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We seem to be doomed to be living in interesting times. The UK’s relationship with the EU has crept up from being a curiosity of interest mainly to political wonks but barely impacting on ordinary people to a big issue. The level of public understanding is still pretty low though – there’s probably a sizeable minority who think that David Cameron’s veto of the proposed new EU Treaty means that the UK has left the EU altogether.
As we come to the end of 2011 this is the first of a series of retrospective posts linking back to my earlier musings, in case you missed them first time round.
An interesting development is the starting of some voices on the left of the political spectrum to question the EU rather than to stick to the line of the past 20 years or so of being almost blindly pro-EU. Jessica Reed in the Guardian wrote from a Euro-sentimentalist perspective of feeling European but finding much of the reality of EU laws to be difficult to support. Others have written that Ed Miliband ought to press for an EU referendum. This is interesting because there are a lot of good reasons for Labour to return to euroscepticism – the ability to take positive action to preserve British Jobs for British Workers. Its principal reasons for being pro-EU look rather thin – schadenfreude over Tory splits on Europe, social policies which they could have enacted themselves anyway, and so on.
There may have been some early hints of this in Ed Miliband’s criticism of the government’s reforms to the NHS on the basis of them applying EU Competition Law. This was followed up by his Conference Speech and criticism of regulation that did not distinguish between producers and predators. The criticism of the decision to award the contract for new Thameslink trains to Siemens who would build them in Germany rather than Bombardier in Derby can also be seen in this light as can criticism of the price of energy.
Before David Cameron’s veto there was also some evidence of greater sophistication entering the EU debate as it became a more real issue impacting on the economies of European countries. This did unwind a little as we returned to business as usual in political point-scoring about how we should have stayed at the negotiating table (even if an alternative position was not particularly put forward).
This is encouraging in that it might mean that 2012 could see a proper debate on the issue of Europe in the context of what is best for the UK in practice rather than simple partisan point-scoring. Apart from encouraging the left to take a more principled view it would, I hope, also require those on the right to do the same. If schadenfreude and a wish to accede to laws that a Tory government rejects are weak reasons for being pro-EU, so too are the right’s moans about bendy bananas and the need for a British Bill of Rights.
For me, this will only really fully come to fruition if “eurosceptics” are able to move from the odd position of clamouring for a referendum to coming out and saying no if they mean no. Rather than having a referendum which might give the “wrong” result, the issue, if important should be one of confidence in the government. The major parties need to decide what they would want to do as a broader programme of government and whether this is something that is prevented or hindered by EU membership. If it is hindered and this is to the UK’s detriment, the honest approach would be to say that we should leave. If membership is not so significant, this should be openly stated. A middle position of sniping or supporting the EU while giving a nod to the possibility of referendum is at least as much a ceding of sovereignty as membership of the EU itself – it is a sign of parties saying “we don’t really know, you decide for us”. Although it is giving this decision back to the people, what then if our politicians don’t have their hearts in implementing the decisions that might flow after a referendum?
The House of Lords is considering a proposal by a UKIP peer for a balanced inquiry into the benefits or otherwise of EU membership. I’m not sure that it is such a good idea for this to be done by the Lords in the absence of a set of policies that any potential governing party would really like to implement which are precluded by EU membership. The risk is that the report following such an inquiry would merely be used to cherry pick soundbites by either side of the debate. If it came out conclusively for or against continued membership it would really only impact parties which are anti-EU. If the benefits were found to outweigh the disadvantages it would push the eurosceptic position back to being one based only on Parliamentary Sovereignty and so something that would be unlikely to stir public passions. If the disbenefits were greater than the advantages it would give some impetus to eurosceptics, but still would need them to come up with policies that showed what they would do instead – it isn’t particularly meaningful to say that it would be better if we didn’t have to go via the EU to use our money for regeneration in the UK if the party making that point is one that does not believe in providing subsidies to businesses (as the “right” within UKIP and the Conservatives don’t).

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Hudspeth Deputies Intercept Illegal Immigrants
Posted by mythoughtsandnews on May 24, 2006
May 19, 2006 — The Hudspeth County Sheriff’s
Office intercepts 54 illegal immigrants just 90 miles east of El Paso,
and among the group are two former Mexican soldiers.
More and more Mexican soldiers are helping illegal immigrants in to this country. They are also helping drug dealers get their drugs across the border.


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Jay Sandlow, M.D., vice chairman and professor of urology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), is editor of Microsurgery for Fertility Specialists: A Practical Text, a recently published textbook for physicians who specialize in the surgical treatment of male infertility and andrology (male reproductive health). Dr. Sandlow practices at Froedtert Hospital and also is the director of the male infertility and andrology fellowship program in MCW’s department of urology.
In addition to being editor of the textbook, published by Springer Science and Business Media, Dr. Sandlow also authored two chapters with the assistance of Drs. Joshua A. Bodie and Anand Shridharani, fellows in MCW’s department of urology.
Microsurgery for Fertility Specialists explains the basics of microsurgery and provides detailed operative descriptions of procedures such as vasectomy reversal, varicocele (varicose vein) repair, sperm retrieval, tubal reanastomosis (reconnection), and penile surgery.
“This book will help providers who have a basic knowledge of infertility surgery to become better prepared in the field, and will allow those with more sophisticated knowledge to maintain and advance their microsurgical practice,” said Dr. Sandlow. “There are also chapters specifically dedicated to the education of residents and fellows, as they are the future of infertility surgery.” To that end, junior authors helped senior authors write each chapter of Microsurgery for Fertility Specialists.
Dr. Sandlow is a fellowship-trained specialist in male infertility. He is experienced in microsurgery and minimally invasive treatments for male contraception. He sees patients at Froedtert Hospital, the Zablocki V.A. Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital in West Bend and Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
The Prophecy - from THE MYSTERY OF PLANET WER
Out of our past and from our future, one day one will come to us. This one will be both driven and led by she who lights our day. This one can see without seeing and feel without touching. This one can hear what we cannot say and smell our sorrow. This one will touch the heart of us and mend our soul. Then this one will lead us out of our long darkness and back to she who lights our day.

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A ferry which was damaged when it hit a quay at Harwich International Port in Essex is due back in service on Friday.
The DFDS ferry, Sirena Seaways, has been out of action for nearly two weeks, while being repaired in Germany.
It's expected to return to normal service sailing between Denmark and Harwich.
More top news
Lifeguards at Sea Palling where a swimmer died after getting caught in a rip-current, remind people to always swim at life-guarded beaches.
It will become cloudy this evening with a chance of showers arriving from the west. Lows of 15 deg C.
It's going to be another dry day with plenty of sunny spells and feeling humid. Highs of 27 deg C.

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The Comings and Goings
of the Ku Klux Klan
Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012 by 08:00
Answer the questions about the Ku Klux Klan below on the blog:
1. After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan have been more visible and threatening depending on the political and social climate of the times. What three time periods or years have the KKK been in existence?
2. Looking at the three time periods, what major events were occurring in the United States (and around the world) at the same times of the Ku Klux Klan's existence?
3. What minorities or social groups have been targeted by the Ku Klux Klan over time?
4. Why would an organization like the KKK still exist today? Why would someone want to be a part of such a group?

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Japan to allow more airports to accept entrants from abroad
Japan plans to let more regional airports accept entrants from abroad, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday, amid the Asian country's gradual relaxation of strict border measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We will enable regional airports such as Sendai (in northeastern Japan) to resume accepting international flights, in consultation with local governments," Kishida said at his office.
Currently, international flights are limited to five airports in Japan – Haneda, Narita, Kansai, Chubu and Fukuoka – as part of COVID-19 restrictions.
Naha and New Chitose airports, popular transportation hubs to tourist spots in Okinawa and Hokkaido respectively, are scheduled to resume accepting international flights by the end of June.
The Japanese government also plans to announce guidelines on COVID-era inbound tourism for the travel industry on June 7, Kishida said, three days before the country resumes accepting tourists from overseas.
As the COVID-19 situation in Japan has been improving in recent weeks, the cap on daily arrivals from overseas is set to be raised Wednesday to 20,000 people from the current 10,000.
Since March, Japan has been gradually easing the COVID-19 rules, raising the daily cap on overseas arrivals to 10,000 people.
The country has given priority to foreign residents, business people, students and returning Japanese citizens among others, while prohibiting the entry of tourists.

