The family of 15-year-old Jacquelin Carmen Calderon of Foreshore Area in Belize City is worried after the teenager has not been seen for the last two days. According to a family member, Jacquelin left home about five thirty Tuesday evening to purchase phone credits. Since then the family has not heard from her. They say this is the first time the teenager has gone missing. She was last seen wearing a blue blouse and blue long pants. Jacquelin is a standard five student at Queen Street Baptist School. She is fair skinned, stands five feet three inches tall, has black hair and brown eyes. If you know the whereabouts of 15-year-old Jacquelin Carmen Calderon is asked to call six-six-three-three-nine-one-eight or the nearest police station.


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Movie Review by Leigh Singer
Award-winning documentary in which a young British-Indian filmmaker chronicles her parents' 1960s emigration to England through her father's Super 8 home movie correspondence with their family back home
"This is a switch. A switch on the wall. This is a light. If I press the switch on the wall, the light will come on." With such helpful TV programming as 'Make Yourself At Home' did 1960s Britain attempt to aid immigrants coming to its shores.
For one such newcomer, Yash Pal Suri, audio-visual recording could be put to more practical and less patronizing use: after moving with his wife Sheel from Meerut, India, to northern England in 1965, Yash bought a pair of Super 8 cameras, projectors and reel-to-reel audio mixers, sent one to his family back home and with the other proceeded to document his life in a new country.
His daughter Sandhya Suri now uses this fascinating archive as the backbone for her own wonderful documentary, I For India. Suri employs clips from then-contemporary BBC documentaries on immigrant doctors (of which her father was one) and 1970s National Front marches to give historical context and insight into just how far multiculturalism has come, but mostly this is the very personal story of one family's 40-year odyssey across two countries.
Initially there is plenty of rich comic material in Yash's dispatches. The sheer novelty of winter snow, discos and Blackpool seafronts, compared to life back home, is captured by his parents and siblings. Slowly, though, a sense of loss, frustration and guilt at being "misfits from our own home" seeps into these faded 8mm reels - children with northern English accents who have never met their grandparents; a brother missing his sister's wedding; casual racism; ailing parents fretting that they may never see their son again.
Searching questions about family and personal responsibility are thrown up, but there are few easy answers. If nothing else, it confirms just how far and fast technology and communication have come. In the 1960s, with scarcely a telephone, let alone instant e-mail, mobile or video calls to ease the pain of separation, emigration could mean virtual exile.
A year after a death back home, in 1982 the family attempt to relocate to India with problematic consequences. For this latter part of the film, Suri switches tack, interviewing her parents and sisters to talk directly and frankly about their own views on where they felt most "at home" with perhaps surprising conclusions. Finally, with her sister Vanita's decision to change her own life, there's an ironic symmetry to the cycle of growing up and finding one's own place in the world.
Suri was undeniably fortunate to have such fantastic footage at her disposal but it's how she uses it that makes her film stand out. Depictions of wider cultural integration - early scenes of her mother and father at Darlington's Women's and Camcorder Clubs respectively are spot-on, and wonderfully adept in showing the bigger picture without ever being condescending. But it's the subtle, in-depth family portrait that hits home, weaving Yash and family's Super 8 reels, their audio and her own modern-day imagery into a finale that is both beautifully apt and almost unbearably moving.
A fascinating, heartrending, beautifully compiled glimpse into one expatriate family's filmed self-portrait.

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Nearly 80 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the military to move thousands of Japanese Americans into internment camps, California plans to formally apologize for its role in their detention.
The resolution, introduced by state Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi on Jan. 28, is expected to receive broad support this week from the rest of the Assembly. While many welcomed the measure, the latest step in the United States’ long reckoning with its imprisonment of American citizens during World War II, some Japanese Americans said it was far overdue.
The resolution said the California Legislature “apologizes to all Americans of Japanese ancestry for its past actions in support of the unjust inclusion, removal, and incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and for its failure to support and defend the civil rights and civil liberties of Japanese-Americans during this period.”
The resolution also states that “given recent national events, it is all the more important to learn from the mistakes of the past and to ensure that such an assault on freedom will never again happen to any community in the United States.”
An estimated 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in internment camps during World War II after being ordered by the U.S. government to leave their jobs and homes.
They were sent to live in 10 camps in Western states and Arkansas.
The federal government justified the measures as a strategic move to defend the West Coast from spies for Japan, but for decades they have been seen as shortsighted and cruel acts of racism and paranoia.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which declared that the order to relocate Japanese Americans was sparked by “racial prejudice, wartime hysteria and a failure of political leadership.” That same year, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to give $20,000 and an apology to each of the Japanese Americans forced out of their homes.
And in 2018, the Supreme Court threw out a notorious decision from 1944 that upheld the internments. The decision, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, “was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and — to be clear — ‘has no place in law under the Constitution.’ “
The resolution by Muratsuchi, however, also condemns specific actions taken against Japanese Americans by legislators in his state.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, lawmakers in California approved a resolution that questioned the loyalty of Japanese Americans and residents who held dual citizenships. The resolution also called on the state’s personnel board to fire any state employees “who may be proved disloyal to the United States of America in this present war.”
Paul Tomita, who was about 3 when his family was forced to leave their home in Washington state and relocate to a camp in Idaho, said the resolution felt too late.
“It’s nice, OK, but it was almost 80 years ago, and most of us that were there are dead,” said Tomita, who is now 80.
“Those that were really affected — like my grandparents and parents who lost everything, their businesses, their houses, everything — they’re dead,” he said.
David Inoue, executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League, agreed the resolution was long overdue.
“We’re very grateful this is being done,” he said. “California was at the forefront of many of the discriminatory policies that led up to the incarceration.”
Inoue said the resolution felt especially relevant at a time when the Trump administration is introducing policies that target immigrants and people from Muslim-majority countries.
“It’s history repeating itself,” he said.
Tomita said the detention of Latino immigrants at the border reminded him of the prejudice Japanese Americans experienced because they looked different from white Americans.
“Did they set up concentration camps for German Americans or Italian Americans? No,” he said. “You would think we should learn from past history. Of course, we don’t. We seem to be repeating bad acts after so many years of dormancy.”
The move to apologize was unanimously approved by the Assembly’s judiciary committee Feb. 6. Because the proposal is a House Resolution, it needs to be approved only by the Assembly and does not require Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.
Muratsuchi said on Twitter that he would bring the resolution for a full vote Thursday, one day after the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates Roosevelt’s signing the internment order in 1942.
Muratsuchi said it was important to introduce the legislation now because, he said, anti-immigration sentiment has taken hold of much of the political discourse.
“Unfortunately, California led the nation in a very bad way by fanning the flames of racism and scapegoating Japanese Americans,” he said. “California now leads by example, acknowledging our own mistakes.”

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NO2 Concentration in Banepa Valley, Nepal
This study comprised of air quality monitoring during the day time at three municipalities of Banepa, Dhulikhel and Panauti(Known as Banepa Valley) in Kavre district of Nepal. The study was conducted in order to establish a baseline air quality data for those municipalities as the first time ever in the district. In each of those municipalities three air monitoring stations were established representing predominant industrial, commercial and residential areas. Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) had been estimated from air sampling programme which spanned 7 months and a total of 126 days reflecting winter, premonsoon and monsoon seasons. Low Volume Air (LVA) Sampler and Personal air sampler were used for sampling. UV spectrophotometer was used for estimation of the NO2. The study found that during winter season the concentration of NO2 was more and among the areas commercial area found to be highest level pollution. The over all mean, minimum and maximum level of NO2 was found to be 24.62μg/m3, 11.26μg/m3, 91.20μg/m3 in the Banepa valley. The seasonal trend in pollution levels show that winter > pre-monsoon > monsoon. The pollution concentration trend noted among the areas was commercial > industrial > residential on almost all the occasions. This finding conclude that, most of the time NO2 level are below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and World Health Organization (WHO) guideline representing little risk at present in Banepa Valley however commercial area of Banepa is more polluted and is associated with higher NO2 concentration compared to other areas.
Keywords: NO2, Nepal, Banepa, air quality, personal air sampler
Kathmandu University Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol.4, No.1, September 2008, pp 1-11


