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Manchester United are linked with several midfielders and the latest name in the lime light is that of Federico Valverde.
According to Sport, Manchester United are interested in signing the Uruguayan international, who is one of the priorities for manager Solskjaer.
The famous Spanish outlet have mentioned that Real Madrid want to keep their prized asset and have warned that the 21-year-old will only leave if the £447million release clause in his contract is activated.
At the Bernabeu, the likes of Casemiro, Kroos and Modric have regularly started in the center of the park and therefore, all other midfielders have mostly warmed the bench.
Modric will turn 35 this year and Kroos turned 30 in January, so, Zidane is already preparing for the future and Valverde has stepped up big time for the Los Blancos this term.
The center midfielder has managed to earn himself 14 league starts this term and overall, in all competitions, he has made 32 appearances thus far, scored 2 goals and provided 4 assists for the 13-time European Champions.
In the Spanish Supercopa final vs Atletico Madrod, the South American starlet was awarded the Man of the Match award, particularly for sacrificing himself for the team. He brought Morata down in the 115th minute and Real ended up winning the contest on penalties.
He made his senior international debut back in 2017 when he was just 19. and so far, he has played 20 games for Uruguay and scored 2 goals.
Solskjaer obviously needs to strengthen midfield department after failing to do the same since becoming the manager. In your view, should Manchester United activate Federico Valverde’s £447million clause to get his signing done?


It may not be surprising news, but it has been announced that Chevy Chase has left Community.
The NBC sitcom is set to debut its fourth season in February, with Chase having filmed the majority of the 13 episode run but his contract has been cancelled with immediate effect.
Community is one of the brightest American sitcoms to come along for a long time, with a great cast joining Chase such as Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown and Annie Brie.
It tells the story of a group thrust together from their diverse backgrounds into community college, and from here hilarity ensues.
Some of the episodes from the first 3 seasons are really ground breaking for a sitcom, including episodes including paintball tournaments, animations episodes and one where the character feature in an old school computer game.
After it was announced that the 4th run was reduced from 22 episodes to 13, it seemed the writing was on the wall for the show, and Chase’s departure may hasten its exit from screens.
If you haven’t seen the show yet, the first 2 seasons are well worth a purchase on DVD, forget 2 Broke Girls, New Girl etc. Community is where it’s at for now……


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Making and posting selfies has a bad effect on the psyche, scientists claim.
Posting selfies on social media has become a practice. Whether people do it out of boredom or to attract attention, this habit is not always harmless as it can turn into a mental disorder, especially in young people, experts warn.
A recent study from Columbia University showed that about 70 percent of teens visit social media every day. At the same time, they smoke five times more often, drink alcohol three times more often, and use marijuana twice as often.
Due to the increasing influence of the internet on personality formation in young people, psychologists warn that such behavior can escalate into a psychological problem.
In fact, the disclosure of private information, as well as photography, leads to increased secretion of dopamine, the hormone of happiness, which is associated with addictive behavior, say Harvard scientists. They believe that social networks are a catalyst for the increasingly lost behavior of young people who do not have the right models.

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Was Shakespeare 'just a frontman'?
A new book claims to have discovered compelling evidence to prove Shakespeare was a well-paid frontman for the real author of his work, it emerged today. Two academics claim to have unmasked little known English politician and aristocrat Sir Henry Neville as the true creator of the bard’s celebrated plays and sonnets.
Former university lecturer Brenda James, and historian Professor William Rubinstein, of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, claim the evidence is difficult to ignore.
Published by Longman on October 25, The Truth Will Out, looks set to drive a deep division through the world of Shakespearean scholarship.
For centuries scholars have asked how a grammar school boy whose education was cut short at 12, and who never travelled abroad, could have gathered the breadth of learning displayed in his work.
The new book claims to have comprehensively answered that question by showing that he never did.
Previous theories claiming Francis Bacon or even Christopher Marlowe was the author of Shakespeare’s work have been relatively easy to write off.
The new book reduces Shakespeare to little more than an avaricious money lender whose heroic qualities are the result of having greatness thrust upon him.
James, who now lives in Bognor Regis, made what she regards as the breakthrough while living in Pontypridd, south Wales, after studying Elizabethan transformation codes.
She used her knowledge to decipher the identity of the mysterious W H to whom Shakespeare’s sonnets are dedicated, and said it led her to Henry Neville.
As a wealthy and distant relative of Shakespeare’s he was also his contemporary, born two years before the bard in 1562 and dying one year earlier in 1615.
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my sister has a fairly old computer she uses it for mainly basic stuff for school you know typing papers. well one day she says it "broke" so she brought it here to see if i could fix it, i plugged it in and turned it on to see what would happen,
well first i smelled a funny smell then i noticed smoking coming out of the back (the power supply fan) and i even saw a little light in the back inside it, i think it was sparking or on fire or something, so used my god givin instincts i shut it off and it stopped smoking/being lit on fire whatever.
so im thinking the problem the computer wouldnt boot was becasue the power supply was bad right? so i picked up a new one (the old one was a 110V this one i got was a 115V, only difference) i took out the old one and put this one in
i turned on all on, and.... nothing happens. i didn't touch anything in the computer except for the power supply wires, so im thinking the old power supply broke the motherboard or something or i plugged in this new one wrong
is there something else your suppose to do to plug in a powersupply that i missed? is it most likely the motherboard is trashed? how can i figure this out im totally clueless


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Drug or alcohol addiction is a widely misunderstood condition. Many people believe that addiction is the result of a choice, deviant, or criminal behavior. This has established a stigma around those who are suffering from these disorders, making it harder for them to seek addiction treatment.
In reality, addiction is a multifaceted disease. And, in most cases, it takes more than a strong will or good intentions to put a stop to it. A person’s tendency to become addicted is determined by a combination of social, environmental, developmental, genetic, and psychological factors.
According to research, an individual’s genetic composition can influence how prone the person is to develop an addiction. Gender and ethnicity can also have an impact on a person’s risk of drug usage and addiction.
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The House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Coronavirus crisis issued a memo warning that voters in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Wisconsin are facing “serious impediments” to properly vote by mail in the fall. To learn more, visit Forbes.
After the April primary election fiasco in Wisconsin, many black voters may continue to risk their health to vote in November’s election. The Reverend Greg Lewis is making a concerted effort to organize and turn out black voters to ensure their voices are heard. To learn more, visit L.A. Times
A Trump-appointed federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction against a Tennessee law which required first-time mail-in voters to show photo ID at an election office before they could vote. This decision comes after state officials enforced the first-time voter requirement during the state’s August 6 primary To learn more, visit The Hill.
A New Hampshire woman voted topless after an election official at her polling place told her she could not wear her “McCain Hero, Trump Zero” shirt because it constituted electioneering. The election official could have had her removed for violating the state’s indecency law, but chose not to and the woman voted and left without further incident. To learn more, visit New York Post.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that around 1000 Georgians are being investigated for voting twice (once through an absentee ballot and once in person) during the state’s June 9 primary. It remains unclear how many of these double voters did so out of malignant intent and how many voted twice because they were concerned that their absentee ballot would not be counted. Visit Atlanta Journal Constitution to learn more.


There’s nothing more exciting than a horrifically ill-advised engine swap. After all, there's a whole world of strange swap options out there beyond the safe confines of small-block V8s -- options that open the door to questions of "Why?” and invite judgments of your character. They take bravery, and that's why we love them.
Using one of Harbor Freight’s Predator engines to power a car isn’t breaking the mold, believe it or not, but this Willys Jeep might be one of the best executions of this terrible idea. Instead of essentially welding the input shaft of the transmission to the output shaft of the engine, this Jeep’s owner used an ingenious system of belts, pulleys and a centrifugal clutch.
The drive system likely loses some ponies due to slip, but it still manages to get this vintage Jeep to about 40 mph -- and permits the use of the standard three-speed transmission and the high and low range. At least, that was the top speed before the owner slapped a turbocharger to the twin-cylinder Predator.
Considering the initial engine cost ($749 before taxes and coupons) and the cost of the extra parts to make it work, the Jeep’s owner might have been better off sourcing another Willys Hurricane, or a later overhead-valve inline-four. Though that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun to show off to the world at large.
If you want to see some interesting and intriguing work, check out the video above. Be warned, this might tempt you to undertake something similarly odd. If you do: Let us know.


