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The TUC is right to warn against public sector spending cuts (‘Cuts will lead to riots in the streets: TUC Chief’ 14th September =1). Fear-mongering over public debt has reached unsustainable levels.
The government have now given in to Conservative party hype over the level of public debt and announced there will be spending cuts. A great deal is made of the fact that Britain’s national debt now almost equals the country’s output.
Former US Secretary for Labor and economist Robert Reich points out that after every previous recession public investment in economic and social infrastructure has resulted in resumed economic growth which results in increased government revenues, eliminating the public debt. After the Great Depression and World War II the US federal debt equalled 120% of US GDP. A few years later it was gone. Similarly economic growth under Clinton wiped out the budget deficits run up under Reagan and Bush senior (though the scale of those deficits was so great for so long due to tax-cutting and high military spending that the debt continued to increase and the deficit resumed under Bush junior) (2).
Cutting public spending would not revive the economy or boost the private sector. If anything, by making public sector employees unemployed, it would weaken demand, leading to increased unemployment in the private sector too. As more unemployment benefit would have to be paid out and less tax would be collected this would also result in increased public debt. Higher unemployment would also give another boost to extremists and racists like the BNP.
We do need to face reality – the reality that the economic crisis was caused by neo-liberal free market ideology that led to deregulation and to the Clinton administration’s attempt to get private banks to provide social housing to avoid “big government”; and a wild swing from unrealistic euphoria to excessive panic; and that the reality isn’t as bad as the ideologues on the Conservative and Labour front benches claim it is. (3)
Rather than sack more NHS staff when those we have left are already overworked and in some cases made to do jobs they’re neither trained nor paid to do, we could save public money by scrapping the PFIs introduced by Kenneth Clarke when he was Chancellor and expanded by ‘New Labour’ as ‘PPPs’.
Some advocates of public spending cuts may also have a personal interest. To give just one example, Kenneth Clarke received at least £5000 for speaking at an event funded by HG Capital, whose website says they are involved in “public-to-private leveraged buy-outs” in areas including “healthcare”. (4), (5), (6).
Big public spending cuts would mean more profits for private healthcare firms (though not through PFI this time but more customers as NHS waiting times would rise further).
Clarke got another £5000 to £10000 for a speech at an event hosted by Goldman Sachs, an investment bank with a history of owning PFI companies (7), (8).
From Kenneth Clarke’s perspective there is probably nothing wrong with this, as many conservatives have an ideological belief in the private sector’s superiority over the public sector and that what is best for private firms is best for everyone. For those that don’t share this ideology though, taking money from firms making money from privatisation, private health care and PFIs while calling for big public sector spending cuts makes making expenses claims for moat cleaning and duck houses look mild by comparison.
On the Labour benches is former minister Charles Clarke MP, who has called for the extension of “user charges” for public services. (In other words paying twice – once in taxes and again when you use the NHS or public schools or universities). Charles Clarke has a £35,000 to £40,000 a year consultancy with Beachcroft LLP, a law firm whose website boasts of its expertise in negotiating PFI and PPP contracts (9), (10). (To be fair Charles Clarke does not share Kenneth Clarke’s ideology and opposed scrapping the reduced 10p tax rate for lower earners. He has also called for a crackdown on tax avoidance by big companies and for fairer taxes (11))
(It also brings up another question : Is it right for MPs to accept money from the taxpayer and from private companies at the same time? Can they really serve the general interest of the whole country while also accepting money and employment from individual companies?)
There are certainly areas where we could cut public spending. Apart from PFIs/PPPs, there are Export Credit Guarantees for arms sales to dictatorships, which frequently result in the taxpayer effectively paying for arms for these regimes. One was Saddam’s after the Gulf War. There are the massive subsidies that go to nuclear power to make it appear cheaper than the alternatives. There are the subsidies to privatised rail firms who keep all the profits from ticket prices that have risen at far above the rate of inflation. However it’s doubtful whether the right wing of the Labour party can be trusted to cut these rather than vital public sector jobs and the Conservative party’s record and current ideology suggests it definitely can’t be.
(1) = Guardian 14 May 2009 ‘David Cameron's plans to reduce budget deficit could spark strikes and riots, says TUC’,
(2) = Robert Reich’s blog 25 Aug 2009 ‘Don't Succumb to Deficit Hysteria’
(3) = NYT 16 Sep 2009 ‘Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending’, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html
(4) = House of Commons Register of Members’ Interests 02 Sep 2009,
(5) = HgCapital website – About HgCapital/History,
(6) = Hg Capital website – Sectors – Healthcare,
(7) = House of Commons Register of Members’ Interests 02 Sep 2009, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/090902/memi06.htm
(8) Independent 23 Apr 2000 ‘Would-be landlords close in on Inland Revenue’,
(9) = House of Commons Register of Members’ Interests 02 Sep 2009, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/090902/memi06.htm
(10) = Beachcroft website, Health and Public Sector,
(11) = Guardian 10 Sep 2009 ‘Clarke attacks Brown's 'misleading and incredible' election claims’,


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Findings from this report show that teachers are in the top 5 people children would seek help from if they felt down, scared or worried. As a teacher, what strategies do you use to support students with their wellbeing? Who can you go to in your own school for guidance?
Missed out on any of our infographics? Visit the Teacher magazine infographic archive. All our infographics are also available to download as PDF versions from the ACER Repository.

