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(MONKTON, ON) - At approximately 11:30 a.m. on July 31, 2019, a member of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), West Perth detachment was on general patrol in Monkton and observed a motor vehicle with a dark tinted licence plate cover. The officer conducted a traffic stop to speak with the driver.
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The OPP wants to remind driver's that tinted license plate covers are illegal under section 13(2) of the Highway Traffic Act (HTA). License plates must be plainly visible and unobstructed at all times.
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Driver Succumbs To Injuries Following Collision - COOPER
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Drunk Driver Arrested At RIDE - SOMERVILLE
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Hit And Run In Meaford
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34 Year Old Caught Going 125 in an 80
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19 Year Old Facing Drunk Driving Charge - WESTERHOUT
Methamphetamine Bust In Goderich - SLOTEGRAAF, SCRUTON & KURTH
Remains Found In Burned Residence
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Home Completely Destroyed - One Occupant Unaccounted For
Murder & Arson - HOWARD
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This half-million dollar grant will be used for the expansion of the organization’s mental health services across school districts, hiring additional site coordinators, and growing the Crisis Intervention Team. This expansion allows for more kids to receive the mental health services and assistance they need at this critical time.
“The demand for our mental health services has never been greater, and in fact, it continues to grow. COVID has certainly amplified the needs of our students, and it’s going to be an uphill battle until we have more feet on the ground supporting our kids,” says Adam Powell, President and CEO of CISDR. “It’s with the tremendous help and generosity of The Harold Simmons Foundation that we are able to grow our team and begin partnerships with schools of significant need.”
CISDR’s 4S Campaign has plans to expand by hiring an additional 40 site coordinators over the next three years, double the number of team members on their Crisis Intervention Team, and grow the endowment to ensure that students in Dallas can always receive the mental health support they need and deserve.
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SPORTSD JANUARY 31, 2017Written by John Kuhens on January 31, 2017
SPORTS JANUARY 31, 2017
The IGHSAU has announced the Class 4A girl’s Regional Tournament pairings for the Mt. Pleasant Panthers. Mt. Pleasant will open post season action at home on February 15th against the Washington Demons, the winner will advance onto the semi-finals Saturday February 18th at Marion against the Indians who have a 1st rounds bye. The other half of the regional has Ft. Madison at Keokuk at 7 pm on the 15th of February with the winner going to Fairfield on the 18th.
Class 5A Burlington goes to Davenport West on February 15th with the winner going to high ranking Iowa City City High to play the Hawks in the semi-finals on the 18th.
Tonight KILJ-FM 105.5 and kilj.com will broadcast a Super Conference girl-boy double header from Danville High School where they will entertain New London. The Danville girls are 10-8 overall and stopped a 3 game losing streak last Friday with a win over Holy Trinity. The Lady Bears lost on December 20th 53-49 at New London, they will be looking to switch that around tonight, the Tigers come into the game with a record of 9-8, and they lost to Central Lee last Friday.
In the boys match-up the 5th ranked Tigers who are 15-1 own a win over the Bears already by a 73-53 score, Mason Porter led the scoring with 18 points. In that game the 12-4 bears were led by Kaleb Haeffner with 15 points. Danville is on a 4 game winning streak.
The 10-7 MPHS girls’ basketball team will travel to 3rd ranked 14-3 Iowa City West tonight, the Ladies of Troy fell to Cedar Falls in their last outing. MP is coming off a road win Saturday at Burlington. KLIJ-FM will have score updates during our New London at Danville coverage.
OTHER AREA GAMES TONIGHT: GIRL-BOY DOUBLE HEADERS: Notre Dame at Central Lee, Waco at West Burlington, IMS at Muscatine, Van Buren/Harmony at Cardinal, Wapello at Holy Trinity Catholic, WMU at Pekin.
GIRLS: Burlington at Muscatine, Keokuk at Centerville
BOYS: Muscatine at Burlington
COLLEGE: Iowa Wesleyan men now 13-6 overall and 9-3 in SLIAC play, travel to Principia College for a 7 pm tip off in Elsah, Illinois.
This week’s SLIAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week Award was given to Steven Soukup. Soukup picked earned the award for the third time this season after helping Iowa Wesleyan move into first place in the SLIAC standings. IW split on the week, falling to Blackburn, but bouncing back to defeat Spalding University.
Steven Soukup recorded 30 points in the loss to the Beavers and scored 43 points in the Tigers’ win over Spalding University. This was the third game this season where Soukup recorded 40 or more points. In the win over the Golden Eagles, he shot an efficient 16-20 from the field. During last week’s two games, Soukup averaged 36.5 points per game and shot 72.2 percent from the floor. He added 5.0 rebounds and 2.5 steals and was also 5-12 from behind the arc.
Tonight Iowa Hawkeye men play at Rutgers tonight
The Mt. Pleasant Panther JV boys’ basketball team beat Burlington last night, 57-37. Rhett Zeglen with 12 points. Tucker Johnson 11 points. Keegan Kohorst 10 points.
The Mediapolis Bullettes won an exciting last second win over Highland last night on Vernon “Bud” McLearn Court by a score of 61-60, last Friday night the Bullettes pulled out a last second overtime win at Highland. With this win Mediapolis leads Highland by one game in the conference standings in the North Division of the Southeast Iowa Super conference. Mediapolis can clinch the title with a win tonight over Columbus Community.
The Mediapolis boys lost to Wilton in Mediapolis last night 47-23.
The Mt. Pleasant Middle School 7th grade girls played Aldo Leopold in Mt Pleasant Monday.
“A” game: Aldo Leopold 20
Mt Pleasant 55 (record 2-2)
MP scoring: Lydia Ebeling 22
Jenna Gilmore 10
“B” game: AL 10
MP 22 (2-2)
MP scoring: Hannah Hoyle 6
Thanh Phung 4
Mt. Pleasant Middle School 8 TH GRADE BOYS BASKETBALL played at ALDO LEOPALD in Burlington
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MT PLEASANT 41
MITCHELL MOOTHART 9 points
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ALDO LEOPALD 12
MASON MILLS 8 points
MT PLEASANT 8
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We propose a volume holographic storage scheme, spatioangular multiplexing, which is a hybrid of both angular and spatial multiplexing. We describe the recording procedure, for a preliminary experiment in which 750 holograms were recorded (at room temperature) in a single photorefractive crystal of iron-doped lithium niobate and report the successful replay of all images with negligible cross talk and with an average diffraction efficiency of 0.5%.
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Antonin Scalia is an underrated figure in American history. He spent 30 years on the Supreme Court defending our Constitutional rights. “He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh,” said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who served on the Supreme Court with Scalia for over 20 years and several years with him on the DC Circuit Court. Despite their idealogical differences, Ginsburg said that she and Scalia were “best buddies”.
“Since the day Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Court, for three decades, Scalia has embodied a fidelity to the Constitution, that is the essence of a Supreme Court Justice. As Reagan was to the Presidency, Scalia was to the Supreme Court,” – Ted Cruz.
“Justice Scalia is someone I have revered my entire life. Since the day Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Court, for three decades, Scalia has embodied a fidelity to the Constitution, that is the essence of a Supreme Court Justice. As Reagan was to the Presidency, Scalia was to the Supreme Court. His passing leaves an enormous vacuum on the Court,” Ted Cruz told a reporter from Independent Journal Review. Cruz knew Scalia personally through his time arguing cases before the Court as Solicitor General of Texas, and his job as a clerk for former Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who was also a brilliant defender of the Constitution.
Senator Cruz was the only current Presidential candidate to attend Justice Scalia’s funeral, and had more kind words about Scalia’s legacy, “Scalia single-handedly changed the course of American legal history. He returned the course to examining the text of the Constitution and the original understanding rather than engaging in legislative efforts in the name of a ‘Living Constitution.'”
I have a bad feeling about these Republicans in the Senate, most of whom fold like a lawn chair anytime Obama so much as whispers the term “government shutdown”. I pray they don’t cave like they do on everything else and allow President Obama to use Scalia’s death as an opportunity to put another radical, judicial activist, Wilsonian liberal on our nation’s highest court. Ya know, like the pretentious left wing professors who’ve spread like a disease throughout higher education that talk about a “living, breathing Constitution”.
Based on recent history alone, the odds that they hold the line and take a stand for freedom, the odds of that happening are not in our favor. Whether it’s defunding Obamacare, raising the debt ceiling, stopping Obama’s disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal in the Senate, etc. most Republicans in Congress refuse to take a stand on any of the issues they campaign on. We have maybe 50 or 60 solid conservatives out of 247 Republicans in the House of Representatives, most of whom are part of the House Freedom Caucus; and about 15 out of 54 in the Senate.
New York Senator Chuck Shumer, who is likely to succeed Harry Reid as Senate Minority Leader, harshly criticized Republicans for their opposition to Obama picking the nominee. “This kind of obstructionism isn’t going to last. And you know, we Democrats didn’t do this. When in the — we nominated — we voted 97-0 for Justice Kennedy in the last year of Reagan’s term,” he said on ABC’s This Week. Maybe old age has caused Schumer to forget that 18 months before the end George W. Bush’s Presidency he took the exact opposite stance, claiming the Court was too far right for another Bush appointed judge. “We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, except in extraordinary circumstances,” he said in 2007.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has shown some ankle on the issue of Obama choosing Justice Scalia’s replacement.
On Feb. 13 Grassley came out firmly opposed to this, citing an 80 year precedent of the Senate not confirming Supreme Court nominations made by lame duck presidents. Three days later he was heard singing a slightly different tune during a radio interview, “I would wait until the nominee is made before I would make any decisions. In other words, take it a step at a time.” At 82 years old this ancient relic of the Senate has been in Congress for 41 years, and is one of many examples of the need for term limits in Congress.
Fortunately Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed earlier this week that there will be no Senate hearings for an Obama Supreme Court nominee. But McConnell is a proven liar and I don’t trust him, John Cornyn, or Lindsey Graham, among several other establishment GOP Senators. I’m especially worried now Obama was flirting with the idea of nominating one of their own: the liberal establishment Republican Governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval. So please Mitch McConnell, for the first time in your pathetic and shady political career, don’t let us down.
“The President can nominate whomever he wants. He has that authority. He certainly has power to appoint someone. The Senate has the power to advise and consent and we have advised that an appointment in an election year will not be voted on. We are only one Justice away from having a court that is unrecognizable. This election will determine the course of the Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for the next generation. The American people should decide,” Senator Cruz said in response to Obama’s statement that he will nominate someone to replace Scalia.
Cruz has said that he will “absolutely” filibuster anyone that Obama nominates for the Supreme Court, adding, “If liberals are so confident that the American people want unlimited abortion on demand, want religious liberty torn down, want the Second Amendment taken away, want veterans memorials torn down, want the crosses and Stars of David sandblasted off of the tombstones of our fallen veterans, then go and make the case to the people. I don’t think the American people want that.”
If I was Antonin Scalia’s family I wouldn’t want some arrogant Marxist like Barack Obama at the funeral. This president is shredding the Constitution that Justice Scalia dedicated his life to protecting. Personally I appreciate that Obama was absent from Saturday’s ceremony, he’s not worthy of such an event.
I think every presidential candidate gave lip service to Justice Scalia’s passing, but only one cared enough to take time off the campaign trail and show up at the funeral. I expect this kind of indecency from Obama, but I am quite disappointed that Ted Cruz was the only Republican presidential candidate at Scalia’s funeral.
“That’s the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn’t say other things,” Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Pricing strategies for neutral-temperature district heating and cooling networks based on heat pumps
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At: 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference ; Rotterdam ; 15.5.2017 - 18.5.2017 ; This work is related to the Flexynets project, pursuing the realization of a neutral-temperature (15-25 °C) district heating and cooling network based on heat pumps. In this concept, heat pumps substitute heat exchangers in residential substations. This approach would allow the integration of a large number of waste heat sources, at temperatures usually not accessible for traditional networks. The additional costs given by heat pumps would then be repaid by the availability of cheap heat, by reduced thermal losses, and by the consequent possibility to exploit long-term storages. Clearly, the use of heat pumps implies the simultaneous presence of thermal and electrical energy consumptions. Furthermore, the heating/cooling duality of the network suggests the shift from the producer/consumer model to the prosumer concept, as in electrical smart grids. These aspects, while yielding more operational flexibility, increase the complexity of the corresponding market models, with different possible prices for buying/selling thermal/electrical energy. Considering energy prices, reference technologies, and a reasonable performance range for heat pumps, we identify simple bounds for the admissible costs of a Flexynets network, under the constraint of having final user prices no higher than for current reference options. Though the obtained values are rather demanding bounds considering the present energy costs, they still offer margin for the feasibility of the proposed approach.


