The scale and reach of the sequestration spending cuts that will hit the US has been laid bare by government officials who warn that the order for the cuts, which was signed by president Barack Obama late Friday, would be "deeply destructive" to the economy and national security.
The Office of Management and Budget has compiled an official report on the breakdown of the $85bn cuts package, which was triggered by a failure to reach a broader political consensus on deficit reduction. The document reveals a detailed list of how the cuts will hurt spending at every level of government. It shows that research spending at the Department of Agriculture will be hit by $55m of cuts, while $150m will go from the immigration system at the Department of Homeland Security.
The long list of cuts includes relatively smaller sums – like $1m being lost for a dam project on the Colorado River and $6m cut from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund – to larger budgetary swipes, including $30m being removed from cultural exchange programs at the State Department. The Pentagon faces widespread cuts. It is losing some $2.6bn from its Defense Health Program and $3.4bn dollars from the navy's operation and maintenance budget. The Army faces losing $4.6bn from its equivalent budget.
The OMB issued a stark analysis of the impact of the cuts in a letter to Congress that was issued with the report and signed by Jeffrey Zients, deputy director for management. "The cuts required by sequestration will be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments and core government functions," Zients wrote.
On Saturday, Obama warned of a "ripple effect" through the American economy that would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. Obama said the sequestration was "not smart". "The pain will be real," he said in his weekly address. "Many middle-class families will have their lives disrupted in a significant way."
He added that up to 750,000 jobs could be lost and a half per cent knocked off America's economic growth this year. "This will cause a ripple effect across the economy. Businesses will suffer because customers will have less money to spend... These cuts are not smart. They will hurt our economy and cost us jobs."
The sequester originates in a political crisis in 2011, when debates over deficit reduction almost saw the American government default on its debt payments. In order to avert that crisis Democrats and Republicans agreed that unless they struck a deal on shrinking the country's debt, cuts would be made to federal spending. The idea was that the prospect of cuts to social services would motivate the Democrats and hurting military spending would do the same for Republicans.
Instead, despite Friday's deadline no grand bargain was struck and the cuts – which neither side had intended to actually happen – are now coming into force. Over the next 10 years they will represent $1.2tn dollars of slashed spending.
The hardest hit part of the government will be the Pentagon, which must dig out some $40bn of cuts between now and September – about 9% of its budget. Defence chiefs have said that the move will delay deployments, such as a recent move of an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, and hurt national security.
But almost every government department, from aviation to the parks service, will be hit, with cuts amounting to about 5% of overall budgets. Only Medicaid and welfare benefits such as food stamps are exempted. The Federal Aviation Authority has said that it will have to close scores of air traffic control towers and the National Labor Relations Boards has given staff 30 days of notice that they could be suspended from their jobs. Over the next few weeks more and more such letters will go out, threatening school services and the smooth running of scores of other government functions.
In his speech, Obama slammed Republicans as being to blame for inaction, saying that their hostility to any sort of extra tax revenues being generated from rich Americans was the root cause of the problem. In recent weeks, and since his victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in last year's presidential election, Obama has not shied away from attacking his opponents as defenders only of the wealthy.
"It's happening because Republicans in Congress chose this outcome over closing a single wasteful tax loophole that helps reduce the deficit. Just this week, they decided that protecting special-interest tax breaks for the well-off and well-connected is more important than protecting our military and middle-class families from these cuts," Obama said.
But Republicans want only cuts, on welfare rather than defence, and have insisted on no new taxes. The Republican House speaker, John Boehner, pictured, was adamant at the end of the White House talks Friday that he would not contemplate any new taxes. "The discussion about revenue is over," Boehner said. That hard line is popular with his party's right-wing base but has left the party vulnerable to being attacked as being too entrenched in its ideology – especially after Obama's resounding election victory.
In seeking to lay the blame for the sequester at the door of the Republicans, the Obama administration has run a carefully orchestrated image campaign aimed at focusing on the impact on middle-class American workers and their families. Obama continued that theme on Saturday, saying Republican leaders were out of touch with ordinary people and their own voters. "We just need Republicans in Congress to catch up with their own party and the rest of the country," he said.
But on Saturday Republicans were still standing firm. In the party's own weekly address, the congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers attacked "out-of-control government spending" and said there was no point in new taxes, as the money would just be wasted. "Instead of campaigning for higher taxes, the president should lead an effort to begin addressing our nation's spending problem," Rodgers said.
But for many observers the fiasco of the sequestration – which has effectively meant both parties are implementing a policy that neither wants and each thinks is damaging – has left many complaining about a broader American political dysfunction. Yet the sequester is just one of several rolling crises that are threatening the smooth running of the world's biggest economy that is still stuttering to recover from recession.
If Congress does not reach an agreement on a budget for this year by 27 March, the federal government faces the prospect of shutdown. Soon after that, Congress must approve an increase in the federal debt limit: the same move that two years ago created gridlock in Washington and resulted in the sequester. The House of the Representatives is due to vote next week on a deal to prevent a federal shutdown but there is a risk this could end up in a new stand-off between the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate.


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The NYS Primary Care Profile presents key measures of primary care access and need for adult residents. The primary care access measures are intended to capture New Yorkers’ ability to gain entry to the health care system by having access to sites, insurance coverage to pay for needed services, and providers with whom to develop ongoing relationships to meet their health care needs.
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Delegate Kathleen Murphy on Your Need to Know
(August 28, 2019) Catherine Read interviews Delegate Kathleen Murphy (D-34) about her reelection campaign for the Virginia House of Delegates. Murphy was elected to the House in a special election in 2015, succeeding Barbara Comstock. The 34th District encompasses McLean, Great Falls, parts of Vienna and stretches into northern Loudoun County.
All 140 seats in the Virginia General Assembly are up for grabs this year. This includes the Board of Supervisors, School Board, Commonwealth’s Attorney, Sheriff and the Soil and Water Conservation Board. As Murphy hits the doors to talk to voters, one of the top concerns that she continues to hear about in her district are concerns about traffic. Congested roadways has a major impact on quality of life, and voters want to know that she is engaged in looking at creative ways to solve these problems.
Delegate Murphy sits on several committees in Richmond, including Transportation, General Laws, and Cities, Counties and Towns. She is always looking out for her constituents, and works hard to ensure that their needs are best represented in Richmond.
Growing up as a military brat, Murphy understands the importance of taking care of our veterans. She is a member of the Military and Veterans Caucus, and specifically chairs the women’s working group for the Board of Veteran Services. Virginia has one of the largest veteran populations, and Murphy works day in and day out to serve the approximately 104,000 female veterans in the Commonwealth. Many times these women are overlooked, and do not know how to access services. Her working group is designed to change that paradigm.
