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Versalis, a subsidiary of Eni, and The Flo Group, a brand that specializes in the production of tableware and food packaging, have partnered to create the R-Hybrid: the first vending cup made from post-consumer recycled polystyrene.
The partnership is a step towards food packaging innovation with a more efficient recycling system involving the reuse of resources—R-Hybrid is itself also recyclable.
Styrenics Circular Solution (SCS), a European association, and Fraunhofer Institute, Europe’s leading applied research center, were involved in the entire styrenics polymer supply chain, from raw material manufacturers to post-consumer recycling companies.
R-Hybrid is thermoformed and has an ABA multilayer, sandwich-type structure, where the inner layer contains r-PS from the Versalis-Revive PS series, developed by Eni's chemical company, and the outer layer contains virgin PS, which acts as a safe functional barrier.
"The R-Hybrid project is strategic because it finally opens the door to the reuse of polystyrene in food containers and ensures that it retains its original value,” Erika Simonazzi, marketing manager of the Flo Group, said in a press release. “The new R-Hybrid combines the benefits of a reduced carbon footprint and the effective reuse of post-consumer plastic that is put back into circulation through the creation of new cups."
The R-Hybrid cup will enter the market at the end of the year, replacing the FLO Group’s Hybrid cup, the beaker which saved the vending market more than 2,600 tonnes of CO2 in 2022 use.
2023-10-02 - During the shale boom, analysts and investors used to reward E&Ps for more production. Now, shareholders prefer more cash returns in their pockets—and experts don’t see that changing anytime soon.
2023-09-29 - Analysts said some measures show capex spending might be significantly underfunded and that “critical amounts of investment” are needed.
2023-09-28 - SM Energy Co.’s board of directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share of common stock outstanding.
2023-09-28 - Net proceeds from the offering are expected to be used to fund a portion of the aggregate purchase price for Western Midstream’s pending $885 million acquisition of Meritage Midstream Services II LLC.
2023-09-27 - Ovintiv received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchanged to purchase up to 26.7 million common shares, or about 10% of its public float, over a 12-month period.

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In recent years, wake steering has been established as a promising method to increase the energy yield of a wind farm. Current practice in estimating the benefit of wake steering on the annual energy production (AEP) consists of evaluating the wind farm with simplified surrogate models, casting a large uncertainty on the estimated benefit. This paper presents a framework for determining the benefit of wake steering on the AEP, incorporating simulation results from a surrogate model and large eddy simulations in order to reduce the uncertainty. Furthermore, a time-varying wind direction is considered for a better representation of the ambient conditions at the real wind farm site. Gaussian process regression is used to combine the two data sets into a single improved model of the energy gain. This model estimates a 0.60% gain in AEP for the considered wind farm, which is a 76% increase compared to the estimate of the surrogate model.
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|Science of Making Torque from Wind 2020, TORQUE 2020 - Online, Virtual, Online, Netherlands
Duration: 28 Sept 2020 → 2 Oct 2020


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Q103 presents Ghost at the Palace Theater on June 6.
Ghost is coming to the Palace Theater Tuesday, June 6.
Doors open at 7pm and the show begins at 8pm.
Tickets on sale Friday, March 31 at 10am at Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster charge by phone 800 745-3000, or the Palace box office 518-465-4663

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A SEATTLE HIP-HOP BLOG
The Bad Tenants continue their live, blues-infused hip-hop with this recent offering from their upcoming project Mostly People. Producer IG88 goes sample free and mood heavy.
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Homegrown music takes over The Rivoli, this Friday the 24th. Montreal rap duo, The Posterz will be headlining the event with support from Toronto’s Jake Bluez and Crossword, Mississauga’s John River, and Hamilton’s Emay. We’ve given you a track from each of these talented artists to get familiar before the show.
What: The Posterz w/ John River, Emay, Crossword & Jake Bluez
Where: The Rivoll – 334 Queen St. W
When: Friday, July 24th, 2015 | Doors open @ 9:00 PM
Admission: 19+ | $12 tickets available via Ticketfly or $15 at the door


Mr. Wichems joined Vertos Medical in September 2011 and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing prior to becoming president, chief executive officer and member of the board of directors. Previously, Mr. Wichems served as director of marketing for medical devices in the plastic surgery market for Allergan Medical. He has almost a decade of experience in the healthcare industry through product management, marketing, and strategic planning assignments at Allergan and Johnson & Johnson.
Mr. Wichems earned a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, a master degree in engineering from North Carolina State University, and a MBA from Duke University.
Ms. Colbert brings both financial and commercial experience to her role at Vertos Medical.
Previously, she held the position of vice president, customer and sales operations for the surgical division of Bausch & Lomb. Ms. Colbert also served in several roles including vice president, finance & sales operations for eyeonics Inc., an ophthalmic device company whose rapid growth and impending IPO prompted Bausch & Lomb to acquire the company in February 2008.
One of the longest tenured employees at Vertos Medical and holding a Business Administration degree from Miami University, Mr. Gray brings over 20 years of medical device experience to the leadership team. Before coming to Vertos to start the domestic sales team, Mr. Gray held various sales and sales management positions with Baxter, Interpore-Cross, Oratec Interventions and St. Jude Neuromodulation. Well versed in the pain management market space, he has been successful in bringing cutting edge procedures to market and building effective teams that challenge the norm and establish them as standards of care.
Karen Davis, Vice President of Clinical Research
Ms. Davis has been in the medical device industry for over 20 years, including 13 years in interventional neurovascular with ev3 Neurovascular and Micro Therapeutics Inc. Her experience has included positions in marketing, business development, and clinical research. Ms. Davis was senior director of clinical research at ev3 Neurovascular, where her responsibilities included implementation and management of all clinical studies worldwide. Ms. Davis also served as director of business development for Intersect Partners, a medical device incubator. Ms. Davis began her career on Wall Street with Merrill Lynch and Needham & Company, where she was vice president of corporate finance and head of the Heathcare Investment Banking Group. Ms. Davis holds a BA in mathematics from Colorado College and an MBA from Stanford University.
Mr. Lalor brings to Vertos Medical over 25 years of medical device leadership experience in manufacturing, quality control and product development. Prior to joining Vertos Medical, Mr. Lalor held various operational and technical management positions at C. Brewer Co., ev3, Terumo, 3M Health Care, and Cardiovascular Devices Inc. (prior to its successful acquisition by 3M Health Care).
Mr. Lalor has been a key leader in successful product launches, scaling up manufacturing capacity, and improving product quality. He holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from California State University, Long Beach.


