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- Recital Information Located Here!
- Welcome to the Recital Information Page! All files that have been emailed are located here, in PDF form. Below this list of comprehensive files, you will find a listing of each class that has a recital dance. If you click on your child’s class, you will—More
- Flow 40 Summer Intensive
- Amy Blake’s Academy of Dance is pleased to host the Los Angeles-based, nationally acclaimed teachers of Flow 40 once again this summer! This Summer Intensive will run Monday thru Thursday, June 15-18, 2015, from 9am to 2pm. Cost per student is $280: half of the cost ($140)—More
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- Amy Blake’s Academy of Dance is pleased to announce that Summer Dance Camp registration is now open! Dance Camp for 3-5 year olds will be held twice this summer – the week of June 8-12, and the week of July 13-17. Camp hours are 9:30am—More
Our school, located in Friendswood, Texas (a Houston suburb), strives to be a place to develop artistic ability and to further the mind to excel, not only in dance, but in life. We invite you to join our dance family, where our goal is to provide a pleasant and educational atmosphere for students ages 3 through adult. You will find only the best dance facility and faculty, as we have three studios with quality sprung dance floors, ample changing rooms, parent viewing windows, a parent waiting area, and private parking.
Our faculty consists of highly qualified professional and master teachers who are dedicated to the art of dance and providing a strong dance education for all of our students. Along with the many technical skills our dancers learn, they also learn many important life skills, such as discipline, goal setting and commitment. Students of all ages experience a higher level of confidence, self expression and creativity. Community service is also important to all of us at Amy Blake’s Academy of Dance, and we pass this message on to our students by encouraging their participation in our bi-annual Nutcracker, Merging Forces Concert, and other community service activities.
Amy Blake’s Academy of Dance is recommended by The Houston Ballet Academy!


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An envelope arrives in the mail, the address hand-lettered or in beautiful type; anticipation sets in. The envelope is eagerly opened. This is the first taste your guest has of what will be your celebration.
You bring your sense of design, tradition, and meaning to the whole event, beginning with the invitation. Peggy Davis works with you, as she has with hundreds of customers, to design your invitations, bringing her personal touch to the printed work. Peggy works successfully with people all over the country by mail, phone and e-mail to create unique, personal invitations.
A selection of invitations are shown here. Click on the images to see it in a larger size. Colors may not be the same on your screen. The designs are available in many ink colors, paper colors and textures.
Your Choices in the Design Process
Peggy will guide you through the steps to create your invitations. These include:
• Cover or border design: chosen from a printer's album, from Peggy's previous work, or a new design she creates with you. This design can be applied to other items such as program booklets, benchers, centerpieces, banners, etc.
• Inspiration from tradition: A verse from a traditional source is often the central element of an invitation design. A verse may include a child's name for a birth announcement, from Songs of Songs for a wedding invitation, from the Torah portion for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah . Other languages, using Roman, Hebrew or Cyrillic alphabets may be used.
• Lettering or type: Choose hand-lettering styles or calligraphic fonts. Hand-lettering provides a more personal, immediate touch to the invitation, and can be adapted in shape and form in a way that type cannot. Typeset text may be the effect you would like and is less expensive.
One thing that makes Peggy's invitations stand out is that even her typeset invitations have the look of hand-work. She uses one of two personal Hebrew fonts created from her own hand-lettering, and offers selected English fonts designed by calligraphers.
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French police fired tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs-Elysees avenue and other places in Paris on Saturday after a "Freedom Convoy" protesting against Covid-19 restrictions made it into the capital.
Vehicles carrying protesters managed to get through police checkpoints in central Paris to snarl traffic around the Arc de Triomphe monument.
Inspired by horn-blaring "Freedom Convoy" demonstrations in Canada, motorists waved French flags and honked in defiance of a police order not to enter the city.
Police also threw tear gas grenades to disperse protestors, who are against a vaccine pass required to enter many public places, near the Arc de Triomphe and sprayed demonstrators in a separate march on the other side of the city.
"The vaccine pass is necessary to be able to work or play sports. We can't stand the vaccine pass any more," said Nathalie Galdeano who came from southwest France by bus to participate in the protests.
"We don't want this injection, we want to have the right to choose," she told Reuters.
Police said that they had arrested 14 people, handed out 337 tickets by mid-afternoon and earlier had stopped 500 vehicles in the morning that were trying to get into Paris.
Meanwhile, 2,000-3,000 people, including some "Yellow Vest" protesters, marched in a separate, authorised demonstration in Paris against Covid-19 restrictions as well as declining standards of living amid surging inflation.
Less than two months from a presidential election, President Emmanuel Macron's government is eager to keep protests from spiralling into large-scale demonstrations like the anti-government "Yellow Vest" protests of 2018.
Separately police also said they had arrested five protesters in southern Paris in possession of sling shots, hammers, knives and gas masks.
Police had mobilised more than 7,000 officers, set up checkpoints and deployed armoured personnel carriers and water cannon trucks in preparation for the protests.
Canadian truckers protesting a vaccine mandate for trans-border traffic have paralysed parts of the capital Ottawa since late January and blocked US-Canada crossing points.
The French protests are against rules requiring a vaccine pass to enter many public places and come after months of regular demonstrations against the pass in Paris and other cities.
The Yellow Vest movement which began as a protest against fuel taxes grew into a broader revolt that saw some of the worst street violence in decades and tested Macron's authority.


