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He felt like Head Coach Turner Gill and the coaching staff knew he wanted to play for them as well. But rather than make a commitment on the spot at the conclusion of his official visit, the ultra-athletic defender from Highland (KS) Community College did the prudent thing.
He went home and talked it over with people he trusted. He spoke with his father, Mohammed Bakare, and coaches past and present – including HCC head coach Mike Beagle – all of whom were supportive. He prayed. He slept on it.
And in the morning...
"When I woke up, I knew," Bakare said. "I feel like it was a no-brainer."
A 5-foot-10, 205-pound linebacker-safety hybrid, Bakare was one of the most dynamic defenders in the talent-rich Kansas Jayhawk Conference. His 66 tackles – including 6.5 tackles for loss – 1.5 sacks and five forced fumbles earned him a second team all-conference selection.
Holding offers from East Carolina, Kansas and Minnesota, in recent weeks he had trimmed his list to include on the Pirates and the Jayhawks. He visited both programs officially in January, beginning with ECU on the weekend of the 7th.
According to Bakare, the Jayhawks are recruiting him to play a type of "rover" position that will involve more in the way of coverage responsibilities than the position he played at Highland.
While he hopes to step in and play big snaps right away, he doesn't expect anything to come easily.
"I have to prove myself first when I get on that field," Bakare said. "I feel like I have to prove myself to be a starter."
"I'm definitely glad this process is over with, " he added. "It was fun, but I'm ready to roll and I'm ready to make things happen for KU."

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Construction demand to reach $27 bil to $32 bil in 2023: BCA
BCA also highlights construction interest in 2022 amounted to $29.8 billion, based on first figures. The quantity is in BCA’s 2022 anticipation range of $27 billion to $32 billion and also is on par with the $29.9 billion documented in 2021. The sustained amount of interest was primarily promoted by non commercial together with infrastructure ventures in both public and nonpublic sectors.
Private sector building and construction demand is forecasted to happen in about $11 billion and $13 billion in 2023. Either home and commercial property construction demand are anticipated to be comparable to last year’s rank. Commercial building demand is prepared for to increase, supported by the rescheduling of some projects from 2022 to 2023, together with the redevelopment of existing industrial assets.
Public sector construction demand totalled $17.9 billion last year, boosting somewhat coming from the $17.8 billion recorded in 2021. Need was underpinned by major jobs such as the Cross Island MRT Line (Phase 1), Jurong Region MRT Line, the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) health care establishments and new Build-To-Order (BTO) units.
Over the medium term, BCA looks forward to overall construction demand to hit between $25 billion and $32 billion per year from 2024 to 2027. Public field interest is anticipated in between $14 billion to $18 billion per year, whereas exclusive sector demand is projected to amount to $11 billion to $14 billion per year. The forecast leaves out the Changi Airport 5 project and its associated facilities ventures in addition to the development of 2 combined hotels, in view of the absence of verified details such as award timelines and development period for the relevant assignments.
The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) anticipates construction interest to “remain strong” in 2023. In an announcement, it predicts the value of construction agreements awarded this year to reach between $27 billion to $32 billion, comparable to last year’s projection.
At the same time, overall nominal construction outcome, which is based on the worth of qualified progress payments, is forecasted to enhance to in between $30 billion to $33 billion in 2023, slightly more than the $30.2 billion registered for 2022 based on preliminary amounts. BCA connects this to a consistent degree of construction demand and also some inventory of remaining work affected by the Covid-19 epidemic from 2020.
For 2023, public sector contracts granted are anticipated to make up about 60% of construction demand, exemplifying in between $16 billion and $19 billion in worth. Public industry need will certainly be upheld by a ramp-up in the supply of Build-to-Order rentals by HDB along with the construction of commercial and also institutional buildings just like water treatment plants, educational establishments also community clubs. In addition, civil engineering construction demand will stay boosted by MRT line construction also various other infrastructure works.
Private ownership building and construction demand moderated from $12.1 billion in 2021 to $11.9 billion in 2022 amidst “numerous economic disadvantage risks”, even though demand for exclusive non commercial and also commercial structure projects stayed resistant, according to BCA.


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Fall Nail Inspirations
It might be too hot in Florida to wear fall outfits yet- but I am still able to put some fall on my nails! So today I like to give you some inspiration for your nails for this season!
Who is ready for hot chocolate, pumpkins and fall leaves? From dark chocolate to milk chocolate, from pumpkin orange to greens! I hope you enjoy!

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Blue Flowers Official Moomin Washi Tape
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The vertical pattern on this tape makes it perfect for decorating the edges of pages, planner blocks and more!
Part of the new Moomin collection from cult Japanese stationery manufacturer, World Craft!
One of eight of World Craft's new Moomin masking tapes, find Moomintroll alongside his friends and family amongst flowers on this delightful pattern.
- Size: 15 mm x 5 m
- Officially licensed by Moomin Characters™


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This airsoft gun is not to be misrepresented as a real firearm or gun that is manufactured by Colt and is merely an airsoft gun that fires 6mm pellets. The manufacturer of this airsoft gun is JG.
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Hollie Cook was born and bred in West London, in a household dominated by music. She gravitated to the sounds of Marc Bolan, David Bowie and The Cure. With Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook as her dad, music was always around.
Hollie joined the re-formed Slits and performed on their 2006 EP Revenge of the Killer Slits. She went on to join the band on a six week US tour. Hollie was now an official Slit – Ari referred to her as the 'second singer' – so when it came to record a new Slits album in L.A., Hollie's vocals, keyboards and even her song Cry all featured.
She went on to collaborate with Ian Brown and Jamie T, before starting to work with our very own Mike "Prince Fatty" Pelanconi. Hollie’s passion for reggae singers Janet Kay and Phyllis Dillon combined with classic 60s girl groups formed the basis for her new solo work of self-coined ‘tropical pop’. The two locked themselves in the studio to record her self-titled debut album, released on Mr Bongo in the summer of 2011, followed by a dub version in 2012.
Over the next 3 years Hollie toured extensively including a stellar performance on Later…With Jules Holland, and supporting The Stone Roses at their Heaton Park shows in Manchester. She also recorded her highly anticipated follow-up album, ‘Twice’. Released on Mr Bongo in the spring of 2014, ‘Twice’ was a slice of sophisticated pop, but still stayed true to her reggae roots. The album is another Prince Fatty collaboration project, and garnered both public and critical acclaim. The subsequent album tour saw Hollie play to delighted fans all over the world, including some of the biggest festivals out there, and a debut U.S Tour. The album’s two singles ‘Real Love’ and ‘Postman’ were both play-listed on BBC Radio 2 and picked up thousands of plays across all the key stations.