Japan Toughens on China as Beijing Issues Threats
Pro-engagement politicians are aging out of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan is learning that a more activist foreign policy brings higher risks as China issues increasingly direct threats about teaming up with Washington. It is no coincidence that pressure from Beijing is coming just as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga prepares for his first meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.
“China hopes that Japan, as an independent country, will look at China’s development in an objective and rational way instead of being misled by some countries holding biased view against China,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said to his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, in a phone call. He also made clear that China felt free to lecture Japan on its security alliance with the United States, a 61-year-old pact that both countries like to say is the closest in the world.
China has also made clear it is willing to back up its words with actions, sailing a naval strike group including its aircraft carrier through waters near Japan’s Okinawa (also home to a large U.S. military contingent).
This is an unusual position for Japan, which has historically taken a conciliatory approach in its relations with Beijing and sought to avoid the wrath of the Chinese government.
“Beijing knows that Japan is sensitive to Chinese pressure,” said James D.J. Brown, associate professor at Temple University in Tokyo. “Basically, China takes the view that a little bit of fear helps to keep Japan in line.”
But government officials and politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party seem to have come to the end of their patience as China expands bases in the strategically important South China Sea, ups its incursions around a set of islands controlled by Japan that it claims as its own, strips freedoms from Hong Kong residents, and aggressively defends its actions in the face of international uproar over the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Domestic Japanese political issues are also coming into play with the more China-friendly ruling party’s old guard now losing strength to a younger and more aggressive group of lawmakers.
In some ways, the problems are of Japan’s own making, dating back to a more aggressive approach by then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who declared the Japan would push for a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” in 2016.
Abe rolled out the idea at the Nairobi meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development. “Japan bears the responsibility of fostering the confluence of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and of Asia and Africa into a place that values freedom, the rule of law, and the market economy, free from force or coercion and making it prosperous,” Abe told the group.
The concept was initially presented as a strategy to counter China. Later, Japan started to call it a vision and emphasized its developmental aspect. “Despite the change in the way the idea is presented, the objective of maintaining the balance of power in the region has not,” said Narushige Michishita, vice president at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.
The concept would gain traction over the years. It was adopted in the U.S. National Security Strategy in December 2017 and today forms a part of a broad swathe of related programs. These range from the increasingly high-profile “Quad” meetings of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India to joint military maneuvers that will bring Britain’s aircraft carriers on a mission to the South China Sea this year, underscoring international opposition to China’s claim that the critically important sea route is its own territorial waters. France has also done its own sailings in the area.
“Obtaining support from Britain and France has very significant international political implications,” Michishita said.
The so-called “freedom of navigation” missions have been a core element of U.S. policy. Japan has meanwhile emphasized the less-confrontational assistance side of the equation, recently announcing a new deal to sell defense equipment to Indonesia, an agreement Suga said he hopes will be the “foundation of further security cooperation between the two countries.” Previously, Japan has provided patrol ships to Vietnam and surveillance aircraft to the Philippines, two other nations that border the South China Sea.
The strategy also marked a fundamental change for Japan under the more hawkish Abe. Since the end of World War II, it has generally carried out a low-key and non-combative foreign policy, even as its economic rise offered the chance for the financial equivalent of gunboat diplomacy.
This “why can’t we be friends?” approach was in some respects rooted in the country’s past. Its own era of hegemony was kicked off in its surprise victory over the Russian navy in the 1904 to 1905 Russo-Japanese War, starting an expansionism that would eventually end in humiliation with its surrender in 1945. This was soon followed by the adoption of a constitution written by U.S. occupiers—but still enthusiastically backed by many Japanese—that renounces the use of military force except in self-defense.
There was—and is—a more practical aspect as well. Japan’s foreign policy can largely be summed up in the maxim that politics is bad for business. By staying out of contentious global issues (except to always call for peace), the government has helped maintain healthy business relations with as many countries as possible. Trade was not a weapon used to reach a broader goal; it was the goal.
This focus produced Japan’s careful dance with China that has worked until recently. Even as Abe pushed his Indo-Pacific strategy, it did not close the door on improving relations with China.
As recently as the pre-pandemic days of early 2020, Japan was hoping to host a state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, despite increasing global outrage over the alleged use of Uyghur Muslims’ forced labor in the cotton-producing region of Xinjiang and increasing restrictions in Hong Kong. While not silent on these issues, Japan had been subdued in its criticism. In the end, the trip was postponed, ostensibly due to COVID-19.
Japan’s policy was also aided by the Trump administration. With a belligerent United States, China was trying to shore up support elsewhere, and anyone would look better than the mercurial then-U.S. President Donald Trump. Notably, Beijing signaled a more positive stance toward Japan by turning off the always-handy spigot of anti-Japanese sentiment it can martial when necessary, as seen in anti-Japanese violence in 2012.
Japan has been rewarded economically for this reticence. Exports to China have grown steadily over the past four years from $110 billion in 2016 to $141 billion in 2020 when the fast-recovering Chinese economy provided a lifeline amid the COVID-19 crisis elsewhere and is now the largest single market. After a preemptive warning in 2010 with a suspension of rare earth exports, China has avoided the kind of economic pressure it has used in relation to nations from Australia to Norway.
But the days of a soft relationship with China may be ending, with Japan’s historically close, if unofficial, ties with Taiwan coming to the forefront. Lawmakers representing the ruling party’s foreign affairs group are even proposing that Japan adopt its own version of the U.S. Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 that mandates the United States must help Taiwan in its defense. The group also suggested high-level meetings with Taiwanese politicians.
Such moves would represent a new front in Japan’s more visible diplomacy. “We want to bolster our diplomatic prowess through a two-pronged approach, using our human rights and Taiwan project teams,” lawmaker Masahisa Sato said in February.
Some analysts say Japan also needs to weigh how much it can rely on the United States in light of the shifting sands of the Trump presidency and now concerns of potential distractions elsewhere for the Biden administration. “All of this means Japan will need to maintain and perhaps even deepen its more independent and activist foreign policy,” said John West, executive director of the Asian Century Institute. This makes the upcoming Biden-Suga talks more important than the usual amiable U.S.-Japan summits.
Japan is learning that taking a more visible role in geopolitical affairs means you are going to get criticized. “We are gravely concerned about Japan’s recent negative actions concerning China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in reaction to the Japan-Indonesia deal. For good measure, she took a Trumpian swipe at Japan’s generally docile press corps. “We also urge relevant Japanese media to uphold their social responsibility and professional ethics, stop fabricating disinformation, and refrain from inciting confrontation and creating tensions between regional countries,” she said. Fortunately, the Chinese government can provide free training.
If China backs up its rhetoric with economic sanctions, Japan will see the potential cost of abandoning its “economy first” foreign policy. It’s no coincidence this will put it in the same boat as Australia and India, both recent victims of China’s economic pressure.
Economics is never a one-sided game, however. China has said it wants to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement based on the Obama-era Trans-Pacific Partnership that was meant to encircle China, only to be abandoned by Trump but rescued by Japan. To join, it will need to negotiate with each of the current members, including Japan and Australia. Those talks should be interesting, especially now that few harbor the rosy 2001 notion of a “westernizing China” when it gained entry into the World Trade Organization. Today, its goals and plans to get there are much clearer.


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The find will help with county road records
by Randy Parks
For a number of years, employees at the Harney County Courthouse had come across references to a “plat book” when dealing with county road legal issues.
Trouble was, none of the employees, or even former employees, had ever seen this supposed plat book.
Then, this spring, County Clerk Dag Robinson was organizing boxes in the vault, or storage area, when he spotted something behind a rack of shelves. He slid the remaining boxes off the shelves, and there, leaning up against the wall, was what looked like an over-sized, unmarked book.
The shelves were slid out as far as they would go in the crowded space, and Robinson wiggled the book out into the open. The edge of the book that had been resting on the ground was somewhat disfigured by moisture and the weight of all the years, and the pages a bit tattered, but otherwise, the book was in pretty good shape.
One look inside, and Robinson realized he had just found the plat book that had been missing for years.
How did the book get there? The best guess is that back in 1959, the courthouse was condemned, and all legal documents were moved over to the former Lincoln Junior High, so work could be done on the courthouse.
Two years later, after renovations, everything was moved back into the courthouse, and it’s speculated that the plat book was placed against a wall for what was expected to be just a “short while.” As more boxes were moved back into the courthouse, the shelves were filled, covering up the book, and the book was soon forgotten.
Further research revealed that former Harney County Surveyor C. E. Beery had been commissioned to complete the plat book in 1915, and was allowed the sum of $200 upon completion of the work.
Robinson said the discovery of the plat book is important because it shows where the county roads are supposed to be.
The county had been using the road record book in the plat book’s absence, but the accuracy of the road record book was somewhat skewed.
Howard Palmer and former county judge Dale White have been working for some time on getting an accurate account of county roads, but Palmer said there is a large margin for error in the road record book. He noted that at the time the records were recorded, the surveyors were using a compass and chains. If the compass was off just a few degrees, the road would end up in a different spot than what the legal record showed.
Robinson said the plat book will help verify the actual intent of the road, no matter where the actual road is now.
“The county has an obligation to know what the county road system includes legally,” Robinson said.
Now that the plat book has been discovered, plans are to have the pages scanned and then tie the images in to the county’s Geographic Information System (GIS) to produce an accurate account of the county road system.
If anyone is interested in preserving Harney County history and learning GIS technology, contact Bryce Mertz at 541-573-8195.

