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Here’s an ultimate stunner that’s not only a show car but a daily ...
Here’s an ultimate stunner that’s not only a show car but a daily driver too. It’s the 1961 Chevrolet Impala and it’s one of the nicest Wagon in the planet that got everyone talking during the 2016 Detroit Autorama.
You’ll be nothing but impressed with the creativity and details this Impala has to offer. It’s looking super clean and classy in white with several accents in tan. Extensive tasteful mods lie strikingly in its body. The front is lengthened and sports a custom bumper with some Camaro feel in it. It has nice door handles, gorgeous side trim, and eye-catching wheels. The rear bumper and taillights are custom too to match the styling of the front.
The inside of this Wagon is as stunning as the outside. Everything is color matched with the tan accents on the exterior. Several chrome going around to set things off and that gauge at the center is cool too. Well, want an ambiance that blends the contemporary and 60’s styling? This is it!
I was not lying when I said this is a daily driver as well. And that’s backed by the fuel injected 409 engine with manual transmission fitted nicely in an engine bay that’s as clean as a whistle.
Check it out too through the video below.
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Saint of the day
The Saint of the Day presents a daily calendar of Saints remembered by the Church. The pages feature the stories of the great witnesses of Christian life through the centuries, lighting our way on our journey of faith.
St. Martin, Bishop of Tours
Known as the “Apostle of Gaul,” Saint Martin of Tours began life as a soldier, and went on to become a Bishop. He is known especially for his devotion to the poor, as seen in an incident from his early life, when Saint Martin cut his cloak in half and gave part to a poor man suffering from the cold.Read all...

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text: Spider Sputnik Rug or Wallhanging by Jenn Ski will be super fun to stitch in almost any thread. Great scales and shapes for all skill levels – plain stitches or embellish areas with texture and we are happy to suggest some stitch combinations. Stitch this 24″ x 30″ canvas with wool or silk for a rug or wall hanging. Available on 13, 14 or 18 mesh mono deluxe needlepoint canvas. We are happy to provide silk or wool threads to help complete this canvas. Please indicate your mesh preference in the note section at checkout just before submit order. Please contact us if you would like threads to go with this great canvas. Available in alternate sizes.

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Some kid who likes to make art for games
Demo was pretty fun actaully cant wait to see what more you do with this concept
Cant launch any chapters?
Been watching this for a long time. Hopefully you can find a talented animator!
Well done on therium 2 it was awesome, really liked the openness of the levels compared to OGs area like levels. As a side note i finished both storylines and got the codes for the .zip file but I don't know where to find it. I subscribed on the steam workshop, maybe it saved to a different location? (I havent looked much into it)
Is it possible to start a server with just you or are other players needed in the lobby to play?
thinking of you ;)
Congratz! Working having a publisher like devolver must feel great :D
So the game no longer featurues slenderman or any 'slender-men'?
Thats expected in a a closed alpha though isnt it?
Very nice work, lighting is one of the hardest things to do!
Nice work man you've added tons of new fun things to play with :p Now if only the game had drifting it would be the ultimate kart racer!
Wicked, I was getting worried the game was dead !
How much will it cost? Hope to play it soon !
Same! I'm certain I have the right code? All you have to do is find the rooms and plus together the first and last digit of the rooms? But when I try put it in the keypad it doesn't seem to work :/
Will you play in 3rd person shoulder view so its more like the last of us? or will it be firstperson?
Controller support would be wicked! nice work though, awesome.
Nice dood, i've been looking into this myself as well but lost motivation. Thanks for this!
The Last of Us Versions of l4d characters? thats pretty wicked, wouldn't mind seeing Joel or Ellie ported over aswell :p
Well there are servers somewhat as people have gotten the game from the blinkbundle giveaway awhile ago. And thanks :D
The Demo was awesome, this games gonna be great!
Guys, just play the sequel on steam called kingdoms rise made by the same people
Where do can you download the Zero Gear Model SDK since the Zero Gear site has been down for awhile now :/?
Awesome mod by the way :D
Am i seeing fancy new shaders in play :o?
Your weird, its easy !
I prefer the one with out the dark eyebrows, these are really good drawings !
Release public demo?
So in game will we see the character? (in mirrors, cutscenes maybe even thirdperson?) He looks great
Looking good :o

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A lot of the people in NY who lean left won't like this. Sorry about that but our country has run amuck. Seattle is under siege by a group of thugs who are beating white men, women, and children demanding money. Stores are being extorted for payment. The leftist running the state and city are asses. You never ever give up a police station! What they should do is to go in with force and have the thugs evicted or take the area back by force. In Atlanta, GA, two good cops are being prosecuted for doing there job. The officer who fatally wounded the ex-con did us a favor. YOU NEVER RESIST ARREST AND NEVER EVER POINT ANY WEAPON AT A POLICE OFFICER. That is a sure recipe to die. The other office did absolutely nothing wrong. The mayor, police commissioner, and governor have thrown these men under the bus. Our society has run amuck. No matter the outcome in these cases, rioting and killing will follow. Its time to take back these streets by any means possible. I am appalled by the poor judgment of the elected officials in both cases. I may get thrown off facebook but my message will reach others on other platforms. Its time to make government accountable since they work for us. Enough is enough! People, do what you need to do to take back civility and law.
I am tired of assholes. These are people who think George Floyd is a hero, and it's ok to loot. They think you can rewrite history and take what they like as fact. They want to eliminate police as well as guns. These are people who think the confederate flag is bad but don't know what it stands for. They are people who believe only black lives matter when ALL LIVES MATTER. Celebrities rich and poor who would be nothing without us. We have people who see racism where there is none. Where were all these people when affirmative action kept me out of jobs? Women were promoted before me so should I hate women? I had a JEW wife who got a very good divorce settlement so am I a Nazi? Let's take down statues of Americans who fought the civil war and deface Lincoln not only here but in London. This world is in bad shape. When is the shooting going to start and let's get this over with?
If you are conservative, pro 2a, anti-abortion and anti-gay a follower of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, you are my friend! Join me in my crusade.

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Hoops Scene carried off the Irish Football Programme Club Premier Division Programme of the Year award for 2017. It’s available at all home games for just €4.
Summer signing Dylan Watts spoke to Macdara Ferris about his career to date, joining the Hoops, and his approach to taking penalties.
Our man from Carlow Jordan Tallon gave an insight into the U17 regime to the 14th September 2018 edition of Hoops Scene
Underage Strength and Conditioning coach (and former first-teamer) Pat Deans spoke to Hoops Scene for the 17th August 2018 issue.
Midfielder Sam Bone spoke to Macdara Ferris for the 27th July 2018 edition of Hoops Scene
Also in the 27th July issue, we sat down with U19s keeper Kian Clarke
Hoops hero and current Under 17 coach Stephen Rice spoke to the 12th July 2018 edition of Hoops Scene about his time in the Hoops, particularly about a certain night in White Hart Lane.
Robert Goggins spoke with our winger Joel Coustrain, the interview appeared in the programme on 29th June 2018
The interview with U19s coach Aidan Price appeared in the programme on June 9th 2018


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Hepatitis V is very infectious -approximately 100 times more infectious than HIV. Unlike HIV and hepatitis C, an effective vaccine is available that can prevent hepatitis B infection. The vaccination involves three injections administered over several weeks. You need to have the full course of vaccinations to be fully protected.
Universal vaccination is not currently in place but those who are more at risk would be eligible to receive the vaccine. These risk groups include:
- Men who have sex with men
- People who inject drugs
- Pregnant women at risk of infection (e.g. injecting drug user partner)
- Babies of infected (‘carrier’) mothers
- Individuals who change sexual partners frequently
- Close family contacts of an individual with chronic hepatitis B infection
- Patients with chronic kidney disease requiring haemodialysis
- People with chronic liver disease
- Prisoners and prison staff
- Sex industry workers & their clients
- Travellers to countries of high prevalence
- Individuals at occupational risk – including all NHS staff and healthcare workers involved in Exposure-Prone Procedures
The vaccination will prevent hepatitis B infection but does not prevent against other blood borne viruses or STIs.