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Foreshadowing is the method by which you drop hints to your reader about something that is going to happen later in the book. Sometimes you want your reader to suspect, and sometimes you want them caught completely off-guard. If you do want them to have an inkling, foreshadowing is what you’re after.
Say, for instance, that Sally is going to die from a drug overdose. In all of her outward appearances, she’s a respectable citizen, choir member, volunteer at the community center, and no one would ever suspect her of being a drug user. When she dies, it’s going to be so unexpected that the reader won’t really buy it. But what if George walks in on her and sees her slip something into her purse, and she’s acting strangely. He doesn’t ask her about it because it’s none of his business, but later, when she’s dead and the drugs are found in her purse, it will make sense to the reader and they won’t feel as left out as they would otherwise.
If you want to do a little foreshadowing but still have Sally’s death be a surprise, you do want to be subtle. You wouldn’t necessarily go through the manuscript and show Sally experiencing all the classic signs of drug addiction unless you wanted the reader to know it all along. Readers are very smart. They’re looking for plot twists. They’ll take each sentence and look for the hidden mystery. If you don’t want them to know, you can’t spell it out.
Let’s say cousin Ed turns out to be a thief. It would be good to have money turn up missing from time to time, maybe an hour or two after Ed leaves the house, or even the next day. If this plot element is a surprise, don’t have it happen every time Ed comes, and don’t discover it until he’s been gone for a while. Put plenty of other characters in there that it could have been, and possibly even more likely characters than Ed.
The #1 mistake authors make when they are foreshadowing is to use the expression “Little did they know.” Poor Aunt Gloria, fretting and fuming over the $20 missing from her purse. She needs it to pay for her heart medication and she can’t imagine what could have happened to it. But little did she know, Ed stole the money, and if she knew, she’d have a heart attack. Of course she didn’t know. If she knew, it wouldn’t be a mystery. When you say something like “Little did they know,” you’re telling the reader things that the characters themselves don’t know, and you yank the reader out of that third person POV you’ve created into a world where the narrator and the reader are sharing secrets. That’s very jarring to the reader and throws them out of the world of pretend.
It’s not difficult to plant subtle clues. What is difficult is knowing when to stop.
SPOILER ALERT: In my book “Strength to Endure,” Anneliese has a crush on Kurt right from the start, but he’s enough older than she is that she doesn’t think he could possibly be interested in her. He’s going off to college to become a professor, while she’s just a girl from the farm. At one point, she tells him that he’s very wise, and he tells her that she’s very young. She takes that to mean that she’s too young for him, but when we see them get together, we read a double meaning into that. He’s reminding himself that she’s too young, and that he’d better keep some distance for the time being.
In summary, to foreshadow, drop vague hints. Show an occasional hole in the character’s armor of secrecy. Give the other characters reason to wonder, but also show holes in the other characters as well. When the big moment of revelation arrives, the reader should be able to say, “Wow! What a surprise! I didn’t see that coming! Although, now that I really think about it, he did come to the Halloween party as Jerry Springer. I see how it all ties together now.”

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Mike Sullivan of the Pittsburgh Penguins will coach the U.S. men's hockey team if the NHL goes to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
USA Hockey announced its coaches for the 2022 Games on Wednesday. Along with Sullivan, Joel Johnson of the University of St. Thomas will coach the women's national team, which seeks its second straight gold medal. David Hoff was named the head coach for the U.S. Paralympic sled hockey team.
Sullivan, 53, has served as head coach of the Penguins for the past six seasons, winning back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2016 and 2017. The Massachusetts native has a lifetime coaching record of 321-187 with 15 ties and 66 overtime losses with the Penguins and Boston Bruins. He has international experience, most recently having served as an assistant coach to John Tortorella in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. He also served as an assistant coach on Peter Laviolette's staff at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Penguins president of hockey operations Brian Burke said the team was excited when USA Hockey reached out and asked Sullivan to coach the Olympic team.
"We think he deserves it. We frankly think he should have been a finalist for NHL coach of the year. It'll be a great experience for him, if we go," said Burke, who was the general manager for Team USA in 2010 and director of player personnel in 2014.
Burke said Sullivan makes for a good Olympic coach because he understands the nuances involved with a short tournament.
"It's really critical. People don't realize how quickly the Olympics come and then go. You gotta get your team on the same page right away, and the teams that don't have trouble. So you gotta pick the right team, fill all the right roles and the coach has to get them on the same page immediately. There's no down time," Burke said.
Sullivan marks the second Penguins coach to lead the men's Olympic hockey team in the past decade, as Dan Bylsma led the 2014 team to a fourth-place finish in Sochi.
The NHL's 2021-22 regular-season schedule will include a break for the Winter Olympics, reportedly scheduled from Feb. 5-22.
But NHL participation in the Winter Games isn't yet guaranteed. After skipping the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, the NHL agreed to allow its players to return to the Olympics in 2022 and 2026 as part of the four-year extension of the collective bargaining agreement it struck with the NHL Players Association last summer. But there are still details, including regarding COVID-19 insurance, that need to be ironed out with the NHLPA and the International Ice Hockey Federation.
On the women's side, Johnson has more than 20 years of collegiate experience, which includes two stints (1999-2004 and 2010-2021) over 16 years as either assistant or associate coach for the University of Minnesota women's ice hockey program. He'll be behind the bench for the IIHF Women's World Championship (Aug. 20-31) in Calgary, Alberta. The U.S. is trying to win a sixth straight gold medal in that tournament.

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An important message from Lynn
By Liz Berry, SDA Organiser
Lynn from Woolworths in Rockhampton has been an SDA member for almost 16 years and an SDA shop steward for the past 12 years. Unfortunately during her tenure, she was diagnosed with breast cancer – but as a true inspiration, she fought and won against the disease and has become an advocate, raising awareness for breast cancer.
She offers the following advice:
- Get a routine mammogram, even if you don’t have any family history. Without this, the cancer would not have been identified;
- Stay positive and keep busy;
- Take all offers of help, because you will need it;
- Be honest and up front with people from the start so people can understand your limitations and give you privacy.
Lynn said she received a lot of support from her family, friends, her management team and of course the SDA. After negotiation with her employer, they allowed her the flexibility to continue to work on her good days and have the ‘wipe out days’, after chemotherapy, off work.
In October, her team at Woolworths held a breast cancer fundraiser and she says ‘the sea of pink was very humbling’. Lynn is now over four years on from her fight with cancer, and hopes to host a shindig next year to celebrate 5 years cancer free.
Lynn, we wish you all the best and are glad we’ve been able to support you on this journey. You are an inspiration to many for your honesty and your determination to raise awareness about breast cancer WILL save lives.

