Instilling Fear In Site Owners
I’m always a little concerned when I head out into the SEO forums and find people talking about absolutes and how doing X will tank your search engine optimization rankings. It’s even more concerning when such threads get picked up and broadcasted.
Over at Search Engine Roundtable today, Tamar Weinberg comments on a thread going on over at WebmasterWorld where the topic at hand is whether it’s a good idea (from a search engine perspective) for site owners to edit their Web content. Based on excerpts from the thread and Tamar’s own insight, it seems like the popular opinion is no, site owners should not edit their pages for fear of tarnishing already established rankings. Instead, just pile on new pages. Everyone loves new content!
See, now that makes me nervous. And it makes me even more nervous that newbie SEOs will stumble across that thread or Tamar’s post and now be afraid to touch their Web site in fear of tanking their rankings. We have to get people out of this fear element when it comes to search engine optimization. SEO is not supposed to be scary. Okay, maybe the blackhats are scary, but that’s it.
I agree with Tamar and other forum members that adding fresh pages to your Web site is beneficial to your search engine optimization goals. You want to be seen as a subject matter expert, and one of the best ways to do that is by creating authoritative content that brands yourself as a resource to your users. However, let’s not turn our Web site in a museum for legacy Web pages that we’re afraid to touch. The goal is to get quality traffic, not to collect dust.
Take a look at your site and your analytics. If your home page and important landing pages are ranking well for your keywords and are still relevant and up-to-date, then don’t touch them. Freeze those pages and work on improving the others. But if the information needs to be updated, your keyword objective changes, or you think the page can simply be improved in general, don’t just leave those pages to die out on their own. Edit them.
Let’s be honest here. Are we going to rewrite our entire web_rank page (the one that ranks for search engine optimization) from scratch? No, probably not. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t touched it in the last 10 years either. As your competition changes, so do things like optimum keyword densities and page requirements. You have to tweak pages to stay current and keep meeting the search engines requirements for relevancy.
As Tedster points out in the forums, if your page is highly dependant on on-page search engine optimization factors, then any substantial changes may affect your rankings. However, chances are your stronger pages are also ranking due to off-page SEO factors like incoming anchor text and backlinks. As long as you’re not changing the focus of the page and discrediting those links, you should be okay.
Often these "Don’t Do X Or Lose Rankings!" threads instill unnecessary fear into site owners, which in the end, hurts their site. If you never change the content on your site, how are you going know if your conversion rate is as high as it can be? Why would the spiders continue to visit and respider your site if the content is the same each time they visit? What if you think of a better, clearer way to word that call to action? What if you find a new keyword that you think would greatly increase your overall revenue? Are you really going to sit on it because you’re afraid of doing damage? Not acting as a result of fear is no way to live or to run a search engine optimization campaign. Your site is your baby, it’s okay for you to fuss with it.
But fuss with a purpose. When it comes to content, it’s quality over quantity. Adding copy that won’t convert and doesn’t help to strengthen your brand or explain your services won’t help you.


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Hot cities shape snail evolutionNaturalis Biodiversity Center
The living conditions in cities influence the evolution of urban-dwelling plant and animal species. So-called urban heat islands, pockets of higher temperatures in the city center resulting from a combination of generated, reflected and stored warmth, are one such environmental factor.
Menno Schilthuizen and Niels Kerstes, together with their colleagues and a large number of citizen scientists, looked at urban evolution among garden snails. "We received nearly 8,000 photos of garden snails sent in by citizen scientists, often via our Snailsnap app, a joint Naturalis, Waarneming.nl and EIS Kenniscentrum Insecten initiative”, Niels Kerstes explains. “We sorted the snails based on the color of their shells and the number of dark bands running across them. We also had location data for every photo, which allowed us to link the snails’ color and band markings to environmental factors: urban/non-urban setting, temperature, precipitation and urban heat islands. It tends to be warmer in cities than in the surrounding areas.
The researchers found that, on average, snails found in warmer locations were lighter in color and the percentage of yellow snails was greater in places where higher temperatures occur. This means that more yellow snails were found in urban areas and in spots where the effect of an urban heat island was more strongly felt. Moreover, yellow snails in warmer locations were also more likely to have bands on the underside of their shell and fewer bands on the top. “These results correspond to the predicted effect of the urban environment on the evolution of the snail houses,” according to Kerstes. “Yellow snails are lighter in color than the pink or brown members of their species, making them better able to withstand hot, dry conditions. The yellow color reflects the most sunlight, causing the snails to heat up less quickly.”
Kerstes and Schilthuizen plan to continue their citizen science project concerning urban evolution through the Evoscope project. Funded by the municipality of Leiden and Naturalis, the project will include experiments involving snails, great tits, jackdaws and dandelions. Through effective identification of the ways plants and animals adapt to meet the challenges of city life, it is possible to establish just how quickly and efficiently evolution can occur. Such efforts also provide insight into how cities might be redesigned to improve the lives of the plants, animals and people.
The article in Biology Communications is available online.

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Filed under: Fashion
August 31, 2015
Current Student (4th quarter), Associate of Applied Science, Fashion Design, The Art Institute of New York City.
“I want my collection to be sophisticated with a hint of [being flirty], perhaps enticing the imagination.”
Ebony Taylor is currently balancing her studies with a career in the military—a challenging task but one that she’s conquering through a strong support system. She describes herself as a self-taught designer who came to The Art Institute of New York City to develop her inherent talents and visual identity.
Ebony grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and was always fascinated by fashion. But before she decided to pursue that passion, she joined the military and served for seven years in San Diego. During this time, her interest in swimwear and resortwear was piqued. “There was something about San Diego that just made me fall in love with the water,” she says.
Her collection for New York Fashion Week, “End Game,” was inspired by a dream she had about a loved one who’d passed away. “The dream involved a game of chess, with the pieces moving on a chessboard the way people move through life. The collection features the classic black and white color palette, and the fabric choices are all about movement.”
Ebony looks to inspiration from designers Zac Posen, Carolina Herrera, and Elie Saab. She also frequents Stylesight.com, TheFashionList.com and FashionBombDaily.com.
Ebony says that her military background helped her to remain structured while working on the collection. And she adds that her education helped to fine-tune the process involved in staying on-track and on-time with projects. “[In my] Draping class, I realized how much fabric I was wasting with incorrect technique. The Art Institute of New York City has definitely helped me become a better more creative designer.”
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Lexus hasn't released an electric car, but when it does it could use in-wheel electric motors, a technology the company is developing, according to company vice president Koji Sato.
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Art.sy founder Carter Cleveland and artist Tom Sachs join SXSW lineup
Carter Cleveland, CEO and founder of the online arts sales and info site art.sy, and artist Tom Sachs will join up for a featured panel at SXSW Interactive on March 15, festival officials announced today.
Cleveland started art.sy — which now has $9.5 billion dollars of inventory — while still a student at Princeton.
The New York-based Sachs is currently celebrated with “Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective, 1999-2015,” which opened in January at the Contemporary Austin.
Marshalling outdated technological gadgets (cassette tapes, turntables, analog dials), over the course of his career Sachs has fashioned dozens of working boomboxes, many of which fill the Contemporary’s downtown Jones Center.
Several of his large-scale sculptures are now at the Contemporary’s Laguna Gloria location. “Boombox Retrospective” continues through April 19.
For their SXSW talk, entitled Is Good Business the Best Art?, Cleveland and Sachs are scheduled to discuss “how to achieve business success without selling your soul” and “how the Internet effects the future of the art biz.”
But wait — there’s much more to Austin’s current Sachs-apolooza.
March 12 is the opening of Sachs’ solo “Nuggets” at Lora Reynolds Gallery.
On March 15 — following the SXSW panel– Sachs will sign the zine he’s produced in conjunction with “Boombox Retrospective,” which is available for purchase at the Contemporary.
On March 16 Sachs’ film “A Space Program” — which is about himself and his creative process for his sprawling “Space Program 2.0: MARS” at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2012 — premieres as part of the SXSW Film Fest.
And then for three days, March 18-29, there’s a “Boombox Retrospective” SXSW event with a lineup of hip hop DJs — invited by Sachs — using the artist’s boomboxes for afternoon showcases.
SXSW badge and wristband holders receive priority and free access to the DJ showcases. Space provided, general admission is $5.

