Special Economic Measures (Syria) Regulations
P.C. 2011-594 2011-05-24
Whereas the Governor in Council is of the opinion that the situation in Syria constitutes a grave breach of international peace and security that has resulted or is likely to result in a serious international crisis;
Therefore, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, pursuant to subsections 4(1) to (3) of the Special Economic Measures ActFootnote a, hereby makes the annexed Special Economic Measures (Syria) Regulations.
Return to footnote aS.C. 1992, c. 17
1 The following definitions apply in these Regulations.
- designated person
designated person means a person who is in Syria, or is a national of Syria who does not ordinarily reside in Canada, and whose name is listed in Schedule 1. (personne désignée)
- luxury goods
luxury goods means goods such as jewellery, gems, precious metals, watches, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, perfume, designer clothing and accessories, furs, sporting goods, private aircraft, gourmet foods and ingredients, lobster, computers, televisions and other electronic devices. (articles de luxe)
Minister means the Minister of Foreign Affairs. (ministre)
Syria means the Syrian Arab Republic and includes
- SOR/2012-107, s. 1;
- SOR/2012-145, s. 5.
2 A person whose name is listed in Schedule 1 is a person in respect of whom the Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe is
(a) a former or current senior official of the Government of Syria;
(b) an associate or family member of a person set out in paragraph (a);
(c) an entity owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person set out in paragraph (a) or (b); or
(d) an entity owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, the Government of Syria.
- SOR/2012-145, s. 5.
3 Subject to section 3.2, it is prohibited for any person in Canada and any Canadian outside Canada to
(a) deal in any property, wherever situated, held by or on behalf of a designated person;
(b) enter into or facilitate any transaction related to a dealing referred to in paragraph (a);
(c) provide any financial or related service in respect of a dealing referred to in paragraph (a);
(d) make any goods, wherever situated, available to a designated person; or
(e) provide any financial or related service to or for the benefit of a designated person.
- SOR/2011-220, s. 1;
- SOR/2011-330, s. 1.
3.1 Subject to section 3.2, it is prohibited for any person in Canada and any Canadian outside Canada to
(a) import, purchase, acquire, carry or ship any goods — other than food for human consumption — that are exported, supplied or shipped from Syria after December 23, 2011;
(b) provide or acquire financial or other related services to, from or for the benefit of or on the direction or order of Syria or any person in Syria for the purpose of facilitating the importation, purchase, acquisition, carriage or shipment of any petroleum or petroleum products, excluding natural gas, from Syria;
(c) make an investment in Syria if that investment involves a dealing in any property, wherever situated, held by or on behalf of Syria, a person in Syria or a national of Syria who does not ordinarily reside in Canada;
(d) provide or acquire financial or other related services to, from or for the benefit of or on the direction or order of Syria or any person in Syria for the purpose of making an investment described in paragraph (c);
(e) export, sell, supply or ship to Syria or any person in Syria any goods, including technical data, for use in the monitoring of telecommunications;
(f) provide or acquire financial or other related services — other than those whose provision or acquisition is otherwise prohibited by these Regulations — to, from or for the benefit of or on the direction or order of Syria or any person in Syria;
(g) export, sell, supply or ship to Syria or any person in Syria any luxury goods;
(h) export, sell, supply or ship to Syria or any person in Syria any of the goods set out in Schedule 2; or
(i) transfer, provide or communicate to Syria or any person in Syria technical data related to any of the goods set out in Schedule 2.
- SOR/2011-220, s. 2;
- SOR/2011-330, s. 2;
- SOR/2012-35, s. 1;
- SOR/2012-107, s. 2;
- SOR/2012-145, s. 1.
3.2 The prohibitions set out in sections 3 and 3.1 do not apply in respect of
(a) any activity engaged in under an agreement or arrangement between Canada and Syria;
(b) any payment made by or on behalf of a designated person that is due under a contract entered into before the person became a designated person, provided that the payment is not made to or for the benefit of a designated person;
(c) any goods made available, or services provided, to or by any of the following entities for the purpose of safeguarding human life, disaster relief, democratization, stabilization or providing food, medicine or medical supplies or equipment:
(i) an international organization with diplomatic status,
(ii) a United Nations agency,
(iii) the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, or
(iv) a non-governmental organization that has entered into a grant or contribution agreement with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade or the Canadian International Development Agency;
(d) the importation, purchase, acquisition, carrying or shipping of petroleum or petroleum products that were exported, supplied or shipped from Syria before October 5, 2011;
(e) any goods from the Embassy of Canada in Syria destined for Canada or any goods from Syria destined for the Embassy of Syria in Canada;
(f) personal or settlers’ effects that are taken or shipped by an individual leaving Syria and that are solely for the use of the individual or the individual’s immediate family;
(g) personal correspondence, including lettermail, printed papers and postcards, of a weight not exceeding 250 g per item of correspondence;
(h) pension payments to any person in Canada, any Canadian abroad or any person in Syria;
(i) any transaction in respect of the accounts at a Canadian financial institution that are used for the regular business of the Embassy of Syria or its consular missions in Canada;
(j) any transaction in respect of the accounts at a Syrian financial institution that are used for the regular business of the Embassy of Canada or its consular missions in Syria; and
(k) any transactions necessary for a Canadian to transfer any existing accounts, funds or investments of a Canadian held with a designated person to a non-designated person.
- SOR/2011-220, s. 2;
- SOR/2011-330, s. 2;
- SOR/2012-6, s. 1;
- SOR/2012-35, s. 2.
3.3 In addition to the matters referred to in section 3.2, the prohibition set out in paragraph 3.1(f) does not apply in respect of
(a) loan repayments to any person in Canada, or any Canadian abroad, in respect of loans entered into before March 5, 2012, enforcement of security in respect of those loans, or payments by guarantors guaranteeing those loans;
(b) financial services that are required to be provided or acquired further to a contract entered into before March 5, 2012; and
(c) financial services in respect of non-commercial remittances of $40,000 or less sent to or from Syria, or any person in Syria, if the person providing the financial services keeps a record of the transaction.
- SOR/2012-35, s. 3.
(a) import, purchase, acquire, carry or ship any chemical weapons and equipment, goods or technology related to chemical weapons from Syria, wherever situated, whether held by or on behalf of Syria or any person in Syria; or
(b) transfer, acquire or purchase from Syria or any person in Syria technical assistance that is related to any of the chemical weapons and equipment, goods or technology set out in paragraph (a).
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province if the Security Council of the United Nations has authorized, for the purpose of ensuring the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons program, a member state of the United Nations to acquire, control, transport, transfer and destroy chemical weapons identified by the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
(3) Paragraph 3.1(a) does not apply after February 3, 2014 to any of the goods set out in paragraph 3.4(1)(a).
- SOR/2014-11, s. 1.
4 It is prohibited for any person in Canada and any Canadian outside Canada to do anything that causes, assists or promotes or is intended to cause, assist or promote any act or thing prohibited by section 3 or 3.1.
- SOR/2011-220, s. 3;
- SOR/2011-330, s. 2.
Duty to Determine
5 Each of the following entities must determine on a continuing basis whether it is in possession or control of property owned or controlled by or on behalf of a designated person:
(e) fraternal benefit societies regulated by a provincial Act in respect of their insurance activities and insurance companies and other entities engaged in the business of insuring risks that are regulated by a provincial Act;
(g) trust companies regulated by a provincial Act;
(h) loan companies regulated by a provincial Act;
(i) entities that engage in any activity described in paragraph 5(h) of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act if the activity involves the opening of an account for a client; and
(j) entities authorized under provincial legislation to engage in the business of dealing in securities or to provide portfolio management or investment counselling services.
(a) the existence of property in their possession or control that they have reason to believe is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by a designated person or by an entity owned or controlled by a designated person; and
(b) information about a transaction or proposed transaction in respect of property referred to in paragraph (a).
(2) No person contravenes subsection (1) by disclosing in good faith under that subsection.
Application to No Longer Be a Designated Person
(2) On receipt of the application, the Minister must decide whether there are reasonable grounds to recommend to the Governor in Council that the applicant’s name be removed from Schedule 1.
(3) The Minister must make a decision on the application within 90 days after the day on which the application is received.
(4) The Minister must give notice without delay to the applicant of the decision taken.
(5) If there has been a material change in circumstances since the last application was submitted, a person may submit another application under subsection (1).
- SOR/2012-145, s. 5.
Application for a Certificate
(2) If it is established that the person is not a designated person, the Minister must issue a certificate to the applicant within 30 days after the day on which the application is received.
9 [Repealed, SOR/2011-330, s. 3]
Application Prior to Publication
Coming into Force
11 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.
