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February is Kate Mesta Month here at www.lifehearthome.com! We will feature hand-crafted dog tag necklaces that are as original as the artist who created them. Check out our facebook page (www.facebook.com/lifehearthome) and our Instagram page (www.instagram.com/lifehearthome) for daily posts.
These custom dog tag necklaces are all hand-crafted by Kate Mesta, a world renowned artist from Laguna Beach, California. Her jewelry has adorned the necks of many celebrities from Ellen DeGeneres to Selena Gomez to Lisa Vanderpump and is considered wearable art. The perfect addition to your jewelry collection or as a very special gift for a loved one! Browse through our many designs to find the perfect one for you!
The new year is always a time for reflection and planning. We are excited to bring you some new ideas for LifeHeartHome that we hope you will love! Beginning in February, we will be highlighting one product or class of products each month. Not only will we post here, on our blog site but also we will feature items on Facebook and Instagram. We hope that this will help our loyal customers find that perfect gift. For the rest of January, we encourage you to check out our Valentine Collection.
We are happy to feature our Kate Mesta Dogtags during the month of February. Make sure to like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram so you will see these trendy wearable art pieces. We hope you love them as much as we do.
We at LifeHeartHome would like to wish you all a very happy 2017.
During the summer, I love being able to go out without having to wear a sweatshirt or a coat because I am able to show off what I am wearing a lot more. I dress in flowing tops and exciting colors to celebrate the coming of summer. To complement these attractive outfits, I have to make sure that I have the right kind of jewelry as well.
I like to make sure that I am always wearing earrings or necklaces that go well with the outfits that I have. Recently, I have been wearing a lot of Kate Mesta dog tag jewelry just because each of these necklaces is a work of art. I own a range of different ones that are just incredibly interesting to look at.
I have a couple of these necklaces that match well with specific outfits and others that I wear on a regular basis just because they go with everything. The effort that goes into each of these necklaces is clear because of the quality that is evident in each finished piece. It feels good to have jewelry that I know was made with care and not mass produced in a third world country where the workers weren’t paid properly.
Kate Mesta‘s dogtag necklaces are truly unique. Each one, handmade and designed by Kate herself, is a wearable piece of art. The retro look is definitely trendy and Kate has done an amazing job to utilize these ideas to create fun and groovy necklaces! My favorite is the “Hippie Flower” design. This design features a 60’s inspired background in shades of pink and black and a very sparkly flower in its center. It will bring a smile to your face every time you wear it.
Isn’t time to bring out your inner flowerchild? Perfect gift for yourself or a loved one who has a groovy and fun personality!
About Kate: She creates all of her jewelry in her studio in Laguna Beach, California and her work has been featured at many celebrity events. She has even created a special “Dancing with the Stars” line. Her jewelry takes the typical dogtag necklace idea and spins it around to make truly one of a kind artwork that you can wear. Each necklace or cuff bracelet is made one at a time by hand so no two are exactly alike. Her jewelry has been worn by such celebrities as Selena Gomez, Ellen Degeneres, Dick Van Dyke and Sharon Osbourne to name a few. Owning a piece of Kate Mesta jewelry is like owning a piece of art that you can wear!
Dog tags being used as identification dates back many years. It is now a part of the uniform of soldiers in most countries. Dog tags have now found their way into fashion; displaying personality traits or artistic flair as a very distinctive accessory. In the last few years, since about the 1990s, the popularity of dog tag jewelry has grown and is particularly represented in the music industry. The design of these dog tag necklaces can be as unique and individualized as the people wearing them.
We are excited to be able to bring to you the amazing jewelry of Kate Mesta! Kate Mesta is famous for creating one of a kind, wearable art. She creates all of her jewelry in her studio in Laguna Beach, California and her work has been featured at many celebrity events. She has even created a special “Dancing with the Stars” line. Her jewelry takes the typical dog tag necklace idea and spins it around to make truly one of a kind artwork that you can wear. Each necklace is made one at a time by hand so no two are exactly alike. Her jewelry has been worn by such celebrities as Selena Gomez, Ellen Degeneres, Dick Van Dyke and Sharon Osbourne to name a few. Owning a piece of Kate Mesta jewelry is like owning a piece of art that you can wear!


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UK Tv presenter. Was in the group Nolan Sisters. In 2002 Mirror said “I’m five feet five inches”. Sister Bernie said of her own height in Woman’s Own: “I’m only 5ft 1in and was 10st 10lb and a size 14. Now I’m 9st 6lb and a size 10-12. I want to lose another 6lb”. Another Nolan, Maureen said in Mirror Newspaper “I’m 5ft 2”
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Coleen Nolan Height Weight Body Statistics. Coleen Nolan Height -1.68 m, Weight -64 kg, Measurements, bra size, shoe size, boyfriend, religion, biography.
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Coleen Nolan is an English-Irish singer, television presenter, and author who has a net worth of $6 million.
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- Coleen Patricia Nolan is an English singer, television personality, and author.
- She was a member of the girl group The Nolans, in which she sang with her sisters.
- Since 2000, Nolan has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women.

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Monday August 3, 2020 – Kirinyaga County Deputy Governor, Peter Ndambiri, has confessed that Governor Anne Waiguru is not ready to fight corruption in the County.
Speaking at Ndindiruku village in Mwea Sub-County during the funeral of Lucia Wanjiru Mugo, the mother to KPLC Engineer, David Mwaniki, on Saturday, Ndambiri urged the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to investigate how Anne Waiguru spent Sh 20 million set aside for fighting coronavirus.
Ndambiri said despite having been allocated Sh 20 million, Waiguru has not put up any preventive measures to fight COVID 19.
Ndambiri said the region has not met the requisite 300-bed capacity and it will be a disaster should the number of Covid-19 cases increase.
24 cases of the novel coronavirus have already been reported in the County.
Several other suspected cases are in quarantine.
According to Ndambiri, Kirinyaga County currently has 14 isolation beds at the Kerugoya Referral Hospital – the biggest facility in the region.
He said this is because of the bad management of public funds and the mass looting of public money.
The Kenyan DAILY POST


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2019 New Member exhibition
The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh presents an exhibition of work by the recently accepted members of AAP at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media. The exhibition opens to the public on the evening of Saturday, May 11, 2019, from 6:00pm-9:00pm. The exhibition is open to the public, and admission is free.
Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media
6300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
The 2019 New Members are Karen Antonelli, Allison Blair, Cory Bonnet, Eric Charlton, Kevin Clancy, Thommy Conroy, Matthew Constant, Dennis Doyle, Dan Droz, Tara Fay, Kylie Ford, Adrienne Grafton, Hannah Harley, Megan Herwig, Christopher Hofmann, J Houston, Selena Hurst, Tressa Jones, Alyssa Kail, Ignacio Lopez, Karen Lue, Stephanie Martin, Paul Mullins, Brent Nakamoto, Njaimeh Njie, Joe Perry, Cassandra Pfaff, Justin Pope, Allan Rosenfield, John Sanders, Rachel Saul Rearick, Tyler Stanton, and Sarah Tancred. Artist Annie Weidman, who was juried in at the 106th Annual Exhibition, will also have work featured in the exhibition.

