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at COP17, constructed out of 1884 plastic milk crates and over 22 000 plastic milk bottles supplied by Polyoak Packaging, is a temporary structure that has a low-impact on the environment as it will be dismantled after the climate change conference in Durban and all the materials re-used.
Using different coloured crates to create the outline of Table Mountain, with Lion’s Head and Devil’s Peak, the Pavilion is an iconic design that showcases the vision and the projects that will enable Cape Town to become a lower carbon city adapting well to the impacts of climate change, protecting its most vulnerable citizens and building an economic future based on clean development, localisation and jobs for all.
Inside the Pavilion, 22 large format posters containing text, graphics and photographs, highlight that in looking for solutions, City of Cape Town officials and the Western Cape are being stretched by increasing climate change impacts and the need for novel ways of managing urban spaces and the growing number of people that occupy them. Topics that are covered in the posters and in DVDs screened, range from the policies and plans that will facilitate positive change in Cape Town and deal with the challenges and complexities of global warming to targets to reduce electricity consumption by 10%, as well as how Cape Town plans to be a leading low-carbon city, with 10% of its energy supply drawn from cleaner energy sources by 2020.
Commenting on the Climate Smart Cape Town Pavilion at COP17, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning, Alderman Belinda Walker, stated that the City and its coalition partners required an exhibition that would convey the message of climate change actions in the City in the most responsible way.
“COP17 in Durban will place global environmental issues such as climate change under a spotlight, and it is an opportunity for Cape Town to promote pro-active approaches to these issues among local and international audiences. We wanted to create an exhibition structure that would look different from all the other tented structures at the Climate Response Expo in Durban. The proposal that we received from Stephen Lamb of Touching the Earth Lightly and ST&AR Architects responded to our needs in that it was to be made entirely from recycled and re-usable materials so as to produce zero waste after dismantling. In addition, all construction materials were to be sourced within the tightest possible radius of the site to minimise the carbon footprint,” Alderman Walker said.
Says Andre Rademeyer of ST&AR Architects: “The recyclable milk crates and milk bottles are tied to a rectangular 15 x 12m scaffolding frame. They act as ‘cells’ with excellent thermal insulating properties for a temporary structure. Low energy lighting behind the crates, running off battery stored solar power, illuminates the entire structure at night turning it into a glowing ‘jewel box’ promoting sustainability. The interior contrasts with the man-made recycled plastic exterior, being clad entirely in alien timber from trees pruned and felled by Working for Water. The interior is lit from above with translucent roof panels allowing natural light into the Pavilion.”
Project Manager and co-designer, Stephen Lamb of Touching the Earth Lightly, commented: “The Pavilion showcases creative thinking and responsible use of alternative materials in the design and construction of an exhibition venue. The Climate Smart Cape Town Pavilion is off the electricity grid, courtesy of MLT Drives. While the sun shines, solar panels charge batteries, that in turn supply the exhibit with electricity via an inverter. When the wind blows, the wind turbines attached to the roof of the Pavilion, power the exhibit directly, without needing batteries; that way we are able to be off the electricity grid completely and demonstrate that there are viable alternatives.”
Rainwater collected off the roof of the Pavilion is stored and filtered and served to delegates at COP along with flavoured buchu and mint leaves. Organic lettuces, planted into 250 of the milk crates, are served to delegates as fresh salads.
Says Stephen Granger, the City’s Head: Major Programmes and Projects, Environmental Resource Management Department and Spokesperson for the Coalition, “The Cape Town Climate Change Coalition is offsetting the carbon footprint associated with attending and participating in COP17 by implementing energy efficiency projects in the City's operations – these projects will be subject to monitoring and verification to validate the carbon offset. By creating this Pavilion, the Coalition aims to gain insight from the expertise of others on issues pertaining specifically to cities and climate change, to share our own lessons learned, and to form wider partnerships. We welcome the space for an increased focus on the needs and challenges faced by cities to become more resilient to climate change impacts.”


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Those at the side are just some reasons why fabric buttons are so good - you can use embroidery, add needlework over the top, and many other embellishments because you have started with a fabric base. And even better? They are some of the easiest buttons to make at home.
I've seen some really lovely fabric buttons made with vintage embroidered tablecloths, as well as with stamped fabric - it isn't just about the 18th century button. And you don't need anything special to make them, just a button mould (a button or circle of cardboard will do), fabric and basic sewing equipment.
I know I've been a bit slow on this blog recently - but you do know that I post daily over on the One Button a Day blog don't you?
I've just finished quite a long article with tutorial for the online subscription magazine "Foundations Revealed", and am also currently working away at my next book. So, with that, and the usual boring paperwork and everyday small business stuff that doesn't change even with lockdown, I've been pretty busy.
I hope you are all keeping well and safe, and enjoy the how-to!