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Air Fryer Potato Wedges – Perfect for a delicious dinner side dish. We love our Air Fryer for tasty side dishes and use it often. Follow along and we will show you how to air fry potato wedges.
On this Page You will Learn How to Air Fry Potato Wedges.
Air Fryer Potato Wedges
This air fryer potato wedge recipe makes up the crispiest, tastiest potato wedges you’ll ever eat. Hands down! These thick chunky savory potatoes are the perfect side dish to any meal. Thanks to the air fryer they come out nice and crispy, not greasy.
We like to serve these potato wedges alongside chicken or hamburgers, but they go well with anything. They also make a great mid-day snack. Or serve them as an appetizer with a dipping sauce at your next dinner party and your guests will be well-fed until the meal is served.
This potato wedge recipe is also versatile so you can easily change up the spices to your liking. Want them spicier, add cayenne, less spicy go easy on the paprika. Looking for just plain potato wedges, just season them with salt.
Why You’ll Love Air Fryer Potato Wedges
This recipe for air fryer potato wedges is hands down the best air fryer potato recipe you’ll come across. Nothing can beat the way the air fryer cooks these wedges to perfection. Nice and crispy on the outside with a soft flaky middle. No grease at all! How amazing is that?
The recipe delivers the ultimate potato wedge. Not to mention this seasoning of salt, paprika, coriander, and pepper really takes the taste to another level. I bet your gang will absolutely love them too. You couldn’t ask for a more perfect potato.
Though we have come to know and love our French fries with ketchup you can serve these potato wedges with any number of different sauces. I especially like a spicy chipotle mayonnaise dip, but I know others enjoy something sweeter like barbeque sauce. Whichever dip you choose these wedges will taste great.
Recipe Ingredients for Potato Wedges
Prep time – 10 minutes
Cook time – 25 minutes
Servings – 4
Potatoes – I used 6 Yukon gold potatoes. While any potato will work to make wedges, I like Yukon or Russet potatoes best.
Olive Oil – I used extra virgin olive to make these wedges.
Salt – All potatoes need salt! Just a touch to bring out the flavor. I like to cook with sea salt but table salt also works.
Paprika – Paprika adds a nice flavor and color to these potato wedges.
Granulated Garlic – Granulated garlic adds a nice flavor to the seasoning.
Ground Coriander – Ground coriander rounds out the flavor profile for these potato wedges.
Helpful Tools to Make Air Fryer Potato Wedges
- Air fryer
- Measuring cups and spoons
How To Make Potato Wedges
Step 1. Wash and peel the potatoes and then cut them into wedges.
Step 2. Transfer the cut potatoes to salted boiling water, and boil for 7 minutes.
Step 3. After the potatoes are finished boiling, drain the water and transfer the potatoes to a bowl.
Step 4. Add all the spices and olive oil to the bowl.
Step 5. Cover the bowl with a lid and gently shake the bowl so the potatoes get evenly coated with the oil and spices. Or stir the bowl with a big spoon to ensure the potatoes are well-oiled and seasoned.
Step 6. Transfer the potato wedges to the air fryer basket in a single layer. Bake at 360F for 15 minutes.
Step 7. In 15 minutes, you will get a completely cooked potato, very tender with a soft inside and crispy outside.
Step 8.Transfer the potatoes to a plate and serve with ketchup or your favorite dipping sauce.
- Change up the potatoes or use a combination of different potatoes.
- Modify the seasonings. You can easily add some Cajun spice, garlic, or a sprinkle of cheese to modify the flavor of these wedges.
Tips & Tricks
- Don’t skip the boiling of the potatoes. This par cooking helps them get nice and crispy in the air fryer while still being soft in the middle.
- Cut your potatoes the same size so they cook at the same pace.
- Drain the potatoes very well after boiling, if they are still wet pat them dry.
How to Store Air Fryer Potato Wedges
These potato wedges will keep for a few days in the fridge. When reheating them you can place them back in the air fryer so they crisp up again.
You can also freeze the potato wedges for a few months in the freezer.
What kind of potato is best for potato wedges?
There really is no right or wrong answer on this one. I prefer Yukon gold potatoes but you may prefer a different kind of potato. You’ll have to make them a few different times with different potatoes to see which ones you like the best.
We have also made wedges using sweet potatoes which is a nice change of pace from white potatoes.
Do I have to peel the potatoes before cooking them?
No, you don’t need to peel the potatoes. This is also a matter of personal preference.
Is boiling the potatoes necessary?
Yes, you should boil the potatoes before placing them in the air fryer. This par cooking cuts down on the time it takes to cook the potatoes through.
I don’t have any ground coriander, what else can I use?
If you don’t have any of the spices on hand, feel free to substitute them for those that you do have on hand.
Are potato wedges and Jojos the same thing?
In some states in the US potato wedges are known as jojos; Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Nebraska to name a few.
Yummy Side Dish for Dinner - Potato Wedges in Your Air Fryer
- 4-5 medium potatoes
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp granulated garlic
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 3 tbsp olive oil
Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into wedges.
Transfer the potatoes to salted boiling water, cook for 7 minutes after boiling, then drain the water and transfer the potatoes to a bowl.
Add all the spices and olive oil to the bowl.
Cover the bowl with a lid and gently shake several times. This way, each piece of potato will be evenly coated with oil and spices.
Transfer the potato wedges to the air fryer basket in a single layer. Bake at 360F for 15 minutes.
In 15 minutes, you will get a completely cooked potato, very tender and soft inside, and crispy outside.
Calories in Air Fryer Potato Wedges
There are about 100 calories per serving
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Russian Mil Mi helicopters are known and respected all over the world. These military and civilian machines are created at the Mikhail Mil design engineering bureau which has one of its primary production plants in Rostov-on-Don. The plant produces Mil Mi-28 attack helicopters, which can be used at any time – day or night – and are capable of the deftest maneuvers. Construction of the Mil Mi-28 has been perfected over 30 years making it one of the most effective and reliable attack helicopters in the world nowadays.
This reissue in the Heritage Series - the original album was released in 1988 - enables us to hear the unique Montserrat Figueras singing a repertoire she embodies like nobody else : the traditional songs of Catalonia. This performance is the natural continuation of her exploration of the great works connected to Catalogne,eg: the Song of the Sybille or the Red Book of Montserrat (Gregorian manuscript): on this shore of Mediterranean Sea, traditional and "classical" repertoires are connected in a very intimate way. This album is a landmark of in the career of Montserrat Figueras: her innovative style of interpretation, characterised by great fidelity to the historical sources combined with an extraordinary creative and expressive power, sounds at its best.
While playing with a puzzle, a teenager is repressed by his mother, and he kills her and severs her body with an ax. Forty years later, in an university campus in Boston, a serial killer kills young women and severs their bodies in parts, stealing body pieces from each student. Lt. Bracken makes a deal with the dean of the campus, and infiltrates the agent Mary Riggs as if she were a tennis teacher and together with the student Kendall, they try to find the identity of the killer.

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Enhancement of energy density and safety aspects of Li-ion cells necessitate the usage of “alloying reaction”-based anode materials in lieu of the presently used intercalation-based graphitic carbon. This becomes even more important for the upcoming Na-ion battery system since graphitic carbon does not intercalate sufficient Na-ions to qualify as an anode material. Among the potential “alloying reaction” based anode materials for Li-ion batteries and beyond (viz., Na-ion, K-ion battery systems), Si and Sn have received the major focus; with the inherently ductile nature of Sn (as against the brittleness of Si) and the considerably better stability in the context of electrochemical Na-/K-storage, of late, tilting the balance somewhat in favor of Sn. Nevertheless, similar to Si and most other “alloying reaction”-based anode materials, Sn also undergoes volume expansion/contraction and phase transformations during alkali metal-ion insertion/removal. These cause stress-induced cracking, pulverization, delamination from current collector, accrued polarization and, thus, fairly rapid capacity fade upon electrochemical cycling. Unlike Si, the aforementioned loss in mechanical integrity is believed to be primarily caused by some of the deleterious first-order phase transformations and concomitant formation of brittle intermetallic phases during the alloying/de-alloying process. Against this backdrop, this review article focuses on aspects related to deformation, stress development and associated failure mechanisms of Sn-based electrodes for alkali-metal ion batteries; eventually establishing correlations between phase assemblage/transformation, stress development, mechanical integrity, electrode composition/architecture and electrochemical behavior.