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ABPI criticises Roche for withholding Tamiflu data from Cochrane reviewers
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has criticised Roche following publication of a Cochrane review of the company’s anti-influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir).
The review concluded that the antiviral provides small benefits on symptom relief, but there was little evidence that it reduces hospital admission or the risk of developing pneumonia. The review came after a four year battle to gain access to full clinical trial data from Roche.
Stephen Whitehead, the APBI’s chief executive, said there was no reason for the “game of cat and mouse” that went on between Roche and the Cochrane reviewers — after the latter requested data about the drug.
Mr Whitehead told PJ Online that ABPI guidance instructs its members to comply with any “reasonable request” for data, adding that he thought the Cochrane request was reasonable. However, ABPI guidance is not enforceable for data dating back to before 2008 and Roche is no longer a member of the association, having left in December 2009. None the less, the company is still bound by the industry’s code of practice, an ABPI spokesman explained.
In contrast, GlaxoSmithKline, which is an ABPI member, co-operated with the Cochrane reviewers when GSK’s product Relenza (zanamivir) was also investigated, said Mr Whitehead, who questioned why Roche could not have behaved in the same manner. “It doesn’t help the image of the industry,” he told PJ Online.
Speaking at the ABPI’s annual conference in London on 10 April 2014, Mr Whitehead said it was disappointing that the controversy around Tamiflu had “coloured the day”. He pointed out that Tamiflu remains on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines. However, there could now be a question mark over whether it remains on the list, he told PJ Online.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Diamond Foods Inc. said it is replacing its chief executive and chief financial officers and restating its earnings for the past two years after an internal investigation found payments to walnut growers had been booked in the wrong periods.
The news could threaten Diamond Foods's plans to acquire Pringles from Procter & Gamble Co. The deal was valued at $1.5 billion when it was announced last April. P&G had previously said the sale depended on a favorable resolution of the accounting probe. The acquisition would position Diamond Foods as the second-largest snack maker in the nation, behind PepsiCo Inc.
Diamond Foods, which makes Kettle Chips, Emerald Nuts and Pop Secret popcorn, said its audit committee found that the payments in question -- an estimated $20 million in 2010 and $60 million in 2011 -- skewed the company's financial results.
Diamond Foods said it has placed CEO Michael Mendes and CFO Steven Neil on administrative leave and that it is looking for permanent replacements. In the interim, Rick Wolford, a Diamond Foods director and former chief executive of Del Monte Foods, is serving as interim chief executive. Michael Murphy of Alix Partners is acting CFO.
Cincinnati-based P&G said it is evaluating its next steps and keeping all its options open."Pringles remains a valuable asset, and it has attracted considerable interest from other outside parties," P&G said in a statement.
Diamond Foods said it takes the integrity of its financial statements seriously and is working to complete the restatements as soon as possible.

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As outlined in part one and part two of our series on health care fraud, the federal government has substantially stepped up its efforts to eliminate health care fraud through criminal and civil proceedings. It has done so, in large part, by using data on the numbers of medical procedures and payments generated by physicians and then using that information to guide its investigations of suspected wrongdoing. This analytical approach is relatively efficient and inexpensive, but it is also simplistic and therefore has the potential to ensnare more well-meaning physicians than ever before.