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Continuing our study of Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, we will be discussing Chapter 6, after Christian leaves the Interpreter’s house, until the Hill of Difficulty.
This week we will be discussing Luke 19:1-10, Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus.
Sunday morning Worship:
Please read Ephesians chapters 1-3 in preparation of the morning message.
We will continue our examination of Covenant Theology.

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Press Release – Unarmed, aged Sikh protestors subjected to brutality and bullets of Punjab police
HEARTBREAKING SCENES OF POLICE BRUTALITY ON PEACEFUL SIKHPROTESTERS
| 14 October, 2015 at 19:42
HEART-BREAKING SCENES OF THE KILLING OF PEACEFUL SIKH PROTESTERS IN PUNJAB SHOW LITTLE HAS CHANGED SINCE 1984
Press Release Via: Sikh Federation UK
London – 14 October 2015
Following the desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the Sikh Holy scriptures or the living Guru of the Sikhs, at Bargari village in Faridkot district tens of thousands of peaceful Sikh protesters had pitched their tents in Kotkapura town since Monday.
Protesters also blocked the Moga-Ferozepur national highway at Dagru village, and the Moga-Kotkapura highway at Samalsar and Rode villages demanding the arrest of those responsible for tearing off more than 100 pages of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and scattering them throughout Bargari village.
The protests came amid the uproar over the recent pardon ofGurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and the alleged involvement of his followers in the desecration, although they have emphatically denied any connection.
In shocking scenes this morning the Punjab Police used lethal force against the peaceful Sikh protesters while they were undertaking their morning prayers in Kotkapura. The police initially used batons to attack the peaceful protestors and then resorted to use of water cannons to try and disperse protesters.
Later they opened fire with live ammunition killing a number of unarmed Sikh protesters and injuring dozens of others. Two of those killed have been identified as Kishan Singh, 45, of Niami Wala village and Gurjit Singh, 20, of Sarawan village. In appalling and horrific scenes hundreds of Sikhs exercising their democratic right to peacefully assemble and protest were beaten, dragged away and arrested reminding everyone little appears to have changed since 1984 in terms of a disregard for Sikh lives and police brutality.
In a damage limitation exercise the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal later ordered a judicial inquiry by a high court judge to probe the desecration incident and its aftermath, besides giving assurances that exemplary punishment would be awarded to perpetrators of the "dastardly act". Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal announced Rs 1-crore reward to any person giving information leading to the arrest of those who committed the act of sacrilege.
Bhai Amrik Singh, the Chair of the Sikh Federation (UK) said:
'We condemn the killing of unarmed peaceful protesters in Punjab today and pray for those critically injured. Many have been beaten and abused and hundreds of Sikhs have been arrested today for simply demanding action against those who desecrated Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, our living Guru.'
'We have had Sikhs contact us from across the globe urging us to take the lead in insisting on extremely tough action against police officers responsible for the killings and brutality. There is talk of offering rewards for information identifying police officers involved in the killings and naming and shaming police officers leading the brutality.'
National Press Secretary
Sikh Federation (UK)
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Properly protecting trade secrets: employment lawyers publish new explanatory video
The new Directive for the Protection of Trade Secrets entered into force on April 26, 2019. What do employers have to do now to ensure that sensitive company data will continue to be qualified as trade secrets in the future? In a brief explanatory video, the experts from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Employment Law Practice Group explain the actions employers should take.
According to the new law, it is important for employers to first determine their business and trade secrets, assign them to specific employee groups, create electronic access restrictions for them and establish company-wide confidentiality guidelines. Using an illustrative practical example, the lawyers of the Employment Law Practice Group explain how employers will be able to ensure sufficient protection of their trade secrets.
The Employment Law Practice Group consists of more than 40 team members specializing in employment law and certified specialists in employment law who advise national and international companies in all areas of employment law. Last year, the Practice Group had already produced a videoclip on the use of external staff.
See our new explanatory video here.

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Vodafone has launched a new rewards scheme that offers money off at big name brands, as well as free treats and extra data for those who sign up.
Dubbed VeryMe Rewards, it’s available now via the My Vodafone app. Those who download and sign up now can take advantage of two Odeon cinema tickets for £7, free coffee at Costa and treats from the likes of Millie’s Cookies and Hotel Chocolat. Other giveaways include 15% off Interflora and a three-month trial of The Mindfulness App.
Pay monthly customers who access VeryMe will also be entitled to 2GB of extra data as a thank you.
Vodafone says that VeryMe will use machine learning to understand what users like, tailoring and personalising deals over time. In the next few weeks, Vodafone says it will offer a number of Christmas related giveaways.
Vodafone UK Chief Executive Nick Jeffery, said: “VeryMe Rewards is designed as a personalised thank you to our customers for their loyalty. The Vodafone App is quick and easy to use and rewards customers with daily treats and offers that have been individually tailored to them.”
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Not all rock stars are narcissistic a**holes… For rocker Jack McBride, it’s all about the music and the fans. He’s not into all the celebrity BS. Now that he’s had some distance from his messy breakup, he realizes his ex may have been more attracted to his fame, and what it could do for her, than she was to him. He’d have done anything for her. And he did. But it was never enough. After enjoying the perks of no-strings sex for a few months, Jack’s sick of meaningless one-nighters. With their concerts selling out across the globe, he focuses all his energy on the band, their music, and the fans. After Emily catches her fiancé cheating, her well-planned future crumbles, and with it her chance at happily ever after. Feeling adrift, she needs to figure out what went wrong before she can move on. If she can move on. When they meet, their chemistry is explosive, but she’s not interested in dating anyone, let alone a rock star. But Jack’s not a stereotypical bad boy musician. Their attraction demands satisfaction, so she offers him one night. With mere hours to convince Emily their chemistry goes beyond sexual, can he convince her to give him, to give them, a chance?
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After crashing a wedding in Jamaica can two strangers find love? Tamara Reed spends her days seeing the worst that love has to offer as a divorce lawyer. Yet she still finds herself drawn to weddings and a secret part of her heart still believes in love. Crashing a wedding while on a much needed vacation, finds her meeting a tempting man. He not only catches her attention but sets her blood on fire. After an intense night with him, she sneaks home to forget the vacation fling. That’s easier said than done, as memories keep her up at night and her vacation boo tracks her down. Is she ready to take a chance on love? Benjamin Thompson went on vacation for a little work and a lot of relaxation. Who knew when he took a detour to watch a random wedding he’d get a chance to “play” as well. The woman he meets takes his breath away and knocks his socks off in the sheets. Barely exchanging any info before having the wildest sex of his life, he wakes up to find his sexy siren gone. Hooked after one taste, he tracks Tamara down only to find that she wants to keep their passionate night a onetime deal. As a successful Realtor, he’s accustomed to hard sells. But he’s determined to close this deal no matter what it takes.

