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United States Patent 3,489,556 PROCESS OF ELECTROSTATICALLY SCREENING COLOR CATHODE-RAY TUBES Joseph C. Drozd, Chicago, Ill., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Zenith Radio Corporation, a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Filed Mar. 16, 1966, Ser. No. 534,633
Int. Cl. G03g 7/00, 13/00, 5/00 U.S. Cl. 961 6 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A method of electrostatically screening the cap section of a color cathode-ray tube is disclosed. The cap is coated with a conductive material and is then coated with a photoconductive material. Phosphor particles are then deposited by a charge, expose, develop process. The photoconductive layer is pretreated by either rinsing With a polymeric, non-ionic surfactant solution or by uniform exposure to actinic radiation.
The present invention is directed to the processing of color cathode-ray tubes by means of electrophotography, more particularly, by a technique that has come to be known as electrostatic screening.
A process of electrostatically screening color tubes is described and claimed in a copending application, Ser. No. 481,316, filed Aug. 20, 1965 in the name of Howard G. Lange, and assigned to the assignee of the present invention. It directs that the panel or faceplate of the tube be coated on its inner surface with a conductive layer and a superposed photoconductive layer. Thereafter, the photoconductive layer is subjected to a corona discharge and brought to a highly charged condition after which the photoconductive layer is exposed to actinic light through the color selection mask of the tube. As a consequence, the photoconductive layer exhibits areas that are fully charged and interspersed areas that have lost their charge per force of the exposure. This may be said to create a charge image on the photoconductive layer which may be developed by the application of a toner. If the toner is a vehicle carrying phosphor of one of the primary colors, the image or pattern of that particular color phosphor is developed and, of course, this will be a pattern of dots if the exposure has been through the aperture mask characteristic of currently available color tubes. This same general process, if performed three times with suitable allowance being made for the position of the exposing light source, establishes dot patterns of the several phosphors interspersed on the faceplate of the tube and defining the now familiar dot triads.
The present invention is an improvement over the development described in the Lange application and concerns itself most particularly with improving the quality of the dots i.e. shape, size and density.
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide an improved process for electrostatically screening the image area of a color cathode-ray tube.
It is another object of the invention to provide an improved process of electrostatically screening such a tube to achieve a desired regularity in dot configuration and/ or more uniformity in dot size and density.
In accordance with the invention, a process of electro statically screening the image area of a color cathode-ray tube comprises applying over the image area a layer of conductive material, then a layer of a photoconductive material, and pretreating the photoconductor to establish a substantially uniform reference charge condition therein. Thereafter a charge image is developed in the photoconductive layer. To that end, the photoconductor is sub- 3,489,556 Patented Jan. 13, 1970 jected to a corona device which creates a uniformly high charge over the photoconductor and then selective portions thereof are discharged to establish a latent charge image which, upon development, constitutes the pattern of dots of a particular color phosphor.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the photoconductive layer is pretreated by a rinse with a surfactant. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, pretreatment of the photoconductive layer is accomplished by pre-exposure with actinic energy. Preferably, the photoconductive layer receives both of these pretreating steps. Where a prerinse is employed, it may be applied after the photoconductor has been selectively exposed but prior to the development of the charge image.
The features of the resent invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The organization and sequence of performance of the steps of the inventive method, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following detailed description.
A color cathode-ray tube lends itself to electrostatic or electrophotographic screening since the envelope is a two piece structure having a screen or cap section and a companion funnel or cone section. The cap may be likened to a flanged dish and it may have any desirable cross section but is usually round or rectangular. The cone has the same cross section as the cap and is dimensioned so that its large end may fit precisely with the free end of the flange of the cap section to facilitate their integration by frit sealing. The opposite or small end of the cone accommodates the neck of the tube which houses the electron gun or guns for generating scanning electron beams. Since this application is addressed to screening, the remaining description will be confined to processing the cap section in order to establish a tri-color screen of the dot triad type.
The cap section and in particular the inner surface thereof which constitutes the image area of the tube is first made chemically clean in any well known manner and is then provided with a conductive layer which has a resistivity less than 10 ohms per square unit and preferably less than 10 ohms per square unit; the lower the resistivity the better. A suitable material for the conductive layer comprises a polymer of a predominant amount of a vinylbenzyl quaternary ammonium compound as described in U.S. Patent 3,011,918, issued Dec. 5, 1961 to Lloyd H. Silvernail et al. Such a material is available commercially from the Dow Chemical Company under the trade designation QX-261l.7. A quantity of this material diluted with water is spin coated over the panel of the tube in process at a speed of about 60 rpm. to apply a uniform coating of approximately 0.003 inch thickness over the entire screen surface. This layer is dried with heat.
The next step in the screening process is the application over the image area of a layer of a photoconductive material superposed on the conductive layer. A formulation for this layer which has been successfully employed is as follows:
30 10% slution of a plasticizer in monochlorobenzene 2O Monochlorobenzene 460 A commercial form of polyvinyl carbazole is obtainable under the designation M- from Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik A.G. A suitable commercially available plas- 3 ticizer is Plastolein 9066 LT marketed by Emery Industries, Inc.
The photoconductive layer may be applied by spinning, flowing, spraying or the like and the desired viscosity may be obtained by the amount of monochlorobenzene employed. This layer may have a thickness of approximately 0.0003 inch and is preferably air dried.
Having formed the photoconductive layer, the next process step is pretreating that layer to establish a substantially uniform reference charge condition therein. This may be accomplished by a prewash or rinsing the layer with a surfatant preferably the same surfactant solution that is used in the toner employed in developing the charge image to be considered presently. Of course, the surfactant must be compatible with the screening process; in particular, it must not be a solvent for the photoconductor. A formulation for a prerinse that has been successfully employed is as follows:
Ml. Trifluorotrichloroethane (Freon TF) 100 solution of a surfactant in Freon TF .5
A suitable surfactant is a polyol as described in US. Patent 2,674,619, issued Apr, 6, 1954, and a particularly useful one for the present invention is available commercially under the designation L101 Pluronic marketed by Wyandotte Chemical Company, having a molecular weight of 3250 and containing 10% of polyoxyethylene in the total molecule. After the rinse, the photoconductive layer is air dried and the pretreatment of the photoconductive surface is now completed.
Another prerinse formula that has proved satisfactory is 100 ml. of an aliphatic hydrocarbon such as Shell Sol 71 and 0.5 ml. 1% Pluronic L101 in Freon TF.
The remainder of the screening process may be in accordance with any of the procedures disclosed in the aforesaid Lange application. Briefly, a corona charging device is placed in close proximity to the photoconductive surface and energized to establish a uniform high charge over the photoconductive layer to condition the layer for the establishment of a charge image. If the color tube is of the dot triad type, the charge image is established by exposing the charged photoconductive layer to actinic light through the shadow mask. This exposure takes place in a lighthouse with a source of actinic energy or light that is positioned to simulate the center of deflection of the electron gun that is to energize the phosphor elements of the particular color instantaneously being applied and a correcting lens may be interposed in the optical system to compensate for possible errors of registration of the beam relative to the phosphor elements as disclosed in Patent 3,003,874, issued Oct. 10, 1961 in the name of S. H. Kaplan.