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In the fast-paced world we live in, our cognitive abilities are often put to the test. From demanding work schedules to the complexities of daily life, the need for mental clarity, focus, and enhanced cognitive performance has never been more crucial. In this pursuit, various methods and supplements have emerged to support brain function, and one such promising addition to the realm of cognitive enhancement is Cortexi.
Cortexi, often recognized as a cutting-edge cognitive enhancement supplement, has garnered attention for its potential to elevate mental performance, sharpen focus, and promote overall brain health. It operates on the premise of harnessing a blend of scientifically backed ingredients designed to support cognitive functions and unlock one’s mental potential.
Unraveling Cortexi: What Sets It Apart?
Cortexi distinguishes itself through a fusion of meticulously selected ingredients renowned for their cognitive-boosting properties. The supplement often combines natural components that have demonstrated effectiveness in various studies:
1. Bacopa Monnieri:
Known for its cognitive-enhancing properties, Bacopa Monnieri is believed to support memory and cognitive function. It has been used in traditional medicine for centuries and is a key ingredient in many nootropic formulations, including Cortexi.
2. Lion’s Mane Mushroom:
Lion’s Mane is acclaimed for its potential in promoting nerve growth factor (NGF) production, which may aid in brain health and cognitive function. It’s a fascinating component in Cortexi due to its potential neuroprotective and cognitive benefits.
3. Rhodiola Rosea:
This adaptogenic herb is recognized for its ability to help combat stress and fatigue, potentially enhancing mental performance and mood, making it a valuable addition to Cortexi‘s formula.
4. L-Theanine and Caffeine:
The combination of L-Theanine and Caffeine is known for its synergistic effects on focus, attention, and overall cognitive performance. Cortexi often balances these ingredients to provide a smooth energy boost without the typical jitters associated with caffeine intake.
Unlocking Potential: The Benefits of Cortexi
The potential benefits of Cortexi encompass a range of cognitive improvements, including:
- Enhanced Focus and Concentration: Cortexi’s ingredients work synergistically to help sharpen focus and improve concentration, enabling individuals to better tackle tasks that require prolonged mental engagement.
- Improved Memory and Learning: The supplement’s constituents may support memory retention and learning ability, providing an edge in knowledge acquisition and retention.
- Mood Elevation and Stress Reduction: Cortexi‘s blend often includes components known for their potential to reduce stress and improve mood, aiding individuals in navigating challenges with a clearer, more composed mindset.
- Brain Health and Longevity: With ingredients that are potentially neuroprotective, Cortexi may contribute to the overall health and longevity of the brain, supporting its function as individuals age.
In the quest for improved cognitive performance and mental clarity, Cortexi emerges as a promising solution. As with any supplement, individual responses may vary, and it’s crucial to consult a healthcare professional before introducing any new supplement into one’s routine, especially for those with underlying health conditions or those taking medications.
Cortexi represents an exciting frontier in the world of cognitive enhancement, offering a blend of natural ingredients designed to support mental acuity and overall brain health. However, while it shows promise, more research and individual experiences will continue to shape our understanding of its efficacy.
Remember, the pursuit of enhanced cognitive function should not only involve supplements but also a holistic approach that includes proper nutrition, adequate sleep, regular exercise, and mental stimulation. Cortexi, with its potential, serves as a complement to these efforts in the journey towards a sharper, more focused mind.

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New Music: Tyler, the Creator - 'I Ain't Got Time!'
Tyler, the Creator “Ain’t Got Time!”
Just days before dropping his new album, Flower Boy, the Odd Future MC unleashes his latest release, “I Ain’t Got Time!”
The new track has an uptempo bounce, with quick-paced production, and a high-energy hook. It samples “Introduction” by Bel-Sha-Zaar, which has famously been sampled by Deee-Lite (“Groove Is in the Heart”) and J Dilla (“One Time”).
As previously reported, the song also includes a revealing lyric that is believed to be about his sexuality. “Next line, I’ll have em’ like woah,” he raps. “I’ve been kissing white boys since 2004.”
According to Tyler, the song is a combination of two different beats. One of the instrumentals was made for Kanye West during The Life of Pablo sessions, while the other was inspired by Deee-Lite’s Q-Tip and Bootsy Collins-assisted “Groove Is the Heart.”
Once Tyler combined these tracks into one, he had other plans for it. “I wanted Nicki Minaj on that shit so fucking bad,” he said. “You have no idea. I reached out to her so many times. Tried to get her number. She couldn’t think of nothing. She said, ‘I couldn’t think of nothing.’ That’s what they relayed. I’m like, ‘How the fuck you hear this beat and can’t think of shit? Stop that shit. Stop playing.’ I’m like, ‘Nicki playing me right now.’
“If Nicki got on that shit,” he added, “it would bring, not only me to a newer audience, but it would bring her to an audience of people who don’t think her shit is tight.’ That’s no shade to her. There’s a whole audience of people who’d be like, ‘Damn, I’ve never heard Nicki like that.’ I became a big fan of Nicki when I heard “Four Door Aventador” off the other album, when it wasn’t no trap-party-club shit. It was just her going in. I was like, ‘Nicki, trust me.’ She couldn’t think of nothing, so I was like, ‘Fuck it.'”

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A noteworthy review of Machines at Work from Booklist on April 15, 2007
With simple words and full-page color photos of trucks in action, this small book in the Machines at Work series will have wide appeal for all those fans who can never get enough of powerful, dramatic vehicles. More than just a look at trucks on the road, the text offers clear talk about how tow trucks are used, with close-ups of the cab, engine, winch, boom, cable, and hook at work. At the end, a huge truck pulls a bus that crashed in Canada; a smaller truck picks up a car in New York City. Many young preschoolers will connect the trucks in the books with the toys they love to play with.
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At 1827 hours, February 11, 2010, the Fremont Police Department responded to an auto-pedestrian collision on Civic Center Drive, south of Mowry Ave. Responding officers found a 73 year old male with serious injuries.
The Traffic Unit investigation revealed that the pedestrian had been crossing eastbound in the marked crosswalk between the Washington West complex and Washington Hospital. As the pedestrian crossed the northbound lanes of Civic Center Drive he was struck by a 1987 Toyota Camry being driven by a 57 year old male. The driver of the Toyota Camry immediately stopped and assisted the pedestrian. Both parties are Fremont residents.
As of the writing of this press release the 74 year old pedestrian is in intensive care at a local trauma center. There was no evidence of drug or alcohol influence in this collision. The investigation is continuing and no citations have been issued. The investigation is being conducted by Traffic Officer Nicholas Austin #12759. Any witnesses to this collision who were not contacted by police at the scene are requested to call the Fremont Police Traffic Unit at 510-790-6760.

