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Do you love yourself?
Many people are unaware of how important it is to love themselves. In reality, self-love is one of the most essential things that a person needs to possess. Some may see it as a selfish thing. I assure you, it is not. In fact, it lays the foundation for being able to care for and love others.
Basically, you cannot pour from an empty glass just as you cannot love others if you do not love yourself. It’s important that you are able enjoy yourself, like your own company, and be happy with the person that you are.
The more you are able to do these things, the happier you will be in life. In my opinion, happiness is something that should never be gone without in life.
One of the best things about self-love would be the fact that it gets rid of the need to seek happiness from others. I’m not saying that a person should ever become anti-social, but needing other people to make life enjoyable is a great way to create co-dependencies as well as a list of other complicated issues.
Having friends, loved ones, and people you care about is important in life. However, being able to truly love yourself is just as important.
If you have a hard time showing yourself love, you may want to consider giving some of these strategies a try…
1. Write Out A List Of Your Qualities
We all possess unique talents and qualities that make us amazing people. Consider writing out a list of the things you enjoy about yourself.
Whenever you begin to feel negatively about yourself, refer to the list you created. This will remind you of how truly awesome you are.
People often lose the ability to love themselves when they lose the connection to their inner-self.
It’s highly important that we remain connected with our soul. Luckily, there are tools that you can use that work wonders when it comes to reestablishing this connection. One of the most widely used would be meditation. Consider giving this powerful tool a try and see if it works for you.
3. Forget The Past
The past is gone and there is nothing we can do to change it. However, we can begin to take steps toward a better future.
Learn the lessons provided by the past and then move on. Holding on to previous mistakes, failures, and pain will do nothing more than hold you back and hinder your love for yourself.
4. Recognize Your Own Accomplishments
Whenever you achieve something, it’s important that you give yourself some recognition. Often, people wait for recognition from other people. Unfortunately, a person’s accomplishments can go unnoticed by other people which leads to a lack in recognition.
Fortunately, you don’t need other people to notice the outcome of your hard work and determination. Simply give yourself a pat on the back, tell yourself you did a good job, and take some time to admire the results of your hard work.
Click here for some tools that can help you create a self-loving mindset.

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Hey guys, I'm working on a female head. Haven't done one in a while, so I'm rusty. I've got some severe anatomy issues here, so please crit!
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There is a lot of things to be improved. But I begin by saying go through these in order.
1) Start with proportion.
Get the correct position, size of key features like eyes, nose, mouth & their position & proportion in the face. Use the minimum meshs as possible, as its easier to define the proportion with a less dense geometry.
2) Then get the base shapes correct. Do not be concern for details at this moment, just make sure good base to being more detailing.
Make sure the meshes topology are well spread & shape if you intend to use sculpting software later.
3) Only then should you detail. Only subdivide a mesh when you can no longer improve the detail in the poly level. If you feel the need to readjust the proportion, try to do it with the lowest division level possible.
Yes, many people have seen videos of speed sculpting on the net on how someone divide the mesh into millions of polygon & start sculpting the shape from there. It only works when you have reach a certain level of mastery. For the rest of us, building slowly from simple shape to gradually higher details are the better approach, in my opinion anyway.
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I would recommend using some 3D.sk images or something to that affect to get proportions as close as possible. Achieving realistic heads and proportions takes time, and without proper reference its very tough.. Try gathering some head images form all angles and go from there..
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The highlight players of the defensive line are senior ends Kendall Coleman and Alton Robinson. Both logged ten sacks last season and the Orange got at least one sack from the duo in ten games last season. Each player had multiple sacks in three games, including one effort with three sacks. Coleman notched his trio in the bowl game against West Virginia, while Robinson got his against Connecticut.
A three-year starter, Coleman has 11.5 sacks among his 16 career tackles for loss. Robinson, who has 20 starts in his two years on campus, has 15 sacks and 23 tackles for loss in his career and forced three fumbles last season. Both earned All-ACC honors from various media outlets coming into this season.
The cupboard is not bare beyond the starters. Junior Kingsley Jonathan played in every game last season, starting the last two games. Jonathan finished third on the team with five sacks in that limited action. Redshirt senior Brandon Berry has played in a dozen games in each of his two seasons as SU, starting six times in 2017. He notched his first career sack last season against Notre Dame.
The worst injury suffered by any player in fall camp to this point is a leg injury to senior McKinley Williams. Williams has missed only one game in three years and head coach Dino Babers mentioned in late August that he expects Williams to return from this injury by mid-September. A nine-time starter at nose tackle last season (15 starts overall), Williams was slotted at defensive tackle coming into the year.
Josh Black will take over the nose tackle spot as a redshirt junior. Black, who started four times last season at the nose, started nine games at defensive end as a freshman, but has bulked up and is one of the strongest players on the team. He has registered eight tackles for loss in his career.
Kenneth Ruff will be the likely starter at defensive tackle while Williams remains on the shelf. The senior has appeared in 32 games at Syracuse without a single start. Ruff notched a pair of sacks as part of his 4.5 tackles for loss last season.
Redshirt senior Shaq Grosvenor appeared on the two-deep entering fall camp at tackle and redshirt sophomore Curtis Harper will be next in line at getting a shot at seeing the field. Grosvenor has seen action in just five games and Harper made it on the field just once last season.
For the second straight season, the linebacking corps enters the season as the least proven group on the defensive side of the ball. Last year, Ryan Guthrie and Kielan Whitner entered the season as unproven commodities at the position and responded by accumulating at least 100 tackles each. It remains to be seen if the team will get the same results this season.
Senior Andrew Armstrong has played in every game his three seasons on campus, starting against Pitt last season. Armstrong had 45 tackles and got his first interception last season, sealing the win over N.C. State.
Another senior, Lakiem Williams, has the inside track on the other starting slot. A junior college transfer, Williams saw most of his action last season on special teams.
Sophomore Juan Wallace and freshman Mikel Jones entered fall camp as the backups on the depth chart. Wallace played in every game as a freshman on special teams. Ranked a top-25 outside linebacker recruit, Jones arrived on campus in January, logging a pair of tackles in the spring game. Redshirt sophomore Tyrell Richards may rotate in as a pass-rushing specialist, as well.
This position group may have seen the greatest overhaul in Dino Babers’ time at Syracuse. The defensive back unit is the deepest on the squad, featuring seven players who have started for SU, five of them with at least ten career starts. The team will deploy five defensive backs frequently, making use of that great depth.
The starting cornerbacks coming out of spring practice were redshirt senior Christopher Fredrick and redshirt sophomore Ifeatu Melifonwu. Frederick has started the last 31 games at SU and played in every game his three active seasons, logging five interceptions and three fumble recoveries in his career. Melifonwu saw action in nine games last season, finishing second on the team with six pass breakups, including four against North Carolina.
Scoop Bradshaw has 21 starts in his career at SU, but will likely come off the bench at corner. The senior from Tampa has played in 34 of 37 games during his three seasons and has 6.5 tackles for loss and nine pass breakups in his career. Carl Jones is slotted in as the other reserve corner. He has been a special teams contributor all three of his seasons, appearing in every game in that time.
The starting safeties will be sophomore Andre Cisco and senior Evan Foster. Cisco made a big splash as a freshman, tying for the national lead with seven interceptions as he was named to a half dozen different All-American teams, becoming the first true freshman to be named an All-American at Syracuse. Named a preseason first team All-American by three media outlets coming into this season, Cisco had 60 tackles and 11 passes broken up as a freshman.
Foster has started every game the last two seasons in orange and finished third on the squad in tackles each season. The active leader on the roster in tackles, Foster has 158 stops on his resume and notched a pair of sacks last season to go with eight pass breakups.
Redshirt junior Devon Clarke and redshirt sophomore Eric Coley came out of spring ball listed as reserves at safety. Clarke has only played in three games at SU after suffering a season-ending injury last year. Coley appeared in six games last season, mostly as a reserve strong safety.
Sophomore Trill Williams is slotted to be the starting nickelback after starting four times and appearing in every game as a freshman. Williams showed a playmaking knack as a freshman, getting a pair of interceptions and scoring a touchdown on a blocked punt. Allen Stritzinger, a junior from Detroit who has appeared in 18 games and had an interception in the Camping World Bowl last season, is listed as Williams’ backup.
The wild card in the defensive backfield is Antwan Cordy. Cordy, who lost the bulk of the 2016 and 2017 seasons to injury, was granted a sixth season of eligibility. His 24 starts at SU have been spread over every position in the defensive backfield, including eight at nickelback last season. Cordy has 15 tackles for loss in his career to go with three sacks, three fumble recoveries, and three interceptions.
SPECIAL TEAMS OUTLOOK
The Orange had arguably the best special teams units in the nation last year and the primary contributors all return. Redshirt sophomore Andre Szmyt, a former walk-on, won the kicking job in preseason camp, earned a scholarship by the middle of October, and finished the season by winning the Lou Groza Award as the nation’s top kicker and being named a unanimous first team All-American. Szmyt made all 61 of his extra point attempts and connected on 30-of-34 field goals, leaving him one shy of the all-time single season NCAA mark.
Redshirt senior Sterling Hofrichter returns to handle the punting duties after being named to the All-ACC first team last season. Hofrichter’s consistency has been a large part of his success, as he has averaged between 42.7 and 43.2 yards per kick in his three campaigns and finished second in the conference last season in gross punting average while topping the ACC in net punting average.
Sean Riley paced the ACC and finished second nationally by averaging 16.4 yards on punt returns. Riley had a 69-yard punt return for a score against Connecticut and also blocked a punt in the Wagner game. The wideout also led the team with 18 kickoff returns, averaging 20.5 yards per attempt. Riley stands seventh in Syracuse history in all-purpose yards with 3,678. If he repeats his 2018 production, he will be only the second player in school history to crack the 5,000-yard plateau.
RETURNING DEFENSIVE STARTERS (8): CB Scoop Bradshaw, FS Andre Cisco, DB Antwan Cordy, DE Kendall Coleman, SS Evan Foster, CB Christopher Fredrick, DE Alton Robinson, DT McKinley Williams
LEADING RETURNERS IN TACKLES: S Evan Foster – 86; FS Andre Cisco – 60; CB Christopher Fredrick – 56
LEADING RETURNERS IN SACKS: DE Kendall Coleman and DE Alton Robinson – ten each
LEADING RETURNERS IN INTERCEPTIONS: FS Andre Cisco – seven

