependence and high or very high DRL.

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Just adc the voltage on that 330ohm resistor - it gives you the current.
Now, that is highly simplistic: it assumes that if you sense a current on that resistor, there is current going through it (to ground). It is entirely possible that there is an open circuit so there is voltage on the resistor but no current going through it. You can software detect that.
to "sense" when the LED is illuminated.
That is actually quite different from sensing the current: you can have current going through an LED yet it is not illuminating.
If you really want to sense illumination, use a light sensor (photoresistor / diode / transistor for example).


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When Martin Scorsese's 19th-century gang war film, Gangs of New York City, first screened, it did not end with a historical reimagining of 1862 streets, but with a pre-September 11 city skyline - including the World Trade Center.
Filmed before the terrorist attacks, the final shot was part of a time lapse showing how New York City had grown since the period in which the film was set. With the original release date scheduled at the end of 2001, Scorsese - a New Yorker himself - had to decide whether to retain the World Trade Center in the shot.
He decided to keep it in and when the film eventually reached cinemas - in December 2002, a year after its initial scheduling - the decision sparked controversy, being regarded as insensitive. From Scorsese's point of view, however, the film was sending a message of hope.
"It's not my job to revise the New York skyline. The people in the film were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it. And if the skyline collapses, ultimately, they will build another one," he said.
There has not been an event that changed the media and pop culture landscape as immediately, if not as drastically, as September 11, 2001. Even coronavirus, while it has brought inspiration to storylines, art and trends, hasn't stopped the release of movies that show people leaving the house without a mask.
September 11 seemed to touch a different nerve. And the knock-on effect meant that the generation that has grown up post-9/11 learnt about this world-changing event through the effect it had on society and culture - whether they realised it or not.
The beginning of the event's impact began with a rush to redact any reference to the World Trade Center or terrorism in general.
The immediate response
The rom-com Serendipity and the goofy Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander were among the films to digitally delete the Twin Towers almost immediately after September 11. In the case of Serendipity - which premiered with the original footage at the Toronto Film Festival two days after the attacks - this was done before its US cinema release a month later. Zoolander deleted the image before its US cinema release on September 28.
Other films needed more work. The teaser trailer for Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire, had already screened in cinemas, showing the superhero trapping a helicopter in a web strung between the Twin Towers. Not only was this trailer removed immediately and the scene deleted from the final film, Hollywood lore also has it that Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin was originally going to meet his end at the World Trade Center, so the film's ending had to be rewritten.
Even children's films were not untouched. After the attacks, Disney was forced to redo the final chase scene in Lilo and Stitch. The original version had Stitch joyriding in a 747, weaving through buildings in Hawaii. The aeroplane eventually became an alien craft flying through mountains.
Television creators also rewrote their scripts. The makers of the sitcom Friends- a show that revolved around New York City - had to reshoot the episode, The One Where Rachel Tells Ross. It originally saw Chandler and Monica detained in an airport after making bomb jokes.
Rewriting the script
Following September 11, war films became non-existent, while films such as Independence Day and Armageddon, which had presented destruction in almost a gleeful manner in the 1990s, all but disappeared.
The films of this ilk that clung to a pre-September 11 era, such as Collateral Damage - in which Arnold Schwarzenegger goes after terrorists - fell flat. It made $US78 million at the box office worldwide against its $US85 million budget. A CNN review read: "Without September 11, Collateral Damage would have been just another bad movie. Now it's a bad, embarrassing movie."
One of the first films to try to break the trend was Steven Spielberg's 2005 version of War of the Worlds, which turned out to be a parable of the September 11 attacks. Spielberg admitted scenes that were filled with black ash and images of people who had jumped to their deaths were influenced by what happened at the World Trade Center.
Its box office success may have paved the way for films such as United 93 and World Trade Center - both released in 2006 - that directly addressed 9/11.
Directed by Paul Greengrass, United 93 was a well-received, financially successful docudrama. It dealt with the hijacking of a plane by terrorists who intended to fly it into the Capitol Building in Washington, DC and the passengers who fought back. Although it crashed in a field, killing all on board, it was the only one of the four hijacked planes that did not reach its intended target.