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AOC toured two migrant detention centers in Texas and live-tweeted the whole thing
On Monday, July 1, a Congressional delegation toured two Custom and Border Protection (CBP) detention facilities in Texas, following reports that people were being detained in inhumane conditions in both locations. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the Congress members who visited the El Paso and Clint centers, and what she and her colleagues noted corresponds with many of the reports that have come from immigration attorneys and migrants themselves about the conditions inside the facilities.
In June, reports emerged that the children held inside the overcrowded Clint detention center were being denied access to hygienic products, medicine, and adequate food and water. People responded with widespread condemnation of the Trump administration's immigration policies, with Ocasio-Cortez leading the charge. During her tour of the centers alongside Rep. Joaquin Castro, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Joe Kennedy, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, the politician witnessed the poor conditions herself, and live-tweeted her experience.
In one post, Ocasio-Cortez shared that despite the CBP guards not allowing the Congress people to take photos, one woman slipped the representative a single shampoo packet and told her that it was all that guards gave her to shower with.
Although most of the Congress members weren't able to bring in cell phones, Rep. Castro did manage to smuggle one in and post photos and videos from inside the detention center. He captured video of women at the El Paso center huddled on the ground, weeping and wrapped in blankets.
"Many said they had not bathed for 15 days. Some had been separated from children, some had been held for more than 50 days," Castro wrote on Twitter. "Several complained they had not received their medications, including one for epilepsy."
The women can be heard telling Ocasio-Cortez in Spanish that they weren't given medication that they needed. The politician also reported on her own Twitter that the women told her that they had gone days or weeks without showering but that they were afraid of speaking out because they feared retribution from the guards. "It’s not just the kids. It’s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members of Congress," Ocasio-Cortez wrote about the situation she witnessed.
According to Rep. Joe Kennedy, the only reason that the Congress members were able to speak with women detained in El Paso was because Ocasio-Cortez cut the guided tour short and instead demanded to stop.
Following their visit to the El Paso center, the Congress members visited the Clint facility and described similar scenes of squalor. Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter that she met with children who only spoke indigenous languages, meaning they have not been able to communicate to the guards for the days, weeks, or months that they'd been detained.
After visits to both facilities, the Congress members gave a press conference, where they were met with pro-detention center protestors. Ocasio-Cortez retweeted clips of her own address to the press, as well as comments made by Pressley and Tlaib.
"What we saw today was unconscionable," Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "No child should ever be separated from their parent. No child should ever be taken from their family. No woman should ever be locked up in a pen when they have done no harm to another human being."
While Pressley spoke at the conference, the protestors could be heard yelling "they're illegal" and "you're supporting human trafficking." But she continued to speak. "I learned a long time ago that when change happens it's either because people see the light or they feel the fire," Pressley declared. "We're lifting up these stories in the hopes that you will see the light. And if you don't, we will bring the fire."
During Tlaib's speech, the protestors became even more vocal, and began yelling out racist taunts at the Congresswoman, who is Muslim. America first! America first," people could be heard screaming at Tlaib, who could barely be heard over the group. "We believe in Jesus Christ! We don't care about Sharia law," someone else shouted, while someone else said, "Boo hoo hoo humanity."
"I will out-love your hate," Tlaib responded. "You all can outscream me, but I will never stop speaking truth to power."
Just hours before the politicians' visit to the detention facilities, Propublica published an investigation into a Facebook group of roughly 9,500 CBP officers. The page was filled with racist memes about migrants and featured posts making fun of dead migrants. There were also sexually explicit images depicting Ocasio-Cortez performing oral sex on Trump.
The representative didn't hold back when addressing the report's findings about the agency later in the day. "9,500 CBP officers sharing memes about dead migrants and discussing violence and sexual misconduct towards members of Congress," Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "How on earth can CBP’s culture be trusted to care for refugees humanely?"
Following the report's release, Border Patrol responded to the allegations brought forth both in the piece and by the Congress members themselves. "We take all the posts that were put out today very seriously," US Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Monday. "These do not represent the thoughts of the men and women of the US Border Patrol. Each one of these allegations will be thoroughly investigated."
Hastings also denied the claim brought forth by multiple Congress members that detainees were drinking water out of toilets. "Drinking out of the toilet is completely untrue," Hastings told CNN.
After the report came out, the CBP allegedly released statements intending to defame the Congress members, according screenshots posted by journalists and retweeted by Ocasio-Cortez.
The Border Patrol union released a statement alleging that Ocasio-Cortez called the Border Patrol agents "Nazis." Yet while the representative has compared the detention centers to concentration camps and called the CBP a rogue agency, she has not compared any immigration law enforcement to "Nazis."
"I can’t understate how disturbing it was that CBP officers were openly disrespectful of the Congressional tour," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. "If officers felt comfortable violating agreements in front of their *own* management & superiors, that tells us the agency has lost all control of their own officers."

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The All-Star Slugger Salvador Perez hit an unavoidable three-run homer to the Kansas City Royals.
Friday night during his comeback from injury reserve before the New York Yankees won 11-5.
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Whit Merrifield's two-run single ended the Royals streak of scoring nothing for 31 , 2/3 of an inning.
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Salvy being Salvy, just reminding us how special he is," manager Mike Matheny told reporters.
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The Prime Minister said he wanted to foster a “pro-science culture” in the UK, and this started with a shift in Britain’s attitude towards so-called GM food, dubbed "Frankenstein food" by its critics.
The comments come ahead of a major speech by Environment secretary Owen Paterson on Thursday next week which is set to signal a change in GM policy.
Advocates argue that GM techniques increase crop yields, avoid the need for pesticides, and could be essential in assuring Britain's future food security.
The Government is reported to be ready to call for European Union restrictions on cultivation of the crops for human consumption to be relaxed.
The Coalition has allowed small-scale cultivation trials for GM food but widespread use is effectively banned.
Speaking to entrepreneurs and businessmen at a pre-G8 event in east London, Mr Cameron said: “In the terms of the openness to innovation I would argue that we need to ensure a pro-science culture.
“I think there are a number of subjects there that we need to take on, I think it is time to look again at the whole issue for GM food. We need to be open to arguments from science.”
The comments after Mr Paterson said earlier this year that the Government wanted “to promote the benefits of genetically modified crops as part of the drive to modernise farming in the UK”.
In a speech to the Oxford Farming Conference he said farmers, policy makers and scientists had a duty to turn around the image of GM.
He said: “We should not be afraid of making the case to the public about the potential benefits of GM beyond the food chain, for example, reducing the use of pesticides and inputs such as diesel.
“I believe that GM offers great opportunities but I also recognise that we owe a duty to the public to reassure them that it is a safe and beneficial innovation.”
Mr Paterson’s department has been working across Government to develop new technologies to boost agricultural production.
Last year farmers lost £1.3billionn from poor harvests and higher feed bills for cattle, making the need for new technology even more urgent.
The EU allows only a variety of maize engineered to resist a pest called the European corn borer to be farmed commercially. The crop is not grown in the UK.
Government sources said that Mr Paterson’s message would not be that Britain is in a battle with the EU over GM, but that the EU had to follow the science.
Last week, Science minister David Willetts said it was important to ease restrictions on GM before Europe becomes a “museum of 20th century technology”.
He said EU rules were holding back work in fields as diverse as medicine, agriculture and space exploration.
Britain wants to persuade Germany to change opinion in Brussels, although any shift is not expected until after the country’s general election this Autumn.
Mr Cameron used the innovation event to launch a prize fund, with £1 million of taxpayers’ money, to encourage revolutionary new ideas aimed at solving the world's biggest problem.
He said the modern version of the 1714 Longitude Prize would be a “Britain's Got Talent” for innovators.