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Many bearded dragon owners prefer to let their dragons roam free, providing them with the opportunity to explore outside their enclosure.
While some bearded dragon owners believe this is a great way to entertain their pet, there are those that are against it, as there are many important factors to take into consideration.
If you are wanting to let your dragon have a bit of freedom, continue reading below for some valuable tips on letting your dragon roam free.
1. Is Free Roaming Good For Bearded Dragons?
Most bearded dragon owners remove their pet to handle it and build up a bond and to give them some interesting entertainment, offering them some excitement outside of their enclosure. Not all bearded dragons enjoy free roaming, so there are some things to take into account.
Providing your bearded dragon with healthy stimulation is taking it out of its normal routine, stimulating the brain, and adding a fun element to an ordinary day. These reptiles tend to get bored and want to learn new things and explore new surroundings.
Limit what is around them the first time you let them out, reducing the risk of your dragon becoming overwhelmed.
Ensure the room is clean and safe before letting your dragon roam free.
Remember always supervise your pet when it is roaming free, do not let it roam alone. Always keep a close eye on them.
2. Do Bearded Dragons Enjoy Roaming Free?
Not all bearded dragons enjoy being outside of their enclosure. You will find that this is determined by the tolerance of your dragon.
If it enjoys being handled and has got used to you and its surroundings, it may enjoy being outside the enclosure for a period of time.
Every bearded dragon has its own little character and while some love being handled and spending time outside their enclosure, there are those that become stressed when they leave the security and comfort of their habitat.
Watch your dragon closely for signs of stress if you take them out. Any sign of stress, return them to their enclosure immediately.
What to Look For
If you bring your dragon out of its enclosure for the first time and it starts to wander around the room slowly walking and exploring, then that means your pet is relatively relaxed.
Get to know your dragon well, know what signs they exhibit when they are happy or stressed, so you can identify a problem right away.
If your dragon starts to try and escape or bite you, then it is stressed and needs to be returned to its enclosure.
If your pet gets stressed quickly when outside their enclosure, only allow them time outside for a short amount of time, slowly building their confidence, getting them used to be handled, and getting them relaxed around you.
3. Where To Roam
You need to take the room temperature into consideration when choosing where to allow your dragon to roam, bearing in mind that they rely on external temperatures to regulate their own body temperature.
On a lovely warm sunny day, you can let your dragon roam freely in a sunny room. Though keep an eye for when he/she runs for a shady corner. This could mean they are too hot and need to cool down. This is time to return them to the enclosure.
Close off areas that you have not dragon proofed, ensuring your pet cannot get injured. Most pet owners choose one room in the house which is safe without sharp objects, where their pet can roam freely without too much concern.
It’s recommended to choose a room with a wooden or tiled floor, where the risk of your pet getting its nails stuck in a carpet or accidentally eating some carpet and getting impaction is dramatically reduced.
4. When To Roam
There is no hard and fast rule here on when you should let your bearded dragon roam, this is down to your pet and its character.
You don’t have to let them roam every day, but daily outings will help your pet bond with you, get used to being handled, and encourage it to enjoy spending time with you.
You may find your pet gets stressed if taken out of the enclosure for extended periods. Some show no interest in coming out of the enclosure at all. Bearded dragons are territorial and they don’t enjoy any change to their environment, which is why if you take your dragon out too often, it may refuse to come out in the future.
Start by taking your dragon out of its enclosure once a week for no more than half an hour, making it part of their schedule and getting them used to the idea that they do get time to explore and roam free.
5. How Long To Roam
It’s important to limit how much time your bearded dragon spends outside its enclosure.
There is a temperature difference between inside the home and inside your pet’s habitat. Keep a close eye on your bearded dragon’s behavior to identify if the change in temperature is making them stressed.
Based on your dragon’s personality, you should be able to let your dragon roam for anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour.
Bearded dragons can survive without their heat lamp for up to 24 hours, as long as the temperature remains above 65ºF.
After 24 hours, your pet will lose its appetite and be unable to digest any food, as they rely on heat to get their metabolism going.
6. Dragon Proof Your Home/Room
Letting your dragon roam free is the same as allowing a human toddler into a room, you need to bearded dragon proof it.
Ensure that the room you allow them to roam in is clean and there are no sharp objects or high ledges they can access, which can cause injury, or worse.
Any other pets should be removed from the room, as you don’t know how the two are going to get along, which can be an added stress factor for your dragon.
Look for cracks and holes in the floors and walls, behind and under fridges and other appliances. Close up these areas to reduce the risk of your pet getting in behind somewhere and you cannot get them out and back into their enclosure.
7. Heat Pad on a Windowsill
Some bearded dragon owners have found that placing their dragon on a heat pad for half an hour to an hour on a low windowsill provides their dragon with warmth and the ability to keep an eye on the outdoors, offering excellent mental stimulation.
While the dragon may leave the low windowsill for a short period to explore, they seem to always return to the same place.
There are going to be times when you turn your head and when you look back your dragon has gone.
Tying a piece of bright ribbon just in front of their hind legs, ensuring that their walk isn’t affected is a great way to quickly find your pet when it explores new areas and gets out of sight for a short period.
9. Heat Lamp on the Floor
If you are able to, bringing the heat lamp out of the enclosure and placing it on a floor stand provides your dragon with the UV lighting and heat it needs while outside the enclosure.
This can enable a comfortable and happy dragon to explore for longer.
If you are still new at letting your dragon out of its enclosure and you’re nervous, then you can purchase a bearded dragon harness.
The harness fits the same as a dog harness and is attached to a leash, so you can keep your dragon close to you and ensure they don’t get up to any mischief.
The harness is also ideal for bearded dragon owners that want their pet to explore outdoors on a warm sunny day.
11. Add Hides
The hides you provide your bearded dragon in its habitat provide safety and privacy. Letting your bearded dragon free roam means that they need to find new hiding places if they feel nervous or threatened.
Placing one or two hides in the room within easy access of your pet can give your pet the security it needs, enabling it to go and hide if it wants. This can help reduce stress and also help you identify when it’s time to put your dragon back in its enclosure.
If you are worried when it comes to allowing your bearded dragon to free roam, you can purchase a small animal playpen, similar to a playpen used by a toddler just starting to walk.
The small animal playpens are an ideal way to enable your pet to explore outside the enclosure while keeping them contained to one place. The playpen can be used in the home or outdoors under supervision.

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This term we will be reading a few of Anh Do’s books. He is one of Australia’s leading comedians. He has also been on television and in films. His unique and inspirational experience leaving Vietnam as a toddler and growing up in Australia is the subject of his bestselling and award-winning book, The Happiest Refugee.
Anh Do nearly didn’t make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. It was a dangerous journey, with murderous pirates and terrifying storms, but they managed to survive. Life in suburban Australia was also hard for a small boy with no English and funny lunches. But there was a loving extended family, lots of friends, and always something to laugh about for Anh, his brother Khoa and their sister Tram. And eventually for a young Anh, who tried hard to see the bright side of life no matter what the difficulty, there was triumph.

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People have some number blindness particularly when they’re trying to be positive. I come across this all the time, and in particular, in this recession, people are keen to feel good about their jobs and their houses. So they forget what the numbers really mean – particularly percentages.
If your house has dropped by 50% in value, and then goes up by 50%, it doesn’t go up to the same level it was at the start. Let’s do the sums.
Price year one £100,000
50% price fall -£50,000
Price at the beginning of year two £50,000
50% price rise £25,000
Price at the end of year two £75,000
Do you see how percentages can mislead us? And oh how we are being misled at the moment!
The government told us that the economy’s performance in the first quarter of this year showed a 1.9% drop. Now that has been revised to 2.4% drop. I wonder if more revisions are coming. That’s 4.9% in the 12 months by the way. The largest deficit since official records began just after the war. They didn’t offer us this fact – you had to go look yourself.
Let’s look at the USA for a moment. Employment numbers last month showed a better than expected drop. This wasn’t though a genuine improvement, but new and improved techniques for recording the numbers. More adjustments for seasonal adjustments and birth and death models were built in. The discouraged workers – those who have given up looking – were not included in the jobless figures at all, for the first time. Without all these shenanigans, the figures would have shown unemployment getting worse at the same pace as last year. If the authorities were measuring on the same basis as in the 1930s, then they will be showing similar levels as those in the Great Depression – about 20% of the workforce. But we can’t tell people that can we?
My message is simple – check the numbers and question the basis.
Now here’s the entertainment – Warren Buffett’s response to an enquiry about when the positive effects of the US government stimulus package will be seen “ We’ll see the benefits eventually but not yet. You can’t make a baby in a month by getting nine women pregnant”.
But the one I really like comes from Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary “ the UK needs a new government because they are a group of witless, hopeless Scots whose solution to the recession is to tax your way out of it. If that was the answer, Ted Heath would have an elected to six successive terms.”
Question – assuming that the government is going to lose the next election, are they setting up the next administration to fail so they get back in five years time? Of course, that implies that we are paying for this.


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Nike will soon stop officially selling on Amazon, ending a pilot program that began in 2017 as the sneaker and apparel giant looked to expand its presence on the e-commerce titan. Bloomberg wrote, however, "Nike reportedly struggled to control the Amazon marketplace". "We will continue to invest in strong, distinctive partnerships for Nike with other retailers and platforms to seamlessly serve our consumers globally". Third-party sellers whose listings were removed simply popped up under a different name. The outlet, however, notes that Nike will still be found on the site.
Trump to Confront Turkey's Erdogan Over Russian Defense System
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Amazon is under pressure from big-name brands to cut back on fake goods from third-party sellers.
Amazon has supposedly been preparing for the break, according to Bloomberg.
Sanchez s'allie avec Podemos pour sortir l'Espagne de la paralysie
A droite, une alliance entre le PP, Ciudadanos et Vox , qui totalisent 150 sièges, semble aussi loin de la majorité absolue. La formation Vox réclame l'interdiction de tous les partis séparatistes et milite pour la défense de l'unité de l'Espagne.
Nike says it will continue working with Amazon Web Services to support its website and mobile apps.
The end to Nike's partnership with Amazon comes about a month after the Beaverton, Oregon-based company named former eBay executive John Donahoe as its new CEO. But the company now wants to focus on creating more "direct, personal relationships" with consumers, mimicking numerous new direct-to-consumer startups that have popped up over the last decade. Nike posted a 42 percent increase in digital sales in its most recent quarter. The company has also said it expects that online sales of its products will eventually surpass those sold in stores. It's an important part of Amazon's business since it allows Amazon to offer millions more products on its site. Nike, which generated $36 billion in revenue past year, sells its products through a large, global network of retailers.
White House Chief Of Staff Mick Mulvaney Skips House Deposition Friday
Mulvaney's defiance came after former national security adviser John Bolton also failed to appear for an interview Thursday. The White House had said Mulvaney wouldn't participate in what it called a "ridiculous, partisan, illegitimate proceeding".

