Bolstered by a significant increase in both medium- and long-range heating demand expectations for the Midwest and East in forecasts over the weekend, February Nymex natural gas futures were trading 29.9 cents higher at $3.398/MMBtu shortly before 9 a.m. ET.
Changes in the weather models over the weekend were “incredibly bullish” with intense cold arriving for the final third of January, enough to potentially put $3.50 in play for the front month, according to Bespoke Weather Services.
“A very significant cold shot is expected” from next Sunday through Jan. 22 “as a lobe of the polar vortex swings down across North America,” Bespoke said. Cold will be focused from the Midwest into the East, driving gas-weighted degree days (GWDD) to near-record levels for a few days, according to the forecaster.
“We then see cold briefly relax, with GWDDs consistently running above average through this time,” Bespoke said. “There is incredible model agreement that very significant cold returns as well through the final week of January and into early February, with risks of another lobe of the tropospheric polar vortex swinging through.”
Radiant Solutions similarly highlighted a large shift to more frigid temperatures for both its six- to 10-day and 11-15 day forecasts Monday.
The forecaster’s latest six- to 10-day outlook included a “significant change in the colder direction from the Interior West toward the East Coast compared to Friday’s expectations, with the Eastern Third coming in additionally colder” compared to Sunday’s expectations. “A round of much below normal temperatures accompany high pressure into the Plains at the start of the period and expand south and eastward. By mid-period, most of the Eastern Half is forecast in the much to strong below normal categories.”
The 11-15 day also featured “sizeable changes in the colder direction” compared to Friday, according to Radiant.
“From a large-scale pattern perspective, polar flow is directed into the U.S. by features on the Pacific side and also over the high latitudes,” the forecaster said. This includes features associated with the negative Eastern Pacific Oscillation and Arctic blocking that result in “widespread coverage of below to much below normal temperatures, including Central strong belows late. East Coast storminess has confidence being lowest there.”
Turning to the technicals, analysts with Rafferty Commodities Group had been looking for more follow-through to the upside Monday after trading late Friday “showed the market’s strength.” After rallying 13.0 cents Friday, the February contract closed right at the upper boundary of a recent consolidation pattern between $3.104 and $2.867, the analysts said.
February crude oil futures were trading 69 cents lower at $50.90/bbl shortly before 9 a.m. ET, while February RBOB gasoline was down about 1.4 cents to $1.3866/gal.
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Contact and systemic action. Kills grassy and broadleaf weeds like crabgrass, clover, chickweed, oxalis, dollarweed, spurge, foxtail and over 200 others. RTS treats 6,600 sq. ft.
• In one easy step, spray controls lawns from growing crabgrass, dandelion, clover, black medic, chickweed, poison ivy, creeping charlie, and many other broadleaf weeds.
• Herbicide will kill weed down to the root, not the lawn when used as directed. Not recommended for St. Augustine or Centipede grass type turf.
• Application is intended for after weeds have sprouted. It enters the lawn weeds through their leaves and moves inside, eventually down into the roots.
• This product is intended for the treatment of individual weeds, patches of weeds, or sparse weeds scattered throughout home lawns.
• This product is conveniently ready to use when it arrives. The spray nozzle makes this product easy to deploy.

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Challenge each other to a game of Blokus, a family game centered around strategy. This fun game from Mattel is easy to learn and great for players aged 7-years and above. To start, pick a color from green, blue, red and yellow. Each player gets 21 pieces in their color, and take turns to place their piece and occupy as much territory as possible. The only rule? Place each piece with corners touching another piece of the same color. Blokus will challenge your spatial reasoning and thinking abilities.
30 minutes playtime

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Australia’s Lowest Carb Bread, with just 1.7 g of carbs per serve – that’s 95% less carbs than regular wholegrain bread!
You’ll never have to miss out again! You can have toast for breakfast, sandwiches lunch, and burgers for dinner. You can makecroutons,focaccia,bread rollsand more with this versatile mix. One loaf makes 20 slices, so it’s great value for money.
Macros per serve: Protein 17g | Carbs <2g | Fat 3g
One packet of Protein Bread Mix makes…
1 Loaf – 10 Serves of 2 Slices
So how does it taste?
Not as dry as regular bread, Protein Bread has a beautiful naturally wholesome taste which is best enjoyed toasted with your favourite toppings.
Golden flaxmeal, lupin, whey protein, pea protein, almond meal, psyllium husk, linseeds, coconut flour, kibbled sunflower, gluten free baking powder (bicarb soda, cream of tartar), sunflower seeds, chia seeds, natural flavour (plant extract), salt
CONTAINS LUPIN, DAIRY, TREE NUTS May contain traces of sesame seeds
Made with love in Australia from over 90% Australian Ingredients
^Nutritional values are based on using egg whites and are averages only and are subject to seasonal variation. This product is gluten free when prepared as directed using other gluten free ingredients. Compared to: Bread, from wholemeal flour (NUTTAB 2010).
To prepare one Protein Bread Loaf, you will need:
1 3/4 cups of water (440ml)
2 extra large eggs or 100ml of egg whites
20ml (TB) of white vinegar
Prepare Preheat a fan forced oven to 180°C and line a small loaf tin1 with baking paper.
Mix Empty contents of this pack into a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together water, eggs and vinegar. Pour the wet mix into the dry mix and gently fold until just combined<sup2< sup="">.
Pour Pour the mixture into your lined loaf tin. Use a spatula to ensure no mixture is wasted. Spread out the mixture and sprinkle with your favourite seeds.
Bake Place on the top shelf of pre-heated oven and bake for 30 minutes, then rotate tin and bake for 30 minutes more3. After baking, remove from tin and place on cooling rack for 2 hours.
Chill & Slice For best results refrigerate your loaf overnight before slicing with a sharp serrated bread knife.
Storage Bread must be stored in the fridge (for up to 5 days) or the freezer in sandwich bags (for up to 3 months).
3 Quick tips for the Perfect Loaf
We recommend using a loaf tin measuring 9 cm x 20 cm. A larger tin will result in a wider, but not as tall loaf.
Don’t use electric mixers or over-mix the mixture, this will prevent the bread from rising properly.
All ovens are unique. If in doubt, cook for another 10 min.