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A SECOND Spanish priest has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus, while working in Sierra Leone, and flown back to Madrid for treatment.
Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, arrived in Spain on a military plane soon after 3am this morning, before being transferred to the Carlos III hospital.
He had been working as a medical director at a hospital in the city of Lunsar when he tested positive for the virus, after which he asked to be taken home to Spain.
The first Spanish missionary to contract Ebola, Miguel Parajes, died in Madrid in August after being flown back from Liberia.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world’s deadliest to date and the World Health Organisation has declared an international health emergency.
So far this year, more than 1,000 people have died of the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
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Zepp-LaRouche Strategic Webcast: ‘Ukraine Provocations Staged To Cancel Trump-Putin Summit’
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—Shortly after U.S. Air Force One took to the air this morning to carry President Donald Trump to Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 Summit, he sent a tweet reading: “Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin. I look forward to a meaningful Summit again as soon as this situation is resolved.”
This turn of events was obviously the intention of the Ukrainian provocation all along. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, commented on this today, just as the news was breaking on Trump’s cancellation of his planned Buenos Aires meeting with Putin. Speaking on her weekly webcast, she further described how war-mongers are demanding military actions against Russia, proposing, for example, there should be a NATO flotilla to the Black Sea; and that the U.S. should send weapons to Ukraine. Plus, there are demands to cut Russia off from the Western financial system, in addition to putting on more sanctions. Zepp-LaRouche said, “Trump said he hopes to have a meaningful summit in Washington, soon. I think that is good, but I can only say: Be on absolutely super-high alert, because this is a very, very dangerous escalation.”
Zepp-LaRouche reported that, “Fortunately, it is obviously clear to many governments in Europe otherwise, that this has the potential of going completely out of control, so most of them said there should be a de-escalation, appealing to both Russia and Ukraine. And one can be sure that this will be a hot issue at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires.
“But this is an extremely, extremely dangerous situation. [Ukrainian President] Poroshenko, as most people by now know, declared martial law. He wanted it to be for 60 days, but because of the opposition, including from Mrs. [Yulia] Tymoshenko, he could only get [the Verkhovna Rada legislature to agree to] 30 days. But our friend, [Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine leader] Natalia Vitrenko made a webcast where she said that the danger is that Poroshenko plans to have a dictatorship, and … after 30 days you can announce another 30 days, because that has been the previous pattern in Ukraine.
“So I think we are really at an extremely dangerous point, because if NATO would indeed sent flotillas into the Black Sea, or even the Sea of Azov, as it has been demanded by one of the leading representatives of this [British] Integrity Initiative, Edward Lucas, who said that NATO should send entire flotillas into the Sea of Azov, and others [are] demanding heavy, lethal weapons to be supplied to Ukraine—I mean, this is the stuff out of which World War III could easily be triggered.”
Furthering the danger is the apparatus funded by the British government, called the “Integrity Initiative” which, Zepp-LaRouche reiterated, people should look into. The mainstream media are blacking out coverage of this operation to promote conflict and radical action. She said, “Sputnik did an interview with me about it, but, however, I think it would really deserve much wider attention, and I think in each parliament, there should be a parliamentary investigation. Because there’s big freakout about ‘Russiagate,’ about ‘Russian meddling,’ but here you have, again, a clear-cut case of British meddling. And this apparatus may very well be the same one, or in coordination with the forces which committed the coup, or attempted the coup against President Trump; and I find it extremely interestingthat [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov said that the provocation by Ukraine was done by the same circles which are trying to destroy the Trump Presidency, and that is exactly on the mark.”
On the Buenos Aires G20 summit, now hours from commencing, the great power leaders will be present, but with constraints. Zepp-LaRouche reprised the policy fight. “We have made a campaign from the Schiller Institute, for the last several weeks, where we demanded that what must be put on the agenda is a New Bretton Woods credit system, the Four Laws of Lyndon LaRouche—Glass-Steagall, a national bank, credit system, and a crash program for fusion and space cooperation to increase the productivity of the world economy. I think it is already pre-determined that because of the presence of certain governments, this will absolutely not happen, and because of this sabotage, it is also not going to happen between Trump and Putin, and Trump and Xi Jinping.
“However, … there are many interesting meetings: Trump is meeting with Putin briefly [if this still happens], with Xi Jinping, I think with Shinzo Abe, with Narendra Modi, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, with Angela Merkel; then there is a three-way meeting, with, I think, Trump, Modi, and Abe—so a lot of interesting developments will come out of it, but it will, for sure not be what is needed, given the fact that the financial crash, is hanging over the world as a Damocles Sword.”
On this front, it is important that this week, leaders from Italy are in Washington, D.C. to talk to lawmakers and policy experts about the necessity for reinstating Glass-Steagall, and linking up with the Belt and Road Initiative development drive. Zepp-LaRouche reported, “I think this is an extremely important trans-Atlantic coordination, where the Italian government—[Italian Undersecretary for Economic Development] Michele Geraci also met with a counterpart of the Trump Administration, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish, so in any case, there’s government-to-government connection now, and according to the website of Michele Geraci, what he has been proposing is an EU-U.S. summit to discuss joint development projects in Africa. Now, I don’t know what the response to that was, but I think it’s a wonderful idea, and actually, what we have been proposing for a very long time, and now it’s being proposed on an inter-government level between a pro-Trump government, and a government which is otherwise also pro-China and pro-Russia.”
Zepp-LaRouche committed the Schiller Institute and collaborators to continue to fight. “We will continue our mobilization, because unless there is a complete change in international relations, the danger of a repetition, or even worse than what just happened around Ukraine, is going to be there.”
STRATEGIC WAR DANGER
Zakharova Can’t Rule Out Some ‘Partners’ Were Behind Kerch Strait Provocation
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova does not rule out that some of Russia’s Western “partners” may have been complicit in the Nov. 25 provocation by Ukrainian warships in the Kerch Strait, according to coverage in TASS, yesterday. “This is a deliberate provocation. I don’t have any doubts that some of our Western partners knew about it or even participated in planning it. This is why all of this is not accidental,” Zakharova told Russia’s Channel One. “The assessments that we hear and the informational campaign underway right now, only prove it,” she said.
Afghan President Has a Team Ready To Hold Peace Talks with the Taliban
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—Addressing the Nov. 28-29 UN Conference on Afghanistan in Geneva, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said: “I’m pleased to announce today, that after several months of intensive consultation with our citizens across the country, we have formulated a road map for peace negotiations. The constitutional rights and obligations of all citizens, especially women, should be ensured.” He also said his 12-member negotiating team will be led by Presidential Chief of Staff Abdul Salam Rahimi, and will include men and women with the “necessary credentials to deal with the key challenges of peace negotiations,” Al Jazeera reported on Nov. 28.
It is evident that a lot of efforts are now afoot to get a peace process going with the Taliban. U.S. Special Envoy and former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has met negotiators from two different Taliban groups, including a representative of Mullah Yaqub, the son of the late Taliban founder Mullah Omar. Mullah Yaqub is very high up in the main Taliban faction led by Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada.
U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
Trump Says China May Offer a Trade Deal at Buenos Aires, But He May Not Take It
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—The author of The Art of the Deal, U.S. President Donald Trump, prior to his departure for Argentina to attend the G20 Summit and a scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, told reporters that he may walk out on a potential trade deal with China, saying he is just not satisfied with what they may be offering, the Washington Examiner reported today. He did not elaborate.
“I think we are very close to doing something with China, but I don’t know that I want to do it,” Trump told reporters at the White House before leaving for the trip. “I will tell you I think China wants to make a deal. I’m open to making a deal. But frankly, l like the deal we have right now,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, the South China Morning Post is reporting the sudden inclusion of Peter Navarro, a vociferous anti-China hawk, on the guest list of the crucial dinner meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires on Dec. 1. Earlier, Navarro was not in the team accompanying Trump at the dinner, which includes U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, National Security Adviser John Bolton, Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Italian Under Secretary of Economic Development Geraci Brings His Ideas to Washington
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—Italian Undersecretary of Economic Development Michele Geraci is in the United States, where he is having several meetings with U.S. government officials, members of Congress, and individuals in the Italian-American community and world of finance. Yesterday he met Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish, with whom he discussed the Geraci Plan for foreign direct investment, and told him that U.S. sanctions against German cars will also hit Italian industry, which makes 40% of their components. In meetings with members of Congress, Geraci discussed the idea of an international conference for U.S.-EU cooperation in Africa.
COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM
German Law Enforcement Raid Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—About 170 German police, Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) officials and Revenue agents raided Deutsche Bank headquarters in Europe’s financial center of Frankfurt, and offices in two other localities in Hessen this morning, in the context of an investigation of the so-called “Offshore Leaks.” Two bank officials are accused of having helped set up offshore accounts for 900 customers without reporting to money-laundering authorities. The investigation is based on data published by “Offshore Leaks” and “Panama Papers,” both published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Macron and Europe’s ‘Elites’ Are as Blind as Ever, Deserve the Hillary Clinton Prize
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—On the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) movement, note that French President Emmanuel Macron’s Nov. 27 intervention to calm the unrest around the movement, had in the exact opposite effect. Latest polls show 88% of the French population fully support the movement, up from 63% on Nov. 24, last Saturday, when they demonstrated along the Champs Elysées.
