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The Wall of Daren
The wall that encircles an island
There is nothing beyond the Wall, lad. Nothing we should be bothering ourselves with, anyway. Mark my words, that Wall was built for a reason, and I doubt it was to keep us in.Stretching for several hundred miles around the perimeter of the island, the Wall of Daren is both a wonder and a bane to the people who live in its shadow. As far as the Darenites are concerned, the Wall has always existed. It was built before the Renewal, and the people woke up to its existence.
The Wall runs around the entirety of the island of Daren, clinging to the cliffs and coastline. It stands over thirty metres tall, and scholars estimate its walls to be around eight metres thick. It is crafted from some kind of hard grey stone with no visible seams. It appears as if the wall was carved in one single piece, though scholars argue that such construction would be impossible.
Protection or Containment?The overwhelming majority of Darenites believe the Wall was built to protect them from the outside world. This is reflected in their worship of Reus, the God of the Wall, who they believe guards them from external threats. This belief was affirmed in 3092 EA, when something from outside began attacking the Wall. Though to the Darenites the source of the attack is a mystery, it was actually an Eriasian war ship , who reacted aggressively to a lack of response to their hails. When the first cannonball hit the wall, however, something in the Wall sparked to life. There was a loud crack that echoed across the whole island. Faintly purple arcane energy erupted from the top of the Wall, covering the whole island in a crackling, shifting dome. The dome lasted for five days and nights. Since then, no one has ever attacked the island again. Though generally the Wall is accepted to be a structure of protection, sceptics believe that the Wall was actually built to keep the Darenites in. They generally cite the Gates, which the Darenites cannot open if they wanted to, that scholars have spent lifetimes trying to figure out.
The God of the WallMost Darenites worship a deity they call Reus, the God of the Wall, and have done for thousands of years. Reus is associated with fortitude, protection, and physical strength. The religion is actually split into two distinct sects. Traditionally, Reus has been depicted as an entity separate from the Wall. It is said he strides around the perimeter of the island, taller than the Wall itself, and keeping an eye out for outside threats. He is portayed as a large, muscular man with a braided beard and a crown of stone. Just over a thousand years ago, a follower of Reus claimed to have visions of the Wall itself, breathing as though it had lungs. This split the religion, and the second sect believe that Reus is the Wall - and that the Wall is alive.
Curiosity is a common human trait, so it is no surprise that generations of Darenites have wanted to explore the world beyond the Wall. Whilst in Daren, the idea of crossing the Wall is blasphemous, that has not been enough to dissuade more adventurous youths from attempting it. The first hurdle is climbing the Wall. As the surface is smooth, with no hand-holds, this is normally enough to prevent would-be adventurers. In over five thousand years, less than twenty people have reached the top of the Wall. Tales from the top mostly describe endless waters, though several have also told stories of land visible from Daren. Only one person - a fifteen-year-old boy named Halas - never returned from the top of the Wall. However, no one on Daren actually knows what happened to him.


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The German translation of A Lifetime of Love
Translator, editor and publisher: Margitta Warnecke
Front cover drawing: Erin Walsh (Australia)
illustrating drawings: Minako Vieweg
Print: BoD Norderstedt Germany
Layout, b&w photography and photos of Leonard Nimoy: Margitta Warnecke
die wir lieben
und auch Fremde
traurige und staubige Straßen entlang
deine Hand berührt meine
und tröstet mich
Liebe ist der Anfang
und das Ende
Meine Liebe zu dir
ist kein Geschenk
Sie ist ein Geschenk
- Leonard Nimoy
are the poems which introduce the others in "A Lifetime of Love"
In his foreword Leonard Nimoy shares a memory of an incident where his life has been saved when he was a boy and ends with the words:
"Still, I consider to this day, that my life was saved by someone who reached out a hand in a moment of caring. It was my first such rescue, but not my last."
This book is even lighter than "Warmed by Love". The choice of poetry allows the reader to join in caring relationships, precious moments, love and depth and really celebrates
"The dreams and hopes
Which have filled the souls of
All decent men and women".
Including excellent new poetry, it is based on "Warmed by Love"
- A Lifetime of Love
- A Time to Give
- We Are All Children Searching For Love
- You And I
- For Any Pain I Have Caused You
- For All Mankind
- When We Are Apart
- Will I Think of You?
- In the Garden of My Love
- I Guess I'm Just An Old Fashioned Spaceman

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c (mm) 561 Trailing edge angle [theta] ([degrees]) 36.5[degrees] Opening angle of the leading edge [psi] 24[degrees] ([degrees]) Table 2: Crossflow fan blade geometric parameters.
2) using digital vernier to an accuracy of 0.1 mm: total length (mm), wing chord
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Standard measures were taken on all captured birds including mass, wing chord
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An airplane's forward and aft CG limits may be represented by their position relative to and as a percentage of the wing chord
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While there is some flexibility in mounting location--perhaps positioning the sensor so it can be accessed from an existing inspection port in the wing--its accuracy is dependant on it being mounted at 1 percent total wing chord
Scale factor 1:6 Wing span 83.4 cm Wing root chord 66.7 cm Middle wing span 41.4 cm Aspect ratio 1.25 Anhedral angle 13[degrees] Length of WIG craft 1.2m Breadth of WIG craft 0.13 m Tail wing span 0.78 m Tail wing chord
What are the actual cooling temperatures governing heat transfer, in the presence of variable frictional heating along the wing chord
of a 777 at Mach 0.80, between the cold air outside and the fuel inside the wing tanks?
Measurements of head length ([+ or -] 0.1 mm), wing chord
length ([+ or -] 1.0 mm), and weight ([+ or -] 5.0 g) were recorded and used to calculate the BCI.
It also had the length of its wings measured, recorded as wing chord
length, or the distance between the bird's wrist to the tip of the longest primary feather.
The following parameters were taken for calculation: L=2m; r0=1[m.sup.2]/s; [[GAMMA].sub.0].01L; b=0.1L; p--over the range from 0.5L to 10L, where b is the wing chord
We measured the wing chord
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Innovo Publishing Signs Beloved and Best-Selling Author, Joyce Rogers
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 14, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Innovo Publishing announces it has signed Joyce Rogers to a publishing deal with Chosen to Be a Minister's Wife, scheduled for release in February 2013. Mrs. Rogers, the wife of legendary minister, Dr. Adrian Rogers, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, shares personal insights and experiences as a minister's wife of 54 years.
"Being a minister's wife is a calling from God. I was married to Adrian for 54 years before the Lord took him home. We grew closer to God and to each other over those years, but it wasn't always roses. Through Chosen to be a Minister's Wife, I hope to help prepare the next generation of ministers' wives by sharing my experiences -- both joyful and difficult -- and the insights the Lord taught me."
Chosen to be a Minister's Wife provides personal and unique insights for wives of ministers and those considering such as call. It is an invaluable insider's view for ministers and their families and friends of the joys and challenges faced by ministers' wives. Chosen to be a Minister's Wife will be released globally in February 2013.
"In Chosen to be a Minister's Wife, Joyce has penned a very personal, transparent, and biblically based volume," said Dr. Bart Dahmer, President of Innovo Publishing. "I believe her experiences and counsel are invaluable not only for ministers' wives but for their husbands, too. Her insights are eye-opening and applicable to those in ministry as well as to Christian couples in all walks of life."
Joyce Rogers is an author, speaker, and wife of the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, pastor for 32 years of the well-known Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, and the three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention. A pioneer of women's ministry in the Southern Baptist Convention and a Bible teacher for 60 years, Joyce loves encouraging and challenging others in their Christian walk through speaking to ministers' wives, widows, and women of all ages. She is a committed homemaker and mother of five children, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of seven.
Innovo Publishing LLC is a family-owned, privately held Christian publisher based near Memphis, Tennessee. Innovo publishes a select group of authors each season, covering a variety of Christian genres including fiction, spiritual growth, current events, biblical study, biography, devotionals, and Bibles. Visit www.innovopublishing.com to learn more.

