Under the deal signed in the northern city of Elbląg on Friday, a Polish-Belgian consortium will build the new waterway to connect the Vistula Lagoon with the Bay of Gdańsk on the Baltic Sea for PLN 992 million (EUR 230 million, USD 252 million) by 2022.
A Polish maritime administration official signed the contract with executives from Polish company NDI and Belgium’s Besix in the presence of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation Minister Marek Gróbarczyk.
Speaking at the signing, Gróbarczyk hailed the planned new canal as a project that “has been talked about and promised” for decades.
“Today it is finally becoming reality," he said.
The new canal between the Vistula Lagoon and the Bay of Gdańsk will be around 1.3 kilometres long and five metres deep, officials have said.
It will be built by digging through the Vistula Spit, which separates the bay from the lagoon on Polish territory.
The aim is to allow deep-draught vessels to enter Poland’s Elbląg seaport without passing through the Strait of Baltiysk in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave.
The plan to build the canal also requires the construction of new water routes, an artificial island and civil engineering and road infrastructure, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
It said the total cost of the project was estimated at almost PLN 2 billion.
Poland’s conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński said last October that the planned new canal near the Russian border would help enhance his country’s military as well as economic sovereignty.
Kaczyński, who heads Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, said in September last year that the plan to build the canal showed that Russia, Poland’s former communist-era overlord, could no longer dictate to Warsaw what to do.
Source: IAR, PAP


HOUSTON (MarketWatch) -- The United Steelworkers union has asked shareholders at five refineries to approve measures that would provide greater details of their safety to the public.
The union has asked shareholders at Valero Energy Corp.
"We hope that by demanding this information we can force the industry to fix these problems before any more of our members die or are severely injured," said USW International Vice President Gary Beevers, who heads the union's national oil bargaining program.
Shareholders at Valero Energy and Marathon Oil already voted against the measures, according to USW spokesman Patrick Young. Sunoco agreed to the union's request before the resolution went before its shareholders. Tesoro and Conoco shareholders will vote on the matter later this week.
Valero spokesman Bill Day said the company already provides sufficient safety data to the public.
"We didn't see a need for this," Day said of the union's request. "We already publish a social responsibility report."
Young said that although all refiners make some safety data public, the information normally provided doesn't present a true picture of conditions inside the refinery that could lead to future accidents.
"They're reporting a lot of information on slips, trips and falls," Young said. "We think shareholders deserve key information to help them predict the possibility of a serious accident at their refineries."
The USW represents 850,000 workers in industries including metals, rubber, chemicals, paper, oil refining and the service sector.


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Innovative cloud Software Facilitates Access to COVID19 Vaccines in Minority Communities
OWINGS MILLS, Md. - March 22, 2021 - PRLog -- Vaccine hesitancy, characterized by uncertainty and ambivalence about vaccination, is a legitimate viewpoint, underscoring the failure or lack of effective public health messaging and minority hesitancy toward vaccines does impact the distribution of COVID19 vaccines. Increasing the awareness and comfort level within minority communities is critical to achieving the highest level of vaccination possible and protecting the most lives. The National Minority Healthcare Association (NMHA) today announces a strategic partnership with EagleForce™ Health to promote their innovative vaccine management solution—myVax™ to help in this important national effort. The innovative system helps track, trace, and monitor COVID19 and other vaccines and medications throughout the patient's life.
Already in use in St Louis and Miami, as well as other cities, myVax increases access to protective healthcare through the use of innovative technology such as Telehealth, Persistent Monitoring, and Community Resources. These are all tools that support the NMHA's mission of health equity and the elimination of the healthcare disparity gap. Examples of the gap include:
- Black males have the shortest life expectancy compared to all other groups
- Hispanics have the second-highest prevalence of Alzheimer's and dementia
- 50% of Hispanics will develop diabetes in their lifetime
- Asian subpopulations and Pacific Islanders have a 5x higher ratio of hepatitis B relative to whites
- Native Americans are twice as likely to have diabetes compared to whites
- Minorities are more prone to live in multi-generational housing arrangements or take public transportation, exposing them to disease
- Mistrust of the healthcare system due to historical unethical testing processes
- Unintentional yet Inherent bias on the part of healthcare professionals as to what is best. Just as the physiology of children is different than adults and women differently than men, differences in minority communities also must be taken into account.
"The EagleForce Health team is looking forward to working shoulder to shoulder with the National Minority Health Association in its goal to of health equity, said Stanley Campbell, CEO of EagleForce Health. If our myVax technology solutions can help one person get the vaccine they need, when and where they need it, then we have done a good thing, Campbell continued.
About NMHA. The National Minority Health Association, founded in 1988, achieved its initial mission of ensuring the establishment of Offices of Minority Health in all 50 states. Today the NMHA is adding to its mission and deploying new programs that utilize patient-centered, value-based care, and new ways of enhancing care to patients where they are, lowering costs, and improving outcomes for minority and underserved communities. Find out more visit www.theNMHA.org Become a member of the NMHA Health Equity Action Leaders network (HEAL) and join the fight for health equity. https://www.thenmha.org/donation
About myVax™ myVax is an affordable system from EagleForce Health that allows you to track your vaccinations and medication and control your health history in one place. EagleForce helps clients in the design and deployment of intelligent systems where man and machine interface and applications are designed to optimize the performance of each by providing the heavy lifting for many of the most difficult problems in computer science. Learn more about myVax at www.myvax.com.
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“The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is expected to be a mid-range variant of Samsung’s flagship tablet, and come with support for the S-Pen stylus.”
Samsung appears fairly near formally launching the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite pill. The mid-range pill has been rumoured for some time now, and after clearing a number of certifications, its press renders have now been shared by dependable tipster Evan Blass on Twitter. The render reveals a design that’s considerably much like the flagship Tab S6, that includes uniform bezels throughout, and a single, sq. digital camera module to the highest left nook of the rear. The S-Pen stylus can also be seen within the publish, affirming that the mid-range pill will include assist for the stylus.
The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite has to date handed the Bluetooth SIG certification, the place it was confirmed to characteristic Bluetooth 5.0. A subsequent look within the Thailand NCC database affirmed that the pill will assist dual-band Wi-Fi, however not include LTE connectivity. It additionally revealed that the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite comes with a USB-C port with a normal Samsung journey adapter, because of which it won’t include quick charging requirements. The total design of the pill seems to return with flat facet edges, and going by the render, the massive display screen dimension with stylus assist may imply that it’s focused at entertainment-priority shoppers.
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Given the frequency of the leaks pertaining to the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, it’s possible that Samsung would introduce the pill formally in eligible markets very quickly, within the coming days. As seen with the flagship Tab S6, the pill could characteristic a magnetic strip on the rear to mount the stylus, and given its mid-range bearings, the Tab S6 Lite will possible rival Apple’s non-Pro iPad lineup as an alternate Android providing, as soon as it’s launched.


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Labor Day. While sort of a misnomer (we don’t refrain from giving thanks on Thanksgiving Day, so why refrain from laboring on Labor Day?), its meaning should in no way be diminished by its unfortunate title. Celebrating Labor Day and its importance are really ways to celebrate the fruits of living a purpose-filled and meaningful existence. Whether your form of labor is toiling away at your job, studying hard in school, raising children or grandchildren, caring for aging parents, helping others through volunteer or charity work, or through any of the other multitude of ways to work, Labor Day offers the opportunity to pause and reflect on those contributions. It can be a moment to take pride in a job well done. Or, conversely, if you feel you could do more or improve in some way, this time provides a chance for valuable introspection on your own personal growth.
Another worthwhile aspect of the Labor Day experience is to shine a light not just on yourself but on the labor of others. In the course of daily living, our lives are consistently touched by the work and contributions of others. The clerk at the convenience store, the people at the power or water company, mail carriers, crossing guards, etc. all play a part in our lives. We all make each other’s existence and the quality of that existence possible. If everyone decided one day to labor no more, life as we know it would cease to exist. So, while stuffing your face with a foot long hot dog drowning in massive amounts of highly unhealthy yet delicious toppings on Labor Day, remember the contributions of yourself and others. No matter how small they may seem, they all matter.

