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This Instant Pot apple cider is the perfect holiday drink! Simple and Fast recipe that all your family gonna like!
This pressure cooker apple cider is rich in fruits and contains a lot of health benefits.
And remember -
An apple cider glass a day, keeps the doctor away!
To make it prettier, you can add fresh cranberries and slices of orange when serving.
Refrigerate for longer use.
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Instant Pot Apple Cider
This homemade drink is perfect for a fall evening or holiday season.Print Pin Rate
- 4 green apples
- 4 red apples
- 2 medium oranges
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 teaspoon cardamom pods
- 1 ½ cup brown sugar
- water to cover the fruits
- 1 cup fresh cranberries
- Cut the apple and the oranges in quarters and put them in the inner pot. Add all the remaining ingredients and pour water so they cover all the fruits
- Close the lid and cook at high pressure for 10 minutes.
- After cooking end, do a quick pressure release.
- Open the lid and mash the fruits a little.
- Close the lid and cook at high pressure for 5 more minutes.
- After cooking end, wait for the pressure to release naturally.
- Strain the mixture.
- Serve with the slices of oranges and cranberries and cinnamon sticks.
Calories: 270kcal Carbohydrates: 70g Protein: 1g Fat: 1g Saturated Fat: 1g Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g Monounsaturated Fat: 1g Sodium: 14mg Potassium: 318mg Fiber: 6g Sugar: 62g Vitamin A: 175IU Vitamin C: 26mg Calcium: 69mg Iron: 1mg
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6 thoughts on “Instant Pot Apple Cider”
What can I substitute cranberries with? Don't have any fresh ones here. Thank you.
I think the best option is to use frozen cranberries if you can find them. You could also try using tart cherries, or add just a splash of cranberry juice at the end, or leave it out entirely.
OK, maybe this is dumb but do you have to peel the oranges first? Not sure if leaving the peel on will make it bitter. Thanks.
That's a good question! No need to peel the oranges, the skin has a lot of flavor too. And even though it's a bit bitter on its own it will be balanced out by the sugar.
Do you fill water to the line? Water as needed is a bit vague.
Add enough water to cover the apple mixture in Instant Pot.


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The U.S. Census Bureau has released its America’s Families and Living Arrangements data packet, which includes an estimate of same-sex couples living in the U.S.
According to estimates from the 2019 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, there are a total of almost 1 million same-sex households—543,000 married and 469,000 unmarried. Within these households, 191,000 children are estimated to live with same-sex parents.
Same-sex households make up about 1 percent of the population: 61.4 million households are comprised of opposite-sex married couples, 8 million of opposite-sex unmarried couples, and 36.5 million of only one person.
This data comes after improvements “in survey measures and processing” were made to the Current Population Survey “to better gauge the makeup of U.S. households.” This improvement includes the addition of opposite-sex/same-sex options and gender-neutral parent identification questions.
However, this information does not paint the entire picture of America’s LGBTQ population: it doesn’t track LGBTQ people living alone or bisexual people living with an opposite-sex partner. In the 2020 census, official will not ask census-takers about their sexual orientation, either. However, according to Roll Call, respondents will be explicitly asked whether their marriage is same-sex or opposite-sex.

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Title: "Security Council Approves Iraqi Oil Sales Plan." Seeking to provide for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people, the UN Security Council formally authorized a one-time
sale of Iraqi oil raise funds for that purpose. (910919)
Translated Title: Consejo de seguridad aprueba plan ventas. (910919)
Author: AITA, JUDY (USIA STAFF WRITER)
09/19/91 HSECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES IRAQI OIL SALES PLAN SH(Funds to be used to meet civilian needs) (1240) BYBy Judy Aita BIUSIA United Nations Correspondent
TUnited Nations -- Seeking to provide for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people, the U.N. Security Council September 19 formally authorized a one-time sale of Iraqi oil to raise funds for that purpose.
In a resolution adopted by a vote of 13 to 1 (Cuba), with Yemen abstaining, the council also set up an escrow account to be administered by the U.N. to handle the profits from the sale and oversee the purchase and distribution of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies to the Iraqi people.
In adopting the resolution, the council accepted the recommendations of Secretary General Perez de Cuellar and his staff on how the oil sales should be handled.
After the council voted approval of the oil-for-food plan, which it had authorized in August, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering described the resolution as "a key step in bringing the gulf crisis to a close and having Iraq meet its responsibilities."
Pickering said, "This resolution will implement the international community's concern for providing Iraqi civilians humanitarian assistance. The way is open now to Iraqi authorities to allow that process to begin."
The U.S. ambassador stressed, however, that the resolution provided only limited authorization for the sale of Iraqi oil "within the existing sanctions regime, which remains firmly in place." The oil sale "does not in any way represent a weakening of sanctions," he said.
In drawing up the resolution, the council "made a conscious effort throughout to take Iraq's legal standing into account," the ambassador said. The resolution "sets up mechanisms to implement resolution 706, supports the secretary general in his implementation role, and provides for ongoing review and assessment of the needs and requirements in Iraq."
In August the Security Council (in resolution 706) authorized a special one-time sale of $1,600 million worth of oil. However, the council imposed stringent restrictions, including requiring that the sales be approved by its Sanctions Commission and that the money go directly into a U.N.-administered escrow account.
The U.N. must also supervise the purchase and distribution of the humanitarian supplies to ensure that Baghdad does not divert the money to military uses. According to the council's formula, a little less than $1,000 million will go to purchase the supplies. The remaining $660 million will go toward the cost of the weapons destruction, monitoring the oil sales, return of Kuwait property, the expenses of the border commission, and war reparations.
The resolution adopted September 19 (number 712) sets out the legal basis for the oil sale, stipulating that the oil and oil products sold under the current authorization are immune from any other legal actions or garnishment and asking states to take the steps necessary to ensure the profits are not diverted. It also sets up the escrow account administered by the secretary general, gives diplomatic immunity to the inspectors and other experts needed to carry out the plan, and demands that Iraq allow the U.N. personnel full freedom of movement and all necessary facilities. The council also instructed that the escrow funds be made immediately available to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies.
In a speech to the council before the vote, Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir Al-Anbari called the resolution "unrealistic." He said it will lead to instability in the oil market and is an illegitimate intervention in Iraq's bilateral agreements with such countries as Turkey.
Accusing the council of "political hypocrisy," Al-Anbari said that "some members fully realize the impracticality of the plan and are trying to escape their political and humane responsibilities while keeping the Iraqi people under siege and placing the blame on Iraq itself."
But Soviet Ambassador Valentin Lozinskiy pointed out that the resolution "opens the way to early implementation of a plan of action (to help Iraqi civilians), since Iraq's practices have not given the Security Council a basis for removing or reducing the sanctions against it."
And British Ambassador Sir David Hannay, stressing that "this council has never had any quarrel with the people of Iraq," noted that the resolution "achieved the necessary balance" between maintaining sanctions and taking account of concerns for the suffering Iraqi civilians.
In the report now approved by the Security Council, Perez de Cuellar proposed that Iraq immediately sell 515,000 barrels of oil a day for the next six months from its main Kirkuk oil field. The most efficient way of selling the oil is for the Iraqi state oil company, SOMO, to handle the sales instead of the United Nations, he said, noting that Iraq "knows best" how to market its oil and has long-term clients.
The payments, however, will go directly into the U.N. escrow account to be administered by Perez de Cuellar.
The secretary general said Iraq now produces 300,000 to 500,000 barrels of oil a day and has an estimated capacity of 1.45 million barrels a day. He said the facilities in the Kirkuk area in the north and the pipeline to Yumurtalik in Turkey are operational. That would allow about one million barrels of oil a day to be exported.
Using the price of $17 per barrel, he said, Iraq would have to sell 94 million barrels for six months (or 515,000 barrels a day) to earn the $1,600 million the Security Council is allowing.
Perez de Cuellar also asked the council to consider allowing Iraq to sell more than the $1,600 million authorized last month. He pointed out that, according to U.N. estimates, Iraq will still need $800 million in food, medicine and agricultural supplies after the oil sale. (The U.N. has estimated that Iraq needs $1,100 million in food imports, $250 million to re-establish basic health services; $27 million for an emergency mother-and-child feeding program; $120 million for water and sanitation facilities, and $300 million for agricultural supplies.)
The secretary general noted that $666.6 million of the money raised will go to administering the oil sales, the boundary commission, the special commission destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction; the return of Kuwaiti property, the start-up of the compensation fund, and the monitoring and distribution of the humanitarian supplies. Thus, only $933.7 million will be available to buy and transport the urgently needed supplies.
Although the council did not increase the amount, the new resolution provides for periodic reviews so that the amount of oil sold can be increased if the needs escalate.
The secretary general also recommended that Iraq purchase and arrange for the delivery of goods with the Sanctions Committee's approval. The committee will then notify the secretary general, who will authorize payment from the escrow account. U.N. inspection agents will monitor the purchases and the U.N.'s special delegate for gulf aid will oversee the distribution.
The Sanctions Committee will monitor the process with the help of independent inspection agents, the secretary general said. Every sales contract between SOMO and a purchaser must include provisions that the contract enter into force only after receiving Sanctions Committee approval; the proceeds are to be deposited into an U.N.-administered escrow account; and the purchaser must open a letter of credit from a reputable international bank for each transaction. NNNN
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Northern California Waterfalls - waterfalls that we've visited north of Sacramento
This Northern California Waterfalls page is our survey of waterfalls that we’ve managed to visit pretty much anywhere north of the state capital in Sacramento. Even though Julie and I have lived in the state of California most of our lives, we’ve had a gaping hole in our survey of the waterfalls in the far north of the state for the first 16 years of our days of waterfalling together.
For one reason or another (i.e. drought, distance, life circumstances, etc.), we had missed out on California’s most spectacular waterfalls outside of Yosemite National Park. So having a showcase of such waterfalls was long overdue.
Nevertheless, after we’ve had opportunities to make a few trips to the northern part of our state in 2016, we can finally feel confident about putting this page together. Indeed, we’ve managed to visit the waterfalls located in the Gold Rush area of Tahoe National Forest, Nevada County, and Plumas National Forest. Moreover, we’ve also gone further north to where the geologic distinction between the southern end of the Cascade Ranges of the Pacific Northwest and the northernmost end of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California were blurred.
Given that we’re covering a lot of real estate (California is a very big state, after all), there was no shortage of quality waterfalls. So we’ll always look forward to making more visits to Northern California to fully experience what our home state has to offer in the way of Nature and unforgettable family experiences…
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PCB Thermal Modelling with Empirical Thermal Conductivity Methods
This web seminar,26 April 12PM, will explain the new empirically driven effective thermal conductivities for PCB modelling. The analytical PCB modelling calculations have been around for many years. Many companies have developed methods of capturing the copper geometry and calculating component temperatures. In order to speed up the process, a process has been developed to empirically model the pcb and provide accurate temperature analysis of PCBs.


