The newest rapper to attempt a revival of the West Coast hip-hop scene is Watts’ Jay Rock, and by the sound of things, he knows it will take some work. Jay gives a blow-by-blow account of his lifestyle, during a ride in his beach cruiser, on the new song, California Soul. Meanwhile, Compton’s premier gunner The Game shows some California love by chipping in a hook that describes just how quickly his new sound is spreading. While Cali Soul might not be a smash-hit single, something tells us Jay Rock has other motives (which should be met here).
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Asda will be the first supermarket in the UK to rollout in-store Covid vaccinations - with a Birmingham branch selected to be first.
The supermarket was selected by NHS England to operate a vaccination centre from an in-store pharmacy in Birmingham.
Roger Burnley, Asda CEO and president, said: “We are incredibly proud to provide this service and are keen to do all we can to help the NHS and Government accelerate the rollout of the vaccination programme."
Mr Burnley added: “We have an extensive nationwide logistics network that could support the storage and distribution of the vaccine and our highly-trained pharmacy colleagues are experienced in delivering large vaccination programmes, having recently provided nearly 200,000 flu jabs to members of the public."
Asda is transforming its George department to make space for the vaccination centre - which will operate 8am to 8pm, seven days a week and have the capacity to administer 250 jabs per day.
Asda is currently assessing other sites the inoculations can be administered at, with the help of NHS England and the government, it added in a statement.
The supermarket giant - which was sold last year - will help with the rollout of the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine programme.
Anybody in a key priority group will receive an NHS appointment and can then subsequently choose an Asda store to receive their jab.
Asda customers are being urged NOT to directly contact stores.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks as more supplies become available.
Mr Hancock told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that 2.3 million people across the UK had received the jab and health services were "on track" to deliver it to 14 million by mid-February.
"The rate-limiting step on the rollout is the supply of the vaccine itself. We are now managing to get that supply more than we have done before and it will increase over the next few weeks," he said.
"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in.
"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks."

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The United States marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York led by al-Qaeda. The attack killed nearly 3,000 people and thousands of others injured. Following the attack, filmmakers have made countless movies and documentaries and shown the act of barbarism. The filmmakers intend to ensure the world that the horrific tragedy should not be forgotten. Even two decades after the terrorist attack, the wound is still fresh for many.
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The mentioned movies or documentaries reflect the tragic day, honor the victims, and recognise the heroes who risked their lives to save others. Here are some of the finest works on the 9/11 terrorist attack:
1. 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room (2021)
This documentary is narrated by Jeff Daniels. It examines the 12 hours after the attack on the World Trade Center from the perspective of President George W. Bush. It also features never-before-heard testimonies from important people who were closely involved. It shows more than 200 unseen pictures of the horrific day.
2. Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (2021)
The five-episode documentary series recalls the incident and the mistakes made by the intelligence team, who overlooked the terrorist threat. The series is full of interviews with US officials, military veterans, retired CIA staff and survivors, as well as Taliban commanders.
3. My Name is Khan (2010)
The movie revolves around a Muslim man, who is suffering from Asberger’s Syndrome. It shows the hardship of an innocent man who sets off on a journey across the United States to tell the President, “My name is Khan, and I’m not a terrorist.” His son was killed in racial violence due to the attack and his wife blamed his surname for it.
4. World Trade Center (2006)
The World Trade Center is the true story of two policemen caught in the rubble when the plane crashes on the south tower of the center. The tower collapsed on them, after which they climbed into an elevator shaft and waited to be rescued.
5. United 93 (2006)
United 93 is a powerful, real-time drama that walks the aesthetic tightrope between documentary and fiction. It shows the events abroad United Airlines Flight, a passenger plane which was hijacked by the terrorist during the attack. It shows the struggle of the passengers and crew who decided to fight back against the four terrorists to take control of the plane.


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COVID has affected a lot of events in and around the Capital Region. But there are two in Glens Falls that were supposed to be held this fall and have been rescheduled not just because of COVID but other factors as well. Now, these two events will be held in 2022.
Glens Falls' Wing Fest is one of their biggest draws and it had to be moved back until next spring. It was canceled due to COVID but it would have been hard to plan and execute this year because of the increase in the cost of chicken wings. Organizers felt it would have been difficult to have enough chicken wings for the event. Glens Falls' Wing Fest will now be held in April of 2022 according to News 10 ABC.
Glens Falls' Wing Fest is a great event for local restaurants and vendors who battle it out for the best in wings on the streets of Glens Falls. There are several award and bragging rights given out.
I can't wait until events like these can come back in full force. These are the types of events that are great for cities like Glens Falls. They bring the community together and bring in outsiders who may normally not take a trip to Glens Falls otherwise. Plus the K9 demonstration is an awesome way to make the community aware of how police work with canines in their community.
These events are organized by a group of business leaders and owners that collaborate and brainstorm ideas to bring more business to Glens Falls. They are called the Glens Falls Collaborative.


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The total number of COVID-19 cases in Florida jumped 35% in one day and now stands at 2,359 according to the latest update from the Florida Department of Health. The number of deaths is now up to 29.
The South Florida Counties of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach remain the epicenter of the outbreak in Florida with the highest number of cases. In Southwest Florida there have been 67 confirmed coronavirus cases in Collier County, 66 cases in Lee County, 34 cases in Sarasota County and four cases in Charlotte County.
Governor Ron DeSantis said, Thursday, that rising unemployment and forcing people to stay home may cause long-term mental health consequences. Federal numbers released, Thursday, show the highest number of jobless claims in American history, with 3.3 million people filing for unemployment last week – that's nearly five times as many as during the peak of the Great Recession a decade ago.
Gov. DeSantis has shut down bars and restaurants, cut off visitation at nursing homes and prisons, and ordered senior citizens to stay home. The governor’s efforts have sparked a partisan divide over whether he needs to do more to protect Floridians. DeSantis has issued a series of executive orders aimed at limiting face-to-face interactions and has encouraged Floridians to practice “social distancing” on their own.
However, he has avoided a more hardline statewide approach, citing concerns about intensifying the virus’ negative impact on the state’s economy and the mental health of residents. DeSantis said, “I really worry about suicide, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, domestic abuse, child abuse if this is allowed to go for months and months on end.”
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity will release February unemployment numbers today, March 27. The full impact of the coronavirus on Florida's economy likely won’t be seen until April, when jobless claims for March are released.
More than 74,000 Floridians filed for unemployment last week, which is the highest weekly amount since the Great Recession in 2009. It’s part of a nationwide surge in jobless claims.
Florida's tourism-based economy has already suffered severe blows with closed beaches and theme parks, docked cruise ships, and shuttered restaurants. Conversely, unemployment hit a record low in January. Florida offers 12 weeks of unemployment benefits that top out at $275 a week, making the state's jobless benefits the lowest in the nation. The online application system for unemployment benefits has been overwhelmed.
Unemployed workers will get a boost from the stimulus bill making its way through Congress, which includes expanded benefits for those who lost jobs due to coronavirus.
Meanwhile the Florida AFL-CIO is criticizing the Department of Economic Opportunity, saying its efforts to waive some requirements for unemployment are not enough to help the wave of applicants that are bound to come. “The suspension of work requirements is a drop in the bucket of what they need to do to get people through the door,” said Florida AFL-CIO Director of Politics and Public Policy Rich Templin.