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His system worked by identifying potential stars in infancy, and training them in specialist academies from pre-teen years. But it was fuelled by drugs, and, most shockingly, based on blueprints designed by the Nazis.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East German documents revealed a massive doping programme, with hundreds of scientists, doctors and coaches researching, and even creating, performance-enhancing drugs, before supervising their administration. Over three decades, more than 10,000 athletes - some as young as 11 - had been subjected to what was called "one of the largest pharmacological experiments in history".
Two years ago, Ewald and Manfred Hoeppner, the sports ministry's medical director, were put on probation after being convicted of causing bodily harm to a sample of 142 former East German sportswomen, who told of taking up to 30 vitamin pills and shots a day while in training.
The consequences had included shrinking breasts, deepening voices, and cancer and liver failure. There had also been a high incidence of miscarriages and defective births. The most chilling testimony came from Andreas Krieger, the former shotputter Heidi Krieger, who blamed her sexual confusion on the sports ministry, saying that "the pills accelerated whatever became Andreas".
Although Hoeppner apologised, Ewald, echoing his defiant autobiography, I Was Sport, insisted he was not involved. "Communists do not murder people," he said.
Ewald was a tailor's son, born in Podejuch, then part of Germany but now in Poland. A member of the Hitler Youth, he was educated at elite Nazi schools, entered the civil service, joined the Nazi party, and, in 1944, was drafted into the German army, where he was captured by the Red army.
After the postwar partition of Germany, he joined the Socialist Unity (Communist) party, and, in 1948, was made secretary of the eastern state's national sports committee. He became sports minister in 1961, joining the party central committee two years later.
In the cold war climate, sport was seen as a means of glorifying the East German system abroad. Ewald concentrated on Olympic events, where the individual medal yield was high - particularly so in women's events since the west had been slow to encourage its own female athletes. (By contrast, the Soviet Union had already used female athletes, though many disappeared from competition once sex-tests were instituted.) Besides the scientific development of athletes, technology was devoted to improving the machinery of sports such as cycling, bobsled and luge.
The results were impressive. Some smaller nations, notably Cuba and Australia, had enjoyed periods of remarkable competitive success, but none could match East Germany. Crucially, at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the country won more gold medals than its arch-rival, West Germany. The following year, Ewald was rewarded with the presidency of his country's Olympic committee.
At Montreal, in 1976, East Germany doubled its gold tally to 40 medals, including 11 of the 13 women's swimming events. When the American swimmer Shirley Babaschoff commented wryly on the German swimmers' deep voices, their coach replied, "We are here to swim, not to sing."
The International Olympic Committee turned a blind eye to accusations of drug cheating, just as they refused to consider fulltime athletes paid by the state as professionals. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, primarily concerned with preventing an eastern-bloc boycott of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, awarded Ewald the Olympic Order in 1985.
Although in recent years international sport has intensified its drug testing policies, Ewald's legacy remains one of triumph. In the field of medication, for example, the legal supplement androstenedione, as used by baseball slugger Mark McGwire, was developed by East German scientists as a bridging drug for their athletes to use while scaling off steroids before facing testing.
More significantly, scientific training regimes are now the norm in all world-class sport, with support staffs outnumbering coaches, and centres of excellence taking on children at a younger and younger age. The goal may have changed from glorifying the state to making a profit, but the methodology remains worryingly familiar.
Ewald, whose health deteriorated under the strain of his trial, is survived by his wife Vera, and three children.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — While it’s hit or miss whether you can actually sign up for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act website, www.healthcare.gov, there is one new feature on the homepage that always opens for you: an option for potential customers to see a plan right now.
“Americans across the country can type in their zip code and shop and browse,” noted White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.READ MORE: 'I Was Terrified:' Woman Recalls Stranger Following Her Car For Miles
But some analysts say the dollar figure cited for insurance in the shop and browse is misleading.
“Incredibly misleading for people who are trying to get a sense of what they are paying,” noted industry analyst Jonathan Wu.
Wu and others say the website lumps people into two broad categories: 49 and under or 50 and older.
Prices for everyone in the 49 and under category are based on what a 27-year-old would pay, while in the 50 and older group, prices are based on what a 50-year-old would pay.
“Is it misleading?” KDKA money editor Jon Delano asked Kristin Ash of Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield that sells insurance on the exchange.READ MORE: Domestic Incident Inside Of The Mall At Robinson Leads To Chaotic Scene
“No. I wouldn’t suggest that it’s misleading,” said Ash. “That shopping procedure is really only to give you a general guideline.”
Ash says shop and browse just gives an estimate and, equally important, informs potential customers of the insurance companies that are offering coverage in the local area.
But she admits that a person’s specific age is very important in determining insurance rates.
“Estimate’s the best word here. It definitely could be lower or higher depending on your age,” she said.
So use the shop and browse it’s easy for everyone to get on right now, but watch for the pricing.
Call the insurance company for an exact price or wait until you can actually log on to the healthcare website.MORE NEWS: Mountaineers Become Bowl-Eligible With 34-28 Win Over Kansas

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Comic-Con has come and gone, but it was a blast and we got more movie news than we could have ever dreamed of!
First of all, the world pretty much knew that Ben Kingsley had joined the cast of Iron Man 3 a while back as super-villain Manderin, but Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Marvel boss Kevin Feige, director Shane Black and Jon Favreau confirmed the speculation at their panel over the weekend.
The cast and filmmakers thrilled their geeky audience with the premiere of the first footage from the first half of the movie that they shot. Black promised if they "don't f–k up the rest, it's going to be great."
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You've seen her own glitter eye make-up in A Wrinkle In Time, grill Barack Obama as a television host, and deliver the mother of all , but Oprah Winfrey just proved she's also an inspiration on the dance floor.
Last week, Oprah's A Wrinkle In Time co-star and friend Mindy Kaling shared the moment when the entrepreneur broke into a jig during a photoshoot dancing to Camila Cabello's hit single 'Havana'.
In the video shared on Twitter, the 64-year-old megastar showed off some serious sass dressed in a yellow shirt dress, scarf, sunglasses and mustard-hued fedora.
Kaling - who seems to have filmed Winfrey's badass dance moves from the sidelines - captioned the post with three trophies because, you know, the philanthropist needs no commentary to introduce such viral-worthy content.
Actor Seth Rogen even chimed in on the dance moment and realised he had a lot to learn when it came to working the camera.
Of course, it din't take long for the Twitterverse to revel in the beauty of Kaling's post and ask what they need to do to get a job at Oprah's personal fan blower.
Winfrey, you're winning at life.