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Bulgarians Perform Better in 2nd Downhill Training in Soch
Bulgaria's Olympic skiers Georgi Georgiev and Nikola Chongarov made it to the top fifty in the second downhill training session Friday on the Olympic course.
The 24-year-old Chongarov clocked 2 minutes, 12.29 seconds, ranking 41, a much better result that his time a day earlier.
Georgiev finished 48th.
Matthias Mayer of Austria unexpectedly turned into a medal contender after leading the second downhill training session.
The 23-year-old Mayer clocked 2 minutes, 6.51 seconds, slightly quicker than Bode Miller's leading time from a day earlier, as the course was harder and a bit faster.
Former overall World Cup winner Carlo Janka of Switzerland was second, 0.27 seconds behind, but he missed a gate. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway was third, 0.55 behind, with Miller sixth, 0.64 behind.
Conditions were again perfect.
A third and final training session is scheduled for Saturday, with the race Sunday opening the medal events for Alpine skiing.
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A school in Florida has moved a book containing Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” from the elementary section to the middle school section of its library following a parent’s complaint.
She notably read the poem at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration.
The parent who complained argued that the poem was not educational and could “cause confusion and indoctrinate.” The school committee concluded that the materials, including three other books, were more suitable for older students.
The school district clarified that the books are still accessible to younger students in the middle school section of the library but that has not stopped the criticism from rolling in.
The move has received criticism from various sources, including the White House and the nonprofit PEN America. Amanda Gorman herself has expressed her disappointment, claiming that the relocation violated the First Amendment.
Florida Gov. and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, has recently signed several laws that made it easier to remove material that parents take issue with. Many other states have passed similar laws.


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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Ankara could not continue the peace process with the Kurds amid continuing attacks against Turkish targets.
"It is not possible to carry on... (the peace process) with those who target our national unity and brotherhood," he said, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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The arms of the wooden giant,
Spins in the kisses of the breeze,
Hypnotizing the sleeping valley,
Caressing my soul, I breathe.
I want to soar above this valley,
And tickle each bud awake,
Laughing when the sun blushes,
As I somersault down his face.
Don’t you love it when flowers open,
And babies take their first steps?
Don’t you love it when winters end,
And ice turns to mud, what a mess!
If I had my way, valleys would never die,
Everything would remain green,
If I had my way, trees would never cry,
Song birds would always sing.
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Methods: Thirty freshly extracted human teeth were sectioned longitudinal to expose superficial dentin and dentin substrates were polished with 600 grit SiC paper. The materials tested were: two self-adhering flowable resins, Fusio Liquid Dentin (Pentron Clinical) and Vertise Flow (Kerr) and a self-etch adhesive/flowable resin, S3 Bond/Clearfil Majesty Flow (Kuraray). Manufacturers' instructions for applying of materials were strictly followed. A cylindrical teflon mould (3x4mm) was placed over the dentin substrate and filled with each of the tested materials. Ten specimens were prepared for each material and all specimens were stored in distilled water at 370 C for 24 hours. SBS was measured using a universal testing machine at a rate of 0.5mm minˉ until failure. The load to fracture was calculated in MPa and mean data were statistically analyzed with the Welch robust analysis of variance and Games-Howell statistic at p<0.05. Failure patterns were analyzed using a stereomicroscope x40 in order to determine the failure modes. Representative specimens were evaluated under SEM at various magnifications. Results: No statistically significant differences (p>0.05) were found between the two self-adhering materials. Significant higher SBS values were observed with the self-etch adhesive/flowable resin (Welch statistic p<0.001) in comparison to the self-adhering flowables. Stereoscopic evaluation of the failure patterns showed that failures of the self-adhering systems were exclusively adhesive, while the failure patterns of the self-etch adhesive/flowable resin were mixed types of failure. SEM findings confirmed the results.
Conclusion: SBS of the self-adhering flowable resins to dentin substrates was lower than the flowable resin and its bonding agent tested.


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Dallas is about as far from Japan as you can get. And local residents the Berrys are about as Asian as apple pie.
CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports they are a typical Texas family with a very atypical attachment to one Japanese community. Mark Berry, 50, said when he saw the tsunami hit the town of Sendai, it was like watching it roll through his own backyard.
"It's just like I feel what they're feeling," Berry said. "I see that wave coming through, throwing around their cars - that hurts me almost as if I was there."
Berry got to know the people of Sendai because the two towns are International Friendship cities. Dallas kids go there on exchanges. Sendai kids come to Dallas. Berry is now he is chairman of the Dallas/Sendai committee and has already made nine trips there. He's toured the ancient shrines, which are "toothpicks now," dined at homes of dignitaries, which are now gone, and visited local high schools which he thinks have been destroyed.
For the last week, he's been trying to track down friends in Sendai, with mixed results. For example, there were 10 kids who came to Dallas in the last exchange. Six are accounted for, and four are not.
"I kind of feel like, in this case, no news is bad news," Berry said.
His pain really shows the power these sister-city type connections - how they can make neighbors out of people who might otherwise say they couldn't care less.
Berry's 82-year-old father never even knew a Japanese person - until Berry started bringing his visitors around.
"The ones that I met here I learned to love in a very short period of time," Berry's father said. "So I personally feel an obligation to help the people of Sendai."
To that end, the Dallas Japan/America Society has teamed up with their local CBS affiliate to do a phone-a-thon.
Other American towns with sister city relationships are doing the same. It all proves, once again - that if you really want to be someone who values humanity - the best thing you can do - is meet a lot of different humans.
The United States has more sister-cities in Japan than another other country - 188 in all.

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Gaze target detection aims to infer where each person in a scene is looking. Existing works focus on 2D gaze and 2D saliency, but fail to exploit 3D contexts. In this work, we propose a three-stage method to simulate the human gaze inference behavior in 3D space. In the ﬁrst stage, we introduce a coarse-to-ﬁne strategy to robustly estimate a 3D gaze orientation from the head. The predicted gaze is decomposed into a planar gaze on the image plane and a depthchannel gaze. In the second stage, we develop a Dual Attention Module (DAM), which takes the planar gaze to produce the ﬁled of view and masks interfering objects regulated by depth information according to the depth-channel gaze. In the third stage, we use the generated dual attention as guidance to perform two sub-tasks: (1) identifying whether the gaze target is inside or out of the image; (2) locating the target if inside. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach performs favorably against state-of-the-art methods on GazeFollow and VideoAttentionTarget datasets.


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A man is facing charges for a scheme that cheated trucking companies out of deposits for semi trucks they never received.
31-year-old Matthew R. Weaver of Johnstown, Pennsylvania is facing 45 felony charges after a filing before District Judge Kenneth Johnson in Somerset on Monday, January 9th.
According to The Tribune-Democrat, Weaver, along with a salesman for M&K Truck Centers, contacted companies looking to buy tractor trailers from M&K and instructed them to send a deposit to Weaver’s bank account, the account of another accomplice, or to pay by credit card to an account controlled by the M&K employee.
Using this method, the men collected nearly $100,000 in fake deposits from the potential truck buyers, but never delivered the semi trucks.
M&K began investigating the situation after being contacted by one of the trucking companies that had been a victim in the scam. The unidentified M&K salesman was fired, and returned his company car, laptop, and cellphone. The information on the computer and phone had been erased, but tech staff at the company were able to retrieve text messages and emails from the salesman to the trucking companies victimized by the scam.
Charges against the unnamed employee and the third accomplice were filed on Monday, but as of Monday evening, only Weaver had been served with a warrant. Weaver is facing 45 felony charges including theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, being part of a corrupt organization, dealing in the proceeds of unlawful activity and criminal use of a communications device.