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Belle Plaine unleashes heavy meta for her album’s release tour
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Since jumping into the music business full-time six years ago, Belle Plaine, a.k.a. Melanie Hankewich, has successfully straddled the divide between two seemingly distinct genres: jazz and country. Although she does admit it has presented challenges for her and her fans.
“My two studio albums were sculpted as groups of songs,” says Hankewich. “The EP was folk/country, then with Notes From A Waitress in 2012 I grouped songs together that had a 1940s jazz theme.”
When Hankewich performs live, she wows audiences with how seamlessly she and her band flow between the genres. Although when you dip back into their roots, she says, it’s not really that big of a jump. “There’s this uptake on the phrase ‘Americana’ in the last 10 years. That’s essentially what it is, these early American forms of music — blues, jazz, country and folk.”
Standing at the merch table after a show, though, Hankewich sometimes felt something was off. “Nothing really represented us as a live show, so when people came up to buy a CD I never felt genuine about what I was giving them and how it related to what we were playing.”
Happily, that problem’s been solved with a live album she’s set to launch. Recorded at the Artesian on Valentine’s Day 2014, The Unrequited Love features Hankewich and band-mates Elizabeth Curry (upright bass, vocals) and Jeremy Sauer (keys, vocals), along with guests Chris Sleightholm (guitar), Tyler Hammer (drums), Cheney Lambert (trumpet), Karl Valiano (sax) and Anna Rose (backup vocals).
(In a very meta turn of events, The Artesian is the Regina venue for this show. It’s like The Unrequited Love has become a reflection of a reflection in one of those never-ending series of reflections you get when you point two mirrors at each other. Mind: blown.)
During the two-set show, the band played 20 songs. Eleven made it onto the album, and through the mix of originals and covers that were chosen, Hankewich feels it does a good job of capturing the vibe of her live show — a sentiment Prairie Dog seconds.
There’s even bits of stage banter where she jokes with the band and introduces songs to the audience.
Timing the recording for Valentine’s Day wasn’t intentional, she says.
“We got booked for a show in Swift Current on Feb. 15,” says Hankewich. “Shann Gowan, who runs Lyric Theatre, had seen me with a full band at JunoFest [the previous spring]. She wanted us to play as part of a concert series, so she asked me to bring the band out.”
After committing to the gig, Hankewich decided she might as well do a second show in Regina and record a live album with the band.
“When I looked at the calendar, the most logical date was the Friday before and that was Valentine’s Day.”
It was a Valentine’s Day show in name only though, says Hankewich.
“We don’t sing a lot of love songs, so I decided to make it an anti-Valentine’s show. That’s where the name for the band came from — I wanted something that was cynical about Valentine’s Day, so we called them The Unrequited Love, and that became the name of the album.”
The album opens with the original song “Advice From A Vicar” about a woman who tries to seduce a priest, and also includes a cover of Tom Waits’ sombre heartbreaker “Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis”. Kris Kristofferson’ s “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” and Jimmie Cox’s “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” are also covered, while Hankewich introduces a second original, “Frozen In Obscurity”, with a poignant anecdote about taking winter walks while caring for her mom when she was dying of cancer.
The “anti-Valentine’s Day” concert attracted people who were into the idea, along with couples who genuinely were out on a Valentine’s date, Hankewich says. But in the end, it all worked out.
Then came the hard part of taking the recordings by sound engineer Chris Haynes and mixing them at Soul Sound Studio with producer Orion Paradis.
“Going in, I had ideas about which songs I wanted but it didn’t turn out that way at all,” says Hankewich. “We listened back and picked ones we felt were performed best. With a live recording, and so little opportunity for isolation in the mikes, to go back and change things would have meant overdubs. That’s okay if you’re the Eagles, but we didn’t have that ability.”
The final step was to design the album cover. That was done in collaboration with artist Monique Blom, photographer Carey Shaw and designer Avril Biggin.
The outside features a lone coyote standing in a deserted prairie landscape. “It’s very stark, and not very welcoming,” Hankewich says. “For a while, that’s how I felt about the industry. The touring was really exhausting me, and just the amount of work it takes to put on a show when you’re self-represented. The reward at the end didn’t always seem to balance out for me to have a happy life.
“But then the inside has this warmth to it. To me, that’s what the show is and the reason I keep going. I want that communion with the audience and the warmth it creates.”
While producing the album took longer than expected, Hankewich thinks it’s an important step in her artistic development.
“I’m writing for a new album and would like to be in the studio this year so we can have something out in 2017,” she says. “But for now I just want to celebrate this album.
“I really like how it connects everything I’ve done before,” says Hankewich. “But I’m excited for what the next studio album can be because of what the live album has given me.”


Maharashtra and Delhi NCR saw a significant decline in new launches of residential units owing to a slowdown in the real estate sector, a survey said. According to the survey by data analytics firm PropEquity, cities like Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Gurgaon and Noida saw a sharp decline in new launches as compared to third quarter of 2018 as well as second quarter of 2019.
As against this, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai witnessed a reverse trend with the number of launches increasing significantly as compared to second quarter of 2019. "Gurugram witnessed almost negligible new launches of 80 units in one project and there were no new launches in Noida; Pune, Mumbai and Thane saw an addition of 6,341, 1,862 and 4,490 units, respectively. This represented a decline of 44 per cent each in Mumbai and Pune; and 49 per cent in Thane on year-on-year basis," the report said.