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has described his £50,000 Football Association fine as a "disgrace".
Mourinho was given the fine, and a one-match suspended stadium ban, on Wednesday evening after accepting a misconduct charge from the FA in relation to post-match media comments he made in the wake of the 3-1 loss to Southampton on October 3.
But, speaking at Waterstones Piccadilly to promote his book MOURINHO, he expressed his displeasure at the punishment he has received.
"I'm happy that I don't have an electronic tag," said the Chelsea boss. "£50,000 is a disgrace. The possibility of getting a stadium ban is astonishing."
Mourinho felt aggrieved Arsene Wenger went unpunished for calling referee Mike Dean "weak" and "naive" following Arsenal's defeat to Chelsea last month.
Yet Mourinho was sanctioned after criticism of Robert Madley, the official in the loss to Southampton. Mourinho claimed that "referees are afraid to give decisions for Chelsea" in a post-match interview.
Wenger also escaped punishment for pushing Mourinho in the Stamford Bridge technical area in October 2014, something which still grates with the Chelsea boss.
Mourinho, who called for the media to "go deep" in examining his fractious relationship with the FA, added: "There is something that, now, we know. One, we can push people in the technical area. We can, no problem.
"The word 'afraid' is a punishment, and a hard punishment. But to say the referee was 'weak and naive', referring to one of the top referees, not just in this country, also in Europe, to call him 'weak and naive' we can do.
"The only good thing of this last decision by the FA is that every manager in this country can write in a little book and, when he goes to the press conference, he knows that 'afraid' costs £50,000. 'Weak and naive', you can do it.
"It's more important for the football in this country - a word, than [an] aggression. The only two good things that I take from this [the FA decision] is that. It's good for everyone.
"And it's the fact I still can walk in London without an electronic tag" he stated.

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Monday, December 1, 2008
The Story of Horsepower vs. Torque
This post is a followup to my previous post about the SAAB Youtube video. Actually that video no longer appears on the SAABUSA website, and the ad agency that produce the video no longer works for SAAB, so sorry if I made it look like an official SAAB video.
Anyhow, how did this trumped up controversy ever get started about torque and horsepower? Here's a bit of scientific and historic background.
You want to see the ultimate torque monster engine? Check this Youtube video.
Think of a hamster versus a horse. Which one has more power? You're right if you said horse. Which has more torque? If you put the hamster in a hamster wheel, you can measure torque. Put a horse in a similar wheel and you also have torque. The maximum torque is the measure of the weight of the hamster times the radius of the wheel. True even if the hamster is asleep but strapped to the wheel. Same with the horse. But if the hamster's wheel is 60,000 times bigger than the horse's, the hamster will have more torque. The horse will always have more power than a hamster regardless of wheel size.
Torque does NOT take speed into account. Strangely enough, acceleration does not measure speed either. You can have acceleration even if a body is motionless! For example, when the light turns green at a drag strip, acceleration immediately can go to maximum at the same instant that the car begins to move. Speed increases throughout the race, but the acceleration is at about its maximum before the car even crosses the starting line, and actually stays pretty constant throughout the race. (Say about 1.2 g, which is one way of measuring acceleration)


More than 660 firefighting personnel are now on the scene of the Whiskey Complex of fires, burning in Idaho County, as the flames are set to threaten the communities of Garden Valley and Pioneerville into a second week.
As of this morning, more than 8,000 acres have been charred and the complex is only 5 percent contained.
More than 120 people filled a public meeting July 18 in the town of Centerville, where officials told residents that priorities included holding a strong south flank along Forest Road 395, about 1.5 miles from the community of Pioneerville. One cabin was lost in that area Thursday night. The west flank is about 2 miles east of Alder Creek Road.
Pioneerville and Garden Valley homes along Payette River Road remain under a Level 2 voluntary evacuation, alerting neighbors that they needed to be ready to leave their homes at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, the Hot Springs Campground remains closed.
The Banks-to-Lowman Road (Highway 17) remains open but is smoky and travelers are urged to use caution. Rafters in the Payette have been told to be alert for helicopters dipping into the river in the immediate fire area.


04.07.2021 - 12.09.2021
Artwin Gallery in collaboration with Smena Center for Contemporary Culture presents the first personal exhibition by Dima Rebus "Norms of Insolation" in Kazan. The exhibition will feature Dima's works from various series, created over the past seven years.
Dima Rebus was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, which makes the exhibition of his works in his homeland very symbolic. "Norms of Insolation" speaks about art "on this and on the other side of the window", stepping out of the walls of the art institution. Next to the exposition inside the exhibition space, there will be a public art project - the light installation on the building of Smena, as well as public program.


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Some decent AAA video games are included in the September 2017 lineup of Games with Gold. It’s not a bad month for Xbox Live Gold members.
First of all, Xbox One gamers can download Forza Motorsport 5 from September 1st until September 30th. The second game coming is Oxenfree. This game will be available on September 16th until October 15th.
On Xbox 360, you can get Hydro Thunder Hurricane on September 1st until September 15th. Lastly, 360 owners can then get the enjoyable Battlefield 3 on September 16th until September 30th.
Remember, you can play all four games if you own an Xbox One. Anyway, you need to have Xbox Live Gold in order to play the games for free.