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With a record number of submissions, July was a tough month for our selectors.
Felicity Milburn, Lead Curator at the Christchurch Art Gallery, and Shirin Khosraviani, Manager & Curator at Ashburton Art Gallery, had their work cut out for them reviewing the 130 outstanding submissions to exhibit at our finale event this November.
Many thanks to all who contributed. We look forward to welcoming 24 new sculptors alongside nearly 50 returning from our previous events.
Emerging and established artists alike
From the submissions received, 72 have been selected.
High profile artists include Paul Dibble, Hannah Kidd, Jeff Thompson, Graham Bennett, Mark Whyte, Alison Erikson and Sam Mahon, amongst many others. This year’s oldest exhibitor is 86-year-old Margaret Riley from Rangiora. First time participants include Shane Woolridge from Arrowtown and Asaki Kajima from Hawkes Bay.
Pieces will range from the miniscule to the mammoth. Many artists have opted to create site specific artworks. We are looking forward to outbuildings, grassy paddocks, woodland areas and skyline ridges providing the backdrop for works created from a very wide range of mediums.
We are all about showcasing contemporary art practice in New Zealand and this is definitely reflected in the calibre of the works selected. This is going to be a very memorable finale!
Finale auction sculptors announced
Our opening night auction, hosted by local raconteur, writer and commentator Joe Bennett, has long been a highlight of the event. We are excited to share the news that this year our auction items will be exquisite works from planks rescued from local buildings and bridges and repurposed as outstanding works of art.
This year’s artists are:
Diana Adams, Anna Dalzell, Alison Erickson, Ben Foster, Jacqui Gibbs Chamberlain, Jason Greig, Gill Hay, Tatyanna Meharry, Lisa Patterson, Danny Summers, Dean Venrooy, Mark Whyte and Tim Wraight.
We are also putting together a retrospective collection of auction items from our previous events — remember the shovels? The cricket bats? The frames, the oars, the saws and the chairs? We welcome anyone who would like to share their special piece for this exhibit, to get in touch with us.
See you in November
We look forward to welcoming you all to the Finale event from 5-7 November this year. Tickets go on sale on 1 October. We know the Grand Opening on Friday 5 November is going to be the hottest ticket in town!

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After two days of mild temperatures and pleasant sunshine, a bit of wintry precipitation fell in the Baltimore area Sunday.
A winter weather advisory is in effect until 1 p.m. in the Baltimore and Washington region, where forecasters said 1 to 2 inches of snow would fall, potentially mixing with rain along the way. The highest accumulations are likely on non-paved surfaces. The advisory includes Baltimore City and County, Carroll County, Harford County and Howard County.
As of about 7 a.m., three tenths of an inch of snow had accumulated at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, half an inch in White Marsh and a little less than an inch near Pimlico in Baltimore City. Parts of Carroll County were hit harder. Manchester had 4 inches and Westminster 3.5.
By about 9 a.m., precipitation was winding down as the storm system headed east, although some snow flurries were expected to linger into the afternoon.
Saturday, temperatures in Baltimore reached 60 degrees, but they plummeted to 31 degrees overnight. Sunday morning, pavement temperatures remained in the upper 30s, preventing some of the snowfall from sticking, said Austin Mansfield, meteorologist from the National Weather Service.
Monday, temperatures may not climb above freezing in the Baltimore area, but they could rise to 40 degrees Tuesday. Mild temperatures are expected to bounce back by midweek, bringing a high of 50 degrees Wednesday. Thursday’s high is forecasted to reach 62 degrees with a 80% chance of rain.


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Rio Ferdinand thinks Man Utd will sell “one or two” of their centre-backs this summer as they continue to be linked to other players.
12 sides in the Premier League had a better defensive record than the Red Devils last season, including relegated side Burnley, with Man Utd conceding 57 goals in 38 Premier League matches.
Man Utd finished sixth in the Premier League table, 35 points off champions Man City and 13 points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham, who grabbed the final Champions League spot.
Erik ten Hag has a huge task ahead of him as he looks to turn around Man Utd with defence one of the areas he is looking to improve on in the transfer market.
Ajax centre-backs Jurrien Timber and Lisandro Martinez have been heavily linked, while Villarreal’s Pau Torres and Braga’s David Carmo are believed to be on their shortlist of defenders.
And Ferdinand predicts at least one, if not two, centre-backs will leave the club this summer with Harry Maguire, Raphael Varane and Victor Lindelof all criticised for their performances at times last season.
“I’ll be interested to see what Ten Hag does in that area,” Ferdinand said on his Vibe with Five YouTube channel.
“We’re talking about the young lad, Timber, at Ajax, a small centre-half. I’ll be interested to see what happens with Varane, Lindelof and Maguire, Eric Bailly as well, I think one or two of those will go.”
Maguire is the current captain at Old Trafford but there have been reports that Ten Hag will allow the dressing room to pick their new skipper.
And former Premier League striker Darren Bent reckons the England international should be replaced by goalkeeper David de Gea as leader.
Bent told talkSPORT: I think that David De Gea should be the captain. My only thing with Ronaldo is, we know he’s a leader, but he tried to lead this season and not many of the players followed him. Some of them went the other way.
“None of them improved, none of them wanted to follow the example that he set and we know that he’s one of the greats, but there were times when people didn’t pass the ball to him and he’d turn his back on them and throw his arms up in the air. That’s not a captain.
“He was a captain this season without having the armband, but for me David De Gea would be my captain.”
When asked if that meant stripping Maguire of the captaincy, Bent added: “It would be deserved because there’s an argument that Harry Maguire might not even start next season.
“If Ten Hag brings in another centre half he might want to partner him with [Raphael] Varane, there’s no guarantee that he starts.”

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The next Economic Development Partnership Meeting will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 1 in the Nancy Roberts Meeting room at the Corsicana Public Library, 100 N. 12th St. Any citizen interested in the economic development initiatives is invited to participate.
On the agenda:
• Good News - Mayor Don Denbow
• Economic Development - Connie Standridge
• Housing - Aric Bonner
• New Business - Darwin Myers
• Downtown and Tourism – Amy Tidwell
• Chamber of Commerce Update
• Dr. Kevin Fegan, District President, Navarro College Sincerely,
Don Denbow Mayor
A quorum of the City of Corsicana City Council may be in attendance.
The live broadcast of the meeting can be viewed on the City of Corsicana website at:
www.cityofcorsicana.com Choose “Broadcasts” Under “Live Broadcasts Meetings,” click on “Economic Development Meeting” to view the meeting. Recorded meetings can also be viewed any time after the meeting at this same location.

