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AucArt is the world's first online auction house specialising in early career contemporary art. AucArt allows people from outside the art market access to the inside.Read More
Here are the drinks I've been drinking all summer. I’ll be dragging them all the way into winter. Rosemary Water, True Nopal Cactus Water, TreeVitalise and Our/Vodka get the John Bingham seal of approval.
With busy lives and Father’s Day just around the corner, last minute gifting is now the done thing. After deciding to get him something to consume, I went for spirits, whittled it down to rum, then looked for the best.Read More
The works were fantastically chaotic yet clean-cut and highly addictive. Barry Reigate’s exhibition at Castor Projects happened last month and it is still on my mind, so I’d like you to join me in taking another look.Read More
My skin really feels the change moving from winter to spring, especially with the wonderfully unpredictable weather we have in London. Here’s the brand and product helping my face through April.Read More
I’m all for tea and have always preferred a delicate cup of tea to a harsh mug of coffee. I’ve known about the Good & Proper Tea brand for a while but this time the crumpets got me through the door.Read More
On the 7th March, Central Saint Martins in partnership with Liquitex and Cass Art launched this year’s Big White Wall. The Big White Wall is an annual competition open to all CSM students to submit proposals for how they would use the space to create a large-scale temporary artwork.Read More
But what’s wrong with soap? This month I’ve decided to ditch the soap, with a little bit of help from Sebamed. Scroll down to see a few of the products I’ll be using and why they’re better for your skin.Read More


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On the 22nd of April on the occasion of Sakuras blooming gathered Japan’s and Lithuania’s relationship fosters. During the event a dance performance called ‘Turned’ was performed by Kyrie Oda, who lives in Kaunas and is a member of dance troupe ‘Aura’, also helped violinist Jurgita Gelūnaitė and vocalist Simona Mankevičiūtė. Participants of the event were enjoying the performance and sushi made by the chef from Embassy of Japan in Lithuania. Participants, also, had a chance to talk about Japan’s and Lithuania’s relationship.
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900 Global staff member Devin Golden takes the War Eagle for a spin.
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Cameron Robock hopes that he will be a new face on Estevan City Council following the October 24 civic election.
Robock was among the first to file nomination papers for the election. He is taking his third shot at Council; he made unsuccessful bids for a councillor seat in the 2005 by-election and the 2006 civic election.
Now is the time to make another bid for the job, he said.
“I have a lot of supporters, and I have a lot of other people that are backing me on running again,” said Robock.
Housing is his biggest election issue. Affordable housing and rental properties remain in short supply in the city. Robock has seen a lot of good workers leave Estevan because they don't have a place to stay.
Infrastructure is another issue, he said, especially Sixth Street. Council does have plans to resurface Sixth Street in the upcoming term, but Robock said it should have been dealt with years ago.
“Nobody likes the dust flying into their homes,” said Robock. “There's no reason for that. I've never been into a city where the middle road of the city is a gravel road.”
Other roads are also in need of repair, he said.
“Every time I turn around, there's another excuse of why the City hasn't done it, or why it's getting worse again,” said Robock.
The water main replacement program needs to continue, he said. He would also like to see better city planning, so that problems such as the one lane for eastbound traffic on King Street in front of the Estevan Shoppers Mall aren't repeated.
Robock said he's more settled in the community compared to when he ran for Council previously, and he's more well-known in the community. He has also switched jobs, which he believes will give him more time to devote to council. Robock believes that those factors will help his candidacy this year.


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When you think of buying a brand new home built the way you want it, you expect the process to be easy without obstacles like repairs and contingencies. However, there are things you should keep in mind when buying a new construction condominium in Chicago. This is a list of tips to help you get the most for your money and what to expect when you buy a new construction condominium in Chicago.
Be Patient and Get Upgrade Costs in Writing
When you buy an existing home, you can expect to move into your home in a couple of months or sooner. However, new construction condos can take longer depending on how far along the developer is in the construction process.
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“I think we’re in a golden age for books — reading, writing and publishing.”
I think he’s got “reading” and “books” switched there.
Without diving too deeply into it, I think there are different kinds of readers out there who use and don’t use social media in different ways — when there’s a match between the author’s efforts and the potential readers they are reaching, that can be magic. But when there isn’t, a lot of energy can go to waste.
Translation: we really don’t have any idea how exactly social media and book sales connect.
They then distributed the passages amongst 159 female university students, who after reading them were then asked to rate how they felt about various body parts and sexual attractiveness. The study found that when the narrative was about a slim heroine, participants felt “significantly” less sexually attractive, and that when it featured a protagonist with low body esteem, readers were “significantly more concerned about their weight” than participants in the control condition.

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Continuous faults have appeared in the district heating system during the last few years, due to the obsolescence of the original system. An improvement of energy efficiency was needed.
The problems encountered with the old system included corrosion, leaks and heat losses from the appliances being used.
The systems overall energy efficiency has been improved through a complete renovation.
This includes a replacement of the generation plant with new biomass-fired boilers, a new variable-flow pumping system and a complete renewal of the distribution network with new pre-insulated pipes and a leak detection system.
Additionally, a renovation was done of the heat exchange substations in the buildings with a centralisation of the domestic hot water (DHW) production in the same district heating and finally an installation of heat cost allocators in the dwellings.
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Start Time: Saturdays 11.30am - 12.30pm(Term time) Price: £49 Per Term // £4.90 Per Week Running Time: 1 hour per session Age: 5-7 years ...
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Apprentices will undertake the core learning and also specialise in one particular discipline. Those working within the occupation of Rail Engineering are responsible for the safe construction, installation, maintenance and renewal of The Railway to provide a safe and reliable railway for customers. The Rail Industry has a high level of safety critical work activities requiring a disciplined and responsible approach. Job titles include: Track Technician, Overhead Line Technician, Electrification Technician, Traction & Rolling Stock Technician, Signalling Technician, Telecoms Technician, Rail Systems Technician.
A Rail Engineering Technician may work on site or in a depot or in a technical office. Their work could involve:
- Construction, installation, renewal, enhancement and modification of The Railway.
- Fault finding and diagnosis to prevent or address equipment failures.
- Maintenance and replacement of systems and components.
- Functional and operational testing and inspection of The Railway using specialist equipment.
- Ensuring assets are installed, replaced or maintained to specification and maintaining required records.
Within a Rail context all Rail Engineering Technicians need to be able to:
- Keep themselves and others safe by adhering to safe working practices.
- Understand and comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements, including safe access to work locations.
- Plan a high standard of technical work: Gathering and interpreting information including drawings, plans, schedules needed for the development of rail engineering activity planning; Detailed inspection and performance & condition analysis of assets; Plan work to be undertaken including the appropriate resources.
- Deliver a high standard of technical work: Undertake engineering activities in relation to maintenance, construction / installation and or renewal of assets.
- Complete integrity and compliance checks on own work, instigate testing and identify where independent testing is required.
- Transfer responsibility of assets once work has been completed. Supervise their own work and that of others.
- Solve problems: Identify problems and apply a structured approach and appropriate methods to problem solving and diagnosis.
- Manage resources including the correct utilisation and storage of tools, materials and equipment, and the lifting and moving of materials, components and equipment.
- Communicate effectively. Use oral, written, electronic and IT based methods and systems for the accurate communication, reporting & recording of technical and other information, using correct terms, standards, templates and certifications.
- Within a Rail context all Rail Engineering Technicians need to know about:
- Safe and Professional working practices including legislation, regulation, industry procedures and safety requirements.
- The scientific, technical, engineering, mathematical and design principles that are required to support the maintenance, renewal and construction of The Railway.
- How to work effectively and contribute to engineering solutions and innovation including understanding and applying problem solving techniques and diagnostics, project planning and management, time management and quality management and assurance systems.
- The importance of third party requirements and client confidentiality and the need to understand and adhere to corporate policies on ethics, equality and diversity.
- How the railway works commercially including contractual principles and implications
All Rail Engineering Technicians are expected to demonstrate the following behaviours:
• Act professionally demonstrating dependability, determination, honesty and integrity. Respect others, act ethically and contribute to sustainable development.
• Be risk aware so as to reduce risks through systematic monitoring and checking of information, concentration on the task, and awareness of changing circumstances on activity.
• Display a self-disciplined, self-motivated, proactive approach to work, able to make independent decisions whilst knowing one’s limitations and when to ask for help or to escalate.
• Work reliably and safely, often without close supervision, to approved industry standards and safe working practices.
• Work effectively and efficiently, individually and as part of a team, maintaining effective relationships with colleagues, clients, suppliers and the public.
• Receptive to feedback, willing to learn new skills and adjust to change. Identifying, carrying out and recording CPD necessary to maintain and enhance competence.
• Prepared to make a personal commitment to their employer, the industry and its professional standards.
Individual employers will set the selection criteria for their Apprenticeships. Employers who recruit candidates without
English or Maths at Grade C or above must ensure that the candidate achieves a Level 2 equivalent standard prior to taking the end point assessment.
The typical duration for this apprenticeship is 36 months but this will depend on the previous experience of the apprentice and access to opportunities to gain the full range of competence.
Level 3 Rail Engineering (Competence) • Level 3 Rail Engineering (Technical Knowledge)
This is a Level 3 Apprenticeship. On completion the apprentice will have satisfied the requirements for registration as an Engineering Technician by the relevant Professional Engineering Institutions.
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Model Number: DF-2500/2800/3200
Application: Machinery & Hardware, Construction, Stone
Brand Name: DAFON
Certification: CE, ISO
Delivery Time:90 Days
marble block cutter machine are very popular in Uruguay market. It is not only easy to operate and has a high output.
The blade of a marble block cutter is typically made of diamond, which is very hard and can cut through the densest types of marble. The blade is often circular in shape and can be several feet in diameter.
The frame of a marble block cutter is usually made of strong metal, such as steel or cast iron, and is designed to support the weight of large marble blocks during the cutting process.
Manufacturer Address:Hailian Industrial Park, Shuitou Town, Nanan City, Fujian Province, China