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It's been a while since we had any posts on the blog but this morning we received a beautiful email to the blog from someone who came across our page last year.
Felicia added her boys' names to our memorial page after her second loss and has now started writing names in the sand in Kauai, Hawaii to help other bereaved parents and bring them some comfort.
The email this morning was a lovely surprise as Felicia had taken the time to write the names of all our babies in the sand.
If anyone would like their baby's/babies names written, please contact Felicia via her blog...
Angel Names in the Sand
Thank you Felicia,
Clara, Gemma & Nicole xxx
Sunday, 20 January 2019
Thursday, 9 August 2018
And so it rolls round again. Your birthday, and the anniversary of your death the day before. I sit and stare at the blank page in front of me, wondering what I’m going to write, wondering how I can express what the loss of you means to me, 7 years on. The truth is, it means the same as it always means. It means blocking it out, whilst I don’t have time to think about it properly. It means the ever-increasing feeling of weight on my shoulders as we spin uncontrollably to the week I dread every year. It means the squeezing in time for reflection, in between work, and bath times, and putting kids to bed, and the one hour a day I get to speak to your dad. It means the panic, when I know I’ve got to write and I don’t know how to say everything I need to say to you. It means the need to do New Things, in your name. It means the feeling of relief, when the day comes around, when we get a small amount of time to think of you, to mark your birthday and honour your name.
It’s the cycle of grief. Rinse and repeat. I wonder how to make things feel different, but I find myself in that same pattern, again and again. I am often ill, at this point. I am anxious, constantly, and prone to panic. I feel overwhelmed, more easily. I find it hard to talk – yes, me, the talker, who never has any trouble expressing myself. I eat rubbish. I put on weight. I start to bite my nails, again. I shout at your brothers, despite wanting to bite off my tongue when I do. I tell people, ‘it’s a difficult time of year,’ but that’s a bloody big understatement. I say, ‘it’s better when we get past the 16th’. And it is, in a way. But in others, it isn’t. That cycle, swirling round and round each year, it bothers me. It marks my life, going on, whilst marking yours, which does not. ‘He would have been seven’, is a terrible thing to have to say. Oh, no more terrible than the other birthdays which preceded it but somehow saying it, every year, cuts me deeply.
I am scared to change the cycle, to do anything differently. There is some comfort, in routine. A certainty amongst the vein of not knowing that runs through the rest of my life. I don’t know what will happen to the other people I love. To your brothers, and dad, and grandparents, and all the others in your life. To me. But you? I know what will happen to you. You will go on, not being here. And we will go on marking your birthday; we will go on saying, ‘he would have been 8, 9, 25, 40’. We will go on dreading the run up, doing the New Things, and feeling the weight and the panic and the relief. And I will go on missing you. Not just at this time of year, but always. And the years will roll around. The cycle of grief. Rinse and repeat.
The cycle of missing you, my baby. Always.
You can read Nicole's previous posts here:
Right Where I Am 2017: Nearly 6 years
Right Where I Am 2016: 4 years 11 months 4 days
Right Where I Am 2015: 4 years exactly
Right Where I Am 2014: 2 years 10 months 25 days
Right Where I Am 2013: 1 year 10 months 25 days
Right Where I Am 2012: 9 months and 4 weeks
Sunday, 29 July 2018
Today is 28th July 2018. I am Six Years, three months, and 27 days since she died. That is 2309 days since I last felt her heart beat, since I felt her warm fuzzy face against my own. 55416 hours since we saw her pink cheeks fade away. Since everything changed. Nothing is at it was back then.
There are still the two lives which are before and after. “When we had Melody.” She was only here for just five weeks, but she impacted on us so much, forever.
Six Years and five months and three days ago, she was still waiting to be born, there was hope that we wouldn’t deliver as early at 28 weeks. She was alive she seemed safe.
Six Years and five months ago and three days ago, we weren’t quite parents of a premature baby, let alone a baby who died. . We were given a dangerous thing – hope. You don’t realise how important hope is, until it is snatched away from you in a moment.
This year I am at the point where I am not as drained as often as I used to be, I am not sure whether that is down to the time scale, or that I have made myself busy. I have increased my hours at work, volunteering, family life and plans with friends. Too busy to think, sometimes too busy to even breathe let alone think about the baby who died six years ago.
Then I get moments of guilt, because I haven’t thought about her for every minute of the day.
I have recently been involved with the new Tommy’s Campaign – Together For Change through my own blog Melody and Me. To say the least I am proud to have been a part of something special to raise awareness; to get people talking about this incredibly taboo subject. To help reduce the stigma behind the baby loss topic.
However I have found myself feeling completely detached from the whole thing. I have shared it across my social media to help break the silence. But I am struggling to see what any of it has to do with me. I can watch my interview; I can see the stills and read the pieces about our story. But I can’t for one minute feel like it is our story, or that it is me helping to make a difference.
I sometimes feel like I am talking to a brick wall, that the people who were around have disappeared, I often get reminded that they don’t matter – but they do. Some are the last links our daughter when she was alive, some are a reminder of all that was. The detachment from her death, is leading me to worry that my memory of her is fading. Those days when I don’t think of her or mention her, these are when for a moment I have forgotten about all of it – even her. I don’t want to forget her, I hope I don’t – but it is a strange feeling between wanting to protect myself from the painful thoughts that I do have a dead daughter; by letting her fade into the darkness. Or embracing what this is all about, and forcing myself to remember.
Sometimes, I just want to feel normal; sometimes I even wish I had never met her. But I can’t imagine my life not speaking about her, just as much as I cannot imagine a life where she is alive and well.
How is any of that right? This is not how I am meant to feel about my own child.
You can read Julz' previous posts here:
Right Where I Am 2017: 5 years 3 months 26 days
Right Where I Am 2016: 4 years 3 months
Right Where I Am 2015: 3 years 3 months 26 days
Right Where I Am 2016: 4 years 3 months
Right Where I Am 2015: 3 years 3 months 26 days
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Lindsay: Right Where I Am 2018: 5 years 18 days followed by 4 years 11 months 3 days followed by 3 years 4 months 6 days followed by 2 years 9 months 10 days followed by 2 years 2 months 20 days
I'm finding writing this post much harder than in previous years. In the past I was just sad and over time I had worked out how best to cope and process those feelings. Now there's such a mix of emotions going on inside of me I can't pinpoint how I truly feel, it's such a jumble. On one hand I do know I'm happy, so that has to be a good thing. I have a lot in my life to be happy about as it's been 15 months and 7 days since we welcomed our third born daughter, Iris, into this world and 15 months 6 days since we brought her home from the hospital. On the other hand I'm not ok. I am not ok, but I don't know in which way. (I've typed, deleted and typed that again and again, but it's ok to not be ok, right?)
As hopeful as we were, after several years and so many losses...well it's hard to cling on to a thread of hope. It takes its toll. And the grief... The grief which comes along with that degree of heartbreak doesn't just disappear. I don't think it ever will go away completely and I'm fine with that.
The thing is, whilst I am happier now than I have been in many years, I still feel as if I'm grieving and I know to some extent I always will, but I don't feel as if those around me fully realise this. Apart from my husband everyone else was at least one step removed from the crippling pain that we went through after each loss. (If you're reading this and you've suffered your own loss(es) then you know the pain I'm talking about. The right in the middle of your chest, take your breath away emotional pain – often accompanied by the long silent sobs which can end up with you sitting in a crumpled mess on the floor...those ones. The ones you try for so long to keep hidden.) I still feel that pain sometimes and at the moment I feel as if I don't have a right to. It's as if everyone else thinks my grief is done with and everything is suddenly fixed because my daughter is here. She's amazing, but no child can ever replace another.
I love being able to mother one of my children each and every day, but I still get sad. Not because of her, of course not, but because of all the things I know I've missed out on with the others. That's natural, isn't it?
Some days the sadness doesn't affect me at all, even when I'm thinking of my children who aren't here – my son, Hunter (who would have been going to school this year), my two daughters, Esmae and Freya, and the two little ones I never got to meet - I think of them with a smile.
Some days are hard.
On the tough days I used to look on Pinterest for quotes that summed up just an ounce of how I was feeling and I'd share them on social media, almost as a cry for some support or a nudge to everyone around me that I was still going through this. I never wanted anyone who saw those posts to feel sorry for me. I just wanted them to remember (me), to understand. Each time I go to post something now I think twice as I can't afford to isolate myself even more from those around me (at least that's how it feels).
At the moment I feel as if I can't reach out in the way I need to to the majority of my friends or family as (I feel) it's hard for them to understand that the past has not changed. To put it simply, I'm still sad. Recently I tried to let a group of friends know via a message that I was struggling. Perhaps I was too subtle, but as I saw each one of them read and not reply to my message my paranoid self shouted at me “they are sick of this (you)”, “you have your daughter, just be happy”. I hope I'm wrong, I'm almost sure I am…
I don't feel like myself, although who I am these days I'm really not sure. I barely remember the person I was five years ago and after such a long time and after so many losses I feel as if it's become too much for those around me to bear. My conscious paranoia feeds the feeling that I have pushed so many people away to the point of no return. Firstly by avoiding them whilst they were pregnant (only in a desperate attempt to keep my sanity and in a strange way to try to keep the friendships intact) and secondly in the way I have been vocal about what I've been through and how I still feel. I know this level of loss, this level of grief is difficult to comprehend (the emotive subject of baby loss is enough for people to want to leave you alone) and as more and more time passes it gets easier for others to ignore, but it's isolating.
I feel as if I've lost my place in the world and I'm lonely. There are few who understand, and if they do then they're tackling their own grief.
My thoughts circle constantly – all the good, the bad and the ugly which I feel I can't control. Those thoughts never stop. I sometimes feel them getting out of control, racing around in my head and whilst I can slow them down a little they never stop. They are full of anxiety, paranoia, gratefulness, happiness, household tasks, guilt, annoyance, shopping lists, stress…
I have to bite my tongue and push down the anger and hurt I feel each time my daughter is referred to as our/the 'first'. She is not. How can I have given birth to, met and helped name four of our six babies and only have one child?
I struggle when someone else mentions their children, especially the children mine should have grown up alongside.
I still get that lurch in my stomach when I hear about friends' pregnancies – I don't know if this is fear, anxiety, jealousy, an involuntary reflex... I am happy for them, but the news makes me think of my own pregnancies and this in turn makes me feel so selfish.
I cringe (and then immediately feel guilty for doing so) each time I bring up my previous pregnancies or my other children with the new mum friends I have made. I hear them in my head saying 'she's not going on about this again…’
I feel guilty each time I breathe a sigh of relief when my daughter (the child I so desperately, desperately wanted) takes a nap just so I get some much needed time to catch my breath, to gather up some of those whirring thoughts...
I'm already worrying about how anyone reading this who has no living children has taken that last statement.
I worry about a lot of things - too many things perhaps.
Even with all of these thoughts going round and round I feel numb an awful lot of the time and that's the worst feeling. I stop and think about something and often there's just nothing. Maybe I developed such a good coping technique of blocking out so much of the world that it stuck.
I used to calm myself by writing down how I was feeling, but I haven't made enough time for that recently and it shows. This piece is all over the place. And maybe that's where I am right now...all over the place, but ironically almost always here...stuck inside my head with the many, many frantic thoughts.
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With the advent of Instagram in 2010, netizens soon sought to create their own virtual space in this visual social networking site. The hunt for the most instagrammable content has become all the rage in the modern-day scenario making pictures speak louder than words. Millions of users use the platform on a daily basis which is good to get Instagram followers and drive more traffic to your page while at the same time, it can get highly competitive too.
There are nearly 1 billion active Instagram users and the difficulty to get Instagram likes or followers is a stranger to none. Can one grow their Instagram organically? This question may sound haunting but fear no more. It all depends on how one makes the best use of this innovation.
Importance of Instagram
These days, social media platforms are not limited only to global networking. Rather they have become a major platform of advertising and marketing as well. This means that business owners and brand owners utilize it to grow their business and also drive more traffic and potential customers. Here are the reasons why the use of Instagram can come in very handy in today’s modern world.
- It allows you to extend your accessibility, reach your customers easily, and also connect with your customers and followers better and more personally. Therefore, you can understand their needs with better clarity.
- Visual stimulation works better when it comes to grabbing one’s attention and Instagram is the best platform for the same.
- Instagram is mainly a visual platform that is dominated by images and visuals and as such, if your pictures are appealing, attractive, and informative at the same time, it will instantly help you drive more customers to your page.
- It is a great platform to market your products as when you get instagram followers increasingly, you are also getting increased potential converts. Therefore, you can understand their needs and preferences and market the product strategically.
- Instagram also has handy tools to give you an insight on how your page is doing. It also allows you to understand whether your page is visible to followers and other Instagram users or not. It helps you understand when your followers are most attractive and what posts they are most attached to. Hence, you can customise your page accordingly and attract more followers.
Tips for increasing Instagram followers
● Believe it or not but as far as Instagram is concerned, beauty lies on the outside. Given the fact that it is a visual site, this point is justified. People here judge a book by its cover. If the cover tempts them, only then will they be intrigued enough to read the book. If the post has engaging visual content, only then will people check out the entire post. Ergo, catch the eye. Post photos that are of a high quality and sue to this, investing in a good camera can come in very handy. If you want to succeed on Instagram, your picture certainly needs to pop. It needs to scream for attention automatically.
● Interact with followers and engage with other posts. This is an extremely essential step if one is to increase their visibility for if you are screaming in an abandoned city, are you actually screaming? Make noise where people can hear you. Hence, you need to keep your followers engaged if you not only want to get instagram followers but also want to keep them.
● If pictures are the king of Instagram, captions are the queen. The next thing people look at after the picture is the caption. Get creative with captions. Play with words, use puns, or go full-on Shakespeare and coin your own words. Pictures with a good and unique caption do much better than those without one or those accompanied only by emojis so watch your words. Use captions your followers can relate to and may get inspired too.
● Use relevant hashtags. If the post is about a pet dog but the hashtag used is #outfitoftheday, the post is as good as non-existent. It will discourage potential visitors to check out other posts and will make them leave with a poor impression. Don’t give false hopes. Hence, use hashtags that are actually relevant to the picture you have posted.
● Prioritize quality over quantity. While it is suggested to post regularly to have a diverse reach, no one wants to see disproportionate pictures with bad lighting in their feed. Post quality pictures with as much natural light as possible. One good picture a day will make the people want to stay. It does not matter if you do not post on a daily basis, your post has to high quality and engaging.
● Pick a theme for the page. It could be a color theme or a prop that always pops up in every feed, anything that makes the page exude its uniqueness. Editing plays a major role in this factor. Therefore, you can pick the same filter for all the posts to add an aesthetic and create a balanced feed.
Glam the gram!
Be it an influencer, or a bookstagrammer, anyone can up their insta game and grow their Instagram likes or followers with these simple tips and tricks. Instead of spending money buying followers who will not engage in any posts, spend time working on quality pictures, creative captions, relevant hashtags, and interact more to grow your Instagram organically. It will prove beneficial in the long run. Therefore, without further ado, let the gram games begin!
You can use these tips to get instagram followers and attract them towards your posts. You can thereby cater to their needs by understanding their requirements and preferences. Instagram is a major and popular platform to grow your business and also build a strong online presence. Hence, applying the right strategies and techniques to grow your page is extremely important. Make sure you keep the above mentioned tips in mind and your page will surely succeed.