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The English city of Bristol could soon be making history with the launch of the UK’s very first city-wide currency; the Bristol Pound is an initiative designed to boost the city’s economy and strengthen local trade.
The Bristol Pound is not the only alternative local currency used in the UK – the city of Totnes in Devon introduced the Totnes Pound in 2006, while the Lambeth city of Brixton launched its own city-wide currency, the Brixton Pound (B£), in 2009 and this currency is still thriving. However, the Bristol Pound will be the first local UK currency with the backing of a regulated financial services provider – in this case, the Bristol Credit Union. This means the currency can be used to pay not only for goods but also for bills.
As a forerunner to the Bristol Pound, the Brixton Pound serves as a stellar example of local currency; the B£ was even launched in electronic format last year, allowing local users to make instantaneous payments by text. Following the launch of the Bristol Pound notes, this new city-wide currency could also be developed to include an electronic format in the coming months.
Here’s a closer look at the UK’s latest alternative currency – the Why, How and When of the Bristol Pound:
The purpose behind the introduction of the Bristol Pound is to provide support to the city’s independent retailers and other businesses, stimulate the Bristol economy and build a sense of community among local consumers. Ideally, the widespread use of the Bristol Pound within the city will ensure that money spent in Bristol will stay in circulation in the city of Bristol. This will reduce the amount of money going into the financial systems of larger offshore corporations.
The Bristol Pound can be exchanged with pound sterling, and one Bristol Pound will of course be equivalent to one British Pound. Locals can currently register for a Bristol Pound account online, after which they will be contacted with the appropriate registration forms. Those who choose to get involved with the Bristol Pound initiative are making a clear statement about their support for local businesses and the Bristol community.
The Bristol Pound is due to launch on May 21st this year, and local residents have been asked to submit their ideas for the design of this local currency. The Bristol Pound will be available in £1, £5, £10 and £20 notes, and each will feature an image on both sides. Many Bristol locals are hoping for the honour of seeing their designs or illustrations appear on the brand-new Bristol Pound in May!
Nicky Warner is an enthusiastic writer with a special interest in UK news. Whether you’re an experienced foreign exchange broker, or just starting out with a new MT4 demo account, you’ll find Nicky has plenty of relevant financial and economic news to share.
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Doctor Strange writer Michael Waldron has shared in a new interview how he is putting a new spin on the classic comic book character.
The screenwriter revealed to: Vanity Fair that the latest iteration of the character was inspired by both the late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain and legendary actor Harrison Ford, 78.
Benedict Cumberbatch, 44, will reprise his role in the upcoming sequel Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which is expected to hit theaters in 2022.
Role Models: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness screenwriter Michael Waldron revealed to Vanity Fair that his version of Doctor Strange was inspired by Anthony Bourdain and Harrison Ford; still from Doctor Strange (2016)
According to Waldron, Bourdain inspired him to envision a version of Doctor Strange that was more of a man of the people, as opposed to the know-it-all elitist of the first film.
‘I tended to’ [travel documentarian and chef] Anthony Bourdain,” he said. ‘Strange is elitist as a neurosurgeon and wizard. Anthony Bourdain was a man of the people, but there was that intense intellect.
“You always felt like he could hollow anyone out with his words at any time. But still, Anthony Bourdain never really knocked down,” explained Waldron. “That was the first ingredient in Doctor Strange’s stew.”
Though Bourdain made a name for himself as a chef at several high-profile New York City restaurants, his greatest success came as a writer and then as a host of popular food documentaries.
Mix and match: Waldron wanted Strange to be both a “man of the people” and a strong “intellect” like Bourdain, while also being “a hero that can take a beating” like Ford
New Writer: Waldron took over the writing duties of the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel; seen in 2019 with Kate Herron (R)
In 1999, The New Yorker published his popular all-encompassing article Don’t Eat Before Reading This, which was later expanded into his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly.
The memoir mixed with behind-the-scenes gossip about the restaurant industry with details about his own life and his passion for food.
Bourdain was best known to the public for his television appearances and his Travel Channel series No Reservations and the sequel to CNN Parts Unknown, in which he both toured the world sharing international cuisines with his viewers.
The chef and docuseries star was 61 when he died by suicide on June 8, 2018, while filming Parts Unknown in France.
Bourdain’s identification with travel was also one of the reasons Waldron drew inspiration from his life.
‘Anthony Bourdain had been everywhere, had seen everything. What surprises you right now? I guess for all the heroes in the MCU, in a post-Endgame world, how do you rally yourself to fight the standalone movie villains after you fight Thanos?’
Tragic Death: Bourdain was a respected chef, writer and docuseries star who died by suicide in 2018 while filming his CNN series Parts Unknown
Raiders Of The Lost Ark star Harrison Ford was also a major influence on Doctor Strange 2.0.
In addition to Bourdain, Strange’s world-jumping character led Waldron to see the character as “Indiana Jones in a cloak.”
“He’s a hero who can take a beating,” he explained. “That’s what made those Harrison Ford heroes so great. Those guys are getting kicked in the ass.
“Look at Stephen Strange in the first movie,” he continued. “He gets really beat up, but he’s very capable and all. I can tell you it’s a ride.’
Ford will likely take a few more knocks as Indiana Jones when he dons the character’s iconic fedora for the fifth time.
His longtime director Steven Spielberg won’t be producing this film until after he handed it over to Logan director James Mangold, amid reports of creative differences with the creative team.
Iconic Character: Waldron said he imagined Strange as “Indiana Jones in a cloak” and complimented Ford’s action heroes for getting “their a**es kicked”; seen in 2019 in Beverly Hills
In the latest Doctor Strange movie, Cumberbatch’s title character will accidentally unleash a powerful evil force amid his ongoing investigation into the Time Stone, one of the Infinity Stones that propelled Thanos’ rise in the last two Avengers movies.
The film was originally going to be directed by Scott Derrickson, who directed and co-wrote the first film, but he left the project after the producers refused to create a weirder version of the character and a horror-inspired story.
Sam Raimi, who previously directed the Tobey Maguire films starring Spider-Man, was later installed as director with Waldron co-writing the screenplay.
New Blood: Sam Raimi, who directed the Tobey Maguire movies with Spider-Man, replaces Scott Derrickson to direct the sequel; still from Doctor Strange


By Lyna Mohamad
Her Royal Highness Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bulqiah yesterday graced the Ministry of Finance's Korban ceremony at its ministry's lobby concourse in Commonwealth Drive.
Present were the second Minister of Finance, Pehin Orang Kaya Laila Setia Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Abd Rahman Hj Ibrahim, permanent secretaries, deputy permanent secretaries and other senior officials and staff.
The religious ceremony began with a recital of surah Al-fatihah, which was followed by Her Royal Highness distributing the Korban meat to the recipients.
Nine buffaloes were slaughtered this year by 63 officers and staff of the ministry.
Yesterday's ceremony was organised by the Royal Customs and Excise Department, Ministry of Finance. To conclude the ceremony, a doa selamat was read to bless the event.
- Borneo Bulletin
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Gary Hooper helped Sheffield Wednesday to a victory over Leeds with two goals
All eyes were on the under-fire Sheffield Wednesday manager beforehand but, after a sorely needed and emphatic success, scrutiny turned to their Yorkshire rivals.
After a promising start to the season, Leeds were taken to the cleaners and this abject surrender marked a third successive away defeat.
Thomas Christiansen’s side began brightly, with Spanish playmaker Samuel Saiz a major threat but, after Gary Hooper fired Wednesday ahead in the 25th minute, it was one-way traffic.
As half-time approached, the in-form striker struck again – his seventh in his last seven appearances – before a stunning late piledriver from midfielder Kieran Lee completed Leeds’ misery.
Patience in Carvalhal from supporters had begun to wear thin after last week’s Steel City derby defeat by Sheffield United was followed by another loss at Birmingham three days later.
If not quite salvation, this was certainly redemption for the Portuguese boss, who has guided Wednesday to the play-offs in the past two seasons and is facing a make-or-break campaign.
With a new manager in Christiansen and a raft of new players, Leeds set the pace in the opening weeks of the campaign.
There was – and there remains – hope of a genuine renaissance at Elland Road under the ownership of Andrea Radrizzani.
After Leeds midfielder Kalvin Phillips headed over early on, Hooper swept the ball home from Tom Lees’ header and then nodded in a second from Steven Fletcher’s assist to make it 2-0 at the interval.
Leeds hit the post early in the second half through Pierre-Michel Lassoga and a goal then might have led to a different outcome.
Probably not, though, as Wednesday, buoyed by an outstanding performance from midfielder Barry Bannan, continued to dominate.
Bannan thumped the post after the Owls cut Leeds apart before Lee hit a brilliant long-range shot to make it 3-0.
Hooper then smashed an effort against the crossbar to be denied a hat-trick.
Christiansen added: “We spoke about stopping Barry Bannan but we weren’t able to do that. I don’t like to talk about budgets, but Bannan would be the best-paid player in our team by far. But it’s not an excuse because we have to improve a lot.”


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Sea mines are deadly. They explode on impact or from sensors buried beneath underneath the ocean floor. They can also be used in both shallow and deep water passageways to deny or complicate access to vital areas. In fact, sea mines are increasingly available to militaries around the world.
The presence of sea mines and fast proliferation among hostile countries continues to push the U.S. navy’s ongoing effort to craft modern mine warfare plans and engineer drones able to find and detonate them before they can hit manned vessels.
Part of this Navy effort includes the acquisition of drone-towed sonar technologies intended to hang beneath mine-sweeping Unmanned Surface Vessels often operating in groups. The Navy recently awarded a deal for future AN/AQS-20 surface-towed sonar systems to support the service’s growing family of USVs. The awards went to Advanced Acoustics Concepts, Arete Associates, Northrop Grumman and Peraton, a Navy report said.
“Deliverables include trade studies, test and verification studies, product improvements plan, Technical Data Package analysis, and obsolescence reviews to ensure production and delivery of a mature, fully integrated system that meets Fleet requirements,” the report states.
This Navy approach, and its corresponding warfare technologies, will in part be executed by elements of the Navy’s Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Mission Package for the Littoral Combat Ship. This includes MH-60 helicopters, deck-mounted drones such as the Fire Scout, surface sweeping drone boats such as Textron’s Unmanned Influence Sweep System and deep diving drones engineered to detect mines buried beneath the ocean floor, such as the Knifefish.
There are a variety of ways in which the Navy’s mine-warfare strategy is quickly becoming more manifest, including video-guided undersea drone explosives, unmanned weapons, sensors and advanced airborne countermine technologies engineered to destroy mines beneath the surface.
Other undersea drones, such as Raytheon’s Barracuda, are engineered to operate semi-autonomously undersea, using guidance systems to find enemy mines and then dispatching explosives to destroy them without requiring human intervention. Some of the more recent innovations include Northrop’s AQS-24 which uses underwater laser side-scanning.
There are various types of mines that need to be found, to include more visible or “find-able” mines. These have a strategic and operational value, even if they are less covert. Of course, visible mines could be missed by an enemy or overlooked in some way, yet they can function as weapons intended to “deny” an enemy access to a strategically vital location or asset. Covert mines, by comparison, would likely function with the more narrowly-configured intent to avoid detection and simply harm an enemy without being detected.
The overall MCM system is slated to be operational by 2022, however some elements are already available.
Kris Osborn is the defense editor for the National Interest. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army—Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has appeared as a guest military expert on Fox News, MSNBC, The Military Channel, and The History Channel. He also has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.