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Anyone who has tried to feed wild otters by the riverside will know how difficult it is to keep other mammals away from the bait, namely mice and rats.
I have two cheeky wood mice that are adept at handling whole trout, and regularly remove all the dead fish I spend a small fortune on providing for my other furry friends.....So, whilst watching the latest regular update from Simon King's Wild Meadows - I saw a great idea he came up with to avoid the fishy goodies getting nabbed by rats.
I just had to have a go at my own tub-based feeding station, and with my trusty Gopro strapped to my head, my bushnell, tub, trowel and fish baits under my arm, off I went to the riverbank to dig a hole. I wasn't dissapointed with the results, except that the otter didn't want any of the fish, and the mink turned up and scoffed it all whilst having a wee swim in the tub!
Here's the setup process, along with the otter and mink who provide the entertainment:
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Photographic adventures from from behind the DGPix Wildlife & Nature Photography lens!

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A sub $3000 SE tire shredder kit will give you 120/120ish from 110 inches depending on your pipes and tuner. You can install it at home, with the lower end in the scooter. But you'll need a good wheel set. If it needs wheels and a plate and pump, now your getting close to crate motor money. Your there if you are paying the wrench. And smart money says all 103's need new wheel sets, sooner or later, later just costs more.
A kit 110 will make more power than a S&S 111 using the oem takeoffs. Same with the SE124. The S&S 124 will make about the same as the 110 SE-TS kit using the oem take offs. All of the crate motors will benefit from larger the throttle bodies and injectors like come with the SE-TS kit.
So its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. If you do your own work, the 110 kit is cheaper horse power. if you pay the wrench, then the S&S motors are prolly the way to go. The SE 120 is the least expensive crate motor, both for the motor and for the install, but I'm not going to recommend that motor to anyone.
Be aware, that past 120/120 you'll start paying driveline tax. The comps aren't up to living with 75/75. The clutch isn't really up to the task of holding 120 hp, and little things like replacing the rear axle adjuster cams costs an arm and a leg.
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text: Junior Chef & Junior Baker is a series of Artisan culinary classes for the little aspiring chefs and baker! Equip your child with life skills in the kitchen and cook with confidence. Let your child learn good eating habits, cooking skills, decoration and how to prepare dishes entirely from the basics through our Junior Chef classes! Our Junior Baker classes creates magnificant masterpiece of edible and delectable desserts. A small class size of 2-4 children with one instructor. Little Chef is suitable for children 4 to 12 years old. Parents are allowed to accompany the child in the class.


The study of in-liquid samples using microscopy (electron and optical) requires the implementation of nanofluidics, very sensitive equipment that is able to manipulate the fluid in a very precise manner. The main current problem in nanofluidics is to truly achieve liquid flow in the viewing area of the chip. Having control on the liquid flow, and up to some extend on liquid layer thickness, is essential to achieve repeatability and high resolution in electron and optical microscopy experiments. Moreover, in cases when liquid mixing, stop flow, and electrochemical capabilities are needed true liquid flow becomes a must; it is certainly crucial to succeed with time-resolved optical and electron scattering experiments.
There currently is a need for a complete Nanofluidic System optimized for controlled “true” high-flow (high throughput of in-liquid samples) for high resolution electron and optical microscopy studies.
Description of the invention
This Nanofluidic System includes:
- a liquid pumping station that provides no pressure fluctuation and an outlet pressure of only about 20 Torr (being 760 Torr the usual value)
- a complete “modular” nanofluidic cell holder that can be fully disassembled for replacement of parts (nanofluidic cells, tubing and electrical connections).
- The Nanofluidic Chips have been optimized to allow for a variety of experiments that require high liquid flow (e.g. fast mixing or fast stop flow conditions) with minimal window deformation and electron/optical beam pathlengths down to 50 nm (variable within 50 nm to 100 μm depending on the application).
This technology allows for the study of nanofluids under various flow conditions, with minimal or no pressure shockwaves to disturb the fluid flow, and no distortion of the viewing window.
This enables for better, previously unattainable conditions under which the nanofluid may be studied, all without inducing the unwanted variables of distortion to the viewing window or fluid flow.
It also has a custom Nanofluidic Chip holder that greatly improves ease of use.
Nanofluidic microscopy (electron and optical) with:
- Actual fluid flow through the Nanofluidic Chip itself;
- A means to control the fluid flow without inducing pressure shockwaves in the fluid itself;
- A non distorting viewing window on the Nanofluidic Chip; and
- A special Nanofluidic Chip holder to improve ease of use.


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Skin Tightening Birmingham, MI
EXILIS ULTRA SKIN TIGHTENING
Exilis Ultra ™ is a non-invasive treatment for Body Contouring, Cellulite reduction, and Skin tightening. Exilis Ultra’s built-in cooling device makes it safe and effective for tightening lax skin on the face, around the eyes, neck, jowls, abdomen, arms, thighs, love handles, décolletage, knees and labia.
What is the Exilis Ultra procedure? How does it work?
During the session, the Exilis Ultra computer-controlled device is guided over the treatment area. Clients feel a warming sensation as the Energy is delivered to the deeper layers of skin. The ability to focus the Energy on specific areas at the targeted depth of penetration makes Exilis Ultra a highly effective aesthetic solution. The device engages the cooling system to heat deep tissue as its constant monitoring of the skin’s temperature facilitates a comfortable, even treatment. To favorably influence the upper skin layers, only controlled heating is engaged to redefine loose skin and smooth wrinkles. Thus, the Exilis Ultra causes the collagen supporting tissue to remodel, thereby stimulating and strengthening the collagen network to improve skin laxity and texture.
How many treatments will I need? How long do the results last?
The recommended course of treatment is generally four to six sessions, one every 7-10 days. You can have additional treatments if desired. Clients show persistent results at least six months after the Exilis Ultra treatment.
Is it safe?
Exilis Ultra has been tested in clinical studies and proven to be safe and effective. It has been cleared by the FDA in the U.S. for use in dermatologic and aesthetic procedures with indications for non-invasive treatment of wrinkles and rhytids.
What about recovery?
Some pinkness on the treated area may last for about 15-30 minutes. Clients should increase water intake on the day of treatment and the day after, and should engage in light exercise such as walking to enhance cosmetic results.
What are the side effects?
There have been no significant side effects reported with Exilis Ultra treatment.
Who is a candidate for Exilis Ultra?
Exilis Ultra is recommended for any client between the ages of 25 and 70+ who desires cosmetic improvement, particularly those areas that show the signs of aging, unhealthy life style and have not responded to other treatment options. Exilis Ultra treatments offer cosmetic improvement without surgery.
LOWER FACE & NECK —$1500 / FOUR TREATMENTS
UPPER & LOWER EYE LIDS —$800 / FOUR TREATMENTS
LABIA REMODELING $1500 / FOUR TREATMENTS ADD ON TO O-SHOT PROCEDURE FOR HALF OFF / ONLY $750)
Who is labia remodeling suitable for?
Anyone over the age of 21 who have any of these conditions:
- Hypertrophy of labia minora (enlargement in inner lips)
- Labia majora enlargement (enlargement of outer lips)
- Labia laxity or deflation
- Perineal loosening after episiotomy or surgery
Tightening, smoothing and shrinking of loose tissue results as new collagen and elastin fibers are created. As an added bonus of increased blood supply, LIBIDO is increased as well, YIPPEE!
***Of the women who trialed the treatment 80% reported “significant to excellent” improvement in the appearance of their labia, while 60% reported “significant to excellent” improvement of sexual satisfaction–with 100% reporting some form of sexual satisfaction improvement.
How Does It Feel?
Clients typically feel a pleasant warming sensation during the treatment.
Before and After