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A LOT has changed about Stanton St John in 100 years.
This weekend the village just outside Oxford looked back over a century of life as well as its present. The Stanton St John annual summer festival was held at the village’s Wheatley Road cricket club on Sunday and Monday.
As well as a wide range of entertainment, including birds of prey and sports, there was also a display of artefacts of village life and local arts and crafts.
Six-year-old Milo Thompson, who lives in the village, explored one of his sculptor father Andrew’s creations. He said: “I am having a great time.”
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Challenges of Implementing Inclusive Education of Children with Visual Impairment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Published)
The study investigated the challenges of implementing inclusive education of children with visual impairment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The design of the study is descriptive survey design. The population of the study was all the 80 teachers of children with visual impairment in the 4 centres in Port Harcourt. The simple random sampling technique was used to draw 25% of the population as the sample for the study. A self-designed instrument titled Challenges of Implementing Inclusive Education Scale (CIIES) was used for the study. The cronbach alpha reliability estimate was used to establish the reliability of the instrument. The general reliability of CIIES is given at .92, Social Factors Subscale (SFS) .935, Economic Factors Subscale (EFS) .91 and Emotional Factors Subscale (EFS) .87. Three research questions were answered. Mean and standard deviation were used for the data analysis. It was found out among others that the social factors that may challenge effective implementation of inclusive education are: negative attitude of the society towards these students, unadoptable school environment and language/ communication barriers. More so, the economic factors are: inadequate funding, inadequate number of personnel, inadequate training for personnel and inadequate funding to purchase the necessary technological materials, while emotional factors are discrimination against children with visual impairment, lack of awareness of the special needs of children with visual impairment, marginalization of children with visual impairment. The following recommendations were made among others; the school administrators should take social activities like co-curricular activities very seriously in the schools; that the school administrators should endeavour to meet parents, host community and non-governmental functionaries like Tetfund and oil companies for financial assistance.
Based on the initial survey, it was known that the number diabetic patients with gangrene at Dr. Pirngadi General Hospital Medan in the last five years were as many as 236 patients, and the diabetic cases increase annually. Gangrenous wound healing can be affected by diet, physical exercise, wound care, insulin administration, psychological, and social factors. The study analyzed the effect of diet, physical exercise, wound care, insulin administration, as well as psychological and social factors, to KGD wound healing, wound size, and time decreases. The study was a quasi-experimental design (quasi experiment), under the design of the separate pretest-posttest-sample control group design, involving two groups: the intervention group and the control group. Nursing care has a significant role to gangrenous wound healing in diabetic patients at Dr. Pirngadi General Hospital Medan. This is indicated by the role or influence of the sixth variables of nursing care consisting of diet, physical exercise, wound care, insulin administration, psychological factors, social factors, and wound healing with the value of the odds ratio greater than 1.Based on the multivariate analysis, the value of the role of nursing care to the gangrenous wound healing in diabetic patients is at 0410 x 100% = 41.0%. Gangrenous wound nursing care in patients with diabetes mellitus showed a significant effect with a significance value of 0.001, less than the sig- (0.05). This means that the six independent variables simultaneously bring significant influence on the dependent variable (gangrenous wound healing). It is recommended that further studies improve nursing care services on gangrenous wound healing in diabetic patients, especially with the provision of better diet and exercise facilities so gangrenous wound healing in diabetic patients can be improved

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It is important to remember that Florian Zeller’s 2010 play was written four years before The Father. The two works have a lot in common, including a deft Christopher Hampton translation, a provenance at the Ustinov Studio, Bath, and a focus on the elusiveness of objective reality. But while The Mother is deeply involving, it strikes me as more formulaic than its successor.
As in Zeller’s study of dementia, we are offered differing versions of the same experience. The stressed-out 47-year-old protagonist, Anne, is a woman who claims: “I’ve been had all the way down the line.” She is fretfully suspicious of her husband, Peter, about to leave her for a four-day business conference in Leicester. She is even more desolate about her neglect by her son, Nicholas, and fiercely jealous of his relationship with his girlfriend, Elodie. Zeller plays beautifully on the fears and anxieties of a woman who has invested everything in family relationships and for whom, in midlife, society provides no visible role. But while the play tantalises and intrigues, it never quite achieves the fluidity Zeller perfected in The Father: there is a discernible pattern to Anne’s alternation of confrontational aggression and morose depression.
One of Zeller’s gifts, however, is to write stunning lead roles, and Gina McKee as Anne displays the emotional transparency that is a mark of the first-rate actor. She shifts brilliantly from a sullen resentment of her wayward husband to a skittish gaiety with her son and a rank hostility towards assumed rivals. Richard Clothier, William Postlethwaite and Frances McNamee give accomplished supporting performances in Laurence Boswell’s clinically precise production. Even if the play is overshadowed by its successor, it offers a poignant, deeply Freudian study of a mind on the edge of breakdown.
- At the Tricycle, London, until 5 March. Box office: 020-7328 1000.


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Arepp (African Research and Educational Puppetry Programme) Theatre for Life is celebrating 30 years of educational theatre programmes at schools all over South Africa this year.
They work in line with the Department of Basic Education and in conjunction with the life orientation syllabus. Arepp does plays at these schools and the shows are done in the language of whatever the predominant language of the school is.
On Monday July 24, Arepp was at Buuren High School and did two shows specially aimed at the youth and talking about the issues that young adolescents face. The pupils were given an opportunity to participate and ask questions about the shows afterwards.


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It can be difficult to find a good – and we mean really good – streaming service deal at times. But, with heaps of Black Friday deals already available ahead of the big day on November 25, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has got in on the act and slashed a massive 80% off a subscription for HBO Max.
Right now, new and returning customers in the US can snap up an HBO Max subscription for just $1.99 per month at HBOMax.com for three months. The offer is also available via the Apple Store, Google Play, Amazon, and Roku devices. Potential buyers can also learn more about this deal by booting up their Xbox, PlayStation, LG, and VIZIO devices and heading to their respective online stores.
This Black Friday streaming deal is only available for a limited time, with the deal running until Monday, November 28. So, if you're considering purchasing a subscription at this price, you'll need to act fast.
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The government of the Australian state of New South Wales is deploying drones, sonar and helicopters this summer in a bid to protect beachgoers from sharks.
At an event at Sydney's Coogee Beach on Sunday, Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair formally announced a world-first A$16 million (US$12 million) shark strategy.
Fears about sharks coming too close to surfers, swimmers and fisherman have risen in recent months after a number of attacks in the state's north. So far in 2015, 13 unprovoked shark attack cases have been recorded in NSW by the Australian Shark Attack File, with one fatality. In 2014, there were only three such incidents.
Blair told reporters Sunday that technology, rather than shark culling, was on the table in the five-year deal. "This is a historic moment," he said. "We are leading the world in New South Wales when it comes to how we interact with sharks and how we've utilised a range of technologies to reduce that risk for our beachgoers."
"That's why we've gone for a look into some of the new technologies and other suites of measures we can implement and that's what this response is about," he went on. "It's been led by our scientists."
The government announced in a statement it will be investing in 10 4G listening stations between Tweed Heads and Forster, with a further 10 to be placed at "known shark attack locations" yet to be announced.
The government will also set aside A$7.7 million (US$5.6 million) to test new technologies and forms of water surveillance. Barrier nets and 'clever buoy' sonar technology are among the options to be tested along the state's coastline.
A$3.5 million (US$2.5 million) will be poured into aerial helicopter surveillance services. The government will also continue its shark tagging project, and tagged sharks will eventually be viewable on the SharkSmart mobile app.
Further funding will be made available for shark-detection and deterrence research, and A$1.3 million (US$900,000) will be used for public shark-smart education programs.
The government has emphasised it is attempting to address local concerns, while respecting the advice of scientists and environmentalists. "The coastline is a big part our DNA," NSW Premier Mike Baird said at his inaugural shark summit in September. "There are a number of incredibly promising and helpful technologies that could make a real difference."