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Stressed About Finals? The UCLA Library Can Help!
Continuing a successful pilot begun last quarter, the two largest UCLA libraries will be open twenty-four hours a day during tenth week or finals of the spring quarter:
- Powell Library Building: Open around the clock from Monday, June 3, at 7:30 a.m. to Friday, June 14, at 5 p.m.
- Charles E. Young Research Library: Open around the clock from Sunday, June 9, at 10 a.m. to Thursday, June 13, at midnight
The circulation desks will be open in both buildings during the extended hours, and bookstacks will remain accessible. Reference assistance will be available online. A BruinCard will be required to access these buildings between 7 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on these days.
Stressbusting Activities: Chair Massage...Dogs...Meditation... Origami
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
- Chair massage: Tuesday, June 4, noon-2 p.m. First Floor
English Reading Room
- Jigsaw puzzles, origami, snacks: Monday-Wednesday, June 10-12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Humanities 250
Powell Library Building
- Guided Meditation: Wednesdays, June 5 and 12, 12:30-1 p.m. East Rotunda
- Origami: Ongoing throughout tenth week and finals
- Silent Disco: Tuesday, June 4, 7-8:30 p.m. Rotunda
- Therapy dogs: Tuesday, June 4, and Friday, June 7, noon-2 p.m. Group Study Rooms
Science and Engineering Library/Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Collection
- Chair massage: Wednesday, June 5, noon-2 p.m. Research Commons
- Origami: Ongoing throughout tenth week. Research Commons
Charles E. Young Research Library
- Chair massage: Thursday June 6, 2-4 p.m. Lobby
Chair Massage provided in partnership with UCLA Fitwell

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'When the sheep and cattle lie dead on the moor,
murdered in the ink-black night
Do not stray into cavern or over dark tor,
for The Grim sets forth in the fading light.
The Princetown Book - 1860
DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK – PRESENT DAY
Ms. Smith was a fit lady in her mid-forties. Her clothes were immaculate (in Vogue business chic today, rather than Armani Couture).
She loved driving up to the moors, where she could unwind and shed the day’s load of clients’ demands regarding their architecture projects, as she exercised her lowchen, Patch, through the heather on the shortcut grass tourist paths of Haytor.
There were no people to spoil her silence; Patch was her only companion. It was fantastic in the autumn, when the tourists had left. In the summer she chose other, less frequented routes and she drank in the solitude.
The small dog’s lead made an impromptu belt around her waist, the metal clasp knocked reassuringly against her thigh as she walked.
She paused to look out over the landscape,
taking her eyes off the view for a moment to check, briefly, that this year’s Mercedes stood alone and unblemished in the distance, in the roadside parking bay she always used.
As she enjoyed the view, her small dog investigated a rabbit track.
Patch suddenly became alert. He stared out into the darkness.
Ms. Smith noticed his tension.
‘Patch, what’s up boy?’
Patch kept staring into the darkness. He growled softly. It was an unfamiliar sound from the good natured pet.
He looked uncertain, then loped back to her side and stuck close to her heel, very nervous.
‘What’s out there?’
She peered into the blackness, and shone her torch against the grass and taller heathers.
Patch whined and looked up at Ms. Smith. She checked the silky night. There was nothing there. Was he jumping at ghosts? She told herself not to be silly. But he was so close now he was getting under her feet.
The usually confident young dog was very definitely upset by something he was sensing. His nervousness was infectious. She scanned the darkness as she walked, looking for whatever had disquieted him. Not a fox. Maybe a badger? Were they dangerous to people? She increased her pace.
A near silent swish of grass to the left …
… Her torch revealed nothing but moorland.
Patch whined again. She looked at him. He was definitely scared – and he didn’t take his eyes off whatever it was out there. But each time she shone her torch where he was looking, there was nothing to see but darkness, heather, shadows, and grass.
Ms. Smith increased her pace again, sure that they were being followed by … something.
She had scoffed at the unbelievable stories of a big cat roaming the moors when she had overheard them years ago in her local coffee shop, but now they tickled at her memory. There had never been any evidence! She told herself they were just stories, unsubstantiated rumour. But… Were they just stories?
It must be a badger. Patch had her jumping at ghosts. She was being silly.
Her car was still a long way off.
She tried to keep her fear under control.
Patch nearly tripped her. She caught herself, but felt the torch slip from her grasp and fall. It hit the ground and darkness triumphed, briefly, as its beam died.
She grabbed the torch and shook it as she started to jog, one eye on the path and the rest of her attention on getting the darned torch to work. The torch sputtered back into life, illuminating her face. Thank God! She felt movement in the air beside her, turned her face towards it. Her relief turned to terror. The night itself seemed to be attacking: she had a brief, shadowy glimpse of eyes and fangs.
‘N–!’ her scream was cut off short.
Patch fled whimpering. The noise of ripping flesh and crunching bone faded in the distance as Patch ran flat out. He didn’t know where he was, or where he was going. He just needed to get away.
A battered old Land Rover, with a National Parks’ Warden emblem on the side, cruised along under the grey morning sky. The back was filled with wire, fence posts, wood, tools and assorted useful rubbish.
Mabel Cooper, a naturally pretty thirty-four year old tomboy, drove expertly along the narrow twisting roads on her way to the first job of her day. Fixing that fence would likely take her most of the morning, she was looking forward to the workout.
The rising sun promised to burn off most of the cloud cover before lunch. It was going to be a lovely warm autumn day.
Against the sunshine, the colours of her National Park Warden sweatshirt brought out the hazel in her eyes. She tapped her fingers and hummed along to the tune on the radio.
Mabel noticed Patch on the moor ahead and slowed the vehicle. Her happy mood changed instantly to one of concern and anger.
It was unusual to find lone pets on the moor. He – or she! – was probably either lost or abandoned. Perhaps the owner got sick while walking, but pets didn’t usually leave them alone if that were the case, and there was no obvious sign of another human being up here.
Mabel had to stop for the dog anyway, but decided to check around for any sign of the owner at the same time. And if the owner was not there she’d need to trace them, check they were okay – and most importantly – find out whether they had a good reason for leaving a vulnerable animal up here by itself without food, shelter or protection.
Patch, bedraggled, cold, afraid and alone, sat amongst the heather shivering. Mabel pulled up the Land Rover, and jumped out to tend to the small hound. He, she noted by the shoulders, had an attractive white body with tawny patches on his shoulders, flanks, and a jaunty one over his left ear. Most likely a show dog. He appeared to be in good condition, well looked after. Mabel felt a tug of concern for the owner.
She grabbed some bailer twine from the back, and headed over to the dog.
‘Here boy! – Here doggie!’
Patch looked at her, forlorn, lost. She had nearly reached him.
‘Good boy. Good dog.’
Patch waged his tail and hesitantly came to her. He sniffed her outstretched hand.
‘Good boy. There’s a good boy.’
Patch licked her hand, obviously grateful for the company.
Mabel got down on her knees and took some trouble to make friends with him. Then she ruffled the fur around his neck. But she couldn’t find a name tag.
She looked around. There was no sign of the owner. She checked his pads, he’d been running over some rough terrain, but had no obvious injuries. She gently teased a few snagged sprigs of gorse and heather from his coat.
‘What are you doing out here? ’Ey? Where’s your Mummy, or your Daddy? ’Ey? Come on. You come along with me.’
Mabel looped the bailer twine though his collar and took him back to the Land Rover, talking as they went: ‘Did someone dump you here?’ At the back of her mind the thought, people can be right bastards, mixed with a thread of concern over where his owner might be.
She put Patch on the passenger seat and closed the door shutting him in, then got in on the driver’s side next to him. She dragged her lunchbox out of the foot well, dismantled her beef & mayo sandwich, ate the gherkins, and fed the rest to Patch. He was hungry.
‘You can come to work with me for now, then we’ll try and find you a place to stay. ’Ey?’
She stroked his head. He curled up, lay his head on his paws, and looked at her mournfully. Mabel started the engine.
As she drove, the sun came out as promised.
The miles passed rapidly. The scenery quickly changed from open moor to sheltered moorland valleys.
The hillside was covered with woodland, which was separated from the road by an acre strip of field.
The shoulder-height, earth-filled, solid granite cavity walls on either side of the road were effectively hidden by deceptively soft-looking banks of grass and weeds, which clung to each on a shallow bank of earth. Trimmed bushes of either hawthorn, or gorse – occasionally beech, but everywhere brambles topped these attractive, but ultimately tourist unfriendly, scenic hedges. They were perfect for keeping livestock under control.
The earth-core stone hedges flanked each side of the asphalt. The lower side of the road was all fields, where the terrain opened up into “twenty four seven” farming community.
Mabel pulled up on the designated parking strip next to a gate. A sign beside the gate proudly indicated a well-used footpath and walking trail. At the far side of the field the trail disappeared into the thick woodland.
She looked across to her small companion. She sensed he was worried about his owner, but she wouldn’t be able to start that hunt until she got back to base at the office in a few hours’ time.
‘I have to work,’ she said. ‘Got to keep the tourists safe, can’t let ’em see nature “red in tooth and claw”. You want to help?’
Mabel got out and grabbed a bag of tools from the back.
Patch lay his head back down on the seat and whined.
‘Your choice, mate. See you later.’
She shut the Land Rover door with her foot, shouldering the tool bag. She fetched a fence post from the back, slung it over her other shoulder and started towards the woodland.
On the uphill side of the forested path, sheep fencing separated the tourists, mature pines, and tamed land from young trees, and wild grazing. A bit along the way, one of the fence posts had been snapped through and the wire was down.
Sheep footprints peppered the gap; wool snagged on barbed wire showed where the beasts had forced their way through by weight of numbers.
Mabel set about detaching the barbed wire and sheep netting from the broken post. A claw hammer was the perfect tool to lever out the U-pins.
The new fence post lay where the old one had been; the wire and netting securely attached to the top half of it. Mabel set about digging the old fence stump out of the ground.
Mabel heeled in soil around the new post, bedding it in firmly. But as she worked, she became uneasy, it felt as though someone was watching her. As she finished the last round of bedding-in, she heard leaves rustle behind her. She looked up quickly.
There was nothing there.
Mabel went back to work.
A blackbird gave an alarm call and flew off. There was another rustle from off to the side. She paused, then casually stooped and picked up the claw hammer. She kept up the appearance of working, as if she was inspecting her tools, but actually she waited ...
She shook herself and reached for the new U-pins, about to secure the sheep netting to the bottom half of the post.
A silent footfall.
She whirled: teeth and blood-matted hair leaped at her from the side!
Mabel screamed and fell backwards as she tried to avoid the attack. She brought the hammer up to strike, but the animal just hung jiggling in mid-air.
It was a dead Cambridge lamb. The corpse was lowered slightly to reveal a chortling ageless, wily moors-man with weathered skin. He looked to be in his late fifties, but Mabel thought he was older; probably just shy of seventy. This uncommon rake with a quirky, dark sense of humour had introduced himself when she first moved here – and at first she hadn’t known what to make of him. He was possibly an ex-poacher, now unofficial gamekeeper for the local population. He knew everyone and every inch of the moor, and she rapidly came to look on him as both a mentor and trusted friend.
His name was Shane and he was wearing, as usual, camouflage poachers’ greens. His suppressed chuckles became full-bellied laughter.

