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MEHS helps more than 1,000 animals this year
EDWARDSVILLE — The Metro East Humane Society (MEHS) has helped more than 1,000 animals so far this year.
A total of 525 animals have found their forever homes through adoptions, 200 cats have been served through the TNR (trap-neuter-return) program, and 366 dogs and cats have been served through low-cost public surgeries.
“MEHS is thrilled that, even amidst COVID-19 and the changes we’ve had to make, we have been able to help over 1,000 animals so far this year.” MEHS Executive Director Anne Schmidt said. “This week MEHS reopened to the public by appointment, and we are excited to find our new normal and help even more animals in the Metro East.”
To celebrate the milestone, MEHS will be hosting a drive-thru vaccine and microchip clinic from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday at 510 W. Monroe Street in Highland.
To ensure the safety of the public and staff, a face mask or covering is required at the drive-thru clinic. Owners and pets must remain in their vehicles unless instructed otherwise.
If you have any questions, email email@example.com or call 618-656-4405. To learn more about Metro East Humane Society and the programs and services offered, visit https://www.mehs.org/
MEHS provides adoption, foster, low cost veterinary services, humane education, and trap-neuter-return services to a five-county area in southwestern Illinois. Throughout its 30-year history, MEHS has placed thousands of dogs and cats with forever families, including more than 525 dogs and cats so far this year. To learn more about MEHS and its mission, please visit: www.mehs.org.
Drive-thru clinic pricing
Madison County registration fee:
$10 for spayed/neutered
$30 for non-altered

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Match day 8 of the world cup 2014 saw the teams in Group C take on each other with the much awaited showdown between England and Uruguay, in Group D (the group of death), taking centre stage.
Colombia faced Ivory Coast in a match that would all but assure the winner a place in the knockout rounds. It was the Colombians who had the better of the first half chance with the Ivory Coast struggling to get their strikers into the game. Colombiaâ€™s Gutierrez had a chance to put his team in the lead but could only hit his shot wide. The teams thus went into the break at nil nil.
Yaya Toure could have scored from a free kick at the start of the second half but could only send his shot wide off the mark.
The match burst into life in the final 30 minutes with James Rodriguez scoring from Juan Cuardrado corner in the 64th minute. Juan Quintero doubled the lead six minutes later. However, Ivory Coast was back in the game in the 74th minute when Gervinho burst into the box to power an effort into the back of the net.
The Ivorians pushed for a leveler but it didnâ€™t come and Colombia won the game and would progress to the next round if Greece failed to beat Japan in the other group match.
The second match of the day was the highly anticipated clash between England and Uruguay with both teams needing nothing short of a win to stay in contention for a place in the next round. The loser of the game would be knocked out of the tournament.
The pre-match talk leading to the game was all about Englandâ€™s Wayne Rooney and Uruguayâ€™s Luis Suarez. Rooney had failed to score in the world cup and the pressure was on him to deliver and live up to his billing as Englandâ€™s savior. On the other hand, Suarez had issues with his fitness having had knee surgery less than 4 weeks before.
Uruguays coach made five changes from the team that lost to Costa Rica with Suarez the surprise inclusion. The first half hour was end to end with neither of the teams taking their chances and scoring the all important first goal. England should have taken the lead but Rooneyâ€™s header hit the bar in the 31st minute. This proved costly as Uruguay took the lead a few minutes later.
Edison Cavani produced an inch-perfect cross from the left that beat Englandâ€™s Jagielka with Suarez taking the chance afforded to him to nod the ball past Joe Hart.
The teams went into the break with Uruguay in the lead.
Cavani had a chance to double Uruguayâ€™s lead but shot wide when one on one with Englandâ€™s Joe Hart. It was England who would score the gameâ€™s second goal with Rooney finally opening his world cup account. Johnson cut in from the right and crossed the ball to Rooney who made no mistake in hitting the back of the net.
Englandâ€™s celebrations were short live as Suarez pounced on Gerrardâ€™s unintentional flick-on to slam the winning goal past Hart.
Despite the loss England still have a mathematical chance of making it with the groupâ€™s fate hanging on the match between Italy and Costa Rica.
The last match of the night had Group Câ€™s Japan and Greece face off against each other. The pre-match talk was about Manchester Unitedâ€™s Shinji Kagawa missing out of the first eleven with the Greeceâ€™s coach sticking with the team that lost to Colombia.
Both teams needed a win and Japan got the numerical advantage in the first half after Greeceâ€™s captain was sent off in the 38th minute. The Greeks held on and the teams went into the break at nil nil.
The second half was all about the Greekâ€™s resilience in defense with the Japanese failing to make use of their advantage to share the point with Greece after the final whistle.
This means that Colombia make it to the next round with the rest of the Group C teams needing a win in their final group matches to have any chance of progressing.

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Steps taken to improve Quiksilver Inc.’s long-term business profile, including the closure of weaker stores, resulted in a wider loss in the first quarter.
In the three months ended Jan. 31, the Huntington Beach, Calif.-based owner of the Quiksilver, Roxy and DC brands saw net losses grow to $31.1 million, or 19 cents a diluted share, from losses of $22.6 million, or 14 cents, in the first quarter of 2012. Its operating loss more than tripled to $8.7 million from $2.5 million.
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Financial Decentralization, Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and Rural Development in India
There are many countries of the world which have a federal form of government. Developed countries like, USA, Canada, Australia and Switzerland and developing countries like India, Pakistan, Malaya, Nigeria and West Indies have also adopted some forms of federalism suited to their own requirement. In a federal form of government system there is a Union government for the whole country, and different governments for each part of region of the country. The distribution of powers, functions and finances between Union or Central government and the state or regional governments differ from country to country. The principle on which the distribution of power is made is that those matters which have importance for the country as a whole are entrusted to the communications, etc. and those matters which are considered to be of local significance, are assigned to the units, e.g. education, public health, agriculture, etc.


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I began by taking up tiles and as they had been laid like bricks they made a pattern I noticed.
Took up tiles to form a wide rectangle. This was not on the original plan, but worked better than the diamond shape. Made an urn feature and glass beads. Planted two miniature roses, lavender, geranium and lemon verbena.
Started to take up tiles for second bed. Decided to make pathways two tile widths. Forgot about plan!
I completed the second bed. It was a smaller one and I put two halves of a broken pot into it and planted a thyme bush between them.
To the left of the thyme, I decided to make a long thin bed. Into this went geranium, parsley and sage.
I then brought two ornaments down from the front garden. I put the little boy figurine in the large bed and placed the goose girl on a weathered pot in the right hand corner. So far so good.
Today in the drizzle I put in the fourth herb bed in front of the feature bed I did first of all. I transplanted Oregano from the potager garden and added Italian Parsley, an Emerald Thyme and Pot Marjoram which I had bought this afternoon. I put a wooden half barrel at the back of the garden and filled it with Pansies and Lobelia.
So ends day three. Another day and I should be finished.
I had a few days off due to stormy weather and had a little clearing up to do before putting in the fifth and final bed in the top left hand corner of the garden. I left no path young this bed and planted a Rosemary in the corner with a lavender transplanted from the main garden.
I decided to move the goose girl figuring into the corner of the bed and moved the tub of pansies where it had been. Then I placed a chair in the middle.
I found a patterned pot in the back garden and planted yellow Iceland poppies in it. It will give some colour when all the herbs stop flowering for the winter.
I plan to do some wall art on canvas using elements such as Tudor Roses from my family coat of arms.
In the meantime I am happy with my new Herb Garden.

