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T & M Protection services, a security & investigations company has sued MWW PR in the Supreme Court of The State of New York for non-payment of $11,150.16, plus interest and claims total now due to be $26,673.92. Said lawsuit was filed on March 9, 2017 for work MWWPR contracted for “the provision of private investigation and consultation services.”
T&M Protection Resources is an American private security, intelligence and investigations company headquartered in New York City, New York, and according to Google “T&M provides business intelligence and analysis; executive and celebrity protection and logistics; security consulting services; data forensics; information security; cyber incident response services; compliance monitoring services; private investigations; financial investigations, including forensic accounting; sexual misconduct consulting and investigations; technical surveillance countermeasures; and health care fraud and abuse investigations.”
On a number of occasions in recent years MWW PR has been sued for non-payment. The Michael Kempner owned agency remains one of the largest PR firms in the United States.
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Nike has released a new World Cup commercial called, "Winner stays."
It features nearly every recognizable Nike-sponsored player in the world: Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, David Luiz, Wayne Rooney, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gerard Pique, and Tim Howard, among others.
Non-soccer playing Nike athletes like Kobe Bryant and Jon Jones appear as well. Irina Shayk, Cristiano Ronaldo's model girlfriend, also makes a cameo.
The commercial is about a group of kids imagining themselves transforming into world-class soccer players while playing a pick-up game in an English urban area.
Nike always makes a mega-ad for the World Cup. And at four minutes, this is theirs for 2014.


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USD/JPY Rejected above $111.00 As US Indices Turn Bullish On Fed Chair Rhetoric
- USD/JPY retreated lower after powering through the 111.00 level.
- The yen remains under pressure against the Euro with EUR/JPY bouncing off two month lows.
- Gold is struggling for direction after last week sell-off with bounce back off two-month lows stalling
- US indices edged higher on the FED chair hinting current loose monetary policy could remain in place.
The USD/JPY experienced strong resistance after powering through the 111.00 level. The rally to one year highs came at the backdrop of renewed dollar strength following hawkish FED last week. Furthermore, a rebound in the US. Treasury yields after a slow start to the week is another factor offering support to the dollar, consequently pushing the pair high.
After the recent spike high, the 111.09 level has emerged as a critical resistance level curtailing further upside action.
Amid the pullback, USD/JPY upside action remains well supported, with the 110.50 acting as a critical support level.
USD/JPY remains bullish given the U.S. dollar, which continues to strengthen across the board against the majors. The U.S. dollar recovering to two-month highs should continue to affirm the upside momentum amid the small correction in what appears to be an action of profit-taking.
However, Japan’s economic recovery should continue to offer support to the yen, something that could curtail further gains on the USD/JPY. The Leading Economic Index rose past the 103.00 level in April, signaling economic recovery.
EUR/JPY bounce back
The Japanese yen also remains under pressure against the euro going by the bounce back in the EUR/JPY cross. The pair has bounced back, registering three days of gains after coming under pressure last week and plunging to two-month lows.
The pair has recovered from support at the 129.90 level powering through the 132.30 level as the Japanese yen remains under pressure. Above the 132.20 level, bulls could push the pair above the 132.80 mark, a critical resistance level.
Gold recovery stalls
The gold bounce back has stalled with the XAU/USD pair trading in a tight trading range amid a lack of direction in the commodities market. The precious metal has come under immense pressure in recent days on the U.S. dollar powering to two-month highs amid a surge in inflation in the U.S. and expectation of rate hikes.
The $1786 mark has emerged as a critical resistance level above which bulls are finding tough. XAU/USD has struggled to close above the level as bears remain in control after last week’s sell-off.
On the downside, the $1772 is a critical support level above which gold is well supported for a potential bounce back. However, a breach of the support level could pave the way for bears to push gold lower, with the $1760 level the probable next stop on the downside.
The dollar rebound should continue to cap any upside attempts on the bullion. However, the precious metal is benefiting from the FED chair’s weaker rhetoric on monetary policy. Rising Covid load case in Asian regions continues to fuel risk aversion, something that should benefit gold.
US indices bounce back
Major indices are flirting with record highs on the FED chair in the equities market, reiterating that higher inflation is transitory. The Dow was up 0.2% on Tuesday to 33,945 as the S&P 500 advanced 21.65 points to 4,246. Tech heavy NASDAQ was up 0.8% to 14 253.
The catalyst pushing indices higher is rhetoric from Powell indicating that the FED is not in a rush to start tapering on its losing monetary policy. After last week's sell-off, the sentiments calmed the market on concerns that tapering of bonds and higher interest rates could be on the way.
In the cryptocurrency market, BTC/USD returned above the $30,000 mark powering through the $34,000 level after tanking to five months lows of 28,778 on Tuesday. Amid the pullback, the flagship is still down by more attn. 50% from it's all-time highs.
Bitcoin remains under pressure given the sweeping regulatory crackdown that continues to weigh on sentiments in the market. China cracking down on trading and mining should continue to weigh on its price heavily despite the recent bounce back.
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In this post I discussed an entry in the Oxford Guide to American Military History in which the contributor indicated that Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell was removed from command of the Army of Northern Virginia’s 2nd Corps in 1864 in part because of his wife Lizinka Brown Ewell’s “increasing Unionist sentiments”. Not recalling ever coming across this in my readings before, I fired off a note to Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP Chief Historian John Hennessy, and asked if he could forward a link to my post to his colleague Donald Pfanz, who wrote The Book on Ewell. Mr. Pfanz was good enough to respond and give his permission to post his note here.
Dear Mr. Smeltzer,
John Hennessy passed along your inquiry about Lizinka Ewell and her supposed Unionist sentiments. Lizinka was definitely not a Unionist. In fact, she outfitted an entire Confederate company at the outset of the Civil War. She was, however, a practical woman, and early in 1865 when she saw that the South was “up the spout” and that it was only a matter of time before the Confederacy collapsed, she and her daughter fled to the North in an apparent effort to save what she could of her property. Instead, she ended up under house arrest in St. Louis, where she stayed with a cousin, Thomas T. Gantt, who had been on McClellan’s staff earlier in the war. (There must have been some interesting conversations in the household during that period!)
Lee transferred Ewell out of the army because he lacked faith in him and preferred to have Jubal Early lead the Second Corps. (Lee also realized that with Longstreet’s wounding Ewell would take command of the army if anything happened to him.) I am not completely satisfied in my own mind why Lee harbored doubts as to Ewell’s ability to command the corps. It may have had something to do with Ewell’s adolescent behavior in the winter of 1863-4, his loss of temper at the Bloody Angle, or Lizinka’s overbearing conduct at headquarters. It didn’t have anything to do with disloyalty on Lizinka’s part, however.
That’s good enough for me. Thanks, Mr. Pfanz, for taking the time to respond.

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By Urvi Parikh, Glamsham Editorial
Amitabh Bachchan, who is currently shooting for BHOOTHNATH RETURNS at Mehboob studios, visited the adjacent set of Farah Khan's HAPPY NEW YEAR yesterday.
While Big B bonded with Farah Khan, Shahrukh Khan, son Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah, the highlight of the visit was Bachchan joining SRK, Abhishek, Sonu and Boman for the game of Soccer that they played on PS 4 in Shahrukh's vanity van.
Bachchan also got the opportunity to have a look at some of the rushes of HAPPY NEW YEAR, and the actor was quite impressed with it. "Farah Khan and ShahRukh show me some rushes of 'HNY' and it looks so grand and big and exciting... and lots of fun!," shared Big B on his blog.


