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Islamabad, NOV 18: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq said on Friday that as per intelligence reports, there were fears of another attack on former prime minister Imran Khan.
He passed the remarks while hearing a petition filed by traders regarding road closures due to the party’s protest.
Earlier, Justice Farooq had sought a report from the inspector general of Islamabad police on the petition and directed the interior ministry to devise a strategy to ensure hassle-free protests in Islamabad.
During today’s hearing, the judge, quoting intelligence reports submitted in court, said that there was a possibility of another attack on Imran’s life.
“It is the responsibility of the government and the state to look into the matter,” he said.
It is pertinent to mention here that the PTI chief was injured during a gun attack while leading the party’s long march in Punjab’s Wazirabad on November 3. A PTI supporter, Moazzam Nawaz, was killed in the incident while 14 others, including the former premier, were wounded.
At the outset of the hearing, the IHC CJ instructed the PTI to submit a fresh plea to the Islamabad administration seeking permission to stage a sit-in in the capital.
“If the issue is not resolved, a fresh petition can also be filed,” he said, stating that it was not the court’s responsibility to allot a place for the sit-in.
“It is the administration’s discretion if they want to give permission for D-Chowk or F-9 park.”
Justice Farooq observed that the administration should decide the rules and regulations for the protest. “The same was ordered by the Supreme Court as well,” he said.
The court also asked if roads in Islamabad were still closed and sought an update on the situation in other provinces.
After the Wazirabad firing incident, enraged PTI supporters had taken to the streets in major cities across the country, prompting the federal government to reprimand the provincial governments.
“What happened to the directions given to the provincial government by the Centre? What will happen if the provinces don’t comply with the federal government’s directions,” IHC CJ inquired.
He went on to say that protesting was the democratic right of every political and non-political party, but upholding the rights of common citizens was also important.
“Even in England, people gather at 10 Downing Street. But they protest, not block the streets,” he pointed out.
“When the SC said they can’t stop the long march, you blocked the GT Road and other motorways,” Justice Farooq told the PTI lawyer, calling on the party to “demonstrate responsibility”.
He then reiterated that if the PTI wanted to hold a protest it had to submit a new application to the administration. “If permission is given, make sure roads are not blocked and citizens’ rights are protected.”
Subsequently, the hearing was adjourned till November 22.
The traders in the petition, filed earlier this week, had pointed out that the SC earlier this year had sought an assurance from the PTI that it will confine its protest to a specified place.
However, the party violated its undertaking and marched towards D-Chowk and set trees ablaze and damaged public properties.
The rally was finally called off on account of fear of bloodshed, it added.
The petition stated that the protest by political parties was to be seen through past experience starting from 2014 when a political party started a sit-in in the city for almost five months during which vital government buildings, including Parliament House and Pakistan Television, were attacked.
It requested the court to restrain the political party from entering Islamabad’s commercial areas. Permission for public demonstration could be made conditional with a proper undertaking by the PTI of confining itself within the designated place outside the periphery of the capital city.


