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Anti-inflammatory drug halts strokes in children with rare disease
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have identified a treatment that significantly decreases the risk of stroke in children with a rare genetic disease called DADA2 (deficiency of adenosine deaminase type 2).
Benefits of the Treatment
The disease results when a malfunctioning gene hampers a person's ability to produce the enzyme ADA2 (adenosine deaminase 2). This can lead to inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels, hindering blood flow to the brain and resulting in strokes. The treatment works by blocking the inflammatory effects of a protein - tumor necrosis factor - that is over-produced in people with DADA2 and other autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases. Researchers published their findings in the April 18, 2019, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
"Prior to this treatment, there were 15 children -- out of 25 DADA2 patients in the NIH group -- who had collectively experienced 55 strokes," said Amanda Ombrello, M.D., a staff clinician at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH. "Since starting treatment with the new medications, they have had zero strokes."
Researchers found the treatment for DADA2 just two years after six NIH institutes and the NIH Clinical Center, and a group in Israel, independently discovered the gene variant that causes the disease using a genomic technique called whole exome sequencing.
"Genome sequencing provided the key link that tied together children from around the world with fevers and unexplained strokes. The discovery that all of these children are deficient in the same protein greatly accelerated the search for a treatment," said NHGRI Scientific Director Dan Kastner, M.D., Ph.D. "And having a treatment will bring lifelong benefits to these children and their families."
DADA2 is a rare disease that presents in childhood, even in children less than a year of age. Most patients in the study had tried many medications, including steroids, drugs used for vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels) and anti-coagulant medications that are commonly used in stroke patients to prevent blood clots. None of these were effective in preventing strokes.
Researchers also considered replacing the deficient ADA2 via infusions of fresh frozen plasma, a blood product that can be obtained from blood donors, but this treatment was unsuccessful in maintaining a higher ADA2 level. Some DADA2 patients at other institutions had received hematopoietic stem cell transplant (stem cells that give rise to all other blood cells), which successfully treated the disease symptoms.
A key insight came when researchers noticed TNF staining around inflamed blood vessels in the patients' skin biopsies. That led them to test anti-TNF medications as a possible treatment.
"Our success in the DADA2 patients with stroke gives us hope about the potential of anti-TNF agents for improving many other aspects of DADA2," Dr. Ombrello said.
In addition to stopping strokes, researchers observed significant improvement in laboratory studies such as inflammatory markers, iron and red blood cell counts. They also observed remarkable catch-up growth in the patients. The persistent inflammation patients experienced prior to treatment prevented them from gaining weight and height.
In the next steps of their work, researchers will monitor the effect of anti-TNF treatment on the other manifestations of DADA2 such as liver disease, severe anemia and skin rashes.
The 2014 studies also raise the possibility that disruptions in the ADA2 pathway may contribute to susceptibility to stroke in the general population. Thus, this new medication may prove useful in at least some older patients who have suffered from strokes for an unknown reason.
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If being the spiritual successor to what many still call the scariest game ever made wasn’t enough, Bioshock had to take home a lot of “Best of E3” awards on top of it. This was all well and good for the people lucky enough to see it behind closed doors, but for anyone shut out like me, the game remained this promising sounding title that we’d only seen a paltry few screens of.
IGN has been lucky enough to get its hands on over ten minutes of footage from the game, taken from the Xbox 360 version (the game is also heading to PC and PlayStation 3) and focuses mostly on the graphics and artificial intelligence, while detailing a little bit of its backstory.
For anyone not keeping tabs, Bioshock is set in a secret underwater civilization that was built in the late Forties as a Utopia for the elite. The smartest of the smart lived there, and quickly their work in genetic research far surpassed what people were doing on the surface above. They discovered something called “Adam,” which enabled them to reshape their own DNA to give them new and improved skills and abilities. This became the currency for the civilization, and as greed and excessive modification swept through the civilization, like many others, it fell.
Your character discovers this place, which is no longer civilized but still populated, after your plane crashes in the ocean near its secret entrance. It’s the only place for you to go, so you go there, presumably to try and find safe passage back to land and to perhaps uncover its secrets while there.
Technically the game isn’t doing anything particularly new or notable, but artistically the combination of submariner environments mixed with a late Forties style of décor and architecture is a strikingly different direction than most games.
They want you to feel like the ocean is trying to break in and drown you, and judging from the video, they’ve made great strides in that direction.
The twisted creatures that dwell there, though, do not all necessarily want to kill you on sight. Two such types were the “big daddies” and the “little sisters”. The little sisters are thin, frail, and gaunt-looking little girls who go about harvesting and reprocessing Adam from dead bodie, by extracting it with a nasty looking syringe and then injecting it into themselves.
The big daddies’ job is to protect and escort the little sisters. These slow moving brutes wear diving suits, and their heavy metal boats make for a very recognizable sound. So long as you leave the little sisters alone, they’ll ignore you. Get too close and they’ll push you away. Persist and they’ll resort to more extreme measures.
Irrational Games really wants you to feel like these creatures are living, breathing things, and as such they’re set up to just go about their business dynamically. You’ll be able to choose whether to engage, avoid, or to try and enlist the help of these and other people (if you can still call them that) as you play through the game, and it’s just one facet of what is being touted as a very open-ended experience.
Little is shown of the skill system (based around Adam of course) and what abilities you’ll be able to discover and upgrade, and very little of the story is being shown either. But artistically, the design, animation, and imagination of this game are amazing, and the AI is looking very interesting.
All things staying on course, we should have a very deep and scary experience to look forward to when 2K Games release the game next year. If you’re interested in taking a look for yourself (and I recommend it), you can do so on IGN. People on dial-up modems need not apply.
Tell us of your plans for an underwater utopia in our forums!

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From the RIA archives: “Uhuru Radio: Live Interview with Omali Yeshitela: Special Broadcast! ‘Reparations in Action'”
Tune in for this special re-broadcast of the online radio show “Reparations in Action!” to be aired on Sunday, June 19, 2016. This archived broadcast will feature an exclusive interview with Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party, “Hosted by the Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, Penny Hess. Find out ‘the truth about racial injustice,’ how things got the way they are and what is the road forward for white people as we build for the Days in Solidarity with African People campaign around the world! Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss what African and oppressed peoples everywhere are trying to say to us and to the world and what it is that we can and must do to rectify our history of opportunism and parasitic capitalism that has given us opportunity, prosperity and social wealth at the expense of black and brown people. Learn why we must know this truth that our teachers never taught us and which is in our interest to learn if we aspire to a just, peaceful world with shared prosperity and justice.” From September 23, 2012.

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Summited Granite Mt yesterday and had a blast.
This was actually my 2nd attempt, my first attempt was 2 weeks earlier: When I had arrived at the trailhead there were about a dozen people all gathering, and I noticed none of them had an an ice axe, and all were wearing microspikes, so I decided to leave my ice axe and crampons in the car. I passed all of them on the way up, none made it as far as I did, but eventually I had to turn around because I kept sliding on steeper parts with only micropsikes and had no ice axe to self arrest. I probably should have turned around sooner. I also shouldn't have been a sheep and tried matching other people's gear.
So yesterday I came back with crampons, mountaineering boots, an ice axe and even a whippet. At the 2 mile mark where the opening to the first avalanche chute is, I noticed a group of 4 going straight up it in a vertical line, not really sticking to the normal trail. But I figure If they could do it, I could too (with the gear I brought this time). I was able to catch up, but eventually 2 of them turned around due to the steepness. The 2 others that stayed struggled a little with their snowshoes/microspikes, so I was trying to carve a path for them w/ my crampons. Everyone had an ice axe though and we all used them at times.
We stopped for a few minutes at the watchtower at the top, and then hurried down taking the same path we took up; down the avalanche chute. We ended up just glissading down the whole thing, and it was a total blast. Really one of the best glissades I've ever done, better than Adams, St Helens or Rainier. Texture of snow and angle was just perfect. Was down in like 5 min.

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Panorama Hotel & Resort
A stylish 4-star hotel set in a wild and beautiful landscape facing the open ocean west of Bergen.
Renovated and extended in 2011, the Panorama Hotel & Resort is a hotel with a very high standard. The hotel has a unique interior design featuring local coastal culture in a modern setting. The hotel is situated just 40 minutes drive from the centre of Bergen, but still enjoys the tranquillity and peace unique to this ocean landscape.
All rooms have wonderful views, half have fjord views. The proximity to the sea means there is a great variety of activities.
About the hotel
- You can hire boats, bicycles, fishing equipment and kayaks
- The hotel offers kayaking courses
- Short-distance food
- White-tailed eagle safari and archipelago cruises available
- Spectacular walks and view points from which to admire the ocean just outside the front door
- Restaurant and bar with an ocean view

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WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING
“Chris has helped me uncover and shed beliefs and behaviors holding me back as a leader and replacing them with healthy ones that unleash my potential.”— Steven Vandenbossche, CFO, The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc.
“Other coaches didn’t have what Chris has; we wouldn’t be where we are today without him.”— Peggy Rupp, Vice President, Rupp Seed Company
“Chris played the pivotal support role to me in our clean exit from an incompatible distribution business.”— Drew Milligan, Chairman & Co-Founder, Bionix Development Corporation
“Chris provided a critical ear to hear myself talk. Our conversations surfaced the issues I needed to deal with.”— Steve Hirzel, President, Hirzel Canning Company
“Chris challenged me to reflect at a deeper level and instilled insights that serve as gifts that keep on giving.”— Bruce Smith, Chair & CEO, Detroit Manufacturing Systems

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Athletics' governing body has admitted that Dwain Chambers' revelations to BBC Sport could see the sprinter lose all his medals from 2002 onwards.
Chambers told the BBC that he had used the steroid THG from the start of 2002 - 18 months before he was caught.
Istvan Gyulai of the International Association of Athletics said: "There will be a further investigation.
"An athlete who admits to having used drugs can, for eight years after it happened, have his results annulled."
Chambers won European 100m gold in 2002 and followed that with another gold as part of the 4x100m relay team.
But he could now see those results scratched - which could mean that his Great Britain relay team-mates Christian Malcolm, Marlon Devonish and Darren Campbell also lose their golds.
Chambers could also have his British record of 9.87 seconds, which he ran in September 2002, annulled.
He tested positive for THG in August 2003, a result which cost the same relay squad their silver medals from the World Championships that year.
Gyulai, who has requested a copy of the BBC's interview with Chambers, said: "We have to check from the legal point of view if this is an admission or not.
"Dwain is saying he took it, but had no idea it was prohibited.
"But if this is an admission, all his results from when he said he started taking it will have to be annulled."
European Athletics Association president Hansjorg Wirtz echoed Gyulai's comments.
He said: "The EAA has a zero-tolerance policy on doping.
"We abide by IAAF rules, so we will follow the lead from the IAAF in regard to any possible annulment of the results of Chambers."
The GB men's team could even be stripped of the European Cup which they won in Annecy in June 2002.
Britain won the competition by just four points, with Chambers' win in the 100m contributing eight points to that overall tally.
David Moorcroft, chief executive of UK Athletics, promised to study the BBC's interview with Chambers.
He said: "I look forward to working with the IAAF and EAA on the implications of championship medals and records set by Chambers."
The precedents for Chambers are not encouraging.
Ben Johnson tested positive for steroids at the 1988 Olympics, but when he later admitted taking banned drugs earlier in his career, he was stripped of the world record that he had set a year earlier in 1987.


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WGN, who’s been having quite the streak with excellent original content (Salem & Manhattan FTW!), is about to bring a brand new original series into the fold early next year — roughly two months away — and this new show is ALL kinds of ridiculous and amazing at the same time. The series is called Wrestling with Death, which — according to the show’s Facebook page — is a “unique family docu-series.” Wrestling with Death will be WGN America’s first unscripted series, and will introduce the world to The Lathams, who run The Wilson Funeral Home in Osceola, Arkansas as morticians by day, and run The Mid-Southern Championship Wrestling League as professional wrestlers by night.” SOLD!
This show is essentially early-1990’s Undertaker’s gimmick and down-home independent professional wrestling? The show is brought to us by Bischoff Hervey Entertainment, run by — YOU GUESSED IT — former WCW Executive Vice President Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey (you know, “Wayne” from The Wonder Years), and is executive-produced by Leftfield Pictures’ Brent Montgomery and David George of Pawn Stars. Wrestling with Death will be kicking off the new year with thirteen weeks of unscripted original episodes and is set to premiere Tuesday, January 13 (10:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. CT).


Manufacturing thousands of locks every day takes dependable people and precise processes – not to mention reliable equipment. So when Master Lock needs conveyor systems to move shackles, plugs and tumblers through the manufacturing process, Dorner is the perfect fit.
“I’ve been here for more than 30 years, and as far as I can remember we’ve always had Dorner conveyors operating here,” said Tony Lenhof, technical advisor, Master Lock. “We run them in a variety of environments; they’re very reliable pieces of equipment.”
Founded in 1921, Master Lock is the world’s largest manufacturer of padlocks and related security products providing innovative security solutions for home, automotive, campus, power sports, bike and storage security needs for consumers and contractors alike. Oak Creek, Wis.,-based Master Lock designs and builds a variety of combination and key locks for both indoor and outdoor applications.
But manufacturing all those different styles of locks is no easy feat. Master Lock has about 20 Dorner conveyors operating in its Milwaukee facility, with most performing in-feed and out-feed functions. Although the various parts of a lock are lightweight, they are steel components, and the conveyors need to be robust to handle the parts as they travel throughout the manufacturing process.
Through the years the company has used a mix of conveyors, including early model 2100 and 4100 Series to more modern MPB and 3200 Series. Even the Slug-o-Matic, a conveyor series Dorner sold during the early 1970s, is still operating at Master Lock.
Not surprisingly, the Slug-o-Matic was originally designed to remove small slugs from tight places inside stamping presses. Soon thereafter, other customers beyond metal stamping discovered the conveyor?s low profile could be used in other tight-fitting places. If a museum of sorts for conveyors existed, the Slug-o-Matic would certainly be on display. But the fact that the eight-foot long, two-inch wide blue conveyor is still being used decades later to move tumblers is a testament to its durability and functionality.
“I think Master Lock got its money’s worth out of that one,” Lenhof said about the Slug-o-Matic. “It’s still going strong for us, so we’re going to keep using it.”
The 3200 Series is one of the newer conveyor series in action at Master Lock. It’s being used to move keys to vibratory feeder bowls for cutting. The application involves an eight-foot long, six-inch wide cleated conveyor standing almost upright from the floor. A bin holding thousands of uncut brass keys automatically deposits a few keys at timed intervals on the conveyor. Keys travel up to a vibratory feeder bowl, where they are separated and positioned for cutting. A clear plastic shield covers the length of the conveyor to prevent dirt and debris from coming in contact with the keys.
The 3200 Series is manufactured with fully sealed bearings for low maintenance, strong, anodized aluminum alloy frame, and a rack-and-pinion design for fast, single-point belt tensioning. It comes with V-guide tracking, which eliminates any lateral movement of the conveyor?s belt; widths between 3.75 and 48 inches, and lengths from four to 99 feet.
In the finishing room, an eight-foot long, 12-inch wide 2200 Series is used to move freshly painted padlock dials to be stacked and dried. An employee sits alongside the conveyor and visually inspects each dial, and applies any touch-up paint as required. Since people are working close to the conveyors, safety of equipment is a must. That’s why Master Lock examines the safety features of all equipment as a factor for consideration prior to purchase.
“Safety is very important here, and the reason why we properly train our employees who engage the conveyor systems,” Lenhof said. “We feel the Dorner conveyors are very safe pieces of equipment, and as far as I know we haven’t had any safety-related issues with them.”
Dorner’s 2200 Series is available in flat belt end drive, cleated belt end drive, center drive and gravity roller models. It has a low profile as small as 1.25 inches, making it fit into tight places, such as under a press, with ease. Other features include a V-guide bed plate and belt for positive belt tracking, load capacity up to 120 pounds, widths up to 2 feet and lengths up to 18 feet.
Another conveyor platform, Dorner’s Modular Plastic Belt (MPB), performs out-feed functions by taking U-shaped shackles that lock into place, to additional processing. The 10-foot long conveyor is positioned about six feet in the air and moves the shackles about seven feet to be heat treated. Supported from a conveyor stand on the floor, the conveyor is situated in a manner that keeps employees safe and prevents them from walking through. Its modular plastic belt makes the MPB virtually cut resistant, and also durable for more industrial and harsh environments.
From a durability standpoint, Lenhof said aside from belt changes and periodic bearing replacements, the conveyors have been virtually maintenance free. Master Lock runs three shifts, six to seven days a week, and as such the conveyors operate around the clock. Lenhof does have a bench stock of common replacement parts to minimize conveyor downtime when maintenance is required.
“We’re very pleased with Dorner conveyors,” he said. “From a preventive maintenance standpoint, the equipment really doesn’t need any, and that’s the kind of equipment we want to buy.”


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The Chicago office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging a Chicago Board Options Exchange trader and hedge fund manager with four counts of fraud, alleging he bilked investors out of $21 million.
SEC charges local trader with fraud
The SEC filed a complaint against Edward Thomas Jung and his firm, ETJ Partners Ltd., which also did business as E. Thomas Jung Partners Ltd. The SEC alleges Mr. Jung used investor assets to keep his broker-dealer business afloat and to finance his own personal trading.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, also claims Mr. Jung falsely inflated financial results of the private hedge fund, Strategic Income Fund, to comfort investors when, in reality, the fund suffered losses several years in a row.
Mr. Jung "knew, or was reckless in not knowing, that the results for the entire firm, including expenses, were materially worse than the results shown" to investors, the complaint says.
Funds registered with the SEC must offer audited financial data and information about holdings. Strategic Income Fund was an unregistered fund and did not file such information.
From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Jung collected more than $24.8 million in cash and securities from 60 individual investors, according to the complaint, but he diverted up to $21 million to stem losses at his failing hedge fund and for personal trading.
Daniel R. Gregus, assistant regional director for the SEC, said the agency is seeking civil penalties--including fines up to $110,000 per violation--and an injunction that could bar Mr. Jung from working in certain segments of the securities industry if he's found guilty.
Mr. Jung was not available for comment. His attorney, Jeffrey Colman, a partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago, would not comment, saying he has not seen the complaint.

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GM of Luno from the African region, Marius Reitz, believes that 2022 will be the year when the African country, Kenya, will increase the adoption of cryptocurrencies. He bases his prediction on the P2P trade volume which is relatively higher in Kenya than any other African country for the past two years.
For almost two consecutive years, Kenya has been one of the top adopters of crypto through large-scale P2P trade volume. But would Kenya be able to repeat the same level of adoption for the year 2022 as well? For Luno’s GM namely Marius Reitz, Kenya would be able to dominate in terms of crypto adoption for this year as well.
Reitz had been looking at the affairs of Luno, which itself is a crypto firm operating in the African region also. He has been closely monitoring the crypto adoption in the region and has had issued crypto reports/analyses several times. Very recently, he made some predictions regarding the future of crypto in Kenya.
Firstly he predicted that crypto adoption in Kenya will again be on the higher side for 2022. He also said that there is a great deal of crypto understanding amongst Kenyans. Similarly, Kenyans have become acquainted with blockchain and how blockchain is used for sending instant transactions. He believes that crypto adoption continues to boom in Kenya at a rapid pace. Also, there is a mushroom growth of blockchain companies throughout Kenya, noted Reitz.
He also made mention of the ongoing competition between the top African countries, namely South Africa and Kenya, in terms of P2P trade volume. He said that there was a time when South Africa was the pioneer amongst African states with regard to trade volumes in P2P. However, the title of South African has now been taken by Kenya where, for the past two years, P2P trade volume is the highest. For the two consecutive years namely 2020 and 2021, Kenya hasn’t been allowing any other African state to take a lead. On this basis, Reitz believes that the year 2022 will also be no different than the past two years.
He also pointed out that so far African crypto space is moving in the direction without any hurdles. He noted that the regulation debate in the region is not that strong as it is in other countries. It would therefore be safe to suggest that the South African market is currently the safest in the world.


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- We now know, that crop circles appeared around Alton Barnes already in the 40s and 50s. This means nearly 40 years before the first examples of the ‘modern phenomenon’ were discovered here for the first time and made headlines world-wide.
- We also see a geometrical evolution between the two examples described by Mrs. Carson: Already a ring (with no flattened centre) resembles a higher order in geometrical complexity, but the addition of a second concentric ring of the same width but flattened in opposite directions even takes it another step further.
- It is of further note that ‘Doug & Dave’, the two pensioners famous for their questionable claim to have invented the phenomenon in the late 1970s and that they were “responsible for all crop circles” until their coming-out in 1991, never claimed to have worked in the Pewsey Valley at all. They also claimed that they had been inspired by so-called “saucer nests” discovered in the 1960s in Australia but not from early examples in the UK.
- Carson’s memory puts their claims for inventing the British crop circle phenomenon again in major question.
Farming Wife Recalls Appearance of Crop Circles in Wiltshire in the 1940s and 50s
Researchers behind the “Crop Circle Exhibition & Center” report a major breakthrough in tracing back the crop circle phenomenon in the world’s hotspot – the village of Alton Barnes in Pewsey Valley in the heart of the south-western British county of Wiltshire. The memories of Shirley Carson, mother of East Field farmer Tim Carson, reveal that the area not only plays a key role in the modern-day crop circle phenomenon – but also hosted crop circles already in the 1940s and 50s.
Having organised and curated the very first exhibition on crop circles and the research behind the phenomenon in a science museum in 2014, crop circle researchers Monique Klinkenbergh and Andreas Müller present the extended version of their exhibition this year at the newly renovated barn house of The Barge Inn, a local pub at Honeystreet (near Alton Barnes) in Wiltshire.
Parallel to the exhibition and information centre, the two researchers also ask their visitors – especially local farmers and residents to crop circle fields – to share their experience with the phenomenon and carry out field investigation and interviews with the eyewitness.
In the course of this search Klinkenbergh and Müller learnt of the crop circle related memories of Mrs. Shirley Carson, mother of Tim Carson of Manor Farm in Alton Barnes, who farms the famous East Field at Alton Barnes, a field that played host to some of the most intricate and famous modern day crop circles.
Speaking with Shirley Carson in person it became clear that she remembers two crop circle events she had experienced herself during her childhood.
The first event happened in the late 1940s:
“One day my father came home from the fields and was quite exited, because he had discovered a circular ring flattened into the crop and wondered about what could have caused it. Its diameter was about 30 feet (10m) in diameter and its path was something like half a meter wide. My Father was a down to earth and rational man, he explained it soon to have been the work of an eerie whirlwind or dust twister – the ones you can see lifting up straw and dirt on a road. He thought this would be a reasonable explanation for this ring.”
The second event happened in the early 1950s:
“This first explanation became questioned just a few years later when my father discovered another ‘circle’, but now made of two concentric rings of a similar size. While the crop in the inner circle was precisely laid in one direction (clockwise or anti-clockwise) the outer ring was laid in the opposite direction. In the view of this new “circle” we all realized that this could hardly bee explained by by a whirlwind anymore.”
“We had no idea what could have caused it. But we did not wonder to much about it. However, we took it as a little mystery.”
“It was a time when the fields had no tramlines (the tractor’s drive-ways through the fields) yet, so the rings center in both cases was in the middle of undisturbed standing crop and while both circles were placed not two far from the field’s edge, also this (feature) was kind of a mystery to us.
Both events were discovered in fields on the left hand-side between New Town and Old Shaw Village below Furze Hill.
While Shirley Carson herself clearly remembers the two “crop rings” she is not aware of any older and similar discoveries told by her grandparents and parents nor of anything after that: “…until the crop circle thing started again in the 1980s”. She added: “There might have been circles and formations of course, but I am not aware of that.”
While the story could be regarded by some as one of many vivid memories by farm family members, this case holds major clues for a better understanding not only of the modern day crop circle phenomenon in general but also for its past history dating back decades and even centuries ago.
While crop circle researchers already learnt of other old crop circles in Wiltshire fields, like at the nearby Devizes in the 1920s or around the famous stone circle of Stonehenge in the 1960s, until now such reports from around East Field within Pewsey Valley were unknown and crop circles here were thought to have appeared here for the first time in the early 1990s (see images above).
Now we have a confirmation that crop circles also appeared in what is seen by many of the ‘homeland’ of the modern day phenomenon already in the 1940s and 50s. And this has several implications:


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New Mexico : Safety by City
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Surrounded by the picturesque Four Corners region of the American Southwest, Farmington, New Mexico, offers visitors a gateway to adventure.
Originally inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans over 1,000 years ago, early Navajo settlers later called this area home.
A strong culture still stands on this land today, in spirit and in the cultural activities you can enjoy.
In the late 1800s, Farmington sprang up along the banks of the Animas River as a trading post for traders, trappers, and Navajos.
While maintaining its Wild West spirit, the city has developed into a diverse community with strong Native American roots.
Beyond its rich history, Farmington entices travelers with its proximity to incredible landscapes.
Just minutes from downtown, you can explore the crimson-red rocks and soaring sandstone cliffs of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness.
Check out the supernatural stories surrounding the allegedly haunted Animas River or search for petrified wood and fossilized dinosaur tracks.
From hiking and biking to museums and cultural sites, Farmington lets you immerse yourself in the magic of the Four Corners region.
What are the Four Corners?
It’s where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.
You can stand in all four states at one time.
That’s just an hour from Farmington and opens the door to the adventures of neighboring states as well.
Warnings & Dangers in Farmington
OVERALL RISK: MEDIUM
There's a medium risk in Farmington, with crime rates that are up to 260% higher than the national average. While there are some safety concerns to discuss, there are also a lot of great places to explore in this community that aren't in dangerous areas.
TRANSPORT & TAXIS RISK: LOW
Red Apple Transit is a small, regional system that goes between Farmington and surrounding towns. You can also get a taxi or rideshare easily here, but having a rental car gives you the most flexibility to explore the region for the best price.
PICKPOCKETS RISK: MEDIUM
With an average of 22 pickpockets per year, there's a medium risk here. Use extra caution when you're at festivals or events with large crowds and don't carry more than the bare essentials with you.
NATURAL DISASTERS RISK: MEDIUM
This is another medium risk with impactful weather throughout the year. Wildfires and flooding are the biggest risks, while severe thunderstorms and winter storms can impact travel and outdoor activities. You need to stay weather aware while you're here.
MUGGING RISK: LOW
The robbery rate is at the national average, but only a small percentage are muggings. Most happen in private homes or local businesses. Stay in well-lit areas at night and don't walk around by yourself.
TERRORISM RISK: LOW
This is a low risk as this is just such a remote area in all directions. You can still stay on top of nationwide or regional terrorism concerns by signing up for the Terrorism Advisory Bulletin released by Homeland Security every few months.
SCAMS RISK: LOW
Utility scams and scammers posing at the police chief are the most recent issues, but those are targeting residents. You should just avoid any situation where something is too good to be true. Never give personal information to someone who calls you. You can check the police department's social media sites to see the latest scams closer to your visit.
WOMEN TRAVELERS RISK: MEDIUM
Statistically, women are slightly less likely to be a victim of a violent crime in Farmington. However, you should still treat it as a medium risk because of the high theft and crime rates. It will help to know some desert wilderness survival skills and always let someone know where you are going and when you plan to be back.
TAP WATER RISK: LOW
The 2022 Water Quality Report shows no violations and full compliance in Farmington. More pressing issues could arise during your trip from frozen pipes, water main breaks, flooding, or other issues that impact water quality and pressure. Those would be reported through social media channels of the city and county. For water quality in the lakes and rivers, check with the New Mexico Environment Department.
Safest Places to Visit in Farmington
Farmington does have its own tourist site, but it’s a name close to the city’s website.
You can download the Digital Vacation Guide from the tourism website without having to give personal information.
Also, check the Vacation Deals section to see if there’s a way to save money on your trip.
The travel guide also covers things to do in Aztec, New Mexico, which is 15 miles away.
Downtown is the “Heart of Farmington.”
Here you’ll find an array of shops and restaurants with sculptures along the way as part of the “Art in the Heart” project.
Summer brings the Friday night concert series, and art walks are held monthly.
Thursday nights bring a Maker’s Market weekly from June through October.
Farmington has several museums to visit as well.
- Bolack Electromechanical Museum: Learn how agriculture, power, and communications evolved in this remote region.
- Bolack Museum of Fish and Wildlife: This museum features a diverse collection of over 280 mounted North American birds and mammals, educational exhibits about regional wildlife and conservation, displays on the history of hunting and fishing, Native American artifacts, and scenic nature trails on the grounds.
- E3 Children’s Museum & Science Center: The kids (and adults, too!) will love this hands-on and interactive museum with programs scheduled throughout the year to make each visit unique.
- Farmington Museum: This isn’t your average history museum, as you will see when a dinosaur greets you on the way in. Culture, art, and artifacts celebrate the history of the land.
- Museum of Navajo Art & Culture: Learn more about Navajo art, history, and cultural traditions through weavings, pottery, jewelry, contemporary art, interactive exhibits, oral histories, and interpretive programs that provide an enriching understanding of the Navajo Nation.
You can explore the great outdoors in Farmington by walking more than eight miles along the Animas River Trail system.
A trail guide can be downloaded on the city’s website.
If water trails are more your thing, head to the Animas River White Water Park.
Kayaks and tubes are seasonally available to rent.
Look for the different adventure companies on the tourism website so you can have a safe trip guided by an expert.
Everything from jeep tours to horseback riding to ATV trail exploration are available.
Lake Farmington is a wonderful spot to cool off on a hot summer day or go fishing any time of year.
Night fishing is also available.
Just make sure you have a New Mexico Fishing License, which you can purchase online through the New Mexico Department of Fish & Game.
Campsites are also available.
The lake has a beach with water rides for rent.
The small lake is great for stand-up paddleboarding.
The Four Corners monument, where New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah meet, is 60 miles away.
It’s worth the drive to Aztec to check out the Aztec Ruins National Monument.
This ancient pueblo dates back more than 900 years.
Several self-guided tours are available through the National Park Service.
Places to Avoid in Farmington
The central and southeast parts of Farmington have the highest property and violent crime rates, but there’s only one sliver of the northwest residential side of town that seems to be safe on both accounts.
That said, a mass shooting in 2023 happened in a neighborhood that wasn’t in that part of town.
The west side of town, where a hotel was condemned, was also known for high crime rates.
This is definitely a city where you should stay in the areas designed for tourists and in the entertainment districts.
Use major highways and surface streets to get around.
Don’t cut through neighborhoods.
Looking at overall crime maps, the area north of 20th Street and west of Dustin Avenue seems the safest.
When you’re driving in rural areas, take note of these things to avoid ending up in an emergency situation.
- Check the NM Roads website before you leave to look for closures, accidents, and hazards.
- Check the weather forecast along the route you’ll be traveling.
- Fill up with gas at every opportunity.
- Bring an emergency supply kit, including a gallon of water per person, and seasonal needs like a blanket in the winter. You should have jumper cables and a spare tire that is inflated too.
- Don’t drive through a dust storm. Pull over on the side of the road and wait it out.
- Always know the last mile marker you passed when driving.
- Don’t rely on mobile service when you are in remote areas.
Safety Tips for Traveling to Farmington
- Farmington has its own police department. You can find them on Facebook at @FarmingtonPoliceDepartmentNM. You can email specific safety questions to email@example.com or call (505) 599-1053.
- You can sign up for alerts through the city’s website, which will cover local emergencies like flooding, storm damage, or shelter-in-place orders. You should also choose a reliable weather app with notifications enabled for severe weather in the region. The National Weather Service in Albuquerque covers Farmington’s forecast, but you can get specific safety information on the NWS website for just Farmington.
- The weather information should be paired with the best safety practices for outdoor recreation. In July 2022, a kayaker was navigating in windy conditions without wearing a life vest. He went under and didn’t survive.
- Farmington Police have an LGBTQIA+ Liaison. You can contact Captain Kyle Dowdy at firstname.lastname@example.org if you have questions.
- Farmington has a Mennonite community, which is similar to the Amish people. These are peaceful people who usually live in humble homes and farm the land to make a living. They wear simple clothing, usually handmade, with women donning bonnets.
- Follow the city of Farmington on YouTube @CityofFarmingtonNewMexico505 to get updated information from the mayor and community leaders about new activities to enjoy in the region.
- With the large Indigenous culture and land here, it’s helpful for visitors to know that when you’re on Indigenous land, you are on sovereign territory. The Navajo Nation Off-Reservation Trust Land has its own law enforcement and leaders.
- The casino in Farmington follows all the laws of New Mexico, even though it’s on Indigenous land. You must be 21 years old to gamble. Some casinos might not allow alcohol on the casino floor.
- For those visiting the Four Corners while you’re here, you should know that there is no power or water at this location. The closest gas station is 30 miles away. The Navajo Nation runs this park, not the National Park Service.
- If you come across a pothole while driving in Farmington, you are encouraged to report it by calling (505)599-8207.
So... How Safe Is Farmington Really?
Farmington is unsafe for many reasons, and it goes far beyond the crime rates.
A New York Times article in 2020 quoted a neighbor who said the city was in a “Death Spiral.”
The mining and coal industries that kept this city alive for decades are now tapering off, leaving many people without jobs that were once turnkey opportunities right out of high school.
Add to that all the challenges of the COVID lockdowns and Farmington being the fastest-shrinking city in the nation for the past decade or so.
Then there’s the fact that one in five people in the town lives in poverty, and even being middle class here is seen as the wealthier side of town.
Things went from bad to worse in 2023 when an 18-year-old mass shooter walked down the street, shooting randomly at people, killing three elderly women and wounding six more before being shot and killed by police.
The police chief said the shooting was “honestly one of the most horrific and difficult days that Farmington has ever had as a community.”
Farmington Deputy Chief Kyle Dowdy added, “The amount of violence and brutality that these innocent people faced is something that is unconscionable to me.
And I don’t care what age you are.
I don’t care what else is going on in your life.
To kill three innocent elderly women that were just absolutely in no position to defend themselves is always going to be a tragedy.”
Police also faced backlash a month earlier when they responded to a domestic violence incident and went to the wrong home.
The homeowner who answered the door ended up being shot and killed by police, and that man had nothing to do with the original call for help.
While mass shootings and officer-involved shootings can happen in any American city, Farmington is just getting a lot of challenges piled on while it’s simply trying to survive for the next generation.
“When I first moved here, Farmington was a very peaceful, quiet, kind of like an isolated, hidden place.
We’re getting just as bad, and it’s scary,” a neighbor said in 2023.
For a visitor to Farmington, there are those safe places to visit we discussed.
We’d be having a different conversation if you were thinking of moving here.
It might be helpful to know that more than 80% of violent crimes are among people who know each other, and 44% happen in private homes.
High theft rates are catapulted by 47% of all thefts being shoplifting.
Nearly 25% of those thefts are related to car break-ins, which can easily be avoided by locking your car doors and leaving nothing personal or valuable inside.
At the same time, the city is taking safety steps of its own.
For example, a hotel that was in a high-crime area and known to be a habitual spot for crime and problems on the property was closed and will be torn down.
Visiting Farmington isn’t like walking through the southside of Chicago by any means, but you do need to stay aware at all times and use a heaping dose of common sense.
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International visitors need a visa or visa waiver to get into the country, whether that's at the airport or crossing the Mexican border. A valid passport that isn't within six months of expiring is needed as well.
Only the U.S. Dollar can be used here. Take care of currency exchange at home or in a larger city before you get to Farmington. Use credit cards as much as possible for the best fraud protection.
Farmington gets wide swings in temperatures throughout the year and sometimes in one day. The arid climate means it can be chilly in the morning, scorching in the summer evening, and then cold again at night. Winter nights get below freezing. It's a casual town where you don't need to pack fancy shoes or attire. Be sure you have hiking boots and outdoor gear for the wilderness areas. Sunscreen is important too!
Albuquerque International Sunport is the closest major airport, and that's about three hours southwest of Farmington. A smaller airport in Durango, Colorado, is 40 miles north with service from American Airlines and United. Four Corners Regional Airport in Farmington doesn't have commercial flights as of this publication, but there are plans to bring back that service eventually. Check the city's website before you plan a trip to see if that has changed.
Travel insurance is a wise investment to protect against unforeseen circumstances or accidents along the way. Make sure you have travel health insurance if your personal plan doesn't cover emergency care in New Mexico.
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I am fascinated by the bipolar swings in sentiment toward Apple Inc. Last September, it was a magical company that could do no wrong. But by mid-April, Apple's share price had plunged more than 40 percent, from a peak of $705 to less than $400. Pundits were darkly warning that the "age of Apple" might already be ending.
The black mood has ebbed a bit in the past week. Apple's quarterly earnings weren't as bad as some had feared, and it announced an epic stock buyback. At the end of April, Apple raised $17 billion at low interest rates through the biggest non-bank corporate bond deal in history.
I make no judgment about Apple's stock value. It may have been overpriced last fall, and it might be underpriced right now. Let the manic-depressives decide.
But I am willing to predict that the age of Apple is far from over. I study companies based on their underlying "dynamic capabilities," their deeply embedded capacities to sense change, seize new opportunities, shape markets, and periodically reinvent themselves.
Dynamic capabilities are about more than a company's operating efficiency, financial strength, or even patent portfolio. They are about its deeper institutional ability to innovate, adapt, and compete in a networked world of constant change and of complex business "ecosystems." Can the company get beyond its first breakthrough success and keep coming back with new miracles? Is it at the center of a robust ecosystem? How experienced is it at reinvention and redeploying its resources?
We all know that tech breakthroughs have a short half-life, and we have seen technological change bring even legendary companies to their knees -- just look at Kodak, Polaroid, Digital Equipment, or, more recently, Sun Microsystems.
By contrast, dynamic capabilities take a very long time to acquire. But here is the key: Once a company has those capabilities, they hold up for a very long time and are extremely difficult to replicate.
Under Steve Jobs, Apple obviously had a system down. It didn't simply create new products. It created and revolutionized entirely new product categories, from personal computing and online music to smartphones and tablets.
It's true that Jobs was an almost sui generis leader. He had blazing vision, aesthetic as much as technological, and a passion that were entirely his own. It's also true that Jobs didn't leave behind a secret recipe. But he did instill an approach to innovation, a set of beliefs about what people really want, and -- perhaps most important -- a hard-won experience about how to implement those values in practice. All that is embedded in Apple's DNA and muscle memory.
Jobs didn't run Apple single-handedly, especially during his last several years. The company was simply too big, and he was too sick. What Jobs did was imprint Apple with strong dynamic capabilities: a powerful management team that understood his approach; a deep institutional knowledge about the process of reinvention; and a powerful ecosystem of business partners, suppliers, and collaborators.
"There is no system,'' Jobs once told an interviewer.
Apple is a disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Innovation comes from meeting people in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea... It comes from saying no to 1,000 things, to make sure we don't get on the wrong track.
If it were that simple, of course, Eastman Kodak might still be on top of world.
But a few companies, and I would argue that Apple is one of them, have internalized what it takes to stay in front. These companies have organized themselves for constant strategic innovation. They know how to adapt their mission and redeploy their strengths in a quicksilver world.
That is what is so enduring about a company like Apple. Its dynamic capabilities are like a neural network: intricate webs of neurons and pathways that have evolved or been trained over a very long time. It's like the difference between the raw talent of a 15-year-old tennis prodigy and the prowess of a Roger Federer. Federer devoted years to training and experimentation, and his skills are embedded in muscle memory and instinct. It's one reason he remained champion far longer than most people expected.
Organizations can have muscle memory too -- not just of Steve Jobs as a person, but of his values, approaches, and insights into what people really wanted from technology.
Steve Jobs is gone, but you don't have to be sentimental to say that his legacy will last for a very long time. And so will Apple.


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Exposed to more traumas in a month than the general public experiences in a lifetime, cops have a higher incidence of substance abuse, divorce and suicide. Today across the country, counselors and therapists are speaking out --- it's time to help cops deal with emotional trauma before careers are ruined and lives are lost. But it's a difficult task to win the trust of a police officer whose suspicion of the psychological profession runs deep. Viewers meet three counselors who are changing the stigma of cops seeking help: Stephanie Samuels is an independent therapist who works with cops through a referral system. Bill Gente, quit the force and started the Members Assistance Program after skyrocketing suicide rates in the NYPD. Forrest Fulton runs a model Behavioral Sciences Unit using outside therapists, cop-to-cop support groups and advocates for cops.


Fitz Walker has built a life-size replica of Doctor Who’s canine companion, but this Raspberry Pi-powered recreation comes with a few more bells and whistles than you might remember from the TV original.
The italics make that subheading funny. Fight me. Anyway, for those not familiar with the Who-niverse: K9 was the Doctor’s doggy robot companion and mobile computer. K9 could do anything from scanning for medical issues to chasing down evil guards.
Fun fact from the build video: while K9 was a 1970s-era character, first appearing alongside the great Tom Baker, he also swooped in to rescue David Tennant in 2006. Gen X viewers exploded with nostalgia when the scene aired.
What can K9 do?
Lots of authentic features from the TV show have been replicated in Fitz’s model K9. His iconic ears twist back and forth, a probe emerges from his forehead to detect alien life, and his antenna tail wags in all directions. Touch sensors on his body detect when he’s being patted so that his tail can dutifully wag, and sensors in his head make his ears wiggle when you pat him there.
A Raspberry Pi runs the video monitor in K9’s side. It also interfaces with a camera and a thermal printer, giving K9 the unique function of taking photos and printing them through his mouth. While the video monitor wasn’t used much in the TV show, technology has moved on since, so Fitz was able to give K9 an upgrade here. The screen shows bystanders what has been photographed and sent to print, as well as playing videos and games.
Maker Fitz has plans to make K9’s Raspberry Pi work a little harder in the future by adding voice recognition capabilities. Then he’ll be able to respond obediently to his master, Fitz, and ignore all other requests.
Visit Fitz the maker’s channel
While we stumbled across this K9 replica thanks to The 8-Bit Guy, Fitz has his own YouTube channel, HobbyView, and is big into remote-controlled planes and cars. He also swears by the League City, Texas Creatorspace, if you’re in the area and looking for some space and tools to work alongside like-minded tinkerers.


Hardware Design and Implementation of a the antiaircraft artillery fault detection system
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With the development of anti-aircraft missiles , antiaircraft artillery, air defense weapons hegemony has been replaced , but in many cases, air defense artillery still has the incomparable advantage of anti-aircraft missiles . With the development of anti-aircraft artillery to automation , intelligent direction , its internal structure is also more and more sophisticated technology becomes more complex , the anti-aircraft artillery system fault detection also put forward higher requirements . This paper focuses on the hardware design and implementation of a the antiaircraft artillery fault detection system . In this paper, the design of anti-aircraft artillery fault detection system hardware is relying on a particular type of industrial control computer , based on the computer 's PCI bus to complete the acquisition and transmission of a certain type of anti-aircraft artillery system failure information . Hardware with a PCI bus interface board and external expansion of the one -way RS-232 interface , 2-way RS485 interface , 2 Road CAN interface , 1 channel IRIG_B code transceiver interface ; through the schematics and Verilog HDL language on Field Programmable Gate Array EP3C10E144C8N programming integrated timing board , address decoding , interrupt control GPS module seconds divider and board , , as well IRIG_B code codec functions . The PCI9052 chip external memory EEPROM configuration , board Plug and Play (PnP) functionality under Windows XP operating system . The board has passed the test of the data acquisition and communications . Test card transmission speed is fast , no delay , hardware , transmission error rate is small , plug-and-play function , able to work long hours under harsh environment to achieve a the antiaircraft artillery fault detection system design requirements.


Former Tottenham and QPR manager Harry Redknapp has launched an attack on the current Liverpool side, saying they are lucky to have any points so far in the league. The Reds have won two matches, against Bournemouth and Stoke City, while drawing with Arsenal and losing 3-0 to West Ham.
This tally of seven points puts them level with Manchester United and Arsenal. They all trail league pacesetters Manchester City by five points, after the Citizens won their opening four games on the trot.
Liverpool have been the beneficiaries of controversial refereeing decisions as well, with their goal against Bournemouth accused of being offside and Aaron Ramsey having a perfectly legitimate goal at the Emirates scratched off. The Reds, who bought seven first team players this summer, have failed to convince Redknapp so far.
"I don't fancy Liverpool at all," Redknapp told the Telegraph at the Total Football live event. "I think it's the worst Liverpool team I have seen in years. They look bang average. They are lucky to have any points.
"Bournemouth should have beaten them, they got a wonder goal at Stoke. OK, they played all right first half at Arsenal. I think they will do well to finish in the top five. I am not with Liverpool at all this year. Having said that they will probably win the league.
"They lost Steven Gerrard, their leader. What a player. They lost Jamie Carragher the year before. They've lost their characters.
"Look at the two centre-halves [Dejan Lovren and Martin Skrtel]. The left-back [Joe Gomez] is a good young player who can't kick with his left foot but he is playing at left-back. He's a fantastic talent, strong, quick.
"But what will he give you on the left? He is on the wrong side. They look a badly balanced team to me. Sorry, I can't have Liverpool. I love Liverpool Football Club, and if you said to me which team would I have loved to manage in this country it would be Liverpool – but I can't see it this year," he added.


What do the NHL, NFL, and American women’s lacrosse all have in common? They didn’t originally require the use of helmets.
But while it’s hard to imagine the first two without that requirement now, the latter still doesn’t have these regulations despite becoming more of a contact sport in recent years.
That’s a fact that Rob Stolker, a father of four female athletes, is working to change.
“It was six and a half years ago… my two youngest asked me to play lacrosse. I took them to the field; the boys were on one side wearing big hard helmets and the girls were on the other side not wearing anything on their heads,” Stolker said.
He explained that lacrosse is played with an extremely hard and solid ball and is thrown with a lot of force throughout games between players.
This is done using sticks with nets on the ends.
“I started asking questions, and immediately I didn’t like the answers that I was getting. I couldn’t believe it,” Stolker said.
Through his and others’ efforts in recent years, several states have begun discussing enacting helmet requirements for women’s lacrosse.
However, a sweeping requirement for all of American women’s lacrosse has yet to be passed.
Stolker said one of the main reasons this shift hasn’t happened is because women’s lacrosse is not seen as a contact sport like the male sport. However, there are regulations appearing allowing for some contact such as light checking and ‘stick-to-head’ regulations.
“The game’s changing as it is, but what I got was ‘the boys and girls games are different and girls don’t need helmets because it’s not the physical sport that the boys game is,” Stolker said regarding arguments he’s received pushing against helmets in women’s lacrosse. “Meanwhile, it is. The couple studies show that it’s the second highest concussion sport, not for any other reason than most of the injuries we hear about and even science shows, that most of the injuries are from accidental balls and sticks to the head.”
As part of this effort, Stolker has helped develop a women’s athletic helmet similar to the sturdy protective helmets used in men’s athletics but with a few small changes, such as a ponytail hole for girls with long hair.
Stolker also said a book is being released later this month that serves to compile various research on the topic of helmets in athletics and individual stories from numerous female athletes.


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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday aimed at helping women in the developing world rise from poverty.
The measure passed despite strong opposition from at least one conservative organization, which said the law would undermine faith-based aid groups by codifying “gender policies” it considers harmful.
White House lobbying enabled the measure to advance, despite the criticism.
Known as the Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act, the measure was sponsored by U.S. Sen. John Boozman , R-Ark., and promoted by presidential adviser Ivanka Trump.
It tells the United States Agency for International Development to make “gender equality and female empowerment” a priority during “strategic planning, project design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation” of USAID programs.
It also makes it official U.S. international development policy “to reduce gender disparities with respect to economic, social, political, educational, and cultural resources, wealth, opportunities, and services.”
USAID programs addressing the development of “micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises” overseas would seek to promote “the economic empowerment of the poor, especially women.”
The agency, which oversees billions of dollars in foreign aid, is required to report its progress on these efforts within a year. A separate report, by the U.S. comptroller general, will analyze the development efforts.
“This important bipartisan legislation would not have made its way through Congress without the championship of the White House spearheaded by Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump,” a White House official said.
The new law doesn’t increase federal spending.
Boozman was also quick to credit the president’s daughter.
“She was a huge help. … She was really just crucial to getting the bill to become law,” he said.
Boozman teamed up with U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., to pass the legislation.
“I think it’s something that is going to be very beneficial,” Boozman said.
Worldwide, roughly 1 billion women are prevented by law or custom from having access to financial services, the law states in its findings.
“In many places it’s a cultural thing. It’s just the way that those countries have been run,” Boozman said.
Obstacles to the advancement of women aren’t unique to the developing world, he noted. Women have faced barriers in the U.S. as well, he said.
“Not too long ago, women weren’t allowed to vote. You don’t have to go too far back in our nation’s history where women had trouble owning property and doing some things like this in various states. This is something that really is a huge problem throughout the world. It’s an education-type thing,” he said.
An earlier version of the bill passed in the House by voice vote on July 17.
The bill, in its final form, passed in the House by a vote of 352-18 on Dec. 21. All four House members from Arkansas favored it. It passed in the Senate by unanimous consent.
Because of the holidays, it wasn’t presented to the president for his signature until Jan. 2.
Before passage, it encountered opposition from a conservative group that argued that the act’s “gender analysis” and “gender integration” requirements could be used to advance abortion rights, and gay and transgender rights.
The Center for Family and Human Rights, which focuses on “discrediting socially radical policies” at the United Nations and elsewhere, said the act contains “problematic gender policies.”
Among other things, the group had wanted the law to “define gender as referring to men and women only.”
U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, placed a hold on the bill after activists objected, but eventually allowed the measure to proceed.
Ivanka Trump contacted Lee and helped ease his concerns, a White House official said.
Boozman, an anti-abortion Southern Baptist, believes the center is “wrong about the law and its consequences,” his spokesman, Patrick Creamer said.
“The bill’s authors and the White House: We all disagreed with their interpretation,” Creamer said.
On the Catholic organization’s website, its senior vice president for research, Susan Yoshihara, described opponents as “deeply disappointed” by the outcome.
The organization did not return calls Tuesday and Wednesday seeking comment.

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With only a few weeks until Halloween, I thought this would be a good time to share some of my favourite – but kind of gruesome – recipes for your Halloween party. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting both sweet and savoury recipes of the very dark kind, along with others of the more cheerful kind (unless you have an aversion to fairgrounds and clowns, that is…)
Today we’ll kick things off with Glass Shard Cupcakes. As usual, I’ve used a few ‘cheats’ where possible.
What you need:
1 x chocolate cake mix. I used White Wings brand.
1 x Betty Crocker vanilla frosting.
1 x packet of clear Isomalt Sticks – available from any cake decorating suppliers or online.
1 x Red Queen brand ‘Writing Icing’. Comes in a pack of 4 tubes, available at the supermarket.
Black food colouring.
How it’s done:
Make up a batch of chocolate cupcakes according to the packet instructions. Allow to completely cool.
Isomalt Glass Shards:
I use the ‘Cake Play’ brand of Isomalt sticks. It’s meltable, mouldable candy. It can be coloured as well as flavoured, but for this recipe I used it straight. It’s brilliant for so many different decorating ideas, but especially candy glass. A little on the expensive side at around $15 for a packet of 12 sticks, so it’s worth trying to catch them on special or online. Using Isomalt is a bit daunting at first, but, like working with chocolate, once you get the hang of it, a whole new world of ideas is opened up to you.
Prepare a flat surface with a large sheet of baking paper.
For this recipe, I used 6 Isomalt sticks. Snap each stick into 2 or 3 pieces, and add to a microwave safe container. I use a coffee mug because it has a handle and this stuff gets HOT. *Don’t even think about sticking your finger in there!*
In increments of about 10 seconds at a time, melt your Isomalt in the microwave, until it’s completely liquefied and bubbling. Since each microwave is different, the time could vary. Give it a good, quick stir with a metal spoon. Working very quickly – Isomalt hardens again fast – pour the candy mixture onto your baking paper and smooth out as thin and smoothly as possible in large pieces. Don’t panic if you get a few lumps or bumps. If you find the candy in your cup has hardened too quickly, just zap it back in the microwave for a few seconds.
Your ‘sheets’ of melted Isomalt will be completely hard again in about 5 or 10 minutes (depending on room temp). Place another sheet of baking paper over the hardened candy, and with the heel of your hand, press down and crush carefully. It’s the best way to get bigger pieces. Lift from your baking paper and put aside in a bowl.
*Isomalt clean up is with hot water and elbow grease.
Ice your cooled cupcakes with the pre-made vanilla frosting. This stuff saves a crazy amount of time and is DELICIOUS. Then, stick shards of candy glass into the cakes, making sure you use some smaller pieces as well as large ones. Try not to make this bit too even – a more haphazard style works better here.
To make up the ‘blood’, I squeezed about half a tube of the red ‘Writing Icing’ into a tiny shot glass. It’s too thick to use directly (we want the blood to drip and ooze) so I added a few drops of warm water. Unfortunately, this made the colour too bright – easy fixed with a single drop of black food colouring. The end result was a colour and texture very close to the real thing. I used a chop stick to both mix the ‘blood’ and also to drizzle it over the glass, as well as a few well-placed drops on the plate for effect.

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How did sugar affect World War II
"Goulash Cannon" in the streets of Berlin, 1914/1918
Despite the importance of a secure food supply for "war morale" in Germany, too, until the outbreak of war there was a lack of planning and preparations for a longer war. In the expectation of a quick victory, even normal food supplies were used up in the first months of the war. Plans tried to control the production and distribution of food by government authorities at the national and state levels. Extremely poor harvests and the consequences of the British naval blockade initially led to the setting of maximum prices for food and only a little later to their extensive rationing. The miserable supply with food reached a dramatic climax in the "turnip winter" in 1916/17. During the First World War, around 750,000 people in Germany died of malnutrition and its consequences.
With the mobilization in the summer of 1914, many of their most productive workers were withdrawn from the farms at harvest time. Women and children as well as the Polish migrant workers who were mainly employed on the East Elbe estates, to whom more and more prisoners of war came as the war continued, could at no time fully replace the labor of the drafted men and prevent the significant slump in food production. The seizure of a million horses as draft animals for the army, the increasingly poor maintenance and replacement options for agricultural machinery and the rapidly increasing lack of fertilizers were also responsible for the sharp decline in productivity in agriculture. Potato production fell from 52 million tons (1913) to 29 million tons (1918), and the grain yield fell from 27.1 million tons (1914) to 17.3 million tons (1918).
In order to ensure that the low-income sections of the population were fed at an affordable price level, state-set maximum prices for bread grain were introduced in October 1914. In order to stretch the grain stocks, "K-Brot" was also allowed to use a 30 percent potato as a substitute. However, the continuing shortage of bread grain led to an increase in the maximum price and to the rationing of bread in the following spring - without the quantities on the bread cards actually always being available. When crop yields in 1915 were almost 20 percent below those of the previous year, maximum prices were gradually introduced for almost all agricultural products. However, since it was far more profitable for the producers to market their products via "surreptitious trade" instead of offering them on the regular market at - not always cost-covering - prices, every setting of maximum prices was followed by a tendency to shorten the regular supply. In addition, the low prices for potatoes and bread grains, which were kept low for political reasons, prompted many farmers to feed these staple foods to produce expensive pork. In order to prevent the complete collapse of the potato supply in the industrial centers, the slaughter of a good third of the entire pig population was ordered in the spring of 1915, but despite the "pig murder" that was heavily criticized by the farmers, the potato supply in the cities hardly improved; pork disappeared on the black market and raised the prices of other meats to hitherto unknown levels. The attempts by the authorities to regulate the cultivation of sugar beet were similarly unsuccessful: Since around 40 percent of sugar production was exported before the start of the war, the - supposedly excess - sugar was initially allowed to be used for the production of brandy and grain, regardless of the associated consumption of bread cereals and potatoes. In view of the shortage of this food, the distilling of grain was banned in the spring of 1915, but at the same time the cultivation of sugar beet was so severely restricted that - despite an imposed ban on the feeding of sugar beet - there were also considerable bottlenecks in the sugar supply.
Supply bottlenecks, rising food prices and, last but not least, the feeling of unjust distribution led to the first hunger riots as early as 1915. The extremely inadequate supply in the winter of 1915/16 also made calls for a central authority to ensure food louder in the Reichstag. In May 1916, the War Food Office was finally brought into being as a Reich authority directly subordinate to the Reich Chancellor, which pursued a compromise course between the demand for consumer-friendly coercive measures against the agrarians and their desire for full price release for all agricultural products as a production incentive. Disappointed by the minor successes of the War Food Office, the Prussian government appointed Georg Michaelis, its own state commissioner for people's food, in mid-February 1917, but even with this step, it was not able to improve the food supply in the long term. Despite the system of comprehensive rationing of all foodstuffs introduced in autumn 1916, the amounts allocated were by no means sufficient to cover the daily calorie requirement. The supply of milk, butter, eggs and meat collapsed completely at times. When acute transport problems arose after the again unexpectedly bad harvest of 1916 in connection with the implementation of the Hindenburg program, the rampant system of rationing and regulation could not prevent the catastrophic "turnip winter". Regular army units were now deployed against the hunger riots that were emerging in many places. After the Russian February Revolution, dissatisfaction with the poor food situation erupted in the first mass strikes.
Since all measures taken by the responsible authorities against the dried up food market and the increasingly obvious surreptitious trade proved to be ineffective, trust in the state's competence dwindled. The demand put forward by the Federation of Farmers (BdL) in the spring of 1918 to finally allow all agricultural products except for potatoes and bread grain to be allowed for free trade and to put a stop to all further tendencies towards a "social democratic coercive state" revealed a political gap that could hardly be bridged between food producers and consumers.
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Samuel L. Jackson is set to join Kevin Hart in the Peacock true crime limited series, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist.” Ordered to series in December, the show is based on the Packer-produced podcast chronicling an armed robbery during Muhammad Ali’s 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta.
Jackson will portray Frank Moten, known as “the Black Godfather.” The series, created by Shaye Ogbonna, explores the aftermath of Ali’s historic victory over Jerry Quarry, turning into one of the largest armed robberies in U.S. history during the celebratory night.
Ogbonna and Jason Horwitch will serve as showrunners, unraveling the stories of a hustler and an Atlanta detective, one of the city’s first Black police officers. The series aims to shed light on Atlanta’s identity as “the Black Mecca.”
Executive producers include Bryan Smiley, Mike Stein, Will Packer, Sabrina Wind, Conal Byrne, Will Pearson, Carrie Lieberman, Jeff Keating, and Lars Jacobson. Craig Brewer, director of “Dolemite Is My Name,” is set to direct the first two episodes, with Tiffany Brown and Kenny Burns co-executive producing.
The project reunites Hart and Will Packer with Peacock, following their collaborations on “Hart to Heart” and streaming Hart’s stand-up special, “Reality Check.” Produced by Universal Television, the story, initially developed as a feature film by Universal Pictures, has evolved into a podcast and now a limited series, maintaining its focus on the significant events of Ali’s 1970 comeback fight.


code 41 or 25: tps signal abnormal
Throttle position sensor signal does not agree with manifold pressure sensor signal.
The Throttle Sensor responds to the accelerator pedal movement. This sensor is a kind of potentiometer which transforms the Throttle Valve position into output voltage, and emits the voltage signal to the ECU. In addition, the sensor detects the opening and closing speed of the Throttle Valve and feeds the voltage signal to the ECU.
Throttle Position Sensor(TPS)/Accelerator Pedal Position Sensor(APPS) signal voltage high.
Test the Throttle Position Sensor. Just google "How to test Throttle Position Sensor 1998 Cavalier". The code is for a TP sensor, Low Input. Try unplugging it and plugging it back up. Repair manuals walk you through the testing. Go here if you can. (an easy walkthrough) The Throttle Position (TP) sensor is a potentiometer that provides a signal to the PCM that is directly proportional to the throttle plate position. The TP sensor is mounted on the side of the throttle body and is connected to the throttle plate shaft. The TP sensor monitors throttle plate movement and position, and transmits an appropriate electrical signal to the PCM. These signals are used by the PCM to adjust the air/fuel mixture, spark timing and EGR operation according to engine load at idle, part throttle, or full throttle. The TP sensor is not adjustable. The TP sensor receives a 5 volt reference signal and a ground circuit from the PCM. A return signal circuit is connected to wiper that runs on a resistor internally on the sensor. The further the throttle is opened, the wiper moves along the resistor, at wide open throttle, the wiper essentially creates a loop between the reference signal and the signal return returning the full or nearly full 5 volt signal back to the PCM. At idle the signal return should be approximately 0.9 volts. You maybe starting to have trouble with the "wiper". maybe..... TP sensor is $30 @ AZ ....
A Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) reports to the ECM how open the throttle is. The signal is sent as voltage to the ECM, and the amount of voltage reports how open the throttle is. The throttle is what allows gasoline to get to the engine, and in a car that is the gas pedal. We would think fo the value as 0% to 100% and any range between.
Throttle position (TP) sensor circuit, very low signal voltage.
A throttle position sensor (TPS) is a sensor used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine. The sensor is usually located on the butterfly spindle so that it can directly monitor the position of the butterfly throttle valve. The sensor is usually a potentiometer and therefore provides a variable resistance dependent upon the position of the butterfly valve (and hence throttle position). The sensor signal is used by the Engine Control Unit (ECU) as an input to its control system. The ignition timing and fuel injection timing (and potentially other parameters) are altered depending upon the position of the throttle, and also depending on the rate of change of that position. For example, in fuel injected engines, in order to avoid stalling, extra fuel may be injected if the throttle is opened rapidly (mimicking the accelerator pump of carburetor systems).
They are all somewhat the same. You have a drive by wire system. (no cable-a radio signal is used to tell comp gas pedal and throttle position and maintain relationship) This is on your throttle body on one side the other moves the blade. This sensor tell the computer the position of the blade in your throttle body.
code 51 is a switch condition signal diagnosis no IDL signal or A/C signal to the ecm when the test connector E1 and TE1 are connected probable cause A/C switch or circuit A/C amplifier neutral start switch (A/T) throttle position sensor throttle position sensor circuit to fix i am not sure what one is wrong but i gave you what it is by my code book
My Haynes repair manual shows : It senses throttle movement and position , then transmits a voltage signal to the PCM . This signal enables the PCM to determine when the throttle is closed , in a cruise position , or wide open . A defective TPS can cause surging , stalling , rough idle and other driveability problems because the PCM thinks the throttle is moving when it is not .
If the TPI (throttle position sensor) is bad, you will have a fault code set in the computer. To check it, with a scope, graph the signal while opening/closing the throttle. The signal should be a smooth wave, if there are any dips, the sensor should be replaced. The contact can wear in the position the blades are at during normally driving, especially if you many due highway constant speed driving.
The map sensor measures intake manifold vacuum . The signal is varied from high to low, this voltage signal change along with the throttle position sensor,vehicle speed sensor, o2 sensor, the computer uses the signals to vary injector pulse width.


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This healthy vegan lentil soup recipe comes together quickly with pantry ingredients. Mediterranean spices, fresh greens and a squeeze of lemon make it the best!
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Nathaniel Cummings-Lambert is a PhD student in the Anthropology department and Culture and Media certificate program at New York University. He holds a BA in Religious Studies from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts and an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians located in Cherokee, North Carolina.
His research focuses on ethnographic film and contemporary Indigenous art, film and video practices as well as the development of tourism, cultural heritage sites, and the local economy in Cherokee, NC and the greater Western North Carolina region through tribal, state and federal agencies. His art has been exhibited at Alta Art Space in Malmö, Sweden (2019), Socrates Sculpture Park (2018-2019), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT (2018), LAVA Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2017). His films have been screened at the Asinabka Festival (2021), Engauge Experimental Film Festival (2019), Northampton Film Festival (2019), Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (2018), Cosmic Rays Film Festival (2018), Anti-Matter Film Festival (2011), and the Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival (2011).

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University of Leeds | June 2018 | Virus could help treat advanced cancers
Scientists at the University of Leeds have conducted a small-scale clinical trial with a specifically-engineered virus, Pexa-Vec virus, which has been derived from the Vaccinia family of viruses and modified to target cancer cells. Eight patients (three with skin cancer or melanoma and five with bowel cancer which had spread to the liver) received the virus intravenously. A fortnight after receiving the virus, the patients’ tumours were surgically removed. Analysis of the cancerous tissue showed that the virus had been able to reach the site of the tumours and infiltrate the cancer cells. There were also signs that the cancer cells were beginning to die.
Dr Adel Samson from the Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, who is one of the investigators, said: “The results so far are very promising. They show the virus was very effective in being able to switch on the body’s immune system, allowing a patient’s own defence systems to target the cancer.
Pexa-Vec is currently being tested in a larger phase-three clinical trial to determine whether the virus is a more effective treatment than giving the conventional drug therapy.
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An unconventional war requires unconventional men—the Special Forces.
Green Berets • Navy SEALS • Rangers •
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The first two Commanders books, Every Man a Tiger and Into the Storm, provided masterly blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain old-fashioned storytelling. Shadow Warriors is all of that and more, a book of uncommon timeliness, for, in the words of Lieutenant General Bill Yarborough, “there are itches that only Special Forces can scratch.”
Now, Carl Stiner—the second commander of SOCOM, the U.S. Special Operations Command—and Tom Clancy trace the transformation of the Special Forces from the small core of outsiders of the 1950s, through the cauldron of Vietnam, to the rebirth of the SF in the late 1980s and 1990s, and on into the new century as the bearer of the largest, most mixed, and most complex set of missions in the U.S. military.
These are the first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting outside the lines: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance, counterinsurgency, and psychological operations—from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon to Panama, to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the new wars of today…
“Some action vignettes from [Special Forces] roots in WWII and Vietnam rival Clancy fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews
“The plethora of insider history and firsthand operation specifics…will please the historically minded.”—Publishers Weekly
Clancy's bestselling nonfiction Commanders series continues with this look at the unconventional men of America's special forces.
The war in Afghanistan has given the public an unprecedented look at what America's special forces can do--their extraordinary skill and stamina and the sacrifices they are willing to make. Now, Tom Clancy and Carl Stiner--the second commander of SOCOM, the U.S. Special Operations Command--take readers deep inside the history, training, resourcefulness, and creativity of the Special Forces soldier.
These are first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting outside the lines: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance, counter-insurgency, and psychological operations-from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon, from Panama to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the new wars of today...
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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom Tuesday said it was his belief that the political, economic and security challenges currently facing the country cannot be solved by people decamping from one political party to another.
The governor said what is most important now is for Nigerians of all walks of life to join hands and surmount the challenges confronting the nation.
Governor Ortom who made this known through his Chief Press Secretary Terver Akase, in reaction to the statement of chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Comrade Abba Yaro, at decamping ceremony of Senator Barnabas Gemade, weekend noted that, he was comfortably leading the PDP in Benue state to achieve development milestones for the people.
He said he remained focused on the mandate of providing good governance to all parts of the state.
According to Ortom, he has no plan to defect from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to All Progressives Congress, APC or any other political party.
“This clarification has become necessary owing to a recent statement credited to the Benue State Chairman of APC, Comrade Abba Yaro in which he insinuated that the Governor will soon be returning to the party.
“It is pertinent to state categorically that Governor Ortom is not contemplating leaving PDP for whatever reason,” he added.

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Orioles recalled RHP Alex Burnett from Triple-A Norfolk.
Orioles optioned RHP Alex Burnett to Triple-A Norfolk.
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Twins optioned RHP Alex Burnett to Triple-A Rochester.
Alex Burnett took the loss in Wednesday's exhibition against Puerto Rico after giving up three runs in 1 1/3 innings.
Alex Burnett returned to action on Monday, earning the win with one scoreless inning of relief against the Athletics.
Alex Burnett (elbow) is not expected to require a stint on the disabled list.
Phil Mackey of 1500ESPN.com reports that Alex Burnett could be headed to the disabled list due to right elbow discomfort.
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Free jazz is more than a style as outdoor programming for the 36th edition of the jazz fest is announced.
Monday, May 25 The ninth annual Festival TransAmériques presents influential New York choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s show Age and Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/, about an aging dancer (portrayed by Gutierrez), at Théâtre Prospero (1371 Ontario St. E.) at 7 p.m. Admission: $28 to $34. Tickets: 514-844-3822 or fta.qc.ca. Gutierrez will also DJ at the Quartier général du festival party […]
Jazz star opens up about her latest album, which takes her in daringly new pop directions, and her love affair with Montreal
With the 35th edition of the festival presenting so many variations of the joyful genre, the listening experience was as intense as it was rewarding.
Saxophonist Joe Lovano sees the history of jazz as a rich continuum, not a series of competitions.
A quick look at five noteworthy shows Tuesday at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, including Brad Mehldau, Tony Bennett, Marcus Miller and more.
Best bets include Bobby McFerrin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Emilie Claire Barlow
Best bets include Beth Hart, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, Stacey Kent, Random Recipe, Danilo Perez with Brian Blade and John Patitucci


Kazakhstan Estonia to discuss cooperation in transport, agriculture, education areas
ASTANA. August 27. KAZINFORM August 27-28, Tallinn hosts the third meting of Kazakhstan-Estonia Intergovernmental Commission for economic and scientific-technical cooperation, Kazakh MFA’s official spokesman Altay Abibullayev said Monday at a weekly briefing.
The Kazakh side is represented by Minister of Transport and Communications Askar Zhumagaliyev. Minister of Economy and Communications Juhan Parts represents the Estonian side.
The meeting will focus on the issues of transport and transit, energy, agriculture, education, healthcare.


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Kindred Spirits Arts Programs will present "Ritmo, Color Y Pasion," music and dances of Spanish Gypsies, with the flamenco ensemble Segue, at 7:30 p.m. July 27 at the historic Milford Theatre, 114 E. Catharine St., Milford, and at 2 p.m. July 28 at the Hawley Silk Mill in Hawley.
Kindred Spirits Arts Programs will present "Ritmo, Color Y Pasion," music and dances of Spanish Gypsies, with the flamenco ensemble Segue, at 7:30 p.m. July 27 at the historic Milford Theatre, 114 E. Catharine St., Milford, and at 2 p.m. July 28 at the Hawley Silk Mill in Hawley. Tickets are $20 at the door, or $15 when bought in advance at Books and Prints at Pear Alley, 220 Broad St., Milford,, or online at kindredspiritsprograms.org. Age 14 and younger are admitted free. For more information, call 570-409-1269 or email email@example.com.
"Llearn About Llamas" will be the theme of an Open Barn Day at Foster Hill Farm, Milford, on July 28. From 1-5 p.m., there will be tours on the hour of the various barns and pastures that nearly 60 llamas call home. Richard Snyder, owner of Snyder Quality Llamas, and his staff will provide an introduction to llama behavior for the general public and more specific information for the more serious llama enthusiasts. To reach Foster Hill Farm, traveling from the traffic light in downtown Milford, follow West Harford Street to Seventh Street. Turn right. Go up Foster Hill Road mile to Llama Llane, on the left. Admission is free. For more information, call 570-296-6249.
Tri-State Actors Theater will celebrate its 26th year and the beginning of its 2013-14 season with a musical adaptation by Douglas Post of "The Wind in the Willows," based on Kenneth Grahame's classic story. "The Wind in the Willows" will have 10 performances, July 31 through Aug. 10. Curtain times are 11 a.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, with a second performance on Friday nights at 7 p.m. There is one performance on Saturdays at 2 p.m. Performances will be in the Performing Arts Center at Sussex County Community College, 1 College Hill Road, Newton, N.J. Tickets are $16, $10 ages 4-11. Admission is free for age 3 and younger, but tickets are required. Tickets are available in advance or at the door. Ticket reservations are recommended. Call 973-383-0510 for reservations and information, or go online to sussex.edu.