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Ninety percent of adult smokers began smoking during adolescence. Nearly half of the pediatric population is exposed to secondhand smoke. For these reasons, tobacco use is considered a pediatric disease. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is dedicated to addressing child health issues related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.
That’s why next week, the AAP will publish three policy statements and a technical report on tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure. The Academy will present the findings in a webinar titled, Protecting Children from Tobacco, Nicotine, and Tobacco Smoke, on Wednesday from Noon-1 p.m. EST.
This webinar will describe major recommendations in the new AAP policy statements on tobacco control. Policy issues related to these recommendations, as well as what the Academy’s actions, will also be discussed. For more information about the policy statements, visit https://bit.ly/AAPpolicy.
Serving as webinar faculty are Karen Wilson, MD, FAAP, Section on Tobacco Control Chair, and James Baumberger, MPP, Assistant Director of the AAP Department of Federal Affairs.

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In May 2022 the CAA published its Environmental Sustainability Strategy that sets out how it will work with the whole aviation system, both domestically and globally, to address environmental performance in aviation.
The Strategy explains the CAA will focus its expertise and leadership in the following areas:
- enabling development of Jet Zero technology;
- co-leading the modernisation of airspace;
- reporting on the sustainability performance of industry, including noise, and providing information to consumers on the environmental impact of aviation;
- advising and supporting the UK government on domestic and international policy;
- reducing the impact of our corporate activities and operations;
- assessing local environmental impacts in relevant regulatory activity and monitoring how industry is adapting to climate change;
- taking into account the environment in regulation and oversight.
The Strategy provides our colleagues, stakeholders, and those we regulate with clarity on our roles, remit and ambition and it explains what we plan to deliver in the short and medium term, setting our vision within the long-term nature of climate change and the government and industry’s evolving approaches.


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By Steve Hart, July 2014
At EPT 6 in Denmark there was a strong feeling among many that a “Federation” become the vehicle to support future needs, strategies and developments desired to flow on from the EPT energy.
My personal discussions of such structures has been a response to views commented on over the past four years about the collapse in Permaculture through lowering standards and the values and needs of support and service structures in order to maintain and develop the standards and performances throughout the whole pallet of Permaculture. My essay “Permaculture’s Collapse Dance” introduces this observation.
Continue reading Federation or Foundation, Society or Cooperative?
Navigation, our group that focuses on strategy and how we relate to the outside world, hosted a couple of sessions exploring the future direction for the EPT. Throughout the Learning Partnership we discussed the possibility of a network of European Permaculture Associations and teachers, and at the meeting in Denmark a conversation cafe was held to look at what a network could do and what the next steps would be to progress it.
Some of ideas for the purpose of a network included the need to maintain a platform to ensure good communication between us and to foster the quality and standards of Permaculture education in Europe. Facilitating the sharing of job opportunities in Europe, coordinating the European LAND projects and offering peer support to teachers were also identified as important functions of a future network.
The next steps identified were to explore the possibility of the the European Permaculture Council hosting an alliance or federation of European Permaculture Associations and for the EPT to present and launch the idea at the European Permaculture Convergence in July 2014.
Read the article “Federation or Foundation” by Steve Hart here.

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Testo-One of the most popular brands for providing state of the art technology equipment provides high precision pressure measurement instrument for determining differential pressure. Users can use this gadget on water heaters or air conditioner filters. A few prefer to use it for flow measurement in ventilation ducts.
The instruments help in measuring whether absolute pressure, differential pressure or relative pressure. The perfect electronic or digital pressure measuring helps measure anything that involves pressure parameter.
This state-of-art technology provides efficient pressure measurement, allowing people to rely on it. The different applications of the instrument are:
The wide range of pressure measuring instruments is handy and robust, with an illuminated display.


Washington, DC – 3D printers are the most powerful machines ever invented because they can make finished products, with all their parts, fully assembled. Driven by a digital blueprint, they build layer upon layer of fused plastic, metal, or other materials.
Most products we use every day are made of many parts. They result from many manufacturing steps performed by different machines, each with its own operator. Each machine and operator does a certain job, such as cutting, drilling, or milling, then passes the part to another machine and operator that perform another job, and on and on along an assembly line until the part is complete. Eventually, all of the parts are assembled into a final product, either by machine or by hand.
3D printing replaces all of these steps with fundamentally different machines and materials that substantially simplify the manufacturing process.
Traditional manufacturing depends on mass production and its economies of scale, and low labor costs, which are barriers to entry for would-be competitors. 3D printing eliminates those barriers because a single machine can make an entire part or product, fully assembled.
As the technology advances, anyone will be able to make anything, thereby democratizing manufacturing. Also, it is no more expensive, per part, to 3D print one part versus a million parts, to customize every part instead of making them all the same, and to make highly complex parts. Because 3D printing may eliminate the need for centralized mass production where labor costs are low, tens of thousands of 3D printing fabricators will pop up all over the world, making customized parts and products regionally.
Revolutionizing Product Design
Before 3D printing, products were designed so that they could be made with traditional manufacturing methods, which is called “design for manufacturing.” 3D printing eliminates such limitations and enables manufacturing for design.
This allows designers to create products that never existed before, and to give existing products a radically different look and feel.
Customers Become Manufacturers
But 3D printers can be used not just by traditional manufacturers, but also by their customers.
Consider a company that needs turbine blades used in power generation. The blades need to be replaced from time to time, at great expense. By using 3D printing to repair the blades, the customer no longer needs to buy new ones. This is great for the customer but terrible for the blade manufacturer and the lines have blurred between manufacturer and customer because the customer has become the manufacturer.
Companies Must Adapt or Die
Suppose a customer, or suppose that the military, starts 3D printing its own spare parts, rather than buying them from the OEM. Some OEMs will adapt. Maybe they will start selling 3D printable digital blueprints rather than making parts. They may become digital design companies and close their factories.
Other OEMs will not adapt, as Kodak failed to adapt to the digital imaging revolution. Some companies may be unable to adapt, as many horse-related businesses were unable to do when the automobile came along.
In my book I use a fictional company, ZeframWD, a manufacturer of warp drives in the next century, to show how 3D printing may force traditional manufacturing companies to adapt their business models.
The Disruption Checklist
Certain elements need to fall into place for a 3D printing revolution. On the industrial side, two things are needed to trigger the disruption of any existing product-based market:
- The ability to build large things, and hence the need for 3D printers with large build platforms
- The ability to make either single items quickly or many items simultaneously—that is, speed or scale of production
On both the home and industrial sides, there are some additional requirements for market disruption:
- Advanced materials (including materials that may not yet exist) that enable the efficient printing of complex structures
- The ability to print complex, integrated structures, such as smartphones and blenders
- The ability to print very small things, such as the integrated circuitry of computer chips
- Hybrid machines that can perform the processes that today’s 3D printers cannot
- Innovators, especially the innovators of the future—namely, young people who grow up with 3D printing
3D Printing Will Rock the World explains how these elements are falling into place.
Everything Will Happen
3D printing has generated a lot of hype. Some people say it is difficult to separate the hype from reality, but doing so is actually quite simple. Anything that sounds farfetched probably isn’t, but it will probably take longer to happen.
A world full of 3D printers that can make almost will probably be an almost inconceivably complex place, where products and blueprints are designed, customized, made, and sold by an uncountable number of companies and home printers offering a dizzying array of products.