- SOR/2011-166, ss. 1, 2(E), 3 to 5;
- SOR/2011-220, ss. 5, 6;
- SOR/2011-330, ss. 4, 5;
- SOR/2012-6, ss. 2 to 4;
- SOR/2012-35, ss. 4, 5;
- SOR/2012-74, ss. 1, 2;
- SOR/2012-107, ss. 3 to 5;
- SOR/2012-145, ss. 2, 3;
- SOR/2012-166, ss. 1, 2;
- SOR/2012-249, ss. 1 to 4;
- SOR/2014-11, ss. 2(E), 3(F), 4.
|Column 1||Column 2|
|1||2-bromochloroethane||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 107-04-0|
|2||2-methoxyethanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 109-86-4|
|3||Aluminum chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7446-70-0|
|4||Agitators||Agitators for use in reaction vessels or reactors, with a total internal (geometric) volume greater than 0.1 m3 (100 L) and less than 20 m3(20,000 L), that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|5||Arsenic||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7440-38-2|
|6||Arsenic trioxide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 1327-53-3|
|7||Batch centrifuges||Batch centrifuges with a rotor capacity of 4 L or greater, usable with biological materials|
|8||Benzil||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 134-81-6|
|9||Biosafety cabinets||Class II biosafety cabinets|
|11||Clean-air Rooms||Conventional or turbulent air-flow clean-air rooms|
|12||Dichloromethane||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-09-2|
|13||Diethylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 109-89-7|
|14||Diethylenetriamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 111-40-0|
|15||Diethyl ether||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 60-29-7|
|16||Dimethylaminoethanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 108-01-0|
|17||Dimethyl ether||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 115-10-6|
|18||Distillation or Absorption Columns||Distillation or absorption columns of internal diameter greater than 0.1 m that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|19||Ethylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-04-7|
|20||Ethyl bromide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-96-4|
|21||Ethyl chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-00-3|
|22||Ethylene dichloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 107-06-2|
|23||Fermenters||Fermenters, with an internal volume equal to or greater than 10 L and less than 20 L, usable with biological materials|
|24||Fume hoods||Floor-mounted fume hoods (walk-in style) with a minimum nominal width of 2.5 m|
|25||Glove boxes||Class II glove boxes|
|26||Heat Exchangers or Condensers||Heat exchangers or condensers, with a heat transfer surface area greater than 0.05 m2 and less than 30 m2, and tubes, plates, coils, or blocks (cores) designed for such heat exchangers or condensers, that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|27||HEPA Filter Units||Self-contained fan-HEPA filter units that may be used for CL3 or CL4 (P3, P4, BSL3, BSL4, L3, L4) containment facilities|
|28||Hexamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 100-97-0|
|29||Isocyanatomethane||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 624-83-9|
|30||Isopropyl bromide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-26-3|
|31||Isopropyl ether||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 108-20-3|
|32||Methylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-89-5|
|33||Methyl bromide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-83-9|
|34||Monoisopropylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-31-0|
|35||Nitromethane||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-52-5|
|36||N,N-Dimethylaniline||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 121-69-7|
|37||Obidoxime chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 114-90-9|
|38||Picric acid||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 88-89-1|
|39||Potassium bromide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7758-02-3|
|40||Pumps||Multiple-seal, single-seal, and seal-less pumps, with manufacturer’s specified maximum flow-rate greater than 0.6 m3/h, that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|41||Pyridine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 110-86-1|
|42||Pyridostigmine bromide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 101-26-8|
|43||Quinaldine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 91-63-4|
|44||Reaction Vessels or Reactors||Reaction vessels or reactors, with or without agitators, with total internal (geometric) volume greater than 0.1 m3 (100 L) and less than 20 m3 (20,000 L), that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|45||Respirators||Full face-mask air-purifying and air-supplying respirators|
|46||Sodium bromide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7647-15-6|
|47||Sodium metal||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7440-23-5|
|48||Storage Tanks, Containers, or Receivers||Storage tanks, containers or receivers, with a total internal (geometric) volume greater than 0.1 m3 (100 L), that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|49||Tributylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 102-82-9|
|50||Tributylphosphite||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 102-85-2|
|51||Triethylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 121-44-8|
|52||Trimethylamine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-50-3|
|53||Vacuum Pumps||Vacuum pumps, with a manufacturer’s specified maximum flow-rate greater than 1 m3/h (under standard temperature (273 K (0°C)) and pressure (101.3 kPa) conditions), and casings (pump bodies) and preformed casing-liners, impellers, rotors, and jet pump nozzles designed for such pumps, that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|54||Valves||Valves, with “nominal sizes” greater than 10mm, and casings (valve bodies) designed for such valves, that are not specified in the Export Control List|
|55||Acetone||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 67-64-1|
|56||Acetylene||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-86-2|
|57||Ammonia||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7664-41-7|
|58||Antimony||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7440-36-0|
|59||Benzaldehyde||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 100-52-7|
|60||Benzoin||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 119-53-9|
|61||1-Butanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 71-36-3|
|62||2-Butanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 78-92-2|
|63||Iso-Butanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 78-83-1|
|64||Tert-Butanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-65-0|
|65||Calcium carbide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-20-7|
|66||Carbon monoxide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 630-08-0|
|67||Chlorine||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7782-50-5|
|68||Cyclohexanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 108-93-0|
|69||Dicyclohexylamine (DCA)||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 101-83-7|
|70||Ethanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 64-17-5|
|71||Ethylene||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-85-1|
|72||Ethylene oxide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 75-21-8|
|73||Fluorapatite||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 1306-05-4|
|74||Hydrogen chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7647-01-0|
|75||Hydrogen sulfide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7783-06-4|
|76||Isopropanol (95 % concentration or greater)||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 67-63-0|
|77||Mandelic acid||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 90-64-2|
|78||Methanol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 67-56-1|
|79||Methyl iodide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-88-4|
|80||Methyl mercaptan||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-93-1|
|81||Monoethyleneglycol||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 107-21-1|
|82||Oxalyl chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 79-37-8|
|83||Potassium sulphide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 1312-73-8|
|84||Potassium thiocyanate||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 333-20-0|
|85||Sodium hypochlorite||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7681-52-9|
|86||Sulphur||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7704-34-9|
|87||Sulphur dioxide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7446-09-5|
|88||Sulphur trioxide||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7446-11-9|
|89||Thiophosphoryl chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 3982-91-0|
|90||Tri-isobutyl phosphite||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 1606-96-8|
|91||White phosphorus||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 12185-10-3|
|92||Yellow phosphorus||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 7723-14-0|
|93||Methyl chloride||Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 74-87-3|
|94||Laboratory Equipment||Equipment, including parts and accessories, specifically designed for the (destructive or non-destructive) analysis or detection of chemical substances, with the exception of equipment, parts and accessories, specifically intended for medical use|
- SOR/2012-145, s. 4;
- SOR/2014-11, s. 5.
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Now and then I do remote viewing exercises. I keep a little journal of hits and misses. Sometimes I get it right, or close to, other times, either way off or just a blank. Nothing. I would like to do more of this, buy my personal bane of this existence is; part of my ADD. Fighting it all my life.
Last night’s guest on Coast to Coast was remote viewer Douglas Cottrell. (Richard Syrett was the host.) Cottrell did a remote viewing exercise with the listening audience. He had an image, we tried to see it.
Listeners called in with their results. Some were way off, some close, some got it right. One described a platter with leaves; that wasn’t the object Cottrell had in mind but, he said, he did have a platter like that in the other room.
I kept getting the image of an orange. Host Richard Syrett said he thought it was a grapefruit. I kept getting orange. Then my mind did a weird slide-picture thing where it went back and forth between an orange and a baseball. (One caller called in to say he thought it was a baseball!) but, while doubting myself a bit, I stuck with orange. I just felt that it was.
Funnily enough, I didn’t see the orange in my mind. But I sensed it. I knew it was an orange; I felt confident that’s what it was, even though my mind would slip into the image of a baseball. Maybe I was also picking up images from others?
Turned out, it was an orange!