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NewsSunday, August 11, 2013 | 1:37 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Americans swept the Heats of the 110 metre men’s hurdles as Jamaica’s Hanlse Parchment (13.43) squeezed through to the semis although finishing fifth in his heat.Jason Richardson, Ryan Wilson, Aries Merritt and David Oliver all won their heats with Oliver’s 13.05 the fastest. Jamaica’s Andrew Riley (13.27) placing third in hit Heat also progressed to the semi finals scheduled for Day 3, Monday, August 12 at 10.05am Jamaica time. Dwight Thomas, Jamaica’s third entrant did not start.The first three in each Heat automatically progress along with the fastest four finishers.
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Several new shows on and off Broadway recently announced they are extending though the spring, and in one case, into the summer.
The producers of “Ghetto Klown,” John Leguizamo’s new one-man show that opened on Broadway Tuesday night, said it would extend for nearly two more months. The show, in which Mr. Leguizamo recounts his childhood in Queens and his efforts at becoming a movie star, will now play through July 10 at the Lyceum Theater.
Manhattan Theater Club said its production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People” will extend through May 29 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The play stars Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan as former childhood friends from the same South Boston neighborhood who reunite later in life. The extension means that Manhattan Theater Club’s new Broadway revival of Terrence McNally’s play “Master Class,” starring Tyne Daly, now will begin previews at the Friedman on June 14.
Off Broadway, Bathsheba Doran’s multi-character comedy-drama “Kin” has extended through April 17 at Playwrights Horizons. At New York Theater Workshop, “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a new play by Roger Rees, Alex Timbers and Rick Elice about a young Peter Pan, also announced it will extend through April 17.

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A free guide to Building Information Modelling and Lean construction for the industry has been compiled by Salford University's School of the Built Environment.
Five academics in the department wrote the guide for the Construction Industry Research & Information Association.
Designed for practical use by clients, designers and construction companies, the guide covers the implementation and embedding of more efficient methods into a company or project, and aims to reduce costs.
The university is working to make the construction industry aware of the benefits of BIM ahead of the Government's imminent requirement for the industry to trial it and Lean on public sector projects.
The guide also contains successful examples sourced from the authors' experience in countries where BIM and Lean is much more firmly entrenched in the sector. These examples include facilities management at Maryland General Hospital and planning techniques for the Skanska Headquarters in Finland.
Prof Lauri Koskela from the School of the Built Environment led the writing of the guide with colleagues Prof Arto Kiviniemi, Bhargav Dave and Dr Patricia Tzortzopoulos, alongside former Salford academic Robert Owen from the Queensland University of Technology.
Prof Lauri Koskela said: "This is very much a practical guide for the industry and in keeping with Salford's objectives of helping UK construction become more efficient and sustainable.
"We're very grateful to CIRIA for taking the initiative with the guide and helping us to create it and we'd urge as many people of all levels in the sector to take advantage of a significant free resource to save money and improve their businesses."
Dr Owen Jenkins, director of CIRIA, said: "The CIRIA project steering group brought together academics, Lean consultancies, client, contracting and other organisations. The resulting guides should therefore be of interest to a wide readership and lead to a greater awareness and implementation of Lean in construction."
The guide was funded by Ciria, Skanska, Sellafield, The Department for Business Innovation & Skills, The Highways Agency, Bam Nuttall and Construction Skills.
The guide can be downloaded from the CIRIA website.


In 2021, Wiradjuri Elder Uncle James Ingram and Bush Heritage’s Aboriginal Partnerships Manager and Yuin Walbunja woman, Vikki Parsley, walked across Tarcutta Hills Reserve in southern NSW in search of cultural artefacts. Immediately, they called for a cultural burn. The land was in need of controlled fire, and it presented an opportunity to get Wiradjuri people back out on Country.
This was to be the first cultural burn held on a Bush Heritage reserve in New South Wales, and the beginning of a significant conversation about how fire has and hasn't been used in the continent’s southeast for centuries.
Featuring Uncle James Ingram, Vikki Parsley, Dean Freeman, and George and Win Maine.
Produced by Will Sacre and Eliza Herbert.


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The Egyptian journalist was given the esteemed award for her work on the Yemen war.
Egyptian journalist, Maggie Michael has just won the prestigious Oliver S. Gramling award for her compelling investigative work on the war-torn Yemen.
Granted by the Associated Press, the yearly award has been given to Michael for her coverage and reporting on the Yemen war, the most renowned of which was her investigative work on the secret Emirati prisons in Yemen.
Michael also covered the child famine resulting from the war as well as the marriage of minors in Yemen. The Egyptian journalist has been granted USD 10,000 in recognition for her work in reporting conflict in the MENA region, at the times at the cost of her own personal safety.
Having worked with the Associated Press for 15 years, Michael has reported on several areas within the region facing instability and conflict including Iraq and Libya, among other countries. With her coverage of Yemen War, the Egyptian journalist managed to help uncover the injustices that were going on as a result of the conflict.
The Oliver S.Gramling award is one of professional excellence and was first founded in 1994. The award is the highest internal honor within the Associated Press where the panel of judges is made up of experts from across the news cooperative.
Michael is an Egyptian investigative reporter who has previously won awards for her international reporting including one from the Overseas Press Club (OPC) which she received earlier this year.


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Most people have conflicting sets of beliefs about money and personal value. When they make more than someone they know, they naturally start comparing themselves with them. They define their happiness and fulfillment with phrases like “I make more money than you”. However, phrases like these are a wrong a way to judge others because how much a person makes doesn’t equal their value. In life, you want to be happy not rich. And although the mass media has convinced many that money leads to happiness and value, that’s not always the case.
Money can definitely help make life more enjoyable, provide for your future, and help you achieve your goals, but merely having the money does not equal a person’s value and it certainly does not guarantee fulfillment. In other words, just because you earn lots of money does not make you wealthy.
Why the Phrase “I Make More Money Than You” Doesn’t Equal a Person’s Value: It’s All About Perspective
There is a correlation between how much money people make and how satisfied or happy they are. At about $70,000 a year, money becomes less and less of a factor. But, what really seems to explain the life fulfillment of people is not the specific amount of money they make but how their earnings compare to what their peer groups make. That is, people generally seem to compare themselves to others of the same level of education, gender, and age. Those who make more money than others in their reference group seem to get the idea that they are happier and more valuable than others. However, as stated before, making a lot of money isn’t enough.
Money is just one factor that influences the satisfaction of people with life. There are a number of other key factors that are also very important. For instance, your relationship with your family matters, your ability to pursue other goals, and autonomy. Your health has a huge impact on your life fulfillment and satisfaction. If you are not healthy, you are not happy no matter how much money you make.
What Does This Mean for You?
It is clear that the phrase “I make more money than you” is just a way for some people to feel good about themselves. It doesn’t equal a person’s value in any way. If you follow us on Instagram, you should know that the most important quality a person has to offer is their underlying values, their story. So, when someone uses this phrase to judge you, don’t get discouraged. Instead, keep yourself focused on whether or not you have enough money to do what you would like to do instead of comparing your earnings with the people around you. It isn’t easy of course. If a friend goes on a luxurious trip, you might wish you could do the same. If your neighbor comes home with a nice car, you might feel a pang of jealousy. But unless you are lucky enough to be making more than everyone around you, it would be a good idea to just focus on the joys of what you have and remember with time, experience and personal growth you can get their. Most importantly, we can help. As we’ve mentored others before most predominantly in academic and non-profit settings, we’ve worked with many organizations and brands to get you where you need to be.
In a nutshell, money matters, but not as much as you think. Even though life requires it, money is not the ‘end’. It is simply the ‘means to the end’. So, try to live your life according to what’s important to you. That is ‘the end’. Till next time!-The Black Sheep