Gun violence prevention is another issue that Murphy has championed during her time in elected office. Her brother was brutally murdered during a botched robbery attempt, so she is intimately aware of the pain and suffering of those who are affected by gun violence. Last year she chaired the Safe Virginia Initiative, to look at how laws could change to reduce the instances of gun violence.
Unfortunately, with the GOP in control of the legislative agenda, she does not believe there is much of a chance that anything will change. After over 20 years in control, there has only been a loosening of gun laws. Even though the majority of Virginians support universal background checks, closing the gun show loophole, and red flag laws, there has been no movement on the issue.
After the horrific mass shooting in Virginia Beach, when the Governor called a special session to address gun violence legislation, the GOP dismissed the session after a mere 90 minutes. Murphy points out that we will never have any meaningful change until there is a change with who is in control of the statehouse.

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Aishwarya Rai, Shilpa Shetty, Farah Khan: Celebrities who are elder than their husbands
Aug 12, 2013, 17:29 PM IST
Age is just a number for our successful Bollywood divas, who have always crossed the barrier of all age related issues! So it is no wonder that these succesful women had no qualms about breaking the usual norm about women getting married to men older to them!
Be it huge or little, age difference has never come in the way of romance of Bollywood couples. Farhan Akhtar for instance is married to Adhuna Akhtar who is six years elder to him. Farah Khan's husband Shirish Kunder is 8 years younger to her.
Here is a look at some of the most successful couples in Bollywood who got married despite their age differences.
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Shirish Kunder is 8 years younger than his wife, Farah Khan. Shirish was the Editor of Farah’s directorial debut Mai Hoon Naa. Their friendship on the sets soon changed into love.
Director-turned-actor, Farhan Akhtar is married to Adhuna Bhabani who is six years older than him.
Abhishek is two years younger than his wife– Aishwarya. After much speculation concerning their relationship, the couple got married on April 20, 2007.
Aditya Pancholi is 6 years younger than his wife Zarina Wahab.
Sunil Dutt got married to Nargis, who was a year older and also a bigger star than him at that time. Their relationship began when Sunil Dutt saved her from the fire that broke out on the sets of the 1957 film Mother India.
After going through a failed marriage Archana met Parmeet Sethi at a friend's place and hit it off instantly. Parmeet, who is seven years younger than Archana.
Arjun tied the knot with the former super model Mehr Jessia in 1998. Mehr is 7 years older than Arjun.
Shilpa is three months older than her husband. Raj and Shilpa met often during the launch preparations of Shilpa’s perfume, S2 and in no time fell in love.

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Panje-Wetland In Trouble
The wetland of Uran is breathing its penultimate dying gasp and will perish soon in the wake of development projects
The beginning of the disaster
In 2008, Uran had huge expanses of waterbodies teaming with birdlife-flamingoes, ducks, plovers and so much more. The air reverberated with the sound of these birds and it was sheer bliss.
A year later, Navi Mumbai Special Economic Zone (NMSEZ) was sanctioned by CIDCO at Uran-Dronagiri node and developmental work began. Land-filling activities started and over the course of a decade nearly 2000 hectares of mangroves and wetlands were destroyed across Uran. The coastal town of Uran transformed drastically from being a birder's paradise into a concrete nightmare.
The Present Scenario
Today only one wetland remains at Uran-the Panje-Dongri wetlands. Every year, over 1.4 lakh migratory birds visit this wetland. Spread across 213 hectares, between the fishing villages of Panje and Dongri, the wetland offers livelihood to over 2500 fishermen.
But the greedy developers want Panje too, as its prime real estate. In September 2018, 71 sluice gates were discovered to be made functional blocking the inflow of tidal waters into Panje and the nearby mangroves. These sluice gates were in complete violation of the Bombay High Court Order dated 17th Sept'18 on Public Interest Litigation 87 of 2006. These gates operated only one way. They restricted the ingress of water during high tide but allowed the water to drain back to the sea, thereby leaving the entire wetland completely dry. This was a sure shot way of destroying the mangroves so that the area could easily be taken up by CIDCO for so-called "development". Initially after denying knowledge of the sluice gates, CIDCO relented and claimed that the gates were installed to protect the nearby villages from floods. In the last 10 years, Uran has never seen flooding.
Photographs that I clicked with GPS data were submitted along with complaint letters to Mangrove Cell authorities, Konkan Divisional Commissioner, CM Office and the media. Leading environmentalists like Debi Goenka, Sunjoy Monga, Bittu Sahgal lent their support. After a 10-day struggle, CIDCO opened 68 of the 71 gates due to the collective efforts of a lot of people involved in raising awareness of the situation and taking up the cause seriously and Panje was restored.
The corporations are too powerful
But the battle's far from over. Despite the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) committing in Bombay High Court that Panje comes under CRZ-1, NMSEZ continues to block tidal inflow channels regularly drying the wetland.
NatConnect, a non-governmental organization has filed multiple complaints with concerned authorities reporting encroachment and garbage dumping at Panje. The organization has also been working towards according Panje and Mangrove Zones and wetlands with 'Heritage property' status.
''Panje which has all the properties of a wetland has to be protected. The Environment Minister, acting on our complaints, has stalled all construction there. Successive Chief Ministers have sent our proposals for declaring Panje as a Bird Sanctuary to the Environment Department. In fact in a meeting with BNHS, the government did agree in principle to declare the Bird Sanctuary. But no action has been taken. The High Court appointed Mangrove Protection and Conservation Committee and the Wetlands Grievance Redressal Committee have asked CIDCO and Raigad district collector to protect Panje as wetland.
It is sad that CIDCO ignoring all these aspects has not only leased away Panje to Navi Mumbai SEZ but included it under the Dronagiri Development Plan.'' says Mr. B N Kumar, Award winning environmentalist and director of NatConnect Foundation.
Plans to declare the wetland a bird sanctuary has been proposed time and again starting 2015. But formal announcement remains absent. If the wetland is destroyed, it would not only impact birdlife but also humans. Panje wetlands act as a carbon sink and help mitigate climate change. The mangroves act as flood barriers. However, CIDCO and NMSEZ view them, as simply wastelands.
Mr. BN Kumar further adds, ''MNSEZ in its response to various authorities denies that it has been allotted wetlands. It goes to the extent of declaring that Panje is not a wetland. We don't have to dismiss this untenable argument. The official declarations are there for all to see.''
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has recommended the protection of Panje wetlands keeping in mind the safety for Navi Mumbai International Airport. The wetland is an important stopover for birds coming from Arctic and Europe and its absence could lead to bird hits, taking away innocent human lives.