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In the 1930’s, the orphaned Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) lives in the access tunnels of the Gare Montparnasse in Paris, winding the clocks, making sure that no one knows his guardian uncle has long-since gone AWOL, and filching bits and pieces of mechanisms that will allow him, he hopes, to repair the automaton he keeps in his living quarters. This is his last connection to his deceased father, and his dream is that the repaired machine will grant him a message from the beyond.
But there are obstacles to his quest. Foremost is the tyrannical station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), who likes nothing better than rounding up street urchins and packing them off to the orphanage. Hugo also runs afoul of the bitter, disappointed old man (Ben Kingsley) whose toy store has been the source of much of his material. This encounter proves fateful for them both. The old man is none other than Georges Méliès, whose films are the ground zero of all fantasy in cinema, but who has since been forgotten by the industry he helped create. Hugo and Méliès’ granddaughter Isabelle (Chloe Moretz) become allies, determined to give Méliès back the sense of joy and wonder he once gave to so many.
The idea of Martin Scorsese directing a children’s film is, granted, a little counter-intuitive. But that is what he has done here, and the very particular kind of children’s movie he has made makes perfect sense. This is a love letter to the movies, and a heart-felt tribute to the man who was the first to see, in film, the possibility of making dreams come to life. Though this is a picture with an all-ages sensibility, and I can picture the younger crowd getting a kick out of Hugo’s madcap races through the train station, and the chemistry between Cohen and his demonic Doberman, the fact of the matter is that the children who will enjoy this the most, I think are the children who live inside adult film buffs.
I have to confess to a personal bias here. Georges Méliès has been a hero of mine since I was 10 years old, and this film felt like it had been crafted specifically for that younger self. How could my reaction not then be one of unqualified, giggling delight? I’m not even going to pretend to any kind of objective perspective on the film. Can’t be done. But I will say this all the same: the visuals are a feast, with Scorsese giving us the same kind of unrestrained phantasmagoria in the 21st Century that Méliès gave his viewers at the end of the 19th . Scorsese’s use of 3D is magisterial. It is not a gimmick here, but rather an integral part of the film’s artistic and thematic statements.
I’ll close this bit with an anecdote. Towards the end of the film, there is a montage of clips from Méliès films. One is from Le Mélomane (1903). In it, Méliès plays a fellow who repeatedly removes his own head, throwing his noggins up onto a giant stave in the sky, where they form musical notes. At the theatrical screening I attended, when this moment occurred, I head a woman gasp in delighted surprise. That a movie well over a hundred years old can still have its intended effect is a wonderful thing. I would rank that moment as probably the loveliest second I spent at the movies in 2011.
Lacking the equipment, I can’t speak to the 3D version, so the rating applies to the 2D one. However, the overall quality of the disc certainly bodes well for the former, and that would certainly be the ideal way of watching the film. When it comes to the 2D version, the image loses a little bit of its effect in the translation. The breathtaking opening, for example, is still breathtaking, but the full impact of being plunged into this fantastical, impossible, yet still recognizable Paris isn’t there. Similarly, the moment where the inspector’s face looms out over the audience is now (obviously) just a more and more extreme close-up, and isn’t nearly as funny. These losses cannot be helped, and are due to the fact that this is a film that really does use 3D well. That said, the 2D version is beautiful, with colours that are several orders beyond sumptuous. The blacks and flesh tones are both superb, and the resolution razor sharp without sacrificing any warmth. The AVC codec keeps things at a very impressive 30-35 Mbps, and the aspect ratio is the original 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen.
While the video can’t match the theatrical experience except for the still-in-the-minority viewers who have the proper 3D equipment, the audio is pretty spectacular for anyone with a surround setup. From the opening seconds of the film, when the ticking of a watch travels from one speaker to another, building to the enveloping chuffing of a train, we are deep into the world of the film. The placement of the sound effects is superb, and the music is given a properly transporting mix. However, the dialogue is never smothered by all the fun sound design, and is always perfectly clear. A thoroughly engaging track.
Shoot the Moon: The Making of Hugo: (19:48) A fairly typical making-of piece.
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès: (15:41) Considerably more interesting, this is a good introduction to the man and his achievements.
Big Effects, Small Scale: (5:55) This looks at one specific moment – the train crash that recreates the famous picture of the locomotive dangling into the street.
The Mechanical Man at the Heart of Hugo: (12:45) Pretty fascinating stuff here, giving a history of automata, and featuring all sorts of neat (and vaguely disturbing) creations.
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a Lifetime: (3:33) As one might expect, this piece is just a bit of silliness, riffing on the idea that the comic was a lunatic diva who would (in his own words) refuse to take direction from anyone under six feet.
A delightful effort from start to finish, so different in tone from so much of of Scorsese’s work, but no different in its exuberant love of the medium. Watching it in 3D is ideal, but watching it at all is essential.

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Wynwood Walls in 3D Postcard: Ron English
The incomparable Ron English created this tableau, commissioned for the Wynwood Walls during Art Basel 2013 in Miami's Arts District as part of the Memorial Exhibition for Tony Goldman. There are a limited number of these originally commissioned during Art Basel 2013. 4 x 8 inches.


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Physicians who care for patients handicapped by the after-effects of acute anterior poliomyelitis are becoming increasingly concerned over the problem of care for severely involved upper extremities. This interest has grown out of an increasing demand for care of this type, which is due not only to the high incidence of poliomyelitis during the past few years but also, in a great part, to improved methods of saving life during the acute stage of the disease. It is reasonable to believe that in the past these patients usually did not survive the acute stage. The purpose of this paper is to outline methods of care of the patient with severe flaccid paralysis of the upper extremities and to discuss ways of increasing functional capacity through the use of adaptive apparatus. No attempt will be made to discuss the countless details of apparatus design or the training techniques necessary to give
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This year is a clarifying moment for many people. We see how structural racism and state violence terrorize Black communities. We see how the COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through our communities, hitting people of color and those with the fewest resources hardest. And even with a Supreme Court decision that extends protections for DACA recipients, we know that anti-immigrant policies continue to prevent families from accessing essential health care for fear of arrest, detention and deportation.
As researchers, women of color and immigrants, we know that these crises are not separate threads, but part of the same tapestry of racism and xenophobia that have long shaped the health of people of color and immigrants.
The Trump administration has always been clear in its disdain for immigrants but has dug even deeper into its xenophobic agenda by unjustly blaming migrants for the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting this public health crisis and effectively prompting a shutdown of the U.S. immigration system. It is no accident that immigrant communities—particularly immigrants of color—are among the hardest hit by this virus in the United States, and are also being denied many of the COVID-19 relief efforts that Congress is extending to other communities.
Among countless harms, new research shows that the bigoted pandemic response also impacts immigrants’ access to sexual and reproductive health care—a basic human right that should not be denied or delayed under any circumstance, including a pandemic.