Similarly, a drop of 58 per cent in supply was also witnessed in Mumbai and Thane on quarter-on-quarter basis. Pune also witnessed a considerable drop of 46 per cent in the new launches when compared to the last quarter. In Hyderabad, there were around 4,700 units launched in third quarter which was approximately 1.3 times the launches in the previous quarter. The supply also increased by 22 per cent on year-on-year basis.
Similarly, Bengaluru witnessed new launches of 9,500 units in this quarter which increased by 41 per cent and 1 per cent on quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year basis, respectively. Chennai, with an addition of 2,749 units also witnessed an increase of 10 per cent and 8 per cent in new launches on quarterly and yearly basis, respectively.
"Real estate sector in India is witnessing an interesting trend where south India is doing significantly better than the rest of India. The new launches are showing diver-gently opposite trends in the comparison as rest of India is falling behind due to oversupply and south is doing better due to lesser over supply and demand from the IT sector," PropEquity Founder and MD Samir Jasuja said.
With 3,069 units, Kolkata also witnessed a reviving trend in terms of new launches with a significant increase of nearly 62 per cent as compared to the last quarter.
"While the new launches demonstrated a mixed trend throughout the country, the sales declined in almost all the cities in the third quarter," the report noted. Pune and Thane witnessed maximum absorption of around 14,500 and 10,500 units. However, there was a decline of 8 per cent and 12 per cent on quarter-on-quarter basis in these two cities.
"The demand in Chennai dropped by almost 23 per cent and 25 per cent on quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year basis, respectively. The demand was most stable in Bengaluru with a nominal 3 per cent drop as compared to the last quarter. Least absorption in terms of number of units was witnessed in Noida and Gurugram which can be attributed to negligible new launches in these cities during the quarter," it said.


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Open Access Week 2016: “Open in Action”
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The theme of Open Access Week 2016 will be “Open in Action”. Open Access Week is an international initiative designed to raise the profile of Open Access and push towards publishing ‘open by default’.
Open Access Weeks have always encouraged action as well as words. But this year’s OAW takes this a step further, encouraging all stakeholders to take positive concrete steps to make their research openly available and to encourage others to follow suit. “Open in action” is about highlighting the actual concrete examples of how Open Access is being promoted by researchers, librarians, and students alike, whether through depositing accepted manuscripts, running open access journals, providing training and guidance, etc…
“As Open Access becomes a more and more familiar concept, we must focus on the small steps everyone can take to make openness in research a reality,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. “This year’s theme will help showcase these actions, the individuals who are leading by example, and the ways this openness advances science and scholarship.” (www.sparcopen.org CC BY 4.0)
Open Access Week is celebrated by individuals, publishers, and institutions all over the world. If you want to find out more or get involved visit the website: www.openaccessweek.org. If you have any ideas about events in St Andrews please get in touch with us, email us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow is partnering with lithium-ion battery provider and renewable energy storage system maker Samsung SDI to perform demonstrative energy storage projects in China.
Sungrow filed a statement with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on which the company is listed, saying the two companies had signed an agreement with Shanxi Guoke Energy Saving Company a state-owned company. This is not the first time the two are collaborating; in 2014 the pair announced a joint venture agreement to build and operate a battery storage plant to service the Chinese market.
Under the provision of the Guoke Energy Conservation Company, the two manufacturing giants will be joining forces on these projects to demonstrate the effect of storage on the grid when solar is added into the mix.
From demonstration projects to be located in Shanxi Province, Northern China, expected to size up to 20MW capacity with 80MWh storage, the modal will be promoted throughout the entire province if successful. The partnership is set to play on each other’s strengths; pooling on resources such as technical expertise, local grid communication and O&M.
The plan is to develop storage strategies based on grid-balancing frequency regulation and include both micro-grid and off-grid demonstrative projects. The micro-grid projects will be of no less than 100MW capacity, with 20MW / 40MWh storage. In addition, projects will include a three-tiered micro-grid structure. The systems' grids should be able to handle renewable penetration of at least 50% and prove how to increase system efficiency by 20%, according to the filing.
The projects will be mainly promoted within the Jinneng Group network and subsidiaries, state-owned by Shanxi Province, of which the Shanxi Guoke Energy Saving Company is one. The projects have the greenlight from the National Development and Reform Comission (NDRC), the country’s administrative and planning control hub. In light of this, the document said both companies are liaising with local and central government to ensure smooth execution of the upcoming demonstrations.
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In early November Semper withdrew two children’s snack products from the market, after these products had been found to contain high levels of two toxic mold substances aflatoxin and ochratoxin. This could have been avoided with the use of UmBio’s system for quality assurance of food.
UmBio’s technology makes it possible to analyse the chemical content of food products during actual production. By analysing the product ingredients, it would have be possible to detect the high levels of mold materials in the early stages of production, before the final product was manufactured, packed and shipped out to grocery stores.
“The toxic substance aflatoxin comes from mold growth, on for example nuts or dried fruit. If the nuts or fruit are part of the final product, the toxic substance would often be present in low concentrations in the diluted final product. In order to avoid unwanted substances in the finished product it is possible to analyse the incoming raw materials”, says UmBios CEO Stefan Nordin.