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Pioneer share offer
In 2015 REACR completed a successful pioneer share offer which raised £300,000 for the turbine deposit, and other early stage Project costs, plus a community share offer to fund the build, which took their total raise to £750,000. REACR then took a loan of £600,000 from Resonance to match their project costs which were projected to be up to a total of £1,350,000.
This latest 2017 offer is to fund the remaining £600,000, to pay off the loan from Resonance and bring the turbine in to full community ownership.


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Jane Macnaughton is co-director of Durham University’s Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH). This Centre was established in 2008 as a Welcome Trust-Funded development from the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM), which she initiated in 2000. Before that she was a General Practioner in Glasgow and a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at Glasgow University. Jane set up and now contributes to the personal and professional development strand of Durham’s Phase I Medical Programme and runs part of the School of Medicine and Health Suite of Master’s modules. She became Deputy Head of the School of Medicine and Health in 2009.
She has published in the fields of medical education, medical humanities, literature and medicine and health care environments. Her books include, Clinical Judgement (OUP, 2000, with Robin Downie), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2005, with Corinne Saunders) and The Body and the Arts (Palgrave, 2009, with Corinne Saunders and Ulrika Maude).
She was a founder member of the UK’s Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) and was joint editor of the journal Medical Humanities until 2008. Jane also works in gynaecology and is an Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University Hospital of North Durham. She is married with two sons and a dog.

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The all-new, seventh-generation 2021 Hyundai Elantra was unveiled online on March 17. A striking four-door coupe profile, surprising technologies and lots of cutting-edge safety features should allow it to seriously threaten the better-selling Civic and Corolla in Canada, especially if the price remains competitive.
Before we go any further, we should clarify that the five-door 2021 Elantra GT has also been redesigned (Hyundai gave a full preview in late February), but it’s still a different car due to its mostly European development.
- Also: 2021 Hyundai Elantra Unveiled with Killer Looks, Hybrid Model
- Also: 2021 Hyundai Elantra GT Unveiled Ahead of Geneva Show
Here are five things you need to know about the 2021 Hyundai Elantra, which is scheduled to enter production this fall:
Cut Like a Diamond
The Elantra now rides on a new platform that gives it a longer wheelbase and wider tracks. The roofline has been lowered, too. Overall, the silhouette is more athletic.
This is the second Hyundai vehicle to embody the brand’s Sensuous Sportiness design identity. The main highlights are the dramatically sculpted body sides where three different lines meet at one point, plus the wide, cascading grille with a so-called “parametric-jewel-pattern” look.
That’s how Hyundai describes the interior of the 2021 Elantra, where most key dimensions have increased from the outgoing model. The driver-oriented layout will make you feel like in an airplane cockpit, the company says. The low seats and tall centre console, the latter incorporating a unique grab handle on the passenger side, accentuate the impression.
A two-tone combination and customizable 64-colour mood lighting are available to add more refinement to the cabin, which Hyundai claims is the most comfortable, functional and practical in the segment.
First-ever Elantra Hybrid
The standard engine is unchanged, namely a 2.0-litre four-cylinder that generates 147 horsepower and 132 pound-feet of torque via a continuously variable transmission. There’s no AWD option to compete with the Impreza and Mazda3, however.
The biggest news is the introduction of the Elantra Hybrid. This model combines a 1.6-litre Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder engine with a 32-kW electric motor powered by a lithium-ion-polymer battery with 1.32 kWh of capacity positioned under the rear seats. It delivers a total system output of 139 horsepower and up to 195 pound-feet of torque, promising spirited acceleration especially with a quick-shifting, six-speed dual-clutch transmission replacing the CVT.
Fuel consumption ratings for Canada have yet to be announced, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a number equal to 4.7 L/100 km—just a tad higher than the Corolla Hybrid at 4.5 L/100 km.
Do You Love Big Screens?
The 2021 Elantra offers two 10.25-inch screens mounted side by side under a single piece of glass. The instrument cluster has different views, while the infotainment system displays a wide variety of useful information across its optional 10.25-inch split touchscreen (8-inch standard).
Wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are included as segment-first features. Dual Bluetooth support is also available, so two devices can be paired at the same time—one for phone calls and one for streaming audio. As for the optional navigation system, it comes with three years of BlueLink and five years of map updates.
Not Joking About Safety
Finally, we have to tell you that the 2021 Elantra boasts a number of Hyundai SmartSense safety features as standard equipment including:
- Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist with Pedestrian Detection;
- Lane Keeping Assist and Lane Following Assist;
- High Beam Assist;
- Driver Attention Warning;
- Rearview camera with dynamic guidelines.
Select models add Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist with Rear Cross-Traffic Collision Warning, Reverse Parking Collision-Avoidance Assist, Lane Change Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, Highway Driving Assist and Safe Exit Alarm.