The poor left to die a slow death
Panje also has been a fishing zone for years. If reclaimed, then the fishing community would be denied their constitutional right to practice their own trade for survival.
Environment and citizens' group, Shri Ekvira Aai Pratishtan (SEAP) has been fighting to protect the wetlands and the livelihood of the local fishing community.
''Article 21 of Indian Constitution states that the fishing communities have exclusive right overfishing areas in the vicinity. To protect these wetlands for future generations and livelihood perspective, I have approached Hon'ble Bombay high court and filed a legal petition for justice for my community and innocent bird population who have no voice'' said Mr. Nandkumar Pawar, head of SEAP.
Shiv Sena promises to save the wetland
Chief Minister Mr. Uddhav Thackeray has supported the environmental activists and has asked the environment department to protect these wetlands. Under the Thane Flamingo Sanctuary Management Plan, Panje and five other wetlands are proposed to be covered as satellite wetlands. This will protect them as a conservation/community reserve.
Modi promised the world to save wetlands
The Panje wetlands are a crucial part of the Central Asian Flyway. The flyway comprises of several important migration routes of water birds, across 30 countries linking their northernmost breeding grounds in Russia to the southernmost non-breeding ground in West and South Asia, Maldives and British Indian Ocean territory. The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi has pledged to protect all the habitats along the flyway at the COP13 summit this year. Destroying the Panje wetlands would mean a direct violation of the Hon'ble PM's orders.
At a time when the world is reeling under a pandemic caused by our relentless destruction of Nature, we need to fast track our efforts in protecting whatever fractions are left of Nature around us. It's time we remember that wetlands are not wastelands and acknowledge their value in our life. As we stand on the brink of a climate crisis, that could tilt our planet's ecological balance, the need to protect these natural carbon sinks is even more vital.
If we wish to survive Nature is our only hope.


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Yes, it’s becoming very clear now: bourgeois states have, by and large, the juridical means to become dictatorships, All the ruling class needs to do, is to create a ‘national emergency’ and rule as a police state, as is the case in Egypt since 1981. As WSWS correctly points out with recent egregious examples in France, Greece and now, Spain, any democratic bourgeois government can, and probably will invoke this ‘state of emergency’ to defend the ‘national interest’, i.e. the interest of the ruling class.
This is blindingly obvious from their point of view. Of course, the less messy way is to simply stage a coup d`état and impose a ‘government of National Salvation’. The question now before the working class is: how to organise and fight back against this looming assault against it?
Objectively, the working class would have no option but unite against its common enemy, with its mask now torn off, and it would unite internationally, despite all the efforts by the bourgeoisie. However it’s all important to have a clear vision, a revolutionary perspective and well thought out tactics to move forward. It seems we are, or can be, in the situation of 1907-1913 in tsarist Russia, with the reaction well in ascendance: all that we are lacking on this is a Lenin, Trotsky and a workers’ vanguard to lead the fight. But I’m sure that in the intense struggle that is surely coming, the working class, as it has done in the past, will throw up revolutionary leaders and activists to lead to a ‘lutte finale’ against Capitalism. But then, we have to prepare now, or face pulverisation by our adversaries, who seem to be holding all the cards.
6 December 2010
Wow! You are the first and only person that has spoke the truth about this event. Not one corporate media has reported this. I’m American, and live in Spain. I find this ‘work or be arrested’, a democratic dictatorship. I’m appalled. Thanks for speaking out!
6 December 2010
This letter from a very brave worker must be commended; it is one of the most frightening and harrowing letters I have read in recent times. This is the extent that governments are prepared to go in order that workers comply to the austerity measures being imposed on the international working class. Workers must learn from these experiences and quickly. The independent mobilisation of the working class under a new leadership—can this struggle be mounted? The trade unions are completely bankrupt to wage any struggle in the class interest of workers. Independent committees must be built, and amalgamated to workers struggles internationally.
8 December 2010
“The entire boom of the Clinton and Bush years was based essentially on a Ponzi scheme.”
The entire debt money system on which modern capitalism rests is a Ponzi scheme. Every “sovereign” state on earth is required to borrow money from private moneylenders, who then ultimately squeeze it out of the sweat and blood of the working class.
7 December 2010
“As a member of the working class you know that you’re pissed but you just don’t know who to be pissed at. That’s deliberate. It’s like a mushroom—we’re just sitting in the dark and in the crap.”
Entirely accurate and with an enormously powerful resonance. Best wishes to you, Ronnie J, your family and all your comrades.
7 December 2010
Why is it they never talk about most of the public school employee’s pay? Most of us will never make more than $30,000 (gross) per year and we are single income families who simply can’t afford to lose anymore than we already have. Why is it the politicians never talk about their pay and their benefits?! They receive health benefits for the rest of their lives just for being elected. They are not fighting for our rights but making sure they keep their rights! I would love to see just one of them try to make ends meet on my ridiculous salary! There just aren’t enough jobs out there! What are they going to do when all of the good teachers are gone and very few children actually make it to graduation? All three of my children have/are attending public schools and I would rather pay for a seasoned teacher than one right out of college. How will our kids ever succeed? How will we, as public employees, ever survive?
3 December 2010
What everyone has overlooked here is that if you do not receive a check for unemployment then you are no longer considered unemployed!
You can expect the unemployment rate to drop a few points next quarter as these folks are removed from our economy.
1 December 2010
In the 1940s and 50s, I grew up in Boston, attended good public schools. One, the William Lloyd Garrison grammar school, Leonard Bernstein attended years earlier, and he grew up not far from me in an inner city suburb. Never met him.
My schools, especially Roxbury Memorial High School got me into Harvard. Impossible today. Shocking to me was learning that my two grammar schools, junior high and high school were all closed years ago. The carnage never ended and continues relentlessly there and nationally as part of a scheme to destroy public education, privatize it and make it another business profit center.
Worst of all is the intent to give poor kids minimal educations at best, preparing them for a world with only low-paying, few if any benefits, jobs when they finish that for many or most won’t even be through high school.
Some America the beautiful!
My home city Chicago today, of course, is just as bad or worse. Arne Duncan wrecked public education here when he was Chicago Public Schools CEO. I’ve written plenty on him, including as Obama’s Education Secretary.
6 December 2010
Thank you, Nick Beams, for elucidating the heart and nature of the financial travesty threatening the entire West. It is quite simple to understand, though many find themselves incapable of accepting the obvious. Until they do, no mass opposition can mount to defeat the ravages of capital upon the social and democratic structures of Europe and the US.
Indeed, the people of Ireland “get it”. The people of Greece, Spain, and Portugal “get it”. It’s the American who doesn’t. What do they “get”? They realize the austerities imposed upon them are to shield, protect and defend the profits of the bankers, the traders, the market speculators, hedge funds, bond holders and entire investment class who will suffer little if at all from their market losses—because the people will bear their loses.