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I take a lot of overnight trips, so the FavorGear Small Travel Toiletry Bag Super Light Toiletry Organizer for Overnight Trip is just what I need. Most of my trips are for concerts. This summer I’ve gone to Detroit to see & meet Michelle Branch, to Toronto to see & meet Lionel Richie, to Buffalo to see & meet Mary J Blige, to Niagara Falls to see Diana Ross, to New York City to get my doctor of the year award, and back to Toronto to see & meet Lady Gaga! I either fly or drive. When I fly, I pack my toiletries away in the checked luggage. Otherwise, I pack them in my purse.
My travel essentials include the following:
eye lash serum
eye shadow primer
That might sound like a lot, but it’s just what I need. It takes all of these things to make myself look flawless when I meet celebrities. After all, these are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, so I want to look like a million bucks! Photo shoot makeup is more dramatic and heavy that day-to-day makeup, so I tend to pack a little more than just daily casual makeup prep tools.
Luckily the FavorGear Small Travel Toiletry Bag is very light weight and takes up only a little space. The fabric feels like one of those waterproof rain jackets. It collapses down so easily when it is empty. It is waterproof and has 3 separate compartments in which to keep my items. The one side has a handle, so I can carry it that way or hang it up on something. The other end has a little loop. I haven’t figured out that that is for yet but it’s good to have the option to do something with it. It was just the right size and shape for me to put all the overnight toiletries I needed in there. It gives me comfort knowing that my items are safe in there all in one easy and convenient place.
I also admire how versatile this is! I can put all kids of stuff in here! On one of my trips, I forgot my purse and I needed something in which to carry my phone and keys, so I used the FavorGear Small travel Toiletry bag, and it worked wonders! I matched my outfit and people were asking me about it, because it was so interesting to see. I was very pleased with it.
Another time, I needed something in which to pack my lunch and I used the FavorGear small toiletry bag. I was able to put a bottle of water, a baggie of grapes, a sandwich, napkins, and a fork & knife in there! Whoa!! Plus there was tons of extra room left.
Check out my video to see it in action!
I can’t wait for my next trip now that I have this to carry all of my travel essentials! My next trip is to see Bruno Mars in concert as a VIP in the front row in Buffalo NY! What’s your next trip? What are your travel essentials? I’d love to hear your tips!