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This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to take over the column. He's been here each week ever since delighting us with his astonishing grasp of just about everything musical, his humor and sense of fun. You can read Peter's bio here and find links to all his columns here.
What happened in 1943?
- Jim Morrison was born
- Things were still grim but slowly improving
- Italy surrendered, then switched sides
- Assassination attempt on Hitler failed when the bomb on his plane failed to explode
- The Ox-Bow Incident was released
- Richmond were premiers
I can think of no better way to start this year than with NAT KING COLE.
This is, of course, The Nat King Cole Trio we're talking about here and the song is All for You. It has the distinction of being the first of theirs to cross over and make the pop charts.
Which brings up to BING CROSBY. This year certainly wasn't the first time he'd made the charts.
The song, Moonlight Becomes You, was written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke for the film Road to Morocco.
"You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can! Play it!"
Okay, you all know what I'm talking about. The film came out the previous year but the song was a hit this year, several versions of it in fact. There's only one I'd consider including though, and that's by DOOLEY WILSON.
Dooley was a singer and a drummer, but not a pianist. He just acted playing the piano in Casablanca because he was an actor as well. Even though he appeared in a couple of dozen films, there's only one we remember him for. But what a film.
Here is As Time Goes By.
The song Stormy Weather had been around since 1933. In 1943 they made a film with that as its title. It was a bio-pic based roughly on the life of Bill Robinson (who played himself).
Dooley Wilson was in that film too as Bill's best friend along with Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. It goes without saying than LENA HORNE had a lead role as well and sang the title song.
Why Don't You Do Right? was written by Kansas Joe McCoy. It was originally called The Weed Smoker's Dream and he recorded that with his band, The Harlem Hamfats.
Joe later wrote new words to the song and changed its name to the one we know. This was recorded by Lil Green with Big Bill Broonzy playing guitar. PEGGY LEE was impressed with Lil's version and she recorded it with Benny Goodman. She said that Lil was a big influence on her music.
Mister Five by Five was written by Don Raye and Gene DePaul. The song is all about Jimmy Rushing who was Count Basie's vocalist for many years.
Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack had a hit with it but the version we're interested in, also a hit, is by HARRY JAMES with HELEN FORREST singing.
Here are THE INK SPOTS with I Can't Stand Losing You.
Nothing more needs to be said. Just sit back and enjoy it.
This year saw early rumblings of the jump blues style of music that took off in the latter part of the decade. One of the first of the musicians who played in the style was LOUIS JORDAN.
Five Guys Named Moe started life as a musical short created by Louis. It then became a fully fledged musical, again with the music written by our man. Here he is with the title song.
Next is CHARLES TRENET with a song he wrote himself called Que reste-t-il de nos amours?
That means "what remains of our love?" You might recognise it.
The musical Oklahoma! opened on Broadway this year with ALFRED DRAKE playing the lead role of Curly.
Alfred appeared in many musicals as well as Shakespearean productions. He was an early TV actor as well but only made a few films. Oklahoma! was one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's many such vehicles and Alfred sings the title song.
1944 will appear in two weeks' time.


On occasion I'll find myself chatting to a director who leaves me thoroughly impatient to see the play that's been the reason for our conversation.
And so it was with Toby Frow and The Pillowman.
Toby has redirected acclaimed writer Martin McDonagh's work for the tour . . . no mean feat given its phenomenal success at the National Theatre, where it won the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play.
You might well be wondering what all the fuss is about, and I'm about to tell you.
Well, sort of. Because The Pillowman is one of those plays with what you might describe as difficult-to-define qualities. So I'll let Toby have a go.
He said: "It's about a writer who's hauled up in front of the police and asked about his stories and their similarities to child murders in town.
"I suppose in a nutshell that's what it's about. You get lots of these weird plot twists.
"I've heard gasps going through the audience when they come along."
Raved over by critics during its London run, it's been described as, among other things, "Brothers Grimm rehashed by Quentin Tarantino".
With a cast including Lee Ingleby and Jim Norton, it is essentially a comedy horror about a writer in a totalitarian state being interrogated about the gruesome content of his stories.
Toby said: "The logic the police work under is that strange surreal logic that you find in Coen Brothers films where you don't know if they're being deadly earnest or insane.
"But this play is not so larger- than-life that you lose sight of the real people in there."
All this talk of a police state and hints of censorship bring to mind the play that was taken off stage in the Midlands last December after protests from Sikhs.
But banish any such thoughts from your mind . . . this is far too strange for any of that lark.
As Toby said: "It's about as unpolitical a play as you can get. I think he slightly loathes plays with messages.
"It's no coincidence that the central character is a writer."
Indeed it seems to operate outside of politics, outside of the modern world even.
By all accounts, it is at once violent, surreal, exhilarating . . . and all told using some remarkable language.
And according to Toby that language will even frighten certain family members.
He said: "It comes off the pages much better than it reads. I gave it to my mother-in-law, who rang me back in a state of shock.
"I'm not suggesting any connections between the mother-in- law and the horror, I might add!"
Mother-in-law or not, I wouldn't take the children.
V The Pillowman is at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from Tuesday to Saturday. Call 0870 905 5060 for tickets.