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The UmBio Inspector is a mobile system that uses advanced image analysis to show the chemical content of organic material such as food or medicine in real-time. The system is deployed at a process line in the production environment and analyzes samples of selected products. As the UmBio Inspector scans, for example a cheese, bread or drugs, it analyzes the content instantaneously as the information is collected. UmBio’s technology shows the chemical content that is invisible to the naked eye, such as the distribution and content of fat, water, lactose and protein, or quality deviations such as mold.
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The state general election is Tuesday, with polls open statewide from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The state constitutional offices, 17 state Senate seats, all 99 Assembly seats, all Congressional seats and countywide partisan offices will be decided Tuesday.
Statewide races: Republican Gov. Scott Walker is opposed by Democrat Mary Burke, Libertarian Robert Burke, and Dennis Fehr of Chippewa Falls on the People’s Party ballot.
Also on the gubernatorial ballot are Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Sen. John Lehman (D–Racine), and Libertarian Joseph Brost of New Richmond. Voters vote for a governor–lieutenant governor combination.
The race to succeed retiring Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen includes Republican Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel, Democratic Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, and Libertarian Thomas Nelson Sr. of Madison.
The race to succeed retiring Republican state treasurer Kurt Schuller includes Republican Matt Adamczyk of Wauwatosa, Democrat David Sartori of Cudahy, Green Party candidate Ron Hardy of Oshkosh, Libertarian Jerry Shidell of Rhinelander, and Constitution Party candidate Andrew Zuehlke of Ripon.
Democratic Secretary of State Douglas La Follette is opposed by Republican Julian Bradley of La Crosse, Libertarian Andy Craig of Milwaukee, and Constitution Party candidate Jerry Broitzman of Milwaukee.
Legislative races: The 17th Senate District race to succeed retiring Sen. Dale Schultz (R–Richland Center) includes Rep. Howard Marklein (R–Spring Green) and Democrat Pat Bomhack of Spring Green. Bomhack defeated Ernie Wittwer of Hillpoint following a recount of the primary results Aug. 12.
Marklein’s successor in the 51st Assembly District will be Republican Todd Novak, the mayor of Dodgeville, Democrat Richard Cates Jr. of the Town of Wyoming, or Libertarian Adam Laufenberg of rural Highland.
In the 49th Assembly District, Rep. Travis Tranel (R–Cuba City) is opposed by Democrat Chad Henneman of Boscobel.
Countywide races: Lafayette County Deputy Sheriff Reg Gill is unopposed on the ballot, though Democrat Ralph Brown is reportedly running as a write-in. Gill defeated Darlington Police Chief Jason King in the GOP primary Aug. 12.
Lafayette County Republican Clerk of Court Catherine McGowan and Democratic Coroner Linda Gebhardt are unopposed on the ballot.
Grant County incumbent Republican Sheriff Nate Dreckman, Clerk of Court Tina McDonald, and Sheriff Nate Dreckman are unopposed. Dreckman beat sheriff’s Sgt. Ed Breitsprecker in the primary Aug. 12.
Iowa County incumbent Republican Sheriff Steve Michek, Clerk of Court Lia Gust and Coroner Wendell Hamlin
Congressional races: In the Third Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D–La Crosse) is opposed by Republican Tony Kurtz of Prairie du Chien and write-in candidate Ken Van Doren of Mauston, who finished third in the GOP primary.
In the Second Congressional District, including Lafayette and Iowa counties, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D–Madison) is opposed by Republican Peter Theron of Madison.
Referenda: The statewide ballot includes a constitutional amendment referendum on whether the transportation fund should be segregated to prevent funds being used for other purposes. The transportation fund consists primarily of state gas taxes and vehicle registration fees.
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FREE-ONLINE-FORMS.COM – DD Form 2954 – Vietnam War Commemoration Commemorative Partners Program Application (Military Installations only) – Are you ready to be a part of preserving history and honoring the heroes of the Vietnam War? The DD Form 2954 – Vietnam War Commemoration Commemorative Partners Program Application offers military installations a unique opportunity to join in the nation’s effort to recognize and commemorate those who served during this pivotal period in our history. This program provides an avenue for military installations to actively participate in honoring Vietnam veterans, educating future generations, and ensuring that their sacrifices are never forgotten.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, there is no better time to engage with this commemorative program. By becoming a partner, military installations can play a vital role in preserving the legacy of those who bravely served in one of America’s most complex and impactful conflicts. Through this application process, installations have the chance to contribute meaningfully to national efforts toward remembrance and recognition, while also fostering a deeper understanding among current service members and civilian communities about the profound impact of the Vietnam War. Joining forces through this program not only honors veterans but also serves as a powerful testament to our collective commitment never to forget their sacrifices.
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The DD Form 2954 is a crucial document in the Vietnam War Commemoration Commemorative Partners Program application, specifically designed for military installations. This form serves as the gateway for military units and organizations to become official partners in commemorating the sacrifices and contributions made during the Vietnam War. Through this program, participating organizations can organize events, educational initiatives, and historical displays to honor veterans and their families.
One of the key aspects of the DD Form 2954 is its role in fostering a sense of unity and remembrance within military installations. By engaging with this form, units and organizations have the opportunity to actively contribute to preserving the legacy of Vietnam War veterans. Additionally, completing this form is a way for current service members to connect with history and recognize the impact of past conflicts on their own roles within the military community. Overall, the DD Form 2954 enacts a powerful mechanism for honoring history while promoting solidarity among those who serve.
