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Davíð Örn Halldórsson’s exhibition River únd Bátur was recently on view at Hverfisgallerí. The artist’s gesture of using found objects such as desktops, tables, and shelves for his abstract paintings calls attention to the material’s inherent aesthetic, which is transcended by the artist’s imaginative and worldly expressiveness. The effect breaks down barriers between cultures as it focuses on expressiveness and symbolism. Placed amongst the colorful worlds of his paintings, the artist has spray-painted directly onto the gallery walls a looming gray outline against which a coffin shape rests- as though he is aware of the anguish and precariousness of living.
The artist faces the precipice, taking the human predicament as the focal point instead of adhering to any formalist structures but his own. In the artist’s numerous works on paper, a visual language is formed which can be read from one frame to the next. The meaningfulness of one symbol may be disregarded in the next frame, embracing the dichotomy of meaning and interpretation. In an interview with the artist, he explains in his own weaving narration that ties many points of reference together, how everything can be meaningless as well as meaningful.
Erin: Your work appears lofty at first glance, like a fantastical world in itself, but upon inspection, it is quite taxing and heavy. There is a refreshing breath of abstraction with no signs of conceptualism- it oozes feeling and vibrancy with nothing calculated. These are my initial reactions to the paintings in the exhibition.
Photo: Vigfús Birgisson
Davíð: Actually, I’ve been thinking a lot about calculation lately and how I can paint myself into a corner. There are these structures that I have a solution for, something that I think would look good but as soon as I do it I have to redo it many times more with different colors. There is a mindlessness to the work because a decision has been made already so there is this calculated system, which is a system that is very far away from the painting in the beginning. However, I’m stuck with it so I curse myself for a few minutes and then start to work at the system. The finished thing doesn’t maybe look like it is calculated, it looks more fluid than the rigorous task that it has been, so I’m glad that it is disguised but nobody knows about it. It’s interesting to always get this reaction that my work is so free flowing.
Erin: It appears that way, very much on the surface, but I think once you sit with it longer the painting gathers weightiness.
Photo: Vigfús Birgisson
Davíð: Also, some things aren’t very rewarding because I know from the way I work I have to work over them. So all of these stripes and color pairings, when I’m painting over the whole thing that I painted, is really not a system. It’s a repetitive gesture but the reward comes much later when I haven’t seen the painting for a long time.
Erin: Your work appears as though it could be visionary as though you are expressing a visionary experience. Do you approach it more as an inner vision that is already imagined or an abstraction of all of these elements around you?
Davíð: It is of course from my experience. It’s absolutely mine so if I come back to things that I’ve maybe done before it is still always some small twists to it that I travel along in this inner vision.
Erin: Maybe the question is more about vantage points- you said you work yourself into a corner and you brush over that corner with another layer and you lose yourself there. But do you work with space consciously?
Photo: Daníel Magnússon
Davíð: The paintings are fairly clear to me when they get started although there is a lot of work to be done. If you break that down in the project I know what needs to be done far ahead and I’m always trying to catch up. So I see it clearly after I am more preliminary. What I do is- I see it clearly and after every action, there is a small tilt to the vision. Jim Henson in Fraggle Rock had these small builders that were helping the Fraggles with these ramps all over and the Fraggles broke them and ate them and they had this symbiotic relationship. They start breaking them but they needed them to break them down so they could be prepared.
Erin: You might be laughing but I think that’s a great vision of this symbiotic relationship.
Davíð: So when I am working there come these shifts and these smaller experiments within each mission that changes everything. So I have to adjust according to whatever job that pops up. It’s like the first one is free flowing ideas and the main part is just to get things going, to work and maybe the muse will visit and the next part is doing all these little jobs like a Fraggle contract worker and the other part is just finishing up and maybe being like a head of a work crew or something.
Erin: So each action creates a whole new landscape from which to venture. Are you working from the outside or the inside?
Davíð: The answer is boring because I think it’s definitely both. There are some works based on events of daily life, a person processing the daily surroundings and carrying it out in visual language but I hate it because it’s so simple and obvious to put it that way because of course, I am doing just that. It’s just so boring to try to paint what influences you especially since you are mainly creating your own language. Sometimes I get concerned about repetition but that’s just a slow reaction. It rarely happens, but I get a bit miffed when someone points it out. For this reason, perhaps, one of the characters in the absurdist play in the exhibition text is talking about how it’s all the same- pointing out the repetition.
Erin: There is something about your repetition that brings the world together with the same motifs and symbols, which I think is more helpful than anything else. Who are the most influential painters for you? Hundertwasser comes to mind, of course.
Photo: Daníel Magnússon
Davíð: Hundertwasser comes up a lot. I’ve been on pilgrimages to Vienna a few times. But he’s not important in that sense- he’s more like a cousin. There’s also Joan Miró. When you are a teenager you jump onto things like Dali and the surrealist movement and then a little later it feels a bit vapid and not as interesting as you thought to begin with. I’m always rediscovering things just by going to exhibitions. I think I really need that- to see the paintings up close to create this big enthusiasm or to make an evaluation on where this artist is in my life. I saw an exhibition of de Chirico last year, which really changed my opinion on his work. I discover things but I don’t try to find out everything about them online or something, I want it to be a bigger moment, so if I see something interesting I just keep it in the back of my mind and maybe try to look it up when I’m traveling or something. It changes so much to see the real thing- it just has another glow.
Erin: You often work with found materials like shelves and desktops. How did that process start?
Davíð: It started a bit more with me in school, not just me being broke. It started very environmentally friendly with the statement of not adding and just re-using material. I did this experiment when I was doing this movie in East Iceland on our days off where I decided to paint this mural under a bridge. I went around and asked people for leftover paint and materials. I thought it was a great concept for having their influence into the mutual paintings so it had some factor to begin with. Found materials can be so different from each other in shape and size and it keeps things interesting on some level. It also serves the purpose of not being delicate. The materials I use like spray-paint and different oils and industrials are not treated the same way inside the studio as they are when they get out. So that is just a method of working and being curious.
There is probably more outside rules to handle but with that comes also a lot of problems that I had to adjust to if there was old paint or varnish on them. The whole thing may come off when I take the paint off so I had to adjust my working methods to the materials so there is some sort of uniqueness to whatever I’m working on. There is a lot of that in this show from the same kitchen cupboards because a cousin of mine was redesigning his house and his mother had painted them all shiny white. I got them and felt bad about destroying their work but then I went to a children’s party and I saw one that had been left behind that they were still using which was big and beautiful and I just stood there stroking it during the party.