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Airbus has attacked the high proportion of composites used in Boeing’s 7E7 Dreamliner, branding the aircraft’s development ‘rushed’ and ‘ridiculous’.
The 7E7 will contain double the amount of composites used in the Airbus A380 – including most of the fuselage and wings. But Airbus claims Boeing has rushed through the technology before it is sufficiently matured.
Colin Stuart, Airbus vice-president of marketing, said composites should be introduced with caution in aircraft design. ‘If you start to look at the various loads on composites [in an all-composite fuselage], it is absolutely the wrong thing to do.’
Current composite material is unsuitable for many areas of the fuselage claimed Alain Garcia, executive vice-president of engineering. ‘It’s perfect for tension and fatigue, but poor for compression.’
Airbus has stepped up the war of words with Boeing after the US company criticised weight increases in the A380. Airbus claims the 7E7 will be heavier than Boeing has admitted. ‘The 7E7 carries the weight penalty of a compromised and rushed design,’ the company said.
Dr JÃ¼rgen Klenner, Airbus senior vice-president of structure engineering, said today’s carbon fibre is often no more than ‘black aluminium’ â€” with the same attributes as traditional materials â€” offering few benefits for the extra cost. Carbon fibre does have weight advantages, but according to Klenner the cost of the raw material is up to 500 per cent higher. ‘We do not apply a material because it is trendy, we do it when we are convinced it is mature enough. There are crucial questions that have not yet been answered,’ he said.
There are concerns that composites present a higher fire risk, delaminate in humid conditions, and are more expensive to repair. Prof Phil Irving, civil aviation authority expert in damage tolerance at Cranfield University, said engineers should dripfeed composites into aircraft design to avoid ‘unexpected failures. ‘There is always a risk when introducing something new on to an aircraft, no matter how many tests. There’s always something we haven’t realised.’
Bird strike, stones or taxiing accidents would greatly reduce the compressive strength of composites such as carbon fibre. ‘You can avoid the problem by making it thicker, but that has economic implications. It’s rather difficult to see how you can have a whole fuselage made of composites.’
Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard claimed the 7E7 would have identical technology to the A380. ‘This is why Boeing has strongly discounted it to sell it,’ he said. Airbus accused Boeing of tinkering with the 7E7’s supposedly advanced technology during its development, saying the final product will be more conventional and heavier than originally claimed.
Stuart said: ‘They have rushed this aircraft through in a ridiculous way.’But Boeing denies this, pointing out that the aircraft was developed in parallel to, rather than after, the company’s now-cancelled project, the Sonic Cruiser.
A Boeing spokesman said: ‘We’ve put a great amount of work into composites, drawing on the work we’ve already done on the 777 and a whole variety of military aircraft. The 7E7 is a bold move, but if you look at the efficiency and environmental advantages it’s a move in the right direction.’
The 7E7 will contain 50 per cent of its weight in composites, making it lighter and more fuel-efficient, Boeing claims. The A380 structure contains under 25 per cent composites, while Airbus chose not to use the carbon fibre wing planned for its future military aircraft.
Boeing announced this week it expects up to 200 orders for the 7E7 in 2004. Only Japan’s All Nippon Airways and Air New Zealand have placed orders, compared with 129 orders to date for the A380.
Airbus’s approach for the A380 is in sharp contrast to Boeing’s claims for the smaller Dreamliner. Airbus is focused on shipping up to 550 people between megahub airports, while Boeing believes flying faster and lighter point-to-point is the future of air travel.


Students in Michigan could receive free college tuition in exchange for a fixed percentage of their future income under a new proposal under consideration by lawmakers.
More than 20 states are studying similar proposals, reported the Detroit Free Press, but the Michigan bill would set up a pilot program.
Under the measure, students would agree to pay a fixed percentage of their post-college income for a specified number of years into a special fund to help pay tuition for other students.
The measure calls for a rate of 2 percent for community college students and 4 percent for university students, and each would be required to pay into the fund for five years for each year they attend school under the program.
So, for example, a student who attended the University of Michigan for four years would be asked to pay 4 percent of her income back for 20 years after graduation.
That would work out to $100 a month for graduates who earned $30,000 a year.
“The goal is to remove every financial barrier to high education,” said state Rep. David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights). “We’ve increasingly place the financial burden of college on the backs of the students. This is a no-interest plan that allows you to pay back as you go and as you can afford it. It takes the monkey off the student’s back.”
The Michigan bill would establish a $2 million fund for a pilot program that involved 200 students, and the state’s treasury department would track the money and verify income.
The interest rates on federal student loans currently range from 3.86 percent for newer loans to 6.8 percent on older loans.
Susan Dynarksi, a University of Michigan professor and expert on higher education finances, said spreading payments out over 20 to 25 years and linking them to income “ensures borrowers against hard times.”
But, she said, borrowers who expect to earn high salaries after college have a disincentive to participate.
“If the future starving artists flood into pay it forward and the future engineers shun it, the program will spiral into insolvency,” she said.
But Dynarski said this flaw could be easily fixed by denominating the debt in dollars, instead of years, so borrowers could stop paying into the system once they’ve paid back their loans.
The measure has not yet been scheduled for a legislative hearing.
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A hero is only as good as their villain — and in The Dark Tower, the villain is all bad.
Walter/The Man in Black (played by Matthew McConaughey in the new film) has become a mainstay not just of Stephen King’s fantasy series of novels, but throughout many of King’s works. He’s a mysterious force of evil, and he’s quite unlike many of the villains that are en vogue in today’s films (in that he’s got no redeeming qualities).
“A lot of these kind of films lately, are pretty great,” director Nikolaj Arcel tells Heat Vision. “A lot of the villains have real, clear motivations or personal dramas.”
Look no further than Michael Keaton’s The Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which the director recently watched (“Michael Keaton’s character is great. He has a real reason,” says Arcel).
But that’s not what Arcel wanted for his movie — and neither did McConaughey, who faces off against Idris Elba’s Roland, The Last Gunslinger.
“What was fun for us was Walter is — and always will be in all the Stephen king movies — just plain effing evil. There’s no excuse. He’s not trying to say, ‘well I was mistreated as a child.’ None of that,” he says.
That’s what McConaughey picked up on immediately, prompting him to call Acel after reading the script.
“He said, ‘I guess he’s kind of like the devil.’ I said, ‘Yes, he is.’ He said, ‘OK, I’m in,'” recalls Arcel. “He loved there’s no excuse for his badness. He is pure evil. He wants chaos. That is something he grabbed onto and felt was fun.”
The Dark Tower opens Friday.
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The FT has launched an Austerity Audit today. The first part of the summary of its findings is stark:
Cuts to welfare payments will hit the local economies of northern towns and cities as much as five times as hard as the Conservative heartland southern counties, according to research commissioned by the Financial Times into the impact of austerity.
The government's radical reform programme, aimed at reducing one of the largest fiscal deficits among OECD nations by moving people off the benefit rolls and into work, is taking £19bn a year out of working-age social security between now and 2015.
The Tories say the welfare cuts will spur the private sector to greater dynamism on the back of an expanded labour force. Three years after the policy was unveiled, the CBI employers' organisation continues to endorse it while cautioning of the risks for hard-pressed families.
But as the government considers further deep welfare cuts in the June spending round, the FT's research underlines the potential risks to economic regeneration and private sector business prospects in poorer areas where the local population faces the loss of a large slice of purchasing power.
The findings of the FT's investigation – the first to examine the local economic and business consequences of the reforms – suggest any impact will be most acute in areas outside Tory strongholds.
In summary, this is an unbalanced attack on the poor that will cause considerable harm, increase inequality and fail to achieve any recognised economic objective.
To put it another way, this is class warfare by the rich on the poor.
The Tories like to talk of the politics of envy, although they do not know what they're talking about. But in fairness, and objectively, we can say they purse the politics of hatred. And that really worries me.