“I can’t say this enough: Only a third of workers are qualifying.”
Collier County Commissioners will hold an emergency meeting today, March 27, to consider imposing a "stay at home" order that would also call on all non-essential businesses to close.
The Naples Daily News reports, Commission Chairman Burt Saunders called the emergency meeting that will be streamed live on the county's website at 1:00 p.m. The order would require all people in Collier County to stay home, with some exceptions. All non-essential businesses would be required to cease all activity aside from "minimum basic operations." Hotels and short-term rentals would also have to stop taking new reservations. The proposed order includes a list of businesses considered essential including grocery stores, gas stations, banks and nursing homes.
If passed, the order would apply to Marco Island and the city of Naples, although local officials could still pass stricter measures in those municipalities.
As all levels of government are struggling to find the best way to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, response plans in the rural Collier County community of Immokalee are still in an incubation period.
During a conference call on Wednesday with local leaders, Department of Health Collier, and Immokalee-based nonprofits, there were a lot of questions but few answers. Immokalee is a town with no hospital beds, people living in cramped conditions, and a large workforce who can’t work remotely. Greg Asbed of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers asked a piercing question to county leaders.
“When the amount of people who are sick—and seriously sick—in Immokalee starts to spike what are we going to do? What is the plan for Immokalee when we spike?”
Collier County Bureau of Emergency Services Director Dan Summers said there wasn’t a timeline in place yet.
“But what I can say is as we get direction from DOH trying to evaluate those needs, that will certainly drive the timeline,” Summers said. “You know, we’re doing all these things to start looking at identifying options, we’re under a state of emergency and under that state of emergency, what takes days in government we can do in hours, so I think we’re well positioned as we go through that review.”
Immokalee Division Director for DOH-Collier Mark Lemke said a call center has been set up by the county to screen those who may have COVID-19. The screening criteria are the same as they are statewide: close contact with a COVID-19 positive case, travel to a widespread area, 65 years of age or older, immune compromised, or symptomatic health care workers or first responders with direct contact.
Dawn Montecalvo, president of the Guadalupe Center said the criteria detailed by DOH would not be relevant to those living in Immokalee.
“My concern is the criteria that you’ve shared in the process most of the people in our community will not be able to go through that or meet it, because they don’t know if they’ve come into contact with someone who has tested positive,” Montecalvo said.
Montecalvo expressed a necessity to bring resources to deal with a potential outbreak to Immokalee.
“The Immokalee community, they don’t come out and ask for help we need to bring the resources to them,” Montecalvo said. “Because as we learned after Hurricane Irma, people didn’t come out and say ‘hey my house was damaged,’ we had to go to them and I think the county sometimes loses focus on that. Having somebody from Immokalee call the [DOH collier number] and fill out a two-page survey they’re not going to do it, they are just going to keep working and they are going to get sicker.”
Lemke said DOH Collier has been in contact with local growers to provide prevention advice, such as sanitizing buses that take farmworkers to fields and directing employees to wash hands before boarding and upon exiting.
Many agricultural workers and families in Immokalee live in homes and trailers with five or more people. Several nonprofit leaders asked about measures to be taken to isolate people who test positive.
Dan Summers said isolation options are currently being reviewed statewide.
“What I can tell you is that we’re looking well into the future in terms of what those options are and we’ve been on that track for Immokalee for a couple of days,” Summers said. “Part of this really relies on the direction we get from [State Department of Health] epidemiology and what individual situations look for.”
State Rep. Byron Donalds was on the call and suggested for those in Immokalee to look at COVID-19 responses in other rural communities in the state, like Belle Glade are doing for guidance moving forward.
Commissioner William McDaniel, who represents Immokalee’s district was not on the call to answer questions brought by community leaders and has not responded to several WGCU interview requests.
During a news conference, Thursday, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marcino strongly encouraged people to stay home and not gather in groups. He said law enforcement will be monitoring public areas like parks and waterways - and that anyone who flouts the Department of Health recommendation to stay home will run the risk of arrest.
The City of Sarasota has extended its declaration of a local citywide public health emergency through April 3.
According to a news release the new emergency order authorizes the Sarasota Police Department to disperse gatherings of 10 or more people and emphasizes the need for voluntary compliance with social distancing guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those who do not voluntarily comply and continue to flagrantly violate social gathering restrictions may be issued a citation by a sworn Sarasota Police Officer. A violation would be considered a second-degree misdemeanor.


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Even when it rains on earth, science tells us that on a higher level, the beginning process could have originated in snowflakes. So snowflakes are a symbol of that first gentle step.
Next time you look at the snowflakes gently dropping from heaven, blanketing earth in its white embrace, remember that you are witnessing a kiss – the kiss of the Divine and the mundane (more find on http://www.meaningfullife.com/spiritual/nature/Spiritual_Meaning_of_Snow.php).
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As the subtitle of this text indicates, Davidson questions how ancient Greek homosexuality has been approached in recent scholarship, and seeks to reinterpret the evidence from the primary sources in order to clarify issues under current debate. As such, this text represents a shift that is underway regarding the study of Greek homosexuality that originally took its cue from scholars like Dover and Foucault.1 Davidson’s main objections to their work has to do with their preoccupation with homosexual acts (particularly regarding anal sex), the correlation of these sexual acts with a discourse on domination, and the assertion that the word “homosexuality” does not reflect a historical reality that was true of the Greeks. Davidson’s text builds on topics that he broached in his Courtesans and Fishcakes.2 Like the latter book (which was a reworking of his Oxford doctoral dissertation), Davidson’s new book is popular enough in its orientation that it may not appeal to a scholarly readership. Nevertheless, Davidson does bring his scholarly talents to his inquiry on Greek homosexuality and, as a result, he has made a significant contribution to this area.
In his “Introduction,” Davidson uses the metaphor of the Gordian knot to address the various attempts at working through the complexity of Greek homosexuality. As the story goes, Alexander cut right through the knot in one fell swoop, but Davidson asserts that the careful student of Greek love will not follow this approach, but will rather give attention to the various strands that form an accurate account of the topic. The Greeks themselves understood the complexity involved in a discourse about love, and so students of Greek homosexuality should always be attuned to the context, to what Davidson has called the “Greekness” (p. 7) of Greek love.
It is precisely at this point of focusing on the historical context of the Greeks that part of the controversy regarding contemporary treatments of Greek homosexuality resides, since it may be historically anachronistic to refer to Greek sexual behavior using the word “homosexual.” Davidson takes this criticism head on in Part I, entitled “The Greeks Had Words for It” (pp. 11-100). Laying the foundations for what will become an extensive treatment of Greek myth in Part III, in this section Davidson looks briefly at characterizations of the god Eros himself and analyzes the word “eros” across various ancient sources (e. g., Pausanias, Plato, Thucydides). A study of the Greek vocabulary of love and desire ( agape, philia, himeros, pothos, epithumia) is the starting point of his analysis of the kind of relationships implied in the use of such terminology. Although he is hesitant to find sex as an overarching concern when discussing eros, Davidson seeks to clarify the role and status of homosexual participants, specifically focusing upon the male age classes in Greek society and the expectation for propriety based upon the age of lovers.