World Trade Center was a docudrama directed by Oliver Stone about police officers trapped in the rubble of the collapsed towers. Although reactions from people depicted and their families were mixed, it did pretty well both critically and at the box office.
Two films dealt with a happier memory of the World Trade Center. The multi-award winning documentary Man on Wire (2008) and the Robert Zemeckis-directed docudrama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Walk (2015), both focused on French aerialist Philippe Petit's unauthorised high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in 1974. He was more than 400 metres above the ground and made eight passes over 45 minutes. The long-planned stunt became a media sensation.
Man on Wire director, James Marsh, said the film deliberately made no mention of the 2001 attacks. "What Philippe did was incredibly beautiful," he said to the BBC. "It may have been illegal, but it was not in any way destructive.
"It would be unfair and wrong to infect his story with any mention, discussion or imagery of the Towers being destroyed."
When was it OK to laugh again?
Talk show hosts David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart have all talked about what it was like to go back on air and present a monologue after the attacks. They felt they had to relearn how to be funny again.
In her biography, Yes, Please comedian Amy Poehler recalled what it was like working on New York-based comedy show Saturday Night Live after September 11. She had only become part of the cast the previous month.
"It was a tough time to join the show. It felt like that America wouldn't smile, let alone laugh again," she wrote.
The first episode after the attacks saw the show's producer Lorne Michaels solemnly ask New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, "Can we be funny?"
Giuliani paused and then answered, "Why start now?"
Of course, there were some failures when finding the way back to funny again. Bill Maher, on his show Politically Incorrect, said on his September 17, 2001 edition, "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, [it's] not cowardly."
A few advertisers withdrew and the show was suspended in some US markets. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer criticised Maher, who apologised, saying he intended to criticise US politicians, not soldiers. The show was cancelled in June, 2002.
Acerbic stand-up Joan Rivers told a joke at her 2002 show Broke and Alone In London regarding the widows of the many firefighters who died on 9/11. She said that they were paid $5 million and would be disappointed if they were told their husbands had been found alive. She was criticised by the International Association of Fire Fighters but did not apologise.
After 9/11 one 1997 episode of The Simpsons, The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, was removed from syndication for several years. The episode has the Simpsons travelling to New York to reclaim the family car that been abandoned in front of the World Trade Center Plaza. At one point Homer, desperate to urinate, runs to the toilet in the South Tower's observation deck and, finding it out of order, has to make his way to the one at the top of the North Tower.
Tributes in music
In the days following the attacks, Bruce Springsteen, whose songs often reflect and comment upon the state of the US, had a stranger in a car stop next to him, roll down his window and say, "We need you now".
It led to the Born in the USA singer recording the 2002, Grammy-winning album The Rising, which was largely inspired by the 9/11 attacks. The title song is told from the perspective of a New York City Fire Department firefighter in one of the Twin Towers after the attacks.
Neil Young wrote Let's Roll - released in November 2001 - after reading about Todd Beamer, one of the passengers on Flight 93 who fought the hijackers and crashed the plane before it could reach its intended target. Beamer called an Airfone operator to explain that they were going to rush the terrorists. Before Beamer hung up, the operator heard him tell the other passengers, "Let's roll". Other musicians inspired by the phrase include Melissa Etheridge and Ray Stevens.
A wholesome response to a tragic event is represented in the musical Come From Away.
Written by husband and wife team Irene Sankoff and David Hein and first produced in 2013, it is based on a true story. Thirty-eight planes landed unexpectedly in Gander, a small Canadian town, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon (which Canada initiated to divert aeroplanes from American airspace after the attacks). The characters are based on (and often share the names of) real Gander residents as well as some of the 7000 stranded people they housed and fed, who were all interviewed for the project on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Canberrans will be able to see Come From Away - a positive September 11 story amid all the destruction - when it comes to the Canberra Theatre Centre in February next year.