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The Spear (painting)
Artist: Brett Murray
Date of Action: May 2012
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Confronting Bodies: African National Congress (ANC)
Description of Artwork: The painting depicts South African President Jacob Zuma in a classic Lenin pose, but with exposed genitalia.
The Incident: Zuma and his African National Congress sought a court order to have the painting removed from the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg but two men took matters into their own hands by defacing the portrait with gobs of paint.
Zuma, who has a reputation for promiscuity, took the depiction very personally and compared himself to a rape victim. Zuma himself was put on trial for rape, and acquitted, in 2006.
The ANC also demanded that a City Press, a newspaper which reported on the show and posted an image of the controversial work, should remove the image from their website.
The two unidentified men, who attacked the painting, are expected to appear in a magistrate's court Thursday on a charge of malicious damage to property.
After the painting was defaced, a third man spray-painted the first three letters of the word "respect" on a wall near the gallery's front gate before he was taken away by police. He, too, will be charged with malicious damage to property. The man shouted that the gallery had shown the president disrespect.
Results of Incident: A full three-judge bench will be hearing the case because "the national interest and constitutional issues are at stake. The tribunal heard oral argument and evidence on 17 September 2012.


As expected, Microsoft is revealing its third-gen Surface Laptop… or laptops, actually. The new Surface Laptop 3 comes in two sizes: 13.5 inches and 15 inches. Both versions feature all-aluminum bodies, marking a departure from the company’s previous-gen, fabric-clad models. But the screen size isn’t the only difference — Microsoft says the smaller Surface Laptop […]
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Pikmin - New Play Control! for WiiOn: Wii, Cube
Pikmin sees players enter the world of the Pikmin creatures as they help Captain Olimar on his galactic quest to rebuild his spaceship.
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A compilation of three animated films.
Nintendo also says Punch-Out!! Wii and New Play Control! Pikmin will be out in the first half of 2009.
New Play Control! versions of Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis hitting in February and March respectively.

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Hon. ERNEST LAPOINTE (Minister of Justice):
Mr. Speaker, I desire to lay on the table of the house copies of the text of the decisions of the privy council on the various references, which decisions, as hon. members are aware, were delivered on January 28 last. Yesterday some hon. gentlemen expressed the wish that this text might be printed in the Votes and Proceedings of to-day, and I would ask you, Mr. Speaker, to give instructions to that effect.
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THE 21ST-CENTURY ALLOWANCE
Find it challenging to stick with an allowance schedule? Never have any cash? Consider using technology to help dole out the dollars. You can use a service such as www.threejars.com. For $30 per year, the site lets you set a dollar limit and determine how much of the money your child should give, save and spend. Your kid e-mails you when cash is needed. www.paypal.com also has student accounts you can link to your PayPal account.
You could also load money onto a prepaid card such as Visa Buxx, but with fees for enrollment, fees for checking your balance and fees for lack of use, the card seems to be a better lesson in being nickeled-and-dimed than a good tool for distributing an allowance. Or why not just set up weekly or monthly automatic transfers from your bank account to your child's for free?

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Donald Trump and Barack Obama are bitter political rivals.
But their feud came to an end with one clear winner.
And Donald Trump ended a four year fight with Barack Obama with this major victory.
Barack Obama fired Lt. General Michael Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 after Flynn objected to Obama’s weakness on radical Islam.
Before Trump took over the Presidency, Obama warned Trump not to hire him.
After Trump named Flynn as his incoming National Security Advisor, the Obama administration and FBI set about trying to frame Flynn for being a Russian agent.
President Trump put an end to this four year battle by pardoning Flynn after anti-Trump judge Emmett Sullivan refused to allow the Justice Department to drop the guilty plea Robert Mueller forced Flynn to agree to.
It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2020
Attorney General William Barr appointed a career prosecutor to review the Flynn case and he found significant problems with the FBI’s conduct.
Despite this fact, Judge Sullivan fought tooth and nail to keep Flynn’s guilty plea in place.
President Trump saw that enough was enough and stepped in to pardon Flynn.
The Wall Street Journal praised the President’s decision.
“President Trump’s decision Wednesday to pardon former national security adviser Michael Flynn is an overdue act of justice that ends four years of political harassment, unjustified prosecution and judicial abuse. If it sounds like we feel strongly about this one, you’re right,” the Journal Editorial Board wrote.
For four years, Barack Obama tried to destroy Michael Flynn as revenge for how Flynn blew the whistle on Obama’s failed policies.
Obama’s quest will end in failure.
Renewed Right will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.