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Big Y in the News
Headquartered in Springfield, MA, Big Y is one of the largest independently owned supermarket chains in New England. Proud to be family owned and operated, we operate almost 80 stores throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts with over 11,000 employees. Big Y has been named a 2015 Employer of Choice by the Employers Association of the Northeast. Founded in 1936 by brothers Paul and Gerald D'Amour, the store was named after an intersection in Chicopee, Massachusetts where two roads converge to form a "Y".
Big Y in the News contains excerpts from press releases that have been sent to local media.
Groton Big Y Is Reborn
SPRINGFIELD, MA (May 16, 2019)
Big Y Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of the renovations at their Groton, CT Big Y World Class Market at 995 Poquonnock Road. This renovation effort began in January and included major renovations in many areas of the 65,748 square foot store with various new additions in response to changing customer needs.
New décor and fixtures in all departments, including meat, produce; bakery, and an expanded cheese and olive bar showcase even more products than ever before. Customers can notice new exterior signage, as the entire facility has been upgraded.
An upgraded pizza shop, made to order sub and Panini station, fish & chips made with fresh haddock plus other fried seafood, and freshly prepared hot food bar have been installed to further enhance the store’s lineup of prepared meals along with an on-site sushi chef. The meat department has installed a new butcher shop with expanded variety of natural products like grass fed beef, 100% American grown lamb and veal and organic Smart chicken. The produce department was enhanced in every category. Also available are many freshly made “Quick & Easy Meals” selections that can be easily prepared at home in the microwave or the oven. The upgraded sales floor features the all-new Living Well Eating Smart section, which offers hundreds of organic, natural, and gluten free products in grocery, health and beauty, dairy and frozen foods, along with freshly ground nut butters and an ample selection of bulk dry foods.
Big Y continues its focus on supporting local partners like Mystic Syrup from Turkey Woods Farms in Mystic, CT and local beer from Outer Light Brewing from Groton, CT.
Store director, Ray Lathrop, continues to manage this store. Lathrop has been with Big Y since 1986, when he started as a dairy manager in their Norwich store. He was promoted to store director and assigned to the Norwich location in July of 2010 before transferring to Old Lyme later that year and then in Killingly, Mystic and Old Saybrook before being assigned to Groton in October 2017.
Big Y in Groton originally opened on October, 2004. The actual sales floor is 45,115 square feet and has 13 total grocery aisles. The store is open from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM, Monday-Sunday and the pharmacy is opened Monday–Friday 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Big Y’s community programs include an annual merit scholarship program that has awarded over $3 million since 1984, store tours for schoolchildren, and support of many local educational programs.


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Hotel pension "Bernstein" is in central position, in the western part of Berlin, not far from Gedächniskirche and Kurfürstendamm. The biggest and most famous shopping mile of Berlin which is to be reached at five walking minutes comfortably offers beside the numerous shops also restaurants and cafés with a varied offer of German and international specialities. In the surrounding streets comfortable bars and entertainment-bars have opened till the early morning. The hotel pension Bernstein is suited especially for families, group tours and citytravleler. On one floors there is to 18 rooms.The accommodation occurs in more bed (up to 3 persons) or double room or single room. With our up-to-date W-LAN technology, visitors have access to the Internet.
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Cold coming on? Besides chicken soup, how can we zap that cold most effectively? Zinc lozenges. But not all zinc lozenges are created equal!
A new meta-analysis of three studies, meaning results from 3 clinical trials of over 200 people, were analyzed together for their results, gives us clearer data on the story behind zinc.
70% of the people taking zinc lozenges recovered from their colds after five days, compared to just 27% of people who took the placebo. On average people on zinc lozenges had improvement in their colds 3 days faster than placebo.
What was “cold improvement?” Less cough, nasal congestion, hoarseness, itchy and sore throat, and muscle aches reported!
What’s more, the analyzers controlled for a variety of factors like sex, gender, smoking status, age, and even allergies. Even with all of these variations between people, those that took zinc had a 3.1 fold increase in cold improvement compared with those who took a placebo.
That’s pretty strong data in favor of zinc. But what is important to look at is how much zinc was effective and in what form!
The study participants took daily doses of zinc from 80 to 92 mg. This dose is much higher than the recommended daily intake in the United States, which is 11 mg for men and 8 mg for women.
Most zinc lozenges have less than this amount so you will need to take multiple doses for a few days.
Remember that this level of zinc isn’t for daily intake – too much zinc can cause nausea and stomach upset. Taking 100mg a day for less than 2 weeks is considered safe.
Why lozenges? Because the zinc has to completely dissolve in our throats to have an effect on the rhinovirus, the most typical culprit of our common cold!
The added ingredients matter as well! Zinc lozenges are known for a bad taste, so some companies have citric acid flavoring. The problem is that citric acid can interact with zinc molecules to make it less available for absorption.
If zinc’s taste bothers you, look for peppermint and other non-citrus flavors. Then again, when your cold comes on strong you may not be able to taste it that much anyway.
The chemical form of the zinc also matters! The study found zinc acetate lozenges linked to fast cold recuperation. Lozenges containing zinc gluconate don’t have the same benefit as the acetate version.
Cold-Eeze is in the gluconate form, while Zicam, a top selling brand, has both versions, but 2:1 concentration of acetate to gluconate form. This is a better form, but it still has citric acid in it so not the best.
I’ve found that this form (available online at http://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item01961/Enhanced-Zinc-Lozenges) is the most beneficial one.
Aim for at least 75mg a day, acetate form better than gluconate, avoid citric acid flavored lozenges, and start within 24 hours of your cold to see the most benefit in getting better quick!

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My grandma is one of the strongest people I have ever known. A Holocaust survivor, she had lived many lifetimes of fear and tragedy before even stepping foot on United States soil as still but a child.
Bookending her life were two incredibly fearsome struggles that I wouldn’t wish upon even my worst enemy. But that should by no means discredit the center of her story.
Rising up from the annihilation of nearly her entire family, she was forced to abandon everything she knew, journey alone to what to her was a foreign country, a country in which she knew almost no one and did not speak the language. From that point, she was able to form, and serve as the backbone to, the family I am so privileged to be a part of.
I feel that I speak for everyone who knew her in stating that her resilience, compassion, and love are what shaped us into the people we are today. Her signature strength and perseverance, the very strength and perseverance that has inspired me so profoundly, remained until the very end. Fighting through the unbearable agony she must have been in, in her final days, she managed to acknowledge understanding of our words, and attempted to respond via slight movements.
As sad as I am for her to be gone, it warms my heart to know that, after all of the pain and suffering she has endured in her life, she can finally take the rest she more than deserves. After building such an incredible family herself, she has finally reunited with the family that was taken from her at such a young age.
Painlessly, she now rests in their embrace.