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Understandable have a nice day
"Wake the fuck up samurai, we have a degenerate game to burn"
I played it once, i joined this game that had gears like giant penises and vaginas/boobs
Me and the people in that server had a cocksaber fight
We are still friends till this day
You have a link for the game? I must research what the hell I just saw.
Surprisingly i think i favourited it (because i made my best friends there) but ill have to dig deep in my favourites tab
Alright, thanks. I'll be waiting.
Am also waiting, this game sounds interesting…..must research.
I too need a link.
Send link to report
Why are you getting downvoted? It's obvious that the first thing we should do is report the game. It's literally an inappropriate game on a kids' game.
it actually sucks
Ya that's not cool
you are entering satan's spawner zone, beware for that and i hope you stay away from that
Ninjafreakyman was in fact freaky
tutorial on how to avoid rape:
What the fuck??? How does this sex game survive fr a moderator?
Have you seen the moderation system? Those people let litterally everything on roblox
Except for a pixelated warning sign and a wing that my friend made
I found a game recreating the Christchurch shooting, down to the exact guns used and the real gunshot noises.
Link for research purposes?
also, how the hell did they get the actual gunshot noises added in
Thanks for the sauce
Best part is it’s a 10 year old game
who the fucking in shit is shitty crazy amy
The same way a Mime and Dash game has not succumbed to moderation
W T F
what the fuck
I was just playing super place roulette, its fun cuz i got some gears and some games allow em :D
That's disgusting! Send me link
how did this game stay up for 10 years what the hell
I feel so sorry for the other guy, he just watching... he either questioning his life, or wanting todo it.. it probably the first option
This was made no later than 2014
Nooo john wick would never get pegged im shaking and crying rn
***"Every day we stray further from god"***
I thought, “what’s this person gonna find, an ‘Amy’ model or a condo game?”
Turns out it was an Amy model
This can go either 2 ways, either the person that enters here is a degenerate and would happily beat their meat to this, or you are a chad and leave the game
I played the game, instantly reset and the npc went flying (secret ultrathad ending) (destroy women)
Kills wemen in a cool way (chads hate wemen)
Ron would be proud of you
Indeed( in a cool way)
sigma grindset 226
dies to get rid of w*men. real ultrachad.
He ain't wrong
roblox moderation be like
the fact that you had to go along with it too dude
Dude I don't think you survived
It just goes on and on and on. That's the worst part.
the cringe part about this is that this game is like, very ancient, so damn ancient that it become a secret to roblox moderation
Link to the game?
Asking for a friend.
I checked and its content deleted, as it should be
the "survive if you can" part is true
I love how the other dude spawned late so he doesn’t have to deal with her, unless it’s a local he prob might be dealing with it lol
Holy shit is this game supposed to be used for finding underrated games?
No. It finds random games with little players.
This started condos. Amy was the beginning of the end.
Oh my god that’s disgusting, where?
Was there even an end to this?
She goes to the end of the plataform and you both fall into the void
its a **\[redacted-ly\]** painful death
the building in the place is just a simple maze btw
The fuck did i just witness
i want to stab my eyes jesus christ
This new Cyberpunk DLC looks dope
This made me put my phone down and cry
"Wake up mommy, I just got someone pregnant."
he did not survive
wait i thought that ai died long ago
How did that got through?
John wick is sus 😳😳😳
What the goddamn fuck
oh jesus fuck those amy models are mental whiplash
atleast the game entertained me compared to a modern simulator game
Rape rp pog
Bruh, get my silver for surviving that
What's your username? I need that avatar
Mmm yes, powering imagination
"In this very moment, Johnny Silverhand regretted leaving the chip"
Oh no its, Amy
not the amy model
Isn’t this a really old bot? How did it survive this long?
Isn’t this a very much fusty bot? how didst t survive this long?
^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.)
Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`
first game link?
than play russian roulette
Can i have game link pls, for research

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Welcome, guideoui.com visitors. In this guide, We try to focus on Cooking Simulator How to Clean Up the Kitchen. While writing this guide, we pick up many pieces of information from several sites for you. We hope that this guide will help you.
Cooking Simulator game guide focuses on how to clean up the kitchen guide. This guide will give you some tips, tricks, and advice on clean up the kitchen. While writing this instruction, we pick up many pieces of information from several sites for you. We hope that this guide will help you.
- How to Repair Stoves and Stuff Guide
- How to Clean Cutting Board
- How to View Recipes During Cooking
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How to Clean Up the Kitchen Guide
Before the guide, there is a general guide on kitchen. You can read by click here
You can use a sponge or mop to clean the kitchen.
You can throw broken glass into the trash bin.
Additionally, there is a perk called ‘Fairy Touch’ that allows you to clean the whole kitchen instantly.
And, some equipment breaks down (they might start looking rusty and dirty) after some time so you need to use the phone on them to call the repairman.
There is no health inspector in the game but who wants to cook in a dirty kitchen 😉
This is the ending of Cooking Simulator How to Clean Up the Kitchen guide. I hope it will help you. If there is wrong or you have suggestions, please let’s know and comment us. Have fun.


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Joint health is crucial for performance horses competing at high levels. The intense training and competition schedule puts a lot of stress on their joints. One supplement that can help maintain joint health is pentosan. Pentosan is gaining popularity among horse owners and trainers for its ability to support joint fluid production and cartilage matrix synthesis. In this blog post, we’ll look at the benefits of pentosan for equine athletes and how to supplement it effectively.
What is Pentosan?
Pentosan is a polysaccharide made up of xylose sugar molecules. It is derived from beechwood shavings through a manufacturing process. Pentosan functions as a viscosupplementation agent that enhances synovial fluid levels in joints. It also has anti-inflammatory properties that help reduce swelling and irritation. By supplementing pentosan, you can support healthy cartilage matrix regeneration and joint lubrication. This is key for minimizing joint stress and friction in hard-working performance horses.
Benefits of Pentosan for Performance Horses:
Increases synovial fluid levels to improve shock absorption and lubrication
Stimulates cartilage matrix synthesis to enhance repair and regeneration
Reduces inflammation and irritation in joints
Provides viscosity and elasticity to protect joints during exercise
Slows progression of degenerative joint diseases like osteoarthritis
Research shows that pentosan can improve flexibility, range of motion, and joint swelling in equine athletes. It may also help minimize pain and discomfort associated with rigorous training and competition.
How to Supplement with Pentosan:
Pentosan is available in injectable formulas.
For performance horses, most veterinarians recommend injectable pentosan. Injections deliver a concentrated dosage directly to the affected joints. After an initial loading dose series, injections can be administered every 6-12 months.
Work closely with your vet to determine the best pentosan protocol for your individual horse’s needs. Proper dosage and administration frequency will ensure the benefits without oversupplementation.
Pentosan is an invaluable tool for keeping equine athletes comfortable and sound throughout their careers. By supporting fluid retention, cartilage matrix health, and joint integrity, it can help reduce the risk of career-ending lameness issues. Talk to your veterinarian today about incorporating pentosan into your performance horse’s management plan.
Conclusion: Pentosan is growing in popularity for its ability to support joint health and comfort in equine athletes. Its benefits include boosting synovial fluid, reducing inflammation, and protecting cartilage. By supplementing pentosan properly, you can help minimize joint stress and degeneration in your hard-working competition horses. Work with your vet to develop the right protocol. With pentosan’s help, you can keep your horses performing at their peak.
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Where can I play with my dog off-leash?
Dogs are to be walked ON LEASH on all public properties, sidewalks and parks EXCEPT in designated dog park areas.
Essex County's Brookdale Park has a dog park where your dog may play off-leash. Dogs must remain on leash when not within the confines of the fenced in dog park area. Please respect the size requirements of the dog park areas, do not bring large dogs into the small dog area and do not bring small dogs into the large dog area. This is for your pet's protection. No matter how "friendly" your dog may be with dogs of different sizes, a small dog in the large dog area might trigger the prey drive of a larger dog in that area, which could result in injury to one, both or more dogs present.
County reservations are NOT off-leash areas for ANY dogs. Complaints should be directed to Essex County Sheriff Officers at 973-621-4111, as violations of off leash rules within county parks is handled by the Essex County Sheriff Department.
Rules for dogs within Essex County parks/reservations can be found here:
Essex County Dog Park (Brookdale) rules can be found here:
Montclair Dog Ordinances Overview:
No person owning or having the control, custody or possession of a dog shall permit or suffer such dog to run at large or to go or be upon the public streets, sidewalks or other public places within the Township unless said dog shall be on a leash and in the custody of some person or persons capable of controlling such dog.
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized or empowered to perform any duty under this article.
No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog shall permit, cause or suffer such dog to soil, defile or defecate on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, street, passageway, bypath, play area, park or any place where people congregate or walk, or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of said property. The foregoing restriction shall not apply to that portion of the street lying between the curblines, or the sides of the street bed if there are no curblines, provided that:
The person with and in charge of such dog shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such dog by any sanitary means approved by the Township Health Department.
The feces removed from the aforementioned designated area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of such dog in a sanitary manner approved by the Township Health Department.
Any person who violates or fails or refuses to comply with § 82-2, 82-6, 82-8, 82-9, 82-10, 82-12 or 82-17 or with the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Department of Health governing the sanitary conduct and operation of kennels or pet shops, to preserve sanitation therein and to prevent the spread of rabies and other diseases of dogs within and from such establishments, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $50 for each offense, to be recovered by and in the name of the Director of Health of the State of New Jersey or by and in the name of the Township, as the case may be, except that for the first offense in case of violations of §§ 82-2, 82-6 and 82-8, the penalty shall not be less than $1 nor more than $50, to be recovered in the same manner. A person who refuses or neglects to pay forthwith the amount of a judgment rendered against him or her and the costs and charges incident thereto may be committed by the Judge to the county jail for a period not exceeding 10 days in the case of the first conviction, and in the case of a second, subsequent or continuing violation, for a term not exceeding 30 days.
Any person who violates any provision of § 82-13 or 82-18 shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment in the county/municipal jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof as determined by the Municipal Court Judge. Each day on which a violation of an ordinance exists shall be considered a separate and distinct violation and shall be subject to imposition of a separate penalty for each day of the violation as the Municipal Court Judge may determine.
Full Montclair Dog Ordinances can be found here: https://ecode360.com/7185501


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Two "Enemy of God" Hanged in Southern City of Ahvaz
SMCCDI (Information Service):
Two young men qualified as "Enemy of God" were hanged in the central square of the southern City of Ahvaz located in the oil rich province of Khoozestan.
These executions were made, today, in the central square of the city.
Official sources have revealed the first names of these two new victims, of the Islamic regime, as "Naeem-Abdollah" and "Jalil".
The qualification known as "Enemy of God" is used, by the Islamic Judiciary, against the armed opponents of the regime.

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CEO Peter Adams said customers, who send in e-mail commentary about a firm’s products and/or services, can be targeted because of data organized by the program. Adams said the program uses information selected from customer e-mails to send personalized e-mail messages and place highly targeted Internet ads. He added that the system was also effective in improving online and offline CRM programs.
Information gathered from the program is stored by Primary Knowledge. The data is then analyzed and made available — in reports and lists — to the client. Price of the system was not disclosed.

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Memories of a land fragmented,
like the soil might be fragile
or full of sunlight seeping through her leaves.
I am from the land where soil, the earth is not called "dirt".
Where it is called Mother Earth, Mother Breadwinner.
It is loved, it is respected. It is known as the origin of our food.
Mighty, powerful, life-giving.

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Among over 4400 cover images that he has posted so far in just 2 years, comprised mainly of Italian releases, we've yet to see anything that isn't of high quality. For instance, the unique Italian cover for Dark Colony, a clean Dune II cover set, a rare retail cover of the Total Annihilation: Commander Pack, and, something which we'd been missing for a long time, a full cover set from the original prints of Shogun: Total War - Warlord Edition.
We'd like to thank him for his contributions so far, and encourage him to keep it up!
We currently have 2472 arcade games catalogued on the site; we need your help get to 2800! We're missing a lot of early arcade games, and there's quite a few gaps in the 80s and 90s we need to fill in. And don't forget, a lot of the games we have on other platforms were originally Arcade games, so if you know of any classic game that's missing that platform, feel free to add it too!
They've been adding a lots of rare Chinese PC game box scans, with highlights including Anachronox and Civilization II, to name just a couple. Much appreciated, and long may this continue!
Congrats to everyone who helped us get there - and with a good deal of accuracy and checking along the way! (Also, in the comments for this post, maybe people can point out other neat user milestones achieved recently!)
With the help of our wonderful contributors, we have meticulously documented almost 200,000 games from 266 platforms. Including 793,123 developers, 33,015 companies, 850,321 screenshots, 524,875 pieces of cover art and much more! And did you know we now have an API (in beta) that you can access for free?
Many, many thanks to all of our contributors and approvers! Without their tireless efforts, our database would be quite lonely. Also special thanks to Simon Carless (who helps me, Reed, run the site in-between our day jobs), Brian Hirt for helping with infrastructure emergencies and the intricacies of the codebase, and Tracy who helps with updates and built the API. And of course thanks to Jim Leonard and Brian Hirt who started this amazing project way back in 1999! Check out Jim’s excellent in-depth retrospective.
What next?! We’re just beginning! We’ll always be documenting and growing the database. However, the MobyGames platform needs a lot of work and improvements. As you might imagine, things are getting a bit old in the tooth! Combined with the overall complexity of the site it makes for a daunting task with no full-time staff.
We want to improve the platform and ensure we’re around another 20 years! If you find MobyGames useful and are able to help us with this goal, please consider supporting our Patreon. If even 1% of those reading this contributed, we’d be able to bring on help and make meaningful progress toward improving the platform.
Thank you everyone, here’s to another 20 years!
Also a notable stat in there - we're now over 450,000 pieces of promo art, and we're VERY close to 850,000 screenshots, all taken by the community.
Good stuff - and I know there's been lots of user milestones too - please post them in the comments!
Our regular helper on these ended up stepping out later in 2018, so although we're getting the major releases, we're missing a lot of the others. We'd really like to archive digital info from them for posterity - and as you can see on Switch, there's a lot of neat stuff coming out.
Your job - should you choose to accept it - is to enter the URLs of the recent game pages in our 'Entry Helper' after you hit Contribute, then add any other platforms for the game based on a little research, pick some genres, and... that's it. Not too complex! (Feel free to PM me with questions!)
January 2018 - June 2017 - January 2017 - January 2016 - January 2015 - January 2014 - January 2013 - January 2012 - January 2011 - January 2010 - January 2009
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An explanation: each coloured shape in the graph represents a platform. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical axis represents the number of games released. So the height of a shape on a given point in time indicates the number of games released for that platform that year. The total height of the graph on a given point in time shows the total releases that year. The graph is meant to represent new game releases and thus excludes DLC, Special Edition and Compilation items. It does include each game for each platform it was released on.
Notable changes since last year:
- There are quite a lot of new platforms. In fact there are now so many that Excel refused to render the graph due to a hardcoded limit. I had to switch to LibreOffice to make the graph.
- Because I'm now excluding compilations, DLC and Special Edition releases, there are generally less releases per year visible. In particular 2017 ends up with 1000 games less than lass year's graph! My apologies to those who spent lots of time and effort to document DLC, but I just felt it was cluttering the graph!
- My pet project this year was documenting games from the late 60s and early 70s. Which shows as a tiny bump in an area of the graph that was previously almost flat.
- It looks like we didn't keep up with new releases as well as last year, judging from the drop-off in 2018.
- The coverage gap of 2016 has been filled it appears.
- Feel free to point out other interesting info in the graph!
[All data taken from MobyGames. Of course, the graph is only as complete as our database is. Come help us if you can!]
As our database stats and daily requests for API access show, we continue to have the largest set of credits, screenshots and covers with open access anywhere online - and THANK YOU if you are a net contributors to it! Now, let's roll on, 2019...
Some quick guidelines: Magazine Advertisement is now a promo image 'type'. So to add them, simply go to add 'promo images', create a new promo image group called Magazine Advertisements, and title each image with the magazine name, country, issue, and date. [Fabricated example: Sinclair User (United Kingdom), Issue 73 (September 1994).]
(If there are already some magazine ads uploaded for that game, then just add them to the existing promo image group. There are also a few edge cases, so feel free to discuss them in comments. And good luck!)
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Tip Of The DayGames that are related, even indirectly, are often grouped together in a Game Group. So check out any Groupings you come across in a game's Rap Sheet -- you may learn something new. For example, check out Cinemaware games. If you notice games that should be added to a group, just go to the group and click the add games link. more tips
2800 Arcade Games (28%)
We need 233 more Arcade games documented to complete this goal!
Castle Explorer was largely based on, of all things, a brilliantly illustrated book on medieval castles, with a neat little backstory thrown into the mix - the player is the king's spy who must find pieces of a map showing a suspicious baron's secret exit before the king attacks the latter's castle. The player must complete various tasks in several rooms in disguise and occasionally answer questions on castle life (explained through browsing the castle areas and reading handy in-game books). The player is encouraged to explore the castle as much as possible and learn along the way, and doing so will even result in gaining gold to bribe the jailer in case the castle workers suspect the player to be a spy.
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Art work by Dick & Otis Frizzell in the new Moore Wilson's Fresh store between Lorne and College Streets in Wellington. Both Dick and his son Otis are well known in the NZ art scene and this artwork softens the harder edge of the new store ... much more spacious than the former facitlties but does not yet exhibit that fresh market, hustle & bustle feel of the former.
One of Dick's well known prints is "From Mickey to Tiki"
b. 1943 Auckland, New Zealand
Dick Frizzell has often slipped through the nets of traditional critical and curatorial definition and the success of his artistic career is, in part, due to the number of dramatic diversions he has made between different art styles and genres. Before moving into visual arts Frizzell worked in advertising. He has worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator and has no qualms about blurring the categories between his commercial work and art. His paintings are often a pastiche of images drawing on modern art and graphic design.
His work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naive New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered and well-worn clichés. His work also portrays a sense of exuberance, ironic humour and baby-boomer nostalgia. An anti-traditionalist, Frizzell often makes a deliberate effort to mix up the categories of high and low art - poking fun at the intellectualisation of 'high art' and the existential angst of much New Zealand painting in the art culture of his youth.
Although primarily a painter, Frizzell also produces an extensive range of works on paper including lithographs and screen prints.
Otis Frizzell (1971-) entered public life in his late teens as half of popular hip hop duo MC OJ and Rhythm Slave. (Frizzell is also the son of well known New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell). Otis has more than 15 years of public graffiti art experience and is New Zealand's highest profile graffiti artist. His work is on walls in Saatchi and Saatchi, IE Music (Robbie Williams' London management office), in celebrity collections, on KFC packaging, breast cancer T shirts, Playstation Ads, TV2 promos and the record sleeves of Che Fu and Concord Dawn.
Through New Zealand Fine Prints you can buy the full range of limited edition screenprints, giclee prints and posters available by Otis Frizzell and the Weston Frizzell collaborative identity where Otis works with Mike Weston


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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte unveiled his new cabinet on Wednesday, uniting two rival political parties in an unlikely coalition that is expected to improve ties with the European Union and adopt a softer stance on immigration.
The team of ministers drawn primarily from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party (PD) will be sworn into office on Thursday morning by President Sergio Mattarella.
The previous administration, which was also led by Conte, collapsed last month when Matteo Salvini's far-right League party pulled out of its coalition with 5-Star in a vain attempt to force early elections.
Salvini's gambit backfired badly, ushering in a new alliance between previously fierce political enemies that is expected to tone down his crackdown on migrants arriving by boat from Africa and look to repair strained ties with Brussels.
The key post of economy minister was handed to the PD's Roberto Gualtieri, now head of the European Parliament's economic affairs commission who was influential in 2018 negotiations to soften EU rules on state aid to ailing banks.
5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio, who served as deputy prime minister, industry minister and labor minister in the previous administration, was named as foreign minister in the new cabinet despite having no experience in international diplomacy.
The high-profile interior ministry, presided over by Salvini for the past 15 months, was handed to Luciana Lamorgese, a career civil servant with no political affiliation.
Once the ministers have been sworn in, Conte will have to win confidence votes in both houses of parliament before the government can officially start work.
Looking to broaden its slender majority in the upper house Senate, the cabinet will include Roberto Speranza, who was given the health portfolio.
Speranza is a senior figure in the leftist LEU party, meaning the party will become part of the coalition.
5-Star and PD unveiled on Tuesday a shared, 26-point policy program for their coalition, putting an expansionary 2020 budget at the top of their agenda but pleasing markets with a pledge to draft a budget that would not endanger public finances.
Emphasizing social justice, the two parties pledged to introduce a minimum salary, avoid a VAT hike set for January and boost spending on education, research and welfare.
Italy's bond market has rallied strongly over the past week on hopes a government would be formed, staving off the threat of prolonged political instability and early elections.
Italy's 10-year bond yield hit a fresh record low of 0.80% and the closely-watched 10-year bond yield gap over safer German Bund yields tightened to around 145 bps — its narrowest in more than a year.


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Every girl dreams of becoming a supermodel. Supermodels are the epitome of style and they constantly keep pushing the boundaries of the fashion world. Unfortunately, most of them simply come and go, and are influential only for a short period of time. However, there are some women whose fame and influence will last, well, almost forever. Here are the supermodels who have figured out how to stay fabulous after all these years.


Chris Lyttle MLA said: “I welcome the fact that the Executive has realised the importance of agreeing a plan to co-ordinate the commemorations of a number of centenaries over the next ten years. Many of these events are still very emotive a hundred years later and a failure to agree a plan could have resulted in many of these celebrations being divisive.
“There is such a broad range of events which will be marked in this coming decade from the signing of the Ulster Covenant, the battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising and the partition of Ireland. We have a real opportunity to use these commemorations as a way to bring all sides of the community together and increase the public’s understanding of these events, many of which we can trace the current divisions in our society back to.
“By agreeing to a plan, these events should now be marked in an inclusive and shared manner for all to come and learn and celebrate what happened in such an important period of Ireland’s history.
“The Alliance Party held a debate in the Assembly in February which was passed, so I am glad that the Executive has decided to act following our call for a plan such as this to be agreed. My colleague Naomi Long MP also secured a debate in Westminster on this issue where she highlighted the fact that many of these events will be marked in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, so we will need to collaborate with their plans.
“This will very much be a work in progress and a lot of hard work and effort will be needed to make these commemorations a success.
“I will continue to look at the executive’s plans as more details are agreed to ensure that these centenaries are marked in a way that will not only bring Northern Ireland together but also in a way that will attract tourists.”


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text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Several stocks trading near $5 were moving on above-average volume during Monday's session. China Direct Industries ( CDII) rallied by 37 cents, or 31.4%, to $1.55 after the U.S.-owned holding company said it would begin offering an annual financial outlook due to improved visibility. China Direct said it now expects full-year 2010 revenue of $130 million to $150 million, inline with the consensus target of $145.3 million. Volume topped 1.78 million shares, compared to the 50-day average daily volume of 157,000, according to the Nasdaq. Delta Petroleum ( DPTR) jumped by 23 cents, or 22.1%, to $1.27 after Total's ( TOT) acquisition of a 25% interest in Chesapeake Energy's ( CHK) upstream Barnett Shale assets in a $2.25 billion joint venture sparked speculation of more consolidation in the industry. The deal comes just weeks after Exxon Mobil ( XOM) acquired XTO Energy ( XTO) for $31 billion. Delta's share volume topped 10 million, compared to the 50-day average daily volume of 9.49 million. ICx Technologies ( ICXT) and Intellicheck Mobilisa ( IDN) slumped by 8.6% and 4.8% to $8.70 and $3.57, respectively, giving back some the previous week's gains sparked by a terrorist's attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Dec. 25. Since the incident, ICx has rallied 75% and Intellicheck shares have jumped 169%. ICx's share volume totaled 1.72 million, more than four times the 50-day average daily volume. Intellicheck Mobilisa saw nearly 1.7 million shares change hands before 11 a.m. EST Monday, compared with the three-month average daily volume of 192,000. GenVec ( GNVC) jumped by 37 cents, or 16.2%, to $2.65 in the absence of any company-specific news. Traders posting on Internet message boards speculated that due to increased volume, Monday's climb was a result of a short squeeze. GenVec had a short interest float of 11.3% as of Dec. 15, according to Yahoo! Finance. Volume topped 2 million shares, compared to the 50-day average daily volume of 1.46 million. -- Written by Robert Holmes in Boston. Check out all of Monday's high-volume, under-$5 stocks at the Dollar Store Follow Robert Holmes on Twitter and become a fan of TheStreet.com on Facebook.

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Scrap nurses’ exams? Talk to Congress, Duque tells Bello
MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Thursday said that abolishing the nurses’ licensure examination as a requirement before they could become a health professional would require congressional approval.
In a text message to INQUIRER.net, Duque said scrapping the board exam for nurses, an idea floated by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, still needs further study.
“That needs further study as there are laws that require professionals to pass board exams prior to issuance of a license,” said Duque.
“He has to convince the legislators to amend the Nursing Act and the PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) law,” he added.
Bello earlier questioned the need for bar and board exams for would-be professionals, especially for nurses, when graduates have already gone through piles of examinations during college.
He also said it is unfair for graduates to not be able to practice their profession just because they did not pass the board exam.
“Bakit pa kailangan ng board exam eh ilang exam ang dinaanan nila sa nursing? Puro na lang exam. Do they not trust these schools where these nurses came from, especially kung ‘yung school na pinanggalingan nila ay accredited by CHEd (Commission on Higher Education)?” Bello said in an online media briefing on Wednesday.
(Why is the board exam needed when they have already gone through a lot of exams for nursing? There are too many exams. Do they not trust these schools where these nurses came from, especially if the schools were accredited by CHEd?)
“Dapat alisin na ‘yung mga board exam sa mga engineer, board exam sa dentistry, Bar exam. Eight years ka nang nag-aaral para maging abogado, pumasa ka na sa lahat ng exam, kukuha ka pa ng Bar?” he said.
(We should remove the requirement for board exams for engineers and dentists as well as bar exams. You have been studying for eight years to become a lawyer and have passed all the tests, then you still need to take the bar exam?)
However, Bello clarified on Thursday that he was not proposing the scrapping of board examinations for nurses and other professions but was only urging concerned agencies to study if the requirement can be abolished.
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Gallery of Animal Photography
This page beautifully demonstrates how are you can have a large header image with overlay text.
The gallery below lays out beautifully and in this case, there is no main image shown.
There is no limit to how many images you can show on a page but obviously, if you are on a mobile phone you would not want to wait too long for the page to load!
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The Role of Engine Oil Formulations on Fluid Diagnostics
Historically, vehicle fluid condition has been monitored by measuring miles driven or hours operated. Many current vehicles have more sophisticated monitoring methods that use additional variables such as fuel consumption, engine temperature and engine revolutions to predict fluid condition. None of these monitoring means, however, actually measures a fluid property to determine condition, and that is about to change. New sensors and diagnostic systems are being developed that allow real time measurement of some lubricant physical and/or chemical properties and interpret the results in order to recommend oil change intervals and maximize performance. Many of these new sensors use electrochemical or acoustic wave technologies. This paper examines the use of these two technologies to determine engine oil condition and focuses on the effects of lubricant chemistry on interpreting the results.


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Anyone who was able to speak to Martin Hinteregger in mid-May after the Europa League final in the catacombs of the FC Sevilla stadium was faced with a quiet, almost sentimental person. Due to an injury, he was unable to play a minute of the Frankfurt Eintracht final against Glasgow Rangers. But the fact that Eintracht won on penalties and thus qualified for the premier class meant that compensation was on the horizon: “I certainly don’t want to miss out on the Champions League with these fans,” Hinteregger was to say a little later. Now everything turned out differently.
On Thursday afternoon, his employer Eintracht Frankfurt sent out a press release that was published by the Austrian Crown newspaper with the warning “No kidding!” was provided: “Hinteregger ended his professional career”. At 29 years old. In the best footballer age, as they say.
Hinteregger himself could not be spoken to afterwards, his adviser did not want to make any further comments, “everything was said” in the message. The communiqué reads as if, above all, they had agreed not to inflict further injuries on one another, which had been the subject of so much talk in recent weeks. What was there to read? Among other things, that the same Hinteregger who had been enthusiastic about the Champions League a few weeks ago had wanted to have been pregnant with the idea of ending his career for a long time.
“Last autumn I had my first thoughts of retiring after the season. I was in a difficult phase in terms of sport: My performance was fluctuating. The victories didn’t feel so good anymore, but every defeat hurt twice as much,” said Hinteregger.
Hinteregger apologizes for “emotional, perhaps thoughtless words”
So now the end – and the review of the Europa League victory, five Austrian championship titles and four cup wins with RB Salzburg, also 67 appearances in the Austrian national team and 188 games in the German Bundesliga for FC Augsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt. However, what will also be associated with the name Hinteregger in the foreseeable future: a series of affairs, some of which were due to alcohol consumption, and the recent scandal surrounding the “Hinti Cup”, a tournament for hobby and youth teams in his home town of Sirnitz in Carinthia.
Hinteregger hit the headlines after an article by the Austrian journalist Michael Bonvalot. In an article that appeared in the online magazine Perspektive.press on June 8, Bonvalot made it public that Hinteregger organized the party through a company whose founding members included a certain Heinrich Sickl, “formerly a Graz FPÖ municipal councilor, identitarian promoter and well-known extreme rightist,” as Bonvalot wrote.
The Austrian association was also surprised by the resignation
On Thursday, Hinteregger explained that “a few issues arose recently, the scope of which only became clear to me afterwards”. “Emotional, perhaps thoughtless words” on his part would have led to irritation, for which he now apologizes. Among other things, after the termination of his business relationship with Sickl, Hinteregger called the journalist Bonvalot a left-wing extremist and complained about an alleged media hunt. “To say it again very clearly: I condemn right-wing, intolerant and inhuman ideas in the strongest possible terms. Anyone who knows me knows that,” Hinteregger said on Thursday.
The Austrian association was also surprised by the resignation and announced that Hinteregger would be included in the association’s legends club. Hinteregger is an “individual guy with rough edges that many people and fans could identify with,” said sporting director Peter Schöttel.
Markus Krösche, the manager of Eintracht Frankfurt, also sounded forgiving: “Not least because of his sincere apologies for his behavior in the past few days and weeks and his clear and credible distancing from right-wing ideas, he remains always welcome in Frankfurt as a deserved player and European Cup winner. “
Krösche also spoke of an “unexpected” decision, but the player “presented his perspective and reasons impressively and convincingly”. Hinteregger asked to be released from his contractual obligations, Eintracht agreed to say “baba und fall net” to express it in Austrian. Hinteregger’s contract, which runs until 2024, was only “suspended” for the time being, i.e. put on hold, as Eintracht announced. In other words: Eintracht secured themselves in the event that Hinteregger changed his mind again. If he wanted to play professionally again before the end of the contract, Eintracht could collect a transfer fee.


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TIBA STRAIGHT FERTILIZERS
TIBA LIQUID FERTILIZER
Comprised of 100% plant macronutrients.
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Answer the following question briefly.
When the narrator asks the boys about their plans, they are evasive. Why don't
they disclose their problems?
The boys, specially Nicola, happens to be very evasive when the narrator asks them about their plans. It is simply because they do not want to share their secret plans with strangers. It is quite likely that their sense of self-respect prevents them from becoming an object of pity.

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Backward Caste Leader Dharam Singh Saini resigns from BJP
The Bhartiya Janata Party leader and a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, Dharam Singh Saini has resigned from the party.
The Bhartiya Janata Party leader and a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, Dharam Singh Saini has resigned from the party. He happens to be the third minister of the state cabinet of CM Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh who has decided to quit the party.
Saini had earlier said that he would not leave the party and stay with it. However, his resignation has surprised many people. It is now anticipated that he would join the Samajwadi Party under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav.
Though Saini hasn’t made any statement about his future course of action as of now, Yadav has tweeted a picture with him and welcomed him to his party. Yadav said that in 2022, communal harmony will win the election.
He wrote, “With the arrival of Dr. Dharam Singh Saini ji, another warrior of 'Social Justice', our 'positive and progressive politics' has got more enthusiasm and strength. Hearty welcome and greetings to him in SP!,
According to reports, after the resignation of Swami Prasad Maurya, Saini had not only criticised him but had said that he would remain in BJP and not leave for any other political party.
Interestingly, earlier the two ministers and five other leaders who have left the BJP had also maintained a similar stand but ditched BJP in a surprising move.
Saini had joined the BJP in 2016 along with Swami Prasad Maurya. He had left Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Mayawati then.


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Australia’s favourite country duo is going from strength to strength as they continue to ‘wow’ audiences with their live shows and cement their music’s popularity with a string of awards and nominations.
Their extremely successful 2nd album release, UP DOWN & SIDEWAYS debuted at #1 on the Australian all-genre ARIA charts and received a prestigious ARIA nomination for Best Country Album in 2023. It has provided the platform for an amazing 9 Golden Guitar nominations across the 2023 and 2024 awards with terrific wins for Song of the Year, Apple Music Single of the Year and Country Music Capital News Group or Duo of the Year. Closer to their hearts, their 10-year-old daughter Tiggy Heart Eckersley became the youngest person in history to be recognised with a Golden Guitar award, sharing the ‘Song of the Year’ win with her parents and Dan Biederman as fellow songwriters.
These multi-talented artists with their charismatic personalities have been celebrated more broadly with Brooke voted as the runner-up on Network 10’s I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and won the hearts of many when she performed an acoustic performance of ‘Star Of The Show’, which skyrocketed to #1 on the iTunes Single and Video Chart. Brooke has also been a special guest on hit ABC series ‘Spicks and Specks’ with both in demand for appearances across a broad spectrum of media and entertainment channels.
These hardworking artists are passionate about connecting with their live audiences and tour extensively focusing on regional communities and festivals as the heartland of country music, keeping it real and convenient for fans.
In 2018, their debut album Adam & Brooke was released and received great enthusiasm from the country music community earning them numerous accolades, awards and reached #1 on the ARIA Country Album Chart.
The hugely successful ‘Hang at the Wang’ events created by Brooke and Adam are another facet to this dynamic duo’s success. At these unique gatherings guests enjoy an intimate musical performance, the opportunity to experience their beautiful farm and amazing hospitality.
Brooke McClymont is one third of top-selling, award-winning Australian country music trio The McClymonts. With over 200,000 album sales, 40 million streams, two ARIA Awards, fifteen Golden Guitar Awards, one CMA (USA) Award, one APRA Award and five #1 ARIA Country Albums, the McClymonts are a dominant female group in Australian country music with major success from hits such as ‘Kick It Up’, ‘Wrapped Up Good’ and ‘I’ve Got This’.
Adam Eckersley has won five Golden Guitar Awards: the first in 2015 for New Talent of the Year; and then in 2016 in the Group or Duo of the Year category with The Adam Eckersley Band whose 2014 debut album, The First Album, debuted in the Top 5 on the ARIA Country Chart, with The Second Album debuting at #7 the following year. Adam has also been recognised for his songwriting, winning the APRA Award for Country Work of the Year (2015).


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National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has urged the Borno state government to relocate the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) currently camping at its permanent orientation camp in Maiduguri because ‘relative peace’ has returned to the state.
It also urged corps members to stop seeking relocation to other states, noting that the state is now peaceful. Corps members deployed to Borno state did their three weeks orientation in Katsina state due to insecurity in the state.
Rabi’u Aminu, Borno state coordinator of NYSC, who disclosed this to newsmen during the closing ceremony of the 2017 Batch ‘B’ Stream 2 course in Katsina, said there was peace in Borno, hence the need for the state government to allowa corps members to camp in the state.
He said more than 40 per cent of corps members mobilised to the state usually seek relocation to other parts of the country, lamenting that the recent development has not encouraged unity in diversity which the scheme preaches and stands for.
“Do not dwell on the negative things you have heard about Borno. Do not seek relocation. I want to assure you that the people of the state are peaceful and friendly. Keep an open mind and give it a chance and a trial,” the coordinator told corps members.
Katsina state coordinator, Ramatu Santa, said the corps members had been posted according to the four priorities of the state government, which includes health, education, agriculture and infrastructure, urging them to discharge their duties effectively.
She encouraged the corps members to share their challenges with state and local government coordinators instead of taking them to the social media.


Sound is intrinsic to how a consumer experiences crisp and crunchy products and according to Marc Johnson, President, Texture Technologies Corp it is an essential part of the consumer experience.
“I think sound is important for consumers – it’s a very high consumer attribute. They won’t forgive if they bite a Kit Kat bar when it’s supposed to be crisp and it’s not crisp.”
“Sound can be quantified. It’s repeatable and comparable.”
Adding sound to force data
Texture Technologies supplies texture analysis equipment to confectioners in the US and Canada including Nestlé, Mondelez, Mars and Hershey.
The equipment is used at R&D level to test new products and in production areas to ensure lines are meeting agreed quality specifications.
The technology is typically used to measure force variations that can be used to quantify the texture of products, measure shelf life and to demonstrate the weight a product can take in packaging and shipping. But now many more companies are testing sound as well as force.
Smaller plays move for acoustic testing
“The latest innovation is acoustic. It is a few years old but it’s being used more and more,” said Johnson.
He said that larger companies such as Nestlé had been acoustic testing for the past few years, but he said the concept was novel to many smaller players. “The idea is still new to the industry as a whole.”
How it works
Acoustic testing using Texture Technologies equipment requires a regular force-measuring TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer and a separate Acoustic Envelope Detector, which is much like a microphone.
The instruments work together to capture audio feedback, which is synchronized with force data. A confectionery product is snapped using a knife on the instrument or bended at three different points.
The equipment develops an acoustic profile of the product, which can be used to help R&D teams decide which ingredient combinations work best to get the desired level of crunchiness. A manufacturer may test a rival product to get a reference of the levels required and compare it to his own blend.
The cost of both test instruments will set a manufacturer back around $30k. Manufacturers can choose between a calibrated microphone and a non-calibrated version. The calibrated version gives more accurate measurement, which is unperturbed by vibrations from stormy weather, but it costs around $4k more.
Inclusions increase need for sound testing
According to Johnson, acoustic testing is becoming more common for the industry as confectioners increasingly opt for products with inclusions.
“We definitely see a lot more crispy crunchy elements. That’s growing a great deal."
When inclusions are added confectioners must ensure chocolate adheres to the addition, but if it become too adhesive the product can become brittle, which may harm the sound it makes when snapping.
Testing sound levels can help manufacturers choose which inclusion gives the best crispiness or crunch feel.


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Mowbray has all-but confirmed his departure already at the end of the season from the Championship club, with no discussions ongoing with the club’s India-based owners to extend his deal.
Having seen Rovers’ promotion push falter in recent months and their play-off challenge ended by Bournemouth at the weekend, Mowbray will depart Ewood Park in the coming weeks and the search in the background is already seemingly underway.
Quiz: Which club did Blackburn Rovers sign these 24 players from in the 1990s?
Wycombe Wanderers boss Gareth Ainsworth, an ex-youth player at Rovers in his playing days, and former Norwich City manager Daniel Farke are both said to be on the shortlist of the Venky’s, and Cocu can now be added to that.
Cocu has been out of work since being sacked by Derby County in November 2020 – the Rams finished in 10th position in 2019-20, which was the Dutchman’s only full campaign in charge.
Just one win in County’s first 13 matches of the following season saw Cocu lose his job, with Derby languishing in the relegation zone, but despite that he is seemingly wanted in Lancashire as Mowbray’s potential successor.
Cocu is also said to be interested in the vacancy north of the border at Hibernian, but this is surely a much more exciting potential role for him.
His brand of football, which was dubbed ‘Cocuball’ at Derby, was pleasing on the eye and even though it didn’t bring the results required in the end, it was quite entertaining for the most part.
There are goals in the current Blackburn team and a more attacking style of football next season will probably be suited to the current crop – that’s if the majority remain at the club.
Rovers fans at this point would probably favour Farke over any of the other potential candidates as a proven promotion winner, but Cocu is certainly an interesting candidate.