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TOKYO—Japan's top three car makers all reported drops in domestic production in October, as vehicle sales were hit by sagging demand after the government terminated a purchase incentive program early in the previous month.
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The fact that all three car makers cut domestic production in the month was a direct consequence of the end of government purchase incentives for fuel-efficient vehicles on Sept. 8.
The sluggish domestic production data are the latest bad news for Japan's auto makers. Auto sales in Japan tumbled 23% industrywide in October, according to data released this month by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association.
The diminished appetite for new vehicles puts more pressure on auto makers, which are already struggling to cope with the strong yen. A high yen versus other major currencies reduces profits earned overseas when repatriated, and makes products more expensive outside Japan.
Car companies don't expect domestic sales to pick up anytime soon.
Honda's chief operating officer for domestic sales, Hiroshi Kobayashi, cautioned last month it may take a year for domestic demand to recover in yearly terms.
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Toyota said domestic production totaled 237,089 vehicles in October, down 22% year-to-year, as domestic sales sank 25% to 103,672 vehicles.
Nissan logged a 12% fall in output to 87,215 vehicles, as domestic sales dropped 24% to 33,626 vehicles.
Honda said it built 80,378 vehicles in the month, down 0.8%, as sales at home slumped 29.2% to 37,745 vehicles.
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In a huge victory for pro-life advocates in California, the bill the state Senate passed to make the state the next to legalize assisted suicide has died. SB 128 is reportedly off the table for the rest of the year after Democrats had trouble finding enough votes in a state Assembly committee to move the bill ahead.
SB 128 is not expected to move forward any more this year some sources inform LifeNews, though Democrats are expected to file the legislation again next year — prompting yet another battle to protect seniors, the terminally ill and disabled.
Brian Johnston of the California Pro-Life Council confirmed for LifeNews that the bill is dead for this legislative session.
“Senator Wolk’s office confirms they have pulled the bill from Assembly Health. Will it be a 2-year bill.. will they put their chips on court action? On an initiative?” Johnston asked.
The pro-life advocate credited looming questions surrounding the assisted suicide death of Brittany Maynard as one of the reasons the bill stalled.
“If the Death with Dignity bill, SB128, requires a consistent request, 15 days apart, then why was Brittany Maynard killed the day after she told the world she had changed her mind and wanted to live?” Johnston asked. “We never found out why, just hours later, she was killed anyways, and we must presume, it was at her own hand. Who ‘counseled her? What was the nature of the counseling? Did she feel media pressure to be ‘back on schedule’? Did she feel even subtle pressure from those around her to, ‘just get it over with’?”
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“These questions have been wreaking havoc inside the death-advocates’ camp. Our recent efforts have re-enforced their methods, and what actually works to stop them,” he continued.
Johnston told LifeNews the bill died despite last-minute effort by the media and euthanasia activists to prop it up.
“In the past 2 weeks, pop-media have been feverishly trying to re-frame the debate as being about religion, and the involvement of the Catholic Church. Hemlock Society founder, Derek Humphrey, upon his arrival in California in 1985, set the template for how euthanasia advocates would typically frame opposing arguments: “We are no longer dependent on priests and prelates as in olden times, in a democracy we are free to follow our better judgment.”
He said pro-life groups and disability rights advocates will have to face the fight to legalize assisted suicide again next year.
Johnston concluded: “This second postponement of the Assembly Health Committee hearing on SB 128 is only a brief respite. This may now become a 2-year bill. We know that the death promoters are committed to use every avenue they can, the media, the courts, the legislature. We know they will still bring the bill back to Assembly Health. They will be back.”
The bill sputtered after six Latino Democrats on the important state Assembly committee balked at the bill. Their reservations came after Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez spoke out fervently against the bill last week. Archbishop Gomez said, “The compassion that doctor-assisted suicide offers is hollow. And this legislation has dangerous implications for our state, especially for the poor and vulnerable.”
He added: “There is no denying that in California and nationwide we face a public health crisis in the way we treat patients who are terminally ill and at the end of life. But the answer to fear and a broken system is to fix the system and address the fears. It is not to kill the one who is afraid and suffering.”
“The debate over doctor-assisted suicide is a distraction that is preventing us from confronting the real issues that we face in public health,” citing Americans’ longer lives and the growing incidence of such age-related illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s,” he continued.
State Sen. Bob Huff, a Republican who is the minority leader in the State Senate, talked about the bill failing:
A high-profile bill that recently passed out of the state Senate without much trouble is facing a much tougher road in the Assembly.
Senate Bill 128 would legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in California. Supporters call it the Death with Dignity Act.
In reality, however, the bill should be known as the “Aid in Killing” act. We are asking our health care professionals — the people we hire to care for us and cure us — to now prescribe drugs that will cause our death.
Although I opposed this measure on the Senate floor, and I was not alone in my opposition, 23 others did vote in favor of it, which was enough to send it to the Assembly. And that’s where the trouble started.
The two authors of SB 128 have canceled a vote on the bill in the Assembly Health Committee because there is currently not enough support. The sponsors of SB 128 might be hoping that if they delay the vote long enough, the passage of time may change the minds of some committee members.
Where is the opposition coming from? Hundreds of organizations and citizens are vehemently opposed to physician-assisted suicide. This includes the American Medical Association and the physicians who treat cancer patients: oncologists.
These are the doctors that deal with dying more than anybody. They deal with death on a regular basis. They are the ones who have to explain to the patient or family that they have a terminal illness. Nobody wants to hear this. It’s never taken well. People don’t rejoice when they are told they are going to die.
A statement from both the Association of Northern California Oncologists and the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California sums up their opposition: “For many practicing physicians, end of life issues are purely theoretical. For oncologists, it is an everyday part of their practice to assist the patient in a comfortable death … an act that directly causes the patient’s death’ is contrary to the role of the physician.”
As LifeNews previously reported, the California Senate passed the bill on June 4th with a 23-14 vote and it’s currently awaiting state assembly consideration. If passed, California’s assisted suicide bill would require doctors to lie about the cause of death in assisted suicide. A board member from the Disabilities Rights Education & Defense Fund Inc., Ann Cupolo Freeman, explained the other problems with the legislation.
Freeman said, “No assisted-suicide ‘safeguard’ can ever protect against coercion. In this era of managed care, will those living with a disability and the seriously ill be more likely offered lethal prescriptions in place of medical treatment? A prescription for 100 Seconal tablets costs far less than most medical treatments, especially considering the cost of long-term care for someone living with a disability.”
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She continued, “There would be no one there to know whether or not a patient changes her mind or decides that she isn’t ready to die. There would be no one there to know if the individual has taken the pills on her own or if someone else put the lethal dose in a feeding tube.”
As LifeNews also previously reported, in 2014, 29-year-old cancer patient Brittany Maynard received national attention after she announced her plans to kill herself under Oregon’s assisted suicide law. Maynard found out she had stage II glioblastoma multiforme and had up to ten years to live. However, after she had surgery, doctors found out that she had the most deadly form of brain cancer, stage IV glioblastoma multiforme. The cancer usually kills its victims in a matter of months.
Oregon is one of five states, along with New Mexico, Montana, Washington, and Vermont that allow assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act passed in 1997 and has allowed for 1,173 prescriptions, with 752 deaths resulting from access of the medication.
After Brittany’s diagnosis, she decided that she wanted to move from her California home to Oregon so that she could have access to the “death with dignity” prescription. Tragically, on November 2nd she took her own life with a lethal dose of phenobarbital.
Although California Governor Jerry Brown has reportedly not taken a position on the bill, his aids said he talked with Maynard before she committed suicide.