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Kevin Ollie, UConn’s National Championship-winning wunderkind, the hand-picked successor to Jim Calhoun and once the hottest name in the coaching market has been fired by the Huskies.
A move that would’ve seemed stunning two years ago was all but inevitable after the 45-year-old oversaw three straight subpar seasons in Storrs.
Perhaps the most unexpected part of this move is UConn’s decision to fire Ollie with cause, which in all likelihood will be contested by Ollie’s camp. UConn will probably argue an NCAA investigation into Ollie’s recruiting practices justifies the firing.
Ollie stands to earn a $10.6 million buyout if he is fired without cause after signing a five-year extension in 2016, per CTPost.com.
UConn has missed the NCAA Tournament in three of the last four years after winning the title in 2014 with the likes of Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatwright. This year, the Huskies (14-18, 7-11) were bounced from the American Athletic Conference Tournament in the first round to SMU. Despite recruiting numerous four-star players over the past few years, Ollie’s coaching style left a lot to be desired. His isolation-heavy offense made it easy for defenses to key in on the Huskies’ guards.
After winning the 2014 title, Ollie was considered a rising NBA coaching prospect with numerous rumors flying of college and pro teams trying to pry him away from his alma mater to no avail.
It’s a stunning fall for a young coach who achieved numerous accolades and respect in his first two years on the job, but has gone 75-61 since. Whether or not UConn is able to fire Ollie with cause may determine how quickly he is able to land another job on the bench.
In any case, he’ll have a lot of work to do to regain the national stature he had only a few years ago.
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We’d all love to live in a world where children are insulated from sadness and suffering. We’d all love to be able to project an invisible shield around them and prevent life’s inequities from damaging their vulnerable bodies and minds. At least, until they’ve developed the coping mechanisms to deal with them.
But we know that life is not always kind, even to the relatively privileged (that is to say, most of us in the western world). We know that even the most well behaved and loving children will experience hardships, ordeals and trauma beyond the occasional grazed knee or sprained ankle.
We know that they may encounter name-calling, bullying or emotional abuse at the hands of their peers. We know that their important friendships can turn sour. We know that teachers can lose their tempers and in their stress and frustration say things that weigh heavily on our kids’ minds. We know that try as we might, we parents can’t always insulate our kids from crisis as we help them navigate life’s path.
What we can do, however, is know how to help them through a crisis, whatever the form it takes.
How to help your child through crisis
Know where to go to get them medical attention
If your child is injured or falls ill quickly, you need to get them fast access to the medical care and attention they need. This doesn’t have to be life-threatening for your child to need access to urgent care specialists.
Learning some first aid and having a well-stocked first aid kit in your home can help you to deliver on-the spot care, but knowing where and how to get fast access to a professional is also extremely important.
Keep calm and show them nothing but love
If your child has gotten into a fight with another kid, fallen afoul of a bully or been mistreated by an adult, the mother lion in you will no doubt come out roaring.
But be wary of letting your anger and indignation show in front of your child. They don’t need an avenging angel right now. They need calm, stability and love. Show them nothing else.
Don’t sweep it under the rug
By all means encourage kids to move on from trauma and grow after having encountered it. But at the same time, be wary of sweeping traumatic events and crises under the rug.
While you may be keen to help them move on and rebuild their emotional infrastructure, this may prevent them from fully coming to terms with what’s happened.
Listen to them
It’s perfectly understandable to sit your child down in times of crisis and set out your manifesto for how you’re going to deal with it. But this isn’t always the most useful strategy. It can cause them to feel swept up in what’s happened and rob them of any feeling of control over their circumstances. Make sure that they feel listened to and able to communicate their feelings in their own words.
Encourage them to write or draw about it
Finally, not all children are able to clearly articulate their thoughts or feelings after a traumatic event. However, they may find it therapeutic to draw or write about their feelings. If your child is struggling to open up to you, giving them a little opportunity for creative expression can go a long way.

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The Baroque Album (4 Flutes)
The Baroque Album (4 Flutes) Transcribed by David H. Bailey, Published by Falls House Press.
The Baroque Album continues where The Renaissance Album ended, including 25 quartets, providing modern flute players with a wealth of music that spans the rich musical period known as the Baroque. While including music by the giants of the period (Corelli, Purcell, Vivaldi, Telemann, Handel and Bach), it also contains many pieces by less well-known but no less-competent composers . Continuing the tradition of music for 4 C flutes begun with The Renaissance Album, these works have been arranged to fit nicely within the flute's range and still retain as much of the original voicings and textures as possible.
Score and 4 C flute parts.
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Development trend of woodworking machinery in the furniture industry:
Improve the comprehensive utilization rate of wood
Due to the dwindling forest resources both domestically and worldwide, the shortage of high-quality raw materials has become the main reason restricting the development of the timber industry. Maximizing the utilization of catalogs is the main task of the wood industry. Developing various types of wood-based panel products, improving their quality and application range is the most effective way to utilize wood resources efficiently.
Improve production efficiency and automation
There are two ways to improve production efficiency: one is to shorten the processing time, and the other is to shorten the auxiliary time. To shorten the processing time, in addition to increasing the cutting speed and increasing the feed rate, the main measure is to concentrate the process.
People-oriented, protect the environment
To achieve green environmental protection, the Chinese government promotes the conversion of farmland to forests, natural forest protection projects, the construction of two major forestry systems and the construction of six major projects, all of which are wise to protect the environment; the development of the wood processing industry must follow two principles, the first is to protect the environment , Minimize the request for natural resources, and minimize the pollution to the environment; secondly, the wood processing products must be harmless to the human body or the degree of harmfulness must be controlled to a minimum. Therefore, the future viable woodworking machinery and wood industry products must be designed according to ergonomics and meet the requirements of environmental protection.
More imitation of metalworking methods
From the history of woodworking machinery development worldwide, wood processing methods tend to assimilate with metal processing methods. Can we boldly predict that in the future wood will be reshaped like forged steel ingots. More imitation of metalworking means.
High-tech intervention in woodworking machinery
Promoting automation and intelligence No matter the application of CNC processing technology in woodworking machinery or the popularization of computer technology, it indicates that high-tech is advancing in various technical fields.
Benefit from scale
Judging from the current wood processing enterprises or woodworking machinery and equipment, there is a trend of large-scale and large-scale. There is still a large market for backward and simple woodworking machinery in my country at this stage, and many wood processing enterprises are still implementing labor-intensive business models. In the future, wood processing enterprises will inevitably follow the path of industrialization, large-scale and large-scale development.
With the increasing emphasis on energy saving and consumption reduction, the trend of lightweight woodworking machinery in the furniture industry is very obvious. All aspects of furniture processing machinery have been widely used in domestic furniture production enterprises, but they still need to cooperate with the use of furniture information systems. The information age has come, and only by keeping pace with the times can we quickly adapt to internal and external changes.


