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Darrick Taylor earned his PhD in History from the University of Kansas. He lives in Central Florida and teaches at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, FL. He also produces a podcast, Controversies in Church History, dealing with controversial episodes in the history of the Catholic Church.
Is it a good thing for a Catholic publication to promote the life of Robert E. Lee as an example to be imitated?
Recently, a respected Catholic publication ran an article that called for more rebellion among young Catholics. The article raised some eyebrows. It urged Catholics to reject “the world” in the form of “critical race theory” by, inter alia, admiring the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee, the author tells us, is the “perfect antidote” for young people to combat “materialist Marxism.” The author went so far as to characterize the subjects of Confederate monuments, now being removed from public places, as ideal exemplars of “Christian men.”
The author probably meant to be provocative by putting things this way. If so, he certainly succeeded. Is it a good thing for a Catholic publication to promote the life of Robert E. Lee as an example to be imitated? For some, the answer is obvious, though for different reasons. …


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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Hindu Jagran Manch tell women not to visit Kotdwar’s male (predominantly Muslim) tailors to give measurements... (News item)
This report led my thoughts to some Muslim tailors of Uttaranchal whom I have known. Those of us who came of age in the 1960s heard many partition stories. There was one which I often heard my grandfather repeat. It was about a Muslim from Rajpur, a village north of Dehra Dun, now almost part of the town. In my stock of stories, this one was registered as being about a rather warm-hearted tailor and a familiar figure, always greeting his visitors with an offering of elaichi.
The next part of it however was this: moving about in the Roorkee area after partition, my grandfather found some bodies being unloaded from a van for burial. As the next body was being taken down, he saw the arms outstretched, palms together as though in offering. Something clicked, he looked again. It was the elaichi man he had known in Rajpur.
The incident had left my grandfather shaken. He had not got over the shock of it in 15 years. It must have made some deep impression on the mind of a child, because nearly 40 years after having heard the story, I set out to find out a little more about the elaichi man.
I started by visiting the Doon Valley’s darzis (tailors). That was how I met Nazar Master.
Nazar, now 75, had come to Dehra Dun from Saharanpur as a young boy in search of work. He started in the 1940s as an apprentice with Maqsood Hasan Ansari, a tailor who had set up shop near the city kotwali in 1912.
The politically advanced Nazar joined in many nationalist protest demonstrations. Often he suffered British lathi blows in the Paltan Bazar. That was long before the cultural police of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and its associate organisations had been heard of or imagined.
He followed in the proud tradition of the Valley’s handcraftspersons, many of whom had plunged into the struggle against British rule. Abdur Rahman, another freedom-loving darzi of Paltan Bazar, had been arrested in the civil disobedience movement of the thirties.
When Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned in Dehra Dun, his tailoring needs were attended to by Nazar’s ustad. That included a sherwani stitched in his shop. One of the difficult things to make, however, was Nehru’s Gandhi cap. According to Nazar, Nehru was particular about the cap’s length, angles, boat-like curves and the proper slope of its fore and aft.
When Maqsood Hasan took the cap to him Nehru was pleased. It had been done just right. Learning who had made it, Nehru asked to see Nazar. On his next visit, the ustad took Nazar along. The septuagenarian remembers the rupee and shabashi that Nehru gave him.
Nazar remained politically active and has seen transitions in the town — how several Muslims whose lives had been disrupted by partition were resettled with renewed hope, though many left for Pakistan. He worked closely with the Congress leaders of the time to banish fear and restore calm.
This process went on side by side with the home the town provided to the Hindus and Sikhs who had lost theirs in Pakistan, especially the North West Frontier Province and West Punjab. His face lit up when speaking of the visit of the Frontier Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, to Dehra Dun in 1969. Having worked with the earlier Congress, he does not conceal his disappointment with what his party has done with its legacy. He was particularly disgusted with the permissive demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.
And, of course, Nazar remembered the elaichi-offering man of Rajpur. His name was Mannu Shah and he was buried near Roorkee. What was he? A tailor or a dry fruits seller? Nazar could not say. According to him, Mannu Shah was a fakir, whatever else he may have been.
(The writer is a senior lawyer practicing at the Supreme Court. We are grateful to him for permission to print this piece here.)

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A Dream Fulfilled
Makoto Yabe was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1947. He studied ceramics and philosophy in Kyoto and after graduating, he apprenticed for the potters Jinmatsu Uno and Sango Uno. In the apprenticeship model, the apprentice works for many years, reproducing the master’s work, following a long lineage of Japanese tradition. A young artist can hone skills while learning about the professional life of the potter. As Andrew Maske, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Kentucky writes “The world of traditional ceramics in Japan naturally places great emphasis on lineage. Lines of potters that began in the late sixteenth or early seventh century are now in their fourteenth or fifteenth generations.” Great value is placed on the work that comes out of these potters’ studios.
The downside to this model of education is that it can be very difficult to break into this exclusive world. And the rules and guidelines dictated by tradition can be stifling. Recently, the Japanese ceramics world has seen an explosion of creativity with exciting explorations of form, innovative technics, and inventive use of material. Locally, this has been documented in such beautiful exhibitions as Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists at the Smith College Museum of Art and Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century at the Museum of Fine Arts. However, in the 1970’s, as Makoto was making his way out of university and through the apprenticeship system, the traditional way of training potters still held sway. Makoto dreamed of opportunities to create new work, his own work, that was not bound by so much tradition. So when Makoto was offered a chance to teach in Alaska, and later Boston, he left behind his homeland to pursue his dream.
What followed was almost thirty years of artistic exploration for Makoto. And as he came to discover, the freedom he explored allowed him to revisit his roots with new perspective. In 2004, he said ''Even though I'm in my 50s, I still feel like a student. There are still things to learn, new things to explore. However, as people age, their perceptions change, and I see Japanese traditions differently now. I don't have to fight traditions, but instead can express myself through it." 1
The work in A Dream Fulfilled highlights some of his thoughts, processes, and continued research and play of his work. While not organized as a retrospective, the show reveals the delight Makoto found in the making process and in bringing traditional techniques into the modern age. Nerikome (mixed colored clays thrown on the wheel), Neriage (mixed colored clays formed in a mold), and Mishima (inlaying colored clay into a different colored clay body) were some of his favorite techniques. Makoto’s painterly aesthetic created bowls, baskets, bottles, and bodies that at times are both whimsical and mischievous. Taken as a whole, Makoto’s work confirms his decision made as a young man and is evidence of his dream fulfilled.
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More Than a Window to the Outdoors: DIY Window Replacement
By TAXA Adventure Specialists \
One of my favorite things about our Mantis is how easy it is to perform my own maintenance. I will admit, I describe myself as “fairly handy” around the house. However, I think most of what I have done in and around our Mantis would be easily accessible to most people with a little help from YouTube. Servicing wheel bearings, resealing seams and winterizing the water system are just a few examples of procedures that our Mantis makes easy.
I recently met my match in repairs when we suffered a severe hailstorm – with softball size hail – which left our beloved Mantis with two broken windows and multiple dents. I won’t bore you with the insurance side of this story, as it is still ongoing, but I do want to share what I learned when replacing the windows.
I ordered the replacement windows through TAXA – my only advice for this process is to read the window description several times to ensure you pick the right size.
- Phillips head screwdriver
- Utility knife
- Powered screwdriver/drill with flathead or ¼ inch socket bit
The first step is to remove the window screen. There are 4 pieces of corner trim which snap off to expose the 4 screws that secure the screen assembly to the window. Remove these screws and the screen pops off the window, exposing the brackets which hold the window to your habitat.
Depending on the size of the window, there will be 8 or 10 of these brackets screwed straight into the window trim. Use a drill or screwdriver to remove these brackets and place them to the side – you will use them to secure the new window in place. After removing the brackets, apply pressure to the window until it becomes dislodged from its position. I would advise having a helper close by to ensure the old window does not just fall out to the ground.
The next step will require a helping hand, as you will need someone to hold the new window in place while the mounting brackets are installed around the outside of the opening, using their previous location as a guide to ensure the window is secure. After re-installing the brackets, conduct a leak check to ensure the gasket around the window is providing a good seal. I used a hose while my wife watched from inside.
Next, you will re-install the shade. I ran into a small difficulty with this step, due to a lack of finesse on my part. While the shade comes out easily, when you replace it on the window, pay attention to the plastic trim that runs along the inside of the shade assembly. This trim has to fit around the window for the assembly to fit correctly, my advice is to take it slow, going corner by corner to ensure it fits around the window properly. Once this is complete, fix the screws at each corner and replace corner trim. And with that you have a newly installed window and can get your habitat back to the outdoors where it belongs.