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CYANHYDRIC ACID (synonym: hydrocyanic acid, formonitrile) — solution of HCN hydrogen cyanide in water, the strongest poison, blocks cellular respiration at the stage catalyzed by cytochrome oxydase (KF 188.8.131.52) therefore the sharp fabric hypoxia develops. Page to. treats all-poisonous to toxic agents (see). Nek-ry salts C. to. — Cyamidum (see), mercuric cyanide the main, etc. — is applied in medicine as pharmaceuticals, its solutions use for disinfection, fight against rodents, etc. In production of synfils, butadiene-nitrile rubber, plastic, organic glass, etc. also apply S. to. In these productions of S. to. and others cyanic connections (see) represent professional harm.
In S.'s nature to. the hl meets in free, but. obr. in chemically connected state in nek-ry plants, in the form of a glycoside dl-mandelonitrile gentiobioside (see) it contains in almonds, stones of cherries, apricots, peaches, plums and other fruits. S. is found to. and in tobacco smoke.
Anhydrous S. to. represents a volatile easily mobile colorless liquid with t°kip + 25,7 °, t°pl — 134 °, edges mixes up with water and with the majority of organic solvents. Page to. possesses a characteristic smell of bitter almonds.
S.'s structure to. and its main chemical properties answer the nitrile H — C≡N form (see. Nitriles ), however nek-ry features of chemical behavior and high toxicity of S. to. are explained by its tautomeric isonitrile form C better - ≡N + — N, abundance cover in S. to. 0,5 — 1%. At neutralization by alkalis C. to. forms salts — cyanides, however S. to. — very weak to - that, from the salts it is forced out even coal and boric to-tami. Page to. forms complex connections with salts of many metals, including iron, than and blocking of a metalloprotein of cytochrome oxydase at S.'s poisonings is caused to., and also formation of a tsianmetgemoglobin from a methemoglobin. In the presence of traces of acids anhydrous S. to. it is stable, under the influence of the bases, and also in water solutions it will be polymerized. Mineral to-tami S. to. it is hydrolyzed to formic acid (see). Addition reactions of S. to. on carbonyl group aldehydes (cm.) and ketones (see) to the activated double bonds, to epoxy and other connections are widely used in laboratory and industrial organic synthesis.
Page to. receive by means of high-temperature catalytic reaction of methane with ammonia and oxygen, in laboratory — processing of alkaline cyanide or ferricyanide strong to - that, and also dehydration forms yes.
For qualitative test of S. to. staining reactions, napr serve, to reaction of formation of Prussian blue, rhodanate of trivalent iron, etc. Quantitatively S. to. determine by titration in alkaline solution caustic silver (Libikh's method), in trace amounts of S. to. define photometric (see. Photometry ), gas-liquid chromatography (see), polyarografiya (see) and other methods.
Getting to an organism, S. to. and its salts are soaked up in went. - kish. a path within several seconds, penetration of poison into an organism through skin happens more slowly. Page to. quickly collapses in an organism; its main metabolites are less toxic rhodanates, to-rye are formed under the influence of enzyme of a rodaneza (KF 184.108.40.206). It is experimentally shown that the greatest number of rhodanates is removed with urine for the 2nd day after single introduction of HGN. S. entered into an organism to. partially is oxidized to CO2 carbonic acid through cyanic to - that HCNO. After S.'s introduction to. an experimental animal it is found in the air exhaled by them. In experiences with H 14 CN is shown that 14 With joins in a row biologically active compounds — sincaline (see), methionine (see), cyanocobalamine (see).
Hydrogen cyanide can be emitted to harm in air of workrooms at S.'s receiving to., benzene, a xylol and toluene, cyanic connections (potassium cyanide and sodium, cyanogen chloride, cyanogen bromide, etc.), rhodanates, oxalic to - you, at a galvanoplastic covering of surfaces of metals gold, silver and copper, and also on coke-chemical productions, during the burning of celluloid, incomplete combustion and dry distillation of organic nitrogenous matters, at action on proteins concentrated nitric and sulfuric to-tami, etc. It can be present at blast-furnace gas, at rinsing waters at gas purification, etc.
Toxic action of HCN and other tsrganisty connections capable to dissociate in an organism with formation of an ion of CN" is based almost entirely on their ability to block respiratory enzymes (see) owing to what fabrics lose an opportunity to consume the oxygen delivered by blood. At hron. impact of HCN on an organism an important role in intoxication is played by the oppression of products of thyroid hormones a thyroid gland caused not directly HCN, and the rhodanate connections which are formed of it in an organism.
Hron. poisoning of HGN in its initial stage is characterized by decrease in the ABP, oppression of cordial activity, hurried breathing, sometimes an enlargement of the thyroid gland, change of gastric acidity, falling of the weight (weight) of a body. At the termination of contact with the toxic agent these phenomena disappear almost completely.
At expressed hron. poisoning of HCN and connections C. to. weakness, a febricula, dizziness, perspiration, bystry fatigue, an acrimony, pains in an anticardium, a heartache and extremities, tachycardia, dyspepsia are noted a headache (preferential in temporal area). Develop a neurotic syndrome (see. Neurasthenia ), a vegetoastenichesky syndrome (see. Asthenic syndrome ), vegeto-vascular dystonia (see. Neurocirculatory dystonia ), nystagmus (see), expansion of borders and deaf cardiac sounds are auskultativno defined. Hypotonia, protein in urine, decrease in concentration of glucose in blood and increase in concentration in blood milk to - you, the high content of hemoglobin are characteristic at not changed quantity of erythrocytes, an enlargement of the thyroid gland. At hron. poisoning of HCN always note painful reaction to alcohol.
The rhodanates which are formed in fabrics at hron. poisoning of HCN, breaking synthesis of thyroid hormones, promote development hypothyroidism (see).
Sometimes distinguish several forms hron. poisonings of HCN: cardiopulmonary — with the phenomena of a hypertrophy of heart, decrease in the ABP and a bronchoalveolar staz; a hematologic form — with increase in a hemoglobin content and erythrocytes, a neutropenia, mono - and a lymphocytosis; alimentary — with increase in standard metabolism and concentration of glucose in blood; gastrointestinal — with the phenomena of dyspepsia; renal — with the advent of protein in urine; skin — with mestnsh damage of skin in the form of cracks, eczemas, and also with conjunctivitis and lachrymation; nervous — with short wind, dizzinesses, an adynamy, myotonia of a stomach, trembling of extremities, sleeplessness, loss of memory and other mental disorders, to-rye in total can give a picture intoksikatsionny psychosis (see).
Acute poisoning of S. to. at high concentration of HCN in inhaled air or at its hit inside causes almost instant loss of consciousness; there comes paralysis of a respiratory center, and soon — a cardioplegia (a so-called apoplektiformny form of poisoning). At smaller concentration of poison distinguish several stages of poisoning. Initial stage: the scratching in a throat, is burning - bitter taste in a mouth, hypersalivation, numbness of lips and language, reddening of a conjunctiva, muscular weakness, difficulty of the speech, dizziness, a headache, feeling of warmth in a stomach, nausea, vomiting, desires on defecation, rush of blood to the head, heartbeat, retrosternal pains, pains in heart and in epigastriums; breath becomes frequent, then becomes deeper. If at this stage of poisoning to bring the person to fresh air, all symptoms quickly disappear. Stage of an asthma: the increasing weakness, pains in heart, rare and deep breath, an urezheniye of pulse, severe short wind, nausea, vomiting, expansion of pupils, an exophthalmos. Stage of spasms: feeling of melancholy, the amplifying asthma, a loss of consciousness, severe spasms, including chewing muscles with a bite of language. Stage of paralysis or asphyxia: full loss of sensitivity and reflexes, an involuntary urination and bowel emptying, breath becomes even more rare, superficial and wrong and at last stops.
To effects of acute intoxication of S. to. or cyanic connections the adynamy, encephalopathy, cerebral focal disturbances belong (parkinsonism, cerebellar and pyramidal syndromes, etc.).
The diagnosis of intoxication of S. to. and cyanic connections the wedge, pictures taking into account circumstances is based on features, at to-rykh there was poisoning. Diagnostic value have a smell of bitter almonds from a mouth, at intoxication of considerable degree — bright pink complexion and mucous membranes. Hron. intoxication is diagnosed generally in the presence of the nonspecific manifestations of functional disturbance of a nervous system arising at persons with a long standing of work in the conditions of contact with S. to. or with cyanic connections in the concentration exceeding maximum allowable concentration. At the same time other reasons of functional disturbances of a nervous system are excluded.
For diagnosis hron. S.'s intoxications to. the instruction in the anamnesis on the acute poisonings with cyanic connections postponed in the past in initial stages matters.
First aid and emergency treatment
It is necessary to begin antidotal therapy immediately (see. Antidotes of OV ), to stop further intake of poison, injured to take out on fresh air, to take off the contaminated clothes, to provide rest, heat. Along with antidotal therapy carry out inhalations by oxygen (optimum — hyperbaric oxygenation!), subcutaneously — 1 ml of 5% of solution of ephedrine and 2 ml of Cordiaminum. The close check behind size ABP is necessary! At hit of poison through a mouth along with antidotal therapy immediately do a gastric lavage of 0,1% by solution of potassium permanganate, 5% solution of sodium thiosulphate or 2% solution of hydrosodium carbonate; give salt laxative, plentiful drink. Intravenously repeatedly enter on 20 — 40 ml 40% of solution of glucose with thiamin (1 ml of 5% of solution) and ascorbic to - that (5 ml of 5% of solution). At a low pulse and the lowered ABP in addition intravenously enter 40 ml of 1,5% of So2-EDTA solution (dicobalt salt of ethylene diamine tetraacetate), at weak effect — repeated administration of this drug in half quantity. At disturbance or an apnoea intravenously enter 0,5 ml of 1% of solution of lobeline or 1 ml of 0,5% of solution of Cytitonum, it is long carry out an artificial respiration. After the victim recovered consciousness also its breath was recovered, immediate hospitalization is necessary.
At hron. S.'s poisoning to. symptomatic treatment.
Measures of the prevention
ensuring strict tightness of devices and the equipment Is necessary, from to-rogo HCN, and observance of measures for safety of storage of S. can be allocated to. and its salts, their transportation, on destruction and neutralization of a container according to. dignity. the rules of design, the equipment and the maintenance of warehouses for storage of strong toxic agents approved by M3 of the USSR.
On productions, in air of workrooms to-rykh HCN can be allocated, use industrial filtering is obligatory gas masks (see) at high concentration of HCN in air — the isolating gas masks. Skin shall be protected by rubber or polyvinyl chloride gloves, aprons and boots. Improvement corresponding tekhnol is important. processes with replacement of cyanic connections and S. to. on chemical substances, safe for the person, and also continuous control of air, a working zone with the automatic sound and light alarm system.
All working shall know about toxic action of HCN and cyanides and about measures of first aid by the victim. On the productions connected with receiving and S.'s use to., where there is a danger of emergence of HCN in air, once a year perform medical examinations (see. Medical examination ). Working with S. to. and other cyanic connections provide privileges.
Examination of working capacity
After the postponed acute poisonings of S. to. working capacity remains to easy degree kept, at the residual phenomena of intoxication (adynamy) is shown temporary (for 1 — 2 month) discharge from works with toxicants. At the resistant nature of disturbances of health (an adynamy, encephalopathy, etc.), including and at hron. intoxications of working transfer to disability owing to occupational disease. Due to the hypersensitivity of such patients to influence of many environmental factors work not only in contact with chemical substances, but also connected with considerable physical and nervnoemotsionalny tension, in a heat, closeness and so forth is quite often contraindicated to them.
Maximum-permissible concentration of cyanic connections in terms of hydrogen cyanide in air of a working zone makes 0,3 mg! m*.
Cyanhydric acid in the medicolegal relation
S.'s Poisonings to. and cyanic connections are rather rare. Generally they have character of accidents at careless handling of poisons in a lab. conditions or as a result of consumption of a large number of kernels of drupaceous fruits (bitter almonds, peaches, plums, apricots, sweet cherry). The absolute lethal dose for the person makes 40 g of bitter almonds or 100 cleared seeds of the apricots containing 1 g of dl-mandelonitrile gentiobioside — the alkaloid which is easily hydrolyzed on S. to., glucose and oil of bitter almonds. Isolated cases of suicide and murder by means of potassium cyanide meet. The conclusion about poisoning as to a cause of death is based on set a wedge, manifestations and results court. - medical and a lab. methods of a research. At a fulminant (apoplektiformny) form of poisoning of S. to. death comes in 3 — 5 min., at slowed down a little later.
At survey and necropsy note characteristic cerise color of livors mortis, auricles, lips, faces, a smell of bitter almonds from internals, red color of fabrics and internals, swelling of a mucous membrane of a stomach. At poisoning with kernels of drupaceous fruits in a stomach find undigested particles of these kernels — white grains and brown scales of a cover.
Court. - subject to a chemical research a stomach with contents, a brain, a liver, a kidney, blood and urine. Page to. isolate from acidified biol. material by distillation. Its high-quality detection is based on reaction of formation of Prussian blue, quantitative — on definition with solution of caustic silver or a fotokolorimetrirovaniya (see. Colorimetry ). At a spectral blood analysis the range of a tsiangemoglobin comes to light. At suspicion of poisoning with tsiansoderzhashchy kernels of drupaceous fruits conduct a botanical research of contents of a stomach and intestines.
Bibliography: Avdeev M. I. Forensic medical examination of a corpse, page 371, M., 1976; Bobkov S. S. and About m and the district about in S. K. Cyanhydric acid, M., 1970; Harmful substances in the industry, under the editorship of N. V. Lazarev and I. D. Gadaskina, t. 3, page 260, L., 1977; Treatment of acute poisonings, under the editorship of M. L. Tarakhovsky, page 179, Kiev, 1982; L at N and to about in E. A. Clinical toxicology, page 189, M., 1982; Occupational diseases, under the editorship of A. A. Letavet, etc., M., 1973; The Guide to forensic medical examination of poisonings, under the editorship of R. V. Berezhny, etc. „page 141, M., 1980; The Reference book on professional pathology, under the editorship of L. N. Gratsianskaya and V. E. Kovshilo, page 341, L., 1981; Shvaykova M. D. Toxicological chemistry, page 69, M., 1975.
L. E. Milkov (gigabyte.), A. I. Tochilkiv (chemical), K. I. Hizhnyakova (court.).