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A stiff wind blew along Hennepin Avenue on Saturday night, sending papers swirling above the traffic and threatening to push pedestrians into the paths of passing cars. The abnormally warm mid-November day had undergone a personality change by nightfall, and northerly breezes signaled winter's struggle to arrive despite the best theories of global-warming experts. This encounter with capricious Mother Nature seemed an appropriate way to begin an evening of dance focused on works by three choreographers--Allyson Green, Susana Tambutti, and Cathy Young--who navigate some extreme emotional terrain.
The members of Zenon Dance Company, now in its 17th year as a repertory company, capture the many physical moods of this trio of dancemakers, providing committed performances. The program opens with Green's "Paragraphs on Wind," a haunting work inspired by the ethereal landscape of White Sands, New Mexico. Based in New York, Green has performed in the companies of Doug Varone, Bill Young, and Charles Moulton, to name a few, but in recent years she has honed her own choreographic language, one unique for its spiraling patterns and sense of immediate human connection. Zenon's dancers embrace Green's robust vocabulary, capturing the spare beauty of the desert with an understated approach. Dressed in white, they move across the stage sometimes as nomads, other times as seekers, shapeshifting like sand dunes in a sirocco. Jeff Bartlett's stark lighting creates the feeling of a last frontier, where life still exists, but in a suspended state. In one memorable duet Greg Waletski circles Devin Carey, a vulture sizing up its next meal, or a hallucination brought on by dehydration. Life is vulnerable in Green's weathered environment, and Guy Yarden's textured score for electric violin confirms this fragility and temporality. The result is a sense of tranquility that makes this performance feel like a purifying experience.
Young's jazz-driven "Hidden Heart," set to an intricate musical collaboration by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, provides a dark contrast to Green's radiant vision. A quartet for Christy Coughlin, Christine Maginnis, Carey, and Waletski, the dance is like a game in which intimacy is to be avoided at all costs. The first section has the performers skirting each other's auras, barely touching, feeling for one another with a passing draft or a breath on the back of the neck. Their fear is palpable--think of a massage class among people with germ issues--and even as later sections bring the constantly changing couples into closer proximity, they retain a sense of caged panic. Young's daring with partnering is constantly evident as the dancers soar through some of the most original lifts around--in one, the dancer tosses his partner into the air as if on a planet without gravity. But a sense of incompleteness keeps this work from its potential as jarring transitions between sections grind the emotional momentum to a halt and furtive glances between the performers provide unnecessary theatrics.
Where Green and Young strive for simplicity, Tambutti, with her rambling ode to the demise of five classical ballet icons, "A Certain Death," stuffs the stage with gimmicks and ideas. By the time the house lights come up, the space is littered with debris: costumes in a heap, ballet barres in a tumble, feathers and flowers all around. Tambutti, founder of Nucleodanza in Buenos Aires, has a brilliant sense of drama, and her past collaborations with Zenon have yielded many memorable works. "A Certain Death," however, is problematic, notable more for its mixed messages and self-referential instincts than for its innovative movement. Paying homage to ballet's "victims," including the peasant Giselle, the sultry Carmen, and the sacrificial virgin who must dance until her last breath in The Rite of Spring, the work seems uncertain whether it wants to parody women's roles in ballet or make a rigid feminist argument against their helplessness.
Performed at times in the nude, the choreography encourages further victimization in its choices while at the same time making a sneering comment on the glamorization of death, a point driven home when Wynn Fricke's virgin is re-imagined as a starlet hounded by a hungry pack of paparazzi. To be sure, this is a daring piece of work to the extent that no sacred cow of the ballet world is left untipped. But Tambutti plays fast and loose with her blunt imagery, leaving the viewer wondering whether the elaborate means justify the muddled end.


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Spread-Axles Volume 2
A Truck Photographer's Diary
by David A. Bontrager
About the Book
This book is the second in a series of color photos of spread-axle reefers. Several photos of spread-axle dry vans are included. All of the trucks in this collection are definitely Cool Rides. Some are working show trucks and most could be. All photos taken in their working environment.
Dave drove truck in the U.S. for 40 years with over 3-million safe miles. He started taking photos of trucks as a young boy in the 1950s, inspired by his mother who took photos of his dad's trucks beginning in the late 1940s. He continues to photograph trucks today.


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Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979)
1h 43min · Documentary · 24 December 1979
Fårö Document 1979 is the ten-year followup to the first documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.