Part II “Sodomania” (pp. 101-168) expands upon Davidson’s aversion to how “modern work on ancient Greek culture is remarkably obsessed with the ins and outs of homosexual sex acts” (p. 101). In particular, he rejects notions that Greek homosexuality was primarily concerned with penetration, and ultimately, the assertion of power. Davidson finds in this scholarly preoccupation with sex an underlying (sometimes explicit) homophobic tendency. If Greek homosexuality is merely about which sex acts are performed and in what position they occur, then the actual relational elements of Greek love can be marginalized. The fact that contemporary scholars today may not be able to recognize much else than the discussion of sex in Greek homosexual relationships, shows to what extent Dover’s influence has been felt. Usually, there is no question about what kind of significant relationship may exist for a heterosexual couple beyond sex acts, and so when scholars cannot see the same correlation within discussions of homosexuality, it seems fair to detect a possible underlying homophobia (cf. Davidson’s section “The politics of ‘It’s only sex'” p. 131-132). Such a point has additional relevance for Davidson’s discussion of Greek homosexual marriage (see his section “Syzygies,” pp. 381-388).
As noted above, Part III “Greek Love and Greek Religion” (pp. 169-254) is a discussion of homosexuality in Greek myth, particularly of the rapturous sort. Davidson charts the transformation of the myth of Ganymede over the years as Zeus’s beloved boy by examining Homer and depictions in vase painting and sculpture. Thereafter, he considers the mythic context of Plato’s Phaedrus as it relates to the erotic winged ecstasy of Ganymede. Davidson also considers the poetic retelling of the myth of Pelops by Pindar, which plays off of the myth of Ganymede, and the ritualized seizure of Hyacinthus.
From the context of myth, in Part IV, “Men of War” (pp. 255-390), Davidson examines the link between war and Greek homosexuality. The mythic overtones in the martial world of the Greeks come across in Homer’s depiction of Achilles’ love for Patroclus. The Iliad itself, he argues, provides the basis for affirming the sexual nature of the relationship between the two heroes. The mourning of Achilles for Patroclus (23.135-151) conveys his homoerotic bond with him. Thetis attempts to console her son by telling him that sex with females is also good, given that Achilles has been “tossing and turning and longing for Patroclus’s menos” (p. 258). While the standard meaning of menos in Homeric Greek is “courage or mettle” (p. 258), Davidson notes that there are Archaic sources where the word “unequivocally” means semen.3 In Homer’s correlation between the myth of Meleager and Cleopatra, Davidson believes that a form of homosexual marriage existed between Achilles and Patroclus (p. 259). Achilles and Patroclus are not the only homosexual warriors. Heracles is helped out in more ways than one by his relationship with Iolaus. Nevertheless, it should be emphasized again that for Davidson the actual element of sex is not central to the homosexual relationship.
Greek homosexuality was also a major facet of the consciousness of the historical warriors of Crete and Sparta, given that within these Greek communities, Greek homosexuality was systematized in rituals of initiation, which included military conditioning. The literary evidence (such as we find in Ephorus) is not entirely clear about all the aspects of the ritual or even specifically into what a boy was being initiated, and so Davidson acknowledges the potential for controversy, but it seems to point to an abduction ceremony that involved the public expression of two men being joined together. Here again the sexual aspect (or lack thereof) comes to the fore when considering how the Spartans would consummate this relationship: “The boy as always is wrapped up in a cloak. There is an embrace and the two lie down together, doing everything but the deed itself, but with no touching of bodies, and preservative cloaks always between” (p. 332). Beyond the Cretans and Spartans, erotic associations can also be found in the sacred military bands of Elis and Thebes. Davidson also takes into consideration that Philip II of Macedon found no shame in this homosexual Theban contingent which he defeated, which may be due to his experience of being a hostage at Thebes, and his own apparent homoerotic proclivities. Completing his picture of warrior lovers and the reference to Philip II of Macedon, Davidson also discusses the homosexuality of Alexander the Great.
Moving away from the erotic world of the military bands, in Part V, “Eros Off Duty” (pp. 391-465), Davidson contemplates the more relaxed and leisurely environment of poetry and the symposium. Drawing attention to the art of the Tomb of the Diver, which shows men enjoying the delights of sympotic life, Davidson describes the world depicted there as one of beauty, song, and love. It is in such a world that ancient Greek poets sang of the powerful effects of eros. Though ancient Greek poetry typically expresses male homoeroticism, Davidson includes the fact that female homoeroticism comes to pure expression in the poetry of Sappho, who “in the female gender conforms beautifully to the pattern of Greek Love or, more specifically, Athenian Love, which we know from so many examples in the male gender” (p. 406). Though her poetry was written in the Archaic period, Davidson sees in Sappho’s language and metaphors the kind of formal and public homosexual relationships that existed among male lovers in the classical Athenian context represented by Plato, Aeschines, and Xenophon.
The most valuable part of the whole of Davidson’s sprawling text is the “Conclusion” (pp. 466-516). He returns again to the pertinent analogy of the Gordian knot, finding in it the implications for the study of Greek homosexuality: “A full investigation of ‘the Greek custom’ and all its ramifications would not merely take at least a lifetime…in the end it would resemble something not very far from a full-scale social, cultural and political history of that loose cultural federation of polities that we call ‘ancient Greece'” (p. 466). In this final portion we find a concision that is not typically characteristic of the rest of the book, and it pays high dividends in the end for reading. Because of this, the conclusion is probably the best (and most practical) place to start reading this text. Whatever may spark the interest of the reader in the Conclusion, one can find a more elaborate, although not always more helpful, discussion in the relevant chapters in the text.
The most obvious strength of Davidson’s work is his intimate familiarity with a whole range of primary sources, which he sometimes uses in deft ways to make his points. However, it also in this respect that many people reading his text may take exception to perceived interpretive liberties that Davidson entertains while explaining the meaning of a primary source (Davidson’s treatment of menos mentioned above, would undoubtedly by a case in point, since Homer’s contemporaries may not have caught the slang connotation). Furthermore, on several occasions Davidson uses language that is not always particularly nuanced; yet it is frequently witty, often cheeky, and consistently engaging, such as: “If the liberation of sex from the perceived trammels of Victorian prudishness really was a kind of religious movement as Foucault claimed, Kenneth Dover is its Grand Ayatollah” (p. 107). In addition, in the middle of key points, Davidson is given to long forays into matters that have a loose bearing upon the actual topic under consideration, causing some sections to swell beyond their banks, resulting in the rather large size of the text itself (for example, Davidson’s discussion of 20th century social-anthropology, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Girl from Ipanema).
More work must be done in the area of Greek homosexuality, particularly as more scholars move to modify or reject the theories of Dover and Foucault. The necessity for doing so is laid out strongly by Davidson throughout by highlighting Foucault’s acknowledged reliance upon Dover for his own work on sexuality and power (which was part of Foucault’s larger philosophical approach). As Davidson illustrates from Dover’s own writings, despite his reputation as a classicist, Dover did not always rely solely upon ancient Greek sources for his insights. Davidson’s contribution is a notable milestone along the way in that he seeks to keep the dialogue focused upon the context of the texts themselves.
1. Kenneth J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989); Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality, vol. 2, trans. Robert Hurley (Vintage: New York, 1986).