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please review these two pictures.
here is the other
yeah because the art forum is going to jump for you
Why didnt you post these in this thread?
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else.
didn't notice it was unlocked
Unlock all of us!
As DD's story comes to a close, another looms from the not-so-distant shadows....
Blast at rockets with awesome graphics and music
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If you’re like many Americans, you’re diligent about maintaining your health by eating right, exercising and regularly seeing your doctor. But even the most health-conscious people are often unaware of daily behaviors in their lives that could be straining or even damaging their eyes. That’s surprising, given that 21 percent of Americans believe severe vision loss would negatively impact the quality of their lives.
The good news? Taking steps to protect your eyes isn’t difficult. Guarding yourself against these potentially damaging behaviors should be part of your regular health routine.
* Not wearing sunglasses. Sun wear does more than just block glare. The same harmful rays that can burn your skin can also damage your eyes over time, sometimes leading to vision-reducing issues such as cataracts and macular degeneration. As a precaution, ophthalmologists recommend wearing sunglasses anytime you’re outside, seeking lenses that block out at least 99 percent of UVA and UVC rays.
* Failing to visit your eye doctor annually. Seeing an eye doctor once a year to check on any prescription changes is important, but a visit can also help detect other serious eye issues. Alarmingly, one surveyfound 64 percent of Americans notice signs of trouble such as red, watery eyes, light flashes, blurry or double vision, difficulty seeing at night or difficulty reading up close, yet only 13 percent follow up with eye exams. Fortunately, taking that step is easier when you’re covered by solid eye care insurance with a provider such as VSP Individual Vision Plans, which could save you literally hundreds of dollars a year in eye exams, glasses and contacts.
* Staring at your smartphone. If your eyes are often sore or tired at the end of the day, you may be spending too much uninterrupted time zeroing in on your phone. To avoid that strain and even worse symptoms such as blurred vision, dry eyes, dizziness or nausea, enlarge your font, always keep your phone at least 16 inches away from your face and take screen breaks every 20 minutes.
* Overusing eye drops. Some people form a dependency on the over-the-counter whitening drops that reduce redness by temporarily restricting blood flow to the eye’s blood vessels. Repeat users often notice that their eyes “rebound” and get red again as oxygen returns to those deprived capillaries, creating a vicious cycle. As a rule, non-prescription eye drops should not be a long-term solution to any eye issue.
* Using old or borrowed eye makeup. You should replace your makeup every three months to keep from introducing new and potentially harmful bacteria into your eye area. Avoid other people’s makeup for the same reason. Eye care experts also warn against applying eyeliner to your inner eyelids, which can be especially vulnerable to infection.
Getting in the habit of caring for your eyes need not be time consuming, and it doesn’t have to be expensive if you think ahead by enrolling in a vision plan with VSPDirect.com, the provider with the largest network of independent doctors nationwide. Call for more information at 800-785-0699.


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Magnum Mini Ice Cream Molds
Give free rein to your imagination, prepare small sweets to awaken your taste buds!
A 4-cavity mold to make 4 eskimos with different flavors: vanilla, strawberry, almonds or chocolate for example ...
A little bite aperitif that is out of the ordinary to impress your friends and especially to please children.
Made from food grade silicone, this kitchen utensil is easy to unmold with its non-stick coating.
- easy to use and clean (dishwasher safe)
- flexible silicone material
- the mold adapts to a temperature ranging from -60 ° C to + 230 ° C
- fixing system for stick
Mold 4 compartments available only in white.


Region escapes full wrath of storm
Despite a winter storm that pelted the area with snow and rain on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, local towns appear to have sustained no serious damage.
A Milford Police Department dispatcher said the town had not sustained any downed tree limbs or flooding as a result of the storm. The police log does note that public safety personnel were called out to East Main Street, near the Holliston town line, for a low hanging wire.
Mendon police recorded five minor traffic accidents from Wednesday night to early Thursday morning. No injuries were reported at any of the accidents.
According to Mendon police, one operator reported sliding off the road at around 10 p.m. Wednesday on Cape Road, while another said she spun and hit a guardrail on Millville Street at 1:42 a.m. Thursday.
A Franklin police dispatcher said the night had been quiet, and that the town had not seen any downed limbs, flooding or car accidents. The towns of Upton and Medway reported similar results.
Deborah Drew, a spokeswoman for National Grid, said around 1,400 of the utility's 1.2 million customers in the state were without power as of midday Thursday, though none were in the Milford area.
"The towns of Hanover and West Newbury were the areas with the highest number of outages," she said. "There were other scattered outages in other areas."
She said the companywas ableto respond quickly to reported issues.
"We fared very well through the storm," she said. "As always, we plan for the worst and hope for the best."
Drew said National Grid will be vigilant about a possible storm over the weekend.
"We watch and monitor all weather systems that could potentially cause damage," she said. "If high winds or heavy snow is predicted, we'll certainly be paying attention."
Mike Gleason can be reached at 508-634-7546 or firstname.lastname@example.org.