Last year ICC Digital brought you a new rising comedic star, the hilarious stand-up, Maureen Sullivan. Maureen entertained us with her wise and witty observations about Lockdown, as well her unique renditions on her musical saw.
Maureen’s fabulous lockdown performances, from her home in ‘SheBu’ (Shepherds Bush), gained her thousands of hits and fans on social media, who all called out for more!
Well she’s back – Last July, during lockdown, Film Director Sé Merry Doyle filmed Maureen performing live on stage at the ICC. Get ready to watch Maureen’s fab performance, full of her seriously sardonically funny dry wit and sharp one-liners – it’s coming to ICC Digital this Friday! But for now here is a sneak preview!
Maureen Sullivan is Scottish, of Irish descent. She has been living in London for 40 years. Maureen has performed in two plays written by Rosalind Scanlon, namely, ‘Lovin Daniel’ and ‘Wash House Stories’ and more recently she appeared in the feature film, ‘The Knitting Ring’. After moving to London, Maureen trained as a Drama and Movement therapist at Central School of Speech and Drama and later studied Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2019, she studied Stand-Up Comedy at City Academy. In 2020 Maureen performed her ‘Lockdown Tour’ seven comedy performances for ICC Digital, which can be viewed here on ICC Digital and on the ICC’s YouTube channel.


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The Metropolitan police commissioner has defended the use of stop and search in tackling rising knife crime and spoken of her determination to fight the perception that it is disproportionately used against black and Asian communities.
Speaking to BBC Asian Network, Cressida Dick said many frontline officers believed a decrease in stop and search was a contributory factor behind the recent rise in knife crime.
In answer to a caller from the West Midlands, where there has been a spate of fatal stabbings, Dick said: “We have probably had a 20% increase [in knife crime in London] in the last year and that is not acceptable to me, so I am encouraging my officers to do stop and search as one of many things that will help to bring this number down.”
Dick said body-worn video would help officers feel more confident about using stop and search and protect them against accusation of racism and unfairness.
“I am very much in favour of stop and search. And I’ve said that to my officers and I want them to feel confident to use it. Now we have body-worn video that helps as well in terms of accountability,” she said.
“Quite often somebody may be upset but when they complain and then they look at the video, they think: ‘Oh yes, well actually I behaved badly. It wasn’t the police officer.’”
Figures show black people are still four times more likely than white people to be stopped. Race relations experts warned Dick that any increase in stop and search would further alienate communities.
But Dick insisted that police were using the tactic fairly, saying: “In London about one in three stop and searches result in something being found. That shows we not just doing random work.”
Asked about concerns that people are being searched because of the colour of their skin, Dick said: “We need to fight that perception; we are absolutely not doing that. It has no place in modern policing. Our outcome rate, one in three positive, is the same whether you are black or white, or whoever you are.
“The perception might be that we stop lots of, for example, young black men and we don’t find anything. We do. I’m sorry to say we find the same rate among people of colour and the people not of colour that we stop. That is not disproportionate, that shows fairness in terms of our activity.”
She added: “Of course there have been issues in some of communities where people felt historically that it was used unfairly. That is a significant issue which we must not ignore. Cameras will help a lot.”
Dick conceded that the police needed to do more to communicate with black and Asian communities. She said this was partly why she agreed to do the hour-long interview and phone-in on the Asian Network. “We have to reach out differently to different people,” she said.
At the end of the interview, Dick revealed that she had been a supporter of the Pakistan cricket team since 1972, when she met the team’s future captain. Dick, who was a keen cricketer at school and university, said: “I have supported Pakistan since I was 11 years old when I met Mr Imran Khan.”
The admission means she would fail Norman Tebbit’s infamous cricket test, in which the former Conservative cabinet minister infuriated Caribbean and Asian communities by urging them to back the English cricket team.

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NEW DELHI: After the festive week of Onam, Kerala
on Wednesday reported over 31,445 new cases, highest since May 20.
The Test Positivity Rate
) in the state stands at 19 per cent. The last time Kerala crossed the 30,000 mark was on May 20 when it reported 30,491 cases. Meanwhile, the toll mounted to 19,972 with 215 new deaths.
The spike in Kerala comes after days of relatively low testing and detections due to Onam. The state reported fewer than 17,000 new daily cases over the past three days, although the numbers prior to that were above 20,000.
The state's tally nearly equalled India's count on the previous day, when 24,733 cases were detected.
With the rise in Covid-19 cases in the state, state Health Minister Veena George said an intensive screening/testing program has been launched to detect as soon as possible who all are infected with coronavirus and to reduce further spread of the pandemic.
India on Wednesday reported 37,593 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours with Kerala contributing to a majority of 24,296 fresh infections.

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Ultra-thin-film transistors based on ultra-thin amorphous ZnSnO films
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Ultra-thin amorphous ZnSnO (a-ZTO) films were deposited by pulsed laser deposition at room temperature and annealed at various temperatures for ultra-thin-film transistors (UTFTs). The thicknesses of the ultra-thin a-ZTO films are approximately 3.1 nm. The electrical resistivity of the nanofilms decreases greatly with the annealing temperature initially increasing. All the UTFTs with annealing temperature ranging from 250 to 450 °C exhibit good switching properties operating in the enhancement mode with the field-effect mobility of above 8.2 cm2 V−1 s−1. The annealing treatment exhibits extreme importance for the UTFTs to obtain better performance as oxygen vacancy is controlled easily in the ultra-thin films by annealing. The 350 °C-annealed a-ZTO UTFT depicts the largest field-effect mobility of 20.9 cm2 V−1 s−1, the minimum threshold voltage of 2.3 V, the minimum subthreshold swing of 0.339 V/decade, the minimum density of the interfacial trap states of 1.02 × 1012 cm−2 and a large on/off current ratio of 3.3 × 107. Besides, the UTFT with the annealing temperature of 450 °C depicts excellent long-term stability under bias stress due to the least oxygen vacancies. The observations will offer basic design guideline for improvement and future applications of UTFTs.
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no. 51741209 and Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices under Grant no. KFJJ201605.