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Dr. Mehmet Oz in his concern that we understand the importance of eating healthy and cancer prevention, featured a segment in which he had his studio audience on The Dr. Oz Show tested for carotenoids levels in their skin. As he explained, carotenoids are an important group of antioxidants by which regular dietary consumption may help prevent cancer and other diseases. They are considered anti-angiogenic which means they starve cancer cells. As the audience may represent a general cross section of Americans, how did we do? Is it possible that perhaps diet may be the cause of the health crisis in America today?
Using a revolutionary non-invasive device such as The BioPhotonic Scanner, on a scale of 10,000 being the worst to 50,000+ , here are the results:
- 50,000 or more – Dr. Oz was 75,000!
- 40,000 to 49,000 – only 6% was this level and above
- 30,000 to 39,000
- 20,000 to 29,000 – 23,000 was the audience’s average
- 10,000 to 19,000 – 40% was in this category!
Dr. Oz says that numbers like this show that Americans on average only eat about 2 to 3 servings of fruits and vegetables a day and our risks of life threatening and/or life ending cancers are dramatically increased which is indicative of today’s health crisis.
So how do we know we are getting enough antioxidants to protect ourselves and our families from sickness and disease without the use of a revolutionary device?
Dr. Oz’s guest colleague Dr. William Li, MD and Cancer Researcher says you can get antioxidants in a pill form but the best way is in the foods that we eat. Scientists who conducted a major study of antioxidant activity published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry agree and said…
“Diets rich in fruits and vegetables have been considered as excellent sources of antioxidants. Vitamin C and E, polyphenols and carotenoids have been thought to be responsible for most of the antioxidant activity in foods. However, clinical trials using supplements of vitamin C, E, or carotenoids have provided inconsistent results. In terms of disease prevention, clinical trials with whole fruits and vegetables are more likely to give positive results…..”
Dr. Oz has recommended eating three to five servings of vegetables and two to four servings of fruit each day. Let’s say I intend to eat the following menu tomorrow. Will I have enough antioxidants?
- Breakfast. One cup plain low-fat yogurt, 3/4 cup blueberries, 1.5 oz walnuts, 2 tbsp wheat germ
- Lunch. chicken breast, 4.2 oz spinach and 4.2 oz tomato salad, 1 tbsp olive oil
- Snack. 1.5 oz cheddar cheese, 1.5 oz Tortilla Chips plain
- Dinner. 4.6 oz black beans, 4.2 oz steamed broccoli, 4.2 oz steamed carrots, 1 tbsp olive oil.
You may want to use a free online nutrient calculator such as The RightTrak.com. The RightTrak.com has an Antioxidant Listing of Foods and will also calculate your Recommended Daily Allowances(RDA) for over 30 nutrients while it is calculating your BMI. You can select a variety of foods and The RightTrak will add up the nutrient values of your selected foods such as vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, folate, beta carotene…and more. The RightTrak will turn Green if those allowances are met or Red if those allowances are not met.
Spend some time on The RightTrak.com and do several food searches. You will quickly learn and understand what favorite foods are giving you the most “Nutrient Bang for Your Buck! In this case….
1. The RightTrak shows that I have ample Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Betacarotene and Lutein. Those figures are “green”.
2. I seem to be short on Vitamin E and Lycopene. Those figures are in “red”.
If I remove the raw tomato and add salsa, a processed tomato product, I see that now I have met and exceeded my daily lycopene requirement.
*Note-the best sources of lycopene are cooked or processed tomato products and sauces. Cooking breaks down the tomato cell walls making the lycopene easier to absorb.
3. In The RightTrak, you can do a Nutrient Search for Vitamin K. You will see that if you add a serving of sauteed sweet red peppers, you will meet your antioxidant requirement for the day with 6 servings of fruits and vegetables.
You can also click to see if your list of foods meets your needs for calories, fiber, protein, omega fatty acids, B Vitamins, minerals etc.
TheRightTrak uses data the USDA’s National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, where they have analyzed more than 100 nutrients in over 7500 foods. It also
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On January 25, Diamond Schmitt Architects presented the vision for the University of Guelph’s performing arts wing of the MacKinnon building, including the IICSI’s new ImprovLab!
The ImprovLab, scheduled to open in 2020, will be a publicly accessible, state-of-the-art, technologically advanced research and performance facility for the advanced studies of improvisational artistic practices.
Below are two rendered views of the ImprovLab presented at the Design Open House. Inset in the first image is a blueprint of the vision for a fluid seating plan in the ImprovLab.
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Griz killings in Upper Green Allotment Wyoming
The recent killing of more grizzly bears by the Wyoming Game and Fish, a listed endangered species, to protect ranchers in the Upper Green River Allotment on the Bridger Teton National Forest is another shameful example of the mixed-up priorities and mismanagement of our public lands. Why should native animals, especially, endangered animals, be killed or removed to facilitate the private profit of livestock owners.? These are OUR public lands. Grazing is a privilege, not a right. If ranching activities jeopardize the public’s wildlife, should not the private livestock be removed rather than the public’s wildlife?
Putting cattle out on the Upper Green River, one of the best wildlife habitats on the entire Bridger Teton National Forest, akin to putting out four-legged picnic baskets. If you or I were to leave our food out while camping in Yellowstone or Grand Teton National Park, we would be fined. However, in Wyoming, taxpayers reward ranchers. If a livestock operator loses a cow to a bear, the state of Wyoming “compensates” them for the loss.
The Bridger Teton National Forest had an opportunity to manage these lands for public benefit when it revised management for the Upper Green River Allotment. Instead of managing these public lands for the public benefit, they continued the same old policy of putting private interests ahead of public interest. The presence of livestock in this area has more impacts than the death of grizzlies. The Forest Service documented effects to riparian areas, amphibians, sage grouse, and other wildlife. The presence of livestock also pollutes water, socially displaces elk, and permits the consumption of forage that would otherwise support native wildlife from grasshoppers to elk.
As long as the BTNF continues to put private interests ahead of public interest, we will continue to see grizzly bears killed merely to protect the profit of private livestock operations. Is this really what we, the public, want from our public lands managers?
George Wuerthner is an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology
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George is absolutely right. The USFS is not in tune with public resource values.
The primary cause of grizzly bear mortality in the GYE on all sides of Yellowstone N.P. is conflicts with livestock. If this continues how can grizzlies possibly connect on habitat corridors to other populations.
If ranchers have to degrade wild habitat to remain viable then maybe that kind of ranching will no longer support modern lifestyles with new half-tons and sending the kids to college. The arid West has not supported ranching like other regions.
Ranchers are heavily subsidized on our public lands–dare I say the real welfare queens? With tax-payer funded subsidies come obligations to deal with costs associated with furthering the common good, which in this case includes meaningful recovery of grizzly bears. Ranchers have no right to complain and certainly no right to demand lethal remedy for their largely self-inflicted problems. Get off welfare or grow up. Or, perhaps, tax payers could just give me huge sums of money to maintain my “way of life,” no questions asked.
Cattle in the upper Green River area create a bottleneck for migrating wildlife between Yellowstone snd the Wind River Mtns.
In Montana, backpackers shoot female grizzly bear, claiming self-defense. Neither were carrying bear spray:
“All grizzly bears are important to the recovery of the Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem, but, yes, females drive population growth more than males,” he said.”
Hate to generalize but we’ve gotten a taste in the past of how some Sanders County residents feel about their wildlife:
All the way down to their elected officials:
“well shucks, they didn’t break any law”
A good read:
Derrick Jensen “The Myth of Human Supremacy” re: management
You may come to believe that forests can’t manage themselves, but that you can manage forests. You may come to believe that the world cannot survive without your interference, while the truth is that the world cannot survive your arrogant interference.
It helps explain how an astronomer can say we need to explore Mars “to answer that most important question: are we all alone?” as this culture destroys life on this planet. It helps explain how so many foresters can continue to claim, as their “forestry” destroys forest after forest, that “forests need management.” It helps explain how people keep trying to “manage fisheries” as they wipe out species after species. It helps explain how even so many so-called environmentalists state explicitly that they are trying to save, not the planet, but civilization, which so many perceive as humanity’s–and thus the universe’s–most important creation.
Perhaps the notion of humans attempting to manage the natural world reveals more than anything else the complete insanity of human supremacism, and this supremacism’s near-absolute invulnerability to counter-evidence. This culture has critically harmed or destroy EVERY single biome it has managed, and yet the managerial ethos gets stronger every day. Forests: managed to death. Yet still the managers claim to know what is best for forests. Wetlands: managed to death…. Rivers: managed to death…. Oceans: managed to death….
If a doctor killed or injured every single patient he saw, would you trust your life to this doctor?
New Book Alert: It is called “How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West” by Chris Ketchum.
I have not read it yet as I am currently trying to get through :Fort Meade and the Black Hills by Robert Lee.
What I have been seeing is a recurrent pattern of the elite taking resources and sponsoring the repression of any entity considered as a possible threat to their profits. It might interest you to know that the South Dakota business people of the time, heavily lobbied the government for protection even though the threat from Lakota Indians was quite minimal. The military spent 1.3 million dollars in 1890(much of it went to these businesses in the form of supply contracts etc) to make sure that the last 350 sick and starving Lakota in Spotted Elks band, who were walking from Standing Rock reservation to Pine Ridge (300 miles)in the cold of winter were thoroughly repressed. This resulted in the Wounded Knee massacre and many white business men smiling on their way to the bank.
President Trump and to a large extent the media are bringing back these old frontier attitudes- like, ‘if you can’t make money off it then kill it’. The moral decay and rise of hypocrisy is very real but most of the population has been lured into a kind of mental stupor, fueled by computer technology and the lust for a kind of fun and games fantasy world that they now mistake for “reality”.
Not even human life is worth very much to the U.S. senate as they adjourned for recess in the wake of mass killings of there own citizens. How can grizzly bears or any other species survive in this kind of atmosphere?
Pls tweet out to reps!!!is everyone above the law. While in recess blm n other nefarious agency are taking advantage of killings bears wolves All horses!!!
The land belongs to them HAVE YOU LOST YOUR DARN MINDS HELL NO WE WILL NOT SIT FOR THIS !!!time for free loading cattle farmers to buy there own land stop riping wild life and America off . There free loders !! Cattle bad on ozone and we have enough climate change..buy your own land move on cattle farmers cry babies we are sick of your bossy pushy movies and your crying ! Move on buy your own place we the public want are lands back !!!
From an article in Star Tribune Casper, WY:
Green River Cattle Association experimented with a cattle bunching technique several years ago, but it wasn’t effective. Sommers is toying with the idea of trying out less-vulnerable breeds of cattle and is also intrigued with guard dogs.
(Gee, intrigued by guard dogs, he should be required to try all nonlethal methods before killing the grizzlies).
Wildlife belongs here…. cows do not