For convenience, it will be assumed that the first exposure is for the green phosphor and the light source is, therefore, positioned to simulate the green electron gun of the tube. The portions of the photoconductive layer upon which the actinic light impinges are discharged, that is to say, these areas of the photoconductor lose the charge they have previously been given, whereas the other areas of that layer retain their charged condition. As a consequence of the exposure, there is established on the photoconductive layer a latent negative charge image of the elemental areas of the screen that are to be assigned to green.
The next step is the development of that image with a developer or toner comprising a carrier liquid, green phosphor and a surfactant which preferably is the same as that employed in the rinse of the pretreating step of the process. The surfactant is selected to establish a charge on the phosphor particles which is of the same polarity as the charge of the photoconductive layer so that the phosphor ingredient of the developer is rejected from the charged portions of the layer and deposited in the uncharged areas. In this fashion, the deposit of green phosphor dots takes place and they may be fixed by heat or a fixing agent as described in the Lange application.
The panel in process is now ready to receive the second series of color phosphor dots and essentially the same process is repeated. Of course, it is not necessary to reapply the conductive and photoconductive layers since they will have been retained throughout the processing of the green phosphor and remain in a condition to be charged once more by the corona device preparatory to establishing the charge image necessary for the next phosphor application. While it is not necessary, it is desirable to pretreat the photoconductive layer before processing with the second color phosphor. After the second family of phosphor dots has been deposited, with the light source suitably displaced to represent another of the electron guns of the cathode-ray tube, the process is repeated to form the dots of the third color phosphor. Once more, pretreatment of the photoconductive layer is not essential but is desirable prior to processing for the third series of color phosphor dots.
The mechanism by which the pretreating rinse improves the image producing qualities of the photoconductive layer is not understood but the efiicacy of the pretreatment is apparent from comparative results. Without pretreatment, the size and quality of the phosphor dots for the various colors may change with each exposure of the panel even though the same exposure time and intensity is used in screening for each color. Most frequently, without employing the present invention, the dots of the first color phosphor applied are undersized and less dense than the dots of the second and third color phosphors. It may be postulated that the photoconductive layer robs some of the surfactant from the toner employed in processing the first color phosphor and this is overcome by the prerinse since the solvent of the rinse evaporates leaving a surface layer of surfactant. It is found that the pretreatment of the photoconductive layer increases both the size and density of the dots of the first color phosphor and leads to uniformity of the size and density of the dots for all three colors.
Instead of a prerinse as just described, the photoconductive layer may be exposed to actinic energy to establish the desired uniform reference charge condition. For example, the photoconductive layer formed of the composition set forth above is sensitive to ultraviolet light and a uniform pre-exposure to ultraviolet light, before the layer is subjected to the corona device preparatory to establishing a charge image, has much the same effect as the prerinse in that it causes the photoconductive layer to have a reference charge condition. The pre-exposure is particularly effective in cleaning up the background, that is to say, the portions of the photoconductive layer which intervene the dots of the first applied phosphor. Here again, the operative effect of the pro-exposure is not thoroughly understood but it is expected that this results in establishing the electrons of the photoconductive layer in a more uniform energy state than is otherwise the case. This reference charge condition of the photoconductive layer prevents scattering of the phosphor and improves the background e.g. the regularity of dot shape. In practicing this type of pretreatment, use has been made of four 20 watt black light lamps supported about 12 inches above the tube panel in process and with an exposure of the layer for 30 seconds.
The photoconductive layer may be subjected to both pretreatment steps and this is the preferred process of the invention. In practicing this embodiment, the photoconductive layer is first rinsed with a solution containing the surfactant and is then subjected to pre-exposure with actinic light. This is found to increase the size and density of the first applied color dots leading to uniformity of these characteristics, and also, a prevention of phosphor spreading which yields a clear background or improved dot shape.
Still further improvement may be realized if the phot-oconductive layer is precharged just before its preexposure. For ths purpose, the corona device employed in charging the layer preparatory to establishing the charge image may be used to bring the photoconductor to a uniform initial charge.
Experience has also proved the feasibility of a prerinse that may be used without requiring any discrete drying time. The formulation is as follows:
Ml. High boiling aliphatic hydrocarbon (such as Shell Sol 71) 100 Polypropylene glycol 2010 (Wyndotte Chemical In the use of this rinse, the electrostatic process is carried out in the customary fashion through the charging and exposing steps to establish a latent charge image on the image area of the tube panel. At this time, the panel is rinsed with the prerinse solution and while still wet it is treated with a developer to develop the latent image.
Of course, all three pretreatment steps of rinsing, precharging and pre-exposure may be adopted in the electrostatic screening process.
Illustrative formulations for the conductive and photoconductive layers and for suitable developers are set forth in the aforesaid Lange application, Serial No. 481,- 316. These matters constitute no part of the present invention and need not be repeated here.
While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspects, and, therefore, the aim in the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
1. In the process of electrostatically screening the image area of a color cathode-ray tube, in which a conductive layer and a superposed photoconductive layer are applied to said area and in which a plurality of different phosphor materials are deposited seriatim upon respective and non-overlapping portions of said photoconductive layer by electrostatic deposition in which said photoconductive layer is first charged and, for each of said phosphor materials, is then exposed by actinic energy through the color-selection electrode of the tube to establish a latent image of the deposition pattern for the phosphor material under process which image is thereafter developed by a toner including particles of the phosphor under process and a polymeric, non-ionic surfactant for establishing a charge of a predetermined polarity on said phosphor particles, the improvement which comprises:
rinsing said photoconductive layer, prior to the deposition of one of said phosphor materials, with a solution of said surfactant which is compatible with said photoconductive layer in that it does not adversely affect the physical or electrical properties of said layer.
2. The improvement in the process of electrostatically screening a color tube in accordance with claim 1 in which said photoconductive layer is further pretreated by uniformly exposing said layer to actinic energy.
3. The improvement in the process of electrostatically screening a color tube in accordance with claim 2 in which said photoconductive layer is sensitive to ultraviolet light and in which said layer is pretreated by uniform exposure to ultraviolet light.
4. The improvement in the process of electrostatically screening a color tube in accordance with claim 2 in which said photoconductive layer is further pretreated by initially charging said layer to a predetermined charge level and then uniformly exposing said layer to actinic radiation to establish a reference charge condition therein.
5. The improvement in the process of electrostatically screening a color tube in accordance with claim 1 in which said photoconductive layer is pretreated by uniformly exposing said layer to actinic radiation after rinsing with said surfactant.
6. The improvement in the process of electrostatically screening a multi-color cathode-ray tube in accordance with claim 1 in which said photoconductive layer is pretreated after the development of the image of the deposition pattern for one of said phosphor materials and prior to establishing a charge image representing the deposition pattern for another of said phosphor materials.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,206,600 9/1965 Gold 250 3,212,887 10/1965 Miller et a1. 961 3,329,590 7/1967 RenfreW 20418 GEORGE F. LESMES, Primary Examiner I. C. COOPER III, Assistant Examiner US. Cl. X.R.
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Peter Manning is recognised as one of Britain’s finest musicians at the leading edge of performance. He is an outstanding conductor. Peter is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Manning Camerata and is Music Director of the Mozart Kinderorchester, Salzburg. He was recently appointed as Guest Conductor for the Dallas Opera, Texas, USA and will make his conducting debut with the Malta Philharmonic in 2019.