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GE (NYSE:GE) announced today that it has created, in collaboration with Pivotal, the first-ever industrial data lake approach to help global industrial customers like airlines, railroads, hospitals and utilities better access, analyze and store terabytes or even petabytes of industrial-strength Big Data, which is far more complex than other types of new and emerging content and information available today. With a 2,000x performance improvement on time to analysis, major industrial companies can spend less time and money managing intensive processes and focus more on turning the data into actionable insight for increased productivity of assets and operations. Today GE is using the Industrial Internet data lake for managing and analyzing full flight data from its customers which include many of the world’s largest airlines.
“Big Data is growing so fast that it is outpacing the ability of current tools to take full advantage of it,” said Bill Ruh, vice president, GE Software. “Working with Pivotal, we have created a unique industrial data approach that merges information technology (IT) with operational technology (OT) to better match the productivity and efficiency needs of our customers so they get the most value out of their mission-critical information.”
“Big and fast data is a critical piece of how modern industry is reinventing itself in order to innovate and compete,” said Paul Maritz, CEO of Pivotal. “The new industrial data lake architecture answers the call for the fast and highly scalable management of the unique industrial big data that is helping global enterprises transform their operations and build a new class of applications.”
Developed on foundational software elements from Pivotal, the industrial data lake will integrate with PredixTM, GE's software platform for the Industrial Internet that provides a standard and secure way to connect machines, analytics, data and people and is built for the unique scale of industrial data. This announcement builds on the strategic partnership between GE and Pivotal to jointly develop a new data architecture that meets the unique requirements of industrial data and critical infrastructure operations.
All information must be converted into recognizable formats before it can be used - a process that has become the bottleneck when managing industrial Big Data. Conventional approaches like data warehouses can be too slow, expensive and inflexible with nearly 80 percent of project time spent on gathering and preparing the data for analysis. [source: IDC whitepaper]
All of GE’s PredictivityTM software solutions benefit from this industrial data lake approach. It has been piloted in various industrial settings, including GE Aviation, where airplane engines are a fertile ground for Big Data collection and analysis. Using its Flight Efficiency Services, GE collects real-time data generated by the aircraft and its systems and runs advanced analytics on this data to help airlines run their operations more efficiently. For customers like AirAsia, this means savings of more than one percent of their fuel bill each year.
“Gathering and analyzing data to improve our customers’ operations is no longer a futuristic concept, but a real process underway today, and growing in magnitude,” said David Joyce, president & CEO, GE Aviation.
In a 2013 pilot, GE Aviation collected information on 15,000 flights from 25 different airlines at about 14 gigabytes of metrics per flight. With the industrial data lake approach, GE was able to integrate terabytes of full flight data for the first time in industry to produce measurable cost savings of 10x and significantly reduce analysis time from months to days. GE expects the data collection to grow to 10 million flights and 1,500 terabytes of full flight operational data by 2015.
Learn more about GE’s industrial data lake at http://www.gesoftware.com/industrial-data-lake.
GE (NYSE:GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and helping to cure the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.
About GE Software
GE Software connects brilliant machines with best-in-class minds and big data analytics to deliver on our vision for the Industrial Internet. Powered by GE’s Predix platform, our Predictivity software solutions unlock valuable insights and increased productivity through asset performance management for customers across diverse industries including aviation, rail, energy and healthcare. For more, visit GE Software's website at www.gesoftware.com.
Pivotal, the company at the intersection of big data, platform-as-service (PaaS), and agile development, helps companies transform into great software companies. Pivotal offers a complete portfolio of products that converge apps, data and analytics along with Pivotal’s comprehensive PaaS platform, powered by Cloud Foundry®.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that SoftLayer, an IBM Company, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York, New York. SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. SoftLayer’s customers range from Web startups to global enterprises.
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DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Am...
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There is little doubt that Big Data solutions will have an increasing role in the Enterprise IT mainstream over time. Big Data at Cloud Expo - to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - has announced its Call for Papers is open. Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things. And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is...
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Digital innovation is the next big wave of business transformation based on digital technologies of which IoT and Big Data are key components, For example: Business boundary innovation is a challenge to excavate third-party business value using IoT and BigData, like Nest Business structure innovation may propose re-building business structure from scratch, as Uber does in the taxicab industry The social model innovation is also a big challenge to the new social architecture with the design fr...
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DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long dev...
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Data is an unusual currency; it is not restricted by the same transactional limitations as money or people. In fact, the more that you leverage your data across multiple business use cases, the more valuable it becomes to the organization. And the same can be said about the organization’s analytics. In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Bill Schmarzo, CTO for the Big Data Practice at EMC, will introduce a methodology for capturing, enriching and sharing data (and analytics) across the organizati...
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IoT is fundamentally transforming the auto industry, turning the vehicle into a hub for connected services, including safety, infotainment and usage-based insurance. Auto manufacturers – and businesses across all verticals – have built an entire ecosystem around the Connected Car, creating new customer touch points and revenue streams. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Macario Namie, Head of IoT Strategy at Cisco Jasper, will share real-world examples of how IoT transforms the car from a static p...
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The vision of a connected smart home is becoming reality with the application of integrated wireless technologies in devices and appliances. The use of standardized and TCP/IP networked wireless technologies in line-powered and battery operated sensors and controls has led to the adoption of radios in the 2.4GHz band, including Wi-Fi, BT/BLE and 802.15.4 applied ZigBee and Thread. This is driving the need for robust wireless coexistence for multiple radios to ensure throughput performance and th...
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The many IoT deployments around the world are busy integrating smart devices and sensors into their enterprise IT infrastructures. Yet all of this technology – and there are an amazing number of choices – is of no use without the software to gather, communicate, and analyze the new data flows. Without software, there is no IT. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will look at the protocols that communicate data and the emerging data analy...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that China Unicom will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. China United Network Communications Group Co. Ltd ("China Unicom") was officially established in 2009 on the basis of the merger of former China Netcom and former China Unicom. China Unicom mainly operates a full range of telecommunications services including mobile broadband (GSM, WCDMA, LTE F...
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The Transparent Cloud-computing Consortium (abbreviation: T-Cloud Consortium) will conduct research activities into changes in the computing model as a result of collaboration between "device" and "cloud" and the creation of new value and markets through organic data processing High speed and high quality networks, and dramatic improvements in computer processing capabilities, have greatly changed the nature of applications and made the storing and processing of data on the network commonplace.
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All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in - resting on the idea that you often need to relocate your app modules over their life cycles for both innovation and operational efficiency in the cloud. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Valentin (Val) Bercovici, CTO of So...
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Big Data has been changing the world. IoT fuels the further transformation recently. How are Big Data and IoT related? In his session at @BigDataExpo, Tony Shan, a renowned visionary and thought leader, will explore the interplay of Big Data and IoT. He will anatomize Big Data and IoT separately in terms of what, which, why, where, when, who, how and how much. He will then analyze the relationship between IoT and Big Data, specifically the drilldown of how the 4Vs of Big Data (Volume, Variety,...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Pulzze Systems will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Pulzze Systems, Inc. provides infrastructure products for the Internet of Things to enable any connected device and system to carry out matched operations without programming. For more information, visit http://www.pulzzesystems.com.
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If you’re responsible for an application that depends on the data or functionality of various IoT endpoints – either sensors or devices – your brand reputation depends on the security, reliability, and compliance of its many integrated parts. If your application fails to deliver the expected business results, your customers and partners won't care if that failure stems from the code you developed or from a component that you integrated. What can you do to ensure that the endpoints work as expect...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Secure Channels will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The bedrock of Secure Channels Technology is a uniquely modified and enhanced process based on superencipherment. Superencipherment is the process of encrypting an already encrypted message one or more times, either using the same or a different algorithm.
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WebRTC adoption has generated a wave of creative uses of communications and collaboration through websites, sales apps, customer care and business applications. As WebRTC has become more mainstream it has evolved to use cases beyond the original peer-to-peer case, which has led to a repeating requirement for interoperability with existing infrastructures. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Graham Holt, Executive Vice President of Daitan Group, will cover implementation examples that have enabled ea...
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Almost two-thirds of companies either have or soon will have IoT as the backbone of their business in 2016. However, IoT is far more complex than most firms expected. How can you not get trapped in the pitfalls? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Tony Shan, a renowned visionary and thought leader, will introduce a holistic method of IoTification, which is the process of IoTifying the existing technology and business models to adopt and leverage IoT. He will drill down to the components in this fra...
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The Internet of Things can drive efficiency for airlines and airports. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with GE, and Sudip Majumder, senior director of development at Oracle, will discuss the technical details of the connected airline baggage and related social media solutions. These IoT applications will enhance travelers' journey experience and drive efficiency for the airlines and the airports. The session will include a working demo and a technical d...
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SYS-CON Events announced today the Enterprise IoT Bootcamp, being held November 1-2, 2016, in conjunction with 19th Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Combined with real-world scenarios and use cases, the Enterprise IoT Bootcamp is not just based on presentations but with hands-on demos and detailed walkthroughs. We will introduce you to a variety of real world use cases prototyped using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Spark, and Intel Edison. Y...
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Sex Education, Popular Culture, and the Public Sphere
This chapter traces a discourse on “modern love.” Love is rarely considered as a dimension of Modernist revolution, and in focusing on love this chapter also wants to displace the now established associations between avant-garde modernism and sexuality rather than love. Michel Foucault sets out in The History of Sexuality, An Introduction (1976) to challenge an image of sexual liberation in which speaking about sex was both illicit and an inevitable sign of social progress. This chapter examines the intersection of the relation between art and the popular with the relation between subjectivity and expertise, and finds in that intersection what has come to be called “the public sphere.” The chapter begins with two concepts from Foucault's Introduction that could stand to be elaborated together more often: bio-power and the injunction to speak of sex.
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May 26 and 27 Current Affairs
Ateli – Phulera Section of Dedicated Freight Corridor
- Ateli – Phulera Section of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor to be Open from 15th August, 2018 which it falls in Haryana (Mahendragarh district) and Rajasthan (Jaipur district).
- The Western Corridors is being funded by Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), while the Eastern Corridor from Mughalsarai to Ludhiana is being funded by the World Bank.
Narendra Modi opens Eastern Peripheral Expressway
- Prime Minister Modi on 27.05.2018 inaugurated the 135 km-long Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) connecting Kundli with Palwal in Haryana via Ghaziabad and Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh which will reduce vehicular pollution in the national capital.
- The PM also unveiled the first phase of the 82 km-long Delhi-Meerut Expressway.
Heritage special train in Chennai
- The Chennai division will be operating the heritage special train in the city on three successive Sundays from May 27 to be pulled by Heritage Steam Loco EIR21 between Egmore and Kodambakkam.
Ireland overturns abortion ban in landslide vote
- Ireland voted by an overwhelming majority to overturn a constitutional ban on abortion in a historic referendum with 66% of the 2.1 million votes cast in this traditionally Catholic country.
Irish Prime Minister – Leo Varadkar
NATO’s first Latin American global partner
- Colombia will next week formally become the NATO’s first Latin American “global partner,”
- President – Juan Manuel Santos
- NATO lists Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand and Pakistan.
Astronaut and moonwalker Alan Bean dies
- Astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth person to walk on the moon, passed away on 27.05.2018.
- He was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, which made the second moon landing in 1969.
Storm Alberto: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi declare states of emergency
- Florida, Alabama and Mississippi declared states of emergency on Saturday as Subtropical Storm Alberto drove north toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening to bring heavy rainfall and flooding to the coastal states
Paper-based biosensor detect ethanol
- Researchers from IIT Guwahati have developed a paper-based biosensor that can detect ethanol.
- The short response time of about 10 seconds to detect ethanol and the range of concentrations to which the response was proportional make the biosensor particularly attractive.
IISc team synthesises artificial enzyme
- Nanomaterials that can behave like human enzymes have now been successfully synthesized by a team of researchers from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
- They produced the new nanozyme — nanomaterial with enzyme-like activity — by using vanadium pentoxide nanocrystals of just 150-200 nm size.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Busking goes cashless with ‘a world first’ for London
- London has introduced ‘a world first’ contactless payment scheme for buskers in partnership with Swedish tech firm iZettle, bought this month by US payments giant PayPal.
Google’s Toronto city built ‘from the internet up’
- Toronto’s Eastern waterfront, a new digital city is being built by Sidewalk Labs – a firm owned by Google’s parent Alphabet.
MOU, AGREEMENTS & CABINET APPROVALS
China, Burkina Faso sign deal
- China and Burkina Faso signed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations, days after the West African nation cut ties with Taiwan.
SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
India, Pakistan to hold maritime talks
- India and Pakistan are scheduled to hold maritime dialogue this week, a diplomatic source has confirmed.
India, Russia conclude negotiations for S-400 Triumf deal
- India has concluded price negotiations with Russia for a nearly Rs 40,000 crore deal to procure S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems for the Indian Air Force.
Kitchen scheme at Attappady, Kerala
- The government has given administrative sanction for Rs.6 crore for the conduct of the Annapradayini community kitchen scheme at Attappady under the Integrated Child Development Scheme.
- Pregnant women, lactating mothers, girls, and the elderly will benefit. Under Annapradayini, Kudumbasree units near Anganwadis will cook and supply food to tribespeople.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
- Biography of India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru – Tamil Nadu Congress leader A. Gopanna
- Barbados – Mia Mottley(first woman PM)
Lyles matches year’s best in 200m
- American Noah Lyles matched the fastest time in the world this year in winning the 200m in 19.69 seconds at the Prefontaine Classic IAAF Diamond League athletics meet.
Japan end 37-year drought with Uber Cup win
- Japan’s women clinched the Uber Cup(Badminton) beating Thailand 3-0 in Bangkok to regain the title.