Buhari doesn’t need emergency powers to fix economy, says Golu
Mr Timothy Simon Golu, (Pankshin/kanke/ kanam: PDP) is the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research. In this interview with ADAMU ABUH, he explains why deliberations in the House would centre on the economic issues.
On issues that would be on the front burner as the House reconvenes
The economy would dominate discussions, because, so many things are wrong and the members representing their various constituencies are not happy with the condition of their people nationwide. In fact, the executive arm is not doing well at all, to implement the budget. As the chairman House Committee on Budget, I can tell you that we are not pleased with the slow implementation of the budget. They complain of lack of funds, but the fund at their disposal should have been thrown into areas that would affect the people more positively.
We are yet to see the implementation of the 2016 budget. And as it is now, we are awaiting the arrival of the 2017 budget any moment from now. The Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) report, the fiscal strategy paper for 2017, have been submitted to us, but let me tell you, the 2016 budget is poorly implemented. The budgetary process itself, largely from planning to implementation can at best be said to be strategically very flawed. The National Assembly has done its best, but the main problem with the 2016 budgetary process started from the submission of the 2016 and 2018 MTEF.
Enough attention was not given to the MTEF, which serves as a guide, projection of the revenue that would be obtained for the implementation of the budget. But if you look at it now, all the indices of those revenue profiles are flawed. They are expecting to borrow money, generate money from oil, which prices has come down, planning to get money from recovered loot, to tackle the deficit of the 2016 budget.
So, many things went wrong and the executive did not even pay attention to what they said they were going to do, which is the diversification of the economy. You talk about agriculture and you have not built the capacity of agriculture, and you are closing the borders, so that no food would come in. Is that not a deliberate way of making Nigerians suffer? The Finance minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun does not know what she is doing there at all, as far as, we are concerned. We raised questions, she couldn’t answer. What is diversification? You want to open new channel, so that we don’t rely on oil. What have they done? We are still relying on oil. Agriculture has one percent in the 2016 budget. Mineral sector has one percent, Science and Technology, which would augment the two sectors has less than one percent. So, we achieve nothing as far as agriculture is concerned. They need to allow more food to come in, so that people would not be hungry, so that the prices of foodstuffs would go down.
Look at the N500b Social Intervention Fund. Two to three weeks ago, my committee asked questions, but the woman couldn’t give any credible answer. Out of N500b, only N20b has so far been released. The initiative has no cash backing, as we speak and this is the ninth month of the year. If they are talking about recruiting 500,000 teachers, they are still talking about it on paper. There is nothing on ground to show that they are committed to it. When are they going to recruit them? Even the platform for on-line application is not there. Even those of us members of the committee are not even aware of it. We have not seen the commitment yet to providing jobs, to our able youths. So, people are suffering. If the APC government knows how Nigerians are suffering, they would be amazed. They don’t know, they don’t have feedback mechanism, to tell them what is happening in Nigeria.
On legislature’s oversight function
We are going to take our oversight function as serious as we have never before done. The National Assembly had been wrongly accused of so many things. The National Assembly is misunderstood by Nigerians. And as is always the case, it is the executive inciting the public against us. Look at what we do, we provide oversight; look at how we saved the 2016 budget. If not for our intervention, there would have been no budget to be implemented by the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). But the members of the National Assembly raised issues, queried so many sub-heads. You will discover that an MDA would bring in, issues of publicity N20 million, advocacy N30 million, media N50 million, information N100 million. What is information, media, publicity and advocacy? We collapsed all of them to one and then tell them to get a realistic figure for all of them, since they are one and the same thing.
On whether the executive arm has done enough to tackle the economy
The government has not done enough at all. There are wrong people in strategic places, the Minister of Finance is not capable. That woman is not capable. There is no coordinating ministerial committee that we used to have, where the Minister in charge of the economy is normally somebody of a very high status that others can respect. Now, we don’t have professionals handling strategic positions.
And this woman cannot command the confidence of other ministers. So, as far as we are concerned, if she is allowed to continue like that walahi, the recession, we don’t know when it will end. We all rely on God for salvation, but at least, Buhari should change some ministers and bring in some capable hands. If the APC doesn’t have them, we have them enough in the PDP, so that we can loan them to the APC, to serve in this government. Government is about the people; it is not about the party. Let there be some injection of fresh blood into the executive council. The ministers should also help the president by being sincere and honest, so that they can commit themselves to do the work. If they don’t know, they should admit they don’t know. There is nothing too big about it.
On the emergency power President Buhari is requesting from the National Assembly.
That would not work, because it is like he is making the request stage by stage, so that after granting that one, he would now come up with another one that seeks to allow him to prepare the budget and oversight it himself. After that, they would now bring another bill that would make the executive to sit down and make laws by themselves.
Before you know it, there would be no National Assembly. It is just an attempt to usurp our powers and to make the National Assembly irrelevant. The powers that he has now are enough for him to handle this economic recession. He is one of the most powerful presidents in the democratic world. So, the National Assembly would not consider that one. Let us have the details of those laws that have constituted a clog in his resolve to tackle the recession. To take our powers, that we should surrender the power of virement, to the executive, so that the president can decide to do virement anytime, that is undemocratic.
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English rock band, The Smiths Bassist, Andy Rourke died at age 59 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Bandmate and guitarist Johnny Marr confirmed the tragic news: “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andy Rourke after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer,” he wrote on social media. “Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans. We request privacy at this sad time.”
Best known as the bassist of the Smiths. He was known for his melodic approach to bass playing. Rourke performed on all four of the British band’s studio albums, each of their classics: The Smiths (from 1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987), after which time the band split.
The Smiths Bassist, Andy Rourke Died at 59
“Such sad sad news about Andy Rourke – He was an inspirational musician with a style that made so many of us pick up a bass guitar; and the driving force for Manchester Versus Cancer,” wrote the Charlatans singer Tim Burgess. “Our thoughts are with everyone who knew him.”
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The properties of cement mortars with nano-SiO2 were experimentally studied. The amorphous or glassy silica, which is the major component of a pozzolan, reacts with calcium hydroxide formed from calcium silicate hydration. The rate of the pozzolanic reaction is proportional to the amount of surface area available for reaction. Therefore, it is plausible to add nano-SiO2 particles in order to make high-performance concrete. The experimental results show that the compressive strengths of mortars with nano-SiO2 particles were all higher than those of mortars containing silica fume at 7 and 28 days. It is demonstrated that the nano-particles are more valuable in enhancing strength than silica fume. In addition, the continuous hydration progress was monitored by scanning electron micrograph (SEM) observation, by examining the residual quantity of Ca(OH)2 and the rate of heat evolution. The results of these examinations indicate that nano-scale SiO2 behaves not only as a filler to improve microstructure, but also as an activator to promote pozzolanic reaction.
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Malvern Panalytical expands semiconductor metrology range with key technology acquisitions
Accelerating global manufacturing processes through targeted XRD techniques
Malvern Panalytical, a leading analytical instrumentation supplier, today announces it has acquired the product line for six X-ray diffraction (XRD) products from Freiberg Instruments GmbH. The acquisition supports Malvern Panalytical's growth strategy, advancing its portfolio of market-leading analytical solutions for the semiconductor industry.
Semiconductor manufacturing increasingly relies on a variety of crystalline substrate materials, which are required to create thin wafers. As production processes become more advanced, and production volumes continue to grow, these wafers need to be produced quickly and efficiently, and precise crystal orientation and offcut angles are increasingly important. The acquired XRD systems allow rapid orientation of ingots and wafers, accelerating and simplifying the preparation of semiconductor substrates before epitaxy or lithography. This enhances yield, minimizes waste and reduces costs which supports our customers’ sustainability ambitions.
Lars Grieger, Business Development Manager of Semiconductor Metrology at Malvern Panalytical, said: “The addition of these specialized products to our analytical portfolio enables innovative crystal orientation control. When combined with Malvern Panalytical’s global presence and expertise, this provides a significant boost to the semiconductor wafer industry. This is a hugely exciting time for Malvern Panalytical, and we are looking forward to help realize the future of semiconductor metrology for our customers.”
Kay Dornich, CEO/Owner, Freiberg Instruments GmbH, said: “Our XRD solutions, with their ultra-fast Omega Scan technology, have consistently demonstrated their value to semiconductor manufacturers. Their speed, robustness, and reliability make them an excellent addition to Malvern Panalytical's portfolio and I’m excited to see these unique technologies made available to customers across the globe. At Freiberg Instruments, we will continue to support our existing customers and maintain our offering of specialized solutions, including those for automated workflows, which complement Malvern Panalytical’s newly acquired X-ray diffraction instruments.”
Mark Fleiner, President, Malvern Panalytical, added: “We’re incredibly dedicated to delivering exceptional, cutting-edge solutions to our customers across every industry we operate in. The acquisition of these six X-ray diffraction instruments from Freiberg Instruments GmbH underpins our commitment to our semiconductor customers and demonstrates our desire to become the chosen instrument supplier within this exciting area of analysis.”
“We believe in unleashing the power of small things to make big things happen, and we are looking forward to working with our partners and customers to further shape the world of semiconductor analysis.”
More information about these instruments can be found on our website.
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We draw on the power of our analytical instruments and services to make the invisible visible and the impossible possible. Through the chemical, physical and structural analysis of materials, our high precision analytical systems and top-notch services support our customers in creating a better world. We help them improve everything from the energies that power us and the materials we build with, to the medicines that cure us and the foods we enjoy.
We partner with many of the world’s biggest companies, universities and research organizations. They value us not only for the power of our solutions, but also for the depth of our expertise, collaboration and integrity. We are committed to Net Zero in our own operations by 2030 and in our total value chain by 2040. This is woven into the fabric of our business, and we help our employees and customers think about their part in creating a healthier, cleaner, and more productive world. With over 2300 employees, we serve the world, and we are part of Spectris plc, the world-leading precision measurement group.
About Freiberg Instruments
Established in 2005 as a university spin off from TU Bergakademie - The University of Resources, Freiberg Instruments devoted the first few years to develop and test a whole family of fast, nondestructive, electrical characterization tools under production conditions, measuring parameters like minority carrier lifetime, photoconductivity and resistivity.
Freiberg Instruments is now one of the world's fastest growing, young and dynamic analytical instrumentation companies with products covering a broad spectrum of applications in fields/industries like Semiconductor, Microelectronics, Photovoltaic, Dosimetry, Medical Research, Luminescence Dating, X-ray diffraction and Material Research.