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Commercial vehicle registrations: -17.6% nine months into 2022; -6.6% in September
Brussels, 26 October 2022 – In September 2022, new commercial vehicle registrations across the EU fell again, marking the fifteenth consecutive monthly decrease.
Total new commercial vehicles
In September 2022, new commercial vehicle registrations across the EU fell again, marking the fifteenth consecutive monthly decrease. Despite a strong rebound in truck registrations, overall commercial vehicle sales contracted by 6.6% to 133,880 units, dragged down by the negative performance in the van segment. With the exception of Spain (+0.1%), all major markets in the EU faced declines: France (-11.0%), Italy (-10.7%) and Germany (-3.1%).
Over the first three quarters of 2022, EU commercial vehicle sales remained in negative territory (-17.6%), totalling nearly 1.2 million units. The region’s four largest markets all posted negative results, with Spain recording the steepest decline (-23.0%).
New light commercial vehicles (LCV) up to 3.5t
September’s registrations of new light commercial vehicles in the EU were down by 11.3% to 105,790 units. This negative trend was reflected in the weak performance of the four key markets in the region, which all suffered falls: Italy (-13.5%), France (-12.3%), Germany (‑7.2%) and Spain (-3.5%).
Nine months into 2022, EU new van registrations contracted by 21.2% compared to the same period one year ago. With the exception of Cyprus (+6.4%) and Slovakia (+0.2%), all the EU markets posted declines, including the four major ones: Spain (-27.7%), France (‑22.4%), Germany (-18.9%) and Italy (-12.4%).
New heavy commercial vehicles (HCV) of 16t and over
September’s registrations of new heavy trucks across the EU were strong, with the segment improving by 21.0%, as all the markets in the region – except for Portugal (-35.7%) – posted solid gains. Central European countries in particular provided a strong boost to last month’s growth, even recording triple-digit percentage gains in Croatia (+173.5%) and Lithuania (+154.2%).
From January to September 2022, new heavy truck registrations increased by 4.6% to reach 188,067 units sold in the European Union. The two consecutive positive results in August and September helped to improve the year-to-date performance. As a result, three of the four EU key markets performed better than one year ago, with only Germany recording a slight decline (-0.8%).
New medium and heavy commercial vehicles (MHCV) over 3.5t
New medium and heavy truck registrations in the EU increased by 18.3% in September. With the exception of Portugal (-32.6%), all the region’s markets positively contributed to the overall growth, including the four major ones: Spain (+22.8%), Germany (+11.9%), France (+3.0%) and Italy (+3.0%).
Nine months into the year, new trucks sold across the European Union grew by 1.5%, as the gains recorded in the last two months brought the cumulative result into positive territory. Central European countries largely contributed to this positive performance (+9.6%). On the other hand, among the four major Western European markets only Spain recorded growth (+10.3%).
New medium and heavy buses & coaches (MHBC) over 3.5t
In September 2022, EU registrations of new buses and coaches remained flat (-0.1%) with 2,370 units sold. The region’s four largest markets recorded mixed results. France posted the sharpest decline (-19.6%), followed by Germany (-5.4%). Italy, on the other hand, saw a significant increase (+32.0%).
So far in 2022, new bus registrations fell by 4.8% to 20,457 units. Among the EU’s four major markets, Spain was the only one to post growth (+29.3%). By contrast, Germany (‑22.5%), France (-14.9%) and Italy (-9.4%) all suffered significant declines.
Despite a strong rebound in truck registrations, overall commercial vehicle sales contracted by 6.6% to 133,880 units.
- The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is the Brussels-based trade association of the 14 major car, van, truck and bus producers in Europe.
- The ACEA commercial vehicle members are DAF Trucks, Daimler Truck, Ford Trucks, Iveco Group, MAN Truck & Bus, Scania, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, and Volvo Group.
- Visit www.acea.auto for more information about ACEA, and follow us on www.twitter.com/ACEA_auto or www.linkedin.com/company/ACEA/.
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About the EU automobile industry
- 13.0 million Europeans work in the automotive sector
- 11.5% of all manufacturing jobs in the EU
- €374.6 billion in tax revenue for European governments
- €101.9 billion trade surplus for the European Union
- Over 7% of EU GDP generated by the auto industry
- €59.1 billion in R&D spending annually, 31% of EU total

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Bobcats struggle at plate, drop doubleheader against Trojans
Texas State couldn’t come up with clutch hits against Troy and dropped both games of a doubleheader on Friday inside Bobcat Ballpark.
The Bobcats stranded 24 runners in two games. Texas State loaded the bases four times Friday but only scored four runs.
Texas State dropped the opening game, 7-3, and finished the day with a 7-6 loss.
“Obviously, very disappointed,” head coach Ty Harrington said. “I thought we were going to have a chance to win (Friday) and do a good job and continue on with a little more momentum of what we’ve kind of had going. And so, certainly disappointed with the outcomes. I think there are ways you can go through and find something positive maybe here and there but the ultimate thing is when you play doubleheaders is that you’ve got to find a way to win, particularly in your own ballpark, which we didn’t do tonight.”
Troy (16-14, 5-6 Sun Belt) jumped on Texas State (19-12, 6-5) early with two runs in the first inning during Friday’s opening game. By the time the Bobcats could respond with their first run of the game in the third inning, they were already down 5-0.
Texas State got as close as 5-2 but Troy put the game away with two insurance runs in the ninth inning. The Bobcats brought one run home during their last at-bat but couldn’t rally any further.
Texas State junior pitcher Nick Fraze struggled to find consistency on the mound on Friday. He suffered his third loss of the season after allowing five earned runs on eight hits in six innings of work. Troy redshirt junior pitcher Cory Gill earned the win for the Trojans.
The Bobcats looked poised to even the series in the second game. Redshirt senior left fielder Travon Benton hit a one-out double in the first inning and junior second baseman Jaxon Williams hit an RBI single to score Benton.
Texas State loaded the bases in the second inning but only brought home one run when Williams hit into a fielder’s choice.
Troy tied the game in the third with an RBI double by junior right fielder Dalton Sinquefield. But the Bobcats scored a run in the fourth and the fifth to regain the lead at 4-2.
The Trojans answered in the sixth with an RBI double from senior first baseman Sadler Goodwin and a sac-fly by freshman center fielder Logan Cerny to tie the game.
Troy took a 7-4 lead with three runs in the seventh inning. Texas State cut the Trojan advantage to 7-5 when sophomore shortstop Dalton Shuffield hit an RBI triple in the bottom of the seventh.
Freshman catcher Peyton Lewis hit an RBI single to bring the Bobcats to within 7-6 in the bottom of the ninth. But Texas State couldn’t complete the comeback.
“We had a couple unfortunate, just bad things that could go wrong went wrong in game two for us but that’s baseball,” Harrington said. “This game is tough and it’s hard and if you’re not prepared and you’re not ready and you’re not playing constantly and competing nonstop like we’ve been doing, things like that can happen. It’s exactly what happened today.”
Following Friday’s disappointing result, Harrington said the Bobcats will have to start competing better when they take on Troy in the series finale.
“We’ve got to come up with hits with guys in scoring position,” Harrington said. “You know, you put 14 guys on base, you’ve got to score. I think we left 10 guys on (in the first game) that’s 24 guys in two games. That’s a lot of guys on base. They didn’t have very many guys on base and they managed to come up with the hits when they had to tonight.”

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restoration ecologist, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
I love the vegetation out here. I used to hike out here a lot before I was a biologist. I loved it then, I just didn’t understand the ecology of it. But I love being outside, it has a certain feel. California has a certain feel that you won’t feel anywhere else in the world.
- Joseph Algiers
The Santa Monica Mountains, the ancestral home of the Chumash/Tongva people, just outside Los Angeles, California, is one of only five Mediterranean ecosystems in the world. Its mountains provide the city of Angels--nearly 4 million people--with clean air, water and connection with the wild. At 153,075 acres, it’s the largest urban national park in the world. Despite its proximity to Los Angeles, the park boasts amazing scenic vistas and places to experience the wonder of the wild.
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is part of the California Floristic Province. It’s just one of just 36 Biodiversity Hotspots in the world, and is an irreplaceable place, harboring an exceptional diversity of wildlife, including species that are rare and found nowhere else on the planet.
Verity’s Dudleya is endemic to the Santa Monica Mountains. There are less than 1,000 of the Critically Endangered Dudleya living in six populations at the west end of the mountains. Succulents are not the only rare plants living in the recreation area. There is an Endangered sunflower called Lyon's Pentachaeta, and other important species include, Chocolate Lilies, Valley Oak Trees and the minty-smelling Coastal Sage Scrub.
Despite being a protected national recreation area since the 1970s, the mountains have been scorched by large fires that are growing in intensity and ferocity due to climate change. Two fires within five years of each other, the Springs fire in 2013 (24,238 acres) and the Woolsey fire in 2018 burned about half the mountain range including over 21,000 acres (88%) of NPS land. No other fire in recorded history has burned as much of the Santa Monica Mountains.
“I think it was a big wake up call for everybody,” says Joseph. “We’ve been dealing with these big fires, and a lot of people have been interested in supporting rehabilitation. I’ve just seen an uptick in volunteerism.”
And Joseph can use all the volunteers available. He is leading an effort to rewild the Santa Monica Mountains--focusing on areas ravaged by wildfires--and to make the recreation area more resilient to climate change by restoring native plants and trees.
Re:wild, the National Park Service and Snap, Inc., are teaming up to plant 100,000 native trees, grasses, plants and shrubs between 2021 and 2023. It will be the biggest rewilding project in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to date.
The National Park Service, with the help of their dedicated volunteers and interns, will be getting shovels in the dirt and baby plants in the ground. Hundreds of interns have worked in the park during the past decade. Volunteer events focused on restoring the recreation area have attracted hundreds of people--at one event 750 people planted 3,000 plants in one day.
Joseph and researchers with the National Park Service will monitor the newly planted trees, shrubs and grasses over the next three years to see how they fare. They are hoping that if the plants do well, so will insects, birds, snakes and eventually big mammals that live in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Though Joseph is focusing on rewilding efforts in the Santa Monica Mountains, his work is part of a bigger movement to rewild parks and nature areas. He says natural areas across the world could use the help of volunteers to restore them. He recommends doing some research on parks where you live.
“I’m sure they’re looking for help,” he says.
Top photo: View of the Pacific Ocean from the Santa Monica Mountains in California. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service)