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As the name suggests a Collagraph print is made using a collage process. A variety of materials are glued onto a card or metal matrix to create a textured plate. Rough textured materials like sand paper or carborundum grit will hold a lot of ink and will therefore generate dense areas of tone in the print. Print tones derived from smoother materials such as kitchen foil or gesso that will not hold as much ink will be less dense and lighter.
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Author: Abigail Hing Wen
Return to Loveboat with Ever’s younger sister, Pearl, on an entirely new, romantic, whirlwind adventure from Abigail Hing Wen, New York Times bestselling author of Loveboat, Taipei.
Pearl was ready for a worldwide stage. Instead, she needs to stage a comeback.
Seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong had the summer of her dreams planned — until a fall from grace leaves her in need of new plans…and a new image.
Where better to revamp her “brand” than at Chien Tan, the Taipei summer program for elite students that rocketed her older sister, Ever, on a path to romance and self-fulfillment years ago?
But as the alumni know, Chien Tan is actually Loveboat — the extravagant world where prodigies party till dawn—and there’s more awaiting Pearl there than she could have ever imagined, like a scandalous party in the dark, a romantic entanglement with a mysterious suitor... and a summer that will change her forever.
Sweeping, glamorous, and deeply soulful, this second companion novel to the New York Times bestselling novel Loveboat, Taipei will return readers to the sparkling world of Loveboat on a thrilling journey of romance, self-discovery, and empowerment perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen.

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Gangadharan nair Pulingat..
Life Poem - Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..
I likes the life in its own beauty
Where this world seems to be much great
And the good life here I sees
And appreciate the life that here got.
I can't believe a world beyond this
But where the stories of heaven gives
The big images and exaggeration
Those which are the fantasy feels
May it be right or wrong don't matter
I am bound to lead this life in true spirit
Not negating values that to be followed
Not dejected of the world here in chaos
I knew this world beyond the images
Those tries to make hell for some time
I can imagine the world of perfect harmony
Between people, countries, and continents
Life, Life, it goes well and in goodness.
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About the Park
LaBonte Park has a variety of amenities for people of all ages. From a skate park to soccer fields, picnic shelters and community gardens, the park functions as a great place for the community to enjoy the outdoors and each other.
Renovations / Updates
- LaBonte Park features a impressive new playground structure with swings and slides for children of all ages to enjoy.
- Updated in 2021, LaBonte Park features a public skate park for all to enjoy.
- The City of Laramie has plans to start a walking path/crack sealing project to repair areas of concrete that are not up to our standards, set to be completed before May 2024.
- Located near the west playground, the City of Laramie Parks Division is in the process of installing a new restroom which, when completed, will result in the demolition of the old restroom.
- Additionally, LaBonte Park was been selected for the first playground shade system for the Laramie Parks Division. LaBonte Park was selected for our inaugural shade structure, both because of the sheer volume of children using the park and because the shade trees in this park are less mature than the shade trees in other similarly sized local parks. The shade structure allows children, families, and parks users a place to play, rest, read, picnic, and simply have a break from the sun while still enjoying the outdoors. This project was funded by the Albany County Recreation Board.
UPDATE: Due to the intense wind we experience in Laramie, this shade structure, located over the east playground of LaBonte park, is in need of replacement. The Parks Division is currently in the process of looking for a replacement.
Parts of LaBonte Park that are available for rent include shelters (1 shelter has bathroom access, 2 do not), picnic tables, and grills. To reserve your spot, please complete a Facility Reservation Application Form. Learn more about renting a shelter or park facility.


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Grindhouse will be hitting theaters early with late night screenings in 13 markets. Check out the press release below.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (April 4, 2007) â€“ Dimension Films will sneak GRINDHOUSE, from acclaimed filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, into theatres with exclusive late night engagements in 13 cities tomorrow, April 5, 2007.Â Two of the most renowned filmmakers go back to back with GRINDHOUSE, a double bill packed to the gills with guns and guts.Â The unprecedented project from the longtime collaborators (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, FOUR ROOMS, SIN CITY) presents two original, complete films as a double feature.
GRINDHOUSE exclusive late night engagements begin Tomorrow, April 5, 2007 in the following markets, and will be released nationwide by Dimension Films Friday, April 6, 2007.
Grind House â€“ noun â€“ A downtown movie theater – in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the ’30s and ’40s – known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies.
From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. GRINDHOUSE will be presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director.Â Tarantino’s film, “DEATH PROOF,” is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in PLANET TERROR.Â Welcome to the Grindhouse – it’ll tear you in two.
Starring Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Naveen Andrews, Stacy Ferguson, Elise and Electra AvellÃ¡n, Kurt Russell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Tracie Thoms, Rosario Dawson, ZoÃ« Bell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eli Roth andOmar Doom, GRINDHOUSE also showcases faux trailers from Eli Roth (CABIN FEVER, HOSTEL and the upcoming HOSTEL PART II), Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD and the upcoming HOT FUZZ) and Rob Zombie (HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES AND THE DEVIL’S REJECTS).
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The Portland Opera has announced its 2018 young artists who will join the company’s resident artist program for emerging singers.
The company’s general manager said, “This season, more than 300 extremely qualified singers from around the country and globe applied to our program. We’re thrilled to introduce our four Resident Artists to our audiences, as well as provide new training and performance opportunities for these talented and rising young artists.”
The four artists will include soprano Helen Huang, who makes her Portland Opera debut during the 2018 Big Night concert and will also perform the roles of Countess Ceprano in Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” Clorinda in Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” and Amor in Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice.” Also on the list is mezzo-soprano Kate Farrar, who returns for her second year as a Resident Artist with Portland Opera.
Tenor Thomas Cilluffo, who is currently singing the role of Tamino in Portland Opera To Go’s (POGO) adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and bass Shi Li, making his Portland Opera debut during the 2018 Big Night concert, will also join the roster.
The program will give each artist community performances, beginning with the 2018 Portland Winter Light Festival and will be followed by the Big Night concert on April 14. They will also perform solo recitals at Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium in the spring and summer of 2018.