Erin: I can see how it keeps you having to continuously break out of this conventional frame. And then you have these black voids applied directly onto the walls of the exhibition. What would you call these black voids?
Photo: Vigfús Birgisson
Davíð: The found materials definitely keep things from getting monotonous in the beginning especially. Actually, I called the black voids milt myrkur or ‘mild darkness’. I do something on the walls usually but it is often more in the same vein of the paintings just on a larger scale with the same colors and maybe I’m trying to get them to speak a little bit to the paintings but I didn’t want to do that now. I wanted something to contrast the paintings.
Erin: They really balance out the other paintings.
Davíð: I wanted something to help me be expansive but still weighed down in this anchor, a druid headstone or something. I sort of worked towards it a little blindly. When I started making them in the gallery I did them first because of the fumes. I had to make a big decision about them. I didn’t get a chance to try them out because I wasn’t in my own studio, so I couldn’t do it on the wall there and it wouldn’t be the same if I did it on a plate so I just went for it in a sort of freestyle. I had this reference with the phrase milt myrkur (mild darkness) from an artist named Ernst J. Bachman who did the record sleeves for Mezzoforte in the early 80’s that are so weird. An album called Observations from my childhood was especially influential. It’s obviously just him doing experiments with airbrush and it has nothing to do with the music. The music is so upbeat, this jazz-fusion stuff and it was milt myrkur because of the music and the art. The album covers are more of an afterthought rather than being truly inspired, though.
Erin: This triangulation between the viewer, the color in your paintings, and the milt myrkur is very strong. I’m imagining a Hawkwind cover, although I’ve never seen these Mezzoforte covers. Do you listen to music while you work?
Davíð: I’m really inspired by music and have been my whole life. Music is very important but that has changed a little bit in the studio. In my old studio, I had my record player and all my music. I’ve been watching television now instead which is weird because I can’t really watch anything that is too challenging. It helps watching bad television when I am doing something monotonous like filling in color in repetitive lines. A friend gave me something when he was moving the other day, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Lots of people have been handing me their awful DVDs, which I tend to watch more than quality films. It gives me inspiration with weird phrasing of words for titles, so if I pick something up then I write it on the wall in the studio. If it is in front of me then it stares at me from the wall while I’m working. Sometimes I put the subtitles on while I’m working. Like here, for example, I wrote in my notebook… ‘Enemy of good’. I don’t remember where that came from.
Photo: Daníel Magnússon
Erin: I think there is something to that, though. There is a lot to be said for seemingly bad taste- it becomes part of a cult taste. We don’t know what compels us towards this. I had this vision in my mind that part of your work is processing the dregs of bad taste- some kind of sifting process. They still exist nonetheless- all of these cultural layers are all here. It’s so arbitrary what is considered to be good or bad. I think it’s really interesting to look at it all as one big image.
Davíð: I think for a period whenever I had an art show it was the same with every description of the art show dealing with the overflow of images. So I got very tired and bored of this quickly. Of course, it’s true like what you were saying earlier about everyone being confused about the influences of everything around them. It’s best to not complain but just to pick one thing. I pick Mezzoforte albums.
Erin: Maybe that’s the best method to get deeper into the matter.
Davíð: It’s hard to not follow trends, like mainstream advertising culture or something. A few years back I was traveling through Europe and I was also very active making art here in Iceland. Everywhere I went galleries and museums were putting up saunas like some freakish collective. Picking up your influence is sort of, talking generally, pointing out the obvious. Maybe you should just choose something; just accept it that everything is influential.
Erin: How do these black voids relate to the title of the show, River únd bátur. There was something I read about you relating the title to the notion of sinking or swimming.
Davíð: That was something I mentioned in passing, almost as a joke, in the gallery. It was quite a dark joke. The story behind it is much more me giggling with myself, just me depicting laughing at my own jokes in the studio. I’m alone in this self-made world and I’m collecting tiny objects and symbols into titles that don’t explain anything really. They are things I think are supposed to go hand in hand, although it’s not obvious on the surface. I went to the theater and saw this play and the actress was supposed to say the name of the character and I just kept hearing River únd bátur. So I was giggling in the theater at this and it just stuck. I’ve been carrying this with me for some time.
Erin: I saw some of these black voids as acting like some kind of black hole, a gateway where you could fall into or keep paddling and swimming, or, in your case, painting. The void is a source that can consume everything if you’re not continuing your action to paint. Is that far off?
Davíð: Maybe they are there in that sense. I don’t know whether I should be afraid of it or what. There is a lot of meditation and this, of course, happens so many times that you connect things with just a fragment of an idea and you are trying to grasp a work but it comes to you fairly easy without pushing it. That happens a lot and why not embrace it instead of being shy to talk about it. Maybe it’s a coincidence but it doesn’t have to be a crazy coincidence if you have all the elements and it comes together at the end. I get a little bit lost inside the studio because I have paintings all around me and titles on the walls and all these colors that you can’t see through unless you take it out of this context and let it breathe a little bit in a gallery or another place. Absolutely, it happens a lot but that is also the reason for the title. There is a vague point to be made with connecting it together and then maybe everything else sees the connection when it is given space to breathe.
Erin: The ambiguous imagery challenges how the viewer approaches a painting and in how we process visual imagery. Is it all at once in a huge impression or in these minor details? Your work seems to contain both perceptions.
Photo: Daníel Magnússon
Davíð: I’m trying to confuse with information but not let it be uncomfortable. People tend to read and write a book left to right, jumping at one symbol and then going out from there. At first glance, it probably doesn’t seem palatable, but I want it to be. I want them to make sense but that is another conflict. There can be a sensory overload in an exhibition but when you take one out of the whole thing and then put it in your living room or isolate one then it is completely different to look at it. Maybe it stands better or is easier to view, but that is sort of the struggle and that is why I wanted to make this experiment with the way I hung them. I wanted it to be a like a salon style, close together in one amorphous form. I was thinking about the colors and how to connect them all but it was too difficult to do it salon style. I decided having them down the line would be better in this context.
I used to be such an arrogant little shit. I thought you could only show a painting once- that it could only be in an exhibition once. I adjusted this thought into making every exhibition into a different book instead. The context they are in is only limited and some of them may be shown together but it’s going to be completely different. I’m so non-scientific that it’s almost ridiculous to talk about. It’s all about my aesthetic, my intuition. As for the pictures themselves, I’ve often said that the right settings about figuration give you the feeling that something just happened or something is about to happen. It gives a bit of tension that lasts like someone is about to walk into the setting or just walked out of it. The thing is that there is a teasing element because all my life I’ve gotten responses from different people that always go “it reminds me of this…” or “it looks like this…” I guess people are just trying to observe things and know how the mind works. It’s such a childish thing to observe and to talk about. The response is always a simple yes because I can’t say no. This reminds me of a snake- sure! I can’t disagree.