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ICMSA President Pat McCormack
President of the Irish Creamery and Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA), Pat McCormack, has asked farmers to support candidates in the upcoming European and local elections who are showing a real commitment to the industry and rural communities.
The ICMSA President noted that farming in Ireland is always changing and adapting to opportunities and challenges, but the sector has rarely, if ever, experienced as much uncertainty as that which currently prevails, with CAP, Brexit and Climate change issues.
Mr McCormack says the upcoming EU and local elections present farmers and rural dwellers with an opportunity to set out their concerns to politicians.
ICMSA have already set its key demands to candidates in rural constituencies and say it is essential that all individual farmers and rural dwellers insist that those going for election, put farming and rural issues at the top of their agendas.
The afforementioned elections will take place May 24.

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To compare safety and efficacy of bipolar plasmakinetic enucleation of prostate (BPEP) vs holmium laser enucleation of prostate (HoLEP) for management of large benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) (>80 g).
Patients and Methods
Patients with failed medical treatment, International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) >13, peak urinary flow rate (Qmax)<15 mL/s and prostate size ≥80 g were enrolled in this randomized controlled trial from November 2016 to February 2018 and managed by HoLEP (Group A; 33 patients) or BPEP (Group B; 31 patients). Patients on anticoagulants (AC) were not excluded. Patients were followed up for 12 months. Perioperative data were compared between both groups using Student’s-t, Mann–Whitney, Paired-t, Wilcoxon signed rank, chi-square, or Fisher-exact tests as appropriate.
There was no significant difference between both groups in age, rate of presentation with urinary retention, recurrent hematuria, frequency of patients on ACs/antiplatelets, prostate size, prostate specific antigen (PSA), Qmax, IPSS, quality of life (QoL), and post-void residual urine (PVRU). Operative time was significantly longer in BPEP (p = 0.003) and catheterization duration (p = 0.019). Other perioperative parameters including level of Na+ and hemoglobin, resected tissue weight, hospital stay, and complications were not significantly different between both groups. There was no need for blood transfusion in all patients. There was significant postoperative improvement in IPSS, PVRU, QoL, PSA, and Qmax in each group. However, there was no significant difference between both groups in these parameters.
HoLEP and BPEP are comparable regarding safety and efficacy for treatment of BPH (>80 g) including patients on ACs. However, BPEP required a longer catheterization duration and operative time. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03998150.

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Tulsa voters could soon cast their ballots to improve city streets. News On anchor Jennifer Loren reports Mayor Kathy Taylor and city councilors hope they've come up with a plan voters will like to fix Tulsa's streets without raising taxes.
Tulsa residents have made it clear: it's past time to fix the streets. Tulsa's mayor agrees.
"If we do not get our streets back in the right pavement condition index, it's going to continue to build a mountain of expense that will be even more expensive every year as they further deteriorate and the quality will simply not be acceptable," said Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor.
That's why the mayor and Tulsa City Councilors hope to do something about the bad roads now. They're working on a proposal to fix Tulsa's streets. It would go on a July ballot, ultimately leaving it up to voters. And, the mayor thinks voters will embrace the plan.
"We will not increase the sales tax. We just all have agreed that that is too burdensome on our citizens, that what we need to do is redeploy the sales tax that we currently have and use for street maintenance," said Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor.
At this point, the proposal would extend the current third penny sales tax and the city's general obligation bond when they expire. But, some voters aren't buying it.
"I believe we're over-taxed now. The money is somewhere and they need to pull it out of the reserves and spend it where it belongs," said voter LeMon Banks.
Other voters don't care where the money comes from, including their own pockets, as long as potholes go away.
"I'd vote yes. Cause they need the money and we need better roads. So why not vote and get better roads?" said voter Ricky Arthur.
City leaders hope the sooner the proposal gets to voters, the sooner the roads will be repaired.
The city council will hear public comments on the subject at their weekly meetings. Meanwhile, town hall meetings will be held in each district, answering any questions voters have about the proposal.


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A former mortgage company chief executive convicted of orchestrating a nearly $3 billion fraud scheme is asking a federal appeals panel to reverse his conviction and send his case back for a retrial.
An attorney for former Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. CEO Lee Farkas told a three-judge panel Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema improperly denied his right to effective counsel in rejecting his requests to delay his trial. The attorney contended defense attorneys were denied adequate time to process voluminous documents that would help bolster their client's case.
Now-defunct, TBW was one of the nation's largest private mortgage lenders. Farkas was convicted of 14 counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay $3.5 billion in restitution.
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FSANZ - Food Standards Australia New Zealand February 2015
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) sets Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for agricultural and veterinary chemicals in Australia. These MRLs are set at levels that "pose no risk to human health and are not likely to be exceeded if used in accordance with directions on the label". See the National Residue Survey (NRS)
for more details.
This Standard lists the maximum permissible limits for agricultural and veterinary chemical residues present in food. Foods are routinely tested to assess the levels of pesticide residues and compared against the Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) allowed. See the link above for more detail on how MRLs are established.
If the Australian Governemnt is testing for these chemicals on food, then at some point some of these chemicals end up on food - even if at very small or even undetectable amounts.
Not all pesticides approved in Australia are tested for on Food. See National Residue Survey (NRS)
for reasons. And by No means are all foods tested. Actually very few fruits and vegies are tested. All Pesticides in this list are apporoved for use in Australia.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
MACHINATIONS - big music
I first heard of them while watching "Countdown" on Saturday nights and loved their sound and style.
The album "Big Music" had a number of hits including "My Hearts on Fire","You got me going Again", "Predator" and "No say in It" which is my pick of the album with its punchy beats and rhythmic guitars it one great song.
The machinations myspace page is a great site ( view here ) has some great songs to listen to... one of those songs is "cars and planes" of a later album and is very hard to get, it has to be one of my best favs of the 80s.. i used to have a demo tape of "beats and planes" which was a dance version of this song ... it pumps, but cant find it anywhere.
Track listing =
1 = MY HEART'S ON FIRE (Thanks to 70s80sVidz for the video)
2 = predator
3 = jabber
4 = EXECUTION OF LOVE (Thanks to 2560saw for the video)
5 = spark
6 = NO SAY IN IT (Thanks to parachuteclubbed for the video)
7 = YOU GOT ME GOING AGAIN (Thanks to austv2 for the video)
8 = 5 minutes black
9 = the letter
10 = one step closer
Awesome.... CLICK HERE to Download songs from this album and more from my Mixtape series..... :)