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Chariot reports bump in offshore Moroccan resources
London-listed Chariot has raised its resource estimates for the Anchois gas discovery and other prospects off the coast of Morocco following an independent assessment by Netherland Sewell and Associates, the company said on July 20.
At Anchois, the estimate for 1C contingent resources has been raised to 365bn ft3 from 201bn ft3, for 2C contingent resources to 637bn ft3 from 361bn ft3, and for 2U prospective resources to 754bn ft3. This brings the total remaining resource figure to 1.4 trillion ft3, and the probability of success at three undrilled targets has increased to 49-61%.
The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) NGC’s HSSE strategy is reflective and supportive of the organisational vision to become a leader in the global energy business.
At the Lixus prospects, total remaining recoverable resources are now assessed at 4.6 trillion ft3, while at the Rissana block, 2U prospective resources are estimated at more than 7 trillion ft3, based on 3D seismic data.
"This independent assessment report confirms that following the drilling of Anchois-2, we have a growing resource base from which we can fast track our gas development towards material cashflows and provide gas to meet Morocco's growing energy demand," Chariot's technical director Duncan Wallace said in a statement.
The Anchois-2 well made a discovery in January this year, at the same Lixus licence as the 2009 Anchois find. Chariot will continue working towards a final investment decision on Anchois, in order to bring the discovery into production as soon as possible, Wallace said.


Our Monday morning Progressive jackass award goes to Bernie Sanders’ red diaper grand-baby, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who compared climate change to Nazi, Germany.
First off, how does one mention World War II, Nazi Germany while omitting the Holocaust?
Second, how does Ocascio link what she sees as the “urgency” to take on climate change with the “last existential threat” that the United States dealt with, not five years ago, not ten years ago and not even 17 years ago, i.e., September 11, 2001 when the United States was attacked on U. S. soil? What about September 11, 2012 aka the Benghazi Islamic terrorist attacks?
During a session not open to the public or the press, location unknow, Ocascio stated the following:
“So when we talk about existential threats — the last time we had a really major existential threat in this country was around World War II.”
“And so we’ve been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before. None of these things are new ideas.”
“What we have is an existential threat in the context of war. We had a direct existential threat with another nation — this time it was Nazi Germany … who explicitly named the United States as an enemy.”
“And what we did was that we chose to mobilize our entire economy and industrialize our entire economy, and we put hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to work defending our shores and defending this country.”
“We have to do the same thing if we’re going to get us to 100 percent renewable energy,” “And that’s just the truth of it….”
Ocascio is either stupid, a pathological liar or both. Of course, that would explain why she has closed the press and public out of her private campaign sessions. She deserves to be challenged on the propaganda that she espouses quite confidently to fellow elites and the few useful idiots that she allows access to her private sessions. Why the Communist media complex and New York voters allows her to get away with this is beyond me.
Source: GOP WAR ROOM/YouTube
At a campaign event, Democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likens her plans to address global warming to America’s and American veterans’ war efforts against the Nazis during World War II.
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In the lead-up to their highly anticipated showdown on October 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Francis Ngannou made a striking offer to Tyson Fury, adding an intriguing twist to their negotiations.
The forthcoming bout between Ngannou and Fury is poised to be an electrifying event, marking Ngannou’s debut in the professional boxing ring. This fight is of particular significance as it signifies the former UFC heavyweight champion’s transition from MMA to boxing.
During the negotiations between Francis Ngannou and Tyson Fury’s teams, a unique gesture emerged that added a surprising dimension to the discussions. Mirror reports that Ngannou, who himself had undergone a discreet hair transplant, made a generous offer to ‘The Gypsy King.’ Ngannou extended an offer of a complimentary hair transplant for Fury, a procedure he had recently experienced.
A source revealed, “Francis quietly had a hair transplant behind the scenes as his team [negotiated] with the Fury camp about the fight. The pair became quite close friends at this time during the early stages of a possible fight last year, and Francis cheekily offered Fury the free transplant at the clinic he went to as a sweetener to their deal.”