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2 April 1954, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. This R&B singer-songwriter began pursuing a musical career while working for his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. He soon moved to Los Angeles and married famed songstress Freda Payne, who recorded four of his songs. He returned to his home in New York and began working as a researcher in a stockbroking firm. Associates at the firm took an interest in Abbotts musical career and financed a studio and label, Gramercy Park Records. Abbott recorded a few acts for the label before trying to record himself. In 1986, he signed with Columbia Records, and enjoyed a huge hit with Shake You Down (number 1 R&B, number 1 pop), which became the fastest song in US music history to reach one million airplays. In the UK, the song went to number 6 on the singles chart. Abbott continued his success in the R&B field with I Got The Feelin (Its Over) (number 5...

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Michigan City-based Horizon Bancorp Inc. (Nasdaq: HBNC) has completed its acquisition of 14 branches in Michigan from The Huntington National Bank (Nasdaq: HBAN). The branches were previously owned by TCF National Bank, but had to be divested as part of Huntington’s merger with the parent of TCF.
Plans for the acquisition were first announced in May and received FDIC approval last month. The deal brings the total number of Horizon Bank branches to 88, including 29 in Michigan.
“We are thrilled to welcome our newest employees and customers to Horizon Bank and look forward to serving growing numbers of consumers, small businesses, non-profits, and municipalities through our expanded Midwest footprint and this natural extension of our low-cost deposit franchise,” Horizon Chief Executive Officer Craig Dwight said in a news release. “I’ve been so proud of our entire team as they remain focused on a well-executed integration of these new branches, which include more than 50,000 primarily retail and small business customers accounts.”
The branches have been rebranded under the Horizon Bank name. The deal was Horizon’s fifth acquisition in as many years.