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I need someone to fabricate a clean looking circular solar panel using mononcrystalline silicon solar cell. The panel needs to be 1.6 meter in diameter (2 meter square area). It should deliver 400W (20% efficient).
The single piece of 400W circular solar panel will have two 200W solar panels, basically 4 wires coming out instead of 2 wires.
Here is what I am looking for exactly:
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Sticky Dates Toffee Pudding
I am sure the name itself would be making you drooling right now!!
Dessert is a complete weakness of every member in my family. We always save room for it without fail.
Talking about Sticky dates pudding, Its an absolutely perfect dessert to indulge during winter/monsoon season. I have been hearing, readings and starring at the drooling pictures of Sticky dates pudding in magazines, food blogs, tv shows. However when the time comes to prepare a dessert, this one never hit my mind and I guess today was the day meant for it. Few days back, my husband, Shahul brought few packs of medjool dates and I decided to try the pudding as the climate was also a bit favorable – chilling with some rain in Doha.
The preparation of the pudding is not that hard. However like any other baking food, accuracy is vital. Everything needs to weighed and should be at room temperature- that is the key. Once you are ready with the ingredients, first step is to soften the pitted dates with boiling water and some bicarbonate of soda and cool it down. Meanwhile you can beat the butter and sugar together until creamy. Add an egg and beat until combined.
Just pulse the cooled dates, pour it the butter mix, add the dry ingredients and mix gently with a wooden spoon or spatula. Never ever over mix your batter, otherwise you will get a hard piece of cake. Now you are good to go with the batter. Pour it into your baking pans or ramekins and bake it at 180C for 25-30 minutes until it is cooked through and bounce back to touch or until a skewer/tooth pick comes out clean. Leave it to cool for 5 mins.
For the Toffee sauce, put every ingredient in a sauce pan, bring to boil. Once you see the bubbles on the sides of the pan, reduce the flame and simmer for 6-7 minutes. Rest and cool the sauce a bit. Resting helps the sauce to thick and attain accurate consistency you are looking for. If you cook it for longer time and then cool it down, you end with a thick grainy sauce than a soft melt down one. You can reheat the sauce just before serving.
Turn down the dates cake in to serving plate, poke some holes on the top and pour the hot sauce, This will let the cake to absorb the sauce and make it really sweet and sticky when you dig into it.
To serve, scoop vanilla ice cream on top and to make it fancy, pour toffee sauce on to the ice cream right before the guest to impress !! it is going to be drooling moment to see the ice cream melting down with the hot sauce.
Caution : This dessert is heavy, sweet , so make sure to have a light meal. Enjoy!!
- Pitted Medjool Dates : 145gm
- Water : 160 gm
- Bicarbonate of Soda : 1/2 Tsp
- Butter : 40gm
- Egg : One large
- Vanilla Extract : 1/2 Tsp
- Self Raising Flour : 94gm
- Brown Sugar : 75gm
- Ground Cinnamon : 1/4 tsp
- Salt : 1/4 tsp
- Toffee Sauce
- Brown Sugar : 150gm
- Cream :180 gm
- Butter : 20 gm
- Corn Syrup : 20 gm
- Vanilla Extract :1/2 Tsp
- Preheat oven at 180C.
- Lightly Grease and flour your muffin pan or ramekin.
- In a sauce pan, add the dates, water and bring to boil. Add the bicarbonate of soda and close the lid. Cool it down for 20-25 mins.
- Beat butter and sugar together until creamy. Add egg and beat to combine.
- Pulse the cooled dates in a blender and pour it to the butter egg mix along with vanilla extract.
- Add the dry ingredients and using a spatula, slowly and softly combine all together. Pour the mix equally to your pans.
- Bake for 25-30 mins until cooked through and bounce back on touch or a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
- Rest on the counter top for 5 mins.
- For the toffee sauce, put all the ingredients in a sauce, bring it to boil under a medium high heat stirring continuously. Once it comes to boil, lower the flame and simmer for 6-7 minutes. Set aside to cool. Warm the sauce before serving.
- After the resting time of 5 mins, place the cake upside down in a serving dish, pokes some holes on top. Drizzle the warm toffee sauce on top which will help the cake to absorb it and moisten and makes it sticky all the way through.
- Serve the pudding with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and more sauce on top. Enjoy.

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PN04/39: RAS LAUNCHES REVIEW OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
In the light of considerable UK scientific and industrial interest in the Aurora long-term programme of Solar System exploration, the Royal Astronomical Society has decided to conduct a review of the scientific case for human spaceflight as applied to astronomy and geophysics.
The first public announcement of this RAS Commission will be made during the RAS Discussion Meeting on Friday, 10 December. The meeting, entitled "The Scientific Case for Human Spaceflight", will be held at the Linnean Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1, starting at 10.30.
Over the past three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been preparing a road map for future robotic and human exploration of other worlds - particularly the Moon and Mars - under its optional Aurora programme.
The UK and other European governments agreed to provide "seed corn" funding during this initial stage of the programme, but a decision on whether or not to provide much more substantial financial support for Aurora over the next five years will have to be made by 2006.
This decision will be made against the background of NASA's new Vision for Space Exploration initiative, which was announced by President George W. Bush on 14 January 2004. ESA and its member states are currently examining ways in which Europe might play a leading role in this long-term vision to return to the Moon and eventually send humans to Mars.
In the light of considerable UK scientific and industrial interest in the Aurora programme, the Royal Astronomical Society has decided to conduct a review of the scientific case for human spaceflight as applied to astronomy and geophysics. It is hoped that other learned societies will also take part, in order to broaden the scope of the enquiry.
The Society is appointing a 'commission', comprising a chairperson and two others, that will gather written and verbal evidence from a wide variety of sources. The commission's final report and conclusions are expected to be completed in late 2005. They will then be presented to the Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council, the British National Space Centre, the Minister for Space and relevant committees of MPs and Peers.
It is anticipated that the RAS report will assist the European Space Agency (ESA) in defining its future programmes, and that it will have some influence on the aims of the UK's future participation in ESA's Aurora exploration programme, beyond the currently planned robotic sample return programme.
The RAS Review will be chaired by Frank Close, Fellow and Professor of Physics at Exeter College, Oxford, and former Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London.
RAS MEETING: "THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT"
The review will be launched at an RAS Discussion Meeting on Friday, 10 December, starting at 10.30. The meeting, entitled "The Scientific Case for Human Spaceflight", will be held at the Linnean Society Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
The Discussion Meeting, which has been organised by Dr. Ian Crawford (Birkbeck/UCL) and Dr. Charles Cockell (British Antarctic Survey), will include presentations by experts from the UK, ESA and NASA.
The speakers will include Dr. Jim Garvin (NASA Chief Scientist), Dr. Bernard Foing (ESA Chief Scientist), Bernhard Hufenbach (ESA Directorate of Human Spaceflight) and Dr. Paul Spudis (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and a member of the President's Aldridge Commission).
Media representatives are welcome to attend. Requests for interviews may be made by contacting the RAS Communications Officer, Peter Bond (see contact details above), or through the organisers, Dr. Ian Crawford and Dr. Charles Cockell (contact details at the end of this release).
Most speakers are expected to be available for interview during the lunch break, immediately after the meeting, or by prior arrangement.
The speakers will discuss:
The meeting will also consider some of the potential political and cultural benefits arising from human space exploration, especially its value as a means of stimulating public interest in science and technology, and in attracting young people into science.
(RAS Review)Professor Frank CloseExeter CollegeOxfordTel.: +44 (0)1865-279600Fax: +44 (0)1865-279630 E-mail: f.close1<-at->physics.ox.ac.uk (RAS Discussion Meeting on "The Scientific Case for Human Spaceflight.")Dr. Ian CrawfordResearch School of Earth SciencesBirkbeck and University College LondonLondon WC1E 7HXTel. (work): 0207-679-3431Tel. (home): 0208-542-8836Mobile: +44 (0)777-62-34317E-mail: i.crawford<-at->ucl.ac.uk Dr. Charles Cockell British Antarctic SurveyHigh CrossMadingley RoadCambridge CB3 0ETTel: + 44 (0)1223-221560E-mail: csco<-at->bas.ac.uk
NOTES FOR EDITORS.
The long-term Aurora programme envisages a series of robotic missions to the Moon and Mars that will pave the way for a human expedition to the Red Planet by 2033.
Aurora is being considered as Europe's contribution to an international programme of robotic and human exploration of the Moon and Mars, which may eventually involve more than a dozen countries around the world.
To date, the UK has not contributed to ESA�s Human Spaceflight programme, although it has been a major participant in robotic science missions such as Beagle 2, Smart-1 and Rosetta.
RAS meeting on "The Scientific Case for Human Spaceflight"
The UK scientific case for Aurora: http://www.aurora.rl.ac.uk/Task_Group_Reports/Science_Case.pdf
PPARC Aurora press release: http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/a_text.asp
ESA Aurora / PESEP Web site:http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Aurora/index.html
President Bush's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html
Date: 01st December 2004
Issued by Peter Bond, RAS Communications Officer.