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go-mod: module maintenance
go-mod - module maintenance
SYNOPSISgo mod command [arguments]
DESCRIPTIONGo mod provides access to operations on modules.
Note that support for modules is built into all the go commands, not just 'go mod'. For example, day-to-day adding, removing, upgrading, and downgrading of dependencies should be done using 'go get'. See 'go help modules' for an overview of module functionality.
- download modules to local cache
- edit go.mod from tools or scripts
- print module requirement graph
- initialize new module in current directory
- add missing and remove unused modules
- make vendored copy of dependencies
- verify dependencies have expected content
- explain why packages or modules are needed
AUTHORThis manual page and is maintained by the Debian Go Compiler Team <team+go-compiler [at] tracker.debian.org> based on the output of 'go help mod' for the Debian project (and may be used by others).


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What are the Avalanche thankful for?
That Matt Duchene trade.
The impact of a single trade is rarely as extreme as that 2017 deal. The Avalanche, coming off one of the most dreadful seasons in NHL history, ended up sending Duchene to the Ottawa Senators in a three-team deal that netted them Samuel Girard, Vladislav Kamenev, Shane Bowers, Andrew Hammond, and three draft picks. The best of those, Ottawa’s first-round pick in 2019, became Bowen Byram, meaning with Girard, Duchene had landed the team–at a minimum–two top-four defensemen.
But it doesn’t end there. In the 2018 draft, when the Avalanche had Nashville’s second-round pick, they decided to trade down when No. 58 was on the board. The team traded that pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins, who used it on Filip Hallander, for a third and a fifth. The third became Justus Annunen, who has quickly developed into the team’s “Goaltender of the Future.” Annunen is making his NHL debut tonight, coming on in relief of Jonas Johansson, and could find himself battling for regular appearances in the coming years.


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- Total Listings: 106
- Average Price: $816,036
- Highest Price: $4,799,000
- Lowest Price: $76,000
Loomis is a beautiful town is Placer County. Loomis is know as the Small Town that is Like a Big Family. It has had 3 names since 1861 when the post office opened and it was named Smithville. The southern Pacific Railroad named it Loomis in 1890.
Loomis sits about 30 minutes from Sacramento. It is only about 5 minutes to Roseville. In 2010 the population of Loomis was 6,430. Loomis is home to Del Oro High School. This is a sought after school district to live in as Del Oro is a highly ranked Ca school.
Loomis has foothill topography with rolling hills and a mix of various Oak trees. The average high temperature for Loomis is 94 in July and the average low is 39 degrees Fahrenheit in Dec and Jan.
This amazing town has a mix of real estate from great tract homes to large estates on acreage. It also sits only a little over one hour from the Sierra Nevada ski resorts and about an hour and forty minutes from Lake Tahoe.
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4 Bed • 5 Bath • 4,400 Sf • 14 Acres
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Listings marked with V* indicate the seller is willing to entertain offers within a Listing Price range. For example, a Price of $140,000-$170,000 indicates the seller will entertain offers from $140,000 to $170,000.
Listing information last updated on June 4th, 2020 at 2:38am CDT.

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Will they at least show the final?
If Elena Bovina reaches those rounds... I'll pay a pretty penny for a tape of her match(es).Jarrett said:One of the semis and the final will be showed on the Tennis Channel and no where else. I LOVE it! If someone I don't mind watching is in those matches I will make clips for you guys if you want.


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I remember when I was a kid, we had rain gauge to measure the amount of rainfall in the garden, so after heavy rains, I liked to have a look to find out how much rain actually fell.
Those collected water in a tube, and we could read the millimeter value right on the tube. But now with the Internet of Things, we can have smarter solutions including tipping-bucket rain gauges that collect water and usually report the data via an RS-232 port. But I’ve just found out there’s another method to measure rainfall with an industrial-grade optical rain gauge I just found on Seeed Studio for $99.00.
RG-15 optional rain gauge specifications:
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- J1 Terminal with Out, V+, and GND pins
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- Output – NPN Open Collector Output 100 mA / 80V Max
- Output Resolution – 02mm or 0.01mm configurable with DIP switch
- Input Voltage – 5 to 16 VDC with 50V surge on J1 Reverse polarity; protected to 50V or 3.3VDC through pin 8 on J2
- Current Drain – 110 μA nominal. (No outputs on, dry not raining) , 2-4 mA when raining
- Operating Temperature – -40°C to +70°C (Note: will not detect rain when freezing)
You’ll find detail about the serial command set in the instruction manual.
The company explains how it works as follows:
Hydreon Optical Solid State Rain Sensors generate infrared light that is directed within the lens to detectors. When water drops hit the outside surface of the lens, some of the infrared beams escape. The sensor detects the change in beam intensity, and determines the size of the rain drop that caused the change. The sophisticated circuitry and Digital Signal Processing detect tiny rain drops, while rejecting the effects of competing ambient light disturbances.
The sensor detects the lens surface condition, including that caused by dirt, contaminants, aging, and other factors. It properly compensates for these factors, making the device virtually impervious to environmental factors. Hardware and sophisticated software gathers information from individual raindrops and implements a proper control strategy for the selected mode. The system can detect individual drops of under half a millimeter in diameter.
The main advantage over a traditional tipping-bucket rain gauge is that an optical rain gauge is low-maintenance devices, and you may only have to change the lens after 7 or more years.
Typical applications include smart agriculture, smart city, climate studies, hydrological network monitoring, condensation and frost sensing, irrigation control, drop detection, and wiper control.
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text: I’ve shot USPSA and 3 gun off and on for the last five years, and I know that dry fire REALLY pays off. I still do this type of shooting on my own, but not in an actual match environment. Though I might not be competing, I still continue to dry fire some almost daily to keep up. I have a set routine with different draws and reloads. Then for fun, I might setup a few different courses of fire around the house with 1/3rd size targets. Just doing this type of stuff can make a huge difference in shooting as well as equipment familiarization. With that said, do you recommend dry firing with long rifles as well? If so, are there specific routines you practice as well? I wasn't sure if there might be some kind of dry firing routine that'd help with preparing for the Steel Safari Challenge per se? I was planning on purchasing an IOTA (Indoor Optic Training Aid), which gives you a good sight picture of the target you’re looking at as well as your cross hairs at 10 feet. I thought it might be useful to make different size targets to simulate different ranges… You could maybe practice different holds for windages and dial in elevation for whatever range the target is supposed to simulate while transitioning to another target, all within your home. Maybe even practice different shooting positions. I suppose you could even use that tiny train scenery and create small landscapes if and try to spot small targets if you wanted to get real crazy. It just seems like it’d make sense to do this type of train up during the week, and then practice with live rounds on the weekend. Any input would be much appreciated! Knowing how much dry firing pistol and carbine increases performance, I can only imagine it’d help with a rifle as well.