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Monsanto sued Germany last month, after that country’s agriculture minister, Ilse Aigner, banned the planting of corn seed engineered to resist the corn-borer moth. In banning the seed strain, called mon810, Germany joined France, Greece, Austria, Hungary and Luxembourg. While only Germany has so far been challenged in court, the biotech giant has reserved the right to sue other mon810-resistant countries as well, on the grounds that since mon810 was approved by the European Union, it’s illegal for member states to ban it.
Monsanto has gained infamy by suing farmers whose fields become contaminated with genetically modified (GM) pollen from neighboring farms. By going after sovereign nations, the mega-corporation is at least picking on targets closer to its own size.
Monsanto is demanding proof that mon810 poses a risk to the German people, environment or economy—proof Germany has yet to provide. While such evidence, if it exists, would be enlightening, Monsanto’s demand raises another question: Is innocent until proven guilty the standard by which the dangers of self-replicating genetic material should be assessed?
Guilty until proven innocent, a more cautious approach, appears to be favored by mon810-resistant countries. And mon810 has hardly been proven innocent.
Its modified genome has been shown to be unstable—the inserted genes are prone to drift away from the points on the chromosome where they were originally inserted. This makes mon810 potentially problematic to track, detect and predict.
An Austrian study released in November 2008 suggests a link between mon810 and infertility in mice. The study’s authors cautioned that these results are preliminary and called for more study. Monsanto, not surprisingly, has disputed the science behind the study.
On the environmental front, studies have shown that mon810 can kill Monarch butterfly larva, although so far efforts to demonstrate negative effects of mon810 on Monarch populations have failed.
Based on information like this, the mon810-resistant countries have decided further investigation is warranted. So the question becomes whether a sovereign nation has the right to proceed with caution before introducing an organism of concern into its food production system.
Monsanto seems ready to throw such caution—along with clouds of GM corn pollen—to the wind. The company is pushing the EU court for a decision by mid-May, in time for German farmers to plant a mon810 crop this season. The Germans, known for their conservative disposition, and many of their newspapers, are saying “not so fast.”
An editorial in Die Welt argued: “As long as doubts remain about this strain of corn and its potential danger to humans and the environment, it is our duty to ban it. This is neither populism nor panic-mongering. It is an act of reason—first to test the genetic process, then to gather facts.”
Back on this side of the pond, another study is causing a different kind of problem for Monsanto. The Washington D.C.-based Union of Concerned Scientists has released a report, “Failure to Yield,” that surveys the scientific literature from the past 20 years, and examines genetic engineering’s effectiveness at boosting crop yields.
“Many commentators and stakeholders have pointed to the alleged promise of genetic engineering (GE)—in which the crop DNA is changed using the gene-insertion techniques of molecular biology—for dramatically improving the yields of staple food crops.
“But a hard-nosed assessment of this expensive technology’s achievements to date gives little confidence that it will play a major role in helping the world feed itself in the foreseeable future.”
Corn and soy are the two most commonly grown genetically modified crops, with 90 percent of American soy and 63 percent of American corn, by acre planted, being GM. After comparing the results of 11,275 field trials, lead researcher Doug Gurian-Sherman concludes:
“GE soybeans have not increased yields, and GE corn has increased yield only marginally on a crop-wide basis. Overall, corn and soybean yields have risen substantially over the last 15 years, but largely not as result of the GE traits. Most of the gains are due to traditional breeding or improvement of other agricultural practices.”
While no shortage of people and groups ask questions about the safety and efficacy of GM crops, too few people, unfortunately, ask the larger question: Do we even want to be growing so much corn and soy?
As Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma; In Defense of Food), has so meticulously pointed out, corn-based products like corn syrup have infiltrated the American diet to an alarming extent, and wreaked havoc on American health.
Most soy is destined for animal feed, and methane from soy-fed livestock is one of the most significant contributors to global warming.
Monsanto promotes genetically modified crops as means to feed the world, but that altruistic argument kind of shrivels in light of the fact that so much of its product is destined for animal feed. The dedication of cropland to growing food for animals, whose meat feeds the wealthy classes, is widely recognized as one of the prime causes of hunger among the world’s poor.
If the Union of Concerned Scientists is correct in concluding that genetic tinkering has failed to increase soy yields, that’s another blow to Monsanto’s altruistic pretense. I’m not saying genetic engineering is inherently a bad thing. But in the hands of megacorporations like Monsanto, the risks outweigh the rewards.
Ask Ari: Flying the coop
Q: Dear Flash,
First of all, thank you for all you did to get the chicken law passed in Missoula. I love my flock, but I do have a hen-related problem. They like to fly over the five-foot fence and into the backyard. From there it’s a 4-foot flutter into the alley behind the house. Once in the alley, they will hunt and peck their way down the block, and even into other yards. I’ve heard you can put netting over your yard, but I’m wondering if there’s a simple solution, like psychological deprogramming or something. I know some people clip wings, too, but that sounds too cruel.
—When Hens Roam
A: Assuming there’s nothing you can do to make the girls happier in their yard, clipping wings is your best option. It isn’t cruel—no more painful than getting a haircut.
The chicken needs to be calm when you do this, so dusk is a good time. Have a friend hold your chicken. Gently lift one wing away from the body, and snip 2 or 3 inches off the ends of the feathers sticking out behind the wing. Repeat with the other wing. If you’re nervous about snipping too much you can always snip a little and see if that stunts their flying enough. But as long as you’re snipping feathers and not flesh, there really isn’t such a thing as too much.
And thanks for thanking me for helping legalize chickens. I’m not sure I deserve any credit, though I’m happy to take some. Mad props belong to Missoula Community Food and Agriculture Coalition (CFAC), and to all the people who pestered City Council, especially the goofballs with the awesome “I’m pro-chicken and I vote” T-shirts that I wish I had.
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December 2020: we've launched our first ever advertising campaign with Britain's leading vegan magazine Vegan Food & Living.
We'll be on the back cover of every issue of Vegan Food & Living for the next twelve months, starting with this beautiful image of a Christmas tree made from cocoa powder and other lovely ingredients that we use in our vegan and organic chocolate truffles.
We've been delighted with the response to the ad, so we hope you like it too!
What's more, the photograph, created in-house here at Booja-Booja and shot by Norfolk photographer Joe Lenton, has already won an award: it received the Highly Commended award in the Societies of Photographers awards for November in the commercial category.
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Neon has no doubt been one of the season's most popular trends — and with good reason: the vibrant hues are perfect for complementing a glowing tan, plus they give any look a standout palette. We love Fab reader ppfgirl's fresh take on the trend. She paired an ivory lace dress with hot pink pumps and a nude envelope clutch. What made this dress extra special was the flash of neon green, peeking out from underneath the pretty lace. She finished off the sophisticated ensemble with a pair of classic shades and a gold statement cuff. Got some neon in your wardrobe that you're dying to try? Take a cue from this look and work it in new, unexpected ways.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed S.744, the Senate immigration reform bill and this bill will soon be voted by the full Senate. This bill includes a proposal that would boost immigrant entrepreneurship and the bill would create a new visa program called the INVEST (Investing in New Venture, Entrepreneurial Startups, and Technologies) visa program, meant for immigrant entrepreneurs. This new visa program would permit immigrant entrepreneurs to come to the United States and start businesses. Nevertheless, their businesses must be capable of creating new jobs in America and this would be the country’s first visa category specifically designed for immigrant entrepreneurs.
The immigration reform bill would create two types of INVEST visas, immigrant INVEST visas and non-immigrant INVEST visas. Non-immigrant INVEST visas could be renewed by the foreign investors if their investments create jobs and meet the other criteria, within three years. Moreover, the bill would make the EB-5 Regional Center Program, permanent. That is because, this program has created several jobs in America and has attracted several foreign investors. At the same time, immigrant entrepreneurs have also made substantial contributions to the country and they have founded many businesses, in the country. Moreover, more number of immigrants start new businesses in America and around 28 percent of the new businesses in the country were started by immigrants, in 2011 whereas only 13 percent of the new businesses in America were started by US citizens.
Likewise, they have contributed billions of dollars to the country’s economy. Global Detroit Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, Welcome Dayton and the Chicago Office of New Americans are few initiatives that are attracting immigrant entrepreneurs. Immigrant entrepreneurs must be attracted as they would help revitalize ailing economies. EB-5 visa program is doing good in Vermont and Senator Leahy wants to make this program more popular. This new INVEST visa program would effectively encourage and attract foreign investors. This would also spur job creation and benefit the country’s economy. The Senate immigration reform bill would make available 10,000 immigrant visas for immigrant entrepreneurs, every year. The bill would also create 3 year non-immigrant INVEST visas, that could be renewed.

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Fiona Zuzartee is Miss MalaysiaIndianOctober 6th, 2008 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANS
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 6 (IANS) Fiona Zuzartee, who thinks beauty contests are for empowering women, is the new Miss MalaysiaIndian Global.She won the contest Sunday while medical student Sowmya Krishnan and business management student R. Gayathri were the first and the second runners up, The New Straits Times reported.
Fiona took part in the Miss MalaysiaIndian Global pageant because according to her it is a “beauty contest” with a difference.
“It had no bearing on beauty. Rather, it was about empowering women,” said the 20-year-old who beat 16 other contestants to become the Miss MalaysiaIndian Global 2008.
Zuzartee, who aspires to be a pilot, said she did not expect to win the contest at all. It was organised by a non-profit organisation Miss MalaysiaIndia Care Association.
A product of mixed parentage - her mother an Indian and father a Portuguese - Zuzartee said she was elated. She won RM 10,000 ($4,540) worth of jewellery and Persian carpets.
Zuzartee holds an international hotel and tourism management degree from Kolej Da-mansara Utama.


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Great course but grass is so tall it is almost unplayable
This is a nice course. Turf tee pads would be nice, but the short layout pads are too short and many are so crested I found myself throwing from the dirt beside the tee pad. The long layout pads seemed to be much nicer, but that’s a way tougher layout for an beginner or even intermediate player. Course makes you throw a variety of shots, some wooded and some open.
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Malton Community Building Project
“We would like to begin by acknowledging the land on which we gather, and which the Region of Peel operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land, and continue to do so today. In particular we acknowledge the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.”
About The Village Malton
Malton is located in the northeast corner of Mississauga abutting the City of Toronto to the east and the City of Brampton to the north. Malton is situated adjacent to the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Malton is separated geographically from other Mississauga neighbourhoods. This has created a strong sense of community. Much of this community pride emanates from Malton Neighbourhood Services an organization that operates out of the Malton Community Centre, situated at 3540 Morning Star Drive. This organization provides support for newcomers, as well as adults, youth and seniors. Additional Malton landmarks include Westwood Plaza, Paul Coffey Arean and Park, Mimico Creek, Malton Creek, Malton Victory Hall, and Victory Park.
The post-war period saw waves of Italian and Polish immigrants settle in Malton, while the 1970s and 80s saw this shift to the South Asian and Caribbean population, who continue to make up the predominant demographic in Malton today. Malton’s proximity to Pearson International Airport, originally Malton Airport, is often cited as part of the reason it has become a popular initial place of settlement for immigrants, contributing to the tremendous population growth that has occurred from the 1950s onward