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Windshield wipers are your car’s first line of defense, avoiding accidents by giving you a clear view of the road. They’ve come a long way in the more than a century they’ve been in use. Here are a few of the significant developments in the history of these crucial automotive parts.
Mary Anderson Invented Modern Windshield Wipers
As automobiles started to become more commonplace, it became clear that keeping the windshield clear was critical to safe driving. There were several attempts at creating effective windshield wipers, dating back to 1896. Today, the consensus is that credit for the invention of a working windshield wiper is due to Mary Anderson, and an American inventor who patented her “window cleaning device” in 1903. Even with the predominantly male presence in the automobile’s early history, we would undoubtedly have difficulty staying on the road without this woman’s invention.
Without windshield wipers keeping our view of the road clear, we’d be much more likely to end up with damage that would require a car windshield replacement in Phoenix or truck windshield replacement. It wouldn’t do for the wipers to block that view themselves, so we have intermittent wipers today. Robert Kearns was blind in one eye and had difficulty seeing through the constant wiping. He invented the intermittent wiper that pauses briefly between each stroke, making it much easier to see the road.
Windshield Wipers – Automatic Wiping Speed
The French vehicle maker Citroen was the first to make windshield wipers that automatically adjust their intermittent wiping speed. The 1970 Citroen SM featured wiper blades that would adjust their delay based on how much power the wiper motor was drawing. When there was heavy rain, the wiper would need more power to wipe the windshield, and the circuit would increase the wiping speed.
The Spring-Tension Blade
The inventor of the modern spring-tension wiper blade for curved glass windshields was Tri-Continental Corporation. The company, now operating as Trico, developed this style of wiper blade in 1917. Very early automobiles had flat windshields, but curved windshields required pressure from the blades to spread evenly along the curve. These blades keep modern windshields clear, avoiding accidents that could lead to costly RV windshield replacement or commercial windshield replacement.

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Even as Boeing continues to struggle with the 787-8 program, future planning calls for resurrecting plans for the 787-10 that have been on indefinite hold while working through technical issues and delays of the current model.
Airbus has sold more A330s since the 787 program was announced than in the period leading up to the 787's launch. The A330-200 has been improved to now have an advertised 7,200nm range-nearly matching the low-end of the 787-8, according to Airbus estimates-and the A330-300 now has a 5,850nm range with more improvements planned to provide a few hundred miles more range.
Nicole Piasecki, vice president of Business Development & Strategic Integration, told employees last month that the delays in the 787 program prompted "a lot of orders [for the A330] from airlines who were expecting the 787.It competes against our 767 and our 787 and as the 787 starts coming online with full capability, and I can tell you if we develop a 787-10, which I would put in the likelier category, I would expect the A330's days would be numbered or that our market share position would certainly be a strong one."
Piasecki also told employees that Boeing is "looking at further investment in the 787 family [as] the best way to compete against the A350-800 and -900".
Boeing believes the A350-1000, currently with a promised EIS of 2015, will not have an adequate engine in the current iteration of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB and that EIS will be delayed to the second half of this decade, relieving pressure to do anything immediately with the 777-300ER.
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14th Annual New England Metal And Hardcore Festival - "The Metal Gods Were Surely Appeased"
May 2, 2012, 5 years ago
To be in the room for singer Jesse Leach’s first full concert performance with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE since 2002 was like watching order being restored to the heavy- metal universe. That Killswitch Engage set was a spectacular finale to New England Metal and Hardcore Festival 14, held April 20 to 22 at The Palladium in Worcester, MA. The festival featured two stages and nearly 85 bands. THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and ALL THAT REMAINS headlined the first two nights, respectively. It wasn’t simply the Killswitch reunion with Leach that extended NEMHF’s legacy. All three headliners were at one time middle-of-the-day bands, knocking out 30-minute sets on the heels of a debut album or sophomore release. No doubt, routine trips back to the annual Metalfest for each of those bands helped them grow to the point where they tread on equal footing with a previous generation of metal kingpins (GWAR and CANNIBAL CORPSE come to mind). NEMHF mined bands from across the heavy-music spectrum, typically giving hardcore bands the more packed-in confines of the second stage and displaying all manner of metal on the main stage.
The news from Friday’s kick off was that OCEANO ditched its plans to break up after the festival performance and instead will proceed with work on a new album. ALL SHALL PERISH constructed a brutal set of death-metal-meets-hardcore and organized the crowd into a wall of death pit that consumed the floor in front of the stage.
NILE was its technically perfect, thematically creepy self. Karl Sanders’ solos were among the finest - if not the finest - guitar work at the festival. The Acacia Strain, another band reared at Metalfest, simply grows darker and heavier by the show and was pure thundering fury at the festival. Black Dahlia Murder announced that Max Lavelle signed on as the band’s new bass player. BDM leaned heavily into its new album Ritual, but managed to also toss in old faves, such as 'Funeral Thirst'.
On Saturday, things got pretty furious on the second stage with L.A. hardcore stalwarts ROTTING OUT and Central Massachusetts’ own BANE. The main stage had a great mix of bands. HUNG, PERIPHERY and PROTEST THE HERO each put a spin on progressive metal. HUNTRESS, a much-buzzed-about new band, delivered a searing set built from the twin-guitar blow-outs created by Blake Meahl and Ian Alden and the operatic turns of bewitching singer Jill Janus.
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE had heavy underpinnings but also seemed to be unfocused as it bounced around genre shifts within songs almost more for the sake of showing that the band could pull off the switches rather than making those contrasts meaningful or interesting. UNEARTH and GOD FORBID were a couple of Metalfest vets who enjoyed a hero’s welcome when they hit the stage. In response, both bands just bore down with relentless, fast-paced sets steeped in mayhem and aggression.
OVERKILL defied time, brandishing thrash-metal classics from the 1980s liking there were freshly made and still piping hot. DRAGONFORCE launched its North American tour from Metalfest. New singer Marc Hudson had a slow start but as the set moved along, the band seemed to find its groove. DragonForce guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman still run that show, and they were predictably dazzling.
All That Remains revelled in its headlining slot, as singer Phil Labonte mentioned more than once how unreal it felt to be a band “from down the road” headlining one of heavy music’s premier annual events. Labonte and guitarist Oli Herbert have navigated All That Remains across a varied career, and together manage to balance the more melodic material with the older, more brutal songs. The diversity of songs gave All That Remains’ set a dynamic swing.
Sunday had a more modern feel to the programming. Volumes brought a hip-hop flourish with its vocals, and Attila fused some Southern boogie into its metalcore.
Texas in July had a breakout set on the main stage, playing with a kinetic zeal that will hopefully find its way into the band’s forthcoming album.
A big contingent of Christian bands played Sunday (coincidence? I think not), with MYCHILDREN, MYBRIDE, FOR TODAY and SLEEPING GIANT adding a bit of praise in their respective thunder.
The young CHELSEA GRIN and UPON A BURNING BODY plunged into maniacal mash-ups of metal and hardcore. But from the same scene, VANNA seemed most deft at the mix-and-match game, seamlessly stitching smooth grooves, brutal breakdowns and stinging guitar shred.
EVERY TIME I DIE likewise showed itself still warping the metal into near-psychedelic blow-outs - not the jam-kind of psychedelic, but more so the “crazy person hitting you in the head” kind of psychedelic.
After ETID, a curtain dropped in front of the main stage, adding to the drama of Killswitch Engage’s impending arrival. PEACHES AND HERB’s 'Reunited' started blasting from the house sound system as photos of Leach and his KsE mates flickered on screens at either side of the stage. The curtain dropped to reveal a banner bearing the cover of Alive or Just Breathing, and the band began by blasting through the first three songs off of that breakthrough record. Leach sounded far more in control of his chaotic vocal style than he did during his earlier run with KsE. This more disciplined approach actually better illuminated the songs, getting straight at the plunges into heavy darkness and eventual cathartic releases built into the tunes.
On the musical end, nothing has slowed in the overall KsE attack, with Adam D deploying zig-zag guitar squalls amid a barrage of heavy chug. Leach put to rest any questions about how the band would handle songs originally created with Howard Jones, the singer who replaced him in 2002 and stayed with the band for a commercially vibrant decade. Leach dedicated 'Rose Of Sharyn' to Jones, and throughout the set peppered in songs from the albums Jones worked on. Nothing at Metalfest was quite as explosive as when KsE played an encore that paired 'Last Serenade' from the 'Breathing' album and the band’s signature cover of DIO's 'Holy Diver'. The metal gods were surely appeased.
(Note: Scott McLennan is a freelance music journalist and correspondent for The Boston Globe newspaper. He was the music columnist for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette newspaper and has been covering the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival since its inception. Sam McLennan studies film production at Boston University