2. James Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. (New York: Harper Perennial 1999).
3. Archilochus fr. 196a.52 and Solon fr. 9.1.

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Toni Thai Sterrett
Toni Thai Sterrett was born on Sep 01, 1982 in USA. Toni Thai Sterrett's big-screen debut came with August the First directed by Lanre Olabisi in 2007. Toni Thai Sterrett is known for Ms/Manage directed by Caralene Robinson, Adwoa Duncan Williams stars as Skye Johnson and Zen Dot as Lark Eiko. The upcoming new tvshow Toni Thai Sterrett plays is Ms/Manage - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 01, 2021.
Toni Thai Sterrett was born on September 1, 1982 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Hell: A Life (2011), Potty Break (2020) and Hell of a Life (2011).
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THE USE OF BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANTS IN THE TREATMENT OF JUXTA- AND INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURES IN CHILDREN
Introduction. In the structure of the general morbidity rate, trauma and diseases of the musculoskeletal system take the third place after diseases of the respiratory system and pathology of the gastrointestinal tract. In recent years, an intensive indices characterizing the trauma prevalence rate has increased by 1.9 times. Aim. to improve the results of the management of juxta- and intraarticular fractures in children by means of the use of biodegradable implants. Material and methods. Over the period from 2014 to 2016 in the Department of Traumatology of the Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology there were examined and treated 108 children with juxta- and intra-articular fractures of the upper and lower extremities aged from 5 to 17 years, with an average age of 13.3 ± 1.8, including 38 (34.96 %) girls and 70 (65.04%) boys. All patients underwent complex examination including laboratory and instrumental methods: complete blood count (CBC), Common Urine Examination (CUE), X-Ray, spiral computed tomography, MRI. Results. To describe injuries and determine the tactics of the treatment of juxta- and intra-articular fractures in children, there was used the fracture classification system delivered by Robert B. Salter and W. Robert Harris. All children with metaphyseal fractures of the second, third, and fourth types underwent surgical treatment with the use of biodegradable implants. The postoperative period proceeded without complications. Conclusion. The use of biodegradable screws in juxta- and intra-articular fractures in children is a safe and effective method of treatment, reducing its timing by eliminating repeated surgical intervention.
About the authorsRoshal L.M.
Lushnikov Aleksandr M.
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Sony has been in the forefront of 3D technology promoting it for gaming and TVs. Sony has been pushing hard for 3D technology in gaming, this was clear with the recent PS3 update that allowed users to play the stereoscopic 3D games. Sony now is looking at expanding the PS3’s 3D capabilities.
According to a reports Sony is looking to extent 3D support to Blu-Ray movies, photos, and even YouTube to the console. SCEE senior director Mick Hocking said that in september this year, Sony will launch another firmware upgrade which will suppord Blu-ray movies in 3D.
“So you’ll see 3D games in the next 12 months, you’ll see Blu-ray movies in 3D, and as soon as the broadcasts start through our PlayTV services, you’re going to watch 3D content”, he said.
YouTube is said to also get into 3D market. YouTube will be supporting 3D content over the next 12 months and you will be able to access that on your PlayStation 3. 3D pictures and 3D camcorder movies will also be supported on the PS3.
Sony futureproofing its consoles will work in PS3’s favor. Now you don’t have to spend an extra buck trying to buy that 3D Blu-Ray player or that 3D DVD player if you own a PS3.


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A cup of latte has 3 ingredients; espresso, steamed milk, and milk foam. It is a creamier drink compared to Americano and has a silkier texture too. It is a great drink if you want to avoid adding sugar to your drink but you do not want the harsh and direct taste of Americano. Lately, there has been a renewed interest in lattes because of its beautiful look that is suited to Instagram. Baristas showcase their craftsmanship through latte art that features different figures made by slowly pouring in the milk to the espresso.
Both Americano and lattes are great drinks that are suited for a more direct intake of espresso. It only boils down to preference on which drink should you get while you are in a coffee run. If you prefer a drink with dairy and velvety texture then you should get a latte. Have your barista make you a one of a kind latte art while you are at it. If you are out on a quick coffee run, get an Americano.
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Re: Yanmar 24 volt alternator make/model
To me, the red light on the 24V panel just means the alternator is not providing a charge.
For instance, in our case this happens every time in the 5-second period between turning the engine on and the external Mastervolt regulator telling the alternator to, well, start charging the battery. This delay is programmable and we've never bothered changing it.
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The catastrophic failure that is the EU’s agricultural policy, CAP
By Martin Hellicar
Farmers should receive state support because they are vital to a vital sector and it can be very hard – especially for small farmers – to make ends meet. That said, taxpayers’ money should never be used to bolster farming practices that actively undermine agricultural ecosystems. Subsidies should be tightly bound to a commitment to farm sustainably, producing healthy food while maintaining a healthy farmed environment.
It makes sense, no? Bit of a ‘no brainer’, in fact. Especially in the face of growing evidence of the damage caused by intensive farming. Pollution of soil, water and air, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, significant emissions of greenhouse gases, to name but the main problems. Sustainable solutions exist: there is growing evidence that less intensive (and therefore far more sustainable) farming, including organic production, can feed the world, provided we all cut back on meat and dairy.
Yet, the chief EU instrument for guiding farming, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which absorbs fully one third of the EU budget, continues to support unsustainable, intensive farming. The newly revamped CAP represents yet another dismal failure to properly reform the policy, so that the CAP represents a colossal miss-use of public funds, with serious and mounting ecological consequences on the ground.
CAP reforms come and go (with new coats of shiny green paint added each time), but nothing really changes. According to the statistics, around 80 per cent of all subsidies go to just 20 per cent of farmers, and most payments are still in the form of ‘no-strings-attached’ income support. This holds true both at all-EU and at Cyprus level.
In Cyprus, the post-accession CAP ‘era’ has done nothing to change the trends for agricultural intensification in the lowlands and abandonment of low-intensity farmland in the uplands. According to Eurostat, pesticide use in Cyprus actually doubled between 2011 and 2019, while most EU countries managed to reduce biocide use over the same period.
Meanwhile, agricultural ecosystems are collapsing. Farmland bird populations in Europe have declined by an alarming 57 per cent over 40 years, in a pattern clearly linked to CAP-backed agricultural intensification. The picture regarding insect numbers is even more dire. Farmland habitats, which cover half of Europe, have the worst nature conservation status of all habitats on the continent.
The reason why the CAP sticks to ‘business-as-usual’ in the face of the ugly ecological reality is both political and simple: the intensive farming lobby is much bigger and has far more influence than the environmental lobby. This ‘big farm’ lobby convinces EU decision-makers (and good swathes of the public too) that massive monocultures of chemically boosted and protected crops, those one-plant deserts of ecological over-simplification, are the only way to keep a growing world population fed.
This, however, does not stand up to reasoned analysis. Feeding the world in the short-term by destroying farmland ecosystems (thus shooting long-term production in the back), cannot be the solution. Yet this deeply flawed argumentation seems to convince EU decision-makers, so they ‘speak the green speak’ and hope taxpayers will not bother looking at the detail of what each new manifestation of the CAP actually subsidises.