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This is why Big Loud didn’t cancel the contract of their cash cow. The label continues to spend their Wallen money wisely by giving a platform to traditional country sounds. By this stage we know the deal: Joey Moi produces, staffers like Ernest climb aboard and a new name hits the ears of millions.
Here, the name isn’t new to all. Jake Worthington finished second on the 2014 iteration of The Voice, where he auditioned with a Keith Whitley song. He’d failed on his first attempt but it worked for him the next season because TV loves a trier. Predictably, after a bit of bickering between Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, along with some compliments for Shakira, Jake chose Team Blake.
He put out a self-titled EP back in 2015, another five tracks in 2017 and by 2021 had featured on the track Jonesin’ on Hardy’s second Hixtape, another Big Loud release. This full-length album, also self-titled, was slipped out on Good Friday; Jake wrote 12 of the album’s 13 songs. The cover has him in a big black hat standing on a front porch with a Wallenesque mullet; even the font used for his name seems classic, and classic is making money in 2023. Just ask Jon Pardi’s accountant.
Rather interestingly, Jake will tour Texas in May and June to promote the album, which might reflect how Big Loud want to get into Red Dirt music now they’ve had a pop number one and have monopolised country music with Wallen this year. Jake will delight folk in Texas with his traditional voice, and I am sure Craig Wiseman will say it is ‘strictly business’ that the label has pivoted hard from Florida Georgia Line to Texas Red Dirt. I don’t reckon the likes of Josh Abbott or Randy Rogers will mind; indeed, Jake opens up for Randy in a show this month.
State You Left Me In opens the set, where Jake’s vocals are self-consciously a mix of two Georges, Strait and Jones, as well as Randy Travis. There is a key change, some pedal steel and some harmonies on the chorus. The fact that it’s over five minutes long is almost laughably against the current trends of sub-three-minute tunes across commercial country.
Heaven Can’t Be Found is the album’s attempt to reference the Good Lord, albeit delivered like most of the album in a honky-tonk style. Jake is now ‘a believer’ because to ‘one little kiss…brought me back to life’. Everything about it sounds like 1995. In fact, pay attention to the tracklist and tell me if this doesn’t look like, say, a Joe Diffie or Alan Jackson album.
The lush She Ain’t You (though ‘she ain’t bad’) is driven by fiddle and some brushed snare drums. Single At The Same Time has a fiddle solo, while there’s a twangin’ guitar passage in the middle of Without You, one of those heartbreak songs that country music has always done and will always do, regardless of pop trends muscling into Music Row. Pop Goes The Whiskey is another, a waltz where Jake’s narrator tells himself to move on. It was written by Ernest, who pops up to give his fellow Big Loud stablemate a hand.
I Ain’t Goin Anywhere is a delightful love song with the album’s best melody. Conversely, on Ain’t Got You To Hold Jake’s narrator is delighted to be rid of his former beloved, and he namechecks George Strait for good measure. The song was written with a guy called Joel Brentlinger who goes by Joe Denim. He also wrote a great song called Pray For You which was a hit for Jaron Lowenstein in 2009 (big up Jewish country stars!!), and this new song is a rewrite of that old one.
The pair of Next New Thing (the other album preview) and Honky Tonk Crowd (where Haggard and Whitley get namechecked) open the second half of the album with maximum twang and not a processed drum loop in earshot. Night Time Is My Time once again reminds listeners that at 5pm the workday ends and it’s time to ‘come alive when the sun goes down’. The musicianship is the best that Morgan Wallen’s earnings can buy and it reminds me of that adage that on a typical major label 10% of acts fund 90% of the others.
Only One Way To Find Out is equally toe-tappin’ and comes from a room which had both David Lee Murphy and Jessi Alexander in it; Wallen’s earnings can also attract A-List writers. Soon it’s Closing Time, as Jake copies his heroes and sings a tremendous barroom lament even though ‘it ain’t close enough’ to leaving. As Trigger from Saving Country Music has said plenty of times recently, everybody can see that country music is back in fashion, which is good news for the genre and for people who got into it via Alan, Reba and Brooks & Dunn.
And good news for the profits of Big Loud, who are the biggest game in Music City in 2023. Never forget that they couldn’t drop Wallen after he Said The Word, because then their plan to roll out traditional acts like Jake and Charles Wesley Godwin couldn’t come to fruition. Like I say, strictly business.