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How much of my story came from this place? Would I still be the same person had I grown up elsewhere? How much of this city is in me? Or I in it?
Brand Boulevard has certainly changed in the forty-one years since my birth, though it is still – and probably always will be – the other-named Main Street of Glendale. Once lined with small businesses, it is now dominated by chains and luxury apartment buildings. But it is still home, despite decades of living elsewhere. I walk along the sidewalk – the manicured plants here and in the median are also “new” – and ask myself what this place means to me. The honest answer is: I don’t know.
Glendale is a large suburb of Los Angeles, just to the northeast of the city. Home to about 200,000, it sits between the smaller, but better known, Burbank and Pasadena, as well as LA’s mighty Griffith Park. It is known as a fairly quiet suburb, affluent areas in the north and higher density lower income to the south. When I was growing up, the Glendale Galleria – one of the preeminent shopping malls even today – was really the only reason to visit. Today, Glendale is considered reasonably cool, with luxury buildings going up all over the downtown core.
Glendale was founded in 1884 on what was once part of Rancho San Rafael. Remnants of this Mexican history remain in Casa de Adobe and the Catalina Verdugo Adobe, two of the original dwellings from the Rancho days. (Read about the Catalina Verdugo Adobe here.) Much of the early development of the city was done by Leslie Coombs Brand (yes, of Brand Boulevard, the Brand Library, and so on). The Library was once his mansion, the grounds being Brand Park today.
After World War Two, Glendale’s history is a bit dark. Until as recently as the 1960s (my grandparents, my mother, and my aunt were already living here by that point), Glendale was a “sundown city,” where nonwhites were required to leave the city by sundown or risk arrest. From 1964 to 1966, Glendale was even the West Coast headquarters for George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. (I wonder how much of this my mother’s family was aware of. For one thing, they were and are Jewish.)
For me, growing up in Glendale in the 1980s, remnants of some of these things were still around. While my schools had significant Hispanic and Asian populations, there were very few Blacks. Jews were even more rare. At Glendale High School, my sister and I represented half the Jewish population out of roughly 4,000 students, and I was the only one in my graduating class. While there was a synagogue in Glendale (Temple Sinai was a huge part of my childhood, and where I met my two forever best friends, who each went to one of the other two high schools in the city), that lack of representation led to issues for me. I was called a kike on a nearly daily basis, had to fight multiple teachers who scheduled exams on Jewish holidays, and even had a swastika drawn on one of my notebooks I left out while in middle school. (I dropped out of drama in high school when auditions for the fall play were held on Yom Kippur, and the teacher told me that if I were really dedicated to acting I would skip my religious obligations to be there.) I can only imagine other minorities experienced similar things.
(I don’t want to imply that my childhood was terrible. Despite the negative experiences I had for being Jewish, I grew up with some amazing friends, a quality public school education, a plethora of activities to choose from, and a location that allowed for easy access to some of the best things Los Angeles has to offer. It is these reasons that so many people now choose to live here, hence the need for so many more housing units downtown.)
One ethnic minority is incredibly well-represented in Glendale: Armenians. In fact, Glendale is even well-known in Armenia, and has by far the largest such population in the Armenian diaspora. As such, I was raised knowing that my people were not the only ones to experience genocide. (Sadly this should have led to camaraderie but did not.) I was also raised with the spectacular – and now widespread – Zankou Chicken, an Armenian chain featuring amazing roasted poultry and a garlic sauce that is to die for. (Click here to read about the Armenian history of Glendale.)
While Glendale of the past may have had some issues, Glendale of the present is a decent place. And it offers some cool experiences for visitors. For most, shopping is still the reason to come. The Galleria is going strong, and next door, the Americana is a lovely outdoor shopping center. (Whether you agree with the owner’s politics – I don’t – objectively the place is gorgeous.)
Across the street from the Americana, on Brand Boulevard, lies the Museum of Neon Art. It is small, but worth a visit. There are three components of the place. First, it is home to a staggering collection of original neon signage from Los Angeles (although most is in a warehouse), including the original neon marquis of the Chinese Theatre. Second, it has a rotating exhibit of modern neon art. Finally, the museum offers classes in how to create your own neon art, something I am committed to trying one of these days. (Thank you to the Museum of Neon Art for hosting my visit.)
Downtown Glendale is also home to the historic Alex Theatre, and one of the top community theatre companies in LA: the Glendale Center Theatre. Community theatre in Los Angeles is on the level of professional companies, as all are professional actors, and this theatre in the round does amazing work, specifically with comedies and musicals. No Oedipus Rex here. (The theatre was recently sold, so here’s hoping it reopens as a similar venue.)
Though technically across the border in La Canada Flintridge, Descanso Gardens offers a lovely oasis in the middle of the city. Go during camellia season. (Click here to read about Descanso Gardens.) You can also visit the Japanese garden inside Brand Park.
My number one tourist experience in Glendale might shock you, but it is a cemetery. Forest Lawn has been around since 1930, and it is stunningly beautiful, with monuments that look more like European castles than cemetery churches. It is the final resting place for many of Hollywood’s elite, including Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Taylor, Jimmy Stewart, and Walt Disney (the Disney gravesite isn’t in a publicly accessible area).
While many of my childhood favorites have long since closed, Glendale also has a few restaurants worth experiencing. First off, try the aforementioned Zankou Chicken. You also have to try Porto’s on Brand. It is the top Cuban bakery outside of Miami or Havana. Get a guava pastry, still under a dollar. Or check out Continental Gourmet Sausage Company for some of the best sausages I’ve ever had!
It is hard to say who I would be today had I grown up elsewhere. This place, Glendale, California, has given me a lot. My family is here. I met my best friends here. I also experienced extreme hatred, something that instilled my strong sense of fairness and compassion that I have today. Walking around, the emotions of both the positives and negatives come back to me. Home is a strange concept, but one that resonates here.
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Sometimes it really does happen! Children sing before they talk, and they dance before they walk… So, by the time she was a year old, her family knew that young ALEESIA was destined to become an entertainer. Raised in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada (the youngest of 3 sisters), Aleesia started her formal training at age 4, when she started her first dance class. Since this time, she has danced daily, sometimes for many grueling hours on end, perfecting her craft. Studying ballet, modern, jazz, tap, contemporary, pointe… Aleesia is an accomplished, award-winning, dancer who has trained and competed throughout North America. She has competed alongside many great talents, including Jeanine Mason (who went on to win America’s 2009 “So You Think You Can Dance” competition).
And then, there’s singing! For Aleesia, singing comes from her heart, and soul. She began singing and performing for the camera again at an early age, and by age nine, she was enrolled in private lessons for vocal training. After working with a variety of coaches, specializing in different vocal techniques, she continues to train and nurture her instrument daily- whether it be while training, creating new songs, recording at the studio, or performing live.
At only 19 years of age, Aleesia is a young woman who knows what she wants; and what she wants is to live her passion… to sing, to dance, to write songs… to become the consummate entertainer.
Aleesia’s artistry and vocal abilities are immediately recognizable. This talent, along with her endless energy, drive and determination, is what landed Aleesia on the radio charts with her first single, “Bubble Gum” in late 2009/early 2010. This pop, r&b flavoured single and video, received airplay on Top 40 radio in Canada, from coast to coast, and has since garnered her a steady stream of fans from around the globe (as evidenced through her YouTube hits, and her MySpace page). Her second single and video, the pop/dance inspired, “Headlights” , has just been released and was an immediate add on many radio stations and video stations in Canada. The video for this song, was filmed on location in El Dorado Canyon, Nevada, an ‘old mining ghost town’, where the imagery lent itself as an amazing backdrop to this anthemic, back beat driven song that makes you want to sing-along and drive for hours on end!
Aleesia is a singular artist, who combines talent and skill with charisma, beauty, and passion. A quick wit is also on her side. Anyone who sees or hears her perform can see that Aleesia lives the dance, breathes the music, and sings from the heart.
A natural born entertainer, her devotion to singing, writing, and dancing is the essence of her soul. Performing is not Aleesia’s career, it’s her life, and it is undeniably her destiny!


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Boeing, U.S. Navy Demo Unmanned Teaming With Super Hornet
RAF FAIRFORD, England—The U.S. Navy and Boeing recently demonstrated the manned-unmanned teaming capabilities of the Block III F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, with the fighter controlling up to three unmanned aerial vehicles in “combat representative” scenarios. The tests took place over a two-week period...
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Phoenix Birth Injury Lawyers Handling Forceps and Extractor Injury Claims
Fighting for Arizona mothers and children harmed during labor and delivery
Neglect, fatigue, lack of proper training or good judgment, and fatigue can all cause medical personnel to make life-altering mistakes during labor and delivery. While everyone makes mistakes at times, there is no room for medical personnel to make mistakes when they are assisting a mother during labor and delivery. In childbirth, mothers and their families put a lot of trust into the doctors and healthcare professionals to act in the best interest of their patients. If you believe your trusted healthcare professional made an incorrect decision during the birth of your child that ultimately caused serious risks and injuries for you or the baby, you may be eligible for compensation. Contact the experienced Phoenix birth injury lawyers of Plattner Verderame, P.C.to learn more about filing your claim.
Risks of forceps delivery to baby
To reduce stress, injury, and complications caused during prolonged labor, medical professionals may use the assistance of medical implements to help deliver the baby. When used properly, these devices often help medical personnel safely deliver the child. However, when these devices are used improperly or when medical personnel are not taking their time, they can yield some of the most serious and traumatic risks including:
- Brain damage
- Cerebral palsy
- Brachial plexus palsy
- Facial injury from pressure of forceps
- Temporary weakness of facial muscles
- External eye trauma
- Skull fracture
- Bleeding in the skull
The severity of these risks varies from one newborn to the next. It would all depend on the device used and the way that it was used that could have potentially caused a skull fracture, brain damage, or any other serious issues for the baby. In many instances, these medical conditions are immediately noticeable to medical staff and the mother. However, there are times when the parents may not know that their child has brain damage or cerebral palsy until the child gets a bit older and is not reaching certain milestones at an appropriate age.
These risks that are associated with the use of forceps and other extraction devices can lead to health problems that last a lifetime and drastically alter a child’s way of life. A child born with cerebral palsy may not be able to function the same way that a healthy child of the same age would function. In fact, children with cerebral palsy may need years of physical therapy and occupational therapy to help improve their muscle tone and make living with the condition a bit more manageable.
Children with brain damage or other congenital disorders are often unable to walk or do much of anything on their own. When a woman is pregnant, she often thinks of all the things her child will do over the years, such as learning to walk, learning to ride a bike, going to school for the first time, going to prom, getting married, and even getting his or her first job. These are the kinds of things that parents often look forward to when they know they are having a child. However, these things may be stripped away from the child and the parents because of medical mistakes that are made during the delivery of the baby.
Risks of forceps delivery to mother
- Uterine rupture
- Weakening of the muscles and ligaments supporting pelvic organs
- Pain in perineum
- Urinary or fecal incontinence
The baby is not the only one who can suffer from the use of these medical devices during labor and delivery. Unfortunately, women can experience several health issues because of the mistakes that are made by the medical personnel. Uterine rupture can lead to excessive bleeding and pain for the woman. It is a serious condition that has the potential to cause death in a woman. Even if a woman does not experience uterine rupture from the use of these medical devices, she may struggle with weakened pelvic muscles and urinary incontinence. Running, jumping, sneezing, or even laughing too hard could cause a woman with urinary incontinence to urinate herself at random. Unfortunately, fecal incontinence can occur, causing a woman to have a bowel movement on herself instead of making it to the toilet.
There is the possibility that a woman would experience such frustrating and uncomfortable side effects from these devices that were used. These side effects can cause a woman to feel embarrassed and might even keep her from doing the things she loves to do because she feels uncomfortable and is worried about the incontinency issues.
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Our honest Phoenix birth injury attorneys will not move forward with any catastrophic injury case unless we are sure that an honest injury has occurred. To assist in this process, we solicit the help of qualified healthcare professionals to review our potential catastrophic injury cases before bringing the claim. We pride ourselves on seeking justice for honest people who have been affected by life-changing injuries. If you have a strong belief that medical negligence is the cause of your maternal injury or your child’s injuries that were sustained after the medical professionals used extraction devices, you need to have legal representation to assist with your claim. We can help you put up a fight against the medical professionals involved.
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Too often, debilitating injury or death to mothers during childbirth is preventable, but had occurred because a medical professional has made one or more poor decisions while a woman was in labor. These poor decisions tend to have the most negative effect on the mother, child, and their family. Because you may have had a bad experience while giving birth in the hospital and are now suffering from mistakes made by medical professionals, it is important to understand your legal rights. The Phoenix birth injury attorneys at Plattner Verderame, P.C. want to help. Please call us at 602-783-8793 or complete the contact form on our website to schedule a free consultation.