There is also this ethnic trend people are always comparing my work with. I don’t argue with it. It’s interesting to hear two people approach the same painting and place it on very different sides of the world- someone is talking about South America and the other one is Africa. I’m really intrigued by Aboriginal or decorative work all over the world but I haven’t really studied it in a way that I would use it, although I love it. When I recognize it, I am very intrigued by it. I was reading about Aboriginal art in Australia and I was kind of let down because that had only started in the 1960’s as a social and political expression so I had this completely different thought about how that had been perceived. I know how they use it in their religion and everything, but not how these people used it in ritual. That aspect is just weird- to hold up just one thing as art that is leftover from the religion when you are actually ignoring the way of life. So I like this decorative comparison but there is no real foundation for it and it is not delivered intentionally from me.
Erin: I think the whole notion of something native is something that is coming from an inherent-ness that has not been influenced by a wider sphere but contained in its own world. Maybe you’re native- Davíð, native painter. That’s not what I was expecting to come out, but maybe it’s not so off. You’re native to yourself, a native westerner. You’re not appropriating anything.
Davíð: It’s definitely difficult to pinpoint one thing, like naming an artist or theory or movement. Get rid of that; I’m just a native.
Photos: Daníel Magnússon and Vigfús Birgisson (courtesy of Hverfisgalleri).
Featured image: Daníel Magnússon.


Bolts commonly use four types of measurement, while nuts use only two. Bolts are measured in length of shank, bolt head size, width of shank (the diameter of the threaded bolt body) and the thread pitch (the size of the thread). Nuts are measured by the width of the hex shape and by their thread pitch. Bolts and nuts come in many different measurements and cannot be interchanged. Most nut and bolt measurements come in either metric sizing or standard sizing. Strength of nuts and bolts is also considered a measurement and determined by their grade of alloy.
Place the head of a bolt or a nut into a nut and bolt gauge. Nut and bolt gauges are available in most hardware and automotive parts stores and come in both metric and standard sizing. One hole of the gauge will fit the bolt head or nut snugly (be sure you're not mixing up metric and standard gauges) and will not allow the bolt head or nut to wiggle inside the gauge. The size of the bolt head or nut will be stamped on the gauge pertaining to the hole you choose.
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Measure the shank length of the bolt from the bottom of the head (where it meets the shank) to the bottom of the bolt, using a measuring tape to determine its overall length. Since the difference between metric and standard length bolts is very slight, most often, this measurement is done in inches.
Place the shank of the bolt into the bolt width gauge. This measurement is the diameter of the shank and can be in either metric or standard sizing. Use each to determine the difference. Three-eighths inch will be slightly smaller than a 10-mm measurement, but a ½ inch will be slightly bigger than a 12-mm measurement. Because millimeter and inches fluctuate, you'll have to try both metric and standard gauges to see which one is more snug to the bolt, which will determine its actual diameter width. The hole in the gauge will be stamped with the size width.
Unfold and attach the thread pitch gauge to the threads of the bolt. Again, because millimeter and inch measurements are slightly different, there will only be one gauge key on the thread gauge that will fit the threads perfectly. Each key will have a measurement stamped on it, revealing the pitch measurement.
Thread a nut onto the shank of a bolt once you have determined the thread pitch size of the bolt. A nut that threads onto a bolt and does not allow a wiggling motion on the shank of the bolt is the correct nut for the bolt, and the pitch is identical.


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The Place: At The St. Regis Singapore, LaBrezza is the specialty Italian restaurant of the hotel which showcases Italian specialties from various regions of Italy. Located at the same level as the swimming pool, the Italian restaurant has a relaxing ambience, especially if you choose to dine at the poolside terrace.
What’s On: There is a special theme dinner every Wednesday and Thursday night, with Chef Luca Moioli’s pasta creations on Wednesdays or risotto specialties on Thursdays. This is ideal if you like a variety of mains but do not wish to over order. Simply choose four out of six choices of pasta or risotto, which will be served over two courses in a duo of tasting portions. This is available from 7pm to 10pm, priced at S$48++ per person.
The Highlights: The Pasta Parade on Wednesday evenings features the delectable Venetian-style bigoli pasta served with pan-seared foie gras, Strigoli Pasta served with Homemade Basil Pesto served with grilled Hokkaido Scallop, Tagliolini Pasta with Boston lobster, Linguine Pasta with Clams and Baby Zucchini, Paccheri Pasta filled with Kurobuta Pork Cheek or the Ravioli filled with Beef, Prosciutto, Amaretti Biscuit and Raisin.
On Thursday evenings, choose from the wide flavours of risotto specialties such as the Risotto with Fresh Herbs, Boston Lobster and Candied Lemon Zest and the Beetroot Risotto with Gorgonzola Cheese. Other options include the Porcini Mushroom Risotto with Braised Quail and Char-grilled Mushrooms, Black Squid Ink with Tempura Oyster, Parmesan Cheese Risotto with Pan-seared Foie Gras or the Carnaroli Risotto with Pumpkin and Muscovy Duck Ragout.
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Realme GT Neo 3T launched in India at a starting price of Rs 29,999: Availability, specs, more
The smartphone will be available on realme.com, Flipkart and mainline channels
- The smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G flagship processor, which comes with Kryo 585 CPU and Adreno 650 GPU.
- The realme GT NEO 3T houses a 64 MP main camera, and a 16 MP front camera with preset dramatic filter, super nightscape mode and street photography mode.
- The realme GT NEO 3T will be available in three colors - Dash Yellow, Drifting White and Shade Black.
Realme has launched its latest smartphone in India, starting at Rs 29,999. With a 80W SuperDart charge technology, it is said to be one of the fastest charging technology in the price segment. The Realme GT Neo 3T is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G flagship processor, and comes in a 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage variant. Here's all you need to know about the pricing, availability and specifications of the smartphone.
Realme GT NEO 3T: Pricing and availability
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OS: It will receive the Android 13 update in October 2022.
Processor: It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G flagship processor, which comes with Kryo 585 CPU and Adreno 650 GPU.
Camera: Comes with a triple rear camera setup that comprises 64 MP primary camera, a 119° Ultra Wide Lens, and a 4 cm Macro Lens. It also houses a 16 MP front camera.
Battery: Houses a 5,000 mAh battery, and comes with 80W SuperDart charge. It can restore the battery capacity from 0 to 50 per cent in a mere 12 minutes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 5G services in India, starting today
The couple tied the knot at Aspen's Dunbar Ranch in Colorado after being together for seven years.