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MCW Spring Feast 2015
The University of WA & MCW kicked off the 2015 Spring Feast by having 60 food stalls around the guild area and Oak Lawn on Thursday the 8th of October 2015. Fun energy was carried across the Oak Lawn by visitors and students alike and it was a very successful Multi Cultural Week (MCW) event. The market feeling was compounded by the enthusiastic sales pitch from the 'Just Wing It!'s fried chicken seller.
My first venture was to the stall operated by the Cantonese Student Association WA for their HK street snack, a bowl of curry fishballs. They were located outside of the guild's pharmacy and had promoted their stall previously through their Facebook account. The tastiness and warmth of fishballs were so perfect as the start of the food adventure at the Spring Feast.
Then I found a Japanese Student Association stall with $2 dango (Japanese dumpling with mochiko) with red bean on top of it. Of course I was overly excited to grab a cheap colourful dango!
We saw two Indonesian food stalls and decided to come back later to try it, especially since I saw a bowl of mi bakso (Indonesian traditional noodle and meat ball soup) accompanied by a huge scotch egg displayed on their table. When we entered the Oak Lawn, one of the longest queue was for the Takoyaki Stall. I skipped that one and went on to purchase a warm and juicy roast duck bun from the Apple Daily Bar & Eating House which only had a short queue in front of the stall. I wish I grab more than one because it was really good and even though it was only a stall, the friendliness of the staff was really awesome.
The DON was still very busy serving customers with Hubby waiting patiently right next to their stall. In the meantime I moved on to the Hummingbird Pantry's Tequenos that could be found at the Twilight Market as well! Taquenos is a South American snack consisting of melted haloumi inside a sweet fried dough. It was proven to be popular among the little kids especially since it was very easy to eat and almost no one could resist the taste of melted cheese.
Soon after Hubby received his Super Ninja ramen burger from the DON Burgers and it was very exciting to see his face lit up after the first bite into the crispy chicken. He probably waited for about 20 minutes for his burger to be ready but he said it was worth it.
We were so ready to go home after all that but a Kaya Toast stall stopped us especially with free samples that people queued for. The Kaya jam was home-made by the seller and the coconut flavour was really delicious.
Our second last stop was for corn in a cup with Firetastic flavour. Firetastic had masala spice in it as well as garlic cheese and parmesan. The combination of flavours worked very well together and I regretted sharing with Hubby because the snack was really yummy.
The Indonesian food stall was our last stop especially since they were located so closely to the entrance of the Spring Feast. Mi Bakso is a must have dish whenever I go back to Indonesia for holiday and the flavour of the mi bakso from last night was so authentic.
See you next year, Spring Feast and I promise to stay on the safe path until then. Thank you for the souvenir...


HOWARD W. EAVENSON AWARD TO MICHAEL G. NELSON
The Howard W. Eavenson Award is presented to Michael G. Nelson "for his contributions to coal mining and processing, in mining machine automation, mine ventilation, ground control, and mine health and safety.
Nelson is professor of mining engineering and chair of the Mining Engineering Department at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. He was previously professor of mining engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He holds a B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering and an M.S. in physics from the University of Utah. He earned a Ph.D. in mining engineering from West Virginia University. He holds nine patents and is the author of many technical publications. He has given invited short courses in the United States, Chile, Australia and India, has served as an expert witness in legal proceedings in the United States and Australia, and has consulted widely.


One day after Brookline announced its first two cases of the new coronavirus (one of which shut down an elementary school for cleaning), parents are left with the tricky decision of whether or not to keep their kids home from school.
Nearby school districts have begun announcing long-term school cancellations. Newton, Wellesley, Arlington and Everett are just a few of the schools closing for extended periods of time to slow the virus’ spread. Brookline’s own Lincoln School was closed Thursday and Friday for cleaning after a student’s parent was infected.
We asked our readers on social media whether they were keeping their children home from school due to the coronavirus outbreak. Here are a few of their responses:
C. Scott Ananian, Twitter: “Yes, we have, starting today. It is a socially responsible step for those who can afford it to take, to buy time for and protect others in the community.”
Amanda Tarullo, Facebook: “I am keeping my kids home. Social distancing is critical to slowing down the pace of transmission so that hospitals don't get overwhelmed, as is currently happening in Italy. Children are vectors for transmission. Schools should be closed BEFORE they have confirmed cases to effectively slow transmission, because there are likely cases incubating in our school communities now. Closing schools now can reduce the severity of the outbreak and save lives, especially of elderly or immunocompromised folks in our community. This is NOT panic. This is collective action to protect public health. Schools should close immediately.”
Roberto Manfroni, Twitter: “Not yet but we are evaluating that. I think it is necessary [sic] a central coordinated action, not unilateral initiatives creating confusion. I would agree to close the schools as well to promote other actions supporting this measure. No panic but public health first of all.”
Amanda Sullivan-Kramer, Facebook: “I’m sending them until the school says I can’t. We asked one of my sons providers do we need to keep him home and they said no. My son is on an IEP [Individualized Education Program], so regression could happen. I’m concerned, he’s high risk but I don’t want to send the message to panic. We stressed washing hands, not touching our face etc.”
Paul Warren, Twitter: “Yes. We need to slow the spread of the virus to protect people and to prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed.”


Winter of 2017-18 was pretty harsh compared to most years. Much of central and northern Indiana experienced 13 or more days well below 0º F, while southern Indiana had 4- 5 days just a few degrees below 0º F. In addition, gusty winds contributed to further injury by desiccation of buds and twigs.
The consequences still remain to be seen. While some spring flowering trees and shrubs may perform admirably this season, some species will have few or no blooms at all, particularly in the northern half of the state. In addition, some plants may be late to leaf out leaving us concerned that they died overwinter.
Some shrubs such as forsythia may flower only on the lower branches, where snow cover and leaf litter provided good insulation (Fig. 1). But for many specimens, there may be no flowers at all. A recent check of buds on forsythia plants on the Purdue West Lafayette campus revealed significant flower bud damage, evidenced by a brown center in the bud (Fig. 2).
Many roses have experienced considerable dieback, some nearly to the ground (Fig. 3). Some of these roses will still be able to bloom on new twigs that develop later this spring. It is recommended to prune out the dead wood on the roses (Fig. 4).
For other plants such as magnolia and lilac, our bud checks look pretty good, but there’s still more weather to get through before we know for sure (Fig. 5). Marginally cold hardy plants that have performed well the past several years may experience significant dieback due to the extreme low temperatures.
While it is still possible that these plants may continue to show effects of the harsh winter, most should recover and return to normal blooming next year – assuming reasonable weather. Some plants may break bud and show no symptoms of cold injury, but later will develop drought symptoms. When this occurs, it is usually indicative of root freezing injury.
We recommend conservative pruning to remove only dead branches and conserve as much foliage as possible, so that plants can maximize leaf area for photosynthesis to aid recovery. This can be performed after foliage bud break.
Being proactive, by informing your clients of this possibility, is advisable so that they aren’t caught off-guard when some of their plantings don’t bloom as normal.
If you suspect another problem to your plants, or to confirm cold injury, you can submit samples to the Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Lab: https://ag.purdue.edu/btny/ppdl/Pages/default.aspx.