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Provinces, SANA- The Syrian Army on Thursday continued heavy military operations against terrorist groups across the country, mainly in Aleppo, inflicting heavy losses upon them in personnel and equipment.
The army’s air force destroyed tens of armored vehicles and explosives for terrorist organizations and killed a large number of terrorists, among them leaders in the surroundings of Ramousah, Ameriya and Khan Touman in Aleppo countryside.
Units of the army and armed forces in cooperation with the allied forces on Thursday continued to advance in the southern countryside of Aleppo central province, establishing control on a number of positions in the area surrounding the military academies and 1070 Apartments Project.
A military source told SANA that units of the army, in cooperation with the allied forces, advanced in different directions in the southern countryside of the province under an air and artillery cover, establishing control on a number of positions in the surroundings of the military academies and 1070 Apartments Project after killing a large number of terrorists.
Earlier, the source stressed that units of the army working to the south of Aleppo, in cooperation with the allied forces, foiled a wide attack by the armed terrorist groups on Wednesday evening from different directions.
The source indicated that heavy losses were inflicted upon terrorists in personnel as a number of their armored and machinegun-equipped vehicles were destroyed.
Meanwhile, the terrorist organizations acknowledged on their social media pages that the “military commander of the so-called Jaish al-Mujahidin” terrorist Yusuf Zou’a was killed.
An army unit destroyed three oil tanks for ISIS terrorists in the area of al-Rashida wells in the eastern countryside of Sweida province, killing all members of the terrorist group.
Four more oil tanks for ISIS were destroyed east of Tal Sha’af and a number of ISIS terrorists were killed east of Barek village in Sweida eastern countryside.
Other army units destroyed three vehicles equipped with machine guns for ISIS in Khirbet Saad and killed several terrorists in Tal Saad and al-Qassar village in the northeastern countryside of Sweida.
A source on the ground to SANA reporter that an army unit destroyed a vehicle, killing two terrorists on board it, as it targeted it in al-Hamidiyeh village, 7 km west of Quneitra city.
SANA reporter in Hama said an army unit ambushed a terrorist group that was moving on a side road near al-Kaffat village to the northwest of Salamyieh city in the eastern countryside of Hama province, killing all members of the group and seizing US-made TOW missiles that were in their possession.
An army unit destroyed a convoy of motorcycles that were transporting terrorists to the south of Old Customs Building in al-Manshia neighborhood in Daraa al-Balad, killing many of them, injuring many others and destroying their weaponry and am munitions.


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text: An opportunity. For Milan, but not only. Gelson Martins, a jewel of Sporting Lisbon, is part of the group of players who asked for the club to be rescinded. In all, we have now reached six elements: first Podence and Rui Patricio, then Bruno Fernandes, William Carvalho and precisely Gelson Martins, then in the last hours also Bas Dost. On the list, however, should also be added Jorge Jesus, the coach, who has already joined Al-Hilal. For everyone the same motivation, namely the aggression suffered on May 15 in the sports center of the club by a group of hooded fans, with physical consequences in particular for striker Bas Dost, wounded in the head. All players will be free to accept offers from any team.Fassone: "Model of the Agnelli family turned out to be a winner"Well, Gelson Martins is one of the fine pieces of the group: offensive right wing offensive, just 23 years, ended the season with 12 goals and 13 assists in 52 appearances. In short, important numbers, which evidently have long since ended up on Mirabelli's notebook. The problem is that, by lowering the price, competition will also increase. Arsenal had already given us a little thought, but it is clear that the proposals will increase from the Premier. Difficult, however, that the big British can also offer the starting spot. And then Milan could leverage on this. Provided, of course, that Suso starts.


The Columbia City Council at its 5/21/2007 meeting voted unanimously to acquire 61 acres of land adjacent to the Columbia Regional Airport for expanding runways. They authorized spending up to $300,000.00 for three parcels of land. The city will be reimbursed for 95% of the cost by the Federal Aviation Administration resulting in a net expense of $15,000.00 for the city. Use of eminent domain to acquire the land if the city can't come to terms with the property owners was authorized.
The three property owners spoke before the council. Their main points were that:
- The city did not inform the property owners about this pending action.
- The property owners have plans to develop their property.
- If the city takes the property it would increase their costs to develop it
- Concern that they will not receive just compensation for the value of their property.
- Finally, that they were not interested in selling.
This is the first step for implementing the 2002 Airport Master Plan. A quick review of the master plan and recent news reports tell the story of a failing airport.
- Ailing airport wants new name
- City strengthens plan to acquire airport land - Eminent domain a possible avenue
The entire airport expansion plan will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Only 5% of that will come from the city with 95% coming from the Federal Aviation Administration. Regardless of who pays, it is all our tax dollars and our airline user fees.
Here are some graphs showing the historical airport usage and projected use from 2000 through 2020. I took the liberty of plotting actual usage on the projected usage graph.
Only government could justify spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a major airport expansion for an airport which is clearly failing!
Of course government bureaucrats and elected officials answer for any failed government program or project is to just spend more money.
Here are my public comments regarding airport expansion at the 5/21/2007 Columbia City Council Meeting:
I am speaking in opposition to the acquisition of additional land to support future airport expansion. I have flown out of our airport just once. My return flight was delayed for hours. I sat there thinking to myself that I could be home now if I had just driven to St. Louis. On my return, I found my luggage stained with hydraulic fluid. That was eight years ago. Since then I have used the private airport shuttle service or driven myself. This is an example of how the free market provides better service to air travelers -- at a profit -- than the heavily subsidized commuter airline paid for with my tax dollars. According to newspaper reports, this land acquisition is part of the 2003 airport master plan -- which is anticipating additional needs through 2020. According to historical data in the master plan, general aviation and cargo have been relatively flat. Commercial boardings have been in a steady decline since their peak in 1978 of 67,588. In 2006, boardings reached an all time low of 13,673. A May 12th Columbia Daily Tribune story predicts that boardings this year may not reach 10,000. Yet the master plan projects over 70,000 boardings for this year. The master plan projections are completely disconnected from historic usage trends. How can this performance justify expanding the airport at this time, especially through the property-seizing power of eminent domain? Thank You