Salman Khan-hosted reality show is set to premiere today with 13 contestants.
The Prime Minister also inspected and experienced various 5G-related services at the exhibition


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This is Praia do Forte, a tropical paradise, where the history, ecology and customs stay together on the same place.
Praia do Forte Youth Hostel is a perfect place for people who want to visit the North Coast of Bahia with semi-deserted beaches and exuberant nature, staying an economical hostel where you fell safe and comfortable.
23 rooms, where 11 were built first , in 1997 7 collective rooms for six people and 4 private rooms for two people, all of them with individual closets, fan and private bathroom. On the first floor, 12 rooms were built, in 2007, they are modern with air conditioning, and perfect for couples or family.
24 hours reception, a staff is always ready with interesting information about the region. We also offer tours with special discounts for backpackers and soft drinks and others are sold as well.
In front of the Indoor Yard, work from 7:30am up to 10am. After that time it is used to fast meals, to play games or entertainment.
If you have to cancel your booking, you must do it at least 48hrs before arrival.
Check in: 14:00
Check out: 12:00
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This also applies if your booking is during, New Years eve or Carnival.

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A new poster and the final trailer were released for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the Star Wars Celebration in London.
The final installment of the Indiana Jones saga sees Harrison Ford returning in the title role. Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) also stars as Indiana Jones’ goddaughter, Helena. The pair team up to chase down the dial of destiny.
The star-studded cast also includes Mads Mikkelsen (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Ethann Isidore (Mortel) and Toby Jones (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
Cast members Waller-Bridge and Mikkelsen, alongside director/co-writer James Mangold, and producer Kathleen Kennedy, appeared in person at the Star Wars Celebration. A message from Harrison Ford was also played as attendees were wowed by the new trailer and an extensive and exclusive look at the film. Make sure you check out the trailer below!
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18. It will open in theatres on June 30.

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Dental disease has a reciprocal effect with overall body health. If you're over stressed and generally unhealthy, your immune system will be suppressed and dental caries, caused by bacteria, will flourish. If your mouth is unhealthy, especially with gum disease, it overloads your health every moment of the day, lowering your resistance to all disease.
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — Minister of Health, the Honourable Akilah Byron-Nisbett, expressed profound thanks to St. Kitts and Nevis Red Cross Society, which partnered with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the United States Agency for International Development to deliver a brand new ambulance to the Ministry of Health on February 24, at the Joseph N. France General Hospital grounds.
“On behalf of the Ministry of Health, and the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, I wish to extend my sincere thanks to the United States Agency for International Development for this significant donation,” said Mrs, Byron-Nisbett, at the presentation ceremony. “I also wish to convey our profound gratitude to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and to Hester Rawlins executive of St. Kitts and Nevis Red Cross Society for such humanitarian foresight.”
Hon. Byron-Nisbett said that their strong collaborative technical support and the overall vital role they played from the conceptualization of the gift, the engaged enthusiastic discussions, and the persevering actions and engagement with the key stakeholders brought the project to fruition. “We are so very grateful for your commitment.”
Mrs. Byron-Nisbett noted that the receipt of the ambulance is timely and important for the Ministry of Health as it will help the people of St. Kitts and Nevis.
“Such an addition to the existing fleet of ambulances ensures that there is an adequate first respondent mechanism for nationwide medical emergencies,” she said. “Having a large number of EMTs is simply not enough. There must also be the required vehicular capacity to respond in a timely manner.
“With the addition of the new ambulance, the health system will be better able to have an ambulance stationed at the two main satellite institutions, the Mary Charles Hospital and the Pogson Medical Centre,” said Mrs. Byron-Nisbett.
Minister Byron-Nisbett said these ambulances are well equipped and can safely and properly transport to and between hospitals.
She emphasized the importance of the build out of ambulances to the rural areas as persons will no longer have to wait on an ambulance to be deployed from the Joseph N. France General Hospital in Basseterre or the Pogson Medical Centre in Sandy Point.
“This is indeed exciting, and this gesture is such a very good way to commence the year, building our health capacity during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” she said.
According to Hester Rawlins, Director General of the SKNRCS, who also spoke at the presentation ceremony, the donation was possible through the generous funding of the American people through USAID.
“This fully-equipped ambulance was donated as a part of the COVID-19 response project, partially funded by the United States of America,” said Rawlins. “A similar donation of a passenger bus was presented to our National Society as we endeavour to assist the most vulnerable members of our communities, while we strengthen our axillary role to government during these trying times.”
Also, at today’s ceremony, USAID gifted a brand new passenger bus to the SKNRCS.
Dr. Stapleton-Harris stated that the gesture demonstrates USAID’s continued commitment to countries such as St. Kitts and Nevis. She added that it allows the ministry to honour its commitment to provide an improved healthcare system in a holistic manner for the entire population.
She noted that ambulance services are critical to the urgent response to medical and trauma-related emergencies.
“In fact, it is a mandatory 24/7 service. Thus it is envisaged that such an expanded fleet would provide a more efficient emergency medical service, emergency intervention, and timely transport of patients in a variety of situations and environments,” she said. “Undoubtedly, such a system will increase the overall efficiency of our health care service and improve the health outcomes of our people. This is a very strong demonstration in a very tangible manner of strong partnership and genuine concern on the part of USAID and so we are very grateful.”


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The Centre for Better Health is a community-based charity that supports well-being and recovery from mental ill-health.
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ERAU beats Warner, advances to Sun Conference volleyball tournament final
MIAMI GARDENS -- The second-seeded Embry-Riddle volleyball team rallied for comeback wins in the first two sets in a 3-0 win (25-22, 27-25, 25-15) over third-seeded Warner in The Sun Conference Tournament semifinals Friday at St. Thomas University.
The Eagles (20-9) got 43 digs from Hannah Gray, a school record for a three-set match, to lead a defense that recorded 23 more digs than the Royals. Tamires Ferreira had 40 assists and 20 digs to go along with six kills and two blocks. Cheye-Anne Savage led all players with 13 kills, and Evelina Abdurakhmanova chipped in 11 kills and six digs.
The Eagles advance to the Sun Conference Tournament championship match where they will face the host school and top seed, St. Thomas, at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The winner of Saturday’s match will earn the Sun Conference’s automatic berth to the NAIA National Championship.