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A male’s sexual organ seems to be embarrassing if it has odd marks on it and it is definitely a great trouble for the suffering men. There are solutions available to this irritating trouble and help in establishing the intimate relations with their women. Any problems of male sexual organ like small bumps or ugly looking marks are the target issues of Pearly Penile Papules Removal System.
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Unemployment in the South West has fallen by 10,000 in the last three months. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that the current unemployment rate is 5.5%
It comes at the same time 300 jobs losses have been announced by Flybe, a 100 of which will go in Exeter. The company is trying to save £35 million as passenger revenues fall and fuel prices increase.
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ITV West Country visits Barnstaple Rugby Club to see the next generation of players who are desperate to join England at the World Cup!
The last pilots to train on Lynx and Sea King helicopters in Somerset have taken part in a parade in front of some special guests.
A teenager has told ITV News how he and a friend braved freezing conditions to rescue a man who had fallen into the River Tamar.


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Memoirs don’t usually strike me as fast paced and action packed, but this one was. From stories of specimen collecting in Africa to the account of two women’s flight from the Red Army after WWII with two toddlers in tow, this story is breathtaking. I found it difficult to put down.
I initially picked up this book after reading The Mind of the Raven by the same author. It left me intrigued about Bernd Heinrich’s story — what sort of person spends his life studying wildlife with such intensity — even to the point of physical hardship? As I made my way through the pages of this narrative, I found that Bernd’s story couldn’t be fully understood without the history of his family as well. The memoir is equally about the author’s father — an avid taxonomist who lived in Germany during both world wars and eventually immigrated to America. I found it to be riveting on many levels: as a glimpse into the life of a German family during the first half of the twentieth century, as an account of two men whose lives were committed to the natural world around them despite the changing trends and practices of the scientific world, and most of all as a vivid portrait of remarkable people living out lives that would seem utterly implausible in the pages of a novel.

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Pummeled by procurement concerns on a 20-year curbside recycling contract, Mayor Sylvester Turner said Friday he will seek a new round of proposals from the four final bidders.
Turner had met with small groups of City Council members Thursday to get a better sense of the concerns they repeatedly have raised since the proposal first was rolled out in late June, and announced his decision early Friday.
"This action is designed to put to rest the concerns raised by members of council, which must approve the contract before it takes effect," Turner said. "Whatever the result, my only allegiance is to this city and I will always seek what is in its best interest."
The council on Wednesday delayed a vote on a proposal to award FCC Environmental a 20-year $48 million deal that would have seen Houston send all 65,000 tons of bottles, cans and boxes its citizens recycle annually to a new processing facility the Spanish firm would build in northeast Houston. The deal, which was to start next year, also would have returned glass to the curbside recycling program.
Turner repeatedly had pronounced the proposal "a good deal" and stressed that the city's procurement director, the legal department and the City Controller had signed off on the bidding process.
Many council members, however, had questioned the process that was used to choose FCC as the winning bidder, particularly focusing on the length of the contract term and how the companies' prices were evaluated.
Vendors repeatedly were told during the procurement process that the contract term would run 10 years, with up to two five-year extensions, but the city let FCC submit a 15-year initial term under an "exception" clause in the request for proposals.
Competing vendors said they would have submitted 15-year bids if they had known their proposals would not be rejected, adding they did not learn FCC had proceeded with a 15-year proposal until after the firm had been selected. That led some council members to question whether the second round of "best and final" bids the city evaluated had been equitable, since the firms were competing using different terms that likely would affect their proposed prices.
The four firms that will be invited to submit a new round of final bids are FCC Environmental, Republic Services, Waste Management and Independent Texas Recyclers.
The mayor did not specify how much time the firms would have to submit their proposals or how quickly they would be evaluated.


Almost 2 years ago, AYOM covered the ongoing woes of Four Seasons. At the time fears arose of financial instability with reported £540m of debt. Despite continued operation with complicated ownership, it has now entered administration.
Debt riddled purchases
Financial Times commentators this week discussed the spotlight shining on the role of private equity firms in UK care. The case of Four Seasons has been an example of problems that can be caused when making debt fuelled deals. Four Seasons was purchased in 2012 for around £825m but changed ownership in December 2017. Capital Partners deferred a payment due to be made by then owners Terra Firma prompting the switch.
With Four Seasons having a large social service impact, many are concerned about the private equity model. Ludovic Phalippou of Oxford Saïd Business School spoke to the press about the ongoing worries.
“The model of private equity is to load up a business with debt. Therefore you take the risk as the equity holder. With financial distress there are incentives to cut corners, investments and keep the asset until a better day.”
Four Seasons were owned by Terra Firma since 2012 until the 2017 handover
Despite the current standings, the company’s regulator has tried to waylay fears. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has stated they “did not expect any disruption to residents, nor closures”. With that said, the company will be treading thin ice if it is to maintain its 322 homes across the UK. With 17,000 patients and 22,000 staff, there are genuine concerns despite the CQC’s statements.
Company Director John Evans informed The Guardian there were worries. He spoke to them as somebody with experience of their care through his wife. He indicted standards had slipped with: “Poor food, insufficient permanent staff, and equipment failures. All signs of a business with no money”.
He added: “The current debacle is a cause for concern but also for hope. A white-knight purchaser who understands the sector could take over. This is a safer option than an equity investor, hedge fund or venture capitalist. That way they can put in professional management and invest in the business.”
Large social impacts
AYOM’s Managing Director commented on the knock on effects of debt fuelled purchases. “Four Seasons isn’t a new case, it is one we’ve had to monitor closely. Poor management affects those they employ and care for and upsets what can be a delicate ecosystem. Four Seasons will have contracts with many smaller businesses; some relying on their contract for stability.”
“With the company in administration, those smaller companies could face financial trouble or ruin. The process of administration could see money owed reduced to pence in the pound or wiped out altogether. The best scenario would be to find a buyer to invest, pay the debts and properly manage a vital service.”
Industries such as healthcare can be difficult when it comes to private sector ownership. This includes private hospitals and childcare also. Level of care must be maintained and contracts managed effectively to remain profitable.
If you are struggling to secure repayments for your business, acting quickly is recommended. For expert advice on credit control and debt collection, AYOM are on hand to help. You can email us at firstname.lastname@example.org or call 0800 130 3357. Our advisers have helped thousands of UK businesses manage their cash flow against non payment. Let us help your business run smoothly by getting in touch today.


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Breaking the Binary: Understanding concerns and realities of queer persons assigned gender female at birth across a spectrum of lived gender identities
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A cosmopolitan 90s pop/dance group from Hamburg, Germany, Fun Factory comprise singer Marie-Annett (France), backing singer Smooth T. (b. Italy), dancer Steve (b. Germany) and rapper Rod D. (b. USA). Since their inception in the early 90s, and with the substantive help of producer Bulow Aris, they have successfully achieved a string of pop hits including Groove Me, Take Your Chance, Close To You and Pain. Though these have failed to cross over to either the USA or UK, such singles have enjoyed enormous success in mainland European countries including France, Holland and Sweden, as well as Germany. Promoting their debut album, Non Stop!, Rod D. described their appeal thus: The main thing is that it grooves, kicks and beeps, and that people have a good time.


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Indie-Pop artist Phoebe Ryan released James on October 27. The 5-track EP included a track called “Aspirin.”
Ryan has now uploaded a performance video of “Aspirin” to YouTube. The New Jersey-bred singer-songwriter is also presenting her talents live while on a current tour of the West Coast.
Check out Phoebe Ryan’s “Aspirin (The Layman Drug Sessions)” video below.

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Home-care workers urged to be prepared in emergencies
It’s estimated that as many as 60 percent of home-health workers will be unable to respond to an emergency due to their own health or that of a member of their family. For those who are homebound due to illness or caring for a child with disabilities and can’t go out to receive care, such a potential shortage of caregivers takes on even greater importance.
To address such concerns, the Home Care Association of New Hampshire has created “Home Care — Good to Go,” an emergency planning program for home-care staff that emphasizes the concept that preparation begins at their own homes.
“We’ve been working with health organizations across the state on emergency preparedness, education, increased stores of protective equipment, but what we learned the most from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is that the largest reason health-care workers failed to show up for work was because of their concern for and lack of communication with their own families,” said Peggy Gilmour, program coordinator of the Good to Go initiative. “We launched this campaign with a goal of getting workers in home care personally prepared. It is your professional responsibility as a home-care worker to be personally prepared.”
The HCANH program kit includes a tote bag with the Good to Go logo, but most importantly a checklist agency managers can distribute to their employees.
The checklist is essentially a self-inventory of planning questions, such as knowing the emergency plan of one’s children’s schools and day-care facilities and the locations of neighborhood emergency meeting places.
In a large-scale emergency, home-care workers will likely play a pivotal role, not only for their existing clients but for the general community.
“In the event of something like a pandemic, hospitals will be discharging anyone they can to make room for new, gravely ill patients,” said Susan Young, executive director of HCANH. “Home-care workers will be needed to provide care to these newly discharged individuals.”
“We must work in concert and do integrated emergency planning, and make sure it’s community-wide,” said Gilmour, adding that she has been asked to give a presentation on Good to Go to members of the New Hampshire Hospital Association. HCANH also is planning a conference in September on preparedness for home-health agencies.
Such personal planning is not really limited to health-care workers, said Gilmour. “Any business that wants to keep functioning, should have its employees personally prepared,” she said.
For more information, contact HCANH at 225-5597 or visit homecarenh.org.