Peter Manning will give his conducting debut with the Malta Philharmonic in February 2019 in a performance of Mozart’s Great C-minor Mass for Choir and Orchestra in the Metropolitain Cathedral of St Paul, Malta.
Film awards for the film of Manning the Baton and BBC world service presence in new works.
Manning’s Arts think-tank / orchestra Manning Camerata is a response to creating a wider dialogue around the arts in the UK and abroad.
The timeline shows some key events in Peter Manning’s musical career.
Growing up in Manchester, ten-year-old Peter Manning made his debut at the Free Trade Hall, and won all the national junior competitions available to a string player, as well as appearing on television.
Like Jacqueline du Pré before him, Peter won the Competition Gold Medal and First Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition.

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Conflict is part of all relationships, however many people want to avoid conflict as it can be a very painful experience for those involved. That said, all healthy relationships will have some conflict from time to time.
Couples will experience conflict ranging from minor irritations to significant and critical fights which can be about needs, wants, preferences, interests, opinions, beliefs and values. When these issues are not addressed it can lead to resentment, ongoing frustration and possible emotional disengagement from one or both partners.
The level of conflict within a relationship is not as important as how couples engage in disagreements. It is not a lack of conflict that predicts how healthy a relationship is but how the conflict is resolved.
These relationship ruptures are events that can weaken or strengthen your relationship, they can create deeper understanding, and bring closeness and respect, and can allow couples to discuss and resolve issues within the relationship. On the other hand they can be destructive, causing resentment, hostility and possibly the end of the relationship.
When familiar criticisms or accusations are exchanged frequently between a couple then it can provide information to both parties about what each person feels is missing or not working in the relationship.
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Timing is everything – if you are trying to do other things then you may need to discuss the issue at a later time when you both can focus
- Try to let go of anger about smaller issues
- Stick to the issue at hand
When conflict does arise remember
- Deal with one issue at the same time
- Avoid the silent treatment
- Don’t ignore an issue your partner feels is important
- Fight fair – no name calling or belittling, swearing or verbal abuse as this can escalate the situation further and really damage your relationship in the long term
- Letting your partner know you are sorry for any distress caused to them by the argument
- Offering your partner comfort (like a hug) to move you closer together following the fight
Remind one another that no matter what happens you care about each other and that your relationship is more important than ‘winning’ the fight
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In July 2021, the UK Department for Transport published its Transport Decarbonisation Plan to establish its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A year on, the government has published an update outlining its current progress.
The report summarises what has been achieved in the last year to reduce transport emissions and establishes the next steps for supporting the decarbonisation of the industry.
The Department for Transport says it is aiming to make it easier for more people to walk and cycle, rather than using a car for short journeys. To promote this, the government has launched Active Travel England (ATE) to support local authorities in delivering schemes across England. In addition, over 200 million GBP in funding is being provided for new cycling and walking programmes.
The government now intends to establish long-term funding plans for cycling and walking infrastructure, as well as behaviour change programmes up to 2025.
Alongside transitioning to zero-emission buses and coaches, the government is working to improve bus services and encourage more people to travel by public transport rather than a private vehicle.
The government has funded almost 2,000 new zero-emission (at the tailpipe) buses to date, including through the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme established in 2021. In addition, funding has also been announced for 31 areas outside London to deliver local bus service improvements.
The government plans to provide a further 200 million GBP in funding for zero emission buses in the next year. An end date will also be set for the sale of new, non-zero emission buses, as well as an expectation for when fleets should be entirely zero emission.
Moreover, the government intends to work with Local Transport Authorities to deliver bus priority lanes, more frequent services and cheaper fares.
Alike to buses and coaches, encouraging more people to use trains will help reduce emissions from cars. Modal shift alone would already deliver substantial decarbonisation benefits. These can be improved further by electrifying the rail network, thereby removing more polluting diesel services.The government report claims to support this though industry has frequently lamented the lack of a rolling programme of electrification in order to achieve decarbonisation aims.
In this update report, the government noted that the 96 billion GBP Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands included plans to fully electrify the Midland Main Line between London and Sheffield and the Transpennine Main Line between Manchester and York.
The government has also introduced the HS2 Phase 2b Bill, which would secure the powers to construct and maintain the new high-speed railway between Crewe and Manchester to encourage more passengers to choose low-carbon rail travel. It has, however, also axed the eastern leg of HS2 (Phase 2b East) in its Integrated Rail Plan, significantly hampering travellers from choosing rail over more polluting modes such as cars.
In its report the government says it intends to develop a rail decarbonisation programme with the Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT).
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To support this transition, the government is working with local authorities to fund EV chargepoints and has changed building regulations to require new buildings to include chargers.
At COP26, the UK government signed the ‘Declaration on Zero Emission Shipping by 2050’. To achieve this ambition, it will now consult on a potential phase out date for the sale of new non-zero emission domestic vessels.
Since publishing the Transport Decarbonisation plan, the UK government has developed a Jet Zero Strategy which will be published this summer to outline an approach for reaching net zero aviation by 2050.
A Zero Emission Flight Delivery Group has also been established within the Jet Zero Council to bring government and industry together. In addition, 15 million GBP has been invested in UK sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) products.
Over the last year, the UK government has announced end of sales dates for new, non zero-emission HGVs: 2035 for HGVs weighing 26 tonnes and under and 2040 for HGVs heavier than 26 tonnes.
The government has also announced 200 million GBP in funding for the zero-emission road freight trial programme and is continuing to support the use of e-cargo bikes across England to enable clean last-mile deliveries. Only recently online retail giant Amazon announced its first micromobility hub in London to make more deliveries in the capital using e-cargo bikes.
To further promote a sustainable future for the freight industry, the government now plans to develop proposals for a rail freight growth to help shift freight on to more sustainable transport.
“Whilst the world has changed over the past year, we remain focused on meeting net zero, as well as ensuring we deliver the wider benefits that come with the transition to zero emission transport. Our plans will also help to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, helping to improve our energy security and resilience. As we said twelve months ago, this is a true challenge of our time. We will continue to rise to it.”
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Women’s property rights, especially access to land, are increasingly recognized as critical to achieving poverty reduction and gender equality. Research shows that community-based legal aid programs are a viable approach to improving legal knowledge and women’s access to legal resources to address property issues. From 2009-2010, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) implemented and evaluated a pilot program to strengthen women’s property rights.
This report describes the pilot program’s implementation, outcomes and lessons. It details the program design, methodologies for monitoring and evaluation, and the context in which the program was implemented. Findings include a discussion of challenges encountered by the rights workers and overall program achievements. And recommendations for community rights work as an approach to promoting women’s property rights also are included.

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Mikel Arteta, the club’s technical director, announced Arsenal The Englishman formed his team to face Wolverhampton in the match that will bring them together shortly at the Emirates Stadium, within the matches of the 14th round of the English Premier League competitions.