This is a version of the remarks I delivered to the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the Texas Speech Communication Association Convention this morning:
I was talking to my friend Kaston last night. Kaston lives in Nashville. He’s a songwriter and plays in a band called My Politic. I told him I was “going” to Texas today to talk about civility. He said, “My god, I would be so nervous giving a speech about something so freshly dead. Like, it’s not even in the ground yet. You better give a hell of a eulogy tomorrow.”
While I don’t entirely agree with my friend—I think civility is still on life support—I have to say, giving a speech on this topic sorta feels like offering a seminar on seaworthiness to the crew of the Titanic. On the floating end of the ship. In the words of Ta Nehisi Coates, “I’m not here to give you hope.” Okay, I’m going to try to give you a little hope; but, I can’t forget what Cornel West said to me when I posed the question of civility to him a year after the last election, “It’s bleak out there, my brother. It’s bleak.”
It is bleak indeed. I don’t need to bury you in the data. You know. Polarization and outrage are trending. My colleague Josh Compton and I had a piece in Public Relations Quarterly 10 years ago about outrage rhetoric after South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson yelled “you lie” at President Obama, during his address to Congress. Feels kinda quaint now. Probably wouldn’t last a full news cycle these days. The divide is deep and wide, and it’s not just about politics anymore. We used to be able to say, “Let’s quit talking about politics and religion… How ‘bout those Cowboys!” Now it’s, “You mean Jerry Jones’s team, trying to find compromises and giving in to the terrorism of Black Lives Matter and kneeling before games? Screw those socialists!” Nothing is sacred, and everything is sacred. Families, friends, and neighbors are being pulled apart by polarization, fear, and anger.
Like most of you, I saw this divide in our discourse growing in the campaign rhetoric of 2016. I was living in Springfield, Missouri with my wife. Our kids were recently grown and out of the house. We were each in our thirtieth year of teaching. She was preparing to retire from her public school position. I was going to have to hang around a few more years in my faculty position. A funny thing happened on the way to retirement. The election happened. Two days later, after I sobered up and crawled out of my grief hangover (it might be obvious at this point what my political preferences are), I decided something needed to change. Something big needed to happen. The center wasn’t holding, and the status quo seemed broken…business-as-usual just didn’t seem sustainable anymore.
So, Betsy and I sold our house and cars, quit our jobs, bought a van, and hit the road. What started as an escape became a pursuit. I decided to talk to people about the things that divide us, and try to find a way toward a new kind of discourse. I ended up learning as much about myself as I did about anyone else.
Over that next year, we lived mostly in our van, and we traveled 25,000 miles across 44 states, meeting over 700 regular folks and listening to stories from all kinds of people. As time went by we got a chance to meet a dozen or so more public figures like Jeb Bush, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kathleen Sebelius, Cornel West, John Kasich, and a few other governors, senators, and religious leaders.
What I’m going to do today is tell you 11 things I learned. But, before I begin, I need to tell you what this project is NOT: 1) It is not an academic study. 2) It is not a monetized media product (website, podcast, film). In the end, we wanted to, very simply, meet people and hear their stories, while removing any obstacles that would prevent honest conversation.
On May 31, 2017, after we had finished the academic year, we left on our journey, and here are 11 of the things I have learned since then:
- Living in 95 sq.ft. with two adults and a 70-lb. dog requires good relationship skills.
If you’re not prepared to poop about 10” from your partner’s head and wear the same four changes of clothes, vanlife may not be for you. Betsy and I had been married for 30 years when we left on our journey with our border collie-lab mix, Maybe. And we really liked each other (and still do!). We had lots of people say it would have been the end of their relationship. Vanlife forces you into a mindfulness that normal homelife does not require. Moving around is like tai chi. We chose the smaller van as opposed to a big RV because we wanted to be more mobile and travel in congested city traffic. Most of our stops were were parking in people’s driveways, or the streets in front of their homes. We call that moochdocking.
2. Be careful what you eat.
We cooked a lot, the van has a nicely equipped, but small, kitchen. But, mostly we were eating with people who hosted us along the road. It was a special occasion for them, but we had to be careful about our waistlines. We also learned to ask more questions about what we were eating. We parked at a house in Houston, where they were cooking and baking in preparation for Thanksgiving. Among the things they were baking were edibles. When we pulled out the next morning, our host gave us a couple of freshly baked “special” cookies. Turns out that’s not enough information! We pulled over at a city park in Bastrop, stoned out of our gourds, watching (weirdly) three hours of All in the Family reruns, before we could get back on the road to Austin, where we were sharing Thanksgiving dinner with friends and a 12-step recovery group.
3. Most people we met think the country’s more divided than it’s been in 50 years.
It’s hard to take that assessment from a 30-year-old, but we talked to several folks over 60 who consistently said things haven’t been this bad since 1968. Regular folks and some who have lived and worked in politics in DC. Trump-supporting Republicans were less concerned about division. That’s understandable…their team won. Interestingly, the people that seemed most bothered by polarization were older moderate Republicans.
4. There’s no single cause for our division.
It’s a complex of things: like the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, to the emergence of talk radio and the 24-hour news cycle in the 1990s, to systemic racism, to nostalgia politics and the fear of cultural displacement as the country grows less white and less Christian, lack of media literacy, geography (yes, the urban-rural split is real), poor cognitive dissonance coping skills, and the curated narratives and algorithmic epistemologies of social media, tribalism, and negative partisanship, where we are more motivated by the things we hate than the things we love.
5. People are complicated. A lot of us don’t fit the standard media narratives.
I was regularly surprised, and my presumptions were often challenged. We met an Iraqi-American who was a huge Trump supporter and a cousin of his who thought Trump supporters were suffering from a mental virus. We met an extremely well-read, politically astute black man who has never voted (“that’s y’all’s thing”). An atheist who takes her kids to church. A prominent leader in the Southern Baptist Convention who whispered to me he would vote for Joe Biden. A liberal lesbian who lives with her wife on a farm in NC, where she keeps guns and is a sergeant in the U.S. Army. I met and became friends with Jeb Bush, someone who does not share most of my political views. The biggest argument I had was with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, with whom I suspected I would agree on most things. We saw Confederate flags in upstate New York and met left-wingers in Jackson, MS. Most politicians we met cussed like sailors. We met one sailor. He didn’t cuss at all.
Sure, lots of people were completely predictable, even becoming caricatures of themselves. Like the white guy in Florida who shook with anger when he said white men were the most oppressed group in America, and the very liberal college professor who confessed to me he fantasizes about the deaths of all evangelicals.
By adopting a more active posture of listening than I ever had in my life—I’m a former debate coach and son of a Baptist preacher, so listening isn’t deeply encoded in my DNA—I was able to appreciate the complexities and diversity…the full humanity of the citizenry. We Americans are an interesting bunch.
6. The art of communication is in the balance of comfort and critique.
I’ve taught this most of my career, but this project really revealed the truth of it. Finley Peter Dunne said the role of the newspaper was to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. With apologies to Aristotle, I would suggest the art of rhetoric is discovering in any given circumstance the balance between comfort and criticism. If we comfort too much—focus on cooperation, listening, messages of healing—we can enable victimization and empower unjust structures. If we critique too much—argue, protest, aggressive advocacy—we can dehumanize and promote violence. The art is in the balance and integration of the two.
7. Dialogue is a complicated goal.
- Dialogue is countercultural, especially now. Everything about our current culture pushes us to speak, not hear. It can be a remarkably effective tool, to actively listen to people who don’t feel they’re being heard.
- David Blankenhorn, Founder of Braver Angels, taught me dialogue is a liberal thing. Conservatives aren’t as interested, and liberals like the idea, they just don’t do it.
- Dialogue is a privilege. It’s absurd to ask historically oppressed groups to sit and listen to the messages of their oppressors, or to ask people to engage in dialogue who are working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
- Sometimes dialogue must be preceded by monologue, or corrective acts of justice.
8. I learned that not everyone is my audience.
I learned some things from Alvin Warren, who served as the first Sec. for Indian Affairs in New Mexico. After having breakfast with him in a non-native owned restaurant, which he referred to as occupied land, and after spending the day with him in his pueblo that has been occupied by his ancestors for 700 years, I realized I have nothing to say to First Nations people, except “I’m sorry. And how can I help?”
I learned from Jin J. X, the young black man I mentioned earlier who has never voted, that even though I had taught intercultural communication and had read Ibram X. Kendi, I couldn’t understand what his life was like. Not really.
I learned from Laticia, an immigrant who works with undocumented people in the Pacific Northwest, that nearly everyone she knew stayed home and quaked in fear after the election, terrified they would be deported or be victims of violence.
And I learned from Jack and Matthew in Madison, Wisconsin that I shouldn’t speak too cavalierly about religious freedoms or my marriage until I’d been targeted by homophobic men in pickup trucks and had been disowned by my family for the sin of marrying my husband.
Most people have more to teach me than I have to teach them. Most of what I do have to say is really for people who look like me and move through the world in a similar manner.
9. I learned (or was reminded) that communication theory is useful.
- That our our divide is described well by Thomas Kuhn’s incommensurable positions, Stephen Toulmin’s limiting questions, and Leon Festinger’s cognitive dissonance.
- That our way through is systemic and personal, and since I’m not a policy analyst or political scientist, I should stick with the messages I understand and can control.
- That by deploying the teaching of Buber’s I-Thou over I-It (what I call ‘thouing,’ not ‘itting’), the dialogical communication in Barnett Pearce’s Coordinated Management of Meaning, Mikail Bakhtin’s glorious language moves of ‘discrowning,’ ‘heteroglossia,’ and ‘unfinalizability,’ we can embrace the tensions in our relational dialectics like Baxter and Montgomery taught us. And not see our differences as obstacles but opportunities.
10. What I saw work best on the road, and what is my current discursive prescription for surviving our current divide is a combination of humility, empathy, and truthfulness.
HUMILITY—We’ll never convince someone else of our truth if we’re not substantively and epistemologically prepared to consider the weaknesses of our own ideas or processes. Humility requires we “sit with” an idea before responding too quickly or aggressively.
EMPATHY—Few people will listen to you if you’re not really trying to hear and understand them. Old white men in MAGA hats are hard for me to understand, but when I grasp their fear of cultural displacement, I can at least understand the fear and anger that animates them.
TRUTHFULNESS—It’s as important to be honest about our own culpability in the injustices around us as it is to speak truth to power. Truth is more powerful if it’s not just used as a blunt instrument.
11. So, what did I learn about civility? Is it worth it? Does it work?
In her 2020 DNC speech Michelle Obama addressed the criticisms of her well-known phrase, “when they go low we go high.” She said people ask her now, does going high work anymore.
Her response: “It’s the only thing that works…if we degrade and dehumanize others we just become part of the ugly noise drowning everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the causes for which we fight.” She’s describing an artful rhetoric—balancing comfort and critique—when she says, “Going high doesn’t mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted with visciousness and cruelty. It means taking the harder path and standing fierce against hatred. Going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.”
And that’s where I think we are. Civility is possible. It has to be. If it’s not, we’re doomed. Civility is posssible. Dialogue is possible. Rhetoric and persuasion are possible. But just barely. And only if we are willing to do the hard work of humility, empathy, and truthfulness.
I used to teach students ethics, proper use of reason and evidence, listening skills, etc. because I knew the public square would demand it from them, and I wanted them to be successful. Now, I teach them these things, not to answer the public square, but to rescue it. We are now training potential heroes.
Leonard Cohen said, “There are cracks in everything and that’s how the light gets in.” This time of division and brokenness has been hard, but there’s opportunity in it. The cracks have shown us who we are. If we’ll take the opportunity to truly see ourselves, to get honest about who we are and what we’re doing, then maybe we start to put things back together.
They’ll never go back the way they were. It’s like the Japanese art of mending broken pottery called Kintsugi. In Kintsugi, they use a solution of epoxy and gold dust to patch and highlight the broken places. By accepting the blemishes and flaws then patching them, we can make the vessel stronger and maybe more beautiful than before. Healing our broken state of discourse will not be easy…nearly impossible. It is a quixotic journey. It takes passion, and requires patience. In Kintsugi you have to work one piece at a time. If you try to do all the pieces at once, the vessel will fall apart again. You have to set one piece and hold it for an uncomfortable length of time. Then it’s piece by piece. It takes time and patience, but if we keep one eye on the end and one eye on the now, we just might put ourselves back together.


