by: Germán A. Salazar
When you get home from the range with a box full of fired brass, it’s time to get to work. The most fundamental decision to be made is how to resize the brass – will it be full length sized or neck sized? Some people believe there is a third alternative: partial full length sizing. Once you’ve performed the procedures shown in this article, I think you’ll understand and agree that neck-sizing is not suitable for Highpower shooting, that full-length sizing is the best way to resize cases and that the third option is no option at all. I also hope you will have a better understanding of what goes on inside the resizing die.
Some of the noticeable effects of improper resizing are:
- hard bolt closing,
- hard bolt opening after firing rounds that have normal pressure,
- a click at the top of the bolt opening stroke with normal pressure loads,
- early case head separation,
- damage to the bolt locking lugs,
- frustration leading to assorted venial sins.
Any one or more of these symptoms may present themselves if a case is improperly sized. You can oversize a case as easily as undersize it and we’ll cover all of the possibilities. A quick refresher on measuring the case might be useful before we begin, so if you’re new to reloading, click here to read an article on basic case measurements.
Let’s take a look at what the resizing die does and why it does it. When you take a shiny new factory loaded cartridge out of the box, you expect it to fit into the chamber of your rifle regardless of whether the rifle and cartridge were both made last week at Remington or if they were made 50 years and two continents apart. If the cartridge is a .30-06 and the rifle is chambered for .30-06, you have the right to expect them to be dimensionally compatible and amazingly enough, they are. That compatibility is a result of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) having promulgated standardized dimensions for both chambers and cartridges to ensure compatibility. The cartridge obviously has to be smaller than the chamber and SAAMI standards call for the largest acceptable cartridge to be smaller in all dimensions than the smallest acceptable chamber.
Case and Chamber Compatibility
Below are the standard drawings for the .30-06 cartridge and chamber. Compare the dimensions and tolerances of a few key points and you’ll begin to develop a feel for the clearances specified.
Once you fire that cartridge, however, all of those dimensions change – 55,000 psi has a way of doing that. The cartridge case expands in every radial dimension on firing until it contacts the chamber walls. The case also expands longitudinally to bring the case shoulder to bear against the chamber shoulder. As pressure decreases, the case springs back from its maximum diameter, although not quite back to the unfired dimensions; it does not spring back longitudinally. That springiness is what allows you to extract the case from the chamber without having to hammer the bolt open. The brass cartridges case’s springiness, while useful, is limited, that’s why we can’t simply neck size brass forever without running into problems.
If a cartridge is loaded to an excessive pressure level, the rifle will not work as designed. Assuming the pressure is excessive but not so excessive as to blow out the primer or cause other catastrophic failure of the case or rifle, you will notice that the bolt is hard to open, especially hard to move near the top of the stroke and hard to retract. What happened is fairly simple: the excessive pressure caused the chamber walls to expand to a degree that allowed the brass to expand beyond its elastic limit, then as the chamber sprung back to normal size, the brass was firmly captured against the chamber walls with no clearance. Additionally, the locking lugs may have flexed a bit, allowing the longitudinal expansion to be more than normal and also creating an interference condition when the steel sprung back as pressure dropped. The case is now firmly stuck.
A case that was reloaded to normal pressure level can exhibit many of the same symptoms of an over-pressure case if it was not properly resized. Just as the over-pressure case creates an interference fit in the chamber, the improperly resized case does not have enough room to expand as the pressure builds and will cause the chamber itself to spring outward slightly, then trap the case as it comes back to normal. The cartridge case needs room to expand in order to then spring back enough to extract normally.
The four key dimensions that must be resized properly in order to ensure proper chambering and extraction are:
Base to cone (colloquially headspace) which SAAMI standardizes at 2.0526″ -0.0070″ for the .30-06. In other words, there is a 0.007″ tolerance towards shorter, no tolerance for longer. This, of course, refers to new cases. Headspace will be checked with a gauge from MCS (203) 775-1013. The numbers shown in the charts below for the headspace dimension are read right from the gauge. The gauge is calibrated so that a reading of 0 is equal to the SAAMI minimum length for cone to base on the specified cartridge. In this case, my readings of about 4 indicate that my chamber is 0.004″ longer than minimum, or about halfway into the allowable tolerance of 0.010″ for that dimension on the SAAMI chamber print. That’s a comfortable place to be as it ensures that the fired case can go into the die far enough to be resized properly.
Base diameter is standardized by SAAMI at a point 0.200″ from the base. This is in the solid web area and will not usually change much. We will examine a point 0.390″ from the base; that is closer to the point at which the .30-06 case has maximum expansion. Not coincidentally, it is where case head separations typically occur on a .30-06 case. Base measurements will be taken with a blade micrometer. When you put a .30-06 case into a Forster .308 case gauge, the base sticks out just the amount we need for our base measurement; we’ll use that procedure to ensure consistent placement of the micrometer.
Shoulder diameter, standardized by SAAMI at 0.4410″ for new .30-06 cases. Measuring the shoulder diameter can be a bit tricky, but with care, I think we can hit the same spot consistently. This diameter will be checked with the calipers for convenience as it is a slightly less critical dimension than the base diameter and getting a micrometer on the same spot at the shoulder is very difficult. The calipers, although less precise, are easier to get to the same spot and operate with a single hand while the other hand holds the case.
Case length, standardized by SAAMI at 2.494″ -0.020″for the .30-06.
Each of these case dimensions must be sufficiently smaller than the corresponding chamber dimension to ensure proper functioning. In most cases, a reduction of 0.002″ from fired dimensions to resized dimensions is sufficient for base and shoulder diameter as well as headspace; sometimes less will do, this depends a bit on the pressure at which the cartridge is fired. Case length must be monitored as it will always grow and can cause serious pressure problems if it exceeds the maximum allowable length. While neck diameter is also an essential element of case resizing, we’re not going to examine that because all methods of case resizing will adequately resize the neck.
The next illustration is a print of the chamber reamer used to cut my rifle’s chamber. You can see that the shoulder dimension is specified at 0.340″ and the base at 0.474″. Given the specified body taper of 0.16237″ per 20 inches, the chamber dimension at the point we measured (0.390″ from the base) should be 0.471″.
Let’s take a look at a set of fifteen cases in some detail. We will examine the key dimensions before and after neck sizing, full-length sizing and “partial full-length sizing” using five cases for each method. The test cases are Lake City 62 Match that have been fired four times.
Neck Sizing The first five cases were neck-sized only, using a Redding Competition Series neck-sizing die. Each of the four key dimensions was measured on each case in its as-fired condition (AF) and after being neck-sized (NS). The average change in each dimension was then calculated and is shown at the bottom of the chart.
Although we expected to see no change in the base and shoulder diameters, you will see that there was, in fact, a small but consistent reduction in those dimensions. The Redding die uses a sliding sleeve to hold the case in alignment with the neck bushing and apparently, that sleeve is very close in size to the chamber of my rifle and was doing a little bit of sizing. More importantly, we see that there was no change in te headspace dimension and a slight bit of growth which came from reducing the neck diameter. Every significant reduction in diameter will always be accompanied by an increase in length.
A neck-sized case will usually be a snug fit in the chamber because only the neck dimension has been materially altered and the clearances at the base, shoulder and headspace are minimal. Upon firing, you will often find that the bolt opens harder and with a click at the top of the opening stroke. That is because those minimal clearances were insufficient to allow the brass to expand and spring back properly and it is now bearing firmly against the chamber walls. If the base isn’t sized enough, you’ll get the click as the bolt begins to cam back for primary extraction.
Brass that was neck-sized in this die gave a reasonably normal feel on closing but exhibited all of the tight-fit symptoms after firing. Closing was normal due to the small amount of sizing being inadvertently done by the sliding sleeve and the gentle shoulder angle of the .30-06. Most neck-sizing dies don’t touch the body at all and even the sliding sleeve type might not contact the case in most situations; this just happened as a coincidence of my chamber and the sleeve dimensions.
Partial Full-Length Sizing If you’ve been around reloading for any length of time, you’ve probably heard someone refer to “partial full-length sizing.” The general idea is that by slightly raising a full-length die in the press, you can use it as a neck die and avoid the other dimensional changes that accompany full-length sizing. The proponents of this practice usually claim longer brass life as a key benefit. This is flatly wrong, there is no fudging this point – partial full-length sizing is detrimental to your rifle! Let’s have a look at what happens to the case when a full-length die is used in a manner other than that for which it was designed.
We took five more cases and measured as-fired (AS) and after the partial full-length sizing process. In this case, the die was raised 0.020″ from its normal position. As you can see from the chart, the base and shoulder were reduced in diameter just as much as when the full-length die was used normally (see below). Most importantly, the headspace dimension increased. This is not a trivial or insignificant matter; an increase in the headspace dimension will create rifle problems. Because the case does not spring back longitudinally when fired, the headspace dimension of the fired case is essentially equal to that of the chamber. When you close the bolt on a case with a longer headspace dimension, you are using the chamber as a resizing die and the bolt as your press. Not only are they not designed for such use, but the stress of closing against an interference fit will quickly wipe the bolt’s locking lugs clean of any lubricant. Pretty soon you’ll start to feel the bolt close harder and harder. By the time you stop to see what happened, there may be significant galling of the locking lugs. Now you have a big gunsmithing bill ahead; the lugs and lug seats will need to be recut, the barrel set back and perhaps the bolt re-timed. And guess what? Since the brass went through all of the full-length sizing dimensional changes, what did you gain? Nothing, not one darn thing. You lost quite a bit, however, on the rifle repair and I guarantee that the hard bolt closing didn’t help your score one bit either!
Full Length Sizing Now let’s examine full-length sizing. If you’re a Highpower shooter, this is really the best option; for other forms of shooting it probably is also, but I don’t like to comment on disciplines in which I don’t participate. As you’ll see, when the full-length die is properly adjusted, you’ll reduce the base, reduce the shoulder, reduce the headspace by 0.001″ to 0.002″, reduce the neck diameter (not shown) and the length will increase and will need to be trimmed. This is the real life cycle of brass and eventually, after a fair number of resizing operations, the brass will fail, either through case head separation, neck splits, or other forms of failure. Depending on the exact form of failure and the number of cycles the case lived through, you may need to examine your practices Ten firings from a bolt action is not unreasonable; more than that is a nice bonus, less is cause for investigation.
The cartridge case is a tapered cylinder right up to the shoulder. When you squeeze that cylinder down in a resizing die, it will flow forward; both the base to cone (headspace) and the overall length will grow. When the case shoulder contacts the die’s shoulder, it will be pushed back to the proper dimension. But with either neck sizing or partial full-length sizing, the shoulder never makes contact and we’re left with an excessively long headspace dimension.
Proper adjustment of the full-length die will keep all dimensions within the tolerances and clearances needed for proper operation of the rifle – including maximum accuracy. Accuracy comes from consistency, and only a full-length sized case is consistently like its mates. Neck sized cases will over the course of two or three firings; not only becoming quite tight in the chamber, but will do so to varying degrees, leading to inconsistent bolt operation and inconsistent barrel harmonics. A fired case hits the inside of the chamber hard enough to initiate an element of the barrel’s vibration pattern; do that inconsistently and your accuracy will suffer. Partial full-length sizing is bad in every aspect and the only remaining thing I have to say about it is that had I used a more aggressive die, such as the Hornady, the headspace growth would have been significantly greater.
Highpower shooters need reliable accuracy; it’s easy to lose sight of that when someone offers us a new reloading “trick”. I’ve seen way too many good, even great, shooters withdraw from a match due to problems created at the reloading bench. Inadequate resizing is a frequent contributor to these problems, which include, among other things: galled lugs, bullets stuck in the rifling, blown out primers, split cases, excessive pressure and more. Make sure that you don’t beat yourself out of a good score before you even arrive at the range – reload carefully and conservatively and learn why things work a certain way, the rewards will be found right on your score card.