Goalkeeper: David Raya
Defense: Zinchenko, Gabriel, Saliba, Tomiyasu
Midfield: Trossard, Rice, Odegaard
Attack Martinelli, Jesus, Saka
Formation of Wolverhampton
The Arsenal team dominated the top of the English Premier League standings after the Fulham team snatched a fatal victory against Wolverhampton, 3-2, which was held at the “Craven Cottage” stadium, at the end of the 13th round.
Arsenal is at the top of the English Premier League standings with 30 points, collected from winning 9 matches, drawing 3, and losing 1 match, scoring 27 goals and conceding 10, while Wolverhampton occupies 12th place with 15 points.
Arsenal hopes to achieve points in the match in search of securing the top spot in the English Premier League standings in light of the fierce struggle with Manchester City and Liverpool.
Egyptian international Mohamed Elneny himself hopes to appear in today’s match more after his great brilliance with the Egyptian national team in the past international agenda and his leadership of the midfield to achieve two victories at the expense of Djibouti and Sierra Leone.
Mohamed Elneny previously participated in a few minutes after returning from injury with the Arsenal team, but he is seeking to build confidence again with Spanish coach Mikel Arteta to have more space in the coach’s concerns.
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I made it!
One month of being vegan.
This has been the most successful Veganuary ever. With more and more people signing up (the final figure could be as high as 150,000), the UK charity’s campaign hit record after record in 2018. Many restaurants added a vegan option to their menus. Several shops and supermarket chains provided clearly labelled vegan friendly food. There was quite a lot of buzz around the campaign.
My personal experience with Veganuary has been pretty much exactly what I expected – and at the same time quite a shock to the system.
I must say that it wasn’t all terra incognita for me. I had been a vegetarian for nine or ten years in my twenties. My soulmate John has been vegan for years. I was informed thoroughly about the health benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet.
I was already very familiar with the bountiful range of alternatives to meat, milk and eggs that a city like London can offer anyone who cares to explore.
As the Independent wrote, ‘Why would you give up something that will help you live longer, protect the planet and be kind to animals?’.
So on December 31st I declared to my family I would embark on the Veganuary wagon and see how it would go.
I already ate almost no meat so that was an easy one. Same for fish. Eggs, no biggy for me either. When it came to dairy though… ouch. My coffee with its lovely foam on top. My French cheese with a glass of red wine on weekends.
It is for one month, I said to myself. Let’s try.
I swapped my daily cappuccino for an oat milk one. It is a “barista” oat milk and it foams very well, better than milk! In terms of taste, I am not into soya milk really (too bean-y) or almond milk, but oat milk did the trick for me.
Cheese, I must admit – the vegan alternatives that I tried were not so exciting. So I just ditched cheese from my diet.
And I survived. Quite well in fact.
The Veganuary team is a spectacular bunch. They sent me one email per day and it was the one email from a mailing list that I did read.
They were there for anyone who would give veganism a try – while keeping a non-judgemental, open-minded, caring attitude.
I learned a lot.
I read many pieces about veganism, some of them opposed to it.
What stuck with me was the article about the milk cow.
I realised I grew up with this idea that milk is healthy and good for you and we associate milk with innocence, mainly because it is meant for babies.
What we need to keep in mind though – as obvious as it can seem now – is whose baby is this milk intended for?
In order to produce milk, a cow needs to give birth to a calf.
Veganuary taught me something I did not know.
After nine months of pregnancy, the milk cow is separated from her calf when the baby is 48 hours old (in nature, it would be breastfed for up to one year).
This separation is incredibly traumatic.
There have been cases (some filmed) of milk cows breaking free and running after the truck that was taking away their calf, sometimes for miles.
That single image – the cow running desperately after a truck with her baby on it – this single image stuck with me.
Maybe because I have a baby in my arms, even right now. Maybe because I cannot trick myself anymore into believing that one creature’s suffering is more important or noble that another creature’s suffering.
With the children it was especially interesting.
During Veganuary I cooked a lot (those of you that follow me on Instagram might have seen some pictures, I added a few here).
I spent time with my kids talking about our eating choices.
They listened and then spontaneously decided to try vegetarian while I did Veganuary – so we contacted the schools to chose a vegetarian option menu.
We discussed daily how easy or difficult it was for us. Without minimising my kids’ point of view (fish & chip on Fridays is like a sacred staple in schools here in England. That was quite the sacrifice I think). Without patronising. We watched videos, age-appropriate videos on how you substitute milk, or eggs.
We learned compassion together while talking about the use of the Earth’s resources, how to ethically live our life.
We realised together how privileged we are.
We concluded that with privilege comes responsibility.
We made the connection.
The responsibility our family collectively has been ready to take is to eat consciously.
Eating consciously means knowing exactly what is in your plate. Where it comes from. How it is cooked. What it does to your body. How it impacts the planet.
I am not an all-or-nothing person. It would take more single-mindedness that I have right now for me to declare that I am becoming a vegan today.
So I am not.
I will stick to my already established eating habits of consciously choosing, as much as possible, food that is good not just for me, but for the ecosystem in which we all belongs, together with animals and plants.
I want to thank the Veganuary team for their fantastic work. I for once will surely think twice more in future before eating an egg or using milk. I will tell people around me that are willing to listen, why I am choosing an oat milk latte at my local cafeteria and why I make the stance to go for the whole-food, plant-based option whenever available.
I know it is not perfect to do just a bit and not all. But I am a great believer in doing our best – and I am aware that if everyone who is reading this is inspired to reduce significantly their consumption of animal products, it would already make a difference.
A small one maybe. And yet.
With love and oat milk foam,

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Last weekend I had the pleasurable excuse to spend a weekend in Genova, teaching cooking classes to a group of enthusiastic and passionate women from different parts of Italy. We even had a participant – thanks Flavia! – come all the way from Sicily! Patrizia from the blog Melagranata organized the gathering and generously lent her home and kitchen for the occasion. It was a pleasure to teach in such a beautiful and well organized space. Her kitchen contains every cooking appliance, utensil, and gadget you can imagine – yet still somehow manages to remain tidy and spacious. The other big advantage of the location was this:
We had to take “sunset breaks” both evenings, in order to take in the view between poaching eggs and baking muffins.
Speaking of muffins, I’m appalled to discover I haven’t posted even one muffin recipe on the blog yet. To make up for this oversight, I’m posting the ultimate, any-fruit muffin recipe that can be modified and adapted into a hundred different variations. I’ve listed a few variations below, but feel free to experiment with new fruit and spice combinations – and let me know what you come up with!
- 1 cup (7 oz / 200 g) blueberries, mixed berries, or other fruit, cut into small cubes
- 1 1/2 c (200 g) flour
- 1/2 c (100 g) sugar
- pinch of salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- 4 tbsp (60 g) butter, melted and slightly cooled
- 1 egg
- 1/3 c (80 ml) milk
- 1/3 c (80 ml) yogurt
- 1/2 tsp lemon zest
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Toss blueberries with 1 tsp of flour in a small bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl stir together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and cinnamon.
In a medium bowl, beat together the butter, egg, milk, yogurt and lemon zest. Gently fold the wet ingredients into the dry until they are only just combined. Do not over mix. Delicately fold the blueberries into the batter, taking care not to crush or break them.
Fill the muffin tins only about 2/3 of the way up, then sprinkle the tops of the muffins with sugar.
Bake for 20-25 minutes in the preheated oven, until they are golden-brown.