According to figures from London-based analyst ISI Auto, the global market for compact premium cars is currently dominated by the three German premium brands. Between them, the BMW 3-series family, Mercedes-Benz C-class and Audi A4 are expected to sell 1.15 million units next year, the majority of the total market segment sales of 1.3 million.
These figures show the huge uphill struggle that has faced Japanese premium brands Lexus and Infiniti, but they also provide hope for Jaguar. While Japanese brands and Cadillac could account for just 147,000 sales globally next year in this segment, Jaguar’s arrival in 2015 could finally shake it up.
If Jaguar could steal just five per cent of sales, it would hit 80,000 units for the new saloon and estate. In the medium term, Jaguar could also launch a compact coupé, which could edge the road car family towards six-figure sales. Of course, X761, the Jaguar SUV — which, in production form, will be sized to compete with the BMW X3 and X4 — will add further volume.
Bernstein analysts think that X761 should achieve sales of about 50,000 units per year. That would mean total production volumes of 130,000 for small Jaguars in the medium term. Adding the Evoque XL, at 80,000 units, would give the new Solihull production line healthy annual output of over 200,000 units.
The longer-term aims for the small Jaguar are enhanced by ISI Auto estimates, which suggest that the global compact premium market will increase by another 400,000 units by 2020 to 1.7 million units, a 30 per cent rise on the expected 2014 total.
This sector is both ultra-competitive and dominated by three well established German rivals. However, Jaguar bosses think that they will hit their sales targets because of three major engineering advantages.
First, the compact Jaguar will be made entirely of aluminium, giving it a decisive lead in weight saving. Second, the rear-drive running gear has been designed from scratch to allow the Jaguar to be given extremely precise handling characteristics. Third, the Jaguars will be launched with a new range of JLR-designed, state-of-the-art, powerful and super-frugal engines.
The compact Jaguar could hardly be better prepared for breaking into the compact premium market. The only possible variable is the styling, but Jaguar design director Ian Callum and his team are pushing at an open door, considering the relative conservatism and familiarity of the current 3-series.
X760 is set to arrive in early 2015 (after appearing in showroom guise at the Paris show in September next year), which will be around the same time as the all-new C-class and shortly before the new A4.
The estate is expected in early 2016, followed a short time later by the SUV. If the X760 project goes well, a two-door coupé version could be in showrooms in 2018, around the same time as the saloon will get a light refresh.
Senior JLR engineers have told Autocar that the compact Jaguar will have an emphasis on handling, following in the footsteps of the more focused F-type and recent racier versions of the XF.
The combination of details such as aluminium suspension components and a very stiff aluminium structure (which is both riveted and bonded) provide, on paper, an ideal basis for a car that is more driver focused than the 3-series and more technically advanced than the A4.


Carolina quarterback Cam Newton threw two third-quarter touchdown passes and the Panthers defence stifled the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday in a 27-16 NFL wildcard playoff victory.
In the first game of the post-season, the Panthers advanced in the National Football Conference, dashing the Cardinals' hopes of reaching the February 1 Super Bowl in their home stadium.
Newton connected on touchdown passes with Fozzy Whittaker and Mike Tolbert in the third period as the Panthers erased a 14-13 halftime deficit.
Carolina's defence made sure the lead held up, limiting the injury-depleted Arizona offence to 12 yards and two first downs in the second half.
With third-string quarterback Ryan Lindley at the helm, the Cardinals notched a mere 78 net yards for the game – the fewest by one team in a playoff game in NFL history.
Both of Arizona's touchdowns came on short drives in the wake of Carolina turnovers.
Lindley threw a touchdown pass to Darren Fells in the second quarter, but was intercepted twice and finished with just 82 yards.
Newton, still feeling the effects of the back injury he suffered in a December 9 car crash, completed 18 of his 32 passing attempts for 198 yards with one interception.
Jonathan Stewart added 123 rushing yards and a touchdown for the Panthers, who notched their fifth straight win.
Carolina's late-season surge saw them seize the NFC South division title with a modest 7-8-1 record.
They next play either reigning Super Bowl champions Seattle or Green Bay, depending on the outcome of Sunday's first-round game between Detroit and Dallas.


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Affordable Housing Tour
March 16, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
We will be touring DC from 2-4pm. We will board the bus at Emory United Methodist Church, pushing to b uild momentum for affordable housing in the budget.
WIN leaders will tour DC to see affordable housing won and improved through organizing, as well as see shovel ready projects that could become a reality with increased affordable housing funding.


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The ingredients needed to make Cindy soup:
- Get 1 of red or regular potatoes cut and cubed.
- Prepare 1 slice of carrot.
- Take 1 of white or yellow onion.
- Use 1 of bag of beans I used pinto u can use red or add kidney beans be creative.
- Get 1 of hamburger meat fried and crumbled.
- Get 4 of Bay leaves.
- Get dash of Italian seasoning.
- You need tbsp of chopped parsley or parsley flake.
- Get 1 of v 8 vegetable juice.
- Use 1 of can Rotella or stewed tomatoes.
- You need 1 of Fresh garlic.
- Use 1 of celery.
- Get 1 of beef bouillon.
Instructions to make Cindy soup:
- Depending on your beans. I used pinto. Soak beans over night in crockpot.
- Turn on high when u wake up and let cook add potatoes carrots and celery.
- Add all other ingredients along with spice cook about 4 hours on high and enjoy.
Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon, leaving the drippings in the pot. Stir the potatoes and carrots into the bacon fat. I made this soup as written and it is delicious! It was a perfect dinner for a chilly night. Pasta alla crema di peperoni (Pasta with Bell Pepper Cream Sauce) Cindy Soup does not own the Virtue.
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Perhaps every era gets the weather it deserves. Drought and dust storms coincided with the Great Depression. Earth’s weather was unusually tranquil during the tranquil ‘50s, unusually chaotic during the chaotic ‘70s. So it’s fitting that El Niño should return this fall, its third visit of the decade. El Niño is weather for the ‘90s, weather for an age of conspiracy theories.
As anyone who’s tuned in a weather forecast this month knows, “El Niño”–“the child,” as in “the Christ child”–was so named by Peruvian fishermen who noticed the warming of the waters of the eastern Pacific around Christmastime. This Christ child is a monster. El Niño, officially known as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), works like this: Every three to eight years, for some inexplicable reason, the trade winds that usually blow west from South America to Australia subside. As a result, the warm waters of the western Pacific–a pool the size of Canada–drift east toward South America. The result: worldwide weather chaos. (El Niño is part of a larger cycle. Periodically, the conditions that produce El Niño act in reverse. This produces La Niña, which causes different, but equally freaky, global weather conditions.)
Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are holding emergency hearings about the new El Niño, and the media are covering it obsessively. There is good reason to worry. The eastern Pacific has heated faster this year than at any time in recorded history. El Niño ‘97 promises to be the most brutal climatic event of the century, surpassing even El Niño ‘82-’83, which killed thousands and caused $13 billion in damage.
El Niño is the Trilateral Commission of earth science, the Bilderberg Group of climatology. It explains everything. The difference between El Niño and the Trilats: El Niño really does explain everything. Hollywood’s disaster-movie villains–Dante’s Peak, the twisters, the Titanic iceberg–are pikers next to El Niño. Here is a partial list of events that El Niño can be blamed for (at least partially): the ongoing drought in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea; forest fires in Indonesia; famine in North Korea; the appearance of hurricanes along the Pacific coast of the United States; the disappearance of hurricanes along the Atlantic Coast of the United States; a mild winter in the Northeast, a harsh winter in the Southeast, the failure of the fish harvest in South America. El Niño seems to determine the corn production of Zimbabwe, the coffee production of Sumatra, and the cocoa production of the Ivory Coast. It appears to spark epidemics of encephalitis, cholera, hantavirus, bubonic plague, rattlesnake attacks, and shark attacks. It could even influence immigration patterns in the Southwestern United States. (How? Most migration to the Southwest has occurred in the past 20 years, a period of frequent El Niños. El Niños bring lots of rain to the region, and if they subside, there may be too little water to sustain the Sun Belt.)
El Niño, in fact, is a conspiracy so immense that it even explains the other weather conspiracy–namely, the jet stream. The warm, moist El Niño air causes the jet stream to split as it flows eastward over North America. One arm dips south, giving the Gulf Coast a wet winter. The other stays in Canada. The Northeast is thus spared the jet stream’s Arctic blasts, and enjoys a lovely winter.
Despite implicating El Niño in all these varied weather crimes, scientists know surprisingly little about it. This year’s El Niño is the first major one to have been forecast. Before El Niño was identified, weather consisted of a series of little mysteries: Why is there a thunderstorm? Why a drought? Those mysteries have been solved (sort of), but they have been supplanted by a much bigger one: What is El Niño? Weather mavens don’t understand why El Niño begins. They don’t know why it is occurring more frequently: It used to arrive every five to eight years; recently it’s been coming every three to five years. Scientists are befuddled about its relationship (if any) to global warming: Some say global warming is making El Niño more severe; others say El Niño is making global warming more severe. (El Niño is a darling of greenhouse skeptics because it shows how mighty Mother Nature is compared with man. If El Niño, a natural phenomenon we don’t understand and can’t control, can shift worldwide temperatures and rainfall dramatically, we should hesitate before blaming our own carbon dioxide emissions for the world’s ills.)
There is one other reason why El Niño is a fitting weather pattern for the age: On balance, it rewards America at the expense of the rest of the world. In Africa, Australia, India, and Southeast Asia, El Niño parches land, devastates crops, and causes famine. About 300,000 people in Papua New Guinea are starving because of the ‘97 El Niño. In South America, El Niño destroys the fishing industry: Peru’s economy shrank 5 percent during the ‘82-’83 El Niño. It’s true that El Niño afflicts the West and Gulf Coasts with nasty winters, and that it decimates the salmon population. But fewer hurricanes will strike the Atlantic coast this year, fewer tornadoes will touch down in the Midwest, and more rain will fall on the Southwest. Mild winters in the North and East will save billions on heating bills. Thanks to the northward migration of Pacific marlin, California sport fishermen will have an annusmirabilis. And as for the surfing, it will be awesome.