I’ve had a number of people ask me to comment on this NPR article. [Trigger Warning: contains diet talk, body shaming, disordered eating discussion etc.) It’s called “One Woman’s Story” and if that’s all it was I would have no problem with it. Kara Curtis is entitled to her life experience. She is allowed to conflate weight with health, weight with fitness, to be ashamed of her body, and to pour “all her energy and untold resources” into being thin. It’s Kara’s life and Kara’s body and Kara gets to choose whatever experience she wants. It couldn’t have been easy to tell her story like that, she never tried to extrapolate her experiences to others, and I wish her all the best.
To me the problem isn’t this “one woman’s story”, the problem is that it’s basically the only story that we ever see told about fat women, especially from a news outlet. When I see people like me portrayed on TV, in the movies, in magazines, and on the news with very few exceptions they are self-loathing, desperate to lose weight, unfit, unable to find love (or not even seen as sexual beings), the constant butt of jokes etc. I was once recruited for a reality show that was going to tell the stories of happy fat people. But the show didn’t get picked up because “nobody cares about fat happy people, and lots of people don’t believe in them”. People don’t believe in me? Am I a leprechaun? What the…
If NPR ran with something called “Two Women’s Stories” and one of the stories was of a woman who rejected the diet culture and lived a happy, healthy life with Health at Every Size that would seem more like balanced reporting. Maybe they intend to offer a balanced perspective: in their More About the Series box they say that they will talk about a “size acceptance” movement (quotation marks are theirs and don’t give me a lot of faith in how balanced this portrayal is going to be). But that only comes after they say a lot of very questionable things about obesity as if they are given facts. I hope that NPR isn’t joining the media frenzy OMGDEATHFATISCOMINGFORUS panic and contributing to a culture of body shaming and bullying as a cheap way to get readers and listeners, and I’ll wait to see how I feel about it until after the series is over.
It’s for this and many other reasons that I’m really excited to be in an upcoming documentary about weight and health. (See how I segued into shameless self-promotion? I’ve got skills!) Darryl Roberts, creator of the incredible documentary America the Beautiful which you can find on Netflix, is wrapping his newest movie and it’s about the conflation of weight and health and BMI and health in the US and I have a part in it! I’m super excited to be able to show a side of fat women that’s rarely seen in the media. I saw a pre-screening and the movie is amazing and I still kind of can’t believe that I get to be part of it. If you are going to be at the ASDAH conference in August the movie will be screening there and I’ll be part of a Q&A afterward. I’m so excited!
Enough about me. The point is that we do not have to buy what the media is selling us. We do not have to be who we see on TV. We can be happy, healthy, strong, fat, demanding of respect and certain that we are worthy of love. The more of us who claim that identity, and the more people who know us and see us living that life, the harder it is for the media to make people believe the negative caricature of us that they like to portray.
If you feel like commenting today I’m curious to know : Who are your favorite fat role models?


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Every still from this Polish black-and-white movie deserves to be put in a frame and hung on the wall – filmed with a photographer’s eye for composition and juxtapositions of light and dark, it’s one of the most striking films I’ve seen. It’s perhaps too restrained and minimalist for me to find it truly affecting, despite its emotional revelations, but the photography and the two compelling central performances make it a worthwhile watching.
Anna is a young convent-raised girl in 1960s Poland who is one week away from taking the vows and becoming a nun, when she’s instructed by the Mother Superior to visit her only remaining relative, her aunt Wanda, before she commits to the life of chastity, poverty and obedience. Wanda turns out to be a judge for the Communist Party who, despite her stern occupation, is into drinking, smoking and one-night stands and who at first is not too happy to see her niece. She also drops a bombshell on Anna – despite being a devout Christian all her life, Anna is actually Jewish, her real name is Ida, and her parents were killed during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Eventually Wanda warms to Anna and together they travel to Anna’s birthplace to discover how her parents died and why she was spared. Wanda also thinks that Anna should try some secular fun and carnal pleasures before she exits the outside world forever. Their journey is about uncovering harrowing personal and national secrets, but it’s not all misery and tragedy; in some ways this is a classic odd-couple road movie, with the serious and devout Anna standing in stark contrast to her jaded aunt. With her history of sentencing people to death and a deep sense of guilt that she tries to dull with her hard-partying ways, Wanda could have been a subject of her own movie.
Agata Trzebuchowska, who plays Anna/Ida, has one of those faces you could get lost in, with a dimple in her chin and huge black pools for the eyes. Anna is still, quiet and opaque, absorbing the new shocks and discoveries in a stoic manner that could have come off as blank if not for the impression that there’s always something going on behind the impassive exterior.
As mentioned before, this movie is packed with stunning black-and-white photography. Many shots feature characters dwarfed against the buildings and backdrops, or arranged along the bottom third of the frame, a technique that to me felt both jarring and effective. I’m not sure what the intent of these compositions was, but to me they suggested characters being helpless against some huge invisible power that controls their lives – history? Fate? Who knows.
The presence of music is minimal and many scenes play out without dialogue, simply through the visuals. I admit, this artistic, understated, extremely deliberate approach drained the film of some of its emotion, but I also have to admire its resistance to milk the potentially melodramatic scenarios in an obvious manner. Like its heroine, Ida is distant and a tad chilly, but always fascinating to watch.