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Irma Allen to be guest piano soloist with WDC band
When Irma Allen sits at the piano, her fingers glide effortlessly up and down the keys. Playing is second nature to her. After all, she’s been at it for more than 87 years.
“I started piano lessons when I was in first grade and continued through 12th grade. My senior recital was in Wadena Memorial Auditorium in 1938,” recalls the 93-year-old Allen.
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Evaluation of salivary biomarker profiles following non-surgical management of chronic periodontitis
Article first published online: 18 MAR 2013
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 171–177, March 2014
How to Cite
Oral Diseases (2014) 20, 171–177
- Issue published online: 11 FEB 2014
- Article first published online: 18 MAR 2013
- Accepted manuscript online: 14 FEB 2013 02:49AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 7 FEB 2013
- Manuscript Revised: 14 DEC 2012
- Manuscript Received: 22 AUG 2012
- toll-like receptors;
- CD14 antigen;
- biological markers;
- dental scaling;
- root planing;
- chronic periodontitis
Soluble toll-like receptor-2 (sTLR-2) and cytokines in saliva were assessed as clinical markers for chronic periodontitis in a longitudinal study.
Materials and Methods
Unstimulated whole saliva was collected from 20 periodontally healthy individuals and 20 patients with chronic periodontitis at diagnosis and at 1 and 6 weeks following scaling and root planing (SRP). Biomarkers including the cytokines (IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-17), sTLR-2, and sCD14 in saliva were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Mann–Whitney U-test and Student's t-test were used to determine the significance between healthy and chronic periodontitis groups and that between pre- and post-SRP samples, respectively.
Salivary sTLR-2, IL-17, and IL-10 levels were significantly lower and those of sCD14, IL-6, and IL-4 were significantly higher in patients with chronic periodontitis as compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, sTLR-2 and IL-4 in saliva reached levels comparable to those of healthy individuals at 6-week re-evaluation visit, implicating a correlation of the two markers with the disease process.
Our data suggest that salivary sTLR-2 is a potential prognostic or maintenance marker for chronic periodontitis. The observed variability of salivary cytokines is consistent with the role of these cytokines in the progression of chronic periodontitis.

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Anna is an Occupational Therapist who joined the Trinity Disability Service January 2022. Anna completed a B.Sc. in Sports and Exercise Sciences, before returning to university to complete the M.Sc. Occupational Therapy (Professional Qualification), graduating from the University of Limerick in 2021.
Anna has previously worked in the area of physical rehabilitation, providing practical support to people so that they can adapt and overcome physical challenges, through the development of new skills and the provision of assistive equipment to enable activities of daily living. Anna hopes to bring this practical approach to challenges into her work in Trinity Disability Service.
Anna has a keen interest in sports and plays Gaelic football, representing Kerry at intercounty level. Having captained the Kerry Ladies football team in 2020 and again in 2022, Anna hopes to bring the leadership, interpersonal and communication skills she has learned from this role into her work as an occupational therapist.
Anna is a member of the AOTI (Association of Occupational Therapists in Ireland) and is registered with CORÚ, the regulatory body for health and social care professionals in Ireland.


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A man jumps off the roof of a building after setting fire to his neighbours apartment. Officers Brian McMasters and Ralph Amoroso go to a disturbance in a restaurant caused by a man who didn't like the way his Boston Clams were cooked. A group of officers arrest a drunk man when his wife is afraid to come home. Officer John Ridge arrests a robber responding to a disturbance call at a food market.
Called the original reality show, Cops is a gritty and unfiltered look at the seamier parts of our society as seen through the eyes of the men and women who struggle to keep the peace.
Since 1989, camera crews have traveled across the nation and into other countries providing an intimate look at police officers and the nuts and bolts of their day-to-day work.
Cops uses a modern adaptation of cin... ma v... rit?, a French documentary style of film making from the early 1920s, where life is shot as it happens, without script, narration or interference. Here, the police officer is narrator, guiding you through the shift and what happens within it, using his or her own words.

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极速时时彩开奖:Setting minimum height for teachers illegal
极速快乐8群 www.vunoz.cn A GRADUATE of Xi'an-based Shaanxi Normal University was informed by the school's employment center that she cannot obtain a certificate to work as a teacher just before leaving school, because she is shorter than the province's minimum height requirement for teachers－1.5 meters for women and 1.55 meters for men－jointly settled by the Shaanxi education and public health authorities in 2009. ThePaper.cn comments:
The education authorities of Jiangxi and Sichuan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have canceled similar regulations. But Shaanxi seems not yet ready to do so.
Yet the woman was admitted by the teachers' university as an English major four years ago, without being told that she was too short to work as teacher, and she has been educated and trained to be one for four years.
She was also selected by a national program, which exempts university tuition fees in return for the graduates working as teachers in their home provincial-level regions for at least six years.
The woman has already found a teacher's job at a local school. But if she cannot get a teacher's certificate, she will be unemployed when she graduates this month.
That she has been engaged in the national program for four years, the standards and requirements of which are fixed by the Ministry of Education, means she has won recognition of the ministry and can be educated as a future teacher. If her school denies her teacher qualification, it also vetoes the Ministry of Education's program.
Even the Teachers' Law does not have any stipulations on a minimum height for teachers. According to the law, as long as she is physically and mentally healthy, which has already been proved by the results of her physical examination organized by the school, her alma mater has no power to say no to her career choice for physical reasons.
The Shaanxi education and public health authorities should abolish their discriminatory regulation as soon as possible. The student has every right to sue her schools and the local authorities for violating the Teachers' Law, if the school insists on siding with a local regulation that goes against the law.


Austin, Texas is certainly one of the leaders in the
movement. The city has been thinking about ways to make a
smart grid and plug-in hybrids
a reality for a while, and city leaders are making the electric vehicles available today more affordable. Buyers of
, scooters and cars in the city can get
for their purchases. According to local TV station KVUE, the city handed out around $4,000 for 47 electric vehicles (so, around $85 a vehicle, and the money comes from Austin Energy) in 2007. Stacy Neef, Coordinator of the Clean Cities Program in Austin, told KVUE that, "There are several thing already in place to reduce vehicular
in the Austin area and Central Texas, so this really does help to eliminate emissions." Keep it up, Austin.
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Caroline Lucas by Nicola Kurtz. Pic © Nicola Kurtz
Exhibition: The Landscaped Pictured and Environmentalists, Bodelwyddan Castle, Bodelwyddan, until April 19 2009.
It’s not often that a photographer gets to portray embattled political figures standing on the edge of enemy territory, but Nicola Kurtz manages just that in Environmentalists.
Her collection of photographs from the National Portrait Gallery includes a picture of Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas taken at Aldermaston, the bomb-concocting Ministry of Defence site in Reading she considers the most dangerous spot in the country.
Satish Kumar by Nicola Kurtz. Pic © Nicola Kurtz
Lucas accused Tony Blair of giving “the green light to a new generation of immoral and illegal nuclear weapons” when the site began building a new laser facility in 2006, which she warned would threaten world and international peace.
Setting a nuclear warhead facility on land susceptible to flooding probably wasn’t the finest example of government planning either, adding to the controversy surrounding the centre of domestic atomic weaponry for more than 50 years.
David Cox Jr (1783-1859), Trefriw, near Llanrwst, with an undershot mill, watercolour over pencil. Pic courtesy Clwyd Fine Arts Trust
Kurtz is an expert at capturing such subjects, winning an Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism in 2005 for her Flames of Desperation work, a documentation of burning brides in Bangalore which was published in The Sunday Times Magazine. She lists her more recent projects as “the plight of albinos in Tanzania” and “saving abandoned babies in Pakistan.”
In this show, she’s also photographed former Minister for the Environment Michael Meacher highlighting the government’s attempts to improve local recycling levels at Richmond recycling centre, as well as Friends of the Earth Executive Director Charles Secrett joining local people to prevent a highway scheme bulldozing through Oxleas Wood in 1995.
Joseph Josiah Dodd (1809-1880), Caernarfon Castle, Market Day, watercolour. Pic courtesy Clwyd Fine Arts Trust
Her works are juxtaposed against a series from the Clwyd Fine Arts Trust and Bodelwyddan Castle Trust collections examining the inspirational qualities of the Welsh landscape through a host of artists, alongside audio-visual explorations of the natural world by Alison Hayes.