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RIZZATTI, E.; ROMAN, H. R.; MOHAMAD, G. and NAKANISHI, E. Y.. Typology of structural ceramics blocks: influence of the geometry of blocks on the mechanical behavior of masonry. Matéria (Rio J.) [online]. 2011, vol.16, n.2, pp.730-746. ISSN 1517-7076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-70762011000200008.
This paper presents the experimental results of a research program with ceramic block masonry under compression. Four different blocks geometries were investigated (A, B, C and D). Two of them had circular hollows (A and B) with different net area. The third one had two rectangular hollows (C) and the last block contained rectangular hollows and double central webs (D). The prisms and walls were built with two mortar types 1:1:6 (I) and 1:0,5:4 (II) (proportions by volume of cement: lime: sand). Thus, compressive strength analyses of the blocks, prisms and walls, built with these geometries on a small scale in the proportion of 1:3 of the nominal dimensions were made. It was possible to conclude that the block with double central webs gave better results of compressive strength showing to be more efficient. The walls built with blocks type D had a better ability to absorb vertical efforts due to the coincidence of the cross webs, because of the double central webs. Furthermore, the compressive strength of the mortar didn´t influence the compressive strength of the prisms and walls.
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The lawsuit claims Biffle recorded his ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law on a digital video recorder and showed that video to other people.
The lawsuit says Biffle said under oath that the hidden cameras were installed for security because he believed his maids were stealing.
Biffle and his wife divorced in 2015.
Biffle raced in NASCAR for two decades before stepping down this year and moving into a TV analyst role.
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India should focus on data management of the pandemic: WHO Chief Scientist
World Health Organisation appreciated India’s efforts in containing the pandemic. It also lauded the Indian government’s political leadership that focused on developing diagnostics and scale it up, NDTV reported. However, the world nodal health agency also asked the country to focus on data management of the pandemic.According to WHO, the main challenge for India is…
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World Health Organisation appreciated India’s efforts in containing the pandemic. It also lauded the Indian government’s political leadership that focused on developing diagnostics and scale it up, NDTV reported. However, the world nodal health agency also asked the country to focus on data management of the pandemic.
According to WHO, the main challenge for India is its demographics, heterogeneity and the fact that India has multiple epidemics going on every state.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at WHO, said: “The Government of India took extremely serious steps from the beginning and put in place certain measures in January itself based on the WHO recommendations. Today, India is doing more than 200 thousand tests a day. Now, India is developing testing kits. It is a big achievement for India that in the last couple of months as India has become self-sufficient in testing kits and being able to scale up.”
“However, I would like to say that there should be a focus on data. By that, I mean that we need to have a systematic approach to looking at the data,” added Dr Swaminathan. She said that the moment people start focusing on the total number of cases and the total number of deaths — it gives only part of the story.
“There needs to be some kind of national guidelines on how you report data. Otherwise, you cannot compare. Everybody is reporting things in different ways,” she said.
She informed that the most important point is to know the epidemiology of the disease, i.e., where and what is the number of cases per million population and it all depends upon the tests. “If we do not test, we are not going to find the case. Reporting of the case alone is not sufficient. We need to know how many tests have been done. Most importantly, we need to know the test positivity rate. This should be under 5 per cent. We also need to know the percentage of positivity of disease surveillance. SARI and ILI surveillance should be under 5 per cent. Then, we need to keep track of the doubling time,” Dr Swaminathan noted.
“So, instead of focusing only on numbers, all we need to know things like — how the epidemiology is going. Is it going up or down or it is on a plateau. That is what we need to know,” said the Chief Scientist of the WHO.
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Dr Swaminathan underlined that it is very important to know how many contacts are traced for every case and how many potential carriers are quarantined and within what period of time.
She elaborated on contract tracing and said: “If you can do it within 48 to 72 hours, then only it is helpful. There is no point tracing contact after 10 days. It is too late. As soon as cases are detected, we have to trace the contact and the higher the number of contacts you trace, the higher number you can put in quarantine is better. This shows how well our public health system is doing.”
According to the doctor, there is another set of criteria in the clinical care and that is to know what is the bed capacity for mild/severe cases, what is the ICU occupancy and the mortality rate.
“The death has to be calculated properly because deaths follow after two or three weeks of the occupancy. You take as a numerator the number of deaths and denominators should be the number of cases you have two weeks ago, not today. That actually reflects your mortality rate/case fatality rate,” she said.
Epidemiological parameters to detect the prevalence of antibodies in the community are essential to know the trend. “Like the ICMR did serosurvey– something you need to do periodically to see how much of the population has been exposed,” Dr Swaminathan said.
She added, “We need to have a dashboard of criteria which every state should have and it helps every state to monitor how they are doing. This also helps to compare data across the states and the government can give more resources to those states which need more strengthening, like in terms of bed shortage, ICU.”
“So, there is a need to develop this kind of mechanism because Covid-19 is going to stay for a long term as it is not going to over in few months,” she mentioned.
Swaminathan also highlighted the importance of addressing other diseases as well and the healthcare system should also cater to those diseases.
“We cannot just focus on Covid-19 alone because we have other health problems in the country. Otherwise, those health problems such as TB, vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, institutional deliveries, elective surgeries, and rehabilitation may get worse than Covid-19. So those things have to be brought back to normal and capacity of the healthcare system has to be increased,” she said.


In media training and crisis communications training, there are many debates about who should speak for your organization in a crisis. Here are three common arguments and what you should consider as a crisis unfolds.
Argument 1: The CEO should always be the spokesman
A CEO who wants to be the only voice is destined for failure. In a crisis, the CEO should be:
- Managing the crisis
- Managing the business operations
This is especially true in the first hours of a crisis, when information is just becoming available.
In a severe crisis involving injuries or fatalities, the CEO becomes the face of the organization’s compassion. Even then, the CEO as a spokesman might come several hours into the crisis. In the first hour, when a statement should be made, the CEO is often busy with other issues.
Also, if a CEO misspeaks early in the crisis, he or she loses credibility and undermines the reputation of the organization. If someone else misspeaks early in the crisis, the CEO can step in to clarify the facts and becomes the hero figure.
Remember BP’s CEO Tony Hayward, who uttered, “I want my life back.” That line led to his being fired as CEO.
Argument 2: The PR person should always be the spokesman
The public relations person is an excellent choice as representative in the first hour of the crisis when reporters might be just arriving, but doesn’t have to be the lone voice throughout a crisis.
The PR person should be a member of the crisis management team and should lead the crisis communications team.