Another fiction in regard to Indus Water Treaty (IWT) is that it was engineered by Punjab to deprive Sindh of its waters.
While going through writings on Kalabagh Dam I was astonished to come across some articles in which the authors believe that Punjabis, living on the Eastern and Western divide, after partition started conspiring with each other to deprive Sindh of its share of water. It is an allegation of shocking intensity. A student of history may find the accusation of an alliance between the archenemies living on both sides of Punjab against Sindhis a farfetched idea. This narrative, because of its sheer audacity, may surprise the people living in Punjab but reveals the thinking of those who believe unflinchingly in the unjust and oppressive attitude of Punjab. But the effort to establish the existence of a secret plan in 1947-48 had some flaws. The storyline is totally oblivious of the timing of this unholy conspiracy. It was a painful and testing time for Punjab. Cross border forced migration on the basis of religion across the newly carved boundaries of Punjab was a tragedy of monumental proportion. A million people of Punjab on both sides of the divide had lost their lives; and the blood spilled on the cross-border migration had not fully dried. How in this atmosphere, the two warring sides specially the Muslims on this side could get together with Hindus and Sikhs on the other side to engineer a conspiracy against their brothers in Sindh? This may baffle the mind of any neutral person.
Whether the IWT, which was ultimately signed in 1960, was the result of a conspiracy, cannot be established. The fact is, that the need to cater for a legal arrangement for division of Indus Basin water ultimately led to Indus Water Treaty. In most of Pakistan, it is seen as an India Pakistan water dispute and that is what it was. Here it would be of interest to see the difference in interpretation about the responsibility for signing IWT. Mr. Muhammad Ali Durrani, a Seraiki politician and former Minister for Information in Shaukat Aziz’s Cabinet, who pleads the case of lower riparian Bahawalpur, also consider IWT to be against the interests of Pakistan. But the similarity ends here. Whereas others think it to be handiwork of people belonging to Punjab, Mr. Durrani considers it the handiwork of military leader Ayub Khan.
Was Indus Water Treaty engineered by Punjab? To analyze this allegation it will be useful to see what Ayub Khan himself had to say about the attitude of engineers from Punjab and his own contribution in finalizing this Treaty. In his book, “Friends not Masters”, he writes on page 109:
“But before I write of the negotiations with Eugene Black, I should like to describe the confrontation I had with our own technical experts and administrators. I sensed that they did not fully realize the gravity of the situation and were asking for the moon when we were in a position of weakness all along the line. They were also trying to dictate policy and were taking up extreme positions. Some thirty or forty of them were assembled in Government House, Lahore, where I addressed them. I said:
Gentlemen, this problem is of far-reaching consequences to us. Let me tell you that every factor is against Pakistan. I am not saying that we should surrender our rights but, at the same time, I will say this: that if we can get a solution which we can live with, we shall be very foolish not to accept it. Now when I say that, I am in fact saying it to myself because I shall have to take the responsibility for the solution.”
Ayub Khan was obviously showing a touch of realism because India in between 1947 and 1960 had either developed or was fast developing 16 major water use projects including Bakhra Dam and Nangal Dam. These projects were developed unilaterally by India on Sutlej, Ravi and Beas and Pakistan was just a silent spectator – the details about the Indian projects at that time are available on WAPDA website. In view of India’s unilateral action, Ayub Khan in the same meeting warned the water experts gathered in Governor House Lahore in the following words:
“The responsibility does not lie on any of you, so let me tell you very plainly that the policy is going to be mine. I shall consult you whenever I am in doubt regarding technical details, but if anyone of you interferes with my policy, I shall deal with him myself.”
This clear threat to the engineers and water experts mainly from Punjab by Ayub Khan came in the wake of his draconian action against the Civil Servants (most of them from all powerful ICS/CSP cadre) who were unceremoniously removed from service under Martial Law Regulations.
The threat silenced water experts. It was from the Army Chief who hailed from Hazara Division of the then NWFP. To a neutral observer, the indictment by some writers against Punjab seems the most unkindest cut of all; just as hurtful as the general belief in Punjab that those opposing Kalabagh Dam are on the pay roll of RAW.
The trouble with most treaties which are negotiated to settle contentious issues is that hardliners on both sides are unhappy and consider it as a sell-out. The water experts from Punjab consider it harmful to Pakistan and Sindhi nationalists ardently believe that IWT served the interests of India and damaged the rights of Sindh. They are mostly oblivious to the thinking of Indian public opinion. Not surprisingly hardliners in India are also un-happy. A former IAS Officer Mr. PR Chari sums up the situation in the following words, “However, the IWT has its critics in India who argue that India needlessly surrendered 80% of the Indus waters by agreeing to reserve the three western rivers for the exclusive use of Pakistan. As the upper riparian state, India had a preemptive right to these waters. In consequence, the remaining 20 % of the Indus river waters has proven inadequate to meet the needs of the growing population in India that subsists on these waters.”
After signing the IWT, Nehru faced a hostile reaction in Lok Sabha on November 30, 1960. Mr. Arvind Lavakare, a senior writer on Indian issues, mentions in his article (Recalling the Indus Water Treaty or Nehru’s Sixth Blunder), “Members of Parliament belonging to the Congress, PSP and Jana Sangh pointed to the glaring mistakes committed in conclusion of this Treaty.” He further states that within Nehru’s own ruling party, “Congress MPs from Punjab and Rajasthan, Iqbal Singh and H.C. Mathur called the treaty disadvantageous to India stating that both their home states “had been badly let down”. He further mentions, “Ashok Mehta, leader of the PSP in the Lok Sabha described it as a “peculiar treaty under which Pakistan, already a surplus area, would be unable to make full use of her share of the Indus Water and would have to allow it to flow into the sea.”
Arvind recalls the comments of Mr. N.D. Gulhati who led the Indian delegation during the negotiations over Indus waters. Gulhati states: “When I called on the Prime Minister on 28th February 1961, my last day in office, in a sad tone he said, “Gulhati, I had hoped that this agreement would open the way to settlement on other problems, but we are where we were”. Arvind further comments, “Thus, while Nehru believed that the IWT was “a good thing for the country” it has actually become a blinder.” He finally concludes, “What he signed 55 years ago was a Treaty of a suicidal trap from which Indians are unable to escape.”
This narrative, because of its sheer audacity, may surprise the people living in Punjab but reveals the thinking of those who believe unflinchingly in the unjust and oppressive attitude of Punjab.


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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has lamented the delayed passage of the 2018 budget by the National Assembly seven months after the appropriation bill was submitted by the executive.
Osinbajo added that the presidency is expecting speedy passage of the budget, and would continue to interact with the legislators for a positive outcome.
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He said, “Our budget for this year was submitted to the National Assembly since October last year but yet to be passed in April 2018. We will continue to engage the National Assembly for accelerated passage.”
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Time appears to be flying as The Challenge: All Stars 2 has officially started filming, and now the potential first eliminations of the season have been revealed.
The rumored eliminations arrive not long after a cast list surfaced, showing which OGs are expected to be part of the second season of the spinoff series.
Spoilers will follow in this report about All Stars 2 with the names of cast members believed to have been sent home from the show already.
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The new season of The Challenge: All Stars 2 is set to feature new OGs from The Real World, Road Rules, and Fresh Meat, along with cast members from All Stars Season 1.
Just over a week ago, a list arrived with names of All Stars 2 cast members believed to be the final group heading off to the filming location was revealed. Now, online spoilers are showing what is believed to be the first two eliminated competitors of the season.
The @mtvchallengeinsider Instagram account, aka GamerVev, has revealed one men’s and one women’s competitor as eliminated for the season.
Based on the above, it appears The Real World: Cancun’s Derek Chavez and The Real World: Paris’ Leah Gillingwater are no longer competing with the cast. It’s currently unknown how Derek and Leah were eliminated or who eliminated them.
Leah, 40, had just one Challenge season in the past as she appeared on The Inferno in 2004. That was a season won by the Road Rules team, which featured OGs Darrell Taylor, Katie Cooley, Kendal Sheppard, and others.
Derek, 33, did three seasons of The Challenge with Cutthroat, Battle of the Seasons (2012), and Rivals II. It’s believed he was one of several Cancun castmates featured in the All Stars 2 cast.
What else is known about The Challenge: All Stars 2?
As of this spoilers report, it’s unknown whether Derek and Leah were eliminated in separate elimination events or together. As viewers saw with All Stars Season 1, it started as solo eliminations, alternating between a men’s day and a women’s day.
It then became partners competing in eliminations. That featured the worst-performing players of the day automatically going into elimination. The rest of the cast would vote for their opponent, and then that individual could choose a partner of the opposite sex to compete with them in elimination.
It’s believed that The Challenge: All Stars 2 filming location is Cancun, Mexico. Based on the online spoiler forum, 12 men and 12 women are competing.
Several alternates or potential replacement castmates were also believed to have traveled to the site if a cast member contracted COVID-19 or had to leave for another reason.
The amount of prize money is currently unknown and unlikely to be revealed until an official announcement arrives for All Stars 2 on Paramount Plus. The first season featured just one winner, Yes Duffy, who claimed $500,000 for his first-place finish based on points accumulated for the combined missions in the final.
However, his castmate KellyAnne Judd suggested that a first-place women’s winner should have also received a cash prize. KellyAnne finished in a tie with castmate Jonna Mannion for most points amongst women in the final.
So it could be the case with All Stars 2 to award a cash prize to a men’s and women’s winner who completed the final first.
A release date is unknown for All Stars Season 2, but based on the fact the season is filming, it’s a good sign that this will be released in the coming months, possibly as The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies is airing on MTV.
The Challenge: All Stars episodes are available on Paramount Plus. The All Stars Season 2 release date is TBA in 2021.More: The Challenge, The Challenge: All Stars