The charity, Action for Children says they're seeing more and more cases of young people needing emotional support, with the problem particularly acute in Northamptonshire.
Darren Spooner is a Clinical Psychologist from The St Giles Clinic in Norwich and he dropped into the ITV News Anglia studios today to give his reaction to the news.
Click below to watch Darren's chat with Jonathan Wills and Becky Jago
More top news
Police patrols are continuing in Cromer. Businesses say they are open as usual but there are reports of fresh trouble in the town
Around a hundred firefighters have been tackling a huge blaze in a warehouse in Essex
Dry and often sunny. Cloud thickening from the southwest later.


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“Thank you so much for your knife skills class – my three kids and I went through it today and we had the best experience we’ve ever had in the kitchen!”
This Thanksgiving we opted to stay home and it was the most memorable, special day ever. When it came time to cook we did it all together. My 7-year-old son peeled all the potatoes my 6-year-old daughter peeled the carrots and cut all the vegetables and made a vegetable dip and my 3-year-old daughter helped me cut all the potatoes. It was seriously the best Thanksgiving and I’m so grateful to have found you when I did!

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Sailing to the San Blas Islands has been one of my true sailing highlights. I was on a Lagoon 450 catamaran participating in the World ARC and were on our way to Panama City via the canal. We'd stopped in Colombia for a few days and the San Blas were just off the coast of Panama.
Relatively untouched, we anchored off islands that had just a few shacks used by the Kuna Indian fishermen and their families. They moved from island to island in their small traditional sailing boats. Put us to shame I'm afraid.
Sailing the San Blas Islands
The Kuna Indians from what I could see still live a pretty traditional life and their handwoven mola are incredibly colourful and intricate. The kids we met on one island we certainly pretty happy just playing and swimming amongst themselves. It was a pretty special time just getting a glimpse of how simple life could be. It helps when you live in a tropical paradise I guess!
Yours truly enjoying a sundowner
The local children were so happy
A typical fishing boat sailing between the islands
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Some of the ladies we met and the mola handcrafts they had created
I don't know where all the boys were? This island there were only girls!
My crewmate Marina and her new best friends
Marina making friends with the local Kuna Indian children

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2016 looks poised to be the warmest year on record globally, according to preliminary data.
With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90% certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by 2015.
Temperatures from January to September were 1.2C above pre-industrial levels, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The body says temperatures should remain high enough for the rest of the year to break the previous record.
El Nino has had an impact, but the most significant factor driving temperatures up continues to be CO2 emissions.


President Biden responds to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Feb 23, 2022, 8:49 PM | Updated: Feb 24, 2022, 1:08 pm
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The statement reads, in part:
“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces. President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and the United States and its Allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable.”
President Biden also said he is monitoring the situation from the White House this evening and will meet with G7 members Thursday morning.
The President said he will be coordinating with NATO Allies to ensure a response to deter aggression.
He also said he will address the nation tomorrow to announce further consequences to be imposed on Russia for “this needless act of aggression against Ukraine and global peace and security.”
“Tonight, Jill and I are praying for the brave and proud people of Ukraine,” the President closed the statement.