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There’s been a lot of hype about the future of the workforce, with the notion that robots and AI will be taking everyone’s jobs away. But this is a misunderstanding. The role robotic products and AI have in relation to humans is much less foreboding than someimagine. In reality, they actually give humans the opportunity to excel with the mundane workload taken off their plate.
When we look at AI, what we are working with today is the start of a much more sophisticated capability. Just like humans have evolved, so will AI. And it will become much more sphoisitcated as its machine learning develops. Great examples of where AI can be of help is with natural language processing, speech recognition, chat bots and so on. You may have heard of ChatGPT — well that’s a perfect example of an AI powered chat interface that reponds to the questions asked.
If we mix AI with automation, then the repetitive tasks and activities that don’t require a lot but some thinking, are very regular and required to perform a task can be adapted and handed off to a “bot” to do them instead. This can lead to less time spent doing the boring stuff and free people up to explore new work and tackle different problems which in turn increases employee satisfaction.
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2 leaves lettuce, cut
4 tsps fish sauce
1/4 mug water
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 clove garlic, diced
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic chili sauce
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1 teaspoon carefully chopped peanuts
Step 1. Bring a medium saucepan of water to steam. Steam rice vermicelli 3 to 5 mins, or until al dente, and also drainpipe.
Step 2. Fill a large dish with cozy water. Dip one wrapper into the hot water for 1 2nd to soften. Lay wrapper flat. Straight across the center, location 2 shrimp halves, a handful of vermicelli, basil, mint, cilantro and also lettuce, leaving about 2 inches revealed on each side. Fold uncovered sides internal, after that snugly roll the wrapper, beginning at the end with the lettuce. Repeat with remaining components.
Step 3. In a small dish, mix the fish sauce, water, lime juice, garlic, sugar and also chili sauce.
Step 4. In one more little bowl, mix the hoisin sauce and also peanuts. Step 5. Serve rolled spring rolls with the fish sauce and also hoisin sauce blends.
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Cook: 5 mins
Total: 50 mins

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Founder of East Meadow Chamber turns 100
Frances Silece Reder helped unify local business community
A little more than 50 years ago, Frances Reder moved from Manhattan to East Meadow and opened an Army-Navy store on Front Street, called Reder Surplus, with her late husband, Louis.
The shop had been open for only a year when Frances, aiming to enhance the allure of the local business community, helped establish the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce. Louis became its first president, and his wife took the reins as the president shortly after.
Since then, the Chamber has grown exponentially, boasting a network of hundreds of business owners whose mission is to ensure a flourishing local economy.
Reder, whose family would grow to include nine children, has never left the local scene, having moved to Westbury in the 1960s. She moved into Bristal Assisted Living, also in Westbury, three years ago.
After years of operating Reder Surplus’s East Meadow location, and then a second store in Merrick, Reder worked as a clerk in the Nassau County court system for 30 years before retiring. In between, she helped found the East Meadow Kiwanis Club, which, at the time, was a male-dominated organization. And on Feb. 27, capping a lifetime full of milestones, Reder, surrounded by her siblings, children, grandchildren, friends and admirers, celebrated another one: her 100th birthday.
Two of her daughters, Rosemary Reder — who flew in from Florida for the occasion — and Anne Jensen, organized the centenary celebration. Reder’s other daughter, Gale Anziano, died 10 years ago. “My mother’s been waiting for this day to come,” said Rosemary. “I’m so happy that it turned out so successful and that so many wonderful people arrived.”
Among the celebrants were County Legislator Norma Gonsalves, former County Executive Thomas Gulotta and Gulotta’s brother, Frank, a Nassau County judge. Gonsalves said she has known Reder since her early days as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, as well as Kiwanis. “At one point, Kiwanis was really a male-oriented club,” Gonsalves recalled. “And eventually they opened the door to women.”
The legislator joked that she doesn’t often have the opportunity to attend 100th birthday parties. “And when I heard about Fran’s,” she said, “I said, that’s even better, because I know her. I was thrilled to come today.”


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“I’ve been told my eating habits are odd. When it comes to food, I just like to eat what makes me happy (even if that means an entire box of Cosmic Brownies).”
Food Is Her Focus
Food has almost always been at the center of Lizzy’s career. From working for a family restaurant as a teen, to selling cutting boards and kitchen gadgets, she’s now putting her degree to use on the marketing side of things.
An Eye for Design
Even when Lizzy was a child, she could be found doodling cartoons, creating posters, signs and social images as a teen. Lizzy then moved on to reviewing, editing and managing creative as a young professional. She’s always had a knack for the visual arts side of marketing.

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Mormon Stories Podcast is honored to sit down with Dr. Bart Ehrman for a power-hour discussion covering the following topics:
Did the historical figure we know as Jesus actually exist?
How did the historical figure Jesus come to be viewed as divine/the Son of God?
Who wrote the New Testament? (hint: it wasn’t Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etc.)
Do important contradictions exist between the four gospels of the New Testament, and what does that tell us?
How was the New Testament assembled and changed over time?
How/why did Dr. Bart Ehrman change from believing the Holy Bible to be the inerrant word of God, to an agnostic?
What are Dr. Ehrman’s thoughts on the historicity of the Book of Mormon?
As an expert on the New Testament and the history of Early Christianity, Dr. Ehrman has written or edited thirty books, numerous scholarly articles, and dozens of book reviews. Five of his books have been on the New York Times Bestseller list: Misquoting Jesus; God’s Problem; Jesus Interrupted; Forged; and How Jesus Became God. A comprehensive list of Dr. Ehrman’s works may be found here.

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There are lots of posts on the various forums about drilling plexiglass. Reading them make me very nervous!
After lots of thought and trying to filter out the best advice, this is what I came up with. It has worked well for the Rear Window, but at this point I still have to drill the canopy.
For the first #40 holes I used a Plexi Drill, giving the best chance to avoid chips as the drill bit exits the material.
This is easy on the skin holes, but the Roll Bar match drilling is a bit harder. This is because you have to match drill through the Plexi into the aluminium. I decided to use the Plexiglas drill until it just touched the little hole in the Roll Bar, and then swap drill bits to a normal #40 and carefully drill on through the aluminium.
Then I used #36 & #27 Reamers to open up the holes. Since reamers scrape there is less chance of chipping.
Temperature … I waited for a warm couple of days, but in the UK at this time of year, that’s not that warm : ) It was about 16ºC (61ºF) in my workshop.
Lastly, I’d also read that some kind of lubricant and cooling fluid helps.
I’m not sure why this combination works, but an internet search revealed Isopropanol mixed with Bicarbonate of Soda.
It seemed to work, especially during the tapping.
I mixed in enough soda to give the Isopropanol some “body” to stay on the drills/tap.
There is a specific order in which to drill the holes, but the first to get done are 5 holes at the top through the skins.
As the manual suggests, a helper with a wooden block helps to reduce the chance of chipping, also keeping the Plexiglas firmly against the skin.
Phew! First 5 match drilled and clecoed : )
As the drilling progressed, if a refelction wasn’t visible to judge a perpendicular, I used a set square.
The first Roll Bar holes are an easy start, since they aren’t flush against the F-01431D shims.
Because of this, I shimmed the gap to prevent flexing.
Lots of swarf in the gap …
… easily removed with compressed air.
One of the challenges with this stage is making sure you drill exactly into the little holes in the F-01431D shims.
I marked each hole whilst viewing perpendicularly to avoid parallax.
Then it was an easy job to begin drilling with the point of the Plexiglas bit exactly on the mark.
I used the reflection to judge the drill angle …
But be careful on the curves … it’s easy to get it wrong!
As each set of holes are drilled & clecoed, you have to keep pushing the bottom of the window back to ensure a snug fit.
I found that clamping as suggested in the manual diagram worked well, with virtually no movement.
Eventually all the holes get done!
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The Susquehanna River is home to one of the largest areas of Eagle's in Pennsylvania. They have come to love the river and the numbers of Eagles are growing larger. This is the largest number of Eagles on the river since the Revolutionary War
Many don't know that the area of Columbia, Wrightsville and surrounding counties are filled with an abundance of wildlife, rails to trails, hiking at Chiques Rock which gives a spectacular view of the Susquehanna River.
Make a date with Shank's Mare a local outfitter and they will guide you to the rocks on the river where the Indians have left behind.
their art work.
Stay at the Olde Square Inn where we know the glorious spots for nature lover's and other gems bestowed in this area.
Come in the spring when the gardens are in bloom or the summertime when you can sip a glass of ice tea by the pool