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Richard Hawkins, the former chief financial officer of the McKesson Corporation, was indicted yesterday on federal charges that he helped inflate revenue after a merger with HBO & Company that caused investors to lose $9 billion.
Mr. Hawkins, 53, was indicted on charges of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and making false statements to an accountant in connection with an audit of McKesson, the United States attorney in San Francisco said.
Mr. Hawkins is the seventh former McKesson executive to be criminally charged by federal prosecutors. McKesson HBOC Inc., the merged company, lost $9 billion in market value in April 1999 on word that HBOC prematurely booked $40 million in sales.
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Sunday 8 January 2017
One I missed: The Gates of Vanity
Synopsis: Ben, a family man befriends a homeless young man, inviting him to stay with him while his family is away. The young man begins to show signs of disturbing behaviour. A harmless rejection triggers off a psychotic reaction from the young man who holds Ben captive. Ben is broken down psychologically until he becomes completely subservient. The young man intends to blackmail Ben and control his life after Ben’s release. Ben takes drastic action to reclaim his life and protect his family.
Directed by Suj Ahmed, this is the second feature from Future Focus Films. It was released to VOD platforms, including iTunes and Amazon Prime, in September following a premiere at the East End Film Festival in July.
The film stars Eric Colvin (well-known to British horror fans for his roles in Adam Mason’s films The 13th Sign, Dust and Broken, and also in Zombie Resurrection) and Ery Nzaramba. Here's the trailer...


Introduction: PVC Transport Cart
The high school that I teach at is currently going through a complete rebuild. The existing campus is being torn down and a new one is being erected in the exact same space. Temporary portables have been used to displace teachers making the campus a vast sprawling mash of old and new. Fences separate sections of the campus that cause distances to increase ten fold. In order to navigate this space the engineering department needed a method of transportation that was more interesting than walking and hauling. This project attempts to solve this transport issue in a fun way while exploring the uses and limitations of PVC as a structural material.
I've used PVC in other projects including an Xbee remote control and I am impressed with its versatility, cost effectiveness and relative ease of prototyping quickly. The vision for the present project took over six months to really take shape in my mind before I began to prototype. In robotics the tank drive is used frequently for small scale drive systems so with the not-so powerful 24V motors on hand could we build a transport to carry 200lbs on a PVC frame?
Here's the build starting with the material list.
2 24V Motors @$38 each at PartsforScooters.com
2 12Volt 7.2 Ah batteries @$24 from Part for Scooters
2 Chain drive E100 wheels @ $27 each at Parts for Scooters
2 4" swivel wheels @ $6 Harbor Freight
2 3" swivel wheels @ $6 Harbor Freight
1 Sabertooth RC motor controller (the wrong RC version was order so we improvised) @$70
RC transmitter and receiver (old low budget transmitter laying around)
1 inch PVC (its pretty cheap at a few dollars for 10ft)
various 1 inch T connectors, 90 degree connectors, cross connectors which can add up in price.
3/4" plywood & chains for drives
Step 1: The Main Drive Axle & Frame
Several designs were drawn and built to arrive at the final version for the project and I am sure it could still be improved. Early versions were built with so many connectors that the cart became too bulky and heavy (pics of these earlier prototypes are included at the end of the project). The final version allows it to be driven into our classroom and into our elevator while still being able to carry a reasonable load. Although 1" PVC was used throughout to provide strength and stability 3/4" may have been sufficient. Most cuts were made using an inexpensive hand miter saw and box available at Harbor Freight.
The main axle consists of the metal axle from the wheel being sent through a 3/4" plug which was drilled to allow the metal axle from the wheel to pass through. A bolt was attached to the plug before it was inserted into a threaded 3/4" reducer that slides right into a T connector on one side and an elbow on the other, as shown in the above picture. A 1" cross connector connects the two wheel assemblies making a complete stable axle. Two inch pieces of 1" PVC typically work well to join connectors without leaving a gap. This main axle was glued using the typical purple primer and then clear PVC cement.
The main frame consists of two sides built intentionally to be able to be disconnected from the main axle to give the project some versatility in case someone wanted to build an alternative front end or back end.
The standing area back end is shown above with several of the dimensions listed. The center connection is approximately 10" and had a mistake in it so there is an extra in-line connector that fixed a problem. This end went together pretty rough when we went to the permanent gluing stage so be sure to check your shape before gluing and use our numbers loosely.
The 3/4" wood was attached with 1" connectors found in the electrical department of Home Depot. The swivel wheels were added under the plywood and provided much of the strength to the cart allowing me to put my entire 195 lbs on the cart. Make sure the swivel wheels have clearance as they spin and don't make contact with the PVC. The edges of the plywood were routered to give them a cleaner finish. The red front end plywood sheet was a complex cut using a variety of tools including a drill with a hole saw bit, a band saw and a Dremel to clean up the corners.
The front end was done similarly with the dimensions as shown. The front and back plywood pieces were painted with a Tempura paint which was all that I had available from the art department but gave it a cool look. I coated it with several coats of clear Varathane Spar Urethane to protect it. The 3" swivel wheels seemed to fit better on the front end giving the whole cart a slight downward slope.
Step 2: The Sabertooth Drive System
The drive system consists of two motors mounted on the front 3/4" plywood with a chain connecting them to the drive wheels. Instead of drilling holes for the motor mounts, slots were routered into the plywood about an inch in length to allow the motors to be pulled away from the wheels to tighten the chain. The slots were cut with a 3/8" router bit and have worked quite well but were a bit tricky to cut. It is handy to have an extra person available to pull the motors back while the nuts and bots are tightened to get the chain just right.
Two 12V batteries are connected in series giving the system a 24V power supply and wired directly into the Sabertooth motor controller (a switch will be added in the driving area to make the powering task a bit easier). Each motor is also wired directly into the Sabertooth motor controller. Although we had originally intended to order the 2x12A Motor Driver we ended up with the RC version which does not allow wired potentiometer control. So our control system is entirely wireless and allows us to pull the RC transmitter off of the cart and drive it like James Bond. From the above pictures the tether going from one 12V battery to the other is shown with the RC receiver connected to the PVC riser which receives the signal from above.
The RC controller is attached to the handlebar with a 3D printed custom holder that fit the PVC pipe on the first try (thanks Vanessa). This holder just needs a built in space for the battery pack. The final version without a truck bed is shown above with the dimensions for the risers and bed support. A video demonstrates that the cart is functional and actually quite fun to drive.
I know that I have omitted details that may be of interest so feel free to ask any questions that come to mind. Hopefully someone enjoys reading about our build and gets something out of it. I'd love to hear about it. On the final page I have included some earlier prototyping pictures to capture the engineering iterations that went into this project.