In view of this support, Macron asked Ecology Minister François de Rugy to meet with two Gilets representatives: The discussions went well, but as they left his office, the two Yellow Vests announced that they are planning a new demonstration to take place on the Champs Elysées, on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced that he would not meet with the Gilets, and reiterated that taxes on energy will go up as planned, beginning 2019, and that the minimum wage would not be raised beyond a tiny increase ostensibly meant to account for inflation. But after those polls, Philippe—not quite as insane as his mentor, former Prime Minister Alain Juppé—announced that he would meet with the Gilets tomorrow. (In 1995, as Prime Minister Alain Juppé had tried to frontally impose a brutal austerity plan, which provoked a general strike in greater Paris, and especially in transportation, which lasted over a month and cost him his job.)
On Nov. 27, Macron’s speech was outrageous. He tried to deal with the Gilets Jaunes as a minor problem which he included at the end in a speech on his energy “transition” policies, saying that he would organize three months of citizen’s debates on the energy transition policies and the difficulties in implementing them, but that the Gilets Jaunes could participate in the debates in the provinces, not there in Paris! In brief, who are you little people to meddle into questions which define the policies of the nation?
Macron mumbled not one word on justice, not one word on the suffering of the majority of the French population! Macron announced no specific measures to help people deal with those taxes. In concrete terms of financing, he only announced a couple billion more toward the development of “renewables,” and similar amounts for promoting energy savings in housing.
As for France’s justly famous nuclear power, he confirmed that he was not elected on a program of eliminating nuclear entirely, but only (another insane one) of reducing it to 50% of the national mix (from 70%). He announced the shutdown of 14 nuclear plants beyond the Fessenheim reactors, which are the only ones that will be closed during his term; the others are to be closed sometime between 2022 and 2035.
Before announcing the deployment of new EPRs (European Pressurized Water reactor), he said they are waiting for all the experience gained from the construction of EPS in Flamanville; he called on France to continue its research into nuclear energy in the meantime. The new unit at Flamanville is one of the first two European EPR reactors. Both are facing costly construction delays. As of July 2016, the Flamanville EPR project was already three times over budget and years behind schedule.
German Christian Democratic Think-Tank Fears Italy Will Pull Down the Euro
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—The newly formed Europa-Forum, a production of the Ludwig Erhard Stiftung (LES) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Economic Council, held its first meeting Nov. 20 in Berlin, dedicated to the “Target2, Brexit, Italy dilemma.” The main speech was given by Thomas Mayer and the conclusions were drawn by LES head Roland Tichy; their speeches were posted on the Ludwig Erhard Stiftung website.
They are paranoid that the “spending frenzy” of the Italian government will lead to a banking crisis that can theoretically be stopped, but possibly not. They discuss it from an “Ordoliberal” standpoint, spiced with the usual fake news on Italy.
One of the main points of conflict between the Italian government and the EU Commission, is the decision to spend money for the so-called “universal income” check. However, such a measure is an anti-poverty mechanism which is an imitation of the Hartz IV austerity system in Germany. The irony is that, whereas Italy plans to spend €10 billion, Germany already spends over €27 billion per year, which is greater not only in absolute terms, but also as a percentage of GDP.
THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER
President Xi’s Visit to Panama Will Enhance New Silk Road in the Americas
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—A day after his highly anticipated dinner meeting with President Donald Trump on Dec. 1, President Xi Jinping will head for Panama, for a state visit which will advance the relations established with Panama only in June 2017, when Panama cut ties with Taipei, and established diplomatic relations with Beijing.
Xi will meet Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela in Panama City, where the two will witness the signing of about 20 agreements to cooperate in areas such as commerce, technology and infrastructure during the unprecedented Dec. 2-3 visit, according to the Panamanian President’s office. Foreign Minister Isabel Saint Malo announced today that President Xi is expected to present President Varela with the completed feasibility study for the high-speed rail line between Panama City and David, which China prepared with Panamanian technical input.
The Varela government is enthusiastic, as are many Panamanians, about their country’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative, through which Panama can become one of the world’s leading logistics centers and a key point of continental development. Trade Minister Augusto Arosemena told the Britain’s Guardian yesterday: “We will become the gateway for Chinese goods into Latin America. I think Panama will be an example of how smaller countries can negotiate with China.”
Panama Canal Authority Economist Portrays Belt and Road as a ‘Platform for Peace’
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—“In the middle of 21st century human civilization, wars and conflicts should not occur again. The Belt and Road offers an opportunity for an equitable dialogue between the participating countries, and provides a platform for multi-disciplinary and multi-level exchanges, for dialogue about how to resolve problems in pursuit of common development…. The Belt and Road connects the world and offers opportunities for global development,” Panama Canal Authority economist Eddie Tapiero told People’s Daily, in an interview published today, in anticipation of President Xi Jinping state visit to Panama, Dec. 2-3.
Tapiero has been campaigning for the United States and the rest of the Americas to do as Panama has, and join in the Belt and Road Initiative. As part of that campaign, on Nov. 7 he released his book, five years in the making, titled The New Silk Road and Panama. A Prospective Strategic Scenario between the Americas and China. He emphasized there, as he again told People’s Daily, that “the Belt and Road Initiative’s purpose is not to intensify competition, but to promote synergies. China is willing to guarantee the shared progress of all humanity.”
Panama has come under intense pressure from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the U.S. State Department to stop Panama’s participation in the Belt and Road. London’s Guardian published a provocative article on Nov. 28, “Panama, the New Flashpoint in China’s Growing Presence in Latin America,” aimed at doing what HM Empire does best: feed conflict. The Guardian, however, had to acknowledge Panama’s commitment. Tapiero told the Guardian that “recent rhetoric from Washington suggests the U.S. has not accepted that the canal has shifted from being a military asset to a commercial one…. The U.S. has a decision to make: Does it accept free trade in the Americas, or does it revert to a Cold War approach? The latter would be disastrous.”
Eurasian Economic Union and Iran Ratify Free Trade Zone
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying an agreement on formation of a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Islamic Republic of Iran. What is being called a temporary agreement has already been ratified by Russia’s State Duma and the Federation Council (the lower and upper houses of the Federal Assembly) on Nov. 15 and 23, respectively. The agreement was already drafted at the EAEU Astana Economic Forum last May, “To ratify the interim agreement on formation of a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and its member states, for one part, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the other part, signed in Astana on May 17, 2018,” the document says. Member-states of the EAEU are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Indian Space Research Organization Successfully Launches 31 Satellites in One Go
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has confirmed that all 31 satellites, including 23 from the United States, carried by its PSLV-C43 rocket, have been successfully launched. While the Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS) was placed in its orbit 17 minutes and 27 seconds after lift-off, the 30 co-passenger satellites were dropped into their designated orbits one by one within another hour, PTI reported.
HysIS, the latest Earth observation satellite developed by ISRO, has several uses. The satellite’s data will be useful in fields including agriculture, forestry, soil surveying, geology, coastal zone studies, inland water studies, environmental monitoring, and pollution detection from industries.
The 30 commercial satellites, including one micro- and 29 nano-satellites, are from eight countries. Of the total 30 satellites, whose combined weight is 261.5 kg, many will either be Earth-observing or communications satellites. One, though, is also expected to carry out scientific studies of the atmosphere.
This was the 45th launch of PSLV series rockets, which are also being considered for launching the manned missions into space that ISRO plans to achieve within the next few years, reported Indian Express today.
Maritime and Space Silk Road on Portugal’s Agenda for Xi’s Forthcoming State Visit
Nov. 29 (EIRNS)—Portugal is insisting in its discussions with China that an Atlantic Route be included in the Maritime Silk Road, Portuguese state press agency Lusa emphasized in its Nov. 23 coverage on the Dec. 4-5 visit of President Xi Jinping to Portugal. That Atlantic Route “would allow the Sines port to connect the routes of the Far East to the Atlantic Ocean, benefitting from the expansion of the Panama Canal,” Lusa wrote.
This Atlantic Route is a project which the Schiller Institute has emphasized as crucial for linking the entire Western Hemisphere with the Belt and Road Initiative, and specifically for transforming the Caribbean Basin region into a world-class industrial and logistics center, with all the benefits that would provide the United States and its Caribbean, Central American, and South American neighbors.
In a Nov. 23 press conference on Xi’s upcoming visit, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister for European Affairs Wang Chao praised the “active cooperation” between Portugal and China in third countries, in Africa and Ibero-America. The visit aims to raise the two nations’ strategic partnership to a new level, he said. A joint statement is expected on the “results of the visit and important consensus,” and cooperation agreements in the fields of culture, education, infrastructure, technology, water resources, finance and energy will be signed, Lusa reported.
Details of the space cooperation agreement, which will build microsatellites for oceanographic research between Chinese and Portuguese scientists and researchers during the visit, were reported by the online publication SpaceWatch.Global on Nov. 8. A laboratory called STARlab, with facilities in Matosinhos and Peniche in Portugal, and in Shanghai, is to be established to build microsatellites for oceanographic research. Detailed research will be directed to study the interactions between oceanography and agriculture and fisheries.
The organizations involved are the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Tekever aerospace company in China, and the Center for Product Engineering and Development in Portugal. The Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education Manuel Heiter said that STARlab will cost $57 million, split evenly between both countries.
At the same time, Portugal announced that it plans to build a spaceport on the island of Santa Maria, in Portugal’s Azores, which it hopes will be operational in 2021. In what could play a part in the “Space Silk Road,” the Azores, in the middle of the North Atlantic, provide a geographic advantage for launches, as well as a “unique position between Europe, the Americas, and Africa,” says the website of the proposed Atlantic International Satellite Launch Program. Portugal plans to select a contract for the spaceport next year.