Orange and almond: add 1/2 cup (50 g) slivered almonds in with the dry ingredients, and substitute 1 teaspoon orange zest for the lemon zest.
Lemon poppyseed: Add a teaspoon of poppy-seeds to the dry ingredients. Add two teaspoons of lemon juice and an extra teaspoon of lemon zest to the wet ingredients.
Apple pie spiced: Substitute 1 cup (200 g) finely diced apple for the berries. Add 1/2 tsp nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon of cloves to the dry ingredients.
Chocolate chip: Add 1 cup (200 g) chocolate chips to the dry ingredients.
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Nicole helps Melbourne families to create healthier homes as a certified Building Biologist and as a Feng Shui Practitioner.
Adv. Diploma in Building Biology (10194NAT) - Australian College of Environmental Studies
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Tyron Woodley, the former UFC welterweight champion, recently spoke with TMZ about a number of MMA legends from the modern era. His remarks about former UFC lightweight champion and top men's pound-for-pound fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov may raise some eyebrows.
“[Nurmagomedov] on my top 10 list? Probably not,” said Woodley when presented with a number of iconic names from MMA history. “I fuck with Khabib. I like him, I respect him a lot. I think he’s a good fighter. I think his type of fight for that weight class, nobody could do that besides Sean Sherk back in the day, but like, he was just really aggressive, but I didn’t see the wrestler with good hands fight him so I couldn’t really jump on that train.”
Nurmagomedov announced his retirement from MMA in 2020 after defending his lightweight title against Justin Gaethje. His record now stands at 29-0. Dustin Poirier, Conor McGregor, Al Iaquinta, and Edson Barboza are among his last five opponents.
Along with Nurmagomedov, Woodley discussed Jon Jones, Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, and Demetrious Johnson.
Woodley said of former UFC light heavyweight champion Jones, "He's the best fighter we've seen, whether he's fought consistently or whatever the case."
When discussing Silva, Woodley referred to him as "the GOAT." “Because he did it in a really respectful way. He beat people without being able to talk the shit that everybody else did.”
Woodley also stated that Johnson is "the most well-rounded fighter we've ever seen" and that he admires GSP because "he was very respectful all the time."
In 2016, Woodley defeated Robbie Lawler to win the UFC welterweight title. He successfully defended the title four times before losing it to Kamaru Usman in 2019.
After going 0-3 in his next three fights, Woodley was released from the UFC. He fought and lost twice to influencer turned boxer Jake Paul after leaving the Octagon.
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The Japanese government on Monday gave the People’s Honor Award to two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presenting Hanyu with a certificate and a plaque at the Prime Minister’s Office on the day.
Abe praised Hanyu’s accomplishments, saying, “His historical achievements, realized by overcoming the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the serious injury he suffered right before the Olympics, have deeply moved us and given us courage.”
After the ceremony, Hanyu told reporters, “I want to move forward, together with this award and people’s expectations of me.”
Hanyu, now 23, won the men’s gold medal at two consecutive Olympics the 2014 Sochi Games in Russia and the 2018 Pyeongchang Games in South Korea. It was the first time in 66 years anyone had achieved this feat in men’s figure skating.
The Japanese public was also deeply moved by Hanyu overcoming an injury to his right ankle.
Hanyu is the 26th individual to receive the award since it was established in 1977. He is also the youngest recipient, and the first figure skater.
A native of Sendai, Hanyu started skating when he was 4 years old. He became the first Japanese man to win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating at the Sochi Games, when he was 19.
In November last year, he strained a ligament in his right ankle, which put his participation in the Pyeongchang Games in danger. However, he mounted a remarkable comeback at the Games, landing quadruple jumps and earning wide praise in Japan and around the world.
Hanyu was training at a skating rink in Sendai when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011. He has actively worked to support disaster victims, including performing in ice shows to contribute to reconstruction.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Amanah Negara says it is unfazed by the prospect of squaring off against PAS in multi-cornered fights in the upcoming Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar by-elections.
However, the party has urged Opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan to hold a presidential council meeting as soon as possible to decide on the candidates for the two polls, which will be held on June 18.
Amanah president Mohamad Sabu, speaking at a media conference after the party's central committee meeting here on Sunday, said there is nothing Pakatan can do to stop PAS from contesting but it will affect his party's chances.
He said Amanah leaders and members formerly from PAS have experience contesting or helping the Opposition's campaign in multi-cornered fights, including the 2009 Bukit Selambau by-election, in which 13 candidates slugged it out.
Mohamad said calls by DAP or PKR leaders that Amanah sit out the by-elections can be discussed in the presidential council meeting.
"We will respect whatever decision that comes from the upcoming Pakatan presidential council meeting.
"What we want is for Pakatan to only have one candidate in each of the by-elections," said Mohamad.
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The FDA, along with CDC, and state and local partners, is investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States linked to fresh organic strawberries.
The FDA, along with CDC, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, state, and local partners are investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States and Canada potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and HEB, purchased between March 5, 2022, and April 25, 2022.
The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, investigated a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to Dole packaged leafy greens.
According to the CDC, as of February 1, 2022, 17 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from 13 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from August 16, 2014 to December 30, 2021 (one case occurred in 2014 and the remaining cases occurred between 2018 and 2021).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a report on its investigation of the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that caused 31 reported illnesses and four hospitalizations in the U.S. between June and August 2021.
The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, investigated illnesses in a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7. As of January 6, 2022, CDC declared this outbreak over.
Six people ate Simple Truth Organic Power Greens, and one sick person ate Nature’s Basket Organic Power Greens. Investigators are working to determine if additional products may be contaminated.
For the final Week in Review for 2021, Pamela again checks in from Europe, this time from Southern Germany.
Dole Fresh Vegetables announced on 22 December 2021 a product recall for Salads processed at its Bessemer City, NC and Yuma facilities due to a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes.
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Lana del rey has been in an on-screen matchup with mark mahoney in lana del rey: west coast (2014) lana del rey is a member of the following lists: 21st-century women singers , models from new york (state) and record producers from new york (state). So on the weeknd's latest album, he has two songs: the album's eponymous starboy (featuring lana del rey), and stargirl (also featuring lana del rey) it's accepted cannon that the weeknd is, duh, the starboy in the story, and lana is the stargirl. See all lana del rey's marriages, divorces, hookups, break ups, affairs, and dating relationships plus celebrity photos, latest lana del rey news, gossip, and biography lana del rey is currently single.
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Children in Ontario, Canada, to be seized by the govt if parents oppose “gender identity”
A new piece of legislation has been passed in the Canadian province of Ontario that allows the government to take children away from parents who oppose their “gender identity”. This new totalitarian law means the authorities now have the right to seize children and place them in government custody if parents want to help their children escape gender confusions.
It has been no surprise to see the left flaunt its hypocrisy over the past few years, and this is a perfect example. This new law comes from the side of the spectrum that has been adamant in opposing the Stolen Generations, for example. Yet, they are now supporting a law that allows the government to remove children from their parents through force, the same ordeal allegedly experienced by various Indigenous people in the New World.