Overtone absorption spectra of water molecules were recorded with intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy (ICLAS) based on a Ti:Sapphire laser with atmospheric pressure methane/air or hydrogen/air flame was placed into the cavity of the Ti:Sapphire laser. Though the flame occupied a small part of the cavity, substantial changes in the water spectrum were observed and new lines appeared. This suggests the possibility of measuring temperature in flames using an ICLAS spectrum of the water. Computer simulations based on the water spectrum lines assigned in the literature showed that a sensitivity of about ten degrees can be expected. The use of lines with higher rotational quantum numbers could substantially improve the sensitivity.


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(Reuters) — Slack’s billing growth, a key indicator of future revenue, slowed in the second quarter, and the workplace messaging app owner said it took an $11 million hit in the first half due to the COVID-19-related concessions.
The company said it offered credits, payment in installments, and billing duration of less than a year to help users over the economic downturn triggered by the health crisis, sending its shares down 18% after the bell.
In the previous quarter, Slack had signaled weak demand from worst-affected industries, like retail and travel, prompting it to withdraw its full-year billings target.
“In Q2, growth in many of our customers contracted or flattened versus normal seasonal trends. In August, growth began to trend at more typical seasonal levels,” CFO Allen Shim said in a call with analysts.
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Slack’s quarterly billings rose 25% but fell short of the 38% growth it posted in the first quarter. Billings are an important growth metric for a subscription-based platform like Slack.
Its second-quarter revenue topped expectations by nearly $7 million, but that overachievement was not mirrored in the full-year outlook.
Slack’s annual revenue forecast of $870 million to $876 million was roughly in line with expectations of $872.3 million.
Excluding items, the company broke even, compared with analysts’ average estimate of a loss of 3 cents per share, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
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World-renowned Actor, Host, and Comedian Max Amini brings his highly anticipated Authentically Absurd Tour to Brisbane, Australia.
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British PM David Cameron has warned that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons could ‘trigger a nuclear arms race’ in the region.
London: British Prime Minster David Cameron has warned that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons would not only be a ‘desperately bad development for our world’ but could also ‘trigger a nuclear arms race’ in the region.
Cameron said that he believed Tehran was trying to develop nuclear weapons which he said would make the Middle East "a more unstable and more dangerous place".
“Iran does pose a threat in two ways. First of all, if Iran is embarked on trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, as I believe it is, that is a threat in itself, particularly given what Iran has said about other countries in the region, and in particular about Israel, about wanting to `wipe it of the map`,” he said while addressing a group of students in Abu Dhabi.
According to the Telegraph, Cameron stressed that ‘we should do everything we can to stop it happening.’
“In itself it is a hugely concerning development, a desperately bad development for our world and that is why we should do everything we can to top it happening,” the paper quoted him, as saying.
“But I think there is a second reason why it is so concerning and that is because I think it could trigger a nuclear arms race across the whole region,” he said.
“That would consume a huge amount of resources and energy but also I think make the Middle East a more dangerous, more unstable part of the world,” he added.


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The White Rock on Hastings sea front offered a most wonderful performance of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem on Saturday May 5. It was performed by the Hastings Philharmonic Choir, Orchestra and four excellent soloists, Susana Gaspar (soprano) with a beautiful clear and and measured voice, Catia Moreso (mezzo), Emanoel Velozo (tenor) and a baritone who replaced the one announced in the brochure. Marcio Da Silva was the conductor of the choir– in its 90th anniversary year – and orchestra. He had also organised a special treat on this occasion.
The choir was joined by the Kosovo Philharmonic choir which was celebrating the 10th anniversary of its country’s independence. Marcio also conducts this choir and the sound of both together, nearly 120 singers, was magnificent and ably supported by the superb orchestra. The singing of the soloists as a quartet was an impressive blend of voices.
Messa da Requiem was conceived after two prominent, cultural and artistic friends of Verdi died, one being the composer and artist Gioachino Rossini in 1868. A month later Verdi wrote to his publisher and proposed a new Mass which would commemorate the first anniversary of Rossini’s death to which the leading Italian composers of church music should each contribute.
The ambitious work was completed but eventually fell by the wayside due to administrative problems. In 1871 it was suggested that Verdi should rewrite the whole Mass himself, which he initially refused to do, but in 1873 he requested that his manuscript be returned. A month later a second friend, Alessandro Manzoni, died. The two had been kindred spirits. Verdi did rewrite the whole of Messa da Requiem in 1874, including in it a revised version of Libera Me originally composed for Rossini. It had its first performance on the anniversary of Manzoni’s death in Milan under Verdi’s direction. Dissatisfied, he added a four-part choir with a mezzo-soprano solo. In this final form the work was performed at the Royal Albert Hall on May 15, 1875.
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DALLAS -- 7-Eleven Inc.'s customers are looking for beer values, buying fewer six- and 12-packs, while opting for 18-packs, according to CEO Joe DePinto.
7-Eleven stores are giving more room to the bigger packs, and making more adjustments in their offer, as customers adjust spending to the recession, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News. Customers are buying less expensive beer during the week, and picking up more premium brands for the weekend.
Among other changes in the c-store operators' customers spending: consumer are trading down to $10 prepaid phone cards from $20 ones; using refillable coffee mugs more frequently; and, since the 62-cent federal excise tax on cigarettes hit April 1, pack-a-day customers are becoming pack-every-three-day customers, the newspaper reported.
As people use their backyard grills more, propane sales are up. The chain plans to expand the number of stores that sell tanks and refills.
In another shift in the cooler, customers are buying more Mountain Dew, trading down from more expensive energy drinks and waters, the newspaper noted. The highly caffeinated soda is now the chain's number-three carbonated beverage.
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An account of the craftwork I get up to, tatting, spinning, knitting, sewing, whatever
Monday, March 23, 2015
The organisation I belong to is collecting baby wraps to send to a children's hospital. This is my contribution. It's made from cotton muslin that I hemmed and dyed. I did consider leaving it white, but I thought some colour was more cheerful and cheering. Nicola Bowersox's Kiss Curl Heart makes a perfect decoration on one corner.