The Irish have more at stake. As the Irish Times explained on November 18, “Having obtained our political independence from Britain to be the masters of our own affairs, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.”
Speaking of the men who died in 1916, the Irish Times asked: “Was it for this?”
When enough people “get it”, this savage raping and looting of Western societies for the benefit of “capital” will be stopped and turned on itself—for extremes produce opposite extremes, very often after sad, tragic and bloody conflict.
The alert American should keep his or her eyes on Ireland, Europe and Great Britain; for, beginning now, “austerity” (IMF style) is arriving here. The investor class—being the determining factor in whether nations sink or swim, whether people eat, starve, live or die—will dictate terms. But the investment class will bask for only a short duration in this, its “last hurrah”. For enough of the people inevitably will “get it”. There promises to be little mercy for the wealthy in the end.
This is neither a threat to the wealthy or a promise to the disenfranchised. This simply is the law of history.
1 December 2010
Thanks for posting Trotsky’s marvelous appreciation of Leo Tolstoy. Not for nothing did writer Harold Bloom, no friend to Marxism, describe Trotsky as perhaps the greatest literary critic of the twentieth century. It is astonishing, really. Not only was Trotsky a great journalist, revolutionary organizer, military strategist, Marxist theoretician, opponent of Stalinist degeneration and the founder of the Fourth International, but a literary critic to boot.
Bloom’s offhand and freely given opinion of Trotsky is a judgment against the lies and distortions of mediocrities like Robert Service. As one who is reading Tolstoy for the first time, I find Trotsky’s essay an invaluable accompaniment to understanding the man and his historical epoch.
5 December 2010
I am appalled by this situation—all of the local news outlets keep referring to this young man as having “attempted to detonate a bomb near Pioneer Square as the Christmas tree lighting ceremony took place”. There was no bomb. There was no threat at all to the general populace. The only person in danger was Mohamed Mohamud.
One has to wonder where Mohamud would be had he fallen in with sane people, instead of been groomed by the FBI.
1 December 2010
“A weakness of Rubicon is that it did not openly make a connection to the highest levels of government itself”. I think that was intentional. They were trying to portray a government that is so slow and clumsy that, not only can it not stop foreign terrorists, it can’t even stop a bunch of old rich guys operating here in the US.
2 December 2010
The most grotesque aspect of the whole Valerie Plame affair is not, as is generally believed, the Bush-Rove conspiracy against the Wilson family, although that is sordid enough. It is the widespread embrace of the CIA as a legitimate organization by people who consider themselves to be politically liberal. Necessarily this fawning over the agency means whitewashing its history producing dubiously legal if not outright criminal enterprises against any and all political tendencies anywhere in the world which have shown the slightest likelihood of becoming democratic. What a spectacle to see liberals arguing in favor of enforcing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act against anyone who might follow the example of Phil Agee, for whom this law was made, and whose exposure in the 1970s of the identities of numerous CIA agents made the agency’s imperial pursuits substantially more difficult than they had ever been before.
Still, other artistic efforts more critical of the CIA should not be forgotten, even if they are imperfect, such as De Niro’s The Good Shepherd. After I saw that movie I wanted to vomit—exactly the effect that a truthful movie about the CIA should produce.
6 December 2010


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Youth today, leaders tomorrow 2
Date du début: 3 août 2015,
Date de fin: 2 nov. 2016
Liepaja Children and youth centre during 1st of november year 2015 till 1st of august year 2016 hosted two volunteers- Manuel from Italy (sending organization Comune di Ciniseello Balsamo) and Alexandru from Romania (sending organization A.C.T.O.R.)
Main project aim was to promote active participation in non formal event organization among youth, providing benefits to the local society and learning new skills, finding diversity of cultures, developing solidarity and mutual understanding among young people.
During project volunteers worked with Liepaja Children and youth centre children and youth, participated in different events and activities organized by centre, as well realized own ideas and initiatives. As one of lasting values is implementation of new tradition – Tuesday game evenings/“English game night”, organized by volunteers. Also non formal methods used during project, which were used and documented by volunteers. Each volunteer worked also on own initiatives – Alexandru together with local youngsters created puppet theater play “EVS story of life”, Manuel created video showing his thoughts, experience and interaction with local youngsters and also assisted to work on new project applications.
Both volunteers during project worked with different target groups, with children who participated in centre’s interest education activities, and youngsters who participated in centre’s department “Youth house” activities. In such interaction volunteers get to know interest education principles, and teachers of centre get to know non formal methods and its use to reach certain goal. Thus not only improving quality of individual classes, but also integrate non formal education methods in every day work. Main work methods for volunteers was assisting for staff, independent work, team work, work and leisure time balanced planning, volunteers opinion in centre planning meetings, distribution of information, communication with children and youth, mass media and other stakeholders, realization of initiatives, language learning, language teaching, learning by doing and evaluation. Activities for volunteers were planned based on Children and youth centre work plans, dividing works in blocks, where in a given period happened preparation for bigger events like Latvia birthday, Liepaja birthday celebration, Family festivity. Volunteers were also involved in smaller-scale activities implemented for centre members, like creating workshops in youth clubs, assisting in centre organized workshops, competitions, shows, photo report and documentation from events, get to know each other, team building, and other activity implementation in children and youth camps. However main work place was Liepaja children and youth centre department “Youth house”, where volunteers participated in open stage, youth exhibition, discussions, youth theater, improvisation theater, movie, game and inter cultural evenings, creative workshops, team building activity organizing. Volunteers had opportunity to participate in every Children and youth centre activities related to own interests, capacity, personal and project aims.
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Samsung Electronics South Africa announces that its Samsung Apps store for Android devices has officially gone live with a premium SMS Billing option.
“Until now, the only way to purchase from the Samsung App store was via a credit card,” said Deon Liebenberg, MD of Samsung South Africa. “However, given the diversity of our country, in some instances this has prevented some consumers from purchasing relevant content on the store. Today this changes, as our premium SMS billing option becomes available – allowing consumers to purchase content easily and conveniently using a preferred method of payment.”
With this service, customers can now choose the phone billing option (credit card or SMS) at the time of purchasing paid-for apps. Should customers choose the new SMS option, the purchase will be confirmed automatically via SMS and the download costs either reflect on the monthly phone bill if the consumer has a monthly contract, or via a deduction from their phone credit balance, if on prepaid.