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In his 2011 report into why there are relatively few women on corporate boards, Lord Davies of Abersoch highlighted the issue of the “lost women” – women who either drop out of the workplace or who don’t fulfil their early career potential.
Of course, any company has very few people at the top; the problem is that the female talent gap opens up early, well before even the middle of the pyramid.
Many organisations have been working for a number of years to try to address this costly loss of talent, but to date those efforts have generally exceeded results.
Women are under-represented at almost all management levels at almost all companies and, while the boardroom is now becoming more balanced, the pipeline below remains leaky.
I’m often asked why this problem persists and the truth is I struggle to come up with an accurate diagnosis. Of course, many women have children at the exact same point in life that the traditional career trajectory takes off.
This is an obvious contributory factor but not the only one. Women without children also tend to miss out on promotions compared with their male colleagues, while some women with children have hugely successful careers.
Theories abound to explain the impasse on getting more women to the top: women are less ambitious than men; women are ambitious but want more to life than careers; women are not interested in playing the corporate game or they’re not very good at it; women tend to undervalue their own skills or achievements; women pressure themselves or feel pressurised by others to prioritise other responsibilities; they are victims of bias, whether unconscious or overt, and so on.
Whether intuitively or empirically, there appears some truth in each of these explanations but the combination code eludes us.
I’ve reached the conclusion that, however impatient or determined we may feel to keep ploughing on, we need to step back and form a better understanding of the barriers to women’s success at work and then adjust or even scrap what we’re doing if it’s wide of the mark.
Earlier this year, I became chair of Opportunity Now, the Business in the Community campaign that’s been working on gender equality at work for more than 20 years. The fact that it was originally called Opportunity 2000 tells a story in itself.
Progress has undoubtedly been made since then but it’s been slow and stop-start rather than continuous. After two decades, it’s time to shift gears, take time to listen to women and then create actions that are more on-target.
This weekend, Opportunity Now has launched Project 28-40, calling for 100,000 women in the UK and Ireland to tell their stories.
On a scale never attempted before anywhere in the world, we want women candidly to share their experiences of workplace cultures and to give their personal view of what success means and how career ambition fits in with other goals in life.
The campaign will focus on the 28-40 age range as this is the danger zone, when women’s career progression typically slows down compared with their male colleagues.
However, Project 28-40 is keen to hear from other groups – older and younger women as well as men – as this will help identify the specific issues affecting women’s careers.
The survey is also open to women who have left the workplace, whether they are planning to return or not, to explore the reasons behind their decision and what they are intending to do next. It will enable women to describe what’s important to them, the nature, not just the level, of their ambition and the cultural aspects of their experience, including societal attitudes.
Practical experiences around maternity and specific areas of career development and support will also be also explored.
There are plenty of opportunities for women to say what they would like to see improved, so the survey can take just 15 minutes to complete the basic questions or much longer if women would like to give suggestions for improvements that would make the most difference.
There are lots of surveys but often they are quite superficial and targeted at a specific audience. Traditional employee engagement surveys are generally quite high level and those completing them may also have some concerns about anonymity.
Project 28-40 is designed to elicit feedback that is both candid and nuanced. We’ve made considerable effort not to lead the witness: we want to hear both good and bad experiences.
This survey’s unprecedented and ambitious scale will also enable us to draw as complete a picture as possible of life at work for women today and areas where interventions would have the most impact.
The timescale for the project is aggressive: after 20 years of effort based on what we already understand, we’re in a hurry to improve that understanding and in turn accelerate the pace of change.
The survey, found online at Project2840.com, is open for a month. The themes that emerge will be explored during the first quarter of next year, through focus groups with different stakeholders and in-depth interviews with chief executives.
We will launch a report of the headline findings featuring recommendations at the Opportunity Now Awards dinner on April 2, 2014. It’s vital that those recommendations are then acted upon.
I’ve been greatly encouraged by the reaction of organisations who are members of Opportunity Now, as they’ve been given advance notice of the project. More than 75 companies and public sector bodies, including some of the biggest employers of women in the country, are actively promoting the survey to their workforce.
The response has been overwhelmingly positive that this is a welcome, deeper look into a shared problem that all are keen to resolve. The appetite to overcome remaining impediments for women to fulfil their potential in the workplace has never been stronger.
I’d like to ask all the working and formerly working women reading this to tell us your experiences. In return we promise to listen and to drive a collaborative effort to address problem areas and learn from success stories.
Helena Morrissey CBE is CEO of Newton Investment Management, founder of the 30% Club and chair of Opportunity Now

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Security personnel in Kazakhstan killed dozens of demonstrators in the city of Almaty amid widespread street protests on Wednesday night, AFP reported.
For several days, large-scale protests are taking place in the Central Asian country, which is a former member of the Soviet Republic, against rising fuel prices. The cost of liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, used in several vehicles in the country, has doubled after a price hike at the beginning of the year.
“Last night, extremist forces tried to assault administrative buildings, the Almaty city police department, as well as local police commissariats,” police spokesperson Saltanat Azirbek said. “Dozens of assailants were eliminated.”
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government’s resignation on Wednesday amid the unrest, Reuters reported. He has directed acting ministers to reverse the increase in fuel prices.
At least eight law enforcement officers have been killed and 317 others wounded in the violence till Wednesday, local media reported citing the interior ministry.
Tokayev on Wednesday also announced a two-week state of emergency in the entire country, AP reported. A state emergency was already in place in Almaty and the capital city of Nur-Sultan.
The president alleged that the protests were being carried out by “terrorist bands” and that they had received help from other countries.
On Thursday, Tokayev said that he has sought help from Russia-led alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, which has five other former Soviet countries as its members, according to AFP.
The organisation’s chairperson, Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan, said that it will send peacekeeping forces “for a limited period of time in order to stabilise and normalise the situation in this country”.
Pashinyan also alleged that the protests took place due to “outside interference”.
The demonstrators have expressed their opposition to Tokayev’s predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev. The former president retains a significant amount of power even after resigning in 2019 following a three-decade rule, according to Reuters.
In the city of Aqtobe, protestors shouted slogans of “Old Man, go away!”, referring to Nazarbayev.
Earlier, Tokayev sacked Nazarbayev as the head of the country’s Security Council in an apparent attempt to placate the protestors. He also removed Nazarbayev’s nephew from the second-highest position in the State Security Committee.


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Here's the 2nd bonus snowflake all finished! Don't those Josephine Knots just make it so cute!!! Finally I got a snowflake done without a major mistake! 3rd times a charm eh? I was trying very hard to pay attention to this one, and I caught myself about to close a ring missing the joining picot too, like what happened in the first one!!! Good thing I checked twice before closing!
Now that I've been a tatting maniac, I'm ready to work on Feb.'s crazy quilt block!
This brings my tree's total to 15 now! Yay!


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The Golden Boys
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Date & Time
Fri, May 17 8:00 PM
3400 CA-246, Santa Ynez, CA 93460
Chumash Casino and Resort
Three iconic singers. One night of incredible music. Fabian, Frankie Avalon, and Bobby Rydell perform together as The Golden Boys.
The former teen idols take turns singing classic hits, like Turn Me Loose, De De Dinah and Wild One. Then all three pay tribute to the material of Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Rick Nelson, and Bill Hailey.
Its a must-see concert for any generation.


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Get On Your Tin Foil Hats: The Dark Truth About Fluoride
Go into your bathroom and grab any tube of toothpaste within reach. If it is a tube of fluoride toothpaste (as the vast majority are) it will, by law, have this warning printed somewhere on the tube: “If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately.” In this case, “professional help” likely means a physician or a local ER, and “poison control center” essentially means start praying because you (or your child) just swallowed a bunch of poison.
Wait a minute? If fluoride were poison why would it remain a key ingredient in toothpaste, a dental hygiene product we put in our mouth every day? And isn’t our municipal water supply teeming with fluoride?
Yes, fluoride remains in our water supply and despite the risk of fluoride poisoning; it remains a key ingredient in toothpaste, as well as an inert ingredient in soda, tea, diet pills and bottled water (basically, anything with water in it likely has fluoride). While fluoride has been proven to benefit teeth (preventing cavities) and strengthen bones (as has been endorsed by the American Dental Association), the potential dangers of fluoride may far outweigh its benefits. To be clear, lets get down to the elements.
Fluoride is a molecule containing the element fluorine, and is achieved by combining fluorine with another element. It is naturally occurring in water with a high mineral content, and in small doses (one part per million), it does what it is touted to do: strengthen developing teeth and bones. In larger doses that exceed this amount it can decrease IQ, damage teeth and cause arthritis, and in excessive amounts, it can even cause death. Sure, it’s put in toothpaste and mouthwash to prevent tooth decay, but it’s also added to rat poison and insecticides to kill stuff.
Prolonged and excessive exposure to fluoride results in something fairly grave called fluorosis, which exists in dental form (spots on the teeth as well as degradation of the tooth) and the skeletal form (gradual weakening of bones). Now, I have no interest in causing a panic, and I am not implying that a mouthful of fluoride toothpaste will make you a dumb, rubber-boned victim (providing you don’t swallow that mouthful), but the fact that our toothpaste, as well as our municipal water supply (currently 67 percent of the country has fluoridated water) is rich with fluoride, does strengthen our chances of falling victim to fluorosis, as well as weakening our teeth and bones, which were supposed to be fortified by this additive–ironic, isn’t it?
Individuals who are sensitive to fluoride could fairly easily opt out of the fluoride toothpaste market and go for a product without this ubiquitous additive (people with chronic thyroid issues are often encouraged to do without fluoride toothpaste). However, for most of us, we still unwittingly receive our daily dose of fluoride every time we turn on the tap, open a soda, or pretty much drink anything.
If fluoride is such a borderline product holding numerous untold risks (see part two for the truly shady part of the story), then why is it still being used in consumer products and dumped liberally into our water supply?
Stay tuned for part two of this posting where I take a look at the use of fluoride in our water supply, as well as the shadow side of the fluoride issue.