Phase one requires closing the north side of the garage including the doors and the elevators from the garage to the attached medical office building. Patients and visitors who use the garage and find walking a challenge are strongly encouraged to use the free valet parking at the hospital's main entrance off Broadway. Valet parking is offered 5 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Able patients and visitors who want to use the garage and access the elevators inside the medical office building will need to exit the garage at ground level and enter the attached facility through its main doors along Broadway. The second floor walkway from the medical office building to the hospital will remain open throughout construction. Public access from the garage to the attached medical office building is expected to resume late this fall. If patients or visitors choose not to use valet parking and they are unable to use the stairs, then they should park on the first floor of the garage.
Phase two of the project will focus on updating the garage's south section. It will temporarily require drivers to exit and enter the structure through the same access point off Broadway.
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Could Joe Biden’s first overseas trip as President be a harbinger of good things to come for international air travel?
The White House has been forced to defend Biden’s plans to travel to Cornwall, England in June for the G7 Summit while travel restrictions remain in place for U.S. citizens due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden will be in England from June 11-13, and then attend a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium on June 14. The Summit was canceled last year, and The White House is taking criticism for this trip particularly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week said it was more prudent for Americans not to travel overseas.
“Well, I would say I think most Americans would see it as slightly different from the president of the United States – I’m not suggesting you’re saying otherwise – but as a president of the United States making a diplomatic trip, abiding by Covid protocols and flying on Air Force One, than whether it is safe for mass numbers to fly internationally,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
But if the trip is successful from a health standpoint, it could hasten the return of international travel and, perhaps, business travel – two areas that have not been nearly as successful in coming back to life as the airlines would hope.
“Obviously, everybody wants (international travel) to be reopened,” Psaki added. “Europeans, we do, American people who would like to travel … But, you know those conversations are really happening between health and medical experts and they [will] make an evaluation based on what they think is safe for the American public.”
The G7 Summit will be the first face-to-face meeting for the global leaders since the outbreak of the pandemic, including German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron.

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Projected PH population lowered due to pandemic deaths, dip in births
MANILA, Philippines — A drop in the number of births and an increase in fatalities due to the pandemic have resulted in a lower projected population for the country in 2023, the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) said.
Instead of its earlier projection of 115 million people for 2023, the agency has adjusted the figure to 112 million.
“The lower projection … takes into account the drop in the number of births and high mortality rates in 2021 and 2022 — the period covering the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the CPD said in a statement on Saturday. “CPD thus acknowledges that the projected population it earlier stated was an overestimate.” The CPD was formerly known as the Commission on Population, or PopCom, before its mandate was expanded to include population and development under the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).
Based on the latest figures from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released last year, the country logged a total of 1,528,684 live births in 2020, which is equivalent to a crude birth rate of 14.1. This translates to 14 births per 1,000 population.
According to the PSA, the country has been seeing a “generally decreasing trend” in the number of live births in the past eight years, from 1,790,367 births in 2012 to 1,528,684 births in 2020.
The biggest plunge was in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, when there was about a 9-percent decline in registered live births, compared to the previous year.
Reported deaths, on the other hand, have been on a slow upward trajectory since 2011, except in 2017 and 2020, available data from the PSA indicated.
“The increase during the ten-year period was 23.2 percent, from 498,486 in 2011 to 613,936 in 2020,” the agency noted.
Meanwhile, records showed that more than 4.1 million Filipinos fell ill to the novel coronavirus, while at least 66,755 died of the contagious disease.
On Nov. 14, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved the Philippine Population and Development Plan of Action 2023-2028 to address the country’s slowing population growth and other population issues. The CPD has been tasked to lead the plan’s implementation.


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The International Travel Expo – Ho Chi Minh City (ITE HCMC) will celebrate its ten-year anniversary with the 2014 edition slated to kick off next month, the organizers announced Friday.
The three-day event runs from September 11 to 13 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center, based in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7.
The Vietnam’s key annual international tourism event is expected to attract international travel agents from 30 nations and territories, the organizers, the Vietnam National Tourism Administration and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said at the Friday media meeting.
Businesses from Cambodia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Netherlands and the UK will showcase their products and highlight their brands at the event which is hoped to woo more than 20,000 visitors from in and out the country.
Vietnamese tour organizers will also present the most interesting products of the 28 tourism provinces and cities countrywide at the event.
Boasting the “Mekong’s largest travel event, the ITE says it will give participants “the key to enter the largest and most established travel event in Vietnam and the Mekong.”
The exhibition this year holds a slogan reading “One Decade. One Mekong. One World,” and aims at “encouraging competitiveness and promotes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam as a single attractive tourism destination,” Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh said in statement.
“ITE HCMC has also become a recognized platform for destinations and organizations from the Asia Pacific region and beyond to promote tourism and business exchange for their respective countries,” he said in a welcome message posted on the event’s website.
Over the last decade, ITE HCMC has successfully established the leisure travel industry in both inbound and outbound tourism, and to mark its 10th anniversary, the event is expanding and introducing five new travel segments, according to the minister.
These include Luxury Travel, Education Tourism, Medical Tourism, MICE and Spa & Wellness.
“We strongly believe that these are the up and coming segments that will flourish and prosper,” he said.
ITE HCMC 2013 received 18,438 visitors during the course of three days, a 13 percent increase compared to the previous edition, according to the organizers.


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Sulem Calderon, born on August 22, 1990, in Downey, CA, is a prominent model signed to Osbrink and Caroline Gleason Management, known for her captivating presence on various social media platforms. Her journey towards stardom commenced in April 2012 when she delved into the realm of social media, particularly Instagram, showcasing her unique style and charisma to the world.
With a fervor for fashion and a magnetic online persona, Calderon rapidly garnered attention, amassing a substantial following. Her Instagram account alone boasts an impressive count of over 110,000 devoted followers who are drawn to her striking visuals, glamorous photoshoots, and glimpses into her personal and professional life.
Before ascending to social media stardom, Sulem Calderon initially navigated her path in the entertainment industry. In 2014, she ventured into acting, making an appearance in the short film “Tap Shoes & Violins.” This stint further broadened her exposure and solidified her presence in the public eye.
Beyond her modeling and acting pursuits, Calderon’s interests extend into diverse fields. Notably, she displays a keen curiosity in insurance, real estate, automobiles, and the realm of cryptocurrency within the United States. Her multifaceted interests reflect a depth beyond the glamorous exterior, showcasing her as a person with varied passions and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Her intrigue in insurance and real estate suggests a more grounded and business-oriented side to her personality, while her fascination with cars and cryptocurrency reflects a penchant for technological advancements and investments in emerging markets.
Sulem Calderon’s rise to social media prominence, coupled with her forays into different domains, exemplifies her versatility and dynamism. Her ability to capture the spotlight on social platforms, while maintaining a genuine curiosity in various industries, underscores her as not just a model but a multifaceted individual with a diverse set of passions and interests.
As she continues to navigate the realms of fashion, entertainment, and her business interests, Calderon remains an influential figure with a growing presence, leaving an indelible mark on the world of social media and beyond.