A “First Critical Statement” should be in every crisis communications plan. When few facts are known, it allows the PR person to:
- Acknowledge the crisis
- Provide basic facts
- Say something quotable, while promising more information at a future briefing
Argument 3: A variety of people should serve as spokespeople
My recommendation is that numerous people should be media trained as spokespeople. In a crisis, the PR person should speak during the first hour of the crisis. By the end of the second hour of the crisis, a subject matter expert should be your representative. If needed, the subject matter expert can remain as spokesman if the crisis is ongoing. The final news briefing of the day may be the best time to feature the CEO as spokesman.
Think of your selection process in the way that sports teams operate. You have stars as well as strong people on the bench, ready to step in as needed.
Media training helps identify your star players and secondary players. Most of all, never let anyone speak without intensive training. Journalists play hardball. Don’t send out an untrained person with youth league skills.


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For many Tasmanian businesses, the re-opening of the state’s border to the rest of Australia is causing plenty of logistical nightmares.
Bernadette Wood who owns a venue in southern Tasmanian has revealed that despite a huge increase in interstate bookings, late cancellations mean the number of weddings going ahead at one venue was reduced between 10 and 40 percent.
At two of Ms. Wood restaurants, almost one third of her staff are unable to work due to having COVID or being deemed close contacts, and local diners are staying away.
"We're definitely seeing that there's not many locals frequenting that area, I think locals are very much staying to their own areas and not going out much,” says Bernadette Wood.
Economist Diana Mousina said that Google mobility data has showed retail and recreation activity in Tasmania for the first week of January had fallen to the lowest level since September last year.
"It could be some Christmas or New Year impacts that have had led to the shift down in the data, but I think it's more reflective of the very high increase in cases that Tasmania has had pretty much in the space of two or three weeks. I think that there will be a hit to activity for Tasmania from the high increase in cases, but I think the same thing will happen across the other states and territories as well,” says AMP senior economist Diana Mousina.
Ms. Mousina outlined that a more in-depth picture of how Tasmania's economy has performed since the reopening will become evident in coming months when retail and employment statistics are published.
Louise Grimmer, a senior lecturer in retail marketing at the University of Tasmania, says that many business owners across the state have been telling her it was "very quiet in many sectors".
"Even though we are not in a formal lockdown, effectively, consumers are acting as though we are. Particularly in terms of visitation to physical stores and cafes and restaurants, we are seeing a reduction in spending across many categories such as clothing, footwear and accessories, household goods including furniture and appliance,” says Louise Grimmer, a senior lecturer in retail marketing at the University of Tasmania.
"I think it's a worrying time for local Tasmanian businesses and it will be important for government at all levels to acknowledge the reality of the situation and step in with financial and other types of support so that businesses can get through this difficult period of uncertainty,” continued Louise Grimmer.
Dr. Grimmer believes that Tasmanian businesses will need a combination of government assistance and community support to get through the latest downturn.
"We were brilliant at doing this in 2020 and 2021, when many local businesses thrived, and it will be important that we try to do our best to again support local stores in 2022," says Dr. Grimmer.
Tasmanian State Tourism Minister Sarah Courtney says businesses in some parts of the state had been impacted by the spread of covid-19 and encouraged businesses to contact Business Tasmania for advice and support, on top of the yet-to-be-announced support package.
"We are seeing a large degree of variation with the impact on businesses across Tasmania. While indeed there are some businesses who have been impacted negatively, I know that there are businesses that are thriving because of visitors coming into the state," said Tasmanian State Tourism Minister Sarah Courtney.
A support package for businesses is set to be announced by the Tasmanian Government by the end of January.


Troy, CCU meet in Sun Belt quarters
Troy (11-16, 5-12) vs. No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina (15-6, 9-5)
Sun Belt Conference Tourney Quarterfinals, Hartsell Arena, Pensacola, Florida; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Troy is set to take on Coastal Carolina in the quarterfinals of the Sun Belt tourney. Coastal Carolina earned a 76-71 win over Troy on Saturday, while Troy won 91-86 against Texas-Arlington on Friday.
LEADING THE CHARGE: The explosive DeVante’ Jones has averaged 20.2 points, 7.2 rebounds and three steals to lead the way for the Chanticleers. Deanthony Tipler has complemented Jones and is maintaining an average of 15.1 points per game. The Trojans are led by Nick Stampley, who is averaging 12.7 points and seven rebounds.
KEY CONTRIBUTOR: Duke Miles has either made or assisted on 47 percent of all Troy field goals over the last three games. The freshman guard has 17 field goals and 20 assists in those games.
ASSIST-TO-FG RATIO: The Trojans have recently used assists to create baskets more often than the Chanticleers. Coastal Carolina has an assist on 35 of 73 field goals (47.9 percent) over its past three outings while Troy has assists on 42 of 78 field goals (53.8 percent) during its past three games.
DID YOU KNOW: Coastal Carolina is ranked 23rd nationally by scoring 80.4 points per game this year. Troy has only averaged 65.2 points per game, which ranks 294th.
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In a growing list of studies on vitamin D and its link with COVID-19 disease, British researchers have found an association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortality rates across 20 European countries.
Previous observational studies have reported an association between low levels of vitamin D and susceptibility to acute respiratory tract infections.
"We found a significant crude relationship between average vitamin D levels and the number COVID-19 cases, and particularly COVID-19 mortality rates, per head of population across the 20 European countries," said study researcher Dr Lee Smith from Anglia Ruskin University in the UK.
According to the researchers, Vitamin D modulates the response of white blood cells, preventing them from releasing too many inflammatory cytokines. The COVID-19 virus is known to cause an excess of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Italy and Spain have both experienced high COVID-19 mortality rates, and the new study, published in the journal Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, shows that both countries have lower average vitamin D levels than most northern European countries.
This is partly because people in southern Europe, particularly the elderly, avoid the strong sun, while skin pigmentation also reduces natural vitamin D synthesis.
The highest average levels of vitamin D are found in northern Europe, due to the consumption of cod liver oil and vitamin D supplements, and possibly less sun avoidance.
"Vitamin D has been shown to protect against acute respiratory infections, and older adults, the group most deficient in vitamin D, are also the ones most seriously affected by COVID-19," Smith said.
"We suggest it would be advisable to perform dedicated studies looking at vitamin D levels in COVID-19 patients with different degrees of disease severity," Smith added.
Another study, published last month in the journal Nutrients, suggested that supplements containing vitamins C and D and other micronutrients are a safe, effective and low-cost means of helping your immune system fight off COVID-19 and other acute respiratory tract diseases.
From shirtless soldiers to teens sun tanning on their parents' driveways, Indonesians are soaking up rays like never before in the hope that plentiful sunshine will ward off coronavirus.