Why would the left oppose the forceful removal of Aboriginal children from their parents, but support the forceful removal of “gender non-conforming” children from their parents? It’s the same principle, as children are being removed by the government because their parents fail to meet particular standards: the former by not being white enough, the latter by not being liberal or degenerate enough. It’s just another example of the left displaying it’s hypocrisy in all its glory.
The law, labelled ‘The Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017’, was passed by the 63 out of Ontario’s 86 legislators. As a result, the threat of leftist authoritarianism has taken a whole new level. Left-wing inspired big government in Canada has been given a boost, and this can steepen the slippery slope to allow the government to have greater control of children.
It’s apparently abuse for parents to oppose their children’s gender identity, according to the proponents of this new law. Their objective is for children to be “removed from that environment and placed into protection where the abuse stops”, says Ontario’s Minister of Child and Family Services, Michael Coteau. This is codeword for the hidden intention of wanting to expand government control over children in order to carry out social engineering.
Families are no longer given the right to direct their children’s own upbringing. They are only allowed to do so if they are ‘in accordance with the child’s or young person’s creed, community identity and cultural identity’. This raises the possibility that if a child identifies as “trans-racial” for example, and the parents oppose this confused sense of self, the government can take them away from their parents. It’s a new form of Stolen Generations that makes children even more vulnerable.
This new turn of events goes to show that the slippery slope is indeed real. Canada prides itself at being at the forefront of promoting gay rights, and the country has already legalised gay marriage. But the supposed fight for equality has not ended there, the left’s ultimate mission has always been to give privileges to various minorities under the guise of equality. This law is just the latest example of the left’s mission coming to fruition.
Giving in to LGBT rights, and other minority rights, will only make matters worse. Many people want to legalise gay marriage in an attempt to put an end to a time-consuming debate and silence the LGBT community by finally giving them what they want. But as Ontario’s new legislation has shown, this is simply naïve. It will not end with gay marriage, they will want more, and our children are next.
Canada provides a lesson to countries like Australia that still haven’t caved in to gay marriage thanks to the tireless work of conservative politicians. Similar to Ontario, the Australian state of Victoria is on the leading edge of gay rights through its various radical leftist programs like Safe Schools and Respectful Relationships. Leftist governments’ attempts at expanding control over our children is a serious threat. Taking control of children using the guise of “protection from abuse” is just the next step in bringing about left-wing social engineering. This new tactic of cultural Marxism has to be stopped, and I implore all parents to use common sense come election season in order to ensure our children are safe from this new threat.


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Murder for Two
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Feast your eyes on the face of The Bold and the Beautiful's newest castmember, Pierson Fodé, who will now be playing the part of Thomas Forrester.
As Soap Central previously reported, the CBS show began looking for an actor to take over the role of Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) and Taylor's (Hunter Tylo) son earlier this spring. Having previously been played by hunky actors like Drew Tyler Bell and Adam Gregory, the shoes were pretty big to fill. But apparently, the powers that be feel they've met Thomas' match.
"It's a real life-changer, and I'm really excited about it," Fodé told Soap Opera Digest about landing the role. "I read with Linsey [Godfrey, Caroline Spencer]. She's a real sweetheart. We had instant chemistry and we clicked right away."
Though new to daytime, Fodé does have previous television experience. In 2014, he played the role of Brooks in Jessie, and in 2013, he played the role of Blazer in the miniseries Storytellers. He also made an appearance on iCarly, which is his first TV credit.
As B&B fans may recall, Thomas left the canvas last year after Eric (John McCook) decided Rick (Jacob Young) could run Forrester Creations better than Thomas and Thorne (Winsor Harmon) could -- meaning there will probably be a lot of business drama ahead once Thomas returns to town.
Pierson will make his debut on July 27.
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Allegedly, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and CERT Coordination Center at the Carnegie Mellon University (CERT/CC) have distributed security alarms with respect to a genuine Bluetooth imperfection. In particular, the weakness lies in the Cross-Transport Key Derivation (CTKD) segment of the Bluetooth standard. This part is essentially liable for setting up encryption keys when two gadgets pair. The part in a perfect world produces two sets of validation keys for the two Bluetooth guidelines; Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) standard. It at that point leaves it to the gadgets to pick the suitable key norm. This is the place the weakness, CVE-2020-15802, exists. As expressed by Bluetooth SIG,
Such intruding with encryption keys permits a foe to associate weak gadgets to an inappropriate gadget. Despite the fact that for a fruitful assault, an aggressor must be available inside the remote scope of defenseless Bluetooth empowered gadgets.
The weakness represents a danger to gadgets with Bluetooth Specifications 4.2 through 5.0. Notwithstanding, Bluetooth Core Specification forms 5.1 and later, in spite of being helpless, bear includes that can be enacted to forestall such assaults. As indicated by Bluetooth SIG, Bluetooth 5.1 as of now commands certain limitations on Cross-Transport Key Derivation (CTKD). Accordingly, for the time being, they suggest,
Furthermore, they have likewise spoken with the sellers in regard to important patches. However, a timetable for the appearance of such fixes stays muddled. In any case, they encourage clients to guarantee to keep their gadgets refreshed with the most recent patches gave by the individual producers.


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Assessing small trees and shrubs
Terry Childs, president of Nature’s Way Landscaping in Gananoque, Ont., says smaller plants like decorative trees or shrubs are hit hardest in winter by excessive weight, either from wet snow, ice or a combination of the two, especially when it slides off the roof onto plants. “This instant weight on the plant can cause severe damage, although it’s usually cosmetic,” he says. The good news, he adds, is that many plants can survive this.
If you have a damaged plant from this year’s harsh winter weather, Childs recommends trimming off broken branches “as close to the break as possible with clean, sharp tools.” Then, come spring, continue with your usual pruning. If you are unsure about how to prune your particular tree or shrub, find a trained professional.
Also consider applying a low Nitrogen natural fertilizer, advises Childs. “Natural fertilizers are broken down by the active microbes in the soil and are therefore available when the plant requires the nutrients and are not affected by runoff.” Try a liquid Ascophyllum nodosum (kelp) application.
Most importantly, though, Childs says the best thing we can do for our plants and trees is prevent future damage.
Give your plants the leg up on growing and living well by:
- Having the right plants in the right locations.
- Feeding and watering your plant through the warmer seasons so it’s as healthy as possible heading into winter.
- Pruning plants according to their specific needs.
- Fertilizing in the fall so your plant wakes up in the spring to lots of nutrients.
Safety note: Never attempt to clear branches from power lines. If you suspect a dangerous situation, call your municipality or local utility company.
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Nanosilver as a new generation of nanoproduct in biomedical applications
Karla Chaloupka;Yogeshkumar Malam;Alexander M. Seifalian;Alexander M. Seifalian.
Trends in Biotechnology (2010)
Liposomes and nanoparticles: nanosized vehicles for drug delivery in cancer.
Yogeshkumar Malam;Marilena Loizidou;Alexander M. Seifalian;Alexander M. Seifalian.
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (2009)
Biological applications of quantum dots
Timothy Jamieson;Raheleh Bakhshi;Daniela Petrova;Rachael Pocock.
Properties of the amniotic membrane for potential use in tissue engineering.
Hassan Niknejad;Habibollah Peirovi;Masoumeh Jorjani;Abolhassan Ahmadiani.