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[Internet] Sagemcom F@st 2864 disabled USB Ports?
Bell-SURF tells me that the USB ports (2) on the captioned modem have been disabled (apparently by Bell) or are otherwise not supported by Bell. Is this true? Would they really do that? Why? (It was one of those, "let me talk to the tech guy and get back to you... no, we don't support the USB." customer-support conversations.
From a MacBook Air via WiFi through Finder>Go>Connect to Server "smb://mynetwork" (per Bell Connection Hub online information) returns the appended error message. Can anyone suggest a solution?
I want to network mass storage (LaCie 1TB) and a USB Laser printer (Brother).
as far as i know....
not supported - yes doesn't provide tech support for usb networked devices
disabled - no, as far as i know they are enabled still. when i first got my connection hub I tested it with a usb thumb drive and it worked just fine.
also see this post »[Internet] Setting up USB Printer with Sagemcom F@st 2864--
Opinions and ideas expressed in my post are my own and in no way represent those of Bell Canada Enterprises, Bell Canada, Bell TV, Bell Internet, Bell Mobility, Bell Technical Solutions, Expertech, or any other partners under the BCE umbrella.
Both ports are enabled. Networked devices are supported, printers are not.
For the printer:
The Connection Hubs printer USB functionality is available for your use. However, the configuration and use of this printer functionality is not supported by Bell Internet Technical Support.
For storage devices, the modem's help page implies that support is available.
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Have you found a solution to this issue yet?
The same thing is happening to me.
Until it gets working, I have an expensive book end hooked up the the modem.
The problem is not that the USB ports are disabled... its an issue with MacOS support for the protocol implementation that the Connection Hub uses.
See the following post. No solution that I've found yet and I'm having the same issue.
»[Internet] Connecting USB device to mac through bell hub sagemco
I can connect from my SmartTV and Windows box but not through my Macbook.


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Opposition Members hoped for an opportunity to debate what should precede the clause that comes next if the Bill is taken in strict numerical order. Clause 97(2) has caused concerns on the part of the Association of High Sheriffs of England and Wales, which is known as the Shrievalty Association.
I sought to table a new clause to deal with the concerns that were raised with me and that were raised by the shadow Attorney-General, my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), on Second Reading and by my hon. Friend the Member for Upminster (Angela Watkinson) on behalf of high sheriffs in Lord Chancellor's Department questions, as they used to be. Unfortunately, the new clause was ruled to be beyond the scope of the Bill, and the amendment that I tabled
is starred today, so my only opportunity to raise the matter is on clause stand part.
Will the Minister be so kind as to say that he will consider the amendment, even though it is starred, to see whether the Government can take account of it between now and Report, and whether he might be prepared to meet Mr. Roger Bramble of the Association of High Sheriffs of England and Wales?
The issue is that in the past there has been an arrangement between high sheriffs and under-sheriffs. This relates to clause 97(2) as it now is; I think that it was clause 91(2) when the Bill was before another place. In the past, each high sheriff has mandated the function of enforcing writs to his under-sheriff, who is traditionally a solicitor. In return, the under-sheriff has indemnified the high sheriff against litigation costs and awards, usually through the medium of an insurance policy.
High sheriffs are concerned that, because of clause 97(2), litigants might be able to proceed against high sheriffs who have been in office in any of the past six years—that is, until the normal statutory limitation would cut in. The high sheriff might have to pay costs and awards out of his or her own pocket. My hon. Friends have raised that concern. High sheriffs are particularly concerned that underwriters are reluctant to provide an effective insurance-based solution.
I would be enormously grateful if the Minister would say that he will consider the issue—I realise that it is new to him personally—and that, if it cannot be resolved between now and Report, he might agree to meet Mr. Bramble of the Association of High Sheriffs of England and Wales.
I did not intend to speak on the shrievalty, although I could do so at great length. If there were an opportunity to discuss the future of that particular self-appointed oligarchy, a number of hon. Members could make worthwhile contributions.
I simply want to discuss the register of judgments and orders, which I thought that we were addressing. Will the register automatically be available to credit checking agencies, which is a point that has been raised before in several other contexts? The register includes county court judgments, and it would be to everybody's advantage if defaults from courts showed up in credit reference agency checks. That would be a further way to pressurise those who default on their obligations to lower courts, and I hope that it will become normal practice.
We are discussing clause 96 and the register of judgments and orders. In respect of the point raised by the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome, the provision of a single piece of legislation on the registration and judgment fines will make a positive difference. He asked whether the register will be automatically available to credit checking agencies. I can assure him that it will be, so there will be greater unity among registers.
On the point raised by the hon. Member for Surrey Heath, I am sorry that we did not have the opportunity to discuss high sheriffs and under-
sheriffs in greater detail. The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome described them as a ''self-appointed oligarchy'', but that is not fair.
I want to place on the record that I do not agree with the views of the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome. In Surrey, we have benefited enormously from some of the recent high sheriffs, who include the well-known actress Penelope Keith, who is a wonderfully popular charity fund-raiser in Surrey, and in the past we have also had Mr. Richard Stilgoe. If the hon. Gentleman had my experience of working with the high sheriffs in Surrey, he would not take such a pejorative view.
No, not very long ago.
I am sure that all members of the Committee would agree that insurance arrangements should be implemented to cover high sheriffs against claims relating to High Court enforcement being made against them after their year in office. We have already taken steps to ensure that such insurance is in place. The Bill has no effect on appointments made under the Sheriffs Act 1887, but instead creates a new regime of authorisation for High Court enforcement. The office of sheriff has existed since the middle ages and the Bill does not affect it—perhaps to the chagrin of the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome.
I will examine the specific issue in more detail and will consider any representations for meetings and so forth. Should I want to elaborate on the matter in correspondence with the Committee, I will do so in due course.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 96 ordered to stand part of the Bill.