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Each year, the international Slow Food community celebrates Terra Madre, Mother Earth Day, around the world to promote the Slow Food aims of good, clean and fair food for all.
This year, the members of our local Slow Food Saddleback convivium are hosting the event for our region.
“We are looking forward to welcoming members of other Slow Food communities and interested locals to our celebration of local food,” says convener Celia Wade..
“The long lunch at the Pavilion in Kiama will showcase local produce and wines, together with locally produced beer and coffee.”
Showing their hands-on skills, the meal will be prepared by Slow Food Saddleback members, with the assistance of Luke Basic, chef and owner of Silica Restaurant.
The three course meal, plus canapés, includes welcome drinks and wines in the price.
Terra Madre is also the name of an international Slow Food initiative to unite food producers, fishers, breeders, chefs, academics, young people, NGOs and representatives of local communities. It works to establish a system of good, clean and fair food from the grassroots level.
Fittingly then, the speaker at the event is Mahlah Grey, from The Pines Kiama, who recently travelled to Slow Cheese in Italy thanks to a grant from Slow Food Saddleback.
Any profits from the event will go towards the work of Slow Food Saddleback to support local farmers and other producers who promote healthy eating and local food.
Details: Sunday 8 December, The Pavilion Kiama, 12.30-4pm.
Members $70, others $85. Tickets from trybooking.com/BGGHQ

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Editorial: Harrisburg targets hunting changes
It used to be that the Saturday after Thanksgiving was about hunting for bargains or hunting for Christmas ornaments or maybe just hunting for the remote to watch college football.
“Used to be” was last year. That changes this weekend.
This year, the Saturday after Thanksgiving is also the first day of deer season. After more than 50 years, Pennsylvania hunters’ routines will be shaken up. No Monday start with those first precious days taken off work or school to sit in the woods on a cold morning waiting for the perfect 12-point buck.
Saturday’s activities will be followed by a lull as Sunday hunting remains off limits. For now.
On Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf signed a law allowing hunting on three Sundays in 2020 — one each during rifle and archery seasons and another to be named by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
It’s seen by some as a great move that makes hunting more accessible to people with Monday-to- Friday jobs.
State Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee minority chairman, sees it as a way to bring in new hunters and keep them engaged. And it could be.
Let’s hope that it is, because hunting is more than just a big part of Pennsylvania culture, especially in more rural areas. Managing the herd in the absence of enough natural predators is important. And it’s a nice chunk of the state’s recreation and tourism economy.
A study from the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership showed that hunters pumped about $817 million into their sport in the state in 2016, and the hunters that spend the most are the ones that hunt big game.
The most popular big game in Pennsylvania is the state animal — the white-tailed deer. According to Penn State, there are about 1.5 million in the commonwealth, or 30 per square mile, although anyone driving at night might swear there are more.
But state government seems to enjoy assuming something will work and moving on to the next step before waiting to see how it plays out first. Gambling has grown steadily since gaining a toehold. Marijuana is poised to do the same.
Why couldn’t the Sunday hunting question have waited to be settled until after the change to a Saturday start was assessed? Was there really a pressing need to decide the issue this year?
Let’s hope moving that first day works well — the starting over the holiday weekend catches the deer by surprise and leads to record hauls that excite and entice young hunters to get involved and keep spending their time and money in Pennsylvania. And let’s hope that next year, the prospect of those three Sunday hunts does the same.
But while we’re at it, maybe we could also hope that the state government and lawmakers can learn to finish shooting at one target before moving on to the next.