What we want to improve Long waiting times Adult Mental Health Community Services have different waiting time targets. Duplication of assessments and having to tell your story more than once The feedback from service users is that they do not want to have to retell their story to every staff member they are introduced to. Increasing clinical capacity GPs (and other referrers) have asked for timely access to LPT consultants to enable a clinical conversation about some of their patients. There is also the principle that those with the greatest skill should work with those people with the most complex needs. Areas of inefficiency in the service Demand is increasing and we are not able to manage this as we are currently organised.
The services involved Assertive Outreach Homeless Mental Health Service Clinical Psychology Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) including Outpatient elements Specialist Psychological Therapies Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Dynamic Psychotherapy Therapy Service for People with a Personality Disorder Referral Management Service (RMS) for City Psychosis Intervention Early Recovery (PIER)
Re-design methodology Fortnightly meetings of representatives of all services affected Desk research Site visits Modelling day involving staff, service users and carers Shortlisting Briefing of service users and carers
Assessment service All referrals for all services Multi-disciplinary team with senior clinicians, including medics, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists and nurses. Staff from specialist psychological therapies to conduct assessments Daily review of all referrals by smaller group (screening meeting) Assessment allocated to worker from most appropriate specialism Mix of staff on rotation and permanent (nurses)
Teams City County 1 Hinckley & Bosworth, North West Leicestershire and Charnwood (Coalville and Loughborough) County 2 Melton, Rutland, Harborough, Oadby & Wigston
Other improvements Introduce a service to support transfer of care Transfer stable patients to primary care Ensure the right people are in the right service (review the criteria) Identify the appropriate length of time for different treatments Improve the support offered to staff treating people with the most complex conditions
Integrates Community Mental Health Teams (including outpatients) and Assertive Outreach (AO) into three community teams (one in city and two in county) with specialist sub-teams (psychosis / non-psychosis in the first instance then Cluster groups beneath). Clinical Psychology would be integrated into each of the teams but retain their current management arrangements. For Specialist Psychological Therapies there would be no change. They will be retained as distinct services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Create two assessment services in the county providing a single access / assessment route for the new community teams. Expand the Referral Management Service in the City to include assessments.
Clinical Psychology County Team 1 Leicester City County Team 2 Non-Psychosis team Assessment Service For Community Team Community Team Split into N-Psyc. and Psyc. Services Specialist Psychological Therapies Psychosis team Non-Psychosis team Assessment Service For Community Team Community Team Split into N-Psyc. and Psyc. Services Psychosis team Non-Psychosis team Assessment Service For Community Team Community Team Split into N-Psyc. and Psyc. Services Psychosis team Psychosis Intervention Early Recovery
Reduce number of Community Mental Health Teams from eight to three, one in city and two in county. Split Community Mental Health Teams into non- psychosis / psychosis teams to develop specialisms with targeted training / support All other services are maintained in form and function. Create two assessment services in the county providing a single access / assessment route for their respective Community Mental Health Teams. Expand the Referral Management Service in the City to include assessments.
Leicestershire West CCG Leicester City CCG Leicestershire East CCG CMHT Clusters 4 to 8 and 11 to 13 CMHT Clusters 4 to 8 and 11 to 13 CMHT Clusters 4 to 8 and 11 to 13 Non-Psychosis Clusters 4 to 8 Psychosis Clusters 11 to 13 Non-Psychosis Clusters 4 to 8 Psychosis Clusters 11 to 13 Non-Psychosis Clusters 4 to 8 Psychosis Clusters 11 to 13 Specialist Psychological Therapies Clusters 4 to 8 Psychosis Intervention Early Recovery Cluster 10 Assessment Service For City CMHT Assessment Service For County West CMHT Assessment Service For County East CMHT Assertive Outreach Cluster 13, 14, 16 and 17 Clinical Psychology Clusters 4 to 8 and 11 to 17 Clinical Psychology Clusters 4 to 8 and 11 to 17 Clinical Psychology Clusters 4 to 8 and 11 to 17
How the models address the areas we want to improve
ObjectiveIntended outcome Reduce waiting times The assessment service is expected to reduce the waiting times. The introduction of the referral management system in the city reduced waiting times. Reduce duplication of assessments The assessment service will be a multi-disciplinary team comprising senior clinicians
ObjectiveIntended outcome Increase clinical capacity The integration of Community Mental Health Teams and Outpatients will create capacity for consultations to support referrers Improve areas of inefficiency in the service Freeing up clinical time from unnecessary administration. Doing more with less.
Response to engagement: October Make decision on preferred model: October Transitional arrangements will start: Autumn 2015 Implementation planning: November to March Implementation complete: April 2016
The models What are your views on the assessment service? What are the characteristics of an effective team? What is good about each model? What would improve either model? Which model do you prefer? And why? What do you think about the psychosis/non- psychosis split?
Questions If Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust introduced a single point of access that conducted all the assessments following a referral it would mean that the person treating you will be different from the person assessing you. Does this matter? Once Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust has treated you and you are stable, we would like to transfer your care to your family doctor (GP). This will make more appointments available for new patients. Tell us how you would feel about this Not all services can be provided locally. For some specialist services this may mean you have to travel to a central base or clinic. Which services do you think should be available close to your home? Currently our outpatient clinics are staffed only by consultants and trainees. How would you feel about being seen by a nurse or therapist in outpatients? Which services would you be willing to travel for? Are you willing to see your worker in a clinic rather than your own home?
Questions We would like to support our patients towards making as quick a recovery as possible. This may mean that treatments are shorter than they are at present but they will be more focused on your condition. Tell us how you would feel about this. We will make sure that once you have been treated by us you will be able to come back to us quickly, if necessary. How would you feel about receiving some of your care from a voluntary or community organisation? How would you feel about someone other than a doctor prescribing medication for you? This may be a nurse or a therapist? They will be specially trained and supervised. Would you be willing to use new technology as part of your monitoring and treatment? Eg Skype and text messaging


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Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road, the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about
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- Rana Mitter on 100 Years of Modern China
- Recreating the Horrors of Nanjing
- Fang Lizhi: The Real Deng
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Fifty beneficiaries received their “Contracts to Sell” establishing their security of land tenure in Brgy. East Timawa, Molo district.
Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog together with councilor Joshua Alim, committee chairman on urban poor, and Iloilo City Urban Poor Affairs Office (ICUPAO) Executive Director Wilfredo Jurilla, distributed the certificate during a ceremony at City Hall Sept. 9.
“We are fast tracking the processing of these contracts so that we can grant lots to well-deserved beneficiaries and thus lessen the number of informal settlers in the city,” Mayor Jed said.
With a contract, the beneficiaries promise to pay back the city government with P150 to P200 monthly payment for their lands in 10 years. A land title will be issued to them after full payment.
The city government also extended financial assistance to four individuals whose homes were either totally or partially destroyed by hazards.
Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog personally handed the cash aid to Merly Limbaga and Fely Piad, both fire victims from Lanit, Jaro. Limbaga’s house was totally razed by fire, while Piad’s was partially gutted.
The mayor also gave financial assistance to Mary Lazarte whose house in Brgy. Cubay, Jaro was toppled by an uprooted banyan tree; and Henry Tambasen whose house was partially destroyed by an uprooted coconut tree in Brgy. Lanit.
The amount of P5,000 was given to those with totally damaged houses, while P2,500 was for partially damaged ones. Source:Iloilo City Govt Facebook.