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Water Cook and Wash Machine
The water cook and wash machine of Kuo Chang Machinery is a part in the whole production line of automatic cooked noodle, using indirect heating / automatic temperature control machine. The cooking speed, temperature and cooking time are easy to adjust and control, and the temperature inside the steamer is evenly distributed.
If there have any ideas, please kindly share with us, we can also advise you for the equipment needed.
- Udon / R amen purpose.
- The max cooking time up to 12 minutes.
- Indirect heating / automatic temperature control.
- Circulation system of the hot water temperature in the tank.
- The number of cutting knives can be set (2 knives / 1 knives).
- Three-level of cooling tank (two cooling systems can be added).
- Washing device.
- Sterilization piping.
- Cold and heat separation design.
- Capacity: 2,000 / 4,000 / 6,000 pcs/hour; (200g/pc)
Water Cook and Wash Machine | Robust Ramen Noodle Machines Manufacturer | KCMC
Located in Taiwan since 1967, Kuo Chang Machinery Co., Ltd. has been a noodle making machine manufacturer. Its main noodle making machines include, Water Cook and Wash Machine, ramen noodle production lines, udon noodle production lines, instant noodle production lines, commercial fresh noodle makers, etc. For companies looking to improve their noodle production process, invest in durability, and ensure consistent quality, Kuo Chang stands out as a leading and trusted choice in the industry.
KCMC has more than 20 years of professional experience in noodle making machines. Allow customers to mass-produce commodities at the most economical cost to supply the market, creating maximum profit space for operators. Therefore, the noodle making equipment produced by KCMC is well recognized and used by well-known food manufacturers at home and abroad.
KCMC has been providing customers with high-quality and advanced noodle-making equipment since 1967, with both advanced technology and 20 years of experience, KCMC ensures that each customer's requirements are met.


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ABSTRACT This paper shows that, if firms borrow at an interest rate that is greater than the rate at which they can lend, the value of a firm declines with the amount borrowed. The model assumes the possibility that a firm may go bankrupt, which introduces the need for financial intermediation. A modified version of the homemade lev-erage examples introduced by Modigliani and Miller  is used to introduce the concept. A state-preference model is used for a more formal proof.
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nullJ. McDonald, "The Modigliani-Miller Theorem with Financial Intermediation," Modern Economy, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2011, pp. 169-173. doi: 10.4236/me.2011.22022.
 S. Chan, J. Erickson and K. Wang, “Real Estate Investment Trusts: Structure, Performance, and Investment Opportunities,” Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.
 F. Modigliani and M. Miller, “The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance, and the Theory of Investment,” The American Economic Review, Vol. 48, No. 3, June 1958, pp. 261-297.
 K. Arrow, B. Bernheim, M. Feldstein, D. McFadden, J. Poterba and R. Solow, “100 Years of the American Economic Review: The Top 20 Articles,” American Economic Review, Vol. 101, No. 1, 2011, pp. 1-8.
 M. Woodford, “Financial Intermediation and Macroeconomic Analysis,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2010, 21-44. doi:10.1257/jep.24.4.21
 M. Goodfriend and B. McCallum, “Banking and Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Analysis: A Quantitative Exploration,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 54, No. 5, July 2007, pp. 1480-1507.
 J. Stiglitz, “A Re-examination of the Modigliani-Miller Theorem,” The American Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, December 1969, pp. 784-793.
 T. Sargent, “Macroeconomic Theory,” 2nd Edition, Academic Press, Orlando, 1987.

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Competitions can be a little scary, especially if you see people you think are more prepared than you before you go on. Have you been paying attention in geography class? Below is an example of the National Geographic bee trivia quiz on Geography! Do give it a try and ensure to come back to have more practice before the D-day.
Questions and Answers
Merlion Statue is a famous landmark in what densely populated Southeast Asian city?
Ho Chi Minh City
Tonto National Forest is located in what U.S. state whose highest point is Humphrey's Peak?
Djemaa el Fna is a bustling square full of activities in a certain North African city. Name this former imperial city which is also known by the name "Red City".
Genoa, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, is considered the leading port city of Italy. It is the capital of what Italian region?
Lake Assad, which was formed by the Tabqa Dam across the Euphrates River, is found in what country?
Are you preparing to take part in the competition, National Geographic Bee? The geography bees are a chance for pupils to showcase their knowledge of the geography of the earth. It tests you in the cities, landmarks, and people...
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Pick the answer that contains three Baltic countries.
In this National Geographic Bee quiz, on the topic of school geography, we’re making it our mission to improve your knowledge on some of the key locations around the world – whether it’s related to the United...
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There are a lot of countries in the world, and each is different from the other based on the landscape, natural resources, and its people. Are you practicing for the geography bee? If so, then the quiz below has some sample...
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Last year, a global team of creative researchers and art directors got together to predict where our visual minds would wander over the next 12 months, and six months in can already see how these trends are increasingly prominent among brand marketing.
The team analysed data from millions of images searched on Getty Images, and tracked how these visuals are used – from advertising and movies to social media and magazines.
So far in 2016, the following trends are blowing up in a big way for brands:
Outsider In – the trend of visuals pushing the envelope and breaking tradition as popular taste gets more daring.
Secret Deodorant released an instalment of #StressTest ads that saw one courageous woman manouver her way through an unconventional proposal, giving us a glimpse as something we don’t see everyday.
Android’s ‘Be Together, Not The Same‘ ads inspire a similar angle.
Extended Human – the trend of blurring man and machine in images, as a result of humanity’s growing relationship with technology.
As technology continues to surpass even the furthest reaches of the average person’s imagination, so do brands and their visuals.
Case in point is the spot from National Multiple Sclerosis Society, who’s spot featured surf legend Steve Bettis, who after being diagnosed with MS is now confined to a wheelchair.
But thanks to new tech, he’s able to virtually experience the thrill of riding a wave while seated in his own chair at home.
Divine Living – as brands focus on values, reflection and revelation become more important in accompanying visuals, with consumers looking for more meaningful consumption.
Rising concerns like health care, climate change, conscious consumerism and politics has seen brands adopt more meaningful marketing that inspire more than just a ‘want’ in consumers.
Getty references Tourisme Quebec’s ‘Blind Love’ spot, which took US musician Danny Kean, who was blind from birth, on a trip to explore Canada, but from a different point of view.
Messthetics – brands are starting to harness the power of ugly, messy, sweaty, visceral aesthetics, in a kind of rebellion against the ‘order’ of everyday life.
For this one, think Getty Images’ own spring campaign with AlmapBBDO, ‘Endless Possibilities’, which uses stock-art image libraries to assemble identifiable portraits from nothing but its own creative database.
Silence VS Noise – the trend of making space for consumers to breathe and reconnect in a cluttered marketplace through what Getty Images called “visual haikus”.
For this trend, Getty points out graphic minimalism abound in a number of spaces, from Years & Years’ music video for ‘Desire ft. Tove Lo’, as well as Harper’s Bazaar’s cover story featuring Jennifer Aniston in striking yet subdued portraits.
Another great example is this impeccably simple advertisement for Swedish e-payment brand Klarna, called Smooth.
Surreality – the trend of expanded creativity and surreal graphic imagery that lets brands play with ideas of infinity and multiplicity.
Getty Images alludes to Stella McCartney’s Summer 2016 campaign, which left viewers guessing where one model ends and another begins.
Japanese miso soup brand Marukome and its campaign ‘Kawaii’ also hit the mark with this trend.