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Add garlic clove and potato sear for 2 minutes
Add veg stock to the pot along with Malvani sauce and bring it to boil.
Put the lid on the pot and let it braise in the oven for about 2 hours or until the meat is tender
Season with salt, lemon juice and garnish with cilantro.
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There will be another service to commemorate the Dambusters raid today, this time in Lincoln Cathedral. The event will be attended by more than 1,300 people, including veterans of the raid Johnny Johnson and Les Munro, who has flown from New Zealand to be here.
Other relatives of those involved in the raids, including Guy Gibson's nephew and Mary Stopes Roe, the daughter of bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis, will also be in attendance.
The service will be led by the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, supported by the Chaplain in Chief of the Royal Air Force, and will be followed by a flypast by the Lancaster of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a pair of Tornado aircraft from 617 Squadron.
It follows last night's flypast infront of hundreds of people at RAF Scampton where the Dambusters mission began.
More top news
Officers from South Yorkshire Police will oversee the excavation of a site where it is believed the body of Ben Needham may have been buried
Lance Corporal Norman Jackson VC has been given his rightful place on the Great Central Railway War Memorial.
A mentoring scheme to help hundreds of women into leadership roles has been launched by the Labour Party in memory of Jo Cox.


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UzRCE held a webinar on the implementation of the activities of the central counterparty
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Uzbek Republican Currency Exchange (UzRCE), in cooperation with the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan, organized a webinar for commercial banks.
The agenda of the event included the activities of the central counterparty and the establishment of mutual cooperation with the participants of the trades of UzRCE.
The online event was attended by the General Director and specialists of the UzRCE, senior officials of the Central Bank, as well as representatives of 32 commercial banks.
During the webinar, the General Director of UzRCE Rashid Usmanov and specialists of the Settlement and Clearing Department told the participants of the event about the default management system, the procedure for settlements and clearing in the foreign exchange market, as well as the benefits of the central counterparty, introduced in order to ensure the timely fulfillment of obligations of trading participants.
It is noted that thanks to the launch of the activities of the central counterparty on the UzRCE, the risks that may arise due to default on transactions made by trading participants in the foreign exchange market are reduced, default situations are prevented and an opportunity for risk management is created. This contributes to the acceleration of the processes of settlements between participants in exchange trading, and, in general, to the further development of the foreign exchange market in this direction.
Earlier it was reported that from 3 October 2022, the UzRCE introduced the activity of a liquidity provider.
For this short period of time, specialists of the UzRCE for participants in the exchange currency market - commercial banks conducted training sessions on the activities of provider banks, as well as ratified agreements signed between UzRCE and provider banks.
UzRCE is the largest and multifunctional exchange platform of the republic - the organizer of exchange trading in the foreign exchange, money and derivatives markets, as well as the government bond market, with a unique integrated system that includes trading floors, a settlement and clearing system and a depository.


Installing Remote Desktop Session Host Step-by-Step Guide
Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 7
About this guide
This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of setting up a working Remote Desktop Services infrastructure in a test environment. During this process, you create an Active Directory® domain, install the Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) role service, and configure the Remote Desktop Connection client computer.
After you’ve completed this process, you can use the test lab environment to learn about Remote Desktop Services technology on Windows Server® 2008 R2 and assess how it might be deployed in your organization.
This guide includes the following topics:
The goal of a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server is to host Windows-based programs or the full Windows desktop for Remote Desktop Services clients. Users can connect to an RD Session Host server to run programs, to save files, and to use resources on that server.
This guide is considered the basic Remote Desktop Services step-by-step guide. All other step-by-step guides developed for Remote Desktop Services will assume that this guide has been completed first.
What this guide does not provide
This guide does not provide the following:
An overview of Remote Desktop Services.
Guidance for setting up and configuring an RD Session Host server in a production environment.
Scalability or performance information concerning RD Session Host in a production environment.
Complete technical reference for Remote Desktop Services.
Scenario: Installing an RD Session Host server in a test environment
We recommend that you first use the steps provided in this guide in a test lab environment. Step-by-step guides are not necessarily meant to be used to deploy Windows Server features without additional deployment documentation and should be used with discretion as a stand-alone document.
Upon completion of this step-by-step guide, you will have a working Remote Desktop Services infrastructure. You can then test and verify Remote Desktop Services functionality as follows:
- Connecting to an RD Session Host server by using Remote Desktop Connection.
The test environment described in this guide includes three computers connected to a private network using the following operating systems, applications, and services.
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Windows Server 2008 R2
RD Session Host
Windows Server 2008 R2
Active Directory Domain Services, Domain Name System (DNS)
Remote Desktop Connection
The computers form a private network and are connected through a common hub or Layer 2 switch. This configuration can be emulated in a virtual server environment if desired. This step-by-step exercise uses private addresses throughout the test lab configuration. The private network ID 10.0.0.0/24 is used for the network. The domain controller is named CONTOSO-DC for the domain named contoso.com. The following figure shows the configuration of the test environment.


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Films on the horizon 2018
THURSDAY APRIL 26th FROM 17:30 | ALADDIN CINEMA | FREE ENTRANCE
FILMS ON THE HORIZON is an work-in-progress presentations of upcoming Nordic features for children and youth, set in an informal atmosphere. The evening's host is Stina Ask Mikkelsen, Head of Programme at KICFF (p.t on maternity leave). The presentations are followed by dinner and drinks at Aladdin.
We will be presenting 5 projects. Each presentation will be approximately 20 - 30 minutes. Stina Ask Mikkelsen will be interviewing the filmmakers on stage. All presentations are in English.
ALONE IN SPACE (Sweden 2018) | Feature Film | Nice Drama
Alone in Space is an ambitious, adventurous, warm & funny genre feature film that doesn't shy away from big questions about life and death. The film takes the audience on a ride with two kids lost in space, accompanied by a friendly alien.
HALVDAN VIKING (English title: TBA) (Sweden 2018) | Feature Film | Anagram Sverige
Halvdan is not a proper Viking. He's having a limp and is regarded by the other kids as a strange loner with no friends, except for the village blacksmith Björn who's taken care of him since Halvdan's father left on a plundering trip.
Across the mighty river there's an enemy village that has been in a feud with Halvdan's tribe for as long as anyone can remember. One day during Halvdan's lonely excursions to the river he encounters Meia, the daughter of the enemy village ruler. A heart-warming and funny family adventure about bridging differences and forbidden friendship unfolds
DIVA OF FINLAND (Finland 2019) | Feature Film | Silva Mysterium Oy
DIVA OF FINLAND is a coming-of-age story of finding your own self, a more genuine one through meeting another person, a scary one. Facing her own uncertainties and the consequences of her actions makes Henna, our 18-year-old main character, step out of her shell and meet the world as a more mature and grownup woman – although Life never gives us easy answers.
KAPTAJN BIMSE (English title: TBA) (Denmark 2018) | Feature Film | 41Shadow
7-year-old Anna is having trouble sleeping at night. She accidentally left her favourite doll, Sophie, at her family's holiday home and Anna's parents won't drive all the way to Rørvig in order toretrieve the doll. Just as Anna is wondering if Sophie feels lonely, the young girl suddenly hears a strange sound.
CATTLE HILL (Norway 2018) | Feature Film | Qvisten Animation
Klara is a young city calf with a big dream of becoming a star. Klara tralvels immediately to the countryside to met her father, and the journey changes entirely Klara's prospect of becoming a star.