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What Does the Research Say about ADHD and Exercise?
Many parents of ADHD children are waiting for the day they can use non-medical methods to treat symptoms of this neurologic disorder. One such method is physical exercise, which some research suggests may reduce ADHD symptoms that prevent children from succeeding at school and in social settings. What does the research say about the relationship between exercise and ADHD and what does it mean for parents?
The Need for Non-Medical Treatment
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 6.4 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a neurobehavioral condition that appears in childhood and compromises a child's ability to pay attention, listen, follow instructions, avoid distractions, and perform certain mental activities. The accepted treatment for ADHD has been part medication and part behavior therapy.
However, both forms of therapy have disadvantages. For medication therapy, the disadvantage is that the most commonly prescribed drugs–stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall–can cause serious side effects, such as psychosis, heart disturbances, reduced growth, and increased aggression. And since ADHD is a chronic condition that can affect individuals from age 4 through their late thirties, parents worry about the potential damage that decades of stimulant use might cause.
While behavior therapy doesn't involve nearly as many risks as drugs, it requires formal training. Parents must be taught how to create good behavior charts and implement rewards systems that will help their ADHD children control the tendencies to fight, throw tantrums, and oppose authority. Once learned, these methods must be applied consistently at home. No doubt, a tall order.
And parents aren't the only ones fearful that potentially harmful medications are becoming the default treatment for ADHD. So is the CDC, which expressed concern over findings in 2011 that prescriptions to treat ADHD children had risen dramatically. Between 2007 and 2011, the percentage of children taking ADHD drugs had increased by 28 percent, roughly 7 percent each year. Alarmed by these statistics, the CDC urged that doctors and parents try non-medical interventions before opting for drugs.
At about the same time that parents and the CDC were calling for non-medical therapies to treat ADHD, researchers began to notice mounting evidence that environmental factors could change how the brain functions. Though not specifically targeting ADHD children, these early findings were promising.
In 2007, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia concluded that children who engaged in aerobic exercise improved their 'executive functions,' the ability to organize tasks, maintain steady focus, manage frustration, and recall information needed to perform everyday tasks. These are the same functions considered to be impaired in ADHD children.
By 2011, a more direct link between physical activity and ADHD was forming. Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York Jeffrey Halperin reported data showing that play-time activities and physical exercise helped children learn how to control their behavior and take turns with their peers. When combined with laboratory evidence that 'play' could increase 'BDNF,' a protein necessary to control brain functions, Halperin concluded that 'directed play' in the form of structured exercise could help improve mental processes and behavior, allowing ADHD children to develop mental and social skills.
Once 'play' was found to improve development in ADHD children, it was only a matter of time before researchers wondered if exercise could do the same. That hypothesis was fueled by findings from brain MRIs done on children that showed exercise could increase activity in parts of the brain needed for 'executive functions.'
By 2012, the link between physical activity and ADHD symptoms was established. Olga Berwid, a professor of behavior sciences at the City University of New York, wrote about studies that showed daily aerobic exercise had improved children's attention, concentration and social functioning in the classroom.
An Exercise Pill
But exactly how can activities as simple as running and tossing a ball improve symptoms of a cognitive disorder such as ADHD?
The answer, says Dr. John Ratey of Harvard Medical School, lies in how exercise affects the brain. In his book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, Dr. Ratey said: ''Exercise turns on the attention system, the so-called executive functions…'' Exercise, explains Dr. Ratey, stimulates chemicals in the brain-dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin–that control how humans focus and pay attention, the exact functions ADHD kids struggle with. This stimulating action, he says, makes ''for a nice recipe for an exercise pill.''
The Mounting Evidence
FITKids After-School Program
In 2014, researcher Charles H. Hillman at the University of Illinois reported on a study of 221 children, aged 7 to 9, who were randomly assigned to a FITKids after-school program in East Central Illinois. After nine months, the children who took part in physical activity were compared to a group who did not. The FITKids group showed marked improvement in the ability to control their emotions and perform mental work.
A Before-School Program
In 2014, Dr. Betsy Hoza, professor of psychology at the University of Vermont, created a stir in the scientific community when she published the results of a study more targeted to ADHD children. In Hoza's study, 202 children, both ADHD and non-ADHD, between the ages of 4 and 8 were separated into two groups. One group participated in aerobic activities that required deep breathing before school while the other participated in sedentary activities, such as art projects. After 12 weeks, the parents of children in the physical activity group had noted their children were less moody and were more attentive. For Hoza, these results laid a solid foundation to believe that aerobic exercise could effectively manage ADHD symptoms in children.
A Healthy Lifestyle
The evidence that exercise could effectively treat ADHD symptoms continued to rise. In 2016, professor Kathleen Holton in the Department of Health Studies at American University led a study that compared lifestyle habits of ADHD children with non-ADHD children. Holton's findings were based on parent responses to questions on how much water as opposed to sweetened beverages their children drank, how often they read and watched TV, what kind of physical activity they engaged in and how much, and how many hours they slept at night. Holton found that ADHD children were almost two times as likely to follow healthy habits when compared to their non-ADHD counterparts. The findings led Holton to recommend that ADHD children get at least one hour of exercise every day.
Not a Treatment Substitute
Although the research findings to date are catching the eye of prominent researchers throughout the United States, not everyone is convinced. Among the skeptics is clinical psychologist Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., Director of the Brown Clinic for Attention & Related Disorders in Hamden, Connecticut. In a blog post written in 2016, Dr. Brown agreed that exercise is important for ADHD children–just as it is for children who did not exhibit ADHD symptoms. In Dr. Brown's opinion, exercise helps but does not provide lasting benefits. In particular, he said, exercise didn't improve the ability of ADHD children to perform executive functions such as organizing, beginning tasks, retaining information, and maintaining focus.
Dr. Brown is not alone in suggesting that parents and doctors remain cautiously optimistic about the research findings. Even Dr. Hoza, in her landmark study, admitted that ''the exact mechanism by which exercise might ameliorate symptoms of ADHD is not definitively known.''