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The League of Nations was formaed after the countries that had been involved in the first world war decided they needed an alternative way of solving international problems to avoid another war The leagues main aim was to keep the peace The Leagues main methods were disarmament to reduce suspicion and having as many members as possible for collective security The League did not actually have an army and depended on the main powers Britain and France to take action If problems occurred and conferences failed sanctions were imposed on the country causing problems Between 1931 and 1935 there were many events which seriously damaged the aims and methods of the league The failure of the disarmament conference in 1934 the 1931 invasion of Manchuria the Stresa font in 1935 and the Hoare-Laval plan all seriously damaged the aims of the league In 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria and took over the country The league sent representatives by sea to investigate as they did not think it was important enough to rush The league decided that the invasion was illegal but Japan ignored the league and nothing was done to stop it The Manchurian invasion highlighted the fact that the league of nations had no teeth This was due the fact that the effectiveness of the League depended on Britain and France and their attitudes to the league differed greatly France wanted to punish countries using the league of nations and Britain did not want to get involved in wars and preferred to discuss problems with counties Britain did not want to use their troops in other wars because they needed to defend their own country and colonies Britain tried to make the public think that the league would help countries to get along peacefully but the politicians did not think the league could do much One of the major causes of World War One was the arms race The Treaty of Versailles demanded disarmament The
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Abstract: The effect of magnesium chloride as an additive of hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of lignocellulosic biomass (Pinus radiata sawdust) was studied. The HTC tests were carried out at fixed conditions of temperature and residence time of 220 °C and 1 h, respectively, and varying the dose of magnesium chloride in the range 0.0–1.0 g MgCl2/g biomass. The carbonized product (hydrochar) was tested in order to determine its calorific value (HHV) while using PARR 6100 calorimeter, mass yield by gravimetry, elemental analysis using a LECO TruSpec elemental analyzer, volatile matter content, and ash content were obtained by standardized procedures using suitable ovens for it. The results show that using a dose of 0.75 g MgCl2/g biomass results in an impact on the mass yield that was almost equal to change operating conditions from 220 to 270 °C and from 0.5 to 1 h, without additive. Likewise, the calorific value increases by 33% for this additive dose, resulting in an energy yield of 68%, thus generating a solid fuel of prominent characteristics.
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The Eudora High School Band Program sent one ensemble and two soloists to the State Solo and Small Ensemble Festival at Andover High School this past weekend. The percussion ensemble (Josh Blaisdell, Fabian Fernandez, John Chumbley, Ryan Pennington, Matt Schultz, Chad Wilson and Lucas Wingebach) performed very well and earned a 2 (Excellent) rating.
Josh Blaisdell also earned a 1 (Superior) rating accompanying Cantorei on the vibraphone in their performance this weekend.
Instrumental solo performances belonged to Josh Blaisdell on the marimba and Whitney Box on bass clarinet. Both Blaisdell and Box gave powerful individual performances and were rewarded with 1 (Superior) ratings. Blaisdell and Box are the first instrumental soloists to earn a 1 rating at the State level in more than twenty years.
The final band concert of the year will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the EMS Auditorium.