This unexpected revelation adds a unique layer to the already much-discussed clash between Ngannou and Fury, generating further curiosity among fans and observers.
The Ngannou vs. Fury bout has been a topic of extensive speculation, with some predicting an easy victory for Tyson Fury due to his boxing pedigree. However, former UFC fighter Dan Hardy provides a different perspective. In an interview with Sherdog, Hardy highlighted Ngannou’s knockout potential and the unpredictable nature of heavyweight fights, stating:
“The Tyson Fury fight is as fascinating and intriguing as any other fight I’ve ever seen. I was heavily involved in the May/Mac fight, and of course, we knew McGregor’s chances to beat Mayweather or even land something meaningful on him were very slim.”
Hardy goes on to emphasize the uncertainty surrounding the fight, particularly the question of whether Ngannou, known for his incredible striking power, can land a telling blow on Tyson Fury, and if Fury can recover if he does. With the heavyweight division’s unique intensity, both fighters face considerable pressure, making this clash one to watch.


A migrating “duck” has caused concerns amongst an Ullapool environmental group.
The Ullapool Sea Savers found out about a half-full Duck cleaning fluid bottle that washed up on a beach near Bergen, Norway.
They have assumed it has come all the way from Scotland, but it is definitely of British origin due to lettering on the bottle.
It was found by a friend of the group and Norwegian documentary maker Kenneth Bruvik, who thinks the discovery of the bottle can become a symbol for the need to stop plastic pollution now.
‘Plastic has no borders’
He said: “This duck is a very good picture of how plastic can travel across the world and is a problem we must work together to solve.
“Plastic has no borders, we need to work across borders to stop plastic ending up in our eco-system.
“It is like it has migrated here illegally, and is not the sort of duck we want to wash up on our shores.
“We need to work together to stop our children and grandchildren from becoming drowned in plastic.
“There is a simple solution, and everyone in the world must help to stop polluting our seas.”
The Plastic Whale
Mr Bruvik is good friends with Ullapool Sea Savers environmental adviser Noel Hawkins.
The Sea Savers are a group of enthusiastic children and teenagers from the Wester Ross town who do regular beach cleans and raise awareness about the dangers of polluting our seas and beaches.
Mr Bruvik has been involved in a number of documentaries in his native Norway, including one called the Plastic Whale, which was shown on Sky News.
It is about a beaked whale which ashore near Bergen with over 30 pieces of plastic in it, including Ukrainian chicken packaging, a Danish ice-cream wrapper, and a British crisp bag.
Next, Mr Bruvik wants to visit Ullapool and Skye in autumn for a new series, depending on the Covid pandemic.
He wants to explore the case of the whale that washed up in Skye that was killed by swallowing 4kg of plastic bags in 2015.
The mammal was put to sleep on welfare grounds after it got into difficulty near Broadford in December that year.
Mr Bruvik led a mass beach clean in Bergen in 2018, when more than 100 people from around the world attended, inspired by the Sky News documentary.
He added: “I want to come to Scotland and meet my friends in Ullapool, the kids are very important in this fight as they are the next generation.
“We must make this a cleaner place for our children and grandchildren.
“Sea pollution is bad for the environment, it affects all sea life, fish, birds, and seals.
“The best way to do this is by talking to people, tell them how they can help and get the word out there.”
Mr Bruvik aims to bring back the half-empty Duck bottle to Scotland if here comes here.
Ullapool Sea Savers
Ullapool Sea Savers combat sea pollution through regular beach cleans and taking advantage of schemes like Fishing for Litter, which has boats pick up any rubbish they see and take it back to shore.
Advisor Noel Hawkins described the situation on north beaches, with “95%” of the rubbish that washes up being from fishing vessels and other boats.
He said: “We do our best, but we need a more joined-up effort from around the world.
“It doesn’t matter if Scotland is perfect at this, as pollution will still come in from the rest of the world.
“With Cop26 coming to Glasgow later this year, it’s a great opportunity for solutions to be thought of, as it needs to be done right now, rather than 20 or 40 years down the line.
“The kids in the group came together as they saw the impact pollution was having on our beaches up here and want to help with that.”