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The Tsukiji Fish Market, Japan
The Tsukiji Fish Market is currently located in Tokyo, Japan, and features a massive amount of wholesale seafood in addition to tourist directed outdoor markets.
Tuna auctions are perhaps one of the most well known activities, and tourists can watch the action if they wake up early enough to snag a ticket. If you really want to see this, plan ahead.
Walking around inside the market is an experience in itself, with workers zipping past you on electric vehicles and containers of a variety of fish lined down the walk ways. Little ones are not allowed inside, as they could get hurt in the bustling environment, and adults will want to be on their toes!
Outside, the environment is still as busy as a beehive, but it's more laid back and appropriate for visitors of all ages. Retail shops offering souvenieirs, food vendors selling everything from squid jerky to matcha tea and a wide assortment of fresh sushi restaurants are packed along the narrow walkways. We had little ones with us, and I'd highly recommend skipping the stroller for something that straps your kid to your chest. The stroller made it hard to get around.
We came mainly to eat at one of the itty bitty sushi restaurants that can seat no more than about 10-15 people at a time. It's really just a sushi bar, no tables or extra seating; this let's you closely communicate with the chef while he makes recommendations. These guys take sushi quite seriously, so we just let him pick everything for us.
I tried a lot of things I thought I'd hate...like salmon roe (little pink eggs) and mackerel (a really strong fish with a sardine like taste). He even told us there's a specific order in which the fish should be eaten; from the faintest tasting to the strongest. Sushi has always had a special place in my heart, but now I'm plagued with constant cravings of Tsukiji sushi.
Most meals in Japan are pleasantly paired with hot tea and soup, which we also received before our massive plate of sushi. Even though we had to wait outside in the hot sun while one of us at a time slipped into an open seat, it was a phenomenal experience. The only thing I didn't like was sea urchin; it tastes like straight ocean water.
We sampled authentic japanese snacks and tried hot matcha for the first time in the market streets. I drink matcha almost every day now. Japanese culture is beautifully unique, and a lot of it can be experienced at the market. If you ever wander towards Tokyo, it's a landmark place to go.


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3 thyme sprigs
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons minced shallot
3 large garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons crushed brined green
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/2 cup Armagnac or other brandy
2 cups dry red wine
1 cup veal demiglace
1/2 cup heavy cream
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WASHINGTON: Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart is returning to Glover Park Group, a firm he co-founded, as a senior adviser after a stint as Facebook's VP of global communications.
“[Lockhart] is one of the finest strategic minds in communications and consulting. We couldn't be more excited to welcome him home. Our clients and our firm will benefit greatly from his leadership and wise counsel,” said Glover Park CEO Chip Smith, in a statement.
Last October, Lockhart said he was leaving Facebook to take up consulting. He oversaw the social network's corporate, policy, and international communications team after joining the Palo Alto, CA-based company the previous June.
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Commercial drivers in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Monday withdrew their services to protest alleged illegal taxation by some thugs and local government officials in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that due to the protest a lot of commuters were stranded at bus stops in Calabar while many trekked to their different destinations.
The protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as “stop harassing us”, “illegal taxation is a crime in Cross River” among others.
The protesters alleged that some people were often harassing drivers in the metropolis to pay some taxes and levies against the tax exemption law of the state.
Governor Ben Ayade had constituted the Cross River Anti-Tax Agency to ensure that all low income earners in the state including taxi and tricycles operators were exempted from paying all forms of taxes and levies.
Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria, the representative of the protesting drivers, Edem Asuquo, said drivers were caught on a daily basis for dropping and picking passengers at different spots in the city.
“They take you to their Centres and collect N25,000 or N15,000 from you, which is the least.
“So we decided to march to the governor’s office to protest and hear from him directly and know if he is the one sending these people to harass us or not.
“This is why we withdrew our services today,” he said.
In his response, Emmah Isong, a clergyman and Chairman, State Anti-Tax Agency, said the protest was good and a welcome development.
“The governor exempted these classes of people from taxation and, then, some politicians and local government officials kept taxing them.
“We, the Anti-Tax Agency, have tried everything to tell the local government authorities not to tax them.
“So the people should take their destinies in their hand by protesting for their right, it is good for the state, so long as they are peaceful and do not destroy any property.
“They have been using security agencies to harass the drivers, security agencies that refused to cooperate with the Anti-Tax Agency are cooperating with politicians to harass and exploit the poor,” he said.
He advised residents of the state to know their tax exemption rights and pursue them vigorously, adding that it must not be the job of the Ant-Tax Agency alone.
NAN reports that due to the protest, a lot of commuters were stranded at bus stops in Calabar while many trekked to their different destinations.
When contacted on telephone, Nkese Emeyo, the media officer, Calabar South Local Government Area, said the council had nothing to do with the extortion.
“My Chairman placed a revocation notice to all contractors collecting taxes for the LGA. So, there is nothing like tax from our council.
“We are not getting anything from anybody and we have not sent anybody to get tax from drivers,’’ she said.