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1/6When beauty pageants proved color does not define beauty
The world which is already fighting an unseen virus, has also been challenged to fight the racist virus in many people’s mind that recently led to an inhuman act. The homicide of the African American George Floyd spread light that racism happens even today in this modern world where people are living in diversity. The Black Lives Matter movement has swept across the world; people all around have joined to fight for justice for George, under #blacklivesmatter. From age’s beauty pageants were also considered to have winners judged based on colorism, however last year making history, five black women were crowned the winners of the World’s top 5 pageant titles making it a triumphant year for black women within the pageant circuit.
2/6When beauty pageants proved color does not define beauty
Miss Universe 2019 Zozibini Tunzi who was crowned on the 7th December 2019 was very vocal about the fact that she grew up in a world where a woman who was dark skinned was not considered beautiful. With winning the title she said, “That ends today. I want children to look at my face and see their own looking back at them.” During the question and answer round on being asked “What is the important thing that we should teach the young girls today?” The diva confidently said that she’d like to teach the young girl’s leadership. She explained that leadership is something that’s been lacking among young girls and women for a long time because of how society labels and sees them. She strongly believes that women are the strongest and powerful thing in this world and they should be taught to take up the leader as there is nothing more important than taking up space in society. The South African beauty won hearts before the title and her win was inevitable. The gorgeous beauty is now well known for her kind heart and hard work towards the society, even amid the pandemic as she made efforts to continue her reign through digital platforms.
3/6When beauty pageants proved color does not define beauty
Jamaica beauty, Toni Ann Singh, on being asked “Why should you win the title of Miss World 2019?” gave a fitting reply by saying that she represents something special; a generation of women who are pushing forward to chan


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Some food vendors, sellers of holiday trinkets and a leading hotelier in biblical Bethlehem say Palestinian protests, triggered by what many here view as a provocative show
Guillermo del Toro’s Cold War-era fairytale “The Shape of Water” swam away with a leading seven Golden Globes nominations this week and the HBO drama “Big Little
Here is a look at some of the extraordinary facts about the city that Israel claims as its capital, even though nearly 40 percent of its population
When it comes to fandom, it’s reckoning time for Matt Lauer, Garrison Keillor and scores of other men accused of sexual wrongdoing. Hero celebrities have fallen
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language, one schoolchild at a time.
Venice is planning to divert massive cruise liners. Barcelona has cracked down on apartment rentals. Both are at the forefront of efforts to get a grip
Honor guards marching in unison in colorful uniforms. Elaborate state dinners with celebrity guests. Gaggles of children, jumping and screaming along with endless praise. The first
The godfather of rock and roll. A performer who always gave all he had. A man who loved his city and his neighborhood. Tributes to Fats Domino
Astronomers around the world reacted to the signal quickly, focusing telescopes located on every continent and even in orbit to a distant spot in the sky.
Pyeongchang is a little-known destination in one of South Korea’s poorest provinces. It is the ‘little town that could,’ bidding twice unsuccessfully for the Winter Olympics before
Going on safari to India to photograph tigers in the wild is an unrivaled experience. These are the world’s largest cats. They are stealthy, solitary, spectacular and
Hugh Hefner turned silk pajamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several generations of American life.
In a remote, rugged valley overlooking the Pacific Ocean, researchers closely monitor an endangered icon: the California condor. The giant vultures flap their wings and circle
Irma, which flattened some Caribbean islands and enveloped nearly all of Florida in its fury, no longer exists. The open Atlantic’s most powerful hurricane on record finally
When Cambodia’s main opposition leader was arrested last weekend in a surprise police raid, one of the country’s last independent media outlets rushed reporters out in the
Buy American” is a slogan that’s getting a lot of attention lately, but it can be tough to put into practice when you’re car shopping. A
After 10 days of crisscrossing southwestern China by high-speed train with two young children in tow, exploring minority villages amid rugged scenery and often sleeping in
The film, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the fatalistic outlaws, would become a cultural sensation, one of the biggest box office hits up until that
Studies using Tina, the false killer whale — a dark-gray member of the dolphin family with a big, round beak — led to major discoveries on whale
I drove with friends more than 1,600 km to ride 160-plus km of the single-track trail, which is no wider than a bike. And we weren’t the
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Principle by Peter Turner
DECEPTION GOES DIGITAL
In the age of lockdown and cancelled events, Magicians and Mentalists are rushing to discover the most powerful, useable and fooling material to perform online.
With the inability to share props with spectators, or their potential reluctance to interact with them in future, having some easy propless miracles is a MUST.
In Principle, Peter Turner explores the principle behind 3 of his favorite effects.
You'll learn how to:
- Reveal a thought of name
- Enable spectators to guess your pin correctly
- Learn how to force an image
All of this material is completely propless and can be performed in-person or via video chat.
You're not just learning the 3 tricks, you're learning the principle behind them to allow you to create your own incredible effects too.
Why is that important?
We all learn sleights in magic, or effects in mentalism, but a lot of us don't know how to use them or transfer that knowledge to other areas.
The double-lift is good on its own, but so much better when woven well into a powerful routine.
Principle unlocks hands-off digital deception by not only giving you the food, but giving you the recipe to make it for yourself too.
Severely underpriced and definitely underused... This is Principle.
KathrynI absolutely love this! I am a beginner mentalist and I found these tricks easy to learn and they gave me great reactions! Definitely great for Skype/Zoom/FaceTime calls. This is an amazing download. A MUST buy for all people interested in mentalism. FIVE STARS!
LindsayI have been a fan of Peter's work for years and his work is great! And as always i couldn't ask for anything better! This is full of knowledge and great ideas for anyone at any level! However my mum on the over hand was disappointed to see that the download did not come with a real life Peter Turner! FIVE STARS great download.

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I know that people need the truth out there. You do not get it from most Radio stations or TV stations. The government is all over the place with Covid is it’s the CDC and Dr. Fauci. They act like they know but they don’t really know what this is.
I had both my Pfizer vaccinations I’ve always been pro vaccination! I do not believe the vaccination should be forced on any American. Forcing a vaccination is unconstitutional.This is a flu. I never believed it was a pandemic. It affects older people and people with serious underlining conditions that they had prior to getting Covid. Do not let them make you fearful of Covid but respect the virus! ￼
I live in Florida. Most of you if you that ever watch the fake news you will know of governor DeSantis. He’s a very good governor and he cares about his people ! Governor DeSantis has a treatment Available for those that have Covid. It will keep them out of the hospitals. Governor DeSantis took an oath when he became governor. Not to follow the federal government but to uphold the US Constitution! Read your constitution. You need to be able to decipher the good and bad of this government today. As I said before do not fear Covid but respect it.


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Mangi (previously Arashi; born July 21, 1988) is a fur who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His character's species is a Giant Panda. He enjoys poetry and art, and loves to play DDR and World of Warcraft. His favorite band is Versailles.
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235 high school students enjoy spring break event
Some 235 Midland area high school students recently enjoyed a spring break event at Valley Lanes in Midland.
"We were afraid no one would notice with all the rest of Midland off on spring break," said Shauna Williams. "I was glad to see I wasn't the only one left behind."
Williams, a Teen Coalition member at West Midland Family Center and senior at Bullock Creek High School, said she enjoyed the music and freestyle dance the most. "But the bowling, mini golf, billiards and arcade games were favorites of many of the other students," she said.
The ROCK Youth Center, Midland Area Partnership for Drug Free Youth and West Midland Family Center partnered to provide the spring break activity, now in its fifth year and its second year at Valley Lanes.
"I think we do it mainly just to show the high school students that we care and that they are an important part of our community," said Greg Dorrien, executive director of West Midland Family Center.
"It's great to see so many teens come together to just hangout and have fun," added Kathryn Getzinger, program manager at The ROCK Youth Center."
Financial support for the event was provided by the Evening Exchange Club.
"The Exchange Club is happy to provide the underwriting that is needed to make sure this event occurs. I hope they ask us to help again next year," said Ann Manary, Exchange Club president.