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In our recent blog on liquid hydrogen, we looked at hydrogen’s characteristics, history, and unique potential. We described why hydrogen has great potential in terms of sustainability and which industries are focusing on this versatile energy carrier today.
But what exactly is hydrogen used for? In this blog, we discuss five projects in which (liquid) hydrogen plays a vital role.
1. Hydrogen-powered passenger cars from SK and Hyundai Motor
With sustainability as the primary goal, several automakers are currently working on passenger cars with a fuel cell for gaseous hydrogen (at a high pressure of 700 bar). The engines of these cars are fully electric, and the fuel cells generate energy by bringing hydrogen into contact with oxygen. The only exhaust product is water.
There are already some hydrogen cars on the market. One example of a large-scale project dealing with the production and promotion of these cars is the cooperation between SK and Hyundai Motor. Hyundai produces the vehicles, while SK’s hydrogen plant in Incheon, Korea, produces enough hydrogen for 200,000 hydrogen cars.
Through their cooperation, the two producers aim to strengthen the hydrogen economy and establish a large-scale hydrogen infrastructure in cooperation with various other parties and with the support of the government.
What the future of hydrogen cars will look like remains yet to be seen. Because up to now, mainly grey hydrogen (steam methane reforming) is used. Therefore the sustainability of the cars is currently rather disappointing. In addition, hydrogen cars are still relatively expensive. The use of fuel cells instead of fully electric cars is under fire; is the additional conversion from energy to hydrogen energy really necessary? We expect to see which method will prevail in the next ten years.
Source: The Hyundai NEXO
2. ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), a rocket engine test facility
The aerospace industry is one of the major users of liquid hydrogen. The cryogenic liquid is, among other things, used for launching rockets and for testing rocket engines.
The Tirunelveli District in India is home to the ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC). The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art features required for realizing the most advanced propulsion technology products within the Indian space program. Some of the activities carried out at ISRO include assembly, integration, and testing of cryogenic engines for launchers and associated subsystems.
In cooperation with Linde Kryotechnik, Demaco designed, built, and installed the cryogenic infrastructure for the Cold Flow Test Facility (SCFT) on location in 2006. The SCFT is used for the development, qualification, and acceptance testing of semi-cryogenic motor systems. Demaco supplied vacuum insulated transfer lines and valve boxes for liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The test pressure of the system was extreme, reaching as high as 330 bar(g).
The sophisticated project in India was one of the first significant hydrogen projects in which Demaco was involved. The success of this project was a unique opportunity to show early on that Demaco has all the expertise in the field of liquid hydrogen. And over the past decades, this expertise has only grown.
3. ASuMED, a superconducting engine for aircraft
Several years ago, the ASuMED project was launched. This project is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program and focuses on developing a fully superconducting electric motor for commercial aircraft.
From the start of the project in 2017, Demaco has worked with an experienced consortium of experts to develop a superconducting engine that is lighter than the conventional aircraft engine and can significantly reduce aircraft CO2 emissions.
The engine is based on the double cryostat concept; hence it contains two separate cryostats and two separate cooling systems. One for the rotor and one for the stator. Cooling of the rotor is done with helium, while the stator is cooled with liquid hydrogen.
Superconducting engines offer unique opportunities for a sustainable future of the aviation industry. Several aircraft are currently under development with a lightweight, superconducting engine. The first prototypes are expected to be produced by 2030.
A mock-up of the ASuMED engine
4. Hydrogen-powered trucks by Daimler
In addition to passenger cars, trucks can also be equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell. Especially heavy trucks that travel long distances produce a lot of CO2 emissions with a traditional engine. A zero-emission alternative would therefore make a huge difference in the sustainability of this industry.
Daimler Trucks is one of the truck manufacturers committed to the use of hydrogen for more sustainable trucking. The first hydrogen-powered concept model presented by Daimler is the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck. This truck is said to perform just as well as the conventional diesel-powered trucks and runs more than 1,000 kilometers on one full tank of liquid hydrogen.
The first test vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck are expected to be placed into service by customers in 2023, while full production will start in the second half of this century.
Source: A prototype of the GenH2 truck
5. The Norled ferry in Norway
And lastly, a recent hydrogen project in which Demaco played an important role. Hydrogen is nowadays used as a sustainable fuel in the road transport sector, the shipping industry, and the ferry sector.
Norled, the company behind several ships and fast ferry services in Norway, launched the world’s very first hydrogen ferry in 2020. The MF Hydra boat contains an 80 m3 tank for liquid hydrogen and demonstrates that a completely emission-free ferry service is possible. Should this new technology be adopted by the rest of the industry, it could result in an emission reduction of 600,000 tons of CO2 per year.
The Norled project is a special one for Demaco. We were proud to be involved in developing the complete vacuum insulated hydrogen infrastructure that enables the operation of the MF Hydra. This includes the vacuum insulated liquid hydrogen transfer piping onboard the ferry and auxiliary technologies such as a loading arm for bunkering the liquid hydrogen.
Pioneering projects such as the Norled project allow our engineers to put their expertise in liquid hydrogen to optimal use and thus contribute to a more sustainable future.
What will hydrogen be used for in the future?
In addition to the above five projects, there is much more going on in the field of hydrogen. Experiments with this versatile gas are actively taking place all over the world, and new applications are constantly being discovered.
What will hydrogen be used for in the future? In addition to the above projects, the following three applications have significant potential:
First, there is currently a growing interest in the phenomenon of superconductivity. Superconductivity is the state in which material experiences virtually no resistance when transporting electricity. This state occurs at extremely low temperatures, which are transferred by liquid hydrogen (-252.9 °C). Superconductivity is, for example, used to cool generators in power plants and electric motors and for generating green energy.
In recent years, TU Twente has successfully investigated the use of superconductivity in a wind turbine on the Danish coast near Thyborøn. The aim of this project was to replace the conventional electric generator, which uses permanent magnets, by superconductors. This made the wind turbine considerably lighter while maintaining its power.
- Energy Transportation
As more countries produce large amounts of renewable energy, it will be necessary to import and export this energy to maintain a proper international balance. This is where liquid hydrogen transport offers solutions. Suppose a country or region has an abundance of solar or wind energy; the energy can be transported in the form of liquid hydrogen by ship to a country or region where more energy is actually needed.
- Synthetic fuel
Finally, hydrogen is used in the production of synthetic fuel for cars, trucks, and planes. Synthetic fuel can be produced by combining CO2 from the air with gaseous hydrogen. The CO2 that is subsequently released during combustion is captured and reused in a closed system. This method makes it possible to continue using ordinary internal combustion engines while driving CO2-neutral.
As the above examples show, hydrogen has high potential, and more and more governments and industries are committed to developing hydrogen technologies. However, there is competition. Battery-electric applications show that hydrogen is not always needed in the mobility sector. Also, other forms of hydrogen as an energy carrier (ammonia and LOHC) are in the spotlight and can prove to be potent alternatives for liquid hydrogen.
Will liquid hydrogen be the fuel or energy carrier of the future? That will become apparent in the next few decades.

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by Alessandra Arpaia
CW: abuse, sexual assault, drowning, death.
Last month Italian Prime Minister and former European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, took his first trip abroad since he assumed office. He chose to visit Libya, and met with Libyan president Abdel Hamid Mohamed Dbeibeh to discuss the countries’ economic ties and cooperation on tackling irregular immigration. During his visit, Draghi congratulated the Libyan government on their work over recent years in stemming the movement of migrants who leave Libya’s coast in hope of finding refuge in Europe.
The truth is, and as many investigations have shown, Libya’s ‘rescue missions’ out at sea often result in the transportation of people to Libyan detention camps notorious for their human rights violations.
By Robyn Banks
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump signed an executive order bringing an end to the separation of undocumented migrant children from their parents. This was widely reported in the mainstream press as a win for those had publicly campaigned against this policy. But just saying that doesn’t make it so. The executive order did bring an end to the separation of children from their parents, but there has been no commitment to reuniting the families already separated. Children previously taken from their parents are being kept in camps in the Texan desert, while families crossing the border since the executive order are being transferred to ICE ‘Family Detention Centres’, which have extremely limited capacity. Whilst this was picked up by smaller media outlets and on social media, many in the mainstream press didn’t acknowledge these complications, focusing only on the initial ‘win’.
by Lotty Clare
Content warning: mentions violence against women, abuse, rape, self-harm, suicide, racism, harassment, homophobia.
Last Saturday, a group of UEA students and Norwich residents travelled to a protest at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire. This protest was the fifth Movement for Justice by Any Means Necessary (MFJ) has organised to shut down detention centres. As I approached the building, hidden inside an industrial estate, surrounded by fields, in the middle of nowhere, it was just as intimidating and depressing as 6 months ago when I went to Yarl’s Wood for the first time. It looks like a prison, except that it is ‘worse than prison, because you have no rights’, as former detainee Aisha Shua put it. Some women are in Yarl’s Wood because their visa expired, others because their asylum claim was unsuccessful. They have committed no crime. And yet they can be detained there indefinitely.
by Alison Graham
Content warning: mentions violence against women, rape.
Britain has the greatest area of land dedicated to the indefinite detention of human beings in Europe. This is legal.
A former inmate looks at the place in which her back was physically, literally, broken and says don’t give up. Women thread flowers through this border within a border within a border. The border is admitted only by the letters IRC. Green paint flecks cling to the toes of your boots. On a hill do not question whether the people with the kite-fluttering hands can see you.
Is it rare to recall dreams. Where can I find this on gov.uk. If the guards are rapists what does that make the walls. How do you resist the lines you were born the right side of. How do you resist. Can love and hatred happen at the same time, and transform you equally. Are there two kinds of hatred. How about three. How about in the same place, at the same time. And built into the container itself – the beige, the smallness of the windows, the low shade of the roof, the two fields away from the road where no one is living. How are you. Do you need water. Can you read the sign from that window. Is this your first time. When will we deport Theresa. Is there a postcode for here. Have they repainted the fence. Is it really violent to kick it so that it thunders. Who is bringing the smoke flares next time, and in what colour. Do you need water. How do you resist. Is it violence when your window looks over an unreachable place, when that unreachable place is so blooming. Is it when everything is glass and unbreakable. What is the consensus on winding yourself at a border with a child’s party toy to say in a way I make noise therefore you are. Are there two kinds of hatred. How about four. How about one for each piece of sand on a beach in southeast Europe. Do you need water. Is this your first time. Is it violent. When this is all over, will people laugh at the theory of lying flowers on a has-been border, as if it were a wrist.
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Apple considers its controversial local child porn scanner, which will be part of the iPhone and iPad from iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, to be fundamentally secure. Over the weekend, the company published a Security Threat Model Review, which discusses possible attack scenarios on the system.
Apple defends its approach (more)
In the 14-page document, the company ares, among other things, that the system, which is the subject of massive controversy among security experts, is designed in such a way that a user can neither "Apple nor any other single entity" in terms of its functioning must trust. Even "any number of potentially colluding entities" from the same sovereign jurisdiction ("under the control of the same government") could not do so, the group claims.
This is achieved through "various interlocking mechanisms" . These include Apple’s uniform software update, which is distributed worldwide for export to the devices, and which is "intrinsically verifiable" . However, iOS and iPadOS are largely proprietary, and a code review by the CSAM ("Child Sexual Abuse Material") is currently not foreseen by the company. However, he could be referring to the test on specially equipped rooted iPhones, which the company sent out to selected security researchers as part of the "Apple Security Research Device Program" ies.
Users were allowed to check hash lists – at Apple
Furthermore, Apple emphasizes that it never uses lists with hash values of abuse material from only one organization, but "Overlapping hashes from two or more child protection organizations". This is also intended to prevent governments from foisting non-CSAM content on the system. Furthermore, auditing by external auditors shall be possible. Apple finally plans to publish a knowledge base article on its website containing the root hash value of the current encrypted CSAM hash database, which will be part of every operating system update in the future. This allowed a user to check the root hash – to make sure the database really came from Apple.
The problem with all these security measures, however, remains that Apple is dependent on market permissions from individual governments. This is also emphasized by an analysis of the netburger rights organization EFF. The company has opened a door for surveillance and censorship: once it exists, it will be used ("If You Build It, They Will Come"). Meanwhile, well-known security researcher Katie Moussouris argued on Twitter that Apple could not simply refuse to comply with legal rules in one country, because then access to the entire market would be blocked. "They are not going to operate illegally in a country and act as a corporation like a sovereign nation." Apple so far firmly claims it will defy government orders to use the local CSAM scanner for censorship and surveillance.