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EDITORIAL: THE REAL THING (english)
by Workers World
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16 Sep 2003
EDITORIAL: THE REAL THING
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 18, 2003
issue of Workers World newspaper
EDITORIAL: THE REAL THING
The problem for any ruling class that wields a huge propaganda apparatus designed to feed whatever it wants to the public is that it can so effectively turn night into day and fantasy into virtual reality that it can start to believe its own lies.
Take the false picture of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
that is repeated endlessly, usually in the same pat phrases, by all the capitalist media in this country. Disparaging terms like "hermit
kingdom" assume that the DPRK is a pariah among nations that shuns
society and has no contact with or friends in the rest of the world. The editorial writers who toss off such phrases seem totally oblivious to the fact that most of the world today sees the U.S., not North Korea, as the pariah, the international outlaw, the huge threat to peace, from the Middle East to the Far East.
When U.S. representatives went to Beijing in early September for a six-nation meeting on Korea, they assumed that the other countries would acquiesce in Washington's strong-arm tactics against the DPRK. The north had been asking for one-on-one meetings with Washington to finally get a peace treaty ending the Korean War of 1950-53, or at the very least a pact with the U.S. that would be a guarantee against aggression.
The Koreans have pressed this issue ever since Bush put them on his
"Axis of Evil" list and the Pentagon openly stated its right to start a war with Korea--the so-called "first-strike" policy.
The Bush administration thought it would put more pressure on the DPRK by making Russia, China, Japan and South Korea sit down at the table, too. After all, it has enormous economic and military leverage in the world and is used to getting its way.
But the administration is in trouble--in Iraq, in the world and at home, too. Everyone knows that now. The kind of brutal demands it is used to flinging out don't have the same weight they once did.
So when the U.S. representatives made it very clear that all they want
is to disarm North Korea without giving it any guarantees not to attack, the Koreans rejected such a non-offer. China's vice foreign minister, Wang Yi, the host of the six-nation talks, then declared the United States was "the main obstacle" to any settlement.
It was another taste of reality--not the virtual kind--that the Bush
gang hadn't bargained for.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, the population was ecstatically welcoming the DPRK's soccer team. A Washington Post reporter wrote on Sept. 8 from Seoul about the tumultuous welcome given a group of the team's
cheerleaders. "'They give me chills of excitement,' said Park Seung Jin, a 27-year-old restaurateur who came to the games just to see the women. 'We are one nation divided by foreign powers. These women help us to see Korea as one. ... North Korea is no longer my enemy. It is not South Korea's enemy either.'"
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- Son of writer-director Howard Franklin, he began working on film sets at the age of 17.
- Worked as an assistant to magician-actor Ricky Jay and producer Stuart Cornfeld.
- Received an award for excellence from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
- Had recurring roles on New Girl, Veep and black-ish at the same time in 2016.
- 2016, Screen Actors Guild Awards — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series: Nominee
- 2017, Screen Actors Guild Awards — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series: Winner
- Georgia Mischak — Wife
- Howard Franklin — Father
- New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, New York, United States (2007)

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Show heater temperature information when heating (+ control parameters)
Currently, using OpenTherm, Tado can ramp up the heater temperature very quickly. Sometimes even reaching 80 degrees. It would be great if a tile in the app can show the temperature of the water in the heating system. It is indicated on the heater itself and also on my previous thermostat. Offering this in a graph showing your heating profile per day (as is also shown per radiator/thermostat right now) would give a lot of information on how the system is being used.
To be clear: I am talking about the temperature of the water within the heating system, not the hot water tile that already exists.
It would be even better to be able to control certain parameters based on insights from that graph, such as maximum water temperature for heating, heating power profile (slow/medium/fast), cooling profile etc. But I posted a separate suggestion for that ;-)


We are proud to announce that our double-lane cup filling machine for filling of yoghurt has been successfully delivered and commissioned for Mukurweini Wakulima Dairy (Royal Fresh).
Mukurweini Wakulima Dairy Limited is based in Nyeri County of the Central Province of Kenya. The company was established in 1990 with the main objective of collecting members milk and marketing it to the milk processors. The company started processing of fresh packed milk in 2014.
New cup filling machine has been supplied to increase existing capacities of yoghurt production as well as to improve existing packaging technology at site.


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Did you have a whole shoe box full of them?
I had a shoe box full and so did my daughter. My Mom and my Grandmas gave them to us. Sometimes I would sit for hours just touching the embroidery and feeling the smooth silky fabrics. Several years ago, I dreamt of making a quilt with all of them.
This summer when my daughter got married. She asked if we could use them for the wedding. We washed them and pressed them and neatly folded each one. We put them into an old picnic basket of my Grandma's. We handed them out before the wedding ceremony, as a remembrance of the day and if some wanted to shed a tear of happiness for the bride and groom.
Before I put the remaining little hankies away, (back into the box for a Hankie Quilt that I will make some day), I decided I needed to make something out of them.
My first thought was to use the same fabrics from the wedding table runners, but they didn't seem to match any of the hankies.
Yellow fabrics would be pretty with this hankie.
I decided to make a little mug rug. First I needed to reinforce the back of the hankie to make it stronger. I ironed on a lightweight interfacing like you put on the back of the T-shirts when making a T-shirt quilt.
Then I trimmed it.
All four sides.
Chose the yellow strips.
I wanted the hankie to be in the corner of the mug rug, so I added the strips to form a rectangle.
It is ready to quilt.
Note that I quilted --- meandered right through the embroidery stitching on the hankie.
I used a yellow daisy print on the back of the mug rug.
Bind it --- All machine Embroidery Stitched Binding.
Ready for a cup of coffee?
I am ready to make another one... and another one and another one...
How about you?
Dig out those old hankies and make a little mug rug!
They would make a great gift for Grandma or anyone.
Take time to play! Enjoy the moments in your life...


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Marshall Islands Social Security officials have warned the government that the retirement programme is heading for bankruptcy unless it takes immediate action.
Because the cost of benefit payments is exceeding revenue, the agency has had to withdraw money out of its investments for the first time in ten years.
Social Security officials say the amount they have to withdraw to meet the rising beneficiary payments will increase and wipe out their investment fund in the next few years.
Our correspondent Giff Johnson says the retirement programme will have to be reviewed.
"Most of the people who receive benefits have actually received more than they originally paid into the system in taxes and they maybe also proposing some controls on beneficiaries beyond the original person paying taxes."
Giff Johnson reporting from the Marshall Islands.