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Charter Hall Group (Charter Hall or the Group) and Abacus Group (ASX:ABP) are pleased to announce their joint application to develop a podium extension at 201 Elizabeth Street in Sydney’s CBD, has received approval from the City of Sydney.
201 Elizabeth Street – purchased by Charter Hall (68%) and Abacus (32%) in 2019 for $630 million – occupies a prominent corner location with street frontages onto Elizabeth, Park and Castlereagh streets.
The A-grade, 38-storey modernist office tower features excellent access to premium retail, dining, entertainment and transport precincts, including the new Sydney Metro Pitt Street Station, scheduled to open in 2024. It is uniquely positioned directly across from Hyde Park, capturing natural light from all sides and eastern views to the Harbour, allowing tenants to feel connected to nature, and each other.
The endorsed development application at 201 Elizabeth Street allows for the reinvigoration and enhancement of the 1978 building, with:
Adaptive re-use of the existing tower, that will be retained and complimented by a new 11-storey podium, with large floorplates up to 1,900m². This will add a further 8,600m² of A-grade office space, increasing the gross floor area from 40,200m² to 48,800m².
Landscaped urban roof terrace, state-of-the-art arrival, end-of-trip and wellness experiences supported by a transformed southern courtyard, which will provide direct access to Museum station.
Industry-leading sustainability targets for the new podium, including a high-performance façade featuring solar photovoltaic (PV) panels offering sun shading and on-site power generation.
Revitalised ground floor with approximately 900m² of new retail to activate Castlereagh and Park streets.
Charter Hall Managing Director & Group CEO, David Harrison, said, “At Charter Hall, we hold the unique capability to enhance existing properties, develop-to-core, retain and attract high-quality tenant customers while providing strong returns for our investors.”
“Our development at 201 Elizabeth Street is the latest example of Charter Hall’s proven expertise in unlocking hidden value with innovation, sustainability, economic stimulation and human experience – these are at the heart of everything we do.”
Charter Hall Office CEO, Carmel Hourigan, said, “The endorsement of the City of Sydney to proceed with the adaptive re-use of 201 Elizabeth Street demonstrates the ongoing demand for high-quality office buildings in the city’s CBD.”
“We are witnessing – and responding to – an unprecedented flight-to-quality towards workplaces offering superior amenity, sustainability and wellness facilities that provide collaboration, innovation, social interaction and human connection.”
The major transformation of 201 Elizabeth Street will deliver a new benchmark in workplace design and drive the return to work through establishing strong wellness credentials, with the entire asset targeting the following ESG ratings on completion:
The development will be one of the first to commit to meeting the City of Sydney’s target of 25% energy reduction in new assets by 2023 with Charter Hall’s Office portfolio recently receiving international recognition for global leadership in sustainable development by the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). 201 Elizabeth Street is also committing to a 20% embodied carbon reduction with a focus on the procurement of low embodied carbon structural materials, including steel and concrete.
With more than 30 years of commercial property experience, Charter Hall is now the largest landlord in Australia with over $70 billion in funds under management across office, retail, industrial and logistics, as well as social infrastructure assets.


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BEIJING -- China's economy is poised between an aggressive stimulus program and worsening global demand, new economic data for April showed, with domestic investment programs continuing to accelerate while exports extended their decline.
China's exports fell 22.6% from a year earlier to $91.94 billion in April, the customs agency said Tuesday, deeper than March's 17.1% decline.
However, fixed-asset investment, China's benchmark measure of capital spending, rose 33.9% from a year earlier in April after a 30.3% gain in March. The fastest investment increase in five years came as the government and state banks continued to fund more stimulus projects.
Some economists say government spending is driving production growth. On Wednesday, the government said China's industrial production in April rose 7.3% from a year earlier, a smaller rise than expected and slowing from March's 8.3% growth. In the January-April period, output rose 5.5% from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
China's central bank warned last week that there isn't yet a firm foundation for an economic recovery, since much of the investment is coming from the government while demand from the private sector is weak. Economists say declining external demand may damp improvements in the world's third-largest economy.
"Export demand doesn't show any signs of turning for the better," said Fan Jianping, an economist at a government think tank, the State Information Center. "Government investment alone won't be enough to support a recovery." Mr. Fan doesn't expect a full recovery in China until 2011.
Investment in real estate, one of the main forms of private-sector investment in China, increased only 4.9% in the January-April period, compared with overall investment growth of 30.5%. Still, it was an improvement from weaker growth in previous months, and comes as purchases of housing and other property pick up.
The volume of real-estate sales jumped 39% from a year earlier in April after 16.4% growth in March, reversing several months of decline.
There were other indicators of improving domestic demand. Total imports dropped 23% to $78.8 billion in April, little better than March's 25.1% decline. But in volume terms, purchases of key commodities accelerated. China's net imports of crude oil rose 13.7% in April, after a 6.3% drop in March, customs data showed. Imports of iron ore also surged 33% to a record of 57 million metric tons.
"China's ongoing recovery is driven by fixed-asset investment with a focus on infrastructure," said Ting Lu, China economist for Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch, although the drop in "exports continue to drag down China's growth."
Beijing has said the economy is performing better than originally expected, thanks to the stimulus, but it doesn't expect exports to turn around quickly.
"Although there are some positive changes in our country's economy, it is still not easy to be optimistic given leading indicators of exports. Most exporters now have fewer orders in hand," the Ministry of Commerce said.
—Zheng Xiaolu contributed to this article.

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Married At First Sight’s last couple standing Troy Delmege and Carly Bowyer have responded to reports that they’ve gone their separate ways.
Rumours that the couple has split started to circulate when Troy shared an old photo of Carly on Instagram, and was busted by fans for pretending it was new just to keep up appearances. Soon thereafter, Troy shutdown the break-up speculation during an interview with KIIS FM's Kyle and Jackie O on Wednesday morning.
When the radio hosts asked Troy whether the rumours were true he replied, “Of course it’s not.” “We’re loving life together and it’s progressing nicely.”
Troy then went on to explain his social media blunder. “You know it’s not that old, it’s about a month ago. But the thing is, I don’t photograph that well so I have to fish around to find anything that looks decent enough to post.”
Since filming wrapped their relationship has only grown stronger, with Troy telling the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, that he could "happily" spend the rest of his life with Carly.
"Marriage is definitely on the cards for us," he told the publication. "She's definitely a girl I could see my entire future with."

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Daniel Kepl interviews versatile guitarist Tony Ybarra as he prepares Mauro Giuliani’s Concerto for Guitar in A for a performance with West Coast Symphony on Sunday, August 6th at 4pm in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens. Slight glitch as Tony’s face is partially out of frame, which was not showing as a problem on the monitor as we were recording.
Johannes Brahms’ German Requiem hasn’t been performed in Santa Barbara for ten years. This Saturday, April 1st at 8pm and Sunday, April 2nd at 3pm the Choral Society will sing the work again with orchestra and soloists baritone Lester Lynch and soprano Tamara Bevard in the spacious acoustics of the First Presbyterian Church, State Street at Constance Avenue. Daniel Kepl interviews Artistic Director and Conductor JoAnne Wasserman on the complexities of preparing and presenting this stunning masterwork.
Daniel Kepl in an interview for VOICE Magazine discusses the responsibilities involved in presenting a composer’s original work to the public for the first time with Los Angeles-based clarinetist Donald Foster, who will play Jonathan Leshnoff’s Clarinet Concerto with the Santa Barbara Symphony, Nir Kabaretti conducting, this Saturday, February 11 at 8pm and Sunday, February 12 at 3pm in the Granada Theatre. Click here for a downloadable PDF of the print version of the interview for VOICE Magazine.
Daniel Kepl interviews Guy Veloz, son of America’s most famous ballroom and tango dancing couple of the 30s and 40s, Veloz and Yolanda. Guy speaks about his parent’s fascinating rise from rags to riches during the Great Depression, their various friends in and out of the business, including some of America’s most legendary gangsters of the period, and a time in American history that has nearly been forgotten. Choreographer William Soleau created a genre-breaking full-length ballet about Veloz and Yolanda titled An American Tango for State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara in 2012. The work is in the company’s repertory and was reprised on October 22nd. Click here to download a readable PDF of my review of that performance. Below the video interview with Guy Veloz watch and enjoy a slideshow of photographs from the October 22nd performance of An American Tango takenby David Bazemore.
Daniel Kepl interviews the new Artistic Director – succeeding Denise Rinaldi at the helm of Santa Barbara Festival Ballet. Aimee Lopez has danced most of the female roles in Festival Ballet’s annual production of Tchaikovsky’s endearing masterpiece, The Nutcracker, since childhood. Now she’s in charge and some exciting changes are in the air for the company’s future as well as for this 42nd production of Nutcracker at the Arlington.


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New study suggests causal links between child maltreatment and mental and physical disorders in later life
Child physical and emotional abuse and neglect is linked to mental health disorders, drug use, suicide attempts, sexually transmitted diseases and risky sexual behaviour in adulthood, according to a new study published in this week’s PLOS Medicine.
The authors from research institutions in Queensland, Australia, and the World Health Organization, also found some evidence that child maltreatment increased the risk of chronic diseases and life-style risk factors such as smoking in later life. The authors say: “All forms of child maltreatment should be considered important risks to health with a sizeable impact on major contributors to the burden of disease in all parts of the world.”
The systematic review and meta-analysis showed that individuals who had been emotionally abused as children were three times more likely to develop depression, and individuals who had been physically abused or neglected one and a half times more likely to develop depression, than people who had not been abused as children.
Anxiety disorders, drug abuse, and suicidal behaviour were also linked to such maltreatment. Furthermore, maltreated children had a higher risk of sexually transmitted infections and/or risky sexual behaviour than people who had not experienced abuse.
The authors concluded that: “Awareness of the serious long-term consequences of child maltreatment should encourage better identification of those at risk and the development of effective interventions to protect children from violence.”