“We are always looking for ways to make relevant content and applications more accessible and this is just another example of our commitment to doing just that,” adds Liebenberg. “In line with this, we are also growing our team and would like to welcome Andrew Syrett on board. Andrew brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise and was instrumental in this billing and network payment structure. As a team, we certainly look forward to creating an apps eco-system relevant to both developers and consumers.”
The premium SMS Billing service is available across all Samsung Android devices and across MTN, Vodacom and Cell C networks in South Africa.

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Donald Trump Jr. Rips Michael Avenatti Over Alleged Nike Extortion Plot
Donald Trump Jr.Goes After AvenattiCalls Him 'Avenatti 20 To 25'
6:37 PM PT -- Donald Trump Jr. just threw some major shade at Avenatti at his father's political rally in Michigan, joking that Michael's presidential ambitions took a serious hit this week.
Junior jokes that Michael went from "Avenatti 2020 to Avenatti 20 to 25" ... clearly hoping his foe is going to prison for his role in the alleged extortion plot.
Michael Avenatti was loaded for bear Wednesday night, proclaiming his innocence in the extortion case, proclaiming that the R. Kelly case would be unaffected by the extortion case and proclaiming it's only a matter of time before top Nike execs would be led away in handcuffs.
We got the embattled celeb attorney in WeHo Wednesday night ... and we strolled along with him on a long, long walk ... where he unpacked his outrage.
And then, he talked Nike. As you know, he's been accused of trying to extort the shoe co. for more than $20 million in return for keeping his silence on alleged misdeeds -- specifically, Nike secretly paid off the families of star high school basketball players in order to direct them to Nike-sponsored colleges.
He goes after Nike execs with a vengeance, saying they are corrupt to the core and it will be exposed. He also insists any money he may have demanded was not a quid pro quo for his silence. Avenatti says he was going to expose Nike regardless of whether the company paid him or not.
The U.S. Attorney claims he has a videotape from a March 21 meeting between Avenatti and Nike attorneys in which he allegedly says, "If [Nike] wants to have one confidential settlement and we're done, they can buy that for $22.5 million and we're done."


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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The National Irrigation Administration-Cordillera reported the completion 229 irrigation projects providing water to farmlands in the region.
NIA Cordillera acting regional director Benito Espique Jr., in his report said as of March 15, 2018 a total of 1,197 hectares were new irrigation areas while 521 hectares of existing irrigation systems were restored bringing to 1,115 hectares of new functional irrigations in the region with a total cost of P823,484 million.
He said Benguet and Kalinga provinces completed the most number of irrigation projects with 80 and 73, respectively, followed by Mt. Province with 35, Ifugao 19, Abra 16 and Apayao 6.
The completed irrigation projects include a component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and rehabilitation projects under the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC).
Espique said that with increased NIA-CAR budget this year, a total of 2,823 hectares of farmland will irrigate and restore and rehabilitate 407 hectares of existing irrigation facilities.
He said Kalinga province has 44,190 hectares of potential irrigable area; Benguet, 25,746 hectares; Mt. Province, 30,060 hectares; Ifugao, 25,830 hectares; Abra, 25,670 hectares; and Apayao, 33,910 hectares.
The agency had strengthened its partnership with the farmers groups and various irrigators associations in the region through training and assistance for irrigations systems aimed at increasing production.


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It’s a Paleo cheese ball! A completely dairy free rendition of a classic holiday appetizer that will completely change the way you party!
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A dairy free kale pesto made with Pili Hunter fried pili nuts, nutrient dense kale and tangy fresh lemon juice and seasoned with Redmond Real Salt. It’s not only Paleo but Whole30, Keto and Vegan!
Sweet plantain strips from Artisan Tropic make the perfect crunchy crust for our newest ice cream treat here on the blog! Paleo ice cream deliciousness!
Guest recipe share from Jen Robins of Predominantly Paleo & her new cookbook, “Affordable Paleo Cooking With Your Instant Pot” ~~ dairy free QUESO DIP!

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After almost five decades of research and development, BMW is taking the topic of sustainable and environmentally friendly mobility onto the road with a variety of electrified models. Alongside BMW all-electric models, such as the new BMW iX or the BMW i3 and BMW i3s, the brand’s fleet of plug-in hybrid vehicles, which is the largest on the automobile market, guarantees the best of both worlds for every lifestyle and every need. If you are looking for more information about BMW electric vehicles, then you have come to the right place at Pfaff BMW Mississauga. In this article, we share some information about BMW electric vehicles.
Electromobility by BMW
In order to provide the right answer for everyone, BMW has developed three different concepts for electrified and sustainable mobility: the electric car, the plug-in hybrid, and the mild hybrid. In this way, BMW is creating a diverse and individually adjustable offer for all their customers, but they are also continuously improving the ecological balance sheet of their entire vehicle fleet at the same time.
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100% electric driving pleasure: Discover the unique feeling of driving a BMW electric car. Without any local emissions, you enjoy the uncompromisingly direct response of the electric engine, as well as the revolutionary acceleration characteristics, the extremely agile driving behaviour. And the feeling of moving almost silently through the traffic, as if floating on air.
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Maximum efficiency, supreme comfort, and exclusive driving dynamics: this is what the BMW plug-in hybrids stand for. More versatile than any other type of vehicle, they combine the best of both worlds and, with their additional electric drive, bring individual variety and a local absence of emissions into your everyday life at the touch of a button.
Mild-hybrid technology converts the braking energy of vehicles with classic combustion engine drive into electrical energy and makes it available to the electrical systems and the engine. This reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, while you enjoy a noticeable dynamic advantage due to the more intensive acceleration behaviour.
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A curiosity from the early 1990s. It could only hail from Japan.
Of all the Japanese carmakers, Nissan was perhaps the most prolific and it must be said, daring of the purveyors of retro-flavoured designs. The Pike Factory cars, BE 1/ Pao/ S-Cargo and Figaro were not only highly successful halo cars wihin the Japanese domestic market, but lent the brand a degree of cachet which had perhaps previously eluded them. Having been once perceived as purveyors of mediocrity, Nissan now were on the very cusp of cool.
But as the rest of the world began to explore their own stylistic back catalogues in response, Nissan and the Japanese makers moved further away from pastiche, into something a little more nebulous, a tad more ambiguous, if still retrospective in tone.
Noting the growing popularity of sports utility vehicles, Nissan created a prototype for the 1993 Tokyo motor show, which was less a utility and more an augmented estate. Sharing a platform with the contemporary Sunny /Pulsar, the Rasheen was first offered a year later with a 1.5 litre, 104 bhp GA15DE engine and Nissan’s ATTESA viscous coupling four-wheel-drive system, which distributed torque to the wheels that most required it. A larger 1.8 litre engine with 125 bhp arrived three years later, followed in 1998 by an optional 2.0 litre, 143 bhp engine in the Forza edition.