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You will be joining one of Manchester's top digital marketing agencies. They are a multi-award winning brand agency that works with some huge names in the leisure industry. You will work within the core team as a senior designer and be responsible for brand development and alignment and brand outputs. The agency is based in Manchester City Centre and easily commutable from Stockport, Liverpool, Chester, Bolton and Preston.
As the Senior Digital Designer you will work closely with the Creative Director to produce beautiful digital design concepts for your client's brands. You will contribute innovative ideas at the initial brief stage and utilise digital and motion graphics as much as possible.
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Poor Jim Rogan. The two-term congressman from California, it seems, is the focus of a dastardly campaign by Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party to take down the heroic House impeachment managers of yore. "I have been targeted for defeat," Rogan wrote in a recent four-page, tersely syntacted National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) letter. "They're out for revenge. Not because of policy differences. But because we had the courage to do the right thing."
Until recently, the Greens were among the least successful third-party movements in American history. None of the seven alternative-party governors elected since 1914 have been Greens. No Green presidential candidate has ever approached the electoral heights reached in this century by such third-party nominees as Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette, George Wallace, or Ross Perot.
If there was one Senate Democrat--besides Georgia's Zell Miller, that is--who was thought to be an easy vote for George W. Bush's megalithic tax scheme it was Max Baucus of Montana. In the presidential race last year, Montana went for W. by 24 points.
In these early days of the Bush Restoration, it's easy to muster up the kind of sheer animus that so occupied the right when Bill Clinton eased into office on the strength of a bare plurality back in 1992. And it's not pleasant. Some days -- when W. nominated the sleazy Ted Olson as Solicitor General, for instance, or reinstituted the deeply offensive "gag rule" on foreign reproductive health providers -- some dark, feverish part of my brain fantasizes about a left-wing Rupert Murdoch or Richard Mellon Scaife arising from the ashes to drag W. through the mud. Perhaps a Texas Project to match the Clinton-era Arkansas Project? I know, I know, we've all had enough of that. But where's Ted Turner when you really need him?
In late April, the forces of compassionate conservatism issued notice of yet another battle won over the evils of Clintonism. "Bush Shows Strength in Pacific Northwest," proclaimed a press release from the Bush campaign in bold faux newspaperese. And indeed, according to two new polls, George W. Bush was edging Al Gore by one point in Washington and three in Oregon. But though the Democrats have indeed lost ground in the region, it's not Bush who's winning it: Garnering a surprising 7 percent in the Oregon poll was longtime consumer gadfly and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.


Dehenna Davison, Conservative MP for Red Wall seat, Bishop Auckland has posted on twitter that she has submitted a second letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister to Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee.
Davison writes about how things have become even worse and that the country deserves better. She writes:
“I wrote to you some months ago expressing my lack of confidence in the prime minister. In the time that has followed, nothing has improved – in fact, further lies have been peddled, and more good colleagues have been sent out to defend the indefensible.
“Things have got worse, and our country deserves better.”
Dehenna Davison has been MP for Bishop Auckland since 2019.
Meanwhile it looks like neighbouring MP, Richard Holden, still supports Boris Johnson.


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It takes leaves to make a potato crop, and maximum yields are achieved when potato plants cover the ground as rapidly as possible. This ensures plants capture the greatest amount of solar energy, writes Carrie Huffman Wohleb in this Growing Produce article.
But you must strike the right balance between leaf and tuber growth, she says. Excessive leaf growth can delay tuber initiation and bulking. And if the growing season is too short, much of the energy (carbohydrates) that maintained a big canopy will not end up in the tubers.
On the other hand, anything that restricts the optimal level of canopy growth will result in the plant capturing less energy and limiting the potential yield.
High levels of nitrogen fertility can cause excessive leaf growth at the expense of tubers. So, it should not be surprising to know that nitrogen also influences the levels of plant hormones that regulate tuber growth.

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i have made a Inuyasha rp, BECAUSE i can. :3
summary: Inuyasha and the gang find themselves in search of the Shikon jewel shards once more, and this time their adventures lead them to new extremes. they come across a fox demon girl, who possesses a shard of the shikon jewel, but is not willing to give it up. when demon's attack the Akira's village and Inuyasha looses grip of the tetseiga Akira somehow can use it upon her own free will and defeats the demons using wind scar.
meanwhile there's romance in the air, Inuyasha and Akira soon realize they have a bond stronger then anything, but one thing stands in their way.. Kagome and Kikyo. will Inuyasha decide on Akira, Kagome, or Kikyo?
spelling doesn't count. just has to make sense.
no killing off characters that belong to anyone,
and please let me know of any plots before posting. please and thank you.
most of all enjoy.


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Above a Damage Tile’s first game, Ayura Crisis!, has received an English translation.
Kotoko is a Little "Different" Now Available on DLsite
Shinachiku-castella's new eroge adventure game, Kotoko is a Little "Different", has received an English release on DLsite.
UnHolY DisAsTeR "R-18 Patch" Now Available on Steam
UnholY CreatioN makes the decensoring patch for their action game UnHolY DisAsTeR available on the Steam store page.
NOCE Released in English on DLsite and Steam
The English version of the 2D adventure NOCE is available on DLsite and Steam.
[Updated] Maomao Discovery Team Released on Steam
Lolicon RPG Maomao Discovery Team is available on Steam.
INSECT HAZARD Released on Steam
The 2D action nukige INSECT HAZARD is available on Steam.
Indiegala Offers Two Lewd Bundles
Digital store platform Indiegala is offering two lewd, time-limited bundles. One containing games from the Leisure Suit Larry series, and the other featuring eight games by Ume Soft.
English Version of Wings of Roldea Released on DLsite
The action RPG Wings of Roldea is now available in English on DLsite.
Seed of Evil Released on JAST USA and Steam
Hasoyua's fantasy RPG, Seed of Evil, is available on JAST USA and Steam.
LewdLookBack: Lover Boy
A look at the history of Lover Boy and its status as banned video game.