Eyes could be contagious for weeks due to coronavirus, study finds
The UK's Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton have said that the coronavirus lockdown was "stressful" for many people and it was important to look after mental health.
This remarkable achievement underscores Mediclinic’s unwavering commitment to providing patients with cutting-edge surgical solutions and revolutionising the future of healthcare.
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Samsung Z4 Arriving In Africa Very Soon
The Tizen 3.0 powered Samsung has a mild specs which will suit the African market.
Z4 went official on May 2017 and has reached India a week later.
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On July 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved nivolumab (Opdivo) plus low-dose ipilimumab (Yervoy) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older with microsatellite instability–high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer that has progressed following treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan. Approval for this indication was based on data from the ongoing phase II CheckMate-142 study and has been granted under accelerated approval based on overall response rate and duration of response. The application was granted Priority Review and Breakthrough Therapy designation by the FDA.
The nivolumab-plus-ipilimu-mab cohort of the CheckMate-142 trial enrolled MSI-H/dMMR meta-static colorectal cancer patients who had received at least one prior line of therapy for metastatic disease, and efficacy was analyzed for both patients who had received prior treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan (82 of the total 119 patients), as well as for all enrolled patients.
Among the 82 patients who received prior treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan, 46% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 35%–58%; n = 38/82) responded to treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab, as assessed by an independent radiographic review committee.
The percentage of these patients with a complete response was 3.7% (n = 3/82), and the percentage of patients with a partial response was 43% (n = 35/82). Among these 38 responders, the median duration of response was not reached (range = 1.9–23.2+ months); 89% of those patients had responses of 6 months or longer, and 21% had responses of 12 months or longer. This trial is ongoing.
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Jeff “Horti” Hortillosa embodies an intriguing study in contrasts. A trailblazing visionary product of immigrant parents, Horti is making dents in the Americana scene. He is an academically-accredited intellectual who enjoys playful irreverence in his music. Best known for playing a wild strain of bluegrass with the Austin-based, award-winning band Whiskey Shivers, his solo releases are decidedly non-bluegrass centric.
Hortillosa’s upcoming release from his Americana project, The Horticulture Vol. 1, a 4-song EP is an adventurous trio offering, that traverses bizarre Zappa-esque musicality, pop-rock hooks, fleet-fingered guitar solo work, bizarre jazz chordal passages, 60s rock, and bluegrass. The Horticulture Vol. 1 is due out May 8th, 2020, though you can see an exclusive look below.
Jeff’s solo music is best described by his self-coined “Horticulture” sensibility, which is “cultivated from bizarre jazz chords, passages of pastoral folk, raunchy roots-rock, buck-toothed Southern funk, and even strains of World music.” His lyric writing brims with barbed wit, poetic flair, intriguing character development, an impressionistic narrative touch, and clever storytelling.
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Was told blend door actuator just not which actuator it is under dash
Try re-topping off the coolant.
First free up some internal volume/space by “burping” your vehicles cooling system aka getting the air bubbles that are trapped deep within pocketed traps making your cooling system run sporadic and overall inefficient.
You just remove the pressurized radiator cap when the car is completely cold, such as first thing in the morning after the car hasn’t been turned on since the day before. Remove the radiator cap, put your coolant burping funnel inside and somehow seal it at the joining of the two, add some identical color/type and preferably brand of coolant specified for your exact model of vehicle, and just fill it up like 1/4 the way, just enough to cover the opening so no vent to the open air exists.
Turn on your car and blast the heater while making sure the “A/C” button is on, yes while blasting it at max fan speed and with the heater engaged or max heat. Let it get up to temperature, expect 15-30 minutes of your car on, so if doing this in a regular homes garage, please make sure your garage door is open and there is an excess of free air and air flow.
Repeat the above in how you see fit but get creative with figuring out how to angle your car in a downwards slope or an incline to help remove awkwardly trapped (usually huge in size) air bubbles that could definitely cause a heater and or an air conditioner to not perform its best or sometimes not at all.
I am not saying this is the guaranteed resolution for this problem, but I do believe it is at least a 50% chance that it is. Worth looking into and or worth checking it out to research this “coolant burping procedure.
There are other possibilities but this to me is the one that stands out the most and for the KISS rule I’ll leave it at that. Best of luck, cheers.
Needs re gassed. Take it to get it done somewhere. System could also have a leak.
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BATU GAJAH, July 11 — Dewan Negara senator appointed to represent persons with disabilities, Ras Adiba Radzi, plans to raise the issue of introducing sign language as a third language at the upcoming senate sitting.
The former television personality said, this is to facilitate communication between the disabled community and all sections of society, thus making Malaysia a disability-friendly country.
“The approach is to have it implemented at the nursery (Taska), school and tertiary institution levels so that by the time they graduate, they will be able to communicate with this disabled group while at work,” she said.
She said this to reporters when met at a ceremony to hand over wheelchairs to 51 recipients living around Batu Gajah, courtesy of Suara Rakyat Malaysia Foundation, here today.
In addition, Ras Adiba, who was sworn in as senator on May 20 said, she would also work on seeking employment opportunities for the group in all sectors, including public service.
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The “Black Monday” campaign restarted in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood on Monday, with more than 20 protesters seeking U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s help in securing the release of jailed activist Tep Vanny.
Now running for almost four months, the campaign started in reaction to the imprisonment of officers from rights group Adhoc and an election official in a case widely seen as being politically motivated. Since then, the movement has dovetailed with calls for a transparent investigation into the murder of political analyst Kem Ley.
Following a week off, more than 20 activists protested in the eviction-hit community on Monday, holding lotus flowers and photographs of Ms. Clinton while asking her to help free Ms. Vanny.
“Now we want Ms. Hillary Clinton to intervene for Ms. Tep Vanny because we know that [Ms. Vanny] received an award for nonviolent advocacy and protesting,” protester Bov Sophea said on Monday. “Why does she have to be imprisoned?”
In 2013, the two met and posed for photographs together during the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award ceremony, two months after Ms. Clinton resigned as U.S. secretary of state.
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Speaking during a public forum at the opposition CNRP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh, Prince Sisowath Thomico, a prominent member of the party—whose officials have been wearing black on Mondays in solidarity with the activists—urged greater participation.
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The announcement came after Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz held talks with visting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Riyadh.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir was quoted by the agency as saying that "the council will be interested in many matters, including security, military, political, economic, trade and investment fields as well as energy, education, cultural affairs, medicine and other fields."
The council will be run by the foreign ministers of the two countries with participation from other ministries, institutions and sectors, according to Jubeir.