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Lessons learned now will pave Marshfield girls hockey's path to success
Skaters work to build on early wins over St. Joseph's Prep and Hanover
MARSHFIELD - "I like to think of us as a young, scrappy team that nobody wants to play over the next few seasons," said Marshfield High girls hockey coach Tom Greland. "We're a blue collar, hard-working team, and you can see that the girls have high hockey-IQs, and as they are growing and maturing physically. We are seeing improvement with every game. Our record doesn't show it yet, but they are playing really good hockey and we hope to finish the season strong."
Greland is in his first year as head coach, after serving as an assistant coach for five seasons when Liz Cohen was the head coach. Last year's team finished 4-15-1, and graduated just two seniors, while relying largely on an 11-player-strong freshman class. That gaggle of young talent is now sophomores, and is still the heart of the 2023 team, which can only boast three seniors and four juniors, along with five freshmen.
The young Rams have some experience and are improving on a nightly basis, but the results have still stung. After the Whitman-Hanson/Silver Lake squad shut them out 3-0 last Saturday night (Jan. 21), the Marshfield girls hockey record stood at 2-8-1, and their Patriot League schedule surely doesn't offer any easy matches going forward. But Greland believes he has a resilient bunch that is never discouraged, and they are determined to better last season's mark before they are done.
"We lost to Hingham 7-2, and to Norwell 7-3, and those were our most lopsided losses," said Greland. "But everything else has been within a goal or two, so we're punching above our weight, as they say. Almost half of our schedule is against Division 1 teams, and our record is not indicative of how well we are playing. We've played Duxbury, Hingham, Pembroke and Milton, and all those teams are ranked within the top 20 in D1. We have beaten Hanover and tied Pembroke, so I'd think, when you consider strength of schedule and everything, we could end up in the middle of the pack in Div. 2, in the state tournament ratings. We're hoping we can get a big turnaround going in these final weeks and maybe qualify for the tournament."
"When all is said and done, of course, people will look at the record," Greland added. "But the fact is that our girls are holding their own against some very tough opponents, and we all believe we can get to that point where we are getting the results we want. When you see our girls play the third period, they all battle to the last second. I'm proud of them for staying positive all year. We are having growing pains but these kids will just never quit, and I can't say enough about their effort."
The Rams' three seniors are also their tri-captains, and all three--defenders Maija Kastrud and Heather DeGust, and forward Amanda Leone--are key elements of the team logging major minutes.
"I would say a crucial part of the positive attitude and no-quit approach has come from the leadership in that locker room, from our three captains," said Greland. "Amanda had an ankle operation before the season, and she had to come in right off rehab and adjust to skating, which can't be easy and is probably painful, but she's the epitome of a tough hockey player and a real leader. Maija is more the vocal type of leader, always keeping them pumped up and focused. Heather is more the lead-by-example type, a model of heart and tenacity who battles with good stick skills and shows how it's done."
In the interest of developing leaders for the future, Greland also appointed two assistant captains to wear the coveted "A" on their jersey.
"Our two players wearing the A are juniors Addison Brown, a very smart player, a forward with solid experience, and Arianna Altobello, a very talented athlete playing defense for us," noted Greland.
One big issue last winter for the Rams was the lack of any varsity goalkeepers. Last year, freshman Ava Peterson volunteered to switch from defense to net, and the school applied for a waiver to allow then-eighth-grader Morgan Murphy to play with the varsity. The results have been more than encouraging, as this year's edition of the Marshfield High squad has two experienced netminders to rely on.
"Last season we simply didn't have a goalie," Greland said with a rueful laugh. "We'd be on the bus, on the way to games, and asking 'Who's going to play net tonight?' We'd be passing the pads around. But then Ava converted to goalie, and we put in the waiver for Morgan. Between Ava converting from defense, and Morgan getting a ton of experience last year, we have been able to go from having no goalie to now having two quality goalies. They have both definitely been huge factors in keeping us competitive all season, and that position is now a strongpoint for us."
Among the soph-freshman 'Kiddie Korps,' there are some promising scorers and playmakers.
"Sophomore Kayla Leonard is our leading scorer, with seven goals and five assists for 12 points," Greland noted. "Freshman Sarah McIntyre has scored nine goals with one assist, for 10 points. Sophomore Cam Jordan has been phenomenal, shifting up from defense to forward, where she is so skilled handling the puck, and has scored five points. Soph Ari Comer is another bright spot, shifting from defense to center, where she's very competitive and gives us a lot of quality minutes."
The Marshfield High roster consists of 23 players this season, and with only three graduating, hopes are high that the ever expanding youth programs will continue to supply better overall numbers. The Rams boys field two JV teams, but the girls team hasn't had a JV squad for as long as Greland has been on the staff. Sub-varsity squads are an obvious developmental tool, and since many of their foes do have JV or even freshman teams, it puts the Rams at a disadvantage in the ultra-competitive South Shore hockey circles.
"We are only graduating three this year, and we are fairly certain we'll be adding more than that from this year's eighth-graders," said Greland. "Beyond that, the numbers of seventh-graders playing hockey are even higher, so we're hoping that maybe next year we can start a JV program."
Taking over from Cohen, Greland didn't have to make major changes, and felt the Rams had a good foundation to build on. A Marshfield native who grew up playing hockey with his assistant coach Chris Brown, Greland is enthusiastic and upbeat and dedicated to turning the corner with the girls team.
"I think coach Cohen left a very good base and foundation in place here, and we're just continuing to build on that," said Greland. "Working with Chris and our staff, everything feels very familiar and very comfortable for me, and it's been a very smooth transition."


Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson defends President Obama's decision to insist on an approach to fiscal policy that includes modest tax rates for the wealthiest households.
How dare he? President Obama, I mean: How dare he do what he promised during the campaign? How dare he insist on a "balanced approach" to fiscal policy that includes a teensy-weensy tax increase for the rich? Oh, the humanity.
Republicans are having conniptions. Witness the way House Speaker John Boehner reacted when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner presented the administration's proposals on taxes and spending:
"I was flabbergasted," Boehner told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "I looked at him and said, ‘You can't be serious.' I've just never seen anything like it. You know, we've got seven weeks between Election Day and the end of the year. And three of those weeks have been wasted with this nonsense."
The "nonsense" in question is a set of perfectly reasonable measures that Obama wants Congress to approve. Nothing in his package should be a surprise — except, perhaps, that the president has opened this negotiation by demanding what he really wants, rather than what he believes would be convenient for Boehner to deliver.
Read Eugene Robinson's entire piece at the Washington Post.
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Vaughan firms face competition bureau probe
Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating alleged price-fixing among Vaughan concrete forming companies involved in the city’s home building industry.
Although investigators are tight-lipped about the probe, yorkregion.com has learned offices in Woodbridge, Concord and Vaughan have been searched as part of an investigation that began in earnest after a warrant was obtained in March.
Bureau senior communications advisor Gabrielle Tasse said the length of the investigation will depend on evidence gathered before and after the raids.
“This (investigation) is particularly related to pouring concrete for private residences in the locations mentioned (Vaughan),” she added.
As for penalties for crimes related to price-fixing, Ms Tasse said if any crimes happened before March 2010, those found guilty could face up to five years in prison and fines up to $10 million.
If crimes occurred after that point, fines and jail terms are much stiffer. Penalties now can be as high as $25 million, including imprisonment up to 14 years, handed out at a judge’s discretion.
The bureau, which resolved three cases last year, said one conviction earlier this year resulted in a $12.5-million fine for two companies participating in a price-fixing cartel for polyurethane foam.


Data centre immersion cooling
We live in a digital world, using devices varying from smartphones and office PCs to autonomous vehicles. These all rely on data centres for storage or data processing.
These data centres have a high energy consumption, water use, and carbon footprint. It is estimated that on average data centres consume as much energy as 7 million homes combined. 38% of each data centre's energy use is for air cooling electronics.
By immersing IT hardware in data centres in a non-conductive fluorochemical liquid, the need for chiller-based air cooling is eliminated. This reduces energy consumption by 95% and minimises water use. From a performance, safety and life-cycle perspective, no other alternatives as favourable as PFAS-based cooling fluids exist.


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Tables are essential furniture for any lounge or living room for both function and style and can make a huge difference for very little effort.
Consider a coffee table as a useful addition to a living room, not only for practical purposes, but also as a 'central link' where balance and symmetry are required.
Select a table in a size and style to complement other furniture items in the room
To save money and add a dash of character, consider buying one second-hand. Older table styles are highly sought after for their 'vintage' appeal.
A sofa or console table is long and narrow and can be used directly behind the sofa to place lamps, vases and magazines on.
Usually measuring only around 30cm deep, and running the full length of the sofa, most rooms can accommodate – and certainly benefit from one.
Generously proportioned end or side tables allow extra surfaces in the living room for lamps, drinks, framed photographs, small artworks, and accessories. Tables can be varied in size and style, but do use only a few to avoid the room appearing cluttered.
ottomans or footstools
These offer comfort as well as extra seating and come in a wide range of sizes and styles ranging from benches to cubes. Firm cushioned styles can also double as a coffee or occasional table, provided drinks are set down on a tray.