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University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: LD01-104. The Hotel Kalee is in the background. The Dudeney's lodged at the Hotel Kalee, 25a Kiangse Road, Shanghai, from 1903-1904. See LD01-140.
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A suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 14 people, including prominent local politician Haroon Bilour, police said.
The attack on Tuesday at a campaign event organised by the Awami National Party (ANP) also wounded at least 65 people, according to the local police chief.
Bilour was a provincial assembly candidate for the July 25 general elections. His father, Bashir Bilour, also a prominent ANP politician, was killed by a suicide bomber in 2012.
Police said the bomber struck when Bilour was about to address some 200 supporters.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s attack.
The bombing came hours after the Pakistan military spokesman warned about security threats ahead of the national elections.
Local television channels broadcast live scenes of ambulances arriving at the site and rushing victims to the hospital.
Some people were seen crying.
Bilour belonged to an influential political family in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capital.
The ANP was the main target of Taliban attacks in the 2013 election.
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies


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The Final Wish full movie on afdah, After the death of his father, Aaron returns home to help his grief-stricken mother and to confront his past. Going through his dad's belongings, he comes across a mysterious item that is more than it seems.

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RotorTech blades are finely crafted premium carbon fiber rotor blades from Fun-Key Aeroplane Models. RotorTech blades are designed to be an all around powerful, efficient, well rounded performance oriented blade that will suite a large majority of flight styles from simple aerobatics, F3C, and extreme 3D flight. Additionally, RotorTech blades utilize a minimal amount of paint within the mold, while still providing excellent flight visibility. By using less weight on all of their blades, weight is saved on each set which offers a small boost in performance.
All RotorTech blades are precision balanced and matched at the factory, allowing pilots to bolt on and fly any set of RotorTech blades (main or tail) to their helicopter.
The 530mm main blades utilize a button cell battery for operation, which is included with the package! Simply take the blades out of the box, install the batteries, and go fly! No extra purchase is necessary for the 530mm main blades.
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Q: I have a 1-year-old, female rabbit. When she started to show aggressive behavior six months ago, we understood that she was sexually mature and took her to the veterinarian to be neutered. The veterinarian was a rabbit expert, and he operated on her so well that she recovered in two days.
We did not have any problems until a few days ago. We don’t know what happened. She was locked in her room for four to five hours, and when we let her free, she went nuts. Ever since that moment, she is making strange noises like growling. She humps with our arms and without any reason she bites — a very hard bite! Whenever she sees any of the house-people she jumps over, circles our feet and follows us everywhere we go. She never seems asleep, because she is always alert. Furthermore, she was perfectly litter-trained, but now she goes everywhere in the house.
It’s been more than a week since this started. We took her to the veterinarian, who said we should wait. But each day she gets even more aggressive. Why do you think this is happening? I’m desperately sad for my little angel, please help me and give some advice.
A: When a rabbit is spayed, it takes about two weeks for it to recover fully from the surgery and even longer for the effects of the hormones to be out of the rabbit’s system. After being spayed, a rabbit should be confined to an exercise pen for about a week so it can’t jump up on things or run around too much. It is also important to ask the veterinarian for take-home pain medicine.
It sounds like your rabbit is exhibiting the behavior of an unspayed rabbit, which is probably because her hormones haven’t yet died down after the surgery. Check with your veterinarian to make sure your rabbit’s ovaries were removed completely.
As for not using the litter box, set up your rabbit in an exercise pen that’s 4 by 4 feet or bigger. Put a nice big litter box in there with rabbit-safe litter, and pile it full of hay such as timothy or oat. If your rabbit happens to poop outside the litter box, sweep up the poops and put them in the litter box. Once your rabbit stops pooping outside the litter box (this could take about four to five days), let her out of her pen to run around a rabbit-proofed room, leaving the pen open so she can go back in to use the litter box. Add another litter box outside the pen for your rabbit to use too.

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An Army couple is hoping to set a world record by embarking on a journey through almost every state in the United States.
The three-week flight in the Cessna aircraft will cover 48 mainland US states, in aid of a veterans charity, Wings for Warriors.
The small plane has a top speed of around 80 knots, a range of just under 400 nautical miles before refuelling and narrowly fits the couple.
Reservist engineer Sapper Tess Morris-Paterson is a qualified private pilot, while her partner Captain Morag Morris-Paterson is a physiotherapist with the Royal Medical Corps.
Preparing for the feat in Surrey, 8 Engineer Brigade's Sapper Morris-Paterson admits most of the "crazy" ideas are hers.
Capt Morris-Paterson told Forces News she didn’t take much persuading: "Why wouldn’t you want to do something as challenging as this?
"I think it will be a great experience."
The task they are attempting has never been completed before, but the primary goal is to raise £10,000 for charity.
The money will go toward funding ex-military personnel through private piloting qualifications, offering stable careers to injured and wounded veterans.
Anyone wishing to donate to the cause can visit their page.