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Friday, December 14, 2012
December Photo Project 12-14
Dec 12 - The house was nice and toasty from a warm fire.
Dec 13 - I sent a letter off to a friend to encourage her. Also.. Disney Pixar stamps?! My fav.
Dec 14 - Took a photo of the lovely lights my sister & I put up. :)
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Prints, prints and more prints
This fall, designers have taken prints to a whole new level: adorning their models in head to toe graphics. Whether it’s baroque style florals, geometric confusion or paisleys, there couldn’t be a better time to toss aside your fashion inhibitions and embellish yourself with any print you desire!
Designers are constantly breaking the rules, making it a little difficult sometimes to keep up with whether full on denim is in or out. This fall, the fashion world has officially taken on white after Labor Day – a fashion faux pas I was never fond of. Until Indian summer is over, I wouldn’t rush to put away your white linen pants!
Not sure about prints and white? Do not fret, black is still in, but this time with a rebellious twist. Designers have taken on black and created a wardrobe suited for Trinity in The Matrix. There is nothing understated about this year’s fall black leather gear.
Try on a sleek uniform
The military trend has had moments in the past, but this time around it has a classier feel to it. Whether it’s a cinched waist, gold embroidery or fur trimmings, designers have found a way to incorporate heels into the military uniform.


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A lot of video game ideas have rolled down the ole hickory trunk on this blog, and to date none have reached the illustrious perch of completion. (All my attempts at written-word projects have though!) Every serious video game attempt has reached chronicling on this blog somewhere, however, except one. So I thought I’d acknowledge its existence so it didn’t feel left out.
Reaching both genesis and cancellation shortly after the AGS project, Seska Donitz was going to be a project starring the titular character, a daughter of (believe it or not) Werner Donitz and Seska on Gaman’s moon. Taking place like 50 years or so after the events of Ship of State, it would follow her life on the merged colony of Verner as she attempts to recover the pieces of the Einstein-Rosen bridge and open it to Earth. Sounded RPG-ey enough, and I was trying out RPG Maker so it seemed a fair starting point. Unfortunately, I got as far as the character creator and got fed up with the incredibly low levels of customization. You could barely adjust anything, at least from what I could tell, and I didn’t even see a way to upload custom sprites. So it never got beyond trying to create the titular character, who also looked nothing like I imagined her.
Now the only thing I loved about this project was the story. It’s got a great story behind it, and while nobody else liked the Gaman series, I’ve always wanted to jump back in and give it something that felt like an ending. If I ever revive this project, though, it will most assuredly happen in Multimedia Fusion 2, since I recently learned about ctrl-K which lets you add layers (for example, a HUD) which can operate independently of the camera. So this one may see a revival some day. You never know.
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Background: Previous studies have shown that during COVID-19 pandemic, mainly due to the imposed lockdown, significant psychological problems had emerged in a significant part of the population, including older children and adolescents. School closure, leading to significant social isolation, was considered one of the most important reasons for pediatric mental health problems. However, how knowledge of COVID-19 related problems, modification of lifestyle and age, gender and severity of COVID-19 pandemic had influenced psychological problems of older children and adolescents has not been detailed. To evaluate these variables, a survey was carried out in Italy. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was carried out by means of an anonymous online questionnaire administered to 2,996 students of secondary and high schools living in Italian Regions with different COVID-19 epidemiology. Results: A total of 2,064 adolescent students (62.8% females; mean age, 15.4 ± 2.1 years), completed and returned the questionnaire. Most of enrolled students showed good knowledge of COVID-19-related problems. School closure was associated with significant modifications of lifestyle and the development of substantial psychological problems in all the study groups, including students living in Regions with lower COVID-19 incidence. However, in some cases, some differences, were evidenced. Sadness was significantly more frequent in females (84%) than males (68.2%; p < 0.001) and in the 14–19-year-old age group than the 11–13-year-old age group (79.2% vs. 70.2%; p < 0.001). Missing the school community was a significantly more common cause of sadness in girls (26.5% vs. 16.8%; p < 0.001), in southern Italy (26.45% vs. 20.2%; p < 0.01) and in the 14–19-year-old group (24.2% vs. 14.7%; p < 0.001). The multivariate regression analysis showed that male gender was a protective factor against negative feelings (p < 0.01), leading to a decrease of 0.63 points in the total negative feelings index. Having a family member or an acquaintance with COVID-19 increased the negative feelings index by 0.1 points (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study shows that school closures because of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak was associated with significant lifestyle changes in all the students, regardless of age and gender. Despite some differences in some subgroups, the study confirms that school closure can cause relevant mental health problems in older children and adolescents. This must be considered as a reason for the maintenance of all school activities, although in full compliance with the measures to contain the spread of the pandemic.
Development of Psychological Problems Among Adolescents During School Closures Because of the COVID-19 Lockdown Phase in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Survey / Esposito, S.; Giannitto, N.; Squarcia, A.; Neglia, C.; Argentiero, A.; Minichetti, P.; Cotugno, N.; Principi, N.. - In: FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS. - ISSN 2296-2360. - 8(2021), p. 628072.628072. [10.3389/fped.2020.628072]
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"Why Do We Have The Senses That We Have?"
A common debating tactic used by creationists and ID supporters is to ask, "why do we have the senses that we have, and not some other ones"? The answer they usually provide is something like, "because that's the way the Intelligent Designer intended them to be".
The question of why we have the senses that we do is a very interesting one. As just one example, consider the sense of sight. As a type G2V yellow dwarf star, the sun gives off a relatively narrow range of electromagnetic radiation, including (from longest wavelength to shortest) radio waves, infrared radiation, “visible (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) light", and ultraviolet light. Almost all of these wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation can penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere (although the shorter wavelengths of ultraviolet light are somewhat attenuated by absorption by ozone/O3 in the upper atmosphere).
So, which wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation can we perceive? The answer depends on who you define as “we". Vertebrates have visual pigments in the cone cells of the retina that can absorb only three of these wavelengths: red (absorbed by the rhodopsin protein erythrolabe, which absorbs sunlight in the range of 564–580 nanometers), green (absorbed by the rhodopsin protein chlorolabe, which absorbs sunlight in the range of 534–545 nanometers), and blue (absorbed by the rhodopsin protein cyanolabe, which absorbs sunlight in the range of 420–440 nanometers). So, we vertebrates can only directly perceive red, green, and blue light (that’s why color computer monitors generate only red, green, and blue pixels).
However, most insects (including honey bees) have different visual pigments, and so see very different colors than we do. They do not have a visual pigment that corresponds to vertebrate erythrolabe, and so cannot perceive the color we call “red". However, they have a visual pigment vertebrates do not have, which can absorb light in the near ultraviolet range. Hence, insects can see colors (including ultraviolet) that we cannot see, and so the world appears very different to them.
So far, no organism on Earth has been discovered that can perceive the radio waves given off by the sun. This is probably because to do so would require absorptive structures several meters in length (the wavelength of most radio waves).
So, one answer to the creationist's question is that, taken as a whole, living organisms can perceive (or at least absorb) a range of light from the far infrared to the near ultraviolet, but lack receptors for most of the electromagnetic spectrum (such as radio waves, gamma radiation, etc). In other words, the range of electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by living organisms matches quite closely the range of electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun and transmitted through the Earth’s atmosphere (with the exception of radio waves, which are too long to by absorbed by any known biological molecule).
That this is the case is exactly what one would expect to have evolved by natural selection, which can only work with what is available. Furthermore, it illustrates one of the basic ideas of evolutionary descent with modification: that the solutions to evolutionary problems vary from group to group as the result of historical contingency. Vertebrates see red, green, and blue, while insects see green, blue, and ultraviolet because two of our visual pigments (chlorolabe and cyanolabe) evolved before the divergence of insects and vertebrates from our common ancestor, while the third visual pigment evolved independently in the two groups, resulting in two different sets of perceived colors.
Compare this to the answer that ID provides: vision is the way it is because that’s how the Intelligent Designer intended it to be. Which of these answers to the creationist's query involves detailed empirical scientific investigation, and which simply relies on unsupported assertions?
As always, comments, criticisms, and suggestions are warmly welcomed!