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This event is scheduled May 12-28, 2023.
What do you expect from a blind date? Santa Maria Civic Theatre has something to say about that as it presents the riotous musical comedy First Date weekends May 12-28.
The 90-minute, one-act show (with a contemporary rock score) gleefully pokes fun at the mishaps and mistakes of blind dates and offers hope that there could be that one perfect moment. Because of mature content it is recommended for ages 13+.
First Date performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m., and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. through May 28.


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The Best Museums and Galleries in Vancouver
For such a young city (Vancouver was founded in 1886), Vancouver packs a punch when it comes to culture, with excellent museums, art galleries, and cultural events. From world-renowned First Nations art to Shakespeare on the beach, fans of cultural pursuits will find plenty to keep them busy once they visit.
6393 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
Part of the University of British Columbia, this museum houses one of the finest collections of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art, including bentwood boxes, feast dishes, totem poles, and canoes from the Haida and Coast Salish people. Some of these artifacts are displayed in a soaring grand hall with views of the Point Grey cliffs. Visitors can also look forward to a respectable European ceramics collection, with earthenware and stoneware from the 16th to 19th centuries, and a rotunda with works from Haida artist Bill Reid, including the massive Raven and the First Men, made out of laminated yellow cedar.
750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7, Canada
Western Canada’s largest public art museum weighs in at almost 12,000 works. The collection here is strong on Emily Carr, a modernist compatriot of the Group of Seven (Canadian landscape painters from the 1920s who were deeply influenced by European Impressionism). Don’t miss her lush, moody depictions of the Pacific Northwest coast, especially its temperate rain forests and totemic carvings of indigenous peoples. Also worth seeing are the exhibits of cutting-edge contemporary masters like Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas. Housed in an old courthouse, the museum hopes to move into fresh digs designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron by 2021. Admission is by donation on Tuesday evenings.
845 Avison Way, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2, Canada
Presiding over Stanley Park, Canada’s largest aquarium houses more than 50,000 creatures, from penguins to sea otters to three-toed sloths. Don’t miss the star turns from the rescued Steller sea lions Izzy and Rogue, who swoop gracefully under the water and bask on sun-warmed rocks. Afterward, be sure to visit the theater, which goes beyond 3-D with mist, scents, wind, and even lightning. Adding substance to style, the aquarium is also the headquarters of Ocean Wise, a global conservation initiative dedicated to increasing the understanding, wonder, and appreciation of our seas.
2212 Main Mall
The first of its kind in this country, this family-friendly museum focuses on the evolution of biodiversity and why it’s worth conserving. Opened in 2010, it showcases more than two million natural history specimens, from fossils, shells, fungi, and plants to insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals. The Beaty also boasts Canada’s third-largest fish collection, all preserved in jars. Don’t miss the star attraction, a spectacular 82-foot skeleton of a blue whale, artfully suspended in the atrium. Hungry for more science? Hit the Pacific Museum of Earth across the street for geological gems like a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, or take the fantastic Greenheart TreeWalk canopy tour of UBC’s botanical gardens.

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Consultation announced on hybrid mismatches
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Two new specialist taskforce teams have recently begun to target businesses in north-west England and north Wales who try to fraudulently reclaim VAT. The taskforces are comprised of multiple teams from across HMRC including special investigations, Read more..
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Guillermo Dietrich, Minister of Transport during the presidency of Mauricio Macri, crossed today on social networks to Axel Kicillof, who had criticized the management of that administration during the inauguration of a section of the highway of National Route 8, in Pergamino.
With data, the national official between 2015 and 2019, he was outraged before a phrase of the confrontational Buenos Aires president.
“We do the works that are needed, the works that had been announced but not finished. We finished those works in which they left debt and problem“Kicillof yelled standing in the middle of the road, with Pedro’s Wado and Gabriel Katopodis at his side.
Hours later, from his Twitter account, Dietrich issued his reply.
“I open the thread with clarifications about the Pergamino Highway, sued 30 years ago! It was promised by Kirchnerism in 2006, put out to tender in 2009, abandoned after 12 km., put out to tender again in 2012. 3 years passed until December 2015 and they had only advanced in 1 out of 9 sections, “began his chain of argument.
Then, he stressed that “from the rest, there were no projects. Only signed contracts “.
“In December 2015, with Mauricio Macri we completely reactivated the work and throughout our government there were several inaugurations until completing 75 km of highway: 6 times more in 4 years than the Ks did in 9“he lashed out.
Dietrich assured that at the end of his term, the Macrista administration left “another 90 km. In progress, planned to inaugurate during 2020“, but” today, June 2021, Kicillof inaugurated of those 90 only 14 km. (N. of the R .: according to the official word, they inaugurated 22.92 km.) “.
“Did, true to style, lacking the truth about what we did, but without any news yet about the rest of the work that we left under construction, “continued his defense.
Finally, Dietrich hoped that “they can inaugurate the rest of the work” that the macrismo left “in progress”, “since the highway is essential to reduce travel times, save on logistics costs but, above all, for Save lives“.
Y left a map in which he details what part of the work was inaugurated during the previous presidency and how much this Tuesday.
The work presented this Tuesday by Katopodis, Minister of Public Works, together with Kicillof and Pedro, was the extension of 22.92 km of new highway in the Pergamino variant of National Route 8, in Section VII Fontezuela, which included the investment of $ 5,957 million and that extends outside the urban area of that municipality.
As reported, the road work facilitates entry into the city of Pergamino, separating heavy traffic from urban, and benefits 4,673 vehicles circulating per day.