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Nabard has hailed the increased focus on irrigation and dairy sectors in the Budget which has hiked the corpus of long term irrigation fund by another Rs 20,000 crore, taking the total fund size to Rs 40,000 crore. “The Budget focuses a lot on the rural and agriculture sector. Though the thrust on digital continues, reforms announced in the Budget will generate employment and help in doubling farmers income,” chairman Harsh Kumar Bhanwala told PTI.
The FM also announced a dedicated micro irrigation fund which will be set up in Nabard to achieve the goal, ‘per drop more crop’, with an initial corpus of Rs 5,000 crore.
“Through these two measures, we increase the area under irrigation and improve the efficiency of irrigation. Improving irrigation efficiency is critical for agriculture since we have only 2.4 per cent of the world’s total geographical area an 18 per cent of the world’s population, but only 4 per cent of the world’s total fresh water resources,” he said.
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The minister announced setting up of a dairy processing and infrastructure development fund at Nabard with a corpus of Rs 8,000 crore over three years. The fund will start with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore.
“Nabard has always been opining that development of dairy is critical to bringing sustainability to agriculture. There are millions of examples where farmers have shown their ability to manage inclement weather and market vagaries by investing in dairy as an alternate mode of income,” he said.
The dairy cooperative network includes 254 cooperative milk processing units, 177 milk unions covering 346 districts and over 1,55,634 village-level societies.
About 15.1 million farmers have been brought under the ambit of village level dairy corporative societies up to March 2013. Still, about 80 per cent of this milk is being collected and distributed by unorganised sector in the form of ‘doodhiyas’, local sweet shops.
“The allocation for dairy development will allow Nabard to finance modernisation of milk processing units, encourage new bulk-milk cooling units, improve milk production and increasing modernisation of breeding facilities,” he said.
The budget said the government will support Nabard for computerisation and integration of all 63,000 functional primary agriculture credit societies (PACS) with the core banking system of district central cooperative banks. This will be done in three years at an estimated cost of Rs 1,900 crore, with financial participation from state governments.
“A majority of the PACS are not on the digital platform. Computerisation of PACS will bring in more transparency in their working,” he said.

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Haliie & Will wed April 4th. The wedding was beautiful. I especially loved the details such as the natural flowers by Jon Martinez at Bloom. The Ceremony was held at Canterbury United Methodist and the reception followed at Birmingham Country Club.
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Family of Wallingford couple hurt in I-91 crash 'optimistic' about chance for recovery
WALLINGFORD -- The children of the town's former Superintendent of Schools are hoping for a Christmas miracle and are optimistic that their parents, who were badly injured in a Saturday night car crash on Interstate 91, can make a full recovery, according to a close family friend.
Sharon Wilson, 61, remains in critical condition at Yale-New Haven Hospital, but has shown small signs of making some progress, said Nick Economopoulos, a retired teacher who worked with Wilson's husband Dale for years.
Dale Wilson, who was driving the couple's Toyota Camry at the time the accident occurred, has two broken bones in his neck, a broken hip and one arm where the bones were shattered by the force of the impact in the two car collision, Economopoulos said.
"His priorities for the holidays changed in an instant," Economopoulos said of Dale Wilson. "Now all he wants to be able to do is to get into his wife's hospital room, to see how she's doing and for her to get well."
Sharon Wilson suffered a traumatic brain trauma, according to a website set up by the couple's children to update friends on she and her husband's condition.
But Economopoulos said that Sharon Wilson has been able to follow the movements of her children around the room with her eyes and give visitors a thumbs up.
Friends and family had gathered Tuesday at Church of the Resurrection on Hope Hill Road to struggle with their grief over the accident.
Nearly 200 people turned out at the Roman Catholic church for a prayer vigil for the Wilsons.
A 30-year-old Wallingford man, Angel Alvarado, is facing numerous charges for allegedly having caused the accident by swerving a small dump truck he was driving into the path of Wilson's Toyota Camry. The charges against Alvarado include driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, making an unsafe lane change and driving with his 4-year-old son in the vehicle without proper child restraint.
Alvarado was arraigned in Superior Court in Meriden on Monday and was being held Wednesday in lieu of $7,500 bail, according to court records. His next court date in Jan. 13.

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CLASS 7A STATE BASEBALL:
Shutout, errors propel Bryant
May 15, 2012
Nathan Rutherford did not need much help, but error prone Bentonville gave the Bryant pitcher plenty of it in the Class 7A state semifinals Monday afternoon in North Little Rock.
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Published: 21-09-2012 / Plays: 34,797 / Rating: 2.88 - 17 votesPenalty ShootOut 2012
For the soccer freaks there's more penalty shooting, in this shoot out competition game from Agame. Play as field player to take a shot at the goal, or play as goal keeper and defend the goal.
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The 18-game NFL regular season sees another record fall. In the Dolphins’ first drive of today’s game against the Patriots, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa found his favorite target, receiver Jaylen Waddle, three times, pushing Waddle’s rookie-season total receptions to 102 and cementing that Waddle would end the day with an NFL record.
Waddle finished the game with 5 catches for only 27 yards, but those first three catches resulted in Waddle passing Anquan Boldin for most receptions in a single season for a rookie in NFL history. Boldin’s record of 101 receptions has stood since 2003. Waddle came into the game with 99 catches, so his 5 today make the new mark to beat 104.
Like most records this season, this will have a bit of an asterisk on it, since the record was reached in an 18-week season, as opposed to a 17-week season. While Waddle did technically catch more balls in the same amount of games as Boldin, Waddle did have the benefit of a week of rest outside the traditional bye week when he missed their Week 15 game against the Jets on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
Waddle was joined today by T.J. Watt who tied Michael Strahan’s record for most sacks in a single season with 22.5. While Watt also had the luxury of being able to miss a game and still play the same amount of games that Strahan did back in 2001, Watt actually accomplished his total while only appearing in 15 games this year. This is sure to be a continuing trend in the coming years as players are given an additional opportunity to pad their stats.

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Costa Rica News – There was something off the menu you could order at a New York Pizzeria……
Police in Costa Rica arrested seven men suspected of smuggling several tons of cocaine to the United States and Europe, authorities said on Wednesday, part of a crime ring linked to the Italian mafia allegedly run out of a New York pizzeria.
Five Costa Ricans and two Cubans were arrested over the course of ten raids, Costa Rica’s Attorney General Jorge Chavarria told a news conference, adding that three local businesses sent cocaine hidden within the sheets of cardboard boxes of exported goods including pineapple and cassava.
“We’ve been working with Italian prosecutors for months, including two personal meetings, to attack this branch of the mafia organization ‘Ndrangheta,” said Chavarria, adding that properties have also been confiscated, but no cash yet.
Also know as the Calabrian mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta is considered to be Europe’s biggest cocaine importer by Italian authorities.
Chavarria said that since late last year, nearly 3.7 tons of cocaine shipped from Costa Rica has been seized in the United States, the Netherlands and Belgium. The bulk of the cocaine seized was a 3.5-ton haul in the Netherlands last year, Chavarria noted.
The Costa Rican bust is related to the March arrest of an Italian-born New York city pizzeria owner Gregorio Gigliotti, who investigators consider the kingpin of the network.
Two months later, Italian police rounded up 13 Italians with links to organized crime for running the European side of the drug ring.
Gigliotti, along with his wife and son, have pleaded not guilty and U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie in Brooklyn, New York, last week scheduled the trial to begin April 4. They face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted.
Among the Italians arrested was a man investigators described as Gigliotti’s ambassador and courier. He traveled extensively between Italy, the United States and Costa Rica to set up the drug deals, according to the Italian arrest warrant.
Gigliotti and his Italian ambassador are closely tied to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, the Italian arrest warrant said.
Helped by its flourishing drug business, the ‘Ndrangheta has taken over from its more storied Sicilian cousin Cosa Nostra as Italy’s most powerful crime group and has replaced it as the main partner of New York’s traditional mafia families.
From Reuters, Edited by Dan Stevens