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From Proteopediaproteopedia link
Human Carbonic Anhydrase II in complex with novel inhibitors
[CAH2_HUMAN] Defects in CA2 are the cause of osteopetrosis autosomal recessive type 3 (OPTB3) [MIM:259730]; also known as osteopetrosis with renal tubular acidosis, carbonic anhydrase II deficiency syndrome, Guibaud-Vainsel syndrome or marble brain disease. Osteopetrosis is a rare genetic disease characterized by abnormally dense bone, due to defective resorption of immature bone. The disorder occurs in two forms: a severe autosomal recessive form occurring in utero, infancy, or childhood, and a benign autosomal dominant form occurring in adolescence or adulthood. Autosomal recessive osteopetrosis is usually associated with normal or elevated amount of non-functional osteoclasts. OPTB3 is associated with renal tubular acidosis, cerebral calcification (marble brain disease) and in some cases with mental retardation.
[CAH2_HUMAN] Essential for bone resorption and osteoclast differentiation (By similarity). Reversible hydration of carbon dioxide. Can hydrate cyanamide to urea. Involved in the regulation of fluid secretion into the anterior chamber of the eye.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Human carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are well studied targets for the development of inhibitors for pharmaceutical applications. The crystal structure of human CA II has been determined in complex with two CA inhibitors (CAIs) containing conventional sulfonamide and thiadiazole moieties separated by a -CF2- or -CHNH2- spacer group. The structures presented here reveal that these spacer groups allow novel binding modes for the thiadiazole moiety compared with conventional CAIs.
X-ray crystallographic studies reveal that the incorporation of spacer groups in carbonic anhydrase inhibitors causes alternate binding modes.,Fisher SZ, Govindasamy L, Boyle N, Agbandje-McKenna M, Silverman DN, Blackburn GM, McKenna R Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2006 Jul 1;62(Pt, 7):618-22. Epub 2006 Jun 10. PMID:16820676
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pirate radio WCPR WFAT WHOT RFNY oldies top-40 rock and roll
About two years ago, I started going through all the tapes in my personal archive. I had literally hundreds of cassettes, reel-to-reels and other assorted formats of tapes full of airchecks, jingles and Beatles stuff. It seemed like a massive undertaking, but I figured I could let the tapes run, eat dinner, come back to the computer, save the files, burn them to CDs, and life would go on in a blissful state of inner happiness.
I started noticing that every other tape I looked at was an old WHOT broadcast. It was then that the big light bulb in my brain went off and I started putting all my energies into archiving the old WHOT airchecks, as well as any other Pirate Radio related material I could get my hands on.
I started harassing Hank and Jim until they finally cracked open their respective storage units and started pulling out THEIR tapes. The end result was a combined library of thousands of tapes - cassettes, reels, VHS and Beta tapes - all in varying states. Most were fine, but some - mainly, the older tapes - were right on the verge of decay. Naturally, I gave the oldest tapes top priority, and continue to work my way forward. At times, all there are to do are the older tapes, which is just as well.
Well, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that these tapes were a huge chunk of American underground radio broadcasting history. There really isn't any organized effort to preserve underground broadcasting airchecks, which is a huge shame. At the same time, these tapes are little bits of my personal past, saved on magnetic recording tape. There's something exhilarating, exciting, and a little bit unnerving about re-living 10-15 years of your past on tape!
I also know that these shows were very popular with the people that listened to, participated in, and enjoyed them...and some of them would like a chance to hear them again. I know I did. This gives me a chance to share these historic shows with those that remember them, and those that never heard them and would like to give them a listen for the first time.
Trust me, an undertaking like this is no small task. I have a cassette deck, complete with small screwdrivers for correct azimuth and alignment, a reel-to-reel deck, a VHS and a Beta machine, so that all available tapes can be transferred properly and correctly archived, logged, dated and tagged. Many of the tapes were labeled in an extremely suspect manner, so you have to do a little detective work to get the dates right. Plus, since the tapes are all mixed up and in no particular order, you have to be meticulously organized. Easy, it ain't. However, it is a labor of love.
In order to keep my own library of shows, I would often run my OWN aircheck tapes at the same time as the "official" airchecks were being done in the studio. The bonus of this is it allows me to piece together complete shows where some portions may have been missing. I also taped many shows that were not taped "in-house". Several shows that were not taped at all were donated by listeners over the years. This is the first time an attempt has been made to get everything in one place. So far, so good. Only minor headaches.
Hey, Can I Help?
Hell yeah. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of tapes of WHOT that were made in-house from the earliest days in September of 1980 to February of 1983. Around that time, the shows started being taped on a regular basis. I'm always on the lookout for ANY tapes from that early period, plus any tapes of WILD (pre-WHOT) shows. In fact, any tapes at all would be welcome, at least to compare to our library to complete or replace any missing ones.
If you're interested in sharing any tapes you might have, please contact me. No problem copying and returning tapes if they are ones we are missing. Help is always welcome, like ice cold lemonade on a hot, humid day.
As I continue to go through the archive, I will be posting shows here for listening and downloading! Click on the links below to hear the current shows as well as the on-going archive! Updates will be posted regularly. If you see anything you might want to hear, let me know and we'll put it up for you!
***NEW VIDEO!*** Co-archivist Kiki finds all this aircheck archiving is just TOO exciting!
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UK e-commerce sales tax still a 'work-in-progress' - report
The UK government is drawing up plans to introduce an online sales tax, but don’t expect its inclusion in the chancellor’s end-of-the-month budget.
Although Rishi Sunak and treasury officials have stepped up plans to level the playing field between tech giants and high street retailers, the decision is likely to be delayed until next spring, the Telegraph reported.
The news will come as further disappointment for UK’s physical retailers who were hoping a major overhaul of business rates would be included in the 27 October budget. Instead, only minor changes to the rating system are expected to be announced with “wholesale reform” now shelved.
Government officials confirmed an online sales levy is being drawn up, including details of what goods and services will be covered, but the final decision will be pushed out beyond the upcoming Budget, the report confirmed.
A government source said: “The plans are at a very rudimentary stage but clearly the direction of travel has been set now”, but adding that any major announcement "is likely to be pushed back into the spring”.
Amber Mace at consultancy EY said: “The government may well need more time to conquer the challenge of designing an online sales tax that doesn’t just add further burdens onto the sector and deter investment in e-commerce”.
A Treasury spokesman said: “Our review into business rates will conclude this autumn.”
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State of the art machining and fabriing up to 40,000 lbs. Rebuilding of gear boxes, chocks, universals, and other rolling mill and steelmaking equipment. Design and build/re-engineering-coustion engineering. Ladle preheat and dryout stations. M-D
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BOF sludge is collected from wet cleaning system in steelmaking plants. It is composed of not only valuable iron but also impurities like Zn, Pb, and some alkaline oxides [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Traditional landfill treatments inevitably result in environmental pollution because of the contained heavy metal and the high pH values of water-absorbed soil [ 4 , 5 ].
Energy optimizing furnace (EOF) is a furnace for the primary steelmaking. The steelmaking process in the EOF was developed by the mini steelworks pioneer Willy Korf along with his colleagues. The process is operating at the GERDAU Divinopolis plant in Brazil and at JSW SISCOL plant and at Hospet Steel plant of Mukand in India.
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The Phosphorus Reaction in BOF Steelmaking Effect of Furnace Conditions and Non-Noble Impurities on Hot Shortness A Study on the Reaction between High Al-content TRIP Steel and the SiO 2 -Al 2 O 3 …
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The BOF slag used in this study originated from the steelmaking furnace areas of the China Steel Corporation (Taiwan); the aggregates (g ranite) were provided from a local asphalt plant. The BOF slag was used as the substitute of coarse aggregate.
The detail modifiion is building the additive amount model of BOF slagging constituent at one set industrial PC. This program is very convenient to use, and its expression is very intuitionistic. The most important is this model has very good guiding for the steelmaking operating, also it has partly “Auto Steelmaking” function.
Basic oxygen furnace for steel making
29/11/2013· Mill scale is an iron oxide waste generated during steelmaking, casting and rolling. Total generation of mill scale at JSWSL is around 150 t/day and contains 60–70%FeO and 30–35%Fe 2 O 3 . To recover the iron, the mill scale must be smelted in a blast furnace or other reduction furnace; however, it is usually too fine to use without previous agglomeration such as via pellet or sinter mix.
2 Introduction to Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS) is the most widely used process for producing crude steel from molten pig iron (hot metal). The process involves blowing oxygen through hot metal to reduce its carbon content by
16/10/2019· o The company manufactured a total of 38 extruded graphite electrodes; electrodes manufactured with Performance+ additive demonstrated consistent enhanced electrode performance — …
7/8/2020· R. J. Fruehan received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Imperial College London and spent 12 years at U. S. Steel before joining Carnegie Mellon University. He established the Center for Iron and Steelmaking …
driving investments into EAF- based steelmaking substituting conventional BF- BOF steelmaking technology US demand was getting stronger due to industrial development based on higher natural gas availability and favorable foreign trade restrictions

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text: Today I went to the garden center to buy a few new plants for indoors as well as outdoors. I got really bored with the plants in our windowsill, so I had to get new ones. I'm pleased with the plants I found and I also bought a thriftwood garland. I thought it would be fun to hang it in the window and it does look really cosy. It really fits with the other things there.