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This fresh industrial design by Dutch product designer Marten van Middelkoop was created around two ideas. On the one hand Van Middelkoop admires the balanced and modest forms of Japanese aesthetics. On the other hand, he took a very practical approach towards the idea that a heatsink (an aluminum cooling element) is the most ideal encapsulation for a LED lamp that doesn’t need to be disguised as something else. While researching the many forms and shapes of aluminum heatsinks, he came across the ideal shape to create a table lamp that projects light towards the lampshade and reflects it downwards.
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COHORS invited five more artists to respond autonomously on this design from their own perspectives, enhancing and enriching the design. So, when you buy TROUVÉ, you’re are actually buying a box with a complete art- and design exhibition.

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The Legend of Zelda Statue "Zelda"
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- "Open your eyes and wake up, Link!"
The namesake of "The Legend of Zelda" series has accompanied us through the world of video games for over 30 years now. Zelda, the princess of the kingdom of Hyrule, delights us as a detailed 23cm PVC statue from First 4 Figures. Princess Zelda from the title "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" served as a template.
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U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging bipartisan deal into law on Friday morning, ending a brief government shutdown that began just after Thursday midnight.
The shutdown, the second time in three weeks, started after the Senate missed the deadline for passing a short-term funding bill.
Senator Rand Paul Thursday blocked a vote, saying the deal, agreed to by the leaders of both Republican and Democratic parties and supported by Trump, would add debt and fiscal deficit to the government.
Senators ultimately voted 71-28 to approve the deal shortly before 2 a.m. ET (0700 GMT), and the House voted 240-186 in favor of the deal around 5:30 a.m. ET (1030 GMT).
The deal Trump signed includes a bill that will fund the government through March 23, marking the fifth temporary government funding measure for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2017.
The deal extends the U.S. government's borrowing authority until March 2019, sparing Washington politicians difficult votes on spending and debts before mid-term congressional elections in November.
It also includes a budget package which will increase defense and non-defense spending by about 300 billion U.S. dollars for the next two years.

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Joel Rosenberg (b.1954) died on the evening of June 2, a day after suffering a respiratory depression that caused a heart attack, anoxic brain damage and major organ failure.
Rosenberg’s first published short story was “Like the Gentle Rains” in IASFM in 1982. A year later, he published The Sleeping Dragon, the first novel in his long-running “Guardians of the Flame” series, in which college students found themselves in a world apparently based on a fantasy role-playing game. Rosenberg revisited that theme with his “Keepers of the Hidden Ways,” which transported characters from the modern world into one based on Norse mythology. His other fantasy series included two “D’Shai” novels and two novels in the “Mordred’s Heirs” series.
In addition to fantasy, Rosenberg also wrote science fiction and mysteries. He set four novels in his Thousand Worlds universe, two of which dealt with the Metzadan Mercenary Corps, a group of Jewish mercenaries in a science fictional setting. While his “D’Shai” books were fantasy-mystery hybrids, his two “Sparky Hemingway” novels were straight mysteries.
After a burglary attempt, Rosenberg became interested in guns rights and became a licensed instructor in Minneapolis. He also wrote books on guns rights in Minnesota and Missouri.
Rosenberg is survived by his wife, Felicia Herman, and their two daughters, Judith and Rachel.
On a personal note, Joel was the first person I met at the first science fiction convention I attended. I had exchanged some letters with him about his Guardian of the Flame books (and Mark Twain) and had decided to attend Windycon to have the chance to meet him. Not knowing anything about conventions, I arrived, figured out a panel he would be on, and sat in the front row. I planned to approach him after the panel and introduce myself. While people were still filing in, a big bear of a man planted himself in front of me and asked, “Are you Steven Silver?” It was Joel, on the look out for me. To this day, I’m grateful for his warm welcome into our community. It provided me an excellent reason to stay.

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A devastated dad said his daughter’s funeral was ‘tarnished’ after traffic wardens ‘targeted’ cars during the service.
Mike Heybourne discovered that a number of mourners had been given fines during a 45-minute service for his daughter Kelly on Monday.
Kelly’s heartbroken sister Amy was one of the visitors who received a parking fine.
Mike said around 1,000 people paid their respects as Kelly, 38, was laid to rest at Emmanuel Church, on Cambridge Road, in Southport, with many being forced to park on the road.
He said: ‘We had a beautiful service and send-off for Kelly and it’s everything we could have hoped for but it was completely tarnished by the fact that a number of people were ticketed while inside the church.
‘About 1,000 people were inside the church and there were loads standing outside so, of course, some people had to park on the road.
‘When we came out I could hear people talking about it and I was cringing because I felt responsible.
‘The whole thing just poured misery onto an already awful day.’
Kelly had lived with diabetes since she was 15 and last year her kidneys began to fail.
The carer, who has been described as ‘selfless’ and an ‘angel’, was receiving almost constant dialysis for months, but was hit by complications and died on July 6 after she suffered a bleed on the brain.
Mike added: ‘So many people were forced to park outside the church, including Amy, but they weren’t blocking the road we weren’t aware of the parking restrictions on Cambridge Road, apart from a small stretch of double yellow lines at the entrance.
‘I just would hate to think that Kelly’s funeral had been targeted on purpose because it was so widely publicised on Facebook.
‘But it was a large, wide road, we weren’t inside for very long, and it was very obvious the people parked there were attending a funeral.
‘It was just not what any of us needed to come out to.’
Sefton Council said ‘in no way would we ever target a funeral service and we completely refute this claim’.
A spokesperson added: ‘If we had been made aware in advance of a large scale funeral taking place, we would have been able to take this into account.
‘We are aware of three fixed penalty notices being issued on Cambridge Road on Monday for two cars parked on double yellow lines and one car parked in a marked bus stop.
‘Anyone who receives a parking ticket has a right to appeal and we will always look at each case based on the individual circumstances.’
After her death, Kelly’s organs helped save two peoples’ lives.
Mike said: ‘Just a couple of minutes after she was pronounced dead the donation people came in and said that Kelly’s liver could be used for other people on the transplant list who needed it.
‘I just thought Kelly had been through enough but her mum Yvonne and her partner Gary reminded me that Kelly would have wanted to help anyone she could, and she always had.
‘One was a young teenager who will hopefully be able to live a long and happy life now.’
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In Europe, Maggie Laubser yearned for the wide open spaces of the South African landscape. Surely she also longed for the wild birds with which she was familiar from roaming the fields as a child and collecting a variety of eggs. At that time, she also observed their habits and studied their behaviour. In 1924 when she finally returned to the country of her birth, it is not surprising that she took up the ties of her youth and birds became a major source of inspiration for her pictures.
The heron features in several of her landscape paintings, sometimes with ducks and sometimes with people that move into the distance. Bird in a Landscape with Rays differs from other compositions featuring herons as the bird’s prominence is emphasised by a rainbow that seemingly splits into two rainbows: one on the left and the other on the right. Dramatically, the heron takes its position on the forefront of the picture plane, between the two rainbows that enshrine the bird. This configuration of the rainbow is suggestive of nature’s cathedral and a Gothic arch is called to mind. Some of the rainbow colours reflect on the bird’s feathers linking the bird and the rainbow that connects heaven and earth. Therefore, it signifies ‘as above, as below’. This heron embodies a heavenly messenger.
In addition to the colours reflected on the bird’s feathers, which connect it to the rainbow, the elegant bearing of the bird enhances its regality. Enshrined by the rainbow arch, the bird becomes the ruler in this domain. That the earth where he treads is holy ground is confirmed by the double rainbow. In this domain there are barely any shadows, every colour is luminous. The clouds become bulbous lights and the tracks of reddish brown that seemingly meander to and from the heron are energised to take on lives of their own. The track that emerges from the left corner moves into the middle distance where it swings down towards the heron where it stops. Its sweeping movement emulates the elegance of the bird. This is the domain of eternal light.
Dalene Marais (1994). Maggie Laubser: Her Paintings, Drawings and Graphics, Johannesburg: Perskor, illustrated in black and white on page 349, catalogue number 1525.