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Stars Help Feed Children Around The Globe
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- The Dominican University women's basketball team took time out of their day off on Monday to lend a hand at the Feed My Starving Children location in Schaumburg, Ill. The Stars pitched in to make "manna packs" that will be shipped around the globe by the Christian non-profit organization to children in the most severe circumstances suffering from severe malnutrition and threatened with death from starvation.
In total, the Stars spent two hours on the Feed My Starving Children assembly line, helping a team of volunteers at the center Monday night to pack 106 boxes with a total of 22,032 meals for 61 children.
"A project like this reminds us of how lucky we are," said the Stars' first-year head coach Gabby Johnson. "No matter how many little struggles we deal with in our daily lives, there are far too many people dealing with things that we can hardly fathom. Our team saw how big an impact they can have on the world in just two short hours."
Feed My Starving Children was founded in 1987 in Brooklyn Park, Minn., by Richard Proudfit. With seven locations, Proudfit's vision provides food to children in need in over 70 countries worldwide. For more information on Feed My Starving Children, visit their website at www.fmsc.org.


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Eliminate the need for laying or leasing new fiber with simple, reliable CWDM passives.
Multiple ways to deploy and configure Pica8 network operation system software.
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NCRB Recruitment 2023 Sub Inspector vacancy online application form at ncrb.gov.in - News
Last updated: Feb 24, 2022 05:21 PM | Abisha Muthukumar
NCRB Recruitment 2023 Notification Overview
|Company Name||NCRB Recruitment 2023|
|Post Name||Sub Inspector Jobs|
|No of Posts||2 Posts|
|Salary||Rs. 29,200 - Rs. 92,300 /-Per Month|
|Job Location||New Delhi Jobs|
|Last Date to Apply||03/04/2022|
|Similar Jobs||Govt Jobs 2023|
In supersession of this Bureau's vacancy circular of even number dated 10.11.2021 and 17.01.2022, I am directed to say that this Bureau is in the process of filling up of two posts of Sub Inspector(G) in the revised Pay ie in Level-5 in the Pay Matrix Rs. 29200- 92300/- (pre-revised Pay Band-I, Rs. 5200-20200/- plus Grade Pay of Rs. 2800/-) in its Crime Records, Administration & Training Division on deputation basis.
1. Post name: Sub Inspector
2. No of Post: 02
3. Pay Scale: Level - 5 in the Pay Matrix Rs. 29200-92300/- (pre-revised Rs. 5200-20200/- + Grade Pay of Rs. 2800/-)
4. Period of deputation including period of deputation in another ex-cadre post held immediately preceding this appointment in the same or some other organisation/ department of the Central Government shall ordinarily not exceed three years.
Transfer on deputation Police officers of the Central Government or State Government, - (a)(i) holding analogous post on regular basis; or (ii) with 5 years service in the post in (b) the level -4 of pay matrix(pre-revised PB-I Rs. 5200-20200/- + Grade Pay of Rs. 2400/- )or equivalent; and possessing 3 years experience of crime records management including matters relating to administration or purchase and house keeping.
Selection Process for NCRB Recruitment 2023
How to Apply NCRB Recruitment 2023 at ncrb.gov.in?
1. Applications of suitable officials who are eligible, willing and can be relieved immediately, if selected, may please be sent to this Bureau [Assistant Director (Admn.), National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, NH-8, Mahipalpur, New Delhi- 1100371 in the prescribed proforma alongwith APAR Dossiers for the last 5 years of the officials within 45 days from the date of issue of this letter.
2 Applications received after the last date or without APAR Dossiers or otherwise found incomplete will not be considered
3. While forwarding the application it may also be verified and certified that the particulars furnished by the Officials are correct and no disciplinary case is either pending or contemplated against him
4. The integrity of the official may also be certified.
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STUDY AIM: The aim of this retrospective study was to report a series of nine patients with a sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism, operated on for an ectopic supernumerary hyperfunctioning parathyroid gland. PATIENTS AND METHOD: From 1973 to 1998, among a total of 1,307 patients operated on for a primary hyperparathyroidism, 9 (0.69%) had an ectopic supernumerary hyperfunctioning gland. There were six women and three men (mean age: 63 years) with a sporadic hyperparathyroidism. Initial cervicotomy was performed in our institution in 6 cases. The nine patients underwent 19 operations including one through sternotomy. The ectopic parathyroid gland was localized in the eight patients who had preoperative localization studies. RESULTS: The supernumerary gland was located in the anterior mediastinum (n = 6), in the carotid sheath (n = 2) and within the vagus nerve (n = 1). In three patients, it was found during the initial cervicotomy. In the 6 other patients, it was found in the course of a reoperation. With a mean follow-up of five years, all the patients were biochemically cured. One patient had a permanent recurrent nerve palsy and a definitive hypoparathyroidism. CONCLUSIONS: The low incidence of an ectopic supernumerary hyperfunctioning parathyroid gland in sporadic hyperparathyroidism does not justify the routine use of preoperative localization studies and intra-operative quick parathormon assay. During an initial conventional cervicotomy the search for a 5th gland is highly recommended when 4 normal glands have been found in the neck. This research should also be performed in case of multi-glandular disease.
|Titolo tradotto del contributo||[Autom. eng. transl.] Supernumerary hyperfunctional parathyroid in major ectopia: a cause of failure of primary sporadic hyperparathyroidism surgery|
|Numero di pagine||6|
|Rivista||ANNALES DE CHIRURGIE|
|Stato di pubblicazione||Pubblicato - 2000|
- parathyroidectomy, minimally invasive surgery,hyperparathyroidism