TRAVEL ODDS & ENDS
Weird, strange and simply bizarre travel tidbits
Duane Wells | June 02, 2008
Ellen Degeneres� Bush-sized nuptials�
Before George W. Bush became president, most Americans outside the Lone Star State had probably never even heard of Crawford, Texas. But that was then and this is now.
The combination of first daughter Jenna Bush Hager�s recent understated nuptials at the 1,600 acre Prairie Chapel Ranch and seven years worth of photo ops capturing a dressed down Dubya holding press conferences at his sprawling Western White House have placed Crawford on the map in a big way. As a matter of fact, in terms of statewide name recognition, Crawford may well rank alongside major Texas outposts like Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin these days.
Now the Waco suburb, population 705, made famous by its high-powered residents, may soon gain notoriety for a different reason� a gay celebrity wedding. And not just any gay union but one of the most anticipated of all time.
During a taped appearance on Ellen, Jenna Bush Hager extended an invitation to Ellen DeGeneres to have her wedding to long time love, Portia de Rossi, at the famed Bush ranch. Surely Jenna was joking, but I can imagine few things funnier than George W. Bush presiding over the nuptials of Ellen and Portia.
It would certainly end his tenure in office with a bang� and a lot of fidgeting, I�m sure. 'Dum, dum, dah dum.'
A trim and a ticket� Oh my!
If you happen to need a haircut on certain days in Louisiana, you�d better check the calendar and the location to make sure that you can get one legally.
Barber Clyde Scott of Houma, LA got a big surprise when he opened his shop on May 19 to trim up a few students who were preparing for their long-awaited graduation ceremony. For his kindness, the hardworking barber got a citation from a police officer!
Now that�s what I call the ultimate bad hair day.
Apparently, a law on the books in Houma bans barbers from working Sundays, Mondays, any of several holidays and even the day after Labor Day. How very restrictive!
Thankfully, the District Attorney has not only refused to prosecute the case but is asking the parish council to repeal the law as unconstitutional. Good show!
Bye-bye mullets. Hip hip hooray for hair care.
The Golden Burger
Who says there�s an economic crisis in America?
In the last year alone, New York�s finest culinary minds have given birth to a $25,000 sundae, a $1,000 bagel topped with gold and a $1,000 pizza dressed with some of the most expensive caviar in the world.
Now comes news that one Manhattan restaurant has begun offering a $175 hamburger made of Kobe beef, dressed with black truffles, foie gras and Gruyere and topped with edible gold flakes.
I guess gas prices aren�t denting everyone�s budgets.
Sex, the pilot and the flight attendant�
After dinner at a diner on a recent Sunday night in Harrisburg, PA, a pilot and a flight attendant for Pinnacle Airlines decided to get their freak in on the woods. Things went awry, however, when neighbors summoned the police after spotting what they believed to be a naked man and a drunk woman.
A helicopter with heat seeking equipment was ordered up and ultimately found the pilot hiding behind a shed attired only in flip flops and a wristwatch and the intoxicated flight attendant elsewhere in possession of a stolen flashlight.
Both Pinnacle employees have since been suspended.
Moral of the story: For the love of all things holy� always get a room! (And at least get a real dinner before you give it up in the woods if you don�t!)
Say Hello Kitty�
Japan�s Tourism Ministry has named Hello Kitty as one its government envoys to represent the country in China and Hong Kong.
I guess Godzilla was busy.
China�s latest Olympic flub�
According to Times Online, the guide for Chinese volunteers at the Olympic Games this summer explains that disabled people are a �special group� with �unique personalities and ways of thinking.�
The section of the manual, entitled �Skills for Helping the Disabled�, then goes on to say: �Some physically disabled are isolated, unsocial and introspective. They can be stubborn and controlling... defensive and have a strong sense of inferiority. Sometimes they are overly protective of themselves, especially when they are called crippled or paralyzed. Do not use �cripple� or �lame� even if you are just joking.�
Egads! I guess nobody in China has gone through rigorous training in political correctness. I mean, really?
Such sensitivity. Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy for the estimated 83 million mentally and physically disabled people who live in China, doesn�t it?
And they call it progress�
Please� please� don�t feed the squirrels!
Finland is under attack by squirrels!
Well, sort of�.
An open-air museum in Helsinki showing the traditional Finnish way of life has begged the public to stop feeding local squirrels, claiming that they�re eating all the displays.
According to reports the squirrels have learned to hide food between wooden shingles on the museum�s roof and have figured out how to run into the museum�s 87 buildings, make holes in the walls and nibble on the museum�s textiles.
Industrious little buggers, aren�t they?
But they�re just so darned cute!
On that note�
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Summary:Haunted by grief over the loss of his young daughter, Felix is a gifted director at a theatre festival. He plans an inspired interpretation of The Tempest, but is unfairly ousted from his beloved position by a jealous and inadequate rival.
Summary:The play has two characters: Ruth and Friend (who is a male doctor).Ruth is an engaging, straight-talking quadriplegic who can zip and dance with her chin-operated wheelchair and takes delight in terrorizing medical staff both physically and verbally. She wants to write poetry and is waiting for a device to make it possible for her to use a computer. She keeps developing bedsores that threaten her life and require long admissions to the hospital before they will heal. She desperately wants to live no matter what happens, as she feels that having no mind would be worse than having no body.Friend is a male doctor with children who is ashamed of having examined her while she was unaware. Burdened with his guilt, he asks to be her “friend.” Ruth is skeptical and runs circles around him, but eventually comes to trust him and believe in his sincerity.She makes him a witness to her advance directive to instigate all heroic measures, as she is afraid of the kindly "ethical" and cost-effective arguments not to treat the disabled. But Ruth dies horribly from sepsis, and Friend is helpless to prevent it. She never obtains the device that would have allowed her to put her poems into printed words.
Summary:An artist, Ruth, lives with quadriplegia and manages to drive (and dance) with a special wheelchair that she controls with her chin. She also enjoys terrorizing doctors in the hospital corridors, where she is seen on a regular basis because of frequent bouts of infected bedsores. She has a new computer and is “patiently waiting for” a biomedical engineer to set it up to manage, like her chair, with her chin. She wants to write, to draw, to create. But the wait list is long, technicians scarce, and every candidate deserving.
Summary:Intern, Maggie Altman, begins her postgraduate training in a large Texas hospital where a new computerized system has been implemented to improve service. She pours heart and soul into her work, but her admissions always seem to be the sickest patients who keep dying, sometimes inexplicably. Maggie becomes suspicious of her colleagues and of Dr. Milton Silber, an irrascible, retired clinician with no fondness for the new technology. Silber also happens to be a financial genius. Overhearing conversations and finding puzzling papers, Maggie imagines a scam, in which her supervisors may be eliminating dying patients to reduce costs, improve statistics, and siphon funds to their own pockets.
Summary:In "Mandatory Evacuation Zone," Felice Aull has gathered 63 beautifully crafted poems in which she examines the intricacies of language and loss, of grief and healing. Each of the book's five sections considers these themes in slightly different ways, always in language that is understated, vivid, and exact. In Section I, we read poems that focus on the author's complicated family history and her early loss of homeland. In "Tracings" (page 15), an unknown relative (thanks to online genealogy searches) reaches the narrator and wants to meet her. She, however, only wishes to learn ". . . how my parents / and my infant self / made our tortuous way out . . . . " Brought in infancy from Germany to America, the author suffers the loss of both native homeland and native language ("Notes from an Alpine Vacation" page 16). She searches photos of her mother and ponders museum note cards illustrated by Holocaust survivors ("Museum Notecards" page 18), imagining what she can't quite know and yet can't quite forget.
Summary:Dr. Monika Renz’s work with dying patients is unusual if not unique in the way she appropriates and applies insights from Jungian depth psychology, practices available in patients’ faith traditions, and musically guided meditation to invite and support the spiritual experiences that so often come, bidden or unbidden, near the end of life. An experienced oncologist, Dr. Renz offers carefully amassed data to support her advocacy of focused practices of spiritual care as a dimension of palliative care, but is also quite comfortable with the fact that “neither the frequency nor the visible effects of experiences of the transcendent prove that such experience is an expression of grace” because “unverifiability is intrinsic to grace.” Still, her long experience leads her to assert not only that “grace” can be a useful, practical, operative word for what professional caregivers may witness and mediate but also that affirmation and support of patients’ spiritual, religious, or transcendent experiences in the course of dying can amplify and multiply moments of grace, which manifest as sudden, deep peace in the very midst of pain, profound acceptance, openness to reconciliations, or significant awakenings from torpor that allow needed moments of closure with loved ones. Describing herself as “an open-minded religious person and a practicing Christian,” she reminds readers that God is a loanword, whose basic form in Germanic was gaudam, a neutral participle. Depending on the Indo-Germanic root, the word means “the called upon” or “the one sacrificed to . . . .” Openness to the divine in both patients and caregivers, Dr. Renz argues, can and does make end-of-life care a shared journey of discovery and offer everyone involved a valuable reminder that medicine is practiced, always, at the threshold of mystery.
Summary:These poems are not a cancer chronicle, but the experience of living with cancer is threaded through them in a way that illustrates beautifully how awareness of illness may permeate daily life, but is foregrounded and backgrounded, reshaped and revisited in shifting ways as it takes its course. They encompass moments in family life, moments in the hospital, moments of spiritual longing and awareness of loss. Together they offer a record of accommodation, acclimation, and complex acceptance.
Summary:In this follow-up to his masterful memoir Do No Harm, British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must deal with old age and retirement after nearly four decades as a doctor. Stepping down engenders mixed feelings, and he confesses to "longing to retire, to escape all the human misery that I have had to witness for so many years, and yet dreading my departure as well" (p17).
Summary:Taking Turns, Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371, is a graphic novel written and illustrated by nurse and artist, MK Czerwiec. In it, she details what it was like to be a nurse during the AIDs epidemic in Chicago in the 1990s. The book, however, is much more than a story about AIDS care during that time. Czerweic tackles patient/provider relationships, boundaries, hospital struggles, the role of art in medicine and healing, but most profoundly: death and dying.
Summary:This Side of Doctoring is an anthology published in 2002 about the experiences of women in medicine. While the essays span multiple centuries, most are from the past 50 years. They reflect on a multitude of stages in the authors’ personal and professional lives. In 344 pages divided into twelve sections, including "Early Pioneers," "Life in the Trenches," and "Mothering and Doctoring," the 146 authors recount - in excerpts from published memoirs, previously published and unpublished essays, poems and other writings, many of them composed solely for this collection - what it was then and what it was in 2002 to be a woman becoming a doctor in the U.S.. All but a handful of the authors are physicians or surgeons. There is a heavy representation from institutions on both coasts, especially the Northeast. Four men were invited to reflect on being married to physician wives. There is one anonymous essay concerning sexual harassment and a final essay from a mother and daughter, both physicians. Beginning with the first American female physicians in the mid-19th century, like historic ground-breakers Elizabeth Blackwell and Mary Putnam Jacobi, the anthology proceeds through the phases of medical school, residency, early and mid-careers, up to reflections from older physicians on a life spent in medicine. Many of the authors have names well known in the medical humanities, including Marcia Angell, Leon Eisenberg, Perri Klass, Danielle Ofri, Audrey Shafer, and Marjorie Spurrier Sirridge, to mention a few.


Akihibara has a great selection of tools and equipment too. Our favorite PCB drill press was widely available.
More photos below the fold.
This shop has new and used test equipment. They had some serious equipment for testing PCBs, assembly quality, and ROHS lead-free compliance. There were even gas spectrometers for discovering the Colonel’s secret blend of herbs and spices.
This shop specialized in lathes and cutting edges.
Soldering equipment and all varieties of magnifiers.


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Discover the secrets of the Pantheon Rome, one of only two ancient monuments still existing in Rome that an ancient Roman would stand a chance of recognising today. With our Pantheon tour, wander around this iconic structure with our fun, dynamic licensed guides who can't wait to share their passion and knowledge of art and archaeology.
The Pantheon has fascinated artists for centuries, and influenced architecture worldwide. It still holds the world record for the largest unreinforced concrete dome to this day.
On this Rome tour you will explore not only the Pantheon but also the last Gothic church remaining in Rome, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, that has tombs and monuments to no fewer than five popes and sixty cardinals and one of the most beautiful fifteenth century chapels in Rome. You will also learn about the history of the field of Mars, a place of delectation and delight for the Ancient Romans, from the Republican times through to the Empire.
- Rome is a lasagna! - Understand the layers of history around the site.
- How was it built? Michelangelo said it was designed by the angels!
- Who built it? Archaeologists were fooled for centuries - why?
- Learn how Rome can "speak" to you if you know what to look for.
- Bernini's elephant - what was the message?
- Discover what is hidden behind the unassuming facade of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva.
If you want to do more than "tick the box" and understand this unique historic monument, take a stroll with our passionate guides and take away a memory for ever.