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Vijayawada, Sep 20: In view of the Karnataka Government's decision to compulsorily fix Speed Governors to the vehicles in the state, the Andhra Pradesh Lorry Owners Association (APLOA) on Saturday, Sep 20 urged the owners in the state to stop plying vehicles to Karnataka from October 1.
Talking to newspersons here, APLOA General Secretary Y V Esware Rao said the decision of the Karnataka Government would pose problem on the national transport systems.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The Nervous System
Our exploration of the human body has led us to our final body system. The nervous system includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. We have started to talk about the various parts of the brain including the cerebrum and its left and right hemispheres, the cerebellum, the medulla or brain stem, the pituitary gland, and the hypothalamus. On Monday we will make models of the brain out of playdough. We will also spend time learning about the neurons and synapses. The class has many fun learning activities ahead of them in the coming weeks as we explore the nervous system and sensory organs.
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Is a doll’s house a feminist statement?
Ibsen finalizes the play by depicting all the women characters as feminists who abandon their ‘doll’ lives to leave like free, significant, and responsible in their societies. Nora, Linde, among others, begin as slaves but end a feminists. This renders Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ a feminist essay.
Is a doll’s house about feminism or humanism?
While A Doll’s House is in part about feminism, the play is, overall, a statement about humanism. Nora is a woman who is compromised by her gender and its limitations, as she has difficulty making or borrowing money on her own and must play the part of a doll or a child to get what she wants.
Would you agree that a doll’s house is a feminist play?
A Doll’s House is a representative feminist play. It deals primarily with the desire of a woman to establish her identity and dignity in the society governed by men.
How is Ibsen a feminist?
Ibsen never explicitly identified himself as a feminist but some of his speeches and acquaintances prove that he was concerned with the women’s cause; this is also proven by his play’s development and characters.
What is the message of a doll’s house?
The main message of A Doll’s House seems to be that a true (read: good) marriage is a joining of equals. The play centers on the dissolution of a marriage that doesn’t meet these standards.
Why is a dolls house a humanist play?
A Doll House centers on humanism, because it demonstrates the search for identity, living up to societal standards, and believing that men and women are equal. A Doll House is bursting with symbolism through imagery and irony, which represent the oppression and polemic view of the individual from society.
Is a doll’s house a humanist play?
A Doll’s House is a humanist text. The main character, Nora Helmer, has spent her entire life adopting the views of other. She has been less of a human and more of a doll, first for her father and then for her husband.
What is feminist theory?
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. … Feminist theory often focuses on analyzing gender inequality.
What is feminism simple?
Quite simply, feminism is about all genders having equal rights and opportunities. It’s about respecting diverse women’s experiences, identities, knowledge and strengths, and striving to empower all women to realise their full rights.

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“We ride today, so they can tomorrow.”
In 2013, Project ReCycle put together a team of cyclists of all levels and walks of life that had two common interests…1) The passion to help Project ReCycle’s mission and 2) the joy of cycling. Today we continue to grow as a team. Together we enjoy weekly group rides, event rides as a team, monthly social events and much more.
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They’re not done yet, and they’re certainly enjoying every second of this ride. The Sachem North boys volleyball team achieved its latest milestone, winning a Division I Long Island championship Saturday, Nov. 10 after defeating Nassau County’s Plainview-Old Bethpage, 25-17, 25-11, 25-22. This marks the program’s first Long Island title since 2015.
“I’m just really proud of our guys,” Sachem coach Matt Rivera said after the match. “It’s a great feeling every time we set out to do something, and we’re able to see our guys win their final game on Long Island. This group in particular worked so hard since the season started. Every day, just grinding it out. For them to achieve their goal of winning a Long Island championship, and the way they did, I’m just really happy for them.”
Sachem, now 18-0 on the season, turns its attention to the New York State tournament Saturday, Nov. 17 in Albany. Follow @SachemSchools via Twitter for updates from the state tournament.

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Features Intuis 2 BTE
Intuis 2 BTE offers many advanced features. The table below provides an overview of the features according to model.
|Hearing loss degree|
|moderate to severe|
|Matrix (2 ccm)|
Indicates the gain and output a hearing instrument can reach.
Ensures state of the art technology within the hearing instrument.
|Frequency channels / Compression controls|
Frequency channels indicate the precision of signal processing in a hearing instrument. Compression controls indicate the degree of fine-tuning possibilities/options for hearing instruments.
The number of channels indicate the precision of signal processing in a hearing instrument. Features such as speech and noise reduction become more effective with an increase in channels.
|Gain / Compression / MPO handles|
Number of controls indicate the degree of fine-tuning possibilities for hearing instruments.
Allows you to designate specific settings for different listening environments, like in a restaurant or outdoors.
Indicates how much electrical energy is used by a device.
A microphone or microphone system that is more sensitive to sounds coming from one direction than from another direction. It is typically used for wearers to hear more sounds coming from the front than the back in speech-in-noise situations. The most advanced directional microphone systems are also multi-channel and adaptive to moving noise sources.
Feedback cancellation combines parallel processing of two phase cancellers, as well as continuous critical gain measurements in the background to offer better feedback suppression than ever before.
|Speech and noise management|
Noise reduction scheme comprised of a slow, modulation-based algorithm called noise reduction, which works optimally in noise-only situations, and a fast-acting Wiener Filter called speech enhancement that works well in speech-in-noise situations. Together, these two multi-channel and adaptive algorithms provide optimal listening comfort for the wearer in a variety of listening situations. In hearing instruments powered by micon, the effectiveness of speech and noise management is improved because of the superior frequency resolution offered by 48 channels.
|Fitting / Individuality|
Records data like program usage and microphone modes to be displayed in Connexx™. This information helps Hearing Care Professionals to make more informed decisions when making fine tuning adjustments.
|Style specific features|
|Ingress Protection rating|
The Ingress Protection or IP rating provides an indication as to the devices resistance to Dust and Moisture. An IP rating gives reassurance that the device will perform reliably.
This refers to the battery type a hearing instrument requires. Typical hearing instruments use 10A, 312, 13 or 675 size batteries depending on the hearing instrument.
|Battery door on/off function|
A built-on battery door on/off function allows hearing instrument users to turn on / off the hearing instrument by slightly opening the battery door while keeping the battery in place.
The device is given a special coating to provide resitance to moisture to improve reliability. This coating is one of several features that allows the device to attain an IP certification.
An on board user control that can be programmed as a volume control, program changer or on/off function.
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The KOMET GROUP has developed a second, completely redesigned version of the MicroKom BluFlex precision drilling system, which is impressive thanks to its high levels of precision and simple handling, as well as a particularly high-contrast OLED display. Using Bluetooth, the display located in the head of the MicroKom BluFlex 2 can also be transmitted to any conventional Android or iOS smartphone.
The user-friendliness of the new KOMET MicroKom BluFlex 2 precision drilling system has been further improved compared to the previous model. This is down to a new, particularly high-contrast OLED display which is located on the precision adjustment head itself. It is extremely energy-efficient, which means that the batteries located in the head only need to be replaced occasionally. The user can configure all settings using the touch display. It even changes its position by 180° at the touch of a button.
An absolute position measuring system is integrated in the precision adjustment head. This displays the absolute and relative positions of the slide every time the system is switched on. As is required for precision drilling, the tool can be finely adjusted in the µm range. The display is also able to show the position of the tool in µm increments.
The part balancing, which is also integrated to the head, enables speeds of up to 20,000 rpm to be reached. Although the slide is self-clamping, we recommend manually clamping it with a hex key for high speeds and precision applications. The precision adjustment head can also be radially adjustment in this simple manner.
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The first book of the Noomakhia cycle, The Three Logoi: Apollo, Dionysus, and Cybele, is dedicated to studying the question of the multiplicity of the Logoi and philosophical and mytho-symbolic paradigms which define the structures of different civilizations. This book represents the philosophical and methodological introduction to the Noomakhia cycle; it describes the models of the three Logoi – of Apollo, Dionysus, and Cybele – which, in the author’s opinion, lie at the heart of diverse philosophical, religious, scientific, and political systems. From this angle, the author examines in detail the philosophy of Plato, the Neoplatonists (Plotinus and Proclus), Aristotle’s doctrine of categories, Christian Gnosticism, Hermetism, and various forms of materialist and nominalist worldviews.”