By Ivan Saldajeno
MANILA--France clinched the last seat to the FIBA 3x3 World Cup quarterfinals with a 21-12 win over Romania in front of its raucous fans in Nantes on Wednesday (Philippine Time).
The Les Bleus started the game on a 5-0 blast and never looked back.
France, which finished its campaign in Pool B with a 3-1 record, joins Slovenia, which swept its own pool assignments, in the playoffs later Wednesday.
Romania, on the other hand, fell to fourth place at 1-3.
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The Department of Finance and Administration has asked state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office to sue Ecclesia College to reclaim at least $600,000 of kickback-tainted grants the college received from the General Improvement Fund.
"It appears that a significant portion, if not all, of these funds were procured in coordination with criminal activity that has been and is being prosecuted by the United States attorney's office," Larry Walther, director of the state's department of finance and administration, wrote to Deputy Attorney General Monty Baugh in a letter dated Sept. 7.
The governor and Walther have followed the kickback case since it began and agreed the state should seek recovery, Gov. Asa Hutchinson's office said Thursday.
"It is clear from trial proceedings that the money sent to Ecclesia College through grants over the course of 2013 and 2014 was obtained by fraud," Hutchinson said in a statement. "This is taxpayers' money, and it is essential that we pursue the recovery of it."
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette acquired a copy of the letter Thursday as the last of the four defendants in the Ecclesia kickback case was being sentenced.
"With the sentencing of Micah Neal, we now have a better understanding of what is owed in restitution from the criminal defendants in this investigation," the attorney general's office said in a statement. "Attorney General Rutledge is reviewing all of the information available and plans to take appropriate action to recover any money owed to Arkansas taxpayers."
Neal was a state representative serving with then-state Sen. Jon Woods when they steered state General Improvement Fund grants to the school in 2013 and 2014. Oren Paris III , school president at the time, then passed kickbacks to Woods and Neal through Randell G. Shelton Jr., a consultant hired as a fundraiser by the college.
Woods of Springdale received an 18-year, four-month sentence to federal prison last week for his role in the kickback scheme. Neal, who is also from Springdale and who cooperated with investigators, received three years probation in his sentencing in U.S. District Court on Thursday.
Paris received a sentence of three years in prison from the same court on Wednesday. Shelton received a six-year prison sentence last week.
The governor and the Finance Department tracked the federal criminal case as it progressed, said J.R. Davis, spokesman for Hutchinson. As sentencing approached, the governor and Walther decided all the facts about the Ecclesia case had come to light and a civil suit could begin without overlapping and possibly interfering with the criminal proceedings, Davis said Thursday afternoon.
"I don't know what the theory of a case against the college could be," said Travis Story of Fayetteville, Ecclesia's attorney.
Testimony at the trial showed neither the college's governing board nor its administration outside of Paris knew of the kickbacks, he said. Further, the grant money was spent for exactly the purposes the grants were given for, he added.
"The last grant was received in early 2015, and generally there is a three-year statute of limitations on any suit you can file," Story said. "We're past that."
The three-year limit usually applies to suits brought by individuals but not by the state, said Howard Brill, a University of Arkansas law professor and former state chief justice.
The state can claim "unjust enrichment," Brill said, which is a legal principle in Arkansas law dating back to 1940.
Proving an unjust-enrichment case has three components, said Brill, who served by appointment as Arkansas chief justice from September 2015 to December 2016. The state's suit would have to prove the college received a benefit, that there was something unjust in getting that benefit and that returning the money would be equitable. The case against the college on all three points appears strong, he said.
None of the grant money went to Paradigm, Story has said. All payments for the consulting on fundraising and planning came from another college account, he said earlier.
Federal court-ordered restitution to be collected from Woods, Paris, Neal and Shelton should compensate the state for its loss, said spokesman Charles Robbins of the U.S. attorney's office in Fayetteville. If the state launches a suit and gains compensation from the college instead, those defendants can petition to have their restitution payments reduced, he said.
U.S. Attorney Duane "Dak" Kees had said earlier in the criminal case the federal government cannot claim restitution from the college, only from the criminal defendants.
Woods and Neal not only steered $550,000 in grants to Ecclesia directly, but the two also encouraged other lawmakers to send General Improvement money to the school. Woods also received a direct kickback for a $100,000 grant he helped obtain from another lawmaker, according to court documents.
In all, Ecclesia College got $715,500 in Improvement Fund grants from 2013 to early 2015, according to federal court documents and court testimony. Woods and Neal are the only two of the 10 lawmakers who steered grants to Ecclesia who were implicated in the kickback scheme.
The improvement fund contains mainly tax money left unspent at the end of the state's two-year budget cycle. The fund also includes interest earned on state accounts. After the state Supreme Court in 2006 declared the Legislature could not direct appropriations to local-level projects, lawmakers adopted the process of dispersing such funds through regional improvement districts.
On Oct. 5, 2017, the Supreme Court also declared the district distribution process unconstitutional. Walther's letter says the grant money should be returned to the state treasury and not the development districts that administered the grants because of the ruling.
"The department is acutely aware of the unique nature of this request to claw back the GIF funds paid over by the Planning and Development District to Ecclesia and does not undertake this request lightly," the letter from Walther says.
Ecclesia spent $692,500 in state grants from 2013 through 2014 to buy land, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Western District of Arkansas. The school either bought or paid off the loans on 48.5 acres from 2013 through 2014 with the taxpayer money. Its grant applications said the land was needed to accommodate the college's growth.
Five acres of Ecclesia's land bought with state grants has since been sold for more than twice as much per acre as the college paid, Benton County land records show. It bought 25.5 acres at 4095 Arkansas 112 in November 2013 for $500,000. That averages $19,608 an acre.
The college sold 5.09 acres of the same property in August 2017 for $215,000, land records show. That averages $42,240 an acre. The college was able to sell 20 percent of the land in that tract for 43 percent of the purchase price.
The 20.4 acres Ecclesia still owns of that tract include about 640 feet of frontage along Arkansas 112 that begins about six-tenths of a mile south of the ramp to the recently opened U.S. 412 Northern Bypass, connecting Arkansas 112 to Interstate 49.
Much of Ecclesia's land is classified as tax-exempt, land records from Benton and Washington counties show. The college owns 36.3 acres in Washington County and 202.2 acres in Benton County, according to land records. Of that 238.5 acres, 214 are exempt from property taxes, land records show.
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“Material Girl” Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie divorced in 2008 and spent the next eight years battling over the custody of their son, Rocco John Ritchie.
Back in 2016 pop icon, Madonna lost custody of her then-15-year-old son Rocco to ex-husband director Guy Ritchie after an attempt at an agreement between the parties failed.
Rocco, like so many other children, became the battleground on which his parents lashed out at each other over their pain, their anger, their disappointment after their 8-year-marriage fell apart.
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The pop diva married the British directorin 2000. The couple welcomed their son Rocco in August 2000 and tied the knot in December of the same year. Madonna already had a child, Lourdes Leon, from a previous relationship.
It looked as if Madonna had finally found “The One,” after her previous marriage to Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn had ended in allegations of violence in 1989.
But in 2008, the marriage fell apart and the couple divorced. The settlement cost Madonna an alleged $90 million, and initially, Rocco lived with his mother in New York, while Guy lived in London.
Guy remarried and had three more children over the next few years, and Rocco often traveled to the UK to spend time with his father and his siblings.
Madonna’s fans quickly grew to know the teenaged Rocco, who traveled with her on her Rebel Heart Tour and performed with his mom on stage. Rocco kept up with his schoolwork on the road with a tutor.
Then, when he was 14, one of Rocco’s visits to his father in London became permanent. Rocco decided he preferred to live with his more relaxed dad, rather than with his famously strict mom and started an epic battle.
Madonna accused Guy of retaining her son in the UK against his will and filed a suit in the London Courts citing the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
Madonna tried to persuade her son to return to the US with her, but the then-15-year-old was determined to remain with his father. The only way to get her son back was through the courts.
The British Courts allowed the transfer of the case to the United States, but while Guy and Madonna were present at the New York Supreme Court hearing, Rocco chose to remain in London.
The court appointed a lawyer to represent Rocco and his interest, even though both his parents had legal representation, and under the judge’s instructions, were attempting to come to an agreement.
Rocco was physically absent from the proceedings and even refused to listen in to the hearing by telephone. The ruling judge, Justice Deborah Kaplan ordered Rocco to return to the US. She reportedly stated:
“If he wants to stay with his father, he must return to his mother.”
Rocco had referred to his mother in the past as an “old-school parent,” and had described her as “strict,” whereas his father has a more laid-back and relaxed parenting style — heaven for a teen.
Rocco also revealed that he was tired from the constant touring he and his siblings were subjected to, and wanted a more stable and tranquil home life, something he’d get living in London with his father.
Madonna lost custody of Rocco, as the Judge took into account the teen’s wishes, and he has been living with his father ever since. Nevertheless, Rocco and Madonna are still close. Recently, Rocco turned 20, and is now a young man.
Madonna now lives in Lisbon Portugal with her younger children, Mercy, David, Stelle, and Estere — a two-hour flight from London. The iconic singer’s oldest daughter Lourdes Leon is now 24, and a gifted singer who is following in mom’s footsteps.