Park Police hassle driver who stops at GW Parkway crossing
Crosswalks along the GW Parkway are very dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. But instead of fixing the problem, the Park Police are pulling over and criticizing drivers who stop to let people cross.
TBD's Andrew Beaujon reports that this morning, he was trying to cross the parkway on his bike, and a driver slowed down to let him. In response, Park Police officers pulled over the driver.
The officer then told Beaujon that he had pulled the driver over because his stopping might have led to a collision. Beaujon also says the officer was "very rude."
The Park Police seem to be responding, but in a very poor manner, to an incident last week where one driver rear-ended another who had stopped to let a cyclist cross at a crosswalk. As Stephen Miller explained, this stems from the basic design of the area, which is optimized for high-speed traffic flow instead of to accommodate both drivers and people crossing alike.
WJLA yesterday picked up the story of unsafe crossings here. Their video mentions the same solution Stephen suggested: HAWK signals, which DDOT officials told them have been very effective.overreacting to dancing, shutting down food trucks, arresting journalists at public meetings, or tasering pedicab drivers, there seems to be a pattern of very poor Park Police responses to issues that arise.
The "Smooth Operator" road safety campaign just sent out a press release entitled, "Speeding belongs on the raceway— Correction: The original headline on this article erroneously suggested Beaujon was a pedestrian. He was actually on a bicycle.
Correction: The original headline on this article erroneously suggested Beaujon was a pedestrian. He was actually on a bicycle.
- Zoning: The hidden trillion dollar tax
- As DC has grown, so has its racial prosperity gap
- 8 ways to make it easier to walk around North Bethesda... or anywhere, really
- Pedestrian tunnels would not make DC's streets better for walking
- Why can't Metro label escalators "walk left, stand right" or label where doors will stop on the platform?
- When the Metro first arrived in Shaw and Columbia Heights, they were far different than they are today
- A DC law that was terribly unfair to cyclists and pedestrians will soon be a thing of the past. Let's thank the DC Council.


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Shida Kartli is located in the eastern part of Georgia. This region is full of cultural monuments and beautiful nature. The areas which were inhabited by Jews were Kareli, Surami, and Gori; as well as a city near the city Mtskheta, which is located in Mtskheta-Mtianeti province of Georgia. Mtskheta, located at the junctions of the rivers Mtkvari and Araks, is an old capital of Georgia. This is the place where Jews appeared and settled down. After their persecution from Jerusalem in 586 BC, they asked the head of Mtskheta for permission to let them inhabit the area, for which they would pay a relevant amount. They got a positive answer and they occupied the part of the banks of the river Aragvi named Zanavi. After a little while the Jewish moved to different villages and cities, which were trade centers. In “Conversion of Kartli'' this community is dated as the year 169 BC. In the Georgian Chronicles Georgian Jews are connected to the crucifixion of the Christ. Eliezeri, who was from Mtskheta, and Longinus traveled to Jerusalem and they brought the cloth of Christ with them. Sidonia hugged the cloth, fell on the ground and died, and because they could not get the cloth out of her arms they buried her with it. According to the legend, the gravestone located around Svetitskhoveli territory represents Sidonia’s grave. Sidonia is also connected to Saint Nino; Sidonia traveled around with Nino, along with 6 Israeli nuns and was the witness of her miracles. In the middle centuries’ documents, it is said that many Jews were victims of kidnapping and theft; the cruel behaviour caused Jews to leave the region. Kareli, a town in Shida Kartli, Georgia, is located on the river Mtkvari. There was a time when the number of Jews living in Kareli was fairly vast but today that is not the case, on this day the Jewish population is very small; it only consists of 400 beings. Some say the word “Kareli'' doesn't mean the “The place with wind”, and its actual origin is an Herbew word, of men, but that is just an assumption. In old times Jews were accounted as the workers of Tsitsishvili; later as the state peasants. Jews in Kareli usually were merchants and lived ordinary lives, their appearances and rules corresponded with Kareli’s population. The sites you can find in this town are Kareli Synagogue, which was built in the 20th century and a Jewish graveyard. Gori is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and the center of the homonymous administrative district. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Mtkvari and Liakhvi. The name comes from a Georgian word gora, which means, "heap", or "hill". The city has an old history about the Jews which starts from the 17th century; at first they inhabited the area around Gori tower, since on Sundays a trade was held here and Jews were very involved in it. In the year 1866 there were 281 Jews living within the overall 5000 Gori population. Jewish inhabitants were usually merchants and craftsmen. In the 20th century the economy of Jewish population grew. In 1915 there were 104 Jews in Gori (approximately 16-17 families); they inhabited the same area. In 1946, during World War II, a legally registered community was established; under which was this community a synagogue, which was located on 16 Cheloskicenev St. The main Rabbi was Mordechay Davarashvili; he helped Zionist Aliyah in Israel. After the death of Rabbi Mordechay every holy book owned by him was handed to a synagogue. In this city you can find sites such as one big synagogue and Jewish graveyard. Surami is a mountain resort in Shida Kartli’s side of Khashuri Municipality. Until the year 1970, before the migration of Jews started, there were 580 Jewish families living in Surami. The first stage of migration started in the 70s and continued in the 80s and from the 90s to 2000s due to migration only 10 families were left in the city. Majority of Jews sold their houses and the former district of Jews was later named Jerusalem Street.
WJT starts in Jack Gottlieb's living room with IDC students who wanted to advance interest in their Jewish heritage. These students were part of the Hillel project, which provided students with work experience while strengthening their Jewish cultural roots.
WJT's first digital eBook is released. It explores 100 unique, well-known, and recommended ethnic restaurants throughout Israel.
WJT opens its first Instagram account (@wtj.restaurants), followed by @World.Jewish.Travel and @wtj.events to promote Jewish restaurants, events, and sites around the world.
WJT's second eBook is released, taking a look at the history of Jews in Venice in the world's oldest ghetto. It shows the top Jewish sites, events, synagogues, restaurants, and tours in the Venetian ghetto.
An eBook collection offering both inspiration and practical guidance, while encouraging travelers to broaden and deepen their journey wherever their destination may be.
Includes both cultural days and cultural events taking place around the world go to calendar
This website is a digital Jewish tourism platform where all WJT content is accessible and users can share their own content and services. The website launched in 2020 and includes an eBook library, events calendar, Jewish heritage sites and tours, cultural trails, tour guides around the world, kosher tours, and much much more.