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Determined “to warm both hands before the fire of life,” he was prone to ignore the prejudices and even the decencies of his fellow-citizens, now incurring their displeasure, and now again, as one who had greatly testified for truth and freedom, being taken back into favour and forgiven.
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It was no wonder that the critics of animadverted on Byron’s “communion” with the Lakers.
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Across one of the vaults is a beam black with age, on which we were informed that the condemned were formerly executed. It was not Byron’s way to invent byrn authorities, but rather to give his references with some pride and particularity, and it is possible that this unacknowledged and hitherto unverified “account” was supplied by some literary acquaintance, who failed to explain that his information was prizoner property.
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Proposed amendments honor sacrifice and stability
It's hard to know where to draw the line on special tax breaks for selected property owners who might need or deserve help. The Legislature once again is offering more targeted benefits in proposed constitutional amendments 2, 9 and 11. These are just what they appear, straightforward tax gifts to veterans disabled by combat injury, to the spouses of veterans and first-responders killed in the line of duty, and to long-time homeowners over 65 who haven't moved in a generation and who have low incomes. The appeal of these measures is obvious. The Legislature was unanimous in putting them on the ballot. We recommend voting yes on all three. But there are some valid reasons to vote no that are worth considering.Amendment 2 fixes a flaw in an earlier amendment approved by voters to give a property tax break to combat-disabled veterans 65 and older who happened to live in Florida when they entered the military. The new change extends the tax exemption, with the percentage discounted equal to the percentage of the veteran's disability, to all veterans regardless of their former address. We opposed the earlier version of this amendment in 2006, largely because of the inequity of basing a tax break on whether someone was a Florida resident many years ago. If one wounded veteran who owns a Florida home deserves tax help, they all do. If this amendment passes, more questions will follow. What about the surviving spouse of a combat-injured veteran? What about injuries that happened just outside of combat? What about disabled heroes who own a vacation home? Voters tired of the increasing complexity of tax laws and the steady expansion of the constitution can justify voting no, even though they honor the sacrifice of wounded veterans. Amendment 9 raises similar issues. It would allow the Legislature to pass a law to give the surviving spouse of a military veteran or first-responder a tax-free homestead, with a few limitations. The veteran must have died from service-related causes while on active duty. Likewise, a first-responder must have been killed while responding. A first-responder is a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician or correctional officer. Voters can't be sure exactly what the new law would say. What if a spouse remarries? Should there be a limit on the value of the property? What about the spouses of first-responders killed in other states — can they relocate to Florida with a lifetime exemption on taxes? Can voters expect more amendments later to include other public servants killed while doing their duty? Amendment 11 allows the Legislature to allow counties and cities to grant an additional homestead tax exemption to a low-income senior who has lived in the same house a very long time. The exemption is limited to a home value of $250,000 or less. The same person must have owned and lived in the home for at least 25 years and must be at least 65. Low income is currently defined as $20,000 a year. The main problem with this amendment is the unfairness of the long residency requirement. Some of the neediest homeowners have been forced to move or downsize. And the law considers annual income, not total assets. It would create an incentive to keep household income below $20,000. It could also create a disincentive to move. The Tribune supports a yes vote on Amendment 2, Amendment 9 and Amendment 11, with reservations. Each piece is defensible, but adding more layers of complexity to Florida's confusing property-tax laws is nothing to celebrate.
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Community and family mourn loss of Benton 4-H leader
"Call back later — it’s not bedtime at grandma’s house!”
That was the response that Sarah Hibbs got at 8:30 p.m. when she called her mother’s house in King’s Valley to say good night to her children.
Hibbs called again at 10:30 p.m. and learned the kids were still awake munching away on popcorn in grandma’s bed.
“I told my mom she was crazy, with a 2- and 4-year-old eating in her bed — she would be sure to find popcorn in it for weeks,” Hibbs recalled.
Kathy Wells shrugged off her daughter’s warning, laughed and said, “That’s OK.”
Days later, the memory of that phone call hit Hibbs.
“When we changed her sheets a few days after the accident, they were full of popcorn,” she said.
Katherine Elaine Wells, 52, died in a car accident June 20 near Blodgett as she and her son were traveling west on Highway 20 to meet Hibbs to drop off Wells’ grandkids.
The first woman to graduate from the diesel mechanic program at Linn-Benton Community College, Wells loved to hunt, work on cars, ride her motorcycle, take care of her farm and animals, and help her husband in his many volunteer positions. Wells has touched countless lives as a leader in the Benton County 4-H program, a mother to any and all children she met, and a life-long friend to others.
“Her door was always open to the kids, whether they were neighborhood kids or out-of-neighborhood kids,” said Rick Wells, her husband of 33 years. “They called her Aunt Kathy.”
Wells’ nieces and nephews, neighbor kids and all of her own children’s friends lived at the house at one point or another.
“She was like an angel rescuing my brother and I from a broken home every weekend, Christmas break and summers for many years,” her nephew, Terry Lee Moon, said. “She gave everyone a home.”
When the neighbor kids’ mom died, Wells took them in. If she spotted a child who needed extra love, she never hesitated to dole out hugs or words of encouragement.
When Wells worked for E.D. Hughes Excavating in Philomath about 16 years ago, she noticed her co-worker, a mechanic, began bringing his 13-year-old daughter, Jo, to work. The girl’s parents had just divorced and she had no where else to go.
“Kathy felt I would enjoy meeting her family and hanging out with them rather than spending 12-hour days working with them and commuting to Salem and back each day,” recalled Jo Brown.
Wells helped Brown adjust to her parents’ divorce. She acted like a second mother — but one who changes out engines and butchers wild game.
“Kathy changed my life and is the best friend a young girl could ask for,” Brown said. “She taught me how to grease heavy equipment, skin a deer and then butcher it and how to replace an engine in a vehicle. There was not one thing she couldn’t do if she needed or wanted to.”
Wells’ work ethic and love of children made being a 4-H leader with her husband a great fit. They began when their children were old enough to join and have continued for the past 21 years.
“Many times Kathy would be working two jobs, and she would come in to the extension office between jobs to pick up supplies for the next 4-H club meeting,” said Tammy Skubinna, who retired two years ago as the Benton County 4-H agent. “4-H is a big family — and Kathy and Rick are a major part of that.”
In addition to the hundreds of kids who Wells has mentored, she has left behind life-long friends.
“She was a level-headed, no-nonsense kind of gal with a mischievous side to her,” said Rita Bell, who met Wells in middle school, and says their lives have intertwined sporadically throughout the years.
Hibbs, of Chitwood, remembers her mother’s mischievous side, too.
“Spray her in the yard with the water hose, she’s going to pack you to the river and drop you in,” she said.
Wells was born in Corvallis, attended school in Azalea and Wilbur, and finished up high school in Philomath.
As recent as the weekend before the accident, Wells helped at a celebration of life gathering for Bell’s father. She was the first to arrive and the last to leave, Bell said.
Though Wells’ husband, three grown daughters and 16-year-old son knew what she had meant to them, they had no idea how many more people in the community knew and loved her.
“She touched so many lives in such a positive way,” her husband, Rick Wells, said. “It was so overwhelming at the service. I had no idea so many people would be there.”
The First Congregational United Church of Christ in Corvallis was standing-room only during the funeral on June 30. When the hallway and entrance became crowded shoulder-to-shoulder, people began to gather under the covered area outside.
The community has also provided an astonishing amount of support in the form of an endless supply of meals, cards, phone calls, donations and prayers, daughter Sarah Hibbs said. After all the good her parents have done, it feels right to her.
“All the people that walked through their doors for help — it was returned, by a million,” she said.
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating the June 20 car accident. It is still not completely clear why the driver, Wells’ 16-year-old son, Austin Wells, moved into the eastbound lane where an on-coming vehicle was approaching. By the time he turned back into his lane, the driver in the on-coming vehicle had reacted by moving into the westbound lane. The vehicles crashed and Wells suffered the only serious injury.
In her memory, Wells’ family plans to plant a Japanese maple tree at the Benton County Fairgrounds. They hope to also get permission to place a bench beside the tree.
While the family heals over the loss of their matriarch, they take comfort in knowing that Kathy Wells lives on in her kids and all those children she has helped along the way.
Daughter Mary Robeson, of Toledo, will continue to be involved in 4-H, especially when her children get old enough to participate.
“I’ve always enjoyed it, and I’m looking forward to being a 4-H mom,” she said.
Hibbs sees herself in her mother everyday. Not too long ago, her husband questioned her when she went out to help someone in a broken-down vehicle at the end of her road. It was the middle of the night and her husband was away working.
“All of that, we get from my mom,” Hibbs said. “She would help anybody, anytime.”