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Here is another page that I did about 6 years ago when we were celebrating our 10th Wedding Anniversary…
The girls were really excited to have a turn of putting on my dress and I love the way the photos turned out. Sorry once again about the quality of this photo though, I’ll have to get that new light box made I think!
The page is also simple with a bit of machine stitching on it.
I hope you feel inspired to do a page like this with your daughters if you are lucky enough to have one, two, three or more!


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Jenny Slate’s opening monologue in Obvious Child is the kind of thing that weeds out the uptight among us. Its indecorous references to bodily emissions and the gunky realities of sex are meant to set up her character as a truth-telling stand-up comic, but also serve notice that the movie itself will take no prisoners when engaging taboos and uncomfortable subjects. Fair enough, as Obvious Child is a romantic comedy about abortion. But I also suspect that Obvious Child wants to keep pace with the tone of 21st-century comedy, an explicit style (usually R-rated, as in pictures like Neighbors and Baywatch) that puts sex and scatology at the crude center of the joke. It’s the comedy of poop and genitalia, the sort of thing that would send Wes Anderson to his fainting couch.
Slate and Obvious Child writer/director Gillian Robespierre have reunited for Landline, and while it’s a much less adventurous film than their first collaboration, the urge to be smutty is still in place. Landline has the outline and the setting of a middle-period Woody Allen picture, as the trials and tribulations of a brainy New York Jewish family provide fodder for bittersweet humor. It’s set in the mid-1990s, when Allen himself was still energized enough to produce movies such as Bullets Over Broadway and Deconstructing Harry. Robespierre understands that we’re ripe for a little nostalgia about the Clinton era. Setting the action before smart phones became endemic—the title conjures up a simpler time—can be a boon to storytelling.
Infidelity is the central subject in Landline. Two sisters, Dana (Slate) and Ali (Abby Quinn), discover that their father (John Turturro) has been drafting love poems to a mystery woman. The evidence is right there on floppy discs (the movie treats 20-year-old computer equipment with amused indulgence). Their mother (Edie Falco) appears unaware of this extramarital dalliance. Dana can hardly be a schoolmarm about this, because her own engagement to yuppie dishrag Ben (Jay Duplass) is threatened by an affair with an old friend (Finn Wittrock). Meanwhile, teenager Ali is acting out a variety of risky behaviors, although never in a way that seriously threatens the movie’s cozy view of everybody eventually getting along.
Turturro and Falco are gifted actors, and their pairing sounds promising because of their different modes: Turturro’s usual style is large and expansive, where Falco tends to offer fine-cut honesty. But they’re given little to play here beyond mid-life disappointment—his literary hopes, her domestic exhaustion. I wondered whether the script (by Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm) reaches for shock humor because the actual subject matter isn’t particularly fresh. The dirty bits occur in direct relation to how safe the material really is. In one scene, two characters have sex during a screening of a documentary about Nazi atrocities, which on the one hand is a cheeky way for a Jewish character to stick it to Hitler, and on the other a blunt tactic to get the audience to drop the popcorn. Let’s just say it lacks the complexity of the Seinfeld episode that investigated the propriety of making out during Schindler’s List.
Landline was a special presentation at SIFF earlier this year, and is poised to follow SIFF opener The Big Sick as an indie with breakout potential. Both films are distributed by Amazon Studios, which is demonstrating increasing savvy about how to pick ’em; Amazon’s 2016 summer releases included non-crowd-pleasers The Neon Demon and Wiener Dog, any random five minutes of which had more authentic shock value than the entirety of Landline. I laughed during Landline, and I still think Jenny Slate is a deft, new kind of comic actress. But the journey from the spikiness of Obvious Child to the softness of Landline is a disappointing arc, no matter how far this film might bring its creators into the mainstream.
Rated R. Opens Fri., July 28 at AMC Seattle 10.


text: Parangtritis coastal village is located on the southern coast of Bantul Regency that popular with tourism and capture fisheries activities. The advantages of the tourism and capture fisheries sector make Parangtritis Village seen as a field to earn a living and causes healing in population or people income of Parangtritis Village. This situation can affect the need for space and land, which can have an impact on decreasing the carrying capacity of the environment so that predictions are needed on land availability using a model of spatial dynamics. This study aims to build a model of spatial dynamics for land availability and analyze the relationship among these models with the education level and income of Parangtritis Village. The methods that used in this study is a spatial dynamics modeling method which using population data for 2008-2018 and Google Earth imagery in 2008, 2013, and 2018, and interview with grid area used for the level of education and income. The development of the built area observed through a spatial dynamics model of the relationship between population growth and land availability in the period 2008-2100. The model prediction shows that the developed land has developed from the appropriate area to meet the regional capacity that is not appropriate in 2039. The analysis results showed that the fastest growth of the built-up area was in areas with high levels of education and high-income levels.

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WATSONVILLE — Valentin Agustin Pascua died peacefully in his sleep on Monday, April 24, 2017. He was 93.
Mr. Pascua was born on April 7, 1916 to Nicolas Deus Pascua and Juana Agustin Pascua in San Lorenzo, San Nicolas Philippines. He was the youngest of six children. He attended Bingao Elementary School and continued in to San Nicolas High School.
Mr. Pascua developed a special talent and deep interest in farming, agriculture and livestock at an early age. At the age of 16, he began working as a farmer and a cattle broker in the livestock business.
Mr. Pascua and his wife Filomena retired and came to the United States on April 17, 1989 to live with their oldest daughter Nena, son-in-law Policarpo and granddaughter.
During his years in California, Mr. Pascua was an avid gardener and continued to grow fruits and vegetables even up until his mid-90s. He did everything with Filomena until she died on June 27, 2014.
He is survived by his four daughters, Nena, Gemima, Charlesa Estelita and Febhe Glory; three son-in-laws; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
There will be a viewing on Saturday, May 6 from 4-9 p.m. at Mehl’s Colonial Chapel with the funeral to begin at 7 p.m. in Watsonville. Burial will take place in the Philippines at a later date.