The fact that the CAP is a confusion of often arcane regulations, standards and implementing acts helps in this ‘greenwash’, by scaring off any but the most determined of investigators. (Not the European Court of Auditors, though: last month, in the latest of its damning assessments of the policy, the ECA found CAP funds were actually supporting practices that waste precious water).
In essence, the issue is not that complicated. The ‘big farm’ lobby would rather you thought of farming as somehow operating in a ‘bubble’, separate from ecosystems. It does not. Farming is the management of a semi-natural ecosystem, and it relies on the health of that system for maintaining production in the long-term.
Sustainable farming respects soil, water, air and biodiversity by maintaining crop diversity and not cropping beyond what the system can support. Monocultures, on the other hand, exhaust the soil, requiring big inputs of chemical fertiliser, which cause pollution of soil, water and atmosphere.
Single-crop expanses are also acutely vulnerable to pests, so they rely on chemical sprays to protect them. These biocides poison the soil and water and obliterate farmland wildlife, including vital pollinating insects and the natural predators that keep pests in check. The drive for increased production leads to a gross simplification of the farmed landscape, with ever more monocultures and specialisation in just a few crops.
The ecological destruction is made complete through the removal of all remnants of natural vegetation such as hedgerows, flower strips, field margins, ponds and fallows. This leaves no corner for pollinators, natural predators and other farmland wildlife to shelter in. And all this while the scientific evidence mounts of how more diverse, balanced agricultural systems – at both field and landscape scales – can often support higher yields in the long-term.
An important caveat: I am not saying here that everything about modern agriculture is negative. I am not advocating that the CAP should support only low-yield, strictly traditional farming or only organic production (though these should all be well-supported). What I am saying is that the best of modern production techniques should be intelligently integrated with the best of conservation science to achieve a sustainable balance based on sound ecological management, and that this is what the CAP should support.
For example, we know that agricultural ecosystems need a minimum 10 per cent ‘space for nature’ to function well. Studies have shown that if you have 10 per cent of hedgerows, flower strips, field margins, ponds and fallow land alongside the crops, this is usually sufficient for vital wildlife, from birds to insects, to survive, keeping the system alive. These natural elements also serve to capture CO2 and prevent soil erosion. The principle of having 10 per cent of farmland under “high diversity landscape features” is enshrined as a target in the current EU Biodiversity Strategy.
However, these high-level commitments simply do not get transferred into the CAP and therefore do not translate into obligations on the ground. The policy pays lip service to the idea, but then hollows it out. The new CAP requires farmers in receipt of subsidies to devote only 3-4 per cent of their land to ‘space for nature’, and even then this only applies to arable farms and there are so many exemptions that even this inadequate obligation applies to only 50 per cent of EU farmland. Read the headline, and you might go away thinking the CAP is actually introducing meaningful ‘space for nature’. Dig a bit deeper, and you find it is an empty promise. The science shows we need a minimum of 10 per cent, after all.
The lion’s share of subsidies continue to support harmful monocultures. No requirements are attached for sustainable practices such as crop rotation (to maintain soil health), integrated crop management (to reduce pesticide use) or nutrients management (to reduce fertiliser pollution). (The absence of obligations to limit pesticide use is particularly galling when the EU ‘Farm to Fork’ and Biodiversity strategies set a target for 50 per cent pesticide reduction by 2030). There is continued support for unsustainable irrigation and for intensive animal rearing through ‘coupled payments’, whereby livestock farmers actually get paid more for producing more, a recipe for intensification if ever there was one.
Around 30 per cent of the CAP money is nominally allocated to environmental measures, but the rules attached are so vague that there is virtually no guarantee this money will actually support ecosystems. Sure, a member state can decide to devote significant sums to good agri-environment measures or farm eco-schemes, but this relies on the good environmental will of the member state, whereas it should be enshrined in the CAP.
I could go on and on about the wrongs of the CAP; they are everywhere you look in this giant failure of a policy instrument. Of course, many farmers out there are doing their best to farm sustainably and to allow real room for nature on their land. The tragedy is that your tax money is not backing these progressive farmers, it is instead actively supporting the continuation of one of the biggest environmental disasters of modern times. In the meantime, the best we can do as individuals (apart from demanding real CAP reform, that is) is to buy organic, buy local and reduce the meat and dairy we eat. At least that way we are supporting more sustainable practices.
Martin Hellicar works as director of local nature conservation NGO BirdLife Cyprus. A PhD ecologist and former journalist, he is fortunate enough to work for an organisation whose positions closely match his, though the opinions expressed here are entirely his own

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1988 Chevy Blazer V8 Four Wheel Drive Automatic 68000 miles
My Blazer won't start. When I turn the key, the battery gauge dives all the way down and the engine turns over just a few degrees, but doesn't continue to rotate. I've had the battery charged and tested. They said it was ok. I've had the starter tested, they said it was ok. I jumped the terminals on the starter and got the same outcome. I have 12 volts at the main power wire on the starter and a test light dimly lights up on the signal wire to starter. What do I check next? What's not working the way it should?
Hi: When you had the battery tested, was it load tested? It sounds like there may be 12 volts at the battery but when there is a load on it, it shorts out internally. Also, make sure the battery terminals are clean and tight and the ground on the engine block is clean, tight, and there are no breaks in the cable from corrosion.
Let me know.
November, 30, 2008 AT 1:20 PM
The truck does the same thing when I try to jump start it. They should exclude the battery from being the problem, right?
The ground I'm checking should go from the battery to the engine block, right?
What tests can I do with my multimeter to verify the condition of the power wire to the starter? Continuity and proper voltage? Anything else?
December, 1, 2008 AT 12:12 AM
You can't exclude the battery unless it passed a load test. It could read 12+ volts then die under a load.
As far as the ground, yes the one to the engine block and any you find on the body.
As far as the multimeter, I need you to check voltage. There should be two wires at the starter, a large one and a small one. The large one will have 12 volts, but the small one should only get 12 volts when the key is in the start position.
Let me know how it goes.
December, 2, 2008 AT 4:46 PM
My battery tester says that the battery is ok. It tested it at 850 cca and it read 570 cca. It said it needs to be charged, but it's ok.
I checked the grounds that I could find and don't see any thing wrong.
I'll check the starter wires tomorrow when I have a helper.
December, 2, 2008 AT 7:09 PM
Hi again: When you tested the battery, did you use a specific gravity tester or an actual load tester? Let me know what you find with the starter.
December, 3, 2008 AT 6:59 PM
Just a load tester. No specific gravity.
I put a multimeter on the signal wire to the starter and I think I only saw 3 volts when I turned the key.
December, 3, 2008 AT 9:10 PM
Hi: If thats all your getting, either the cable is bad, you have a bad ground, a bad starter relay, or the ignition switch is bad. I would start with the easiest. If you check under the hood in the power distribution center, see if there is an exact match for the starter relay and switch it to see if that helps.
December, 14, 2008 AT 5:16 PM
The weather was nice today, so I got out there and found out there's a bad ground somewhere. I put a jumper cable from a starter bolt to the neg. Terminal on the battery and it turned right over.
I then cleaned the connections on the neg. Terminal and the ground cables to the block and the body. I checked those ground cables for continuity and didn't see any trouble. But it still won't start without the jumper cable. Is there another ground cable that I should look for or inspect?
Thanks so much for your help with this!