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"Glitter, glisten, gloss, floss. I catch a beat running like Randy Moss."
Killer Mike's lyrics on OutKast's "The Whole World," may not have come from rapper Big Boi, but the hit song no doubt caught the listening ear of his son, Cross Patton, at some point during his childhood.
But while his father became famous for his work in the studio, Patton has become one of the top running backs in the state of Georgia, perhaps focusing on the "running like Randy Moss" side of things.
On Friday, the 5-foot-7, 185-pound ball-carrier, out of Woodward Academy (Atlanta, Georgia), set the stage for his future, committing to the Oregon Ducks as a preferred walk-on over scholarship offers from Butler, Columbia, Seton Hall, Virginia State and others.
Big Boi, a producer and rapper known for his work with Andre 3000 in OutKast, announced the news on various social media platform, including Instagram and Twitter:
Patton has long been considered a preferred walk-on candidate, having visited Oregon for its "Saturday Night Live" event this summer and for the game against Stanford.
-- Andrew Nemec

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Despite an ongoing feud between President Trump than Senator Mitt Romney, a new poll among Republican voters shows an overwhelming majority of them know which person they want their party to be more like.
Romney, who was the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, and Trump have feuded over the last several years, despite reports that Romney was interested in working for the Trump administration. The two have dialed up their feud since Romney won Utah’s senatorial race in 2018 and now has a position in Congress—which can exercise checks and balances to the president.
The Washington Times reports a whopping 63 percent of Republican voters said they preferred to be “more like Trump than like Romney.”
“GOP voters still side with the president and think Romney is hurting their party,” the report continues, citing a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday.
Sorry, Mitt: GOP voters want party to be 'more like Trump than Romney,' poll finds https://t.co/dGX2llLjsJ
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) October 23, 2019
The Western Journal adds:
In a survey taken Oct. 15 and 16, Rasmussen found that 63 percent of likely Republican voters think the party should be “more like Trump than like Romney,” the newspaper reported Wednesday.
The numbers were basically the same as those found in a January poll, The Times reported, which means Romney’s 10 months in the Senate and the accompanying fawning media coverage hadn’t given him any traction in the party he claims to be a part of.
American Republicans got a look at a hitherto undiscovered part of Romney’s personality this week, when Slate and The Atlantic revealed that Romney was the man behind a Twitter account using the made-for-The-Onion name of Pierre Delecto.
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There’s no telling yet how that embarrassing bit of information has affected Romney’s popularity, but if a smattering of social media responses to the poll’s findings are any indication, it didn’t do him any good at all.


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Parents purchasing prepaid money cards for children heading off to college need to beware of a scam believed to be operating between Milledgeville and Atlanta.
A Governor’s Office of Highway Safety checkpoint in Eatonton earlier this month netted 149 stolen Green Dot cards and a ledger book detailing a criminal theft operation, said Capt. Brad King, of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
Henry Rodrigo Marguilies, 44, of Norcross, was arrested July 19 after investigators uncovered the scheme.
He is currently charged with three counts of financial card theft, one for each of the Milledgeville stores where cards were taken.
Cards shoplifted from store shelves were tampered with and replaced so that shoppers could purchase them and electronically add money to them, King said.
Marguilies, or an accomplice, is believed to have removed the magnetic strip hiding the numeric pass code, copied the card number in the ledger, then replaced the strip before restocking the cards.
Scammers would wait a while for the cards to be purchased, then use the toll-free number and code to check balances and remove any money on the card.
“Once they got one draw on it, they didn’t call back,” King said.
Consumers who legally purchased the cards would find a zero balance when they tried to use them.
Judging by the ledger, King believes Marguilies hit multiple locations including CVS, Walgreens, Rite-Aid and Kroger stores between Milledgeville and Atlanta.
There were multiple addresses listed including ones in Madison, Macon, Conyers, Douglas County and along the Interstate 20 corridor around Atlanta.
“Some of the cards they had with them came from a store in Barnesville,” King said.
Baldwin sheriff’s Lt. Bobby Langford, a member of the U.S. Secret Service’s Organized Fraud Task Force, has been working with other jurisdictions on the case.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has not detected evidence of a similar scam operating around Macon, but prepaid cards are popular with criminals, said Lt. Sean DeFoe, a public information officer for the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.
“They use those type cards in other identity fraud cases because they can’t be traced,” DeFoe said.
Baldwin County’s case could eventually be transferred to federal authorities because of the scope of the alleged wire fraud, King said.
“If they can prove he moved any money with a telephone, which should be easy to prove with the ledger, that would be wire fraud,” he said.
No one in Baldwin County has come forward yet with a claim their prepaid card has been cleared, but there could be victims in other parts of the state.
“What they took from our store, they might have put back in a store near Atlanta,” he said. “Our victim is the store because it was a theft from the store.”
The Green Dot Corp. website offers security tips to secure online account information, but does not warn of the type scam uncovered by Baldwin investigators.
A Telegraph inquiry to the company was not immediately answered.
King offers this advice: “If I was going to purchase that card, I would examine it very well to make sure that sticker that covers the PIN has not been messed with,” he said. “Buy from behind the counter or inside case.”
To contact writer Liz Fabian, call 744-4303.


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This article first appeared in Corporate, The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on June 27 - July 3, 2016.
NEWLY listed Salutica Bhd, an electronic components manufacturer based in Ipoh, is betting on some of the products of its customers — for example a device that gives touch-screen functionality to non-touch displays — for growth.
While the manufacture of electronic parts for these products does not contribute significantly to Salutica’s annual revenue at present, it sees the demand for them increasing in the future.
“These are our smaller or ‘Black Horse’ businesses. They make up about 10% of our sales. Today they are small but who knows, one day they could be as big as Google or Microsoft,” Salutica managing director James Lim tells The Edge.
The company considers a business with the potential to flourish as a “Black Horse”.
According to Salutica’s website, it manufactures components for a range of consumer electronics and technology companies, including Sony, Canon, HP, Panasonic, Hitachi and Nokia, as well as Plantronics, Jaybird, Neonode and Xpand.
Neonode owns the brand and technology for AirBar, which projects an invisible light field on the surface of non-touch displays that makes it possible to “touch” PC and laptop screens. It is also a USB plug-and-play device, which can be used on any non-touch screen with ease. A magnetic strip behind the device allows it to stick to the screen while a laptop or PC is being used.
Salutica is already manufacturing touch-screen devices using infrared technology, for example, for HP printers and other multimedia devices with built-in touch-screen functionality.
“There are about 500 million computers without touch screens today. A touch-screen computer costs you RM2,000 more, which is a lot of money. AirBar costs only RM250 and you can use it on multiple laptops and PCs,” says Lim.
Neonode is also talking to PC and laptop manufacturers to build AirBar into their new models, he adds. “This will create another big market for AirBar — the built-in market — after starting with the after-market.”
Salutica is one of the key technology providers working on AirBar with the Stockholm-headquartered Neonode. The group is currently building 2,000 samples of all the plastic parts of AirBar, including the lens, light pipe and end caps.
Salutica will be supplying the samples next month. Prospective customers can already pre-order AirBar on Neonode’s website. The end assembly will be done in Sweden, where Neonode has a plant.
According to Lim, Salutica and Neonode are in an advanced stage of negotiations for the European company to outsource the AirBar assembly to the group. This could happen as early as next January, he says.
“Neonode expects its assembly line to be running at full capacity by the end of this year. They will have to notify us by October, so that we have time to prepare the floor space and for the machines to arrive,” says Lim, adding that the AirBar assembly line will require a RM10 million investment by Salutica.
He expects this Black Horse business to be bigger than Salutica’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) contracts and in-house brand business.
In the third quarter ended March 31, 2016 (3QFY2016), the company’s Bluetooth headset business accounted for 85.6% of its revenue of RM38 million.
“You look at the AirBar technology and you are thrilled. You know it is definitely going to sell. The question is, will sales be 100 million or 200 million units?
“Microsoft sells 500 million laptops a year. Let’s say only 1% of that market buys AirBar from the after-market. That is already five million units. You do the maths,” says Lim, adding that one line can assemble three million units of AirBar a year.
Besides the OEM and Black Horse businesses, Salutica also has an in-house brand called FOBO. According to its website, the FOBO portfolio focuses on devices that monitor loved ones and important personal belongings as well as tyre pressure.
Salutica has an ambitious target to grow FOBO sales by more than five times to around RM15 million in the next two to three years. According to MIDF Research, FOBO’s sales grew 15 times from RM233,000 in FY2014 to RM3.53 million in FY2015.
“To meet this target, the group is increasing the sales channels for the FOBO products. It will expand sales and distribution channels to seven direct third-party e-commerce platforms, 37 distributors and five direct retail chain outlets.
“It also aims to participate in more exhibitions to showcase the FOBO products while increasing branding, advertising and promotional activities through various platforms,” states the research house in a May 18 non-rated IPO note.
Salutica’s shares have rallied 14.7% since its listing on May 18. They closed at 94 sen last Friday, giving the company a market capitalisation of RM364.7 million. The stock, which hit a high of RM1.03 on June 21, fell 5% on Friday due to the overall negative sentiment following Britain’s exit from the EU.
Kenanga Research had a target price of RM1 when Salutica was listed while MIDF Research had a fair value of 88 sen. As at last Friday, the company was trading at a price-earnings ratio of 12.88 times based on an estimated FY2016 ending June 30 earnings per share of 7.3 sen.
Salutica is well positioned to ride the Bluetooth wave, says Kenanga Research. In recent years, adoption of Bluetooth technology has extended into the low power environment, such as the sensor, hearing aid, fitness and health tracking as well as apparel segments.
This saw global Bluetooth-enabled device shipments register an impressive compound annual growth rate of 18.6% from 2011 to 2014, says Kenanga Research analyst Desmond Chong.
“Such evolvement is also supporting the concept of connectivity in internet of things, which could drive shipments at a CAGR of 13% in 2018, suggested by Smith Zander’s research,” he says. “We believe Salutica is poised to ride the growing trend, given its expertise in Bluetooth technology and strong portfolio exposure to multinational customers.”