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“Outrageous and top-notch terror.” ―Vogue on SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
“The only difference between this book and The Day of the Jackal is that Archer is a better writer.” ―Chicago Tribune on SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
“Authentic, literate, and scary.” ―Cosmopolitan on SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
“The countdown is the thing; the pace, the pursuit, the what-next, the how-is-it-going-to-come-out…” ―Boston Globe on SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
“Holds the reader in a vicelike grip.” ―Penthouse on SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
“A compelling read.” ―Newsday on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“Dynamite…plot twists and a slam-bang finale.” ―The Washington Post on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages.” ―The Boston Globe on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“Thoroughly enjoyable.” ―Publishers Weekly on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“Compulsively readable.” ―Library Journal on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“Gripping.” ―The Vancouver Sun on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“An exercise in wish fulfillment. The good may suffer, but the bad will get theirs in the end. The fun is watching it unfold.” ―St. Petersburg Times (Florida) on A PRISONER OF BIRTH
“Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages.” ―The Boston Globe on CAT O'NINE TALES
“The economy and precision of Archer's prose never fails to delight. The criminal doesn't always get away with his crime and justice doesn't always prevail, but the reader wins with each and every story.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) on CAT O'NINE TALES
“A worthy successor to The Da Vinci Code.” ―Liz Smith on FALSE IMPRESSION, New York Post
“Archer is back in top form with [this] latest thriller.” ―Library Journal (starred review) on FALSE IMPRESSION
“Thoroughly imagined...entertaining...thrilling.” ―Denver Post on FALSE IMPRESSION
“Murder and a high-stakes art-world theft are cleverly blended [in this] exciting...global thrill-ride.” ―Vancouver Sun on FALSE IMPRESSION
“Sail along from one high crime to the next....Archer is a great plotter....[and] in the middle of the action, [he] drops research gems.” ―Liz Smith on FALSE IMPRESSION, New York Post
Praise for Only Time Will Tell
“Dual narrators Roger Allam and Emilia Fox do a truly wonderful job bringing the story to life…Only Time Will Tell is an enjoyable and artfully done listen. If you are a fan of family sagas, or of Jeffrey Archer in general, you won’t be disappointed. However, listener be warned, you will have to wait until next year for the next installment so you may want to savor this one slowly.” – Abbreviated Audio
“An extraordinary, sweeping saga, Only Time Will Tell is an excellent addition to audiobook fiction collections.” – The Midwest Book Review
“[Roger Allam] is the perfect choice for this story. From the very beginning I felt a strong connection… [Emelia Fox’s] voice is a stark contrast, being light and pleasant. The entire audiobook seemed more like a theater production than just a reading of a book.” – Reading with Mo
“Both [Roger Allam and Emilia Fox] do an outstanding job, and I let myself listen to some sections several times just to hear their marvelous voices.” – The Record-Courier
“Archer delivers another page-turning, heart-stopping saga, with delightful twists, and a surprise ending… readers will surely wait for the next with bated breath.” – Publishers Weekly
“General readers as well as Archer fans will enjoy this unforgettable tale, which abounds with cliff-hangers that propel its intriguing and intricate plot.”– Library Journal (starred review)
“What appears at the outset to be a straightforward coming-of-age tale becomes, by the end, a saga of power, betrayal, and bitter hatred. The novel ends on a deliberately dark note, setting the stage for the sequel…An outstanding effort from a reliable veteran.” – Booklist (starred Review)
“I was utterly hooked. It was an absurdly enjoyable read.”– Anthony Horowitz, Daily Telegraph (London)
Praise for Jeffrey Archer
“A dynamite commercial novel…Archer brings it off with panache.”
---The Washington Post on A Prisoner of Birth
“A compelling read…The pace never flags.”
---Newsday (New York) on A Prisoner of Birth
“One of the top ten storytellers in the world.”
---Los Angeles Times
“Archer is a master entertainer.”
“A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas.”
---The Washington Post on A Twist in the Tale
“There isn’t a better storyteller alive.”
“Kane and Abel…that classic of modern literature.”
---The Times (London)

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The Unfiltered Gentlemen ‘Craft Beer-cast’ is a weekly podcast centered around craft beer: the liquid, the lifestyle and everything in between. In addition to craft beer, we cover sports, booze news and everything else that is best-served ice cold and unfiltered.
Every week Greg, Scott, and Dan, with some help from their beer-reviewing contributors from around the globe, are keeping you entertained and well hydrated with their craft beer reviews, beer experiments, and all the essential Booze News. Every few weeks we sit down with the head brewer or owner of local craft breweries to sample their craft and find out their story. The gentlemen also break down some sports news, make your life easier with booze hacks, keep you laughing with their Tales from Uber and so much more all while keeping the fun going with their unfiltered brand of humor.
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The 21st century has brought new hope and has empowered women in a positive manner. Earlier they were under the shadow of a husband or a father, but now they have established their own identity and are independent.
Education is an important key to success. Empowering women would become more pertinent if women were well informed and educated. A woman needs to understand her rights so that she can walk at par with men. Mother Teresa, Indra Nooyi, Pratibha Patil, Kalpana Chawla, and a lot more have been very significant in their own sphere and are an idol for every woman in India and across the globe.
Changing role of women
The role of women has changed tremendously and they have been able to create a positive impression in society. From housewives to CEOs, the transition can be seen at an accelerating rate. Modernization and the advent of the latest technology have widened hope and opportunities for them. They have established themselves socially, politically, and economically in almost every field. Women are no longer considered unfit or weak for the military or other defense forces. Recently, Avani Chaturvedi has set a perfect example and has created a milestone by becoming India’s first female fighter pilot.
The journey of the liberation of women has crossed many milestones and society has indeed come a long way. They have struggled hard over the last few decades but have still been able to successfully establish their own identity. Today’s women are adorned with patience and perseverance, which has helped them to attain the pinnacle of success. Earlier, women were seen only as housewives who were projected to cook, clean, and take care of their families. Today- along with handling tough clients at the office, they successfully multitask at home too. Women are more focused and have a unique decision-making power even at a senior leadership level, in the most optimal manner, and at times are in a better position than men. Empowering women can help society to grow and develop at a faster pace. 𝑾𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅!
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I began this list intending to reinvigorate the essential Mardi Gras soundtrack with new songs and surprising artists.
After researching and reviewing the old favorites and the Fat Tuesday standards, I realized that Mardi Gras isn’t Mardi Gras without its traditions and a good Professor Longhair track or two (or three).
This mixtape merges that old good time sound with a few new purple, green, and gold mood-enhancing tunes. As you listen to each track, look at the list as a kind of schedule dedicated to the entire day of partying, delivering you from morning, noon, night, to the last hurrah before preparing for the sacrifices of the next season: Lent.
1. Professor Longhair – Mardi Gras in New Orleans
I don’t know about you, but there is no sleeping in on Fat Tuesday. Unless you camped out or someone has graciously saved you a spot, you need to get up pretty early to brave the traffic, both foot and rubber. Professor Longhair’s “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” is the perfect melody to kickstart the day. The iconic whistle solo soothes and refreshes the soul and prepares your body, much like a marathon runner would, for the trek ahead.
2. The Meters – Cissy Strut
While this song isn’t as quintessentially Mardi Gras as much as The Meters’ “Hey Pocky A-way,” it nevertheless serves as the perfect interlude between breakfast and the first Rex float. The late sixties instrumental sounds like your own exploitation movie montage and makes for the perfect soundtrack combined with various Mardi Gras sights – both debauched and innocent.
3. Earl King – Street Parade
The big, high-energy sound in “Street Parade” reverberates like a parade already marching between your ear canals. It keeps up the rhythm even after you battle the sweet, sweet food coma brought on by a breakfast of Bloody Marys and grits.
4. Beyonce – Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)/ DJ Jubilee – Get Ready, Ready
I can think of no occasion where a Beyonce song might be inappropriate – weddings, jogs, funerals, Mardi Gras. “Get Me Bodied” is the kind of song tailored for a spontaneous neighborly dance number in the middle of the street, but its midway dance breakdown, in the fashion of DJ Jubilee’s “Get Ready, Ready,” will work up an appetite whether you’re patting your weave or not. The two songs are interchangeable, but DJ Jubilee gets extra points as a New Orleans native.
5. The Meters – They All Ask’d For You
We slow it down, just a little, and begin a mid-day rest with something familiar and whimsical. It’s inevitable that we all end up wiping fried chicken grease from our fingers at some point, but “They All Ask’d For You” is just fine for shouting, “The monkeys ask’d, the tigers ask’d, and the elephants ask’d me too,” with a mouth full of Popeye’s during the noon lunch break.
6. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Tom Waits –Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Mardi Gras – of course – Tom Waits and Mardi Gras – sure. The song was originally recorded as a charity limited-edition record of a New Orleans standard, but Waits’ gargly baritone paired with PHJB’s Dixie Land vibes packs the brass that feels just as good as that first slice of king cake or a White Russian daiquiri.
7. The Hawkettes – Mardi Gras Mambo
I’m sure most tourists who have spent at least one weekend in New Orleans have heard this enough that they’ll have their neighbors back home humming the tune while watching slides of vacation pictures. In fact, you’re probably mouthing the words at this very second.
8. Louis Prima and Keely Smith – The Birth of the Blues
This song doesn’t immediately conjure visions of beads and floats, but it’s definitely New Orleans. Smith’s pearl-glossy voice paired with Prima’s trumpet is a stroll, then a run, then a swing down any New Orleans avenue. It’s perfect if you’ve suddenly realized you’ve lost your voice and need a break from the bedlam.
9. Alabama Shakes – Heavy Chevy
Really any Alabama Shakes track would work to get you going during Carnival. Their soul, blues, and hard rock sound fits in perfectly with the soiled streets and dark alleys of the cold Fat Tuesday night, but “Heavy Chevy” is especially fitting for its high-energy opening and freight-train pace. It’s just what the soul needs as the last floats glide down the street.
10. Stop Inc. – Second Line
It’s probably the most iconic Mardi Gras tune of all time, though it’s lately become a staple at local wedding receptions to signal the end of the night. This track should accompany one last hurrah while you gather your belongings and, most likely, your dignity, before you Second Line your way back to the car.
11. Louis Armstrong – St. James Infirmary
Louis Armstrong made this traditional folk song famous in the 1920s – today, it’s the ideal battle hymn to call home weary souls after a long, mad dash for plastic beads.