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Real Estate and Homes for Sale in Avalon Park - Orlando, Florida Avalon Park is located about 15 miles east of downtown Orlando, Florida. Avalon Park is an 1,860-acre neighborhood located in southeast Orange County, nestled beside the serene, natural surroundings of the Econlockhatchee River. Avalon Park has 240 acres of wetlands, 400 acres of upland preserve, 250 acres of man-made lakes, walking/biking trails and a pool with cabana located in the center of each neighborhood village. Development principles are based on New Urbanism planning concepts, which emphasizes human-scale communities in which traditional-style neighborhoods are within easy walking distance of the town center to foster an improved quality of life for residents of all ages. Bringing this principle to life includes a mix of housing types, civic uses, office/commercial buildings and Downtown Avalon Park. Planning includes approximately 3,400 single-family units, 1,431 multi-family units and more than half a million square feet of commercial space. Whether enjoying one of the large quarterly festivals with thousands of visitors or relaxing in the park at one of the monthly movies, Downtown Avalon Park is full of life and a variety of family activities. Avalon Park was built on the rich traditions of small town life. Tree-lined streets, lakes, lush landscaping, rocking chair porches and nearby schools, shops and professional services were designed to evoke an ideal small town America. Pedestrian-minded downtown Avalon Park provides the perfect town center experience - whether you spend an hour or the entire day. Shopping, dining, professional services and community events are all within walking distance from home for those fortunate enough to live here.
Avalon Park Single Family HomesNeo-traditional style homes nestled on tree-lined streets are rich in design and skillfully crafted by award-winning builders. Sidewalks wend their way around with ease, illuminated by streetlamps in evenings for leisurely after-dinner strolls. Garages are accessible from private rear lanes to maintain the street-view architectural integrity of every home. The gracious homes of Avalon Park combine the warmth of yesterday with the amenities of today to create the ideal lifestyle for your family. Avalon Park's approved builders deliver quality and craftsmanship. Homes and multi-family units range in price from $200,000 to $1 million, with square footage ranging from 1,100 to more than 5,000.
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Amid attacks by the Jair Bolsonaro government and allies against Petrobras, Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) said this Friday (17) that there is no “dichotomy” between the government and the state-owned company, as the União is the largest shareholder. Pacheco also said that if the government wants to contain fuel inflation, it should use Petrobras’ profits to create a price-stabilizing fund.
Pacheco did not adopt the tone of Bolsonaro and allies, who preferred to blame the soaring prices at Petrobras. Earlier this Friday, the state-owned company announced a readjustment in gasoline and diesel, following the fluctuations of the international market.
The president of the Senate, through a note released to the press, sought to make it clear that the government is responsible for Petrobras.
“If the fuel price situation is getting out of control, the government must accept to share Petrobras’ huge profits with the population, through a price stabilization account in times of crisis,” said Pacheco.
“After all, the Petrobras and government dichotomy does not exist, as the Union is the majority shareholder of the state-owned company and its board is appointed by the government”, added the president of the Senate.
Bolsonaro has been experiencing a crisis with Petrobras in recent months. He changed the president of the state-owned company twice this year alone, in an attempt to make the company change its pricing policy. Petrobras claims that, by law, it must apply changes in the prices of oil and oil products on the foreign market to the domestic market. Otherwise, the company claims that it may be sued in court or even cause fuel shortages in Brazil (importers would not want to bring the product to a country with lagged prices).
Bolsonaro fears that rising prices will damage his image with the electorate and his reelection plans. This Friday, he called the new Petrobras adjustment “betrayal” and suggested a CPI to investigate the state company.
Close allies departed for similar attitudes. The president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), said that the board of Petrobras has “bad faith” and practices acts “against the Brazilian people”. He also said that he will call a meeting on Monday (20) to seek alternatives to change Petrobras’ pricing policy.
The Minister of the Civil House, Ciro Nogueira, protested on social media.
“Enough is enough! The time has come. Petrobras does not belong to its directors. It belongs to Brazil. And it cannot, therefore, continue with such insensitivity, ignore its social role and abandon Brazilians in the biggest crisis of the last century”, wrote the minister. .
The alternative of creating a fund with the profit of Petrobras to stabilize prices has also been sought by states of the federation.
In 2021, Petrobras recorded a record net income of R$106.6 billion, the highest ever recorded by publicly traded companies in Brazil. In the first quarter of this year, with the rise in oil, the state-owned company’s profit totaled R$ 44.5 billion.
The equalization fund is based on a project, already approved by the Federal Senate, but which has not yet passed the scrutiny of the Chamber of Deputies. Therefore, it is still not valid.
The Ministry of Economy says it is against the fund. The Secretary of the National Treasury, Paulo Valle, for example, argues that the creation would be an “expensive and inefficient” measure.
According to a survey by Bolívar Moura Rocha and Fernando Hamú Alves, from Levy & Salomão Advogados, some countries have already used this mechanism, including: Peru, Chile, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Thailand and Vietnam. The data were obtained from the World Bank.
The bill approved by the Senate defines that, if the fund is created, there will be a floor and a ceiling for fuel prices. It also establishes that, if the higher price is exceeded, producers and importers will be compensated for any losses.
The resources to form the fund, according to the project, will come from:
- Union shares resulting from the concession and sale of surplus oil in the production sharing regime;
- excess of collection, in relation to the annual forecast, of the Petrobras dividends;
- revenue from the oil sector;
- financial surplus of the federal government (balance resulting from revenues minus expenses).
According to the Federal Revenue, the collection of fuels totaled R$ 30.71 billion in the first four months of this year. The “royalties” and special participations of the Union on oil totaled R$ 13.09 billion from January to April.
Petrobras, in turn, announced that it will pay BRL 32 billion in dividends to the Union by July, for last year and the first quarter of 2022. The sum of all these resources is another BRL 75 billion in this year’s partial. However, not all amounts would be transferred to the stabilization fund.
See the full note released by Pacheco:
“If the fuel price situation is getting out of hand, the Government must accept to share Petrobras’ huge profits with the population, through a price stabilization account in times of crisis. After all, the Petrobras and Government dichotomy does not exist , as the Federal Government is the majority shareholder of the state-owned company and its board is appointed by the Government.In addition, similar measures are being adopted by other countries in favor of their economy and their population.
The Senate approved numerous legislative matters that were within its reach and now expects quick and effective measures from Petrobras and its parent company, the Union. Since the government is against discussing the company’s pricing policy and interfering in its governance, the stabilization account is an alternative to be considered.”