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Wind Turbine in Yawed Operation
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The task of this project was to investigate the near wake, performance characteristics and yaw moment on a model wind turbine. The test turbine is a horizontal axis three bladed machine with a rotor diameter of 0.9 meter. Initially it is an upwind turbine, but was used for downwind measurements as well by rotating the blades and the entire construction 180^0. For the wake measurements the tip speed ratio was set to be TSR=3, TSR=6 and TSR=9 to describe the different regimes; partly stalled, optimal operation and partly propeller operation. Two different yaw angles, 0^0 and 30^0, was also explored for the near wake measurements. The velocity field was measured at X/D=1, as well as X/D=4 for TSR=6 and the two yaw angles; X/D being the number of rotor diameters downstream from the rotor plane. The performance characteristics and yaw moment were measured for yaw angles 0^0, 10^0, 20^0 and 30^0, and with tip speed ratios from 1 to 11. The power and thrust coefficients were found to decrease with increasing yaw angle. This is due to the reduced projected rotor area and reduced effective wind velocity component interacting with the turbine blades. The loss in power due to the yaw angle of the turbine is approximately 6% for yawAngle=10^0 and 40% for yawAngle=30^0 with upstream configuration. For downstream setup the reduction in power due to the yaw angle was 5.2% and 38% for yawAngle=10^0 and yawAngle=30^0 respectively. The near wake velocity field was strongly influenced by tip speed ratio and yaw angle. At TSR=3 the outer parts of the wake had a velocity close to the freestream velocity. Therefore much of the flow passes through without interacting with the rotor blades. For TSR=6 the velocity deficit was close to uniform in the wake. Most of the turbine blades operate efficiently at the design condition, and gives the peak in the power coefficient curve at this TSR. When TSR=9 the inner part of the blades experience negative angle of attack and provide energy to the wind instead of subtracting it. The outer parts of the blade operate more efficiently, but due to the inner part working as a propeller the power coefficient is low. The thrust coefficient is high for this operating condition. When the turbine is operating in yawed condition, the wake width is reduced and shifted towards the yawed direction. At downstream distance X/D=4 for TSR=6 the wake deficit becomes more uniform for both yawAngle=0^0 and yawAngle=30^0. For the downstream configuration the yaw moment was generally stable at more operating conditions than the upstream setup. Common for both configurations was that the yaw moment tended to rotate the rotor plane out of the wind at low tip speed ratios and yaw angles. The downwind turbine got a stabilizing moment for a lower tip speed ratio than the upwind turbine for all yaw angles. Both upwind and downwind turbine setup had an unconditionally stable yaw moment for yawAngle=30^0.


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On 9 June 2006, the ECAA Agreement was signed by almost all 27 EU Member States, the European Union itself, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Kosovo (UNMIK representing Kosovo under Security Council Resolution 1244). The last two EU Member States to sign it were Slovakia and Latvia on 13 June 2006 and 22 June 2006 respectively. In addition, Serbia signed on 29 June 2006 and Montenegro on 5 July 2006. Agreements that can enter into force on the first day of withdrawal, or only administrative or national implementing measures pending for the agreement to enter into force on the first day. A similar system will be concluded with the Mediterranean partner countries in the field of air transport. The Euro-Mediterranean Air Services Agreement (EMAA) was concluded on 12 December 2006 with the Kingdom of Morocco on 15 Signed with Israel on 10 December 2010 and on 10 June 2013.  These EMAA agreements are in force. The United Kingdom having left the European Union (Brexit), the United Kingdom is no longer part of the common aviation area. In the absence of an authorisation or a new contract with the United Kingdom, the flight to and from Great Britain may be interrupted.  This hard Brexit is delayed until the end of 2020, as the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement stipulates that most EU rules continue to apply to Britain in 2020. However, the EU has adopted Regulations 2019/494 and 2019/505 to secure air traffic between the UK and the EU and the EEA.
 In addition, the UK Government has taken several measures to ensure the continuity of air traffic, such as for example. B an open skies agreement with the United States of America.  The British airline EasyJet, which has many flights outside the UK, founded a subsidiary in Austria (easyJet Europe) and retained its headquarters in Luton, England. This publication can be found in www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-agreements-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-without-a-deal/aviation ECAA Agreement signed on 5 May 2006 in Salzburg, Austria, between the EU and certain third countries. It was built on the acquis communautaire of the EU and the European Economic Area. The ECAA liberalizes the air transport sector by allowing any company from each ECAA member state to fly between airports in ECAA member states, allowing a “foreign” airline to offer domestic flights. Amendment 1 of the Agreement for Cooperation in the Regulation of Civil Aviation Safety between the European Community and the United States of America Agreement between the United States of America and the European Community on Cooperation in the Regulation of Civil Aviation Security The Common European Aviation Area (ECAA) is an internal market for air services. .

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Mexico announced proposed changes to its milk powder import procedures under the “Agreement under which the Secretariat of Economy emits rules and criteria to the general characterization of Foreign Trade”. Stakeholders should submit comments as instructed in the notification before Thursday, November 26, 2020.
On September 28, 2020, Mexico notified the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee of its intent to modify the “Acuerdo por el que la Secretaría de Economía emite reglas y criterios de carácter general en materia de Comercio Exterior” (“Agreement under which the Secretariat of Economy emits rules and criteria to the general characterization of Foreign Trade”), with effects on milk powder products listed under Harmonized System Codes 0402.10.01 and 0402.21.01.
(Link to notice G/TBT/N/MEX/477).
Notably, the changes would establish a new process in which the aforementioned products will require verification of the laboratories issuing the conformity assessment certificates (regulated under Mexican regulation NOM-222) accompanying milk powder shipments before being released by Mexican Customs at any point of entry. Initial public comments regarding potential delays and other disruptions to Mexico’s milk powder trade due to these proposed changes can be accessed via Mexico’s Commission on Regulatory Improvements at http://220.127.116.11/portales/resumen/50003.
Click HERE for a Spanish-language copy of Mexico’s notification to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a non-official, courtesy English translation. — Daniel Alvarado, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service