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The farming of onions has been going on for centuries. Each area has its own kind, which is dependent on the conditions of the place in which they are panted, but all must meet a number of requirements for a good crop of onions. Today it is possible to plant these at home thanks to the development of...
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DescriptionBASIC Software Library: Volume 1 - Business and Recreational is a compilation of various business and recreational programs written in BASIC. Some games are included. They are:
- Animal including a more comprehensive cybernetic AI program that teaches the player how to learn about animals.
- Astronaut - The player must try to land a space ship on another planet in this Lunar Lander variant.
- Bagel - Code guessig game.
- Cannons - An artillery game.
- Checkers - The classic board game.
- Dogfight - An aerial dog fight with missiles.
- Golf - A golfing game.
- Line Up - A number sorting game. A randomized list of numbers must be put back in ascending order in the least possible amount of moves.
- Horse Race
- Tank - A war game between two tanks.
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A Study on Cross Layer MAC Design for Performance Optimization of Routing Protocols in MANETs
One of the most visible trends in today's commercial communication market is the adoption of wireless technology. Wireless networks are expected to carry traffic that will be a mix of real time traffic such as voice, multimedia conferences, games and data traffic such as web browsing, messaging and file transfer. All of these applications require widely varying and very diverse Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In an effort to improve the performance of wireless networks, there has been increased interest in protocols that rely on interactions between different layers. Cross-Layer Design has become the new issue in wireless communication systems as it seeks to enhance the capacity of wireless networks significantly through the joint optimization of multiple layers in the network.


The idea of going solar sounds great, but we acknowledge that it can be an expensive exercise which may not be a solution that will work for you. As hybridization specialists we are in the business of consulting rather than selling something that will not work.
Here’s a guide to help you understand the differences in the types of power solutions that can be installed to your business or home.
Let’s start at looking at the 2 types of power solutions and what the difference is:
What is a back-up power solution?
A backup power solution consist of an inverter and batteries which is installed on your property db board. This will offer you a solution to still have power in the case of a power outage or load shedding. Because a back-up solution uses battery power, the battery will run out at some point and will need to be charged again. Thus it will need power from the municipal grid in order to charge.
A back-up solution is a great solution for homes and small business to have a back-up power solution in case of a power outage. Depending on the amount of connections, our back-up solutions will be able to give you 6-7 hours of electricity on an essential load.
What is a self consumption solution?
A self consumption solution consist of batteries, an inverter and solar panels. This will offer a power solution that will feed approximately 40% of your electricity load from solar panels. Which means this solution will be able to save the amount of power you are using from the municipal grid. And essentially reduce your monthly electricity bill. Will you save money if you’re paying for batteries? Maybe not, but it’s possible to change to an energy efficient lifestyle and that will definitely save you money.


Having seen ultrabook SSDs and a regular solid-state drive line, we can now take a look at the newest addition to the world's supply of NAND Flash-based storage units aimed at enterprise and industrial applications.
Foremay is the company behind the creation of the SC199 and TC166 solid-state drive series, which we will examine individually.
The former is aimed at mission-critical applications, like central server hubs and such, mainframes, etc.
The latter is composed of drives for terminal computing (electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from larger computer systems).
Both drive collections stick to the 2.5-inch form factor and the thickness of 9.5 mm (7mm and 5 mm are the only smaller sizes).
The largest of the lot, or more capacious, has 2 TB of free space to store things, which is a good bonus over the high transfer rates inherent in all solid-state drives.
"By leveraging Foremay's patent pending technologies, we are proud to deliver the world's first 2 TB SSD in standard 2.5" SATA form factor," said Jack Winters, Foremay's CTO and co-founder.
"We hope our high reliability 2 TB SSD drives can help create more design freedom and storage space for both mission-critical and enterprise applications."
Foremay's new SSDs have Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T. ), Advanced Power Management (APM) and advanced error correction algorithm.
Fast erase, military secure erase and hardware-based encryption can also be added to the spec sheet, though they aren't default specs.


A judge has ruled that prosecutors have enough evidence to try a Montgomery County woman accused of suffocating a five-month-old child she was babysitting 19 years ago. 38-year-old Melissa Haskell (pictured here) of Swedesburg appeared Wednesday at a preliminary hearing. She is charged with third degree murder in the 1992 death of Ryan Baurley at his Upper Merion home. The County Coroner’s office ruled at the time that it was a case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as Crib Death. A review of the original autopsy, conducted earlier this year, found bruises on the baby’s brain and larynx and alcohol in his blood. Police said they re-opened the case after a concerned citizen told them Haskell had admitted giving the baby whiskey and suffocating him by putting her hand over his mouth because he wouldn’t stop crying, and she admitted it again during electronic surveillance. Her lawyer said the tipster was her ex husband, 42-year-old Michael Leflar of Bridgeport, he came forward during a bitter dispute over the custody of their son, six-year-old Michael Junior, and he questioned the ex-husband’s credibility.


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Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration, through January 25, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA, 310.440. 4500.
Stephen Courtney, Affair in the Garden, exhibit of fine art furnishings, continues indefinitely, James Coleman Gallery, 1431 Ocean Ave., 310.393.7436.
Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California, through March 1, Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA, 310.440.7300.
Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets), through February 9, Getty Villa, 17985 PCH, PP, 310.440.7300.
Fowler In Focus: Ancient Ceramics From Columbia, through February 22, 2009, Fowler Museum at UCLA, WW, 310.825.4288.
Mexican Calendar Girls, The Golden Age of Mexican Calendar Art, through February 1, 2009, California Heritage Museum, 2612 Main St., 310.392.8537.
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations in Abstract Painting and Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now, through February 8, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 310.443.7000.
Prisms Of Jewish Life: Selections From the Peachy and Mark Levy Family Judaica Collection, through February 8, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA, 310.440.4657.
Silver Seduction: The Art of Modernist Antonio Pineda, through March 15, 2009, Fowler Museum at UCLA, WW, 310.825.4361.
TCG 2009 Juried Open, reception 2-5pm, January 18, through February 1, Topanga Canyon Gallery, 120 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, 310.455.7909.
Wall Works, large-scale installation by Martin Kersels, through January 17, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, 310.586.6488.
Milford Zornes, Remembering an American Artist, 1908-2008, through January 25, 2009, California Heritage Museum, 2612 Main St., 310.392.8537.


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