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The adventurous journey of the Comedy, its extraordinary language laboratory, the politics lived and suffered between Florence and exile are just some of the existential and theoretical issues that four scholars (Carlo Ossola, Giacomo Marramao, Andrea Mazzucchi, Gennaro Sasso) face in these conversations on Dante with Antonio Gnoli. The result is a portrait of "a rebel" who travels far beyond the erudition in which he has too long been confined. Returned to his prophetic dimension, Dante breaks the mould of the medieval age, revolutionises scholastic thought and appears on the threshold of modernity almost as a heretic. He undermines and corrodes it, showing us the history of an Italy condemned, ever since, to be a land of conquest and factions. This is an unusual book that, seven hundred years after the poet's death, explores the nocturnal side - dreamlike and hallucinatory - of a genius as popular as he is mysterious.
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Add to any stirfry or Asian dish for a kick of flavor
Orange juice adds a touch of sweetness to this rich and full-bodied BBQ sauce
Coconut and red curry paste add an exotic flavor
A light refreshing jam
Making your own condiments is the only way to ensure its gluten-free, and mustard is the easiest one to make!
Nothing beats the fresh flavor of homemade mayo – and its easier than you think!

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The Royal Mint in the UK have produced a special commemorative David Bowie £5 coin in recognition of his contribution to British music.
The third coin in their Music Legends collection features an image of Berlin-era Bowie against the distinctive Aladdin Sane lightning bolt motif (the design is by artist Jody Clark). The Royal Mint actually recently sent one of these coins into space. It was carried by a balloon to an altitude of 35,656 metres before descending back to Britain! A first, apparently.
There are eight different editions of the coin available from the relatively cheap ‘Uncirculated Coin’ editions (£13-£15, some of which come with posters) to the – deep breath – £2425 one ounce ‘Gold Proof Coin’ edition (now sold out).
A ‘Half Ounce Silver Proof’ edition‘ at £65 is perhaps a good compromise between the ‘basic’ version and the expensive luxury of gold and is presented in a unique and attractive acrylic block (see below).
Meanwhile, aone ounce ‘Silver Proof’ coin is just under £100 and uniquely offers colour printing and is the only coin in the core range to feature edge lettering.
All the various 2020 David Bowie editions (apart from the now sold out 1oz Gold Proof coin) are available via The Royal Mint website. Queen and Elton John are the previous artists that have had commemorative coins issued.
Browse the entire David Bowie collection via The Royal Mint website or pick out some highlights below:
- Order the 2020 £5 Brilliant Uncirculated Coin Edition 2 (limited to 15,000)
- Order the Half-Ounce Silver Proof version in the acrylic block (limited to 12,500)
- Order the One Ounce Silver Proof coin in presentation box (limited to 8,000)
- Order the Quarter Ounce Gold Proof in wooden case (limited to 1,300)


David Cameron has been left humiliated after MPs defeated his attempt to give a Tory government after May more power over parliament.
RUPERT Soames received £295,167 for his final four months as Aggreko chief executive, the company's annual report has shown.
DAVID Cameron has admitted he has no desire to emulate Margaret Thatcher and declare that he wants to "go on and on" by unexpectedly ruling out serving a third term as Prime Minister.
DISCOVERING what Nigel Farage truly wants is one of the parlour games of British politics.
NIGEL Farage has been accused of peddling "dangerous, crude dog-whistle politics" after he called for the scrapping of laws banning racial discrimination in the workplace.


As a rule, fiscal incentives should support good public policy. Raising bus fares in Connecticut fails that test.
The state Department of Transportation plans to raise its CT Transit bus fares on Jan. 5, and is holding hearings around the state. If implemented, most riders will see a jump from $1.30 for a one-way ride to $1.50. Daily commuters on the longer express routes will face increases of $12 to $24 a month. (For hearing details, see: http://1.usa.gov/pX3deb).
People who use buses do everyone a favor. The state's major highways are highly congested at rush hours. Traffic congestion wastes time and fuel, adds to climate change, creates pollution that is connected to diseases such as asthma, and makes the country dependent on foreign or difficult-to-extract oil. There is a monetary value, though admittedly hard to compute, to not adding to congestion.
Hartford express commuter buses bring 3,000 people a day into the city. If they all drove, there'd be gridlock.
Yes, bus riders should pay something, and the DOT has been careful with increases since 2005, but the fare should fairly reflect the costs that bus use reduces. There ought to be an analysis of how to balance transportation costs, and there's a chance to do such a study. This past summer, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy initiated an 18-month visioning process for the state's transportation system, called the Transform CT initiative.
As part of that, there should be a deep look at the increasingly challenging question of how to pay for transportation. If bus fares must rise, there should be a proportionate increase in the costs borne by drivers and general taxpayers.


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The European Commission has approved the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) drug candidate Daklinza® (daclatasvir) in combination with other treatments across genotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4 for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) in adults—the first pan-genotypic NS5A complex inhibitor approved for use in Europe.
BMS says Daklinza plus other drugs will enable a shorter 12- or 24-week treatment duration compared to 48 weeks for interferon- and ribavirin-based regimens. Four combinations of treatments and/or regimens are recommended by BMS, depending on the genotype being targeted:
- Daklinza plus sofosbuvir for 12 weeks against Genotype 1 or 4 without cirrhosis.
- Daklinza plus sofosbuvir for 24 weeks against Genotype 1 or 4 with compensated cirrhosis.
- Daklinza plus sofosbuvir and ribavirin against Genotype 3 with compensated cirrhosis and/or treatment experienced.
- Daklinza for 24 weeks plus 24 to 48 weeks of peginterferon alfa and ribavirin against Genotype 4
The Daklinza–sofosbuvir combination, according to BMS, provided cure rates of up to 100% in clinical trials, including patients with advanced liver disease, genotype 3 and those who have previously failed treatment with protease inhibitors.
“The eradication of HCV is in sight, and with today’s approval, Daklinza, in combination with other agents, will be an important option to achieve cure across many HCV genotypes and patient types for those in the EU who are in dire need of new treatment choices,” Emmanuel Blin, BMS’ head of worldwide commercialization, said in a statement.
The EC decision came about two months after Daklinza received a positive opinion for combination use from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). Daklinza underwent the accelerated review process in Europe afforded to new medicines deemed to have major public health interest because it meets an unmet medical need.
CHMP said its decision was based on results of a pivotal trial in which Daklinza was evaluated in HCV genotype-1, -2 and -3 infected patients, in combination with sofosbuvir with or without ribavirin. Daklinza plus sofosbuvir achieved sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the end of treatment in 99% of treatment-naïve patients with HCV genotype 1, 100% of patients with genotype 1 who had failed treatment with telaprevir or boceprevir, 96% of those with genotype 2 and 89% of those with genotype 3.
The trial included a treatment arm with patients that previously failed on therapy with an NS3/4A inhibitor in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. All those patients reached a sustained virologic response. BMS said additional daclatasvir-plus-sofosbuvir trials are being conducted in high unmet need patients, such as pre- and post-transplant patients, HIV/HCV co-infected patients and patients with genotype 3 as part of the ongoing Phase III ALLY Program.
The pivotal study cited by CHMP was supported by an earlier trial of Daklinza with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in patients with genotype 4 infection, and by several phase IIb trials of Daklinza with other combinations including with pegylated interferon and ribavirin.
In the U.S., the FDA has granted priority review status for Daklinza-based treatment regimens. The FDA has set a target review date under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) of November 30, 2014.
Earlier this year, the FDA granted its Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Daklinza and Sunvepra (asunaprevir) as a combination therapy for genotype 1b HCV infection.
Last year, BMS won a similar designation for the investigational all-oral “3DAA” regimen consisting of daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and experimental drug BMS-791325, enabling the company to speed up the start of its ongoing Phase III UNITY Program. Study populations include non-cirrhotic naïve, cirrhotic naïve and previously treated patients. The 3DAA regimen is being studied as a fixed-dose-combination treatment with twice-daily dosing.
BMS hopes the Phase III results for 3DAA will be at least as strong as its Phase II results announced in 2012. 3DAA achieved sustained virologic response 12 weeks post-treatment in 15 of 16 treatment-naïve, genotype 1 chronic HCV patients in a Phase II study. The 16th achieved sustained virologic response at 24 weeks post-treatment.
In Japan, Daklinza was approved last month in combination with Sunvepra, an NS3/4A protease inhibitor, as that nation’s first all-oral, interferon- and ribavirin-free treatment regimen for patients with genotype 1 chronic HCV infection, including those with compensated cirrhosis.

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Vice President, Financial Intermediaries
As a Vice President and Institutional Portfolio Manager within the US Institutional Distribution team, Shaun is responsible for educating financial advisors, family offices, and other financial intermediaries on the strategies and services of the firm, as well as municipal market conditions. Prior to joining Fiera Capital, Shaun served as a Vice President and Account Manager in PIMCO’s San Diego office with a specialized focus on municipals and managed accounts. Prior to joining PIMCO, Shaun was an account manager in the advisory services department at Gurtin Municipal Bond Management.
Shaun holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, and a minor in business administration, from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a certificate of business economics from the McCombs School of Business. Shaun holds FINRA Series 3, 6, 7, 63, and 65 licenses.

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Tomorrow sees two events devoted to the creator of Heimat: in the morning, the Special Award of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo; in the afternoon, a masterclass with Giovanni Spagnoletti, moderated by Ilaria Ravarino
A film legend who stands out in the annals of the Venice Film Festival ever since 1984 and the premiere of the first series of Heimat, when the world discovered his remarkable talent, Edgar Reitz returns to the Lido tomorrow for a special award, a hotly anticipated masterclass, and the premiere of the restored version of Heimat 2 exactly thirty years after the film triumphed at Venice and went on to screen at Nanni Moretti’s Nuovo Sacher cinema.
Now, just about to turn ninety (on this coming November 1st), the master filmmaker, co-founder of the Ulm Film School with Alexander Kluge, will be honored with the special award instituted for the 75th anniversary of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, handed to him by its president, Father Davide Milani. The awards ceremony takes place tomorrow, September 8th, at 10:30 am at the Hotel Excelsior.
In the afternoon, Edgar Reitz will be onstage for the third masterclass arranged in collaboration with the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia together with Giornate degli Autori and Isola Edipo. For the occasion, the first two episodes of the restored Heimat 2 will have their world premiere at Venice. The talk moderated by Ilaria Ravarino with film historian Giovanni Spagnoletti will be held in Sala Laguna at 4 pm.
Right after Venice, the Heimat legend will be rekindled in Rome, in a joint initiative between Italian distributor Viggo and Rome’s Goethe Institute. Starting mid-September, at the Casa del Cinema, every weekend until the end of the year first-time audiences and Reitz fans can watch the complete version of the monumental trilogy on German history, including the extra chapter, Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision, from 2013. It’s an unprecedented marathon, one for the record books, sure to thrill fans of great auteur cinema, who finally have the chance to experience all the epic sweep of a work that chronicles all the transformations of the century just past.

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Hello, People Welcome to basedonmovies.com, you have been loving our Prison Escape Movie suggestions, today we want to recommend the prison escape with its post effects to achieve the ultimate freedom. Dive into the movie suggestion (Prison Escape-IV).
The Way Back (2010)
What is this about?
The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man’s struggle for freedom. At the down World War II, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous &: the uncertain journey to freedom, as they struggle to cross deserts, mountains, and several nations.
Why you should watch this?
- This is the film that tests the human spirit and delights us with joy and beauty at the same time.
- This is an Amazing Adventure film, you will see the beauty of nature, landscapes that we have never seen before.
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Movie Name: The Way Back (2010)
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Slavomir Rawicz & Keith Clarke
Genre: Prison Escape
Some interesting facts about the movie:
- The 53,820 Square foot Gulag Camp was built at Nu Boyana Studio in Bulgaria.
- This film is inspired by the memoir of Salvomir Rawicz his escape from a Siberia camp and a 4000-mile walk to freedom in India.
“Prison is okay. Debt is bad. But there are many prisons, they don’t find me”


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Like other rumoured couples, Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra might not have made their relationship public, but there is no denying the fact that their off-schedule meetings have give enough steam to the speculations that they are indeed dating.
The rumoured couple was once again spotted together. Actress Alia Bhatt was seen visiting Sidharth’s residence late at night and IndianExpress.com has exclusive pictures of the same.
Prior to this meeting, Alia Bhatt was busy with the launch of a song from her upcoming movie ‘Shaandaar’ co-starring Shahid Kapoor. The duo, along with director Vikas Bahl, launched the song ‘Neend Na Mujhko Aaye’ at midnight at a suburban cafe in Mumbai.
The song features Alia and Shahid as insomniacs and seems like Alia had turned insomniac in real to meet Sidharth, who has just returned after completing his shoot schedule of his movie ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ co-starring Katrina Kaif in Glasgow.
Sidharth was accompanied by another female friend as he reached his home.
Other than these meetings, there have been another instances too that telltale of their relationship. Recently, at a promotional event of ‘Shaandaar’, when Alia was constantly busy over phone, a tabloid asked her co-star Shahid Kapoor the reason for it. Shahid was then quoted as saying, “She is always busy with Sid-marketing,” signifying the presence of a certain “Sid” in her life.
However, at another event, when asked to clarify about the same, Alia said that she is single and that Sidharth will always be a friend.


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Diabetes Overview, Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Testing Diabetes awareness for managing a healthier lifestyle
Around the world, approximately 537 million adults (20–79 years) are living with diabetes. By 2045, this number is projected to rise to over 780 million. More than 1.2 million children and adolescents (0–19 years) are living with type 1 diabetes.1
Almost 1 in 2 adults living with diabetes are undiagnosed.1 Many of those who are undiagnosed may have or be at risk of prediabetes, and recent research has shown that some long-term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system, may already occur in people with prediabetes.2
As the prevalence of diabetes continues to rise, so must the effort to raise awareness. Early detection and monitoring can help minimize complications caused by chronically elevated glucose levels.
A diabetes diagnosis is made primarily by the detection of hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar. There are many tools, however, in the array of diabetes-related diagnostic tests. Diabetes-related tests are performed for various reasons on many different types of patients:
- Newly diagnosed diabetes patients: To help determine if they have type 1 or type 2 diabetes when the clinical indications are inconclusive.
- Type 2 diabetes patients: To monitor and adjust therapies.
- All diabetes patients: To test for diabetic nephropathy by measuring their urinary albumin levels.
- Postmenopausal women: Studies indicate that this group may have an increased risk for cardiac mortality if they have an elevated urinary albumin level.
- Women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome: This syndrome affects 6–10% of all women, with 50% having insulin resistance. These women are at high-risk for developing type 2 diabetes. An abnormally elevated insulin level with hyperglycemia could indicate insulin resistance.
Monitoring the Condition
Those diagnosed with diabetes are encouraged to monitor their condition on a regular basis. By measuring hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), doctors can gauge the average blood sugar levels over the last 2–3 months and thereby provide a more tailored treatment plan. HbA1c measurement can also show whether treatment plans and lifestyle choices have been effective.
Type 1 Diabetes
- Formerly called “insulin-dependent” or “juvenile-onset” diabetes.
- An autoimmune disease that causes destruction of pancreatic beta cells, which are responsible for synthesizing and secreting insulin.
- Accounts for 10 % of all diabetes patients.1
Type 2 Diabetes
- Formerly called “non-insulin-dependent” or “adult-onset” diabetes.
- Caused by insulin resistance or inadequate insulin secretion.
- Accounts for 90-95% of all diabetes cases.2
- Patients have impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose.
- Individuals have blood glucose levels higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes.
- People with pre-diabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.3
Siemens Healthineers offers a wide range of assays that aid in the differentiation of type 1 from type 2 diabetes, monitor glycemic control, monitor HbA1c levels to follow the progression of the disease, and check for diabetes-related conditions.
Siemens Healthineers also offers comprehensive point-of-care(POC) diabetes testing solutions.
November 14 is World Diabetes Day
Each November, Siemens Healthineers works to raise awareness about diabetes—a serious chronic condition, but manageable when detected early enough to begin a physician-monitored treatment plan. We are passionate about helping patients lead healthy lives and partnering with nurses and clinicians to aid them in managing their patients’ conditions.
Webinar: Diabetes—beyond HbA1c
Join Dr. Youssef Maakaroun, MD, as he discusses the various conditions associated with diabetes and how innovative assays can help optimize management of diabetes patients and route them for proper care.
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MLO: Early identification and treatment of the disease can improve health outcomes by avoiding or delaying long-term diabetic complications.
Webinar: Hemoglobin A1c measurement and standardization
The HbA1c test is used routinely to monitor glycemic control in diabetic individuals and diagnose diabetes. Dr. Randie Little, an expert in HbA1c laboratory testing discusses the importance of HbA1c testing in diagnosing diabetes, its measurement, and the standardization process.
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Infographic: Diabetes and its related conditions
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Download the infographic to learn more about how the pandemic has affected POC HbA1c testing and help raise awareness.
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1. Diabetes atlas, 2021. International Diabetes Federation. Available from (accessed August 2022):
2. Centers for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html)
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text: My motorbike to me is many things. She’s so much more than my trusty steed; she’s my home, an unbelievable icebreaker, a ‘Get out of jail’ free card and sometimes a swift little lifesaver. She is decidedly my ticket to travel, enlightenment and empowerment. Without Pearl, I’d have a gaping hole in my soul, a chunk eaten away like the hungry bite of a sandwich. It suddenly dawned on me astride the saddle – my moving world – that on English soil, my view of the planet was constantly narrowed by the media’s perception. On the road, my outlook is shaped by a world of perspectives, constantly evolving because I am continually changing where I am. Travel for me is the one thing you can buy that will make you rich.


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Jamie here to share a Halloween card with you!
I started with the Pumpkin and Pumpkin Face Stencils to create the background. Then I used the Diagonal Card Mat Die. I added the sentiment from Large Halloween Treats with pop dots and finished off the card with a few star sprinkles.
Thanks for stopping!


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Unfortunately, some computer manufacturers make some low-end models with integrated graphics which do not have either AGP or PCI-Express x16 slots.Integrated graphics are okay as long as you have the option to upgrade if you need.Personally, I wish they had been named something else because novice computer users tend to confuse PCI Express card types with regular PCI, and they are both completely different and not swappable.As stated above, users will want to stick to the same performance card for optimal use.It was a 32-bit bus clocked.33 MHz.DB13W3 An analog standard once used by Sun Microsystems, SGI and IBM.In the third quarter of 2013, AMD had.5 market share while Nvidia had.5 market share, according to Jon Peddie Research.It's a little unusual in that you don't often see motherboards which have both PCI-Express slots and an AGP slot.For proper performance of your 4 card configuration, it's recommend to use a core i7 CPU with turbo boost to avoid the bottleneck throughput.Integrated graphics with partitioned main memory : a part of the system memory is allocated to the GPU exclusively.This system allows you to plug 5 volt cards into 5 volt PCI connectors but not into.3 volt PCI connectors.Each AGP card has one or two slots in its card edge.They all mean exactly the same thing.Years ago, the move to integrated graphics on the motherboard greatly reduced the market for low end video cards.


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NBC is known for its comedy throughout the decades, especially the “Must See TV” era of the 1980’s, 1990’s, and to a lesser extent, the late 2000’s.
NBC’s latest comedy premiere Abby’s doesn’t have an outside-the-box premise but it has promise thanks to its star Natalie Morales. Morales plays Abby, who operates a bar out of her San Diego backyard illegally, which draws irritation from her landlord Bill (Nelson Franklin) due to the insurance liabilities. Frequent backyard bar patrons Fred (Neil Flynn) & Beth (Jessica Chaffin) round out the cast.
Abby’s isn’t just a multi-camera sitcom (and if you know me, these forgotten gems, when done correctly, will always have a special place in my television heart). Typical multi-cams shoot on a soundstage. Not only is Abby’s shot in front of a live studio audience, the studio audience, the set, and the show is be shot outside, to complement the setting of the show being an outside bar! Shot outdoors from the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles in the backyard of Desperate Housewives character Edie Britt, Abby’s doesn’t try to hid the fact that their outside, which adds to the allure of the series.
Abby’s premieres tonight at 9:30/8:30c in NBC.


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So, today I will be talking about fear. I think everyone has fear. We’re all afraid of what other
people will think about us. Nobody is happy if they are criticized.
For example, we’re all afraid of failing. Maybe some people are only a little bit afraid, while some people very, very afraid. But all of us have that fear.
The point is, everybody has fear and we must learn to live with our fear.
You have to accept your fear to see it and recognize it.
The first step is to accept your fear… “Yes, I have fear, and yes, I’m afraid of this.”
You have to be honest.
If you stop because of fear, your life will become boring and dead.
On the other hand, if you do continue despite the fear, you will keep going. You keep pushing yourself, challenging yourself. Then you will improve and feel alive, and you will feel lots of energy. People will notice this, and they will see that you are living your dream and trying to improve.
A lot of people work a job they hate. They go every day to this job, but they never change this because of the fear. They’re afraid to leave their comfortable zone.
Ok, some other people don’t hate their job, but they don’t love it. It’s okay, and then day after day, week after week, year after year, they have the same boring job. And they become more and more dead in their life. And, unfortunately, I see that’s probably the normal thing. I think most people do that.
Most people I meet, they’re not super excited and thrilled and feeling wonderful about their job or their career. Because they’re not living their real dream, they gave up. They quit. Don’t do
that. If you have done that, well, it’s never too late to change. You can change today! Just do it.
What do you really, want to do? Think what you can do every day despite being paid for it or not. If you really dream big, what kind of career or job or business would make you feel excited and alive every day? Try to do that.
You might need to study more. You might need to learn a lot. You might need to take a big risk. You might need to quit your the job you have right now. It might take lot of time, but start trying to do it now. Keep working at it. Do it. Don’t stop because of your fear. This is a never ending process. You never stop challenging yourself. You never stop pushing past fear. The fear will always be there.
There will always be something new, a bigger dream you want to try, and the fear is going to try to stop you, but you always have to keep going. As long as you’re alive, this will happen. It never, ever stops.
You know, when I lost my job to start my online business, I was afraid. In fact, I was terrified. I was afraid I was going to fail. I was afraid I would have no money and be homeless. But I did it anyway. And I’m very happy that I did because now I am very excited. I feel alive. I love what I do.
I love my dreams. But I’m not stopping.
Now I want to grow my business. I want to bring more people into this business and coach them.
All of these give me newer fears. Oh my god, maybe I won’t be very good at coaching. And English is not my first language. I have to stand in front of people. Oh my god, I’m afraid, right? The fears always come. But you just keep going anyway. I’m not going to be stopped by those fears. I will continue. And you must continue as well.
So dream big, leave your comfort zone and accept fear – leave your own way and on your own terms.

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Listen to the new entry "Lagos" which was recorded by the singer, BhadBoi OML.
BhadBoi OML gives the fans his new offering and well-created song titled "Lagos". The new entry was recorded and put to hearing in 2023 and is said to be one of the tracks that rise from his new offering, "Bhadriyun", an extended play of seven tracks.
BhadBoi OML released a new studio extended play "Bhadriyun" after a few single releases. The new offering was released through Dvpper Music.
Bhadriyun is a beautifully made and well-created body of work that accommodates a number of seven tracks and features no guest appearances. It is a special offering in which BhadBoi OML puts some energy into reaching his fans' satisfaction and expectations.
The song "Lagos" from the extended play appeared as the 6th and one of the special tracks you shouldn't miss from BhadBoi OML this time... Listen and download it below!!!
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API SPEC 5LD CRA Clad or Lined Steel Pipe. by admin / Wednesday, 15 November 2017 / Published in Clad Pipe. This specification covers seamless and welded clad steel line pipe and lined steel line pipe with enhanced corrosion-resistant properties suitable for use in pipeline transportation systems in the petroleum and natural gas industries.
Analysis of a failed pipe elbow in geothermal production Oct 01, 2017 · It can be seen that the elbow material is closely similar to API 5L gr B sch 40. Based on the carbon content, the elbow is made of low carbon steel. Fig. 2 demonstrates the microstructure of the failed elbow taken from a cross-section of the elbow. It can be observed that the microstructure is composed of ferrite (bright-etched phase) and
Carbon steel pipe is used for liquid, gas, and steam services both above- and belowground services. It is not recommended for use in corrosive services but may be used in caustic services. 188.8.131.52 Grades of steel used. There are many grades or strengths of carbon steel pipe and they are available in a number of wall thicknesses. We have seen that the allowable stress is used to determine what wall thickness
Carbon steel corrosion:a review of key surface properties the two major forms of corrosion are carbon dioxide (CO 2) corrosion, which is also known as sweet corrosion, and hydrogen sulphide (H 2S) corrosion, which is most commonly known as sour corrosion.4 Among these two, CO 2 corrosion brought a lot of attention to researchers since 1949 because oil wells normally contain CO 2.5,6 In this review, we discuss carbon steel as the most employ-
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Mitigation of Corrosion Problems in API 5L Steel Pipeline pipeline. This paper gives a comprehensive review of corrosion problems in API 5L steel pipeline and the ways to mitigate the corrosion problems. Proper control and prevention of corrosion in API 5L steel would ensure long life span of the pipe, uninterrupted flow of products, reduction in shutdown time and generate more revenue for the industry.
by admin / Wednesday, 29 November 2017 / Published in Clad Pipe. Corrosion resistant alloys (CRAs) are commonly used in the oil & gas industry to protect metal assets in the exploration and production, refineries, and processing plants from corrosion. A carbon steel pipe clad with CRA provides a highly economical alternative to the use of solid CRA pipe.Biofilm Formation and Corrosion on Carbon Steel API Received:April 01, 2017; Revised:October 13, 2017; Accepted:March 08, 2018 Corrosion of buried pipelines is a matter of concern to the oil and gas industry since the time when carbon steel began to be widely used in these pipelines for the transportation of fluids. The microbial


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Where Does Helen Mirren Rank Among Saturday Night Live's Oldest Hosts?
This weekend, Helen Mirren, at the age of 65, will become the ninth oldest host in the history of Saturday Night Live. And while the young and spry are terrific for a variety of reasons, let's not forget that some of the greatest moments in SNL history have come from some of its more seasoned hosts -- including one 80-year-old unknown who resulted from a write-in campaign. (Yes, this happened.)
1. Betty White (88)
What's interesting about the Betty White hosed episode was the amount of... let's say backup plans that were in place that night. Tina Fey, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler all were on hand... just in case. And with good reason: White, at the time, was 88 years old. The week spent as SNL host is an exhausting process, and no one wanted White to look bad in case fatigue set in. In the end, however, there were 13 sketches the night Betty White hosted (including the monologue and "Weekend Update") -- she appeared in every single one of them.
2. Miskel Spillman (80)
Probably the oddest hosting story in the history of Saturday Night Live. On an October 1977 episode, Lorne Michaels announced a contest titled "Anyone Can Host" on air; in November, Spillman, along with four other finalists (out of 150,000 entries), were presented on the air with an audience write-in vote determining the winner. Spillman won the write-in vote and hosted (with some help from Buck Henry) the Dec. 17, 1977, show -- you can watch some of the monologue where she
3. Ruth Gordon (80)
Gordon is best known to younger audiences for playing the latter title character in 1971's May-December cult comedy Harold and Maude. An odd choice for SNL host -- put it this way, Gordon was born in the 19th century -- Gordon nevertheless mentions in her monologue that she's up for new things! The night's most well-known sketch didn't include include Gordon, though; The opening sketch centered on John Belushi being in no condition to perform on the show that night -- at least, that is, until his doctor threatened to take his drugs away.
4. Milton Berle (70)
Ah, yes, Uncle Milty. Not only is he on the "oldest host" list, he's also very much on the "worst host" list. Berle was from a different era when it comes to live performances: Exaggerated double takes and preordained standing ovations were on the menu for Berle that evening -- precisely the opposite of the kind of show that Michaels was trying to produce. Not surprisingly, the two didn't get along. More SNL infamy ensued when Berle showed off his renowned large penis for writer Alan Zweibel in Berle's dressing room; as Zweibel told Tom Shales in Live From New York, "He parts his bathrobe and he just takes out this -- this anaconda. And he goes, 'What do you think of the boy?'"
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complex issues associated with autism, though it's possible in other
cases...just not this one.
Be sure to watch the video to see the family and their wonderful cat,
Jessi-cat. She's beautiful and very good about being on TV.

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1. Tell us a bit about your company and its leadership.
Creative Navy is a top global UX design agency. We’re a small but fiesty team of 15 people with vast experience and a background in cognitive science. We normally take on the most difficult and complex projects in high stake industries like the medical device industry and the automotive industry.
2. What is your company’s culture? What does Creative Navy stand up for?
We’re motivated by excellence because we work on digital products for industries where our contribution makes a difference. It’s about taking responsibility for the quality of our work rather than vanity. Sustained effort and a lot of trial and error are the basis of our company culture, and then there’s a layer of extensive individual autonomy, because we’re a collective of seniors who take every project very seriously.
This generates an environment that kindles curiosity and welcomes innovation, as we’re always on the lookout for the best possible solutions to some of the most wicked design problems.
3. How do you approach a client and understand their perception of the app development process for the first time?
We approach all our clients with genuine interest and the openness to understand their needs and pain points. It’s always fascinating to hear about what people want to pour their time and ambition into.
The app design and development process is one of the last things we discuss. Initially, we are most interested in what they want to make for their users, how the product can benefit people, and what business challenges are making it hard for our client to build their product. Once all these aspects have been clarified, we can start pitching development plans based on our rich previous experience. We explain every plan’s advantages and disadvantages.
Once we’ve clarified all the options and context variables, people understand where we’re coming from. The necessary precondition for this process to work flawlessly is the client’s willingness to communicate openly with us.
4. What engagement models do you offer? How should a client choose among them?
Truthfully, we’re committed to innovating, discovering new solutions, creating novel products, so there’s no template for what we deliver. We venture into the great unknown alongside our clients and give it our all.
This environment makes it very difficult to predict any aspect of a project, and in order to build a successful product we must choose the template best suited to it, not the one that we might like for other reasons. We reject the practice of designing based on mere whim and instead follow through with thorough research combined with cognitive science principles.
Our work boils down to cycles of design sprints, which help us divide a larger problem into more manageable sections. We take it one step at a time.
5. What do you think are the key factors to look into before delivering the product? How do you manage to deliver the project on time?
Because we’ve successfully delivered hundreds of projects so far, we’re realistic and agree on reasonable timeframes with our clients. We like to think of each project as if it was our own, which means that we give 100% every step of the way and we don’t fool around with estimated deadlines. It’s pointless to tell a client what they want to hear if it isn’t feasible in the slightest. There’s no room for wishful thinking if you want to do great things.
If a client wants something done in 2 months, our competitors say they can deliver in 2.5 months, and we know that we need 3 months to do a decent job, we’ll usually end up agreeing on 4 months for the project’s timeframe.
Think of it this way: when a team of engineers is building a bridge, the city which commissioned it is mostly interested in cutting project costs. The contractors make it fairly sturdy, but the engineers will make sure it’s 3 times sturdier than their most pessimistic estimation to prevent needless loss of life.
6. Are you targeting any particular technology or industry? How do you plan to prepare your workforce for an upcoming tech upgrade?
We’ve worked on projects from every industry, but we enjoy working on embedded GUI design, medical design, and B2B e-commerce design the most.
To answer your second question, we use the latest Apple hardware in order to allow our design team to constantly evolve their mastery. Other than that, we’re fairly app-agnostic. People can use whatever they want and they’re encouraged to try out new things. Our favorite apps are Figma, Slack, and Notion.
7. You have been at the helm of Creative Navy for over a decade, can you please share an interesting story, experience, or project you are proud of?
We add some of the design projects we are most proud of to the Case Studies section of our website, or write lengthy articles about them for the Creative Navy Medium page. My favorite project was the interface design we made for an outboard engine, because we had to research sailing conditions and make allowances for screens that have lower resolutions and contrast ratios than the ones we’re used to on our mobile devices.
Designing for embedded GUI is fascinating because the context of use exerts a much stronger influence on the design process. Playing a sailing game on an app is not the same as actually being on a boat at midday with the sun producing screen glare and salt water spraying on your dashboard. Our team loves challenges like that because they encourage us to evolve creatively.
8. Other than technical expertise, what traits do you believe are essential for any logistics development company to succeed in this rapidly evolving industry?
I think it’s important to be versatile and to push yourself to innovate, because even options that seem foolproof are just mere iterations. Everything can and should be improved periodically.
9. What do you think of the role of research agencies like Topdevelopers.biz in bridging the gap between clients and service providers?
It’s very important to help companies find the right clients, because different people have different business needs. Forming meaningful business relationships is a complex process that unfolds over time, and if Topdevelopers.biz can spark such connections, then it’s on the right path. Thank you so much for this opportunity!