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What we know from our community
Hong Kong’s linguistic panorama is closely interwoven with the city’s history as a British colony. It has two official languages: Chinese and English. Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese for spoken communication and standard written Chinese for formal written communication) is the language that intrinsically connects with the Hong Kong audience: 88.9% of the population consider it their ‘first’ mother tongue. Cantonese is the predominant language used in everyday life, while English has a major currency in the workplace. One of the most significant differences between Hong Kong Chinese and Standard Chinese used in Mainland China lies in the writing system: Hong Kong Chinese uses traditional characters whilst Standard Chinese uses simplified characters. It is also interesting to note that the language has a rich amount of loanwords from English, such as 士多 (‘store’), 巴士 (‘bus’) and 芝士 (‘cheese’).
Traditional Chinese/Cantonese (official) 88.9%, English (official) 4.3%, Mandarin (official) 1.9%
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Chinese dialects 3.1%, other 1.9%
High proficiency (EF) – 32 of 112 countries/regions in the world- 4/24 position in Asia .
Capital: Hong Kong
Currency: Hong Kong dollar
Population: 7.41 m
Population density: 7,125/km2
GDP: 368.14 billion USD (2020)
GDP per capita: 49,660.6USD (2020)
Exports: $126 billion (2020)
Internet users: 93% penetration, 7.05 million
Unemployment rate: 5.8% (2020)
Literacy: 99% (2020)
Arabic numerals with dot as decimal separator
Date format: yyyy-mm-dd / dd-mm-yyyy
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 00852
Language data sources: Worldatlas/Britannica//EF/Wikipedia; Demography data sources: IMF/Worldometers; Conventions data source: Wikipedia; Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal; Statistics data sources: Datareportal/WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF/Culturalatlas/Commisceoglobal
Facts and data
$571 billion (2020). Integrated Circuits ($162B), Broadcasting Equipment ($43.1B), Office Machine Parts ($30.7B), Gold ($20.1B), and Telephones ($18.2B), importing mostly from China ($262B), Chinese Taipei ($50B), Singapore ($41.7B), South Korea ($30.9B), and Japan ($27.2B).
Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of age)
• 48% have an account with a financial institution
• 24% have a credit card
• 2.4% have a mobile money account
• 19% make online purchases
Global Innovation Index
Ranked 5th out of 17 South East Asian , East Asian and Oceanian countries, 14th out of 132 worldwide.
The Global Innovation Index captures the innovation
ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent global innovation trends.
$126 billion (2020). Gold ($33B), Broadcasting Equipment ($7.28B), Gas Turbines ($6.57B), Integrated Circuits ($5.94B), and Telephones ($4.58B), exporting mostly to China ($25.9B), United Kingdom ($14.8B), India ($14.2B), Switzerland ($12.1B), and Netherlands ($5.72B).
Ease of doing business
It is very easy to conduct business (rated 85.3 out of 100) ranked 2nd out of 20 Asia-Pacific countries ranked 3rd out of 190 countries worldwide (2019, World Bank)
Service Imports (2018)
Service Exports (2018)
Most complex products by PCI
Product Complexity Index measures the knowledge intensity of a product by considering the knowledge intensity of its exporters
Most specialised products by RCA Index
Specialisation is measured using Revealed Comparative Advantage, an index that takes the ratio between Hong Kong observed and expected exports in each product
Export Opportunities by Relatedness
Relatedness measures the distance between a country's current exports and each product, the barchart show only products that Hong Kong is not specialized in
Preferred e-commerce methods
Source: J.P. Morgan 2019
E-commerce method in Hong Kong, split by value
Source: J.P. Morgan 2019
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Media language Traditional Chinese/Cantonese, English
Hong Kong is home to many of Asia’s biggest media players. The territory has one of the world’s largest film industries and is a major centre for broadcasting and publishing. It has kept its editorially-dynamic media, in contrast to the rest of China where official control over broadcasting is pervasive. Freedom of speech and of the press are enshrined in the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution. However, “Beijing’s baleful influence has led to a decline in press freedom”, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in its 2019 assessment. The document stated that more than half of Hong Kong’s media owners are also members of political bodies on the mainland. Amid large-scale protests in 2019 against an extradition bill, “police and pro-Beijing mobs attacked journalists on numerous occasions”, RSF said. Free-to-air TV is dominated by private station Television Broadcasts (TVB). Public Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) was established under British rule in 1928 and operates as a government department. There are more than a dozen free-to-air TV channels and hundreds more networks are available via multichannel and pay-TV platforms. International and pan-Asian broadcasters are based in Hong Kong. BBC World Service is carried overnight by RTHK’s Radio 4 FM network. RTHK ended a 24-hour relay in 2017 to make way for a Chinese state radio network.
Multitude of papers
Hong Kong has long been a major centre for print journalism. Local papers are known for their political leanings, with most being either pro-Beijing or pro-democracy. There are scores of Chinese-language dailies and a handful of English-language titles. E-commerce giant Alibaba owns the prominent English-language South China Morning Post. There are no reports of widespread online censorship or filtering and top international social media are in common use. News websites are increasingly used as a way to access independent news. Content on sites including Hong Kong 01, Hong Kong Free Press and Stand News is censored in mainland China. Chinese platforms WeChat and Sina Weibo are popular, but not as much as WhatsApp and Facebook.
South China Morning Post – English-language daily
The Standard – business-oriented English-language daily
Tung Fang Jih Pao (Oriental Daily) – widely-read daily
Ping Kuo Jih Pao (Apple Daily) – widely-read daily
Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po – managed from Beijing, follow Communist Party line
Wall Street Journal – Chinese edition
HK01 – news site, in Chinese
Hong Kong Free Press – news site, in English
Radio-TV Hong Kong (RTHK) – government-funded, operates seven networks in English, Cantonese, Mandarin
Commercial Radio – operates CR1, CR2 networks in Cantonese and mediumwave (AM) station AM 864
Metro Broadcast – operates Metro Info, Metro Finance and English-language Metro Plus
Media data source: BBC
93% penetration, 7.05 million
Share of web traffic by device
42.96% mobile phones, 50.43% computers (laptops and desktops), 6.57% tablet devices, others 0.03%
Median speed of mobile Internet connection
Median speed of fixed Internet connection
Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 181.9%
Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 100%
Most popular web search engines
Google (91.75%), Yahoo (5.42%), Baidu (1.54%),Bing (0.92%), Duckduckgo (0.09%), Shenma (0.08%)
Most used social media
Facebook (58.08%), Twitter(15.99%%), Pinterest (10.9%), YouTube (7.61%), Instagram (4.19%), Tumblr (1.19%)
84.89 yrs (2020)
5.8% of GDP (2018)
Average age of the population
44.8 yrs (2020)
Contrary to the Chinese tradition, burping and spitting are seen as a sign of rudeness and are considered very impolite.
Like in the U.K., people drive on the left hand side of the street, this is another contradistinction with mainland China.
Fewer people in Hong Kong Tend to Identify As Chinese in 2019
Source: Hong Kong University
Languages research – Hong Kong
Languages spoken in Hong Kong
The geographical distribution of languages that you will find in the maps published in this section is a work in progress. Our community is helping us to fill it up with always new and updated data. Your contribution is precious. If you want to help us, please write to firstname.lastname@example.org
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Yana Wahana 14-09-2019. Yana Wahana2019.9.14. Siyatha TV. The video posted by the most popular Sri Lankan channel Col3neg on 14 Sep 2019 (7:08 PM).
In the CCTV footage revealed to the public by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks, a second explosion is witnessed following the detonation of a device by Fathima Jiffry - the wife of Shangri La bomber Ilham Ahmed - that claimed the lives of several Police officers, and her children. MORE..
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The Department of Posts has announced that all post offices and sub-post offices across the country will not be opened on Saturday (June 06) due to unavoidable reason. MORE..
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The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal to cancel trials for driving licence tests conducted by private institutions, says the Ministry of Transport Services Management. MORE..
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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) should take the responsibility for the downfall of a financial entity under its purview, says Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. MORE..
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The 10 tons weighing Uran-9 is remotely controlled, so there’s always a human directing the machine since it is being developed to provide reconnaissance and fire support to infantry and counter-terror units.
According to a Russian TV Channel Zvezda TV , the Russian Defense Ministry released a video of the one-of-a-kind Uran-9 robotic tank showing battlefield capacity.
The Uran-9 unmanned ground combat vehicle is loaded with a machine gun, 30mm cannon that fires 350 to 400 rounds per minute, a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun and a battery of supersonic guided missiles.
“Russian developers possess all the expertise they need to create modern military robotics that will be in demand on the international market. This is a fast-growing segment of the arms market, so we will develop and implement a long-term marketing strategy for promoting such pieces of hardware, including as part of integrated security projects,” said Boris Simakin who heads the Analysis and Long-Term Planning Department at Russia’s official arms trader Rosoboronexport.
The Russian news agency Sputnik reported that the 10 tons weighing Uran-9 is remotely controlled, so there’s always a human directing the machine since it is being developed to provide reconnaissance and fire support to infantry and counter-terror units.
The developers of Uran-9 said that it will not be treated as a weapon system but rather deployed with an infantry unit. It also has cutting-edge laser warning system, target detection, high-tech identification and tracking equipment.


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Arlette is an Opera, Pop, Jazz, and Musical Theater singer, dancer, and actress from NYC. Using vocal techniques that are a cross between Bell Canto and the Riggs Vocal Techniques, she has created a method of singing that that can easily adopt all styles of music.
Classically trained with a B.A. in music with a concentration in voice, Arlette began her professional singing career at the age of 15 touring with top 40’s bands throughout Europe. By 19 she had landed her first Musical with Star Trek’s Nichele Nichols (Lt. Uhura), and also began singing jazz with Harold Land, Jr, Cleve Eaton (Bassie Band), and Jothan Callins (Sun Ra Band).
Her credits include regional performances of “Evita,” “Ain’t Misbehavin,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” and “A Chorus Line” along with solo performances at Opryland USA, Foxwoods Casino, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Richmond County Opera, The Cotton Club, Iridium Jazz Club, and for TOHO Entertainment in Japan. Arlette’s album credits include: “Love Again” released in 2001, and soon to be released “Windmills” both on the Renesants Records label.
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VAROS 109 is showing the optical power in dBm and the OMI (optical modulation index). Any RF measurements which are known in the VAROS 109 are shown for the incoming optical signals.


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The joint DARPA/U.S. Army Operational Fires (OpFires) program is moving into Phase 3 to further develop and integrate ongoing propulsion system designs into a missile system, including the launcher, electronics, and payload. OpFires aims to develop and demonstrate a novel ground-launched system, enabling hypersonic boost glide weapons to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly and precisely engage critical time-sensitive targets from a highly mobile launch platform.
The OpFires program will conduct a series of subsystem tests designed to evaluate component design and system compatibility, and culminate in integrated end-to-end flight tests. DARPA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control to lead the integration effort.
“We made excellent progress in the first two phases, which focused on the propulsion technologies required to deliver diverse payloads, and I am confident in our approach in the next phase of the OpFires program,” said Maj. Amber Walker (USA), program manager for OpFires in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office. “This award furthers our ability to integrate new technologies and deliver enhanced capabilities in a highly mobile, robust ground-launched platform to overwhelm adversary positions.”
Image Caption: Operational Fires artist’s concept.
Media with inquiries should contact DARPA Public Affairs at firstname.lastname@example.org