WHEELING — Officials in the city of Wheeling continue to review requests and proposals for American Rescue Plan Act funding, and today they are expected to consider a $1 million allocation to the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley.
Members of the Finance Committee of Council are scheduled to meet at 5 pm today prior to the second regular Wheeling City Council meeting of the month, which will take place at 5:30 pm in the City-County Building. Committee members are expected to review the June 2022 financial statement for the city and are scheduled to discuss a number of ARPA allocations, including the Community Foundation requests and proposed distributions to American Legion Post 1 and American Legion Post 89, both in the amount of $50,000 .
A supplemental ARPA allocation to the Capitol Theater in the amount of $365,900 is also slated for discussion. The Greater Wheeling Sports and Entertainment Authority was already approved for a $1,495,400 ARPA allocation last month for various improvements to WesBanco Arena and the Capitol Theater.
Following the finance committee meeting, city council members are expected to hear the first reading of a new ordinance approving the Community Foundation’s request during the regular city council meeting. According to the ordinance, the funds will “mitigate financial hardship and support the operations and maintenance of existing equipment and facilities in accordance with the rules applicable for this ‘Designated Impacted Industry,’” which is defined in the federal government’s rules on ARPA fund expenditures to determine eligibility.
In total, the city of Wheeling received around $29.5 million in ARPA funds for pandemic relief. The funds come with guidelines from the US Department of Treasury on how they can be utilized, and the city must spend all of these funds on eligible projects by the end of 2024.
Members of city council are also scheduled to hold public hearings on the city’s Community Development Block Grant Annual Action Plan and on a proposed amendment to the city’s codified ordinances as it relates to International Building Code, updating the years listed in the city codes to adopt a more current edition of the West Virginia state building codes.
Also today, city council is expected to hear first readings on several new ordinances, including legislation authorizing the city manager to spend $139,578 with USI Insurance Services LLC of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for an excess liability workers compensation policy and $43,824 with Glessner Wharton & Andrews Insurance LLC of Wheeling for cyber insurance.
A new ordinance scheduled to be introduced this evening will authorize a $133,797 contract with Mansuetto Roofing and Sheet Metal of Martins Ferry for roof replacement at the city’s water treatment plant, and another new piece of legislation will authorize the expenditure of $96,601 with Savage Construction of Wheeling to cap and existing wall at the water treatment plant.
Three new traffic ordinances are also scheduled to be introduced during tonight’s city council meeting. Legislation will receive first readings to establish Lane 7 downtown between Market and Chapline streets as a two-way street with a new stop intersection for westbound traffic on Lane 7 at the Market Street intersection. A new ordinance is also slated to receive a first reading to establish a permit-parking-only zone on the north side of 11th Street at the intersection with Water Street.