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We need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students.
Our public university system seems to satisfy no one: Professors are upset about their lack of raises and the declining number of tenured jobs, parents complain about high tuition and students think they are entering a job market for which they are unprepared as well as burdened with debt.
There’s no question that we can — and should — improve the college experience, but there’s no consensus on how to do that. A study that Philip Coyle and I recently authored for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, “Back to the Drawing Board: How to Recreate the Outstate University and Finally Give Students Their Money’s Worth,” asks a basic question that we feel gets to the heart of the problem facing the public university system: How can we ensure that states (in this instance, Wisconsin) get more value for the billions of taxpayer dollars they spend on post-secondary education?
One basic problem we identify is that student retention rates for colleges outside of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state’s flagship campus, are miserable. For instance, at UW-Oshkosh, where I once taught, nearly one-third of all incoming students drop out by the end of their freshman year. Only half of all students graduate in six years, and only 15 percent finish in four years.
Oshkosh is not an anomaly. Other regional universities have significantly lower numbers, and even at UW-Madison, which requires high admission scores and a record of academic success, a sizable fraction of students leave campus after their freshman year.
Part of the problem is that public universities admit a large proportion of students who do not have the ability to do college-level work, at least not right away. Students who begin in a remedial track at a university rarely transition to the mainstream, and at many UW campuses, that is a significant portion of incoming students. For those students, a community college is almost always a better choice, but that’s something few people will tell them. But a bigger problem is that universities often fail to engage students when they arrive.
While I was a professor at Oshkosh, the cars in the commuter parking lot at lunchtime were full of people dining inside their vehicles, despite the lot abutting the Fox River with a raft of picnic tables overlooking the scenic lake, as well as being next to the newly remodeled student union. A sociology professor who took me through the lot suggested that if I wanted to see who wouldn’t return for a sophomore year, I’d find them in that lot.
Of course, how to engage students is the $64,000 question. We suggest that one place to start is asking professors to take on the role of advising underclassmen on classes and college. This is not the route that they seem to be taking: Oshkosh, for instance, has announced its intent to hire a team of student advisors, whose job will consist solely of helping students navigate college. It may be better than the status quo, but it’s costlier and less practical than having professors do the advising.
I suspect that the school chose such a path because at the moment professors in the UW System have little appetite to do such a thing: A change in the pension contribution effectively gave them a sizable pay cut a few years ago, amidst years of frozen salaries. They are likely in no mood to take on additional duties to help their schools.
Despite that general dissatisfaction, we need to rethink how we use the faculty at the non-Ph.D.-granting schools in Wisconsin to improve the lot of the state’s students. Our “Back to the Drawing Board” report conducts a virtual thought exercise to ask what a newly constructed college, free of any bureaucratic constraints from the current system, might look like. We suggest that we would maintain some form of tenure, but it would be a protection only from being fired for intellectual reasons and would no longer serve to make professorships veritable sinecures.
We also would ask professors to teach more: a nine-hour teaching load per semester at a regional campus where the majority of professors are far from fully engaged in research does not make sense. In the early 2000s, some tenured professors went so far as to take second jobs — doable if a professor is performing a modicum of research and teaching just nine hours a week.
The insistence on Ph.Ds for most academic posts is also unnecessary. Colleges should look to get more people with professional experience to teach, and most introductory classes don’t require Ph.D.s. In the media, adjunct professors have become synonymous with exploitation. But letting a few people determined to make a career off of what are part-time jobs preclude recruiting more part-time instructors would be a mistake.
We would like to encourage schools to spend less money on superfluous entertainment such as the lazy rivers that have become the latest accoutrement on campuses these days. More resources should be devoted toward instruction and less on administration.
We also would create a school that does more to ensure students finish in four years. The difference between four-year graduation rates of private and public colleges is stark: Some of it has to do with the types of students at each school, but much more of it has to do with the fact that students who cannot afford to take more than four years to finish tend to finish in four years or less.
The school also could improve four-year graduation rates by encouraging students to take summer classes and study abroad for a summer, which would help to broaden their horizons as well as pick up credits.
We would narrow the scope of class offerings some — kids can learn media criticism elsewhere — but insist on larger upper-level classes to make sure students can get into the classes they need. And we would give some sort of financial nudge to students who finish on time.
The student debt problem is real, but there is no reason for students at public universities to find themselves enmeshed in excessive debt. Tuition remains reasonable for students in most states, albeit higher than in the past, financial aid is copious and college graduates still can expect to earn much more than those without degrees, people who make up the majority of citizens in every state in the country and whose tax dollars help pay for the college education of students at public universities.
The best way for our states to help with this is to make sure that capable high school students start college after high school, get sufficient support while in college, are taught by faculty who combine a raft of academic knowledge and professional experience and are nudged to finish on time.
Making college free may sound nice, but it solves precisely one problem while exacerbating many more. It’s time we rethought how public universities operate altogether.
Ike Brannon is president of Capital Policy Analytics, a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. He and Philip Coyle co-authored the WPRI report, “Back to the Drawing Board: How to Recreate the Outstate University and Finally Give Students Their Money’s Worth.”


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У Yakovlev UT-2 (Russian: Яковлев УТ-2; NATO reporting name “Mink”) was a single-engine tandem two-seat low-wing monoplane that was the standard Soviet trainer during the Great Patriotic War. It was used by the Soviet Air Force from 1937 until replaced by the Yakovlev Yak-18 during the 1950s.
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