European Cells & Materials (2008)
Ischemia-reperfusion injury of the intestine and protective strategies against injury
Ismail Hameed Mallick;Wenxuan Yang;Marc C Winslet;Alexander M Seifalian.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences (2004)
Current status of prosthetic bypass grafts: a review.
Ruben Y. Kannan;Henryk J. Salacinski;Peter E. Butler;George Hamilton.
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B (2005)
Toxicology and clinical potential of nanoparticles.
Lara Yildirimer;Nguyen T.K. Thanh;Nguyen T.K. Thanh;Marilena Loizidou;Alexander M. Seifalian;Alexander M. Seifalian.
Nano Today (2011)
Tracheobronchial transplantation with a stem-cell-seeded bioartificial nanocomposite: a proof-of-concept study.
Philipp Jungebluth;Philipp Jungebluth;Evren Alici;Silvia Baiguera;Pontus Blomberg.
The Lancet (2011)
Stem-cell-based, tissue engineered tracheal replacement in a child: a 2-year follow-up study
Martin J Elliott;Paolo De Coppi;Simone Speggiorin;Derek Roebuck.
The Lancet (2012)
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning: A Novel Protective Method From Ischemia Reperfusion Injury—A Review
Niteen Tapuria;Yogesh Kumar;Meer Mohammad Habib;Mahmoud Abu Amara.
Journal of Surgical Research (2008)
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For Immediate Release
March 17, 2011
Catherine L. Bernhard,Senior Assistant Attorney General
Insurance Fraud Unit Prosecutor
Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau
(603) 271-2898 or (603) 271-7973 x 235
Attorney General Michael A. Delaney and Insurance Commissioner Roger A. Sevigny announced today the conviction of Audrey Dion for Forgery. Ms. Dion pleaded guilty to creating two false Insurance Certificates and signing each with the name of a licensed insurance producer. Ms. Dion issued the false certificates to a local construction company in an attempt to win a bid to provide subcontracting services.
On March 16, 2011, a hearing was held at the Concord District Court at which Ms. Dion pleaded guilty to two Class B misdemeanor forgery charges for issuing the false insurance certificates. Ms. Dion was sentenced as a result of a negotiated plea bargain. As part of her sentence, Ms. Dion will be required to pay a fine of $500 plus a statutory penalty assessment and a court fee. On the second charge, the Court imposed a fine of $1200 which is suspended for a period of one year.
The NH Insurance Department's Fraud Unit received the complaint about the false certificates of insurance when the producer whose name appeared on the certificates was questioned by the administrator of a local construction company about the certificates' authenticity. The business was informed that the certificates were not legitimate. When Ms. Dion was questioned by the investigator for the Fraud Unit about the matter, she admitted that she signed the producer's name to the form, without any authorization.
The prosecution of this crime in the District Court is an effort by the NH Insurance Department and the NH Department of Justice Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau to deter the issuance of fraudulent certificates of insurance, and to impress upon the public the importance of verifying the existence and the limits of insurance coverage before entering into a contractual relationship with a business or individual for goods or services. The certificate should be signed by a licensed NH insurance producer and verification can be made through the producer or the insurance company.
The conviction is the result of collaboration between the Attorney General's Office and the NH Insurance Department Fraud Unit. The Fraud Unit was formed under RSA 417 to investigate and prosecute Insurance Fraud and other insurance-related criminal activity with the assistance of the NH Department of Justice.
New Hampshire Department of Justice | 33 Capitol Street | Concord, NH | 03301


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JOSH´S SAD STORY: Caged Like An Animal By Dr. David Shields Posted on 23.09.2009
It's a long whiny woe is me story, So I will post only two shorts sections that are the humdinger. You can read the whole sordid tall tale at the link above:
"He is a child of the computer age having first been introduced to them at age 2 and by age 3 had his first computer. As each new generation of computer was released he received one. He had virtually unlimited computer and later internet access throughout his childhood and adolescence. Near totally oblivious to the tremendous risks this new technology presented, his parents provided little computer supervision and even fewer computer safeguards. The stage for disaster was set.
At age 10 Joshua stumbled across internet pornography and sadly he joined the rapidly growing ranks of countless other internet pornography viewing child victims. By his early teens he began viewing peer pornography that is viewing adolescents of his own age. In doing so he was progressively sucked deeper into the cesspool of what is to mature adults, child pornography.
Obviously Joshua was born with a silver spoon in his mouth; his parents gave him everything, even a computer at age 3. His parents provided very little adult computer supervision. Can you imagine the disaster placed before a young child here? Unlimited computer access. Viewing "child porn" at age ten. It continued on and on.
Joshua's Daddy wrote up this sordid tale as his son told it. Josh was sentenced to 8 years in prison this year! You'd think Daddy would blame himself but looky here and see who he blames:
An obscene perversion of justice had been completed. The same federal justice system that had so grossly failed in their sworn duty to protect him when as a child and adolescence he had access to these illegal internet materials had now succeeded in his destruction.
Hey stupid, its the parent's job to protect the child! You gave him ACCESS to the internet. Both you and your wife are at fault here! You failed in your fatherly role as a fucked up parent to supervise a child on a computer you gave him & yet you cast the blame on the government? Why weren't you arrested for child abuse? You run over to the RSOL crying a sordid tale & point accusatory fingers elsewhere. Maybe SOSEN CEO Mary Duval told you that child porn was a "victimless" crime & you believed it. The judge gave you 8 reasons why it is serious ! Could it be you think CP is harmless? Own up & admit you screwed up as a parent, dude.


On Good Morning America this morning, the pro dancers for season 25 of Dancing With the Stars were revealed. And, two-time mirrorball champion Mark Ballas was announced as coming back to the show after two seasons away. He took the time off to appear on broadway, perform his music and to get married. He also said that he recently started a new workout routine and that he’s happy to be back because he has missed the fans and “doing what he does best”.
Though Ballas has not been able to reveal who his dance partner is this season, he has said that this specific person is a big reason why he has returned to the ballroom.
In a video message, DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba wished Ballas well, as did judge Bruno Tonioli.
So, which pros are joining Mark Ballas in the ballroom this season? Check out the list below.


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NORTHBOROUGH — The Northborough Cultural Council will host the 2018 Grantee Reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 4 at the Northborough Free Library, 34 Main St.
The NCC was established to promote the arts and help develop cultural programs throughout the community by establishing funding priorities that aim to bring community-oriented arts, music, humanities and science projects to Northborough.
The reception is designed to recognize local artists and programs that have received grants this year. Speakers will include Northborough Selectman Dawn Rand and Massachusetts Cultural Council Program Officer Mina Kim. The event is free and light refreshments will be served.
For information: http://town.northborough.ma.us.