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At a traffic signal in the Indian capital, Ayesha Sharma, a 29-year-old transwoman dressed in a traditional tunic and pants with scarf, holds up a smartphone with a QR code on it as the signal flashes crimson and vehicles come to a stop. A commuter scans the code and her account is deposited with 10 rupees ($0.12), an easy addition to her panhandling.
The rise in digital transactions and instant payment interfaces like the one used by Sharma, are helping marginalised communities like transgender people in managing their finances.
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A beggar on New Delhi’s streets since 2006, Sharma has routinely faced prejudice and jeers. Since she has started asking for money using her smartphone, just the wonder factor of that has helped reduce some of that commentary that in the past tried to shame her, she said.
It has also encouraged people to give her money even when they do not have small change and today, about a quarter of her earnings are through the digital mode, she said.
“It is so much easier now. Even though people are not always carrying cash, they can still donate to us by just scanning this code,” Sharma told Al Jazeera.
“We may be beggars, but we should still be treated with respect and decency,” she said and digital transactions have so far spared them from visiting banks where they frequently encounter prejudice and discrimination.
The Indian government has been trying in the past few years to boost digital transactions over cash, including through policy measures like the so-called demonetisation in November 2016 that wiped out overnight nearly 90 percent of the cash in circulation, and led to an immediate spike in the use of payment apps.
The pandemic, too, helped push digital transactions and some of those habits have continued and co-exist with the use of cash which is back to being the preferred mode of payment in the country.
Digital transactions work in a couple of ways.
There are apps that link to a person’s bank account and money is immediately withdrawn directly from the account when a payment is made.
Then there are payment apps from companies that link to an account a user has created with the company, or can be linked to a wallet that the company offers, which the user loads to use like a pre-paid card.
Leeza Khan, a 30-year-old transgender woman and beggar from the northern city of Meerut, gets at least 20 percent of her daily earnings through digital transactions.
A graduate of class 10, Khan was abandoned by her family when she disclosed her new identity. Since then she has been begging on Delhi’s streets, in buses, and even at weddings to make ends meet.
Khan carries a QR code that people can scan to send money to her directly, bringing her about 400 rupees ($4.81) to 500 rupees ($6.01) every day.
It is also helping other urban poor like Amri, a 23-year-old who sells flowers at traffic signals in the Indian capital. She lives on the road and makes between 200 rupees ($2.41) and 300 rupees ($3.61) every day, with about 70 rupees ($0.84) to 80 rupees ($0.96) or so coming from digital payments.
However, even though digital payments have helped transgender beggars, it is not a perfect solution.
At least some transgender people have struggled to open regular bank accounts or update their gender identity on existing accounts, even though India’s central bank issued a directive as far back as 2015 that banks should recognise the third gender.
Khan, for instance, doesn’t have a regular bank account as she does not possess a PAN card, a vital financial document issued by the Indian income tax department containing a 10-digit alphanumeric number that is used for banking and tax-related activities or an Aadhar card, a unique 12-digit identity number, both of which can be used open an account at any bank in India.
Khan can get a PAN or Aadhar card after she has registered as a third gender at a local government agency. She has tried once or twice, but the experience of strangers prying into her private life with invasive questions like “Have you always felt like this?” and what does her family say about her gender identity, what surgery has she undergone, does she have any proof of being a transgender, to cheap jokes, like why does she want a third gender when she already has one has scarred her and she has abandoned the process midway, she told Al Jazeera.
Adding a new challenge, companies offering digital payment accounts have now begun enforcing rules that customers must have a PAN or Aadhar card, which are part of their compliance or know-your-customer (KYC) processes.
As a result, Khan, who lives with other transgender people in a commune, does not have a digital bank account and instead uses the QR code linked to the head of the commune, to whom she pays a commission from her earnings.
Rudrani Chhetri, founder of Mitr Trust which works with transgender people, said that a lot more transgender people had been using payment apps “without even considering whether they were eligible to receive the service or not. However, because KYC is now necessary, many people are experiencing issues with their names and bank accounts,” she said.
Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, said that just 76 new certificates identifying people as third gender have been created in the previous three to four years, despite the fact that 5,000 identified as transgender in Delhi as of the 2012 census, and that figure has since increased.
“What do these 76 certifications mean? Are transgender people invisible in this political system? I believe that to be the case. Both the state and the federal governments are responsible [for this],” she said.
Maliwal points out that transgender people face harassment while applying for identification certificates. “Government officials target their families in their searches, asking who gave birth to transgender people. They are subjected to derogatory language,” she said.
For now, payment apps have given Sharma and other transgender beggars a chance to more effectively raise money.
Digital banking is an important tool that helps keep transgender and other minorities safe and secure because they frequently live in precarious and uncertain situations, said Chhetri. “It has become essential for their wellbeing to have a mechanism in place to keep and manage their money … [But] the challenging part is having a bank account and meeting the qualification criteria for the service.”
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Maintenance, not construction, at OASD building
Residents curious about what looks like construction on an Oshkosh Area School District building need not worry - it's only undergoing maintenance to the roof, an administrator said.
Building and Grounds Director Jim Fochs said the roughly $212,000 project to the maintenance building on South Main Street was approved last summer to address two roof leaks. It's not a renovation or a new construction.
"It's tearing down and rebuilding what was there," Fochs said. "Everything is basically being put back exactly as it was."
Residents may not have previously noticed the scaffolding now visible to those passing the building on South Main Street.
Capelle and Diedrich Construction removed brick from a failing parapet on the east side of the building last fall and rebuilt it with block and brick, then built the correct flashing into the wall to support a new roof membrane to stop leaks.
Crews from Quality Roofing are working on the west and south sides this week, he said, where they are pulling off old vents on top of the building to make it more efficient, then completing the roof.