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- Pesticides kill pests because they contain an ingredient that interferes with natural body functions.
- Some of these natural body functions are the same in people and other animals, so you must be careful when using pesticides.
- Pesticides belong to different chemical classes, which are not always written on the pesticide label or the Material safety data sheet.
- Some pesticides are more hazardous than others. Always try to use the pesticide class with the lowest toxicity.
- Always provide your client with information about the pesticide you are using.
All pesticides contain active ingredients that control pests by interfering with their natural body functions.
The body functions that are interfered with may be similar in non-target species – including humans – and therefore may present a hazard to health.
The chemical structure of the active ingredient determines what chemical class that particular pesticide belongs to. The class is not necessarily written on the pesticide label or the Material safety data sheet (MSDS). However, it is useful to understand the properties and modes of action of the most common chemical classes to:
- use these pesticides effectively
- appropriately advise clients
- minimise potentially adverse health effects.
A chemical class may also be referred to as a chemical family or chemical group.
Do not confuse chemical classes with the authorisations listed on the back of your licence to use a pesticide. The licence authorisations depend on the type of pest control work that you are qualified to undertake, not the chemical class of the pesticide that you are permitted to apply.
Pesticide classes – summary
Table 1 summarises the classes of pesticides most commonly used; more detailed information is available on subsequent sections of this page.
Table 1: Summary of pesticide class and their characteristics
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Rapidly reversing acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
Mostly absorbed through the skin or ingested
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Very effective against flying insects, but also used on pests like fleas, lice and cockroaches
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Sodium channel modulator
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Sodium channel modular
Low toxicity to people, but high toxicity to fish and other aquatic organisms, and bees
Notes: Acetylocholinesterase inhibitors and sodium channel modulators affect the nervous system.
Pesticide precautions – summary
When using pesticides, remember to:
- read the label instructions and follow them carefully
- consult the MSDS for safety instructions and wear the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)
- prepare a risk assessment for the chemical and the site
- advise clients about safety risks, the treatment and precautions they can take to minimise risks
- ensure weather conditions are appropriate for application (see ‘Beaufort scale’).
- consider high-risk groups and the persistence of the pesticide and use the product with the lowest toxicity.
General precautions for all pesticides
There is a risk associated with the use of any pesticide, regardless of the chemical class.
However, the risks to the public and environment are minimised if you:
- read the label carefully and thoroughly
- follow the directions carefully
- take general precautions.
Currently, any pesticide available for use in Australia is registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Association. This ensures that products sold are safe and effective when used in accordance with the label directions.
As a guide, where possible, the pesticide with the lowest toxicity should be used, particularly around high-risk groups such as:
- pregnant women
- older people.
If the pesticide has a high persistence, then consider where it is going to be applied, and the possible use of that area by adults, children and animals. The higher the half-life of the chemical, the more persistent it is.
Also consider that using pesticides indoors is different than using them outdoors, because the environmental conditions that normally accelerate pesticide breakdown such as sunlight, rainfall and soil microbes do not exist. This means that the pesticide may remain for longer indoors – that is, the persistence changes.
In general, pesticides are most toxic when in concentrated form, so particular care should be taken when handling and mixing undiluted chemicals. Appropriate PPE should be worn as outlined on the label and MSDS to prevent unnecessary exposure.
Advice to clients
Pest control operators (PCOs) have a wealth of knowledge about pests and the pesticides used to treat them. Clients generally have limited experience and may feel uneasy about the use of pesticides in and around their home. The PCO is their main source of information and advice.
PCOs should provide the following important information to their clients:
- the full name of the pesticide to be used and its toxicity rating
- potential health risks associated with its use, how it will be applied and to what areas
- the re-entry period if pesticides are used indoors
- pre- and post-treatment measures that the client can take to minimise exposure, which may include:
- ensuring food, clothes, toys, toothbrushes, bedding, towels, vegetable gardens, barbeques, pet bowls, fish ponds, clotheslines and cooking utensils are covered or removed from the area to be treated
- relocating pets during treatment and until the pesticide is dry
- vacating the premises while the pesticide is mixed and applied, and until the pesticide is dry (generally 4–6 hours)
- ensuring that all doors and windows are closed if the pesticide is to be applied outdoors
- ventilating the house by opening all doors and windows upon return if a chemical smell can be detected
- ensuring that benchtops and kitchen utensils are thoroughly cleaned before using them to prepare food if the pesticide has been applied indoors.
Organophosphates (OPs) are used because they are very effective in killing a variety of pests. Pests do not appear to develop resistance to this class of pesticides as often as they do to other classes.
However, the use of OPs has diminished in favour of other pesticides. These alternative pesticides have shorter persistence and lower toxicity, making them more environmentally sound.
Common OP products used in pest control include (active ingredient is in brackets):
- Dursban (chlorpyrifos)
- Baytex 550 Spray (fenthion)
- Insectigas-D (dichlorvos).
Properties of organophosphates
OPs exist in a variety of forms, such as liquids, mists, baits, powders, pastes and dusts.
In general, OPs are extremely toxic, particularly in the concentrated form.
OPs are generally more persistent than other chemical classes currently used. Although some OPs start to breakdown within hours of application, others have a much higher persistence and will take longer to breakdown.
OPs can breakdown:
- chemically under the influence of environmental factors such as
- soil moisture
- biologically through plants, animals and microorganisms like bacteria and fungi.
The more exposure OPs have to these elements, the faster they will breakdown.
Some labels and MSDSs contain information regarding the ‘half-life’ of the pesticide. This refers to the time that it takes for the concentration of the applied pesticide to reduce by half. If the half-life of a pesticide is one week, then after 7 days the concentration will be half that originally applied, after 2 weeks it will be a quarter, and so on.
Modes of action of organophosphates
OPs can be absorbed directly through the skin, the lining of the stomach or respiratory tract, after contact, ingestion or inhalation.
OPs affect the nervous system by attaching to the enzyme acetylcholinesterase. When functioning normally, nerves transmit messages through the production of a chemical called acetylcholine (ACh). After a message is sent, the enzyme acetylcholinesterase breaks down the ACh to end stimulation of the nerve and return it to its normal state.
OPs inhibit this enzyme, causing an accumulation of ACh and overstimulating the nerves. This causes the insect to lose control of their nervous system, resulting in weakness, paralysis and respiratory failure.
Because OPs affect acetylcholinesterase, they are known as ‘anti-cholinesterase compounds’.
Hazards of organophosphates
As the human nervous system also relies on acetylcholinesterase, they are also susceptible to OPs. If humans inhale, ingest or absorb enough OP pesticide, they are at risk of experiencing adverse health effects.
Acute symptoms of OP poisoning include:
- stomach cramps
- muscle contraction
Chronic poisoning from longer-term exposure could result in:
- general feelings of illness
- loss of appetite
- liver, kidney or nerve damage.
Carbamates are broad-spectrum pesticides that are effective against a variety of pests. Commonly used products containing carbamates include (active ingredient in brackets):
- Ficam D and Ficam W (bendiocarb)
- Blattanex Aerosol (propoxur and pyrethroid tetramethrin).
Properties of carbamates
Carbamates are considered slightly less toxic than OPs because they are rapidly processed by the body (metabolised) and excreted.
Carbamates also do not persist in the environment for as long as OPs, and usually breakdown within days to weeks. Certain environmental conditions will cause some carbamates to persist for longer.
Carbamates generally have low vapour pressure and low water solubility. This means that they are slow to evaporate and do not dissolve readily in water.
Modes of action of carbamates
Carbamates act mainly as contact and oral poisons, because they are absorbed readily through the skin, stomach lining or respiratory tract. They have a similar mode of action to OPs, which is to inhibit the functioning of acetylcholinesterase. This results in nervous system failure with symptoms similar to OP poisoning.
In humans, however, carbamates are considered to be reversible inhibitors, which means recovery from overexposure is typically faster than with OPs.
Carbamates do not remain in the body like other pesticides can, so the risk of chronic poisoning is minimised.
Hazards of carbamates
Carbamates are considered moderately toxic. Acute carbamate poisoning symptoms will usually begin within minutes of exposure and will last a few hours as the body works to metabolise the chemical.
Symptoms normally present as stomach cramps and sweating. However, if exposure continues, symptoms may be similar to OP poisoning:
- slurring of speech
- twitching and jerky movements
- difficulty breathing
- blurred vision
Chronic exposure may result in:
- appetite loss
- weight loss
- general feeling of sickness.
Chronic poisoning is not as common with carbamates compared to OPs, because the body is able to metabolise and excrete carbamate-based pesticides.
Pyrethrum is a natural pest repellent found in flowers of certain Chrysanthemum species, such as daisies.
The active ingredient in pyrethrum is pyrethrin. There are different types of pyrethrins, the most common of which are pyrethrin I and pyrethrin II.
Pyrethrins are particularly effective against flying pests such as mosquitoes and flies, but can also be used against lice, fleas, silverfish, ants and cockroaches. The most commonly used pyrethrin pesticides are:
- Pestigas Pyrethrins Insecticide
- Py Fog
- Py Mist
- Py Spray
Properties of pyrethrins
Pyrethrins are thick, sticky, brown plant extracts. They may come in liquid or solid form, and inactivate readily in air. They are generally considered to be insoluble in water, but will dissolve in other chemicals, such as alcohol, oil or odourless kerosene.
Pyrethrins are usually mixed with synergists, which are added chemicals that do not have insecticidal properties on their own, but help the pyrethrins to work. For example, piperonyl butoxide is often added to pyrethrin pesticides to increase the toxicity of pyrethrin to pests.
Pyrethrins are not very stable in light and air, and are therefore not very persistent in the environment.
Modes of action of pyrethrins
Pyrethrins act on contact, quickly affecting the nervous system to ‘knockdown’ the pest. A few minutes after application the pest cannot move or fly away.
Pyrethrin I is highly lethal, whereas pyrethrin II has excellent ‘knockdown’ properties for a wide range of pests.
Pyrethrins are normally inhaled or ingested by the pest after contact and absorbed through the lining of the stomach or respiratory tract. They affect the nervous system by attaching to a protein found on the surface of nerves called the sodium channel.
This channel opens to stimulate the nerve and closes to end the signal when functioning normally. The pyrethrins bind to the sodium channel and prevent it from closing – thus overstimulating the nerve and causing pests to lose control of their nervous system.
This is evident in the tremors exhibited by affected pests as they lose coordinated movement.
Hazards of pyrethrins
Pyrethrins are much more toxic to pests than mammals. Mammals are able to breakdown pyrethrins into less toxic chemicals, which are then excreted.
However, if exposed to large quantities, humans may show symptoms of poisoning including:
- runny nose
- sore throat
- breathing difficulties.
Pyrethrins can cause nausea and vomiting if ingested in large quantities. Chronic pyrethrin exposure could result in liver damage.
Synthetic yrethroids are synthetic versions of the naturally occurring pyrethrins. Pyrethroids exhibit greater stability in the environment, and are therefore more persistent. They are also designed to target specific pest species.
More than 1000 synthetic pyrethroids have been produced with greater insecticidal activity than natural pyrethrins. Synthetic pyrethroids are effective on a wide range of pests. However, if used in excess, pests may become resistant to the pesticide.
The most commonly used synthetic pyrethroids include (active ingredient in brackets):
- Biflex Termiticide and Insecticide (bifenthrin)
- Coopex Insecticidal Dusting Powder (permethrin)
- Cislin Residual Insecticide (deltamethrin).
Properties of synthetic pyrethroids
Pyrethroids are insoluble in water, immobile in soil and have a high adsorption ability with particles such as wood and soil. This means that once applied, they will stick to the material and will not tend to transfer.
Pyrethroids are broken down by sunlight and microorganisms such as bacteria. Therefore, synthetic pyrethroids are generally not persistent in the environment, although they are more persistent than pyrethrins.
Pyrethroids were designed to be metabolised quickly in mammals. This means that they pose a reduced risk of poisoning to mammals, but remain toxic to insects.
Modes of action of synthetic pyrethroids
The mode of action of pyrethroids is identical to that of pyrethrins. They affect the sodium channels in nerve cells and cause overstimulation of the nervous system.
Hazards of synthetic pyrethroids
Synthetic pyrethroids are less toxic to mammals than pyrethrins, carbamates and organophosphates, although they do differ significantly in toxicity across the class.
Pyrethroids are not easily dissolved in water, but do adhere strongly to substances. There is a risk associated with spray drift affecting foodstuffs, such as vegetable gardens, and being consumed.
Pyrethroids are quite toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms, so care should be taken when using pyrethroids outdoors near waterways or fish ponds, or indoors near fish tanks.
Although pyrethroids do not persist in the body, poisoning can still occur when exposed to high levels. Exposure may result in symptoms such as:
- eye irritation.
Although synthetic pyrethroids do not persist in the body, poisoning can still occur. An extremely high, single (acute) exposure to pyrethoids could lead to fatigue, muscular twitching and unconsciousness.
Chronic exposure to pyrethoids can include brain and nervous system disorders and immune system failures.
Reviewed 03 November 2021