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81-671 Special Street Wall Requirements
The requirements of Section 81-43 (Street Wall Continuity Along Designated Streets) shall be applicable within the Subdistrict, except as modified in this Section.
Buildings with frontage on Park, Lexington, Madison and Vanderbilt Avenues, or Depew Place in the Grand Central Core Area, as shown on Map 2 (East Midtown Subdistrict and Subareas) in Appendix A of this Chapter, shall have a street wall within 10 feet of the street line of such streets.
On 42nd Street, the street wall shall be at the street line. The width of the required street wall shall be at least 80 percent of the length of the front lot line. The minimum height of such street walls without any setback shall be 120 feet above curb level or the height of the building, whichever is less, and the maximum height shall not exceed 150 feet above curb level. Where a zoning lot is bounded by the intersection of Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Madison Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue, 42nd Street or Depew Place and any other street, these street wall height regulations shall apply along the full length of the zoning lot along the other street or to a distance of 125 feet from the intersection, whichever is less.
However, for developments or, where permitted, enlargements on qualifying sites within an area bounded by East 43rd Street, Second Avenue, East 42nd Street and a line 200 feet east of Third Avenue, such street wall location requirements shall not apply to the portion of the frontage where an open publicly accessible space is provided in accordance with paragraph (b) of Section 81-681 (Mandatory requirements for qualifying sites).
Beyond 125 feet of the intersection, the maximum height of the street wall above curb level shall not exceed 120 feet. For such buildings, the provisions of Section 81-262 (Maximum height of front wall at the street line) shall not be applicable.
However, the ten-foot setback requirement of paragraph (a) of Section 81-263 (Standard setback requirements) shall apply only to those portions of the building above 120 feet.


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Do Not Hesitate To See A Doctor For Back Pain
There are different reasons that can cause back pain. But it helps your spine specialist in OKC to diagnose and treat the pain if you can describe the symptoms to your doctor properly.
Can Scoliosis be Treated?
With the advancement in the medical industry, nowadays scoliosis can be treated with surgeries as well as many non-invasive methods that back pain doctors recommend.
All You Need to Know About Scoliosis and Its Treatment
Scoliosis can often make life even more challenging and day-to-day life much harder. When diagnosed on time by a spine specialist, it can be treated and one can lead a normal life yet again.
Tips to Lowering Back Pain Affecting for Long
Lower back pain is debilitating and can put a hold to your daily work and activities. Here are the tips for lowering your back pain.
Learn How Your Office Chair Can Damage Your Spine?
Your office chair can severely affect your spine and lower back. You can contact a spine specialist in OKC to help you find relief.
The Spinal Surgery – A Detailed Insight
Spine specialists are using advanced technologies for aiding the spinal problems such as MIS or minimally invasive surgery. See here details on it.


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(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
There is a cute little story about the Palestinian village of Nu'aman outside Jerusalem. It goes as follows: ever since East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel, Nu'aman has been within the city limits as defined by the occupying forces. But the villagers still had ID cards that placed them on the West Bank. This meant that they did not automatically have access to the city. But the children went to school in Jerusalem, and the adults traveled more or less freely both within and across the borders of the occupation.
Until a few years ago. Then children and adults were no longer allowed to enter Jerusalem, despite the fact that they lived in the city. Then came the ban on building. Then the orders to tear. Finally, the road to Jerusalem was closed. When it became clear that the wall would go between Nu'aman and the neighboring village, access to Bethlehem was also blocked.
As is so often the case in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – paradoxically, since the parties are at war – the people of Nu'aman sued the state. They would have changed the route of the wall so that they ended up on the West Bank side. Realizing that it would shut them off from the land they cultivated, they changed their strategy and demanded ID cards as residents of Jerusalem instead.
In March, the ruling ordered the Israeli state to give Nu'aman residents free passage until the court decides where they belong. In the meantime, they can apply for Jerusalem's blue ID card. But it does not help much. For Nu'aman is already physically surrounded by the wall on one side, and a vastly expanding Har Homa settlement on the other.
A small village among Israeli bulldozers, and a local "mayor" who jokes: "you will see that we get our own state anyway: Nu'amanistan."
Facts on the ground
A bittersweet summary, of course. For the truth is that neither Nu'amans nor other Palestinians will get their own state like that right away. For now, the Israelis are on the cutting edge. And in practice, Jerusalem is already theirs.
It must have been a lie for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to hear from President George W. Bush that the United States accepted the so-called "facts on the ground." At any rate, he promptly set about creating the facts that would make it impossible to give parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians; as capital or anything else. The plan is to build 3500 homes in an area from East Jerusalem all the way to Maale Adumim. It will create a transverse belt of settlements from west to east which in practice will cut much of the link between the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.
It created a bit furore, of course, also in the United States. For Bush has actually made it clear that the Israelis cannot do things on the ground that "will change the status of Jerusalem." But Sharon is not so concerned about that. Because by building this belt of settlements, he practically circles the whole of East Jerusalem. And he combines this encirclement with two other means: by building a wall that leaves as many Palestinians as possible inside the West Bank while as much property and land as possible is left on the Israeli side. And by passing laws that make it difficult for Palestinians to have any rights in a city that has always belonged to them.
These are the contours of Israel's future borders. But it doesn't help with shape and scratch. Also content must be in place. And it must be Jewish. That is why the Palestinians must leave. And the land and the houses they leave must be taken over by the Jewish settlers who fill the void.
Israelis expropriate Palestinian property over a low shoe. They can do this because the Palestinians often have no deed on the land they cultivate. Quite a few houses have also been built illegally, for the simple reason that it is almost impossible for the Palestinians to obtain a building permit. And the state can at any time go in and decide that privately owned land and property must be cleared or demolished due to "security considerations." – which can be anything.
The result is that Palestinian houses are being demolished at an amazing pace. Just this year, 50 homes have been demolished in East Jerusalem. All ten thousand homes in this one city are threatened with forced demolition at any time. On the other hand, 21 Jewish homes will be built in the Muslim part of the Old City. It goes without saying that Palestinians cannot build in the Jewish quarter.
But all this is not enough for the Israelis. Last summer, they quietly began confiscating property under an old law of absence that has never been applicable in the annexed East Jerusalem at all. In other words, it was completely illegal and the state had to retreat when the scandal was uncovered by the newspaper Haretz. But the message of the Palestinians was crystal clear: those who end up on the wrong side of the wall will in the future lose the right to the properties they sit on in Jerusalem and elsewhere.
The goal is for the Israelis: All of Jerusalem with Gush Etzion, Efrat and Maale Adumim will end up on the Israeli side of the wall. There may be a bit of a jolt, and concrete blocks will be demolished and rebuilt according to demographic and political changes. But Greater Jerusalem is in the box. In the coming decades, Palestinians will be expelled, and Jewish settlers will move in.
With the route now there, 55.000 Palestinians will be cut off from their city. They will have to find their schools, hospitals, mosques and churches in the West Bank. It will give the Israelis an excuse to shut them out of Jerusalem, due to "lack of ties to the city." More than XNUMX Palestinians have already lost their right to housing on this basis.
Has stolen Jerusalem
What is happening in Jerusalem is dramatic for the following simple reasons: It is quite impossible now for Jews and Palestinians to ever share this city as their capital. Israel has simply stolen it; and strangely easy it has gone, too, considering the rosy peace views of Judeo-Arab togetherness on biblical ground.
Now, of course, it was never relevant for the Israelis to share Jerusalem with anyone. When Prime Minister Ehud Barak began to grant licenses in relation to shared control, he was promptly deposed by the Israeli people.
But one thing is the mental barriers to a two-state solution with a common capital. Something quite different is that there will be no East Jerusalem to draw on, for the simple reason that the West Bank will no longer be in the extension of the city.
But the Israelis also have a problem. Because they can't stop here. For them, the road goes all the way to Hebron, with its tremendous symbolic significance for both Judaism and Zionism.
Exactly how the Israelis will end up in Hebron, and when they will do so, is uncertain. But it is difficult to imagine an Israel in 2050 that does not incorporate Hebron with its many thousands of settlers. Not least, it is difficult to imagine this since there are eight or nine other settlements in a row on the road there, and that it therefore becomes logical to throw a loop around the entire stretch up to the city which huser six tombs of immeasurable importance for the Jews: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah.
In all the arguing around routes and "armpits:" how many Palestinian cities are left inside and between the loops; there is basically only one thing that surprises, namely that Hebron has been outside all along. Admittedly, the settlements there get their own small security loops, but in no proposal has Kirjat Arba or Givat Harsina been provided with a life innenfor the Israeli wall. Which is basically strange, and makes one wonder if the Israelis have simply thought that Hebron is, after all, too far away from the Green Line.
In that case, it would have been quite unlike them.
And settling the has thought of, however, is Ariel, located north of Ramallah and south of Nablus. But in February of this year, the Israelis had to change the security fence path, with the result that the fence is now closer to the green line. Paradoxically, it has led to that several, no fewer, Palestinian villages are now being squeezed into semicircles and "armpits." But the new route takes only seven percent of the West Bank while the previous one took as much as 16 percent.
One of the settlements that had to give way during the change was Ariel. It no longer gets a loop that places it inside the wall on the Israeli side. But that does not mean that the Israelis will not incorporate it sometime in the future. The question of Ariel is not settled, only "put on hold."
Two or three "fingers"
There has been, and still is, a lot of back and forth about where the wall and security fence should go. Israel has basically given the blow in the judgment of the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the wall violates international law. On the other hand, they have changed the route several times following orders from their own Supreme Court.
But all this is just temporary setbacks and tactical retreats. For Israel's new borders are in practice destined for the coming decades. They will take pieces of the West Bank along the entire Green Line, but only two or three places will Israel eat far into Palestinian territory: In and around Ariel and Jerusalem / Gush Etzion. It is likely that Hebron will eventually join these two or three "fingers". But that will happen after the current route is consolidated and the new Israeli stripes are annexed. Then it will probably be quiet for a while. And then there is a new offensive east…
The goal, in the long run, is to create a space where the West Bank flows into Jordan and the Palestinians are displaced into the state the Israelis have always intended could become theirs. But in that case, it would probably be very stupid to extend the security fence in an eastern route along the Jordan River…