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Step 1: Build an Emergency Fund
After you’ve made your budget, lowered your expenses, and set realistic goals, it’s time to set yourself up in case of an emergency. Save $1000 or one month’s worth of expenses, whichever is greater.
I would recommend putting it in a savings account, though it’s not strictly necessary; it’s just slightly harder to spend money housed in a savings account.
My checking account fluctuates pretty wildly, but I haven’t touched my savings account after completing this step, so I know it’s there whenever I need it. That peace of mind is valuable.
Step 2: Employer-Sponsored Matching Funds

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Lucknow, Nov 15: The first all-India conference of Directors General of Police (DGP) and Inspectors General (IG) will be held in Lucknow from November 19 to 21.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the conference.
The three-day meet will also have Union Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in attendance.
The conference is organised by the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
About 80 officers of the rank of DGPs and IGs from states and other forces will attend the conference.
Key security issues such as left-wing extremism, terrorism, cybercrime, crime against women, the Covid-19 pandemic and other challenges will be discussed at the meet, said sources.


Despite widespread acceptance regarding the value of city parks we have surprisingly few ways to measure their individual and collective success. The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore Index is one tool that measures how well the 75 largest cities are doing meeting their park needs. The City Parks Project’s green access and equity maps for Los Angeles also look to capture equitable access to parks. These and other efforts are finding ways to measure access and in some cases, investment, to help guide city spending. But equity is more than access and even more than spending.
At a time when cities are looking for new models for operating their parks more equitably and more efficiently, more effective tools and data are needed to make the case for strategic investment. In particular, making the case for equity is important since new strategies are often employed in those neighborhoods where there is a strong voice, potential partners and a perceived greater chance of success, leaving neighborhoods that lack resources – and clout – behind.
I recently caught up with Mickey Fearn, City Parks Alliance Board member and Professor of Practice, North Carolina State University, College of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, for his thoughts on what is happening in cities regarding efforts to create more equitable access to parks and good park experiences for users.
He reminded me that while city park departments face budget challenges that limit investment in both new and existing parks, they also face park usership challenges, straining to serve current residents as well as new immigrant populations who have their own – and new – ideas about the value of parks and recreation and how they want to use parks.
Fearn has spoken before about the need for park departments to work more diligently to connect to underserved communities, saying, “…for decades the leadership of parks and recreation agencies has asserted that lack of money, transportation, equipment and awareness are to blame in not reaching a more diverse and equitable park usership. But ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomics must also be considered in getting to the complex causes of this challenge.” For sure, the parks challenges we face will require both internal changes in departments as well as external solutions.
Equity for parks can mean a number of different things. There’s a lot of talk these days about park equity in terms of access – how far are city residents from a park and how many barriers exist for them in getting there. Park equity can also be viewed in terms of spending – on capital investment and maintenance to make a park safe and beautiful. But maybe more important is a look at park equity in terms of the programs, services and learning opportunities available in a park – what’s happening in a park that makes people want to go there at all?
Understanding where a city ranks on any of these measures requires a deeper research dive than what most cities are doing and a few cities around the country are starting to make park equity, in all its forms, a priority. Starting with data gathering and new kinds of analysis to help them understand their city better their goal is to develop new policies that will ensure that funding and partnership resources get to where they are needed most.
The Community Parks Initiative in New York, a $130 million investment to re-create 35 parks in communities with the greatest need, is relying on the analysis of 20 years of data to identify parks with less than $250,000 of capital investment. They reviewed inspection data, maintenance and operations reports, consulted with field staff and performed detailed, on-the-ground surveys of more than a hundred parks to determine where and how to target their resources.
In Chicago, Park District officials say they are examining data at every level, from the entire city to block-by-block numbers, considering population characteristics including race, ethnicity and income. “We’re good planners,” says Gia Biagi, former Chicago Park District Chief Planner. “So we look at everything and we look to serve communities that need us the most.”
Both cities are also mindful that in many neighborhoods where high-quality parks and playgrounds could make the greatest difference for kids there are no community advocates, park advisory councils or other local leadership to be advocates for parks. The Chicago Park District records, for example, show an advisory council in only a third of city parks. In these neighborhoods it will take more than capital resources to make a difference. Fearn believes that it will take a better understanding of their needs and values – and finding ways that parks can connect to that.
“Yes, we have park deserts – more money being invested in middle class neighborhoods than poorer neighborhoods,” says Fearn. “It’s not easy to reach residents in poorer neighborhoods.
In those neighborhoods one thing we know for sure is that people care about their children. What do those children need? Parks and recreation departments can expand their choices.”
Fearn believes that equity is less about just offering the usual set of services and more about engaging with residents to identify what their needs are. In a lot of cities, park programs and services are results of the skill of the director – e.g., physical training, sports, art – but the surrounding neighborhood interests aren’t always a match for those programs. When community centers show under-utilization it may be time to let community organizations who understand their neighborhoods help to make decisions about programs and services.
In the midst of addressing these complex park equity issues is another issue that is both a challenge and an opportunity in this mix. “Sixty-five percent of park and recreation leaders in the next five years are eligible to retire,” says Fearn. “These folks are leaving. What’s the bench for replacing them look like – kind of empty?”
Fearn sees this ‘changing of the guard’ as an opportunity to achieve racial equity – compliance and having the right mix of employees – as well as park equity by bringing in divergent thought with a next generation who understands the power of parks beyond just recreation – in creating civility, job opportunity and stronger communities.
If our parks and park programs aren’t reaching those who need them – either because they are not physically accessible or they are not safe or their programs are too euro-centric for new immigrant populations, where does that leave us? Looking closely at what just a few cities are up to appears to leave us back at square one: listening and engaging.
In my next blog I’ll talk to city park professionals in Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota – two cities who have hired and dedicated new staff to focus on equity and engagement and who are doing the research to make their case. Their efforts show both the dearth of data most cities have about their parks and park users, and the opportunities and revelations for fairer park spending and increased usership when a better understanding is had. These are two of a growing number of cities who believe that the first step toward gaining fairness in park access, services and programs must begin with a look the role that city parks departments can play in raising the profile of this complex problem.
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Volunteer drivers are needed to help deliver meals for needy Brea seniors. The Brea Senior Center’s Home Delivered Meal Program is a community-based volunteer effort distributing nutritious meals to homebound Brea seniors Monday through Friday. The service is designed to provide both long-term and short-term help for disabled, frail or chronically ill seniors as well as offer regular outside contact and encouragement from a caring volunteer.
Volunteer drivers can serve in short term, long term, or seasonal capacities as well as act as a substitute when a regular driver may not be available. Volunteer service schedule is approximately 1-1 ½ hours per week. Delivery routes are created to most efficiently use the volunteers’ time and conserve gasoline.
For more information, call Tim Takahashi at the Brea Senior Center, 714-990-7750.