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Shaw to Trial HotSpot 2.0(October 27, 2011)
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/27/11 -- Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX:SJR.B) (NYSE:SJR) ("Shaw") announced today that it will conduct a technical trial of HotSpot 2.0 in conjunction with Cisco Systems ("Cisco") who was recently selected as Shaw's Wi-Fi technology partner. HotSpot 2.0 will represent a significant improvement in Wi-Fi accessibility and security.
With HotSpot 2.0 Shaw's broadband Wi-Fi-enabled customers will automatically connect and authenticate to the best Wi-Fi network without having to manage complex configuration settings on their devices. Security is a major concern for Shaw and our customers. To address this, HotSpot 2.0 enables encryption ensuring that Wi-Fi access is secure and customers' data is protected.
The trial will be conducted in several Shaw locations and will test, among other things, automatic and secure authentication for Shaw customers equipped with HotSpot 2.0 devices (e.g. smartphones and tablets). The results of the trial will be presented by Cisco at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
"This is another important step in the development of our Wi-Fi strategy. HotSpot 2.0 brings together a common set of standards that deliver a 4G like end-user experience to Wi-Fi authentication, security, and roaming and is further confirmation of the significance of Wi-Fi in the broadband wireless ecosystem," said Peter Bissonnette, President, Shaw Communications Inc.
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The main opposition leader in Belarus has fled to Lithuania ‘for the sake of her children’ amid deadly clashes after losing a disputed election to Alexander Lukashenko.
Protesters fought police with stones and fireworks and were hit with rubber bullets and tear gas on the streets of Minsk as they accused strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko of stealing 80 per cent of the election vote to win a sixth term in power.
Lukashenko’s 37-year-old challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya also claimed victory in the poll and there were concerns for her safety after she failed to make contact with her campaign team last night.
However, the foreign minister of Lithuania said this morning that Tikhanovskaya had crossed the border into the neighbouring ex-Soviet republic of Lithuania.
In a video posted to Youtube before she left, Tikhanobskaya said: ‘I thought that this campaign had really steeled me and given me so much strength that I could cope with anything.
‘But I guess I’m still the same weak woman that I was.’
‘I took a very difficult decision, I took it completely independently,’ she says.
‘My friends, relatives, campaign, Sergey [husband] could not influence it in any way and I know that many will understand me, many will condemn me, many will hate me.
‘But I wouldn’t wish this choice on anyone. So please look after yourselves, not one life is worth what is happening now. Children are the most important things in our lives.’
In chaotic scenes last night, police used tear gas and stun grenades to quell the protests which erupted on the streets of the capital.
‘Too many people are against Lukashenko,’ Pavel, a 34-year-old protester, said. ‘Our goal is to depose Lukashenko. He is not worthy of being president.’
Economic damage caused by coronavirus – which Lukashenko swaggeringly dismissed as ‘psychosis’ – has caused widespread anger in the country.
At one flashpoint in Minsk, protesters used sacks, buckets and metal barriers to build their own makeshift barricades.
A man died when an explosive device went off in his hand Monday night, police said, confirming the first casualty of the post-election protests.
‘One of the protesters tried to throw an unidentified explosive device at members of law enforcement. It exploded in his hand,’ the interior ministry said.
A police spokeswoman could not immediately say how many people had been injured in Monday’s clashes.
Tikhanovskaya had said earlier she would not take part in the demonstrations to avoid ‘provocations.’
‘The authorities should think about how to peacefully hand over power to us,’ she told reporters.
Tikhanovskaya decided to run for president after the authorities jailed her husband, popular blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky, and barred him from contesting.
Her campaign galvanised the opposition, presenting the most serious challenge to ‘Europe’s last dictator’ Lukashenko, 65, who has ruled Belarus since 1994.
Tikhanouskaya’s campaign rallies drew some of the biggest crowds since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevicius was among those to voice fears for Tikhanovskaya’s welfare after failing to make contact with her on Monday night.
However, early this morning he announced that Tikhanovskaya was safe and had crossed the border into Lithuania, which has a history of granting refuge to opposition figures from Belarus and Russia.
Concern had grown after Tikhanovskaya went quiet following a three-hour meeting at the Central Election Commission headquarters on Monday.
Tikhanovskaya lodged an official complaint after official results claimed Lukashenko had won more than 80 per cent of the vote, with Tikhanovskaya on 10 per cent.
The White House said on Monday it was ‘deeply concerned’ about ‘intimidation of opposition candidates and the detention of peaceful protesters’ in Belarus.
European governments also questioned the results, with Germany voicing ‘strong doubts’ about the conduct of the vote and France urging restraint.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Lukashenko, a longtime ally, as did Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Lukashenko was defiant, vowing he would not allow Belarus to be ‘torn apart.’
‘We recorded calls from abroad. There were calls from Poland, Britain and the Czech Republic, they were directing our – forgive me – sheep,’ Lukashenko said.
Police said they detained some 3,000 people, around 1,000 of them in Minsk, after a first night of clashes on Sunday.
Young protesters were seen covered in blood, lying immobile on the ground or being dragged away by police.
The interior ministry said dozens were injured in the capital, accusing some protesters of sparking confrontations.
The Belarusian Investigative Committee said it had opened 21 criminal probes into ‘mass unrest’ and using violence against police and detained more than 80 people.
‘I am ashamed of what interior ministry forces did, I served in these forces,’ Sergei, a 45-year-old sheet metal worker, said.


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Note: this was done in Classic, but as the bug also exists in Remastered, this might help for that, as well.
People have been running into a problem in HW1R where all the objectives get completed in SuperNova Station, but the level doesn’t finish. It just sits there.
The problem isn’t in the Remastering, I don’t think. I believe it’s in the original game. I just completed the level in Classic. All the enemy ships are destroyed, but the objective to destroy them refuses to be marked as complete.
The only difference between Remastered and Classic with this bug is whether or not the objective indicates as finished. The result is the same: the level never ends, so it needs to be restarted from the beginning.
EDIT: Ok, I think I figured out what’s going on. Upon attacking the station, one of my Ion Frigates decided to leave. I went out into sensors manager, and discovered that one of my ships was flying off into nowhereland (seriously; if the station is north and the Mothership is south, my Ion started flying up (+Z) and east). But, I couldn’t focus on it! I could select it through my Groups, but I could not force the camera to focus on it, so I could not even look at it. I only knew it was an Ion from the selection indicator in the upper right.
It would not surprise me if one of the defense ships is taking a similar action, flying off into nowhere - and thus avoiding being killed, preventing the mission from finishing.
EDIT 2: Failed to complete twice, started at the beginning both times. Both times, I followed the main/central path (the one with the Heavy Cruiser) all the way to the end, then came down to the station, resulting in my approaching the station from the side. Both times, the mission failed to complete. The third time, instead, after encountering the heavy cruiser (loaded a save here, did not start over), I immediately moved to a point just “behind” the station (protected side), without following the dust. This resulted in me approaching the station from the side which appears to be intended (the side with all the Defenders). Approaching the station from this main face (instead of from the side) seems to have fixed my problem, because the mission completed successfully this time.