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The ACE Study
And it’s importance in understanding how to approach ACE based disorders
with new more highly effective treatments
A large study was done at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, CA in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control. This study is known as the ACE Study. ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences.
The ACE study correlates how many different categories of childhood traumas people experienced while growing up with adult health status on average 50 years later.
The results of this study make it clear that there is a very significant graded correlation between an increase in the number of categories of adverse childhood experiences with an increased occurrence of various behavioral and organic illnesses.
Summary of Findings:
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are very common, but largely unrecognized
- ACEs are strong predicators of later social functioning, well-being, health risks, disease, medical costs, and death
- ACEs are thus the basis for much of adult medicine and of many major public health and social problems
- ACEs are interrelated, not solitary
- This combination makes ACEs the leading determinant of the health, social and economic well-being of our nation
With a large population of over 17,000 Kaiser members participating in the study it is clear that unresolved childhood traumas are causal to later physical and mental health problems.
The ACE study also noted that the ACE’s are both much more common than previously thought and that they don’t tend to self heal. They have continued impact even half a century later.
In the CDC’s web site about the study they present this pyramid regarding the ACE Study:
Our research at Inner Greatness Global leads us to believe that there is a missing layer to this pyramid. It is the pre-verbal conditioning that sets us up to not be able to heal the ACE. The insights from our research into the nature of this preverbal conditioning have produced a model called the 12 Causes of Human Problems.
The primary Cause of Human Problems responsible for not being able to heal the ACE is Suppression & Avoidance. This occurs when we are very young and get emotionally overwhelmed many times. No one likes it but in this preverbal state there seems to be a universal decision to avoid feeling things fully in an attempt to not get emotionally overwhelmed. This sets us up to not complete the experience of intense emotional events (ACE) and keep them unresolved in our bodies throughout our lives. The 12 Causes of Human Problems has also been presented with the name the 12 Core Dynamics of Human Conditioning.
The resulting ACE pyramid with the added preliminary layer looks like this:
The ACE study makes it clear that ACE are at least a significant portion of the causes of a whole host of chronic illnesses but the study doesn’t address why the ACE tend to resist self-healing or any therapeutic measures for resolving the long term influences of the ACEs.

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Today’s astrology can help us look into our use of words like “thug,” at a much deeper level.
Search Results for: wounded
This is a conversation with Director, Author and Activist Charles Shaw about his current project, “At Home in the Dark: a film about trauma and PTSD” which relates personal journeys towards healing as shared by individuals from New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Ibiza.
Animistic perspectives, which hold the cosmos as “a being to whom prayers and offerings are made, who is endowed with understanding, agency and sentience, and responds to the actions of humans,” are often dismissed as primitive, yet this account of a healing within the shamanic traditions of the Native American Church and the vegetalistas of the Peruvian Amazon reminds us of how profound healing can be when it arises from indigenous perception of a sentient, living cosmos.
We see in the original Jedi Code an acknowledgment of things like emotion, ignorance, passion, chaos, and death, yet they are to be transcended in order to maintain a state of peace, serenity, harmony, and oneness with the Force.

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Marion Patterson has been seriously involved in photography since 1956, when she began studies at the San Francisco Art Institute with such luminaries as Dorothea Lange and Minor White. From 1958 to 1961, she worked for Virginia and Ansel Adams in Yosemite and has remained closely associated with the Adams family since then. From 1961 to 1964 she was assistant to the photography editor of Sunset Magazine. While at Sunset, she prepared her first major exhibit, which was shown at the San Francsico Museum of Modern Art in 1965.
This book brings together 57 of the best black-and-white photographs of Marion Patterson, who describes her work as “photographs of the intimate landscape, simple and contemplative like a zen garden.” The images focus on the natural surroundings of the central California coast and Sierra—rocks, waterfalls, creeks, trees, seashells, sand, driftwood, and kelp washed ashore by the tides—as well as images from the Southwest and the deserts of California. The book provides a quiet meditation on the beauty of our natural environment in a manner that reflects the author’s lifelong ties to the West Coast school of photography, deeply influenced by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
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The latest update is that the producers have officially announced that the film’s audio will be released on September 15 and the film will be released on October 1.
Directed by Krishna Vamshi, this family entertainer features Kajal Aggarwal as the female lead. This film also features Srikanth, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha, Kamilinee Mukherjee in other prominent roles. Yuvan Shankar Raja is scoring music for this film which is produced by blockbuster producer Bandla Ganesh.
- Nag-Nani’s chemistry will remind everyone of NTR-ANR: Ashwini Dutt.
- Hero Ram turns singer
- Popular hero has a request for critics
- Kalyani Priyadarshan joins cast of Mohanlal’s magnum opus
- Rajinikanth to launch his political party soon


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Al Capone (1959)
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In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.
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Brian Moore's Full Contact Rugby
Kyran Bracken: I don’t think the Ford/Farrell axis has worked
Monday, 5 November
England have got their Autumn International campaign off to a winning start, and quite a surprising one too over South Africa. In studio with Brian Moore to discuss that and the other international fixtures is former Scotland scrum half, Rory Lawson.
Was England’s win down to luck? Brian says no, former England scrum half Kyran Bracken says yes. Kyran also says that Farrell needs to be playing at fly half due to his greater physicality than that of George Ford.
We discuss the Doddie Weir Cup with Rory and former Wales winger Dafydd James who says it was a lacklustre performance in which the home side never got going, with Luke Morgan "a bit starstruck by the occasion".
Paddy Wallace makes his Full Contact debut to discuss the incredible depth of the Irish squad as displayed at Soldier Field on Saturday night and he tells us about Rhys Ruddock the captain for the match against Italy.
We also look at the World Rugby Player of the Year nominations including an appraisal of Faf de Klerk. Plus World Cup winning coach Gary Street brings us up to date with everything in the women's game and looks ahead to the Red Roses' internationals.


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WFS and suppliers make donation
August 2, 2017 - Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd. (WFS), is donating $103,500 to Farm & Food Care Ontario (FFCO).
Suppliers gave $53,500 and WFS matched with $50,000.
The donation was announced during the grand opening of the company’s state-of-the-art Mill 4 facility.
WFS is one of Ontario’s leading suppliers of feed for livestock and poultry.
WFS made mention of Farm & Food Care’s publication, The Real Dirt on Farming, in making its donation.

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The team discusses Blade Runner 2049, its themes and design, and its potential impact on sci-fi going forward!
The team explores the Nature Boy 30 for 30, and some MAJOR news in wrestling.
In this episode: All of the games. ALL OF THEM. Mario Odyssey, Xbox One X, Doom for Switch, and Super Beat Sports. And DOGGY CUPCAKES.
The team chats Destiny 2, Mario Odyssey and Sony’s Paris Games Week trailers.
We talk results from the recent PPVs, Neville, Jimmy Jacobs, WWE 2K18, and more!
The finale of Season 7, the Wolf and the Dragon, the season in whole, and predictions for the final season!

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On Tuesday, the Turlock City Council will consider approving the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the 2013-14 Fiscal Year for the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME).
Approving the item would authorize the submission of the CAPER to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and authorizing City Manager Roy Wasden, or a designee, to execute related necessary documents.
The City of Turlock was awarded $540,434 in CDBG funds from HUD, following the approved submission of the Annual Action Plan for the Fiscal Year 2013-14, to carry out activities that benefit low income persons. The City and the County of Stanislaus Consortium was also awarded $879,498.
Staff reports that the City has made significant progress in this CAPER, the fourth year of the 2010-15 Consolidated Planning period, with the following highlights:
- First-time homebuyer loans
- Residential rehabilitation loans
- Rehabilitation of homes
- Public service grants
- Fair housing efforts
- Efforts to address the concerns related to homelessness
- Community development sidewalk project and new bathroom facilities at Columbia Park
HUD requires a jurisdiction to submit a CAPER, which describes the activities undertaken in the Annual Action Plan and the accomplishments during the reporting period, prior to end of each federal fiscal year.
The CAPER, which is a mandated report for all communities that receive CDBG and HOME, also reports the City’s success in meeting housing and social service goals in the Consolidated Plan and evaluates the City’s overall progress in carrying out priorities of assistance identified in the Five Year Strategic Plan and Annual Action Plan.
If the City Council does not approve the CAPER, the City and HOME Consortium would not be in compliance with reporting requirements and could jeopardize future funding.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the Turlock City Council will consider approving the following:
- The purchase of six marked black and white police vehicles for the Turlock Police Department from Downtown Ford Sales of Sacramento in the amount $276,000, or $46,000 per vehicle.
- The purchase of 48 replacement modems for Police and Fire Mobile Data Computers from CDW-G and installation services from Delta Wireless in an amount not to exceed $58,000.
- Adding Turlock Municipal Code Title 6, Chapter 8, Storm Water Management and Urban Runoff Pollution Control.
- Amending Turlock Municipal Code Title 4, Chapter 3, Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, and Article 4, Sections 08 and 09, regarding Fire Codes and Administration.
- Amending Turlock Municipal Code Title 4, Chapter 14, Article 4, Section 06, regarding City of Turlock Paint Bank.
The Turlock City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Yosemite Room of Turlock City Hall, 156 S. Broadway.


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Appeared in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos
- Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk (1988).
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[the focus being on more human elements in Code Black
(2015)] "That is what I was brought up to believe. I get the cutting-edge dramas. I love it. But to spend these kind of hours and devote this kind of energy, I do want to be behind those other values."
Graduated from Surrattsville Sr. High in Clinton, Maryland (1976). Laura Wright
also graduated from Surrattsville H.S., but in 1988.
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Ok, so I am not actually getting married, however, that does not mean I cannot be madly in love with with amazing basque from Silhouette. As you know I have reviewed for Silhouette lingerie before, their items fit perfectly and are completely gorgeous. So back to the basque, this style (4056) is part of the Silhouette bridal collection, it is available in the usual white and pearl, they also offer a black version for the more daring bride! The basque fastens with a triple hook and eye fixture so you can choose how supported you want to feel, the one I have is 32E and it fits like a glove. The cups are a perfect fit, A and B cups in this style are padded, I am an E cup and sometimes I don’t feel fully supported, however in this basque I feel totally supported and comfortable. The fabric is[…]
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I had never heard of Krisline before visiting Brastop and I thought I would give it a try. Krisline is a Polish company specialising in larger cup lingerie up to a H cup. Their designs are a bit more traditional with lots of lace and more neutral colours. I went for the Queen Body as I really wanted to try one. The body fit really well, the cup sizes were accurate (I’m a 32E) and it felt secure without feeling like shape underwear and was really comfortable. This body is fantastic for creating a smooth silhouette, it would also be terrific under a sheer blouse with high-waisted trousers or a skirt. I love it so much I may have to purchase another in black!


FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE graced the stage shortly after local heavy hitters RENATUS and accompanying touring act AENIMUS in support of their soon to be released album, Veleno. Opening with fan favorite track The Violation, the orchestral..
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Our arrival to Gas Monkey Live was heralded by practically every metalhead I know in the greater DFW area – with such a stacked lineup across a wide range of extreme metal, the evening promised..
The Black Dahlia Murder and Whitechapel hit the road to co-headline USA tour with Fleshgod Apocalypse, Aversions Crown, Shadow Of Intent; The Black Dahlia Murder to play ‘Nightbringers’ in full and Whitechapel to perform ‘This..
My return to the Rail Club on the evening of February 26th was impressive, to say the least. I hadn’t returned to the venue since they redesigned the entire interior, so when I arrived and..
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Miniseries #004, Take this Hammer + 7th Chords and Backup Discussions XIII
Continuing on with this pattern with the fretted Fifth. We can use this pattern over the D chord(5 chord) as well. We can use this pattern on any chord or any chord progression we want. We can also connect the previous patterns with this pattern as well. We can mix'em up anyway we would like.
Although I will be teaching many more patterns and many other ways to play back-up on the five string, It would be good practice for you to combine these patterns in different ways on your own. Also you can to create your own patterns with the seventh chords, and always remember........If it sounds good........It is good!
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Get excited at every eSports moment!
Exercise is one of the most frequent activities for fitness or health. But the sport is also a starting event to achieve victory. But you should know that there is something new and worth a try in the world of sports, namely eSports!
The reason for choosing eSports is because now they have become the fastest growing market. Recorded In 2016, there is only about $ 150 million of funding in the eSports industry, but right by 2017, the funding size at eSports is already over $ 600 million. And more importantly, a $ 2 Billion fund has entered the eSports industry. For now, There are many excellent and professional sports clubs participating in eSports, and renowned sports players are building their own professional eSports team and investing in this eSports industry.
Also, many universities in North America and Europe have begun to accept eSports as one of their physical sports and provide scholarships and titles to each of their eSports players. Even eSports has also been taken at the 2018 Asian Games and is now being pushed to become one of the Olympic events.
According to a statement from ESPN and Yahoo Sports, the size of this eSports market will be much larger than the NFL which is currently the second largest sport in the world.
Everywhere in the world, fantasy sports must be the most popular when there is a big sports market, and this is a traditional sports game.
The size of this fantasy sports market is now around $ 5 billion with 78 million viewers, and the market size is expected to continue growing to $ 9.2 billion with over 100 million viewers by 2020.
The United States Supreme Court has stated that the sport of legal gambling, this allows the fantasy eSports business model will be further improved in the future. But keep in mind, fantasy sports are not gambling, but FanEspo has a better way to give more fun to every user!
What is FanEspo?
FanEspo is a web-based platform that offers a fantastic experience to enjoy fantasy sports in eSports matches. Here are the activities to do if you join the fantasy sports eSports.
- You must create or join a contest.
- Then choose your professional player for your team.
- Pay ‘Entrance Fee’ to be able to compete with other users.
- And 80% – 90% of the total entrance fee is MONEY GIFT.
- Skills in analyzing and your fantastic predictions will make you the prize winner.
If you want to be a winner? There are several ways to win prize money, ‘Top winner takes,’ ‘Winner takes all,’ ‘Top winner.’ The FanEspo service also provides people to play daily or seasonal fantasy sports with real professional eSports players/notes.
Is this a safe game?
ESports main goal is to have a stable security system on their platform. Now, eSports is researching and developing all contests, leagues, personal wallets, and others with Blockchain technology for the best security, and making all the information, which will be created/produced by FanEspo users, will be blocked on the FanEspo platform.
Shortly, eSports also plans to launch analytics, media, education, streaming, game platforms that will connect to their Blockchain.
FanEspo ICO Project
About FanEspo Token:
- Token: FAN
- Platform: Ethereum
- Type: ERC20
- Price in ICO: 1 ETH = 7,500 FAN
- Accepting: ETH, BTC, Fiat
- Hard cap: 30,000,000 USD

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Haiti is located in the West Indies, on the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Its official languages are French and Haitian Créole. It shares a border with the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic. It lies near Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the state of Florida in the U.S. It has a rich cultural heritage. However, researching Haiti’s law can be frustrating. Haiti is in the Caribbean, but works on Caribbean law mostly focus on English-speaking, Commonwealth Caribbean countries. Works on West Indian law tend to focus on the British West Indies. And works on Latin American . . . [more]
Archive for the ‘Legal Information’ Columns
The study of law is very intriguing, for someone like me who came to it via the back route. Since I work in a law firm library, and haven’t been to law school, I am very aware of my limitations when it comes to legal research. I like to think that makes me more observant and diligent. One of the things I’ve observed is the way the law overlaps. A few years ago, I was helping an associate sort out where he’d find the answers to a question involving dangerous driving. He ended up needing three separate pieces of legislation: . . . [more]
Quicklaw and Westlaw Canada use “*”. CanLII uses “!”. I’m referring to the symbol that these databases use for as a “wildcard”, that is the symbol used to represent one or more characters in a string when carrying out a search. Conversely, when it comes to the symbol used to truncate a word, Quicklaw and Westlaw Canada use “!”, but CanLII uses “*”. (Google does not allow users to truncate search terms at all, although it does use “*” as a wildcard in phrase searches.)
Not only does the symbol used for the wildcard vary among online services, but . . . [more]
Time and circumstance have been good to me. I began studying China in 1968. Why I did so was a mystery to all concerned. No one in my family had dreams further than the boundaries of Canton, Ohio. As my father, a working man who thought that I was throwing my life away by studying the Chinese language, put it, “You never even met a Chinese person before you went off to college. We don’t even have a Chinese restaurant in this town!” My decision was not based on practical reasoning; I just discovered as a freshman in college that . . . [more]
Over the past year, I have written a series of articles on the theme of (re)building a law library. Obviously, I attach great value to the concept of library as place: my previous column was on that very topic. For me, the expression “virtual library” is somewhat of a misnomer, for a library cannot be virtual if it exists in space and that space has a function. I much prefer the expression “digital library” to describe the non-physical aspect of the library collection, not the library itself, though the two are related and must be integrated in a . . . [more]
OpenGovernment.org is a new, free site providing online access to information about proposed legislation in U.S. states. Funded by the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation (PPF) and now covering six U.S. states, OpenGovernment.org — which launched in January 2011 — enables citizens and organizations to learn about and track pending state legislation, the activities and votes of state legislators, issues that are the subject of proposed legislation, and campaign contributions to state legislators.
There is a trend that is causing me great consternation, and I think its impact is only just starting to hurt our users and budgets. It is the decision being taken by some publishers of electronic versions of journals and law reports to remove their titles from the aggregators, such as Lexis or Westlaw, and to build their own platforms and then sell the titles /access separately to consumers at a rate they think is achievable.
I admit to my fair share of cynicism in relation to legal publishers; many – though thank goodness not all – have always seemed . . . [more]
After the 2010 earthquake destroyed Haiti’s law libraries, the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a non-profit cooperative of libraries, spearheaded the Haiti Legal Patrimony Project. 13 U.K., U.S., and German libraries contributed unique materials from their collections to help rebuild a collection of Haitian law online via the LLMC Digital database. Many of the 700+ titles on the master list (initially compiled from Law Library of Congress and Columbia University Law Library bibliographic data) have been digitized. The online collection comprises constitutions, statutes, codes, periodicals, and legal treatises. The Haiti Project is one of many digital law library initiatives. . . . [more]
As I grow older and crabbier, I attend fewer conferences. Seeing old friends is a treat, but the standard meeting format that is built around a parade of speakers, many of whom are not natural communicators, and many of whom do not understand the inner soul of using PowerPoint, holds less and less appeal for me. But on June 16, 2011, The Future of Law Libraries Conference at the Harvard Law School gave me new hope. John Palfrey and his staff, with special nods to Meg Kribble, put on a stimulating, provocative and, well, classy event. The legal information situation . . . [more]
With all the flooding news and euphoria about getting an NHL team again (Go Jets Go!), you could be forgiven for thinking nothing else was happening in Manitoba. However, you would be seriously wrong.
Manitoboba amended the Elections Act a few years ago, adding fixed-year election terms (s.49.1(2)), with October 4, 2011 being the first one. One of the conditions requires that the government not advertise or publish information about its programs or activities in the 90 days before October 4th. This means we are seeing a flurry of announcements in this run-up to the end of the current legislative . . . [more]
(This article is based on a talk that I gave at this year’s Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference.)
With online services accounting for an ever-increasing percentage of libraries’ budgets, it is important to be able to keep an eye on the usage of these services. Fortunately, a number of these online services offer usage reports. These reports allow the account administrators to get a clearer picture of how these services are used and how to get the most out of them.
Where to get usage reports
The availability of usage reports varies greatly from publisher to publisher, and . . . [more]
First, Indian Kanoon (the Hindi word “kanoon” means “law”) has been included by La Chaire en information juridique de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal in its IDRC-funded global study of the sustainability of free-access-to-law services. Second, MIT’s Technology Review India in March 2011 cited Indian Kanoonin its recognition of Dr.Sinha as one of India’s “Top Innovators Under 35.” Most recently, Indian Kanoon was the topic of Dr. Sinha’s VoxPopuLII post entitled “Indian Kanoon: . . . [more]


Andrew Bird hasn’t been back to Milwaukee since his stint of two shows there in 2009, so he was greeted by a very enthusiastic crowd at the Riverside Theater on Saturday night. Â He emerged on the stage with a new addition to his many-layered outfit, a red hat, another nod to the fact that this is yet another tour where Bird is going to spend the majority of it being ill. Â As always, though, his performance didn’t suffer noticeably for it as he led his band through a fifteen-song main set and two encores.
Much as he did in Nashville, Bird devoted the middle portion of his set to an unplugged jam session, his band clustered around a single microphone off to the side of the stage. Â It didn’t have the same historical connotations as it did in the historic Ryman Auditorium, but it still sounded amazing. Â “Effigy” got a huge round of applause, which seemed to momentarily stun Bird. Â It’s interesting that “Effigy” has been one of the songs from Noble Beast that’s sticking around in concert for now, but it’s got a very well deserved slot on the setlist. Â He also included a cover of a Townes Van Zandt’s “If I Needed You” in the old-timey section, which he said had touched him recently. It’s a very folksy, heartfelt ballad, perfectly suited for the acoustic session.
The new music sits well with Bird, owing largely to the fact that the album itself was recorded live, so the songs didn’t need to be reworked in order to be played in concert. Â There are tiny tweaks here and there, and the way that Bird performs (and how tight his band is) allows for some freedom to reinterpret the new material.Â Â “Orpheo Looks Back” is my favorite off of the new album, and is a song that continues to give me a lot of feeling. The way that he loops his vocals at the end, creating layers and layers of sound, just gives me chills. Â The video linked isn’t mine, but is from the same show, although it’s only the back half of the song. Â If you haven’t had the chance to see him do this one live, plugged-in, with the full band, check out that Â link, or this one from Paris earlier this month. Â “Fatal Shore” settled into a bit slower of a groove, and Bird referred to it as a “late night slow jam”. Â (He also pulled out a different guitar for this one,Â a red oneÂ that I don’t think I’ve seen since 2009.)
Of course, I would be remiss not to mention the repeated false starts that hit the beginning of “Plasticities” towards the end of the show. Â “My finger got stuck,” he said after flubbing the opening notes the first time. Â After missing it the third time, he pointed out that “you get a couple of do-overs and then it gets awkward. Â First it’s funny, then it’s awkward.” Â I enjoy the fact that he acknowledges these things — it’s like he’s letting us in on a secret, and it makes the very, very few mistakes that he makes somehow more endearing. Â He pulled it together and went on to offer up an outstanding rendition of the song, one which ends with the members of the band crouched on the ground, manipulating their various knobs and pedals to bring it to a close.
As usual, he closed out the show with “Tables and Chairs” and “Fake Palindromes”, which are two of the best songs off of one of the best albums of all time. Â I’m always struck by how different these songs are from their recorded versions. Â The Mysterious Production of Eggs is a sleepy little album, but live, these songs have a life of their own. Â “Fake Palindromes” in particular is performed with a new level of swagger that I haven’t really seen before out of Bird. There’s a lot of confidence in his performance of that song, and he knows he’s got the audience right in the palm of his hand for the duration of it.
He ended the evening with a cover of the Handsome Family’s “So Much Wine”, and the Charley Patton tune “Goin’ Home’. Â Both were acoustic, around that old-timey mic, and while they were great renditions, I’m pretty sure that the audience missed the entire point of the first song. (I have lots of thoughts about the audience in general, but I’m keeping them to myself.) Â Bird came back for a second encore, taking the stage alone to perform the always-moody “Weather Systems”, leaving the audience to bathe in a swirl of bowed notes and the soft tones of theÂ glockenspiel that sound more like wind chimes, gently clanging in the breeze.
The crowd seemed to take a bit longer to warm up to Eugene Mirman’s set of jokes about Facebook, religion, the Tea Party, and cable service providers, but he had them by the end. Â Milwaukee was Mirman’s last show with Bird and company; Bird’s taking a few days off and then heading to the pacific Northwest, where he’ll be joined by Laura Marling. Â (I look forward to Laura joining him for “Lusitania”. Â This is a thing that I have decreed must happen, and subsequently be posted to Youtube for my enjoyment.)
Give It Away (acoustic)
If I Needed You (acoustic, Townes Van Zandt)
Orpheo Looks Back
Tables and Chairs
So Much Wine (acoustic, Handsome Family)
Goin’ Home (acoustic, Charley Patton)


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AOT #443: Anne Waldman & Laura Wright Podcast Cross Worlds, Eleni Sikelianos Podcasts You Animal Machine
Editor Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Waldman reads from and discusses Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology, along with poet and translator Laura Wright, who co-edited the collection.
Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six previous books of poetry, most recently Body Clock and The California Poem; the hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon; and a translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges on Light. Sikelianos reads from and discusses You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek), a memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and “the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.”
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Trucking news and briefs for Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020:
Second COVID relief package passed by Congress to reopen PPP loans
Both chambers of Congress Monday afternoon passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that, in part, reopens the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses.
For companies that received PPP funding in the first round, they can apply for a second loan of up to $2 million, as long as they have fewer than 300 employees, have used or will use the full amount of their first loan, and can show at least a 25% drop in revenue in any 2020 quarter compared to the same quarter in 2019, according to the Journal of Accountancy. The bill also specifies that business expenses paid with forgiven PPP loans are tax-deductible.
The loans will also still be available for first-time applicants with fewer than 500 employees.
For loans of $150,000 or less, the bill simplifies the forgiveness process by allowing forgiveness if a borrower provides a description of the number of employees the company retained because of the loan, the estimated amount of the loan spent on payroll costs and the total loan amount to the lender.
The bill also includes a second round of direct payments to working Americans – $600 for every adult and child making less than $75,000 a year. It also adds $300 a week to unemployment benefits on top of state benefits from Dec. 26 through March 14, 2021.
Related specifically to highway transportation, the bill grants $10 billion for state highways.
“Since the early response to the pandemic, state DOTs have faced severe losses in state transportation revenues as vehicle travel declined,” said Jim Tymon, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) executive director. “This COVID relief bill enables state DOTs to stay on track and support the efficient movement of critical goods and services as they maintain their transportation systems. Furthermore, this timely federal support will help state DOTs to retain their institutional capacities and to be prepared to deliver future infrastructure investment driving economic recovery and growth.”
As of Tuesday morning, the bill is awaiting President Trump’s signature to be signed into law to take effect.
Livestock, insect haulers retain ELD exemption
In addition to COVID-19 relief measures described above, the massive bill passed by Congress – 5,593 pages, all told – also includes government funding provisions to stave off a government shutdown through September 2021. The government funding portion of the bill includes a provision that extends the ELD exemption for livestock and insect haulers.
Specifically, language in the bill bars any funds from the package from being used to implement, administer or enforce ELD requirements to drivers transporting livestock, as defined in section 602 of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988, or insects.
The existing definition of “livestock,” from the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 as amended by the 2018 farm bill, include “cattle, elk, reindeer, bison, horses, deer, sheep, goats, swine, poultry (including egg-producing poultry), llamas, alpacas, live fish, crawfish, and other animals that are part of a foundation herd (including dairy producing cattle) or offspring.” FMCSA is currently in the process of updating the definition of livestock for the hours of service regulations.
Colorado DOT releases I-70 winter safety video for truckers
The Colorado Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Colorado State Patrol and Colorado Motor Carriers Association, is distributing a video to help educate truckers on the challenges and best practices for safely traveling the Interstate 70 Mountain Corridor.
The video includes information on potential hazards truckers may face driving the corridor year-round, including sudden weather changes such as heavy snowstorms, high winds, poor visibility and avalanches – along with rockfall, wildlife and wildfires. In addition to the natural hazards, the video also details other challenges truckers may encounter, including chain laws, steep grades and overheated brakes.
Overnight radio host getting back on-air online
Steve Sommers, longtime radio personality and son of the “Truckin’ Bozo” legend Dale Sommers, will start 2021 as host of a new overnight live radio program thanks to a longtime advertiser and support if his work — the Hot Shot’s Secret company. Formerly on 700WLW-AM out of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sommers’ new live, streamed call-in talk show will also be scheduled from midnight to 5 a.m. Eastern time and broadcast from a studio custom-built with Hot Shot’s Secret.
Chris Gabrelcik, founder and CEO of Hot Shot’s Secret, traces his relationship with Sommers to the very founding of the company. “Hot Shot’s Secret would not be here today if it was not for the persistence of Steve to give me some airtime on his overnight show many years ago, when I was first starting the company,” Gabrelcik said. “The five hours I spent in his studio that very first visit resulted in an avalanche of orders for our product.”
The company’s performance lubricants, including fuel and oil additives, have only grown in popularity since, Gabrelcik said. “I was shocked to hear of his recent dismissal, but found it to be an excellent opportunity to bring Steve into our Hot Shot’s Secret family. He connects with truckers and all other callers in a way that people feel they can talk freely. I support that.”
Sommers noted the show would be similar to the programming that was available via his prior effort. Sommers started in radio when he “was just 15 years old in Cincinnati.” He took over for his father in 2004 and has “enjoyed every moment with my overnight listeners. This is my life.” You can keep tabs on the new production, with plans to begin broadcasting in January, via the show website.

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After completing all the worlds of the Misty Stream Galaxy (Monstropolis, 100 Acre Wood, Arendelle, The Caribbean and San Fransokyo), you will automatically be drawn into the Dark World. Information: As with the Prologue, you will never have access to this area again after completing it.
Fight against Anti-Aqua with Sora:
As soon as you arrive, you will lead Riku and will have to face a Demon Tower in the Dark World. To win this battle, use the Square / X button to dash, the goal being to manage the distance between your character and the enemy while dodging its attacks (picture1). When the Demon Tower disengages, rush into the melee and hit the Heartless who will find themselves helpless (picture2).
Stay back and use your magic repeatedly (picture3). During this confrontation, target as a priority the minions who will be around the main enemy. In doing so, you will weaken it and overcome it more quickly (picture4). After a few minutes, Anti-Aqua will appear and you will control Sora again.
Anti-Aqua is an extremely fast boss. When she goes high, be careful and wait for her to throw her ice balls (picture5). Wait until the last moment and roll to dodge these projectiles (picture6). Be careful, during this attack, Anti-Aqua may teleport near you. In this case, jump and use your dash to get away from her.
Anti-Aqua will then duplicate herself. Her clones may attack you but hitting them will not lower the Boss’ HPs (picture7). Use your spells and area of effect attacks to hit all clones and quickly identify who the real Anti-Aqua is (picture8). Then do a combo on the boss, and step back until she goes high again. Repeat the same strategy until the end of the fight. Once the battle is over, you’ll be automatically transported to the Land of Departure.


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By Sonam Choki
There is good news for around 3,700 consolidated contract employees across the country who will now receive better service benefits and social security.
The Member from the Maenbi-Tsaenkhar constituency, Choki Gyeltshen, moved the motion to review and regularize consolidated contract employees to regular contract employees today.
Choki Gyeltshen said that even though the consolidated contract employees were employed to solve short-term human resource issues, most of them have been serving for more than five years.
He submitted that according to Section 27 (f) of the Civil Service Act of Bhutan 2010, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) is mandated to “promote and maintain the highest level of prestige, morale, and well-being of the civil service”.
“Yet, the consolidated contract employees under RCSC do not enjoy incentives, pension and provident funds, yearly increments, opportunities to avail loan from banks, and other benefits like the regular contract employees,” the MP said, adding that around 3,700 individuals will benefit from this scheme.
“I recommend that they should get transfer grants because so far no contract employees are allowed to apply for transfer. In addition, I also recommend they should be entitled to extend their medical leave. It has been found that these factors were demotivating contract employees to work hard with dedication,” said Choki Gyeltshen.
He reiterated that those on consolidated contract employees do not have secure future livelihood leading to their poor performance and added that it is also not in line with the principle of the Gross National Happiness to promote happiness and well-being of the citizens.
MP Choki Gyeltshen said even though the consolidated contract employees were employed to solve short term issues, most of them were serving for more than five years. But as per Civil Service Rules and Regulations 2018, the consolidated contract should be time-bound in the project and the programme.
He said that since all consolidated contract employees work as regular employees, there is a general consensus that they are grossly underpaid. “We hope RCSC looks into this issue during its reforms,” added the MP.
Having submitted that, the MP moved the motion to review and regularize the 4622 consolidated contract employee to regular contract employee.
The National Assembly, in general, agreed on the existence of disparity between regular and consolidated contract employees and deliberated in detail the advantages and disadvantages of regularizing the consolidated contract employee to regular contract employee.
The speaker said the government will now discuss this with the RCSC and see the possibilities.
According to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations, consolidated contract employees are paid a lump sum amount as salary, house rent, and repatriation benefits pegged to civil servant position levels but are not eligible for annual increment, contract allowance, Provident Fund (PF) and Pension.
In addition, regular contract employees are eligible for monthly pay, house rent, and repatriation benefits pegged to civil servant position levels and an additional 30 per cent contract allowance but not PF and pension benefits.
As of today, there are 3,700 consolidated contract employees.
Meanwhile, a total of nine oral questions were raised during the Question at the parliament this week.
Among others issues on reduction of parking fees at the Thimphu Thromde Parking areas and provision of personal loans to civil servants above Nu. 500,000 were also deliberated.
Other pertinent questions likethe government’s action to address the current unemployment situation and a status report of the office and human resources set up to review and reform the TVET programme were also asked to the Minister for Labour and Human Resources.
The Minister for Economic Affairs was questioned on the measures and priorities of the Ministry to overcome the challenges of worsening economic situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, plans to increase the country’s exports, and on the plans and measures to provide loan support for the owners of the numerous entertainment houses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.


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Our God, who is Love, doesn’t want anyone to die in their sin. Yet since the beginning of time, man has chosen to follow his own way instead of the way of life in God. Because of man’s tendency toward evil, God established a fair system of justice for our protection very early in time—a system that included a sentence of death for some crimes and immoral behaviors.
Ezekiel 33 reflects this:
“As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?” (verse 11).
“For again I say, when righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and turn to evil, they will die. But if wicked people turn from their wickedness and do what is just and right, they will live” (verses 18-19).
We believe that the concept of God-ordained governments with power to execute judgment on those who do wrong is still upheld in the New Testament. (See Exodus 21, 22, 31, 35; Leviticus 20, 24; Numbers 1, 3, 15, 18, 35; Deuteronomy 13, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24; Joshua 1, 7, 20; Judges 6, 20, 21; 2 Kings 14; 2 Chronicles 15; Ezekiel 33; John 19:10-11 and Romans 13.)
That said, the very first thing we notice as we evaluate the death penalty in light of God’s Word is that God would rather that men repent than be put to death (Psalm 107:8-21; Ezekiel 33:7-20; John 8:4-12; Romans 6:20-23, 11:25-36; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, 7:10; 1 Timothy 2:1-6; 2 Timothy 2:19-26; 2 Peter 3:9.)
The second thing we notice is that God never intended the death penalty to be executed rashly by those simply looking for revenge, but rather that all the evidence be examined by a council in a fair trial (Numbers 35:12; Deuteronomy 19:9-13).
Thirdly, we must recognize that God forbids that anyone be put to death on circumstantial evidence (Numbers 35:12, 35:30; Deuteronomy 17:2-7, 19:9-13, 16-21).
Finally, we must see that God forbids that children be punished for the crimes of their parents (Deuteronomy 24:16, 2 Kings 14:6).
Scripturally, we have seen provisions for the death penalty when it is carried out by a government that follows the guidelines of God’s Word. God has placed a large responsibility on government (Romans 13:1-10), and He has also placed an equally large responsibility on us, the Body of Christ, to act as ministers of reconciliation toward those in need of salvation (2 Corinthians 5:18-21). We may not have the opportunity to judge whether or not a particular man or woman should be freed from a death sentence, but we do have the opportunity to share the gospel.

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Close to 22.40 million copies of Animal Crossing New Horizons has now been sold since the release of the game, for the game becoming second most-selling game on Switch platform.
Animal Crossing New Horizons as we have read, is one of the most successful Nintendo Switch launches ever. But that’s not all, there is more, the game has now touched new heights by breaking another record, that too in Japanese history, by earning the title of one of the best-selling games. Pokemon Red/Green/Blue is on the first while Animal Crossing New Horizons is Second.
To be precise, Pokemon Red/Green/Blue leads by “just” 2.5 million copies– a combination of three games, not one – Now it is entirely possible that Japan’s next new best-selling game might be Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Be informed that Animal Crossing New Horizons has already crossed the sales of Brain Age 2, Super Mario Bros, and even Tetris in japan.
There is no way Animal Crossing New Horizons is staying behind. 350,000 more copies of Animal Crossing New Horizons has been sold. Crossing the sales mark of 7.5 million. Apart from this, the game also eclipsed Gold/Silver completely 4 months’ time and crawling more closer to the sales records of Pokemon Red/Green/Blue.
Such incredible figures have been released by Nintendo in terms of its financial earnings. According to the figures, Animal Crossing New Horizons has increased the number of sales 2 times as compared to its last title, Animal Crossing New Leaf.
It was further revealed, by June 30, 2024, That the most successful games on the platform are none other than Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, people stayed at home, New Horizons took this opportunity and brought people together. In a few last months of Quarantine, the game gave many a commonplace to celebrate real-life achievements of all kinds such as from weddings and birthdays to the Global Pride. Funnily, a talk show from screenwriter Gary Whitta is also conducted on the island.
Animal Crossing New Horizons Ideas
The community is always coming up with new ideas for Animal Crossing New Horizons island. Some of the best ideas are found on Reddit. Filled with so many ideas that one gets overwhelmed to see city fun activities and several layers of masterpieces. Some of them are simply worth trying out.
Some Ideas are listed following;
1. host an art exhibition in Animal Crossing New Horizons
Find a source for your art
Obviously, Before any exhibition takes place you need plenty of beautiful artwork to display. One should be grateful that the game has many unique methods to establish one’s own Art gallery.
Always keep on the lookout for Redd.
This clever fox will pay your island a visit. Get to it to get your hands on some of the good art it has to sell.
Set up your exhibition
Set up a beautiful spot for your website. Use custom flooring and site-marble options for decorations. Then Display your Artwork.
Keep enough space around each piece so that other people can move around. Add a stylish touch using the boundaries and fences. Remember to add benches for people to sit.
Send out your invites
It’s time to invite guests to your party now. Before an event plan set a day and time for everyone to come on. Choose a dress code for the guests to arrive. Then send out invites.
2. Hold a pop Concert In Animal Crossing New Horizons
Make band t-shirts
Make sure your band has some unique t-shirts. This way you can differentiate yourself from other bands around. Show your sense of style.
Set your stage
Find a worthy spot on your island for a dancefloor because of whats a concert without a dance floor, a stage for your band to present upon, and stalls for fun recreation.
So explore the area and look for a decent spot. And choose where your stage will go.
Once the stage is in its place, its time to choose instruments and stylish lights to make it look like an attraction.
Send out invites and your creator ID
Share your merchandise with your friends, head out to the airport, send them an invite, and don’t forget to add your creator ID so they can wear your band shirts as well.