Country Music Superstar Kane Brown Playing South Idaho In April
One of country music's newest superstars will be performing two hours from Twin Falls next month. Tickets are on sale now to see Kane Brown at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa in April.
Kane Brown released his debut album in 2016 and has since proven himself to be a force in country music. Brown is touring the eastern United States for the next few weeks before heading west in late April. The artist will perform shows in California, Washington State, Montana, and Idaho between April 23 and May 20.
My wife has become a massive fan of Brown in recent months. I bought her his latest album, Different Man, this past Christmas. It's a fantastic record, and in my opinion, one of the better country albums I've heard in a while. "Bury Me in Georgia," "Leave You Alone," "Like I Love Country Music," and "One Mississippi" are all favorites of ours.
Brown's "Drunk or Dreaming" tour will stop at Nampa's Ford Idaho Center on April 23 and will include guests Locash and Dustin Lynch. Tickets start at $40. To view available tickets, click here.
The artist has eight number-one songs, according to countryswag.com. The Ford Idaho Center is 145 miles northwest of Twin Falls, which is just about a two-hour drive for Magic Valley fans. Brown has amassed a large fan base in Idaho as well, and his music can be heard on radio stations throughout the Gem State.
For information on lodging in Nampa for those that don't want to drive back to the Magic Valley after the show, click here.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked voters at a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar on Sunday if the army would take permission from the Election Commission before killing militants. His remarks came after two militants were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian an encounter on Sunday morning. The election for Jammu and Kashmir’s seven seats got over last week.
“Today terrorists were killed by our Army in Kashmir. Now some people are worried as to why did Modi kill the terrorists when voting is underway? They were standing in front (of the soldiers) with bombs and guns. Would my soldiers go to the Election Commission to ask for permission to shoot? Since I came to Kashmir, every second or third day, clean-ups take place. This is my clean-up operation,” PM Modi said while campaigning in Kushinagar.
Opposition kya khel bana rakha hai? (What drama is the opposition enacting).” he said, adding that it was surprising to note that the opposition parties were saying that elections were on and the security forces were opening fire at militants.
Meanwhile, as campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls entered its final phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday predicted defeat of the opposition parties, saying the people were voting for an effective government.
Attacking the SP-BSP alliance, Modi said he had been the chief minister of Gujarat more than the terms of Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati as Uttar Pradesh chief ministers combined, and there was no blot of corruption on him.
Hitting out at BSP chief Mayawati for her remarks on the Alwar gangrape case, the prime minister asked her “not to shed crocodile tears” for the victim.
“If you are serious, why don’t you withdraw support from the Congress government in Rajasthan,” he asked.
Even the Congress government wanted to suppress the incident involving a Dalit woman, he said, adding that the party thought “hua toh hua”, a reference to Sam Pitroda’s remark on 1984 anti-Sikh riots.


Syndicated — When they weren't tied up with filming television shows, jet-setting between cities on music tours or starring in a new movie, these A-listers were busy hunting for new real estate. Quite a few stars - think Ashton, Jennifer and even the Biebs - made significant home purchases the past few months. Were they possibly taking advantage of historically low interest rates? Or are these stories just examples of this year's home shopping season?
Last listing price: $10.8 million
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Details: 5 beds, 8 baths, 9,385 square feet
Forget the traditional Mediterranean or California ranch-style home ubiquitous in L.A. When Ashton Kutcher decided to buy a new place for his life post-Demi Moore, he chose a stunning modern with views of Lake Hollywood from its retractable glass walls. Kutcher had been renting the place when teen pop star Justin Bieber inquired about buying the place. When Kutcher found out, he put an offer on the Hollywood Hills home, showing The Biebs how the big dogs run in Tinseltown.
Last listing price: $5.95 million
Purchase price: $5.15 million
Details: 7 beds, 8 baths, 10,012 square feet
When the teen singer heard that Ashton Kutcher had scooped him on the modern home in Hollywood Hills, Bieber set his sights on an entirely different property: An enormous, more traditional-styled home in Calabasas. Set outside the buzz and paparazzi of Beverly Hills, Calabasas is home to serious privacy-seeking stars like Britney Spears and Steven Spielberg. However Bieber's new home purchase has not gone as smoothly as one would expect for someone with his wealth. The 7-bed, 8-bath home was appraised low and the singer is waiting on that to be ironed out before he and his entourage can officially move in.
Last listing price: $24.9 million
Purchase price: $20.97 million
Details: 4 beds, 6.5 baths, 8,500 square feet


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The Holidays are a time when friends and family are in close quarters. Much of that time is joyous, full of fun and spent in front of the TV watching any number of Christmas specials. We are never far removed from Jimmy Stewart, Chevy Chase, George C. Scott, Billy Bob Thorton or Little Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun.
However, film and TV are relatively new additions to the Holiday season. A century ago, no one owned a TV and movies were silent. How did people pass the time? The answer, of course, is games. Board games, card games, word games and many others were played for fun.
The Victorian era (1837-1901) which gave us Christmas cards, A Christmas Carol and Christmas Crackers also had games like Up Jenkins, Similes and Throwing the Smile. Up Jenkins was played with 8 or more players divided into two teams. Teams would sit across from each other and one team was given a coin. The team with the coin would pass or pretend to pass it among themselves until the opposing team shouted Up Jenkins! At which point the team with the coin would raise their hands above the table with fists closed. The opposing team would then say Down Jenkins! The team with the coin would then place their hands on the table palms down. The other team would then get one chance to guess which player on the opposing team had the coin.
Similes could be played with as few as two people but more is better. Each player would take a turn telling the other player or players a simile. Here are some examples of similes:
tight as a drum
green as the grass
brave as a lion
strong as an ox.
Players would keep telling similes until someone couldn’t think of one and then that person would be out. Eventually you would be left with a winner.
Those are games from Christmas past. If you’re looking to play games in Christmas present here are some books that can help:
This how-to book offers a large variety of card games along with rules and instructions about how to play. You’ll see Poker and Cribbage as well a few games not often played. In addition to learning how to play, you’ll also get a short history on the evolution of the game.
If you’ve ever wondered “how do I play Egyptian Ratscrew?” this book is for you. Providing rules and strategies for card and board games, you’ll find fun from Scrabble to Eleusis. The book also helpfully separates games geared for adults versus those more suited for children.
Check out this book to create an “unplugged” family fun night that appeals to children too! With twists on timeless classics to brand new games, this book provides ideas for indoor and outdoor fun. Plus, it suggests snacks and meals that complement each family night theme.
My list of books would not be complete without a history of board games. David Parlett dives into the rich and interesting history of board games from around the world and from different time periods. His book offers some tips on strategies but focuses primarily on the development and cultural aspects of the games.
These books offer some great ways to stay entertained over the holidays. And there is one more twist you can throw into your gaming that can be a lot of fun. Today most games end with a player or players being “out” or being “it”. However, in ages past many games didn’t end this way. Players would perform a forfeit. Here are some examples:
- A player has to stand on a chair and assume the form or shape of an object or animal the group chooses.
- Make at least three other people smile.
- Tell a joke.
- Mime something and make the other players guess what it is you are doing.
Try these or create your own forfeits to add a different twist to your games!
While the holiday season is a great time to break out the games, it isn’t the only time you can enjoy them. Come to the library and enjoy “Tabletop Games Day”. Different branches host this games day event at different times of the year. Come and enjoy an oversized game of Chess, Checkers, or Snakes and Ladders. You can also have fun with some regular-sized games like Clue, Scrabble or Cribbage. Check the most current “At the Library” for times and locations.