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How To Make Grilled Flank Steak with Chimichurri
This flank steak recipe has flavors inspired by Latin America. It’s served with chimichurri sauce, which is a pesto-like condiment from the region.
Using sharp knife, lightly score the steak about ⅛ inch deep on both sides in a crisscross pattern at ½-inch intervals.
In a small bowl combine the cumin, garlic powder, oregano, freshly ground pepper and kosher salt. Season both sides of the steak with season spices.
For the chimichurri, combine the red onion, vinegar, salt and olive oil and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients. Mix all ingredients together.
Prepare the grill on high heat. Grill the steaks to desired doneness, about 3 to 4 minutes per side for medium-rare, turning steaks ¼ turn after 1½ minutes to form crisscross grill marks, if desired.
Transfer steaks to cutting board; let rest for 5 minutes. Thinly slice steaks across grain.
Transfer to platter and top with chimichurri sauce.
- Calories: 234.66kcal
- Fat: 14.00g
- Saturated Fat: 4.54g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.16g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.87g
- Carbohydrates: 1.47g
- Fiber: 0.35g
- Sugar: 0.21g
- Protein: 24.37g
- Cholesterol: 77.11mg
- Sodium: 307.20mg
- Calcium: 41.10mg
- Potassium: 411.87mg
- Iron: 2.17mg
- Vitamin A: 7.03µg
- Vitamin C: 2.21mg
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Earth's Crammed with Heaven
"Earth's crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God. But only those who see take off their shoes..."
Elizabeth Barret Browning's poem has always offered me a jolt of conviction. Only those who see... Of course, after several years of speaking to bunches of people about the vital importance of beauty, I like to think I am the sort who sees God's presence in the stuff of creation. Those talks had their birth because long ago, I did indeed "see." I think my startled joy in creation began when I was fifteen and my family moved to Colorado. My next three years were marked by the hours in which I roamed the mountains just out our back door. What I tasted in the wind, touched in the wet, red rocks after a maddened storm, saw in the limpid bowl of evening with its foam of starlight staid my faith for the next ten years. Through doubt and change and loss, the beauty I encountered held my faith intact.
Of course I am one who sees.
And yet. I've been in California this week, speaking on beauty once again. I felt that I skidded onto that stage with weeks of rush and distraction propelling me from behind. I have this message down pat, thank goodness, and I'd been up since dawn to be sure I had my words intact. But the ceaseless motion of work, the unending presence of my iPhone and laptop, the rip-tide of activity that is always pulling me down and leaving me gasping for breath seemed to buzz in my ears even as I spoke my greeting into the microphone.
My own words came to me as conviction. I told my audience that to lose our daily contact with the richness of the earth is to be separated from the God who so shaped reality that we would live immersed in his tangible goodness. I told them that the cultivation of beauty makes us real like the velveteen rabbit in the old story. To cultivate a life of beauty is to step away from manufactured food and virtual experience and impersonal entertainment. Beauty requires relationship, the gathering of precious people to cook, to celebrate, to savor. It requires times of quiet in which we truly taste the goodness of God in his creation, watch the slow turn of sunlight, the lap of water, hear the music of dawn and the silence of dusk. Beauty arrests our minds with the stillness necessary to deep prayer.
But it's been awhile since I have lived the words I spoke. In my idealism, I used to think that holding the right ideas would drive the right action. Now, I find that everything is a battle. I am almost panicked sometimes by my own inability to control the amount of screen-time I practice, to stem the busyness, to shut out the noise of entertainment and advertisement. I feel that I begin and end my days with more than I can accomplish, with a restlessness that feels like an illness taking hold in my bones. More and more, I feel that this is the mark of the modern world. A frenzy, an overwhelmedness, a fear of rest a drive to do more that leaves all of us with unquiet minds and souls that are fevered with need. Relationships dwindle. Fear grows. And God becomes a distant idea I cannot quite grasp.
Only those who see take off their shoes...
Early, early, the morning after my talk, when the damp and shadows of the morning still tasted of the night, I slipped out the door of my friend's house and began the long walk down to the ocean.
Have you ever noticed the tautness of dawn light? Poised and sharp, like a knife about to be thrust. And it strengthens minute by minute, a luminesence that gathers in the sky until the cry of a bird far above feels like the herald of some great presence about to descend and change the earth. Day has arrived.
Have you ever felt the coming of color to your eyes as something you wished you could eat? Have you ever seen emerald water that made you feel you were lacking enough senses to take it in, or sapphire depths that made you wish you could somehow join the substance of the water, become that perfect, glimmering, joyous blue?
Have you ever noticed the stillness of the ground? When you sit on a patch of grassy earth, or sink your hands in damp, gritty sand, have you ever noticed the quiet that clings to your skin, the hush that seeps into your bones from the gentle earth?
Have you ever known awe at the artistry of the minute within creation? Examined a shell and found the etchings of tiny, unknown fingers, the spread of what seems fresh-made pearl? Have you counted the grains of sand that can be caught within a single oyster?
Have you ever sat still enough to feel the ceaseless dance of the cosmos? The ebb and flow of the sea into the shadowed coves, the curve of the sun through the heavens, the rise of sap and the fall of leaves, the circle of stars and the fresh-flung breath of the roving wind? And have you ever wondered at what point that dance began?
And have you, at days end, when the sinking sun fills the bowl of the sky with a honeyed light that comes like healing over your head, remembered that the next day will come anew and the wonder begin again? In a world where nothing is sure and all may be broken, have you known that there is at least one grace that will never change, and that is the dawning of each new morning?
I have. I did again. I walked that morning and remembered. As Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, "I saw." And when one sees, the natural reaction is to take off one's shoes and lift up one's heart and that is the beginning of renewal. The great thing I believe to be true about beauty, the truth I spoke, the truth that convicted me and turned my steps around, is that it remains. The beauty of the earth is ceaselessly offered. And it heals, an-ever renewing grace given from the heart of the Creator. "Taste and see that the Lord is good," we are told. And even if we have starved ourselves of that goodness, even if we are weak and frail with our own fear and frenzy, the table of the universe is always laid and ready for our return.
All it takes is one step out into the sun, one moment in which we fix our eyes on the burning bush of creation and see.
May your day be marked with freshened sight.


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Tutorial: Engineering technology Topic: Casting to temporary forms Prepared by: Ing. Elena Nová Projekt Anglicky v odborných předmětech, CZ.1.07/1.3.09/04.0002 je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.
Procedure: Model is made in accordance to drawing Half of model is laid on modeling desk Suitable frame is superimposed and model is sand- rammed After ramming excessive sand is raked away by a ruler Frame is turned by 180 deg. and second half of model is superimposed Gating system, exhaust and second frame is rammed Frame is put together and weighted Cooled raw casting is removed Exhaust system and gating is removed
Procedure for machine forming is the same as with hand forming except ‘ramming and raw casting separation is done by machines. Machined forms and resulting casts are more accurate with smoother surface.
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The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has assured residents of the state capital, Umuahia of potable pipe-borne water by the end of September 2020.
Ikpeazu gave the assurance while inspecting new equipment procured by the state government for this purpose at the State Ministry of Public Utilities and Water Resources in readiness for the pumping of water in the urban and semi-urban cities of the State.
He assured of his administration’s support to the ministry of public utilities in realizing government’s dream of providing potable water to the people of the State.
The governor called on engineers of the ministry to engage in capacity building that will ensure the new equipment are properly maintained directed his Chief of Staff, Dr. Anthony Agbazuere, to station men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the premises of the ministry to protect the new installations.
Ikpeazu said he was also passionate about giving the rural populace clean water and urged the Commissioner for Public Utilities to intervene in that regard. He also charged the Commissioner to maintain the relationship with the funding agencies and assured that his government will continue to meet its counterpart funding obligations to continue to enjoy the expertise of the agencies.
Earlier, while displaying the equipment to the governor, the Commissioner for Public Utilities and Water Resources, Engr. Emma Nwabuko, stated that the State Government with the collaboration of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and World Bank are set to pump pipe-borne water into the streets of Umuahia by the end of September.
The commissioner noted the completion of four industrial wells which aid in pumping of water with a pump house, treatment plant, the installation of a 500KVA power generating set and two solar energy banks for 24 hours of regular water supply.
He also disclosed that some buildings including commercial buildings and pump houses amongst others have been rehabilitated.
Engr Nwabuko further said that the ministry will soon commence the pumping of raw water as a first step so as to identify leakages among the water pipes and work on them.


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