Keystone Lintels, the UK’s leading manufacturer of steel lintels, is delighted to receive the ‘Heavyside Supplier of the Year’ award at the Builders Merchant Journal Awards 2021, in recognition of its outstanding customer service.
The glittering event took place on 26 November at the Park Plaza London Riverbank. The awards recognise brands, builders’ merchants and individuals that are making a difference to the sector and are chosen by the merchant industry professionals working within it.
Chris Hemmington-Green, Sales Director for Keystone Lintels, comment: “This is a fantastic achievement and a great celebration of the robust and engaging partnership between the Keystone Lintels team and our merchant customers.
“We are delighted that our industry leading customer service has once again been recognised with this prestigious award. This is a great way to end the year and we are looking forward to continuing to set the standard for customer service in 2022.”
Hosted by TV presenter Gabby Logan, the BMJ award winners were announced by the voice of the National Lottery and Strictly Come Dancing, Alan Dedicoat.
Keystone is the largest supplier of steel lintels in the UK and Ireland and supports merchants with innovative ranges of products which solve problems for the builder and deliver more opportunity, added value and margin for merchants.
The Keystone Group had some festive fun, courtesy of the Keystone Christmas Merrioke featuring the superstars of Keystone!
Shot over three cold days in December at seven locations nationwide, all of the Keystone Group came together to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
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ESLIDAC acts as a communication link between the ratepayers and residents of the ESLID I and II, the service providers who provide operations and administrative services to the districts (at the current time, Ramey Environmental and SDMS), and the Board of Directors (BOCC). ESLAC also advises the Board on issues pertinent to the implementation of the public improvements serving the District.
ESLAC meets the fourth Thursday of each month, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Rocky Mountain Fire, 4390 Eldorado Springs Drive, Eldorado Springs.
To receive meeting notices and the agenda via email please contact Mark Ruzzin.
Meetings are open to the public and allow time for public comment.
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I once heard the story of a doctor who did not charge the patient for a consultation unless he provided a prescription for a pharmaceutical medication, as he did not think the meeting had justified a “consultation”.
Of course, there are some cynical interpretations of this story. But I believe he genuinely considered this appropriate, and it is this point on which I would like to focus.
Along with pathological investigations, the pharmaceutical industry has become a kind of unholy triad with the medical profession. It is further noted that access to any of the three demands the client – patient – accede to the beliefs, attitudes and values of this association.
This is the source of considerable power. A power that can disempower the patient, who is already vulnerable with suffering, and make him or her reliant on the dictates of this system.
The equation goes something like this: You are suffering, believe that only pharmacy can alleviate the suffering, and therefore have to go to a medical practitioner to get relief from the suffering (maybe with an investigation or two thrown in).
Taking away the somewhat murky political and institutional concerns that back this process, why has it got so much power?
Because we have come to believe and accept that a pill, a prescription, constitutes “treatment”. We are taught this from an early age, such that we medicate infants against temperatures that could be otherwise healing. It stands behind a lot of the dynamics of the illicit drug problem.
But, in truth, the medication is the last on the treatment list; so let me consider what could come before:
- Listening to the story. This shows empathy and compassion, and is healing of itself.
- Giving the appropriate information to the patient about their suffering… sharing.
- Reassurance if the suffering is not serious.
- Appropriate dietary advice.
- Advice about rest, recuperation and rehabilitation.
- Information about non-pharmaceutical alternatives prior to a prescription.
Pharmacy has a place, but it is not a panacea.

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Day of Paris.
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First edition, first printing. A fine presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer on the front free endpaper, “To Paula Wyss sincerely A. Kertesz Jan. 11. 1946”. Day of Paris is one the 20th century’s abiding testimonies to the recording power of the lens in the hands of a genius like Kertesz. Its pages reflect over and over again something archetypal in the most quotidian of images. Photojournalism at its finest. A scarce enough book in dust jacket in any case and copies bearing contemporary presentation inscriptions are rare.
Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to front cover and spine in black. With the photographic dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated with 103 black and white photographs. A lovely copy in the little worn dust jacket with a number of small chips.
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Editor’s take note: 2020 is the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave girls the ideal to vote. This is one particular of a collection of article content about space gals who created crucial contributions to their communities.
Clementine Paddleford was born in 1898 on a farm in the vicinity of Stockdale, Kansas. Her childhood, where by she rode a horse to faculty, was the stuff of the idyllic previous. Her mother Jennie, the pillar of her environment, gave the rambunctious girl suggestions, such as — “Never develop a wishbone, daughter, exactly where your spine should to be” — which Clementine followed via the relaxation of her wealthy, and typically unique, existence.
The Paddlefords moved to Manhattan in 1913. Clementine enrolled in Manhattan Substantial Faculty and shortly started component-time do the job for the Every day Chronicle, haunting early trains to see what the motion was and poking her head into neighbors’ living rooms searching for juicy tales.
Soon after graduating from MHS in 1917, Clementine enrolled in industrial journalism at Kansas Point out Agricultural College — now Kansas Condition University. She also participated in numerous sports activities — subject hockey, basketball and tennis — out there to women at that time. She also was on the debate squad and labored on the university student newspaper, the Collegian. In addition, she wrote articles or blog posts for area farm publications, was editor of the Morning Chronicle and was a stringer for several other Kansas papers. Her social lifetime was never empty possibly, as she joined a sorority and experienced a constant boyfriend, Lloyd Zimmerman.
Immediately after graduation in 1921, she headed by train to New York Town exactly where she took graduate lessons in journalism, pounded the pavements for a job, and loathed as nicely as cherished the extremely distinct Manhattan she observed.
After a yr, she moved to Chicago, where by she found her niche. Zimmerman had moved to Houston and she agreed to marry him in 1923, but only in mystery for panic marriage could demolish her career. She and her spouse lived individual lives, meeting only sometimes. They divorced in 1932. He remarried, and she had other male close friends around the yrs.
Skillfully, her assignments, customers and friendships grew swiftly and she acknowledged a posture with the Agricultural Information Assistance and editorship of the Milk Current market Reporter and branched into farm providers scripts for radio station WLS (World’s Biggest Radio.) Her farm background was a match and she introduced farm wives to the radio.
By 1924, she was again in New York as women’s editor of Farm & Fireplace journal. She advised area tales about the men and women guiding their recipes — mothers feeding toddlers, monarchs fed by cooks, and politicians and Hollywood starlets, who “traveled on their stomachs.”
Jennie’s demise in 1927 arrived at the time when Clementine’s vocation was climbing. Jennie’s impact on her daughter was apparent through her values and do the job ethic. Clementine worked 12-hour days, seven times a week.
Clementine upcoming became the director of the Housekeeping Bureau of the Christian Herald. The task came with huge, present day examination kitchens, and she labored directly with readers, receiving letters and recipes by the hundreds, traveling and studying topics of interest to her and to the public.
In 1931, she was identified with throat cancer. She selected to have only the malignant development from her larynx and vocal cords taken out, so she would be in a position to discuss by means of a tube in her throat and however be capable to interview. To hide the scars and hold the tube in place, she wore a attractive choker of black velvet, which became as distinctive a component of her persona as her swirling cape and tam hats.
In 1936, she started her weekly column in The New York Herald Tribune, and in 1940 obtained a huge viewers with the Sunday supplement “This 7 days.” By this time, she was a residence title and a rich girl. She acquired a country home in Connecticut the place she expended her weekends — constantly with her cats.
In 1943, just one of Clementine’s closest good friends died, leaving her 12-12 months-previous daughter with out moms and dads. She took Claire Duffé in as a daughter and their romantic relationship grew and remained close.
When the U.S. entered Environment War II, Clementine was completely ready to assistance cooks approach foods with shortages and rationing. When Winston Churchill gave his Iron Curtain speech, she was there to notify the American viewers what he ate for supper: a soufflé that arrived in entrance of him “with a rapturous, fifty percent-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a second like smoke or a aspiration.” She also involved the recipes. She released a cafe critic named Duncan Hines to her visitors and made available 12 of his preferred recipes — right before he marketed his name to the cake blend persons.
She never ever forgot the meals at her mother’s desk.
“We all have hometown appetites,” she was fond of declaring. Though she wrote about getting a seat subsequent to kings, queens and political giants, she invested the bulk of her time at the desk with every day house cooks accumulating “word-of-mouth hand-me-downs from mother to daughter.” She served historical past with her food, pinning dates as nicely as folks to her dishes.
In 1950, she commenced crafting a month to month column, “Food Flashes,” for Gourmet journal. She noted on new products and celebrated the passing of the seasons.
By the conclusion of 1953, Clementine experienced attended the Coronation of England’s new Queen Elizabeth and experienced been honored by TIME magazine.
She traveled the environment and was as interested in a campfire stew as she was in a royal repast. She traveled practically 50,000 miles every single calendar year through her newspaper decades. By the 1960s, she experienced pretty much been in all places, which include to the base of the sea in a nuclear submarine.
In 1960, her well-known columns were being compiled into a cookbook, “How America Eats”, building her one of the very first food items journalists to doc the importance of regional cooking.
“How does America take in?” she requested. “She eats in each individual language.… even with the significantly well known trend toward overseas foods, the dishes arrive to the table with an American accent.”
She returned to Kansas when she could.
“There is no perfume in the earth like the springtime smell of prairie air,” she wrote in the Kansas chapter of “How America Eats.”
“Cook Young” was released in 1966, soon after she selected 150 recipes from much more than 50,000 sent to her. She was starting off a new sequence termed “How the Earth Eats” when she died of pneumonia in 1967. She is buried in the Grandview-Mill Creek-Stockdale Cemetery in close proximity to Riley, Kansas.
In 2008, foodstuff author Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris, Kansas Condition University manuscript/collections archivist and main authority on the Paddleford archive, published “Hometown Appetites: The Tale of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Foodstuff Author Who Chronicled How The united states Ate.”
Janet Duncan is a board member of the Riley County Historical Culture. She says she’s a hometown female returned to Kansas, and normally with an appetite! Considerably of the details for this report arrived from the K-Condition assortment. Clementine Paddleford is a single of the 20 Riley County girls featured in a coloring guide published by the Riley County Genealogical Modern society and Riley County Historical Society.