U.S., Germany agree deal on Nord Stream 2 without sanctions
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland told Congress that the two governments would shortly announce details of the pact that is intended to address U.S. and eastern and central European concerns about the impact of the Nord Stream 2 project.
Nuland categorically denied reports that Ukraine had been warned against publicly complaining about the agreement and noted that the State Department's counselor, Derek Chollet, was visiting both Kyiv and Warsaw this week to inform them of the deal. Also Wednesday, the White House announced that President Joe Biden would welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House on Aug. 30.
“The visit will affirm the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbas and Crimea, our close cooperation on energy security, and our backing for President Zelenskyy’s efforts to tackle corruption and implement a reform agenda based on our shared democratic values,” the White House said in a statement. ■


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Stress Management Courses for Improved Wellbeing in the Workplace
What are the objectives of Stress Management Training?
In 2015/2016 488,000 people were absent from work due to suffering from work-related stress, depression and anxiety with 11.7 million working days being lost.
These online Stress Management training courses provide strategies for the individual to cope with and reduce the effects of stress, and also strategies for managers to implement to reduce the impact of stress on their teams. The courses will also highlight early indicators of stress, identify causal factors and develop coping strategies.
Managing Your Personal Stress is a training course developed with individual employees in mind. One of the key takeaways from the training is recognising the causes of stress. Once the cause/s are identified thought can be given to how best to manage the stress and develop coping strategies; or remove the stressors.
Managing Stress in Your Team is the next step in terms of training, and is an example of our layered learning where there is a course for individuals to take and a more advanced course for managers which looks at the impact of stress within a team.
All our stress management training courses are available off-the-shelf for ease of use; we can also work with your subject experts to tailor the approach and information to suit your organisation's requirements. Using the Adapt Authoring Tool you can even modify our courses yourself.Read More
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Why is stress management important?
Mitigating and controlling work related stress can lead to a happy, motivated and productive workforce.
Stress can seem to appear out of nowhere and everyone's threshold for coping is different. That's why being able to recognise the 'red flags' or indicators of stress will help your employees maintain their well-being, morale, and, ultimately, their productivity. As well as the interpersonal aspects of the course such as assessing the impact of an individual suffering from stress on the rest of the team, the training also provides practical training such as conducting stress risk assessments. It also addresses the regulatory aspect, including health and safety legislation about controlling workplace risks, including stress.
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Last month, the Dutch policy on the board connector industry began with the establishment of electronics, which started from its operation and was later effectively remitted for annual sales. Electronics are often established in 81 departments such as price basis, capital, basic assets, and basic industry and commerce.
Reminder: Nowadays, electronic components bring various consumer demands for usability to the market. When using electronic products, the maintenance methods used are often introduced in the following ways: 1) regular use; 3) For commonly used applications, detailed analysis is also needed to differentiate the concepts in the following ways.
Know how to start with correct testing. Almost every detection step requires no adjustment, making it easier to experience the principles and implement parameters. Almost every detection step involves all the time required for the entire detection cycle.
In terms of stability, electronic components have higher requirements for the accuracy and stability of PCBs.
In terms of stability, the testing frequency of electronic components on PCBs provides an ideal answer sheet implementation for each test data. By controlling the digital display screen to bypass, the input control of frequency measurement status and frequency can be ensured to be programmable through a computer.
The stability of LED sight imaging visual detection equipment is not smooth, and in terms of stability, it can cause unsatisfactory PCB detection.
The LED sight is assembled from components such as a needle shaft, spring, and circular needle, and is widely used. It can meet the requirements of ergonomics and high-precision manufacturing, meet the specifications of certain high-precision devices and connectors in the human body, and also meet people's requirements for shape.
Usually, the size and accuracy of automotive connectors determine the design and manufacturing level of cable accessories. For cable manufacturers, parameters and parameters.
Electronic components belong to the category of precision components, and any precision product can withstand falling Newtons under smooth pressure into the probe joint.
Conduct geometric analysis and design of connectors based on their arcing structure, pressure, and other characteristics.
We know that the construction of connectors should adapt to some environmental factors, rather than conducting comprehensive analysis and design for an application system. For example, radio frequency and below.
With the increasing number of connectors, the trend of circuits has put forward more requirements for connectors, and for electronic devices with such requirements, the time required for circuit debugging is also becoming shorter and shorter.
How to accurately select a suitable electronic device, there are a wide variety of connectors. Jiutai Teke is a company specializing in the research and development, production, and sales of connectors.
As more and more industries demand connectors for product development, more and more product industries will demand demand demand. So, energy storage connectors have put forward more requirements.
After accumulating experience with energy storage connectors, we have become familiar with a professional data connector and successfully gained market understanding of connectors suitable for applications. So, what are the special advantages of energy storage connectors?
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If the development speed of the industry is infinite, then the above is the gradual increase in the application of energy storage connectors: how are the key technologies implemented?
Energy storage connectors can provide power to high currents during specific dates. To ensure safety, the connector manufacturer needs to verify the actual situation of the product.


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You’ve seen some gay swimwear pageants in Atlanta that take themselves way too seriously. Mary’s annual Boys of Summer Swimsuit Contest is not one of them, and it's awesome.
We love East Atlanta’s gay boy bar for just that reason: It’s all about the fun. Patrons welcomed summer during Friday's beach-themed event, but few of them brought it in full force quite like the contestants in the dudes parade. Hairy hard-bodies, slick alternaqueers, guys next door, and at least one otter in a women’s one-piece let go their inhibitions to be equal-opportunity objectified.
The climax came after the Top 4 (photo) were chosen. They began an epic pose-off that you’ll just have to see to believe in the full gallery. The winner won a trophy, $100 cash and bragging rights through September.
Photos by Russ Youngblood


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Illinois businesses are looking to stop semi trucks from parking in vacant lots, citing “costly repairs” due to damaged fences.
Park Forest, Illinois passed an ordinance back in February forbidding trucks over 8,000 pounds from parking on residential lots, driveways, or vacant commercial properties. The ordinance includes tow trucks, dump trucks, buses, special mobile equipment, farm equipment, and tractor trailers. The one exception includes “tow trucks with companies who have a Home Occupation Registration and/or Business License Registration,” reported Park Forest News.
The ordinance was passed “to address the parking of second division and similar commercial vehicles on residential lots and on the property of shuttered businesses. The parking of second division vehicles on residential lots is an eyesore and perceived to negatively impact home values. Furthermore, this change would bring existing neighborhoods in line with Uniform Development Ordinance, which impacts new developments. Similarly, the parking of these vehicles on the property of vacant businesses is an eyesore that is perceived to negatively impact the property value of commercial areas and to generally contribute to an appearance of blight. Currently, several locations of vacant business property are being used as storage for semi tractors and often trailers as well.”
Despite the recently passed ordinance, Members of Ash Street Cooperative still regularly report trucks parking in the vacant commercial lot at the northeast corner of Western Avenue and 26th Street and backing into the fences, causing damage. The Co-op claims to have racked up $1900 in fence repairs due to the truck parking, and is seeking a way to further prevent trucks from using the empty lot.
“We are disappointed that we are still faced with trucks parked up against our fence,” said Antoinette Dabney-Wooten, President of Ash Street Cooperative. “Repairs are very costly.”
The cooperative is now urging anyone who sees truckers parking in the vacant lots to contact the police at their non-emergency number – 708-748-4700.


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A group of Iranian cinema veterans were honored for their lifetime achievements in Iranian cinema at the closing ceremony of the Iran Theater Week in Tehran’s Milad Tower.
In his acceptance statement, Ali Nasiriyan, actor of the hit film ‘Mirza Nowruz’s Shoes’, spoke highly of the Iranian Theater Forum for their honoring of the cinema veterans.
Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, known for his memorable role in the classic Iranian series ‘The Patriarch’, was awarded the Iranian Theater Forum medallion.
Due to an illness that prevented Keshavarz from appearing on stage, the hosts presented the medallion to the award-winning actor at his seat.
‘A Passenger to Rey’ actress Zhaleh Olov briefly thanked the people who have always been kind and shown her respect. She further added:
“I am too old to go on stage now, but I can still work in cinema, radio, and be active as a voice actor as well.”
Surprised to receive an award, Iraj Rad the talented actor from ‘Zero Degree Turn’ pointed out that he made his best efforts in serving the Iranian theater family throughout the years.