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Tear It Tape is a simple and strong double-sided tape targeted for papercrafting and scrapbooking community. The product is named after its unique function. It is easily be torn by hand. This design is in a geometric and feminine style.
This zip top bag features a clear window on the front of the package. Bag printed in China.
Doodlestix is a 5-piece mixed media tool set. Each individual tool has a different shaped silicone tip designed to be used with wet mediums such as paint, acrylic pastes, clay, adhesives, etc. In the visual design, I wanted to express the types of marks the tools create in art mediums and create a clear window to see the physical product.
The design of this bag features a mix of high gloss and matte finish for a modern look and feel. The resealable zip-top opening is for reuse and storage. Bag printed in China.
Doodlestix Packaging Design
zip top bag design with a clear window and matte finish texture on the outside.
Catalog Design 2017
Catalog design for Imagine Crafts 2017. This 52-page catalog features over 15 inkpad and art product brands with a range of 12 - 80 color swatches per brand. Each brand features different size containers and refill options.
This catalog is used primarily as a B2B marketing tool at Creativation, an annual arts and crafts conference, held in Phoenix, Az.
Imagine Crafts is an arts and crafts supplies distributor and maker. Imagine distributes Tsukineko (Tokyo, Japan) ink pads and markers to the Americas and makes shimmer sprays, mixed media supplies and embossing powders as well.
My role as inhouse designer is to maintain all digital assets. One of the challenges of marketing is showing the depth color swatches available. In order to meet this challenge with energy and excitement, I work with my team to plan out color features for each month of the year. This gallery features a few samples of art and photography I created for our facebook and twitter pages and monthly newsletters.
Imagine Crafts released Fireworks Craft Spray in a 0.5 bottle that was sold individually and in 3-packs. In Spring 2017, Imagine Crafts released a 2 oz size in 24 colors. In this design, I created new art for a product release of the 2oz bottle. I converted art, text, colors, color swatch titles and new bar codes for 24 files.
Fireworks Shimmery Craft Spray
Label Design for Imagine Crafts
24 colors of Fireworks
label design for 24 colors of a ink spray product
Civil Bikes is a bicycle advocacy program in Atlanta, Ga that focuses on healthy living, bicycle education and civil rights history tours. The logo design focused on a fun imagery incorporating the bicycle wheel and the red star to denote a sense of justice.
My role in working with Nedra was to create an initial logo design and collection of assets to help build the Civil Bikes brand. Nedra has printed flyers, stickers, t-shirts and an embroidery patch.
Hand-drawn typography for the logo. I went through dozens of type faces before I decided this logo needed hand drawn treatment!
Lecture series imagery for Civil Bikes to reuse for multiple speakers and guest invited to share at community events in Atlanta.
Pottery Northwest is Seattle's premier ceramic art studio that offers a variety of classes, events, gallery openings and is home to a competitive artist in residence program. One of the most popular events is a drop-in style Friday night wheel throwing class that was originally branded as a date night. Since it has been changed to Clay Night to encourage everyone to join. Other regular events include art calls, competitions and artist talks.
My role at Pottery Northwest was to build web, print, and social media content to communicate all of the classes and events at the studio. This gallery show some of the web banners I created during my time there.
The 50 for 50 campaign highlights significant people over the years who contributed to the studio's success.
50th Anniversary Logo
This graphic element is a temporary logo for 2016 to celebrate Pottery Northwest's 50th anniversary. It was used on the website, facebook page, and in print materials.
Wheel throwing class image
In addition, to the gallery openings I was responsible for building out the class pages on a quarter system.
Brochure Design for Pottery Northwest
Writing for Vanguard Arts & Culture
From 2014 to 2015 I was the film writer or critic for Vanguard Arts, Fashion, and Culture--a Seattle-based online arts magazine. My monthly responsibilities were to suggest films I felt had something awesome to say or to offer criticism to film which I felt left a bad taste in my popcorn loving film buff mouth.
I was able to learn a great deal about my own personal writing and how even an English degree doesn't fully prepare you for having a public audience. I learned also about how to work with film distribution companies to receive press access to films, to receive press kits, how to go about gaining access to materials, information, and etiquette on when to publish. The learning experience was tremendous.
Birdman Cinema in the Highest
According to legendary filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, quoted by Toby Mussman: “There are two kinds of cinema; there is Flaherty and there is Eisenstein. That is to say, there is documentary realism and there is theatre, but ultimately, at the highest level, they are one and the same. What I mean is that through documentary one arrives at the structure of the theatre, and through theatrical imagination and fiction one arrives at the reality of life.”
Watching Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) reminds viewers that there are still great movies being made, mixing the reality of life and the imagination of theatre, set in the world ... Read the full review
Gone Girl Divided
Take Scott Peterson and Casey Anthony, whip them together in the prose of Gillian Flynn, then strain through the mainstream grit of director David Fincher and you get—Gone Girl. The film has already stirred a storm of controversy, especially claims of the film’s misogyny. I won’t necessarily assume that you have heard the spoilers behind the outrage, but perhaps you have at least heard that some people are mad—and with good reason.
In some ways, this response is a fine reflection of one of the film’s key themes: hysteria and mob mentalities conjured by sensational media. Flynn’s original novel did not receive the same sort of outrage perhaps because the quiet subtlety of a novel allows people more time to reflect and fully examine the characters. The audience for long-fiction might also be more inclined toward critical analysis than your average moviegoer, looking for a two-hour thrill. The movie is much more fast-paced, and David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en) is not known for ....Read the full review
Scarlett Johansson is having a big year, appearing in several big budget features (Her, Under the Skin). Luc Besson is consistently a commercial success with a range of films, from gritty violent fare (The Taken and Transporter series), to simmering and suspenseful action (The Professional, Nikita) to his space opera spectacle The Fifth Element. Lucy, starring ScarJo, is definitely of the first category. It is already cleaning up at the box office, but the film itself is a bit of a mess, thanks in part to a flawed central premise.
We in Seattle are frequently made conscious of the abundance and grandeur of the ocean. We can go whale watching in the San Juan Islands, witness salmon runs in Ballard Locks and fishmongers throwing the day’s catch in Pike Place Market, identify with the iconic ferry system and often get held up by sailboats at the Fremont drawbridge. Our connection to the ocean is one of the main reasons people flock to Seattle, why we have the most boats per capita of any US city.
In Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is tasked to find and kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who has gone AWOL by defining himself as a demigod to a small village deep in the Vietnamese jungle. Kurtz insults the military in a dialog with Willard, “Are you an assassin?” Willard replies, “I am a soldier” to which Kurtz rejoins, “You are neither. You are an errand boy. Sent by grocery trucks to collect a bill.”
Coppola painted an infamously vivid picture of war as a personal hell, the full force of “the [existential] horror,” all of which reflected the sentiment that many held about the Vietnam War—that it was a human and national disaster. The message Coppola is sending is clear, and whether you agree with it or not, at least the filmmaker is honest.
A star is too powerful to be touched by humans so they must be contained in a safe container! I have pulled a hundred stars from the night sky to play with at Volunteer park!
From Lusio Website: Most light art installation is made for a gallery, a festival, or a private event. Rarely does this form of art get seen in Seattle and never has it been showcased in such a large setting. This will provide artists the opportunity to get their work seen and voices heard by a wide demographic of people in a curated but playful setting.
Lusio August 10th, 2018
Installation: 100+ Paper cubes filled with light. Inked with dye inks in blue, pink, purple, and green. Outdoor interactive art.
Meowzy Art Show
Meowzy is a cat theme art exhibit at the 3 Square Gallery in Fort Collins, Colorado. Super fun way to ring in the new year with an art submission. These pieces are mixed media on 12 x 12 wood canvas.
Stumptown Artist Series
Stumptown Artist Series was an inhouse art call to any Stumptown employee. The intention in this project was to show off all the awesome artist who work for the company. features 5 artists work on a bag of coffee.
Hair Bender Coffee Tag
Some of the pieces shown are from participating in Inktober 2017.
Inktober 2017 Underwater
Inktober 2017 Furious
Inktober 2017 Fierce (or Grace Jones)
Inktober 2017 Long
Inktober 2017 Crooked
Inktober 2017 Filthy
Tipsy Cow Burger Bar
Hand-drawn Chalkboard designs for the Tipsy Cow Burger Bar in Redmond, Wa. Most of the pieces you see in this collection are large 36 x 48 inches boards and hang in the seating area of Tipsy Cow. If you are in the Redmond area then I highly recommend dining here. Such good food and a great selection of beers!