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Recently, I was lucky enough to get my hands on this fantastic book, Super-Powered Word Study.
What I love about the book is its focus on research-based strategies. This is not a simple ‘comics will make kids want to read’ book. The authors James Bucky Carter and Erik A Evensen have created a systematic approach to using comics to teach students how to decode words based on their Latin roots. Their materials and methods are based on research on how the brain learns. The comics aren’t bad either…
The main characters of each short comic are named after a Latin root (prefix or suffix) and the stories are deliberately interlaced with context clues to help scaffold students’ understanding of the roots. Activities include word sorting and scavenger hunts within the stories as well as a final piece requiring students to craft their own stories using the roots themselves. Each comic spans a week and follows the natural progression of building understanding through sorting and categorizing words through the application stage at the end of the week where students get to show what they understand by using the words in a new way. In addition, understanding word roots will aid students in understanding the meanings of new words of all kinds that they may come across in the future.
I gave a copy to the sixth grade teacher across the hall and she reported that a few students snuck it away from her desk to read!
The book includes a CD that contains interactive comic-building software and pdfs of comics.
You can listen to a free webinar with the authors here.
I have a free copy to give away to the commenter with the best story about why their students will benefit from learning through Super-Powered Word Study!
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The Rose Center Theater is seeking talented performers local to the Orange County and Los Angeles areas who can sing, act, dance, and tap in the underwater musical production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. The Rose Center Theater encourages performers of all ages, race or ethnicity, physical abilities, gender identities, religion and diverse viewpoints to audition.
In-person Auditions: Saturday, January 7, 2023 from 4-6 p.m.
If you are unable to attend the in-person audition, the creative team also encourages performers to submit a self-tape. See below for self-tape audition information – Due January 6, 2023.
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Gaslight Group, the restaurant company that operates four locations in Savannah, will open a fifth outlet called 5 Spot in the space occupied for 14 years by Clary's at 4430 Habersham.
Gaslight co-owner Jennifer Huskey said her firm was in talks with Clary's owner, Patricia Jan Wilson, for three years.
"Recently, the timing was right for the business to change hands, and we're excited to have the opportunity to create a brand new restaurant in Habersham Village," Huskey said.
Their plan, she said, is to create a neighborhood destination "with an American menu of sandwiches, salads, burgers, entrees with prices under $15, with an emphasis on fresh, high-quality ingredients, just like at our other locations."
The concept, Huskey said, is a casual, comfortable, neighborhood kitchen and gathering spot.
"We will be open seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a full bar," she said.
The same team who did the interior of Gaslight's Blue Turtle Bistro and Bar will remodel the interior of the new restaurant, which hopes to open in early October, Huskey said.
The original Clary's at 404 Abercorn St. will remain open, and many of the employees from the Habersham location will be transferred there.
In addition to the new restaurant and Blue Turtle, the Gaslight Group operates Blowin' Smoke BBQ on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Abe's on Lincoln tavern on Lincoln Street and the B. Matthews Eatery at 325 E. Bay St.
On Sept. 4, B. Matthews will close temporarily to undergo renovations.
Huskey said the restaurant will re-open in October.
The owners say renovations will begin with cosmetic updates to the dining area with new furnishings, fresh paint and new lighting and a bathroom overhaul. The kitchen also will be overhauled with new appliances and a re-designed layout to provide a more efficient work area for the chefs.


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I’ve always wondered what my cute little Maltese puppy named ‘cash’ does when I’m out of the house.
Lately, I’ve had to leave my 8 months old Maltese dog alone in the apartment because I have to go to the office, mall, gym e.t.c and most of these places do not allow pets.
But I’m always worried what he’s up to whenever he’s home alone and several questions have crossed my mind like:
How Long Can I Leave my Dog Alone?
Does Maltese have separation anxiety when alone?
Does Maltese Cry When Left Alone?
Is Maltese a breed of dog that can be left alone at home while at work?
So, I decided to set up 4 cameras around the house to see what goes down when he’s alone.
In this video I’ll be showing you guys what Happened When I Left My Maltese Puppy Home Alone
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A new report from AM Best has highlighted how the impact of the two earthquakes in south-eastern Turkey, adds to what is already a “challenging operating environment” for re/insurers within the country.
On February 6, 2023, two powerful earthquakes of more than 7.5 magnitude struck near the south-eastern Turkish cities of Gaziantep and Kahramanmaras, the country’s sixth and 18th largest cities.
The earthquakes have caused for thousands of buildings to be destroyed, and over 1,000 deaths have been recorded. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), both earthquakes could result in more than US $1 billion of losses.
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Having read about this exciting contest in January this year and listened to the master track, I downloaded the individual stems and decided to see what we could make of Destiny’s Door by Hans Zimmer for the Bleeding Fingers competition.
So many talented composers and producers entered this contest and I felt lucky to be arranging, mixing and producing some of Hans Zimmer’s music. I decided to keep the favourite sounding tracks of brass, winds and added a choir and other sounds and hoped to create a heavenly and mystical feel for our version.
It was a great experience and although we didn't win, we received some really great comments and feedback on our version, "Sunrise" which we arranged and produced for the contest.
Many congratulations to the winners and you can hear their entries here.
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Orion's Bernhardt named to All-Conference list
Orion golfer Vaughn Bernhardt made the All-Three Rivers second team based on results of the conference tournament on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at Byron Hills near Port Byron.
After a change in the bylaws, All-Conference first-team status is based solely on finishing in the top 10 at the tournament, according to the tournament organizer, Riverdale coach Guy Dierikx.
They were champion James Moorhusen, Riverdale, who shot 72; Drew Hall, Rockridge, second, 73; Ashton Sutton, Riverdale, third, 75; Ben Nelson, Riverdale, fourth, 77; Kyle Wolfe, Sterling Newman, fifth, 78; Brennan Welch, Sherrard, sixth, 79; Brendan Pillion, St. Bede, and Landen Plym, Hall, tied for seventh, 80; Jake Delaney, St. Bede, and Sam Willems, tied for ninth, 81.
On the second team were the next 10 golfers. Ethan Hanaman of Mendota, Grant Plym of Hall, Austin Fratzke and Andrew Boland of Sherrard all tied for 11th with 82s. Jaden Eggers of Princeton and Ethan Kiddoo of Riverdale tied for 15th with 83s; Bernhardt, 17th, 84; Nick Arrate of Hall, Dan O’Neill of Rockridge and Cole Kuster of Rockridge, tied for 18th with 85s.
Besides Bernhardt, who shot 42 out and 42 in, boys representing Orion were Cameron Rascher, 26th, 89 (45-44); Ian Bollinger, 65th, 105 (51-54); Ian Niemeier, 71st, 108 (50-58); Micah Knox, 72nd, 109 (52-57), and Kaleb Sovey, 80th, 119 (56-53).
Riverdale won the team championship with 305; Sherrard, second, 333; Hall and St. Bede, tied for third, 336; Rockridge, fifth, 337; Newman, sixth, 351; Princeton and Mendota, tied for seventh, 362; Bureau Valley, ninth, 365; Morrison, 10th, 370; Monmouth-Roseville, 11th, 379; Orion, 12th, 386; Erie-Prophetstown, 13th, 389, and Kewanee, 14th, 400.