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Glen Campbell Moved Into Care Facility; Willie Nelson Earns Black Belt; New Study Examines Country Music and Socioeconomic Escapism
Glen Campbell has been moved into an Alzheimer’s care facility. People.com premiered the music video for Easton Corbin’s “Clockwork.” Another new music video: Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road’s version of Merle Haggard’s “Living with the Shades Pulled Down.” Willie Nelson is cooler than you: the living legend will receive his fifth degree black belt in Gong […]
Omnivore to Release Hank Williams Record Store Day EP; Stream New Dierks Bentley, Marah Albums; Dave & Phil Alvin Salute Big Bill Broonzy
On Record Store Day, Omnivore Recordings will release Hank Williams’ The Garden Spot Programs — 1950 as a 10” brown vinyl EP. The label is also going to put out a full-length Garden Spots release in May. Multi-instrumentalist and jazz advocate Billy Adair passed away on February 18 at the age of 66. Adair played […]
Stream A.J. Croce, Scott H. Biram Albums; CMA Foundation Donates $1 Million for Music Education; Deadly Gentlemen Release New Video
Stream A.J. Croce’s 12 Tales, out next Tuesday on Compass Records. Scott H. Biram’s new record, Nothin’ But Blood, is streaming at The A.V. Club. Blake Shelton will perform at a benefit concert for injured veterans on Friday in New York. The event will stream online at Pepsi.com. Jason Isbell played a few for Relix. […]
Levi Lowrey’s Sophomore Album Due in February; Ricky Skaggs Speaks at National Press Club; Brooklyn John Hartford Tribute Lineup Announced
Levi Lowrey’s second solo album will be released on February 25. On the last day of 2013, Lowrey will offer a free download of his song “December Thirty-One.” Elephant Revival and Lake Street Dive made NPR’s list of 10 artists you should have known in 2013. This is a neat photo gallery of images from […]
Banjo Summit Plans East Coast Tour; Swift, Clark Release Videos; Head for the Hills Debuts Blue Ruin
Toby Keith’s Oklahoma Twister Relief benefit concert has already generated at least $1 million thanks to a donation from the Walmart Foundation, which is also sponsoring Saturday’s show. Coming to the East Coast this October: “The Banjo Summit,” featuring Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Richie Stearns, Eric Weissberg, and Noam Pikelny, with special guest Abigail Washburn. […]
ACM Makes Changes to New Artist Category; Rolling Stone Premieres New Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris Duet; Album Releases
Rick Blackburn, a retired record executive for CBS Records and Atlantic, who also served as president of the CMA’s board of directors and the organization’s chairman, passed away at the age of 70. The Academy of Country Music announced a few changes: it will award trophies in three individual newcomer categories, New Male Vocalist, New […]
The Kennedy Center is a rather opulent venue for a folk music concert, even if the concert is celebrating one of the 20th century’s most important singer-songwriters. But the two dozen musicians that took the stage Sunday night filled the large concert hall with a joyful noise that surely rattled the chandeliers. Woody Guthrie’s “100th […]
The legendary Kitty Wells passed away yesterday at the age of 92. These lengthy obituaries from the Washington Post, New York Times, Tennessean, MusicRow, NPR, and CMT.com are all worth reading. Bassist Bob Babbitt, who played on classics like Gladys Knight & The Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia” and appeared on albums by Frank Sinatra, Elton […]
Frances Preston Passes Away; CMA Music Festival Sets Attendance Record; New York Banjo Summit Touring This Fall
Frances Preston, “the most influential music executive of her generation,” passed away yesterday at the age of 83. The Country Music Hall of Famer began her noteworthy career in the 1950s as a mail messenger at BMI, a job which included answering Hank Williams’ fan mail. Fabulous Superlative Harry Stinson shared his behind-the-scenes photos from […]
CMT Awards Performers Announced; Rosanne Cash Narrates BBC Radio Program About Bobbie Gentry; Album Releases
Stream Willie Nelson’s new album, Heroes and the collection Jail House Bound: John Lomax’s First Southern Prison Recordings, 1933. The Infamous Stringdusters have announced the lineup for their shindig, The Festy. This year’s performers will include Trampled By Turtles, Della Mae, Tony Trischka Territory, The Steel Wheels, and more. Tickets for The Festy, which will […]
- Janice Brooks: Hopes somebody gets those memos about drinking songs. Meanwhile I'm feeling a lot of slots with Bluegrass.
- Leeann: Great news about Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White's duet album! Absolutely appalling about the Keith Urban concert!! Both the rape and …
- bob: I found the Billboard article about country music radio needing an alcohol intervention interesting. Songwriter Adam Wright is quoted as …
- Matt: Definitely agree with C.M. about Maddie & Tae. Certainly not the tidal wave of change some claimed it is or …
- Dave D.: Good stuff, as always. My copy of Producing Country arrived yesterday, and it looks to be as good as …
- Scooter: I agree Holly Williams can do no wrong in my eyes. Such a good album and great to see live …
- Carrie Mclaughlin: Your my Hero Mr. Jim Lauderdale!!! Come to Alaska Please? hehehehe
- Jeremy Dylan: You should check it out Dave D. It's from the first (and strongest) season.
- Leeann: Wow! I love that Holly William's cover of "No Surrender"! She's gotten to be so good.
- luckyoldsun: I made it through a minute of that "Girl In a Country Song Video." Man, that sucks.


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The European Youth Palriament’s mission is to inspire and empower young Europeans to become open-minded, tolerant and active citizens.
The European Youth Parliament (EYP) is a unique educational programme which brings together young people from all over Europe to discuss current topics in a parliamentary setting. As a network of independent associations, EYP is present in 40 European countries and organises almost 600 events every year. The EYP network organises almost 1.500 days of EYP activity every year, involving close to 35.000 participants. Thousands of young people are active as volunteers all over Europe, making EYP a programme truly for young people, by young people.
Today the EYP is one of the largest European platforms for political debate, intercultural encounters, European civic education and the exchange of ideas among young people in Europe. The EYP network is present in 40 European countries, where thousands of young people are active as volunteers. The entire network organises almost 600 events every year.
The Berlin-based Schwarzkopf Foundation is the international umbrella organisation of the EYP.