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With the arrival of additional resources on Wednesday August 29th, fire personnel made excellent headway toward gaining the upper hand in containing this fire; no estimate of containment is available at press time. Additional bulldozers, engines and hand crews limited the growth of the fire; the current acreage is estimated at 20, 450 acres.
The assistance of the Jordan Rural Fire Protection Association has been greatly appreciated as they have worked alongside of agency, and contract personnel to suppress this fire. Air resources assisted ground personnel in cooling flare-ups near containment lines as engines crews worked into the interior portion of the fire to extinguish fire where it was still burning. For the public traveling on Highway 95, as you approach Jordan Valley Oregon, please slow your speed and pay attention to signing as fire personnel and vehicles are moving around the fire perimeter. The fire is still under investigation and fire investigators have not determined the cause of the fire at this point.
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He marries her and brings her home, against his fathers wishes. Yash refuse to accept it, and says that he doesnt have Raichand blood in him. Rahul cant bear to hear it, and leaves India with his wife. Rohan, who was in boarding school in that moment, learns the truth ten years later, and promises to reunite the family. Rohan goes in search of his brother, who has moved to London. There he meets Pooja, Anjalis sister, and then team up to re-unite the family, but without the family knowing his true identity. He finds out they still love their parents. Slowly he reveals his own identity and convinces them to return.
Yash is the father. Hes really old-fashioned, because his life is based on the same traditions as his grandparents had. Hes also very dominated, he wants all the things his way. Rahul, the adopted son, were always that kind of a boy, that did what his parents told him to do. But one day, the love toke over, and he just had to follow his heart. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, or Sometimes theres happiness, sometimes theres sadness in English, a movie about relationships between parents and children, between husband and wife and between siblings, is one of the best movies, that I have ever seen in my life.
This movie is indescribable beautiful in so many ways. It has everything that Bollywood symbolize. Great catchy musical numbers, drama, comedy and of course a wonderful story. I have seen this movie a millions times, and it still remains my favorite Bollywood film of all times. If you havent seen it, you really should. You dont want to miss it! It has everything. Emotions, love and hate. It is a great family entertainment too.


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Brian’s Top 5 Toby Keith Songs To Celebrate His 52nd Birthday [VIDEO]
Toby Keith is one of the most successful artists in the history of country music. Toby continues to sell out venues all over the globe and still rules on the charts and sales. He will bringing his tour to Cheyenne on the 27th with Joe Nichols. You can get your tickets here.
Today Mr. Keith turns 52 years old so I was motivated to come up with my top 5 Toby songs. It was very hard to pick since he has so many killer tunes but I came up these five. Let me know what you would have put in your list.
5. I Love This Bar
4. Crying For Me
3. As Good As I Once Was
2. American Soldier
1. You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This


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SpaceX's satellite Internet service Starlink has dominated the market and brought in more than a billion dollars - but was unable to meet aggressive internal projections.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Starlink's revenue for 2022 was $1.4 billion, up from $222 million in 2021. It is not known how much profit or loss the division made, but SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said in February that Starlink is expected to turn a profit this year.
Overall, SpaceX reported profits of $55 million on $1.5 billion in revenue in Q1 2023.
At the end of the year, the service had one million subscribers. It hit 1.5 million in May.
While that is larger than any other satellite Internet provider, it is significantly below the 20 million subscribers SpaceX predicted in a 2015 presentation to potential investors.
That 20m was expected to help lead to nearly $12 billion in revenue and $7bn in operating profit.
While the service is behind target, Starlink took a significant step towards lowering costs this week. CNBC reports that the company is no longer selling its antennas, also known as user terminals, at a loss. It used to lose more than $500 for every terminal sold, but now sells them at cost.


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Republican Representative Jeremy Faison has effectively vetoed a bill that would have honoured TJ Osborne, of the musical duo Brothers Osborne, after it unanimously passed through Tennessee’s senate, reports Variety.
TJ (36) came out in a profile in TIME magazine and is the only openly gay singer signed to a major country label. His decision to come out publicly was recognised by the Tennessee senate and they submitted a resolution that passed 30-0. Variety reports that the bill cited TJ Osbourne as, “a trailblazer and a symbol of hope for those country music artists and fans alike who may have become ostracized from a genre they hold dear”.
Faison raised a procedural objection against the bill that blocked it from moving forward. The resolution was sent back to the House Naming And Designating Committee, which has closed for the year, reports Variety.
HuffPost reports that when asked to elaborate his reasons for his objections, Faison stated that, “It wasn’t heard in committee, and I feel like it needs to be.”
Faison has notably backed anti-GLBTIQA+ legislation in the past and many have expressed their disappointment to the objection, including country music star Kasey Musgraves.
Brothers Osborne have responded to the rejection of the resolution via Twitter. “We’ve lived in this state for over half of our lives, [Faison] honored Ben Shapiro who doesn’t even live here. Jeremy, let’s have lunch one day. On us. Would really like to know more about you as a person.” Faison responded to the tweet saying he, “would be honoured to break bread with you”.


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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - 110 days. Italian heirloom onion with sweet white flesh and beautiful bright red/purple skins. These distinctively flattened barrel shaped onions store exceptionally well and make a tasty addition to any savory dish. Allium cepa
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Royal Canin (Indoor Adult)
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Royal Canin is quite a mixed bag for me. It has the potential to be a really good food, but trips over its own feet when they start using bad (and quite frankly, useless) fillers where they don’t have to.
Let’s look at what they’ve done here. First, chicken meal starts the ingredient list, and that’s great to see. Any “meal” product leading it off is very welcome. Then we have two grains, both rice. That’s fine, as rice is a great grain. The main concern is that the grain content may get a little high, but so far so good.
SO what’s next….oh, crap. Corn. Then corn gluten meal. There are few ways to derail a food from being great faster than throwing in corn gluten meal.
There’s a small rebound with chicken and pea fiber, which are both fine. Rice flour and rice hulls are about the worst way to put rice in a cat food, but it’s still better than putting in corn or wheat. Speaking of wheat, that’s what’s next. Good ol wheat gluten, since cats apparently love wheat (not really).
From there, it’s up and down. They do put in eggs and anchovy oil, which are great for proteins and omega fatty acids respectively. But then, salt is a bit high on the ingredient list too. Also, brewers yeast makes an appearance straight from your local brewery.
It adds up to a so-so food. Better than most crap in grocery stores, but not justifiable in price.
Where to buy?
What’s good about this food….
Chicken meal is first, rice is main grain used, vegetable fiber is high, fish oils.
….and what’s not so good.
Far too much corn used, rice hulls aren’t beneficial, salt is somewhat high.
Chicken meal, brown rice, rice, corn, corn gluten meal, chicken fat, chicken, natural chicken flavor, pea fiber, rice flour, rice hulls, wheat gluten, dried beet pulp (sugar removed), soya oil, sodium silico aluminate, dried brewers yeast, fructo-oligosaccharides, anchovy oil (source of EPA/DHA), calcium sulfate, salt, potassium chloride, dried egg product, choline chloride, DL-methionine, taurine, Vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), niacin supplement, biotin, riboflavin (vitamin B2) supplement, D-calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], sodium tripolyphosphate, tea (green tea extract), Trace Minerals [zinc oxide, zinc proteinate, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], L-Carnitine, preserved with natural mixed tocopherols (source of vitamin E) and citric acid, rosemary extract.