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I made these cute little cupcakes a few times this past summer. Once for my birthday, which fell on Memorial Day, and again for my 8 year old niece's birthday party a month later. They were a huge hit and I had a ton of people ask me how I did it, so I just have to pass it along!
To start, you'll need 24 yellow cupcakes and 24 little round brownies, and some red, yellow, and green cake decorating icing with decorative tips. I just used box mixes for the cupcakes and the brownies. The cupcakes were made exactly like the box says. For the brownies, I mixed up the batter according to the directions on the box. Instead of pouring the batter into a pan, though, I lined a couple of cupcake tins with paper liners and added about a half inch of batter into each of those. I only baked them for about 10 minutes or so...they cook fast when you're making brownies this small. Keep a close eye on them!
Remove the papers and cut the cupcake in half horizontally. This is your bun.
Put the brownie on your bun.
Now it's time for the icing. To start, use the flat tip to add your yellow icing. I didn't want a huge glob of icing on these, so I just made a square around the edges. If you're an icing lover, you can totally cover the whole brownie! (Hint: if you make a square, it really looks a lot like a slice of cheese.)
Next, put a small tip on the red icing and add some ketchup to your burger. Try to get close to the edges so you can still see it once you put the top on.
Time to add some lettuce! I used the flower icing tip and added a few dollops of green icing around the edges.
Replace the cupcake top and you're done!
And, since I seem to enjoy overdoing things, I took these little burgers one step further. When I made them for my niece's birthday party, I made sugar cookie fries to go with them. After all, what's a burger with no fries? They weren't hard to make at all. Just cut sugar cookie dough into square shaped cookies to bake them, then cut the finished cookies into strips. Put it all on a little paper tray with a scoop of ice cream, and you have a fun alternative to traditional cake and ice cream!


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ChicagoDVD - 2010 | Deluxe edition.
The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.
Publisher: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Flicker Alley,
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Characteristics: 2 videodiscs (approximately 213 min.) :,sound, black & white and tinted ;,4 3/4 in. +,1 booklet.
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What happens to carbohydrates in the phloem?
In higher plants vascular system consists of 2 complex tissues, i.e. xylem and phloem.
Xylem is concerned with conduction of water and mineral salts to all the parts of the plant from the soil.
Phloem is concerned with conduction of carbohydrates from the green cells which contain chloroplasts to all the non-green parts of the plant.


text: This book aims to update the last volume, Disappearing Destinations (2011), and presents new cases that discuss current threats and consequences of climate change predictions on coastal tourism destinations. In this context, predicted changes and implications for management and policy at such destinations are assessed. The book chapters are divided into two key parts. In the first part, Chapters ... [Show full abstract] 1 to 7 explore the theoretical and contextual frameworks of climate change processes and their general relationship with coastal tourism destinations. Such concepts, for example, evaluate the relationship and juxtaposition between climate change and tourism, coastal zone management, climate predictions and explore emerging issues relating to tourism destinations, sustainability and economic well-being. In Part 2, Chapters 8 to 25 provide a more applied practical discussion, which draws upon a range of international case studies from leading academics, professionals and practitioners. These case studies illustrate contemporary issues in the development of coastal tourism destinations and perceived impacts of climate change, and review suggested or implemented ameliorative measures. The case studies are based on specific coastal tourism typologies, including established beach resorts, ecotourism destinations, island destinations and adventure/alternative coastal destinations, and are drawn from key regions of the world including Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australasia.


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Voters in Limestone and Morgan County are casting their ballot for the Alabama House of Representatives District 4 seat.
The three candidates are Republican Parker Moore, Democrat Juanita Healy and Independent Polan "Pete" Willis.
The seat was left vacant when former representative Micky Hammon pleaded guilty to mail fraud last year.
Morgan County Probate Judge Greg Cain said he only predicts 8% of the county will head to the polls. He believes the small turn out is because many people just aren't interested in this election.
"I knew about it. I tried to vote on every elections regardless of how far down the chain it is," said Roger Blansfield
Many people in Morgan County tell me every election matters. But for others, the special election completely slipped their minds.
"I knew about it but frankly, I had forgotten. I've been recovering from two surgeries and I was looking at getting an absentee ballot. Then we discovered it was today. This is my first time in the public in four months," said Jo-amrah Dillingham.
"Oh no, my wife makes sure I understand and know about it. She brought me over here," said Tom Moss.
Voters who WAAY 31 spoke with didn't want to said who they are voting for but they believe the person they selected will listen and address the community's concerns. They told me they did their research on each candidate's experience and platform.
"This particular election, the candidate that I voted for physically came by and talked to me at the house. I was actually walking around instead of expecting me to come to a rally or something where they want to get money," Blansfield said.
"I came out here to support the Republican Party. I'm looking for someone who is voting for my values and what I want in the United States. And how to make America beautiful again and wonderful," Moss said.
According to their campaign websites, all the candidates want to enhance the education system, better train students for the workforce, and improve health care. Regardless, voters who care about this election said they wish it were advertised a bit more.
"I think it was really confusing. I don't think the advertising of letting folks know are so accustomed to massive advertising. That all they see are the build boards and a few things that are on TV. It doesn't truly register," Dillingham said.
Polls are open until 7 p.m. The primary election is June 5th and the deadline for registering is May 21st.
Today's special election will cost somewhere between $500,000 and a million dollars.
The law currently states there will be a special election to fill a vacancy whenever the Governor decides. The primaries were held last December during the Roy Moore Doug Jones vote. Both went to runoffs and that’s why the election is today.
Some voters aren't worried about the special elections being a waste of money because whoever wins will have some responsibilities even if he or she never vote on an actual bill.
The Secretary of State told me, the state representative is still needed to help constituents and attend committee meetings until the winner of november’s election takes office.