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Yes, our family bought and traded books when I was in school, as well. George Wallace passed a law, which required the state to provide books for grades 1-12. That law still stands. The problem now lies with failure within the State (i.e. taxpayers) to fund education so that school systems can purchase the necessary number of books, especially when new books are adopted and entire sets of replacement books have to be bought. School systems have manipulated scheduling for years, teachers have created worksheets, and some have violated copyright laws so that students can access basic information that inadequate funding prevents students from having.
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In Ghana, there are many universities that provide a wide range of programs in which any eligible student can enroll.
However, with the shift in the digital age to IT, the students have also realized the change and are moving in that section in numbers.
The study and design of computer systems with a software-centric primary focus is known as information technology. The potential for information technology graduates is expanding as a result of the computer industry’s exceptional development and efficiency gains. Computers are used in nearly every single key aspect of the economy.
Goal of the Information Technology Program
The application and management of information technology are the main topics of the four-year Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BIT) degree. Students study BIT through a practical, reality-based approach that requires them to apply what they have learned in class to real-world issues.
Students are instructed in the study of computer systems and applications through a project-based curriculum. In addition to studying programming languages, algorithms, and information structures, students also learn how to process data or information in order to solve problems. Both in research and the marketplace, the discipline is used.
Computer systems and networks, information environments, interaction design, scientific computing, software design, and software information systems are among the courses studied in the course of the study.
The goal of the course is to give students the abilities and qualities necessary for professional practice and leadership.
Entry Requirements into Universities That Offer Information Technology
The entry requirements for the Universities are similar because they all operate under the National Accreditation Board and so they cannot go below the set standard.
Course entry requirements
(i) WASSCE/SSSCE/NECO holders: Applicants must have six  passes (A1-C6/A-D) in all subjects, including English Language and Mathematics and a minimum of C6 in three (3) passes in any elective subjects. Or
(ii) G.C.E. ‘O’ Level Credit in five  subjects (including Mathematics & English Language), plus G.C.E. ‘A’ Level passes in any two (2) subjects. Or
(iii) GBCE Candidates: credit passes (A-C) in five (5) subjects comprising three (3) core subjects including English Language and Mathematics plus two (2) relevant elective subjects.
MATURE STUDENTS’ ENTRY ROUTE
i. Applicants must be at least 25 years old, and would have to show proof of age with birth certificate or any legitimate documentary proof of date of birth, which is at least 5 years old at the time of application.
ii. Applicant must also pass Mature Students’ Entrance Examinations conducted by the University in (English Language, Mathematics and Aptitude Test).
Note: In some cases, students with grade D7 are considered for admission in the private universities when there is enough vacancy for them to fill in.
Universities That Offer Information Technology In Ghana
The list below are the Universities That Offer Information Technology In Ghana.
- Ashesi University
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology KNUST
- University Of Ghana
- Catholic University College, Fiapre.
- University for Development Studies(Wa Campus), Tamale.
- Garden City University College, Kumasi.
- Central University College, Accra.
- Ghana Technology University College, Tesano.
- Christian Service University College, Santasi
- Accra Institute of Technology.
- Valley View University
- Ghana Baptist University
- Knutsford University College, Accra
- Methodist University College Ghana, Accra
- Pentecost University College, Accra


text: Wei, S. in the ubiquitin-proteasome system. FBXL19 can also be acetylated, and enhancing acetylation of FBXL19 by a deacetylase inhibitor reduces FBXL19 ubiquitination levels. Acetylation-mimic FBXL19 mutant exhibits a longer half-life than wild type. An acetyltransferase CBP catalyzes acetylation of FBXL19. Inhibition or down-regulation of CBP reduces FBXL19 stability, whereas it is Astragaloside II increased in CBP-overexpressing cells. Taken together, the data indicate that CBP-mediated acetylation reduces ubiquitination and stabilizes FBXL19. Further, we demonstrate that FBXL19 Astragaloside II targets small GTPase Cdc42 for its ubiquitination and degradation, whereas this effect is reversed by inhibition of CBP, suggesting that CBP increases the effect of SCF FBXL19 E3 ligase through acetylation and stabilization of FBXL19. Our study reveals a new molecular model for regulation of SCF E3 ligase function by acetylation and stabilization of its subunit F-box protein.Wei, J., Dong, S., Yao, K., Martinez, M. F. Y. M., Fleisher, P. R., Zhao, Y., Ma, H., Zhao, J. Histone acetyltransferase CBP promotes function of SCF FBXL19 ubiquitin E3 ligase Astragaloside II by acetylation and stabilization of its F-box protein subunit. its F-box domain and substrate binding motif, respectively (5C7). Although the biological roles of F-box proteins in many cellular responses have been demonstrated, the regulation of F-box protein stability remains unclear. Increasing evidence suggests that F-box proteins are autoubiquinated (8C10) or ubiquitinated by other ubiquitin E3 ligases (11), thus leading to their degradation in the proteasome system. Galan and Peter (8) revealed that 3 F-box proteins (Grr1p, Cdc4p, and Met30p) were degraded in the proteasome by an autocatalytic mechanism. Chen (11) and Liu (20) demonstrated that acetylation reduces p53 ubiquitination through competing for the same lysine residues at the C terminus of p53. Protein acetylation is catalyzed by acetyltransferases, such as P300, CBP, and PCAF. P300 stabilizes Smad7 (21) and Skp2 (22) by inducing their ubiquitination. CBP/P300-mediated acetylation stabilizes p53 (20). We have shown that Astragaloside II CBP is a substrate of SCF FBXL19 E3 ligase (14). Overexpression of FBXL19 reduces CBP stability and mitigates CBP-mediated histone acetylation (14). In this study, Astragaloside II we demonstrate that FBXL19 is unstable and is degraded in the ubiquitin-proteasome system. FBXL19 stability is increased by CBP-mediated acetylation. Further, we show that FBXL19 targets Cdc42 for its degradation. This study reveals a new molecular mechanism by which a substrate stabilizes the F-box protein post-translational modification. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cells and reagents Murine lung epithelial (MLE)12 cells [American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, MA, USA] were cultured with medium supplemented with hydrocortisone, insulin, transferrin, estrogen, selenium; 10% fetal bovine serum; and antibiotics at 37C in a 5% CO2 incubator. A549 cells (ATCC) were cultured in Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI) 1640 medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum and antibiotics. V5 antibody, mammalian expressional plasmid pcDNA3.1/His-V5-topo, and Top10 competent cells were from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA. Antibodies against acetylated lysine and ubiquitin were from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA). FBXL19 antibody was purchased from Abgent (San Diego, CA, USA). Cycloheximide, leupeptin, wild type was inserted into pCDNA3.1/V5-His-Topo vector as described elsewhere (13). Site-directed mutagenesis was performed to generate FBXL19 mutants according to the manufacturers instructions (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). Overexpression of plasmids or cellular transfection of shRNA in MLE12 cells was performed using the Lonza Nucleofector System according to the manufacturers protocol. Immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation Cells grown on 6-well plates or 100-mm dishes PRKM8IPL were washed with cold PBS, collected in the cell lysis buffer, and subjected to sonication. An equal amount of cell lysates (20 g) was subjected to 10% SDS-PAGE, electrotransferred to membranes, and immunoblotted as standard protocol. For immunoprecipitation, equal amounts of cell lysates (1 mg) were incubated with an antibody overnight at 4C followed by the addition of 40 l of protein A/G agarose and incubation for 2 h at 4C. The immunoprecipitated complex was washed 3 times with 1% Triton X-100 in ice-cold PBS and analyzed by immunoblotting. ubiquitin assay A modified immunoprecipitation (IP) protocol under denaturing conditions was performed. After cells were treated under the indicated conditions, cells were washed and collected with cold PBS. After centrifuging at 1000 rpm for 5 min, the supernatant was removed, and 50C80 l of 2% SDS lysis buffer containing 1 l of ubiquitin aldehyde and 1 l of test. A value of 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS FBXL19 degradation is mediated in the ubiquitin-proteasome system F-box is a component of SCF E3 ligase, which plays a critical role in the recognition of specific substrates (6). Our previous.