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Finding the DD Form 2954, an essential document for Military Installations participating in the Vietnam War Commemoration Commemorative Partners Program, might seem like a challenging task. However, this form is readily accessible through official military channels such as the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website. Additionally, interested parties can also obtain the form from their respective military installation’s administrative offices or through designated program coordinators.
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To continue the sprinkle theme this week, I have a recipe for some sweet and festive white chocolate pudding cookies. These are special in the fact that I added one cup of butter yellow cake mix to the batter along with one cup of rainbow sprinkles. The addition of almond extract along with the vanilla intensifies the cake-like taste.
An extra trick to making these cookies unique is in how you drop the dough onto the cookie sheet. I used a 1&1/2 Tablespoon scoop and placed one scoop on top of the other, leaving these cookies higher than your average pudding chip cookie. The edges come out nicely golden, while the centers are soft and cakey.
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
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- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pure almond extract
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Yazbeck will offer concerts, which include Broadway classics and more, Aug. 11 at 9:30 PM, Aug. 14 at 9:30 PM and Aug. 19 at 7 PM.
Here's how 54 Below describes the evening: "In this not-to-be-missed evening, with tunes spanning from MGM to Joni Mitchell, Tony will weave tales from his first Broadway gig at age 11 (as a Newsboy in Tyne Daly's Gypsy) to his return to Gypsy as Tulsa in the Patti LuPone revival, as well as share anecdotes from his professional and personal journey that has established him as a stalwart New York song and dance man."
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So you bought some ammunition (or you’re planning to) and now you need to store it. What’s the best way to do that? Does it go bad? When you find a good deal on ammo, you often want to save it for a rainy day in case prices continue to increase. Nearly everyone wants to have at least some ammunition on hand for their gun. After all, what good does it do to have a gun if you don’t have ammo? That brings us to the question of ammunition storage. What is the best way to preserve our ammo?
That’s what we’re going to talk about today.
Can ammunition go bad?
When storing your ammunition, it’s good to have an understanding of what makes the ammunition go bad. In general, it does not expire (at least not for a long, long time) if stored properly. Manufacturers put expiration dates on some of their ammunition, but this is more for legal reasons, not because the ammunition will go bad at that date.
The worst enemy for your ammunition is moisture and humidity. Today’s ammunition is durable and can withstand some abuse, but exposure over time will start to degrade your ammo causing it to be less accurate, less reliable, and in some cases completely useless. I have shot some old ammunition that fired just fine. And, I have also fired ammo that was not stored correctly and had multiple misfires in each magazine. You always want to inspect your ammo before shooting it as old ammo could damage your gun if it has not been stored properly.
Choosing an Ammunition Storage Container
When storing your ammunition, you will need to use some type of good storage container or ammo can. There are tons of options out there depending on the amount of ammo you are storing. Plastic ammo cans are the cheapest and I use some of them for short-term storage for ammunition that I will be taking to the range.
For long-term storage, however, I would recommend using metal ammo cans that have a good seal still intact. This is my personal preference because this is what makes sense to me based on what I have seen with ammunition stored in containers for years.
Plastic ammo cans have a seal in them and are durable, but they are flimsy. If you close a plastic ammo can and push on the sides, you will find they bend and the seal breaks without much effort. You can also lift the edge of the lid while they are closed, and the side of the lid will break away from the seal easily. Because of this, I prefer to stick with military-spec ammo cans that were made for long-term ammo storage. They’re easily found in gun stores and online retailers, but they do cost a little more than plastic ammo cans.
What size should you get?
You will want to choose a size that will hold the ammo you need it to without becoming too heavy. There are some nice big ammunition storage cans out there but when they are filled up with ammo they can be a chore to move around. When choosing the size, you also want to consider how your ammunition will be stored inside the ammo can. The most common sizes of metal ammo cans are 30 and 50 calibers. If you do want to use the cheaper plastic cans, just make sure you do not move them around very much as this is when they will “flex” and you can have leaks in your cans.
There are several ways you can store ammo inside of an ammo can.
When buying ammo in bulk, it often comes already in an ammo can ready to store. When storing loose ammo, I would recommend leaving it in the can and just adding some silica packets to it. I like to store loose ammo in bulk and just take the whole container to the range when I’m shooting.
I would recommend leaving boxed ammo in the original box when placing it in the ammo can. This will not change the effects of storing it compared to loose ammo but will make it easier when you need to take just some ammo out of the can, but this is just a personal preference.
Some people also like to store loaded magazines inside ammo cans so they’re ready to go. Storing ammo in magazines will not hurt the springs in your magazines, but some magazines are better than others when your plan is to store them loaded for long periods of time. We will talk about magazine durability and storage more in a different article.
Once you have your ammo can picked out and the ammo to store in it, you will want something to absorb the moisture inside the can after you close it up. You can use sawdust for this or you can purchase Silica or desiccant packets to place in your ammo can. I use 10-to-40-gram silica packets in my ammo cans and place one in the bottom and one on top before I close it. If you open your ammo can at the range, it is a good idea to replace the packet before closing the can again. If your plan is to put the ammo can away and not touch it for years, packing it in sawdust is also a really good way to store it, although I would recommend only storing boxed ammo like this.
Find the Right Storage Area
Once your ammo is packed in your choice of ammo can, you want to find the best place possible to store it. Of course, you want to keep in mind that ammunition should not be stored in areas with appliances or items that are combustible like stoves, water heaters, and dryers. Find a place that maintains even temperatures (more on the cool side) and low humidity.