Fewer birds counted but new species seen at Mindoro lake
CITY OF CALAPAN — While the number of migratory birds seen at the Naujan Lake National Park (NLNP) in Oriental Mindoro province was down this year, conservationists have noted the presence of two new species of ducks in the lake.
Results of the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) held on
Jan. 18 showed 5,523 birds at the 8,125-hectare NLNP, which were fewer than the 6,907 counted in 2017.
The census, conducted in time for the World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2, was participated in by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Mindoro Biodiversity Conservation Foundation Inc. (MBCFI).
“I am saddened with the low count this year for the AWC, but not actually discouraged as there are new species recorded for Naujan Lake. We also observed large number of ducks in December,” said Ricardo Natividad, NLNP protected area superintendent.
The five groups composing the AWC team spotted garganeys (Spatula querquedula) and Eurasian wigeons (Anas penelope) among tufted ducks at Naujan Lake.
“We were excited, as we saw a lot of small pale brown ducks and a few red-headed ducks amid the dark tufted ducks that we usually see. This is possibly the first record of garganeys and Eurasian wigeons at Naujan Lake and in Mindoro,” said
Geoff Tabaranza, MBCFI research program manager.
The birds counted during the census comprised 33 species. The biggest group was composed of tufted ducks (Aythya fuligula) at 2,692 individuals, followed by garganeys at 832 individuals and whiskered terns (Chlidonias hybrida) at 806.
Tabaranza said the decrease on the number of birds was possibly due to the high mobility of the ducks and an incomplete AWC survey coverage of the lake.
He recommended a wider coverage of the census area and the deployment of a bigger team in the next census.
Tabaranza said the conduct of regular biodiversity monitoring system, finalization of a protected area management plan, and the declaration of NLNP as protected area under the National Integrated Protected Areas System (Nipas) Act should be done to protect the lake and park.
Conservationists have been encouraging residents around the lake to practice sustainable agriculture and proper waste management to reduce pollution from agricultural and domestic wastes.
“We are still very hopeful that with these initiatives, the habitats in Naujan Lake will improve and the number of migratory birds will increase in the coming years,” Natividad said. —Madonna T. Virola
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black and white owl this would be awesome as a tattoo between the shoulder blades. Might consider it. I love the idea of owl tattoos they have so many different meanings and can be made into something personal.
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This a simple and minimalist movie posters by Matt Owen, an art director from Little Rock, Arkansas. He produces simple minimalist movie posters for classic and modern films using the most basic of elements in an incredibly clever way.


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Motives of Influence to Author and Reader
We are told in the beginning of the first journey that Columbus was given information to “set out and make a fresh discovery of these islands” after centuries of lost knowledge on the matter, so it is technically not a true “discovery” but re-discovery, and it is said so outright on page 27, complete with logical explanation.
It is important to be informed of the motives one carries while traveling, especially whilst going about a dangerous, potentially unknown voyage. This allows us to recognize the purpose of this expedition, and put the journey in the framework of the desired outcome as well as the essential purpose of the writings. To know the motive of travel, why exactly the expedition was made, gives us much knowledge to the insight of the journey, and allows us to balance its bias with proper mindset.
What really struck me as influential, even though it happens at the same time to be remarkably obvious, are the exact motives (and in turn, outcome) for Christopher Columbus’ “First Voyage”. Notably hasty, as he even describes himself in Christopher’s Letter on His First Voyage:
“ In conclusion, to speak only of the results of this very hasty voyage, their Highnesses can see that I will give them as much gold as they require, if they will render me some very slight assistance;... and as many slaves, who will be taken from the idolaters” (122).
Essentially, what fuels this discovery of new land is greed; greed for gold, greed for “saved souls”, greed for spices, cotton, aloe, and most essentially land. It is interesting, in this time of conquest, to see the level of demand for new wealth and new land that inspired life-risking, undoubtedly dangerous travel. What is even more interesting is the amount of fascination, applause, and praise it brings to be able to provide the sponsors, Ferdinand and Isabella, with these treasures that Christopher Columbus has “discovered”.
In regards to their obvious purpose of their quest (greed) Columbus’ men did everything they could to influence the natives that they were their friends, only to establish a good reputation for them to take advantage of them in the future.
Even though I have been quite aware those from Europe (and of course here we are talking about Columbus, “originally”) came and not only integrated, but displaced, enslaved, and decimated millions of native peoples to make for the country we live and thrive in today, as well as up and down the Americas, a certain sadness comes over me, knowing that countless cultures and ways of life, beautiful and unique, have been forever lost, taken advantage of because of conquest and advancements of industry by Europeans. The knowledge, and sacred customs of many ancient cultures have now been lost forever, and replaced with a new culture that combines many different ways of life from all over the world.
It is not to say one is the better than another, I just personally find diversity beautiful and there is a bitter-sweetness to travel and change perpetuated by greed, racism, and colonialism which are so blatant in this book. On the other side, these motives of conquest were the norms of the time and set about in their own cultural fabric. We can only look to what has made our past and try to improve ourselves for the future.
(this image was one I had found long ago and am not sure of the exact source)

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text: Invite all your feathered friends for dinner. Just in time for a Fall Feast. This plate is full of beautiful fall leaves in brown and amber tones. There is even a cute little acorn. What bird can resist such an attractive plate? it is a very nice spa day for any creature with wings.


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If you’ve not been to downtown Oakland recently, you’ve missed a lot. The townspeople and business owners have been working hard to revitalize the area and with several new businesses and events happening, Oakland is the place to be. One place that remains a constant, however, is The Painted Cupboard and its alter ego, The Chic Shack.
Most locals are very familiar with The Painted Cupboard, featuring one-of-a-kind primitive country wares and decor, which was an immediate hit when it opened in May of 2005. Because owner Sabrina Liggett offers an ever-changing variety, the shop has remained popular, especially during the Christmas season, when owner Sabrina Liggett, her husband Jim, and a few helpful elves transform the entire shop into a Christmas wonderland filled with unique holiday items for gift giving or to liven up your own decor.
This is Sabrina’s 14th Christmas in the shop and her decorations, especially the window display, are looked forward to all year. She follows trends carefully and always offers the latest in country decor.
“This year we have lots of ornaments as they remain very popular and make a perfect hostess gift or stocking stuffer,” says Sabrina. The most popular this season are made of felted wool which she offers in a variety of sizes and configurations many of which reside on the many beautifully decorated trees within the shop.
“Rustic is also very in this year,” she adds. “We have decorative skis, birdhouses and lanterns…lots of every day items that can be mixed in with your holiday decor then still used year round.”
In addition to the trees, you’ll find berry wreaths in many colorful configurations, hand painted holiday and inspirational signs in a farmhouse motif, and one of their most popular items, lighted canvas prints. Of course, the main symbol of winter is the snowman and Sabrina has tons of them made from a variety of materials. “Snowmen are more seasonal than Santa’s,” explains Sabrina. “You can enjoy them longer.”
You’ll also find the many every-day items that have made The Painted Cupboard such a must see shopping experience including linens, prints, handmade baskets, rugs, soaps and other American made goods. You’ll also find a nice variety of primitive, country furniture hand-made by Jim. Looking for a specific size or piece? Custom orders are available.
Candles also make great stocking stuffers and their featured line of Herbal Star Soy candles comes in a variety of fragrances, several perfect for the holiday celebrations. She also has potpourri, which is available for sale by the cup so you can buy exactly the quantity you need.
Located within The Painted Cupboard is The Chic Shack, small on space but large on selection and style. This tiny shop within a shop is accessory heaven and carries a nice line of scarves, purses, jewelry and an expanded line of shawls and sweaters, sure to brighten up even the darkest days of winter.
These unique, one of a kind pieces are perfect for any age woman on your list and include a line of bags by Joy Susan, tunics, tops and dresses by Mountain Mama and a gorgeous selection of costume jewelry. You’ll also find Deep Creek Lake long sleeved t-shirts and the very popular line of clothing and bags by Simply Noelle, only found in smaller boutiques and gift shops. Sabrina has looks for every style – business, vintage and classic.
Still can’t decide on which gifts to purchase? Gift certificates are always in season.
Be sure to stop by the weekend of December 7, 8 & 9 during downtown Oakland’s Hometown Christmas celebration. Sabrina will be offering 25% off everything in the store, her way of saying Thank You to a community that has been so good to her. You can also pick up your discount card for 2019, where you get various discounts and offers for every item purchased during the year. You can also like them on Facebook for updates and unadvertised specials.
Located at 214 Alder Street in downtown Oakland, The Painted Cupboard and Chic Shack are open Monday – Saturday from 10 AM to 5:30 PM, Sundays from 10 AM to 3 PM. Stop by soon for a great selection of gifts, decor and accessories for everyone on your list…including yourself!


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The United States Congress designated the Mesquite Wilderness (map
) in 1994 and it now has a total of 44,804 acres
All of this wilderness is located in California
and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Mesquite Wilderness is bordered by
the North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
to the west and north and the Stateline Wilderness
to the east.
The Mesquite Wilderness consists of portions of the Mesquite Mountains, Mesquite Valley, and the Clark Mountain Range. The Mesquite Mountains have more gradual rising slopes than the rough and rocky Clark Mountain Range. Numerous small caves are found in the porous rock of the Clark Mountains. Dominant vegetation ranges from the creosote brush sage association on the bajadas to blackbrush, Joshua trees, and pinyon-juniper at the higher elevations. Barrel cactus gardens are also found in some locations. Wildlife is typical for the Mojave Desert; including a large herd of bighorn sheep, coyote, black-tailed jackrabbits, ground squirrels, kangaroo rats, quail, red-tailed hawks, prairie falcons, golden eagles, roadrunners, rattlesnakes, and several species of lizards. The southwestern corner of the wilderness provides critical habitat for the desert tortoise.