Samsung has filed for the Galaxy S6 edge+ trademark with the US Patents and Trademarks Office, indicating that the company is planning to release a larger version of its flagship smartphone. This new device is expected to reach phablet size, and will likely end up existing alongside the upcoming Galaxy Note 5.
Joining the Samsung Galaxy A3, A5 and A7 is the yet to be officially announced Galaxy A8, which has been extensively leaked in a hands on video. Just like the other Galaxy A series devices, the A8 features a metal construction. With a 5.7-inch display and measuring 5.9mm thin, the A8 is the biggest and […]
Samsung has decided to stop messing with Windows Updater, and restore the system operations to normal. The South Korean company was discovered to have been blocking Windows automated updates, and forcing the system to use its own utility programme.
Not many people can afford such an extravagant television like Samsung’s new SUHD TV lineup, but oh boy, it’s definitely a looker. We had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the flagship JS9500 model, and we can say one thing: for anyone that can afford such luxury, this is one model to keep your […]
Laptop manufacturers have a habit of over complicating matters, especially when it comes to software. The latest discovery revealed that Samsung has a programme that disables Windows Updates and prevents Microsoft from pushing patches and updates to the machines.
Samsung has completed a trial run of its Safety Truck programme; an experiment that involves allowing drivers to see through large vehicles. This was done by mounting a wireless camera on the front of the trailer cab, and then feeding the video to four large screen panels set on the back of the trailer.
There are a number of smartphones in the market that features an LED flash on the front camera, and it looks like Samsung isn’t going to lose out to its competitors.. The company has just announced two new smartphones in China, called the Galaxy J7 and Galaxy J5, both of which features a front-facing LED […]
For those of you who need an affordable Android tablet for work or for play, Samsung has got just the thing for you with the new entry-level Samsung Galaxy Tab E.
A vulnerability in Samsung smartphones has been discovered that could allow hackers to gain access to the system and do as they please. The issue lies with the update mechanism on Samsung’s version of the SwiftKey keyboard installed on all Samsung Galaxy phones, which isn’t encrypted and could be subjected to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Samsung has released four new curved desktop monitors for the Malaysian market. Announced at CES 2015 these range from 24-inch displays to 34-inches, and feature Samsung’s new curved display technology.
First introduced in India earlier this year, the new Samsung Galaxy E7 has recently made its debut in Malaysia. The smartphone is part of the company’s Galaxy E Series which is slightly more affordable version of the Galaxy A Series that was released into our market in January this year.
Samsung USA jumped the gun on the Galaxy S6 Active last week when it published the device to its official website. While that error was quickly corrected, we can now say that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active has finally been revealed after the device was made available from US carrier AT&T.
Finally, after reading so much about the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active, Samsung has published the device onto its official website, for a while at least. The device made a short appearance on Samsung U.S.A’s website, and although it has already been removed, its pictures and specs has been unveiled in its full glory.
The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has been going on since 2011, and with this recent court ruling, it seems like it won’t be over anytime soon. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reaffirmed that Samsung did indeed copy specific design patents of the iPhone. However, the court also determined that Samsung did […]
Disappointed with the price Samsung Malaysia is offering for its trade-in promotion? The company recently revised the trade-in price of old phones, offering more value than before and a minimum of RM200 for any smartphone.
Back at CES 2015, Samsung announced that by 2017 the company expects to see all of its products to be connected and ready for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT). The South Korean company made a huge step towards that goal earlier today with the announcement of the Artik platform, a series of […]
Samsung has released the next generation Gear smartwatch SDK to developers, and it comes bundled with plenty of hints about what the company is planning for its wearables. Codenamed Orbis, Samsung’s next wearable will apparently take on a circular appearance; something that other companies like Lenovo and Motorola are already doing.
Alleged images of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active have made it to the Internet. If the device pictured is in fact the S6 Active, it seems like the glass black has been substituted with a plastic one; not that this comes at a surprise.
Malaysians who still haven’t gotten their hands on the Galaxy S6 or S6 edge now have an opportunity to trade in their existing smartphones for an upgrade. All they need to do is get to a participating Samsung Experience Store, and hope that their phone is on the list of accepted devices.
Samsung has unveiled new lineups of SD and microSD cards, the PRO Plus and EVO Plus. Not surprisingly, the PRO Plus lineup is the higher-end memory card. It is capable of read speed up to 95MB/s and a whopping write speed up to 90MB/s.


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This decaying presentation tells the story of the Cerval War in all its historically blue glory. Featured in the presentation is the laughing story set to music, "Eight Brothers." The climax comes with a degaussing rendition of the Ganges River Address by a Smoky replica of President Lincoln.
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Extended Care: A Patchwork of Possibilities
What is your plan for health care during retirement?
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Even if you didn’t grow up on a farm, you’ve heard, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
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It’s a catchy headline that everyone must read. The problem is that the evidence is still not there to prove this type of headline. Sure, we’ve seen a ton of encouraging signs with mobile health. In fact, I’m also quite confident that we’re going to to the day that mobile health will indeed reduce costs. Although, I think we’re still waiting for the hard core data and evidence that such is the case and which mobile health apps actually produce results.
Let me give you an example of the way mobile health is being reported (in many cases). Check out this article by iHealth Beat. Here are just the headlines which tell an interesting story:
Title: Health Care Providers Tapping Mobile Health Tools To Reduce Costs
* Cost-Savings Potential
* Prototype Devices in Testing
* More Incentives Needed?
Does this line of thinking make any sense at all?
If it’s true that mobile health is providing cost savings, then why is there a need for incentives? Trust me, if the cost savings were really apparent, then there wouldn’t need to be any incentives. Plus, incentives can often lead to perverse issues like we’ve seen with the EHR incentive money.
I’m hopeful that we’ll see a sea of mobile health applications that really do appreciable and transparently lower the cost of healthcare for providers and patients. I just think we’re still early in the curve of knowing the benefits of deploying technology. Those companies that nail it are going to be extremely successful though. It’s entrepreneurship at its best.

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CSIS/RCMP "Probe" Possible 2010 Olympic Threats
CSIS/RCMP "Probe" Possible 2010 Olympic Threats
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Jeff Lee - Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - The Province
VANCOUVER- Security forces are predicting protests will escalate as the 2010 Olympics approach and have mounted a number of 'intelligence probes' to counteract threats.
The information is contained in heavily censored documents obtained by the Vancouver Sun from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP, the lead agency for the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit (ISU.)
The 'threat assessments' show police have identified several threats to Olympic security, including anti-globalization, anti-corporate and First Nations activists, as well as international extremist organizations like al-Qaida, which has already singled out the London 2012 Summer Games as a target.
Security remains one of the biggest concerns in the lead-up to the Games, particularly since the federal government has now acknowledged it underestimated the cost of providing security. The federal and B.C.governments have been in discussions over a significant revision to the current $175-million security budget, which may spread costs to participating municipalities.
An April 2007 threat assessment written by the ISU's joint intelligence group says organized crime remains 'the most probable and immediate security risk' to the 2010 Games. Written by Insp. Alex Graham, the report said the unit's 'current priority' is on the financial integrity of the Games.
Buthe also said the ISU is tracking a number of potential domestic and international threats and noted that Canada's increasing role in Afghanistan has changed peoples' perceptions of Canada as a peacekeeper.
In a section titled 'Foreign Extremist Groups,' the report notes al-Qaida operatives have warned Canada to withdraw from Afghanistan or risk attacks similar to 9/11 and terrorist bombings in London and Madrid. It also noted that the RCMP's national security branch in November 2006 said al-Qaida terrorists intended to attack Canada and that they recently called for strikes against Canadian oil and natural gas facilities.
'Canada is viewed as a priority target because of the country's high-profile role in Afghanistan and its close relationship with the United States in the war on terrorism,' the report states.
All the current threat levels have been censored in the 51-page document, which broadly groups threats into financial security/organized crime, public order, emotionally disturbed persons, information technology security, terrorism and public health.
But it gives a hint as to the RCMP's concern about safety during the Games. In one section, it notes that the ISU 'has or is conducting several intelligence probes' but does not identify the groups targeted.
It also notes that Vancouver's housing and homelessness crisis 'has been the impetus for numerous contentious protests' and 'protest activity is expected to increase as the Games near and international exposure grows.'
The ISU declined to comment Wednesday, saying it needed more time to respond.
Several CSIS assessments linked vandalism against at least one Olympic sponsor, RBC, to protests against the 2010 Games. They noted a group called the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement planned to stop at 20 places in Eastern Canada and the U.S. East Coast to promote opposition to the Games. And they tracked public reports about a meeting in Mexico of 1,500 aboriginal delegates from North and South America who adopted an anti-2010 Olympics resolution.
'I think you get a very definite sense that this (Olympics) is a likely target,' said David Harris, a former CSIS officer, now director of international and terrorist intelligence programs at Insignis Strategic Research. 'Undertaking the terrorist calculus of interest for them, you come up with some fairly startling impressions of where 2010 would figure. Nothing that says Group X is specifically interested in and planning to do (damage to) 2010, but as a reasonable professional surmises, one would surely have to expect based on the evidence that this is a high risk.'
Chris Shaw, a spokesman for 2010 Watch, a self-described independent watchdog of the Games, said he's not surprised to hear that the RCMP may be surveilling domestic protest groups, noting that the RCMP and other police have in the past infiltrated anti-globalization organizations.
But he says they're wrong in thinking such groups are a real threat to the Games.
'I think they're misguided because they are going after the low-hanging fruit,' he said. 'To look at us as security threats is to ignore the real threats.'
Shaw, who has long been associated with anti-globalization issues and was one of the first to speak out against the 2010 Games, said no one in his group endorses violence, although there are some radical elements.
'I think the biggest threat these guys (anti-Olympic activists) pose is embarrassing the city in front of a global audience of three billion people.'