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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesperson
For Immediate Release: November 15, 2013
Initial Planning Meeting for the Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience
The Government of Switzerland hosted the initial planning meeting to develop the Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience, November 14–15. The Fund will mobilize public and private sector resources to support local, community-based efforts to counter violent extremism.
This two-day event, held in Lucerne, was facilitated by Carol Bellamy, the former Executive Director of UNICEF and former Chair of the Global Partnership for Education. Some 40 officials and experts from around the world met to begin discussions on the mandate, organizational architecture, and legal foundation of the Fund. Discussions are expected to continue over the coming months with a view to having the Fund become operational by mid-2014.
The Fund was announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at a Global Counterterrorism Forum Ministerial meeting in New York on September 27. Once established, the Fund is expected to provide and monitor the implementation of grants to local, grass-roots organizations for community-based projects on education, vocational training, civic engagement, media, and women’s advocacy that target those individuals or groups most vulnerable to radicalization or recruitment by violent extremists.

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Hydrostatic pressure challenge at Maasdeltatunnel
As with many tunnels that pass a channel or river, the influence of groundwater pressure – hydrostatic pressure – on the whole construction is significant. To ensure the vertical balance in the most critical construction phase, MagnaDense provides a temporary extra downward force. This temporary aspect makes this application unique as the extra ballast required is needed for a short period. In this case, the design allows the high-density aggregate to be in place for only a specific time span. MagnaDense will be taken out once the tunnel is finished. Usually, constructions for vertical balance are designed to withstand the most critical phase but will be left in the ground for many decades.
Many industries often use our natural mineral as ballast material because it provides more weight in less volume, resulting in space-saving. Our MagnaDense grades have particle densities ranging from 4.8 up to 5.1 t/m3. Bulk densities are easily twice as high as regular sand. In this particular application, where MagnaDense is placed underwater with a fall pipe vessel after which the water is drained out, it provides a bulk density of around 3.5t/m3 with no other compaction than achieved by the water passing through it!
Every meter of MagnaDense provides an additional 35 kN of downward force. Imagine how much slimmer the permanent construction can be designed as a result of that. An outstanding achievement concerning sustainability!
Our high-density aggregate is used in the Maasdeltatunnel to counterbalance hydrostatic pressure.
Once the tunnel is finished, the MagnaDense will be taken out and reused. This sustainable solution, both from a financial and an environmental perspective, is unique, and as far as we are aware, has never been done as such anywhere in the world!Unique cooperation
“We were contacted in September 2020 regarding the required temporary ballast for this tunnel. It perfectly matched our focus on promoting temporary ballast as an innovative way to reduce concrete and piles”, says Leon Hendriks, Business Development Manager Magnetite at LKAB Minerals. In June and October 2021, 12,000 tonnes of MagnaDense were supplied to the project site.
Work in progress – using and reclaiming high-density aggregate
Leon continues, “We believe the method of temporary ballast to reduce the volume of underwater concrete and/or piles can be used more often. As always, innovations like this require out of the box thinking. You need the right type of people to understand where to use this even more. We know it’s important to discuss this at the early stages of a project already. In this particular project, placing and taking out the MagnaDense was done using a known process; only the way of applying the minerals – temporarily – was a major difference.”
Project with reclaimed MagnaDense
This tunnelling project in the Netherlands clarifies that sustainability is possible in more ways than ever imagined before; all it needed was some creative thinking.
There has been one other previous project in which MagnaDense was reclaimed and reused. That was with the Draugen offshore project, where the high-density mineral was recycled after 20 years of use in seawater.
“We see every time that out-of-the-box and forward-thinking is the best solution to encourage sustainable use of our materials. Sharing our knowledge and supporting our customers the best way we can, elevates the construction industry to look for a more sustainable solution for their projects encompassing our materials”, shares Anders Lundgren, Chief Sustainability Officer at LKAB Minerals.
Important infrastructure project for Rotterdam
The BAAK construction consortium (Ballast Nedam, DEME and Macquarie) is building the Blankenburg connection on behalf of Rijkswaterstaat. This new highway, the A24, connects the A20 at Vlaardingen with the A15 at Rozenburg. The connection will reduce the pressure on the roads around Rotterdam and the Rotterdam port area. The Maasdeltatunnel is part of the Blankenburg connection. This tunnel continues under the Scheur, part of the Nieuwe Waterweg, at a depth of -26NAP. The A24 will open to traffic in 2024.
Project owner: Dutch government through “Rijkswaterstaat”
Construction company: BAAK BV
MagnaDense delivery: June 2021
MagnaDense expected reclaim date: September & November 2022
Volume MagnaDense: 12,000 tonnes