December, 15, 2008 AT 8:59 AM
Hi: If you need to ground from the battery to the starter for it to start, you may just want to run a new seperate ground to the starter. There must be corrosion where the starter bolts and you're not getting the ground you need. Either remove the startrer, clean mounting surface, and replace starter to see if that works, or just bolt a new ground to one of the mounting boltes. Make sure the wire you use is as heavy as the one going to the battery.
December, 15, 2008 AT 5:15 PM
Sounds like a good fix. I REALLY appreciate your help!


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It already seems a strangely distant memory. But a year ago this week, as the US, Britain and their Nato allies prepared to bring out the last of their troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban, already in control of two-thirds of the country, was surging towards Kabul.
The UK’s in-country diplomatic staff (except Ambassador Sir Laurie Bristow) were already leaving the embassy. One of the biggest British evacuations since the Second World War would start the following day. And Boris Johnson, who had told the Commons in July “there is no military path to victory for the Taliban”, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, and Foreign Office permanent secretary, Sir Philip Barton, were all on holiday.
Historians will debate the consequences of the bitterly criticised US-led decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. Did it, as a sign of Western weakness, embolden Putin to invade Ukraine?
But what’s clear is that the manner in which the UK withdrawal was managed from London was – as described this year by the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee – “a disaster and a betrayal of our allies that will damage the UK’s interests for years to come”. And for which all the principal figures involved have escaped with impunity.
Operationally, the fortnight-long evacuation of 15,000 people – UK nationals and Afghans identified as deserving safe passage – was a signal achievement by courageous and dedicated British servicemen and civilian personnel on the ground. But on a strategic and humanitarian level, the operation – characterised for television viewers across the world by the indelibly harrowing pictures of desperate Afghans clinging to departing planes at Kabul airport – was a case study in Whitehall mismanagement, inter-departmental dysfunction and Cabinet-level back-covering.
That select committee report, one of the most devastating parliamentary indictments ever on the workings of government in general and of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in particular, demands a fresh – and deeply sobering – re-read a year on from the evacuation debacle. That’s not least for the testimony by brave whistleblowers like the senior FCDO official, Josie Stewart, who said she had “never in my career seen anything within the civil service so badly managed”.
Those failings directly affected the many Afghans who were left behind but whom Britain had a clear moral duty to evacuate for their safety – both those who had worked directly for the embassy or the military and those who had risked co-operating with the UK in promoting Western values.
The routine excuse for the dismal failure to have a robust evacuation plan was the unexpected speed with which the Taliban seized control of the country. Yet the Government had known for 18 months that they might need one sooner or later.
The Ministry of Defence did belatedly draw one up in December 2020, for the first category, but woefully underestimated the numbers of applicants, many of whom were wrongly rejected or had no response by the time Kabul fell. On the second category (those who had risked co-operating with the UK), there was no plan at all and the FCDO only tried to devise one – under pressure from MPs – after the fall of Kabul on 15 August.
This generated the ensuing chaos: a woefully understaffed FCDO team, many without prior knowledge of Afghanistan, struggling against a blizzard of emails from desperate Afghans, some of which went unread, and often prioritising applications on the basis of “who happened to open or forward which random email”.
Planning failure also made less surprising the scandalous fact that details of some UK Afghan contacts still in the country were left in the embassy for the Taliban to find.
The Committee was obstructed by the FCDO’s repeated failure to be open about its shortcomings. Nothing better illustrated its obfuscation than that over the permission for the animal charity Nowzad’s founder, Paul Farthing, to leave with his animals but without other human passengers on a 230-seat private aircraft on 25 August when Afghan applicants were no longer being called for evacuation.
Farthing’s application to leave with his staff and animals was referred to the National Security Adviser Sir Stephen Lovegrove, who promised to seek “clear guidance from No 10” and subsequently authorised it. Many FCDO officials believe the clearance came from Johnson, perhaps at the instigation of his wife.
But faced with Johnson’s denial, a repeatedly shifting version of events by Sir Philip Barton (who unbelievably did not return from holiday until 26 August when the civilian evacuation was over) and Lovegrove’s assertion that he could “not remember” whom he consulted, the Committee could only conclude: “The fact that nobody can state who made the decision… suggests at best that the political leadership was chaotic and at worst that senior figures are not telling the truth.”
So who was prepared to take the blame for the whole sorry saga? Not ministers, of course. Yet politically, the UK signally failed – despite severe doubts in the British military – to push back against the original US decision. Characteristically, Raab blamed this on officials’ “optimism bias” – a piece of buck passing which simply does not hold up. Raab himself did so little to prepare for the worst in the run-up to August that he seemed to think there was nothing to worry about.
Yet what has happened since? Thousands of Afghans who worked for or with the UK are still being obstructed by the Home Office from escaping the Taliban. Thousands of others who did make it to the UK are still trapped in often substandard hotel accommodation.
Raab, who like Johnson came back from holiday on 15 August and whose only “mea culpa” is to admit he should have returned earlier, was admittedly shunted to the Ministry of Justice where he is now busy curbing judges’ powers to challenge ministerial decisions. Sir Philip Barton, who the committee said should “consider his position”, is still comfortably in post. And as identified last month in an Institute for Government report, morale in the FCDO has understandably nosedived.
In the past two years, Britain’s international influence and prestige has reached a new low thanks to Brexit and the Government’s subsequent willingness to abrogate its treaty with the EU. But perhaps nothing better illustrates the UK’s incapacity to do internationally what it once did so well than the Afghanistan evacuation fiasco.
A new foreign secretary needs to begin the long task of rebuilding the country’s international reputation. It may not have been edifying to see Tom Tugendhat clambering aboard the Liz Truss bandwagon once he saw she was in front, but as the principal author of that excoriating report he might be the most suitable candidate to succeed her at the FCDO.
At least he knows better than most what went so badly wrong a year ago.


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One is Kathryn Stockett's phenomenal debut, The Help. Narrated from 1962 Mississippi by two black domestics (the "household help") and a young white aspiring writer -- all of whom see things differently than the people around them -- it's about race, class status, gender roles, friendship, and the definitions of family. It's full of emotion, film-quality imagery, palpable suspense ... with subplots so seamlessly woven that I only noticed when they intersected and it became apparent how perfectly they'd been set up. The novel is compelling -- and even life-changing, if the fictional editor's advice about writing is extended to a metaphor for living:
"Don't waste your time on the obvious things. Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else."And so these three narrators -- and author Kathryn Stockett -- did.
Another is also a terrific fiction debut, Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone. It's the story of Marion Praise Stone, born in 1954 Ethiopia of Sister Mary Joseph Praise (an Indian Carmelite nun) and Thomas Stone (an exceptional British surgeon), and (temporarily conjoined) twin to brother, Shiva Praise Stone.
Set mostly in and around a mission hospital in the capital city of Addis Ababa, the first hundred pages are riveting and the next 400 are fascinating, tender, and funny explorations of family, immigration, politics, loyalty, and the practice of medicine and surgery. With something to keep in mind when struggling in difficult work:
I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. […] I chose the specialty of surgery because of Matron, that steady presence during my boyhood and adolescence. "What is the hardest thing you can possibly do?" she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life.For more (no spoilers), see my comments in LibraryThing's Reading Globally Africa Theme Read. And NPR has a nice podcast of Abraham Verghese reading one of my favorite passages -- the descriptive, touching, and very funny performance of a vasectomy. Which brings to mind another takeaway from Cutting for Stone: Verghese's entreaty that healthcare personnel return to the bedside -- and remember the presence of the actual patient there, instead of industrial medicine’s increasing emphasis on patient as data in a computer -- a la:
I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. "Why must I do what is hardest?"
"Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?"
[…] I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field -- internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.
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How to invest in soya beans
Soya is a particularly attractive agricultural commodity for online traders as well as those who hold bank placement products.
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General presentation of soya:
Soy is produced in the form of ‘cakes’. Its use relates to both the agro-foods and animal feed sectors. Soya is in fact one of the main bovine feed products and its price is therefore directly correlated to the international demand for meat. It is soya’s protein rich composition that makes it such a prized agro-food product, even with the dietary industry.
Soya oil is also the most produced vegetable oil throughout the world representing 32% of all vegetable oils produced and its production alone consumes 20% of the raw soya production. It is this oil, from soya, that is most used in human alimentation. But soya also enters into the composition of other derived products such as soaps, detergents and even some paints. As with wheat, it is also used in the manufacture of bio-fuels, a sector that is currently in full expansion due to the heady rise of the oil price.
Concerning the global production of soya, the major producing countries are the United States at 40% of the worldwide production, followed by Argentina, China and Brazil. It should also be noted that China is also the largest global consuming country and accounts for nearly 50% of the importation of soya beans worldwide.
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- The demand and consumption of meat is also a recommended indicator as soya is one of the major bovine food components.
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This position is in the ISIS Hydrogen and Catalysis Laboratory (IHCL) which is part of the ISIS support labs. The labs and the group support the user community by offering offline characterisation and general lab space to prepare, run and analyse their samples. The Hydrogen and Catalysis Laboratory boasts a wide range of instrumentation and analytical equipment used by the ISIS User community and staff, as well as other research staff on the RAL campus. This suite of instruments allows a wealth of physical property information to be obtained. The instruments include thermogravimetric analysis, volumetric analysis (surface area, pore size and distribution measurement), Raman, IR spectroscopy and dynamic scanning calorimetry.
Information on ISIS can be found at http://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk, and on the ISIS Support Laboratorieshttp://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/support-laboratories.
List of Duties/Responsibilities
This position will offer you an excellent opportunity to use and develop the scientific skills you have acquired at university whilst learning many new ones on the way. The main focus of your work will be method development, so that the lab’s full capability can be exploited. You will also have the opportunity to get involved with a number of development projects with the ISIS Molecular Spectroscopy Group in both beamline and offline experiments.
You will work within the Support Laboratories Group working with the Molecular Spectroscopy Science Group and you will contribute to the development of the following new methods:
Gas adsorption – Measuring the adsorption of molecular adsorbates in nano structures of technical relevance. This will involve benchmarking and optimising recently acquired new equipment within the IHCL by selecting suitable test materials and testing regimes. During this project you will be producing a validation document that proves the accuracy and repeatability of the new instrument so that it can be handed over to the ISIS instrument scientists.
Thermogravimetric analysis – Development of methods to use the newly acquired Mass Spec accessories for our gravimetric analysis instrument to enhance the science undertaken in the lab. By operating and validating the instrument, while producing user instructions it will be possible to make this new equipment available to the ISIS user community. Opportunities to collaborate with ISIS users and staff on the use of these new techniques will form a part of this project.
You will be expected to test these methods on a range of samples and produce documentation (user manuals, quick start guides and validation documents) for use by future users of the instrumentation. You may also have the opportunities to attend neutron beamline experiments, aid website development, and learn new techniques in the other ISIS support laboratories.
You will be working directly with Support Labs management, the Molecular Spectroscopy Group and regularly liaising with facility scientists and external users.
Personal Skills and Attributes
You must be enthusiastic and highly motivated. You should be able to work well as part of a team as well as working independently. A strong interest in physical sciences and working in a laboratory environment is essential. You are expected to be currently studying a science based university course and currently achieving a 2:1 level or above.
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One thing that seems to be universal is anti-gun activists can’t seem to fathom how anyone could be pro-gun rights. They’re convinced that every pro-gun voice out there is a shill at the beck and call of groups like the National Rifle Association. Evidence of this can be seen in the effort by Giffords to sue the Trump administration over non-existent records not being turned over.
Now, anti-gun groups are at it again. This time it’s the Brady Bunch targetting pro-Second Amendment sheriffs in Nevada.
A national gun control lobbying organization on Tuesday made Nevada the latest Western state where it is trying to show that gun rights groups including the National Rifle Association are behind a “Second Amendment sanctuary” drive.
The Brady advocacy group said it believes gun rights advocates improperly orchestrated resolutions by rural lawmakers and sheriffs who say they won’t enforce a new state law requiring background checks on all gun sales, including purchases at gun shows and on the internet.
“These Nevada county commissions and sheriffs have gone rogue,” Brady President Kris Brown said in a statement saying the officials are endangering public safety by declaring they won’t enforce strict background checks.
“If your job is to keep your constituents safe and defend public safety, you should have a vested interest in keeping guns out of dangerous hands,” she said.
Brady spokesman Max Samis acknowledged that communications and lobbying happens on both sides of the gun issue.
“This is different,” he said. “This is telling law enforcement officers not to enforce the law.”
And how is anyone able to “tell” law enforcement what to do? I mean, Brady has no legal authority over these sheriffs. It’s not elected to a higher office where the sheriffs are forced to answer to it. So how does it get to tell sheriffs to do anything?
The answer to that, of course, is that it doesn’t.
At best, the sheriffs received a suggestion that this is an alternative they might want to consider. That’s it.
Honestly, I doubt even that level of communication took place. It didn’t need to. The idea has been out there for some time now. It’s a direct response to sanctuary cities that have willfully ignored federal immigration law. Now, a handful of counties have decided they can do it too, only their refusing to enforce unconstitutional gun laws.
The truth is, Brady probably already knows that. It has no reason to suspect these sheriffs have even chatted with any NRA representatives outside of a few potential social interactions. It doesn’t need any reason because these lawsuits aren’t exploratory — Brady is malicious.
Samis probably knows no one told the sheriffs and other county officials what to do. His organization doesn’t care. He wants to make it expensive to stand with the Second Amendment.
Unfortunately, while pro-gun attorneys file lawsuits regularly as well, theirs are founded on constitutional ideals they’re trying to uphold. Brady’s appear to be tinfoil hat nonsense.


Highway 1 to receive federal stimulus money
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The California Transportation Commission today approved federal stimulus money for upgrades to Highway 1 in Monterey County, one project among a list of 57 state infrastructure projects totaling $625 million.
The $2.5 million Highway 1 project will upgrade guard rail, crash cushion and end treatment from Pacific Grove to Castroville, south of Route 1 to Tembladero Slough and also on Highway 68 east of Fairground Road, according to Caltrans. The press release highlights the following projects:
$75 million to repave three miles of rough pavement on Interstate 710 in Los Angeles, one of the nation’s busiest freeways for goods movement.
$50 million to help reconstruct Doyle Drive, the southern access to the Golden Gate Bridge.