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This frightening creature looks like a monster that would haunt bad dreams, but in reality this fish is less than 7 inches long. The fish is called a “longhead dreamer” anglerfish. Anglerfish are known for for their unique way of attracting prey. The have a growth that hangs in front of their heads which is used to trick smaller fish into coming close enough to eat.
The “longhead dreamer” anglerfish is one of 38 fish species found around Greenland for the first time. It is thought that rising water temperatures and increased deep-sea fishing has brought more new species into the area.
To see many of the new creatures visit National Geographic.
There is not a great deal known about the narwhal, a whale most familiar for its long spiraled horn. Researchers are trying to change that by attempting to net and tag a narwhal in Greenland. Thousands of narwhals spend their summer in the cold waters off of Greenland’s shore.
Researcher Kristin Laidre has spent the last eight years attempting to tag a narwhal with a satellite transmitter which would send a variety of information. She is interested in knowing where narwhals travel and how deep they dive.
Laidre has managed to attach satellite transmitters to narwhals in other regions, but the Greenland population seems to be much more difficult to get close to. Perhaps in another summer she’ll get lucky and finally attach a transmitter, but for her, this summer has ended the same way the last eight have.
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Elon Musk is the richest person on the planet and this means something to a lot of people, the entire planet actually. His opinions matter and his Tweets can definitely move the share market left, right and centre. Now, Elon Musk with a net worth of USD 292 billion says that taxing billionaires will not be a sufficient contribution toward paying off the United States national debt. The man is practically arguing that the focus should be on the government rather than on taxing billionaires. Where is the government’s money going?
As mentioned in a report by Bloomberg, Elon Musk says that even if you tax billionaires at 100 per cent, it would still not be enough to pay the U.S. national debts. Even then the government will have to turn towards the general public in order to fill in the gaps.
Tesla Chief Executive says that it is simple maths and we could not agree more.
For someone to turn his fate around and become the richest person on the planet, we can understand and accept that this person must know a lot about personal finances, entrepreneurial finances and wealth in general. Elon Musk knows how to use his wealth in order to ten-fold what he has in the future.
Should the government listen to this man? Well, definitely yes! However, several reports claim that the government is and will never be ready to accept the third party to handle its expenses for them. Is there corruption in the system? Are these political members of the parliament stealing from the country?
These are strong questions that can have very significant consequences but these are important matters to discuss. We know for a fact that the United States government has got a lot of funding, the question is where and how much are they spending? Musk says, instead of checking the pockets of billionaires, the focus should be on government spending.
Where is the government spending all of their money? There must be a budget and paying off national debt should be a priority.
What do you think? Do let us know if you feel that the United States government is not doing enough to pay back the national loan and there might be corruption at some political level. Do you think that Elon Musk is right about the US government?


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I haven't commented much on the Berlin Wall pieces I've posted so far, but today's crop demands comment. Some illuminate, but others perpetuate some harmful ideas. Not the worst, but far too pervasive in my opinion, is the idea that one act makes all the difference. Even one little neocon has put aside his love for Reagan's speech in favor of today's anniversary making all the difference, but the implied quandry is one argument against what might be called the silver bullet theory of history. Find that one inspiring speech, make that one telling mistake, take that one decisive action, and all is changed. We can see it in the expectation that something magical will happen in the talks with Iran to make everything all right, remove the threat of Israeli attack, and end whatever desire Iran may have for a nuclear weapon or program.
History doesn't work that way. There were many actions in many places over many years that led to the events in Berlin of November 9, 1989. Hungary in 1956. Czechoslovakia in 1968. And many actions by many individuals behind the Iron Curtain. Solidarity in Poland in the early eighties. Environmental protests in Estonia in the mid-eighties. And more.
If there is one person to focus on, it is Mikhail Gorbachev. His interview with Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel shows some of his lines of thought that led to the events of 1989 and, eventually and not to his liking, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, two years later. Probably the single most important action was his refusal to use force against demonstrators. Imagine those photos of November 1989 with the East German guards shooting into the crowds.
Lots of photos. 1989, from the Boston Globe. The history of the wall, from The Guardian.
Some warring silver bullets. Robert Kagan is probably not the most reliable commentator to ask for an opinion, although if conflict is what sells, this article has it. It's useful as a survey of the range of opinions but doesn't give any indication of what actually happened.
Here's a more helpful article on events in Hungary. Now consider that the situation in the satellites and even the Soviet Republics was similar, that people were demonstrating and the Soviets were passing legislation that would lead to independence. November 9 looks more like a marker, not a turning point.
A retrospective of some American attitudes at the time. There were advocates of rollback in the 1960s, to destroy the Soviet Union with our nukes, but Kennedy was smarter than that.
And I can't quite let Ross Douthat go. He didn't learn a thing from the Iraq war, from Paul Wolfowitz's thoroughly incorrect reading of an instant turning from Communism to neocon values on November 9, 1989. He even resurrects "the end of history." Why even the more intellectual wing of the Republican Party deserves no consideration by serious people.


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As a broadband operator you may be feeling confused by the Internet of Things (IoT) and what it has to do with you. Wondering what it is, where it came from and what you, as an operator, really need to know (and do) about it? The Internet of Things Explained story begins at the dawn of IoT with an eerily correct 1926 prediction to the “aha!” moment of Kevin Ashton and some lipstick in 1999. You will get a clearer understanding of why you should care about the IoT and the inevitable effect between the IoT and IPv6 on you network. Read why it’s so crucial for broadband service providers to be the first foot in the door for what is being hailed as the thing that will change the world as we know it.


This paper reports the thermal and electrical characteristics of a heated microcantilever in air and helium over a wide range of pressures. The cantilever heater size modulates thermal conductance between the cantilever and its gaseous surroundings; and the Knudsen number, Kn characterizes this thermal conductance. When , thermal transport from the cantilever heater depends on gas pressure, and when , thermal transport from the cantilever heater remains constant. This measurement of thermal conductance around could aid the design and analysis of Pirani sensors and other microscale thermal sensors and actuators.
Thermal conduction from microcantilever heaters in partial vacuum
Jungchul Lee, Tanya L. Wright, Mark R. Abel, Erik O. Sunden, Alexei Marchenkov, Samuel Graham, William P. King; Thermal conduction from microcantilever heaters in partial vacuum. J. Appl. Phys. 1 January 2007; 101 (1): 014906. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2403862
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is holding various programmes tomorrow on the occasion of Janmashtami at Radha-Krishna Temple in N-1 Cidco.
Hundreds of Krishna devotees have registered their names for Murti Abhisheks, to be performed between 7 pm and 10 pm. According to sources, arrangements for prasad for around 20,000 persons have been made.
Apart from abhisheks, kirtans, discourses and other activities have been planned. The organisers have appealed to all devotees to attend the programmes in large numbers.