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The suspension of Oxford's AstraZenece might be more politics than science, expert says
The call to pause the rollout is being questioned by some health experts, who say the data simply does not support the decision. It is “important to contextualize” what’s being reported because the risk of blood clots is no higher among vaccinated people than among the general population, Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, an infectious disease physician at Washington University School of Medicine, told Yahoo Finance. “There is, quite frankly, not a concerning signal here. This appears to be more politically motivated than anything to do with the actual science.”, according to Yahoo! Finance.
|A vial of AstraZeneca vaccine is pictured in a pharmacy in Boulogne Billancourt, outside Paris. At least a dozen countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have now temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)|
Several countries have reported a possible increase in blood clotting among patients who received AstraZeneca’s vaccine. There have been 37 such reports among the 17 million people vaccinated across the U.K. and EU, and preliminary reports suggest one person each in Italy, Austria and Denmark died due to blood clots after getting the AstraZeneca vaccine. The European Medicine Agency’s (EMA) safety committee cautions, however, that none of those deaths were actually linked to the vaccine. The committee further noted that several people who got blood clots were middle aged, when such clots are more common, and that blood clots aren’t particularly rare in the general population. AstraZeneca noted in a statement that the number of blood clots are actually “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size.”
Davey Smith, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California San Diego, is baffled by governments’ decisions to suspend use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. “I’ve seen no data to see why they are stopping,” he says, adding, “People are going to get blood clots, because they would have gotten them with or without the vaccine.”, Forbes reported.
Once considered to be the leader in the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca has ended up facing more hurdles than its competitors. Problems started last September, when global trials of the vaccine were paused due to a patient experiencing a severe illness. The trial soon resumed, but two months later the company revealed a blunder: in the U.K. trials run by Oxford, participants had accidentally been given half-doses of the vaccine, a mistake that shook the faith of regulators in the U.S., who now expect final clinical trial data from AstraZeneca in April.
Support for AstraZeneca's vaccine was already suffering ahead of the latest safety concerns. A recent survey from YouGov, a UK-based market research and data analytics firm, found that Europeans were more confident in the safety of Moderna and Pfizer's vaccines compared to the shot produced by AstraZeneca.
A recent policy brief from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control found that less than half of people in the E.U. believe that Covid-19 vaccines are safe.
Smith stated that suspending administration of the vaccine is a risk in the greater fight against the pandemic. “In the end it could be very harmful for the whole vaccine rollout in general,” he says. Based on the reported data, he says he doesn’t see a justification for governments suspending the vaccine, commenting that “if they do have data, and if they're making decisions based on data that nobody has, then it's a transparency problem.”
So far, suspensions among E.U. nations aren’t expected to halt distribution elsewhere. Earlier this month, the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX), a public-private vaccine initiative to distribute vaccines to emerging economies, began distributing doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine to India, Ghana and Cote D’Ivorie. More are expected to follow, with 237 million doses allocated to over 130 countries this month.
AstraZeneca defends vaccine safety
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AstraZeneca said there is no evidence its vaccine causes an increased risk of blood clots, and urged people to continue getting their jabs. It comes after Ireland and the Netherlands suspended use of the vaccine temporarily today as a ‘precautionary step’.
The decision followed reports of serious clotting in adults in Norway which left four people in hospital. AstraZeneca said a review of available safety data in more than 17 million people who have been vaccinated across the UK and EU has shown no evidence of an increased risk.
The company’s chief medical officer Ann Taylor said the number of cases of blood clots reported is lower than the hundreds of cases that would be expected among the general population. The UK’s medicines regulator also said available evidence does not suggest the vaccine is the cause of the blood clots.
AstraZeneca said its review had found no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also said that countries should continue to use the vaccine, adding there was no indication of a link between the jabs and blood clots. Ireland’s deputy chief medical officer, Dr Ronan Glynn, said the recommendation has been made following a report from the Norwegian Medicines Agency of four new reports of serious blood clotting events in adults after vaccination with AstraZeneca. He added: ‘It has not been concluded that there is any link between the Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca and these cases.
‘However, acting on the precautionary principle, and pending receipt of further information, the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) has recommended the temporary deferral of the Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca vaccination programme in Ireland.’, Metro News reported.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has initiated an urgent review of all blood clotting events occurring with the vaccine, to determine if there is a possible safety risk. Several other European countries also temporarily suspended AstraZeneca jabs. The EMA reported one person in Austria was diagnosed with blood clots and died 10 days after vaccination, but it stressed there is ‘currently no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions’.
Another person was admitted to hospital in Austria with pulmonary embolism (blockage in arteries in the lungs) after being vaccinated, while one death involving a blood clot was reported in Denmark.
A 50-year-old man is also thought to have died in Italy from deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Denmark, Norway and Iceland have said they are temporarily halting all AstraZeneca vaccinations to investigate the reports.
|WHO confirms "no evidence of casuality caused by the vaccine" after examining AstraZeneca |
On Monday, The World Health Organization (WHO)'s advisory panel did a review on reports about AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine that caused blood clots, and said there ...
|AstraZeneca vaccine halted in Ireland over blood clot concerns |
Ireland temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday following a report from Norway of patients developing blood clots post-inoculation.
|WHO backs AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, playing down risks |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has backed the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after some European countries paused their rollouts following reports of the formation ...