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Kosta stammered at “k” when at the beginning of the word, and during that September, his harmless disability again became a source of disturbing, for he was deprived of all the proud romance of the statement that he was a communist. The sudden change, the moment when the people took power, suddenly thwarted his persistent attempts to avoid all words that begin with the damn letter. Otherwise, he had learned to use synonyms. To be able to pick them up, he spoke slowly and carefully, and if he did not make a mistake in choosing his words, he sounded like a wise old man. He was gradually improving. But we all remember the first time he did it. How long had he been thinking about it? It was a long time ago, back in high school, on a break between classes. We had already gathered and we were just waiting for you to come out in the yard, you were always the last to come out, you flatterers, you collected your notebooks as long as possible and asked the teacher about Goethe and Mendeleev; and we were already flying down the stairs and, if it was the beginning of the month, we pushed each other with the elbows in front of the lemonade kiosk, Someone shouted: here they are! And immediately you were attacked by a mob of bullies, predators, a flock of violent crows, we surrounded you, we ran in a circle, we plucked like monkeys and we shouted: Kosta, say cock, come on, K-K-Kosta, say c-c-cock. In the past, during such attacks, the stutter would turn red and refuse to say the words, which often cost him slaps and kicks, and you got your share too standing next to him, but then, while we were shouting K-K-Kosta, say cock, he solemnly raised it his hand waited for the noise to subside, and calmly he said: dick. We froze, so shaken because failed to torture, that we did not even try with a beating, even more, because the shadow of the janitor appeared from the entrance. We never repeated the same joke, nor did we invent another one.
However, there was no sufficiently precise and dignified synonym for the word c-c-communist.
Emil Strezov should have been grateful that the neighborhood gangs were harassing Kosta so much because otherwise the two of them would hardly have teamed up like that, no matter that they were similar: black-haired, dark-skinned, supposedly of medium height, but as they walked bowed, they looked small and bent. Whispering around the corners, the neighborhood quickly cached the details of that sudden arrival. In short, Emil Strezov came from a dingy town down the Iskar gorge with a frightened gaze and a single set of rough clothes, badly sewn for his already weak figure, so that his high school uniform came to him like heavenly manna. In the last war, Uncle Peter had fought side by side with Emil’s recently deceased father, and he had only one child, so he agreed to take the boy under his roof, to help him get back on his feet in the big city. In every other house Emil Strezov would probably spend the night in a shop, and in his few vacant hours he would sit alone and sullen, and there would not even be a drawer in which to hide the poems written late at night. (Verses! From the beginning we were sure you were writing verses; and what fun it would be if we got to them then!) But because Kosta stuttered, he had no friends and was terribly anxious even when he was at home; at home among his own family, where Emil Strezov’s poetry unexpectedly received a loyal audience. He listened intently and praised his poetry with awkwardly disguised enthusiasm, and the author, a lodger-friend, almost a brother, stared out the window. And in the first moments, the gaze, bathed in easy rhymes, dashed into the courtyard and at the family shoemaker’s workshop, and further the buildings of the high school, the cinema, and the chocolate factory with its burgundy facade could be seen. They could be seen well because all the surrounding houses were low: houses of common workers and war refugees, built overnight on vacant plots. Among them, the shoemaker’s two-story home stood out as an anchor of security and tranquility. Kosta’s father, Uncle Petar, was a native, born in this house that his father, who was also a shoemaker, had built, in the forgotten years when the neighborhood was still making its way through the melons fields and swamps. And by the size of the neighborhood he was not poor, and for some of us he was really rich – they said that in his house was milk on the table every morning, and on market days his wife came home with a big piece of meat. The cobbler made good money. Because, no matter how poor Yuchbunar was, we still needed shoes, and the shoes were torn and repaired, torn and repaired until one night they fell apart completely, and even then the healthy pieces of leather came into use to make a new pair.
Uncle Petar also kept models of bar shoes in his workshop and, for sure, several times a season he received an order to make a pair of them. Ah, how we enjoyed it when we had some money in the pockets! We were buying Uncle Peter’s bar shoes, new caps, bow ties, and galluses and then walked around Pirotska, gathered in the gang and went to the cinema, passed like models in front of the girls’ high school – first on the left, then on the right sidewalk – and we were buying cakes for the girls in the pastry shop; and then some of Uncle Petar’s shoes, which had already fulfilled their task, found themselves on the other side of the bridge in Konyovitsa, resold to the local dudes.
And then it all exploded. Uncle Petar’s shoes began to clang on the pavement of Pirotska Street like cavalry boots. The news spread throughout the neighborhood that the people had taken power. Poor people. And yet, when we say that the news has spread, this departure and circumnavigation would still have had some form, body, method. Later it became very fashionable to collect memories. Do you, comrade, remember on the morning of the ninth of September where you learned the good news? Well, on the morning of September 9, I was at home, the children came in and shouted: the people have taken power. Also, it was said on the radio. It was Saturday, so I was home. It was Saturday, true, so we slept late. However, is it possible Emil Strezov have overslept, dreamed sweet dreams until the sun burnt his face and waked him up, and in the meantime time such important, decisive events were taking place in the city? He who gets up early, to oversleep on the most important day! Was that so? Emil Strezov, it is too early to guess what you will ever write in your memoirs when you will walk hunched over and with fine dandruff on the shoulders of the padded jacket, but I do not promise to read them. We don’t promise anything about the bound volume with hardcovers, because from now on we suspect that you will lie, and you, for all your merits, have this weakness that you can’t lie well, so why read it?


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In this Dream Tour segment, the singer-songwriter, ANML, lets you know who she would like on her ultimate tour lineup. You can check out the feature, after the break.
Alright, the dream tour would probably be something like:
Kanye West, Bjork, and Queen (am I allowed to bring someone back from the dead? It’s a dream after all).
Kanye- he’s admittedly one of my favorite artists (blushing). The upbeat get down of it mixed with the cutting edge, risk-taking nature. His performances look extremely high energy and the dude gives his all. He inspires me.
Bjork- do I need to explain this one? She’s one of a kind. She’s queen. She has one of the best voices of all time in pop music (in my humble opinion) and you KNOW she’s gonna do something extraordinary. She just does not give an F… she’ll do whatever she feels called to do and that is true artistry if you ask me. She’s my forever inspo.
Queen- it’s just the most anthemic, grandiose sound. Let’s bring em back from the dead.
May 5 – Oakland, CA @ STARLINE SOCIAL CLUB
May 11 – Canadian Music Week (Toronto) @ LONGBOAT HALL
Jun 15 – Tacoma, WA @ AIRPORT TAVERN
Jun 16 – Portland, OR @ STAR THEATER
Jun 18 – San Francisco, CA @ CAFE DU NORD
Jun 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ THE SATELLITE
Jun 20 – Las Vegas, NV @ BEAUTY BAR


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Fresh Fried Chive Cakes
These delicious-looking Chive Cakes are from a street vendor right on Sukhumvit Road just before soi 57. First they are steamed and then fried to get the lovely crust. This is just one of dozens of enticing treats that greet you as you wonder the streets in the morning — with so much great looking food how can there be so many skinny Thai people! (Hint: it’s not by following the food pyramid! Thai people traditionally cooked with rendered animal fats, such as lard and palm oil and ate a large number of foods that the current people advising us about diet — the same people who recommended margarine for all those years — tell us not to eat; things such as eggs, fish eggs, pork and lots of organ meat. Now that the Western propaganda about polyunsaturated fats (soy oil) is taking over and as more snacks are made with processed white flour and granulated sugar, you begin to see more and more fat Thai people, which is hardly a coincidence.) The snack’s Thai name is Kanom Gooy-Chai.
Photograph Copyright © 2004 Kasma Loha-unchit