Billie Eilish, the teenage wunderkind, has been tapped to perform the theme to the upcoming James Bond film, “No Time to Die.”
Here are five notable James Bond themes throughout the years.
1. “Nobody Does it Better” (1977). From the film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” Carly Simon is in top form in this power ballad. Bonus points that she’s clearly singing about Bond, as opposed to the mystery over who the subject is behind “You’re So Vain.”
2. “Skyfall” (2012). Adele was the perfect choice for the perfect theme to one of the great films in the Bond library. Bonus points for the lyrics teasing where the film’s final act will go (“Skyfall is where we start”).
3. “Live and Let Die” (1973). Paul McCartney at the height of his Wings powers, this is a terrific song that stands on its own.
4. “A View to a Kill” (1985). One of Duran Duran’s biggest hits, the lyrics capture the band’s ability to spew nonsensical lyrics.
5. “Goldfinger” (1964). The one that started it all. Shirley Bassey belted out a classic that still resonates today.


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The only fouta guaranteed 100% cotton and handwoven is the fouta Napoleone. It is the authentic fouta of Hammamet, a model created in 1962 by the craftsmen of the Arab medina of Hammamet, entirely handcrafted from conception to finishing, the fouta Napoleone is woven by men on a weaving loom and the fringes are finely hand knotted by women. The fouta Napoléone finds all its flexibility from the first wash.
The fouta Napoléone serves initially as towel for hammam and bath, it sponges well the water and dries quickly, now it is used as a sarong, beach towel, cloth or cast for sofa and bed.
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Google’s anonymous bias reporting newsletter, “Yes, At Google,” puts out a monthly microaggressions report, the Daily Caller reports.
One employee started the newsletter in 2016 and it has grown over time. Today it is a monthly newsletter with an editorial board.
Its editor is Heather Cain, the leader of Google’s Respect@ program, a human resources initiative begun in 2015 that, according to the New York Times, “includes a way for employees to anonymously report complaints of inappropriate behavior by co-workers.”
One newsletter contained the following entry: “Reminded today by my manager that I need to be more aware of my tone when interacting with others as sometimes it’s often not appropriate given the situation. Fact: I am deaf and rely on Cochlear implants to ‘hear.’ I cannot differentiate tones.”


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(Club can still be purchased pattern only).
I am not usually a big lace weight knitter, when it’s very fine I find that my small finger starts cramping from holding the tension in the yarn. However for the Yarn Club I wanted to find a yarn with more yardage for a larger project and lace was the only way to do that. The Hedgehog Fibres Silk/Merino lace was a little heavier as laceweight goes. This make a big difference to me, it felt very comfortable to work with, no finger cramping!
The colours of the yarn swim between blues and greens and are rich and vibrant. It felt like a deep rich sea colour so the lace pattern I used has echoes of waves and seaweed. It starts at the top with a garter stitch tab, working down in a standard triangular lace shape but with a lace spine that runs the full length. It flows from st st into linear lace and finishing with a wider lace edging.
If you only want a single pattern from the Yarn Club then next month they will be released individually.


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Teachers marched in cities across France yesterday, a week after a widely followed nationwide teachers’ strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s policies of mass infection on COVID-19. The strike, which rallied fewer teachers than a week earlier, reflected far broader popular opposition to the eruption of Omicron cases in France and advanced calls for Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer to resign.
The strike took place amid a disastrous health situation, with nearly a half-million daily infections for three straight days in France. The number of currently active COVID-19 cases in France is nearing 6 million, or 9 percent of the population, with children particularly hard hit. At the same time, however, Prime Minister Jean Castex and Health Minister Olivier Véran gave a speech announcing the lifting of virtually every remaining public health measure to halt the spread of COVID-19, making crystal clear their support for a policy of mass infection.
On January 13, over 75 percent of schoolteachers struck, according to union figures, and half of schools were closed, and around 78,500 teachers marched in the streets, according to police. On January 20, the strike mobilized only 1.15 percent of primary and 2.18 percent of secondary school teachers, according to Education Ministry figures. After threatening not to allow the teachers’ march in Paris to proceed, Paris police prefect Didier Lallement relented and told the unions the march would be “tolerated.”
The fall in teachers’ participation in the strike does not reflect any greater acceptance by workers, in France or internationally, of policies of mass infection. Indeed, strikes and school protests are intensifying in the United States, in Greece and beyond against a policy that is leading to millions of new cases of the deadly virus every day. However, it does reflect the impossibility of mobilizing opposition to policies of mass infection under the leaden grip of national trade union bureaucracies.
Not only did the French unions demoralize teachers after the January 13 strike by immediately agreeing to Blanquer’s response to the strike—a promise of 5 million N95 masks for kindergarten teachers and extra funds for the hiring of substitute teachers. They also loudly proclaimed yesterday that while they had called a strike action, they were not encouraging teachers to participate in it.
Guislaine David, the general secretary of the SNUIPP-FSU (United National Union of Primary, Junior and High School Teachers-United Union Federation), baldly told AFP: “The goal was not this time to call on teachers to strike, because only a week after the previous one, that is hard. The idea today is to keep up the pressure with local mobilizations, before launching a new strike call for January 27.”
In Marseille, FSU official Caroline Chavet said: “For the time being, what we are seeing are diverse initiatives that are emerging in the different educational establishments, each doing things on a scale that suits them. The most important thing is that teachers should talk amongst themselves. We must convince ourselves to arrive united for a strike on January 27.”
This stunningly complacent approach reflects the utter indifference of broad sections of the union bureaucracy, in France and beyond, to the course of the pandemic. Every week, well over 1,000 people die of COVID-19 in France and 20,000 in Europe, while millions are infected, including children, with a virus whose long-term health impacts are still not well known. Yet the union bureaucracies are as indifferent to the spread of COVID-19 as the Macron government, proposing not to halt the contagion, but that teachers “talk amongst themselves.”
The unions thus organized various acts of political theater outside schools and state buildings. A few dozen people wearing swimsuits and masks of Blanquer’s face danced in front of the Education Ministry and held a sign saying: “A meeting on health protocols is underway, do not disturb the health minister.” Riot police units then forced them to leave the area.
Indeed, Blanquer provoked outrage among teachers after Médiapart revealed that he had phoned in the new year’s health guidelines, which he revealed the night before classes started in an interview to Le Parisien, while vacationing in Ibiza. An anonymous source told France Info that Macron “did not appreciate” Blanquer’s action, and that the education minister could be sacked.
In reality, Blanquer’s contempt and disrespect for his own job is only a particularly obnoxious expression of the entire Macron government’s enthusiastic implementation of policies designed to massively spread the coronavirus through the French population.
At last night’s press conference, Castex and Véran announced a serious of measures that effectively end any public pretense by the Macron government that it is trying to prevent contagion.
A “vaccine pass” certifying vaccination status will be required for theaters, stadiums and to travel on airplanes and trains, and booster doses will be opened to adolescents aged 12 to 17. However, the government will end recommendations to employers to promote telecommuting; reopen stadiums, discos, and theaters without restrictions; and end outdoor masking mandates next month. There will be as-yet-unspecified “lightening” of pandemic protocols in the schools in February or early March.
The French union bureaucracies cannot oppose such a policy. Their role is to market to workers policies decided by the state and the financial–corporate oligarchy, and their own budgets are made up largely of corporate subsidies whose maintenance depends on the free flow of profits into the coffers of France’s largest enterprises. Strikes they called and then sold out have led in recent years to the imposition of cuts to pensions, rail-workers’ salaries, unemployment insurance that they had negotiated with Macron.
Today, however, it is not only the living standards but the very lives and health of billions of workers around the world that the unions are signing away. They are no doubt just as terrified as Macron by the international wave of opposition by teachers and workers to sending children into unsafe schools. Their aim is not to lead a struggle, but to prevent struggles from erupting that would totally escape their control.
To stop the pandemic and oppose policies of mass infection, workers must take the struggle out of the hands of national union bureaucracies. Strikes and protests are mounting in numerous US cities including Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Boston, as well as in Greece, while advocates for safe schools like Lisa Diaz in Great Britain are fighting slander campaigns in corporate media. And explosive anger is mounting in workplaces around the world against mass infection policies and inflation that is slashing workers’ real wages.
The way forward is an international struggle to build rank-and-file committees, independent of the union bureaucracies, to coordinate strikes and other actions to impose a scientific health policy and eliminate transmission of the coronavirus. This requires a strict lockdown policy, the end of in-person schooling, and the pursuit of a Zero Covid policy—with full financial support for workers and small businesses affected.
The Parti de l’égalité socialiste calls upon teachers, youth and workers who want to build such organizations in their countries and stop the pandemic to contact the World Socialist Web Site and fight to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees.