Al Maryah Island hosted Abu Dhabi’s biggest New Year’s Eve celebration, a spectacular evening of music and fireworks. Thousands of families and friends filled the island’s waterfront Promenade where they enjoyed an electrifying concert with Emirati star Hussain Al Jassmi, Egyptian pop sensation Mohamed Hamaki, and winner of Arab Idol 2015, Mohammed Assaf.
More than 10,000 people enjoyed hearing their favourite songs performed during the five-hour show, which culminated in an exhilarating midnight countdown, followed by a breath-taking firework display.
The evening was a landmark occasion in Al Maryah Island’s colourful events calendar and was staged through a partnership between Mubadala and Platinum Records, the leading record label company which operates under the umbrella of MBC Group.
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Today marks the official one-year countdown to the arrival of MSC Seaside in Miami, and MSC Cruises — the Swiss-based world’s largest privately-owned cruise line and market leader in Europe, South America and South Africa — is marking the occasion with remarkable savings and value-adds for travelers.
MSC Seaside, the most anticipated ship coming to Miami in 2017, is the first of up to three MSC Cruises next-generation “Seaside” class of cruise ships and is set to arrive in the U.S. in December 2017. With an ultramodern and innovative “condo-on-the-beach” design, the ship has been crafted specifically for warm weather, offering sun worshippers one of the highest ratios of outdoor space at sea. She will sail from Miami to the Caribbean year-round and bring guests closer to the sea than ever before with a 360° outdoor promenade including a variety of outdoor restaurants and bars.
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The countdown to Super Bowl 50 has begun! As fans nationwide finalize their Super Bowl Sunday plans and snacks starting lineup, it’s hard to choose which delicious dishes make the final cut! Will it be helmet shaped cookies? Or football fields made from guacamole and sour cream? Once you have your half-time snacks lined up, it’s also important to not fumble when it comes to the perfect beverage.
This year, why not try a new spin on an old favorite with some Fizzology, an innovative approach that reimagines the way you can enjoy soda through non-alcoholic mixology. Fizzology combines unexpected flavors and ingredients that excite your taste buds – imagine sprinkles and shredded coconut topping your favorite Pepsi soda. It’s a great way to be creative and playful in how you experience and enjoy drinking a soda – especially when you’re watching Super Bowl 50!
Whether you are celebrating at home or in the stadium, you can elevate your Super Bowl 50 experience by bringing some fizzology to the party. At the NFL Experience in San Francisco visit F!ZZ, a playful celebration of bubbles with unexpected ingredient combinations -- including flavor shots, bursts, garnishes and foams -- creating a fun, adventurous way for consumers to deconstruct and reconstruct soda.
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Everyday Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVDY), today announced the launch of the What to Expect Pregnancy Clock Apple Watch™ app. Everyday Health, Inc. is a leading digital health and wellness company that operates the digital assets of What to Expect, Heidi Murkoff’s world-renowned pregnancy and parenting brand.
Designed specifically for the Apple Watch, the What to Expect Pregnancy Clock delivers a pregnancy countdown (to the second) – with weekly updates and visual growth milestones to track progress, actionable tips and notifications synchronized to the baby’s growth and development, and other relevant pregnancy information on demand. All of this gives expectant parents-to-be convenient, personalized, and discreet access to essential information about their baby’s development.
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9 year old guitarist Jeremy Yong playing an improvised rock medley, comprising:1. Eruption (Eddie van Halen) - 0:202. Paranoid (Black Sabbath) - 0:573. The Final Countdown (Europe) - 2:20Jeremy is a guitarist, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.At 7 years of age, Jeremy was the youngest ever semi-finalist on Australia's Got Talent.He has also made special guest appearances on Star King (Korea), Saturday Disney, and SBS Pop Asia.Jeremy
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Der Winter hat die längste Zeit gedauert, der Countdown läuft. Und das nicht nur, für die ersten Frühlingsboten, sondern auch für unsere Automobilen Schmuckstücke wie Cabrios, die in den nächsten Wochen erstmals in diesem Jahr aus dem schützenden Winterquartier geholt werden. Auch wenn, in dieser Zeit, in Deutschland kein Wetter für stilvolle Cabriotouren herrscht ist es kein Thema mehr, denn das A3 Cabrio ist voll Wintertauglich. Das neuentwickelte Stoffverdeck lässt sich auch von Minustemperaturen und Schmuddelwetter nicht beeindrucken.
The countdown to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is on, and Pop-Tarts® has partnered with U.S. Olympic hopefuls and freestyle skiers Torin Yater-Wallace and Maggie Voisin to put a Crazy Good™ spin on the competition. Eighteen-year-old Torin was nominated to the U.S. Men’s Freeskiing Team this week, and is a rising star heading into the Sochi Games. Maggie was also nominated this week to the U.S. Women’s Freeskiing Team – making her the youngest U.S. Winter Olympic hopeful at 15 years old since 1972. With the help of Pop-Tarts, they’re giving teens an exclusive look inside their Crazy Good Winter adventures.
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Six Flags Over Georgia prepares to take to the sky as the countdown begins for the launch of the park’s newest thrill ride, SkyScreamer. The park’s newest addition was previewed today by media and VIP guests. SkyScreamer opens to the public on Friday, May 24, 2013.
At 242 feet, SkyScreamer is 40 feet taller than the park’s mega-coaster Goliath, and will give passengers a thrilling view of the Atlanta skyline. Thirty- two riders will sit two across in open air swings while spinning to the top of the tower. At full swing, guests revolve in a 98-foot circle at speeds of 40 mph.
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The celebrative atmosphere is taking over Yaowarat or Bangkok’s China Town at the moment as all the local Chinese decedents are gearing up for the beginning of the Snake Year on February 10th. You’re with me, Suwida Boonyatistarn as we explore Yaowarat and see how this part of Bangkok prepares itself for the countdown.
Siam Piwat, the owner of Bangkok’s leading shopping malls, ,held a press conference to announce the countdown to the opening of the new Siam Center as a center and ‘ideaopolis’ where creative and world-leading trends can be explored. World famous celebrities, artists, and their work are assembling here in Bangkok for the opening of the new Siam Center on January the 11th.


CityFibre Holdings continues work in York
CityFibre Holdings has announced it will be building on its partnership with City of York Council to bring next generation broadband to York’s residents and businesses.York has a digital ‘backbone’ in place, as CityFibre built a 103km fibre optic ring last year, which has already connected 110 sites in the city including schools, council buildings and York NHS. The council and CityFibre are now planning to build a city wide network from the existing infrastructure to give businesses and residents access to pure fibre to the home and premises.
In its Council Plan, the City of York Council has announced a bold target to put York at the forefront of digital connectivity in the UK with 95 per cent of all its businesses having access to minimum connection speeds of 25 megabits per second by the end of 2014. The completion of this superfast digital infrastructure will allow businesses and residents to access unprecedented gigabit services, which far exceed this target. It will now undertake a detailed planning exercise with CityFibre to decide exactly how this next phase will be delivered. Detailed planning has now commenced for the delivery of this new fibre network.


Based on some feedback from the CEB Hopper Problem Statement in the last post, here is a conceptual solution. This solution is readily doable using techniques available to us, and requires an additional ~$400 in CEB infrastructure material costs.
We can adapt our existing rototiller to make a rapidly spinning (500 rpm?) soil pulverizer in front of our tractor loader. This pulverizer is attached to the front end loader. As the tractor moves along slowly, the loader fills with loose soil created by the pulverizer. Thus, two steps are combined into one:
This streamlines the soil preparation process. Previously, we dug piles of soil with the loader, and we then used a small, walk-behind tiller to pulverize the soil to the desired fineness. We then shoveled this soil into buckets, and loaded the CEB hopper manually. Each of these tasks took about an equivalent amount of time.
These 3 tasks are combined into one, by design – with the pulverizing loader that subsequently dumps soil into a large hopper:
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|Only Apsaras can equip this as a main weapon
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By participating in several conferences and trade shows in the US - most recently at the ISDP meeting in San Diego - Dermagnostix has already been able to show that the interest in PsorX is high and the feedback is consistently positive. In 2024, the focus will shift even more to business development in the USA. The acceptance into the German Accelerator Program and the funding from Eureka Innowwide provide an ideal basis for this.
The German Accelerator supports German start-ups in their global expansion through customized programs, intensive expert mentoring and access to an extensive network of experts. Dermagnostix was able to prevail against numerous competitors and now has an exciting and intensive year ahead of it.
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FDA approves Meat and Milk from cloned animals?
January 16, 2008 2:06pm CST
What do you think about this would you want to eat meat or drink milk from a cloned animal? We already use organs from cloned pigs for transplants and we eat some cloned food in the form of cloned plants (in the US companies are not required to label cloned or genetically modified foods). Do you think there should be a law requiring companies to label cloned and genetically modified foods? How do you feel about this use of technology?


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U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela made public
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of pages of U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela were made public on Wednesday, revealing that Washington continued to monitor the South African anti-apartheid hero as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison, a group that sued to obtain the papers said
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of pages of U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela were made public on Wednesday, revealing that Washington continued to monitor the South African anti-apartheid hero as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison, a group that sued to obtain the papers said.
The Washington-based group Property of the People released the papers to mark the 100th anniversary of Mandela's birth. It said it obtained them after years of litigation.
"The documents reveal that, just as it did in the 1950s and 60s with Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights movement, the FBI aggressively investigated the U.S. and South African anti-apartheid movements as Communist plots imperilling American security," the group's president Ryan Shapiro said in a statement.
"Worse still, the documents demonstrate the FBI continued its wrong-headed Communist menace investigations of Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement even after U.S. imposition of trade sanctions against apartheid South Africa, after Mandela’s globally-celebrated release from prison, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall."
South Africa's first black president, who died in 2013 and remains a global icon for his struggle against apartheid and message of reconciliation after 27 years in prison, was regarded with suspicion by Washington during the Cold War and remained on the U.S. terrorism watchlist until 2008.
Property of the People said its trove included documents from the major U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, CIA, DIA and NSA, most of which have never been seen by the public.
"The Mandela Files" can be found on its website https://propertyofthepeople.org.
Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) has been in power since the end of apartheid in 1994 and remains in a governing coalition with the South African Communist Party, which also resisted the white-minority government.
Southern Africa was a key Cold War battleground, as newly independent states in the region such as Angola and Mozambique aligned with Moscow.
Celebrations have been held across South Africa this week to mark Mandela's 100th birthday, including a rousing speech on Tuesday by former U.S. president Barack Obama, who said the world should resist cynicism over the rise of strongmen.
(Editing by Peter Graff)
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I. Journal Jam was amazeballs yesterday. Quick and dirty, as I like to call it. Even though the prompts led to some pretty murky colour combinations, the process itself was incredibly healing. I invoked the spirit of the 5 of Cups from the tarot while I worked and really focused on the hopeful reality of the cups that are left standing even when all the others have fallen over and spilled out.
I am finding myself in a liminal space where I am both grieving a loss but there is a spark of optimism for what comes next. Where there’s life, there’s hope. I believe.
By the way, the replays go up in The Wilderhood, so if you want to jam with me, head on over.
II. After the Jam, I went outside to get some air and let the dogs work off some of their pent up energy. I had mail! This beautiful little silver and moonstone ring arrived in a pretty gold tone box with a ribbon but NO NOTE.
I sat down on my stoop and cried the ugly cry, y’all. I was so moved that someone would do this – would, upon reading about my lost moonstone – think to find me one and send it to me.
People are deeply kind.
The mystery of who sent it was solved within mere moments after my asking on my socials. It was the lovely Cary, who has always been so sweet to me in all our years of connection. She is a fabulous human, and I am so grateful.
The arrival of the ring was perfectly timed. I’m turning a corner after months of what can only be described as a protracted Tower moment, and I’ve been cutting cords and pulling in tendrils. Refocusing. Bringing myself back to center, back to a life where the decisions I make are in alignment with my own best interests.
In a class I’m taking, we talk about our holy helpers and who they might be and how to work with them. It was suggested during one of our calls that one of my holy helpers is the moon herself. That resonated, and in the last few weeks, I’ve been leaning hard on all the guidance I get from working her cycles.
This ring felt like an affirmation of that.
III. I woke up feeling like maybe I actually slept last night. I didn’t drink anything but water and tea all evening, but I had a little puff of Indica at 10 p.m. and by 11, I was out. The dreams were intense, but the sleep was deep enough to have them, so I’ll take it.
IV. Lenormand this morning: “Trouble letting go.” Tarot this morning: “Lack of closure.” Yup, but I’m working on it.
Sometimes the only closure we get is the closure we make for ourselves.
I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
V. I’m thinking today about mantras and affirmations and the things we say to ourselves over and over again and how that wends its way into my writing.
I am my own North Star. I choose me. I believe. Where there’s life there’s hope.
These are tiny little self-soothing spells that I pull out and throw down in the face of my own self-doubt or fear or when I am in need of comfort.
There’s this meme going around on Facebook about how ultra independence can be a trauma response. When we have been hit with the ‘too much’ label or we haven’t been able to get our needs for witnessing, love, kind eyes on our lives, a hand to hold, commitment, kept promises, words aligning with actions, or when we’ve been abandoned or rejected by someone we love, we can grow very guarded about asking for anything. I wrote about this before – that anything that smacks of rejection right now is too hard for my nervous system to bear, so I have stopped asking for emotional support when I’m in the trenches. I have a draft folder in my e-mail program entitled ’42’ and everything I want to say gets typed out and moved into it. According to my therapist, the subconscious doesn’t know the difference between hitting ‘send’ and hitting ‘save as draft’.
It’s working to keep me from reaching out where rejection and abandonment is a goddamned guarantee.
VI. In the meanwhile, I am practicing a lot of self-soothing, both in my journal and through my writing, and while I know I won’t want to stay guarded forever, these little mantras are life.
I know I repeat myself a lot in these writings. I just wanted to explain that these phrases I repeat are medicinal. I am working through attachment terror in therapy, and I know I’ll come out on the other side of this work with a renewed willingness to attach once I heal, but in the meantime, I’ve got me.
Trauma response or not, thank the gods for my resilience.
VII. One of my witches (who has stepped off Facebook entirely, so she emails me personally when she has things to share) sent me this today:
“The reason I’m emailing is to show you photos of the succulent I bought as a representation of you on my altar. It is doing a quite beautiful thing. It is rising up out of the ashes of its former self, and it is beautiful and radiant. The bottom part is all the dead leaves, but you can see how the beautiful new life is bursting forth from within them. I am positive this is a pure representation of where you are in your life right now, and I just had to share it with you. Every day I look at it, and it makes me smile and gives me so much hope. Please feel free to share with the coven or anyone else you’d like to.
Everything that’s happening right now, every secret message, every sign and omen is pointing in the direction of my getting through *waves at all of this*. I believe.
IX. I don’t mind being lonely right now. It feels like I am travelling inward, into my own cave of bone. A heroine on a quest in search of treasure. Walking the labyrinth of my own innards in silence. Descent with the promise of ascent. The promise of emergence after the long dark.
But baby I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor
You know, I used to live alone before I knew ya
X. I knew for a long, long time. I just didn’t want to admit it.

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Digital Transformation at Universities: Global Trends and Vietnam’s Chances
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.211119.008How to use a DOI?
- digitalization; digital transformation; university; e-learning; online teaching
The study aims at investigating the meanings and impacts of digital transformation on universities from global perpectives and also looking at how Vietnam’s universities can seize the opportunities and overcome the challenges from digital transformation.
Digital transformation is simply understood as the process whereby changes are made, so that digital developments are replacing conventional methods in order to achieve faster production and better performance. As a result, the implementation of digital transformation will have a substantial impact on our life. As universities have a mission to educate, digital transformation help them improve the mission. However, it also brings about a lot of challenges for universities. Vietnam is still in the developing stage; as such, its universities must identify and take advantage of digital transformation while avoiding its negative impacts.
Research design, approach and method:
The study uses a qualitative method to explore, analyze and assess all facets of digital transformation. Case-studies, depth-interviews, and surveys are conducted to find out the opinions toward the process of digital transformation in Vietnam’s universities. Secondary data is collected from state statistics, research papers, and universities’ published documents.
The digital transformation is strongly going on in universities all over the world, which is putting a pressure on Vietnam’s universities to change and adapt to new circumstances. While there are some disadvantages associated with digital transformation, the advantages might still outweigh the disadvantages. For example, enhancing education qualitative, making teaching and studying processes more flexible. Besides, applying digital transformation in university administration helps them manage and control daily work efficiently.
The result of the research has delivered a comprehensive overview of digital transformation while providing important lessons for universities. This recommendation is to find out that (1) the universities have to construct key strategies regarding digital transformation; (2) the university leaders should adopt new perspectives and management strategies towards digital transformation; (3) every lecturers, students and staffs should be equipped with modern technological skills; (4) the culture of strong digital leader needs to be built in every universities; (5) the legal framework system needs to be built methodically to ensure the curriculum’s outputs quality.
- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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Washington [US] : Facebook is pausing the development of Instagram Kids, a version of the photo-sharing application for children under 13.
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced the news in a blog post, saying that the Facebook-owned company would continue to work on parental-supervised experiences for younger users, reported The Verge. In the blog post and series of accompanying tweets, Mosseri blamed the critics for misunderstanding the purpose of the app.
“It was never meant for younger kids, but for tweens (aged 10-12),” he wrote. In a separate tweet, he added that news of the project “leaked way before we knew what it would be. People feared the worst, and we had few answers at that stage. It’s clear we need to take more time on this.”
Pausing work on the app comes after a leading publication posted a series of damning reports into Facebook last week.
These included a story revealing how Instagram’s own internal research suggested that the app made body issues worse for teenage girls. Facebook said these reports mischaracterised the company’s studies, but it has so far refused to release its data firsthand for critics and supporters alike to analyse.
The development of a version of Instagram aimed at younger users was widely criticised by a number of groups.
Facebook responded to this criticism by saying young people were already active online and it was better that their experience be supervised. The company also said it wouldn’t show advertising on the new app. However, critics were not convinced.
As per Variety, critics included more than 40 state attorneys general who urged Facebook to kill the project, raising red flags including research showing social media can be harmful to the emotional and mental well-being of children.


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By Paul M. Seby & Matthew B. Miller
There is no doubt that coal-based electricity is currently faced with enormous challenges—both at the national level, with the flurry of federal regulations aimed at the coal industry, and at the state level, where local governments are experimenting with dramatic changes in their energy policies. In both instances, federal courts at all levels are being called upon to evaluate the lawfulness and constitutionality of these actions. This short article focuses on that latter evaluation—invoking the most enduring of American documents—our U.S. Constitution. In our national charter lies an important mechanism that may provide important protections against efforts by one or more states to greatly experiment with dramatic changes to their energy-related laws and regulations that have adverse impacts on coal-based electricity or the movement of coal interstate.
After declining for several months, the share of U.S. electricity fueled by coal is expected to slowly begin growing when compared to the same period last year. In contrast, the share of generation from natural gas is expected to experience year-over-year declines. Based on expected temperatures and market conditions, coal is expected to surpass natural gas as the most common electricity generating fuel in December, January, and February.
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This article, originally published Feb 13, 2016, is printed here with permission of the author.
Obama wants to punish oil industry to advance climate agenda. So do Hillary, Bernie and Mike
by: Paul Driessen
If you want more of something, mandate it, subsidize it and exempt it from regulations. If you want less of something, punish it with taxes and regulations. Put more bluntly, the power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. This is the First Rule of Government.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Issue 2, 2015 of American Coal Magazine (pg. 30-32)
In February 2011, I spoke at the Fifth Annual Energy Forum and Expo in Grand Junction, CO. As I ran through my presentation, I listed some of the pressures being applied to the U.S. coal industry. I also made sure to caution the many members of the natural gas industry that were present to restrain their schadenfreude over the coal industry’s current challenges. In the best of scenarios, I warned, they would have only a few short years before they began to experience the same destructive attacks.
The February 20th edition of the EIA Henry Hub spot price graph debunks the notion of imminently stable gas prices that ANGA CEO, Marty Durbin put forward in a blog post and video last week. The impact of the extreme cold temperatures that much of North America has experienced over the past several weeks has caused Henry Hub natural gas spot rates to spike up to almost $8/MMBtu in some areas and then settle out today at just below $6/mmbtu. At $8/mmbtu, we’re seeing an approximately 400% price swing in an 18 month period. (These prices were published in the February 20th edition of the EIA’s Henry Hub spot price graph)
A new article by Clean Air Markets President, Gary Hart describes what the coal industry can expect during the second term of President Obama. Gary discusses SO2/NOx, MATS, CO2, coal ash, cooling water intake structures, the DC Court of Appeals, and natural gas.
With the onset of a second Obama administration come changes in the key “players” within the organization. There is a morphing list of people who will implement environmental and energy policy—a new group of legislators who will bring new perspectives to these issues and even a handful of new jurists who may rule on cases that could have major implications for the future utilization of coal in the U.S.
This RealClearMarkets article suggests President Obama should drop green energy for “real energy.” The article is focused on natural gas, instead of coal, but it still makes some excellent points.
The bottom line: households have far higher electricity bills using alternative energy … This disproportionately affects low-income Americans, who spend a higher share of their income on energy. Data from Labor Department released last September show those in the lowest fifth of the income distribution spend an average of 24 percent of income on energy, compared to 10 percent of income for those in the middle fifth, and 4 percent of income for those in the top fifth. …
Jason Hayes, ACC Communications Director was quoted today in an AP story discussing the changing American energy diet and CO2 emissions.
Jason Hayes, a spokesman for the American Coal Council, based in Washington, predicted cheap gas won’t last.
“Coal is going to be here for a long time. Our export markets are growing. Demand is going up around the world. Even if we decide not to use it, everybody else wants it,” he said. Hayes also said the industry expects new coal-fired power plants will be built as pollution-control technology advances: “The industry will meet the challenge” of the EPA regulations.
This article by the Australian describes the rush to use coal across the planet as renewables fail to fill gaps and European natural gas prices remain stubbornly high.
Despite high hopes for renewables, the figures show the world to be on the cusp of another fossil fuel boom.
King Coal is refusing to die and, without a significant breakthrough in technology, the biggest energy future winner looks certain to be gas. […]
Cost blow-outs have forced rooftop solar programs to be wound back, wind projects face tougher planning regimes and heightened local community opposition.


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ST. LOUIS COUNTY – St. Louis County Police officers are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect involved in a robbery of a Walgreens in South County.
A little before 10 p.m. Saturday, officers from the South County Precinct responded to the Walgreens located at 2700 Telegraph Road.
A suspect entered the business, immediately approached the cashier, and displayed a large knife. The suspect demanded the money from the cash register and took an undisclosed amount. He fled the scene on foot and was last seen running east down Jefferson Barracks Drive.
The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 5’8” tall with a thin build. At the time of the incident, he was wearing dark clothing and a ski mask.
There were no injuries in the robbery.
The St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons is investigating the incident.
Please contact the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210 to speak to investigators if you have any information regarding the incident.
To remain anonymous or potentially receive a reward, please contact CrimeStoppers at 1-866-371-TIPS(8477) if you have any information regarding the incident.


- Integrated XPS cross cut positioning system provides adjustment-free cut line indication
- Powerful 15 amp, 3,800 rpm motor delivers extended power and durability
- Exclusive Back Fence design cuts up to 2 by 16 dimensional lumber at 90-degrees, 2 by 12 at 45 degrees
- Adjustable stainless steel mitre detent plate with 10 positive stops improves productivity, ensures accuracy
- Super efficient dust collection system captures over 75-percent of dust generated
Precise Cutting Without Recalibration
The DWS780 mitre saw features extremely solid construction and the new XPS cross-cut alignment system that features an improved ultra-bright LED light, which casts a laser-like shadow on the work surface and shows the user precisely where the blade will come in contact with the material. This unique alignment system requires no recalibration over time or after changing blades, which makes it more accurate and durable than traditional laser guides.
The DWS780 mitre saw’s rugged guards; precision-machined castings, fences, and bevel system; and tough stainless steel mitre detent plate are designed to withstand the constant rigors of the job site.
The saw features a powerful 15-amp motor that delivers 3,800 RPM. For convenience, the power cord is routed through the rail in the back, eliminating interference with the slide. Additionally, the saw offers an industry-leading combination of cut capacities, which includes 6-3/4-inch vertical capacity, 7-1/2-inch nested crown capacity, 13-7/8-inch horizontal capacity, and exclusive back fence design that cuts up to a 2x16 at a 90-degree angle and 2x12 at a 45-degree angle. To simplify and maximize vertical cutting capacity, the unit includes a rail lock latch for holding the head away from the fence.
The dual bevel system is easy to see and use in job site conditions thanks to its high-visibility scale and easy angle adjustment. Bevel from zero to 49 degrees with positive stops at 0 degrees, 22.5 degrees, 33.9 degrees, 45 degrees, and 49 degrees in both right and left directions. The saw also mitres 60 degrees to the right and 50 degrees to the left and features an adjustable mitre detent plate with 10 positive stops. A cam lock mitre button allows the user to lock angles between detents. A mitre detent override is also used to allow precise angle adjustment without falling into detents.
What's in the Box
- One DEWALT DWS780 12-inch double bevel sliding compound mitre saw
- One carbide blade
- One blade wrench
- One dust bag
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Few links to useful programs:
FORC analysis (First Order Reversal Curves): Freeware program that calculates first order reversal curve (FORC) diagrams from raw FORC data files
LLG Micromagnetics Simulator: full 3-dimensional simulation tool with integrated graphics that solves the Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert-Langevin equations (with spin-torques) by relaxation and/or integration.
Magnetism@home: Magnetism@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to explore the equlibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns (first and foremost in nano-scale.
magpar: static and dynamic micromagnetic problems including uniaxial anisotropy, exchange, magnetostatic interactions and external fields.
mumax3: a GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulation program developed at the group of Prof. Van Waeyenberge at Ghent University. The code is written and maintained by Arne Vansteenkiste. A speed-up of the order of 100x compared to CPU-based simulations can easily be reached.
OOMMF: extensible public domain programs and tools for micromagnetics.


Road number 38 3199 of the South German Railroad Museum in Heilbronn (SEH) is an absolute exotic among the class 38 (Prussian P 8) locomotives. Its appearance is as it was in the first years of the DRG. As a clone of a proven class by the German State Railroad, in 1921 it went into operation still with the road number 2580 of the Prussian District in Elberfeld. In October of 1925 it was redesignated 38 3199. Shortly after that, it was sold to the Rumanian State Railways (CFR), where it ran as road number 230.106 until 1974. After being stored for over 20 years, the locomotive was acquired in April of 1998 by the SEH, and the museum had it restored to operational condition by the summer of 1999 in the Rumanian maintenance facility at Klausenburg (Cluj). By November of 1999, it was transferred under its own power to Heilbronn, where the so-called "regermanization" began to put the locomotive back into as close as possible the condition in which it was originally delivered – however with a German State Railroad road number – as well as equip it with radio and inductive magnet controls. This ended successfully with the acceptance run on May 9, 2002.
Prototype: Passenger locomotive, road number 38 3199, with a type 2´2´T21,5 box-style tender as it looked in Era II. South German Railroad Museum of Heilbronn (SEH) locomotive.


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About Nonnas Kitchen
Nonna's Kitchen provides a range of Sicilian street food using authentic Sicilian and home grown ingredients where possible. Bringing you savoury dishes, Focaccia, Sicilian Pizzas, Meatball Marinara Burgers, Pan fried garlic chicken. For those with a sweet tooth, Tiramisu Pots, Pasta Di Mandorle, Limoncello Squares & Cappuchino Slices. The Nonna has been raised in an Anglo Sicilian Household, lived in a variety of countries and brings this together with her passion for cooking.


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Afterglow Wireless Headset - How to Re-Pair the USB Transmitter
Headsets having trouble being recognized by XBOX One. – PDP
the plug on the headset cable with a clean cloth, and then reconnect the headset to the controller. afterglow universal wireless headset boast tough construction, a beautiful aesthetic design, and the signature afterglow lights. for example, if you hear an echo only when someone else talks, the problem concerns the headset connection of the person talking, not your own. remove your headset from your controller by pulling on the body of the headset plug. the headset is not intended to be used with any other device. the xbox one chat headset is designed for use with xbox one controllers only. you've followed these troubleshooting steps but your chat headset still doesn't work, it may need to be replaced.


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Publication - A PESTLE Analysis of Solar Home Systems in Refugee Camps in Rwanda
A PESTLE Analysis of Solar Home Systems in Refugee Camps in Rwanda
P.J.M.Thomas, P.Sandwell, S.J.Williamson, P.W.Harper
There is a paucity of data on energy access in refugee camps and limited analysis regarding the viability of modern energy technologies such as solar home systems in these contexts. This paper addresses these by presenting an overview of the household and small enterprise electricity access situation in Kigeme, Nyabiheke and Gihembe camps in Rwanda and through the application of a Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental (PESTLE) analysis to assess the barriers influencing solar home system provision. Most households and small enterprises currently have limited or no access to electricity and there is significant unmet demand for energy services such as mobile phone charging, lighting, and entertainment in the camps. The analysis suggests that solar home systems can meet these energy needs and identifies important factors in ensuring projects are successful. Projects should be informed by the needs and priorities of end-users and should be aligned with national policies, such as achieving Tier 2 energy access, to garner political support. Where possible, local market systems should be nurtured to normalise paying for energy products and to avoid free distribution. This can support private sector engagement and result in longer system lifetimes through improved maintenance. Energy literacy programmes can also improve awareness of solar home systems and their benefits compared to traditional sources of energy. These findings can inform practitioners on the supporting policy/financial frameworks, design requirements and implementation measures needed to maximise the benefits of future solar home system projects and help achieve electrification targets.


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Jackson is now going to a preschool twice a week and a library story time once a week, which means we’ve had an influx of arts and crafts into the house. I felt horrible throwing away his artwork after displaying it, but what else am I supposed to with it? At this rate, by the end of the year I’ll have enough crafts for an episode of Hoarders. Just imagine the narrator: “she couldn’t bear to throw away any of those hard-earned crafts, so they just kept piling up. And piling up. Until the dog, Rex, was discovered fossilized under 6 feet of artwork.” I needed to find away to prevent my life story being aired on A&E.
I needed to find away to prevent my life story from being aired on A&E. Since I consider myself an iOS “app connoisseur,” I knew there would be an app for that. I found Artkive in the app store (only $2.99) and am thrilled to have a solution for the preschool-art-storage-problem. Using your phone’s camera you snap a picture of the art (one idea is to have your child hold the art for the picture) and fill in some details. You make profiles for each child and what grade they are in (left blank for Jackson since he isn’t in “school” yet) and when you upload your art into the app, simply give a brief description of the piece. For example, the picture below was Jackson’s art while we toured a preschool. In addition to creating profiles for both of my kids, I also made a “misc” profile for the artwork that other kids give Jackson & Sidney. I love having a digital archive of the special drawings their cousins send them.
Another great feature of the app is the sharing ability. Since we live 1,200 miles away from my family, I love apps that make it easy to share my kids’ lives with them. Artkive allows you to create a sharing circle and send pieces of art, or the entire gallery, to specific people’s email address or your entire circle at once. Easy peasy. The icing on the cake of Artkive is the ability to print books (and other products soon) of your child’s art once you reach a minimum of 20 pieces. I plan on printing a book for each school year and making copies for grandparents.
Find out more about Artkive here:
Do you have any tips for saving/storing your children’s artwork? I’d love to hear them, thanks!
PS. Artkive has no idea I’m writing this, I just loved the app and knew my Mom friends would too!


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By CLARK MASON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Smart Growth, a philosophy that has helped define redevelopment in Windsor, Petaluma and even Rohnert Park, is being tweaked a bit.
Fresh from a Smart Growth conference in Charlotte, N.C., Windsor Councilwoman Debora Fudge tweeted this week that the new guiding principle is “slow development,” given the current economy.
Fudge said the realization came from a two-hour talk given by architect Andres Duany, often described as the father of New Urbanism, which is synonymous with Smart Growth and its emphasis on designing walkable, dense, mixed-use neighborhoods.
“He said we were moving into a slow development phase, a new way of looking at development based on the new economy staying with us a long time,” Fudge said. “We can’t afford to optimize things anymore.”
Fudge said “optimization” essentially represents many of the demands made on developers, especially the environmental “gold” or “platinum” certifications that denote cutting-edge practices.
“When you want people to build in your city center, you’re asking them for higher density and affordable housing,” she said. “You can’t also demand platinum LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design). People will barely be able to afford to build.”
Duany has been warning that the current environmental movement has been captured by a high-tech ethos with expensive features such as triple-glazed windows, eight inches of insulation and green roofs.
He advocates “original green,” or a more simple economic approach.
Fudge said that she and Windsor Councilman Sam Salmon, as well as Rohnert Park counterpart Jake Mackenzie, were “sort of blown away” by Duany’s talk.
Salmon on Friday described Duany as “a brilliant man. He had me spellbound.”
But he said the “slow development” title of Duany’s talk “didn’t really fit with the presentation.”
“He has always taken on environmentalists for trying to green the center of the cities and restrict development,” Salmon said. “His argument is that the most beautiful places where people want to go on vacation is all concrete.”
So how does this apply to Windsor?
Fudge noted that the new fire station across from Windsor High School just received a coveted gold LEED certification.
“It cost us a lot. Had we started today, we couldn’t have been able to do that,” she said. “We shot for the stars and we made it. I’m not sure in this economy we would have gone that far.”
There are projects in the pipeline that could be impacted by the new way of thinking. They include the mixed-use Bell Village planned on the site of the former Windsorland trailer and mobile home park, and the Target store under consideration on farmland just west of Highway 101 and north of Shiloh Road.
“We’re not going to tear out the sidewalk we just put in because we may have the wrong-colored aggregate,” Salmon said of the pedestrian path on Old Redwood Highway, next to the Bell Village site.
“Maybe we don’t do swales,” he said of a feature intended to improve drainage and reduce water runoff.
Even a new grocery store that is being talked about near the Town Green could end up being one-story, instead of the signature two-story, mixed-use buildings in the area that include a residence on the top floor.
“We’re not going to be able to make the cities and communities we want, unless we realize the economy is in the bucket — is what he’s saying,” Salmon said.


BOFEPUSU accounts smack of untidy paper trail
BOPEU President Andrew Motsamai
At least one hundred cheques are reportedly missing from the account books of the Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) and are yet to be accounted for, the union has confirmed.
The cheques whose amount has not been made public are said to have mysteriously disappeared during the reign of the former leader of the Union, Andrew Motsamai of the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU).
BOFEPUSU’s Treasurer General, Moses Monnatsie told a press conference this week that the Standard Chartered Bank’s serialised cheque book numbered in the order of 100-600 cheques has its serialised bank cheques starting from 200-300 missing. He also revealed that BOFEPUSU has requested Standard Chartered bank to assist in furnishing it with information regarding the missing cheques.
However a leaked copy of the final comments of the Auditor’s which this publication is in possession of suggests that the said missing cheques were not used.
“It was observed that the cheque books from the banks were not in serial number order. Cheques for years 2010 to 2015 ranges from 100-600. Of this 200-300 is not used,” the copy reads in part.
The leaked report further reveals that many cheque payment vouchers were not signed and authorised.
BOFEPUSU’s Treasurer General, Monnatsie did collaborate the revelation during the press conference when he said, “voucher payments whose movement cannot be traced because they might have not been signed for or authorised or have simply been siphoned also tainted the complexion of the audit.”
In addition to the missing cheques BOFEPUSU is said to have been characterised by three years of “management grounded in poor accounting principles’ from the years 2010 to 2012.
Monnatsie further said that the labour federation’s audited books from the years 2010 right through to 2012, a period the current BOPEU President Andrew Motsamai wheeled command of BOFEPUSU secretariat, have all been declared ‘not in good standing’.
Monnatsie also suggested that the lack of financial instruments used in institutional management such as a well demarcated budget as well as a finance policy further contributed to the audit, carried out by a local Audit firm rendering Motsamai’s leadership as “not in good standing”.
He further revealed that the financial audit of the said years declared, ‘not in good standing’ earned the categorisation because it has been found that there had been an improper management of ‘petty cash’ compounded by the unavailability of its summaries.
He however said that the financial audit for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 after the departure of Motsamai from the BOFEPUSU secretariat, have all been declared to be ‘in good standing’.
Nonetheless, a leaked audit report titled “Audit of the annual financial statements for the years 2011-2015” dated 06 November 2015 by a local Auditing company runs contrary to the BOFEPUSU version of audit.
The report pokes holes into BOFEPUSU’s version of events, collectivising the pitfalls of its treasury without apportioning blame along the lines of regimes.
The report states that, “our year-end audit procedure revealed that the status of the accounting records were good. However during the course of audit we noted certain matters.”
Contrary to the BOFEPUSU timeline of events the audit states that,” it is observed that proper petty cash summary were not available from April 2015 onwards.”
The same audit that revealed that the alleged missing one hundred cheques were not used observed that, “there were other receipts amounting to P101 9000 during the year.
Confirmation is needed that these are donations for specific purposes and they are not a part of subscription advances.”
Also parallel to the account of BOFEPUSU the audit says, “it was observed that budgets were not available for the period under audit and for the subsequent period.”
The Auditors further recommended that BOFEPUSU provide them with, “reconciliation of the number of unions from 2010 to 2015 and the number of members for the said period”, so as to balance the numbers.
The audit added that, “it was observed that the title deed of the (BOFEPUSU) building was in the name of UNIGEM.”It continues to say that, “it is advised that BOFEPUSU should have a bond over the plot as the title deed is not vested in its name.”
Asked to comment Monnatsie could neither deny nor confirm if the leaked audit report is an authentic BOFEPUSU audit only saying, “I know the information you are talking about but I do not know if it is our audit report because I did not give it to you.”
Monnatsie said that when procuring its building BOFEPUSU channelled its UNIGEM dividends into buying BOFEPUSU house and when they could not raise the whole amount UNIGEM supplemented the figure hence the title deed being under the name of UNIGEM. He continued that if BOFEPUSU is to take the building under its name it has to buy out UNIGEM. He also countered that contrary to the leaked audit BOFEPUSU has its own budget policy. He said that no company runs without a budget, more so that “we have employees”.
BOFEPUSU General Secretary Tobokani Rari also said that the financial audit has been presented before the federation’s National Governing Council (NGC) in its Palapye retreat the past weekend.
The BOFEPUSU National Governing Council (NGC) comprises of BOFEPUSU executive council as well as the top 4 union czars of all BOFEPUSU affiliated trade unions. He also said that the NGC which is the federation’s second highest decision making body has reaffirmed the ideal of lending support to political parties that hold an attractive outlook for the livelihoods of the workers.
He continued that contrary to media reports, all BOFEPUSU affiliates remain members in good standing-contributing and playing part in all its activities except for BOPEU which the NGC officially accepted its disaffiliation late last year.
Meanwhile BOPEU’s President, Andrew Motsamai said that he has not yet seen the BOFEPUSU audit and therefore could not respond directly to it. He said that it would be nicer and courteous of BOFEPUSU to avail the audit report to them as they once were contributors to the federation.
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The curtain came down at the PAP session with pomp and FUNFAIR
It was pomp and funfair at the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) on March 18 as the African Cultural Music and Dance Association (ACUMDA) brought the curtains down on the PAP session with a musical performance.
The occasion was the celebration of the Pan-African Parliament Day (PAP Day) which commemorated the inauguration of the first Parliament of the PAP on 18 March 2004 at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The celebrations took place at the seat of the Parliament in Midrand to “reflect on the journey” as the institution turns 19. The event sought to retrace the origin and context of the establishment of the PAP.
The celebrations included musical performances by ACUMDA and a presentation by Prof. Motshekga Mathole of the Kara Heritage Institute on “Whither Pan-Africanism, African Culture, and Heritage.”
The PAP Day was officially launched in 2021 to educate citizens about the Continental Parliament and ignite conversations about its future in line with its mandate.
The establishment of the PAP among the AU organs signalled a historical milestone and the most important development in the strengthening of the AU institutional architecture. It laid solid groundwork for democratic governance and oversight within the African Union system and provided a formal “platform for the peoples of Africa to get involved in discussions and decision-making on issues affecting the continent.”
The genesis of the PAP can be legally traced back to 1991 with the adoption of the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, adopted on June 3, 1991, in Abuja (also known as the Abuja Treaty). This treaty defined the pillars and grounds for realizing economic development and integration in Africa and called for the creation of a continental parliament, among a set of other organs, as tools for the realization of African integration and economic development. This call was reemphasized in the Sirte Declaration of 1999, which called for the accelerated implementation of the provisions of the Abuja Treaty.
PAP celebrated its ten years of existence in March 2014, a year which coincided with the adoption, on June 27, 2014, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, of the Protocol to the Constitutive Act of the African Union relating to the Pan-African Parliament (PAP Malabo Protocol), which, once in force, will transform the PAP into a legislative body of the AU. It requires a minimum of 28 countries to ratify it before it comes into force.
Therefore, the commemoration of PAP Day serves as a reminder to the decision-makers around the continent to fulfil their commitment to the PAP by ratifying its Protocol, 19 years after sanctioning its establishment. 14 AU member states have so far ratified the Malabo Protocol.
The celebrations of PAP Day coincided with the closing ceremony of the sitting of the PAP Permanent Committees and other organs. The Sitting took place in Midrand, South Africa under the AU theme for 2023, “Accelerating the implementation of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)” from 6 to 17 March 2023.
PAP President, H.E. Chief Fortune Charumbira, expressed appreciation to members for their commitment during the two-week engagement.
“We have come to the end of our program, and it is appropriate that we end on a high note with the PAP Day celebrations.
“We will, upon your return to your respective countries, ensure that the work achieved over the past two weeks is transmitted to the national level for the benefit of our citizens,” concluded H.E. Chief Charumbira.
PAP needs to priorities land issues-Prof Mathole
Prof Motshekga Mathole of the Kara Heritage Institute has advised the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) to prioritise the land issue in the continent if they are to remain relevant.
He said this while addressing the Plenary during the commemoration of PAP Day held at the PAP Chambers in Midrand, South Africa
The PAP Day was officially launched in 2021 to commemorate the inauguration of the first Parliament on 18 March 2004 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Intended as a platform for people of all African states to be involved in discussions and decision-making on problems and challenges facing the continent.
In a speech titled “Whither Pan-Africanism, African Culture, and Heritage,” Prof Mathole stated that for PAP to remain relevant, it must address the continent’s key land dilemma, which he feels is the core cause of all problems plaguing the continent
“If this Parliament is to be taken seriously, ownership of land and natural resources must be prioritized at the national and continental levels. Africans are not poor; they are impoverished by imperialist nations that continue to hold African land and natural resources,” said Prof Mathole.
“When African leaders took power from colonialists, they had to cope with poverty, unemployment, and other issues, but they ignored land issues. That is why Africa as a whole is poor today. Because our land and minerals are still in the hands of colonizers, Africa must rely on Ukraine for food and Europe for medical.”
Prof Mathole believes that the organization of the masses is critical as cultural revolution is the only solution to Africa’s most problems.
“We need a cultural revolution for Africa, and that revolution can only occur if the masses and people are organized. First, we need a council of African monarchs since they are the keepers of African arts, culture, and heritage. We need an African traditional health practitioners council because there is no ailment on the planet that cannot be healed by Africans; the only problem is that Africans do not harvest and process their own herbs,” he said.
Meanwhile, PAP President, H.E. Hon Chief Fortune Charumbira expressed satisfaction with the commitment displayed throughout the two-week period and said the PAP Day celebrations were befitting curtains down to the august event.
“On this high note of our two-week engagement, it is appropriate that we close our program on a high note with PAP celebrations, and I would like to thank everyone for your commitment, and please continue to be committed,” said H.E Hon Chief Charumbira.
PAP’s purpose as set out in Article 17 of the African Union Constitutive Act, is “to ensure the full participation of African people in the development and economic integration of the continent”. As it stands, the mandate of the Parliament extends to consultation and playing an advisory and oversight role for all AU organs pending the ratification protocol.
Also known as the Malabo Protocol, the Protocol to the consultative act of the AU relating to the PAP was adopted at the Assembly of Heads of State and Government summit in June 2014 and is intended to extend the powers of the PAP into a fully-fledged legislative organ. It requires a minimum of 28 countries to ratify it before it comes into force.
The commemoration of the PAP Day, therefore, serves as a reminder to the decision-makers around the continent to fulfil their commitment to the PAP by ratifying its Protocol, 17 years after sanctioning its establishment. 14 AU member states have so far ratified the Malabo Protocol.
The PAP Day commemoration also aims to educate citizens about the PAP and ignite conversations about the future of the continental Parliament in line with its mandate.
DPP drops Kably threat to kill case
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for Letlhakeng/Lephephe Liakat Kably has welcomed the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP)’s decision not to prosecute BDP councillor, Meshack Tshenyego who allegedly threatened to kill him. However, the legislator has warned that should anything happen to his life, the state and the courts will have to account.
In an interview with this publication, Kablay said he has heard that the DPP has declined to prosecute Tshenyego in a case in which he threatened to kill him adding that the reasons he received are that there was not enough evidence to prosecute. “I am fine and at peace with the decision not to prosecute over evidential deficits but I must warn that should anything happen to my life both the DPP and the Magistrate will have to account,” Kablay said.
Connectedly, Kably said he has made peace with Tshenyego, “we have made peace and he even called me where upon we agreed to work for the party and bury the hatchet”.
The DPP reportedly entered into a Nolle Prosequi in the matter, meaning that no action would be taken against the former Letlhakeng Sub-district council chairperson and currently councillor for Matshwabisi.
According to the charge sheet before the Court, councilor Tshenyego on July 8th, 2022 allegedly threatened MP Kably by indirectly uttering the following words to nominatedcouncilor Anderson Molebogi Mathibe, “Mosadi wa ga Liakat le ban aba gagwe ba tsile go lela, Mosadi wame le banake le bone ba tsile go lela. E tla re re mo meeting, ka re tsena meeting mmogo, ke tla mo tlolela a bo ke mmolaya.”
Loosely translated this means, Liakat’s wife and children are going to shed tears and my wife and kids will shed tears too. I will jump on him and kill him during a meeting.
Mathibe is said to have recorded the meeting and forwarded it to Kably who reported the matter to the police.
In a notice to the Magistrate Court to have the case against Tshenyego, acting director of Public Prosecutions, Wesson Manchwe cited the nolle prosequi by the director of public prosecution in terms of section 51 A (30) of the Constitution and section 10 of the criminal procedure and evidence act (CAP 08:02) laws of Botswana as reasons for dropping the charges.
A nolle prosequi is a formal notice of abandonment by a plaintiff or prosecutor of all or part of a suit or action.
“In pursuance of my powers under section 51 A (300 of the Constitution and section 10 of the criminal procedure and evidence act (CAP 08:02) laws of Botswana, I do hereby stop and discontinue criminal proceedings against the accused Meshack Tshenyego in the Kweneng Administrative District, CR.No.1077/07/2022 being the case of the State vs Tshenyego,” said Manchwe. The acting director had drafted the notice dropping the charges on 13th day of March 2023.
The case then resumed before the Molepolole Magistrate Solomon Setshedi on the 14th of March 2023. The Magistrate issued an order directing “that matters be withdrawn with prejudice to the State, accused is acquitted and discharged.”


I traveled to another country and forgot to change the time of my Nikon camera to local time.
So after returning I used exiftool(
exiftool -AllDates+=1 *.*) to change time of all the photos but in Finder, "Date Created" changes to present day.
How can I get real created date displayed in Finder?
I understand a new file is created with exiftool so Date Created is present date.
Exif data after shifting the date:
File Modification Date/Time : 2018:08:24 09:44:32-03:00 File Access Date/Time : 2018:08:24 09:48:10-03:00 File Inode Change Date/Time : 2018:08:24 09:44:32-03:00 Modify Date : 2018:08:19 18:46:46 Date/Time Original : 2018:08:19 18:46:46 Create Date : 2018:08:19 18:46:46
I don't get why Apple does not have a "Date/Time Original" or "Create Date" tab in Finder


EADS to build three Armed Aerial Scout 72X demonstrators
EADS North America announced today that it will develop three AAS-72X helicopters to demonstrate the performance, capabilities and maturity of this rotary-wing aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Armed Aerial Scout mission.
The money will be provided by the company an its team members American Eurocopter and Lockheed Martin. The first AAS-72X Technical Demonstration Aircraft (TDA) will be operational in late 2010, and will be used for mission equipment and weapon system integration, performance testing and survivability validations.
“This commitment is a significant investment and continues our entrepreneurial approach to meeting our customers’ demanding needs. These aircraft will ensure the AAS-72X provides a fully capable, compliant Armed Aerial Scout solution for America’s warfighters at the earliest possible date,” said EADS North America CEO Sean O’Keefe.
The AAS-72X is derived from the UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter, itself a version of the civil EC145, which is going back to the BK 117 of the 1970s. Production of the AAS-72X would take place at the Columbus, Miss., works of American Eurocopter.


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Ales & Lagers
The bold and creative award-winning handcrafted ales and lagers brewed on site bring locals and travelers from all over. There are a dozen award-winning microbrews on tap, and we even brew our own root beer. Interested in trying them all? Order a sample tray for just $1.25 per 4 ounce sample. The world of craft beer is evolving and expanding. For this reason, we offer up about six year-round beers along with 6-7 rotating seasonals.
Owd Finley Stout
Dry Irish style stout. Firm and full of dark roasted malts, flaked barley and maritime region hops. Sláinte. AbV. 5.4%, 39 IBUs.
Maggie Imperial IPA
Our Imperial IPA uses all English malted barley, rigorously hopped with Stryian golding, Fuggles & East Kent Golding hops. 9.9%, 88 IBUs.
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Ole Eagle Porter
Based on the famous London Brown Porters of yesteryear. This brew soars with flavor as it warms. AbV 5.8%, 22 IBUs.
Enjoy this deep golden amber lager brew that is made with the finest Bavarian Pils, and Munich and Vienna malts. We add just enough hops to balance out the malty flavors. AbV 5.2% 22 IBUs
Saison de Fitz
Our late friend Tom Fitzpatrick was a great brewer and person. To honor our buddy, we have brewed up his award winning recipe Farmhouse Ale. Brewed with European malts, hops and a blend of yeasts. This is a traditional saison that Tom would want you to enjoy. Cheers! AbV 6.7% 27 IBUs
A true American Lager. Well balanced, crisp, clean and very refreshing with a hint of hop flavor and aroma at the finish. AbV 5.2% 18 IBUs
Grumpy Crik Pale Ale
Hoppy ale that is hopped in the mash, the brewkettle, and in the tank. With a beautiful aroma and deep copper color, expect this ale to satisfy your thirst for hops. AbV. 5.3%, 40 IBUs.
A Farmhouse Ale powered by the sun. Rich local honey from a local farm is added at the finish. AbV 5.2% 14 IBUs
Brewed with Pacific Northwest barley and blended with Columbus, Cascade, Northern Brewer, and Amarillo hops. AbV 7.2%, 66 IBUs
Our Hefeweizen has a very appealing fruity flavor and aroma resembling banana, sweet apple and pear. AbV 6.5% 30 IBUs
Erik the Red
A malty amber ale brew with a wide variety of barley malt and choice American & German hops. AbV 6.5% 30 IBUs

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Those of us in the trenches resisting the never-ending assault on the Bill of Rights that has taken place over the past year weren’t surprised by the move made by the city of San Jose, California. Despite the millions of new gun owners and polling that shows that no one wants what the controllers are selling, they persist in trying new ways of depriving everyone of their common-sense civil rights. They are a danger to individual liberty and it is critically important to defeat them at every turn.
While it may be controversial, everyone needs to understand that the far-left is inherently against the concept of liberty, hence we use the term anti-liberty left. There is a mountain of evidence from the past year that proves the point. They have been attacking every individual right with unrelenting ferocity. They just haven’t had as much success going after the right of self-defense as they have with our other freedoms. This means they had to come up with new ways of incrementally depriving people of their liberty, at least when it comes to the second amendment.
Context is important in realizing how far we have moved down the slippery slope the past few years. Recall that it was near scandalous that YouTube banned certain gun channels after the Parkland, Florida mass murder tragedy in 2018. Back then, the controllers at Google decided that certain content was verboten. It made a lot of waves at the time, but things have settled down. Now content creators in the self-defense realm work within the censorship confines and life goes on.
The point is that censorship has become normalized. In an extra twist of irony, YouTube banned Dan Bongino for a video which he entitled ‘Why I’m Leaving YouTube‘ and it hardly made a blip on the media radar. We accept these affronts to freedom of speech as normal with Twitter and other social media platforms regularly banning people for thoughtcrime. Even worse, the media has written headlines that imply that said suppression of liberty is the correct course of action and that not following this suppression is ‘evading’ it.
Conservatives must make it clear that we are on the freedom side of the ledger. Power or control by the government is the only logical metric that makes sense in configuring the political spectrum with the political right signifying minimal governmental control and the political left signifying maximum governmental control, placing those who advocate individual liberty and limited government on the right side of the political spectrum. While those who advocate collective rights and authoritarian government are on the left side. Given that politics is based on the actions of imperfect beings, this is the best definitional model of the spectrum since it sets the positions of the common ideologies along its two-dimensional span from right to left.
This means that conservatives, libertarians, and true liberals belong on the pro-freedom right while those who demand authoritarian control belong on the anti-liberty left. This would be socialists, fascists, and Democrats. While it may be controversial to assert this fact, the definitions and logical reality bear this out.
Thus, it makes perfect sense that the far left would be striving toward authoritarian control while the freedom community on the right is resisting this control. The past year has borne this out. Despite their many false narratives and obfuscations, those on the authoritarian left side of the spectrum have tirelessly worked to shred the Bill of Rights and deprive the people of their basic civil liberties. Pro-freedom patriots have spent much of their time defending these rights in a never-ending battle with the far side of the political spectrum.
It’s been a sad detriment to freedom that the anti-liberty far left has had many successes in suppressing free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom to assemble, primarily through fear brought on by the pandemic. They also exploited COVID and other crises to attack the right to privacy and other civil liberties, all the while bizarrely projecting that the threat to these freedoms emanated from the right. They of course maintained their constant attacks against the people’s right of self-defense. But the circumstances of the crime and civil unrest reminded everyone that serious circumstances meant we didn’t have the time for the usual silliness of the gun controllers.
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Gun controllers used to cite polling from 5 -10 years ago to justify what they called ‘universal’ background checks, that is, universal gun registration. They now ignore polls that show support for gun control sinking like a stone. They used to go after certain aspects of guns or try to ban certain types of firearms. This was because most gun owners were in the freedom community on the right. The intention was to gradually reduce the number of guns to zero.
The change in tactics reflects the fact that now, many on their side are buying guns, openly encouraged by the media to pick up a weapon and get involved. The new tactics reflect the need for selective enforcement. In other words, they need to know who is armed, where they are stored and they need a way to selectively confiscate guns. Therefore, they obsess over universal gun registration, safe storage laws, and unconstitutional gun confiscation orders.
In the case of the city of San Jose, they have gone one better. They are going to force people to pay just to exercise a common-sense civil right and have them register their property at the same time in addition to their usual tactic of making gun ownership increasingly difficult, expensive, and embarrassing. The sinister reason for safe storage laws is to make sure people have their guns in one place for easy confiscation. The change in tactics by the anti-liberty left’s controller cadres reflects the fact that they have gone from trying to take all the guns, to just taking them from the pro-freedom right.
They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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Squash, oh, how I love fresh squash!!! And now is the time of the year to take advantage of all the great squash tastes. I usually buy butternut squash but have been experimenting with acorn squash that has a wonderful flavor too.
I was so excited to get two big bags full of crispy, juicy apples from some good friends over the weekend. I got busy and started peeling and slicing the apples to use in various recipes. I first filled my crockpot with apples to make applesauce.
One day I was hungry for spaghetti so I made a pot full of spaghetti sauce. After dinner, I divided the sauce and put it into freezer containers to use for future meals. The sauce sure came in handy for a dinner I made last week for Chicken Parmesan.