Mr Hawkins revealed that broken fishing equipment was the item that mostly washed up, with parts of nets seen regularly.
As for the most unusual thing they have found, it was cans of mackerel lost from Russian fishing boat back in the 1980s.
He added: “One of the kids picked up a can with the best before date of 1983, and it still had mackerel in it.
“I told him not to open it as the smell would have been explosive.
“Crisp packets we find often have long-gone best before dates, and some even pre-date the kids who find them.
“All these items are still largely intact, which shows how rubbish does not break down.”
To find out more about the Ullapool Sea Savers, visit their website.


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I showed you a photo last week of some rice krispie treats I had made with a question of what you thought I might be making with them. Well, today I am back with my treats and your guesses as well.
I will say that the guesses of brains really caught me off guard, but they were good, and made me think of another way to use these in the future.
Here are my little "owl-o-ween treats" with our D & P Celebrations printable squares. I was going for pumpkins, but as you can see, they just are not quite there. :) The squares were perfect for layering with my Authentique paper (I just HAD to have last year) and attaching to the front of these little black boxes.
These fun little treat boxes would be great to hand out to friends, co-workers or neighbors.
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‘You know neither the scriptures nor the power of God’: it is a striking statement to take with us from today’s readings and to ponder throughout the day.
Today’s first reading introduces us to another of the main characters in the Book of Tobit, Sarah who will become the wife of Tobias, the son of Tobit. She has her own strange misfortune, pestered as she is by a strange demon that kills off her husbands as soon as she marries them. She is in despair about this at the same moment in which Tobit is in despair about his situation. Each of them is simple, honest and direct in their questions and in their laments, and it endears them to us.
The Sadducees by contrast are not simple, honest and direct. Like the other groups we’ve been hearing about in recent days, they are trying to catch Jesus with their question. It comes at an angle and is not honest. They do not believe in the resurrection of the body and nor do they believe in spirits. It is strange that materialists should have provided the high priests, for it seems that the high priestly families at the time of Jesus were Sadducees. They present an argument to show the absurdity of believing in the resurrection, telling an unlikely story about a woman marrying seven brothers. But their interest is not in the truth or in the happiness of people. Their interest is in catching Jesus out and putting him in a corner, if possible embarrassing and compromising him.
‘Get to know the scriptures and the power of God’, is Jesus’ answer to them. Tobit and Sarah are about to be helped by the power of God in the form of the archangel Raphael who is sent by God to resolve the problems of both. Through the angels, God’s power is applied to particular situations and circumstances. God does not want Tobit or Sarah to die and he wants to rescue them from their despair. Raphael is his servant in fulfilling this plan, helping them to live and to live happily.
Jesus reminds us that God is about life and not death, that he is God of the living and not of the dead, and that what God wants is life and the abundance of life. Death as we experience it now was not part of his plan. It is the devil’s work but this last enemy too is overcome in the resurrection of Jesus. His victory over death establishes definitively and forever that God is the God of the living and not of the dead.
Let us seek to live as Tobit and Sarah, simply, honestly and directly, knowing the scriptures and the power of God. We pray that we may enter ever more deeply into the wisdom contained in the scriptures and that we may experience in our lives, even today, the healing presence of God’s power.

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WASHINGTON — If you are a federal worker on furlough this week — or an airline passenger delayed by federal furloughs — you might save your blood pressure, and go read another story.
This one is about all the money the U.S. government spends on . . . nothing.
It is one of the oddest spending habits in Washington: this year, the government will spend at least $890,000 on service fees for bank accounts that have nothing in them. At last count, Uncle Sam has 13,712 such accounts, each containing zero dollars and zero cents.
These are supposed to be closed. But nobody has done the paperwork.
So even now — as the "sequester" budget cuts have begun idling workers and frustrating travelers — the government is still required to pay $65, per year, per account, to keep these empty accounts on the books.
In this time of austerity, these accounts are a reminder of something that makes austerity hard: expensive habits, built into the bureaucracy in times of plenty. The Obama administration has spent the last year trying to close these accounts, with some success.
But only some.
"If anyone had kept open a bank account with no money, and was getting a charge every month, they would do everything they could to close it," said Thomas A. Schatz, of the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste. But, Schatz said, the government hasn't shown the same kind of urgency with taxpayers money.