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…Not feeling like a
bag totelady. There are also prints, mugs, curtains, stickers, cards, towels and about everything you can think about. At my Coloria Society6 store that is.
A playful flower pattern based on a colour wheel found in James Ward’s book Colour harmony and contrast (originally published in 1903, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd). Plate 7 caption: “Five pairs of Complementary Colours forming a Chromatic Circle.”
I just kept seeing it as a flower…
Get one at my Coloria Society6 Store!
As I didn’t have enough Society6 Shops already, I opened yet another one. My KUVITUKSIA shop can be found in society6.com/kuvituksia and it will show those illustrations that doesn’t fit in my Monsterium Universe (for those ones my first shop at society6.com/paivihintsanen will continue).
The very first upload to my new shop is Knitted Skulls series from Knitting with Attitude collection. I’ll upload more background colour choices through the autumn – from bold colours to pastelly and everything in between.
Visit KUVITUKSIA shop to view the whole collection!
Because knitting isn’t for faint hearted!
As long as there is some available, I’m ready to have it in which ever way it’s spelled.
And now it’s available: I have a new Coloria Society6 Shop for colour related stuff. I’ll have all kinds of colour related stuff available from my new personal designs to remakes to interpretations of old colour charts, wheels, etc (which I have re-made & vectorised myself based on the original material). Not to forget about the Coloria promotes collection, which shows colour related stuff from other illustrators and artists.
All profit from any sales will go in keeping my Coloria projects running.
So, please, take a visit to society6.com/coloria
They are together! The old Pirate Captain fella has been portraited already a few years back, but now it has the whole family back together again: also Green Pirate and Red Pirate hanging around with this great and powerful terror of the sea… Prints in several sizes and also choice of canvas prints – and mugs, tees, tote bags, pillows, hoodies, pouches… Also some new big Captain stuff that wasn’t available before, like laptop skins, mugs, throw blankets etc.
Have some privacy – no – PIRACY in your life! All these and much more at my Society6 store’s ‘Characters and Creatures From the Monsterium World’ collection!
Well, these are fun! I noticed that Society6 has brought an option for leggings. Most of my Society6 images are not pictures that would work in leggings as they are, but I decided to give them a go with my Iconia Girls series, especially using their curly hair as an ornamental decoration.
After getting some enquiries about my old illustrations, 10+ years back, which I don’t print myself anymore, I decided to make them available in my Society6 store at society6.com/paivihintsanen. These are prints that I once sold signed, but not numbered or limited edition (such prints won’t be available via Society6 at any point). Now they are available as gallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson K3 archival inks, in five different sizes, or as canvas prints printed on bright white, fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvas using latest generation Epson archival inks, in three different sizes. And in all kinds of other stuff from totes to shower curtains and from laptop sleeves to throw pillows!
A few weeks ago I made an offer for one company, of the stickers for children, but my offer / illustrations didn’t get chosen. I wouldn’t like to leave these to my drawer, so what is the better reason to make them available as totes, t-shirts and mugs on my Society6 store (society6.com/paivihintsanen) :D
Now they are all there – check out my Fruit Tree Collection at my Society6 shop! Four different base colours and twenty colour combos to choose.
Ps. Also available as prints, cards, duvet covers… Oh, and those shower curtains look great!
…more of my illustrated animal designs at my Society 6 shop.

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Tis strange, this heart within my breast,
Title: A Song.
Primary Texts: MS's: F-H 283, 87-8*; Folger, 33
'Tis strange, this heart within my breast,
Reason opposing, and her pow'rs,
Cannot one gentle moment rest,
Unlesse it knows what's done in yours.
In vain I ask it, of your Eyes,
Which subt'ly would my fears controul,
For art has taught them, to disguise,
Which Nature made, t'explain the soul.
In vain, that sound your voice affoards,
Flatters sometimes, my easy mind,
But of too vast extent, are words,
In them, the Jewel truth to find.
Then, lett thy fond enquiry's cease,
And so my soul, thy troubles end,
For sure that heart, shall ne'r know peace,
That on another does depend
Secondary Eds: 1713 Misc, 272-3; rpt of 1713: 1903 Reynolds, 132; rpts of 1903 Reynolds: 1930 Fausset, 62; 1979 Rogers AF, 91.
17C: 1691 Vinculum Societatis, 15 (set to music by R. Courteville). .
18C: 1724 The Hive I, 255.
20C: Rpt of 1713/1903: 1905 Wordsworth (compiled), 26-7; 1973 Goulianos, 81-2; 1979 Rogers, Six Women, 17; Reynolds, 132; rpts of 1903 Reynolds: 1930 Fausset, 62; 1979 Rogers AF, 91.
Comment: On love as a state of intense vulnerability: "that Heart shall ne'er know Peace/Which on Anothers do's depend"; another text whose versions suggest F-H 283 is earliest; F-H 283 is written as if speaking to someone who has asked about love; line 13 is "lett thy fond enquiry's cease"; line 14: "thy troubles end"; Folger shows crossing out of "thy" and substitution of "my"; then 1713 Misc prints Folger version: Then let my fond Enquiries cease,/And so let all my Trouble end." 1724 Hive reprints 1713 Misc, with slight modernizing; as does everyone but Reynolds and Rogers (who stick to 1713 Misc religiously).

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The sun a disk of light. The flowers of purple nectar. My mind reflects. I am here. Yet, I am also with the women marching today…
Today was the Women’s March
Many cities and even in Washington DC
They are marching …
Welcome to Hudley Flipside’s “The Seminary Of Praying Mantis Publishing.”
Praying mantis shows me her story of life, death, and rebirth. For me she is an image or symbol of the divine in all things. I watch the praying mantis in my garden and have taken her image as my logo. She is an amazing little creature, and I relate to her connection to nature. We are both wild and part of this strange world. She is a part of my mythology as I am part of hers.
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Does Selena Gomez have 1 or 2 kidneys?
Actress and singer Selena Gomez revealed in an Instagram post that she had received a kidney transplant for her lupus in June. In the post, she revealed that the kidney was donated by her good friend, actress Francia Raisa, writing: “She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me.
Are Francia Raisa and Selena Gomez still friends?
The two beauties have known each other since 2007 and have always remained good friends. Despite such a strong bond and the sacrifice, Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa witnessed a fallout in their relationship in 2018.
Does Selena Gomez have both kidneys?
Later in the episode, graffiti appears on the wall saying, “does Selena Gomez even have kidneys?” She does, and one of them was donated by best friend Francia Raisa.
Why did Selena Gomez’s kidneys fail?
She said she underwent the transplant as part of her fight against lupus, an autoimmune disease that often attacks the kidneys. The 28-year-old singer has publicly battled lupus for years, sharing that she also underwent chemo as part of her treatment.
Who gave kidney to Selena?
Last month, the world was shocked to learn that Selena Gomez had undergone a kidney transplant due to her lupus condition, with an organ donated by her friend Francia Raisa.
Did Selena pay for her kidney?
“There are no words to describe how I can possibly thank my beautiful friend Francia Raisa,” Selena said in her Instagram announcement. “She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me. I am incredibly blessed.
What happened between Selena Gomez and Francia?
Selena and Francia famously fell out in October 2018 after Francia “called out” her friend for her “unhealthy choices”. It came after Francia donated a kidney to the Rare Beauty founder, who underwent a transplant in 2017 following complications from the autoimmune disease lupus.
Why did Selena need a kidney?
Gomez underwent the kidney transplant due to her ongoing battle with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that she was diagnosed with in 2011.
Can donating a kidney shorten your life?
Living donation does not change life expectancy, and does not appear to increase the risk of kidney failure. In general, most people with a single normal kidney have few or no problems; however, you should always talk to your transplant team about the risks involved in donation.


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Released in January 1988, it was hoped that Whoops Apocalypse having been the theme tune to a British comedy film of the same name may return Otway to glory. Sadly, just as the film failed to make an impact on cinema-goers, Otway had to endure another failure to make a mark on the UK charts.
1. Whoops Apocalypse 2. Losing