Apple had recently invited its users to a virtual launching event welcoming 5G models along with iPhone 12. In the midst of this COVID-19 outbreak, Apple has asked the production team to produce nearly 75 Million 5G iPhones that were launched yesterday during the live event at the Cupertino campus in the United States. Along with these next-generation iPhones, Apple launched four models with functionalities like never before. The new models, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max have been launched with 5G wireless speed, diverse screen sizes and changed designs with square edges.
For the very first time in history, Apple has launched two basic and two high-end iPhone 12 models. The two basic models have been launched in 5.4-inch (iPhone Mini) and 6.1-inch (iPhone 12) display sizes. The high-end models have been launched in 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch display sizes; the largest screen size Apple has launched within an iPhone. All the models will include OLED displays for better color and clarity for users. iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max include a LIDAR camera for better understanding of the surrounding through the augmented-reality applications. The giant tech has stepped up further than rivals when it comes to the camera. All phones contain Deep Fusion and Night Mode wide camera with f/1.6 aperture and build-in Smart HDR 3 that adjusts the light according to the surrounding light. The basic models include the color options of Blue, Red, Green, White and Black. On the other hand, the high-end models will be seen in pacific blue, gold, graphite and silver color options.
Pricing and Purchasing
• iPhone 12 Mini – $1,199
• iPhone 12 – $1,349
• iPhone 12 Pro – $1,699
• iPhone 12 Pro Max – $1,849
If you decide to purchase the phones, the basic models will be shipped soon than the pro high-end models. The shipment will mostly take place a few weeks later than when the last year’s models started shipping back on September 20. The high-end models will be released on October 23 and the lower models will be released on November 13 in Australia.
Get updates from the live event on Apple website at https://www.apple.com/