Attics can be extremely hot so I would avoid this area. Basements can be good for cooler temperatures but they tend to be damp. It will depend on the type of basement you have and your ability to be able to control the moisture and humidity. If you do store ammunition in a basement, keep in mind that basements can flood so you may want to keep the ammo cans off the floor a little. Taking just a little time when storing your ammo will help it last for years, and be ready to go when you are.


A density functional theory study of [(4-aminophenyl)imino]methyl-6-methoxy-4-nitrophenol complexes with Co, Ni, Cu and Zn metals
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The optimization and IR spectra of the [(4-aminophenyl)imino]methyl-6-methoxy-4-nitrophenol and its complexes with Co, Ni, Cu and Zn metals were determined by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations using B3LYP formalism. The optimized geometries of complexes have tetrahedral structures. The C=N, C-O and N-H stretching frequency values were calculated to be in good agreement with experimental frequency data for ligand and its complexes with metals. All calculated frequencies are within 1.1% of the regions of experimental frequencies.
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Atif Aslam recently crooned for Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan starrer, Tiger Zinda Hai.
Director Ali Abbas Zafar says the film’s new track Dil Diyan Gallan, is a love ballad shot in a way reminiscent of the way classic Yash Chopra songs.
“I have always wanted to pay a tribute to the classic Yash Chopra romantic songs which I have grown up loving. And I’m thrilled that I finally got that song in Dil Diyan Gallan, an out-and-out romantic ballad on the lines of classic, beautiful love songs that the banner is remembered for by generations,” Zafar said in a statement.
“The song follows the same form/signature of a classic Yash Chopra song – aesthetic, inspired by the innocence of old school romances and at the same time, focuses on mature, deeply felt love,” he added,
Vishal-Shekhar have composed the Irshad Kamil-penned song.
Vaibhavi Merchant has choreographed Salman-Katrina’s romance for the song, which has a bit of waltz.
While launching the song, Katrina said, “The song is close to my heart. I am happy that I am launching this song with Salman.” The highlight of the song is Salman painting a portrait of Katrina on ice.
Dil Diyan Gallan is a beautiful song that sums up the love story of super spies Tiger and Zoya.
Just like filming for action sequences on this remote Austrian mountain side had its challenges, shooting this ballad didn’t come easy either.
Ali adds, “Salman and Katrina shot this song on some very difficult terrain in the Alps. The biggest highlight in this song is the unique Katrina portrait that he has drawn on a frozen lake. We had to shoot on this lake and Salman converted it to a canvas. We had to source natural colors, as ice doesn’t catch all kinds of paints, which didn’t come easy. But once we got hold of this, he created a huge 20 feet by 20 feet portrait that features Katrina’s face. It’s a sight for sore eyes, this painting, and it makes Dil Diyan Gallan a truly unique romantic song visually.”
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Optimal structural design of residential cogeneration systems in consideration of their operating restrictions
Tetsuya Wakui and
Energy, 2014, vol. 64, issue C, 719-733
An optimal structural design model of a residential cogeneration system, known as combined heat and power, considering various kinds of operating restrictions is developed from the energy-saving viewpoint. As principal operating restrictions of cogeneration units, a constant power output operation, a daily start–stop operation, and a continuous operation are focused on. The developed model results in a mixed-integer linear programming problem and the selection and multi-period operation are simultaneously optimized. Moreover, the model is applied to the structural design of a residential cogeneration system, consisting of a cogeneration unit and its peripheral devices, for simulated energy demands in a Japanese residence. The candidates for a cogeneration unit are a gas engine employing a constant power output operation, a polymer electrolyte fuel cell employing a daily start–stop operation, and a solid oxide fuel cell employing a continuous operation, and the candidates for peripheral devices are an electric water heater and an air-cooled heat exchanger. The optimization results reveal that the selection of the cogeneration unit is influenced more by their operating restrictions than by the consistency in the heat-to-power ratios of the cogeneration unit and energy demands. In addition, it is found that the selection of the peripheral devices varies with the selected cogeneration unit and energy demands.
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) has announced that it has set a new endurance record with its Avenger Extended Range (ER) Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). The next-generation Avenger ER flew 23.4 continuous hours in a representative Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) configuration while carrying out a simulated reconnaissance mission. This exceeded the 20 hour flight test goal and reflects a 10 hour improvement over the baseline Predator C Avenger aircraft. Combined, the Avenger and the Avenger ER have accumulated over 20,000 flight hours.
“Avenger ER continues to meet and exceed its development goals,” said David R. Alexander, president, Aircraft Systems, GA-ASI. “By setting this new high endurance mark, we have demonstrated the tremendous capability of this aircraft to our customers.”
The Avenger platform is also being used as a surrogate for GA-ASI’s proposed MQ-25 solution, including early ground and flight test of the deck handling system, mission specific hardware and software, and all flight and mission data links and communications. Using Avenger as an MQ-25 surrogate ahead of contract award significantly reduces schedule for getting the MQ-25 system operating quickly for the U.S. Navy.