Summed up, nigerian architecture has both historical colonialist influences and native vernacular (Hausa and Yoruba) components. Cultural meaning, embodied in the vernacular, is strongly expressed in form and material, and the resulting architecture is both culturally symbolic and a reference to an earlier physical/psychological security. Native vernacular is driven by notions of tribal protection - semi-private enclosure, internal plazas, communal gathering spaces, something like a village of individual dwellings but captured in a single superstructure or compound. The scarcity of materials historically required the simple but effective use of geometric primitives: hollow squares, pyramidal or cylindrical construction traditionally arranged around a courtyard. These qualities were a catalogue to inform a concept for a new stadium typology and support complex.
Koolhaas' notion of The African Dream... embodied in Lagos as a city in "a constant state of becoming."" Landfills such as Olusosun were created outside the city to store waste away from inhabitants. But as the city grew, the once isolated landfill became the city center. Olusosun is now surrounded by residential, commercial, industrial and even religious buildings... Plans to rehabilitate the landfill into a park include infrastructure beneath to harness methane emissions from the waste as energy for the city, and improve the country's electricity shortage.
Lagos Rally is a new mixed-use stadium typology that becomes the anchor for a new urban development in Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos Rally takes the place of the former Olusosun landfill as a forward-looking hub for living, playing, working, shopping, and worshipping. There are six programs driven and inspired by local architectural history and formal qualities: 1) Olusosun Eghodo, 2) Bridge Academy, 3) Olusosun Akodi, 4) Olusosun Zaire, 5) Olusosun Obi, and 6) the Biobattery.
Building form at the Rally features qualities based on local architectural history: monolithic cob structures, ribbed vaulting, shallow domes and vault roofing, rectilinear and circular spatial characteristics. Materially, the Rally is deliberately ambiguous, suggesting economic expedience borrowing from the palette of local hausa architecture, particularly bronze-casting, an emphasis on light and color, and "primitive" geometry. The result is an expression of economic expedience and the convergence of the traditional and the modern.
The stadium is the main impluvium, traditionally as unifying space for family rituals, entertainment, war planning it symbolized protection, but now takes on the additional function of housing. The new stadium supplements bleacher seating with multi-tenant housing units at multiple elevations within the stadium - democratized box seating.
The newest university in Lagos with bright lecture and event spaces to accommodate both locals and international students. The Bridge literally connects the Egodo stadium community with the Obi wellness center, symbolizing the actual connection between mind and body.
The Akodi is a quarter-mile, pedestrian-only retail strip with leasable spaces and first-come-first serve "pop-up" stalls organized around column bays that creates a dynamic outdoor mall.
The Zaire is a hybrid mosque-church accommodating prayer halls, smaller chapels and confessional boxes. It also contains a conjoined auditorium for theological seminars and a community center to foster discussion and cooperation among Muslim and Christian congregations.
Traditionally a personal space for the family head and other socio-culturally significant events, the Obi is an idea and physical structure that becomes a center for wellness. It takes the meaning and power of the traditional courtyard as a center for social exchanges and transposes it into an extra-wide corridor. The corridor becomes the building, program being both central and transient.
Biobatteries vibrantly dot the new Olusosun landscape. The batteries convert the heat and off-gassing of the landfill beneath into cheap and efficient energy, acting as mini power plants with a minimal building footprint.
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INSIDE, OUTSIDE + IN BETWEEN
Inside, Outside + In Between is a 2018 Ragdale Ring proposal by CLUAA. Situated beneath the canopy of existing trees, a simple fence construction cordons off part of the Ragdale grounds to become a private area for collective viewing of Ragdale's annual summer theater productions. The ropes' narrow vertical spacing would create the effect of a semi-private or semi-translucent barrier - a type of blurred boundary - while the bright pink jovially emphasizes the effect of spatial delineation. Chairs provide individual seating while custom woven mats using the same rope define multi-size "interiors" designating group seating areas.


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Looking for a fun Christmas stocking stuffer or a small gift idea? Go for something totally unexpected but surprisingly fun – the Magic Octopus from Bandai.
This tiny, affordable toy is designed to sit inside a used plastic drink bottle. If you fill the bottle almost to the brim then close the cap tightly, you can control the mysterious creature inside using only the power of water pressure. Give the bottle a squeeze to see your micro sea life toy plunge to the bottom of the bottle. Give a few squeezes in rapid succession and you can get your pet to spin around. There are several behaviors to discover so go ahead – give an unusual gift your friends won’t soon forget.
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A parliamentary standards investigation into isles MP Alistair Carmichael over the run-up to last year’s general election has been dropped.
Standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson says the conduct of the former Scottish Secretary falls outwith her remit – because Mr Carmichael’s actions did not take place during his parliamentary activities.
Mr Carmichael came under intense scrutiny last year following a narrow 817-vote election victory against SNP candidate Danus Skene, who is now standing for the nationalist party in the Holyrood elections.
Prior to the Westminster poll Mr Carmichael had appeared in a Channel 4 News interview, where he denied being involved in the leaking of a memo to The Daily Telegraph, which suggested First Minister Nicola Sturgeon would have preferred to see David Cameron return to 10 Downing Street after the election.
It was only after the vote that Mr Carmichael admitted he had, in fact, sanctioned the leak through a special adviser.
A landmark case was subsequently brought to the rarely held Elections Court in Edinburgh by four of Mr Carmichael’s Orkney constituents.
The case was held under the terms of the Representation of the People Act (1983).
But judges sided with Mr Carmichael’s argument that the lies he told did not relate to his personal character or conduct – although they described his approach as being “at best disingenuous, at worst evasive”.
In her ruling, Ms Hudson said: “The evidence that was given to the election court, together with the enquiries I have made, have subsequently shown that the special adviser and Mr Carmichael received the memorandum disclosed to The Daily Telegraph through official Scotland Office channels.
“Since Mr Carmichael did not receive the information in the course of his parliamentary activities, the allegations concerning his decision to authorise its disclosure fall outside my remit.”
In a statement, Mr Carmichael said: “I am pleased that this is now resolved and will continue to focus on getting on with my job as MP for Orkney and Shetland.”


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Dental Management of a Patient With Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia: A Case Report
Non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders that includes genetic, idiopathic, post viral and inflammatory cardiomyopathies. NICM is associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), namely in the form of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Although implanted cardiac defibrillators (ICD) may prevent sudden death from VA, NICM patients may suffer from recurrent symptoms and ICD therapies, and anti-arrhythmic drug side effects. Catheter ablation is highly efficacious in NICM, however poses unique challenges when compared to post myocardial infarction substrates.
Mapping of scar-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) in structural heart disease is fundamentally driven by identifying the critical isthmus of conduction that supports re-entry in and around myocardial scar. Mapping can be performed using activation and entrainment techniques during VT, or by substrate mapping performed in stable sinus or paced rhythm. Activation and entrainment mapping requires the patient to be in continuous VT, which may not be haemodynamically tolerated, or, if tolerated, may lead to adverse sequelae related to impaired end organ perfusion.
Animal studies in the 1960s first demonstrated the benefits of using epinephrine alongside external compressions and external shock to achieve return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in arrested and asphyxiated dogs.1–4 Since then, epinephrine has become integral to the performance of advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) care. The American Heart Association’s (AHA) recommendations in the Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Guidelines are that a standard dose of 1 mg of 1:10,000 epinephrine every 3–5 minutes “may be reasonable for patients with cardiac arrest.”5 No maximum total dose is deline...
Ventricular arrhythmias are one of the leading causes of death in patients with a prior myocardial infarction. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are very effective in the prevention of sudden cardiac death but the risk of recurrence remains an issue since defibrillation does not alter the underlying substrate. Recurrent ICD shocks are distressing and are associated with an increase in mortality. Catheter ablation is an effective treatment for recurrent ventricular tachycardia in these patients, particularly when antiarrhythmic therapy produces side effects or is ineffective.
Ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) has evolved around the concept of ischemic scar, providing the substrate for ventricular macro-reentry. These early concepts enabled the development of classical mapping techniques and ablation strategies, as exemplified by the seminal work of the late Marc Josephson . Today, electrophysiologists are confronted with more heterogeneous etiologies, resulting in more challenging substrates.
Clinical Predictors of Recurrent Ventricular Arrhythmias in Secondary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Recipients With Coronary Artery Disease - Lower Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Incomplete Revascularization. Circ J. 2018 Oct 11;: Authors: Takano T, Tanaka K, Ozaki K, Sato A, Iijima K, Yanagawa T, Izumi D, Ozawa T, Fuse K, Sato M, Tanabe N, Minamino T Abstract BACKGROUND: The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a standard prevention therapy for patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia (VA), that is, ve...
Defibrillator technology for sudden cardiac death (SCD) prevention now includes the transvenous implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD), subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD) and wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD). ICD use improves survival in patients who survived previous sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) due to ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF), as well as in patients who experienced haemodynamically significant VT. It is also currently indicated for primary prevention in ischaemic/non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies, certain congenital heart disease conditions and inherited channelopathies.
ConclusionsWe present a case of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia associated with a novel single point mutation in the RyR2 gene, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been described in the literature so far. Our patient experienced arrhythmic events under both resting conditions and physical activity, an uncommon finding in patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. This novel mutation may cause arrhythmias independent of sympathoadrenergic stimulation, but further evidence is needed to prove causality.
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The council wants to know what Aucklanders think about their city.
From March 15 to May 31, Aucklanders will be able to view the draft Unitary e-plan. The plan will set out what can be built and where, shaping where we live, where we work and how we look after the things we value in both our urban and rural areas. Visit shapeauckland.co.nz to find out more about what the plan will mean for Auckland, then join in the conversation, have your say and help shape the way the city grows.