Good news for missions mobilization and prayer for the nations: The Lausanne Movement and Operation World have made a formal announcement today. Lausanne begins the statement saying, “The Lausanne Movement and Operation World announced today that they are entering into a unique partnership to mobilise prayer for the nations and world evangelisation.” For the full article, see Lausanne’s announcement here.
I am taking a moment to unashamedly promote a great resource that is under-utilized and generally unknown among the evangelical, missions-minded world. The Lausanne Movement has been at the forefront of developing both innovative and biblical missiology since the 1970s. I serve as the Deputy Director for Collaboration and Content at Lausanne, and in my editing/curating, I regularly discover wonderful articles and essays that deserve consideration. On the website there are many great resources. Here are a few places to start: The About…
On February 15, 2017, Dr. Marv Newell, Senior VP of Missio Nexus, aired an interview of Dr. E. D. Burns, highlighting the new book: A Supreme Desire to Please Him: The Spirituality of Adoniram Judson. The mission of Missio Nexus is to advance the effectiveness of the Great Commission community in North America in global mission. Here is the audio interview:
Check out this video showing Jewish people reading about the Messiah from Isaiah 53 for the first time….
The forthcoming issue of Journal of Global Christianity includes an interview with Dr. Matthew Elliott, president of Oasis International, about the new Africa Study Bible. Here is Bible Gateway’s brief interview with Dr. Elliott. See below for a video introduction….


Michael Landry was a salesman before he and his wife founded T.M. Landry College Preparatory School, a 100-student private high school in a rural, working-class town in Louisiana. This must have been good preparation for his life as a school administrator. At T.M. Landry, he sold predominantly black, working-class parents on the idea that, with enough hard work, their children could get into elite universities like Yale and Stanford.
Landry required kids to attend school year-round and stay in class late into the night. He made them kneel for hours to learn humility. But “the fact that he was black, I was like, ‘Man, he’s going to uplift these kids,’ ” Doresa Barton, the mother of three former T.M. Landry students, told the New York Times, which, late last year, published a big and damning investigation into the school. Parents like Barton thought that if their children toiled relentlessly, they would have the same opportunities as wealthy white kids. What they didn’t know was that, according to the Times report, Landry was doctoring students’ transcripts, adding classes that they never took, loading up their life stories with phony, heart-rending details, and allegedly physically and verbally abusing the students as a form of discipline. All under the promise of access to an elite higher education and better future.
The parents at the center of the Varsity Blues investigation also wanted to get their kids into elite universities. “I have some concerns and want to fully understand the game plan and make sure we have a roadmap for success as it relates to [our daughter] and getting her into a school other than ASU!” Mossimo Giannulli, a fashion designer, said, according to the affidavit. Giannulli and others went on to pay, in the form of “donations,” up to $6.5 million to the Key Worldwide Foundation, a bogus charity founded by William Singer, who then distributed bribes to a network of confederates in a scheme that would eventually get these kids into several schools “other than ASU,” including Stanford, Yale, and Georgetown. “To be honest, I’m not worried about the moral issue here,” Gordon Caplan, a lawyer in New York, told Singer. “I’m worried about the, if she’s [my daughter] caught doing that, you know, she’s finished.”
The contrast is striking. At Landry, parents paid $7,200 a year just to get their kids the opportunity to work hard, and they were told that would land them a spot at an elite university. The parents at the center of Varsity Blues paid for the opposite: to get their kids the opportunity to go to an elite university without working hard at all.
Most parents didn’t know the demanding environment at Landry Prep failed to include proper instruction and that the hard work supposedly propelling the students forward was actually leaving them behind. Students told the Times that the high school curriculum was primarily aimed at preparing for the ACT and SAT, and that the coursework consisted of completing worksheets that were recycled every few weeks. An independent assessment service found that one junior in high school had the math and reading abilities of a fourth-grader. According to the Times, students and teachers rehearsed lessons they would perform when visitors came to the school, and the school’s attendees had to “have pristine shoes, fresh hairdos and their scripts ready—name, grade, college aspiration and major.”
Even if some parents suspected that Landry’s teaching practices were unusual, they still believed that they were paying tuition to put their children on more equal footing with others in the college applicant pool. Perhaps they also knew that attending an elite college would make a real difference in their kids’ lives. Studies have found that having a prestigious degree greatly increases the likelihood of lower-income and minority students entering the top 1 percent of earners. Underprivileged students enter a world of high-paying jobs and exclusive networks by attending a selective school, and benefit from them in a way that rich white students with parental connections don’t.
Landry preyed on this truth, and sold parents on a lie: that hard work is all it takes to get ahead in America. He sold the public on it too. A string of videos showing the raucous reactions of students learning of their acceptances to prestigious universities racked up millions of views, attracting donations for the school and landing the students on shows like Ellen and CBS This Morning. The admissions stories coming out of T.M. Landry were meant to go viral, designed to perpetuate the myth that grit and perseverance are all it takes to get black kids the same opportunities as wealthier white and Asian kids. Who doesn’t want to believe that?
The parents indicted in the Varsity Blues investigation, however, felt their kids were entitled to a spot at a prestigious university regardless of hard work. (Giannulli’s daughter, Olivia Jade, told her social media followers, “I don’t really care about school” and “I’m literally never at school.”) Singer allegedly paid proctors to allow his associates to take standardized tests in place of the students, or to change answers after the tests were submitted. He also paid college coaches to give slots designated for athletic recruits to students who didn’t even play the sports in question. There were few inspiring tales to tell here. The goal was to hide the mechanisms through which these privileged students gained access to the nation’s most selective schools—even from the kids themselves. “[The student] won’t even know that it happened,” Singer told a client. “She will think that she’s really super smart, and she got lucky on a test.” No one raised questions when these kids ultimately got in, because affluent, white students like them are supposed to get in.
And unlike the Landry kids, who really would have benefited from an elite education had they been properly prepared for it, Olivia Jade Giannulli was right: She didn’t really need to care about school. Attending a prestigious school does not necessarily have a huge impact on the futures of wealthy, white students like her. Studies have shown that an elite education does not significantly increase earnings for wealthy white people (especially men) in the long run. It’s hard to imagine that the students involved in this scandal would have been hurt by attending a less selective school. Their position in elite society was fairly secure regardless of their educational backgrounds.
It’s not a coincidence that both of these scams happened here. Many Americans want to believe that the predominantly white students at elite universities deserve to be there (while questioning the worthiness of black ones), and that hard work is enough for anyone to succeed, regardless of race or class. Despite all evidence to the contrary, many people have clung to the idea that the admissions process is meritocratic. Perhaps these two scandals will finally kill that notion. I’m not holding my breath.


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Southeast Falls Short at Central Arkansas, 13-11
March 21, 2007
CONWAY, Ark. - (Wednesday, March 21, 2007) The Southeast Missouri State baseball team scored early and often against Central Arkansas on Wednesday. Unfortunately for the Redhawks, the nine runs in the first five innings were not enough as the fell 13-11 to the Bears.
The difference in the game was not the number of runs that scored, but rather the number of potential runs that the Redhawks (12-7) left stranded on base. Southeast left 14 runners on base, including the bases loaded in each of the first three innings, en route to the two run loss.
The Redhawks, who had scored a run in the first inning in five of their last six games going into the series finale, started with a pair in the first on Wednesday. Jim Klocke (St. Louis, Mo./Vianney HS) doubled to left center with one out. After a hit batter and a walk loaded the bases, Dustin Pritchett (Kennett, Mo./Forest Park CC) drew a walk to score Klocke. Matt Wulfers (Cape Girardeau, Mo./Missouri) then reached on a fielder's choice that allowed a run to score.
In the second inning, Southeast added a set of runs to take an early 5-0 lead. Omar Padilla (Point Reyes Station, Calif./Santa Rosa CC) was hit by a pitch with one out, and he moved to second on a wild pitch before Klocke singled to left. With runners on the corners, Nick Harris (Alabaster, Ala./Thompson HS) walked to load the bases with one out for the second consecutive frame, and Asif Shah (Cincinnati, Ohio/Wabash Valley CC) hit a two-run single through the left side of the infield. Pritchett followed with a sacrifice fly to left field that scored Harris.
Central Arkansas (10-10) got four runs back in the bottom of the second against starter James Leigh (Bryant, Ark./Texarkana). After the bears loaded the bases with one out, Leigh delivered a base on balls. Scott Cline followed with a bases-clearing double down the left field line past a diving Harris at third.
Matt Holland (Ste. Genevieve, Mo./Southern Arkansas) entered the game in relief of Leigh after the double. He gave up a double to the first batter he faced, but Cline was only able to move ahead one base. Holland then forced a ground ball to short that allowed Cline to score and tie the game, even though the runner at second was doubled off to end the inning in an attempt to advance to third base on the throw across the diamond.
Southeast and Central Arkansas went blow-for-blow in each of the next three half innings as both teams scored one run in each of the half innings. In the bottom of the fourth, with Southeast leading 7-6, the Bears scored three runs off of reliever Mike Taylor (McClure, Ill./Shawnee HS) to take their first lead of the two-game series. Only one of the runs was earned, however, as the Bears benefited from a throwing error by Harris.
The Redhawks tied the game immediately in the top of the fifth. Klocke led off with a single, his third hit of the game, and Harris followed him with a double. Shah hit a two-RBI double off the top half of the double-high wall to straightaway center field that tied the game to drive in both runners and tie the game.
Central Arkansas recaptured the lead against sophomore Daniel Schuh in the bottom half of the frame. They used five hits, including two homers and two doubles, to plate four runs in the inning and go ahead 13-9.
Jeremy Cloud entered the game in the sixth inning and went on to retire the side of Southeast in the sixth and seventh innings. Cloud recorded six outs amidst a stretch of 10 consecutive Southeast batters that were putout.
Southeast attempted a comeback in the top of the ninth with two outs. The two-run effort in the ninth was just too little, too late for the Redhawks, as Graham flew out to end game representing the tying run.
The Redhawks pounded double-digit runs and hits for the third consecutive game as their 11 runs came on 11. However, it was also the third straight game in which they had left double-digit runners stranded. In the last three games, Southeast has left 39 runners on base.
Klocke finished 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and three runs scored.
Shah led the Redhawks offensively with four RBIs in a 2-for-3 performance at the dish with a double. He also scored once.
Wulfers and Moore each had a pair of base hits. Wulfers also had a double and three runs batted in.
The Redhawks hit five doubles in Wednesday's contest and also swiped four bases.
Cline of Central Arkansas got the best of the Redhawks on Wednesday. He finished the game 4-for-5 with two doubles, four RBIs and three runs scored.


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To many who had watched Richard M. Nixon build his political career as a Communist fighter, it must have seemed the ultimate irony. On July 15, 1971, Nixon announced on national television that he would become the first president ever to visit the People's Republic of China, a nation which had remained isolated from the West since the Communist revolution in 1949.
For Nixon, however, his upcoming visit represented the ultimate diplomatic triumph. Although he had publicly condemned the Chinese Communists, he had proposed a more relaxed attitude toward the People's Republic as early as 1954. In 1967, as a presidential candidate, he had written in the magazine Foreign Affairs, "We simply cannot afford to leave China outside the family of nations."
Nixon envisioned a future in which more cordial relations among the major world powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Western Europe, and Japan -- would allow for ventures profitable to all. Through international cooperation, these nations might reduce revenue-draining defense expenditures and prevent the occurrence of costly Third World conflicts such as the Vietnam War.
Perhaps because engagement with the Communist world represented such a turnabout from past U.S. policy, but also because he distrusted the diplomatic bureaucracy, Nixon tightly controlled his foreign policy. His main operative was National Security Council director Henry Kissinger -- his favorite mode of operation was secret, back-channel diplomacy. Frequently, the two men acted without the permission or the knowledge of the State Department.
Nixon began to woo China in February 1969, by sending covert signals of rapprochement through third party nations such as Pakistan and Romania. Publicly, the president took a less dramatic approach, asking Secretary of State William Rogers to announce that the U.S. favored increased cultural and scientific exchanges with the People's Republic.
Initially, the president's overtures bore little fruit, but he persisted. During the spring and summer of 1969, Soviet and Chinese troops clashed repeatedly along the border between the two nations. Kissinger believed that the Chinese feared the Soviets, and that these clashes might help push China toward the United States and may help contain the Soviet Union.
Nixon and Kissinger were playing global power politics. In effect, they were balancing China against the U.S.S.R and intimidating both of them.
Nixon, however, recognized that he would have to make concessions if he wanted rapprochement with China. Early on, he took steps to tone down the anti-China rhetoric coming from the White House, loosened trade and visa restrictions between China and the U.S., and began troop reductions in both Vietnam and on bases near China.
On July 25, on a stopover in Guam, the president announced what would become known as the Nixon Doctrine, a cornerstone of his foreign policy. The United States, he said, would support democratic third world nations by providing them with financial and military aid, but not troops. In October of that year, Nixon called for a cease fire in Vietnam and a unilateral withdrawal of American troops. Hanoi refused his overture, but Nixon continued with "Vietnamization" -- supporting South Vietnam with equipment and money while gradually withdrawing American troops from the war.
By the start of 1970, Nixon's concessions had begun to thaw China's icy demeanor. The two nations began covert talks in Warsaw in January, but China canceled further discussions over the defection to the West of a Chinese diplomat and the extension of U.S. troops into Cambodia. That spring, Nixon resumed sending positive messages through Romania and Pakistan -- by the end of the year China had responded.
In March 1971, the public face of Sino-American relations took a negative turn when Chinese premier Chou en Lai visited Hanoi, the capital of Communist North Vietnam. Just as quickly, however, relations turned toward the positive, when in April, American ping-pong players traveled to China.
The meeting of American and Chinese athletes marked the first significant cultural exchanged between the two nations since 1949. "Ping-pong diplomacy" delighted Americans, and improved Nixon's chances of selling better relations with China to the average voter. Perhaps more importantly, the warming trend in Chinese-U.S. relations helped convince the Soviets to warm up their own relationship with the United States.
From the time that the Soviets developed their own atomic bomb in 1949, they had engaged with the United States in a race for nuclear superiority. In 1963, John F. Kennedy sealed an agreement with the Russians and Great Britain to limit atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, but no other meaningful arms treaty had been signed.
As an alternative to the arms race, Nixon proposed to the Soviets that the two nations settle for a "strategic parity" in nuclear weapons. If each side possessed enough weapons to guarantee the destruction of the other, neither would dare to start war, and the peace would hold.
Since the start of Nixon's administration, however, progress in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) had been sluggish. Working largely through back channels, and largely through Kissinger, Nixon tried repeatedly to forge an agreement with the Soviets -- with little success. But as U.S.-China relations warmed, the Soviets began to fear what might happen if a strong Sino-American alliance were forged. Just a month after the excitement of ping-pong diplomacy, Nixon announced another victory -- the Soviets had agreed to work out an antiballistic missile treaty within one year.
Meanwhile, Nixon built on his success with the Chinese. On July 9, 1971, he sent Henry Kissinger on a secret visit to Peking, to meet with Premier Chou en Lai. Kissinger's goal was to arrange a China visit for his president, and he returned to Washington triumphant. On July 15, Nixon spoke to the nation, announcing that he would visit China the following year.
In the first half of 1972, Nixon became the world statesman he had always dreamed he would be. For a week in February, he met with Chou en Lai in China. The two leaders signed no specific agreements -- the opening of relations itself was a dramatic achievement. From May 22 to 26, Nixon met in summit with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, where the two signed ten formal agreements, including an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty, an interim SALT treaty and a billion-dollar trade agreement. Nixon basked in international glory, but still one diplomatic coup eluded him -- an end to the war in Vietnam.
Publicly, Nixon had promised that he would "win the peace" in Vietnam. Privately, he assured himself that he would not be the first American president to lose a war. To do so would not only be damaging to his image, but would encourage further aggression by the Soviets and the Chinese. He held on, hoping for an exit which would allow America at least the appearance of victory.
Nixon coupled his policy of Vietnamization with hard-hitting attacks on North Vietnamese bases in Laos and Cambodia, but could not bludgeon Hanoi into an agreement. The official peace talks in Paris stalled repeatedly, and the covert dialogue between Kissinger and North Vietnam dragged on with little progress. At home, antiwar activists filled the streets. Nixon had hoped that improved relations with the Chinese and the Soviets would spur a quick exit from Vietnam. But the summits did little to push the war toward its end.
Following his reelection in 1972, Nixon temporarily abandoned diplomacy. For 12 days in December, the U.S. unleashed a ferocious bombing attack on the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. Nixon gave no explanation for the bombing -- he wanted to appear irrational, desperate, willing to do anything to get what he wanted.
The president's "madman" strategy paid off. In January 1973, the United States and North Vietnam negotiated a peace. Sadly, the terms were little better than the ones proposed by North Vietnam in 1969. More than 25,000 American lives had been lost in the interim. Nixon had gained little by delaying withdrawal.
By the start of 1973, the wheels of the Watergate scandal had begun turning faster. Nixon would never realize his plan to peacefully unite the world's superpowers. The Soviet-American détente collapsed shortly after Nixon's resignation. Sino-American relations improved slowly over the ensuing years, hampered by the Taiwan issue and by differences of opinion over human rights. Most Americans would remember Nixon's foreign policy not for its successes, but for its greatest failure -- the inability to achieve a rapid end to the war in Vietnam.
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4 Switch to concentrates. Concentrated detergents translate to less energy used in shipping, less waste and more value.
4 Stop static cling without dryer sheets. Never over-dry clothes and al- ways dry natural fibers separately from synthetics to prevent static cling.
Bathroom The smallest room in the house is a disproportionately large contributor to household environmental impacts. In an average non-conservation-minded American home, 38,000 gallons of water annually go down the drains and toilet. “Along with that water,” says MacEachern, “You’ll be washing lots of personal care and cleaning products down the drain, as well, where they could get into local natural water sup- plies and make life difficult for birds, frogs and fish.” Sara Snow, television host and
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4 Slow the flow. Ultra-efficient show- erheads use as little as 1 gallon per minute (gpm); aerated types that mix air into the water stream to enhance pressure provide a good soak and rinse using less than half the water than some other low-flow showerheads. At the sink, aerators should flow between 0.5 and 1 gpm—plenty of pressure for brushing teeth and washing hands.
4 Flush responsibly. According to the EPA, the toilet alone can use 27 percent of household water. Replace older toilets (pre-1994) with new, higher ef-
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4 Heat water wisely. A tankless water heater supplies instantaneous hot water only as needed. Or, install a timer on a traditional water heater to cut warming time to a few hours a day at most.
4 Shun a plastic shower curtain. Poly- vinyl chloride (PVC) has been called “the poison plastic” for its highly toxic lifecycle, which includes the release of dioxins into the air and water. These toxic chemicals persist in ecosystems and can cause cancer. PVC shower curtains are also a short-life product that cannot be re- cycled, so switch to a PVC-free alterna- tive. Organic hemp is the eco-shower curtain gold standard.
4 Ban antibacterial products. Triclo- san is a popular antibacterial agent found in many household cleaners, hand soaps, cosmetics and even toothpaste. It’s also a registered pesti- cide and probable human carcinogen that’s showing up in the environment and children’s urine. The Mayo Clinic suggests that triclosan may contribute to the development of antibiotic- resistant germs and harm the immune system, making us more susceptible to bacteria.
4 Install a shower filter that removes chlorine. Chlorine, which is increas- ingly being linked to some cancers, is used by many municipalities to disinfect water supplies. People absorb more chlorine through the skin and by inhaling chlorine vapors when bathing and showering than from drinking it.
4 Use recycled and unbleached paper products. Using recycled bath tissue helps close the recycling loop on all the paper we dutifully recycle at the curb. Unbleached varieties keep chlorine byproducts like dioxins out of the environment.
4 Remove bad odors instead of cover- ing them up. In a University of Califor- nia study, chemical air fresheners were found to have higher concentrations of polluting volatile organic compounds (VOC) than any other household cleaning product. Long-term exposure to some VOCs have been linked with adverse health effects.
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A 52-year-old man living in greater Boston with a history of hypertension presented at our rheumatology clinic with bilateral knee pain and swelling. He had been in his usual state of health until four months earlier when he developed right knee pain and swelling without an incipient trauma, which did not improve with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). His primary care physician ordered imaging: X-rays showed a moderate effusion, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed meniscal tears and a Baker’s cyst (see photos 1 and 2). He was referred to an orthopedist, but his symptoms spontaneously resolved.
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One month ago, his left knee became swollen and painful.
The patient did not recall any flu-like illness, bull’s-eye rash or specific tick exposure. He had traveled to Cape Cod in the summer of the previous year and done some hiking there.
His primary care physician ordered Lyme antibody testing. Both the ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and Western blot with 9 IgG bands and 2 IgM bands were strongly positive for Lyme disease.
The patient was treated with a one-month course of 100 mg of doxycycline by mouth twice daily. However, he did not significantly improve and was referred to our rheumatology clinic. At his initial rheumatology visit, he complained of persistent bilateral knee discomfort and stiffness. He was unable to bike or walk for exercise.
On examination, we found he had a moderate right knee effusion with a suprapatellar component, mild warmth, and pain on extension and flexion. He also had a significant, left popliteal fullness with a smaller suprapatellar effusion and warmth.
Aspiration of the right knee was inflammatory with 22,180 white blood cells, 65% neutrophils. Crystal analysis, gram stain and culture tests were all negative. Laboratory studies showed systemic inflammation with an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 38 mm/hr and a C-reactive protein (CRP) level of 36.4 mg/L.
Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is epidemic in areas of the U.S., particularly on the East Coast and in the upper Midwest, and is spreading into new geographic areas.1 Lyme disease occurs in phases, starting with the erythema migrans skin lesion. With dissemination, cardiac, neurologic and arthritic manifestations may develop. Musculoskeletal symptoms are present in all phases of Lyme disease, with arthralgias and myalgias often accompanying erythema migrans.
Frank arthritis is a late disease manifestation, developing in approximately 60% of untreated patients, a mean of six months and up to two years following erythema migrans.2 Lyme arthritis is the most common late manifestation of Lyme disease in the U.S. and accounts for one-third of the cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).1 Given the rising burden of Lyme disease, it is likely that Lyme arthritis will be an ongoing concern for physicians, particularly rheumatologists and orthopedists.
Lyme arthritis is an oligoarthritis most commonly affecting the knees. Other joints, such as the ankle, shoulder, elbow or wrist, may be involved. The arthritis may be migratory or intermittent, particularly initially, as well as persistent. Lyme arthritis is almost never a symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints.

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Home › Forums › Vaginismus Support Group › Vaginismus General › Made lots of progress, but struggling with transitioning › Reply To: Made lots of progress, but struggling with transitioning
Thank you so much – this is really helpful. My mum has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, so a lot to get our heads around. I have felt no sexual desire lately and worrying about that side of things too. I think it’s great advice to know and remember that the progress I made won’t disappear and I have to be kind to myself.
I’m going to speak to my husband about it. He is great, but I have sensed he doesn’t quite get how I can’t box things off in the way he can. I’m going to remind myself I’m just resting on the top of that mountain.
Thanks, as ever, for this forum x

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