With an increased wingspan of 76 feet, Avenger ER extends the legacy Avenger’s already impressive endurance. The RPA provides an optimal balance of long-loiter ISR and precision-strike capability, supporting a wide array of sensors and weapons payloads to perform ISR and ground support missions. There are several other improvements on the Avenger ER which include increasing the maximum gross takeoff weight (MGTOW) to 19,500 pounds using a co-cured composite center wing and heavyweight landing gear as well as integrating a game changing dual redundant, light weight brake control capability using a GA-ASI developed lightweight Hybrid Linear anti-lock brake system. Like the legacy Avenger, Avenger ER features avionics based upon the combat-proven Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper, has 3,000-pound payload bay, and is capable of flying at over 400 Knots True Air Speed (KTAS). The Avenger fleet is designed to carry payloads such as the all-weather GA-ASI Lynx Multi-mode Radar and the MS-177 Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor.

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AUSTIN, Tex. — On Sept. 8, 1992, Scott Panetti shaved his head, dressed in Army fatigues and killed his wife’s parents with a deer rifle as his horrified wife and daughter looked on. Mr. Panetti represented himself at his subsequent trial, wearing a cowboy costume with a purple bandanna while trying to call more than 200 witnesses, including the pope, John F. Kennedy and Jesus.
On Monday, with Mr. Panetti, 56, facing a Wednesday execution date for the murders, his lawyers urged the United States Supreme Court to intervene on the grounds that putting a mentally ill person to death is unconstitutional and violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. They contend that he has suffered from schizophrenia for more than three decades, and the case has gained national attention as a test for issues surrounding the execution of the mentally ill.
His legal team also appealed to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, seeking a 30-day stay of execution after the State Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 7 to 0 against the lawyers’ request to commute Mr. Panetti’s death sentence. Under Texas law, Mr. Perry cannot commute the sentence without a recommendation by the Pardons and Paroles Board, but lawyers say a monthlong reprieve by Mr. Perry would give them additional time to show that their client is not competent to be executed.
Attorney General Greg Abbott, who will replace Mr. Perry as governor in January, represents the state in seeking to uphold the 1995 capital conviction in Kerrville, Tex. And a former governor — Mark White, who held office in the 1980s — is among scores of political figures, legal scholars and religious leaders who are siding with Mr. Panetti’s lawyers in their effort to block the execution.
Mr. Panetti is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Wednesday unless his legal team is able to gain more time. Texas has executed 518 inmates since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, by far the largest number of any state. Oklahoma has the second highest number, 111.
The case has drawn an outcry not only from death penalty opponents, but from others who say the execution of a mentally ill person who may not have been aware of his or her own actions crosses a legal threshold that is clearly in violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.
“Widespread and diverse voices agree that Mr. Panetti’s execution would cross a moral line and serve no retributive or deterrent value,” said Kathryn Kase, Mr. Panetti’s lead lawyer and executive director of the Texas Defender Service, which represents people facing the death penalty.
The state, however, contends in legal filings that conversations between Mr. Panetti and his parents, secretly taped by prison officials, “provide conclusive evidence that Panetti has a rational understanding of the relationship between his crime and his punishment,” and that he “has been grossly exaggerating his symptoms while being observed.”
“Panetti knows that he killed his in-laws, while his wife and child looked on, and he knows that he has been sentenced to die for that crime,” Mr. Abbott’s office said.
According to his lawyers, Mr. Panetti first received a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder in 1978, 14 years before killing his in-laws. He was hospitalized 13 times from 1978 to 1991, and in 1986 expressed “fears that the devil is after him,” according to a timeline by his lawyers.
His condition deteriorated further in the early 1990s, according to legal documents, when he failed to take prescribed antipsychotic medication and discontinued treatment at a Kerrville hospital. At one point, he brandished a cavalry sword, called himself “Sgt. Iron Horse” and asserted that residents of Fredericksburg, where he lived, were plotting against him.
His wife and 3-year-old daughter moved out, and afterward, Mr. Panetti armed himself with a sawed-off shotgun and a deer rifle, and went to his in-laws’ home, killing his wife’s parents, Joe and Amanda Alvarado. He then took his wife and daughter to a bunkhouse where he had been living. He released them unharmed in a standoff with the police, according to court documents, then changed into a suit and surrendered.

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Monochrome photograph of the Dornoch Hotel (was known as the Station Hotel) from the Basil Hellier postcard collection. There is a central title at the foot 'Dornoch Hotel, Dornoch'. This very plain photograph is in stark contrast to the line drawing (which may be viewed using the previous links above) which shows flower beds on the lawn and lining the path in front of the hotel. The reverse of the postcard has an address in Hooton Cheshire and bears a red one penny George V stamp. The message on the postcard refers to a return home 'tomorrow' indicating the speed with which postcards were delivered.
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Assume that human body temperature are
normally distributed with a mean 98.21 F
and a standard deviation of 0.61F
a)A hospital uses 100.6 as the lowest
temperature considered to be a fever. What
percentage of normal and healthy persons
would be considered to have a fever. Does
this percentage suggest that a cut off of 100.6 F is appropriate?
b) Physicians want to select a minimum temperature for requiring further medical tests. What should that temperature, be if we only 5.0 of healthy people to exceed it.(Such a result is a false positive, meaning that
the test result is positive, but the subject is not really sick.
a) Z = (score-mean)/SD
Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability related to the Z score.