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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ― C.S. Lewis
Research of every kind indicates that constant media intake, lack of outside time, over-entertainment, too much exposure to sexual material and immoral values at an early age, and many other of the ills of our age are destroying the souls of children. Many are being pushed and pulled, dragged from one activity to another, and forced to fit into the time boxes convenient to adults. This stress is wreaking havoc on a generation of children who show the evidence of adult illnesses at early ages, small vocabularies, vastly growing obesity levels, and so much more.
Children are starving for real life and drowning in the midst of an empty one. The old fashioned way of raising children seems to be the healthiest way to raise emotionally, intellectually, physically, and spiritually resilient children. Children are natural imitators, so we must fill their lives and minds with worthy people and ideas, with heroes to imitate, so they can practice what they will be when they grow up.
May our children not grow up to imitate addiction to the computer. May they not learn passivity displayed by adults ignoring their needs while paying too much attention to Facebook, blogs, and cell phones. May they not copy the habit as they observe parents dwelling hour after hour in front of impersonal machines, while neglecting to honor and invest in real time relationships.
Sarah, my oldest daughter, often speaks about what it means to have a soul thoroughly alive. She describes rooms in the soul and heart that need to be attended to, in order for beauty, intelligence, creativity, emotional health, a sense of a joyfully fulfilling life to grow. These are truly fundamental needs which must be met in order for a person to flourish.
Children's brains are being robbed of intellectual exercise because they are not doing the things that children have done throughout history. Children need lots of freedom and time to use their imaginations, in order to synthesize all they are learning and thinking about. They need to be read to, and to have their brains filled with moral strength, values, and stories that inspire.
When they are constantly entertained by media, their brains actually become clinically slowed down, because they are overstimulated. A child's undeveloped eyes and brain cannot deal with too much visual stimulation, so the brain actually shuts down in areas when bombarded. Because they are deprived of what their bodies and brains are designed to have--rest, free play, curiosity, interaction with real people and real experiences, problems to solve, fairy tales to spur their imaginations--there is a diminishing of long term emotional, spiritual, and mental health. Unfortunately, most children are not given the freedom to exercise life choices in the oxygen of creative play, and have forgotten how to exist without constant entertainment.
Children need to be outdoors. They need time to be bored so that they will have to figure out how to occupy their time creatively.
They need to be around books, to have lots and lots of imaginative stories read to them and then have time to pretend the stories. They need lots of time with adults so that they can pattern their values and manners and relationships after mature people, rather than always being in the company of immature children or media images which display violence, foolishness, and questionable values.
Children will reflect their environment. Excellence and creativity are the result of a life well-ordered and planned--intentional living out of what is real, true, acceptable, and good.
May all children be blessed with the gift of play, imagination, free time and the space to be outdoors to explore. May they wonder at the marvels of God's creation. May they have the treasure of real human beings who hold their hands while exploring the world, who rock them to sleep and sing them real songs and scratch their backs at bedtime and tell them their own love stories. And may they daily hear the words of their creator God, marvel at His excellence, and grow to love Him with all of their hearts.


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Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:26
ALGIERS- Ten countries have confirmed their participation at the ITF juniors Batiche-Saifi tournament, to take place October 1-7 at the Tennis Club of Sidi-Fredj, Algiers, the Algerian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.
Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:00
TUNIS (Tunisia)- Algerian women's volleyball team will play their Tunisian counterparts in a friendly on Thursday and Saturday (September 28 and 30) in Rades, Tunis, ahead of African Nations Championships in Yaounde, Cameroon, in October 5-15.
Tuesday, 26 September 2017 11:32
ALGIERS-The International Federation of Boules (IFB) entrusted Algeria with the organization of the World Bocce Championship (juniors) scheduled for 2018, announced Mohamed Yacine Kafi, member of the IFB executive committee and new President of the African Raffa Confederation.
Monday, 25 September 2017 19:57
NABEUL (Tunisia)- Algerian tennis players Houria Boukhlda and Mohamed Ali Abibsi qualified to the second round of the international junior tournament Nabeul Open, played from 24 September to 1 October 2017 in Tunisia.
Wednesday, 20 September 2017 13:56
HAMMAMET (Tunisia)- Algerian tennis player Ines Ibbou and his German Chantal Sauvant has qualified for the second round in the double event of women's professional tournament, organized in 18-24 September 2017 in Hammamet, Tunisia, after their victory 2-0 against Belgian Gaelle Emilia Dejonchheere and her Sri Lankan partner Adytha Karunaratne.
Sunday, 17 September 2017 15:42
ALGIERS-President of the Algerian Federation of Boules (FASB) Mohamed Reda Rarroug has been elected first vice-president of the African Confederation of Sports Boules (CASB) whose constituent General Assembly took place in Casablanca (Morocco), on the sidelines of the World Men Championship that kicked off Monday and will run until 25 September.
Sunday, 17 September 2017 08:46
CONSTANTINE- Algerian horseman Ibrahim Mesrati won Saturday the grand prize of the International Show Jumping Competition (CSI first-second stars), “Cirta Jumping Tour 2017,” which wrapped up at the centre of equitation of the commune of Ain Abid, in the presence of Minister of Youth and Sports El Hadi Ould Ali.
Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:27
BEIRA (Mozambique)- Algerian football club USM Algiers has taken a serious option on qualifying for the semifinals of the African Football Champions League, by drawing with Mozambican Ferroviario Da Beira 1-1 (half time: 0-0) in a quarter final's first leg Saturday in Beira, Mozambique.
Friday, 15 September 2017 16:33
HAMMAMET (Tunisia)- Algerian tennis player Ines Ibbou qualified Friday for the semi-finals of the International Open Tennis Tournament, organized from 11 to 17 September in Hammamet (Tunisia).
Friday, 15 September 2017 12:42
HAMMAMET (Tunisia)-Algerian athlete Ines Ibbou on Friday has qualified for the quarter finals of the international "Open" tournament held on 12-17 September in Hammamet.

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It’s hard to believe we’re still fighting to be treated like people in 2017. I want the world to know that Donald Trump does NOT represent me. He doesn’t even represent the majority. We will not be silent.
as part of the Women's March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017


Driver in Fatal Mo. Crash Sentenced to 6 Years
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City man who was speeding and driving erratically before a crash that left one woman dead was sentenced to six years in prison.
Jeffrey T. Jackson was sentenced Thursday for first-degree involuntary manslaughter and second-degree assault in the February 2012 accident that killed 33-year-old Ashlie Limbaugh of Oak Grove.
Prosecutors say Jackson was driving erratically and going more than 100 mph when he left Interstate 70 in Blue Springs and hit four vehicles. Limbaugh was the driver of one of the vehicles stopped at a traffic light when Jackson hit them.
The Kansas City Star reports Jackson told investigators that he had smoked marijuana before the accident, and a blood sample found drugs in his system.


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After nearly 25 years, Cult of Luna’s absolutely crushing wall of sound delivery is unmistakable. It has grown over the years, becoming more intricate and complex, however the sheer power behind it remains unwavering.
They’ve been tagged with many labels – doom metal, sludge metal, prog metal – but the genre most applied to them, and the one they’re considered one of the architects of, is post metal. But the simplest way to describe Cult of Luna’s sound is intense, confronting, and yet (especially in later years) undeniably melodic and even beautiful.
When I was younger, the first time I heard Cult of Luna I thought it was the heaviest thing I’d ever heard. Much too heavy for me. It was almost suffocating in its crushing heaviness. Now, though, I find something oddly comforting in that heaviness. It’s like a warm hug with really fucking heavy guitars.
Cult of Luna are an unstoppable force of thunderous guitars and roared vocals. As they prepare to release their eighth full length album, they’ve continued to push forward with their formidable sound.
They have also produced thrilling new takes on that sound, for example by collaborating with singer Julie Christmas. But that’s a story for tomorrow…