"It's just lack of attention to detail. And poor management," he said. "And, clearly, the fact that no one gets penalized for paying money to keep the accounts open."
The money spent on these empty accounts is — of course — a tiny fraction of the federal budget. But, in its own way, it is something special: Washington's perfect waste, a rare specimen of cost untainted by any reward.
The Pentagon once paid $435 for a hammer, after all. But at least, in that case, it got a hammer.
Here, when the money is spent, "there's no benefit whatsoever," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who has joined Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., in pushing the Obama administration to close these accounts faster.
Inside the Obama administration, officials said they're trying. Last year, the Office of Management and Budget urged agencies to crack down on these "zero balance" accounts. And this year, it proposed a wide-scale effort to improve the oversight of such accounts.
"We have worked with agencies to improve the timely closeout of grants," said Danny Werfel, the Controller at the Office of Management and Budget, in an emailed statement. "Agencies have made noteworthy progress so far, with the number of zero balance accounts falling by more than 50 percent since the end of fiscal year 2011." Back then, the total was over 28,000.
Here is how the government winds up spending money on nothing:
First, a federal agency gives out a grant. It doesn't just write a check; it creates an account within a large government-run depository. The grantee can draw money out from there.

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We were about to head off to Canberra to visit our younger daughter and son and I realised I needed to make some mango chutney to take with us. The chutney is a favourite with our eldest granddaughter. I have written about it in a previous blog post.
I used some of my frozen mangoes and whipped up a batch in no time at all.
I had added on my recipe that I needed to make sure the chillies were chopped up small as in my previous batch I had found some large pieces of chilli that had missed the processing.
I am having issues with my label printing as I am using a different page of labels and my old format doesn’t fit hence some labels don’t have the full correctly formatted image but they will at least know what is in the jar.
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How wonderful. I’d love the addition of chilli in it


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The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce in Savannah, Georgia is a voluntary organization of businesses and professional men and women who strive to promote the civic, commercial, and economic development of the community. This organization was established in 1806 as a trade association concentrating its efforts on trade and has been in continuous operation since then. Over the years, the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce expanded its scope to include all businesses and professional communities throughout the entire Savannah area and the surrounding communities.
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Join us for Glynwood’s fifth annual Food + Farm Day, an immersive celebration of everything that is awesome about being on a farm: the food, the people, the landscape and, of course, the animals!
Tastings, tours, demonstrations and workshops for all ages are scheduled throughout the day. Food, beverages and pantry items are for sale at our marketplace and in our farm store.
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Today we met the Karb Family at a local crepe restaurant for some, well, crepes. Yes four adults AND four kids, enjoying various crepes.
I love crepes and my mom made them all the time. I usually just put sugar on them and ate lots of them. One day, I have to get the recipe and start making them at home.
I got the chicken alfredo with mushroom crepe. It wasn't bad, but I wouldn't rave about it. I found the prices to be on the high side for food that mostly comes from packages or cans.
After eating, Tina dropped me off at home before heading to the movie theatre to see the latest Veggietales movie with the Karbs.
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Hogrog Ug Weirdklaw awoke from a vivid dream - a vision of the Realm of Beasts. He immediately leapt into action and roused the tribe. He made The Badfangs repaint their godbeast masks red (well, red-ish) and dye their leather and lizard-skin robes and cowls brown. With the warband suddenly looking much more sombre and threatening, Hogrog headed off in search of a Realmgate to Ghur, with the Badfangs close on his heels!
The Badfangs are masked Bonesplitterz, formerly of Aqshy but now they are off to Ghur.
I have spent an evening partially repainting Hogrog Ug Weirdklaw and The Badfangs. The warband is now much more coherent and I'm very much happier with them.
Hogrog Ug Weirdklaw, Wurrgog Prophet and leader of the Badfangs.
Hogrog and his Wardokks, Urgog (left) and Krogdak (right).
Bigtoof (Morboy with Bone Totem) and Big Boss Ersatz.
Gugtusk, Boarboy Maniak (slightly unpredictable) scout for the warband.