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The Law of Attraction is that like energy attracts like energy. The Law is based on the principle that we are all energy, everything in our world is energy, and we can influence this energy with our thoughts. Thus positive thoughts attract positive energy and negative thoughts attract negative energy.
What is “positive” and “negative” is subjective, though, so in applying the Law of Attraction in your life, it is necessary for you to create what YOU want, and generate the energy that matches what you want.
The Law of Attraction at one time was held as a highly-guarded secret only taught to those in positions of power who climbed to the top ranks of various secular societies. Due largely to the release and success of the movie and book by Rhonda Byrne, The Secret, in which several Law of Attraction teachers including Bob Proctor and Esther Hicks from Abraham-Hicks were featured, it has become widely known to the general public.
The Law of Attraction is a powerful force and is based on a Universal Law that is working all the time and affecting all the things around you. According to this Universal Law, whatever you focus on you are attracting into your life. It has always existed everywhere, it always will, and it works for everyone all of the time.
Much about the Law of Attraction that used to be considered metaphysical esoteric knowledge is now scientific fact substantiated by quantum physics.
Since the Law of Attraction is a Universal Law, it has nothing to do with what religion you follow or whether or not you believe in a certain type of God. It is a law of the universe that is just as natural as other scientific laws that we accept, such as the law of gravity.
How People Discover the Law of Attraction
Some people discover the Law of Attraction while looking for a solution to a financial hardship. While it may be disconcerting to accept at first, if you are experiencing a financial hardship, YOU have manifested it through the Law of Attraction.
Others discover the Law of Attraction while seeking to overcome a major health challenge. Again, the state of your current health is a result of the totality of the thoughts you have been thinking to produce the physical manifestation of that thinking. To better understand disease, therefore, one need simply closely examine the thoughts one has been thinking in the period leading up to the manifestation of the disease.
And another group of people discover the Law of Attraction in their quest to create the relationship of their dreams. Once again, stories abound about how people have met their soul mate after focusing their thoughts on the qualities and characteristics of the person with whom they want to share their life.
How to Apply the Law of Attraction
While the Law of Attraction has attracted a lot of attention and interest over the past few years as a result of the movie, The Secret, evidence indicates that many people have not yet learned how to apply to use the Law of Attraction properly to create the results they want.
Like learning to play golf or play the piano or the guitar, applying the Law of Attraction to produce the results we are seeking is a skill that requires learning as well as constant and consistent practice, together with the necessary actions to cause those results.
The good news, though, is that since we are continuously doing some form of thinking 24/7/365, while we are breathing we have ongoing opportunities to develop our skill at applying the Law of Attraction in conjunctions with the actions we take to produce the results we want in any and every area of our life.
Why the Law of Attraction Works
The Law of Attraction is basically the principle that whatever we think about we draw into our minds. In a nutshell, then, as soon as we can take control of our thinking and consciously change our thought processes, we will start to attract the things we want into our lives.
The Law of Attraction works because we all have one infinite Power, a God, Higher Power or Universe, and that we all guide ourselves by laws – natural laws of the universe, such as the law of gravity, cause and effect, polarity, action and reaction, and the Law of Attraction.
The Law of Attraction can best be described as a magnetic force that causes like thoughts to attract like experiences. Since these laws of nature are so precise, when what a person is thinking is totally in alignment with what a person wants, he or she can accomplish miracles.
Because the Law of Attraction says that everything in your life is attracted to you by your thoughts, the Universe takes these thoughts as instructions, and manifests what you think about and focus on, into your life’s experience. Thus it is vital to be cognizant of the instructions have you given the universe so far.
The Law of Attraction is an absolute. It does not discriminate. It simply is. Thus it can work both for and against you. To attract what you want into your life, it is imperative that you align your heart and mind to the outcome of your desire, the juicy positive thoughts and feelings of your dream come true that palpably resonate and act as a magnet to your goals.
The results you get from an application of the Law of Attraction can be misleading. While you may experience an outcome that you might regard as disappointing, in retrospect you might find that the disappointing outcome had to occur to teach you a vital lesson for your future or to pave the way for the outcome you were seeking, or possibly an even better outcome than one you imagined.
The Law of Attraction isn’t just about going from barely making it to the level of survival; it’s about experiencing life to the fullest on your journey to the realization of every one of your dreams.
Mission of This Web Site
The law of attraction is a wonderful tool. It can be used by anyone. We are all part of this universe and there is no reason why it will not hear your plea. You must have faith and you must be patient and if you apply the Law of Attraction correctly, you will find that it will soon be working for you.
On this Web site you will find information, tools, thought processes, resources and new Law of Attraction secrets to enable you to gain mastery in applying the Law of Attraction in your life so you become unconsciously competent at attracting into your life whatever you want with velocity, ease and grace!

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The minute pumpkin spice lattes are in mugs and a single leaf falls from the trees, it is autumn in my book. Cool, crisp days just beg for pumpkin patches, corn mazes, hayrides, and apple cider, especially from Louisburg Cider Mill located right outside of Kansas City. The fresh cider donuts are calling your name!
In 1975 Emmett and Mary O'Rear bought an 80-acre farm outside of Louisburg, Kansas with a dream of opening a cider mill and store. Throughout the years the family farm has grown to include a country store and Ciderfest, an annual celebration of everything cider.
All the Activities at Louisburg Cider Mill
There's always something going on at the Louisburg Cider Mill! From September to October join the fun at the Family Farm! Admission includes:
- 10 acre corn maze
- Hay wagon rides
- Children's play area
- Spider web climber
- Mount sunflower slide
- Farm animals
- Huge corn crib
- Tricycle track
- Orchard trail
- Tire tower
- Learning barn
- Bee hive exhibit
- Giant swing set
- Low challenge elements
- Access to the 10 acre pumpkin patch (pumpkins sold separately)
- Jump pillow (extra charge)
Fire pits are available to rent, so make sure to bring your s'mores stuff for fall fun!
Visitors can also visit the Country Store which is open year-round and pick up their favorite Lost Trail Soda as well as apple cider donuts, slushies, and apple butter.
Drink Up at Ciderfest
Get excited because the 43rd Annual Ciderfest starts October 2 with the Louisburg Lions Pancake Breakfast. Throughout the season guests can expect live music, cider and donut making, pony rides, and inflatable slides ongoing throughout the day until 6 p.m. Craft booths, as well as food vendors, will be available
What is the address of the Louisburg Cider Mill?
The Louisburg Cider Mill & Country Store can be found at 14730 K68 Hwy Louisburg, KS 66053.

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A walk through troubled Brixton, in search of answers
The underground train takes only a few minutes to rattle from Waterloo to Stockwell and on to the end of the Victoria line at Brixton, south London. By then almost all the faces in the carriage are black.Skip to next paragraph
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AT the top of the stairs is Brixton Station Road -- and the start of this correspondent's walk through Brixton, where he talked to residents about possible solutions to Britain's worst rioting since World War II. Here is his report.m
Standing with their backs to me are two members of the police force, in dark blue uniforms and distinctive helmets with silver badges, that black youngsters accuse of racial harassment of Brixton people.
I hesitate, checking street names. Two more police on foot patrol pass me from the right. Seconds later, a third pair comes from the left.
A week before, more than 1,000 police, almost all white, battled for hours April 10-12 against bricks, gasoline bombs, and thousands of young Brixton residents, both black and white. Some 143 police were injured, 285 people (mostly black) arrested and charged, nine buildings demolished, more than 100 looted, five burned out. Total damage: about L10 million ($24 million).
I turn left. Yellow signs announce Williams Furniture. The shop windows have all been smashed in and boarded up.
Another police patrol, always two men together. Two-story slums. Window after window boarded up.
It doesn't have the same feel as the streets of American cities after the race riots of the 1960s. No guns: Britain has gun control laws that, by and large, work.
Here it's not strictly "racial" confrontation, but young people, out of work, frustrated by recession, tempted by street crime, rebelling against the symbols of authority: the helmets, the lapel radios, the truncheons of the police.
It's economic and social as well as racial. By British standards of tolerance and stability, it is horrendous.
A year before, blacks rioted in Bristol. Social workers say more riots could come in other cities if relations between young people and police are not improved soon.
Only 0.4 percent of London police are black (117 men). West Indians make up 30 percent of the population of Brixton as a whole and a much higher proportion in the riot area.
In Birmingham, "community policing" puts older police on regular foot patrols in the same area, and involve them with the people through probation, housing, and social service work. Can it be done here?
West Indian youngsters (and whites as well) say young, just-out-of-training-school police constables overreact to abuse and tension. Police saturated Brixton between April 1 and April 10 to try to cut down on 50 to 60 street crimes (robberies, assaults) every week, the highest rate in the city.
They stopped 1,000 people for questioning. They arrested 150. The other 850 are still angry and humiliated.
Older Brixton residents attest to the crime rate.
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|Born: Dec 21, 1805 in Glasgow, Scotland|
|Died: Sep 16, 1869 (at age 63)|
|Famous For: Graham’s Law, Dialysis|
|Awards: Royal Medal of the Royal Society (1837 and 1863), Copley Medal of the Royal Society (1862), Prix Jecker of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1862)|
Thomas Graham was a Scottish chemist best known for his leading work in the diffusion and dialysis of gases.
Graham was born on December 21st, 1805 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the son of a prosperous manufacturer who wanted him to become a church minister. At the age of 14, Graham entered University of Glasgow. While in the university, he was strongly influenced by the chemistry lectures of Thomas Thomson. After getting his M.A . in 1826, he worked for 2 years with Thomas Hope at the University of Edinburgh. After this, he went back to Glasgow where he taught mathematics and chemistry for one year. In 1829, Graham became an assistant at a school where he taught science. Later, in 1830, he was appointed professor of chemistry at Anderson’s College in Glasgow.
In 1834, he became a fellow of the Royal Society. After three years he moved to London, where he became professor of chemistry. In 1841, Graham helped in founding the Chemistry Society of London; this was the first national chemistry society.
Graham became the very first president of the Chemical Society of London and by 1844, Graham was generally acknowledged as the leading chemist in England. He remained in this university for 20 years until he was appointed Master of the Mint in 1854. Graham was an organized, logical and a very accurate teacher. When he became Master of the Mint he took the position very seriously, such that he stopped his research work for several years.
Due to his great work, Thomas Graham received several awards such as the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1862, the Prix Jecker of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1862 and the Royal Medal of Royal Society in 1837 and 1863. Apart from this, his text book, Elements of Chemistry, was widely used in England and Europe
In 1829, Graham published a paper on the diffusion of gases. Most of the observations on this subject were made by Johann Dobereiner and Joseph Priestley, but Graham formulated the law of diffusion. Graham compared the different rates at which various gases diffuse through some porous pots. He also compared the rate of effusion via a tiny aperture. He concluded that the rate of effusion or diffusion of a gas at a constant temperature is simply inversely proportional to square-root of its density. This is popularly known as the Graham’s Law.
Diffusion of Liquids
In 1860, Graham examined liquids. He noted that colored sugar solution placed at the bottom most part of a glass of water gradually extends its color upward. This process was called diffusion. He also noted substances like gelatin, glue, albumen and starch diffuse slowly. He classified substances into two types: crystalloids, substances that diffuse quickly, and colloids, substances that diffuse slowly.
Other works by Thomas Graham includes research into phosphorous acids, absorption of hydrogen by palladium and the water of crystallization in hydrated salts.
Graham died September 16th, 1869 at the age of 63.