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The wider speed range of motors means that the number of ratios required is lower than for combustion engine vehicles, with two to four speed designs emerging as the optimum depending on application. Initially the Tesla Roadster was intended to have a purpose-built two-speed manual transmission,  but this gearbox proved to be problematic and was later replaced with a fixed-ratio transmission. The slowest gears designated '1' or low gear in most automotive applications allow for three to four engine rotations for each output revolution High, or "top", gear in many earlier three or four speed manual transmissions locks the output shaft to spin at the same speed as the engine Five and six speed gearboxes are almost always 'overdrive' in top gear with the engine turning less than a full turn for each revolution of the output shaft, 0.
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In the s, s, and s, fuel-efficient highway cruising with low engine speed was in some cases enabled on vehicles equipped with 3- or 4-speed transmissions by means of a separate overdrive unit in or behind the rear housing of the transmission. This was actuated either manually while in high gear by throwing a switch or pressing a button on the gearstick knob or on the steering column, or automatically by momentarily lifting the foot from the accelerator with the vehicle travelling above a certain road speed.
Automatic overdrives were disengaged by flooring the accelerator, and a lockout control was provided to enable the driver to disable overdrive and operate the transmission as a normal non-overdrive transmission. On a conventional rear-drive transmission, there are three basic shafts; the input, the output, and the countershaft. The input and output together are called the mainshaft , since they are joined inside the transmission so they appear to be a single shaft, although they rotate totally independently of each other.
The input shaft is much shorter than the output shaft. Parallel to the mainshaft is the countershaft. There are a number of gears fixed along the countershaft, and matching gears along the output shaft, although these are not fixed, and rotate independently of the output shaft. There are sliding dog collars , or dog clutches , between the gears on the output shaft, and to engage a gear to the shaft, the collar slides into the space between the shaft and the inside space of the gear, thus rotating the shaft as well. One collar is usually mounted between two gears, and slides both ways to engage one or the other gears, so on a four-speed there would be two collars.
A front-drive transmission is basically the same, but may be simplified. There often are two shafts, the input and the output, but depending on the direction of rotation of the engine, three may be required. Rather than the input shaft driving the countershaft with a pinion gear, the input shaft takes over the countershaft's job, and the output shaft runs parallel to it.
The gears are positioned and engaged just as they are on the countershaft and output shaft of a rear-drive. This merely eliminates one major component, the pinion gear.
Part of the reason that the input and output are in-line on a rear drive unit is to relieve torsional stress on the transmission and mountings, but this is not an issue in a front-drive as the gearbox is integrated into the transaxle. The basic process is not universal. The fixed and free gears can be mounted on either the input or output shaft, or both. The distribution of the shifters is also a matter of design; it need not be the case that all of the free-rotating gears with selectors are on one shaft, and the permanently splined gears on the other.
For instance a five-speed transmission might have the first-to-second selectors on the countershaft, but the third-to-fourth selector and the fifth selector on the mainshaft, which is the configuration in the Honda Civic. This means that when the vehicle is stopped and idling in neutral with the clutch engaged and the input shaft spinning, the third-, fourth-, and fifth-gear pairs do not rotate.
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This allows the transmission designer to make the transmission narrower, since each countershaft need only be half as long as a traditional countershaft with four gears and two shifters. On some exotic sports cars and racing cars equipped with a double-clutch transmission, there are typically two input shafts and two countershafts, one for the odd numbered gears and one for the even numbered gears.
This allows the next gear to be pre-engaged and selected by de-clutching one input shaft clutching the other. This results in no interruption of power driven through to the output shaft. Some automotive manual transmissions had freewheeling capability in the s through s. In all vehicles using a transmission virtually all modern vehicles , a coupling device is used to separate the engine and transmission when necessary. This is because most internal-combustion engines must continue to run when in use, although a few modern vehicles shut off the engine when the vehicle is stationary.
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The clutch accomplishes this in manual transmissions. Without it, then other than when the transmission is in neutral, the engine and wheels would at all times be inextricably linked, and any time the vehicle stopped, the engine would stall. Without the clutch, changing gears would be very difficult, even with the vehicle moving already: deselecting a gear while the transmission is under load requires considerable force and risks significant damage , but can still be done with much less force if the driver releases the accelerator just prior to attempting a shift as if there were no clutch disengaged.
Selecting a gear requires the revolution speed of the engine to be held at a very precise value which depends on the vehicle speed and desired gear—the speeds inside the transmission have to match.
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The clutch is typically disengaged by a thrust bearing that makes contact with pressure petals on the clutch ring plate and pushes them inward to release the clutch pad friction. Normally the bearing remains retracted away from the petals and does not spin. However, the bearing can be "burned out" and damaged by using the clutch pedal as a foot rest, which causes the bearing to spin continuously from touching the clutch plates. Float shifting or floating gears is changing gears without depressing the clutch, usually on a non-synchronized transmission.
Since the clutch is not used, it is easy to mismatch speeds of gears, and the driver can quickly cause major and expensive damage to the gears and the transmission. Float shifting is often done on large trucks with standard non-synchronized gearboxes. In most vehicles with manual transmission, gears are selected by manipulating a lever called a gear stick , shift stick , gearshift , gear lever , gear selector , or shifter connected to the transmission via linkage or cables and mounted on the floor, dashboard, or steering column.
Moving the lever forward, backward, left, and right into specific positions selects particular gears. A sample layout of a four-speed transmission is shown below. N marks neutral , the position wherein no gears are engaged and the engine is decoupled from the vehicle's drive wheels. The entire horizontal line is a neutral position, though the shifter is usually spring-loaded so it will return to the centre of the N position if not moved to another gear.
The R marks reverse, the gear position used for moving the vehicle backward. This layout is called the shift pattern.
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Because of the shift quadrants, the basic arrangement is often called an H-pattern. The shift pattern is usually molded or printed on or near the gear knob. Typically, first gear is engaged at the top left position with second below, third up to the right with fourth, below, and so on. The only other pattern used in production vehicle manual transmissions is known as a Dog-leg gearbox pattern.
This pattern locates first at bottom left position, second up and to the right with third below, fourth up and to the right, and so on. This pattern is found primarily in race and race inspired vehicles. Placing the selection position for second gear above the position for third gear is desirable in racing as more frequent shifting occurs from second to third than from first to second. Independent of the shift pattern, the location of the reverse gear may vary. Depending on the particular transmission design, reverse may be located at the upper left extent of the shift pattern, at the lower left, at the lower right, or at the upper right.
There is often a mechanism that allows selection of reverse only from the neutral position, or a reverse lockout that must be released by depressing the spring-loaded gear knob or lifting a spring-loaded collar on the shift stick, to reduce the likelihood of the driver inadvertently selecting reverse. During the period when U. In contrast, high-performance cars, and European vehicles in general, mostly used a four-speed transmission with floor-mounted shifters.
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This layout was then referred to as "four on the floor". Most FR front-engined, rear-wheel drive vehicles have a transmission that sits between the driver and the front passenger seat. Floor-mounted shifters are often connected directly to the transmission. FF front-engined, front-wheel drive vehicles, RR rear-engined, rear-wheel drive vehicles and front-engined vehicles with rear-mounted gearboxes often require a mechanical linkage to connect the shifter to the transmission.
Some vehicles have a gear lever mounted on the steering column. A 3-speed column shifter, which came to be popularly known as a "three on the tree", began appearing in America in the late s and became common during the s and s. The control simply disables overdrive for such situations as parking on a hill or preventing unwanted shifting into overdrive. Later, [ vague ] European and Japanese models began to have 4-speed column shifters with this shift pattern:.
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A majority of American-spec vehicles sold in the U. The column-mounted manual shifter disappeared in North America by the mids, last appearing in the Chevrolet pickup truck. Prior to , the GM X platform compacts Chevrolet Nova and its rebadged corporate clones were the final passenger cars to have a column-mounted manual shifter.
Outside North America, the column-mounted shifter remained in production. All Toyota Crown and Nissan Cedric taxis in Hong Kong had the 4-speed column shift until when automatic transmissions were first offered. Since the late s or early s, [ vague ] a 5-speed column shifter has been offered in some vans sold in Asia and Europe, such as Toyota Hiace , Mitsubishi L and the first-gen Fiat Ducato. Column shifters are mechanically similar to floor shifters, although shifting occurs in a vertical plane instead of a horizontal one.
Because the shifter is further away from the transmission, and the movements at the shifter and at the transmission are in different planes, column shifters require more complicated linkage than floor shifters. Advantages of a column shifter are the ability to switch between the two most commonly used gears—second and third—without letting go of the steering wheel, and the lack of interference with passenger seating space in vehicles equipped with a bench seat. This was cheaper to manufacture than a column shifter and more practical, as the gearbox was mounted in front of the engine.
The linkage for the shifter could then be positioned on top of the engine. The disadvantage is that shifting is less comfortable and usually slower to operate.


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The cost of people who come to England for the sole purpose of receiving free health care is costing the NHS anything between £70 million to £300 million per year. New rules have been passed as of April 2015, and by 2017 the NHS hopes to save £500 million per year.
If there is any uncertainty on a patients entitlement to free care, they may be asked to fill in forms, attend an interview and provide any documentation that verifies their right to free health care (a passport, driving licence, bank statement et) before the treatment is provided.
These interviews will be in depth but will be handled delicately by staff who have had training on how to appropriately conduct the interview. Staff will not be allowed to give out the forms based on skin colour or the patients ability to speak English.
The Executive Director of the health charity Doctors of the World UK, Leigh Daynes, has voiced his concerns over the rules. “There should be no impediment on receiving immediately necessary medical care,” however GP surgeries and urgent treatment at A&E departments will remain free and nobody will be denied treatment that is needed immediately.
The new rules are mainly for covering common procedures where people are admitted as in patients rather than being rushed into hospital, for example joint replacement operations (an NHS hip replacement currently costs £7,826). If a woman is about to give birth she will receive NHS care but she may be asked for documents or payment once the baby has been delivered (a normal birth currently costs £2,188).
There will be a “health surcharge” on visa applications for non-EU citizens, with an annual fee of £200-a-year, which is reduced to £150 for students (Australian and New Zealand nationals will be exempt from the surcharge).
Non-EU citizens who are lawfully entitled to live in the UK and usually live in the country will be entitled to free NHS care as they are now.