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What direction to go Once Old Boyfriend Desires Getting Family
Well, it all depends about what you desire.
And this post is dedicated to that.
This Is Not For Everyone!
Let’s think about it. It isn’t simple to feel buddies with an ex.
This is exactly a very agonizing situation to get into, especially if you nonetheless desire him back.
Only those with a specific standard of psychological energy and readiness can draw this off. You ought to only go ahead once you know you can manage the psychological turmoil within both you and you might be absolutely sure that he is one for you personally.
You must in addition recognize that even though you try everything appropriate and attempted your absolute best, he might n’t need to return.
Do you really believe you can easily handle that?
Imagine If It’s Way Too Hard For You Personally?
If you should be nonetheless exceptionally emotional, forcing yourself to remain pals along with your ex will likely create more damage than close.
If that is the situation, it may possibly be healthier to reduce down communications for a while and allow you to ultimately treat from the separation very first.
Typically, you don’t have to be worrying too much about rejecting the friendship. I will be making the assumption that your ex sweetheart are a fairly affordable and learning chap.
Any time you only frankly simply tell him that you have to have just a bit of time and energy to cure from the breakup and can not be buddies with your for the time being, the guy should certainly comprehend.
It is far from like any time you say you can’t feel buddies with your, then you can’t get in touch with your in one to two months time. And that means you don’t have to worry.
In fact, your don’t have even to express “can’t end up being buddies with him”. Merely state you want some space and then he will understand.
However, when you are in charge of your feelings and they are prepared to get in touch with your, you will have to take the friendship if it is exactly what the guy desires at the moment.
In the event that you actually want to get the date back once again, recognizing the friendship will provide you with an opportunity to reveal your that you have truly altered and also the connection will probably be best.
However, proving to your that you are various will devote some time. You can’t only rise your ex and tell him which you’ve changed or perhaps you are prepared to changes. Im convinced some people has tried this without having any victory.
Definitely because actions talks louder than terms. Your own words don’t mean anything to him. He must read together with very own eyes that you have really altered habbo dating site before he will probably even think about using you back.
Whatever Will Probably Be Worth Obtaining Is Generally Quite Hard
No soreness no get! I am hoping your don’t notice it when I in the morning wanting to torture you.
I am merely trying to feel practical right here. Yes, not recognizing the relationship may be the simpler thing to do. But commonly, it cann’t help you get right back using your ex.
We shall see an illustration here.
Let say him/her breaks with your because of social differences, how isn’t any call planning to help you to get him back once again?
Do you think he could be planning changes his attention quickly simply because you end calling your? He may skip you slightly occasionally but that doesn’t mean he desires your back.
Place it this way. There are effective mix social marriages in the field. If he lets you know the guy doesn’t should marry you considering social variations, it just means he could be not insane adequate about yourself to want to see cross social matrimony.
In case for some explanations, you merely think he’s usually the one for your needs, staying company with your can be your just desire to create him drop in deep love with you once again, so that cultural variations no longer is something.
The Way To Get Your Partner Back Once Again If He Would Like To Become Company
When your ex only would like to be friends, it is far from necessary a terrible thing. The fact that your boyfriend nonetheless desires to feel friends indicates the guy however wants your in the existence.
Should you decide bring their cards appropriate, you’re able to render him fall in love with you again. After all, they have loved you before. Therefore, he can love your again down the road.
The key to performing this is to obtain reduce the unfavorable thoughts between the couple so that the really love can flowing once again. In order to do that, you should recognize the relationship.
Esteem Your Ex’s Border
It is critical to remember that you are merely pals now. Therefore, it is vital to honor the boundary of ex.
do not anticipate him to meet up along with you or get in touch with your as frequently as when you remained together. If he does, healthy. If the guy doesn’t, feel fine with that. This is why recognition is very important like what I talked about in this post.
It’s regular if he does not like to fulfill your as much at first. As long as you can make the best from every fulfilling and improve your mental relationship with your, fundamentally he will probably want to see your more often. Until then, have patience.
Important! Don’t Panic
I recently wanna discuss this simply because i’ve got exactly the same matter a lot of days. Most likely, you will confront alike condition too. Thus I think really smart to tackle issue right here.
After being pals together with your ex for a while and you’re gradually beginning to see progress, you can use your ex lover starting to make initiative to make contact with you. Of course, when that takes place, many women are extremely pleased and filled up with hope.
Then out of the blue, your ex lover end getting in touch with your. Most women will begin to stress and disheartenment when this happens.
“Oh no, what occur? I didn’t do just about anything incorrect? I becamen’t needy or everything. The Reason Why performed he prevent contacting?”
Hey ladies, Im right here to share with your, “Don’t concern!”
This is extremely regular. You need to remember this. You’re not the only one that thoughts. Don’t disregard your ex is a person staying also.
Everything you are stressed, he or she is most likely because nervous whenever. Perhaps an integral part of your really wants to get together again with you. Another part of himself is certainly not very positive because he could be scared to have back to the same old union.

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Posted on August 17, 2018
||Representing the Valley of the Sun, Valley Partnership is an advocacy group that supports responsible growth and development within the greater Phoenix Metro area. The cornerstone of this organization is its annual community project. Valley Partnership and its sponsors have successfully completed thirty projects and contributed over $3.5 million dollars to various non-profits since the late 1980s. Collaborating with Valley Partnership, Norris Design has helped to make a lasting impact for those in need while investing in the community and leaving a positive legacy. Norris Design provided pro bono services to these non-profits:
- The Society of St. Vincent de Paul – Urban Farm
- Norris Design Project Manager Kaylynn Rewerts led the Phoenix design team and Valley Partnership community project committee in master planning, landscape and irrigation design to provide the farm with much-needed infrastructure. Additionally, Norris Design Associate Greg Rowan and his wife (and local artist) Keely Finucane designed and painted an inspirational mural for the Farm.
- Sunshine Acres – “FIT Park”
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I’m still working on a few secret projects, so since there’s nothing new to report in that arena, here’s a quick roundup of my latest fabric portraits…
Something that’s rare for me, I actually made two of these gals, both with the same succulent plants but with slightly different purple backgrounds. One stayed with me and the other moved to California to live with a good friend of mine who has been apprenticing at a nursery and knows waaaay more about how not to kill a plant than I do.
I like when patterned fabrics play nicely together like these do; there are 8 different ones packed into this portrait.
This gal’s swim cap consists of flowers that were all individually edged in stitching before being secured in place with little sea green french knots, leaving their petals loose and third-dimensional.
With this portrait, I realized this latest batch of ladies are all facing left, so it seemed like a good time to make one facing right.
Along with facing right, she’s also sporting neon yellow earrings and the mask’s fangs are shiny white satin remnants from a wedding gown. I also love how my Queen Anne’s Lace floral, from my Modern Calico collection, looks like a sweet wallpaper behind her.
We’ll see what I come up with next!