Do you consider it appropriate?
b) It would help if you proofread your questions before you posted them. Only “5.0 of healthy people”? Five people out of how many?posted by PsyDAG
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I’m Jai (short for Jaime), I’m in my 30’s (I’m not embarrassed about my age but it means I don’t have to remember to update this for a while!) and I live in Cornwall. I have one child, Jessica, and we live with my partner. I work part time. I’ve done a number of jobs from mystery shopper to librarian to karate instructor and I have degrees in English Literature and Law. I love crafts of most kinds, reading, cooking, and spending time with my family. I’m emotionally close to my parents but they live a very long way away so I don’t see them much. Although I grew up in Cornwall, I spent almost half my life in Essex until I moved back ‘home’ recently, so most of my friends are either hundreds of miles away or ‘virtual’, i.e. online friends. I love living in Cornwall but it can be lonely and I don’t have the support network here that I’m used to. It does have advantages here though; spending lots of time on the beach and not having to barricade my door at night for starters!
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Warning to India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Angola, Chad and other areas: CDC is pulling all stops to vaccinate.
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of an on-farm risk assessment system for pesticide use
based approach was originally taken to the assessment of pesticide use
in the EMA software. However, it was recognised that although correct
information was being given to the farmer, a risk based approach would
be beneficial and more site specific. The new module directly replaced
the old one; but in addition, a new package (p-EMA) was developed,
isolating the extensive pesticide information within EMA to produce a
stand-alone system specifically for agricultural pesticide use.
elements of the project being:
the system needed to consider comparability with best practice,
regulatory compliance and an eco-toxicology risk assessment for a range
of organisms. These included honeybees, earthworms, birds, mammals, and
aquatic organisms. An indicator for leachability was also identified
for use. For this particular project, operator exposure risk was
omitted, and as a result assessing the risk of pesticide residue levels
was also be omitted.
methodology developed was based on regulatory risk assessment methods
and these were adapted to make them responsive to the local site and
farming practices as far as current scientific understanding allows.
previous format, style and user-friendliness of the EMA software was
approach embraced the philosophy of Integrated Pest Management.
system was based on only easily available farm data - any other data
can be accessed from a database provided with EMA.
project was carried out in collaboration with SSLRC and the Central
Science Laboratory, and supported by Defra.
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Jakarta, 10 August 2016 – The Faculty of Science and Technology kicked off the new Fall 2016 semester with a special guest talk. On Thursday, the Special Guest Talk was given by Dr. Irene S. Tobias from University of California, San Diego. Dr. Tobias talked about her research interests in the fields of materials engineering and biochemistry. This lecture was held at Sampoerna University and attended by no less than 50 people, including students from the faculty of science and technology, faculty of education, faculty of business, and university lecturers and staff.
Dr. Tobias’ Love Affairs with Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Tobias began her lecture by introducing her interest in science and engineering. She chose the department of materials science and engineering as an undergraduate at MIT because of her interest in chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering. She continued on to earn her master’s degree at the department of biomedical engineering at MIT in which she completed a master’s research on bioresorbable controlled-release drug delivery devices for treatment of urological disorders. Her master’s degree was followed with a career in the pharmaceutical industry, in which the now-Dr. Tobias was tasked to work on developing oral formulations for novel cancer therapies. She had a positive working experience in the pharmaceutical industry as a scientist, and she began to delve more deeply into how the compounds in medicine actually influence cellular signaling mechanisms at the molecular level. This interest pushed her to pursue a PhD in biomedical sciences at University of California, San Diego where she worked on the biochemical regulation of an insulin-mediated kinase, atypical protein kinase C. Atypical pKC is known to be involved in insulin-stimulated glucose transport.
Insulin is a hormone that is created by our pancreas. One of its primary functions is to induce glucose uptake from the bloodstream. Diabetes is characterized by the excessive presence of glucose in the bloodstream, which can be very dangerous if it is not well managed. Dr. Tobias’ PhD thesis modeled how insulin signaling actually works at the molecular level. Insulin is secreted from the pancreas and moved to the receptors on cell surfaces. A protein receives the signal from these receptors and go on to transmit other signals to take up glucose molecules into tissue, where they can be stored for future energy expenditures of the muscles. Dr. Tobias studied these signaling mechanisms in depth, how they work, how to modulate them, how they would lose their ability to respond.
Encouraging the Lazy Enzyme
Protein kinase is an enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of phosphate groups from high-energy, phosphate-donating molecules to specific substrates. This process, known as phosphorylation, can change the protein activity or sometimes its localization so it’s very important in cell signaling. Kinases are commonly misregulated in several diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Dr. Tobias worked on serine threonine protein kinases, which are specific for either serine or threonine amino acid presence in protein substrates. They are atypical pKC and Akt that she had compared using different cell signaling models found in the body of literature. Akt and atypical pKC are both known to be involved in insulin stimulating glucose transport events. Atypical pKC can often be hyperactive for diabetic liver, while Akt is still defective and they may have a very different mechanisms of activation and downstreet signaling, which can be different in different tissues. Her research was really asking the question of what the mechanism of atypical pKC is in response to insulin. Dr. Tobias created a model that separated out the mechanisms that activate atypical pKC, which separated out the mechanisms that activate atypical pKc from those that activate Akt. pKC is referred to as a “lazy enzyme” because it has very slow catalytic activity even though it is functional.
Dr. Irene Tobias closed her special guest lecture by explaining that oral drug formulations could be developed to potentially target diabetes (and other diseases). One of the challenges is hyperactivity of insulin uptake in the liver as opposed to uptake in the muscle. She emphasized the importance of fundamental scientific research to properly understand all the underlying mechanisms behind different physiological and medical functions, so that any treatments or applications may be more accurately targeted.
By Shinta Dewi Ariantika, Science Laboratory Coordinator at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Sampoerna University

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