Looking for all the world like a spiritual successor to the Wartburg 353 Tourist of 1966, the Rasheen’s styling is pleasingly clean-limbed and unadorned, with a large glass area amidst an upright canopy which could be said to have foreshadowed a certain Mr. McGovern’s 1997 Freelander. And although it’s rather unlikely the freshly honoured Land Rover CCO would have placed a photo of the Rasheen upon his studio moodboard, one can’t help feeling that perhaps he ought.
Either way, the car itself certainly suggests that Nissan’s design team, or the small skunkworks headed by Pike Cars’ Naoki Sakai who is said to have produced it, not only did their homework, but were it seems, fully cognisant of the more obscure forms of automobilia from the furthest corners of the former Soviet Union controlled East Germany.
The Rasheen was never offered outside of the Japanese Domestic Market and in 2000, in the wake of Carlos Ghosn’s appointment and subject to his subsequent cost-cutting plans, production was halted at Nissan’s Oppama plant, replaced (indirectly at least), by the entirely orthodox X-Trail SUV. However, the occasional Rasheen can occasionally be seen on this side of the world as a grey import – a rare, wondrous and always welcome sight.
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Travis Scott Net Worth?
What is Travis Scott's Net Worth
What Is Travis Scott's Real Name?
Jacques Bermon Webster II (born April 30, 1991)
better known by his stage name Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott), is an American rapper, singer, and record producer.
His stage name is the namesake of a favorite uncle combined with the first name of one of his inspirations
Kid Cudi (whose real name is Scott Mescudi). He has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards and won a Billboard Music Award and a Latin Grammy Award.
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Jordan and Joshua
Travis made $20 million between September 2017 and September 2018 through touring, record sales, and his Nike endorsement deal
He earned enough money to rank among the top 15 rappers in the world for the year
He made $
from June 2018 to June 2019
His Astroworld tour made 65 million in revenue He made 40 million from June 2019 to June 2020
In 2020 he teamed up with McDonald's to launch the Travis Scott Meal, a Quarter Pounder with cheese, back and lettuce; fries with barbecue sauce; and a Sprite.
McDonald's Travis Scott promotion is so popular, it's causing shortages
His 2018 album "Astroworld" is named after the now defunct Six Flags amusement park Astroworld.
Partnered with Anheuser-Busch to co-create Cacti Agave Hard Seltzer.
Released his first album "Rodeo" is 2015. He wanted to release it on a USB and sell it with action figures but was turned down by the label. Founder of Cactus Jack Records.
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Bigger than normal mirrors have a high shot at being hurt and can be really costly to substitute. Their cases might break, or their clever covering might get hurt or even separated to bits during the move. One might consider what the most sensible way is to pack an enormous mirror and have it passed on in one piece? In light of everything, by and by there is no great explanation to stretch. These squeezing thoughts will uncover how to pack mirrors while moving interstate or locally. Allowing your uncommon mirror to outlast any house move perfect.
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To pack mirrors while moving, you will require:
- A mirror compartment
- Thick copper-shaded squeezing paper
- A huge piece of thick cardboard
- Lots of air pocket wrap
- A couple of moving rugs
- A roll of squeezing tape
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- Permanent marker pen
It is better constantly to spend on splendid quality squeezing supplies. Since you can utilize them to pack a wide collection of touchy family dissents, not simply reflects.
Stage 2: Get the mirror compartment arranged
A mirror holder is a strong box with four separate cardboard sections combined to convey an incredibly customisable outer protective cardboard layer. You won’t have to stress over your huge mirror’s one of a kind size. As the container could fundamentally modified to oblige any mirror angle during the squeezing framework. You can without a very remarkable stretch get these holders from home improvement stores or even common shipping associations.
When squeezing a mirror, you will require all of the four bits of the mirror compartment to gather the incredibly assessed cardboard box. Slide two box parts into one another and put solid bits of air pocket wrap into their joined edges and surfaces. Make an effort not to apply any squeezing tape yet. Do moreover with various pieces of the case. In the long run, you should hold two since a really long time prior interconnected half pieces from the compartment reached out into each other.
Stage 3: Assign a squeezing district
Before you choose how to pack mirrors while moving, your fundamental task is to develop a real squeezing space. Clean a table that is sufficiently adequately gigantic enough, for instance, the one in your extra room or parlor. Lay a profound moving cover (or several lighter ones) on the counter facade to fill in as a delicate cushion. Then, put the stack of thick copper-toned paper in the table.
This squeezing station will accelerate the packers and movers bangalore while holding stuff totally secure. At whatever point you’re finished squeezing a full-length reflect. You should utilize that getting space for squeezing together other shaky home things, like colossal imaginative manifestations, mounted thing of beauty, food dishes, dishes, glasses, and so forth
Stage 4: Do the “X” taping method for additional security
Use a hiding tape over the front of the mirror in an immense “X” starting with one edge then onto the next. That “X” of covering tape should stand firm on hurt or broke parts in circumstance expecting your mirror ends up being broken during transportation. Then again, you can move the tape up and on a level plane close the canny surface in a network design, developing the ensured area.
This “X” or organization plan capacity is a wise move. If you truly follow these plans to pack mirrors while moving. The possibilities are on the side of yourself, and your significant assets will not get hurt during the move.
Stage 5: Wrap it like a gift
To be on a safer side, level out an empty colossal estimated cardboard box. A while later cut out a piece of the cardboard to the size of the full-length reflect. For, at that point, totally cover the mirror surface with that cut-out piece of cardboard, then, set it on the mirror face using minimal squeezing tape bits.
Put the mirror in the point of convergence of the stack of natural squeezing paper, and cover it from each side like you would include a gift. Do whatever it takes not to stress over making the pack engaging; ensure the fragile thing gets covered upstanding and tight. All in all, cover your complete mirror with bubble wrap and assurance no piece of the delicate family fights remains showed. Apply squeezing tape whenever expected to hold the pack together.
Stage 6: Shift the mirror into the mirror squeezing holder
As of now it’s an optimal chance to move the observed reflect into the mirror squeezing holder. Skim the full mirror into the half mirror case, then, fix the surfaces. So they are unfalteringly outfitted to the packaging. At whatever point required, utilize extra stuffing parts, for instance, bubble wrap or hardly compacted stuffing paper to consume any void spaces. Finally, apply only a piece of tape to screen the essential half piece of your last pack.
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China's large population, the accelerating urbanization process, rising household disposable income and strong economic growth have all contributed to the development of the real estate market. As a result, there is increasing demand for real estate agents in China to meet the expanding market volumes, requirements for higher transaction efficiency, and professional divisions across real estate development enterprises. Over the five years through 2013, the industry is expected to grow at an annualized rate of 11.9% to $17.4 billion.