6 Orruk Morboys (Klogtoof, Zurgob, Umclaw, Zogfang, Rukbeast, Mogrok) and 6 Orruk Arrerboys (Azgrok, Bortusk, Toofdrakk, Gurkfang, Rogtoof, Legbiter)
2 Orruks with a Big Stabber - Murtoof and Durtoof (or “MurDurToof”)
The whole Warcry warband as it now stands. I have Hedkrakka’s Madmob on my desk - they are the reason this repaint happened. I wasn't really enjoying the idea of painting more Bonesplitterz in the old colour scheme, so I changed the scheme!


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Securitized credit, which involves the packaging of cash flows from different sources including mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and other types of receivables into marketable securities, offers many potential benefits to fixed income investors who are seeking to diversify their traditional unsecured credit risk exposure and source alternative forms of income and total return. Investors may also reap potential benefit from improved underwriting standards over the last decade.
The US securitized market today is approximately $7.5 trillion (source: Bloomberg) in size and is comprised of residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS), asset backed securities (ABS) and commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS). Residential mortgage credit, which is comprised of legacy RMBS (subprime, Option ARM, Alt-A) Prime, Credit Risk Transfers (CRT) and Jumbo mortgages, historically offers very attractive diversification benefits given it’s low-to-negative correlation with most traditional liquid fixed income assets (see table below).
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Respiratory Registrar (Advanced Trainee) at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine o Tararua MidCentral, Manawatu / Whanganui
Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role
Respiratory Advanced Trainee Registrar (12 months)
Date of Commencement: Negotiable
Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine o Tararua |MidCentral (MidCentral) is part of Te Whatu Ora|Health New Zealand and provides healthcare services to over 180,000 people across the Manawatū, Horowhenua and Tararua regions. With a large hospital campus in Palmerston North, it also provides key health care and support services to neighbouring communities.
The respiratory AT position is only accredited for general respiratory training and not Sleep training. However, the respiratory service also attends to patients with sleep disorders. The sleep service staff includes 2 sleep physiologists and one sleep technician and one sleep clinical nurse specialist. The sleep lab can conduct overnight full PSG, in addition to usual. Therefore, the AT will still have opportunity to sleep investigations and managing patients with sleep related disorders. The service also has an accredited lung function laboratory able to conduct all tests including cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The AT will have an opportunity to spend time in the lung function laboratory. In addition to general respiratory clinics and ward work, the registrar will attend procedural sessions which include insertion of long term intrapleural catheters, performing bronchoscopy and have opportunity to attend EBUS sessions. Palmerston North Hospital also hosts one of the regional lung cancer MDM providing opportunity for the AT to actively participate in the MDM. Although this is a respiratory AT position, the AT will also participate in the on call general medicine roster.
Come and join us
Employing over 2500 people, MidCentral offers a supportive work environment that accepts and values all employees. We actively seek Māori kaimahi into our workforce and provide an environment which delivers our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
MidCentral region offers an excellent lifestyle for families with scenic spots for hiking and mountain-biking, great schools, and tertiary institutions. With the mountains, city, and sea at your doorstep, you'll get to taste the best of both worlds – the perfect blend of rural and city living.
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Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Illinois, USA, reports that despite challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is continuing to provide its range of services.
The company states that the Ipsen Service Team is committed to supporting customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with both on-site and remote assistance to keep critical heat-treating equipment operational. Its technicians provide a range of services, including installation or relocation of equipment, start-up & testing, furnace evaluations & repair, refurbishments, computer & controls upgrades, spare parts, training, and technical support.
Ipsen explains that it is continuing to provide advanced aftermarket support, including instrument calibrations and temperature uniformity surveys (TUS) that adhere to various industry standards, such as Nadcap, AMS2750E, AMS2769C, and MedAccred. The company provides calibration and TUS services for the aerospace & defence, medical device, automotive, and energy industries to help ensure their equipment remains compliant.
The company states that in accordance with government requirements, it is following all necessary safety protocols, including wearing personal protective equipment, maintaining social distancing, limiting face-to-face contact, and increasing the use of remote assistance where possible.