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FIRST INSTALLMENT IN THE FICTION SERIES: FOUR SEASONS
Meet the characters that live, work, dream, and love in the community of Deepwater Cove. Best-selling authors Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer team up to show how four married couples, all in different stages in life, experience the joys and hardships of marriage. In book one, Steve and Brenda face a common problem among middle-age couples: empty nest syndrome. Steve works too much, and with their two children out of the house, Brenda feels lonely and unfulfilled. In order to save their marriage, the two must learn to reconnect. Readers are also introduced to many charming characters, like Cody, the mentally challenged homeless man that shows up on Steve and Brenda’s porch; Pete, who owns the Rods ’N’ Ends tackle shop; and Patsy Pringle, who owns the Just As I Am beauty parlor, where much of the action takes place.
The series is based on the marriage principles found in Gary Chapman’s non-fiction book The 4 Seasons of Marriage. Similar in tone and light-hearted, quirky humor as Jan Karon’s Mitford series, Fannie Flagg’s books or Steel Magnolias. Each book has a study guide that talks about the four seasons of marriage and the healing strategies depicted in that volume’s story.
This is a heart warming Christian story that every Christian should pick up and read. Especially those who are finding themselves dealing with an "Empty Nest".
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Total SA and Petrobras signed on Tuesday the final agreements on an asset package sale that will see the French major buy stakes in offshore concession areas from the Brazilian company as well as two onshore cogeneration plants in deals worth a total of US$2.225 billion.
The agreements – part of the two groups’ strategic alliance in upstream and downstream announced last October – include Petrobras transferring 22.5 percent of the rights in the concession area named Iara to Total. The Iara concession comprises the Sururu, Berbigão and Oeste de Atapu fields in Block BM-S-11. Through this agreement, Petrobras, which will continue to be operator with a majority interest of 42.5 percent, will be able to reduce its investment in the concession area. The other two participants in the Iara concession consortium are Shell’s subsidiary BG E&P Brasil with 25 percent, and Petrogal Brasil, with a 10-percent stake.
In another concession area deal, Petrobras will transfer 35 percent of the rights in the Lapa field concession area to Total. Brazil’s state-held company is also transferring the operatorship to Total, while remaining a shareholder with 10 percent. The Lapa field was put into production in December last year.
In the cogeneration plants deal, Petrobras will be transferring 50 percent interest in the Termobahia plants to Total. The two facilities are connected to the São Francisco do Conde regasification terminal, where Total will take regasification capacity to supply gas to the power plants.
Related: Oil Majors' Costs Have Risen 66% Since 2011
The strategic alliance with Total is part of Petrobras’ 2017-2021 business plan to boost its financial strength via risk mitigation, cash flow, and release of investments. Total, on the other hand, boosts its footprint in and offshore Brazil, gaining access to fields in the Santos Basin and entering the gas value chain, the companies said in a joint press release on Wednesday.
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Another Covid-related death at care centre
Chief medical officer issues reminder to remain safe amid economic relaunch
Another COVID-19 death was reported at the site of Alberta’s single-deadliest outbreak — a continuing care centre in Calgary — as the province recorded 32 new cases Monday.
The death of a woman in her 90s, who was a resident at the Extendicare Hillcrest continuing care centre in northwest Calgary, marks the 153rd death of an Albertan from COVID-19.
The outbreak at Extendicare Hillcrest remains the single-deadliest outbreak in Alberta with 22 recorded deaths of residents, followed by Mckenzie Towne Continuing Care Centre with 20 and Intercare Brentwood with 18. However, the outbreaks at these facilities have gotten smaller as more residents and staff recover.
Extendicare Hillcrest currently has six active cases and 65 recoveries; Intercare Brentwood has two active cases and 66 recoveries; and, Mckenzie Towne Continuing Care has no active cases and a total of 94 recoveries, according to Alberta Health.
In total, there are 542 active cases provincewide as of Monday, which is eight more active cases than Sunday.
On Sunday, the number of active cases of COVID -19 in the Edmonton zone surpassed the active total in the Calgary zone, though Calgary has consistently had more active cases since the first few cases were confirmed in early March. But on Monday, however, the Calgary zone again had the most active cases with 245 while the Edmonton zone had 236.
There are 34 active cases in the North zone, 21 in the South zone, three in the Central zone and three are marked as unknown locations.
The 396,300 tests completed by Alberta Health Services have detected a total of 7,736 cases of COVID-19 in Alberta. Recoveries are now sitting at 7,041. There are 32 hospitalizations, including six patients requiring intensive care.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, posted on Twitter in lieu of a press conference on Monday, to remind Albertans that “distancing and masking (when needed)” are part of the important return-to-work strategies to keep people safe as the province reopens.
“I challenge each Albertan to remind others of the guidance and promote good hygiene. Diligently following the public health measures means you are being considerate and caring — not over-cautious,” Hinshaw posted Monday.
As part of the economic relaunch, the provincial government has distributed about 14 million non-medical masks to Albertans, through the drive-thru program that kicked off two weeks ago on June 8, and another six million through municipalities, seniors organizations, Indigenous partners and places of worship.
In a release Monday, Minister of Health Tyler Shandro thanked the provincial government’s partners in helping them distribute the free non-medical masks to Albertans through the program. Mcdonald’s Canada, A&W and Tim Hortons drive-thrus across the province provided minimal-contact distribution of packages of four masks for each person.
“A program of this scale would not have been possible without your hard work and community support. We will continue to support Albertans as we move through stage two of relaunch, and people continue to get back to work,” Shandro said in the release.
The distribution of non-medical masks has been paused at the restaurant-partner locations until the next phase of the program which is scheduled to start in July, though Albertans can still request a package of masks by calling 211.
Another 20 million masks are expected to be distributed in July through drive-thrus and other partners, according to the provincial government.
Also Monday, YMCA Calgary announced its reopening strategy, with a plan to fully reopen on July 20.
Currently, Calgary’s YMCA locations have launched registration for YMCA Summer Moments, a reimagined summer program starting July 6 that fits with Alberta Health’s safety requirements.
YMCA Calgary will also be dropping detailed reopening information and other details on July 6.
Although gyms and recreation centres were given the go-ahead to reopen with restrictions on June 12, YMCA Calgary said in a release they are taking their time to ensure facilities “meet the highest standards of health and safety,” to create an online tool to assist members and participants, and to recall and retrain staff and volunteers.
Diligently following the public health measures means you are being considerate and caring …
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The thing about inherited or gifted jewelry is that it’s not truly yours. You didn’t make the decision to find and invest in a real fine piece of jewelry. You didn’t customize it to your specifications. The hand-me-down is not a true representation of who you are. It’s a reflection of generations past that may be mirrored onto you. That’s why I think so many young working women straight out of college flock to disposable jewelry at fast fashion shops, in the ending spending more on things that will eventually end up in the trash.
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China Space Station: Technologies behind Shenzhou-15 crew's spacewalk
China's Shenzhou-15 crew, currently onboard the country's space station, recently completed its first spacewalk.
Like many spacewalk missions, extended pump sets and foot limiters featured in their first spacewalk. They may sound familiar. But what are they and how do they function?
Extended pump sets: 'Heart' of thermal control system
China's space station has a thermal control system, which is like a central air conditioner.
It can adjust the temperature so as to provide a suitable environment for astronauts and equipment.
The extended pump is needed to circulate the liquid in the system.
All three modules of the space station are equipped with extended pump sets, which function like the heart of the human body, Su Nan, chief designer of overall machinery for the space station spacewalk mission with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, told China Media Group.
The heat of equipment in the space station is absorbed by a large metal plate that is leaned against the equipment. By circulating the liquid through the extended pump sets, the temperature can be decreased, Su explained.
The extended pump sets are installed outside a capsule. They can be plug-and-play and replaced if they malfunction in the future, he added.
Foot limiters: Fixing astronauts at working position
Astronauts are in a weightless state after leaving the cabin, and if they want to work at a designated location, their position needs to be fixed. The solution is foot limiters, which are commonly used auxiliary devices when astronauts conduct extravehicular activities.
"The foot limiter has a fixed position on the cabin body, when astronauts need to work at a certain point on the bulkhead, there must be a foot limiter," Su said.
The space station has four foot limiters, which are stored in the hatches of the airlock compartment and the node compartment, Su said.
When astronauts leave the cabin, they will determine the installation position of the foot limiter according to their mission needs, he added.


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The Memphis-based chain makes debut with first restaurant in Osceola, Florida
Lennys Grill & Subs will be making its debut in the Osceola community soon.
The Memphis-based restaurant chain, specializing in Philly cheese steaks and other grilled and deli subs, has its eye on the area for development.
Bob Ritter, vice president franchise and market development for Lennys, said right now the company is in the process of zeroing in on a location for the first Orlando area restaurant. The closest restaurant, and one of a few in the state is in Bartow.
“We have had a lot of success in Bartow,” Ritter said, and will follow that with a Kissimmee area restaurant in the near future. The company has a specific interest in the area and hopes to open several locations in the area."
The restaurant chain has more than 100 locations nationwide, many of them in Tennessee.
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The Shard is No.6 in our list of best places to take a photo in London.
The Shard is tall. Very tall. This thing is so tall that the pinnacle of it is sometimes buried in the clouds! It rises more than 1000-feet above the city, which makes it double the height of any other viewing platform in London.
In order to get up to the viewing rooms on levels 68-72 you have to ride two express lifts which make your ears pop like thunder (they are incredibly fast!), and then you'll step out into a triple-height, sunshine-filled room that looks out more than 40 miles across the city.
This first room is totally enclosed with floor to ceiling windows. If you're feeling brave then you touch your toes against the glass and pretend you're standing on the edge of the building. If you're feeling even braver then you can climb a few flight of steps to level 72 and do battle with the wind outside. Parts of this level are actually open to the sky, and you can feel the freezing air and rushing wind on your face. As if that isn't terrifying enough, you can also hear the occasional roar of airplane engines flying by.
Craig absolutely hates heights, but he braved it so he could write a review of The Shard. It's worth a quick read simply to see his photos. You can basically see everything up here... The Shard is so tall that nothing is beyond range. St. Paul's just looks like a little lego building miles below you, and everything that you know is supposed to be tall, like the tall chimney of Tate Modern, just looks like a matchstick. You can see the bend of the Thames winding round the Isle of Dogs and up past London City Airport, and the entire stretch of train track from Waterloo to Greenwich and beyond.
The Shard is quite a scary attraction if you don't like heights, so feel free to ask Craig some questions before you go, or post a question on the forum.
P.S.: Craig has also stayed in the 5-star Shangri-La hotel halfway up the building, and you might like to read his review of that as well (it has some more photos of the view).
ian meyer – “Has anyone been up to the top of the Shard yet? I wouldn't mind going but i'd have to take my kid with me, and fifty pounds for the two of us seems a bit steep. is it worth it just for the view?”
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