What have we been up to this week?
This week we have been looking at fish, what is a fish? Where they live? We have also labelled parts of the fish and learnt new words like “gills” and “dorsal fin” and what these do. Also we have looked where other sea creatures live on land, sea or rock pools.


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Mithun will be playing a pivotal role in an upcoming show
Mithun Chakraborty has been the judge of a dance reality show Dance India Dance for many years now. There have been rumours earlier that Mithun will play himself in the comedy show called The Drama Compnay which stars Krushna Abhishek, Sudesh Lahiri, Ali Asgar, Dr. Sanket Bhosale, Sugandha Mishra. Now it's confirmed.
Mithun liked the concept and immediately agreed to do the show which is set to go on air soon.The makers of the show feel that with Mithun’s presence, the Show will only get better.
Mithun Chakraborty says, “For the first time, I will not be playing myself on television but a very interesting character with a lot of quirks. While it is challenging after hearing the creative details from the makers, it is going to be a challenge worth taken.”


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When Political Correctness Becomes a Problem
Ben Shapiro v. CSULA
At CSULA’s University-Student Union, a swarm of students chose to participate in rather extracurricular activities — namely, falsely pulling a fire alarm, carrying out physical assaults, shouting derogatory slurs, and blockading entrances to the building.
The cause? Diversity.
The topic? Diversity.
Discussing how “trigger warnings, diversity, micro-aggressions, Black Lives Matter, safe spaces, and #concernedstudents1950 poses a threat to freedom of speech on college campuses”, Shapiro’s lecture was titled “When Diversity Becomes a Problem”.
CSULA’s student population is 60.7% Hispanic/Latino, 15.8% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 4.2% Black/African-American. It’s only fair to assume that calling diversity a problem in this campus (or any campus, for that matter) would be, well, problematic.
It took less than five minutes for me and a few other folks to realize that although Shapiro’s lecture was controversial, the “protestors” were toxic.
Convinced of their duty to protect political correctness, the “protestors” began engaging in actions contradictory to their demand for free speech, non-violence, and inclusion.
The following videos provide two glimpses into the “peaceful protest” — the former at the back entrance of the University-Student Union building and the latter in the lobby.
Mob mentality at its finest, heightened by a common enemy known as Ben Shapiro, or the “spawn of the Patriarchy” (as stated by a number of far-left “protestors” in attendance).
Now, coming from someone who would benefit from Affirmative Action, has stood in solidarity with a number of progressive organizations and movements, and is fully aware of oppressive systems and institutions, this protest was embarrassing and downright disturbing.
Misguided students and “protestors” failed to see their hypocrisy. Being politically correct is not synonymous with being politically (and physically) intolerant of other ideas. Choosing to demonize someone before even engaging in dialogue is foolish at best.
Fortunately, in the sea of phones, posters, and “protestors”, a few individuals held their ground on behalf of free speech.
The following video showcases a young man trying to level with students who looked more confused than “harmed”:
Like the young man in the video, I wasn’t able to get inside the theater to listen to Shapiro. Slurs like “racist”, “bootlicker”, and “Uncle Tom” were fired my way for simply wanting to listen to and participate in a conversation.
If there’s one thing I took away from the CSULA v. Ben Shapiro mayhem that day, it would be that listening is the most important part of a conversation. Quick to point fingers, scapegoat, and instigate, the “protestors” failed to see Shapiro’s lecture as a lesson.
The importance of education, especially in college, is the introduction of new ideas and concepts. We don’t have to agree with everything that is presented to us, but we should know better than to use violence, provocation, and tantrums as means to settle disagreements.
Jumping to conclusions leads to a free-fall into ignorance. There was room for debate, dialogue, and questions. Instead, the “protestors” chose to create noise without substance and cite political correctness as rationale for their behavior.
Some people are just so desperate to be understood that they forget to be understanding. Or conscious.
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Ah yes, I’ve been waiting for this all year. Finally, as the Abramoff-Scanlon-Norquist-Reed Casino Shakedown Scandal gains momentum, some are beginning to wonder if a close acquaintence of all these gents named Karl Rove might have had some idea what was going on. Last week my colleague The Moose cited a Texas Observer article by Rove-watcher Lou Dubose reminding readers of lots of little favors the Bush White House performed for Abramoff and Norquist and their clients (both men, of course, especially Norquist, were early and avid backers of W. for president in 2000). And everybody knows Ralph Reed has been a big-time Bush-Rove favorite who helped create the Christian-K Street coalition which saved W.’s bacon against John McCain in 2000, and who was allowed to test-drive the GOP’s state-of-the-art Get Out the Vote strategy as Republican Party chairman in Georgia in 2002.But I come at this issue from a slightly different perspective. When it first became apparent that the Texas scam of Reed taking Abramoff-generated Indian Casino money to run anti-gambling initiatives had been replicated in Alabama, I thought: Hmmmm. Texas and Alabama. Alabama and Texas. Don’t we know somebody famous who made these two states his personal political stomping grounds in the 1990s? Some guy named Rove?Rove’s dominance of Texas politics in the 1990s is a well-known story. But as Josh Green explained in his Atlantic profile of Rove last year, Alabama was nearly as large a preoccupation for the Boy Genius. As part of his patented effort to bond the business community and cultural conservatives (and their money) to the GOP through abrasive judicial campaigns, Rove was deeply involved in an effort to take over the Alabama Supreme Court from 1994 to 1998 (indeed, his one loss was to a judicial candidate named Roy Moore, a defeat which, according to Green, deepened Rove’s respect for the political power of the Christian Right).Now, none of this proves in the least that Rove had any involvement in the Casino Shakedown, even though it sure seems Rovian in its three-cushion-shot dynamics of raising special-interest money to succor conservative constituency groups and damage Democrats. But the idea that anything as big as this scam, involving several Rove/Bush intimates and three very visible statewide public campaigns, went down in those two particular states without ol’ Karl having a clue about it is as incredible as the idea that Ralph Reed got millions of casino dollars without suspecting the source of the money. Somewhere, the bloodhounds are gathering and getting the scent of dirty dollars. It will be interesting to follow their trail.
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By Ed Kilgore
In looking at Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization from many angles at New York, one I noted was the lonely position of Chief Justice John Roberts, who failed to hold back his conservative colleagues from anti-abortion radicalism:
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will go down in history as a 6-3 decision with only the three Democrat-appointed justices dissenting, Chief Justice John Roberts actually did not support a full reversal of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. His concurring opinion, which argued that the Court should uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy without entirely abolishing a constitutional right to abortion, represented a path not taken by the other five conservative members of the Court.
When the Court held oral arguments on the Mississippi law last December, the conservative majority’s determination to redeem Donald Trump’s promise to reverse Roe v. Wade was quite clear. The only ray of hope was the clear discomfort of Chief Justice John Roberts, as New York’s Irin Carmon noted at the time:
“It seemed obvious that only Roberts, who vainly tried to focus on the 15-week line even when everyone else made clear it was all or nothing, cares for such appearances. There had been some pre-argument rumblings that Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh might defect, perhaps forming a bloc with Roberts to find some middle ground as happened the last time the Court considered overturning Roe in 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey. On Wednesday, neither Barrett nor Kavanaugh seemed inclined to disappoint the movement that put them on the Court.”
Still, the Casey precedent offered a shred of hope, since in that 1992 case some hard and imaginative work by Republican-appointed justices determined not to overturn Roe eventually flipped Justice Anthony Kennedy and dealt a devastating blow to the anti-abortion movement. Just prior to the May leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion (which was very similar in every important respect to the final product), the Wall Street Journal nervously speculated that Roberts might be undermining conservative resolve on the Court, or change sides as he famously did in the Obamacare case.
In the wake of the leak there was some reporting that Roberts was indeed determined not to go whole hog in Dobbs; one theory about the leak was that it had been engineered to freeze the other conservatives (especially Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who during his confirmation hearings had said many things incompatible with a decision to reverse Roe entirely) before the chief justice could lure them to his side.
Now it appears Roberts tried and failed. His concurrence was a not terribly compelling plea for “judicial restraint” that left him alone on the polarized Court he allegedly leads:
“I would take a more measured course. I agree with the Court that the viability line established by Roe and Casey should be discarded under a straightforward stare decisis analysis. That line never made any sense. Our abortion precedents describe the right at issue as a woman’s right to choose to terminate her pregnancy. That right should therefore extend far enough to ensure a reasonable opportunity to choose, but need not extend any further certainly not all the way to viability.”
Roberts’s proposed “reasonable opportunity” standard is apparently of his own invention, and is obviously vague enough to allow him to green-light any abortion ban short of one that outlaws abortion from the moment of fertilization, though he does seem to think arbitrarily drawing a new line at the beginning of the second trimester of pregnancy might work. Roberts’s real motivation appears to be upholding the Court’s reputation for judiciousness, which is indeed about to take a beating:
“The Court’s decision to overrule Roe and Casey is a serious jolt to the legal system — regardless of how you view those cases. A narrower decision rejecting the misguided viability line would be markedly less unsettling, and nothing more is needed to decide this case.”
In his majority opinion (joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett, along with Kavanaugh) Alito seems to relish in mocking the unprincipled nature of the chief justice’s temporizing position:
“There are serious problems with this approach, and it is revealing that nothing like it was recommended by either party …
“The concurrence would do exactly what it criticizes Roe for doing: pulling “out of thin air” a test that “[n]o party or amicus asked the Court to adopt …
“The concurrence asserts that the viability line is separable from the constitutional right they recognized, and can therefore be “discarded” without disturbing any past precedent … That is simply incorrect.”
One has to wonder that if Merrick Garland had been allowed to join the Court in 2016, or if Amy Coney Barrett had not been rushed onto the Court in 2020, Robert’s split-the-differences approach eroding but not entirely abolishing the constitutional right to abortion might have carried the day in Dobbs. But that’s like speculating about where we would be had Donald Trump not become president in 2017 after promising conservatives the moon — and an end to Roe.