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Nuclear energy generated by 437 power plants set worldwide produces approx thirteen of the world’s electricity and five.6% of the world’s energy. Despite the nice contribution to the world’s energy wants, atomic energy plants go together with a good risk of nuclear disasters.
Faulty instrumentality, human errors and natural disasters traumatized the globe on varied occasions thanks to devastating outcomes of energy production. Below are the highest dangerous nuclear accidents of all time.
1. Chernobyl Disaster
The metropolis powerhouse, set in Pripyat, the country met with its unfortunate religion inflicting thirty-one metropolis deaths at intervals weeks. long-run deaths caused thanks to cancer and deformities thanks to extreme radiation is approx. 4000. The accident affected country, the land and European country with twenty,000 reported thyroid cancer patients below the age of eighteen.
The Soviet RBMK style apparatus is completely different from a regular power plant’s identifies because the metropolis disaster caused. The absence of the containment structure within the RBMK apparatus discharged radioactive substance to the setting. Inadequate safety precautions are taken by the nuclear plant personnel additionally stand accountable. The work of eighteen billion rubles and five hundred,000 employees controlled the ruinous outcomes of the disaster.
2. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The second prime bomb blast in history to succeed in level seven is that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The tidal wave and therefore the and therefore the in 2011 initiated the conclusion of the active reactors, impeding sustained fission reactions. Tidal wave flooding the emergency units restricted the agent to decay heat. Thus, hydrogen-air explosions and three nuclear meltdowns affected Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
The NAICC declared that the plant operators didn’t take the desired safety precautions to avoid the predictable nuclear blasts. Radiation exposure caused one death. Element explosions accounted for sixteen people physically slashed and a pair of employees suffered from radiation burns.
3. Kyshtym disaster at Mayak Chemical mix
This accident occurred in 1957 at a weapon production website victimization nuclear technology in Mayak. Kyshtym disaster belongs to extremely dangerous nuclear accidents because it reached level six on the INES. Evacuation procedures cleared the world of ten thousand residents. Sadly, a minimum of twenty-two residents controlled radiation exposure. The evacuation procedure took over a pair of years for completion. As a result of these blasts, hot particles blew intent on coverage of fifty-two,000 sq. Kilometers poignant a minimum of 270,000 residents.
The Windscale hearth in 1957 is another one amongst the tragic nuclear disasters measurement level five on the INES. The hearth burned within the Windscale facility in Sellafield, Cumbria, England for three days. The nation developed an atomic number, 6 moderators, as a plutonium bomb project once the war. The radioactive materials swept through the united kingdom and Europe.
The most common reason for thyroid cancer in nuclear disasters, radioactive atom iodin was a gift at Windscale accident. resulting in 240 reported cancer cases. Residents weren’t exhausted from the world.
5. Three Mile Island accident
Another one amongst the nuclear disasters estimating level five is that the 3 Mile Island accident. The radiation leak occurred in 1979 in prince Country, Pennsylvania. TMI-2 was the most important industrial atomic energy plant in America.
Mechanical failures junction rectifier to the fatal outcomes of the accident. Inadequate coaching of personnel and different human errors were additionally highlighted. Radioactive materials discharged to the air with the gap of the pilot-operated safety valve. This accident resulted in mere low-level contaminations. Authorities tutored residents of the world to remain inside.
6. First Chalk River accident
Chalk watercourse Laboratories in North American country targeted on the advancement and development of energy. 2 nuclear blasts materialized in 1952 and 1958. The motility down of the NRX reactor triggered the primary accident. Followed by errors created by personnel to regulate the case.
The second blast occurred in 1958 thanks to AN hot NRU reactor rupturing the reactor core. The burning of fuel discharged deadly products throughout the building. 600 men took half in cleansing the NRU.
7. Goiânia accident
The Goiânia accident occurred in 1987 in Goiânia, Brazil. The explanation behind the accident was the larceny of a therapy supply from a deserted hospital. The accident resulted in four deaths. The authorities tested 112,000 people for radiation exposure. Out of this, 249 people showed levels of contamination.
8. Sellafield (United Kingdom)
The UK’s worst nuclear accident happened in 1957, in a very element production and apparatus facility. The hearth burnt for sixteen hours inflicting the discharge of material into the atmosphere.
The radiation affected milk in a vicinity covering five hundred sq. kilometers. So, the govt. illegal the employment of milk during this space. nation government was reluctant to unleash the verity magnitude of the accident. The Windscale apparatus closed down in 1980 for cleanup, expected to be finished in 2015.
9. SL-1 Experimental powerhouse
In 1961, the American army’s SL-1 experimental powerhouse controlled the stunning outcomes of a steam explosion followed by a meltdown. The aim of the ability station was to supply power and warmth for military facilities. Another one amongst the worst nuclear disasters killed four of the operators. This can be the sole nuclear accident in American history to own onsite fatalities. Inadequate withdrawal steps taken to the central rod caused the reactor core to soak up neutrons.
10. Saint-Laurent atomic energy Plant
Located in Saint-Laurent-Nolan, the Saint-Laurent powerhouse accident is that the worst moon-faced by France. A failure within the cooling system of the ability plant in the 1980 junction rectifier to a meltdown in a very fuel channel. The accident calculable level four within the INES. as luck would have it, no radioactive materials at liberty to the skin. Before the accident in 1980, the primary nuclear accident at Saint-Laurent atomic energy Plant affected in 1969.
Further info concerning the accident wasn’t discharged to the general public by the officer for Nuclear Safety and Protection, Andrá Gauvenet.
These were disastrous and deadliest nuclear accidents in the history of the world. Those caused thousands of casualties and economical & natural losses to humans.


Originally published in No-till Farmer USA, written By Mark McNeely posted on June 9, 2018
DOT Technology’s driverless platform enables multiple implement use from a single machine, thereby increasing efficiencies on farms large or small. Acceptance of autonomous farm equipment is growing, given its promise of greater efficiencies for both large and small farms. The availability of these driverless machines could help no-tillers drive up efficiency even more on farms both large and small. But one barrier to adoption has been the lack of fully commercialized products.
DOT Technology Corp. is one manufacturer on the cusp of releasing its autonomous power platform that enables growers operate seeders, sprayers, grain carts and other implements with a single, driverless tool. The Canadian company expects limited commercial production to commence in early 2019, but is first testing several machines throughout the 2018 growing season. “Our goal is to have six machines moving in the field throughout the 2018 growing season,” says Cory Beaujot, managing director of marketing.
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DOT’s power platform features a 4.5-liter, 175-horsepower Cummins diesel engine that drives two hydrostatic pumps. Those pumps, in turn, drive hydraulic motors that run each wheels’ planetary gearboxes, giving DOT a smooth operating speed range from creep to 12 mph. Two auxiliary hydraulic pumps are available for implement operation. The platform includes four hydraulically activated arms that lift and secure implements to the machine’s receiving and centering dowels. Loading most implements from the ground can take as little as 12 seconds. Transport width is 12 feet, 4 inches for most implements, according to the company.
Beaujot says that DOT boosts horsepower efficiency by at least 20% over a conventional tractor/implement arrangement, giving farmers added fuel savings. “Tractors need ballast in order to tow an implement and that ballast eats up horsepower and efficiency.” DOT operates in fields within prescribed, farmer-approved routes generated through the creation of highly accurate boundaries. Positional information from an RTK GPS receiver mounted on DOT ensures it is only operating within the approved area. If DOT drifts from its prescribed path, movement is halted and the operator is notified.
DOT’s geographical focus for 2018 is on its home turf in western Canada, working with a base of customers who use their sister company’s SeedMaster products. The company is also working on partnerships with implement manufacturers to adapt their equipment to become “DOT Ready.” One machine will be utilized exclusively on SeedMaster’s research farm near Regina in Emerald Park, Sask.
Beaujot expects another unit to soon be used by a no-tiller who also seeds cover crops near Yellow Grass in the southern portion of the province. A third DOT will be deployed near Lemberg, to the east of Regina. That machine will be used by Pattison Liquid Systems, an implement manufacturer who is developing a spray applicator boom for the DOT platform. The sprayer is expected to have a 120-foot boom and 1,500-gallon capacity. “For the remaining units, our primary directive is to have them on farms later in the season where they’re air seeding winter wheat, for example,” Beaujot says. In its seeding configuration, DOT is currently using SeedMaster’s 30-foot air-seeder implement, which is a no-till hoe drill with two knives placing seed and fertilizer in separate openings, followed by a packer wheel.
The unit features the company’s UltraPro seed metering system. Its four, frame-mounted seed and granular fertilizer compartments are ready for the numerous crop varieties seen in western Canada, Beaujot says. “Canola is a big part of what’s being grown here, as well as acres of pulse crops like soybeans, yellow and green peas, fava beans and chickpeas,” Beaujot notes. “We’re also planting the cereal grains like wheat, oats, barley and other oil seeds such as flax.”
Putting Money Down
Earlier in 2018, the company began taking deposits for future production slots of the DOT platform and interest has been robust from all over the world. “We could be selling DOT power platforms with SeedMaster implements in southern Ontario, throughout the Corn Belt of the United States, Australia or in Europe as early as next year,” Beaujot says. “But for 2019, our focus will remain on western Canada and the northern United States, such as the Dakotas or Montana.” Beaujot notes that there’s definitely interest from large farmers, but some of his more interesting conversations center on how the DOT platform speaks to smaller farmers’ needs. “Because of their size, smaller farmers are sometimes relegated to buying used equipment,” he says. “DOT presents some innovative realities where they can buy into new equipment at a modest price, use a range of implements with one platform and keep their farm ahead of the technology curve.”