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A philosopher used to say that life will be an empty laugh braying across the universe without dreams and longings. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have so far witnessed many heart-stirring moments when people's dreams come true and many heart-breaking events in which people's dreams just "slipped out of their hands."
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We play sports not only to win but for involvement and fun, as is said in Ode to Sport by Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games: O Sport, you are Joy! At your behest, flesh dances and eyes smile; blood races abundantly through arteries. Thoughts stretch out on a brighter, clearer horizon. To the sorrowful, you can even bring salutary diversion from their distress, whilst the happy, you enable fully to savor their joie de vivre.
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|Title:||A sol-gel encapsulated biomass process for the removal ofcopper(II) ions from water and wastewater||Authors:||Cheung, Oi-yee||Degree:||M.Phil.||Issue Date:||2008||Abstract:||Industrial effluents laden with heavy metals must be pretreated before they are discharged into the aquatic environment. The chemical precipitation treatment method produces a large amount of hazardous sludge for disposal. Other conventional treatment methods such as electrochemical treatment and ion exchange are expensive and incapable of removing trace levels of copper(II) ions. Alternatively, biological materials can be applied for the removal and recovery of heavy metals due to their good performance and low cost. Micrococcus sp., which is a Gram-positive bacterium isolated from a local activated sludge process, was proved to be an effective biosorbent for copper(II) removal. However, the use of freely-suspended biomass for biosorption is impractical. This study therefore aimed to develop a novel immobilized cell process for copper(II) removal and recovery from industrial wastewater. The Micrococcus sp. suspended cells were first immobilized in sol-gel/PVA matrix and the immobilized cells were then applied in the biosorption and desorption processes for the removal and recovery of copper(II) ions. The novel sol-gel immobilization technique was used to entrap Micrococcus sp. cells in a sol-gel derived material of silica and polyvinyl alcohol, which has been shown to provide a biocompatible microenvironment for microorganisms. Immobilized biosorbents with both spherical and cylindrical shapes were prepared and their biosorption performances were compared. The optimum conditions for the preparation of immobilized biosorbents were determined. The results indicate that the copper(II) uptake capacity of the spherical biosorbent was higher than that of the cylindrical biosorbent. The biosorption of copper(II) ions was affected by the composition of the sol-gel/PVA matrix as well as the concentration of biomass in the biosorbent. The optimum drying time of the spherical and cylindrical biosorbents was two days and three days, respectively. The effects of pH, biomass dosage, metal concentration, contact time and agitation speed on copper(II) biosorption by the biosorbents were studied in a batch system. Copper(II) biosorption was highly dependent on the solution pH and a maximum biosorption capacity was generally reached at pH 5.0. The Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models were applied to simulate mathematically the equilibrium data. The Langmuir model could better simulate the experimental data with r2 >= 0.99. The pseudo-second order kinetic model could simulate the kinetic data very well with r2 >= 0.96. The rate of copper(II) uptake increased significantly with an increase in the agitation speed from 30 rpm to 100 rpm, and a slight enhancement was observed with a further increase in the agitation speed. The surface morphology of the immobilized biosorbents before and after the copper(II) uptake was examined by a scanning electron microscopy and the surface morphology of the biosorbent changed after the copper(II) uptake. Desorption studies were then conducted to determine the metal recovery efficiency of the metal-laden biosorbent using nine different desorbing agents. The most effective desorbing agent for copper(II) recovery was 0.1 M NTA. The optimum desorption time for both the spherical and cylindrical biosorbents was 6 h. Spherical biosorbent was preferred to cylindrical biosorbent due to its faster copper(II) biosorption and desorption rates. The reusability of the suspended biomass and immobilized biosorbent was compared by performing repeated biosorption/desorption cycles. In contrast to suspended cells, immobilized biosorbent can solve the problem of cell loss in multiple biosorption/desorption cycle operations. Finally, a four-stage semi-continuous immobilized cell batch reactor system was applied for removing and recovering copper(II) from both synthetic and industrial wastewater. This process was capable of producing the effluent at low copper(II) concentration for both synthetic and industrial wastewater. The results indicate that the immobilized cell process can be further developed into practical reactor systems for advanced wastewater treatment.||Subjects:||Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations.
Copper -- Environmental aspects.
Pollutants -- Absorption and adsorption.
Heavy metals -- Absorption and adsorption.
Water -- Purification.
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A former Royal Navy sailor who repeatedly raped two young girls has been jailed for seven years and four months.
Keith Anderson, 60, began abusing the youngsters in December 1986 when they were aged 11 and nine.
The abuse continued for three years until one of the girls threatened to kill him if he touched her again.
He pleaded guilty on indictment to two charges of repeatedly sexually assaulting and raping the girls.
The court was told that he had been jailed in 1976 for assaulting one of the girls and breaking her arm when she was four months old.
He also served a prison sentence in 1980 for attacking a 16-week-old baby boy and breaking 17 of his ribs.
Defending QC Paul Haran said Anderson was willing to undergo rehabilitation to tackle his sexual offending.
Passing sentence, judge Lord Kinclaven noted that Anderson had expressed remorse and regret for the offences committed at a "time of turmoil" in his life.
He told the accused: "You have accepted responsibility for two very serious sexual offences against two children when you were aged between 32 and 35.
"These were offences which took place during a period of about three years against two young children, the first aged between 11 and 14 and the second aged between nine and 12."
He added: "You acted in gross breach of trust."
Lord Kinclaven said the sentence would have been 11 years if Anderson had not accepted responsibility at an early stage by tendering a guilty plea.
Outside court, the older of his two victims, now aged 38, said she had suffered "constant violence" from Anderson.
Asked for her reaction to the jail sentence, she said: "It's not long enough, but it'll do."