Donald Trump’s administration was warned by the justice department about national security adviser Michael Flynn’s communications with Russia, the Associated Press has reported, adding to questions about the senior aide’s future.
Hours after the White House said the president was “evaluating” allegations that Flynn lied about secret communications with Russia and misled the vice-president, Mike Pence, sources familiar with the situation were cited by the Associated Press as saying the Trump administration was aware “for weeks” of a justice department warning that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
The Washington Post first reported on the DoJ’s warning, which came in late December from then acting attorney general Sally Yates.
Yates was fired by Trump in January after she refused to defend his travel ban. According to the Post, Yates’s concerns that Flynn lied about the nature of his communications with Russia were shared by James Clapper, the outgoing director of national intelligence, and John Brennan, then the director of the CIA.
The allegations come as Trump’s administration faces widespread calls from Democrats to fire Flynn from his post. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said on Monday that the president was “evaluating the situation”.
“He is speaking to Vice-President Pence relative to the conversation he had with General Flynn and also speaking to various other people about what he considers the single most important subject there is: our national security,” Spicer told reporters at the White House.
Spicer also made clear to reporters that “the statement is what the president’s current thinking is”.
But the noncommittal update appeared to conflict with remarks made moments earlier by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. “General Flynn has the full confidence of the president,” she told reporters.
The confusion was seized on by observers including David Axelrod, former strategist for Barack Obama. “Judging from WH statements this afternoon, @POTUS either has ‘full confidence in Flynn’ or he is ‘evaluating the situation’. Is that clear?” he tweeted.
Earlier Trump sidestepped questions over the issue during a brief press conference with the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Standing beside Trudeau, the president took only two questions from certain American media: the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reportedly struck a deal for better coverage with his election campaign in 2016, and rightwing website the Daily Caller.
Neither asked about the controversy swirling around Flynn, a fierce champion of Trump during the election campaign. White House officials have been reviewing the former general’s contacts with Russia before Trump took office and whether he discussed the possibility of lifting US sanctions on the country. This could potentially be in violation of a law banning private citizens from engaging in foreign policy.


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- 1/4 pound (125 grams) oyster mushrooms, cut into small pieces
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- 2 teaspoons maple syrup (or sugar)
- 3 barbecue sticks
1. Mix sauce with sugar
2. Marinate sauce with hotdogs, carrots and mushrooms
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4. Liquid from the stick will release to the tray, transfer it to a bowl
5. Brush the liquid to the surface of each stick
6. Keep toasting until sauce gets thicken
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Grade 6 student Safari Novosol is this year’s winner of the Young at Art photography contest.
Photographer Tanya Sedore, who started the contest, stopped by Ecole Montrose last week to present Novosol with her prize: a basket that included a Nikon DSLR camera and chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
Novosol’s photograph, chosen by a panel from among 22 entries, shows her pet leopard gecko standing on a glassy black surface.
“It had lots of elements; there was colour, there was reflection, it was just a very enjoyable image to look at,” said Sedore, who owns T. Sedore Photography.
The photograph demonstrated a technical know-how that was “amazing for 12-and-under,” she added.
“It had a really shallow depth of field, it was tack sharp – things we’re not expecting from 12 and under.”
To get the photo, Novosol said she put the lizard on her brother’s black guitar and took the shot while lying on the ground.
“Because I thought that it would look cool if the reflection of her was underneath and I thought the black looked nice with her yellow colour,” the 11-year-old said, adding that it had just the effect she was after. “It looked like she was standing on her own reflection.”
It was Novosol’s love of animals that got her into photography, she said.
“I would always look at cool pictures or YouTube videos of people hanging out with animals and I just wanted to take pictures of them (animals).”
Winning the contest also means she gets one-on-one time with Sedore at her photography shop.
Novosol’s piece will be auctioned off at the fifth annual Young at Art auction on Sept. 21 at Centre 2000. Money raised at the event goes towards a fund to support youth in the arts. Sedore said she hopes to raise $20,000 this year. A live body painting will take place during the event, and there will also be live music.
The contest also received 22 entries for an older age category. The winner, who is in high school, will be awarded in September when the next school year starts.


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rich's podcast episode 1 - cheap new vs cheap parts guitar
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Yep, I decided to go with a podcast. The first episode is on YouTube. You can watch it here by viewing the above, or if you'd like to leave a comment on the episode, watch it direct on YouTube or email me.
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In this episode I talk about cheap new guitars vs. cheap parts guitars, and places you can generally go online since during these pandemic times you really can't go into a guitar store.
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HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Two cars and the locomotive of an Amtrak train carrying about 169 passengers derailed Monday after colliding with a big rig truck in California's Central Valley, authorities said. At least 20 passengers suffered minor to moderate injuries, authorities said.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old Philadelphia boy has been charged with criminal mischief and other counts after swiping a van, then crashing it into five parked cars, authorities said Monday. Authorities said the boy made it less than a block after stealing a van that was unloading furniture early Sunday afternoon in West Philadelphia. He grabbed the keys from the rear door and jumped in the driver's seat. The brief joyride ended when the van crashed into the rear of a fifth parked car.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Traffic was flowing again on the city's busiest freeway following a weekend closure that was hailed a success by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa after it didn't result in the "Carmageddon" of epic traffic jams. Bridgework that forced the closure of Interstate 405 was completed and lanes of the freeway through the Sepulveda Pass began reopening Sunday night, hours ahead of a planned reopening for the Monday morning commute. The first drivers allowed back on the roadway cheered and honked their car horns as news cameras rolled.
Bill Kessler, of Spokane, has a new shortcut to get to the Centennial Trail. Kessler, who travels on foot, was heading to a ballgame Friday at Mission Park when he crossed the Spokane River on the historic Iron Bridge.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Sunday called "Carmageddon II," the sequel to last year's shutdown of one of the nation's busiest freeways, a success and thanked drivers for staying off the road and keeping the weekend traffic unusually light. Bridgework that forced the closure of Interstate 405 was completed and lanes of the freeway through the Sepulveda Pass began reopening Sunday night, hours ahead of a planned reopening for the Monday morning commute.
NEW YORK (AP) — A 25-year-old man initially arrested Sunday on an assault charge after Lindsay Lohan claimed he grabbed her in her New York hotel room in an argument over cellphone images was freed hours later and his arrest voided when the charge could not be substantiated, law enforcement officials said. Instead, Christian LaBella of Valley Village, Calif., and Lohan filed harassment complaints with police against each other after they were interviewed by police about their run-in, law enforcement officials said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lindsay Lohan got into an argument early Sunday with a 25-year-old man in her New York City hotel room over photos on a cellphone and she was physically grabbed or thrown, a law enforcement official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the encounter Sunday morning and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The demolition of a bridge that forced the weekend closure of one of the nation's busiest freeways is on schedule, while many Los Angeles drivers heeded warnings to steer clear of the area, and officials expect to reopen the lanes as planned Monday morning. Crews working around the clock since Friday evening have taken down all but two columns of the Mulholland Drive bridge over Interstate 405, Rick Jagger, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said Sunday morning. The project is part of a $1 billion project to widen the freeway to accommodate a new carpool lane.
It’s shoulder season in Sandpoint. The summer crowds have dispersed and skiers have a couple of months to wait until the slopes open. But there is a bustle in town along the new Sand Creek Byway, the two-mile shortcut around downtown.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sequel to Carmageddon has had its midnight premiere, and Los Angeles transportation officials are hoping the weekend proves as successful as last year's first edition. A 10-mile stretch of one of the world's busiest freeways was shut down early Saturday, and if all goes according to plan it'll stay that way until a bridge is rebuilt before the Monday morning traffic crunch.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys — but there's new evidence that doctors could have more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and tell driving authorities, that the older folks may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers.
HOUSTON (AP) — A caretaker at a group home for the mentally ill called police in the middle of the night because a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair was angry and wouldn't calm down. What happened next is the subject of an investigation that now involves the FBI. One of the two Houston police officers who entered the home fatally shot the double-amputee in the head, saying he was cornered by the wheelchair and thought his partner was being threatened by what turned out to be a ballpoint pen.
The Kootenai County Drivers' License Office will be closed today due to mandatory training for all employe es being conducted by the Idaho Department of Transportation. The office, at 451 Government Way in Coeur d'Alene, will reopen at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, a news release from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said.
Trains powered by hydroelectric dams on the Spokane River were the first urban public transportation system in early Spokane. The Spokane and Montrose Street Railway, which operated the first electrified streetcar system, was taken over by a business group headed by Jay P. Graves in 1902 and renamed the Spokane Traction Company. Graves and timber businessman Frederick Blackwell, of Coeur d’Alene, extended electric train service to Lake Coeur d’Alene in 1903 under the name Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad.
The agency responsible for planning and funding regional transportation projects is taking a closer look at how to help pedestrians, bus riders, bicyclists and disabled people safely get around Spokane. The Spokane Regional Transportation Council board has accepted for the second year in a row an $11,500 “active community environments” planning grant.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Carmageddon II" — the sequel — is coming to one of the nation's most crowded freeways, and authorities are hoping its subtitle won't be "The Traffic Strikes Back." Transportation officials say what they would like to see during the last weekend of September is a rerun of last year's two-day closure, when hundreds of thousands of motorists dodged doomsday predictions by staying away until the busy, 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405 reopened. It was one of the lightest freeway traffic weekends anyone in Los Angeles could remember.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday after a whirlwind aerial tour around California landmarks. Strapped to the back of a 747 jumbo jet, the pair touched down around 1 p.m. after a nearly five-hour flyover. One of the crew members stuck an American flag out of the hatch of the jet.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour crisscrossed California Friday in a last aerial hurrah before retiring to a Los Angeles museum. Hitching a ride on top of a jumbo jet, the pair departed Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, circling the high desert that gave birth to the shuttle fleet before heading to Northern California.