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Looking for the Best Inkjet Photo Paper?
The Canon Pro Platinum photo paper is the best in terms of quality to cost ratio and the best all around pick for your prints at home. The texture of the paper is sturdy but thin, high gloss and your pictures will turn out amazing.
Printing a photograph has become somewhat of a lost art, like the art of writing letters. Once photographers paid as much attention to the process of printing a photo as much as they did into the art of making one. For them, the process of developing and printing and watching their work come to life was the ultimate gratification. There is no better reason to do something than the happiness you derive doing it.
These days, however, the process of printing has been relegated only to the domain of commercial photography. Nowadays consumers rarely print.
This article is aimed at those who think of their photography more than just shooting selfies or the occasional group photo at home. This is aimed at those who want to print their best photos once in a while or maybe even print their postcard photos at home.
First, let me show you a brief overview and summary of the various photo papers you can buy today. Later on, we will have a look at each of our picks and answer some FAQs.
Here are the 8 best photo papers that you can buy for your inkjet printer in 2021:
- Canon Photo Paper Pro Platinum
- Canon Luster Photo Paper Letter
- CanonInk Photo Paper Plus Glossy II
- HP Premium Plus Photo Paper Glossy
- HP Photo Paper Advanced Glossy
- HP Inkjet Photo Paper Everyday Glossy
- Epson Premium Photo Paper Glossy
- HP Sprocket Photo Paper (Sticky, fun paper)
The Canon photo paper pro platinum is a high-quality photo paper which is rated to last for over 200 years when maintained well. This is currently Canon’s highest rated photo paper.
It has a color receiving layer that is broken down into two independent layers – one is the color reproduction layer and the other is the absorbing layer.
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On top of it, a chromogenic enhancer has been added which amplifies light. Additionally, the ink receiving layer has been thinned which ensures that the water in the ink overflows to the paper’s surface and prevents the dye from spreading to the bottom. The result is deeper and saturated colors. This is a pack of 50 sheets of 4 x 6″ size.
- When Chomalife100+ Ink and Photo Paper Pro Platinum are used together your photos can achieve over a 200 year life in an...
This Canon luster photo paper comes in a pack of 50 sheets. The beautiful finish has a natural capacity to resist smudges. There is almost no glare when the photo has been printed. Perfect for a wide variety of projects including portraits, landscapes, wedding and even fine art.
- Luster finish provides an elegant surface that resists fingerprints and virtually eliminates glare
- Great for portrait and wedding and fine art photography prints
- Paper weight of 69lbs
The CanonInk Photo Paper Plus Glossy II is a pack of 20 sheets of 8.5″ x 11″ photo papers.
By default, this photo paper produces an exceptionally vibrant color scheme and glossy finish to your photos.
The brightness rating of the paper is 92 lm which means the final colors will be bright and vibrant with little or no artificial fluorescent elements used to reflect more light.
- Photo paper plus glossy II yields a glossy finish with exceptionally rich colors, giving your images the look and feel of a...
This is a packet containing 100 sheets of 4 x 6″ glossy photo paper. The paper has a quick drying property which ensures that it can be shared almost instantaneously as soon as it is printed. Additionally, the prints are smudge and water resistant so, it should be able to take a bit of abuse. The brightness rating of the paper is 90.
- Glossy 4x6 inch
- Photo paper for inkjet printers
- Exceptional photo projects with bright glossy photo paper
- Thick, quick-drying photo paper*
- Rich, vivid colors
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This HP Photo paper of the glossy type is slightly lighter than the HP Premium Plus Photo Paper that was discussed above.
This paper too is of the glossy type. This one too comes with some amount of water and smudge resistance. Plus, the instant ink drying technology ensures that the prints can be shared almost instantaneously after they have been printed.
- Glossy 4x6 inch
- Photo paper for inkjet printers
- Enhanced photo projects with bright glossy photo paper
- Thick, quick-drying photo paper*
- Maximized color intensity
This slightly lighter paper (200 g/m²) is more suitable for everyday prints and project works.
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The pack consists of 60 5″ x 7″ sheets. These are marked as everyday glossy. Essentially these are glossy surfaces. This means you can print landscapes, portraits and anything vibrant and colorful with great results. These have been made out of recyclable material and are therefore environment-friendly.
The sheets have a quick drying technology which ensures that they can be shared almost instantaneously after they have printed. The coating is smudge and water resistant.
- 5 x 7 inch paper (5x7"). 60 sheets.
- Earthy-friendly recyclable paper.
- Get crisp, colorful results, with a smooth, glossy finish.
- Photos dry quickly for easy handling and quick sharing.
- Coating on paper helps preserve image and protects against water damage-allowing pictures to last for generations.
This is the Epson Premium photo paper (glossy type). This particular pack comes in a size of 8″ x 10″ and contains 20 sheets. Slightly on the lighter side, the print quality is good and bright.
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Being a glossy paper, this one is more suited for vibrant landscapes, portraits, flowers and these sort of images. The coating on the paper is made out of a resin-based substance. This coating is water and smudge resistant.
- High-gloss, bright white, resin coated photo paper
- Print high quality photos for glass frames and photo albums
- Smudge and water-resistant quick dry surface
- Look and feel of traditional photographs
- 8x10 Borderless, 20 Sheets, 10.4 Mil
The HP Sprocket Photo Paper as the title suggests is designed exclusively for the HP Sprocket portable photo printer.
This packet containing 20 sheets of sticky backed 2 x 3″ photo papers is slightly pricey. These are perfect for a wide variety of work including school and home projects.
- Sticker photo paper for use with HP Sprocket Portable Photo Printer
- Peel-off & sticky-backed photo paper (20 sheet count)
- 2x3-inch fun size to print and share
- Durable prints: smudge resistant, water-resistant and tear-resistant. These glossy, colorful photos are ready to be shared...
- What's in the Box: 20-sheets of 2x3-inch HP ZINK Sticky-Backed Photo Paper
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Photo Paper Buying Tips – Questions to Ask Before You Buy
The thing about selecting photo papers is that there are so many types and so many varieties. There is no single type of variety that will work for each and every type of photography. It might so happen that you may like the texture and the feel of a particular type of paper. But that paper might not work for the photo you want to print on it.
So, evidently, it boils down to this. You have to keep experimenting. Find out about different paper types and textures and then try to match the kind of result (and mood) that you want to see on paper by selecting the right paper type. This process of judgment will obviously get better as you gain more experience, learn about new paper types and experiment more and more.
What do You Want to Print?
Believe it or not, the format of the paper can set the mood of a print. A high glossy paper will create a cheerful and happy feel and that is what you need at times. Depending on the subject matter and the composition of course. So, if you want to print a vibrant landscape shot with beautiful colors in bright tones, a glossy photo paper is probably what you would go for.
A matte paper with texture, on the other hand, will set the right mood for a darker somber mood. It is a great choice for a black and white print. These papers have an ink absorbent surface that traps the ink pigments inside the irregularities on the surface. Let’s say that you processed a portrait picture in monochrome. It has a lot of textures and levels of brightness and is only possible to be transferred by printing on a paper type that is a good match. A matte paper will be a good choice for that image. So, choose your photo paper carefully by considering what you need to print.
All photo papers can be broadly segregated into three categories. These would be Matte, Semi-Gloss, and Glossy.
Matte denotes a textured surface, which is the opposite of glossy (we shall learn about it shortly here). Matte comes in different variations of textures. Some are flat, almost textureless to the point of being smooth. Others are more textured. But they are never glossy or reflective. In either case, matte is the preferred choice for a specific type of photo printing requirement. They are capable of producing a flatter image which is perfect for a specific type of photography – black and white prints, as well as for somber or moody type images.
✔ High Gloss (Glossy)
High gloss or glossy paper mimics the photo paper that we receive from the printing labs. These are the more popular photo papers around. But interestingly they have lesser life compared to the Matte versions which I discussed above. High gloss or glossy is widely used for printing vibrant bright images which have a cheerful mood to them.
Semi-gloss is somewhere in the middle between glossy (high-gloss) and matte. They are textured in some variations and can be shiny. But not as much as the high-gloss variations. Because of this, these papers are perfect for subjects where you don’t need a lot of glare.
Depending on the paper type that you pick you will need to pair it with the right kind of ink. Matte paper is best printed on with pigment ink and glossy and semi-glossy paper is best printed on using dye-based inks. Interestingly, when you frame an image in glass printed on any of the three paper types they all tend to show up similar kind of glossy result.
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Color Brilliance (TAPPI Rating and ISO brightness rating)
There are two standards which measure how bright the colors on a paper are reflected.
- the TAPPI Scale and
- the ISO Brightness Scale.
We are considering the first for our discussion. Always go for a paper that has a TAPPI rating of around 90. Anything above 90-92 and it means that the paper contains artificial fluorescent material that reflects light.
Though the whiteness of such paper is brilliant and colors are more saturated with deeper blacks, in the long run, the ink fades quicker than a lower TAPPI rating paper. This is because the artificial whitening (or fluorescence agents) will start to wear off and the paper will revert back to its normal creamy color appearance. This happens quicker when the print is exposed to UV light. This is not acceptable and that is why it would be unusable over a period of time.
Type of Photography
As you probably have realized by now, among many factors that determine the choice of the printing paper, the subject of your photo is a critical one.
- Landscape: is best printed on a glossy (and even a semi-gloss) paper.
- Portraits: depending on the specific subject, can be printed on both glossy and matte paper.
But then it does not always have to be a rule. It is perfectly okay to experiment and try out different paper types for different photos.
But after a while, you would probably be able to say what works best for what.
Type of Printer
✔ Wide Format Printers
We have recently discussed the best wide format printers. These are the sort of printers that do the best kind of exhibition quality prints. However, these are not the kind of printers you could afford easily. They cost several thousand dollars. Not to mention the number of ink tanks you will need to buy in order to make your prints. Also, they print very large sizes. So, unless you need to print very large sized prints consistently (like on an everyday basis) there is no point in investing in one.
✔ Desktop Printers
If you are going to print smaller sizes like 4 x 6″ or 5 x 7″ then buying one of the smaller desktop printers makes more sense. These are much smaller and are easier to afford. They accommodate a lesser number of color tanks but their running costs are lower than the large format ones.
✔ Portable Printers
Portable printers are best for onsite printing at events and get-togethers. The Epson PictureMate PM-400 Personal Photo Lab is a great example of such printer type. These printers will only accept 3.5 x 5″, 4 x 6″ and 5 x 7″ photo papers for what is known as a postcard sized print.
Paper thickness is an important consideration when choosing the variant you wish to print on. A heavier thicker paper gives the same feel as a photo that has been printed at a lab. For some prints, you need a textured matte finish. These papers can be heavier than normal paper. The weight of the paper is expressed in GSM (grams per square meter). Sometimes you will also come across another metric – mil. This is the equivalent of 1/1000 of an inch. The average A4 sheet paper that you print your documents on is about 90 GSM. This is thicker than newsprint but thinner than the average photo paper.
Consider the maximum thickness of the paper that your printer can handle. A thick paper is more likely to jam inside the printer than a thinner one. A lot of photographers prefer not to use the automatic paper feeding option when printing with thicker paper and especially when printing multiple prints. The printer might load two sheets at one time or it may jam because of any number of reasons.
The best option when working with thicker paper would be to use the manual feeding option. Manual feeding takes away the odds of paper jamming and also the accidental transference of ink from one print to the other when the prints are stacked at the end of the print run. That is essentially why you should never stack your prints until they are dry. Even with the quick-drying inks of today, this habit should be maintained.
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I know it is Superbowl Sunday and perhaps this isn't the most typical Superbowl food but I suppose I will get to cooking some more traditional Superbowl stuff later today. Or not. We shall see.
I have seen a lot of recipes for Potato Roasts that look similar to this one floating out there on the Internet. They all look good but all seemed (to me anyway) to be somewhat lacking from a flavor perspective. This one in particular caught my eye.
Most called for just potatoes and little to no seasoning so I thought I would make this one my own and add an additional layer of flavor by adding some roasted garlic. I like the way it came out.
The great thing about this is you can serve it at a fancy pants dinner or just have it for breakfast like we did!
Crispy Potato Roast
6 similarly sized Russet potatoes sliced very thin (I used a mandolin)
1 bulb roasted garlic
2 tbsp fresh thyme leaves, chopped
2 large shallots sliced
3 tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks
1/2 tsp or more cayenne pepper (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. If you have not already roasted your garlic start by slicing the top off of a garlic bulb to reveal the top of the garlic cloves inside. Place on foil, drizzle with olive oil and salt and put into the oven for about 30 minutes or until the garlic is nicely browned and easily squeezed out of the bulb. It will be very soft.
Melt the Earth Balance into the olive oil over medium heat on the stove (or in the microwave). Brush the bottom of a baking dish with some of butter and olive oil mixture.
Assemble the sliced potatoes into the dish vertically until you have covered the perimeter. Any empty space in the middle can be filled in with some more potatoes.
Place the slices of shallots and roasted garlic (removed from the bulb once cool enough to handle) randomly between the potato slices. The roasted garlic should be quite spreadable so you may want to spread some across the tops of the potatoes, too. Add the thyme. salt, pepper and cayenne (if desired) being sure to get the spices down into the potato layers. Brush the top with the butter/olive oil mixture and then gently pour the rest over the potatoes.
Bake at 375 for an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour and a half, until the potatoes are browned and crispy on the edges.


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The latest offering from Disney+, Turning Red, hit the streaming surface on Friday (March 11) and the soundtrack features three songs from Billie Eilish and Finneas.
The pair said they “leapt” at the opportunity and it was the most fun writing they’ve ever had.
Disney and Pixar posted a short video this week of the siblings talking about the music. They described the 3 songs as… one is a love ballad, one is a confidence builder, and the other is a hit for the boyband in the movie. In fact, Finneas even voices a role as one of band members.
The movie is about a 13 year old girl who transforms into a giant red panda when she can’t control her emotions.
Turning Red is streaming now on Disney+.
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Caramel Drizzled Apple Slices
1 apple, sliced
2 tablespoons of caramel sauce (I use already prepared
1-2 teaspoon(s) of mini-chocolate chips (I use Enjoy Life)
1. Slice up an apple of your liking (Gala is our favorite and
pairs well with the sweet toppings) and place spread out on
2. Warm your caramel sauce in the microwave for about 10 to
20 seconds and drizzle over the top of your apple slices.
3. Sprinkle your mini-chocolate chips over the top.
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