Well, the initial reviews are in, let's see what they say:
And there's this:No joke: The Lightning is one of the most important pickup trucks—vehicles, really—in history. Forget early adopters, environmentalists, and technophiles. This truck has to convince construction workers, farmers, ranchers, surveyors, and everyday truck fans that electric pickups aren't just viable but desirable. That an EV truck not only can do the work but also do it better. It does that.
To get to brass tacks, the Lightning is the best-driving, best-riding, and best-handling F-150 you can buy.
At this point, the concept of a mass-produced electric vehicle isn't novel or new anymore. People have been driving and charging them for more than a decade now, and we've heard the arguments for and against them time and again. Electric pickups, however, aren't fully proven, with only the Rivian R1T and GMC Hummer EV playing in that space before this. Even then, those are toys. That leaves the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning to convince the multitudes that battery-powered trucks can match—and possibly even beat—gas and diesel.
After driving it in just about every scenario—loaded, unloaded, on the road, and off it—I've gotta say that the performance is there, 100 percent. Not only that, but the sweat Ford put in to make this as livable, usable, and workable as a gas model puts it on that next level. It was a years-long job with literally billions of dollars dumped into related projects, and this is the ready-for-primetime result. The F-150 Lightning is the truck that proves electricity can be as good as—and sometimes way better than—internal combustion in ways that matter to real people.
We've finally driven the Ford F-150 Lightning—and it's one of the most important vehicles in history.
The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning has been hyped as the electric truck that will change everything. After driving it, that feels accurate.
The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning is all-electric but familiar, full of tech and, in general, one hell of a pickup. Read all about its specs how it drives, see photos of the interior and exterior, and learn about its glut of user-friendly features in our First Drive review.


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The two hundred and twenty-five policemen said their details were allegedly removed from the list of those that were due for payment despite risking their lives to ensure security during the poll.
They lamented that the police authorities have refused to pay them a month after the election, while others have received theirs, which gave room for suspicion that the fund must have allegedly been embezzled by some high ranking police officers at the state or zonal level.
The aggrieved police officers, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, appealed to Inspector General of Police Mr. Mohammed Adamu to investigate the cause of the delay.
The sources said N90,000 was paid to senior officers above Sergeant rank, while their men within the rank and file got N40,000, showing that most of the victims were the lower cadre policemen.
Police spokesman Sunday Abutu denied the allegation.
He said the entitlements due to the policemen deployed for the Kogi governorship election had been paid.


ELYRIA -- Fired Lorain worker Charles Camera's is still trying to have his theft conviction overturned and sent back to Lorain County Common Pleas Court, according to a paperwork filed with the 9th District Court of Appeals.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi upheld the firing of Camera last month. Camera was fired April 10, 2012, by Mayor Chase Ritenauer after pleading guilty to misdemeanor theft and tampering charges involving $10,000 missing from the youth baseball organization. Camera is a former president of Lorain Youth Baseball.
Camera had petitioned the appeals court to take the case back to Miraldi's courtroom, but the petition was denied.
Camera argues his conviction has nothing to do with his job as street commissioner.
Miraldi wrote in his opinion in February that Camera's job duties included record keeping responsibilities, records management and financial duties and one of the grounds for termination is dishonesty.


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Who doesn't like pupu? No one, because who doesn't like Hawaii? In conjunction with the Hawaii Visitors Bureau, Los Angeles Magazine threw an island-style cook-off between four of LA's greatest chefs. A pupu cook-off. Readers tried the pupu and voted online over a period of few weeks, and it all culminated in a cook-off between two finalists at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows.
|The winning pupu: Foie gras sushi|
Chef Mark Gold, Eva Restaurant
First, the drink. Pineapple Mosquito made with vodka, pineapple juice, liquor 43, mint, pineapple juice
We also ate the pupu prepared by the two finalists: Chef Mark Gold from Eva Restaurant prepared sushi with whole lobes of foie gras, tea smoked plum, and grated yuzu. Chef Neal Fraser from BLD prepared Hawaiian tuna poke with wasabi tobiko and sambal creme fraiche; he also prepared some spam banh mi.
The cook-off winner was Chef Mark Gold with his foie gras sushi! I certainly have a soft spot for foie gras, and perhaps hand feeding the judges helped too? ;)
|Chef Neal Fraser at his station|
|Chef Fraser's Hawaiian tuna poke|
|Kalua pork tacos|
Chef Mark Gold will get to travel to Hawaii for the first Hawaii Food and Wine Festival in September. Congratulations to him!
Most of the party attendees won't get to go with him, but with booze, foie gras, poke, and roasted pig skin, we were winners, too.

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International Journal of Computer Applications
Cloud computing is the shared pool of resources, which can be requested on-demand to enjoy the services and application. The data owner remotely store their data services and application which can be retrieved when required. The clients save their data on the storage services and gets free from the burden of maintaining the data. But some of the incidences in the history of cloud computing shows that they are not reliable at times, ex: Gmail disaster, Amazon S3 downfall. Some of the major challenging issues of the cloud computing are availability of service, data lock in, data confidentiality and auditability, data transfer bottleneck etc.


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I'm not normally one for making New Year's resolutions, but this year I've resolved to offer at least one new product a month to POJ. While the classic pieces will always be the most popular items, 2013 has shown, there's a lot of room to expand our offerings.
This past fall I had a lot of fun bringing in small collections of exotic pearls, like ripples
and baroque Akoyas
, most selling out in a couple of days. I was also fortunate to work one on one with customers, making custom, one of kind pieces.
Matching metallic Freshwater pearls to exotic color souffles.
There's something special about making a piece that you know is one of kind. The process of taking a customers idea and transforming it into a finished piece of jewelry, is something I've really grown to love. Most times I never get to speak to POJ customers, they place the order online and we ship the package, so working with customers directly, is something I really look forward.
Beautiful custom pair of Hanadama pearl earrings.
So with my New Year's resolution in mind, I purchased a lot of 40, 14-15mm baroque South Sea pearls. Admittedly without much of a plan for them. I spoke with our goldsmith and asked him to come up with a simple setting, something that would compliment the circled surface of the South Sea pearls. His suggestions was to create a custom pendant, but to keep it simple and leave the focus on the pearl.
14-15mm South Sea "Saturna" Pearl Pendant - $250.
Introducing the "Saturna" pendant, named for its ringed(circle) appearance, reminiscent of the planet Saturn
. A big, beautiful 14-15mm circled South Sea pearl, set on a 14kt gold and diamond pendant(.05ct). click here to view
As always if you have any special request or ideas for custom pieces, I'd love to hear from you. Don't be afraid to get in touch and bounce your ideas my way.


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