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Our ongoing series “My sqft” checks out the homes of 6sqft’s friends and fellow New Yorkers across all the boroughs. Our latest interior adventure brings us to the Mott Haven rowhouse of Samuel Brooks. Want to see your home featured here? Get in touch!
Samuel Brooks has been living in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx for the better part of 43 years, never budging in his passion for this vibrant area that’s recently been dubbed the next “it” neighborhood. After buying a historic rowhouse within the Mott Haven Historic District 12 years ago (and then spending about nine of those scraping paint off the beautiful moldings!), Samuel is now a major player in Mott Haven’s local community efforts–he’s the President of the Mott Haven Historic Districts Association, runs an art gallery in his basement to exhibit local artists, and spearheaded the effort to transform his home this summer into the first ever Mott Haven Decorator Show House as a way to promote Bronx-based and up-and-coming designers. 6sqft recently paid Samuel a visit and toured his historic-meets-artsy home and learned all about his work putting Mott Haven on the map for reasons other than real estate development and food halls.


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BY CHRISTINE AWOR
Value addition is one of the important components of nutritional security. Sometimes farmers get less price of a particular farm produce due to its surplus production. This problem can be solved by the crop diversification which creates an opportunity to earn more money from the different crops produce.
This entire process starts from post harvest handling which has been one of the biggest issues affecting farmers in Uganda. Post Harvest Handling is a system of handling, storing and transporting agriculture commodities after harvest
Its importance has been established over years to allow effective planning on how to sustainably manage finite resources for future generations.
With support from Tropical Institute Of Development Innovations (TRIDI) through department of Applied Chemistry, farmers and community around are able to benefit from short skills training scheduled to take 4 days (23rd-26th August 2022) at TRIDI Chemistry Laboratory.
This according to Milton Candia who heads Chemistry Department at TRIDI comes at the backdrop of many community challenges they have been witnessing ranging from poor post harvest handling,lack of skills in value addition and self creativity.
“We have for long done just a few activities in the community ranging from community awareness, cleaning environment and this has made community know very little about what TRIDI does hence making them not take advantage of the availability opportunities.”Said Candia
This short skill training will be of great value to the community through encouraging the youth to be creative , innovative and bridge the gap of unemployment, job creation , employable skills and reducing the risks of poor post harvest handling.
“We see many agro products being wasted and not handled well, sometimes tomatoes are just poured, fats from pork joints poured and wasted not knowing those can be used in Tomatoes sauce and soap making respectively, so this just a motivation to have farmers in the community equipped with hands-on skills to maintain food security and value addition ”He added
Agriculture becomes attractive to young generation only when it’s profitable, competitive, and dynamic. For this, use of innovative technologies, improvement in input supply and value addition is vital
Amutukwasize Lauben Parada head of Production in Applied Chemistry at TRIDI says for long, students leave their various institutions and just float without any job or skills to start on so opportunities like this should be embraced with much positivity because it will bridge that gap and make them self empowered
“Some of the short skills training we shall offer are; Liquid and bar soap making, tomato sauce , yoghurt and many other skills”
Image 4:Samples of Tomatoes sauces to be made.
In a nutshell, when the community practice food security, value addition and good post harvest handling, it helps to enhance the productivity and consecutively the production of food.
It can also assist in providing opportunities for income generation and , it generally provides improvement of nutritional values through enhancing the quality of rural life by way of community development.
Compiled By Christine Awor , Public Rations Officers (TRIDI)