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A professional organization in Gwinnett County is inviting white people to a unique event this Thursday.
The “Come Meet a Black Person” networking event hosted by Urban Media Maker’s (UMM)at Cornerstone in Lawrenceville promises to offer white and black professionals the chance to interact in a meaningful way.
The event was inspired by a 2014 study from Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute, which found that 75 percent of whites have few black friends or few friends of any race other than white.
“It blew me away because as a black person you kind of know most white people don’t have black friend, but to actually see a number -- that quantifies it, ” said Cheryle Moses, a digital content creator and the founder and producer of UMM.
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In June 2011, an elderly woman’s home in East Pierce County was invaded, and she was threatened with death by the home invaders. The event traumatized both the senior citizen and her daughter, who is home-bound and suffers from multiple sclerosis.
Who were theses invaders? They were the Pierce County Sheriff’’s Department SWAT team (TNT, 2-26). They had attacked the wrong house because they were incompetent and did not verify the address of the house they intended to storm with assault rifles and other military equipment.
In this country now, we are having a debate as to whether a …


Obama and Kerry Should Listen Hard
BEIRUT - It was inevitable that the announcement of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East in mid-March would trigger expectations of new proposals for re-starting Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. This visit, coupled with John Kerry’s appointment as secretary of state and the start of Obama’s second term, heightens speculation about what, if anything, the United States may do to prod the parties towards fresh negotiations.
I agree with traditional thinking that the start of a president’s second term is the best time for any daring initiatives, given that he could take risks without fear of the ensuing domestic political damage. I also believe that a really bold American initiative could move things in the right direction. Yet I see no signs anywhere that a fresh American diplomatic initiative on Arab-Israeli issues is planned or could succeed, given the current condition and positions of the key players.
So what are we to do, and why is John Kerry making noises about moving the peace process forward? He said last week after talks with the Jordanian foreign minister in Washington, D.C. that, "I believe that there are possibilities." He also noted, "I think we start out by listening and get a sense of what the current state of possibilities are and then begin to make some choices. It would be a huge mistake, almost an arrogant step, to suddenly be announcing this and that without listening first. Everybody understands that the United States of America is an indispensable entity with respect to that process. I understand that. The president understands that, and the president is not prepared at this point in time to do more than to listen to the parties."
Well, the good news is that Kerry seems both realistic and humble in his insistence on hearing from the parties before formulating any new American moves. This is refreshing, and a critical step for any would-be mediator. The bad news, however, is that on both counts of his statement he is likely only to meet frustration and misery. What he will hear from the parties may cause him to decide that the gap between them is too wide to close, making him shift his attention to other, easier, diplomatic challenges. And if he is thinking about formulating new American moves that essentially repeat the old approach of seeking confidence-building small steps by the current Palestinian and Israeli leaderships, he would do better not to waste his time on such fantasies.
The three elements that discourage any progress are all significant, but also all three are surmountable if political leaders truly summon the courage to bring bold new approaches to the table.
The first problem is that Israel’s political leadership -- regardless of what kind of coalition government takes office in the month ahead -- is very far from the international consensus on its need to comply with the legal requirements of a peace accord, namely full withdrawal from occupied lands (with agreed swaps), sharing Jerusalem, and negotiating an equitable resolution of Palestinian refugeehood. The Israeli elections last month clarified the Israeli public’s pervasive inattention to peace-making, let alone its willingness to make any concessions towards law-abiding policies.
The second problem is that the Palestinians are deeply divided between Hamas and Fateh, and the current leadership team under President Mahmoud Abbas has very little credibility with its own public or with Israel.
The third problem is that the United States, despite its being indispensible to this diplomatic process, has also proved over the past 20 years of trying, that it is also either technically incompetent or politically incapable of being credibly impartial.
A fourth and most important obstacle to signing a comprehensive, equitable and lasting peace agreement, however, is that none of the three parties is yet prepared to get to the heart of the dispute and force agreement on the core issues: The Israelis need to be accepted as a legitimate country in and of this region, that can live in full peace and with normal relations with its neighbors; the Palestinians need to get genuine statehood in the occupied territories of 1967, and Israeli compliance with the legal and political requirements of ending Palestinian refugeehood from both 1947-48 and 1967. Only mutual recognitions and concessions will bring these core gains and rights to both sides.
If Obama and Kerry indeed do listen carefully to the parties, and push them to lay out their respective bottom line essentials for a permanent peace, this is what they will hear. Their challenge, should they wish to accept it, is to forge a diplomatic process that gets to this heart of the conflict that really matters to both sides, rather than repeating the legacy of sustained failure that has always crafted American diplomacy according to the red lines of Israeli Likud extremists in Israel -- and in Washington, D.C. Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. You can follow him @ramikhouri. Copyright © 2013 Rami G. Khouri - distributed by Agence Global


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By watching everyone's posts for over year now... i decided to post what i've been working on for the past few months...
I'm restoring a 1972 Challenger for my father-in-law. He bought the car new from the dealership and wants it back to its original as it left the showroom
Selling some new 64-68 Mustang Parts:
- 2 Sets of Wilwood 220-12168 Flexline Braided Stainless Front Brake Hose Kit 65-69 Mustang. New

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Driving Innovation in the Parking Industry
Park Assist® is a business intelligence technology company that utilizes cameras to enhance the efficiency and profitability of parking facilities through guidance, license plate recognition, surveillance, and it’s proprietary premium parking feature.
- This year, Park Assist celebrates 10 years as the global leader in parking sensor technology and the pioneer of camera based parking systems.
- Our M4 Camera System improves the parker experience in 20 countries and growing worldwide.
- We introduced the world's first car finding application and unlocked new revenue streams for parking assets.
- Park Assist has offices in the United States and Australia, and is a part of the TKH Group (Euronext: TWEKA), a $1.6 billion publicly traded company headquartered in the Netherlands.
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SEARCH WITHIN CONTENT
VOLUME 24 , ISSUE S4 ( September, 2020 ) > List of Articles
Balaji Venkatachalam, Babu Kuruvilla Abraham
Keywords : Dysbiosis, Fecal microbial transplantation, Gut–lung axis, Microbiome, Pathobiome, Probiotics, Synbiotics
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Published Online: 10-02-2021
Copyright Statement: Copyright © 2020; The Author(s).
The gut that we took for granted in the critically ill, as just a conduit for food passage has over the decade or so shown us that it is an active endocrine and exocrine organ with over 40 trillion microorganisms living commensally within it. This cosmos of microorganisms that is called the gut microbiome comprises roughly 1,000 different species and put together is more DNA than the entire human genome. Under normal circumstances, in a healthy individual multiple elements of the gut viz intestinal epithelium, gut barrier function, the microbiomes, all put together offer protection against infection and this is crucial in maintenance of health. Any change to the norm, be it in the form of surgical interventions, the introduction of medications, or the pathophysiological effects of systemic disease leads to a 360° alteration in this finely construed ecosystem leading to devastating effects that go beyond the boundaries of the gut itself. Intestinal epithelium helps to absorb nutrients as well as acts as the coordinator of mucosal immunity (first line of immune defense). During ill health, gut epithelial apoptosis occurs, alterations happen in the tight epithelial junctions leading to loss of gut barrier function and loss of the mucosal immunity leading to mucosal damage and hyperpermeability. Lastly, the microbiome is transformed into a pathobiome, with resultant increase in pathogenic bacteria and induction of virulence in commensal gut bacteria. Multiple organ damage starts to set in, caused by toxins leaving the intestine via both portal blood flow and mesenteric lymph. This review article traces the gut microbiomic ecology in health and sickness, modern tools that are used to manipulate gut microbiome in the search for the prevention and treatment of critical illness and will explore if appropriate manipulation of gut microbiome can influence or modulate the course of critical illness.