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By Anders Hove
For two days last week, energy experts in Beijing didn’t come to the office. That’s because most of them were at an important conference on establishing caps on China’s coal production and use. The China Coal Consumption Cap Plan and Policy Research Project, run by the National Development and Reform Commission, held a workshop attended by more than 400 Chinese and international experts to discuss the health, economic and environmental aspects of capping coal energy in China.
Why was this conference a big deal? It came just a few days after the announcement of the U.S.-China climate agreement, in which China pledged to hit peak carbon emissions before 2030. The urgent question now is how will China achieve its goals—exactly what the experts were discussing. Just two years ago, few officials were even talking about setting concrete plans for capping carbon emissions.
Today, peak coal in China is official policy. The questions now are when and how.
A new paper by the Rocky Mountain Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory argues that China can achieve its goals by promoting electric vehicles, designing better buildings, and building a more efficient energy grid. At the conference, Yu Cong of the NDRC’s Energy Research Institute echoed their emphasis on the importance of better buildings (the subject of a recent Paulson Institute conference in Beijing) and pointed to an apartment complex in Northeast China that reduced energy consumption by 92 percent by using passive house design.
The opening of markets will be a key factor in helping China reach its coal targets, too. For one thing, the U.S.-China climate agreement will open China’s markets to U.S. energy technology, ranging from smart buildings to super-materials for solar, LEDs, and batteries. That means China may soon open up its power market to competition that can promote efficiency, renewable integration and more widely distributed energy generation.
Moves to fix the energy pricing system will increase energy efficiency, too. Pricing structures until now have incentivized utilities to produce and sell as much energy as possible. But Shenzhen last week announced a pilot project that will create a utility revenue cap that will encourage the local utility to save energy by decoupling grid company revenue from sales. This week’s national energy action plan called for establishing wholesale power markets and direct trading in electricity, which would promote energy efficiency and unblock access to distributed power.
China is also designing emissions trading mechanisms to implement coal and carbon caps. The country already has seven carbon trading pilot projects, and other trading mechanisms are being explored. At last week’s conference, Zhang Xin, Deputy Director of Carbon Market Management at the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, suggested that the eventual goal is to determine the most effective way to implement caps—either through trading coal quotas or emissions allowances.
While skeptics have argued that China’s commitments are too incremental to guarantee the world prevents temperatures from rising two degrees Celsius this century (scientists say that above that would lead to apocalyptic results), China’s actions would have been unimaginable a few years ago. Assuming implementation and continued technology progress, there is every reason to believe the next few years will bring even more ambitious steps.
Anders Hove is Associate Director for China Research at the Paulson Institute.


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An Investigation into the design of an Interface for Interaction with a Virtual Environment representing a four-dimensional object
Five methods of mapping the input from a six-degrees-of-freedom input device to the set of rotations available in four-dimensional space axe evaluated with respect to how well they can be used to perform four-dimensional target aquisition tasks. Also evaluated are the user’s opinions of the methods of interaction. Two of the five interaction methods perform significantly better than the rest allowing some general results to be drawn....
KeywordsVirtual Reality Virtual Environment Task Difficulty Input Device Target Orientation
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Euro-African Collaboration Takes Artists To New Heights
DJ Cable Feat. Robin Thirdfloor - Ungasabi
Uniting two continents through music and creating unique sounds, UK-based award-winning DJ/Producer DJ Cable has collaborated with one of SA’s hottest artists Robin Thirdfloor on their new track “Ungasabi”. A mix between two elite genres known as Gqom and UK funky, their new and unique single is a first and must have for every gqom, hip hop or EDM playlist.
Introduced to Robin Thirdfloor by a mutual friend and having a love for gqom music, Cable whose real name Chris Painter, wanted to create a different sound that isn’t too different from what both SA and UK audiences are used to and one that will be enjoyed cross-continents.
“I got introduced to Robin’s music via a mutual friend, and just had to reach out to him.I’m a massive fan of Gqom so I sent over my UK-take on the genre, whilst bringing my love of UK Funky & Grime into the production process. He got the vibe and the result is this!” say Cable.
Watch “Ungasabi” here:
A boost of courage in the right direction, the song speaks about not being fearful and facing every one of life’s hiccups with confidence- a power statement and affirmation in one song.
“The song is about not being fearful. I touch on various references which emphasize that I’m not scared of any rapper in the game and I am not scared of any unfavorable situation I come across. The song is a power statement, on the chorus I rap “Abasiyeke senze lento ngenkani ungasabi” let them allow us do this by force, don’t fear. I continue to rap “ithina abenzi bezinto” which means we are the ones who make big moves.” says Robin.


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Floatable wastes and the region's beaches : answers to some common questions (Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY, 1989)from the preface, "The summers of 1987 and 1988 have left many lingering questions in the minds of our region's citizens about the state of our waters and beaches. This booklet is an attempt to answer some of the most ...


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Over the coming weekend, the second act of this year’s World Endurance Road Motorcycle Championship will take place in Estoril, Portugal. However, the Slovak Maco Racing team will not take part in the twelve-hour race there.
In the recent 24-hour race at Le Mans in France, the Maco Racing team took 11th place after the problems, while they really thought about placing in the top 10 in the team. but due to circumstances related to the Covid-19 pandemic, he eventually withdrew his participation in the Iberian Peninsula.
Martin Kuzma, team owner:
“The current situation around the coronavirus is unfavorable for each of us, the conditions for returning to our country are complicated, in addition, Portugal is one of the countries with the most widespread new Delta variant of the virus. I’m not talking about fear, but the personal experience of several people on our team with Covid-19 who lost the closest members of their families.
This is a time when we do not want to play heroes, but to behave humanely to those who work for our team one hundred percent, but are now going through a difficult period, and that is why the Maco Racing team will not participate in the following races in Estoril, Portugal. I am aware that we will lose important points in the World Cup, but above all I feel responsible for the people we are with as one family.
We believe that the Bol d´Or race will take place in September, which we will, of course, take part in. We thank our partners and fans for standing behind us even in this difficult times.”