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Hi again everyone
I’ve had a wonderful sewing day today making a birthday gift for my good friend, Deb Fearns. I’ve used the gorgeous Stampin’ Up! Tea for Two designer fabric for this project and I decided to make a larger craft tote than the one I made last year and I am so pleased with how it turned out. This tote is fantastic – you can fit so much in it. Check it out…
I found the pattern for this tote on the Gina Bean Handmade Blog by Gina Allen and she has very very generously posted a FREE tutorial which you can find here. You will need a google account to access. Her quilts are stunning and she has stacks of free tutorials for small projects like this one that you might like to add to your project list.
I still haven’t had time to make one of these for myself but I’ve now cut out the fabric I’m going to use and I’m ready to go for another crafty day tomorrow. It’s soooo nice being on holidays.
NOTE: I made one change to this pattern. So I could make this out of one package of Stampin’ Up! fabric, I used a 1/4″ seam instead of 1/2″ seam. I also used a non Stampin’ Up! cream fabric for the pocket linings to be sure I had enough fabric and I wanted a contrasting fabric to bring it all together.
You know sometimes I forget how much I love to sew! Last weekend, a special Kris Kringle was calling and I love to make gifts for my Stampin’ Up! demonstrator besties. I felt so happy whilst making this project and am so pleased with how it turned out. Mind you…now I want one for myself!
Stampin’ Up! Fabric: Orchard Harvest (from the Holiday Catalogue)
Non Stampin’ Up! supplies: Fabric stabilizer, wadding, thread and white bias binding
Oh by the way, I found the pattern for this lovely little craft tote from a pinterest board I follow which then led me to the amazing blog called 2 Little Hooligans. This site is simply gorgeous with tons of amazing ideas and free tutorials to really get the creative brain going. Didn’t know that Stampin’ Up! has now added fabric to its range? Check out the Holiday and Annual Catalogue to see this gorgeous, colour co-ordinated range and fill out my order form or send me an email to firstname.lastname@example.org to place your order to anywhere in Australia.
Oh boy…do I have an exciting post for you. Firstly…this is a little sneak peek of the Summer Smooches range from the new catalogue which will be available in September – Yay!!! I feel like I’m wishing my life away but please hurry up September! It’s going to be super exciting this year. Can’t tell you yet but boy oh boy are you in for a treat! My second, very exciting piece of news is that this is my first order to be shipped to the US. Yep…I couldn’t believe my eyes when I received the email asking if I could make two of these cute little business cards holders for a US demonstrator. I hope she likes them.
So…how did get my hands on this little lovely. At convention, of course! And the best thing is, we all received the matching Summer Smooches paper too! Keep an eye out, I have some more sneaky peeks from the paper range coming soon.
Would you like to enjoy demonstrator benefits like these? Check out the new and exciting fully customisable starter kit for only $169 and join Stampin’ Up! your way today. Contact me at email@example.com for more information and find out how to get your exclusive Inkydayz information pack to get you started.
Woo Hoo! I’m now on holidays for FOUR WHOLE WEEKS! (Apologies to my colleagues who might drop in to my blog). Now it’s not that I don’t like my day job, it’s more that I desperately needed a holiday and I’ve been looking forward to some extra craft time for the next couple of weeks before heading ‘home’ to visit my family during the school holidays.
I had such a relaxing day today and whipped up a few items using fabric. Yep…I’m back on the fabric train. I soooo love that Stampin’ Up! now have fabric. For me, it’s the best of both worlds and the new Twitterpated pack from the Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue is simply gorgeous. Colour co-ordinated flowers, stripes and dots are always a perfect combination.
For some time now, I haven’t wanted to sew and I’ve been mucking about making things that haven’t needed me to get out my machine. Today, however, was different. Maybe it’s because I now have time to relax and enjoy the process. This morning, I was writing an email to a fellow demonstrator via our Oz Stampin’ Up! Forum. She was asking for some help with sewing so I thought I’d send a few tips to help get her going. My last piece of advice to her was to ‘take your time and enjoy what you are doing’. As I was wrote the email, I realised how much I missed it and inspired to finally open that little pack of Twitterpated Fabric that I purchased a few weeks ago. So…here is what I made.
It’s a sweet little business card holder for a great friend and I can’t wait to give it to her. This little creation was so easy and so cute, I decided to make one for myself as well.
A Tutorial can be found here.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Fabric: Twitterpated – two contrasting pieces, 5 ½” x 4 ½” and 2 pieces, 2 ½” x 4 ½”
Designer Button: Subtles: Pretty in Pink
Non Stampin’ Up!: 1 piece of fusible batting, 5 ½“ x 4 ½“, Hair elastic, Thread.
I have been working hard on some more sneak peeks. Remember…in one of my last entries, I mentioned there was going to be a special surprise in the new catalogue – well take at look at the card below. What can you see? Yep, that’s right…it’s fabric!!! Stampin’ Up! have added beautiful fabric to the range and I have been having a fabulous time using all my new pressies. Now I get to include my love for sewing and fabric in my creations.
The card is inspired by a design by Angeline Yong. I made the heart out of one of the Flirtatious Designer fabrics. The fabric comes in a pack of three and co-ordinates with the new Flirtatious Specialty Designer Paper pack. I used one of the doily papers and this particular one is actually melon mambo (pumpkin pie is also included) but I decided I wanted a simple colour palette so simply turned it over and cut it out in a heart shape. I used the new Lace Ribbon Border punch to punch the border which has been cut in half. I then layered all the pieces together and finished off with hemp twine. I used one of the new stamp sets for the sentiment with Wisteria Wonder ink (also new) and that was about it. I thought I had finished at that point but decided to have a break to get to the Canberra Craft Fair where I discovered the little heart pins. These finished it off perfectly.
Like what you see? If you would like to learn more about how to make this card with a group of your friends in your own home and enjoy free hostess benefits, contact me to book a workshop.
Stamp set: Easy Events (available September 1, 2011)
Ink: Wisteria Wonder (available September 1, 2011)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Very Vanilla, and Wisteria Wonder (available September 1, 2011)
Paper: Flirtatious Specialty Designer Paper – doily (available September 1, 2011).
Accessories: Flirtatious Fabric – Wisteria Wonder (available September 1, 2011), Lace Ribbon Border Punch, (available September 1, 2011), hemp twine, craft knife, mini glue dots, snail adhesive, heart pins (not Stampin’ Up!).


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The FSA’s position of puzzlement at how to make a regulatory regime designed for the individual advice market fit on top of a largely unadvised workplace pensions one remains intact although, depending which way you read the document, it may have softened on abolishing commission altogether.
But whichever way you read the smoke signals, it wants solutions from the industry by the end of the month so it can get draft rules out by the end of the year.
The consultation paper seems to want to have its cake and eat it. On the one hand, it says group pension recommendations should not fall under the new RDR rules and the introduction of adviser charging, as this would not necessarily protect employees and might drive schemes towards establishing themselves on a trust-based basis, which falls outside the FSA’s remit. Add to that the fact that it would foster a rush towards levelling down to personal accounts levels of savings and you have got the full picture. All well and good.
It adds that where group pensions are offered with individual, face-to-face advice thrown in as well, then the RDR proposals should apply in full. Fair enough.
But later on, the paper goes on to seek suggestions as to how the “intentions of adviser charging” can be brought to bear on the non-advised group market.
It is hard to see how you can impose the intentions of a regulatory regime on a sector without imposing the regime itself.
Anything that promotes the intentions of adviser charging must be done in such a way that it does not turn employers off the idea of commission over fees.
The reason for this is that commission is essential to the retirement hopes of many people working for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. I am not the biggest fan of commission in the world but in the field of group pensions I am at a loss to find where the consumer detriment is. If my employer is giving me £2,000 towards my pension each year, charges are going to have to be pretty high before I am worse off by being a member of the scheme than not. If my employer balks at paying a fee and levels down to personal accounts the most I will receive off them is £1,350 a year.
To be fair to the FSA, it seems to have got half this argument. It accepts the idea of adviser remuneration coming out of contributions while unable to use the word commission. The fear is that the disclosure that goes along with the process is so complicated that it puts the employer off altogether.
You could reasonably ask why bother with all this at all if there is nothing wrong with the system today?
An argument has been put forward that if you do not cover GPPs, then individuals will circumvent the rules by clubb-ing together in faux GPPs. The FSA seems to accept this is the reason why it has to legislate for group pensions but I do not buy this argument at all.
It should be easy enough to simply say that the rules on adviser charging do not apply to workplace schemes. If there is not an employer/employee relationship, then the RDR kicks in. If there is, it does not.
This would be easy enough to police and no IFA would risk enforcement action simply to get around the new rules.
John Greenwood is editor of Corporate AdviserMoney Marketing