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A while ago, a very nice woman here in Carcassonne, Frédérique Planchons, devised a Cultural Chasse au Trésor, or Treasure Hunt, through the Bastide of Carcassonne. She asked me to translate her French text into English, and help with the layout of the tour booklet. She wanted English-speakers to feel welcome to discover Carcassonne.
I had met Frédérique when I joined AVF Carcassonne. AVF stands for Accueil des Villes Françaises, or Welcome of French Towns. The mission of this volunteer association is to help newcomers to the city meet other people, find support, and discover their new home. While most members are French, there are quite a few English-speakers who participate in the Carcassonne branch. For over a year, I attended French conversation and writing sessions at AVF. Frédérique led the writing class with verve, and we became friends.
Via the Chasse au Trésor booklet, I would like to take you on a virtual tour of the Bastide district of Carcassonne. For those of you who are working on your French, you’ll find the French and English text side by side. In case the individual pages in the post are hard to read, you can download the pdf of the booklet here.
Let’s go! Allons-y!
The map on the back of the booklet will be useful as you take your tour:
In the heart of the Bastide of Saint-Louis, created by the king of France in the 13th century, the Square of the Grasses, currently Carnot Square, was in the Middle Ages surrounded by half-timbered houses and was covered. It succumbed to the devastating visitation of the Black Prince in 1355 and the ravages of a fire the day after the visit of King Louis XIII in 1622. | The 18th century gave it a monumental fountain, called “Of Neptune” in white Carrara marble, sculpted by Barata and Sons. | During the Revolutionary period, on Liberty Square, not only was the Constitution declared but also the gallows were erected. | The Monarchy enhanced the west side of the square by building a handsome facade in the style of Louis Philippe.
In case you’re wondering about the answers to the 26 questions…
- At the time when Frédérique created the Chasse au Trésor, she linked the WiFi symbols with a temporary but notorious piece of public art in Carcassonne. Today, we have the added social-distancing circles. This blog post explains what she was thinking about.
- Ducks, chickens, sheep, geese, pigeons, fish…
- Rue Georges Clemenceau
- This statue is the oldest known statue of Saint Louis, dating from around 1320.
- 232 steps. (I had to look this one up on Wikipedia.)
- Pour favoriser le développement du commerce et de l’industrie en France. To promote the development of commerce and industry in France.
- Le Mans.
- The first time Mike and tried the Chasse au Trésor, we couldn’t find Saint Vincent-de-Paul. He is perched high above the square, concealed by the trees.
- Any of the Latin words will do. I have no idea what the inscriptions mean!
- The marble comes from Caunes-Minervois, which is about 30 minutes from Carcassonne. The rose color of the Grand Trianon at Versailles is thanks to the marble from Caunes-Minervois.
- Nougat from Maison Bor in Limoux (20 minutes from Carcassonne): sugar, honey, egg whites, vanilla, almonds, pistachios.
- An aggressive serpent, representing….
- Pélardon is a goat’s-milk cheese from the Cévennes region of Languedoc-Roussillon.
- Not counting the storefronts, 13. By the way, boulangerie on the ground floor, Papineau, is our favorite bread store.
- Cathédrale Saint-Michel de Carcassonne: about 80 meters above sea level. At the time of the original chasse au trésor, there was a sign in the cathedral, but it’s not there anymore. So, this answer is an approximation.
- 9,751 people from Aude died in the First World War.
- It was built when the Bastide was first established. The Black Prince razed the Bastide in 1355. The new Bastide was built on the ruins of the old.
- More pink marble from Caunes-Minervois. I’m afraid that I don’t know the answer to the question, “Why the two walled-up gothic windows?” It may have to do with the 19th-century restoration by Viollet-le-Duc.
- We’ve never found this park open to the public, despite what the city’s web site says. There are 14 stations of the cross.
- Collège André Chenier. A collège is a middle school.
- Just about any gothic church in Carcassonne!
- The vines and grapes for which this region is celebrated. Ah, what a time: the name of the architect etched in stone on the main façade!
- The Easter Lamb; the Fortified Castle. Connecting the Bastide (the lower town) and La Cité (the upper town); they were for centuries at odds with each other.
- The same artist who created the mural in the train station: Jean Camberoque.
- L’Église des Carmes — from the start of our tour.

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Toxics in Baby’s Bed
65 Organizations Launch “Getting Ready for Baby” Campaign
New Infant Crib Mattress Report Unveiled at Annual ABC Kids Expo
(Las Vegas, NV) A report entitled Flame Retardants Finally Fade — Crib Mattress Makers Respond to Chemical Concerns was released today by the Workgroup for Safe Markets, a growing collaboration of organizations united by a common concern about hazardous chemicals in our homes, our bodies and our environment; and a common vision of a cleaner, healthier economy. The report reveals how U.S. infant crib mattress makers meet flammability standards, comparing current information to a report released two years ago entitledThe Mattress Matters – Protecting Babies from Toxic Chemicals While They Sleep.
“Parents can take heart from what appears to be a dwindling use of chemical approaches to meeting infant crib mattress flammability standards,” said Bobbi Chase Wilding, Deputy Director of Clean and Healthy New York, which authored the report. “But too often, they’re in the dark about which products are safer and which contain chemicals or materials they might want to avoid,” she added. “It’s time for buybuy BABY and Babies”R”Us to use their market clout to protect the health of their young customer base.”
The new research shows that leaders in the crib mattress manufacturing field have figured out how to make them without flame retardant chemicals, many of which have been linked to serious health impacts. More companies are using barriers than two years ago, most often wool, but also boric acid and fiberglass, rather than chemical additives in foam.
Specifically, the report found:
· 18% – or four of the manufacturers surveyed offer mattresses made without either flame retardant chemicals or barriers.
· 91% – or 20 crib mattress makers who responded now use a flame barrier; 13 use wool.
· Three manufacturers use the heavy metal antimony, and two of these use chlorinated or brominated chemicals to achieve flame retardancy.
The report also describes the level of transparency displayed by the different crib mattress makers, and their willingness to disclose their product components and processes. It also assessed information on leading baby product retailers buybuy BABY and Babies”R”Us. This gives parents an idea of what they could find out about crib mattress makeup and non-toxicity without testing products themselves, just by relying on information provided by the manufacturer.
“As nurses, we are often asked by expectant parents which products will be safe for their new babies. Without readily available information, it can be challenging to provide guidance to our patients,” said Katie Huffling, RN, CNM, and Director of Programs for the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. “This report is important to guide manufacturers and businesses so we and our patients have the information we need to purchase products that are safe for our children,” Huffling added.
When it comes to disclosure, the report found:
· Only 13 of the 31 crib makers – 42% – provide details on achieving flammability standards on their website.
· Neither Babies”R”Us nor Buy Buy BABY provide detailed information about how mattresses meet flammability standards on their customer websites.
The report is the first in a series, and its release marks the formal launch of the Getting Ready for Baby Campaign, as a key solution to the lack of disclosure and ongoing use of toxic chemicals in products made for and marketed to children. The reports will highlight children’s product makers that are leaders in producing non-toxic goods, as well as laggards who have not yet made the shift. The Campaign is also targeting the two major domestic retailers of products for children aged newborn through toddler – buybuy BABY and Babies”R”Us – urging them to require their suppliers to disclose whether they use a list of chemicals called the Hazardous 100 +, and to stop carrying products for infants and children that contain these chemicals.
Bev Thorpe, with Clean Production Action and Safemarkets.org, says, “More and more manufacturers and retailers are realizing how important it is to know what’s in the materials they use to make their products. Since our regulations on chemicals are a broken system, it is even more incumbent on the business owner to make sure their products are safe. Company leaders are assessing all the chemicals in their product lines and disclosing this information to buyers. This report is a wake-up call for all retailers and product manufacturers to eliminate hazardous ingredients with safer alternatives.
The report released today also highlights where each brand of infant crib mattress is sold at the two major chains, and what, if any information stores provide about them, either on their website or at the store location. Overall, buybuy BABY provided much less information than did Babies”R”Us.
“Achieving fire safety is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Mike Schade, Campaign Coordinator with the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) and co-coordinator of the Workgroup for Safe Markets. “There are many other harmful chemicals used in children’s products such as PVC, the poison plastic. That’s why we’re encouraging buybuy BABY and Babies”R”Us to do the right thing for our children by developing a comprehensive chemicals plan, just like Walmart and Target have begun to do.”
The report and copies of the letters sent to Babies”R”Us and buybuy BABY is available at http://www.


Impact Driver Comparison Test
Impact drivers excel at fastening screws thanks to worthy torque and speed. But which one should you buy? We rounded up 9 li-ion impact drivers and put them to the test. Here are the results.
By Roy Berendsohn
Bosch 26618-01 | $395
||RPM/BPM: 2800/3200 Amp-Hours: 2.6 Lag Screws: 128
||The Bosch is a capable driver equipped with three speed/impact settings. It seems the most likely to survive a drop off a ladder owing to its thoroughly protected rubber nose and handle.
||The driver is larger and heavier than comparable products. Its speed/impact selector switch is hard to budge.
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