Xilinx Inc. has announced the Vivado Design Suite. It enables an IP and system centric next generation design environment. Especially meant for the next decade of ‘All-Programmable’ devices, it also accelerates the integration and implementation up to 4X. And, why now? That’s because the all-programmable devices enable programmable systems ‘integration.
There are system integration bottlenecks, such as design and IP re-use, integrating algorithmic and RTL level IP, mixing DSP, embedded, connectivity and logic, and verification of blocks and “systems”.
There are implementation bottlenecks as well, such as hierarchical chip planning, multi-domain and multi-die physical optimization, predictable ‘design’ vs. ‘timing’ closure, and late ECOs and rippling effect of changes.
Vivado accelerates productivity up to 4X. The design suite elements include an integrated design environment, has a shared scalable data model, is scalable to 100 million gates, and debug and analysis. It shares design information between implementation steps that ensures fast convergence and timing closure. This enables highly efficient memory utilization. Also, it is scalable to future families, that are greater than 10 million logic cells (100 million gates) and enables cross-probing across the entire design.
Vivado also enables packaging designs into system-level IP for re-use. You can share IP within your team, project or company. Any 3rd party IP is delivered with a common look and feel. You can re-use IP at any point in the implementation process. The IP can be source, placed, or placed and routed.


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Newcastle United have taken 12 points from their last six matches, two more than in their previous 18 combined, in a dramatic turnaround that points to the tactical achievements of Eddie Howe and the impact of his January signings. But if we want to know what exactly has changed, and why Newcastle suddenly look like a mid-table club ready to take on all-comers, we need to isolate the last four games – when the ‘Jonjo-Joe-Joe’ era began.
The two matches before that, 1-1 draws with Manchester United and Watford, were distinctly different from what we have seen in the four since, when Howe has settled on a midfield combination (Jonjo Shelvey, Joe Willock, and Joelinton) and aggressive tactical style that was not present in these two games. In fact, up until then Newcastle had scarcely improved from the confused football of Howe’s predecessor Steve Bruce.
Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
During the second half of the 2020-21 campaign, Bruce began to shift towards a more attacking strategy, abandoning the ultra-deep defensive shape for a system that took greater care of possession and hoped to create chances in a more expansive fashion.
It didn’t work. Instead, Newcastle were caught between a rock and a hard place, lacking the tactical sophistication or player quality to create chances while leaving themselves more open to conceding chances. Worse still, things quickly descended into what looked like a free-for-all, with the defensive line dropping instinctively (after years of Bruce and Rafael Benítez instruction) while the midfield and attacking lines pushed on, creating a hopeless decompression between the lines that made Newcastle easy to beat.
That followed Newcastle into the current season, which is why Howe always looked like a savvy appointment. As Bournemouth manager, he began with a progressive and expansive ideology before gradually sinking into a deeper shape with a greater focus on counter attacks (their average possession share dropped season on season during their five-year stint in the top flight, from 51% to 43%). Consequently, his capacity to coach in both styles made Howe an attractive transitional choice as Newcastle attempt to move from backs-to-the-wall defending to the assertive stylings of a top club.
And yet things barely improved under Howe over the first few months. Newcastle continued to look a little lost, caught between styles and falling back on their conservative, withdrawn instincts. Although comparing Bruce’s eight league games this season to the following 12 reveals Howe’s team pressed slightly more often (19.8 team presses per game, up from 15.5), where their pressures took place shows Howe was struggling to get Newcastle to sit higher up:
|Premier League 2021-22
|Bruce’s First Eight Games
|Howe’s First 12 Games
|Average pressures in defensive third (% of total pressures)
|Average pressures in middle third (% of total pressures)
|Average pressures in attacking third (% of total pressures)
Last Four Games: Midfield Rejig and Pressure Applied
But in their last four matches, Newcastle have improved significantly, applying more pressure in the middle third of the pitch and using a new central midfield combination to win the ball higher – in turn leading to more opportunities for direct football into the final third. The below pressure graphics show that shift:
While one important explanation for the shift has been the presence of Kieran Trippier and Dan Burn in defence, helping to raise the defensive line and ensure Newcastle confidently push higher up the pitch, the primary reason is Howe’s selection of Jonjo Shelvey at the base of midfield with Joe Willock and Joelinton either side as No. 8s.
Shelvey’s passing range has been crucial in getting the Newcastle forwards on the ball, but more importantly, Willock and Joelinton have been applying constant pressure to their opposite numbers, winning the midfield battle to provide a launching pad for their team. Comparing averages over the last four league matches to the preceding 20, Newcastle are recording more recoveries (62, up from 54), fouls conceded (12.8, up from 10.2), possessions won in the final third (4.5, up from 3.7), and interceptions (12.8, up from 9.3).
Tellingly, the number of passes they’re allowing their opponents before making a defensive action (PPDA) is down dramatically from 19.0 to 12.1 and their number of high turnovers is up from 3.4 to 4.0 per game. A mixture of a higher defensive line and a more combative central midfield has seen Newcastle pinch the ball more effectively.
The wins over Everton and Aston Villa provide the best examples. André Gomes and Allan, followed by John McGinn and Jacob Ramsey, were targeted with excellent pressure from Newcastle’s dual No. 8s to force concessions as Everton and Villa tried and failed to pass out from the back. Willock and Joelinton made 21 tackles and committed 14 fouls between them across these two games.
Once the ball was won, Howe’s side took advantage of the attacking transition by feeding Allan Saint-Maximin – or by relying on their new press-resistant 8s to carry the ball forward. It is both defensively and offensively that Willock and Joelinton have pushed Newcastle up the pitch and into more assertive, commanding positions, as their carry stats comparing before and after this four-game ‘Jonjo-Joe-Joe’ period show:
Moving Joelinton into this deeper role has been a revelation for Howe, but it has also created room for Willock to rediscover his best form: with a partner alongside him to provide an outlet, and with Newcastle pushing further up the pitch, the former Arsenal midfielder now has the time and space to advance into the penalty area – hence scoring his first goal of the season last time out.
Upturn Leads to Improvement in Attacking Metrics
With Willock and Joelinton moving Newcastle up the pitch, and Trippier and Burn dragging the defensive line up behind to ensure they remain compressed (unlike those confused months under Bruce), inevitably the Magpies have seen their defensive record improve, sheerly because the ball is further from their goal for longer. Again, comparing averages over the last four league matches to the preceding 20, Newcastle’s shots faced has gone down (from 15.9 to 11.5) while their xGA has fallen (from 1.9 to 0.8).
Another unsurprising knock-on effect is a dramatic improvement in their attacking numbers, as the table below shows:
Of course, once the midfield battle has been won, everything then goes through Saint-Maximin, who is enjoying getting more transitional space in higher areas of the pitch. He ranks fourth in the Premier League for carries per 90 (19) and, with Adama Traoré now at Barcelona, he is No. 1 in the division for average carry progress (8.27m). He is also top for chance-creating carries with 53, nine more than the next-best player Mohamed Salah.
Winning the ball higher up the pitch means releasing Saint-Maximin earlier, and it also means a greater emphasis on a direct route to goal. By so often attacking in transition after a midfield recovery, Newcastle are now moving more vertically.
Their number of 10+ open-play pass sequences has dropped from 4.6 per game to 2.5 per game over the last four matches and their build-up attacks are down from 1.0 to 0.5 per game, while the average metres per second progressed up the pitch during their sequences has risen from 1.5 to 1.9 and the average progress of their sequences has gone up from 10.9 metres to 11.7.
In summary, Newcastle’s newfound aggression through midfield and a higher defensive line has led to a more piercing form of attack, suiting Saint-Maximin’s talents and laying a new tactical foundation under Howe. For the sudden change in fortune following such a slow start, Howe will be thankful for the industrious work of his ‘Jonjo-Joe-Joe’ midfield trio.

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