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HAMPTON, Va. - A Hampton couple is taking action and paying it forward after six people in their community lost everything.
News 3 first told you about the two mobile homes on Friday.
According to the Hampton Fire Department, a fire inside a mobile home on Old Aberdeen Road began around 12:45 a.m. It quickly spread to the mobile home next door and damaged a two-story home behind it.
After resident Brian Imes saw how much the family and neighbor lost, he took to social media asking the community to donate whatever they could.
Hours after posting on Facebook, people across Hampton Roads were dropping of bags filled with clothes on his front step. Imes and his husband loaded them up in their Jeep and brought them to a neighbor who was storing the supplies for the family.
"When I say I loaded the Jeep up, I could not [fill it up anymore. There was no room]. I couldn't put a piece of cardboard in with my headliner; that's how cram-packed it was," Imes said.
They collected blankets, kitchen supplies, clothes and more. The family is currently in a temporary home, but donations are still being accepted.
To help the family, call 757-528-0887. Donations can be dropped off at 108 Old Aberdeen Road Lot 119.
You can also reach out to Brian Imes on Facebook.


SMART-1 Is History… Long Live LISA Pathfinder!
You have certainly heard about SMART-1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology), Europe’s first lunar probe that crashed as planned onto the Moon on September 3rd 2006 after almost 2 years orbiting our natural satellite.
The micro satellite realized by the Swedish Space Agency and with control software developed by SPACEBEL successfully accomplished its mission: demonstrate several innovative technologies (ionic propulsion, new space communication techniques, laser telecommunication). Thanks to SMART-1, the scientists could also establish a complete inventory of the key elements in the lunar surface. The data collected should enable us to better understand the formation process of the Moon and of its geological resources.
Meanwhile, the European Space Agency (ESA) is already preparing number 2 of the series of small satellites planned in order to test new space technologies destined for future scientific missions to distant planets of the Universe.
Once again, it is SPACEBEL that is conceiving and developing the on-board software of this new European SMART-2 probe named « LISA Pathfinder ».
To be launched in 2013, the small space vehicle will have to experiment innovative equipment and technologies, which will be implemented in the frame of the LISA mission. LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) aims at improving our knowledge of the Universe: it will show whether Einstein’s theory about the existence of gravitational waves in Space is correct. The LISA project will rely upon extremely sophisticated technologies that cannot be properly verified on the ground because the Earth’s gravity and environment would affect the test results.
In order to validate these revolutionary concepts and reduce any risk that the ambitious LISA mission would fail, ESA has decided to use LISA Pathfinder by way of a guinea-pig.
With the software developments for the technological showcases PROBA-1 and PROBA-2 ‘made in Belgium’ as well as for the first European lunar probe SMART-1 the « LISA Pathfinder » conctract acknowledges SPACEBEL’s know-how in the field of micro satellites.
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"The Formula № 5 was inspired by old tweed amps, most notably the 5E3 circuit. The character of the 5E3 is very unique. It has very minimal power filtering, low plate voltages, elemental tone stack, and does next to nothing to control the low end between gain stages, not to mention the under-rated output transformer and speaker. The entire system runs inefficiently resulting in a loose bass, greasy mids, cutting treble, and incredible grit – none of these qualities were ideal or intentional back in the day. In spite of this, over the past five decades the amp inspired some of the coolest, most sought after guitar tones ever recorded."
Here's a demo video of the Catalinbread Formula No 5:
Here's the schematic provided by Coldcraft after a unit was traced over on freestompboxes:
As you can see it's a combination of two cascaded "mu" booster stages with a tone/gain section in the middle - much like the Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret. It sounds great and that mis-biased first booster stage creates some great asymetrical clipping harmonics. I'd build/buy this pedal - it rocks.
Here's a vero layout by Roseblood11:
Here's the freestompboxes.org topic for reference: http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9373


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Barry first found music when he borrowed his sister's record collection when he was about eight and was hooked. When Caroline started it was a new beginning, and he listened to all the stations, but Caroline was his favourite by far. Later he became a singer in a band, then started doing discos when he was 18. He joined Caroline in 1977, touring the country with the Caroline Roadshow for 10 years, having great fun. Barry helped with tender trips and worked on the Ross Revenge in '84 and '85. ...
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The project involves organising and running a music gig at Arden Road Social Club. The music will take the form of 2 genres, Eastern and Western and the head line act will be a fusion of the two. The venue is within easy walking distance from anywhere in Park Ward and is perfect for the activity. The audience will reflect the ethnic diversity of Park Ward and the theme of the project will be centred on social cohesion; bringing different communities together through music. The gigs will cost very little to attend and audiences will be targeted according to their cultural backgrounds. Food that also reflects cultural heritage will be available at the gig giving the audiences a chance to mingle, meet people of different backgrounds, experience aspects of different cultures and chat.
Music is a medium that almost everyone enjoys It does not take into account political or cultural differences. It is the perfect starting point for discovering common ground and can bring people together in a way that no other activity can. There are definite issues around different cultures not mixing within Park Ward, events that bring people together are the only way in which these issues can be resolved.
Based on its success this could become a quarterly event where people in Park Ward get together and have a good time alongside those from a different ethnic background resulting in a breakdown of the tendency for communities to become insular and hold negative views of people who are ‘different.’


The Los Angeles Lakers sport one of the most talented watch lists in the NBA. But if you look at it now they are without two of their key players. The unavailability of Avery Bradley and Rajon Rondo’s unexpected injury has put the Lakers in a tricky position. As coach Vogel would look to fill in these places, a former teammate of LeBron James has raised his hand to enter the job.
When LeBron James joined the Miami Heat in 2010, he was the team’s new face. “The Heatles,” As they were known, formed the core of the team that went on to win back-to-back championships.
Mario Chalmers was a member of the Miami Heat 2008-1
Chalmers wants to reunite with LeBron James
Since the Lakers face injury all of a sudden, they have to deal with the players they have on the playing field. Team rotation will be a huge key now, as they are without primary players Rajon Rondo and Avery Bradley.
A page with the name Top Ball Coverage, brilliantly captured Chalmers’ latest comment on B / R’s post. The post was posted on Twitter, where you can see Bleacher Report provides an update that Rondo will need to undergo surgery on his cracked thumb.
Chalmers quickly expressed his interest in the vacancy and wrote, “It sounds like @lakers needs another page … ..wait patiently and work.”
– Top Ball Coverage (@TopBallCoverage) July 13, 2020
The 34-year-old had played for Greece’s AEK Athens and even won the Greek Cup this year. But he is now a free agent. Chalmers, a two-time NBA champion momentarily wants to reunite with LeBron James by joining the Lakers.
Although the move is virtually impossible to happen, Chalmers just made fun because the Lakers have just lost point guard Rajon Rondo to injury. The NBA transaction window ended June 30, which means that the law cannot sign any substitutes.
The Lakers need to find a rotation pattern to replace Bradley and Rondo as they have acquired the services of Dion Waiters and JR Smith, who can serve as effective substitutes. These two would be crucial in helping the Lakers secure a shot at the title this season.