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Grief Is A Mouse
Grief is a Mouse-
And chooses Wainscot in the Breast
For His Shy House-
And baffles quest-
Grief is a Thief-quick startled-
Pricks His Ear-report to hear
Of that Vast Dark-
That swept His Being-back-
Grief is a Juggler-boldest at the Play-
Lest if He flinch-the eye that way
Pounce on His Bruises-One-say-or Three-
Grief is a Gourmand-spare His luxury-
Best Grief is Tongueless-before He'll tell-
Burn Him in the Public Square-
Possibly-if they refuse-How then know-
Since a Rack couldn't coax a syllable-now.
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I never intended to become the poster girl of sexual harassment,” says Daisy Goodwin, the TV producer, author and creator of ITV’s Victoria. But that’s what has happened when last year she told The Times that Daniel Korski, then a special adviser to David Cameron, groped her breast during a one-on-one meeting about a potential new Apprentice-style TV show, in Mrs Thatcher’s former sitting room at Downing Street in 2013. At the time she “brushed it off as a laughable, if humiliating incident”. “I mean, the whole thing was farcical,” she says. “But also, you know, deeply inappropriate.”
Goodwin, 62, initially opened up about being assaulted in 2017 without naming her alleged assailant. She says now Korski made her feel awkward by telling her she looked like Bond girl Monica Bellucci and “put his feet on the edge of my chair, leaning back so that I could get a clear view of his crotch”. Yet she only chose to identify him when he ran to be Tory candidate for the 2024 election race for Mayor of London. “It was a role that would mean he had responsibility for the safety of women and girls,” she tells me – and it made her blood boil. The MeToo movement had made her realise that to dismiss her own experience “was putting other women at risk, particularly younger women who might work in the same organisation and who therefore could less easily brush it off”.
When she filed an official complaint to the cabinet office, Korski, who had denied the allegations, dropped out of the Conservative mayoral race. It prompted three other women to make allegations of sexual misconduct against Korski to the Financial Times – one was a senior government official.
“I feel cross with the other men who protected him; they must have known what was going on,” says Goodwin, who is talking to me over Zoom from the lobby of a Swiss ski resort where she is on holiday, surrounded by lots of knotted wood panelling and with a blizzard raging outside. “The thing is, it’s not about sexual attraction. It’s about power,” she continues. “It’s about saying, you know, ‘Hey, I’m untouchable. I can grope you in broad daylight.’” But, she says, most men don’t behave like that. “So, it’s just important that the men who do are made aware that this is unacceptable and that they’re called out.”
Goodwin is looking almost diva-like as she reclines on a chaise longue in full ski gear following a morning of cross-country skiing. Which is apt considering her new novel is the story of a real-life diva – the glamorous and wildly talented opera star Maria Callas. It’s certainly timely – it was the centenary of Callas’s birth in November 2023; Callas is currently spotlighted in the major V&A museum exhibition Diva, and Angelina Jolie is set to star this year as Callas in Maria, a biopic from Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight.
“Callas was a heroine for modern women, because she lived life totally on her own terms,” Goodwin says. “She was the original girl boss. And you’ve got to admire that at a time when that was extremely difficult to do. There was much less acceptance of women who were single-minded about pursuing their career. She did not suffer fools gladly. She wasn’t prepared to put up with a bit of flirting to get what she wanted. I mean, there was no question of anyone harassing Maria.”
Feminist narratives underline much of Goodwin’s work. She claims the 18-year-old Queen Victoria, the subject of her 2016 novel and TV show, was already a female icon in the 1800s because of her “incredible sense of who she was and what she wanted to be”. As was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the American heiress who apparently cried as she walked down the aisle with the 10th Duke of Marlborough in 1895, as part of an aristocratic trend for arranged marriages, whose life loosely inspired Goodwin’s 2010 debut My Last Duchess. Meanwhile, Goodwin’s 2014 novel The Fortune Hunter focused on Austria’s free-spirited and tragic Empress Elisabeth, or “Sisi”, who was married to Emperor Franz, aged 16. The dullness of palace life was too much for her to bear; she took up smoking, and suffered from an eating disorder and depression.
“I’m always interested in the difference between the public persona and the private person,” she says. “I suppose it’s a little bit of imposter syndrome. You know, they are in these incredible positions of power. But, I think, underneath, there is a person who feels vulnerable and alone. And unworthy of all this attention.”
She was keen to challenge Callas’s image as being “temperamental, difficult, all these things that you associate with the word diva”. “These adjectives wouldn’t be applied to a man who was as devoted to their craft as Maria was,” she remarks. “I admire her for her perfectionism.” As part of her research, Goodwin trained in opera singing, taking lessons with young operatic soprano Josephine Goddard, and went to places that Callas hung out – including the Parisian restaurant Maxim’s where Callas and the love of her life, the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, dined.
She dispels the idea that Callas died of a broken heart after Onassis, her lover of 10 years, left her for former first lady Jackie Kennedy, whom he later married. “Until she meets Onassis, there are very few people in her life who she knows love her for herself, rather than for her musical ability.” Yet Goodwin’s novel ends on a high note: despite life throwing Callas dramas of operatic proportions, “she put on an amazing front... the show went on.”
Goodwin lives in west London with her husband, Marcus Wilford, a TV executive, with whom she has two daughters, Ottile, 32, and Lydia, 23. She studied history at Cambridge and then headed to New York’s Columbia Film School (her dad is Richard B Goodwin, who produced the Oscar-winning film A Passage to India). She found her niche creating TV property renovation shows such as Grand Designs and Escape to the Country before turning to writing.
She has had her own epic setbacks – and survived them. In 2015, when she had begun writing the novel and the TV script for Victoria simultaneously, her house caught fire, after a small mirror left on her windowsill reflected sunlight onto the curtains. Later that year, she got breast cancer. “It was a pretty traumatic year – a big watershed,” says Goodwin.
“It was just a sort of catalogue of unfortunate events... but it put things in perspective. Everyone says, ‘Oh it must be awful when you’ve lost all your things.’ Actually, things really don’t matter. I was amazed at how little I missed the stuff that I lost. I mean, lots of things of great sentimental value, but in the end, you know, nobody died... my dogs are okay.” She now has a clean bill of health and still lives in her house, which was rebuilt. Victoria went on to become a huge Sunday night hit on TV in 2016, running for three series until 2019, and gained extra tabloid attention when its stars Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes, who played the Germanic, wooden-like Albert, had a real-life romance off screen. She is now working on a new novel, After Albert – about Queen Victoria in widowhood and her possible affair with her personal servant John Brown.
She’s also on a mission to help women find “safety in numbers” when reporting sexual assault. While women have become increasingly confident in speaking up since MeToo, the conviction rate is shockingly low. What’s more, according to a UN Women UK YouGov survey in 2021, 16 per cent of women still don’t report an incident of sexual harassment because they think they won’t be believed.
“I’ve been thinking about how to help women who have been assaulted, groped or harassed be able to report whatever has happened in such a way that, if there’s a match and other people report the same man, then it’s investigated,” she says.
The problem, at the moment, she says, is that “if you’re one person, it’s a ‘he said, she said’ situation’”.
“The moment you’ve got five women saying that the same thing that’s happened, and it’s usually never a one-off thing, then you’ve got a case because you’ve got a pattern of behaviour.” She pauses for a minute. “I think it’s very hard for one woman to come forward. I was lucky. You know, I had no skin in the game.”
Diva is published by Head of Zeus on 14 March
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Accession Number : ADA288366
Title : Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Computing.
Descriptive Note : Research rept.,
Corporate Author : CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Personal Author(s) : Satyanarayanan, M. ; Noble, Brian ; Kumar, Puneet ; Price, Morgan
PDF Url : ADA288366
Report Date : 28 JUL 1994
Pagination or Media Count : 9
Abstract : This paper identifies application-aware adaptation as an essential capability of mobile clients, and provides an overview of Odyssey, an architecture that supports this capability. Functionality that has hitherto been implemented monolithically must now be split between the operating system and individual applications. The role of the operating system is to sense external events, and to monitor and allocate scarce resources. In contrast, the role of individual applications is to adapt to changing conditions by using the information and resources provided by the operating system.
Descriptors : *SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, *OPERATING SYSTEMS(COMPUTERS), COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS, FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS.
Subject Categories : Computer Programming and Software
Computer Systems Management and Standards
Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE