Music is 27-year-old Arsi Nami’s passion, and he wants to share that passion with the world.
Despite his growing international success as a singer and songwriter of world rhythms, eurodance and electronica music, Nami came to CSUN in 2009 to study music therapy.
Three years ago, Nami witnessed patients being treated with music therapy while visiting his brother in the hospital who was receiving treatment for cancer. Nami was attending Santa Monica College’s music program, and when he found out more about music therapy, he decided to transfer to CSUN, which is the only state school that offers a music therapy program.
According to CSUN’s music department website, “Music therapy is a field that uses music along with the personality of the therapist as a treatment for rehabilitating, maintaining, and improving the lives of persons with physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities.”
Nami was born in Shiraz, Iran. When he was 4, his mom moved him and his two brothers to Sweden to escape the Iran-Iraq War that took place from 1980-88.
“I remember we went down to the basement, and I heard what sounded like fireworks. But the house started like shaking, and my mom tried to calm us down,” he said.
Although his dad decided to stay in Iran, his mom decided it was time to get her kids away from the war.
Nami feels fortunate for the cultural experience of having grown up in Sweden. Nami’s mother allowed him and his brothers to develop their own religious beliefs. “I decided to make music as my religion,” Nami said.
Nami became interested in music after listening to his brother play old Persian songs on the keyboard, and he continues to weave those cultural influences into his music today.
Nami realized music would be his life’s passion when he finished second in Sweden’s talent show “Aiming for the Stars” for singing Enrique Iglesias’ song “Hero.”
Since then, Nami has continued to build his success as a recording artist. Nami’s following increased significantly when his song “Never be Lonely” was used for the soundtrack of the online video game “Good Game Disco.”
Although some people know his music in Iran, his music is most well-known in Europe and South America, Nami said .
Nami is trying to build his following in the U.S. His recent signing to Winogradsky/Sobel, a Studio City-based music publishing company, should help him accomplish that goal. Winogradsky/Sobel represents a growing list of artists by placing songs in TV shows, films and advertisements.
“It means a lot,” Nami said. “When something like this happens, my self-confidence grows. You want to hear from professionals that your stuff is good.”
Although Nami seeks success as an artist, his feet remain planted firmly on the ground. “It wasn’t about getting famous or anything,” Nami said about his passion for music.
Nami thinks differently about his music after studying music therapy. Instead of just entertaining people, he wants his music to have a positive influence in people’s lives. He regularly performs at benefits for charitable and social causes. Besides performing in traditional venues, Nami would like to bring his music to other parts of the world.
“I want to tour in villages,” he said. “I want to tour in Africa or like Iran.” His current goal is to open his own music therapy clinic.
Nami is also in the process of finishing the music video for his new single “Miracle” which will be released on Feb. 27 by Royalty Recordings in online stores, such as Amazon and iTunes.


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Deadmau5’s anthem ‘Strobe’ turns 9 years old
Many artists create good tracks, others create hits that will play for months, while a select group will create those that will be considered a classic for many years. One of those artists able to create true electronic music anthems is deadmau5.
On December 13, 2009, Joel Zimmerman released what would be one of his most famous and classic tracks. Strobe, as well as practically all of Joel’s songs, does not have such a significant name, after all, the track takes the name of the plugin used in the construction of the song, Strobe by FXpansion, but the track itself is far from trivial.
Strobe begins with a piano that evolves into a true example of progressive house, with its brilliant musical progression. An introspective trip of about 10 minutes takes listeners on an emotional roller coaster. You can experience happiness, sadness, and a euphoria, all this in one track.
The track is considered a jewel by many producers and fans. Deadmau5 released some official remixes, made by Dimension, Feed Me with Truise, Lane 8 and Attlas, in 2015. This year, Strobe got an orchestrated version on the album ‘Where is the Drop’, but the original version is still preferred by almost all and in 2016, was considered by Billboard Dance as one of the 20 best tracks of all time. Do you agree?

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The old car’s cabin was criticized for its cluttered appearance and overwhelming number of buttons. The Mokka X has addressed this with a handsome new design heavily inspired by the latest Astra.
The suspension and chassis setup of the new Mokka is largely similar to the outgoing car, with the exception of a new four-wheel drive system. In normal driving, all of the engine’s power is sent exclusively to the front wheels for efficiency, but when conditions become more slippery, up to 50 per cent of drive can be sent to the back axle to improve traction.
A new petrol engine is borrowed from the Astra, too. The 1.4-litre turbo unit produces 150hp, and is claimed to achieve 42.8mpg. The 1.6-litre “Whisper” diesel remains from the outgoing car, which managed a respectable 53.2mpg in our hands.
Trim levels are yet to be finished but the new infotainment system allows compatibility with both Apple CarPlay and Android apps. The redesigned headlight clusters now house full-LED adaptive lights, which can turn with the steering wheel.


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Two thousand prisoners to be pardoned in 2008
By Temuri Kiguradze
Thursday, November 13
Parliament will discuss a draft law concerning a major amnesty of prisoners and convicted persons next week. According to Chair of Parliament Davit Bakradze, about 2,200 prisoners will be allowed to return home by the end of 2008.
“This number [2,200] is about 12 percent of the total prison population of Georgia. In any country this kind of amnesty would be regarded as serious.” Bakradze has stated that the amnesty will concern only those prisoners who “are not dangerous for society” and deserve “to get another chance to return to normal life.” He has also mentioned that this amnesty will be one of the largest in the history of Georgia. In addition, a number of prisoners who are not to be released will have their sentences halved.
The draft law on amnesty was enlarged after discussions with the Parliamentary opposition on November 11. 22 new articles were added. However the non-Parliamentary United Georgian Opposition has criticized the project because political prisoners will not be released.
Speaking at a Press Conference on November 12, Eka Beselia, one of the United Opposition’s leaders, stated that the Government must conduct additional consultations with “real” opposition parties. She said that the amnesty would not apply to prisoners accused of illegal gun possession, hooliganism, participation in riots or attempts to violently change the constitutional order of the country, and most political prisoners were accused of these kind of crimes.
The opposition is also dissatisfied with the number of small crimes which are not included in the list of those for which an amnesty will be granted to those convicted of them. “The article on the use of drugs provides for a jail term of up to one year. According to the draft law, criminals convicted under this article will have their terms halved, and that’s ridiculous,” said Beselia. She also added that the Government should cooperate with international NGO’s when discussing amnesty conditions. “There are some articles [of the criminal code] that this amnesty can’t concern, otherwise these criminals may continue their activity,” stated Bakradze, talking to local journalists.
The amnesty and pardon is meant to start on November 23, in honour of the fifth anniversary of the Rose Revolution as well as St. George’s Day.

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One of the earliest performers on WSM in Nashville, Uncle Dave Macon became the Grand Ole Opry's first superstar. His old-time music and energetic stage shows made him a national sensation and fueled a thirty-year run as one of America's most beloved entertainers.
Michael D. Doubler tells the amazing story of the Dixie Dewdrop, a country music icon. Born in 1870, David Harrison Macon learned the banjo from musicians passing through his parents' Nashville hotel. After playing local shows in Middle Tennessee for decades, a big break led Macon to vaudeville, the earliest of his two hundred-plus recordings and eventually to national stardom. Uncle Dave--clad in his trademark plug hat and gates-ajar collar--soon became the face of the Opry itself with his spirited singing, humor, and array of banjo picking styles. For the rest of his life, he defied age to tour and record prolifically, manage his business affairs, mentor up-and-comers like David "Stringbean" Akeman, and play with the Delmore Brothers, Roy Acuff, and Bill Monroe.
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I have a running argument with a friend about which anti-Obama attacks are racist. For example, I thought the McCain camp's Obama-disrespects-Palin ad played on toxic racist sentiments involving black men and white women. My friend didn't see it.
So I'd be interested to hear what readers think of Fox News's coverage of pro-Obama excitement in Kenya, his father's country of birth. A story headlined "Kenyans Pray for Obama Win, Plan Parties" is currently the top item in FoxNews.com's "Latest News" section. Here's the story's lede:
KISUMU, Kenya -- Believers across Kenya are praying for Barack Obama -- literally. They're making sacrificial
offerings to help ensure his victory in a nation where the Illinois senator is considered a native son.
And here's the first image from the accompanying photo slideshow. FYI, the caption is, "Men and women dance and sing the praises of a sacrificial rock shrine called Kit Mikayi ("First Wife") 20 miles from Kisumu,
Kenya. A dozen worshippers have come to make sacrifices for Barack Obama at the shrine, its attendant said":
In fairness, I should note that CNN has its own story on pro-Obama excitment in Kenya. But if you watch it, you'll see that it's heavy on images of Kenyans crowding around newspaper articles on Obama's candidacy, and includes zero (0) references to sacrificial rites.
This difference--plus the fact that Fox News is currently hyping a story (relayed from a Republican poll watcher) on Black Panthers (allegedly) intimidating voters in Philadelphia, and the fact that Fox was all over that Obama-hate-crime-hoax a few weeks back--makes me inclined to say there's a whiff of racism here. But maybe I'm being too harsh.


For many people, Avenida Pedro Mas y Reus isn’t just the heartland of Alcudia, it is a spiritual heartland, a road defined by the decades-long mix of tourist and residential accommodation in its area that has drawn both tourist and resident for as many decades. It is a road in what qualifies as being Alcudia’s main tourism centre that has been looked down upon from a great height of sophistication that has refused to accept its simple merits - holidays as uncomplicated experiences. It is a road that I have defended for this very reason, yet it is also a road that has not escaped my criticism. Deprived of summer night bustle and bright lights, the daytime exposes its deficiencies, those which - when one is being honest and sheds a spiritual subjectivity - have been evident for years.
The Mile, which is how I tend to refer to it, was recently granted a visit by Mallorca’s tourism political class. Council of Mallorca president and tourism councillor, Catalina Cladera and Andreu Serra, positioned themselves by the bridge and where the summertime hair-braiding ladies have located themselves. What did they know of The Mile? On a previous rare political visit, by the then director-general of tourism, Pilar Carbonell, it seemed obvious that Palma had little knowledge. Why should it? This is only the chief commercial road for a municipality with some 27,000 hotel places, to say nothing of the holiday rentals (legal ones around 8,300).
There was the usual blah about sustainability and quality tourism, objectives which should by now be givens that don’t require parroting every time an architect’s drawing is presented for the latest project. Which in this case is? Tiled pavement, a parking zone over what will be “sustainable drainage”, a new surface for a mostly one-lane road, a bike lane and trees. The artist’s impression looks quite pretty. I’m sure it will be. So why am I underwhelmed?
This is because of the rest of the aesthetics and because of the scope. The appearance, therefore, of commercial units and limiting the project to The Mile and, as there is a second project, a section of the Carrtera Arta main road between Pedro Mas y Reus and Avenida Argentina. Bit by bit perhaps, but the whole area needs “beautification” (a word used to describe The Mile project). By whole area, I mean that formed by Pedro Mas y Reus, Tucan (part of which is a disaster area), Magic and the main road. And speaking of the main road, what was there for the embarrassment that is the old tennis courts complex? Zilch.
It’s not as if there aren’t funds - European and indeed Alcudia’s own - the point being that the 1960s City of Lakes scheme needs a comprehensive revisit. That scheme created what there is, some of which remains a tribute to fifty years in the past, a past when holidays were very uncomplicated and expectations were not high. But as much as there is the tourist experience, which has shifted in terms of its requirements, so there is also that of residents. A nice new surface for Pedro Mas y Reus, and then turn off and the roads are in a hell of a state; just an example.
I remember thinking when Meliá unveiled its plans for Magalluf in 2011, if only there were a Meliá in and around The Mile. There is, but only one hotel and not a series which justified what was a private-sector-driven initiative for transformation in Magalluf. Circumstances of incoherence, both public and private, have failed Alcudia, though one must nonetheless praise the investment that has been forthcoming in recent years. But this has not created a unified vision. The Mile, the new Mile, is a peek. A much longer (and broader) look is needed.
The Son Baulo wastewater plant - Has something just happened?
If you want to go back far enough, then 2003 was the year when Muro and Santa Margalida first arrived at tentative agreement regarding water treatment and an eventual project for a new plant. Plenty of wastewater has passed under the political and legal bridge since then, largely the consequence of a Santa Margalida subsequent rethink. For some fifteen years, the town halls plus the Balearic government (environment ministry and Abaqua water agency) and indeed the Spanish government have been arguing about the existing and outdated plant by Albufera (in Muro, therefore) and the building of a new one in Son Baulo (in Santa Margalida).
Year after year, the Spanish government makes provision for this new plant in its budget. Year after year, nothing happens. Now, the Supreme Court in Madrid has said that it will not admit an appeal by Santa Margalida against a ruling of the Balearic High Court; the town hall claimed that agreement for managing the Albufera plant had ended.
Muro’s mayor, Miquel Porquer, says that the court has agreed with his town hall; “Joan Monjo (Santa Margalida’s mayor) could not liquidate the agreement unilaterally, as he did.” Monjo’s response is that the regional environment ministry “preaches the reuse of treated water”. “In Can Picafort (Son Baulo), they want us to throw it into the sea.” He is dead against a plant that would have an outfall some three kilometres from the shore. One day, there might just be agreement.
Big guns out to support Martí March bid for Pollensa mayor
At Sant Domingo last Sunday, some 300 people gathered for a rally on behalf of Martí March, the PSOE candidate for Pollensa mayor at this May’s election. The big guns were out as well - President Armengol and the president of the Council of Mallorca, Catalina Cladera - in support of a furtherance of the March political dynasty in Pollensa; his brother, Miquel Àngel, was mayor from 2015 to 2019, and his father, also Martí, was mayor on two occasions.
Armengol said that “Martí March is the best candidate that Pollensa could have”. “I’m losing a wonderful person from my government (he is the education minister), but the whole of Pollensa will win.” Tomeu Cifre, among others, might be of a different view.
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Meeting an increasing demand for sewer flow monitoring
With ever more strict legislation, sewer networks are increasingly turning to flow monitoring, writes Steve Russell, WRc's senior instrument engineer
Sewer networks operate with practically no installed monitoring of any kind. This simple picture is beginning to change for two main reasons. Firstly, consumers expect ever higher standards from service providers of all kinds, and sewerage undertakers are being challenged by this. Secondly, environmental legislation is demanding much higher performance from wastewater collection and treatment systems than was envisaged during their design.
Sewer flow monitoring could have a useful role in at least three main areas; asset/risk management, regulation, and operations.
Under the risk-based approach of the Common Framework, improvements to the condition of the sewer network will be funded only if it can be shown the sewer poses a risk to service to customers, or where it is necessary to meet new environmental requirements. Unless whole-life cost considerations force expenditure, low-risk sewers will therefore be operated to failure. For parts of the network at high risk however, due diligence requires water companies to deploy available technology at reasonable cost to minimise the risk.
An obvious possible application for flow metering is in monitoring high-risk sewer rising mains, where flows at the beginning and end of the pumped length can be monitored, and alarms raised if there is a discrepancy. Flow monitoring of rising mains can also provide early warning of pumping station failures, where emergency overflows often pose a high risk to the environment.
By contrast, on high-risk gravity sewers, there would be little mitigation of the risk by measuring open channel flow at each end. Compared with closed pipe flow, the achievable accuracies are very much poorer, and large exfiltration or infiltration could occur undetected.
It may, however, be worth measuring the levels at each end of a high-risk section. Intelligence could then cross-check the levels and alarm if the difference between them is greater than usual, or if individually they are outside the normal range.
The risk-based approach depends on the operator knowing the risks of the sewer network. Flow or level measurement could be used to monitor for changes to risk due to increased loading.
Level measurement would let operators measure the frequency of surcharging, flow would track rising loads. Provided the monitoring was cheap enough, this could be an economic means for the sewerage operator to be up to date on the risks due to loading. A judgement could then be made on pre-emptive action, to avoid possible damage to property and the environment.
At a recent Water Industry Flow Club meeting, James Blackmore of the Environment Agency suggested that storm sewer overflows will in future be regulated by monitoring the discharge and treatment flows, rather than through the engineering parameters of the structure such as storage volume and design flow to treatment. The timescale was not given, but if this goes ahead as a part of self-monitoring, it will generate a significant new market for sewer flow measurement. For new build CSOs, flumes or V-notch weirs may be included to make these flow measurements. Beyond just monitoring however, this development would open the door to control of these flows as part of the agreed management regime for a catchment. Such a scheme would place much greater responsibility on water utilities, but they are in a unique position to carry out active protection of the environment during a storm event, and it would be rational to encourage them to do this well.
In WRc’s recent work on sewer instrumentation for operational requirements, the focus has been on measuring levels in sewerage rather than flows. Knowledge of levels provides some information about how much sewage there is at points in the network and therefore indirectly some information about flows. Much of the level monitoring is for CSOs, either for regulated discharge, and/or to monitor to prevent pollution incidents. However, in the wider sewer network, WRc is currently working with water utilities on affordable systems for monitoring sewer levels, both to prevent flooding and to schedule maintenance.
UKWIR currently has a desk study project on the possible opportunities for integration of sewerage and sewage treatment. This could be the beginning of a second look at real-time control (RTC) in UK sewerage, which was seen by many in the industry as an expensive toy in the 1980s. The bad press of that time was for large complex automation schemes which were unlikely to deliver net benefits.
More modest schemes which use control of sewer flows to improve the management of network and treatment should have a place. Perhaps a new acronym is needed, Integrated Network and Treatment Management, INTM? The potential benefits are well known:
- Utilisation of the storage capacity of the sewer network to control the flow to treatment and minimise discharges from CSOs
- Deferment of sewage treatment works upgrades
- Controlling flows in the network to prevent the build-up of sediment loads during dry weather
It may also be possible to use network storage to save on energy charges, by deferring some treatment and pumping to lower tariff periods. However, a much stronger driver for INTM may come from the Water Framework Directive and the Environment Agency’s stated intention of working in partnership with water utilities. The key change would be to regulate the allowable discharges to the environment on a whole catchment basis. INTM could then be used to minimise river impact during storm events. It is very likely that INTM could offer the most economical solution for some of the Water Framework Directive Programme of Measures (POMs). Of course there will be networks where there is little benefit in INTM schemes, or where storage of sewage in the network creates unacceptable risks. However there are now sufficient major schemes to provide confidence that reliable systems can be engineered.
There is a trend in water treatment SCADA systems toward creating greater integrity in the process by online cross-checking of data. If sewers do begin to operate with flow and level data at several points in the network, such cross-checking could be carried out and used to generate alarms for abnormal patterns, and to track infiltration/exfiltration. An untapped source of sewage flow information is to utilise potable water flow data, most of which reappears in the sewer. Low-cost flow data is also available from pumping station controllers, which can provide flow data from the rate of rise or fall of the level in wet wells. By pooling all the data available, some valuable information about sewers could be generated.
The likely timing of these different sewer flow applications is shown in the timeline. While there will be schemes requiring sewer flow measurement up to 2009, most of the applications will be for level measurement and flow monitoring on rising mains. Beyond 2009 the WFD programme of measures (POMs) will make an impact and flow monitoring of gravity sewers is likely to have an important role in integrated catchment schemes. To meet this need, there have been some significant advances in open channel flow measurement since the 1980s.
By far the commonest sewer flow monitor is the ultrasonic mouse (see diagram). The first devices were developed in the late 1970s to meet the need of sewer hydraulic modellers for a low-cost survey instrument. It is a velocity area method, so measures volumetric flow by measuring flow velocity and deriving the cross sectional area of the flow from a measurement of liquid depth. The velocity is measured using an ultrasonic Doppler sensor. And in the original systems, the depth was measured by pressure transducer. Later developments have provided additional options of ultrasonic pulse echo within the flow, or air-fired ultrasonics to measure the depth and hence the cross section of flowing sewage.
The major uncertainty of the basic ultrasonic mouse has always been the estimation of the average velocity of the flow. In shallow flows, the strongest Doppler signals generally come from the liquid surface. But as the flow deepens, the ultrasonic Doppler signals can come from almost anywhere within the velocity profile. Under good practical conditions, an accuracy of ± 20% can be achieved and packages with a logger cost about £2,000. An important advance has been the development of ultrasonic sensors, which can measure the flow profile such as the Nivus OCM Pro active. This uses correlation techniques on the returned signals to infer the range to the source of the signal. By combining signals from several ranges, a flow profile can be fitted to the data and thus obtain a reliable estimate of the average velocity. This removes the major source of inaccuracy of the single channel device, and a big improvement in performance. An accuracy of 0.5% to 2% is claimed at a price of £5,000-6000 for a system.
Ultrasonic time of flight has also been applied to sewer flow measurement, either with the transducers held on rings in the sewer as with the Doppler mouse or with the transducers embedded in the walls of the sewer. Time of flight offers better estimation of average velocity than the single channel Doppler method and the Sarasota 200 using multipath time of flight quotes typical accuracies of 2-5%. There are also open-channel electromagnetic flowmeters, for example the ChannelMag from Flow Measurement, which offers velocity measurement accuracies of 5% at velocities of 0.6m/sec to 6% at 0.2m/sec. In these sensors, the field coils are embedded in the channel requiring significant engineering work. To date their use has mostly been restricted to sewage works sites where there are important reasons to avoid the head loss of a flow structure.
The workhorse of open channel flow on sewage treatment plants has long been standard flumes and weirs, with level measured by air-fired ultrasonics and the flow derived using standard relationships. There has been some recent work by WRc and Cranfield University to extend these methods to non-standard structures and the Water Industry Flow Club plans to complete this important task as part of its new programme. However, flow structures are not normally used in sewers.
The most interesting technical development of the past decade has been the Flodar from Marsh McBirney. It uses microwave Doppler from above the flow to measure surface velocity and radar to measure level. This is priced at about £10,000 for a claimed accuracy of 5%. It can be affected by rain if installed in the open, but this is not normally a problem for sewer flow.
There have been a number of attempts at applying optical cross correlation to sewer flow measurement going back to the late 1970s. More recently, WRc built a laser-based cross correlation flow sensor as part of a possible all-optical package to monitor polluting load in the Loadmon project. Good results were obtained at flow velocities above 0.2m/sec, but at low flows it was difficult to get a clear correlation peak and under certain conditions surface ripples could produce large errors.
In Germany, Diehl & Siebeneck have invested in a cross-correlation patent DE19820849 and may develop a commercial product. While optics are, on the face of it, the wrong technology for sewers, sensors mounted well away from the flowing surface could be engineered to be reliable. The accuracy of open channel systems is often quoted for a near-ideal channel. Real sewer conditions are often far from ideal and accuracy is consequently degraded.
Closed pipe flowmetering
On many sewer networks, there are opportunities to monitor flow at pumping stations using full-bore electromagnetic flow meters on the rising main and this will deliver accuracies of 0.5% to 1% for £1,500.
It is three years to 2009 when sewer flow monitors could have a crucial role in schemes under the Water Framework Directive Programme of Measures. User requirements for such a flow monitor would probably include:
- Very low maintenance, and this probably means non-contact; able to deliver 10% accuracy on a real life open channel and to maintain good performance at low flows
- Able to provide at least level data if the sewer surcharges priced below £4,000 with wireless communications on board; ATEX zone 1 and IP68
- Easy and therefore cheap to install
Now is the time to develop an instrument to meet this need, 2009 will be too late. During 2001-2004, large sums were spent on open channel flow systems for WwTWs’ flows, all with existing technology. On many sites this was expensive and timely new products could have saved a lot of money. For sewer flow, action is needed now to make the case for research and development and to carry this through into new products.
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The Italian Art, before the restyling a decade ago, is the collection that has most characterized and made Omas recognizable as a producer of high-quality writing objects. Characterized by the legendary twelve faces of the tank and the cap, the clip with the wheel and the two rings, one on the cap and the other on the tank, Italian Art is a real icon.


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The total population of West and Central Africa stands at 414 million. It is expected to double by 2035 creating high demands for basic foods.
Current and future global agriculture will be based on new and sophisticated consumers, rural-urban migration, population growth, changing dietary patterns and consumer preferences, food safety issues, and improvements in family farming and organic farming. Without research, West and Central Africa will face challenges producing the food it needs to ensure the security of the growing population.
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Under the WAAPP program implemented by CORAF major crops yields increased between 30% for dry cereals and 150% for rice, fruit, and tubers. WAAPP has had a considerable impact on food security and caloric intake. Caloric consumption rose from 2,777 to 2,964 kcals and the “hunger period” reduced by 28 to 55% according to the commodity. WAAPP has also increased by 34% the economic situation of farmers as well as transformed communities. Visit WAAPP for details >
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As children growing up in the mid-1940s, Phil and Harriet Libin learned about the importance of giving back from their respective families. The couple’s parents, Saul and Sonia Libin and Leo and Goldie Sheftel, donated whatever time or money they could afford to people in need. As a result, Phil and Harriet began volunteering in their early teens — before they even met. Regardless of what the Calgary forecast had in store for them, they would each take to the streets with blue collection boxes every Sunday morning, fundraising for the Jewish National Fund of Canada.
“When you go out and get that quarter or that dime or that nickel, it gives you that sense of satisfaction in helping. My parents would never turn away someone in need, and I grew up seeing my parents give,” says Phil. “What’s the old saying: ‘Monkey see, monkey do?’” he chuckles.
Phil and Harriet first met as teenagers while attending Central Memorial High School in Calgary. The couple will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary this year.
Today, the Libins are well-known as dedicated fundraisers and philanthropists in the city. They started the Phillip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation in 2009 to help support various local organizations and have often focused their fundraising efforts on the medical field. This past year, they donated $3 million to the Alberta Cancer Foundation supporting breast cancer-related research and clinical trials at the new Calgary Cancer Centre.
With this state-of-the-art cancer centre opening its doors in 2023, the Alberta Cancer Foundation, in partnership with the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, has launched the OWN.CANCER campaign to raise $250 million in support of enhanced research, treatment and care within the centre.
Raising funds for cancer care and research is a cause close to the Libin family’s hearts. In 2006, Sheryl — Phil and Harriet’s daughter, Stuart’s sister and mother to Michael and Matthew— was diagnosed with breast cancer. Phil and Harriet went to every single appointment with Sheryl at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. After an 11-year journey with cancer, Sheryl passed away from her illness in 2017 at age 55.
“Sheryl will have been gone for five years in May,” says Harriet. “I always said to Phil, ‘We have to find some way that will be meaningful to keep Sheryl’s memory alive.’ And when the Calgary Cancer Centre came up, we thought it would be a perfect place because it’s meaningful for us and because we went through the process with her.”
Sheryl shared the same generous spirit as the rest of her family, as she and Stuart followed in their parents’ footsteps to volunteer and lend a helping hand to anyone in need.
“We want to do this in memory of Sheryl and in honour of Stuart,” says Phil.
In recognition of the Libins’ contribution, the Calgary Cancer Centre is naming the Knowledge Centre auditorium the Philip and Harriet Libin Auditorium. The space will facilitate meetings, seminars and conferences where medical professionals and patients alike will have a space to communicate and share research.
The Calgary Cancer Centre is still under construction, but requests are already underway to book the auditorium for patient advisory meetings, support groups and lectures.
“We’re quite excited for the centre to open,” says Harriet. “Even though it isn’t going to work for our daughter, this will offer hope for others. Throughout the years and growing up, there was always some member of our family who was not well. It became a part of our lives and always felt important.”
When it opens next year, the 1.3-million square foot Calgary Cancer Centre will have capacity to treat more cancer patients with increased space for clinical trials that is currently available at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. It will also contain 110,000-square feet of dedicated research space.
“I really hope this centre will give people confidence knowing they have a place to take their loved one to be cared for,” says Harriet. “I hope that in the not-too-distant future, they’ll find cures for some of these cancers or make things easier for people if they can’t be fully cured. I think Sheryl would be honoured to know that we remember her in this way, and she’s in our hearts always.”
Phil and Harriet have raised significant funds for multiple causes over the years. Phil, who led a successful career in development and commercial real estate, has been a member of the Rotary Club of Calgary since 1989 and has served on the boards of various charities. Together, they’ve helped raise millions for local communities and causes.
“You do these things because you want to,” says Phil. “And because there’s a need for them.”
Giving back is a generational habit for the Libins. Growing up, Stuart also learned to contribute back to both the Jewish community and the community at large. As an adult, he joined the Rotary Club of Calgary and the Rockyview Hospital Fund Development Council.
“It was always natural,” Stuart says, “they always had a bug in my ear. I guess you could say I learned a great lesson from [my parents].”
The Libin’s lessons — their generational generosity — will continue to have a lasting impact here in Calgary and will make a tremendous difference for cancer patients at the Calgary Cancer Centre and beyond.
Originally written by Jennifer Friesen
The OWN.CANCER campaign is raising $250 million in support of improved research, treatment and care at the new Calgary Cancer Centre. This game-changing initiative is backed by three trusted community institutions: Alberta Health Services, Canada’s first and largest fully integrated provincial health system; the Alberta Cancer Foundation, the official fundraising partner for all 17 cancer care centres across the province; and the University of Calgary, a globally recognized leader in medical research and home to tomorrow’s health-care professionals. Currently, under construction, the Calgary Cancer Centre will open its doors in 2023 as the largest, most comprehensive cancer centre in Canada.
For more information, visit www.owncancer.ca


June 5, 2018
Misunderstanding Religion in Masterpiece
William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law
Many of us expected the Baker, Jack Phillips, to defeat the Same-Sex Couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, in the Supreme Court of the United States. The Baker refused to bake a marriage cake for the Couple because of his religious opposition to same-sex marriage. I thought it would be a Kennedy, 5-4 opinion, on free speech grounds. Instead, the Court, in an opinion by Kennedy, unfortunately ruled 7-2 in the Baker’s favor on free exercise of religion grounds.
The free exercise decision was surprising because the Free Exercise Clause requires everyone to obey neutral laws of general applicability. The sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws are neutral laws of general applicability. Both the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and the Colorado Court of Appeals so ruled. Nonetheless, Justice Kennedy wrote that the Commission had displayed religious hostility in its enforcement of those laws, and that the “neutral and respectful consideration to which Phillips was entitled was compromised.”
Justice Kennedy’s evidence of the Commission’s “clear and impermissible hostility toward the [Baker’s] sincere religious beliefs” did not display any hostility toward religion. Instead, his reasoning is consistent with the Court’s trend to be too positive toward religion, as it was when it ruled against women’s rights in Hosanna-Tabor and Hobby Lobby. In a first Commission meeting, Kennedy wrote,
One commissioner suggested that Phillips can believe “what he wants to believe,” but cannot act on his religious beliefs “if he decides to do business in the state.” A few moments later, the commissioner restated the same position: “[I]f a businessman wants to do business in the state and he’s got an issue with the— the law’s impacting his personal belief system, he needs to look at being able to compromise.”
That statement is not hostile to religion. It simply displays a commissioner commenting on the actual state of free exercise law, which is supposed to mean that everyone must obey it despite personal preferences. Instead, according to Justice Kennedy,
Standing alone, these statements are susceptible of different interpretations. On the one hand, they might mean simply that a business cannot refuse to provide services based on sexual orientation, regardless of the proprietor’s personal views. On the other hand, they might be seen as inappropriate and dismissive comments showing lack of due consideration for Phillips’ free exercise rights and the dilemma he faced. In view of the comments that followed, the latter seems the more likely.
Thus Justice Kennedy gave a surprisingly anti-religious interpretation of what could have been a statement of the law. Then, in a second meeting, Kennedy describes a commissioner who said:
“I would also like to reiterate what we said in the hearing or the last meeting. Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the holocaust, whether it be—I mean, we—we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to—to use their religion to hurt others.”
That statement is sad but true. We have an Establishment Clause because the Founders recognized the harms that religions did to individuals in the past, and would do in the present and the future if allowed to. This statement honestly expresses the concern that underlies the Religion Clauses, which are not supposed to express an uncritical approach toward religion. Nonetheless, according to Kennedy’s interpretation of that statement,
To describe a man’s faith as “one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use” is to disparage his religion in at least two distinct ways: by describing it as despicable, and also by characterizing it as merely rhetorical—something insubstantial and even insincere. The commissioner even went so far as to compare Phillips’ invocation of his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust. This sentiment is inappropriate for a Commission charged with the solemn responsibility of fair and neutral enforcement of Colorado’s antidiscrimination law—a law that protects discrimination on the basis of religion as well as sexual orientation.
It is hard to believe that expressing the accurate role of religion in history and society became firm evidence of a free exercise violation. Kennedy thinks the situation became even worse because the legal record shows no objection from other commissioners to these statements, the state-court decisions did not mention them, and the Commission never disavowed them.
Justice Ginsburg’s dissent, which was joined only by Justice Sotomayor, concluded that statements made by only one or two members of four decisionmaking groups did not justify reversal of the Court of Appeals’ decision. Moreover, the two Justices “see no reason why the comments of one or two Commissioners should be taken to overcome Phillips’ refusal to sell a wedding cake to Craig and Mullins.” The dissent also noted that the majority did not identify what “prejudice infected” the decisionmakers. The dissenters should have been more critical of the majority’s negative treatment of the commissioners’ statements.
On the Supreme Court, religion triumphed over the antidiscrimination laws in employment law (Hosanna-Tabor), when the Court accepted a ministerial exception that dismisses many employment discrimination cases before the facts are heard. Religion also defeated contraception (Hobby Lobby), when the Court exempted businesses from enforcing the Affordable Care Act. Now LGBTQ rights have lost to religion, because a majority of the Court thinks religion is almost always good and that its critics foolishly violate the Constitution. The Court should instead listen to the voices of women, LGBTQs, the disabled, the aged, the pregnant, victims of tort and contract harm, and the underpaid. It might give them a more even understanding of religion.


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Delight your ears and eyes with an extraordinary jazz quartet led by guitar player and singer Mitchell Long, and an art exhibit of Mexican artist, Maricruz Sibaja. All this under the beautiful sky of Long Beach!
Mitchell Long is an accomplished guitarist and singer, well-known for his virtuosity, his knowledge of jazz and Brazilian music, and a soft-voiced Portuguese singing that reminds us the early bossa nova male singers. For the last six years, Mitchell has been touring in Europe with the singer-songwriter and jazz diva, Melody Gardot, so it’s a real privilege to have him at Casa Arjona before he leaves for Europe!
Mitchell will be acompannied by Brazilian keyboard player, Sandro Rebel, Brazilian drummer, Lucio Vieira, and an amazing base player TBA.
On the other hand, Maricruz Sibaja is a native of Oaxaca, Mexico, with Japanese ancestry. Maricruz comes from a family of artists, and her paintings are characterized by the presence or strong female characters, and by the use of intense colors. The colors of her land!
This will be an artistic experience with colorful images and sounds, and an international and friendly audience. Your $20 donation includes chips, home-made salsas, popcorn, and non-alcoholic drinks. You are welcome to bring your own basket and wine at no extra cost!
Plenty of free parking on the street!
Questions? Call Javier at (562) 805-7770


21.The periodic table of the elements does not list whole : 1409659
21.The periodic table of the elements does not list whole numbers for atomic weights. Why?
A. The atomic weights are not predictable.
B. The atomic weights include protons and neutrons at 1 amu each, but they also include
electrons, which weigh a lot less than one.
C. The atomic weight is the weighted average of the masses of the known isotopes of an element.
D. The atomic weights do not include isotopes.
22.Where are the metals located on the periodic table of the elements?
A. On the right
B. Along the line between B and Al to between Po and At.
C. On the left
D. In the two sections separated from the rest of the table.
23.The higher up within a group or family on the periodic table,
A. the heavier the nucleus.
B. the more the element is likely to conduct electricity.
C. the more nonmetallic in character.
D. the more the element is likely to be a semimetal.
24.What is the relationship of a metal atom to the right of another metal atom in the same period?
A. The atom to the right is usually the smaller in diameter.
B. The atom to the right is usually the smaller in atomic weight.
C. The atom to the right is usually the smaller in atomic number.
D. The atom to the right is more likely to have fewer isotopes.
25.How many atoms of sodium are there in 0.2 moles sodium atoms?
A. 6.02 x 1024 atoms
B. 6.02 x 1023 atoms
C. 1.2 x 1023 atoms
D. 12 x 1023 atoms
26. How many carbon(C) atoms are present in 30 moles of carbon?
A. 12 C atoms
B. 1.8 x 1023 C atoms
C. 360 C atoms
D. 6.02 x 1023 C atoms
27. The number of moles of calcium (Ca) represented by 7.39 g of calcium is
A. 40.0 moles of Ca
B. 18.6 moles of Ca
C. 0.184 mole of Ca
D. 296 moles of Ca
28.Iron has the atomic weight of 55.9. What is the number of atoms in one mole of iron?
A. 55.9 atoms
B. 1 x 1024 atoms
C. 6.02 x 1023 atoms
D. 12 dozen atoms
29.A sample of magnesium weighs 10 grams. How many moles of magnesium are there in the sample?
A. 10 moles
B. 6 x 1023 moles
C. 60 x 1023 atoms
D. 0.4 moles
30.What is the number of atoms present in a 20 gram sample of lithium?
B. 1.2 x 1025
C. 1.7 x 1024
D. 4.0 x 1024


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KUCHING: A special telemovie entitled ‘Penyayau Kumang’ (The Loving Queen) will be aired on RTM TV2 on June 5 in conjuntion with the Gawai Dayak celebration.
This will be the first Iban movie to be aired on nationwide television, featuring popular actors and actresses such as Tony Eusoff who is Sarawak-born, Nadia Mustaffar, Aripah Damanhuri, Chomatt Samad and Justin Choo.
Other actors and actresses include Olivia Parcy, Richard Matthias, Firdaus, Sanddy Ngu, Anne Alexander, Ali Mohammad, Jerry Kennedy, Edwin Yohanes, and two child actors namely Ivan Eugene and Sherman Anja Shelldon.
Directed by Khairul Anuar Othman with Malcom Layang Jimbun and James Lo as producers, the movie is produced by Kenyalang Dreamworks Sdn Bhd (formerly known as First Film & Video Production Sdn Bhd).
The locations where the movie was shot were several longhouses like RH Gumbang, Sg Planduk Paku Betong, rivers along RH Wilson Begat, Penon Ulu Paku and Rh Anggang, Ng Mejong, and Skrang Betong.
The two-hour movie will start at 10pm. It tells a story about ‘Bayang’ played by Tony Eusoff, ‘Jawai’ (played by Nadia Mustaffar), ‘Kevin’ (Chomatt Samad) and ‘Indai’ (Aripah Damanhuri) who receive information that ‘Tinggang’ (Justin Choo) who went missing 21 years ago suddenly wanted to come back to celebrate the Gawai festive season.
Tinggang is the only child of Indai, who is also a stepbrother to Bayang.
Indai has missed Tinggang so much ever since her husband passed away five years ago.
Kevin, son of Bayang and Jawai, who is a grandchild of Indai, had not known about Tinggang until they made friends through Facebook.
Kevin has no idea of who Tinggang is and when he informs his family that Tinggang wants to come here to join the Gawai celebration, they were worried and in a dilemma.
Watch the movie to find out the storyline and its ending on June 5.


Radio-Frequency-Transparent, Electrically Conductive Graphene Nanoribbon Thin Films as Deicing Heating Layers
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Deicing heating layers are frequently used in covers of large radio-frequency (RF) equipment, such as radar, to remove ice that could damage the structures or make them unstable. Typically, the deicers are made using a metal framework and inorganic insulator; commercial resistive heating materials are often nontransparent to RF waves. The preparation of a sub-skin-depth thin film, whose thickness is very small relative to the RF skin (or penetration) depth, is the key to minimizing the RF absorption. The skin depth of typical metals is on the order of a micrometer at the gigahertz frequency range. As a result, it is very difficult for conventional conductive materials (such as metals) to form large-area sub-skin-depth films. In this report, we disclose a new deicing heating layer composite made using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We demonstrate that the GNR film is thin enough to permit RF transmission. This metal-free, ultralight, robust, and scalable graphene-based RF-transparent conductive coating could significantly reduce the size and cost of deicing coatings for RF equipment covers. This is important in many aviation and marine applications. This is a demonstration of the efficacy and applicability of GNRs to afford performances unattainable by conventional materials.


Auburn (13-15) at Texas A&M (17-13)
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GAME NOTES: The SEC regular-season comes to an end on Saturday afternoon when the Texas A&M Aggies welcome the Auburn Tigers to Reed Arena.
Auburn has struggled this season at 13-15 and 5-12 in the SEC, and it has been sliding as the year comes to a close with losses in four of its last five games. The Tigers hosted Tennessee on Wednesday night and were blown out of their own gym, 82-54.
Texas A&M has also been on the downswing of late with losses in two of its last three, most recently falling to 17-13 and 8-9 in the league on Wednesday after it coughed up a double-digit second half lead to lose at Missouri, 57-56. The Aggies have enjoyed great success at home this season, winning 16 of 18 at Reed Arena.
The Aggies lead the all-time series with the Tigers, 5-2, which includes a win in the first round of last season's SEC Tournament, 71-65.
The Tigers were never a factor in their most recent contest, as they found themselves down 10-0 less than four minutes in before eventually losing by 28. They shot only 37 percent from the field on the evening, compared to 49.1 percent for Tennessee, and they also lost possessions by getting outrebounded by a dominating 44-24 margin. Tahj Shamsid-Deen was hot despite the setback, shooting 5-of-8 from 3-point range for 17 points, while KT Harrell and Asauhn Dixon-Tatum netted 15 and 12 points, respectively.
Their matchup earlier in the week aside, Auburn usually doesn't have much trouble scoring points this season, as they put up 72.1 ppg on 43.8 percent field goal shooting, but its problem has come in allowing nearly the same production on the opposite end of the court (.431, 72.0 ppg). Chris Denson is the SEC's second-leading scorer with 19.3 ppg, although he's scored less than that average in four of the last five games and is a woeful 3-of-25 from the field in the last two. Harrell is a strong second option with 18.4 ppg, while Shamsid-Deen brings 9.8 ppg to the mix.
The Aggies held an 11-point lead with less than 15 minutes to play in their latest game but slowly saw that advantage slip away down the stretch before Missouri won on a pair of free throws with just seven seconds remaining. Although they outshout Mizzou from the field, 44 percent to 34 percent, they were outscored from the foul line, 24-7, and outrebounded, 39-24. Jamal Jones paced the losing effort with 16 points but he did so on only 6-of-16 shooting from the floor. Alex Caruso tallied 13 points, five steals and four assists, while Kourtney Roberson narrowly missed a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds.
Texas A&M has remained competitive this season thanks mostly to its outstanding defense, as it holds opposing teams to just 39.9 percent shooting from the field and 62.3 ppg, but it has been hampered by an offensive attack (.429, 64.6 ppg) that ranks as the SEC's worst. Jones leads the way with 13.0 ppg but oftentimes hurts the squad more than he helps with a poor field goal percentage (.370). Roberson (9.7 ppg, 6.8 rpg) and Caruso (8.5 ppg, 4.8 apg) are also important pieces to the modest attack.
While both teams have experienced its share of inconsistencies this season, Texas A&M has been excellent on its home floor and should be able to close out its building for the campaign with a strong effort.
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Greg Mountain, a professor from Rutgers University (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences), is on the JOIDES Resolution to correlate the cores. We drill several hundred meters into the ocean bed but each core is 9 m long. The top and bottom of this length can get disturbed so to ensure we get the full picture of how the sediment changes as we get deeper we drill three parallel holes in close proximity to each other. On board Greg works with Professor Christina Ravelo (UCSC). Together they make a continuous record from the cores by matching features from the three samples. To help fit the pieces together they look at the physical property measurements from the cores. A common pattern in these physical properties allows them to “tie” the cores together at that point. For example an ash layer in all three cores can be linked to the same volcanic event and used to tie that moment together in the three cores. This is an important role during the expedition and this has to be done quickly to be able to give the driller directions as to the core depths that are needed.
Greg has found working in Geology to be a most exciting field. During the last sixty years the science of Geology has grown
almost beyond recognition, as we have been increasingly able to use technology to help test ideas. Alfred Wegener was fundamental to initiating perhaps the biggest shift in thinking for many years. Prior to the 1950’s most scientists believed that the mountains seen on Earth were caused by the cooling contraction of the Earth’s surface. Wegener first proposed the idea of continental drift in a book he published in 1915. This idea had been considered previously but Wegner backed it up using evidence from the fossil records to suggest that landmasses may once have been connected. Most scientists dismissed this idea as ridiculous giving it little merit. It was not until the 1950’s after Wegener’s death that more evidence from the ocean floor emerged causing the hypothesis to be revisited. By the end of the 1960’s with the increasing weight of evidence most geologists had accepted this theory. It was shortly after this huge shift in thinking that Greg started his university career; in a field busy reevaluating dogma, geology was an exciting place to be a graduate student.
As a child Greg enjoyed spending time outside sailing; he attributes in part these early outdoor adventures to his interest in the Earth sciences. Greg always loved science at school but it was his fascination with the way the Earth worked that drew him to the particular science of geology. Geology is a hands on outdoor discipline which allowed him to apply the ideas he learned in science to explain and understand concepts in geology and the physical world around him.
Greg’s main research interests include understanding how sea level has varied over geological time scales. He makes and studies sonograms of the sea floor. These are made using low frequency sound that echoes off the different layers of sediment. Using a computer the echoes of these sounds can build into a picture of the layers of sediment and rock under the ocean floor. When we drill this sediment we are ‘ground truthing’ these images. The continental shelf found around the edges of continents generally has quite a gentle slope. This results in relatively small changes in sea volume having a large impact on land area. Understanding how sea level has changed in the past helps us to better predict how it may change in the future. With the large human population along many of the world’s coastlines sea level rise will have a big impact.
Geg is also very interested in the accumulation of sediments. In the same way in which snow is blown into drifts, sediments are blown into big piles by the unrelenting movement of deep ocean currents carrying small sediment particles (clay, silt and nannofossils). Ocean currents are primarily driven by the different temperatures of water bodies – they are convection currents on a large scale – so by looking at the past rate of growth of these underwater sediment dunes we can start to understand the heat exchange in the past oceans. Greg studies the sediment drifts to gain a better understanding of past currents to learn how and why parts of the ocean floor are shaped as they are. The movement of these sediments also represents the movement of nutrients and organic matter.
Travelling has been a big part of Greg’s work, an aspect he has particularly enjoyed. He has been on many research expeditions. One of his first experiences was with the Ocean Drilling Program (predecessor to IODP) research vessel as a graduate student; this he feels was one of the defining points of his career. The expedition, as with all expeditions with IODP, allowed those new to the field to work alongside some of the key players in the Earth science community. Research expeditions have a truly international mixture of people sharing ideas and talents in a close space for an extended period of time. This results in a great exchange and refinement of ideas and a collaboration, which extends well after the duration of the voyage. Greg is please that graduate students continue to be given these opportunities.
The field trips, research expeditions and data collection have allowed Greg to travel to many places in the globe. He enjoyed the desserts of Oman with the sandy dunes blowing across the roads and the friendly people and good food of the islands of Madeira. He has been on about 30 ocean research cruises and enjoys the port calls. In his spare time Greg likes to play baseball. It is a sport he loved in his youth and returned to in his forties. He has never looked back and plays through the season with his local team. He lives in northern New Jersey and greatly looking forward to seeing his wife and family on his return.


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ENID — This city of 50,000 residents was shut down Tuesday while residents worked to dig out from snow drifts and waited for power to be restored.
Driving into Enid on U.S. 412, cars and trucks stranded in Monday's blizzard spotted the sides of the road, snow caked on windshields and stuffed inside wheel wells.
Garfield County Emergency Management Director Mike Honigsberg said the city was bombarded with 10 inches of snow in just a few hours Monday night. In some areas, drifts were 3 to 5 feet deep, he said.
In town Tuesday morning, just as many backhoes and Bobcats were on the streets as cars, each pushing snow from parking lots into fat, towering piles in front of businesses.
Marsha Weinane had finished shoveling snow from about half of her driveway before 11 a.m.
Weinane said she and her husband lost power about 10 p.m. Monday, but they were able to ride out the cold night by keeping warm next to their fireplace.
“There were claps of thunder and huge snowflakes. You could hardly see your front yard,” she said. “The snow just came up inch by inch by inch, and it wasn't too long before we noticed the ceiling in our sun room starting to sag.”
Weinane said the blizzard left her trapped at home without power, but she still sees the good of it.
“I'm just excited about the water on my grass,” she said. “It's a huge blessing. We've been praying for this much water for months. Hopefully, spring is just around the corner now.”
Long before daylight Tuesday, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. crews were busy, working to restore power to more than 21,000 residents. More than 90 percent of Enid was without power at the height of the outage.
“OG&E officials stated that they will have the majority of Enid citizens back on tonight. They hope to have all back on by end of business Wednesday,” Honigsberg reported in an afternoon news release.
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Neema is 11 years old. She is the third of ten children to her single mother. Her mother was kicked out of the family because she had more children than the land could provide. Her mother has given birth to 5 sets of twins. Despite many obstacles, Neema is in third grade and going to fourth next year.
Neema and her siblings have gone days without food. Many times, the family forages in the forest to find fruits and vegetables that can sustain them.
She vows not to drop out of school, no matter what the circumstances. She is the only child in her family that is still going to school.

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Dell now selling Dell Streak unlocked
The Dell Streak, previously only available on contract at O2 in the UK, has gone on sale without the need for a contract thanks to Dell.
Those willing to slap down the cash can pay £449 for the Android powered handset with a 5-inch screen without the need to sign a lengthy data contract in the process.
Those wanting the Dell Streak, SIM-free and unlocked can even buy now, pay June 2011 if the urge to have something slightly bigger than your current smartphone is too great to save up for before you buy.
Although we've personally played with a red version, it seems for now Dell is only offering it in Carbon Black.


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Inland Revenue Board says No paying tax with credit card (yet).
The public will not be able to pay income tax with credit cards for now as the Finance Ministry has rejected the proposal to allow such a move.
According to IRB, this is because the ministry does not want people to take up a loan to pay off another debt.
Suggestions from the public are still pouring in via letters, email, feedback from seminars, urging the Government to allow taxes to be paid using credit cards.
More: The Star..No paying tax with credit card
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Rising mineral prices could bring mining back to Rico, a small, isolated town in southwestern Colorado. Residents consider what that could mean for their town, while relics of old mining efforts litter the landscape nearby.
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Luka Mercutio is a Wood Elf of near 165 years of age. Despite her age, she has the appearance of a 16 or 17-year-old. She is from a very uncommon race of elves, with green hair and eyes, and had been living with her father in the Murkwood Forest village of Kowan: the forest to which Rouhan and his Goblins live.
- Name: Luka Mercuito
- Age: 165 (physically 16-17)
- Hair: Light Green
- Eyes: Green
- Dislikes: Big-breasted women (envies them), alcohol (has a low tolerance for it), ignorance, Goblins (formerly)
- Family: Father (deceased), Paradigm
Luka is a beautiful pointed eared wood elf who looks like a Caucasian teenage girl despite her age, with green hair that is long in the back and short in front, with two braids at the side, with a slender figure with slender legs, thin waist, cute butt, but lacks a chest and is stuck with an A Cup. She wears a short skirted green robe-like dress, with long sleeves, long brown leggings that reach to her upper thighs, and thigh high brown boots with green ankle bands and straps. She also has a red band around her neck, the only keepsake from her father.
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Luka Mercutio lived her life with others of her kind. She, at some point, developed a curiosity about the world, which led to her wanting to become an adventurer. Though her father forbade it, leaving her to stay with her people amongst the Murkwood section of the vast forest surrounding the Lone Mountain. Until one day, a band of Orc ransacked the village, leaving none to survive, say being food for their Wargs. Luka managed to survive due to her father, pushing her down a well, and using the water to hide her scent. All she could do was pass out from the fall, and hear the sounds of her people being slaughtered and her father being eaten by the Wargs.
Luka is a cheerful girl though somewhat reserved and prone to panicking in dangerous situations. Though that changes when Rouhan helps her through to help her see how brave and strong she can be to others. Afterwards, she becomes a fierce archer and swordsman, on par with Mia, whom she sees as a rival for Rouhan’s affections. Before that, she showed signs of a psychotic break after her rescue from the ruined village in Kohan Forest, refusing to accept that her father died at the hands of the Red Dragon, Ragnrok, until it was finally killed. Before though, she always had a second plate made out, or had male clothing ready, believing that her father would come to Ereboria to take her home again.
The realization of her father’s death shook her to the core, crying endlessly, as she cried out she had no reason to even continue living. However, Rouhan stated that she did: just to live for her father.
Luka became more "bold" in her relationship with Rouhan when the other girls start being intimate and dislikes the idea of being left out. Luka thinks of Rouhan very highly, and wants to stay with him forever. However, she will pinch his cheek whenever he lusts over other girls and despite being shy, she will beat or slap someone like the demon lord, Didoria, when they insult Rouhan.
During a peaceful slumber, Luka has a proclivity of sleeping naked.
- Archery: Although her people are peaceful, her father prepared her to fight when it was necessary. She is a natural with a bow and arrow.
- Swordsmanship: Lately, she has asked Rouhan for sword lessons, and practices with him and Seiji teaching Goblin underlings.
- Paradigm Archery Attire
- Wood Elf Bow 'Demeter'
- Dual Scimitar Elf Swords

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text: Adequately tired after my third day of summer school/internship limbo-jimbo and the 3 hour commute that comes with it. Unlike many of my peers, I’ve never really minded commuting because the aloneness of the travel time is somewhat comforting; not to mention, it’s also an ideal opportunity to get some reading time in! I recently went to Chapters with Maegan where I spent nearly all of a $200 giftcard that my dad won. I bought 7 books and 3 magazines that I’m pretty excited to delve into, because one of my summer goals is to cultivate new interests and read 15 new books. I’m currently only on my second, but the summer is still young…right? Okay.


THE fight between the Cats and Bulldogs highlights Saturday’s seventh round of the Bendigo Bank Heathcote District Football Netball League’s senior footy action when Lockington Bamawm United takes on North Bendigo.
The unbeaten LBU Cats will be back on home turf at Lockington and striving to strengthen their credentials as the team to beat for the premiership cup.
Lockington Bamawm United clicked to another gear when it mattered to score a five-goal win on Mount Pleasant’s turf at Toolleen last round.
North Bendigo fired up to retain the Golden City Cup as it beat Huntly just days after the passing of club legend and former HDFNL president, Keith Robertson.
For the Robert Bennett-coached Bulldogs a key will be matching LBU’s workrate at centre clearances and stoppages.
Cats’ ruckman Tyler Phillips has followed up last season’s Sam Cheatley Medal victory as league fairest and best by dominating most matches.
Phillips’ ability to tap the footy to the likes of Brodie and Jesse Collins is a big factor in LBU’s success.
North Bendigo will look to Jeremy Lambden, Manny Thalasinos and Nathan Newlan to compete strongly, especially at centre ball-ups and boundary throw-ins.
The Bulldogs have been bolstered by the inclusion of Lachlan Tardrew on a wing.
A gun player for Collingwood in the VFL, Tardrew is available as the Magpies have a bye this round.
Tardrew was among the Bulldogs’ best in his first game for the club at Leitchville-Gunbower.
North Bendigo’s midfield of Lachlan Tardrew, Beau Cross and Nic Waterson faces a huge test against Riley McIvor, Thomas Leech and Nathan Bacon.
A powerful LBU attack includes Ben Fulford, Anthony McMahon, Rhys Woodland and Lachlan Atherton up against Aarryn Craig, Sam Demeo, Lachlan Ford and Ryan Alford.
The athletic Dylan Klemm kicked seven goals in North Bendigo’s latest victory and is a key target up forward, along with Jordan Ford, Shane Harris and Storm Giri.
They will be opposed by a Cats defence that includes Joss Howlett, Luke Collins, Charlie Hinks and Fraser Monahan.
Heathcote takes on White Hills on the Saints’ turf at Barrack Reserve.
The Andrew Saladino-coached Saints have climbed to the fifth rung after a 67-point win at Elmore as White Hills had the bye.
Key players for Heathcote include the run and skill of Codie Price from half-back, Braden Padmore and Hamilton in midfield, Billy Price and Brayden Klemke in defence, Jordan and Kai Cavallaro, and B Jane in attack.
The Jack Fallon-coached White Hills showed in its home-ground win against North Bendigo what it is capable of.
The Demons will be ready to turn up the heat from the first contest as they fight to regain their place in the top five.
Players to watch for White Hills include Rhys Irwin, Kaiden Skelton, Mitch Dole, Bayden Fallon, Liam Bartels, Brady Childs and Eli Pearce.
Leitchville-Gunbower is back at Leitchville to take on Elmore.
The Bombers were outpointed by a skilful Colbinabbin last round in a match where Jobee Warde, Billy Hawken, Mitchell Candy and Nathan McLellan were Leitchville-Gunbower’s best.
Elmore went down to Heathcote, but the previous round put in a great effort to finish within 17 points of White Hills in the Demons’ den.
Key players for the Dylan Friedberger and Dylan Gordon-coached Elmore include Darcy and Zac Laffy, Kyle Armstrong, Dylan Oaff, Sebastian De Napoli, and Zack Holmberg.
Huntly is on home turf at Strauch Reserve to take on unbeaten ladder-leader Colbinabbin.
The Hawks’ best in the clash at North Bendigo were coach Stacy Fiske, Jaydon Cowling, Brandon Dimech and Travis Mercadante.
Players in the brown and gold who face huge tasks include Brad Chalmers in the ruck, Mitch Billings in the centre, Jayden Cordy and Tori Ferguson in attack, and defenders Flynn Campbell and Jay McDonald.
The Julian Bull-coached Colbinabbin has James and Jed Brain, Luke Moore and Will Lowe in great form.
Others to watch for the green and gold include Thomas Hill and Ben Barton in defence, Laine Fitzgerald, Todd Clarke, Clint Shields, and Hadleigh Sirett.
Mount Pleasant has the bye.
Heathcote DFNL senior ladder:
Colbinabbin 241 per cent, 24 points; Lockington Bamawm United 225, 20; Mount Pleasant 197, 20; North Bendigo 142, 16; Heathcote 85, 8; White Hills 69, 8; Leitchville Gunbower 30, 4; Elmore 59, 0; Huntly 49, 0.
31 Ben Weightman, MP.
20 Jed Brain, Colbo.
19 Dylan Klemm, NB.
17 Ben Fulford, LBU; Matt Gray, NB.
16 James Brain, Colbo.
15 Laine Fitzgerald, Colbo.
14 Adam Baird, MP; Anthony McMahon, LBU.
12 Kai Cavallaro, H’cote; Braden Padmore, H’cote.
11 Jack Brooks, H’cote; Jordan Ford, NB; Darcy Laffy, Elm.; Luke Moore, Colbo.; Tyler Phillips, LBU; Clint Shields, Colbo.; Rhys Woodland, LBU.
10 Jackson Conforti, H’cote.
Written by Nathan Dole.


BNSF Railway and Wabtec, a provider of equipment, systems and services for freight and transit rail, have collaborated to develop a battery-electric locomotive. Now they have begun testing the technology in revenue service between Barstow and Stockton, California.
The battery-powered locomotive will be situated in a consist [a sequence of locomotives and/or cars] between two Tier 4 locomotives, creating a hybrid consist. When running on the mainline, both the battery-electric and diesel locomotives will power the train.
The battery-electric locomotive is expected to improve the fuel economy for the entire consist by at least 10 percent. The pilot test will run from January until the end of March, and if it proves successful, BNSF will expand testing to other locations and operating conditions on its system.
BNSF partnered with Wabtec on the development of the battery-electric locomotive, which features an overall energy-management system, including onboard energy storage and system-optimization controls designed to improve consist and train performance.
“The FLXdrive is the world’s first 100-percent, heavy-haul battery-electric locomotive that optimizes the total energy utilization of the entire locomotive consist,” said Alan Hamilton, Wabtec VP, Engineering. “This technology works in a manner very similar to how electric vehicles use regenerative braking.”
“We’ve got everything in place and we’re ready to see how this next-generation locomotive performs in revenue service,” said John Lovenburg, BNSF VP, Environmental. “BNSF is focused on continuing to reduce our environmental impact, and we’re committed to doing our part to test and assess the commercial viability of emerging technologies that reduce emissions.”


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So i think we all saw jennie and rose spending time together in LA aka music industry clubhouse
They met many celebrities there : dua lipa , Charlie xcx , bella porch ... Etc
And many reports said the are working on new music BUT why only Jennie and rose tho ????????
My theory is that YG about to debut the female version of GDxTOP and that RxJ is coming
It makes so much sense tbh hear me out , baemon is coming soon so for sure more attention is going to support the new kids i mean lisa is doing her own thing for about two years, now jisoo is an actress and we all know YG is all about making it worldwide and Jennie and rose both are english speakers and got the most hype internationally
Maybe iam just a clown but it would be huge if it happened


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Rob Goldtsone Presents GREAT MOVIES: “The Apartment”.
Wednesday, August 7th at 2:30pm. Meet in the Village Center. Starring Jack Lemon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray. Directed by Billy Wilder. A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Rated PG. No registration required.

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The Harbour Bath Free chlorine water on the harbor all year round
Jump in, dive deep, float and spread your arms as the summer sun warms your body. The long-awaited outdoor pool at the harbour opens on Friday with underwater speeches, swimwear, and snorkel-toss. And you have to go!
It is a little difficult for me to write this recommendation because the attractions of a pool are really pretty self-explanatory. Water is good, outdoor swimming even better. Odense finally has a public swimming haven and you should make use of it. Two chlorinated pools in the middle of the salty harbour. Nice, much-needed, and free!
Odense isn’t really a water city, so any addition to the swimmer’s repertoire is welcome. For some obscure reason, Odense was placed far from the sea, which is almost incomprehensibly stupid to a Faaborg-boy such as myself. I mean, why the hell isn’t the city located a little further north or a lot further south??
I remember my first summer in the city; a near-death experience, where beads of sweat danced before my eyes and the sun cooked the tarmac to a pulp. The shallow pools at Friluftsbadet were shock-full of screaming kids and urine from early morning to night, and I was so frustrated not to have a beach nearby. It might sound silly to born-and-bred Odensensians but when you’ve lived 300 m. from the ocean all your life, water becomes an integral part of your patterns, of your identity. In fact, I know a number of people whose main argument against living in Odense is the lack of access to the sea. I still sometimes get overwhelmed by the urge, every fibre of my body craving water, now!
The sea is hard to move, but a public harbour pool accommodating 300 people is a step in the right direction. 300 might not sound like a lot, but this pool is more than just two chlorinated holes in the brine. If you have any questions about it, chances are the city has the answer at their staged Q&A here.
If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, here’s what you need to know: the pool holds 300 people and they close the entry once it is full. It is open all year round, excepting a few holidays. It is FREE. There are bathrooms and changing rooms. The summer hours are 6 am to 8 am, and 11 am to 7 pm. And no, you can’t pee in the water!
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For mig er Odense et forsøg. En åben by, hvor jeg kan skabe mig selv ind i. En mulighed for at gøre noget tingene på en anden måde. Eller det er det hvert fald blevet. Personlig tiltrækkes jeg af f...


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I love the new direction Star Wars is taking with The Force Awakens and now Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. I even support the fact that Rogue One is rumored to be the first Star Wars film to not begin with the classic Star Wars preamble crawl. Rogue One is also running with the diverse platform The Force Awakens started, featuring a woman as the main character (Felicity Jones) and a main ensemble cast featuring Forrest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Fares Fares, Jimmy Smits, James Earl Jones (as the voice of Darth Vader, of course), and Genevieve O’Reilly.
But for the most part, Star Wars has only been killing it when it comes to white women and men of color. Once again, it’s time to ask the age-old question: What about the black women?
In the latest Rogue One trailer, this lovely lady makes an appearance:
But do we get to learn more about her? I’m already wanting to know the rest of her story and who she is in the resistance.
What’s the worst part of this erasure is that it’s not like Star Wars hasn’t prominently featured black women before. It’s just that the women are usually in the written tales of the franchise. For instance, Imperial naval officer Rae Sloane, who appears in various Star Wars books, her first appearance being A New Dawn.
And Sana Starros, Han Solo’s self-proclaimed former wife, is featured in the Marvel’s Star Wars comics, first appearing in Star Wars 4: Skywalker Strikes, Part IV.
But Disney and Lucasfilm might have not taken a prime opportunity to actually cast Sana or any other woman of color as Han Solo’s opposite in the upcoming Han Solo spinoff film. Emilia Clarke is set to play a prominent role in the Han Solo film, a role that Tessa Thompson, Zoe Kravitz, and Adria Arjona (Guatemalan/Puerto Rican) might have auditioned for. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s currently unclear if Clarke’s role is the same role the other actresses tried out for, if the film will feature multiple women. As it stands right now, though, Clarke’s is the only name we’ve heard since the news of Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover landing the Han Solo and Lando Calrissian roles, respectively. That doesn’t bode well for black female Star Wars fans who have been waiting to see themselves represented in a big way in what’s supposed to be a highly diverse intergalactic universe.
PUT SANA STARROS IN THE HAN SOLO MOVIE pic.twitter.com/CwL3epeiOH
— Viktor T. (@wondermann5) November 27, 2016
Also something that’s annoyed many a black woman fan—the fact that the one black woman we do have in the new Star Wars universe, Lupita Nyong’o, is playing Maz Kanata, a character that is completely CGI. (A similar annoyance with black men in sci-fi can be read about in this companion article concerning Idris Elba’s role in Star Trek Beyond.)
Another strike against Lucasfilm and the Star Wars universe is how often black women and other women of color are often cast as Twi’leks, whose women are often enslaved as sex objects. To quote Wookipedia:
“Since female Twi’leks were regarded as graceful and beautiful beings, many of them were forced into a life of slavery at the hands of the galaxy’s wealthy and powerful.”
It’s more than a little disturbing that while women of color are all but absent in the Star Wars universe, they are readily cast as women who are sold into a sexual slavery.
It’s even more disturbing that Oola, the only sex slave coded as a black woman due to the actress, gets killed moments after we see her on screen in Return of the Jedi. There could have been a better outcome for her instead of just being used as disposable eye-candy.
Meanwhile, the Star Wars universe is proliferated with brunette white female protagonists:
This isn’t to disparage against these actresses, since I like all of them. But I’m trying to prove a point. Star Wars has a predilection, a tradition, in fact, of casting brunettes, when brunettes don’t signify all of woman-kind. If Star Wars is really going to be the franchise that puts women first, it’s got to put all women first. Black women and women of color in general have been historically forced to identify with women who do not look like us or experience life like us. You’d think that in a galaxy far far away, it’d be all too easy to find women of color, and not just women of color who happen to be sex slaves. In a way, Star Wars reiterates a fact of life that has been apparent to many women of color; we’re usually more palatable heard and not seen, and if we are seen, then we have to be as vampy and erotic as possible in order to matter. That’s not the kind of message Star Wars needs to bring into something as uplifting and inspiring as a sci-fi space opera that preaches equality for all people.
Am I still going to see Rogue One? Of course. Supporting it means I’m supporting the actors of color who are prominently featured. But my dollars will hopefully act as a means for Star Wars to increase their focus on diversity. Hopefully, this will mean that someday soon, we’ll finally have a sistah in space.