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Chapter 87: Absolutely Full Of Life
We have to hurry!
Everyone could judge that the Great Devil Snake was not something that they could contend with now. If not for the environment not being suited for the Great Devil Snake’s movements, somebody would have been bitten by it long ago. Even so, the writhing and twisting of the Great Devil Snake’s body still made everyone very miserable. In this short period of time Woolf who had the biggest size had many of his bones broken, and after the giant snake closed onto him, he couldn’t even get the chance to raise his greatsword.
After making this judgement, Bai Yi immediately rushed towards the Great Devil Snake. Along the way, the Great Devil Snake continued to writhe around and smash everything around it. Bai Yi captured the trajectory of its movements with his eyes and managed to run through the gaps formed with great effort, finally sprinting right in front of the Great Devil Snake.
At this time, the Great Devil Snake’s back was facing the lift, and with their strength they were definitely unable to force the Great Devil Snake in, unless it went in by itself. They could use bait, or…!
Bai Yi’s broadsword hacked down brutally on one of its tentacles, and the force rippled through the tentacle, but Bai Yi’s strike actually did not manage to hack it apart. When the few surrounding tentacles came reaching for him, Bai Yi’s eyes widened suddenly.
Come and chase me!
In an instant, the Great Devil Snake that was already agitated by Bai Yi’s actions seemed to have eaten aphrodisiacs. It immediately abandoned everyone else and pounced at Bai Yi.
“Sharpei, fling me into the lift with your tail!” Bai Yi shouted at Sharpei, not knowing if Sharpei actually understood him.
When the Great Devil Snake turned its body around, it immediately pounced and bit at Bai Yi at a shocking speed. At this moment, Bai Yi swiftly grabbed Sharpei’s tail, and Sharpei understood his words as well and sent him flying into the lift with its thick and sturdy tail.
Its prey that was almost in its mouth disappeared, and the Great Devil Snake got even more infuriated, its giant mouth immediately crunched down on Sharpei’s tail that didn’t have the chance to withdraw yet. Sharpei immediately cried out in pain, but it started to struggle frenziedly and tore off its tail itself, rapidly escaping to the side. If it weren’t for its decisiveness, Sharpei would have probably been trapped by a few tentacles and sent into the mouth of the Great Devil Snake.
Come and chase me!
When Bai Yi’s body was still in the air, he turned his body in mid-air and his eyes widened again, attempting to entice the Great Devil Snake through hypnotism. Sure enough, after biting off Sharpei’s tail, it did not continue to chase Sharpei but headed towards Bai Yi again.
Only heaven knew how fast snakes could pounce, Bai Yi’s body was in mid-air from Sharpei’s effort, but the Great Devil Snake almost caught up with him in a split-second. Everyone looked at the Great Devil Snake in shock and horror as its wide open mouth closed onto Bai Yi. At this time, Bai Yi, who was still in the air, had no ability to dodge. Even if they had faith in Bai Yi, just how was he supposed to deal with this now?
In reality, Bai Yi could not think of anything in his mind now either. There wasn’t any time to think, so Bai Yi instinctively stabbed his broadsword towards one of the sharp teeth within the Great Devil Snake’s mouth.
The mouth of the Great Devil Snake that shot out heavily had not managed to bite onto Bai Yi, but its sharp teeth impacted the tip of the broadsword, and Bai Yi, who was gripping onto the broadsword tightly, flew out again. Blood and saliva splattered from the Great Devil Snake’s mouth onto Bai Yi’s face, and at this time Bai Yi had already reached the door of the lift. When going past the lift door, Bai Yi’s left hand forcefully grabbed onto the door and swung himself towards the side of the lift, and pressed onto the ‘close’ button of the lift in mid-air.
‘Kuang!’, Bai Yi landed heavily inside the lift, and the Great Devil Snake practically brushed past Bai Yi’s clothes and followed behind him inside the lift.
At this time, the lift door was slowly starting to close, but these few seconds were the most life-threatening. Normally, the lift would only start moving when the door was closed completely, and if the door closed onto something, it would open again. This was for the sake of safety, but at this time it became the most critical issue.
Bai Yi did not go out immediately. If he went out now and the Great Devil Snake followed him, then there was no meaning in whatever they did. The lift was extremely huge, and it could even fit the Great Devil Snake without any problems. When the giant snake chased all the way inside, it instantly bit viciously towards Bai Yi again. Bai Yi at this time could only try his best to dodge inside the lift, waiting as long as he could for the door to close.
However, one could imagine how dangerous it was facing such a Great Devil Snake in such an enclosed space. Within two seconds, Bai Yi was grazed by it twice, and with such a simple graze it almost broke all the bones in Bai Yi’s body. At this moment, the lift door was almost closed.
“Bai Yi, come out!” Woolf shouted loudly outside.
“Come out Bai Yi! Hurry up and come out!” The rest of them shouted as well. The lift was very big, but the door was almost closed, if Bai Yi did not come out now there wouldn’t be any chances anymore.
Hearing the voices of his companions, Bai Yi instantly focused his mind and sprinted outside. While running, Bai Yi abruptly jumped and turned his body around to face the Great Devil Snake, intending to borrow the strength of it to knock himself out like before. If he was just purely running, there was a 100% chance that the Great Devil Snake would catch him and bite onto him from behind.
However, this time, Bai Yi’s broadsword just started to extend outwards before a tentacle came swinging from the side. The powerful impact instantly flung the broadsword from Bai Yi’s hand, and his body was also flung aside from the force. At this moment, the rest of them looked on with shock and horror, and Bai Yi himself widened his eyes in shock. Don’t tell me… I’m really going to die here?
I can’t accept this!
Bai Yi’s pupils contracted again, blood immediately flowing out of his eyes. In an instant, the Great Devil Snake received the intimidation and paused for a split-second. In that instant, Bai Yi went along with the force that flung him, landing at the corner of the lift and rolling. Bai Yi really did not know what to do now, he sat at the corner and saw the Great Devil Snake that got lightly intimidated pouncing over again.
Even if it was Bai Yi, his eyes were filled with despair at this time.
‘KUANG DANG!’, and he suddenly realised that the Great Devil Snake’s mouth had stopped just a few centimeters from his face. In front of him was a giant black cavity with countless sharp teeth and shredded flesh, and Bai Yi’s heart almost stopped beating from fright. Bai Yi wasn’t a God, when facing danger, he only did his best not to think about the danger, and tried his best to use an absolutely calm way to deal with it. However, when facing this kind of sure-death situation, Bai Yi would similarly feel afraid.
The Great Devil Snake rammed into the sides of the lift!
Bai Yi only realized now that his body had subconsciously retreated all the way into the corner of the lift, and the three sides around him were all alloyed metal plates. The Great Devil Snake’s mouth was too big, after opening its mouth it rammed directly onto the sides, missing him by just a few centimeters.
Bai Yi breathed heavily, looking at the closed lift door towards his left…Should I open it, if I open it now then all the effort would have been wasted. If the Great Devil Snake got released again, they may not have the chance to lure it inside the lift again.
When it discovered that it had not bitten into Bai Yi like it imagined, the Great Devil Snake blanked for a moment, and tried to bite a few more times, banging heavily onto the sides of the lift. The immense impact shook the lift and heavy sounds of impact rang out.
Woolf and the others were all stunned when they saw Bai Yi getting swept aside by the tentacle. When the lift door closed, they just happened to see the image of the Great Devil Snake pouncing towards the defenceless Bai Yi. Everyone stared at the closed lift door blankly, but Heloise immediately ran towards the door wanting to press the button to open it once again. None of them tried to stop her, if Bai Yi really died, they wouldn’t be able to accept this outcome either.
When Bai Yi hesitated over if he should open the lift door again, Heloise had already pressed the button to open it.
At this moment, after banging onto the sides a few times, the Great Devil Snake couldn’t help but to pull back its head by a bit. Seeing the opening in that instant, Bai Yi did not think about what to do after but instantly shot out from the side of the Great Devil Snake’s body, dashing towards the door that just cracked open a small gap.
‘KUANG!’, the Great Devil Snake’s all out strike caused an even greater impact, and the lift shook along with the entire building, cracks appearing on the floor. The lift door that just had a gap open immediately got stuck in that position. However, in this situation Bai Yi was instantly overjoyed, that small gap was enough for him to get across but definitely not the Great Devil Snake.
Bai Yi dashed all the way to the crack of the door, and immediately tried to rush out. However, all of a sudden, he felt a pulling force on his leg and his entire body started to get pulled backwards. One of the tentacles had grabbed onto Bai Yi’s leg. Just when Bai Yi’s hands grabbed onto empty air, Woolf’s claw gripped tightly onto Bai Yi’s hand, and cracked open a grin to him.
Just in time!
Two powerful strengths, one wrapping around Bai Yi’s left leg, and one grabbing onto Bai Yi’s right hand, made Bai Yi almost feel like he was getting ripped into half. In this difficult situation, Bai Yi turned his head with great difficulty and took out a kitchen knife from his back, and brutally hacked the tentacle curling around his leg.
Under Bai Yi’s desperate hacking, the tentacle finally had signs of loosening, and making use of this opportunity Woolf and the others wrenched Bai Yi out from the lift. Behind Bai Yi, the Great Devil Snake rammed onto the lift door brutally, and dents appeared even on the metal alloy door. Seeing the lift door with more and more dents appearing, everybody felt quite terrified. This guy was really too fierce.
“Destroy the wall on top of the lift and break the cable, fast!” Bai Yi said to everyone.
After hearing Bai Yi’s words, everyone started to destroy the wall on top of the lift, hurriedly trying to break the lift cable before the Great Devil Snake managed to escape. Otherwise, if they let the Great Devil Snake get out again, they couldn’t think of any other ideas to deal with this guy.


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