The council aims to create what Jubeir said would be "a qualitative leap" in already strong relations between Saudi Arabia and Turkey "to serve the interests of the two countries and the two peoples, and contribute to achieving security, stability and prosperity in the region," Jubeir said.
The talks between the Saudi monarch and the Turkish president were attended by senior Saudi officials, including the kingdom's crown prince, deputy crown prince, and ministers of finance and foreign affairs.
"The talks addressed bilateral relations, means of enhancing bilateral cooperation in various fields, and the developments in regional and international arenas," the Saudi agency reported earlier.
The two leaders discussed the mechanisms of action by the 34-nation Islamic coalition to fight terrorism announced by Riyadh earlier this month.
Jubeir stressed that that the views of the two countries were identical in various political and security issues faced by the region, and praised the Turkish stand in supporting the Islamic coalition to fight terrorism.
The two-day visit by Erdogan is his third to the kingdom this year.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are major backers of rebels fighting to oust the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


Just a day before the Indian Navy inducts its INS Karanj attack submarine, the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) reached another milestone with the completion of its final Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) test on Monday night.
According to the latest reports, the Indian Navy can now proceed with retrofitting all its Kalvari class non-nuclear attacks submarines with AIP during their next upgrade scheduled for 2023.
In developing the AIP technology, India joins an elite list of countries that currently only includes the United States, France, China, the United Kingdom and Russia.
Submarines have, in recent decades, become the principal weapon in naval warfare. The challenge then for submarine designers lies primarily in increasing their underwater endurance and improving their stealth.
There are two kinds of submarines – nuclear submarines and diesel-electric submarines. While nuclear submarines can remain underwater for much longer than their diesel-electric counterparts, they are also hugely more expensive to build. As such, nuclear submarines are, typically, used in open-water warfare with diesel-electric submarines employed to guard coastlines.
A traditional diesel-electric submarine is required to frequently surface in order to recharge its batteries giving it an underwater endurance of just a handful of days – usually 4 to 5 days and, at maximum, about a week.
Since these submarines run on diesel and electricity, they require a network of batteries charged by a diesel generator. In order for them to charge, the submarine needs to snorkel i.e. travel just under the surface of the water so that the diesel generator can be turned on and exhaust generated released via a pipe that breaches the surface.
During this period, the submarine becomes extremely vulnerable to enemy radars and hostile submarine assets. In fact, some submarines are even equipped with 'diesel sniffers' which can detect the emissions released by snorkelling submarines. Since submarines rely greatly on the element of surprise, being detected while their batteries are recharging effectively makes them a target rather than an asset.
This is where AIP comes in. A fuel-cell based AIP, like the ones, reportedly, to be fitted on the Indian Navy's Kalvari-class submarines, create energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen, with only water created as a by-product.
What's more, since these cells are extremely efficient and have minimal moving parts, they can also operate without increasing the acoustic signature of the submarine. Hydrogen fuel cells create no exhaust fumes which also eliminates the need to have special exhaust scrubbing and disposable machine parts.
As such, fuel-cell based AIPs enable submarines to stay underwater for vastly longer periods of time than conventional diesel-electric submarines increasing their range and turning them into a far more potent and lethal adversary. A submarine enabled with AIP can remain submerged for weeks sometimes without surfacing.
It is important to note though that despite the advantage it offers them against conventional diesel-electric submarines, they still do not have the same endurance as nuclear submarines that do not need to surface at all.


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After the close confines, noise, and stress of Tokyo, Yokohama makes for a pleasant change. Situated less than an hour away by train from Tokyo Station, it's hard to tell you're in another city since there's no break in buildings, stores, houses, construction, etc. between the two cities. Yokohama is actually the 2nd biggest city in Japan, not Osaka, which usually overshadows Yokohama as Japan's 'other' big city. Once you're in Yokohama though, you'll start to notice the differences. Things don't seem to move quite as fast here. Generally there seems to be more space and less stress.
More fun is to buy some Chinese sweets from the some of the stalls which line the streets. The most popular snack is nikuman, which some of you might remember from my slightly uncharitable review. For me though, the ones in Chinatown aren't much better than the Japanese versions in the convenient store. Much better are the goma dango, which are little pastry balls covered in sesame seeds. Kumi and I bought some of those after lunch as well as two bubble teas, then headed to Yamashita Park. Here I am sampling a goma dango in, as Jason would say, my favourite pose (with food in my mouth).
Yamashita Park, although nice, isn't really a park in my mind, more like a long stretch of sidewalk with a few trees thrown in. Still, it borders the ocean and the view is great. Here you can see the futuristic skyline of downtown Yokohama. On the left is the Landmark Tower, the tallest building in Japan, which is a combination hotel, office building and department store. To the right of the center you can see another well known building, the curved InterContinental Hotel, which is without a doubt my favourite building in the world.
When I saw it for the first time, I immediately dubbed it the 'shark fin hotel'. However many people, including Kumi, see a half moon shape instead. Moon shape? Can't understand it, it's obviously a shark fin.
The shark is getting closer!! Swim for your lives!
On the other side of Yamashita park are the 'Aka Renga Souko' which means 'Red Brick Warehouses'. Long ago, these were just what the name implies, harbour warehouses for storing stuff. They've been given a makeover however, and are now full of shops, restaurants (plus a tiny little museum showing how they used to look), etc. Girls will have a good time window shopping of course, but prices are sky high and in the end, it's just another department store. They look nice on the outside though.
Yokohama also has a small amusement park with a couple of rollercoasters (you can see the Ferris Wheel in picture #4) which we gave a miss. We headed back to the mayhem of Tokyo after strolling through the absolutely massive department store in the Landmark Tower. We must have walked 10 miles in total, but all in all it was a good day! Thanks Yokohama.
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Madras High Court lifted the ban from popular Chinese app TikTok
On Wednesday Madurai bench of Madras High Court removed the ban from popular Chinese app TikTok. It allows users to create short lip sync videos and it has over 54 billion monthly active users.
On 3 April the Madras High Court had directed the centre to ban the download of the TikTok app in India by saying it is encouraging pornography. Children who were using this app were vulnerable to exposure to sexual predators. The petition was filed by senior advocate S Muthukumar.
The bench, led by Justices N Kirubakaran and SS Sundar, removed the ban on the basis of select regulatory conditions.
Earlier Supreme Court refused to stay the Madras High Court interim order on grounds that it is temporary and the matter is still being heard at the high court. Following the government order, TikTok was blocked on the Google Play Store and App Store, since 18 April.
“More than a million videos have been deleted and special teams have been constituted for closely monitoring content on the app” said by senior advocate Isaac Mohanlal, who represented the app in the court.
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