$46.7 million to replace two aging bridges on Highway 99 in Merced County.
$16.8 million to construct two new lanes on Interstate 805 in Chula Vista to ease traffic congestion.
$13 million to replace the Russian River Bridge in Mendocino County, near Ukiah.
$17 million to rehabilitate the roadway in Butte County, near Biggs from Rio Benito Road to Route 162 east.
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News Related to Tesla is always interested because, with every newly updated vehicle, Tesla brings new technologies that make people interested in testing the cars up to the limits.
This news may be in favour of Tesla despite being taken legal action against the driver. As per reports a man being charged in Canada for dangerous driving at the speed of 150 km/h but more dangerous is that during this dangerous over the speed limit drive Driver was sleeping behind the wheel, this happened near Ponoka in Canada.
According to Tweet by the local police department, Law enforcement was called in action when the car was spotted;
Alberta RCMP received a complaint of a car speeding on Hwy 2 near #Ponoka. The car appeared to be self-driving, travelling over 150 km/h with both front seats completely reclined & occupants appeared to be asleep,” the tweet informed. “The driver received a Dangerous Driving charge & summons for court.”
The person behind the wheel was a 20-year-old youngster and car was above the speed limit.
“Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going,” Police Sergeant Darrin Turnbull told Canadian public broadcaster CBC”
it is not the first time that Tesla’s drivers been found doing such dangerous activities, in 2018 an incident involves the death of the driver in Tesla while as per details he was playing a game and Tesla was on autopilot mode.
Tesla’s autopilot is not a fully autonomous feature; all offered features in Tesla’s vehicles for autopilot are also available in many other vehicles. Last year Hyundai achieved autonomous level four capability but despite being having all the required capabilities vehicles manufacturers do not provide Autopilot feature, and none of the drivers other than Tesla found in such activities.
In this incident, A Strange behaviour of vehicle also reported According to which;
After the responding officer activated emergency lights on their vehicle, Tesla automatically began to accelerate. The Officer was able to obtain radar readings on the vehicle, confirming that it had automatically accelerated up to exactly 150 km/h.”
Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla has been found many times encouraging Customers to trust the autopilot capability even musk also claimed that technology eradicates human errors. Despite it, if we considered Tesla’s capability beyond the expectations, there is still no law in any country that allows the driver to put their hands away from the steering wheel.

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To DRP or not to DRP?
To DRP or not to DRP?
April 8, 2011
PORTFOLIO POINT: Whether to join a dividend reinvestment program can be a difficult decision. Here are some factors to consider.
Twice a year, generally following the half-yearly reporting season, dividend payouts remind us that owning shares is not just about capital growth. Shareholders in some companies have the added benefit of being able to reinvest those payouts at a discount through a dividend reinvestment program or a DRP.
Over the years many investors have mulled over whether to participate in these programs. Hopefully today I can explore a number of reasons that might help your decision.
Historically about half of the return from shares comes from dividends, although Macquarie Bank’s forecast for the year ahead is that dividends will account for 30%. Either way, it is a significant amount. Popular investment theorists like Ben Graham suggested that a true investor keeps a stronger focus on dividends that on price movements of the shares they own.
Nobel Prize winners in economics, Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller, considered the impact of how companies managed capital decisions like borrowing money, issuing shares, paying out dividends or reinvesting the funds on the value of a business. Their conclusion was that it made no impact.
As investors, we face a similar decisions, when presented with the opportunity to take a cheque or reinvest dividends back into the company. I think that there are arguments for and against participating in a dividend/distribution reinvestment program.
This somewhat mirrors the Modigliani and Miller conclusions: that investors are better off considering their decision in the context of their own circumstances. Without knowing your personal circumstances and the details of the company in question I can’t answer this question for you.
But what I can do is provide you with a framework to help you answer the question yourself.
Most dividend reinvestment schemes offer the opportunity to purchase shares in place of a dividend – at a discount and without paying any brokerage. This can be a particularly attractive way for small investors to build their investment portfolio. In the case of a diversified investment such as a listed investment company or managed fund, reinvesting dividends (or distributions) is a simple and cheap way to build a diversified investment holding.
The discipline of a dividend reinvestment program also has considerable value. The fact that cash is automatically redirected back into an investment helps keep a person on the path of improving their financial situation because reinvesting dividends is “compound interest” in action.
If you reinvest a dividend, you are buying more shares/units in the investment, which in turn creates a greater dividend in the future, which can then be reinvested – and so on. A key warning with “the miracle of compound interest” is that it takes many years for the impact of compound interest to be felt in an investment portfolio, and I think that many people give up before their investments are able to benefit.
What happens if a share pays a $99 dividend, with a dividend reinvestment price of $50? The answer in some cases is that the investor receives one share, and the $49 left over is added to the next dividend –which may not be for another six months. This is an extreme example, but there are plenty of stocks with relatively high share prices that leave investors vulnerable to the prospect of “left overs” – money they don't see any benefit from until the next dividend period.
At a company level, a dividend reinvestment plan generally requires the issue of extra shares. This is problematic for all investors – if more shares are issued in a company, then an investor who does not participate in a dividend reinvestment plan suddenly owns a smaller proportion of a company. This can be a significant problem when the share price is low, and large numbers of shares are issued to pay a dividend.
Not that long ago a key argument against dividend reinvestment plans was their complexity for tax purposes. Each dividend re-investment is effectively a purchase of shares – and often these happen twice a year. Tracking these purchases for capital gains tax purposes becomes a handful, however I think the advent of share registries negates this argument somewhat, although you still do end up with a lot of transactions that need tracking.
Another argument for caution with dividend reinvestment plans – especially as a portfolio grows in size and requires more sophisticated investment decisions – is that participating in a plan gives away some control over the price and timing of investment purchases. It means that you have 'pre-made' the investment decision to invest the cash amount of a dividend into the same investment at the dividend reinvestment price. This assumes that it will be the best available investment at that point in time which is not always going to be the case.
Large capital gains may see you end up with a disproportionate exposure to company you are not entirely comfortable with. While this might be a reasonable strategy when the underlying investment is well diversified, such as a listed investment company, giving away this investment choice around individual investments essentially sees you cede your carefully constructed asset allocation plant to the whims of the company.
Dividend reinvestments plans can be used to distort company performance. The most significant and recent example of this was BrisConnections. Investors were offered a nice cash distribution with their investment – offering them the appearance of investing in a company with strong cash flows but the dividends were not paid out of cash flow; rather they were to be financed through the issue of additional units.
When the unit price of the project collapsed, so did the capacity to pay the distributions, leaving investors out in the cold. The moral is that paying dividends in cash is a great financial discipline on a company, and that real dividends paid out of real cash earnings should provide confidence for investors that the company they have invested in is performing well. Manufactured dividends paid for by issuing more shares or units are far more problematic, and are no indication of financial discipline at all.
To my mind there is no easy answer to the question of whether to participate in dividend reinvestment plans. The headline discounts can be attractive, especially for smaller investments and for investments in diversified portfolios. There are arguments against, the biggest of which is that you are giving away some control over the timing and pricing of investments that you make. The bottom line is that most investors will have to carefully consider the merits of each plan individually. It’s time-consuming but the only way you can be truly certain you’re doing the right thing.

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