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Congresswoman Votes Against VAWA Because of LGBT Inclusiveness
BY Michelle Garcia
March 05 2013 4:01 AM ET
A Republican congresswoman admitted that the only thing preventing her from voting in favor of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act because of its' LGBT-inclusive provisions, among others.
Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn told MSNBC that she voted against the newly approved House version of the VAWA due to added protections for LGBT people subjected to partner violence, as well as Native American people and immigrants. Blackburn was one of the 138 to vote against the bill, with 286 in favor. Eighty-seven Republicans supported the LGBT-inclusive VAWA.
"I didn't like the way it was expanded to include other different groups," she said. "What you need is something that is focused specifically to help the shelters and to help out law enforcement who is trying to work with the crimes that have been committed against women and helping them to stand up."
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Maersk Gains on Bets Freight Rates to Rise: Copenhagen Mover
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S (MAERSKB), owner of the world’s largest container line, snapped a three-day loss in Copenhagen trading on bets customers will accept higher freight prices.
Maersk rose as much as 3.2 percent, making the company today’s second-biggest gainer the Copenhagen 20 index of benchmark stocks. The share advanced 920 kroner, or 2.5 percent, to 37,200 kroner at 12:24 p.m. in the Danish capital.
Maersk Line, the Copenhagen-based container division, today introduced a peak-season surcharge on Asia-Europe routes following an easing of concerns that had prompted a two-week delay. The market is “firm enough” to sustain the increase, Maersk’s North Asia Chief Executive Tim Smith said in an e-mail.
The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index, which jumped 60 percent over the first four months of the year, retreated in May as operators added vessels to take advantage of the better rates. That jeopardized the supply and demand balance operators had created by pooling or idling ships and slowing speeds.
Maersk Line is levying the $350 per twenty-foot container surcharge as retailers stock up for the peak season. The carrier and other lines earlier delayed surcharges as rising capacity and concerns about the European economy damped rates and shipments.
Maersk shares outperformed a 0.8 percent advance in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index today, spurred by speculation central banks may take steps to ease the fallout of Europe’s debt crisis with additional stimulus measures.
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Amid the rising popularity of Cryptocurrency, a possibility has opened up where hackers could exploit the loopholes present in the market and scam a lot of people worldwide.
The industry experts have warned that if there is a large number of people getting attracted to Cryptocurrency, it would also attract hackers and scammers to take advantage of the loopholes present in the industry.
It was already estimated by some people that in January and July this year, in significant Cryptocurrency, more than $650 million was targeted in frauds, thefts, and hacks.
Due to a lack of proper understanding of this technology, it is also estimated that there are more scams, hacks, and thefts which are yet to be reported.
Cryptocurrency, just like any other industry, is not totally immune to increasing scams and thefts.
The investors are therefore warned by the industry experts that while they are investing in these digital assets, they should first understand the risks involved in trading.
In order to keep their investments safe, a trader should fully understand the technology and the scams, hacks, and thefts which are possible due to loopholes associated with it. The trader should also learn from common mistakes made by others and the potential pitfalls.
Some of the few tips and suggestions by the experts are enumerated below:
1. The investor itself should thoroughly research the crypto or any digital asset an investor is investing in. The investor should begin with the crypto project’s official website. The investor should also research its current backers, developers, and founders; also, it should be researched that where the project is available for the investor to buy. These little things would help make the investor clear his doubts on whether they should buy the asset or not.
2. Another tip from experts is that the investor should always download the exchange or trading apps through verified sources only. Downloading apps from unverified sources might lead the investor to get tricked by several scammers. However, these apps are easily identified and removed, but it does not mean that these fake apps will not be there on the internet. The investor should thoroughly check the app’s interface, look for spelling mistakes, and should ask themself whether the branding is flimsy or the brand has an incorrect logo.
3. Just like fake apps, there are fake websites too that are made by scammers. Investors who are beginners should ask or take some advice from people who have been in the crypto industry for a long time and should learn from them how to identify fake or impostor websites. The investor should also beware of phishing emails.
4. At last, the investor should protect their wallets. There are two keys all wallets carry, one is public, and the other is private. It should be ensured by the investor that no matter what, the private key should not be accessible by the public, other than themself. There are cold wallets in Cryptocurrency that are the safest way to keep your private keys.
Despite taking all these steps, there are still chances of possible scams and thefts, and the investor should always be careful before downloading or surfing on any website.

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Nice location, but don't be misled by their catering operation. This place has a very nice front dinning area. The menu on line does not do the the place justice. There was a selection of European and American fare. We had the Wiener schnitzel. Ample portions with home fries and vegitables. The meat was well cooked and tasty. Two main... 更多
Carolyn was our server very nice but very busy on this Easter Sunday, my sister and I both chicken and dumpling, awesome as usual. Always worth the trip!

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