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PMJAY Punjab, Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Punjab, Ayushman Bharat Yojana Punjab, Health Insurance Scheme in Punjab, 42 Lakh Families Eligible, प्रधानमंत्री जन आरोग्य योजना पंजाब
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Punjab
The Punjab Cabinet Committee has given approval for implementing the Central Government’s ambitious health insurance scheme i.e. PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) / Ayushman Bharat Yojana in the state. According to the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, about 14.96 lakh families of the state whose name appears in the SECC 2011 data are eligible for this insurance coverage. But the Punjab Government has extended the central PM Jan Arogya Yojana to cover 42 lakh families.
Under the PMJAY Punjab Scheme, the state government will provide 5 Lakh Health Insurance to all the poor families for secondary and tertiary hospitalization. For this 5 Lakh health insurance scheme, any age, gender, family size criteria is not applicable and the beneficiaries are solely selected on the basis of deprivation.
Punjab PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) Health Insurance Scheme
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Punjab is a mega health insurance scheme for providing a health insurance coverage of Rs. 5 lakh per annum to 42 lakh families in the state. Under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana Punjab, all the eligible beneficiaries can avail treatment in any government / private empanelled hospitals irrespective of the family size, age and gender. The premium amount for the health insurance scheme is NIL i.e the beneficiaries need not pay any premium amount to avail treatment benefits. The Ayushman Bharat Yojana health insurance scheme in Punjab would put an additional burden of Rs. 300 crore on the state exchequer.
In Punjab, about 1,350 medical packages including surgery, medical and daycare treatments, cost of medicines and diagnostics will be covered under this scheme in Punjab. The whole process for availing the treatment under this scheme would be paperless and cashless and appointed Arogya Mitras at the hospitals would assist people in the entire process.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Punjab –Ayushman Bharat Yojana Toll-Free Number
For information, assistance, complaints and grievances, call on the 24X7 helpline number – 14555.

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HARARE – The United States of America continues to give encouragement to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu PF — amid strong indications that Washington is ready to consider ending more than 15 years of Zimbabwe’s costly isolation by the international community if the country holds free and fair elections this year.
This comes as influential US Senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons — who are both members of Washington’s equally powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee — met with Mnangagwa in Harare yesterday, moments after the Zimbabwean leader had arrived from China where he had been on a week-long State visit.
Both men recently introduced a new Bill that seeks to amend the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera), which meted out punitive sanctions against former president Robert Mugabe personally, as well as against many of his senior officials and some State entities.
The new Bill, the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act of 2018, contains conditions which are specific to Mnangagwa’s administration — and if these conditions are met, President Donald Trump and the US government will scrap the current sanctions and normalise relations with Harare which have been frosty for almost two decades.
Political observers who spoke to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday said the fact that Trump had dispatched Flake and Coons to Zimbabwe to meet with Mnangagwa was “unprecedented and very significant”, as well as “a clear indication” that Washington was now ready to work with Harare as long as Zimbabwe institutes reforms that would lead to the holding of credible, free and fair elections due this year.
Yesterday, Flake and Coons — who had earlier in the day met with civic groups — virtually said as much, pointing out that the US wanted Mnangagwa to follow up his positive statements on reforms with action.
“The president (Mnangagwa) has made a commitment to take action, but some of the important actions required for progress towards the conditions for free and fair and credible elections have not yet happened,” Coons told the media before the two senators’ scheduled closed-door meeting with Mnangagwa.
He also urged Zimbabwe to follow Sadc’s guidelines on elections, as well as the US’s expectations on voter registration, non-interference in elections by the military and transparent timelines on how the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is going to proceed with the identification of polling places.
“We are hopeful that these things will happen promptly, but if a month or two, or three, have passed and these things have not been done, then we will be disappointed that this wonderful opportunity will have been missed,” Coons added.
He said he and Flake had introduced the amended sanctions Bill hopeful that this would allow for the lifting of Zidera, as reward for a free and fair election.
However, he warned, the current sanctions against Zimbabwe would not be removed in haste as this was not an event but a process — adding that whether the sanctions would be removed in their entirety or not “depends between now and the next few months”.
“It is clear that there are some actions that are overdue that need to be taken in order to begin moving towards free and fair elections and we look forward to discussing that in detail this afternoon (with Mnangagwa) and having the will of the people of Zimbabwe respected and heard through the press and through the upcoming elections.
“We have had lots of different suggestions from different parties, civil society and politicians about the most important things that must happen with the elections … the alignment of new laws with the Constitution, the voters’ roll, the role of the military in elections, but we think it is not for us to have a specific menu and timeline. I think there is wisdom among Zimbabweans as to what must happen in the next few months in order to build progress towards credible elections,” Coons said further.
Since assuming office in November last year — on the back of a military-assisted intervention — Mnangagwa has embarked on a spirited campaign to end Zimbabwe’s international isolation.
The 75-year-old Zanu PF leader has so far played nice with not just the Americans, but also other Western powers, as well as Russia and China. However, his critics have accused his government of not prioritising law and electoral reforms at home.
This has seen rights and opposition political groups demanding sweeping reforms — including the addressing of past violations such as Gukurahundi, Operation Murambatsvina and the violence that followed the hotly-disputed 2008 polls — all of which date back to Mugabe’s era.
Mnangagwa — who served as Mugabe’s right-hand man for five decades — signed into law the National Reconciliation Bill in January this year, which seeks to address previous conflicts such as the Gukurahundi massacres of the early 1980s.
Last month, he appointed a former High Court judge, Sello Nare, to head the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) — two years after the death of Cyril Ndebele who previously chaired it.
Since the fall of Mugabe late last year, civil society groups have stepped up pressure on the new government to deal with all the outstanding reforms that require urgent attention.
Topping the issues that civic groups want Mnangagwa and his government to deal with is the emotive Gukurahundi killings.
During his maiden appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January, Mnangagwa said the government was keen to address Gukurahundi.
“We are not saying the past must be thrown away from history, it has happened, it is there. Just a week ago, I signed a Bill — the National Healing and Reconciliation Bill — into an Act and have assigned one of my vice presidents to deal with that so that the communities that were affected can air their grievances … and with recommendations from that commission we should be able to address those issues,” he said.
“Let me assure you, just recently I had a meeting with chiefs from Matabeleland, discussing with them, because I feel there is that bad patch in our history and we would want to correct it … we would want to say whatever wrong was committed we must say the government of the day must apologise.
“Wherever a community has suffered any injury, if it is possible to repair that injury, do it. So, as a community, as a government and traditional leaders we have agreed on how to deal with that issue. I am happy (about) that,” Mnangagwa added.
The Daily News On Sunday was not able to get the details of Mnangagwa and the senators’ meeting. – Daily News


that is an AM3+ board for the new bulldozer.
however i was told (and so was my mate) that our motherboards are AM3+ ready... hoping someone can confirm this, or say no. we are both looking at getting the highest end zambezi chip when it comes out.
my motherboard is (lame) ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
and my mates (cool) ASUS M4A89GTD pro/usb3
are these am3+, or what is am3+? do i have to buy the linked mobo at the beginning for bulldozer?


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Been boarding twice now - 1st time in Jan @ Wolf Creek, and second in Feb on the east coast.. Finally clicked on my last day so the wife and I bought some new equipment and booked one more trip for the year to A-Basin in June (on what is likely closing weekend unless the snow keeps up and they stay open till July!! If they are closed, going to one-way to Mammoth - long story though :()...
Thinking about buying the season pass tomorrow when it goes on sale (2011-2012) as I think it would pay for itself in two trips (I come from FL so I take a 4 day trip each time)...
Would I like A-Basin enough to want to come back? Or should I just pay the daily rate and see?
I would say I am low-level intermediate now and want to get better.. Don't want to stay on the east coast and Denver is my cheapest (Southwest) non-stop flight somewhere good...
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!
I honestly only rode A-Ba twice during that trip, and it wasn't that I didn't like it, it was that I had other options (and lodging in Breckenridge.) I'm sure you'll enjoy Abasin and the bonuses plenty to justify a Bonus Pass! It may not be Wolf Creek, but it'll be the snot out of whatever you rode out here in the East.
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Round-the-year navigation in the Northern Sea Route to the Russian Far East will require at least 13 icebreakers, TASS reports citing acting CEO of Rosatomflot Leonid Irlitsa.
Icebreaking fleet is needed both in the eastern and the western parts of the route, he explained. Last year, vessels in the Yenisei area had to wait for icebreakers to escort them. ‘We had to relocate icebreakers from other missions to provide escort for them,’ Irlitsa said.
He added that icebreakers should be available in the areas with traditionally severe ice conditions. According to Irlitsa, at least one icebreaker is necessary for a 500-mile area, leave alone individual icebreaking services.