The Real Estate Agents industry has a low market share concentration level; revenue generated by the top four players accounts for less than 10.0% of total industry revenue. However, market share concentration is expanding in line with the operating scale of the industry's largest firm: E-House, SHenzhen World Union Properties Consultancy, Century 21, and Hopefluent Group Holdings.
Over the five years through 2018, IBISWorld forecasts that the Real Estate Agents industry in China will continue to develop rapidly. With intensifying competition, the separation of real estate development and sales will continue. The outsourcing of real estate sales operations will enhance the operational efficiency of real estate developers and offer new opportunities for real estate intermediation services providers within this industry.
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Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport will be exhibiting its Kalibr-PLE (Club-S) and Kalibr-NKE (Club-N) submarine and surface vessel-launched cruise missiles at the Indo-Defence 2016 show in Jakarta later this week.
The missiles were successfully used in the Syrian conflict travelling over 1500 kms to strike anti-regime forces and Islamic State targets near the city of Alleppo.
In addition, the Project 12701 Alexandrite-E coastal mine countermeasures ship, a large landing ship derived from on Project 11711, and the Project 21301 rescue vessel are promising for promotion in markets in the region, a Rosoboronexport statement said.
The MiG-29M/M2 multifunctional frontline fighter, Su-32 fighter-bomber, Yak-130 combat training aircraft, Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft, Mi-26T2, Mi-17V-5 / Mi-171Sh, Mi-35M helicopters and Orlan-10E and Tachyon unmanned aerial systems are considered promising hardware for equipping air forces of the countries in the region.
The Be-200 amphibious aircraft, which in 2015 took part in extinguishing forest fires on Sumatra Island is considered promising to Indonesia. The T-72 and T-90 tanks, BTR-80A and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles and associated training aids may draw the interest of army representatives.
Rosoboronexport will organize the Russian exhibit display at the Airshow China International Aerospace Exhibition 2016, which will take place from November 1 to 6 in Zhuhai, China. At the Russian exhibit, visitors will be able to get acquainted with the features of the latest Russian Su-35 fighters, Mi-35M helicopters and Pantsir-S1 air defense missile/gun systems
Next weeks Indo-defence show in Jakarta will open a new fighter aircraft procurement contest, one between Saab Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon and Rosoboronexport Su-35 for the Indonesian Air Forces F-5 replacement program. From what was considered a done deal in favour of the Russian Su-35, the Indonesian military has opened up the fighter procurement to a three-way contest
Navantia and Indra has won an $18 million contract to upgrade the combat system of Indonesian Navy's Fatahillah-class corvettes, KRI Malahayati. A consortium made up of Navantia and Indra will assist indigenous shipbuilder PT PAL in the mid-life upgrade
PT PAL Indonesia (Persero) has completed the construction of the second strategic sea lift vessel (SSV) ordered by the Philippines. The ship is expected to be rolled out from its yard in Tanjung Perak, Surabaya, East Java, on September 29,
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European and Middle East countries have expressed interest in Indonesian warships after the first successful export of Strategic Sealift Vessel (SSV) to the Philippines, an official of PT PAL Indonesia said. PT PAL President Director Firmansyah Arifin said that the first warship export attracted the attention of representatives of a number of countries, including the Middle East countries
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text: In one of the most imaginative novels of our time, Jane Roberts--the celebrated author of The Seth Material and Seth Speaks--has concocted an exhilarating metaphysical romp through the universe. And what a tale it is! Birth, dreams, reincarnation, and out-of- body travel--all played out against a richly creative background where the limitations of time and space no longer matter. Oversoul Seven, the ageless entity first introduced in the popular Education of Oversoul Seven, faces new "lessons" as his quite-human incarnations grapple with basic questions of life and death. Lydia, a recently "deceased" twentieth-century woman, is reluctant to be reborn in seventeenth-century Sweden and demands a visit to the Land of the Gods. A despondent young man named Will contemplates suicide as an escape from his boredom. Josef can't decide if he wants to be a father after all, even though his wife is already in labor. But what are we to make of Jeffrey, a university psychologist who becomes the unwitting scribe for an automatic manuscript written by--whom? And what of the Rest Home for Old Gods where Zeus, Buddha, Allah, and Christ reminisce about their good old days? It seems that not even Cyprus, Seven's mentor, knows the answers to the problems of sanity, free will, and godhood that plague Seven. At once a provocative fantasy, a mind-stretching voyage to the inner lands of our being, and a vibrant celebration of life, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven is a novel that will provoke, amuse, and inspire you. Or has it already? For as Jane Roberts suggests--and as Seven learns--all time is simultaneous, and past, present, and future are really all one.


Snowflake has received authority to operate certificationÂ under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a technology platform intended toÂ help agencies analyze data in cloud computing environments.
The Moderate FedRAMP ATO allows the San Mateo, Calif.-based companyÂ to deploy its data warehouse offering on Microsoft's Azure Government cloudÂ and Amazon Web Services' GovCloud US East region, Snowflake said Wednesday.
The platform is designed to help public and private sector customers generate insights andÂ secure the information exchange process.
"This authorization caps a two-year effort by Snowflake and our partners to develop and mature a cybersecurity program that meets the high standards for data protection expected by the U.S. government," said Siddique Chaudhry, program manager for information security at Snowflake.
Teri Girard, vice president of Snowflake's public sector business, said the authorization will provide agencies anÂ opportunity to adopt an integrated platform for managingÂ data assets.
Snowflake partnered withÂ FedResultsÂ last yearÂ to bringÂ cloud data warehouse and analytics products to the government market.


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Sabri Anna is a jeweler based in Tio’tia:ké/Montreal, Canada. She completed 3 years of intensive studies at École de Joaillerie de Montréal in 2015 and officially launched Ambre Noire in the summer of 2018.
Through her brand, Sabri Anna wishes for her delicately crafted talismans to be used as aesthetic alchemy. With fine craftsmanship in mind, her pieces are created with a dedicated passion and a strong sense of honor to both the smithing craft itself and Mother Earth.
Sabri Anna aspires to one day call the northern woods her home and craft from a little workshop where her surrounding view can translate into her work - giving her clients a little piece of that purity. In the meantime, she frequently roams the rich soils of Québec in search of inspiration for her work. Her jewelry varies from strong statement pieces to body art.
Inspired by her Amazigh heritage, Sabri Anna vows to pay tribute to her ancestors by adding elements of traditional symbolism and shapes used in Amazigh culture and art, which are rich, vibrant and magical.
Jewelry is one of the many crafts practiced in Tamazgha (land of the Imazighen - plural of Amazigh) and passed from generation to generation. While this reality alone should put emphasis onto why Sabri Anna chose this art, truth be told that jewelry making truly found its way into her life. Only reconnecting with her cultural identity in her early twenties, it seems her ancestor’s passion found its way to her. A perfect synchronicity of life.
Homage to Nature
Inspired by the rawness and the complex simplicity of biology, physiology and astrophysics, Sabri Anna incorporates earthly textures, authentic bones, movement and stillness intertwined in her pieces. With great love for herbalism and natural landscapes, she displays her admiration and respect for the natural world in the expression of her work.
Eco Friendly & Sustainable
Ambre Noire cherishes the gifts of Mother Earth, and holds a deep desire to honor nature. Every piece is handmade with the environment in mind; her jewelry is often made to order ensuring waste reduction, packaged in plastic free wrapping, and the majority of the stones used in each piece are fair trade.
Because the jewelry industry is generally not perceived as the most ethical and sustainable, it is of great importance to Sabri Anna to apply these values into her work as best as possible. While a good amount of the world’s silver and gold is historically re-used, and many of Ambre Noire’s pieces crafted from metal scraps, it is not entirely possible to be a fully sustainable and ethical brand. However, Sabri Anna is presently searching for an ethically sourced precious metal company.
Sabri Anna takes limited commissions for custom pieces. She cherishes the trust given to her to create a piece with deeper meaning, intention and value.
Time production and cost are relative to the piece in question. Please get in contact to discuss your idea for your one-of-a-kind talisman.
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Scrog netting with grow box hooks, optimizing the growing
SCROG Netting for growing Mammoth Web 120-150 for grow box from 120 to 150 cm².
SCROG growing advantages and benefits
A good using of the SCROG techinque allows to make plants, that have little room for the roots, firmer (for example in the case of hydroponic systems) and growing indoor even when it has a lacking vertical height as the plant will tend to grow horizontally instead of vertically. This technique has also been proved to be the most effective way to maximize the productive capacity of the plants.
It has a square size with hooks for fastening it to the grow box structure.
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“Positive Transformation Variations” Album by Steven Cravis and Cover by WIERZBICKI.ORG
Steven Cravis, a San Francisco-based pianist wrote music for an interactive documentary “Following the Sun” about a Romanian sculptor Liviu Mocan. The documentary was produced by the students of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoka, Romania, and the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany. WIERZBICKI.ORG designed a cover for Cravis’ album “Positive Transformation Variations” with music used for the movie production. Several downloading and listening options, including iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google, Spotify and Pandora are listed at https://www.smarturl.it/scptv.


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This activity can be used in any park or green space for a wellbeing boost. Discover the magic and wonder of nature.
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Putnam Place Presents Particle and Lespecial
Putnam Place presents particle & Lespecial. On October 14th, it was rocking the block on Putnam Street in Saratoga Springs. PARTICLE and Lespecial were superb and the crowd was very cool and into the music. It was a fun time with a friendly group of people that enthusiastically wanted a musical interlude with the bands.
Lespecial mixed funk, hip hop and metal in a groovy way that made you feel heat with rhythm you couldn’t resist. They are based in upstate New York and Boston and defy conventional music. The band consists of John Grusauskas- guitar, vocal, sampler, synth, mellotron, mandolin; Rory Dolan- drums, percussion, sampler, and Luke Bemand- base, synth, vocals. Lespecial’s second album “Cheen” will be released in October 31st, 2017.
Particle the pioneers of the Livetronica scene were all-pro and brought their music consisting of EDM/Funk/Rock, including new songs in the performance.Particle has performed concerts in eight different countries and has staged epic marathon sets at some of the country’s top festivals, including: Bonnaroo, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. It was especially refreshing to see the reaction of people that couldn’t sit still, in the high-energy moments. Particle consists of Steve Molitz (keyboards/vocals) and Clay Parnell (bass/vocals) and features Mike Daum (guitar/vocals) and Kito Bovenschulte (drums), and is finishing their first studio album in over a decade.
PUTNAM PLACE RAISES THE BAR TO A NEW LEVEL
Putnam Place put a whole new feel into the club with upgraded and upscale everything from floor to stage. The new floor was super fine for dancing, the new stage is perfect for performances of many kinds, and the bathrooms were immaculate. Putnam Place is also planning a whole lot of other new and innovative accents to the venue over the next few months. The renovation’s are superb and make this, the go-to place, for music in Saratoga Springs. Very clean, very cool.


text: Background: Fatigue is strongly linked to an increased risk of injuries, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures. Part 1 of this study identified differences in the biomechanics of landing from a jump between dancers and team athletes, particularly female athletes, which may explain the epidemiological differences in ACL injuries between dancers and team athletes and the lack of a sex disparity within dancers. However, it is not known if these biomechanical variables change differently between team athletes and dancers in the face of fatigue. Purpose/Hypothesis: The purpose of this study was to compare dancers' and team athletes' resistance to fatigue and its effect on the biomechanics of single-legged drop landings. The primary hypotheses were that dancers may be more resistant than team athletes to the onset of fatigue and/or may have different biomechanical responses than athletes in landing tasks once fatigue has been achieved. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: Kinematics and kinetics were recorded as 40 elite modern and ballet dancers (20 men and 20 women) and 40 team sport athletes (20 men and 20 women; National Collegiate Athletic Association Division Mil) performed single-legged drop landings from a 30-cm platform before and after a fatigue protocol consisting of step-ups and vertical jumps. Unfatigued and fatigued joint kinematics and kinetics were compared between groups and sexes with multivariate analyses of variance, followed by pair-wise f tests as appropriate. Results: Dancers took longer (P = .023) than team athletes to reach a similar state of fatigue. Multiple kinetic (eg, increased peak knee valgus moment; P < .001) and kinematic (eg, increased lateral and forward trunk flexion; P < .001 and P = .002, respectively) parameters of landing changed with fatigue, such that both fatigued dancers and athletes landed with mechanics that were more at risk for ACL injuries as compared with before fatigue. Conclusion: Dancers took significantly longer to reach fatigue than team athletes. Female athletes consistently exhibited landing patterns associated with a risk for ACL injuries when compared with the other 3 groups. Fatigue changed landing mechanics similarly in both dancers and athletes, such that all groups landed with worse alignment after being fatigued. Clinical Relevance: Dancers are more resistant to lower extremity fatigue than athletes, and this may partially explain the lower incidence of ACL injuries in both male and female dancers compared to team athletes. The extensive training in landing technique and daily practice that dancers undergo from a young age may be responsible for the higher levels of endurance. �� 2014 The Author(s).

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