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Long established (since 1972) industrial vacuum specialist Depureco is showing two new models intended for cleaning in conjunction with CNC production machines.
The company's export area manager Elena Genovesio showed us around the stand, which also featured its stainless steel bodied ATEX rated machines.
Depureco is one of the few companies in the industry with full ATEX accreditation for its machines against ignition from dust, with a range that encompasses small single phase to 25kW 3-phase models. They can also design, produce, test and install to bespoke requirements, and supply every industrial field via global distribution.
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H. Wayne Huizenga may be buying a baseball team, but he says he won`t take his eye off the ball at Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.
Huizenga, who learned a week ago that the National League had approved his bid to get an expansion team for South Florida, said this week he probably will be chairman and chief executive of the Fort Lauderdale-based video rental chain for at least the next five years.
``Chairman and CEO, probably,`` Huizenga said. ``Chairman, definitely. Some chairmen couldn`t exercise enough influence unless they had that title behind them, CEO. Doesn`t bother me at all. I`ll get my influence in there. Even if I don`t have the CEO title.``
Huizenga`s baseball bid, which awaits formal approval by major league owners, apparently caused some investors to get jittery this week. Analysts said investors may be worried that the baseball team will cause Huizenga to lose interest in Blockbuster.
``I`m sure there are some concerns that that might be the case,`` said Andrew L. Beja, analyst at Advest Group in Hartford, Conn.
``There`s a small chance that could happen, but my feeling is that any risk of that is mitigated by Wayne himself and the way he operates. Besides the fact that he`s got a host of talented people at Blockbuster,`` Beja said.
Huizenga owns 12 percent of Blockbuster`s stock. His shares, worth about $174 million at Friday`s closing price of 9, make him the company`s largest individual shareholder.
Since he took control in 1987, Huizenga has turned Blockbuster into the world`s largest video rental chain and a hot issue on Wall Street.
He sold 11 percent of his Blockbuster stock in February to begin building a stake for baseball, and has said publicly he might sell more. The team will probably cost him between $130 million and $140 million.
Huizenga also owns 15 percent of the Miami Dolphins and 50 percent of Joe Robbie Stadium, where the baseball team is expected to begin playing in 1993.
He said he will make policy decisions for the team but hire someone with baseball experience to be president and run the team. Huizenga said he will continue to focus his energy on Blockbuster.
``I`ll spend a little time at baseball,`` he said. ``But I will still be CEO (at Blockbuster) and still be responsible and take the heat if I`ve got to take the heat.``
Huizenga said there will be no ties between Blockbuster and the baseball team. He said the chain`s video stores in South Florida will not sell tickets to baseball games in Joe Robbie Stadium.
``Those are two separate things and I will not mix them,`` Huizenga said. ``Being a New York Stock Exchange company, I think you`ve got to be real careful you don`t mix them. The only thing we do is Blockbuster advertises in Joe Robbie Stadium. But I don`t feel bad about that because we were advertising in there before we bought in. And we also advertise at Comiskey Park, at the Padres stadium, and so forth.``


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Mato IoannidouIt becames more and more rare to meet artists who begin painting based on the certainty that paradise exists. And Mato Ioannidou is one of them. Here, in these works that she created with such an eagerness and assiduity things are clear. God is mourning, man is hearting and life, by way of a usurer, collects the energy it needs, by lending comforting pleasure. The only hope of deliverance is the faith that the Garden of Eden once existed. Therefore (how could it be otherwise) we can find it again. If not this stand, however, what else is true art, the one that is worth bearing that name? What else but this certainty, which you don’t have to prove to anyone? A word to the wise is sufficient, as well as a word to who is able to make associations.
A remarkable presence in today’s art world is Mato Ioannidou’s painting exhibition at Adam Gallery. The presented thematic unit is dedicated to associative representations of Saint-George. The triggering occasion was Maria Topali’s poem «Dream in a azure background» (Ενύπνιον σε γαλάζιο φόντο), in which it is said: «I Saint George, shall free the allbeautifull-one / whom I hold captive in my guts/I the Dragon». As the artist notes in the exhibition catalogue «I started painting repeating to myself the verse. From 2003 up to now, the verse never stopped generating new images, always associated with my recent experiences : on the one hand, my encounter with frescos in churches and country chapels all over Greece, which had once again confirmed my deep faith in painting; on the other hand, my visit in Olympos of Karpathos. Olympos is for me an example of survival and living testimony of a civilization with very deep roots, and at the same time a mould of archetypal figures. The last paintings of this work associate Saint George with the snake and Adam, the allbeatiful with Eve and the Virgin Mary, just as the icon-stands adorned by the women of Olympos do it».


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Again by the Angeiras beach, the magical beach in the north of Portugal that I like so much. Whenever I can I will air my ideas here. The sound of the sea and the breeze makes me feel a lot more relaxed and in addition it makes me think better about all the issues I have to solve on a daily basis.
This beach in Angeiras is quite large and now has a wall in the middle of the port for the fishermen's boats here in the area. With this wall I think it will be easier for fishermen to dock.
The sky this day again clean, with this blue that I present you in the photo. The north of Portugal is known to be very gray, that is, to be a place where the weather is always raining. But this only happens more in the winter, when spring begins, the weather changes completely and the days start to get full of sun.
However, even though it is spring time the weather is still not hot enough to start bathing in the sea. The water here in the north, I admit that it is quite cold, being winter or summer, however in the summer I go to the sea anyway, if only for a few minutes.
Finally, I present this new wall as you can see in the photo, which is quite large. I didn't get to the bottom because the sea was very rough and I was afraid that some wave could cross the wall.
This is a beautiful place to sit and enjoy the sea.

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The governor has identified the issues he wants lawmakers to work on during the special session. He says he'll keep score to track friends and foes. But he hasn't publicly made his positions clear — so how do they know how to vote?
On the opening day of the special session, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took a step to fast-track two bills reauthorizing the Texas Medical Board and four other state agencies jeopardized by inaction during the regular session.
The coming weeks will reveal whether the ongoing hostility between Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Joe Straus has paralyzed state policymakers as they take up the 20 items on Gov. Greg Abbott's agenda.
The Texas Legislature is returning to Austin, but the leaders of the Senate and the House appear to be starting the new session on the same sour notes with which they ended the regular session seven weeks ago.
For the second time this week, the Texas attorney general's office sparred in federal court with opponents of the state's new immigration-enforcement law, Senate Bill 4. Both sides got an earful from federal Judge Sam Sparks.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants a convention of states to consider amendments to the U.S. Constitution, but most Texas voters aren't convinced that's a good idea, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Several local governments have signed on to a lawsuit that seeks to stop Senate Bill 4, the state's new immigration law, from going into effect. But some opponents of the bill want more communities to join in.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling lawmakers back for a special session of the Legislature to address some key issues that failed to pass during the regular session. Watch how the session will work in a condensed time frame.