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There were two Big Ten men's basketball games Wednesday night.
Rutgers kicked off the action with a 61-44 win over Fairleigh Dickinson, while Wisconsin followed with an impressive 84-60 victory over Green Bay.
View our Big Ten scoreboard.
Catch up on all of Wednesday night?s Big Ten action and get highlights below.
RUTGERS 61, FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON 44: BOX | PBP | AP RECAP
Bishop Daniels scored 18 points and Rutgers used a big first half to take a 61-44 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday night.
WISCONSIN 84, GREEN BAY 60: BOX | PBP | AP RECAP
Nigel Hayes scored a career-high 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help No. 3 Wisconsin beat Wisconsin-Green Bay 84-60 Wednesday night.


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Outdoor Cinema Presents: Spirited Away
August 31 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Outdoor Cinema at Parklife returns this summer with film screenings every Wednesday night at 9pm. This event is free to attend so we recommend making a reservation in advance on OpenTable. We are currently taking day-of reservations and walk-ins are welcome pending capacity. Food and drink purchase are required (outside food and drinks are strictly prohibited).
Tonight’s feature presentation: Spirited Away. PG 2001 ‧ Fantasy/Adventure ‧ 2h 5m
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WASHINGTON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Japanese researchers have found a new kind of topological superconductor that can become a promising candidate in making the future quantum computers.
In a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science, Zhang Peng, a post-doctoral researcher at University of Tokyo, and his colleagues attained three key types of measurement necessary to analyze the quantum phase of Fe (Te, Se) in detail.
They confirmed that the surface of the material is suitable to support an exotic quasiparticles called Majorana bound states (MBSs). The MBSs was first proposed by Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana. Utilizing the properties of MBSs is now believed as a promising path towards topological quantum computing.
According to researchers, the Majorana bound state, existing on edges of two-dimensional topological superconductors, is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. An exchange of two MBSs can result in the change of the system state, thus offering possibilities for quantum computing.
Quantum computers are poised to revolutionize society by tackling problems that conventional computers cannot. But most quantum computers currently in development are susceptible to the problem of decoherence, where the quantum state that encodes information degrades, which causes intolerable computing errors.
Zhang Peng told Xinhua, "a solution would be to develop topological quantum computers, where the integrity of the quantum state is protected by the topological properties of the system."
"In topological state, the local noises cannot disturb the topological properties unless the noises are so loud to cripple the whole system," Zhang explained.
But identifying materials that would be suitable to host MBSs is extremely challenging, according to Zhang.
He said this is the first time that the topological superconducting is found on crystals of Fe (Te, Se).
Unlike other topological superconductors identified to date, Zhang's team created the topological superconducting in a single crystal, on which the stable MBSs can be achieved relatively easily.
"It can promote the development of quantum computing," he said.


MEIZU today officially unveiled its first all-metal phablet – MEIZU MAX. This new product is equipped with a 6-inch Full HD display with a rounded 2.5D protective glass, support for working with two SIM cards and 4G / LTE networks, a touch-mechanical button mTouch 2.1 with a fingerprint scanner, eight-core 1.8 GHz 64-bit processor MediaTek Helio P10, 3 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal memory.
In addition to everything, MEIZU MAX, running an operating system Android with its own FLYME shell, has a 13 MP main camera with 5-lens optics, a Sony phase detection autofocus and dual-tone flash sensor, and a 5 MP front camera camera.
MEIZU MAX is available in four different body colors: dark gray, gold, silver and rose gold. The start of sales of smartphones in Russia is expected in mid-autumn 2016. Information about the final cost of new items in Russia and the start date of pre-orders will be provided later on the official Russian website of the company. In China, MEIZU MAX is offered at a price of 1699 yuan (~ $ 254).
Main technical characteristics of MEIZU MAX:
- Support for communication standards: 4G / LTE; 3G; GSM; two slots for SIM cards
- Dimensions: 163.4×81.6×7.9 mm
- Weight: 189g
- Processor: eight-core (ARM Cortex-A53, 4 x 1.8 GHz + 4 x 1 GHz), MediaTek Helio P10
- Platform: Android with FLYME shell
- Display: 6-inch, IPS, resolution 1920 × 1080 pixels
- Main camera: 13 MP (SONY IMX258), phase detection autofocus, dual-tone flash
- Front camera: 5 MP
- Memory: 3 GB RAM, 64 GB internal, slot for microSD memory card
- Communications: Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n (2.4 / 5 GHz), Bluetooth v4.1LE, USB (USB-OTG, USB-HOST), GPS / GLONASS, audio jack 3.5mm
- Battery: 4100 mAh
- Other: mTouch 2.1 Fingerprint Scanner, Xelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity and Lighting Sensors, Digital Compass, Hall Sensor


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Motion control solution for aircraft turbo fan engine blade maintenance
06 November 2017
LG Motion are specialists in the design and manufacture of motion control solutions for a wide range of industrial and scientific applications. Its range of products is complemented by additional specialist motion control solutions from a number of leading international partners with whom it has had a close collaboration for a number of years.
Very often the company is called upon to provide a solution for a very particular and almost unique requirement which requires close collaboration between the team of engineers at LG Motion and the equipment supplier and end user.
Project to optimise maintenance of turbo fan engines
LG Motion’s client CR Solutions Ltd had been called upon by Rolls Royce to provide a system to optimise the process of maintaining and servicing turbo fan engines.
For maximum efficiency of an aircraft turbo fan engine the gap between the tip of the fan blades and the engine inner surface must be an optimum. Through normal wear and tear and as a consequence of repeated heavy landings when the engine might become distorted in shape, the tip of the blades can come into contact with the inner surface thus making the gap excessively large or irregular.
Until now the inner surface of the engine had to be machined out, refitted and reground by hand, relying heavily upon the expertise and experience of the operator to achieve the right finish - rather like filling and machining out dents in car bodies. For the aircraft operator this part of the maintenance programme is both costly and time consuming.
To improve this process a number of assemblies have been designed and constructed which contain customised linear slides from LG Motion which are able to meet the exacting space and performance requirements for this challenging application. The equipment can be deployed in engines while still mounted on the aircraft, following removal of the blades. Now the new inner surface can be machined using the engine rotor while turned manually. This new process allows a considerable amount of time and cost to be saved.
The complete assembly comprises a spindle motor with a grinding tool mounted on a servo-controlled leadscrew arrangement that allows the grinding tool to be controlled in the Y and Z directions. Using the engine rotor eliminates any problems of eccentricity and both the cutting depth and position can be precisely determined and maintained.
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