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Feb 2020 Cover Story – In Conversation with Mourad Hedna, UD Trucks Middle East President
UD Trucks overall growth and optimism epitomizes the Gemba spirit in which UD Trucks operate by as shown in their growth of sales in the MEENA region.
The launch of the new, heavy-duty Quester, a series of major fleet deals and the announcement of a new retail partner in Saudi Arabia were among the highlights of 2019 as UD Trucks enjoyed another positive year across the Middle East, East and North Africa (MEENA) region.
Against the backdrop of extremely challenging economic conditions, the Japanese commercial vehicle brand that belongs to the Volvo Group recorded sales increases in a number of key markets, in particular the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman.
We caught up with Mourad Hedna, UD Trucks Middle East President, who gave us an insight as to why UD Trucks continues to show success of growth and what makes them stand out.
There is no doubt that 2019 was a challenging year for the Middle East truck market, with most countries registering a decrease in total sales. Nevertheless, thanks greatly to the hard work of our local partners and our highly professional staff, the brand recorded strong performances in many of our major markets. For example, UD Trucks sales either increased or remained stable in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar. Fleet deals played a key role in these positive results, and we signed a significant number of major contracts, for example with UAE-based waste management company Lavajet and Oriental Trading Co in Qatar, who took delivery of 118 Questers and Croners and 25 Quester and Croner models respectively. And with Kuwait Municipality, who signed a deal for 106 Quester and Croner models for waste management use.
We have a lot to get excited about in 2020, both within the Middle East region and further afield in other markets also covered from our Dubai head office. Our primary focus for the year will be Saudi Arabia, where we will be looking to build on our new partnership with Zahid Tractor. At the same time, we will continue to enhance our presence and appeal in all our other markets, in close cooperation with our regional partners.
Of particular importance to us this year will be the East Africa market. Over recent years we have reactivated UD Trucks’ presence in several markets across this region, and this expansion will continue in 2020, most notably in Kenya, with the launch of a new product range and a new KD facility which is starting next month in partnership with CMC Motors, part of Al Futtaim group.
The Middle East and Africa region will remain a challenging environment in which to do business, due to the market environment uncertainty in some specific areas. However, we remain very optimistic regarding the brand potential.
We will continue our focus on the strategic growth in existing and new markets in a consistent way. Specifically, from our perspective, our focus will be on optimizing our performance, and that of our local partners, to ensure that we lead the way by offering the absolute best combination of products and customer service.
Saudi Arabia Market
We have important plans for Saudi Arabia in 2020 as we look forward to working closely with our existing customers and attracting a host of new customers to the brand. 2019 was very much a transitional year for us in the Kingdom, following the mutual agreement with Rolaco Group to terminate our collaboration. Our new exclusive importer and distributor, Zahid Tractor, shares the same commitment to delivering the highest standards of sales and aftersales support to customers, so I have no doubt we will see very positive progress for the brand,
We have already received very positive feedback from customers and the market, which is reflected by a strong order book, and everyone is looking forward to seeing UD Trucks take its place as a major player in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Moreover, teaming up with Zahid Tractor has allowed us to increase our network coverage from three service locations and six parts locations to six 3S facilities, two 2S facilities and around 35 parts outlets.
New Quester was developed with the Middle East in mind, so it is no surprise that it is already proving popular with businesses across the region. This is evidenced by a noticeable trend last year of companies entering into major fleet deals with UD Trucks, where the primary driver was New Quester. Certainly, since the introduction of New Quester and the 40 Ton and 8×4 12 CBM, we have been able to penetrate new segments that were previously dominated by European manufacturers. Particularly noteworthy is the extremely positive feedback we have received from customers regarding the new automated transmission ESCOT.
Technology and Innovation
The key for us is to develop trucks that allow our customers to address the most important industry challenges they face today and help them to stay ahead of the competition. And from a Middle East perspective, this means tackling the real issues they face on the ground in this region. So dependability and reliability fuel efficiency, productivity, connectivity, and supporting and developing drivers are top priorities for fleets and transport companies here.
This is why both the New Quester and the Croner were specifically engineered for tough markets like Middle East market. In the case of the New Quester, this heavy-duty truck introduces a range of enhancements to help customers across the region to boost their bottom line, including key features such as ESCOT automated manual transmission, engines with higher horsepower, comfortable cab and user-friendly UD Telematics to deliver greater fuel efficiency, productivity, driver efficiency, safety and uptime.
The most valuable asset any company possesses is its human capital. It is essential that we have motivated, engaged and inspired employees to be able to outperform. This is a primary focus for me, so I look to involve and engage every employee so that they can see the bigger picture, whilst also sharing how and why we will work together to implement our plans in the region. Encouraging creativity, entrepreneurship, agility and diversity helps to further enhance this engagement, and consequently the team’s performance.
Everything we do must be steered toward customers’ needs and support. Promoting customer interest in any initiative or decision we take helps to promote clarity.
Promoting a truly collaborative spirit among the UD team and our local partners, based on mutual trust, is another key driver for success. Without our partners’ engagement and professionalism, we cannot provide the required high levels of service to our customers.
Finally, I think it is important to foster an atmosphere within the workplace that encourages employees to enjoy their time and have fun by celebrating small and big achievements.
Our focus always has been, and always will be, the satisfaction of our customers, because this is the only guarantee of sustainable growth. This is the reason that we have invested in having a strong presence on the ground in the region, courtesy of our UAE-based regional head office and parts distribution centre, all of which ensures that we are closer to our customers.
We are continually listening to feedback from our customers across the region, so that we can develop tailored solutions to address their challenges, while simultaneously sharing best practice with all markets to ensure they are getting the very best out of their trucks. A key driver for our efforts in this field is what we call Quality Customer Pulse – a weekly meeting held at our regional head office, where we bring together the various teams to discuss the customer’s issues and feedback, and look at solutions to help them maximise their business’ potential.
UD Trucks Partners
Absolutely. Having strong partners in each market is essential to our success, so we believe it is a real endorsement of how we are doing that so many of these partners reconfirmed UD Trucks as their brand of choice, over the course of last year. This clearly highlights their pride in working with us, as well as the close team spirit that is evident among all parties based on the “Trust, Support, & Challenge”. An example of this close collaboration, and our commitment to our partners, were two regional conferences that were held in the second half of last year – a bodybuilders conference and the annual partners conference.
Safety and Training
Driver safety and training is integral to our customer service offering. While our products are very much designed with the safety of their occupants, and other road users and pedestrians in mind, from our regional offices we are focused on enhancing the drive user experience. From Dubai we run an advanced Competence Development Centre offering a full suite of Driver Training courses that cover both product specific modules, road safety sessions and other driver related topics. In addition, UD Trucks offers a plethora of online content in the form of video and audio to ensure the competence and confidence of drivers when it comes to daily inspection and safety features. As an example, UD Trucks donated three heavy duty trucks to a driving school in Ethiopia, as part of a joint initiative by UD Trucks and the Volvo Group, with a key focus on reducing the number of road accidents.

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Ernest Williamson’s paintings haunt. They invite us to stare into the face of our innermost selves, those sheltered recesses of the mind where disorder and creative imagination work in surprising tandem. Williamson’s work takes time to absorb as we weigh our response to these tortured faces behind bleeding lines of paint. Yet, the after image assuredly remains, haunting our optical nerves. To get a better idea of the inspiration behind these works, The Orris asked Williamson to share his thoughts on art and the creative process.
When did you realize you were an artist?
I’ve always been fascinated with visual art and poetics; however, I came to the realization that I was an artist at the age of nineteen. After a nervous breakdown, I began to create visual art at a feverish rate and interest in my work grew rapidly.
What inspires you?
Politics, nature, good and bad experiences, and the possibilities of creating something truly novel all inspire me. The works of Picasso and Dali still inspire me today and my creative efforts inspire me as well. The poetry of Robert Frost is not too bad either!
What is your artistic process like?
My unconscious mind frequently transfers experiences or snippets of information or images to my conscious mind and I feed off of that and create art. I work best when I have extended periods of time to work on my paintings, usually during the weekends.
You are both a poet and an artist, how do those mediums work together for you?
My poetic art is completely separate from my visual art in terms of process and in terms of style. When I write, I usually have to listen to Gregorian Chant and listen to my muse speak poetry to me and then I revise what I write. When I paint, I usually listen to classical piano or old R&B music for hours at a time.
What is the value of art?
The value of art is the value of life and the value of life is realizing that beauty, joy, sadness, ugliness all contribute to process and process at times can emit transcendental experiences. For me, God is the at the center of overt and covert realities and art can be experienced on a supernatural plane via delving into the metaphorical mimetic signs evinced in color, composition, relevancy, and memory.
What’s the state of the art world today?
The state of the art world is vibrant and evolving, though I would love to see a resurgence of figurative abstract artwork that involves the deconstruction of the human form.
You can find more of Ernest Williamson’s work on his website. Ernest Williamson is also an accomplished poet. Look for his poetry in Issue Four of The Orris, due out this November.


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